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• Joe McFarland: Part of our history was lost when Enoch Sales House burned down

  05-02-2019 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  If we don't start making the preservation of historic sites a priority, we are going to miss out on an opportunity to show the world where we have come during our city's history, Joe McFarland writes
  
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• Lethbridge council stunned to learn of oil drilling taking place within city limits - Global News

  05-02-2019 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge council stunned to learn of oil drilling taking place within city limits  Global NewsThe city planning department received a notification of the company's plans last October but didn't pass on the message to council or the city manager.
  
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• Lethbridge council stunned to learn of new oil drilling in city limits

  05-02-2019 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Local politicians are fuming after learning an oil project was granted approval in Lethbridge without city council’s awareness. Tamarack Valley Energy has set up shop for a production well near a park and as Kyle Benning reports, it doesn’t align with council’s policy on urban drilling.
  
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• Province announces new crime initiative to help Albertans hit hardest by break and enters

  05-02-2019 22:31
  The province and Alberta RCMP announced the launch of a new initiative on Tuesday that is aimed at assisting repeat break and enter victims. Project Lock Up is a victim-focused program that will bring crime enforcement and prevention groups together to give Albertans the tools they need to help protect their properties and prevent crime. "We are stronger together. It’s by working hand-in-hand with law enforcement, community partners and Albertans that we can reduce crime, empower citizens
  
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• Omar Khadr wants Alberta youth court to declare his sentence expired

  05-02-2019 21:08 via globalnews.ca
  Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is asking Alberta youth court to order his release and declare his eight-year sentence to have expired.
  
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• Resolution passed by City Council in response to urban drilling in city limits

  05-02-2019 20:29
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE – Lethbridge City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Monday, Feb. 5, to immediately respond to an urban drilling site within city limits, upon learning of its operations.
  The resolution outlines that the Mayor and City Manager will respond to Tamarack Acquisitions Corp. through the Alberta Energy Regulator to make their opposition and concerns known.
  Additionally, the Mayor and City Manager will also write to the province’s
  
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• Lethbridge Council Plans to Take Action With Energy Regulator to Oppose Drilling Operation

  05-02-2019 20:10
  Council says it was made aware of the drilling taking place in southwest Lethbridge through resident emails and on social media over the past weekend.
  
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• Food Banks Canada releases Hunger Count 2018

  05-02-2019 19:48
  By Justin Goulet
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – The Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge saw well over 5,000 visits a year ago.
  Food Banks Canada has released its Hunger Count 2018. The report looks at food bank use across the country. In March of 2018, there were 5,352 visits to the Interfaith Food Bank in Lethbridge.
  Comparatively, there were 97,497 visits across all of Alberta.
  In Canada, that number was listed at 1.1 million.
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• Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival scales back 2019 events due to extreme cold

  05-02-2019 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta is expected to remain in the grips of a deep freeze, which means the 30th annual cross-country ski event has cancelled or adjusted some events and scaled back ski routes.
  
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• WestJet Airlines’ Q4 earnings down 39% in part due to high jet fuel costs

  05-02-2019 19:13 via globalnews.ca
  Oil and jet fuel prices climbed to four-year highs in October, though fell sharply afterward, according to the International Air Transport Association.
  
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• April Irving Addresses Safety, Medical Concerns During Court Appearance

  05-02-2019 19:02
  A woman from Milk River facing animal cruelty charges from four years ago expressing several concerns during a brief court appearance on Tuesday (Feb. 5).
  
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• Family Matters podcast: The surge of women freezing their eggs

  05-02-2019 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  The Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM), with a clinic in Vancouver and Edmonton, reported a 180 per cent increase from 2017 to 2018.
  
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• Cryptocurrency exchange wins extra time to find missing $250 million

  05-02-2019 17:18
  HALIFAX -- A Halifax judge says he will grant Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange protection from creditors as it deals with the fallout from its founder's death. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Michael Wood today granted QuadrigaCX a 30-day stay of proceedings in a bid to stop any lawsuits from proceeding against the company at this point. Maurice Chiasson, who is representing QuadrigaCX, told Wood the company needed time to find $250 million in missing cryptocurrency and cash. QuadrigaC
  
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• Cryptocurrency exchange gets court orders amid hunt for elusive assets

  05-02-2019 17:18
  HALIFAX -- Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange was granted protection from its creditors Tuesday as it deals with the fallout from its founder's death and the virtual company's inability to gain access to $180 million in digital assets believed to be locked in his laptop. Gerald Cotten, CEO and sole director of the trading platform QuadrigaCX, was travelling in India on Dec. 9 when he died suddenly from complications linked to Crohn's disease, court documents say. He was 30 years old. His w
  
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• Lethbridge Man Gets Four Years in Jail for Liquor Store Robbery

  05-02-2019 16:44
  A Lethbridge man pleading guilty on Monday (Feb. 4) in connection to a violent robbery at a local liquor store.
  
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• TSB to share updates on B.C. train derailment at Tuesday news conference

  05-02-2019 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) will release more details about a deadly train derailment in B.C. at a Tuesday morning news conference.
  
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• Parked train started moving on its own before fatal B.C. derailment, TSB says

  05-02-2019 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  A train that derailed near Field, B.C. killing its three-person crew began moving on its own, says the TSB.
  
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• TSB to provide update on investigation into fatal train derailment near Field, B.C.

  05-02-2019 15:43
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning to provide an update on the investigation into a train derailment near Field, British Columbia that killed three crew members on Monday. The CP Rail freight train was headed westbound on Monday when it derailed between the Upper and Lower Spiral Tunnels just east of Field at about 1:00 a.m. The three crew members who were killed were all from Calgary and have been identified as conductor Dylan Paradis, engin
  
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• TSB says initial investigation indicates deadly derailment near Field due to ‘loss of control’

  05-02-2019 15:43
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada held a news conference on Tuesday morning to provide an update on the investigation into a train derailment near Field, British Columbia that killed three crew members on Monday. The CP Rail freight train originated in Red Deer and went through Calgary before heading west on its way to Vancouver. The train consisted of 112 cars and three locomotives and derailed between the Upper and Lower Spiral Tunnels just east of Field at about 1:00 a.m. The three cr
  
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• Country music legend Pam Tillis and Alberta performers added to Big Valley Jamboree’s 2019 lineup

  05-02-2019 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  The names of more country music crooners set to perform at the 2019 edition of Big Valley Jamboree were announced on Tuesday as the country music festival lineup for its next big summer event is now set.
  
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• Vancouver home sales fall nearly 40 per cent in January, as prices pull back

  05-02-2019 14:00
  Vancouver's once red-hot housing market continued to cool last month as the number of home sales fell to the lowest level seen in January in 10 years. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says 1,103 homes were sold in Metro Vancouver last month, down 39.3 per cent from the same month a year earlier. Month-over-month, January home sales were up 2.9 per cent versus December 2018. The board says last month's home sales were 36.3 per cent below the 10-year sales average for January, and the lo
  
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• Pats open four game road trip in Lethbridge on Tuesday - 620 CKRM.com

  05-02-2019 13:40 via 620ckrm.com
  Pats open four game road trip in Lethbridge on Tuesday  620 CKRM.comThe Regina Pats will try and end a three game losing streak Tuesday night, when they open a four game road tri...
  
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• Creativity key for the future of HMV and Sunrise: music industry experts

  05-02-2019 12:09
  TORONTO -- If Sunrise Records and Entertainment Limited wants the 100 HMV stores it just purchased across the U.K. to succeed, industry experts say it will need to get creative and quick. The music retail landscape has been plagued in recent years by the rise of streaming platforms and the dramatic decline of CDs and DVDs, making ventures like the one Sunrise is embarking on tough, said music analysts. They predict Ontario-based Sunrise, which operates 84 stores mostly in Canadian suburban malls
  
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• Canada's Sunrise Records to buy failing HMV

  05-02-2019 12:09
  LONDON -- Canadian retailer Sunrise Records is pulling stricken retailer HMV out of bankruptcy in a deal that will safeguard some 1,500 jobs. However administrator KPMG says 27 stores will close immediately, resulting in a loss of 455 jobs. The move comes amid extreme pressure on physical retailers as customers buy more online. Poundworld, Toys'R'Us and Maplin went under last year, and major retailers like Debenhams are closing stores. Management professor Christian Stadler of Warwick Business S
  
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• A Western Canada party once worked to win a place in Ottawa. Today, voters might back another: poll

  05-02-2019 11:27 via globalnews.ca
  Western anger at Ottawa is growing, the Angus Reid Institute finds in its latest poll on the West's place in Canada, presenting a challenge for all mainstream parties -- including the Conservatives -- in this election year.
  
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• U.K.'s Theresa May travels to Northern Ireland in Brexit bid

  05-02-2019 11:00
  LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May told business leaders in Northern Ireland Tuesday that she is seeking changes to the Brexit withdrawal agreement but not the total removal of the backstop plan that is the most contentious part of the deal. May said during a visit to Belfast that the British government retains its commitment to preventing the construction of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland when Britain leaves the European Union. The prime minister said she was in Be
  
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• U.K.'s Theresa May travelling to Northern Ireland in Brexit bid

  05-02-2019 11:00
  LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May is travelling to Northern Ireland seeking support for her stalled withdrawal plan from the European Union. May plans to speak to business leaders Tuesday and will also meet with Democratic Unionist Party chief Arlene Foster. The prime minister hopes to win political support for a solution to the vexed question of how Britain can leave the European Union next month without the need for a hard border between EU member Ireland and Northern Ireland, which
  
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• U.K. prime minister vows no return to hard border with Ireland

  05-02-2019 11:00
  LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May told business leaders in Northern Ireland on Tuesday that she is seeking changes to the U.K.'s withdrawal agreement with the European Union, but not the total removal of the Irish border provision that is the most contentious part of the deal. Seeking to ease fears about the return of customs posts and vehicle checks, May said during a visit to Belfast that the British government is committed to preventing the construction of a physical border between
  
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• Saskatchewan justice minister makes change to say police can name murder victims

  05-02-2019 10:18
  REGINA -- Saskatchewan's justice minister says it was an unintended consequence that police would withhold the names of homicide victims when they were brought under provincial privacy laws. Don Morgan said that's why the government recently amended a regulation to spell out that police forces are in fact permitted to name murder victims. "It's in the public interest to have people know that a homicide has taken place and to know who the victim is." The issue emerged last year after Saskatchewan
  
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• Afghan official: Taliban hit army base, kill 26 troops

  05-02-2019 09:33
  KABUL -- The Taliban launched a pre-dawn attack on an army base in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 26 members of the security forces, a provincial official said, the latest brazen assault by insurgents to defy stepped-up efforts to resolve the country's protracted war. The raid on the base in northern Kunduz province came as representatives of the Taliban were to hold meetings in Moscow with prominent Afghan figures, including former President Hamid Karzai, opposition leaders and tribal
  
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• U.S. officials fear ISIS fighters are lying low, not defeated

  05-02-2019 07:34
  WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but U.S. defence officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply biding their time until the Americans leave the battlefield as planned. IS militants have lost territory since Trump's surprise announcement in December that he was pulling U.S. forces out, but military officials warn the fighters could regroup within six month
  
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• U.S. commander: ISIS hold in Syria, Iraq on verge of collapse

  05-02-2019 07:34
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Islamic State group in Syria in his State of the Union address Tuesday, but U.S. defence officials are increasingly fearful that the militants are simply biding their time until the Americans leave the battlefield as planned. ISIS militants have lost territory since Trump's surprise announcement in December that he was pulling U.S. forces out, but military officials warn the fighters could regroup
  
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• St. FX claims comment related to sexual assault survivor instigated hockey brawl

  05-02-2019 07:12
  WOLFVILLE, N.S. -- A university hockey brawl that has prompted an investigation and will likely lead to a number of suspensions was instigated by a derogatory comment related to a sexual assault survivor, St. Francis Xavier University alleged Monday in a statement. The incident occurred in the third period of a game between St. FX and Acadia last Saturday in Wolfville, N.S., leading to the ejection of five Axemen players, eight X-Men and both head coaches. Atlantic University Sport, which overse
  
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• WHL Roundup: Monday, February 4, 2019

  05-02-2019 06:44 via globalnews.ca
  Parker Kelly's power-play goal early in the second period stood as the winner as the Prince Albert Raiders downed the Edmonton Oil Kings 5-1 on Monday in Western Hockey League play.
  
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• Calgary city council passes plan addressing safety concerns near safe drug consumption site

  05-02-2019 06:29
  People who use the supervised safe drug consumption site in the Beltline worry it will be taken away if a solution to safety concerns isn’t found soon. Last week, a Calgary police service report highlighted big increase in crime around the facility which is located in the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre on the 12 hundred bock of 4 Street Southwest. The city is trying to do something quickly but others say it’s time to question whether the facility should be there in the first place. &nb
  
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• Paris building fire claims 10 lives; arson suspected

  05-02-2019 06:17
  Paris' deadliest fire in over a decade claimed 10 lives Tuesday, sending fleeing residents to the roof as flames engulfed their apartment building before dawn. A 40-year-old female resident of the building, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was arrested as police opened an investigation into voluntary arson resulting in death. French officials said she was drunk when she was apprehended on the street near the eight-storey building in the quiet neighbourhood. It is the deadliest fir
  
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• Apartment inferno kills 10; deadliest Paris fire since 2005

  05-02-2019 06:17
  Paris' deadliest fire in over a decade killed at least 10 people Tuesday as flames engulfed a nine-story apartment building, sending residents to the roof and clambering across balconies to escape. A 40-year-old woman who lived in the building, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was arrested nearby and held on suspicion of having set the fire not long before. French police opened a criminal investigation for voluntary arson resulting in death. Multiple neighbours said they heard the
  
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• Activists arrested in Minnesota after attempt to shut down Enbridge oil pipeline

  05-02-2019 04:36 via globalnews.ca
  Four climate-change activists from the Catholic Worker movement were arrested Monday in an attempt to shut down an Enbridge oil pipeline in north-central Minnesota.
  
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• Distracted Driving Major Focus For Alberta Law Enforcement Agencies in February

  05-02-2019 02:05
  97% of the distracted driving convictions in Alberta since it became law in 2011 have been for handheld cell phone use.
  
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• Global News at 5: February 4

  05-02-2019 02:03 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, February 4, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge.
  
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• Lethbridge sports recap: Feb. 4

  05-02-2019 01:57 via globalnews.ca
  In Global Lethbridge’s weekend sports recap, the Lethbridge Hurricanes look impressive to start their six-game homestand, the Lethbridge Kodiaks’ men’s volleyball team remains unbeaten and the University of Lethbridge women’s hockey team faces a tough test in the Alberta Pandas.
  
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• 3 Calgary men killed in CP Railway train derailment near Field, B.C. identified

  05-02-2019 01:57 via globalnews.ca
  The freight train was heading west when it went off the tracks, plunging into the Kicking Horse River just east of Field, B.C.
  
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• Alberta government announces plan to fund electric vehicle network

  05-02-2019 01:49 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Minister Shannon Phillips announced funding for a network of electric vehicle charging stations at Lethbridge College on Monday.
  
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• BILD Lethbridge Hands Out Annual Awards of Excellence in Housing

  05-02-2019 01:45
  The 20th annual awards, honouring the best in the local home building industry were handed on last Friday at a gala in Lethbridge.
  
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• Alberta government announces funding for electric vehicle network

  05-02-2019 01:40 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Minister Shannon Phillips announced funding for a network of electric vehicle charging stations at Lethbridge College on Monday. The chargers will be installed throughout southern Alberta by the end of 2019, at a cost of $2 million. Chris Chacon reports.
  
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• In pictures: Cats players visit Lethbridge - Geelong Advertiser

  05-02-2019 01:39 via geelongadvertiser.com.au
  In pictures: Cats players visit Lethbridge  Geelong AdvertiserGEELONG players took some time off from training yesterday to visit Lethbridge Junior Football Club as part of the 2019 AFL Community Camps program.
  
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• University of Calgary making free sports concussion course available to anybody who is interested

  05-02-2019 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  Research on concussions in sport has reached a tipping point where the University of Calgary is offering a free, online course to anyone and everyone.
  
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• City of Lethbridge received information about urban drilling in October, but Mayor and council were left in the dark - Lethbridge News Now

  05-02-2019 01:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  City of Lethbridge received information about urban drilling in October, but Mayor and council were left in the dark  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE - It's been a whirlwind 24 hours when it comes to urban drilling in Lethbridge. No Drilling Lethbridge, a small volunteer group of local residents ...
  
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• City of Lethbridge received information about urban drilling in October, but Mayor and council were left in the dark

  05-02-2019 01:03
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE - It's been a whirlwind 24 hours when it comes to urban drilling in Lethbridge.
  No Drilling Lethbridge, a small volunteer group of local residents opposed to oil drilling and fracking within city limits, posted that drilling had been discovered in West Lethbridge on Sunday, Feb. 3.
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• 3rd person charged in Alberta horse neglect investigation

  05-02-2019 00:54 via globalnews.ca
  A third person has been charged in connection with a rural Alberta animal cruelty investigation.
  
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