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• Kenney tells Notley to call Alberta election and stop campaigning on public dime

  01-02-2019 23:48
  CALGARY -- Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney is demanding Premier Rachel Notley call a provincial election immediately and stop what he says is campaigning on the public dime. Kenney said recent government announcements and multimillion-dollar government ad campaigns for the carbon tax are nothing more than partisan promotions for Notley's NDP. "Enough is enough," Kenney said with some of his United Conservative candidates standing behind him in Calgary. "Stop clinging to power. Albertans w
  
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• Calgary company has a hand in creating a pair of Super Bowl mascots

  01-02-2019 23:42
  When the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots meet at Super Bowl LIII this weekend, a Calgary company will be keeping watch on their own connections to the big game. Calgary-based Street Characters Inc., established in 1987, has had a hand in creating the colourful mascot costumes for lots of professional sports teams, including many in the NFL. The company was instrumental in building the outfits for the Rams’ Rampage and Patriots’ Pat Patriot. Glenn Street, a native-born C
  
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• Large fire prevention project set to get underway in Banff

  01-02-2019 23:34
  The roar of chainsaws are echoing through the Bow Valley followed by the smell of burning wood. Fire mitigation crews are hard at work trying to clear deadfall and thin out aging forests ripe to burn in and around the Banff townsite.
  
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• Carstairs Co-op determines source of interference that rendered vehicle key fobs inoperable

  01-02-2019 23:28
  Officials with Westview Co-operative say the mystery that had left a number of shoppers at the Co-op grocery store in Carstairs unable to open the doors to their vehicles has been solved.   The grocery store chain divulged the solution to the problematic issue that had plagued the parking lot in a Friday afternoon posting to its Facebook page. “Happy Friday everyone! This is the moment you all have been waiting for! We have an update on the fob interference that was occurring in and a
  
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• Nebraska advances bill requiring tracking of missing Indigenous women, Montana not far behind

  01-02-2019 23:25
  A bill that would require better tracking of cases involving missing Native American women has advanced in Nebraska while the state of Montana considers similar legislation.
  
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• Abandoned well ruling from Supreme Court ‘credit negative’ for energy firms, says Moody’s

  01-02-2019 23:03
  Moody's says the ruling is also credit negative for banks and other creditors but adds it's unclear how it will affect other industries and provinces going forward.
  
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• Structural concerns force closure of Blairmore Arena

  01-02-2019 22:16
  Blairmore residents are losing one of their facilities after an engineering report found the local arena to be unsafe. As Kyle Benning reports, this isn’t the first time the building has had to be shut down because of structural concerns.
  
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• Nature Conservancy Agrees to Protect Southern Alberta Ranch Land

  01-02-2019 21:45
  The owners of a vast expanse of land set in the foothills have inked an agreement with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
  
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• CNRL says oil curtailment adjustment will keep ECHO pipeline going and save Alberta jobs

  01-02-2019 21:39
  Workers in eastern Alberta are breathing a sigh of relief Friday after CNRL said the province easing the oil production cap means it can keep the ECHO pipeline running.
  
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• Fate of truck driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash will test sentencing system: experts

  01-02-2019 21:18
  A legal expert says the punishment chosen for the truck driver responsible for the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash will put Canada's sentencing system to the test.
  
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• Charles Weaselhead elected 14th chancellor of the University of Lethbridge

  01-02-2019 21:14
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE - The University of Lethbridge Senate has elected Charles Weaselhead as the University's 14th chancellor - and for the first time in the institution's 52-year history - the chancellor position will be held by an Indigenous person.
  Weaselhead says he's honoured, but also deeply surprised that the position was awarded to him.
  "I am truly, deeply honoured to represent the University of Lethbridge, and to represent Aboriginal people throughout com
  
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• UCP’s Jason Kenney calls on Alberta premier to call election, stop campaigning on public dime

  01-02-2019 20:59
  Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney is demanding Premier Rachel Notley call the election now and stop campaigning with public money.
  
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• Alessia Cara announces 12-date Canadian tour

  01-02-2019 20:56
  In support of her latest album, the Grammy Award winner will hit Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C.
  
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• Highway 1 closed from Revelstoke to Golden

  01-02-2019 20:18
  The highway is not expected to open until 10 p.m. Friday.
  
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• Imperial Oil cancels crude by rail shipments blaming curtailment

  01-02-2019 20:15
  Imperial Oil Ltd. is cutting its crude-by-rail shipments from 168,000 barrels per day in December to "near zero" this month and its CEO is placing the blame squarely on the Alberta government's oil production curtailment order.
  
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• More staff, artificial flooding among plans to save Wood Buffalo National Park

  01-02-2019 19:47
  OTTAWA -- The federal government intends to save the international heritage status of Canada's largest national park by increasing staffing, better monitoring the tailings from the oil sands, and artificially recreating spring flooding to rejuvenate the park's waterways. Today's plan comes nearly two years after the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization warned Wood Buffalo National Park was at risk of being declared in danger as a world-heritage site because it wasn't be
  
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• Calgary woman ‘devastated’ by theft of father’s ashes

  01-02-2019 19:42
  A Calgary woman is pleading for the return of her father’s ashes after they were stolen from her northwest house earlier this week.
  
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• Veterans to share $100M settlement from feds after Federal Court approval

  01-02-2019 19:33
  OTTAWA -- The Federal Court has rubber stamped a $100-million settlement for veterans with disabilities years after they launched a class-action lawsuit against the government. “The defendant will pay $100 million as the total settlement amount,” the Federal Court decided on Friday. It’s the culmination of a lawsuit that was launched in 2014 after it became apparent the government was clawing back financial aid benefits for low-income veterans with disabilities. The veterans al
  
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• Housing sales, prices down again in Calgary for January

  01-02-2019 19:33
  It’s been a slow start for the housing market in Calgary in 2019 and real estate analysts are blaming the economy for a continued decline in the statistics. The Calgary Real Estate Board released its report on the housing market in January and it found that sales are down by 16 percent from last year. In January, while the number of new listings remained comparable to 2018, only 804 homes were sold during the month. The statistic is 21 percent below the long-term averages as well. Ann-Mari
  
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• Alberta Parks campsite reservations open Monday

  01-02-2019 19:17
  Reservations to book group camping areas in all Alberta Parks will open at 9 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4.
  
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• 6.6 quake hits Mexico; no reports of death or serious injury

  01-02-2019 19:07
  MEXICO CITY -- A strong earthquake jolted southern Mexico on Friday, rattling nerves and swaying tall buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital, but there were no reports of serious damage, injuries or deaths. The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the quake had a magnitude of 6.6. It was centred about 10 miles (16 kilometres) from the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state and struck at a depth of 40 miles (68 kilometres). Chiapas civil defence official Arturo Barrientos told The Associated
  
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• Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce dies at age 88

  01-02-2019 18:48
  Ron Joyce, who rose from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to co-found the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at the age of 88. Joyce died Thursday in his Burlington, Ont., home with his family at his side, the family said in a statement. The cause of death was not immediately clear. "My father had a big vision and a big heart. Through hard work, determination and drive, he built one of the most successful restaurant chains in Canada," said Steven Joyce in a statement on behalf of the
  
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• Ontario boy hailed a hero for 911 call that saved his mother's life

  01-02-2019 18:17
  A seven-year-old Simcoe, Ont., boy received one the highest honours from the Ontario Provincial Police after his quick thinking saved his mother’s life. Dylan Roloson was awarded the Commissioner’s Citation for Lifesaving on Thursday in front of his entire school. Local first responders and the OPP commissioner are calling him a hero, after he made the 911 call last week that saved his mother who went into diabetic shock. “She was lying unconscious in the bed, I didn’t kn
  
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• Ontario boy, 7, hailed a hero for 911 call that saved his mother's life

  01-02-2019 18:17
  A seven-year-old Simcoe, Ont., boy received one the highest honours from the Ontario Provincial Police after his quick thinking saved his mother’s life. Dylan Roloson was awarded the Commissioner’s Citation for Lifesaving on Thursday in front of his entire school. Local first responders and the OPP commissioner are calling him a hero, after he made the 911 call last week that saved his mother who went into diabetic shock. “She was lying unconscious in the bed, I didn’t kn
  
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• Endangered sharks sold at English fish and chip shops, new report reveals

  01-02-2019 18:00
  English fish and chip shop customers have been unwittingly eating endangered shark that’s mislabelled as other species of fish, according to a new scientific report. Researchers at the University of Exeter used DNA barcoding, where DNA samples are checked against a species database, to trace the sale of threatened shark products in takeaways and fishmongers. The majority of samples were identified as spiny dogfish, part of the shark family that is critically endangered in the northeast Atl
  
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• Victim's Family Says Serial Killer Cody Legebokoff Moved to Medium Security Institution

  01-02-2019 17:30
  The mother of a victim of one of Canada's youngest serial killers is outraged after learning that the man responsible for her daughter's death has been moved to a medium security facility.
  
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• Former Blood Tribe Chief Named New U of L Chancellor

  01-02-2019 17:28
  For the first time in the University of Lethbridge's 52 year history, an Indigenous person will hold the position of chancellor.
  
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• Wind Energy in Canada Now Powering Around 3.3 Million Homes

  01-02-2019 17:11
  Wind energy, a major economic driver in southern Alberta, is on track to continue adding new capacity this year.
  
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• Grammys launch initiative aiding women producers, engineers

  01-02-2019 16:32
  NEW YORK - The Recording Academy's Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion is launching a new initiative to create and expand more opportunities to female music producers and engineers. The academy has announced, the Producer & Engineer Inclusion Initiative, which asks that musicians, record labels and others consider at least two female producers or engineers when working on a project, whether it's a song or an album. More than 200 have already pledged and are committed, including Lady Gaga,
  
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• Demolition of old Highway 22X bridge causes closure on Macleod Trail

  01-02-2019 16:26
  Macleod Trail will be closed in both directions at the intersection with Highway 22X on Friday night so crews can remove the old bridge to make room for the southwest ring road. The closure starts at 8:00 p.m. and runs until 6:00 a.m. Monday. Traffic will be detoured around the area and drivers are being advised to consider alternate routes. The city says the construction will continue after the weekend and that there will be some lane restrictions until February 8.
  
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• World-first Toronto procedure cures teen's rare 'nutcracker syndrome'

  01-02-2019 15:54
  Linda Fedele’s life was upturned by back pain. It was affecting her grades in high school, she couldn’t swim anymore, and for several months went from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist. But the pain never went away. “It felt like someone was stabbing me in the back constantly,” the 17-year-old told CTV’s Your Morning on Friday. But then she saw a urologist at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto who thought something more serious was happening than oth
  
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• New Southern Alberta Research Looking to Improve Indigenous Health Outcomes

  01-02-2019 15:48
  
  
  The aim is to help Indigenous people navigate the health system in order to improve patient outcomes and address health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations.
  
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• Kevin Vickers says he is retiring as envoy to Ireland, will return to N.B.

  01-02-2019 15:47
  FREDERICTON -- Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada's ambassador to Ireland, potentially setting himself up for a bid to become New Brunswick Liberal leader. Vickers, hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, says in a Facebook post today he'll retire from the position effective March 2 and return to his home in Trout Brook, Miramichi, N.B. Vickers has been touted as a possible candidate for the leadership o
  
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• Calgary-based Imperial Oil reports $853M Q4 profit, boosted by downstream operations

  01-02-2019 15:30
  Imperial says the profit amounted to $1.08 per diluted share for the last three months of 2018 compared with a loss of 16 cents per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2017, which included $566 million of upstream asset impairments.
  
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• Arctic air mass settles in over Calgary and southern Alberta

  01-02-2019 15:20
  Calgary and southern Alberta have experienced a relatively warm winter so far but an arctic air mass moved in overnight and temperatures are expected to tumble into the minus 20s this weekend. A snowfall warning has been issued for the mountain parks and parts of central and northern Alberta. Environment Canada says a slow moving system will bring heavy snow to some areas and total accumulation could be between 15 and 40 cm, depending on the region. People are being advised to postpone unnecessa
  
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• Bill Cosby victim settles defamation suit with ex-prosecutor

  01-02-2019 14:56
  PHILADELPHIA -- The victim in Bill Cosby's criminal sex-assault case has settled a defamation lawsuit against a former prosecutor who said she added details to her story over time. Andrea Constand's suit against Bruce Castor had been set for trial in April in Philadelphia after a federal judge refused to dismiss it. The case then settled this week, court records show. Constand's lawyer, Dolores Troiani, said Thursday that the terms are confidential and both sides had agreed not to comment. Casto
  
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• Staggering Uganda wildlife bust worth some US$3.5M

  01-02-2019 14:42
  KAMPALA, Uganda - Officials say a staggeringly large bust of smuggled ivory and pangolin scales in Uganda is worth $3.5 million. Uganda Revenue Authority spokesman Vincent Seruma told reporters on Friday that the intercepted shipment contained more than three tons of elephant tusks and nearly a half-ton of pangolin scales. He calls this one of Uganda's biggest such busts of illegal wildlife products. Two Vietnamese nationals are being questioned in custody. While the three freight containers cam
  
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• Taber Police Issue Warning About Opioids

  01-02-2019 14:24
  A quick medical response recently saved a person in Taber who had OD'd on fentanyl.
  
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• US$1.25M settlement for man police tackled for 'stealing' his own car

  01-02-2019 13:25
  EVANSTON, Ill. -- The City Council in the Chicago suburb of Evanston has approved a US$1.25 million settlement with a black man who sued after police tackled him and arrested him for stealing a car that turned out to be his own. Evanston Spokesman Patrick Deignan says the council approved Lawrence Crosby's settlement Monday. Crosby didn't attend the meeting but told The Associated Press on Monday that he was fearful after seeing "so many situations where black people have been shot and killed ju
  
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• New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker launches 2020 bid

  01-02-2019 13:17
  WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a "common purpose." The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate in a primary field that's already historically diverse, delivered his message of unity amid an era marked by bitter political division. He announced his run on the first day of Black History Month, underscoring his consequential status as America's potential second bl
  
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• U.S. pulls out of Cold War-era nuclear treaty, blaming Russia

  01-02-2019 12:03
  WASHINGTON -- The United States announced Friday that it was pulling out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, accusing Moscow of violating the Cold War-era pact with "impunity" by continuing to develop banned missiles. President Donald Trump said Russia has been secretly developing "a prohibited missile system that poses a direct threat to our allies and troops abroad." He said the U.S. had adhered to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty since it was signed in 1987, but
  
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• Trump blames Russia for U.S. quitting arms pact

  01-02-2019 12:03
  WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration said Friday it is freeing itself from the constraints of a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia and will begin withdrawing from the pact on Saturday. U.S. President Donald Trump blamed the Russians for the demise of the Cold War-era pact, known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty. "For too long," Trump said in a written statement issued by the White House, Russia has violated the treaty "with impunity, covertly developing and fielding a prohi
  
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• EU fears spread of nuclear arms as U.S. quits Cold War-era treaty

  01-02-2019 12:00
  BUCHAREST, Romania -- European Union foreign ministers raised concerns Friday about the spread of nuclear weapons as the United States readied to pull out of a key Cold War-era treaty, blaming Russia for violating it. The Trump administration is poised to announce later Friday that it is withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty that the U.S. agreed with the Soviet Union in 1987. The pact bans production, testing and deployment of land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with
  
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• A third of U.K. firms consider move abroad over Brexit, survey finds

  01-02-2019 11:45
  LONDON -- Nearly a third of U.K. firms may shift their operations abroad because of Britain's pending departure from the European Union, a survey of 1,200 company directors suggested Friday, as the political stalemate over a Brexit deal heightened jitters among businesses. The survey by the Institute of Directors, an employers' group, found that 16 per cent of businesses already had relocation plans while a further 13 per cent were "actively considering" a move. The group said while headlines ha
  
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• 3 students killed in South Africa school walkway collapse

  01-02-2019 11:25
  JOHANNESBURG -- At least three students are dead and 23 injured after a walkway collapsed at a school outside Johannesburg, South African officials said Friday. Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng province, posted the toll on Twitter shortly after the collapse at the Hoerskool Driehoek high school in Vanderbijlpark. Two boys and a girl were killed, he said. "It is painful to see those tiny bodies in that state," Lesufi said. He reported "scores" trapped but an Associated Press witn
  
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• Supreme Court restores murder conviction of man who burned girlfriend's body

  01-02-2019 11:20
  OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the second-degree murder conviction of a Halifax-area man who admitted to burning his girlfriend's body but insisted he didn't kill her. Paul Trevor Calnen was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder in the death of Reita Louise Jordan in March 2013. The Hammonds Plains, N.S., man pleaded guilty to burning her body and scattering her ashes in a lake, but maintained he did not cause her death, claiming she accidentally fell down the stairs. Th
  
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• Charles Weaselhead elected 14th chancellor of the University of Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  01-02-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Charles Weaselhead elected 14th chancellor of the University of Lethbridge  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE - The University of Lethbridge Senate has elected Charles Weaselhead as the University's 14th chancellor - and for the first time in the institution's ...
  
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• Woman says she outbid meat buyer on 2 horses, shocked to find out they are from Fort Edmonton Park

  01-02-2019 07:07
  A Parkland County woman who says she recently outbid a meat buyer to acquire two horses at an auction says she was shocked to find out they were from Fort Edmonton Park. She now has concerns about what happens to City of Edmonton animals when their service is no longer needed.
  
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• Pets perish as a result of afternoon house fire in Oakridge

  01-02-2019 04:42
  A family of four is safe but their cat and hamster did not survive an afternoon fire in a southwest neighbourhood. According to Calgary Fire Department officials, fire crews responded to a home in the 200 block of Oakhampton Place S.W. shortly before 4:30 p.m. Thursday after a homeowner encountered smoke at the entrance to the residence. Firefighters were met by heavy smoke and extreme heat in the house and determined the fire had started in the basement. The blaze was extinguished and the famil
  
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• Calgary's warm weather of late set to give way to blast of cold conditions

  01-02-2019 03:51
  The unseasonably warm weather at January’s end will soon be nothing more than a memory as a 30 degree temperature swing is forecasted for the weekend. Thursday’s high of 9 degrees Celsius is expected to be Calgary’s last glimpse of positive temperatures for the foreseeable future as the temperature will plummet in the coming days. CTV Calgary meteorologist David Spence’s says the impending cold in Calgary is the result of an arctic outbreak and not the polar vortex that r
  
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