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• Record number of Alberta opioid deaths in 2018 taking its toll on Calgary firefighters​

  24-03-2019 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  The latest numbers from Alberta Health show that more people died last year from opioid overdoses than the previous year.
  
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• April 7 is Green Shirt Day – Do you have yours?

  24-03-2019 21:13
  By Dori Modney (@Dori_Modney on Twitter)
  LETHBRDGE -- There are just two weeks before “Green Shirt Day”.  If you still have to purchase your T-shirt, Save-On-Foods makes it easy. Both the North and West side outlets are selling the shirts for $15 at Customer Service, with all proceeds going to the Canadian Transplant Association.
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• All-girls Timbits hockey tournament wraps up in Calgary

  24-03-2019 21:07 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Hundreds of young female hockey players from all over Alberta, including some from Saskatchewan, were in our city this weekend to participate in an all-girls Timbits Hockey tournament. The games, skills training and fun were all held at the Westside Recreation Centre on 69 Street S.W. all weekend long. Organizers say this is the first time they have ever held a Timbits tournament for only girls. “There hasn’t ever been one that we know of. A couple of years ago, one of our coaches su
  
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• Trump didn't co-ordinate with Russia in 2016, report declares

  24-03-2019 20:31 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or co-ordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting. Trump, pleasure tinged with resentment after two years of investigations, d
  
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• Mueller's Russia probe report rules out criminal collusion

  24-03-2019 20:31 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or co-ordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting. Trump cheered the outcome but also laid bare his resentment after two years of i
  
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• Mueller finds no Trump collusion, leaves obstruction open

  24-03-2019 20:31 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or co-ordinated" with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting. The battle began Monday as White House aides and allies blanketed television news broadcasts to trumpet the findings and claim that
  
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• ‘I just stomped out SOS’: Alberta hiker saved by B.C. remote satellite camera technology

  24-03-2019 18:49 via globalnews.ca
  Hunkered down in the backcountry west of Rocky Mountain House, Adam Nichols eventually spotted an Alberta forestry camera near a trail. He decided to make tracks in the snow – in the hopes technology would transmit his message.
  
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• Prince Charles and Camilla launch first royal visit to Cuba

  24-03-2019 18:42 via ctvnews.ca
  HAVANA -- Prince Charles and his wife Camilla began the first official trip to Cuba by the British royal family on Sunday, in a pomp-filled display of disagreement with the Trump administration's strategy of economically isolating the communist island. The heir to the British throne arrived in Havana and laid a wreath at the memorial to colonial independence hero Jose Marti, near massive portraits of socialist revolutionary icons including guerrilla fighter Che Guevara. The next two days include
  
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• Alberta election Day 6: Where the leaders are on Sunday

  24-03-2019 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  It's another relatively quiet day on the Alberta election campaign trail, with the leaders in Edmonton and Calgary.
  
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• Alberta election Day 6: Alberta Party digital health cards, UCP forestry announcement, Liberal immigration platform

  24-03-2019 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  It was another relatively quiet day on the Alberta election campaign trail, with the leaders in Edmonton and Calgary.
  
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• Environment Canada calls fog advisory in Calgary

  24-03-2019 18:18 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Officials have issued a dense fog advisory for the City of Calgary and a number of surrounding communities and advise that travel could be hazardous. Environment Canada called the statement at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday and believe the conditions will remain foggy until at least the afternoon. The agency also says areas with below freezing temperature could see periods of freezing rain. The conditions are expected to severely impact visibility on area roads and highways, making travel dangerous. Driver
  
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• Canadian citizens found dead in Florida, Global Affairs confirms

  24-03-2019 17:48 via ctvnews.ca
  Global Affairs Canada says it is in contact with officials in Florida after two Canadian citizens were found dead. “Our thoughts and sympathies are with the loved ones of the Canadian citizens who were found dead in Florida. Canadian consular officials in Miami are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information,” Global Affairs spokesperson Stefano Maron said in a statement to CTV News. Local media in Pompano Beach, Fla., say the Canadians were found dead in their
  
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• Ont. seniors distraught after home broken into while on vacation

  24-03-2019 16:54 via ctvnews.ca
  An Ontario couple is devastated after someone broke into their house and stole jewelry, cash and a wedding band, while they were on vacation. Wylda Rogers and her husband, Vern, were shocked when they returned to their Guelph, Ont. home, after a trip to Florida a week ago. “We walked in the front door and everything we owned was plastered all over the floor,” she told CTV Kitchener. “Everything was just taken apart.” Nearly every room in the house was cleaned out, includi
  
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• 'Unique' black van sought in Ontario armed kidnapping case

  24-03-2019 16:02 via ctvnews.ca
  Police say they are “very concerned” for the safety of a Chinese man who was the victim of an alleged armed kidnapping in Markham, Ont. “We need to find him as soon as possible,” York regional police Const. Andy Pattenden told reporters Sunday morning. Wanzhen Lu, 22, was allegedly kidnapped shortly before 6 p.m. while in the underground parking garage of his condo building. Pattenden said security footage from inside the garage had helped police piece together what happe
  
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• Critics say government hiding history by holding onto Cold War documents

  24-03-2019 15:15 via ctvnews.ca
  OTTAWA -- The prime minister's bureaucrats are hoarding a trove of decades-old records that chronicle Canada's Cold War intelligence history, say security researchers who are pushing to make the files publicly accessible. They're puzzled as to why the Privy Council Office has not handed the extensive collection -- which touches on everything from Iron Curtain defectors to possible Soviet invasion -- to Library and Archives Canada for preservation and public release. "I think Canadians have a rig
  
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• Death toll from central Mali massacre up to 134, says UN

  24-03-2019 14:44 via ctvnews.ca
  BAMAKO, Mali -- The death toll from a massacre in a central Malian village rose to 134 dead, the U.N. said, as new video emerged Sunday showing victims strewn on the ground amid the burning remains of their homes. An ethnic Dogon militia already blamed for scores of attacks in central Mali over the past year attacked an ethnic Peuhl village just before dawn on Saturday. Among the victims in Ogossogou were pregnant women, small children and the elderly, according to a Peuhl group known as Tabital
  
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• Italian baby dies after being circumcised by parents at home

  24-03-2019 14:22 via ctvnews.ca
  ROME -- An infant boy in Italy has died as the result of a circumcision performed by his parents at home, according to Italian media reports on Sunday. The ANSA news agency reported that the 5-month-old baby was brought to a hospital in Bologna by helicopter in cardiac arrest on Friday afternoon and died that night. The prosecutor's office in the northern province of Reggio Emilia has opened a manslaughter investigation, and the infant will undergo an autopsy. The tragedy follows a botched home
  
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• Mozambican families hunt for loved ones separated by cyclone

  24-03-2019 13:18 via ctvnews.ca
  BUZI, Mozambique -- The young mother huddled on a wooden boat clutching her 2-year-old daughter, headed for the unknown: The flooded town of Buzi, which thousands have fled with little but the clothes on their backs. Fishermen's boats have been ferrying out Buzi's displaced, sometimes scores of people crammed into a single vessel. But Veronica Fatia was going against the tide, up waters that only recently carried corpses to the sea. She was looking for her mother, hoping she was still alive. Ten
  
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• Mueller report: Which parts will be seen by Congress and the public?

  24-03-2019 12:52 via ctvnews.ca
  WASHINGTON -- Democrats are pressing for full disclosure of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Trump-Russia investigation and vowing to use subpoena powers and other legal means if necessary to get it. Attorney General William Barr was expected to release his first summary of Mueller's findings on Sunday, people familiar with the process said, on what lawmakers anticipated could be a day of reckoning in the two-year probe into President Donald Trump and Russian efforts to elect him.
  
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• Terror at sea: Helicopter rescues frighten cruise passengers

  24-03-2019 12:26 via ctvnews.ca
  STAVANGER, Norway -- Viking Sky cruise ship passenger Rodney Horgen can pinpoint the moment when he thought he was facing the end: when a huge wave crashed through the ship's glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor. Horgen, 62, of Minnesota, was visiting Norway on a dream pilgrimage to his ancestral homeland when the luxury cruise trip quickly turned into a nightmare. The Viking Sky was carrying 1,373 passengers and crew, going from Norway's Arctic north to the southern city of S
  
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• Disabled cruise ship off Norway's coast brought to shore

  24-03-2019 12:26 via ctvnews.ca
  STAVANGER, Norway -- Rodney Horgen recalled the moment he thought he was facing the end: when a huge wave crashed through the Viking Sky cruise ship's glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor. Horgen, 62, of Minnesota, was visiting Norway on a dream pilgrimage to his ancestral homeland when the luxury cruise quickly turned into a nightmare. The Viking Sky was carrying 1,373 passengers and crew, going from Norway's Arctic north to the southern city of Stavanger when it had engine t
  
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• 476 of 1,373 people aboard cruise ship airlifted before rescue suspended

  24-03-2019 12:26 via ctvnews.ca
  STAVANGER, Norway -- Rescue helicopters took more than 475 passengers from a cruise ship that got stranded off Norway's western coast in bad weather before the vessel departed for a nearby port under escort and with nearly 900 people still on board, the ship's owner said Sunday. The Viking Sky carried 1,373 passengers and crew members when it had engine trouble in an unpredictable area of the Norwegian coast known for rough, frigid waters. The crew issued a mayday call Saturday afternoon. Five h
  
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• Morneau 'not ruling out' a pharmacare election promise

  24-03-2019 12:02 via ctvnews.ca
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government is “not ruling out” making national pharmacare an election promise. He made the comment during an interview with Evan Solomon on CTV’s Question Period, on Sunday. “[Pharmacare has] been, now, something we’ve been working on for more than a year and we’re making really important first steps,” Morneau said. The government released its 2019 budget on Tuesday. Funds for the beginning of a pharmacare program w
  
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• Leschyshyn hat trick powers Hurricanes to 4-1 game two win over Hitmen

  24-03-2019 07:03 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge Hurricanes forward Jake Leschyshyn scored three times Saturday night as the Hurricanes cruised to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Hitmen. After capturing two wins on home ice, the ‘Canes now lead the best of seven series 2-0.
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, March 23, 2019

  24-03-2019 06:49 via globalnews.ca
  Mads Sogaard turned aside 49 shots as the Medicine Hat Tigers edged the Edmonton Oil Kings 2-1 on Saturday in Game 1 of their Western Hockey League first-round matchup.
  
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• Police seek public help after armed kidnapping in Markham, Ont.

  24-03-2019 02:33 via ctvnews.ca
  MARKHAM, Ont. -- Police north of Toronto are asking for the public's help after a 22-year-old man was the victim of an armed kidnapping. It happened Saturday evening in the underground parking garage of a condo building in Markham, Ont. York Regional Police say Wanzhen Lu and a friend were approached by three men, one of whom was carrying a stun gun. They say the men grabbed Lu, forced him into a black minivan and fled. The vehicle is described as a Dodge Caravan from 2008 to 2010 with no front
  
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• Chinese national shocked with stun gun in violent Markham, Ont. kidnapping: police

  24-03-2019 02:33 via ctvnews.ca
  A Chinese national studying in Canada was shocked multiple times by a man with a stun gun in a violent kidnapping in the underground parking garage of his condominium north of Toronto, police said Sunday. York Regional Police said Wanzhen Lu, 22, was walking with his friend toward the elevator of the Markham, Ont. building at around 6 p.m. on Saturday when a black van pulled up behind them. Three men got out and ambushed Lu, dragging him into the van. "The victim resisted as they tried to get hi
  
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• Memorial service held for Calgary victim of the Ethiopian Airlines crash

  24-03-2019 00:39 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  A Calgary man who lost his life in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 disaster was laid to rest on Saturday at a funeral ceremony at a southwest church. Members of the city’s Kenyan community, along with friends and family members of Derick Lwugi, packed the First Assembly Church on Elbow Drive S.W. to say goodbye to the community leader, city worker and devoted father. Lwugi was among the 157 people who died when an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff on March 10. Mourne
  
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• Calgary victim of Ethiopian Airlines crash remembered as selfless leader

  24-03-2019 00:07 via globalnews.ca
  Over 700 people attended a memorial service on Saturday for Derick Lwugi, a Calgary man who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10.
  
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• Liberal leader in a tough battle to win in his riding

  24-03-2019 00:04 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  The leader of Alberta’s Liberal party and sole seat in the legislature is busy campaigning to try and defend his spot and he is up against some stiff competition. David Khan is running in Calgary-Mountain View, the riding that was vacated by former leader David Swann. His rivals are Kathleen Ganley, the NDP’s Justice Minister, Jeremy Wong of the UCP, Angela Kokott of the Alberta Party and Thana Boolert, with the Green Party of Alberta. Khan says his party’s internal polling put
  
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