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• Canada Olympic Park’s sliding track closes for the season, future unclear

  03-03-2019 23:18
  It was the last day lugers had to race on the track at WinSport’s Canada Olympic Park this season, but there are doubts about whether there will ever be another season there. Back in February, WinSport announced it would not be able to proceed with a renovation project on its sliding track because it couldn’t afford the $25M price tag. The track, that was built for the 1988 Winter Olympics, needs a new refrigeration system and a number of other upgrades. Tim Farstad, the executive di
  
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• CP Rail officials respond to derailment in Golden

  03-03-2019 20:06
  No one was injured and there were no spills when a train derailed in Golden, B.C. on Saturday. CP Rail says the derailment took place inside a railyard in the mountain community on Saturday afternoon. Several cars, loaded with diesel and grain, fell off the tracks. Officials say no one was hurt and there were no spills or safety concerns as a result. Access to Kicking Horse Ski Resort was blocked for several hours so crews could clean up the incident. The cause of the derailment is under investi
  
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• Fans honour Jarome Iginla at retirement ceremony at the Saddledome

  03-03-2019 19:30
  He came to Calgary as an impressive 18-year-old and went on to become the face of the franchise and one of its most decorated players. Jarome Iginla was given the team’s highest honour on Saturday night ahead of the team’s game against the Minnesota Wild. His number ‘12’ was raised to the rafters at the arena, joining the two other numbers retired by the team, Lanny McDonald’s number 9 and number 30, belonging to former goaltender Mike Vernon. The 41-year-old said h
  
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• How a new project is getting Albertans talking about climate change

  03-03-2019 18:26
  EDMONTON -- Mentioning climate change can kill a conversation. But a new Alberta project is using the topic to start one -- and is showing people from geologists to farmers to environmentalists that they have more in common than they thought. "Climate change has become quite a polarized issue and it often falls down the line of identity," said Amber Bennett of Climate Outreach, one of the organizers of the Alberta Narratives Project, which released its final report this month. "Communication has
  
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• Greens hope strong byelection showing signals breakthrough in Quebec

  03-03-2019 17:36
  MONTREAL -- The Green Party of Canada's encouraging result in a federal byelection in a Quebec riding last week has deputy leader Daniel Green hopeful the party can make a major breakthrough in this fall's general election. Green, who finished third in Outremont behind the Liberal and NDP candidates, believes it's possible Quebecers could once again choose to shift their vote en masse to a new party, as they've done previously, and send as many as five or six green party MPs to Ottawa. "Quebec a
  
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• Venezuela's Juan Guaido urges supporters to protest on Monday

  03-03-2019 17:27
  CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for nationwide demonstrations on Monday to coincide with his planned return to the country. Guaido on Sunday tweeted that Venezuelans should monitor his official announcements and that he would provide details about meeting points for supporters. He said they should gather across the country at 11 a.m. The leader of the National Assembly who has declared himself president also tweeted a photo of himself walking across an a
  
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• Mexico says it won't ratify new NAFTA deal unless U.S. lifts tariffs

  03-03-2019 15:48
  OTTAWA -- Mexico's Congress will be asked to approve a major labour-reform bill this spring as a necessary step to ratifying the new North American free-trade pact later this autumn, say Mexican officials. But unless the Trump administration lifts the punishing tariffs it has imposed on Mexican steel and aluminum imports -- duties it also imposed on Canada -- Mexico is prepared to keep the status quo with the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The push to improve workers' rights in
  
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• Mexico pushing labour reform, won't ratify new NAFTA with U.S. tariffs in place

  03-03-2019 15:48
  OTTAWA -- Mexico's Congress will be asked to approve a major labour-reform bill this spring as a necessary step to ratifying the new North American free-trade pact later this autumn, say Mexican officials. But unless the Trump administration lifts the punishing tariffs it has imposed on Mexican steel and aluminum imports -- duties it also imposed on Canada -- Mexico is prepared to keep the status quo with the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The push to improve workers' rights in
  
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• Gas line explosion sparks major fire in Missouri, turning sky orange

  03-03-2019 15:36
  A gas line rupture just outside of Mexico, Mo. led to a major explosion early Sunday morning, according to the Audrain County Sheriff’s Office. Nearby residents were told to stay away from the area, but the Missouri city itself wasn’t evacuated. The local sheriff’s office reported there were no deaths or serious injuries. To ensure the safety of the residents, the gas supply to the pipeline was cut off, according to a post on the local sheriff’s office’s Facebook pa
  
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• Man who married ISIS teen wants her back in the Netherlands

  03-03-2019 15:24
  LONDON -- The Dutch man who married a British teenager after she ran away to join the Islamic State group says he wants to return home to the Netherlands with Shamima Begum and their newborn son. Yago Riedijk, 27, told the BBC from a Kurdish-run detention centre that he met Begum within days of her arrival in Syria when she was 15. He said in an interview aired Sunday that the marriage was "her own choice." When asked if marrying a 15-year-old was appropriate, he said: "To be honest, when my fri
  
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• One dead following workplace accident in Lethbridge - CityNews Vancouver

  03-03-2019 09:00
  One dead following workplace accident in Lethbridge  CityNews VancouverLETHBRIDGE, AB (NEWS 1130) – An accident has claimed the life of a worker at a water treatment facility in Southern Alberta. Police say they got the call to a ...
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, March 2, 2019

  03-03-2019 07:59 via globalnews.ca
  James Malm scored a hat trick as the Calgary Hitmen downed the Kootenay Ice 5-2 on Saturday night in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Workplace Death at Lethbridge Water Treatment Plant Under Investigation

  03-03-2019 06:48
  Occupational Health and Safety is investiang a workplace death Friday in the Lethbridge river bottom.
  
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• Enbridge Line 3 replacement likely won’t be in service until second half of 2020

  03-03-2019 03:45 via globalnews.ca
  Enbridge Inc. says in a news release that the timeline for construction of the Line 3 replacement likely won't see the pipeline operational until the second half of 2020.
  
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• No injuries or environmental damage as CP Rail train derails in Golden, B.C.

  03-03-2019 03:19 via globalnews.ca
  It's the third CP Rail derailment in the area in less than a month.
  
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• Curriculum review stirs debate among Alberta political parties

  03-03-2019 02:43 via globalnews.ca
  Education Minister David Eggen, Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel, UCP Education Critic Mark Smith, Alberta Liberal Party Leader David Khan and Freedom Conservative Party VP of Communications Jeff Rout took turns debating at the forum.
  
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• Residents evacuated from B.C. homeless camp after series of fires

  03-03-2019 01:55
  MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. -- Leaning on a cart filled with his belongings, John Newton said he wasn't sure where he is going to live now that his homeless camp in Maple Ridge, B.C., has been evacuated. Newton, 28, said he was the last resident to leave "Anita Camp," after police and firefighters taped off the area and enforced an evacuation ordered on Saturday. "I've got nowhere else to go. That's why I'm here in the first place," he said, adding he has lived in the camp for almost a year and a half. Th
  
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• Telus Spark! hosts future jobs summit in Calgary

  03-03-2019 00:57
  Hundreds of teachers from Calgary and southern Alberta participated in a special event on Saturday to help them prepare their students for the future economy. The TransformEd Summit, hosted by Telus Spark!, brings together educators and leaders to help brainstorm strategies to help young people become trained properly so they can get jobs in 2030. Elka Walsh, a chief education and learning officer at Telus Spark, says it’s an “amazing” opportunity to build learning strategies f
  
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• Enbridge: Line 3 replacement likely won't be in service until later in 2020

  03-03-2019 00:45
  CALGARY -- A pipeline that Alberta has been counting on to ease the bottleneck in moving its crude oil to foreign markets won't be in service for at least another year, according to its owners. Enbridge Inc. says in a news release that the timeline for construction of the Line 3 replacement likely won't see the pipeline operational until the second half of 2020. Just two weeks ago, the Calgary-based company expressed confidence that the project would be in service by the end of this year. But En
  
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• Information session shines a spotlight on Calgary’s inner city

  03-03-2019 00:15
  Members of the public were invited to take part in a special event highlighting a number of projects and businesses in a number of communities in the central part of the city. The North Hill Communities tradeshow at James Fowler High School included presentations from city staff about all the different developments going on in the neighbourhoods of North Hill, Highland Park and Crescent Heights. Residents from those communities were also allowed to give their feedback on things they would like t
  
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