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• Alberta NDP won’t hold campaign events inside public hospitals again: health minister

  26-02-2019 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta's health minister says she understands why there is concern about Premier Rachel Notley holding a campaign event inside a public hospital.
  
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• Calgary man charged after Mounties seize crack cocaine during traffic stop

  26-02-2019 22:57
  A 33-year-old Calgary man is facing charges after RCMP confiscated a quantity of crack cocaine from a vehicle during a traffic stop near Airdrie last week. Last Wednesday, police stopped a vehicle near Range Road 294 and Sharp Hill Way and arrested the driver. A search of the vehicle turned up drug trafficking related items and 17.1 grams of crack cocaine. Ruac Gatdet Peter, 33, of Calgary is charged with one count of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Peter has been released
  
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• Lethbridge College Names 2019 Excellence Awards Recipients

  26-02-2019 22:43
  Rick Lewchuk, Dr. Sandra Davidson, Jason VandenHoek and Quinn Ohler will be honoured at an event at Lethbridge College on April 25th.
  
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• Omar Khadr heads into court in Edmonton

  26-02-2019 22:18 via globalnews.ca
  Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr was in court in Edmonton Tuesday, Feb. 26, hoping to have his eight-year sentence for war crimes declared expired. Global News video shows Khadr heading into court.
  
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• Downtown safety improvement strategy unveiled to local business owners

  26-02-2019 21:51
  By Justin Goulet (@JustinGoulet21)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – Downtown Lethbridge is getting a lot safer.
  The Downtown Clean and Safe Strategy (DCSS) was unveiled to local business owners at CASA (Community Arts Centre) on Tuesday.
  The DCSS includes 12 initiatives that will address safety concerns about the downtown core of the city.
  Tuesday’s information session was one of the 12 steps, and the seminar series will be ongoing throughout the year.
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• New Brunswick seafood giant announces product line with Martha Stewart

  26-02-2019 21:45
  SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- A fast-growing New Brunswick seafood giant is partnering with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart for a new product line. Cooke Aquaculture Inc. announced a forthcoming collaborative line with Stewart, through Sequential Brands Group, Inc., and Cooke's True North Seafood. CEO Glenn Cooke described the product line as convenient, quality products for home cooks with all levels of confidence in the kitchen. The products will include Atlantic and sockeye salmon, Alaska pollock and a s
  
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• Province provides details on long-term plan for renewable power

  26-02-2019 21:38
  The province announced its next steps in a long-term plan for renewable power on Tuesday and hopes to have 30 per cent of Alberta’s electricity generated from renewable sources by 2030. The Renewable Electricity Program (REP) is supported by revenues from the Climate Leadership Plan’s carbon pricing and fosters further partnerships with industry and Indigenous communities. About 10 per cent of Alberta’s electricity currently comes from renewable energy and the program hopes to
  
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• Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to address Senate committee on energy projects Thursday

  26-02-2019 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Notley has said she is concerned the changes would impinge on a provincial right to manage resources.
  
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• Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to speak to Senate committee on energy projects

  26-02-2019 20:32
  EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is to make her case in person to a Senate committee studying proposed legislation that would change how major energy projects are approved. Notley is to appear before the energy, environment and natural resources committee on Thursday. She and her government have already spoken out against Bill C-69, which has passed in the House of Commons and is now before the Senate. The bill proposes a new way of handling environmental assessments on large natural res
  
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• Sentimental objects can hold therapeutic value for seniors

  26-02-2019 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Identifying and holding onto sentimental objects may be the key to helping new residents settle in.
  
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• Alberta rail plan results from oil curtailment mistakes, Husky execs say

  26-02-2019 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government's decision to spend $3.7 billion to move more crude by rail was made necessary by its poorly considered move to impose production curtailments, executives with Husky Energy charged on Tuesday.
  
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• ALERT Seizes Meth, Loaded Gun After Busts in Brooks & Medicine Hat

  26-02-2019 20:02
  Three people are facing a list of charges after a pair of traffic stops last week where police seized a large quantity of methamphetamine.
  
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• Man buys US$540 worth of cookies so Girl Scouts 'can get out of the cold'

  26-02-2019 19:36
  A social media post about a mystery man’s act of generosity has gone viral after he paid hundreds of dollars to buy all the cookies a Girl Scout troop had for sale, so the youngsters could “get out of the cold.” Kayla Dillard, who manages cookie sales for the Greenville Girl Scout Troop 1574 in South Carolina, shared the Facebook post Friday, with a picture of a man and two Girl Scouts. The post said the man bought every box of cookies the girls had — US$540 worth —
  
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• Lethbridge Ranked Second Best Place in Canada for Business Travel

  26-02-2019 19:29
  
  
  Expedia.ca ranking Lethbridge as one of the top business travel destinations in the country.
  
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• Construction of $41.8-Million Southern Alberta Fertilizer Terminal Beginning in Spring

  26-02-2019 19:14
  A $41.8-million fertilizer terminal to be built near Grassy Lake is expected to better serve farmers all across Western Canada.
  
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• Suncor gives Banff Centre $10M gift for leadership programs

  26-02-2019 19:05
  The Banff Centre has received one of the largest donations in its history from Suncor Energy and will use the funds to support its Indigenous Leadership and Leadership for Social Impact/Innovation programs. The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is a world leader in the development and promotion of the arts, sciences, business and environment and was founded in 1933. Suncor and the centre have been partners on a number of initiatives over the years and officials say the funds will be used to &
  
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• New Trial Set for Taber Hay Fraud Case

  26-02-2019 18:43
  An eight day long trial has been set for a Lethbridge man accused of defrauding an agriculture company in Taber nearly four years ago.
  
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• United Conservatives Want NDP to "Come Clean" About Lethbridge Hospital Campaign Event

  26-02-2019 17:55
  A letter from the President of Alberta Health Services says AHS understood a "heath care announcement" was being made at CRH.
  
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• Two People Charged in Major Drug Bust at Coutts Border Heading to Trial Next Year

  26-02-2019 17:28
  Gurminder and Kirandeep Toor, accused of trying to smuggle nearly 100 kg of cocaine through a southern Alberta border crossing will head to trial in 2020.
  
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• Wilson-Raybould to testify on SNC-Lavalin affair on Wednesday

  26-02-2019 17:02
  OTTAWA – Jody Wilson-Raybould has accepted the House Justice Committee's invitation to testify on the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair on Wednesday, now that the government has waived solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidence. Her appearance will be the first time she speaks publicly and in detail in the 20 days since the allegations of political pressure being placed on her by members of the PMO in regards to an ongoing criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, were reported in The Globe and
  
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• Committee wants Wilson-Raybould to testify tomorrow

  26-02-2019 17:02
  OTTAWA – Now that the government has waived Jody Wilson-Raybould's solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidence, the House Justice Committee wants to hear from the former cabinet minister at the centre of the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair within the next 24 hours. Tuesday morning the committee sent Wilson-Raybould a letter requesting her presence at 3:15 on Wednesday afternoon. Wilson-Raybould has yet to confirm that she'll appear at this time. Citing the Order in Council Prime Minister
  
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• Police in U.K. issue warning about 'Momo Challenge' urging kids to self-harm

  26-02-2019 16:46
  Police in the U.K. are warning parents about online videos that direct children to harm themselves and threaten them with severe consequences if their instructions are not followed. The warning was issued Monday by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which said it was working with other U.K. policing agencies to determine “the extent of the problem” posed by the Momo Challenge. The challenge, as described by the PSNI, involves messages being hidden in seemingly child-frien
  
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• State of emergency declared after fire damages Sask. First Nation's water plant

  26-02-2019 16:29
  A state of emergency was declared on a Saskatchewan First Nation after a fire extensively damaged the community’s water treatment plant on Monday night. Fire crews responded to the blaze after members of the Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation -- about 80 kilometres east of Regina -- noticed billowing smoke and large flames coming from the plant.For more on the story, check out CTV Regina’s coverageFamilies who live near the treatment plant were asked to leave their homes immediately. The
  
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• Pennsylvania mother and daughter charged in deaths of 5 relatives

  26-02-2019 16:13
  MORRISVILLE, Pa. -- A mother and her adult daughter killed five of their close relatives, including three children, and were found "disoriented" after child welfare authorities arrived for a surprise visit to their trashed apartment outside Philadelphia, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, were charged with five counts of homicide and one count each of conspiracy. The motive and how the five family members died are unclear; their bodies w
  
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• Pennsylvania mother and daughter are charged in deaths of 5 relatives

  26-02-2019 16:13
  MORRISVILLE, Pa. -- Police found a Pennsylvania woman and her adult daughter in an apartment with the bodies of five relatives they had killed, including three children, authorities said Tuesday. Shana S. Decree, 45, and Dominique Decree, 19, were charged with five counts of homicide and one count each of conspiracy. Shana Decree told police that "everyone at the apartment ... wanted to die" and talked about suicide, according to court documents. Decree claimed one of the victims, Jamilla Campbe
  
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• Mom, daughter charged in deaths of 5 relatives: authorities

  26-02-2019 16:13
  MORRISVILLE, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her teenage daughter in the deaths of five relatives, including three children, was arraigned Tuesday on murder charges. The bodies were found Monday inside an apartment in suburban Philadelphia. Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said the causes of death remain under investigation and that it was premature to discuss a motive. Shana S. Decree, 45, and Dominique Decree, 19, are each charged with five counts of homicide and
  
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• Dead humpback whale found in the Amazon jungle, baffling scientists

  26-02-2019 15:30
  A dead humpback whale is baffling researchers after it was found in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, near the mouth of the Amazon River. The whale was found approximately 15 metres from the shore of Araruna Beach along the Marajó Bay in Soure, Brazil. Local authorities say spotting a whale in the region at this time of year is quite rare. According to the Brazilian non-profit environmental group Bicho D’água, the 10-ton whale was eight metres long. But local officials said it wa
  
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• Husky Energy reports $216M fourth-quarter profit, down from $672M a year ago

  26-02-2019 14:34
  CALGARY - Husky Energy Inc. reported its fourth-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as it was hit by lower synthetic crude oil prices and other factors. The company says it earned $216 million or 21 cents per share for the quarter ended Dec. 31. That compared with a profit of $672 million or 66 cents per share in the same quarter a year earlier. Production averaged 304,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, down from 320,000 boe per day a year earlier. The drop came as the company suspe
  
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• Alberta rail plan results from oil curtailment plan mistakes, Husky execs say

  26-02-2019 14:34
  CALGARY -- The Alberta government's decision to spend $3.7 billion to move more crude by rail was made necessary by its poorly considered move to impose production curtailments, executives with Husky Energy Inc. charged on Tuesday. The Calgary-based company, which has opposed curtailments as an unwelcome interference in the market, raised its level of criticism on a conference call to discuss its fourth-quarter results. Husky maintains that its integrated upstream and downstream operations and p
  
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• Lethbridge Block Light Oil Exploration Opportunity - BOE Report

  26-02-2019 13:26
  Lethbridge Block Light Oil Exploration Opportunity  BOE ReportPrairieSky has over 35 Townships of Fee land over the Lethbridge Block in Southern Alberta prospective for light oil and gas exploration and development.
  
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• U.S. suffers setbacks in effort to ban Chinese tech company

  26-02-2019 13:00
  BARCELONA, Spain -- The U.S. government's fight to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from next-generation internet networks appears to be flagging. The two sides faced off Tuesday at the world's biggest mobile technology trade fair, in Barcelona, Spain, where they sought to win over customers and governments. The U.S. argues Huawei is a security risk as it could let the Chinese government snoop on internet users worldwide. Huawei rejects the claim and says it is part of the United States' broader ef
  
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• Huawei exec pokes fun at U.S. spying, Snowden at tech show

  26-02-2019 13:00
  BARCELONA, Spain -- A top executive at Chinese tech supplier Huawei poked fun at U.S. intelligence on Tuesday as he sought to reassure people attending the world's biggest mobile industry fair that the company's technology is secure. Guo Ping, Huawei's rotating chairman, used his keynote speech at MWC Barcelona to fight back against U.S. allegations that the company's technology poses a national security risk to next-generation mobile networks. "PRISM, PRISM, on the wall, who is the most trustwo
  
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• Omar Khadr wants war crimes sentence expired; judge to decide March 25

  26-02-2019 12:27 via globalnews.ca
  An Alberta judge is to rule next month whether former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should have his eight-year sentence for war crimes declared expired.
  
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• Omar Khadr to ask Alberta youth court to declare 8-year sentence expired

  26-02-2019 12:27 via globalnews.ca
  Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is to ask Alberta's youth court Tuesday to declare his eight-year sentence to have expired.
  
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• Doctors using one germ to fight another when antibiotics fail

  26-02-2019 12:05
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Bacteria lodged deep in Ella Balasa's lungs were impervious to most antibiotics. At 26, gasping for breath, she sought out a dramatic experiment -- deliberately inhaling a virus culled from sewage to attack her superbug. "I'm really running out of options," said Balasa, who travelled from her Richmond, Virginia, home to Yale University for the last-resort treatment. "I know it might not have an effect. But I am very hopeful." Pitting one germ against another may sound radical
  
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• Parliament Hill, not Capitol Hill, central to Canada's latest tariff strategy

  26-02-2019 10:27
  WASHINGTON -- Canada's trade-versus-tariffs drama with the United States has entered its third act, and the scenery has changed -- from Capitol Hill to Parliament Hill. For months, the iconic silhouette of the U.S. Congress has been a fitting and familiar backdrop for marathon Canadian lobbying efforts on two fronts: ending President Donald Trump's levies on steel and aluminum from north of the border and ratifying the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Now, those two storylines are on a collision co
  
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• Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr wants court to rule sentence expired

  26-02-2019 10:18
  EDMONTON -- Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is to ask Alberta's youth court today to declare his eight-year sentence to have expired. The sentence, which was imposed in 2010 by a military commission in the United States, would have ended last October had he remained in custody. But the clock stopped ticking when an Alberta judge freed him on bail in May 2015 pending Khadr's appeal of a military commission conviction for war crimes -- a years-long process that has no end in sight. His l
  
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• Decision next month: Omar Khadr wants court to rule war crimes sentence expired

  26-02-2019 10:18
  EDMONTON -- An Alberta judge is to rule next month whether former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should have his eight-year sentence for war crimes declared expired. The sentence, which was imposed in 2010 by a military commission in the United States, would have ended last October had Khadr remained in custody. But the clock stopped ticking when a judge freed him on bail in 2015 pending Khadr's appeal of his military conviction -- a years-long process that has no end in sight. His lawyer ha
  
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• Nepal expects more Everest climbers after China sets limits

  26-02-2019 09:49
  KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal is expecting more climbers to try to scale its side of Mount Everest in coming weeks after China said it would limit attempts from the northern side, officials said Tuesday. Danduraj Ghimire of Nepal's Tourism Department said it expects more climbers than usual will apply for climbing permits during the spring climbing season that begins later this week. Some 563 climbers scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak from Nepal's southern side in 2018. The spring climbing s
  
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• Organizers tout success of pro-pipeline convoy to Parliament Hill

  26-02-2019 06:30
  Supporters gathered in towns and cities in southern Alberta to welcome the returning members of a convoy that had delivered a pro-pipeline message to the federal government last week. The United We Roll campaign, which was more than 150 trucks strong, arrived in Ottawa championing Alberta, the oil and gas industry and its workers. Upon their return to Alberta, 11 days after the convoy rolled out, members said their message was heard. “The trip was fantastic. It was unbelievable what the su
  
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• Stocks fall back as investors await news from U.S.-China talks

  26-02-2019 06:16
  BANGKOK -- World shares fell and Wall Street was set to open lower Tuesday as investors awaited news from the talks between the U.S. and China on their ongoing trade war. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.8 per cent to 7,102 in midday trading as the pound rose on hopes for a delay to Brexit or even a second popular vote. The stronger pound hurts earnings for many of the multinationals listed on the FTSE. Meanwhile, the CAC 40 in France fell 0.3 per cent to 5,215 and Germany's DAX also dropped 0.3 per ce
  
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• North American stock markets up in late-morning trading, loonie down

  26-02-2019 06:16
  TORONTO -- Gains in consumer staples stocks as well as the industrials and health care sectors helped boost Canada's main stock index in late-morning trading, while U.S. stock markets edged higher. The S&P/TSX composite index was up 52.69 points at 16,109.72. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 9.56 points at 26,101.51. The S&P 500 index was up 4.46 points at 2,800.57, while the Nasdaq composite was up 4.61 points at 7,559.07. The Canadian dollar traded for 75.81 cents U
  
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• St. Albert hockey player battling PTSD to stay in the game he loves

  26-02-2019 03:28 via globalnews.ca
  Ethan McKinley suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after a man attempted to abduct him when he was 12 years old. After years of being unable to leave his home for school or hockey, he's back on the ice.
  
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• Lethbridge Sports Recap Feb. 25

  26-02-2019 02:53 via globalnews.ca
  In Global News’ weekend sports recap, the Lethbridge Hurricanes looked for a third straight win in Medicine Hat, the Lethbridge Kodiaks Men’s volleyball team captured a silver medal at provincials, and the University of Lethbridge rugby team added a new recruit to their program. Matthew Battochio has more.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to selling horses in Alberta that didn’t belong to him

  26-02-2019 02:31 via globalnews.ca
  A man accused of selling two horses in Alberta that allegedly did not belong to him has pleaded not guilty.
  
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• SEC wants Tesla CEO Elon Musk held in contempt for tweeting

  26-02-2019 02:25
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tweeting habits have triggered another legal challenge from stock market regulators worried about him using his Twitter account to mislead investors. The latest dust-up emerged late Monday when the Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal court in New York to hold Musk in contempt for violating a $40 million settlement he begrudgingly reached with the U.S. stock market's chief regulatory agency five months ago. Allegations that Musk broke the agre
  
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• Council votes in favour of hearing scientific research on fluoride debate

  26-02-2019 02:07
  Members of Calgary city council approved a notice of motion to permit researchers an audience in council to present findings on the introduction of fluoride into the water supply. Council voted in favour of Ward 13 councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart’s notice of motion that will allow the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health to conduct an assessment.  Ray Jones and Sean Chu were the lone councillors to oppose the notice. The findings of the researchers
  
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• Council votes 13-2 in favour of hearing scientific research on fluoride debate

  26-02-2019 02:07
  Members of Calgary city council approved a notice of motion to permit researchers an audience in council to present findings on the introduction of fluoride into the water supply. Council voted in favour of Ward 13 councillor Diane Colley-Urquhart’s notice of motion, by a vote of 13-2, that will allow the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health to conduct an assessment.  Ray Jones and Sean Chu were the lone councillors to oppose the notice. The findings
  
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• Global News at 5: February 25

  26-02-2019 01:57 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, February 25, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge.
  
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• Alberta anti-racism advisory council takes on issue that ‘affects all Albertans’

  26-02-2019 01:51 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta's new anti-racism advisory council met for the first time, revealing their mandate in helping the Alberta government better address systemic and individual racism issues in the province.
  
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