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• Notley named Braveheart Woman by Blackfoot tribe at Lethbridge Peace Powwow - CityNews Edmonton

  24-02-2019 23:44
  Notley named Braveheart Woman by Blackfoot tribe at Lethbridge Peace Powwow  CityNews EdmontonNotley -- or Braveheart Woman -- was given the honour in Lethbridge Saturday, being given the new Blackfoot name and presented with a traditional headdress.
  
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• Calgary Flames welcome some new recruits

  24-02-2019 23:33
  A group of youth got the chance to sign up with some of the greats on the Calgary Flames hockey club on Sunday. About two dozen children, all winners of a contest sponsored by Boston Pizza, were able to sign actual one-day contracts with the team, take a tour of the Saddledome and take home some gifts along with a boatload of memories. Owen Daley, one of the young prospects, says it was a “really cool” experience. “It was like I was a Calgary Flame just walking to get ready or
  
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• Some big names still available as Monday's NHL trade deadline approaches

  24-02-2019 22:57
  Tomas Tatar had a feeling he was going to be on the move. It was just a matter of where. A member of the Detroit Red Wings for the previous seven seasons, Tatar was sitting at home monitoring the TV on trade deadline day last February when the call came informing him he would be joining the Vegas Golden Knights. "I said to myself, 'It can happen,"' the 28-year-old winger recalled of his thought process. "(But) you don't realize it until the thing actually happens. After a long time in Detroit, t
  
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• 5 dead in Kashmir, shops stage boycott of crackdown by India

  24-02-2019 22:42
  SRINAGAR, India -- Three rebels, a counterinsurgency police officer and an army soldier were killed Sunday during a gunbattle in Kashmir, officials said, as shops and businesses shut down to protest a sweeping and ongoing crackdown against activists seeking the end of Indian rule in the disputed region. The fighting triggered large anti-India protests and clashes as hundreds of residents thronged the village of Turigam in the southern Kulgam area and barraged troops with stones. An army officer
  
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• Premier Notley Honoured With Blackfoot Name at Lethbridge Pow-Wow

  24-02-2019 22:21
  Premier Rachel Notley received a Blackfoot name meaning “Brave Heart Woman” at the International Peace Pow-Wow over the weekend.
  
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• AHS issues public alert after traveller with measles visits Leduc while contagious

  24-02-2019 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  The traveller visited several locations in and around Leduc on Feb. 12 and 13 while contagious and could have exposed others to the virus, according to Alberta Health Services.
  
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• UCP Accuse New Democrats of Using Lethbridge Hospital For "Partisan Campaign Event"

  24-02-2019 21:15
  Alberta's United Conservatives are accusing the NDP of using the Chinook Regional Hospital to launch "a partisan attack."
  
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• Premier Notley given Blackfoot name at ceremony in Lethbridge

  24-02-2019 21:01
  Alberta’s premier now has a new name, given to her as part of a traditional Indigenous ceremony that took place in Lethbridge on Saturday night. Rachel Notley participated in the International Peace Powwow hosted by the Blackfoot Canadian Cultural Society for the first time. At the ceremony, she was given the name Brave Heart Woman. She says it was a ‘once in a life time experience’. “I walk away just being incredibly grateful and humbled to be given such an amazing name
  
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• Decision to give Notley a Blackfoot name, headdress at Lethbridge event criticized

  24-02-2019 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  A Lethbridge event is drawing criticism on social media with people questioning the decision to give Premier Rachel Notley a Blackfoot name and headdress.
  
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• Decision to give Notley a Blackfoot name, headdress at Lethbridge event being criticized

  24-02-2019 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  A Lethbridge event is drawing criticism on social media with people questioning the decision to give Premier Rachel Notley a Blackfoot name and headdress.
  
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• Questions swirl following Rachel Notley’s event at Lethbridge hospital Saturday

  24-02-2019 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  Questions are being raised about whether Rachel Notley violated AHS policy when she held a campaign-style event at a Lethbridge hospital Saturday.
  
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• Person with confirmed case of measles flew in, out of Alberta

  24-02-2019 20:22
  Alberta Health Services is warning the Edmonton area that a person with a lab-confirmed case of measles visited Leduc while infectious. The person flew from Vancouver to Edmonton on Feb. 12 on Air Canada flight AC236, which arrived at the Edmonton International Airport at 12:54 p.m. There were several locations of potential exposure in Leduc on that day, including the airport shuttle (when it visited the Paradise Inn and Suites, Crystal Star Inn, Wyndham Garden Edmonton Airport, and Wingate by W
  
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• Confirmed case of measles in Alberta

  24-02-2019 20:22
  Alberta Health Services is warning the Edmonton area that a person with a lab-confirmed case of measles visited Leduc while infectious. The person flew from Vancouver to Edmonton on Feb. 12 on Air Canada flight AC236, which arrived at the Edmonton International Airport at 12:54 p.m. There were several locations of potential exposure in Leduc on that day, including the airport shuttle (when it visited the Paradise Inn and Suites, Crystal Star Inn, Wyndham Garden Edmonton Airport, and Wingate by W
  
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• In an upset, 'Green Book' wins best picture at Oscars

  24-02-2019 20:15
  LOS ANGELES -- The segregation-era road-trip drama "Green Book" was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, delighting those who see the film as a feel-good throwback but disappointing others who ridicule it as an outdated inversion of "Driving Miss Daisy." In a year when Hollywood could have made history by bestowing its top award on Netflix ("Roma") or Marvel ("Black Panther") for the first time, the motion picture academy instead threw its fullest support Sunday behind a traditional
  
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• Mummy-smuggling attempt foiled by Egyptian authorities

  24-02-2019 19:27
  An attempt to smuggle parts of two mummies in a speaker packed in the luggage of a Belgium-bound passenger has been foiled, according to customs authorities at the Cairo International Airport and Egypt’s antiquities ministry. The remains – two feet, two legs, the lower part of a left hand, an arm and part of a torso – were discovered by an X-ray monitor at the airport, the antiquities ministry said in a Facebook post. Officials from an archeological committee examined the remai
  
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• Detained Canadian thrown in notorious Cairo prison without charge: family

  24-02-2019 18:21
  An Ontario woman is pleading with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call Egypt and demand the release of her Canadian father, who was thrown into a Cairo prison without any apparent explanation. Amal Ahmed Albaz tells CTV News Channel that her father, Yasser Ahmed Albaz, was about to board a plane on his way back to Canada last Monday when he sent his family a message saying that he had been “flagged.” He later sent another message tellin
  
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• Canadian being held without charge in notorious Egyptian prison, family says

  24-02-2019 18:21
  Family members of an Ontario businessman who was detained while trying to leave Cairo International Airport say Yasser Ahmed Albaz is being held without charge in an Egyptian prison. Amal Ahmed Albaz told CTV News Channel Saturday that her father was detained while at the airport Feb. 18, and had not been in contact since then with his family. Yasser Ahmed Albaz lives in Oakville, Ont., and runs an engineering company that he founded. He had been in Egypt on business, according to his family. Eg
  
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• White House manages expectations for second Kim summit

  24-02-2019 17:41
  WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to manage expectations for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, predicting a "continuation of the progress" made last time. Trump tweeted Sunday that he was leaving early the next day for the meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, adding a tantalizing nod to "Denuclearization?" He also said Kim knows that "without nuclear weapons, his country could fast become one of the great economic powers anywhere in the World." Their first meeting,
  
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• Expectations low as Trump looks for win in North Korea summit

  24-02-2019 17:41
  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump will head into his second meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un having reframed what would make a successful summit, lowering expectations for Pyongyang's denuclearization while eager to declare a flashy victory to offset the political turmoil he faces at home. Trump was the driving force behind this week's Vietnam summit, aiming to re-create the global spectacle of his first meeting with Kim, although that initial summit yielded few concrete results and the
  
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• Hijacking attempt on Dubai-bound flight foiled; suspect killed

  24-02-2019 17:30
  DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A flight bound for Dubai from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, made an emergency landing Sunday in Chittagong, Bangladesh, after a man attempted to hijack the plane, officials said. The suspect, a Bangladeshi, asked to speak to the country's prime minister before dying from injuries in an exchange of gunfire with military commandos, officials said. The flight, operated by state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines, took off from Dhaka at 4:35 p.m. for the trip to Dubai via Chittagong.
  
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• Sheriff: 2 bodies recovered from Texas plane crash site

  24-02-2019 17:23
  ANAHUAC, Texas -- A southeast Texas sheriff said Sunday that two bodies have been recovered at the site where a Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed into a coastal bay. All three people aboard the Flight 3591 died, according to the plane's owner. Crews continued to search for the third body at Trinity Bay, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) east of Houston, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said at a Sunday afternoon news conference with officials from the National Transportation Safety Board and th
  
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• Body recovered from cargo plane that crashed near Houston

  24-02-2019 17:23
  ANAHUAC, Texas -- Search and recovery crews have recovered one body and the search continued Sunday for two more at the site where a Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed into a coastal bay near Houston with three people aboard. The Chambers County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook that the body was recovered late Saturday from Trinity Bay, just off the waterfront of the small town of Anahuac. Three crew members were on board Atlas Air flight 3591, being operated for Amazon, when it crashed Saturday af
  
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• Feds in ‘very strong position’ to wrap Indigenous Trans Mountain consultations within 90 days: Sohi

  24-02-2019 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi says he is hopeful consultations with 117 Indigenous communities will be complete within 90 days.
  
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• 'Hands off': Canadians protest developments in Venezuela

  24-02-2019 16:52
  Canadians from Calgary to Halifax took part in solidarity protests on Saturday over the crisis in Venezuela, as a U.S.-backed initiative to deliver foreign aid to the country turned deadly when troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro fired tear gas at protesters. The protests come one month after 35-year-old Juan Guaido declared himself Venezuela’s interim president, describing Maduro’s election last year as illegitimate. Since then, he has won the support of dozens of governments a
  
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• Canada a leader, but more must be done for women in conflict zones: UN official

  24-02-2019 16:39
  OTTAWA -- Canada is a trailblazer when it comes to assisting women in humanitarian crises around the world, but far more needs to be done to improve outcomes for women and girls in conflict zones, says the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. Mark Lowcock, who also serves as the emergency relief co-ordinator for the humanitarian affairs office of the UN, delivered remarks in Ottawa on Friday as part of a panel discussion delving into the growing need for a more gender
  
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• Tariffs could jeopardize new NAFTA deal in Parliament, Garneau warns

  24-02-2019 16:35
  WASHINGTON -- Parliament will struggle to ratify the new North American trade deal if U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports aren't lifted soon, Canada's transport minister warned Sunday during a high-profile gathering of American state lawmakers. Marc Garneau said time is running out for the federal government to get the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ratified before the House of Commons rises for the summer break, and it remains an open question whether it will happen without the ta
  
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• May delays Brexit vote, says deal with EU 'still within our grasp'

  24-02-2019 15:44
  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Sunday that she is delaying a vote on her Brexit deal in Parliament, saying it should now take place by March 12, a little more than two weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the European Union. The move has the potential to further sow discord within her Cabinet. Three senior Cabinet members already had suggested Saturday that they may break ranks with her and back amendments to delay Britain's departure unless a deal is agr
  
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• Tornado death confirmed as violent storms smack the South

  24-02-2019 15:07
  COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Weekend storms raked parts of the Southeast, leaving deaths injuries in their wake as a tornado smashed into a commercial district in a small Mississippi city and drenching rains fed a rising flood threat.A woman was killed when a tornado hit Columbus, Mississippi, and a man died when he drove into floodwaters in Tennessee, officials said. Columbus Mayor Robert Smith Sr. said 41-year-old Ashley Glynell Pounds of Tupelo and her husband were renovating a house Saturday evening,
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, February 23, 2019

  24-02-2019 08:22 via globalnews.ca
  MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Tristin Langan had two goals and an assist as the Moose Jaw Warriors beat the Regina Pats 5-2 on Saturday in Western Hockey League play.
  
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• Missing teen mom, child found safe: Calgary police

  24-02-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  On Saturday at around 5:30 p.m., police said the situation did not meet the threshold of an Amber Alert, but investigators wanted to confirm the welfare of the mother and child.
  
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• Missing teen mom, child found safe by Calgary police

  24-02-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  On Saturday at around 5:30 p.m., police said the situation did not meet the threshold of an Amber Alert, but investigators wanted to confirm the welfare of the mother and child.
  
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• Court rejects B.C.’s request to declare Alberta oil export law unconstitutional

  24-02-2019 01:43 via globalnews.ca
  The attorney general of B.C. alleged in a statement of claim that the Preserving Canada's Economic Prosperity Act was meant to counteract steps taken by B.C. in its opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline project.
  
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• Police seek assistance to find missing mother and child

  24-02-2019 01:39
  Calgary police are looking for the public’s help to locate a woman and her baby who both went missing earlier this week. Officials say Sierra Marthaller, 17, and her infant child Alex Lewis were last seen in Calgary on February 20. It’s believed that the pair left the city and are likely in the Regina area. There is no Amber Alert at this time, but investigators want to make sure that they are both safe and unharmed. Anyone who knows of their whereabouts is asked to contact the Calga
  
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• Missing mother and child found safe and sound

  24-02-2019 01:39
  Calgary police say a young woman who went missing along with her child has been found. On Saturday evening, officials announced they needed the public's help to find a female and her baby who were last seen in Calgary on February 20. Officials say both have been found safe and thank the media for their assistance.
  
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• Venezuelans in Calgary call for more help back home

  24-02-2019 00:41
  A protest was staged in the City of Calgary on Saturday in solidarity with similar action taking place in Venezuela as citizens continue to fight against what they call a dictatorship. Dozens of people demonstrated inside Calgary City Hall to help raise awareness of the issues facing their home country and the desperate situation that many people who live there are experiencing. “We are answering a call from our interim president Juan Guaido. He asked us to support Venezuelans in the count
  
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• Victoria may lose cherry blossoms as city pushes ahead with tree management plan

  24-02-2019 00:11
  Victoria's trademark cherry blossoms may be lost in a few years as the city goes ahead with a plan to replace aging non-native trees with native species. City councillors in the B.C. capital this week approved a spending increase for Victoria's Urban Forest Master Plan, which one councillor said could result in a loss of a number of flower-bearing trees in the city. Coun. Geoff Young said while he understands the need for tree maintenance, he is concerned after his colleagues approved a spending
  
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