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• Lethbridge woman charged for defrauding employer - Calgary Herald

  27-03-2019 23:29 via calgaryherald.com
  Lethbridge woman charged for defrauding employer  Calgary HeraldA Lethbridge woman has been charged with stealing property and swindling more than $46000 from her employer.Melanie Vaillancourt, 38, is facing a handful ...
  
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• Snowfall warning issued for southern Alberta

  27-03-2019 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  A snowfall warning was issued on Wednesday for parts of southern Alberta, with up to 20 centimetres expected.
  
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• Lethbridge woman charged for defrauding employer - Calgary Sun

  27-03-2019 23:22 via calgarysun.com
  Lethbridge woman charged for defrauding employer  Calgary SunA Lethbridge woman has been charged with stealing property and swindling more than $46000 from her employer.Melanie Vaillancourt, 38, is facing a handful ...
  
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• Higher gas prices of late expected to continue to climb as summer nears

  27-03-2019 23:04
  Motorists have encountered a jump of nearly 15 cents per litre in the price of regular gasoline this month and experts believe the upward trend will likely continue as summer approaches. “It’s not just here in Calgary or across the province or across the country, globally this is being felt everywhere,” explained Dan McTeague, a senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com. “Oil has gone up from $42 a barrel to $60 a barrel. That’s probably the single largest increase i
  
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• Closing arguments take place in Raymond teacher sexual exploitation, luring trial

  27-03-2019 22:51
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - Closing arguments took place Wednesday, Mar. 27, at Court of Queen's Bench in Lethbridge, in the trial of Raymond teacher Jentry Jack Salmon.
  Salmon has been charged with one count each of child luring and sexual exploitation.
  The 35-year-old  was originally charged in Feb. 2017, after an investigation by Raymond RCMP. The alleged victim's identity can not be released, because she was a minor at the time of the alleged o
  
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• Kate Andrews Fire Academy Unveiled in Coaldale

  27-03-2019 22:47
  A new unique course for high school students being unveiled in Coaldale Wednesday.
  
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• Police search for man who disappeared from southeast Calgary

  27-03-2019 21:48
  Police are looking for the public’s help to locate a 22-year-old Calgary man who’s been missing since late February. Usama Amin was last seen in southeast Calgary and he was last heard from on February 28. His family and police are very concerned about his welfare. Amin is described as:5’8” (173 cm) tall 120 lbs (54 kg) Slim build Black hair Brown eyesAnyone with information about Amin’s whereabouts is asked to contact the police non-emergency number, 403-266-1234,
  
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• Trial Verdict Expected Thursday for Former Raymond High School Teacher

  27-03-2019 20:41
  Both sides offering their closing arguments on Wednesday (Mar. 27) as a trial wraps up for a former Raymond high school teacher who's facing sexual exploitation and child luring charges.
  
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• Prince Edward Island could end up with first Green premier

  27-03-2019 20:16
  CHARLOTTETOWN -- Prince Edward Island's Green leader is contemplating making history -- as the party's first Canadian premier. Islanders will go to the polls April 23 in a provincial election announced late Tuesday. Recent polls have put the Greens out in front, and leader Peter Bevan-Baker believes his party can win a province that has only ever been governed by the Liberals or Tories. "That possibility is there. Emotionally, politically and intellectually, I feel like I'm ready for that challe
  
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• Lethbridge woman accused of bilking $46,000 from employer - CTV News

  27-03-2019 19:35 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Lethbridge woman accused of bilking $46,000 from employer  CTV NewsA Lethbridge woman is facing charges of fraud, theft and possession of the proceeds of crime after being accused of bilking her employer out of $46000 in cash ...
  
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• Lethbridge woman accused of bilking $46,000 from employer

  27-03-2019 19:35
  A Lethbridge woman is facing charges of theft and possession of the proceeds of crime after being accused of bilking her employer out of $46,000 in cash and $1,500 in property. When staff at King of Trade in the southern Alberta city noticed discrepancies in the store’s inventory, a check of surveillance video appeared to show an employee stealing cash from the till. Authorities were called and members of the Lethbridge police Economics Crimes Unit launched an investigation. Police allege
  
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• Lethbridge Woman Charged With Defrauding Her Employer of More Than $46,000

  27-03-2019 19:11
  38 year old Melanie Dawn Vaillancourt of Lethbridge is charged with fraud, theft, falsification of documents, and possession of the proceeds of crime.
  
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• Local woman charged for defrauding employer out of more than $46,000

  27-03-2019 19:10
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – A 38-year-old woman has been charged by Lethbridge Police have in connection with an internal fraud for stealing property and more than $46,000 from her employer.
  According to police, earlier this year they initiated an investigation into fraudulent activity at the King of Trade after staff identified some inventory discrepancies. 
  Staff reviewed video surveillance and observed an employee stealing property and cash from the t
  
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• Wilson-Raybould says leaks of Supreme Court pick dispute should be investigated

  27-03-2019 19:07
  OTTAWA – Jody Wilson-Raybould has added her voice to the federal Conservatives' call for judicial investigation into leaked reports about years-old tension between herself and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over her choice of a Supreme Court justice. In a new statement to CTV News, the once attorney-general of Canada and current Liberal MP said that she thinks that "some sort of investigation" into the leaks should be considered. "This has to stop and given the seriousness of this matter I
  
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• Federal judicial affairs commissioner says he can't probe Supreme Court appointment leaks

  27-03-2019 19:07
  OTTAWA – The Federal Judicial Affairs Commissioner has shot down the possibility of an investigation into leaked reports about years-old tension between Jody Wilson-Raybould and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over her choice of a Supreme Court justice. In a statement responding to a letter from the Conservatives asking for an investigation into the leaks as a breach of confidentiality, commissioner Marc Giroux said that while he is "deeply concerned and troubled about the release to the med
  
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• Sneezing into spring: how snow mould can affect your health

  27-03-2019 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  Melting snow in the springtime is a sign of warmer weather to come, but it may be a nuisance for anyone who suffers from allergies.
  
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• Prime Minister May says she'll step down if Brexit deal OK'd

  27-03-2019 18:56
  LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May told Conservative lawmakers Wednesday that she will step down once the U.K.'s exit from the European Union is delivered -- a dramatic concession meant to bring enough of her colleagues on board to push her deal over the line. May told a party meeting of legislators that she was aware of a desire for a new approach - and new leadership - in the second phase of the Brexit negotiations. "I am prepared to leave this job earlier than I intended in order to
  
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• Alberta man recovering after losing leg in Utah hiking accident

  27-03-2019 18:39 via globalnews.ca
  An Alberta man is recovering in hospital in Colorado after losing his leg in a hiking accident earlier this month.
  
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• Boulets Heading to Ottawa to Talk Green Shirt Day, Organ Donation Awareness

  27-03-2019 18:24
  
  
  Logan Boulet's parents will be in Ottawa next week to talk about "Green Shirt Day" and organ donation.
  
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• Edmonton march to support GSAs in response to UCP education plan

  27-03-2019 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  A protest and march in support of gay-straight alliances is set to take place in Edmonton Wednesday evening in response to the United Conservative Party's education plan.
  
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• Albertans rally in support of current GSA rules after UCP education plan released

  27-03-2019 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  Crowds gathered outside the Alberta legislature Wednesday evening for a rally and march in support of gay-straight alliances and the current legislation around them.
  
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• Phase Two ATB Centre, Aquatic Facility Getting Closer to Opening

  27-03-2019 18:17
  Not too much longer until the second phase of the ATB Centre is open to the public.
  
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• Facebook extends ban on hate speech to 'white nationalists'

  27-03-2019 18:03
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned white supremacists. The social network said Wednesday that it didn't apply the ban previously to expressions of white nationalism because it linked such expressions with broader concepts of nationalism and separatism -- such as American pride or Basque separatism (which are still
  
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• Lack of lubricating oil blamed for engine failure on Norway cruise ship

  27-03-2019 17:14
  COPENHAGEN -- A cruise ship that was the focus of a daring rescue operation off Norway's frigid North Sea coast became disabled because its engines didn't have enough lubricating oil, the country's top maritime official said Wednesday. Low oil levels were the "direct cause" of the engine failure that stranded the ship during a storm Saturday, Lars Alvestad, the acting director general of the Norwegian Maritime Authority, said. Sensors detected the oil shortage and automatically shut down the Vik
  
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• 14-year-old's drowning death linked to sugary alcoholic drinks: Quebec coroner

  27-03-2019 17:13
  MONTREAL -- A Quebec coroner called on public heath authorities to take stronger action to counter the dangers of youth drinking Wednesday as he released his report into the death of a 14-year-old girl who was found dead in a stream behind her school last year. Martin Larocque concluded that Athena Gervais died of drowning and possible hypothermia in the context of excessive consumption of a sweetened alcoholic beverage. His report found Gervais consumed most of three 568 ml cans of a beverage c
  
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• Owner of trucking company involved in Humboldt Broncos bus crash pleads guilty to safety charges

  27-03-2019 16:56 via globalnews.ca
  The owner of the transport truck involved in the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has admitted he did not follow provincial and federal safety rules.
  
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• Woman sent to hospital after domestic assault in southeast Calgary

  27-03-2019 16:34
  Calgary police have closed off access to the MacDonald Avenue Bridge in the city’s southeast to investigate a hit and run that's believed to be the result of a violent domestic dispute. Police were called to the area just before 9:00 a.m. and blocked off MacDonald Avenue from Maggie Street to 8 Street S.E. Officials tell CTV News that the hit and run was the result of a violent domestic assault. A woman was taken to hospital in serious condition and a man was located and arrested a short t
  
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• Police investigate hit and run in city’s southeast

  27-03-2019 16:34
  Calgary police have closed off access to the MacDonald Avenue Bridge in the city’s southeast to investigate a hit and run. Police were called to the area just before 9:00 a.m. and have blocked off MacDonald Avenue from Maggie Street to 8 Street S.E. More to come…
  
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• YouTube mom faces charges including child abuse, kidnapping

  27-03-2019 15:29
  PHOENIX — An Arizona woman who used to operate a popular YouTube channel featuring children has been indicted on charges that she kidnapped five of her seven adopted children and abused them by pepper-spraying them, forcing them to take ice baths and striking them with clothes hangers. The indictment filed Monday mirrors some charges brought last week against Machelle Hobson. Christy Wilcox, a spokeswoman for the Pinal County Attorney’s Office, said prosecutors didn’t have dire
  
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• ‘This means everything to me’: Lethbridge College announces recipient of Troy Reeb Internship - Global News

  27-03-2019 15:26 via globalnews.ca
  ‘This means everything to me’: Lethbridge College announces recipient of Troy Reeb Internship  Global NewsThe Alberta student will head to two of Canada's largest media markets to gain hands-on experience.
  
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• Owner of trucking company involved in Broncos bus crash pleads guilty in Calgary court

  27-03-2019 15:15
  The owner of a Calgary trucking company involved in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash last April pleaded guilty to non-compliance charges in a Calgary court on Wednesday morning. Sukhmander Singh of Adesh Deol Trucking was facing non-compliance charges under federal and provincial safety regulations.        On April 6, the Humboldt Broncos team bus and a transport truck collided on a Saskatchewan highway killing 16 people and injuring 13 others The charges ag
  
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• Caitlan Coleman describes spankings, abuse at hands of Joshua Boyle

  27-03-2019 14:47
  OTTAWA -- Caitlan Coleman, who was backpacking in Afghanistan with husband Joshua Boyle when the pair were seized by extremists in 2012, told a judge Wednesday her spouse regularly punished her with spankings for arguing with him or disobeying his wishes. Coleman, 33, recounted in court how the two met online when she was 16 and began a complicated on-and-off relationship before marrying in 2011 in Costa Rica and travelling the following year to central Asia. She said that in the early days of t
  
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• Electrical fire, carbon monoxide force family from northeast Calgary home

  27-03-2019 14:43
  A family of six was forced from their home in northeast Calgary early Wednesday after an electrical outlet on an outside wall shorted, causing smoke and elevated levels of carbon monoxide. Fire crews were called to the duplex in the 600 block of Marlborough Way N.E. about 2 a.m. and arrived to find a smell of smoke and light haze inside. An electrical outlet on the outside of the building was found to have malfunctioned and when fire fighters cut open the wall, they discovered charring and heat
  
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• Canada's board gender diversity behind U.S. as resources, small firms lag: TD

  27-03-2019 13:43
  TORONTO -- The chief economist of Toronto-Dominion Bank says the gender diversity of Canada's corporate boardrooms lags that of the U.S., with 24 per cent aggregate female diversity compared with 25 per cent south of the border. Beata Caranci says in a new report that the country's resource sector companies and smaller firms need to make stronger headway, as both comprise a larger proportion of the S&P/TSX benchmark index relative to the S&P 500. She says there has been "noteworthy" prog
  
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• Alberta election Day 9: Roads, rural crime and refining

  27-03-2019 13:15 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 9 of the Alberta election campaign, the party leaders were spread out across the province as they continue along the campaign trail. 
  
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• Alberta election Day 9: March supporting GSAs in response to UCP education plan

  27-03-2019 13:15 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 9 of the Alberta election campaign, a march in support of gay-straight alliances is set to take place in response to the UCP's education plan.
  
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• Check the expiry: Woman barred from boarding despite valid passport

  27-03-2019 13:11
  A Toronto woman is scrambling to book a new flight so she can visit her ailing mother in Portugal after she was barred from boarding a plane because her passport expires within three months of her trip. Michelle Araujo says she recently booked a last-minute Air Transat flight to Portugal after family members said her mother had become very ill. “My first step is to look at my passport and see that the expiry date was not until May. So I figured I’m good. I’ll go to Portugal for
  
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• Lethbridge-West candidate says Alberta Party an appealing alternative - Medicine Hat News

  27-03-2019 10:08 via medicinehatnews.com
  Lethbridge-West candidate says Alberta Party an appealing alternative  Medicine Hat NewsTim Kalinowski. Lethbridge Herald. [email protected]. Alberta Party candidate for Lethbridge-West Zac Rhodenizer is married, a father of two ...
  
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• U.K. lawmakers prepare to vote on alternatives to Brexit deal

  27-03-2019 10:04
  LONDON -- British lawmakers were preparing to vote Wednesday on multiple options for leaving the European Union as they sought to bring some clarity to the country's tortured Brexit process. In the wake of two overwhelming defeats for Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement with the EU, the House of Commons has taken control of the parliamentary timetable on Wednesday in the hope of finding a way through the impasse. Lawmakers are holding a five-hour debate on a wide range of Brexit al
  
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• Confusion, lack of rebate details leave businesses on edge about carbon tax

  27-03-2019 09:54
  OTTAWA -- Canada's small business operators say they are not ready for the carbon tax to kick in next week -- particularly since the federal government has still not told them how they will be compensated for the cost. The federal carbon pricing backstop kicks in April 1 in the four provinces that didn't have their own carbon pricing system -- Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. Nunavut and Yukon, both of which asked to use the federal system, will start on July 1. More than half
  
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• Lethbridge East forum tonight at Legion - Lethbridge Herald

  27-03-2019 09:50 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge East forum tonight at Legion  Lethbridge HeraldLethbridge The first of the city's provincial election forums will be held this evening. All candidates in the Lethbridge East constituency have been.
  
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• India says it successfully test-fires anti-satellite weapon

  27-03-2019 09:46
  NEW DELHI -- India successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an unexpected announcement just weeks before a general election. Modi said in an address broadcast live that Indian scientists had destroyed a low earth orbit satellite with a missile, demonstrating India's capacity as a "space power" alongside the U.S., Russia and China. Pallava Bagla, a science writer at the New Delhi Television Channel, said that by successfully hitting the f
  
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• Lethbridge-West candidate says Alberta Party an appealing alternative - Lethbridge Herald

  27-03-2019 09:41 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge-West candidate says Alberta Party an appealing alternative  Lethbridge HeraldTim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald [email protected] Alberta Party candidate for Lethbridge-West Zac Rhodenizer is married, a father of two.
  
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• Lethbridge speed skaters wrap up season at National Competition - Lethbridge Herald

  27-03-2019 09:41 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge speed skaters wrap up season at National Competition  Lethbridge HeraldLethbridge Herald Four members of the Lethbridge Speed Skating Association capped off the season in northern Alberta last weekend. The local speed skating.
  
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• Lethbridge-West candidate Rhodenizer says Alberta Party an appealing alternative - Lethbridge Herald

  27-03-2019 08:00 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge-West candidate Rhodenizer says Alberta Party an appealing alternative  Lethbridge HeraldTim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald [email protected] Alberta Party candidate for Lethbridge-West Zac Rhodenizer is married, a father of two.
  
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• Alberta votes: 2019 election guide - Lethbridge News Now

  27-03-2019 08:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Alberta votes: 2019 election guide  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Note: this guide will be updated as more information becomes available. Voters will head to the polls on April 16, 2019. In preparation for ...
  
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• WHL Roundup: Tuesday, March 26, 2019

  27-03-2019 07:39 via globalnews.ca
  PORTLAND, Ore. - Riley Woods scored 9:35 into overtime as the Spokane Chiefs edged the Portland Winterhawks 5-4 on Tuesday in Game 3 of their Western Hockey League playoff series.
  
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• Heiress hoax scores German woman celebrity treatment, and charges

  27-03-2019 06:59
  NEW YORK -- Anna Sorokin travelled in celebrity circles and tossed US$100 tips -- all the more reason to believe she was the German heiress she said she was. But behind the jet-set lifestyle and pricey threads, prosecutors say, was a fraudster who bilked friends, banks and hotels for a taste of the high life. Sorokin, 28, lived in luxury New York City hotel rooms she couldn't afford, promised a friend an all-expenses paid trip to Morocco and then stuck her with the $62,000 bill, and peddled bogu
  
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• Fake heiress' life of luxury left others footing big bills

  27-03-2019 06:59
  NEW YORK -- Anna Sorokin travelled in celebrity circles and tossed $100 tips -- all the more reason to believe she was the German heiress she said she was. But behind the jet-set lifestyle and pricey threads, prosecutors have said, was a fraudster who bilked friends, banks and hotels for a taste of the high life. Sorokin, 28, lived in luxury New York City hotel rooms she couldn't afford, promised a friend an all-expenses paid trip to Morocco and then stuck her with the $62,000 bill, and peddled
  
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• Man pleads guilty to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, killing her parents

  27-03-2019 05:57
  BARRON, Wis. -- A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, killing her parents and holding her captive in a remote cabin for three months. Jake Patterson, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. A count of armed burglary was dropped. The intentional homicide counts carry a sentence of life in prison. Patterson had said he would plead guilty in a letter sent earlier this month to a Minneapolis TV station, saying he
  
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