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• Alberta researcher says complex life may have evolved earlier than thought

  13-02-2019 23:55
  A closer look at some unimaginably ancient fossils suggests complex life may have evolved much earlier and more quickly than scientists previously thought.
  
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• Drug house on the north side shut down by Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods unit

  13-02-2019 23:45
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter) with files from Lara Fominoff (@LaraFominoff on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – One of the worst drug houses Insp. Mike Letourneau, with the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit, says he’s ever seen is now closed.
  Investigators from the SCAN unit of the Alberta Sheriffs worked with Lethbridge Police to gather evidence necessary for a court order to close the property at 235 15 Street N for 90 days.
  The court order took effect at noon on
  
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• University of Lethbridge's new Destination sciences building set to open in September

  13-02-2019 23:44
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - About 100 construction workers are now putting the finishing touches on the 413,334 square foot Destination Building Project at the University of Lethbridge.
  On Wednesday, Feb. 13, Environment Minister Shannon Phillips, MLA East Maria Fitzpatrick, along with students, media and university leaders toured the massive $248 million facility.
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• University of Lethbridge receives keys to new science and academic building

  13-02-2019 23:38
  The university says the building will be 53 per cent more sustainable than the average science building in Canada, housing state of the art lab facilities and lecture halls.
  
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• Woman held at gunpoint while robbers ransack her home

  13-02-2019 23:24
  Calgary police are looking for three men in connection with a violent home invasion that took place early Tuesday morning in Maple Ridge. Investigators say a woman had just pulled into her driveway at her home in the 900 block of Maplecreek Drive S.E. at about 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday when she was surprised by a white GMC truck that blocked her in. Three men got out of the truck, attacked the woman, stole her keys and used them to get inside her home. The victim was held at gunpoint by one suspect w
  
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• Safe Communities and Neighbourhoods unit boards up Lethbridge drug house

  13-02-2019 23:05
  The Safe Communities and Neighborhoods (SCAN) unit closed the house on 15th Street North at noon Wednesday
  
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• University of Lethbridge $248 Million New Science Building Almost Complete

  13-02-2019 22:56
  Alberta's NDP government announcing Wednesday an extra $1 million for operational costs ("Lights On" funding) once the Destination Project opens its doors.
  
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• Alberta teachers create 400K sardine can postcards to stress issue of class size

  13-02-2019 22:51
  The Alberta Teachers' Association says the province has larger class sizes than it did in 2001 and the upcoming election offers a chance to find a long-term solution.
  
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• SCAN shuts down problem property in Lethbridge

  13-02-2019 22:34
  A property in Lethbridge identified by law enforcement as being a magnet for drug activity in the community has been boarded up for the next three months. The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit of the Alberta Sheriff launched an investigation last July after receiving a number of complaints from the community about a home at 235 15 St. N. In August, Lethbridge police executed a search warrant at the home seizing drugs and weapons. A warning letter was sent to the owner of the prope
  
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• Alberta announces $100M, 5-year investment in artificial intelligence

  13-02-2019 22:20
  Premier Rachel Notley says the spending is in addition to the $50 million announced last spring for 3,000 new high-tech post-secondary training spots.
  
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• Local lakes being cleared off as ice conditions are up to snuff for outdoor skating

  13-02-2019 22:07
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – A good day for a duck usually involves rain, but a period of freezing cold temperatures like we’ve seen in Lethbridge over the past week and a half has been good news for the ice on lakes around town.
  The City of Lethbridge has announced that ice at Chinook, Henderson and Nicholas Sheran Lakes is thick enough to meet standards for outdoor skating.
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• Safe Communities and Neighbourhoods unit boards up Lethbridge drug house - Global News

  13-02-2019 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  Safe Communities and Neighbourhoods unit boards up Lethbridge drug house  Global NewsAlberta sheriffs and the Lethbridge Police *Service* have boarded up another drug house in Lethbridge. The Safe Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit ...
  
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• Police Board Up Drug House in North Lethbridge

  13-02-2019 21:22
  A house along 15th Street North, which police say has seen ongoing drug activity over the last number of months, has been boarded up and fenced off for the next 90 days.
  
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• Province puts in $100M to draw investment from AI companies

  13-02-2019 20:56
  The province is investing $100 million over five years into boosting the high-tech industry in Alberta and it’s hoped that the initiative will attract more technology companies to set up shop in the province. Provincial officials made the announcement in Calgary on Wednesday and say the investment will create more than 6000 skilled positions and attract new investment from artificial intelligence-based, high-tech companies. “We’re going to undertake a significant campaign to ma
  
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• Alberta’s baby boom is over: Fertility rates down 4%

  13-02-2019 20:51
  In 2017, the number of babies born in Alberta was down four per cent from the previous year. But the province still has a high fertility rate compared to other provinces.
  
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• Lethbridge Hurricanes Using Smaller Nicholas Sheran Arena For Some Playoff Games

  13-02-2019 20:25
  
  
  Fans wanting to attend some Hurricanes playoff games this spring will have buy a playoff ticket package and hope they're names get selected in a ticket lottery.
  
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• Verdict Expected in March for Historic Sex Crimes Youth Trial

  13-02-2019 19:21
  A Raymond man who admitted to sexually touching alleged victims will be handed his trial verdict next month.
  
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• RCMP charge another official in connection with alleged shipbuilding leak

  13-02-2019 19:15
  OTTAWA -- A second public official has been charged over the alleged leak of cabinet secrets related to the $700-million naval shipbuilding contract that is also at the heart of the case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Wednesday that Matthew Matchett has been charged with one count of breach of trust following an extensive criminal investigation than began more than three years ago. Matchett, who was suspended without pay from his job at Public Servi
  
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• Former Alberta RCMP officer faces new charges after recent conviction

  13-02-2019 18:31
  A former Alberta RCMP officer is facing new charges after being convicted of several crimes last year. 
  
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• Cyndi Vos New Executive Officer at Lethbridge Chamber of Commerce

  13-02-2019 18:25
  A woman with a strong business background is the new Executive Officer with the Lethbridge Chamber.
  
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• City of Lethbridge Opening Designated Lake Skating Areas

  13-02-2019 18:17
  People who love outdoor winter skating have the chance to do so for the first time this winter on three Lethbridge lakes.
  
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• Trial Set For Lethbridge Man Accused of Armed Robbery East of Calgary

  13-02-2019 18:03
  31 year old Cavan Cachene will go to trial in Strathmore late this coming summer.
  
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• Largest donation in Canadian history gifted to McGill University

  13-02-2019 17:46
  An unprecedented donation to McGill University announced Wednesday will go toward creating a first-of-its-kind post-secondary program. “Not only is this gift extraordinary for our university, it is also the single largest donation in Canadian history,” McGill principal Suzanne Fortier said Wednesday in announcing the new McCall MacBain scholarships. The scholarships are being funded by a $200-million gift from the McCall McBain Foundation on behalf of John and Marcy McCall MacBain. J
  
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• Southern Alberta Man Accused of Leading Police on Snowmobile Chase Sets Trial

  13-02-2019 17:31
  A trial has been scheduled for this spring for a southern Alberta man who allegedly took police on a wild chase near Vulcan last year.
  
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• Study links teenage pot use to increased risk of suicidal behaviour

  13-02-2019 17:12
  A new study suggests teens who regularly smoke weed are at greater risk of developing depression and suicidal behaviour in young adulthood. Scientists at McGill University analyzed 11 international longitudinal studies involving people aged 18 to 32 who smoked weekly or daily when they were 18 or younger. They found a higher rate of diagnosed depression, suicide ideation and suicide attempts compared to those who didn't use cannabis in their teens. Lead author Gabriella Gobbi says the increased
  
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• Painter battling cancer pushing for Parliament to revive artist laureate proposal

  13-02-2019 16:53
  OTTAWA – The artist who first proposed the idea of a Canadian parliamentary visual artist laureate is currently in the fight of his life, but his focus has been on seeing this new role come to fruition in this Parliament. Peter Gough, a painter based in Liverpool, N.S. has been pushing for this new position for years but after the bill to create the title died in the House of Commons in late 2018 he's launched a renewed push to see the it revived. He's been doing so while undergoing chemot
  
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• Slippery roads contribute to dozens of crashes across Calgary

  13-02-2019 16:34
  Roads and highways around Calgary remain slippery in sections and motorists are being reminded to drive to the conditions. A number of crashes have been reported across the city and the icy conditions are making for a slow commute. A woman was taken to hospital on Wednesday morning after an SUV rolled near Deerfoot Trail and 17th Avenue S.E. Police say there were four occupants in the vehicle.  Three sustained minor injuries in the crash and a fourth was taken to hospital in serious, non-li
  
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• Unhappy with deal, Trump still doesn't expect a new shutdown

  13-02-2019 15:22
  WASHINGTON -- Under mounting pressure from his own party, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he's been demanding for his Mexican border wall. Trump said Tuesday he would need more time to study the plan, but he also declared that he was not expecting another shutdown this weekend when funding for parts of the government would run out. He als
  
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• Crews clean up after water main break floods street in city’s northwest

  13-02-2019 15:05
  Emergency crews were called out to a water main break in the community of Collingwood on Wednesday morning and some streets in the area are flooded. Fire crews were called to 15th Street, near 32 Avenue N.W., at about 3:00 a.m. after water started gushing into the street. Homeowners and firefighters used shovels to push the water away from nearby homes but some people are reporting water in their basements. “Water seeped up through the floor in various spots in the basement so a little bit
  
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• New branding for MAB Mackay and Lethbridge foundations - The Suburban Newspaper

  13-02-2019 15:00 via thesuburban.com
  New branding for MAB Mackay and Lethbridge foundations  The Suburban NewspaperDuring a recent event that was held in one of Old Montreal's more exclusive hotels, a prominent city-based foundation formerly known as the 'MAB Mackay ...
  
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• Airline sues passenger over skipped segment

  13-02-2019 14:54
  German airline giant Lufthansa is suing a passenger who did not take the last leg of their ticketed journey in a bid to clamp down on a popular travel hack. A Lufthansa spokesman confirmed to CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview from Frankfurt that it is pursuing payment from a traveller who, it believes, bought a ticket with no intention of flying the last segment of their trip. The move could threaten a widely used travel trick that sees airline passengers leave their journey at a layover inste
  
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• Cenovus reports $1.36 billion Q4 loss due to deep discounts on Canadian oil

  13-02-2019 14:47
  Cenovus Energy Inc. reported a $1.36-billion loss in its latest quarter as it faced deep discounts for Western Canadian Select oil.
  
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• The storm heads east: Schools closed as heavy snowfall expected

  13-02-2019 14:43
  Winter storm warnings were in place for an area stretching from Ontario to Nova Scotia Wednesday as a mammoth storm system continued to trace a path through Eastern Canada. More than 25 cm of snow had fallen on Ottawa as of 6 a.m. Wednesday, and Environment Canada was warning that another 5 cm was likely during the day. A similar amount of snowfall was expected Wednesday in Montreal and other parts of southern Quebec.Find your latest forecast hereThe storm arrived in New Brunswick early Wednesda
  
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• Tree pruning results in partial lane closures on 13 Street South

  13-02-2019 14:17
  By Justin Goulet
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – Drivers in Lethbridge are being advised of some tree work taking place.
  According to a notice from the City issued on Feb. 12, crews began tree pruning operations along the 300 block of 13 Street South on Saturday, Feb. 9.
  The work will continue along 13 Street South to 10 Avenue South until the end of the month, weather permitting.
  Because of this, partial lane closures in the outside lanes of the road are in effect, but no detour has been set up or is n
  
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• Cenovus reports $1.36B Q4 loss due to deep discounts on Canadian oil

  13-02-2019 14:10
  CALGARY - Cenovus Energy Inc. reported a $1.36-billion loss in its latest quarter as it faced deep discounts for Western Canadian Select oil. The company says the loss amounted to $1.10 per share for the quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a profit of $620 million or 50 cents per share in the last three months of 2017 when its results were boosted by the sale of assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Cenovus had an operating loss from continuing operations of $1.67 billion or $1.36 per share for t
  
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• Police recover rare Goeldi's monkey, stolen from Florida zoo

  13-02-2019 13:53
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Kali, the 12-year-old rare Goeldi's monkey reported stolen from the Palm Beach Zoo, has been found safe and sound. West Palm Beach police said on Twitter Wednesday morning that "Kali is home!" and that they'll provide more details soon. Detectives brought the Goeldi's monkey back to the zoo just before midnight and that she appears to be in good condition, zoo president and CEO Margo McKnight said in a news release sent Wednesday morning. The monkey weighs around 1 pound
  
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• No. 1 scam: Romance fraud cost Canadians more than $22.5M in 2018

  13-02-2019 12:45
  It took 10 months and $3,000 in money transfers before Michelle Boyer of Ottawa realized that she was the victim of an online romance scam. “He used to send me poems,” she told CTVNews.ca. “When I showed my sister… she’s like, ‘These are poems from a poetry website!’ So it wasn’t even stuff from him. And then it started clicking in.” Romance scams cost Canadians more than $22.5 million in 2018, surpassing all other forms of fraud in terms of
  
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• Saskatchewan carbon tax case heads to court — province argues it’s unconstitutional

  13-02-2019 12:33
  Lawyers are expected to pack a Regina courtroom Wednesday to argue the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax.
  
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• U.K. government downplays suggestion it will seek Brexit delay

  13-02-2019 11:33
  LONDON -- The British government on Wednesday downplayed a report that its chief Brexit negotiator said lawmakers will have to choose between backing Prime Minister Theresa May's unpopular divorce deal and a delay to the U.K.'s exit from the European Union. An ITV News correspondent, Angus Walker, said he overheard negotiator Olly Robbins in a Brussels bar saying the government would ask Parliament in late March to back her agreement, rejected by lawmakers last month, or seek an extension to the
  
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• Ex-gymnastics coach Brubaker found not guilty

  13-02-2019 10:42
  SARNIA, Ont. -- A former high-ranking gymnastics coach was acquitted of sexual assault and sexual exploitation Wednesday after the judge presiding over his trial found serious issues with the police investigation into his case. Dave Brubaker, the former head coach of the women's national team, was accused of sexually assaulting a young gymnast years ago and had vehemently denied the allegations against him. The trial heard that the sole officer investigating the coach was related to the complain
  
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• MPs poised to vote on parliamentary probe of SNC-Lavalin affair

  13-02-2019 10:19
  MPs poised to vote on parliamentary probe of SNC-Lavalin affair OTTAWA -- MPs are convening in Ottawa this afternoon to discuss the prospect of calling on former minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, her successor, and several other high-profile government officials to testify about the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair and alleged PMO political interference. The decision will be made by the House of Commons Justice Committee, voting on a proposed motion from the opposition Conservative and NDP members of the
  
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• Liberal MPs use majority to limit scope of House probe into SNC-Lavalin affair

  13-02-2019 10:19
  OTTAWA – The Liberal members of the House of Commons Justice Committee have voted in favour of studying the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair and alleged PMO political interference, but have used their majority to limit the scope of the probe. The Liberal MPs on the committee superseded the opposition motion that would have had granted the ability to dig deeper into whether the prime minister or anyone in his office tried to pressure the then-attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould to abandon the c
  
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• Commons committee to weigh probe of SNC-Lavalin allegations

  13-02-2019 10:19
  OTTAWA -- The SNC-Lavalin controversy shifts today to the House of Commons justice committee, where MPs will decide whether to investigate allegations of undue political arm-twisting. Jody Wilson-Raybould resigned from the federal cabinet Tuesday, leaving fresh unanswered questions about whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's aides pressured her to help engineering firm SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution. Trudeau has denied Wilson-Raybould was pressured to instruct the director of public pr
  
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• Saskatchewan does not deny climate change: government lawyer at court challenge

  13-02-2019 08:06
  REGINA -- A lawyer for Saskatchewan's attorney general says the provincial government does not dispute climate change. "This is not a case about whether climate change is real or not. The government of Saskatchewan is not made up of a bunch of climate change deniers," Mitch McAdam said Wednesday in his overview of the province's argument that a federally opposed carbon price is unconstitutional. "The government recognizes that climate change is a serious issue that has to addressed and that effe
  
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• Lawyers to argue merits of carbon tax as Saskatchewan challenge heads to court

  13-02-2019 08:06
  REGINA -- Lawyers are expected to pack a Regina courtroom today to argue the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax. A panel of five judges is to listen to arguments from both the Saskatchewan and federal governments as well as from 16 interveners on both sides of the dispute. Saskatchewan opposes the federal government's plan to force a carbon tax on the province and plans to argue it is unconstitutional because it's not applied evenly in all jurisdictions. Ottawa says the constitu
  
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• 'Are provinces sovereign?:' Saskatchewan meets Ottawa in carbon tax challenge

  13-02-2019 08:06
  REGINA -- Lawyers for Saskatchewan and its allies warn that Ottawa's justification for imposing a carbon price on consumers will erode provincial sovereignty under the Constitution. "Giving Canada this degree of regulatory authority over (greenhouse gas emissions) will result in the limitless, intrusive federal regulatory capability over provincial affairs," William Gould, for New Brunswick's attorney general's office, an intervener in the case, said Wednesday. "It only begins here." Saskatchewa
  
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• No escape? El Chapo likely off to 'prison of all prisons'

  13-02-2019 07:58
  NEW YORK -- In the world of corrections, there are inmates who pose security risks, and then there's "El Chapo." Drug lord Joaquin Guzman has an unparalleled record of jailbreaks, having escaped two high-security Mexican prisons before his ultimate capture and extradition to the United States. So with Guzman convicted Tuesday of drug trafficking and staring at an expected life sentence, where will the U.S. imprison a larger-than-life kingpin with a Houdini-like tendency to slip away? Experts say
  
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• WHL Roundup: Tuesday, February 12, 2019

  13-02-2019 07:22
  SPOKANE, Wash. - Ty Smith scored his second goal of the night 30 seconds into overtime as the Spokane Chiefs beat the Red Deer Rebels 4-3 on Tuesday in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Alberta Birds of Prey Centre could move if new school is built in Coaldale

  13-02-2019 06:11
  The Birds of Prey Centre said a proposal for a new high school and rec centre near its headquarters is making them feel pushed out.
  
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• Concerns raised over new Coaldale school and rec centre

  13-02-2019 05:46
  Some Coaldale residents aren’t too pleased with a proposal to put a new school and recreation centre in the northwest section of the town. On Tuesday night, the school division and town held an information session for their plans. Kyle Benning reports.
  
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