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• Former Alberta RCMP officer charged with obstruction of justice

  29-03-2019 23:50 via globalnews.ca
  A former Alberta RCMP officer, convicted of several offences in September, is facing a new round of charges with the province's police watchdog alleging he obstructed justice.
  
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• ASIRT continues investigation into police shooting in southeast Calgary

  29-03-2019 23:11
  Alberta’s police watchdog says it is still reviewing the evidence from an armed confrontation between two suspects and a Calgary police officer on March 23. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was called after a six-year member of the CPS was involved in a shooting with a pair of men who were found at the scene of an alleged home invasion. The agency says police were first notified about the incident via a 911 call from a home in the 2700 block of 86 Avenue S.E. No conversat
  
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• UCP calls on Rachel Notley to come clean on Alberta election spending promises

  29-03-2019 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  The United Conservatives say Rachel Notley and the NDP need to show how they are going to pay for big-ticket spending promises they are making during the campaign for the April 16 Alberta election.
  
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• Lethbridge Fire Chief Richard Hildebrand hanging up his boots in August - Lethbridge News Now

  29-03-2019 22:32 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Fire Chief Richard Hildebrand hanging up his boots in August  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services Chief Richard Hildebrand has announced his retirement after four years at the helm. Hildebrand ...
  
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• Lethbridge Fire Chief Richard Hildebrand hanging up his boots in August

  29-03-2019 22:32
  By Aaron Mahoney (@Mahones93 on Twitter)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services Chief Richard Hildebrand has announced his retirement after four years at the helm.
  Hildebrand says he's had a fantastic career with the City of Lethbridge, but that this wasn't an easy decision.
  "Obviously, the department, the uniform, a lot of my identity is wrapped up in the jobs I've done for the past 31 years. But I know that there are so many other things that I'd like to do and so many more a
  
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• Bellatrix shares plunge on proposal to trade debt for 83.5% of its equity value

  29-03-2019 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  Shares in Bellatrix Exploration Ltd. fell by as much as 35 per cent Friday after it proposed a deal that would leave its existing shareholders with just 16.5 per cent of the company.
  
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• April Dawn Irving pleads guilty to one charge, not guilty to 14 others

  29-03-2019 22:10
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - A 59-year old former Milk River resident facing more than a dozen charges, including animal cruelty, and causing or permitting an animal to be in distress, has pleaded guilty to one of those charges.
  Appearing via CCTV from the Calgary Remand Centre March 29, her lawyer Bjorn Wolkmann, told Justice Derek Redman his client, April Dawn Irving, was prepared to plead guilty to one count of failing to appear. She was sentence
  
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• Donald Trump issues new permit for Keystone pipeline

  29-03-2019 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The TransCanada project, a 1900-kilometre pipeline connecting Alberta oil to the U.S., was rejected by U.S. president Barack Obama in 2015.
  
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• Tickets for the 2020 Memorial Cup in Kelowna may be hard to come by

  29-03-2019 20:56 via globalnews.ca
  Kelowna Rockets announce prices for 2019-20 season tickets and 2020 Memorial Cup packages.
  
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• ‘Big Brother Canada’ sends home 2 houseguests in surprise double eviction

  29-03-2019 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Global News spoke with the fourth and fifth evicted houseguests the day after the double eviction.
  
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• ‘Evidence of fish die-off’ found at scene of Salmo River fuel tanker crash: Environment Ministry

  29-03-2019 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  Crews were only able to recover limited fuel from the tanker, and a sheen has been detected for dozens of kilometres down the river.
  
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• Calgary opens permit program for livestock emotional support animals

  29-03-2019 19:36
  Need an emotional support goat, pig or maybe even chicken? The city has opened up the application process for residents to pave the way to welcome a furry or feathered friend into their homes. Officials have launched an online form to apply for a livestock emotional support animal (LESA) permit with the goal of improving the well-being of Calgarians in need. Those interested in receiving a permit will need to provide a letter from a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist outlining the requirement
  
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• Calgary now accepting applications for livestock emotional support animals

  29-03-2019 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  Calgarians can now apply for permits to keep livestock emotional support animals (LESA).
  
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• Extensive Smoke Damage After South Lethbridge Apartment Fire

  29-03-2019 19:12
  A fire in a parking garage early Friday morning causing a fair bit of damage to a south side apartment complex.
  
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• Saskatchewan asks Ottawa to increase cash advances for canola farmers

  29-03-2019 19:02
  OTTAWA -- The federal government says it is considering subsidizing farmers hit by China's $2-billion ban on Canadian canola imports, and is pushing the People's Republic to prove recent shipments were in fact contaminated. Two federal cabinet ministers and a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday the government is looking at financial options to help farmers. "I am doing a review of the different tools we have in terms of financing support for our farmers," Agriculture Minist
  
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• Trump surprises his aides and allies with abrupt decrees

  29-03-2019 19:00
  WASHINGTON -- There was just one problem when President Donald Trump walked down the stairs of Air Force One and unceremoniously declared that the Islamic State had lost the last of its territory in Syria. He wasn't supposed to announce it yet. Instead, the plan was to let U.S.-backed Syrian Defence Forces proclaim the victory, in recognition of its losses over five years of battle. But Trump was on the tarmac on a sunny afternoon in South Florida holding a map of Iraq and Syria, which happened
  
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• City to start spring sweep up on April 1

  29-03-2019 18:24
  City crews will be out cleaning up all of Calgary’s roads starting next month and officials hope the public will be on board to help out in the effort. Beginning April 1, the city will be sending out sweepers to clean up all the gravel that’s been used to help provide traction on roads and highways throughout the winter season. Officials say they need to have the public’s co-operation to make sure all of the city’s vital routes are swept clean. “We rely on the co-op
  
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• High school girls fight against toxic masculinity after boys 'rank' their looks

  29-03-2019 18:20
  Two high school girls are on a mission to end a culture of “toxic masculinity” at their school after finding out that a group of boys at their school created a list ranking girls based on their looks.  Yasmin Behbehani and Nicola Schmidt from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, Maryland were shocked and dismayed when they learned of the list. “I definitely felt a sense of betrayal. I thought that these people were my peers and my classmates. I realized t
  
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• Conservatives call for quick solution to China’s ban on Canadian canola

  29-03-2019 18:02 via globalnews.ca
  China's decision to ban $2 billion worth of Canadian exports is widely seen as retaliation for Canada's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the founder of telecom giant Huawei.
  
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• Wernick warns Wilson-Raybould of a 'collision' with the PM in new audio

  29-03-2019 17:45
  OTTAWA – Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was cautioned about a potential “collision” with the prime minister over the SNC-Lavalin file, by outgoing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, a newly-released audio recording reveals. According to an audio recording of a conversation that the pair had, submitted to the House Justice Committee by Wilson-Raybould, Wernick said he was worried what might happen if Trudeau and Wilson-Raybould remained at “loggerheads&rdqu
  
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• Wernick warns of a 'collision' between PM, Wilson-Raybould in new SNC-Lavalin audio

  29-03-2019 17:45
  OTTAWA – Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was cautioned about a potential “collision” with the prime minister over the SNC-Lavalin file by outgoing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, a newly-released audio recording reveals. This caution came a month before she was shuffled out of her role, and nearly two months before the scandal began unfolding publicly. According to an audio recording of a conversation that the pair had, submitted to the House Justice Committee
  
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• Audio recording of outgoing PCO Clerk part of new Wilson-Raybould evidence released

  29-03-2019 17:45
  OTTAWA – An audio recording of a conversation that former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould had with outgoing Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick has been made public, in addition to new and supplementary evidence related to the SNC-Lavalin scandal. The 17-minute audio file has been provided to all members of the House Justice Committee, in addition to translated versions of the documents that Wilson-Raybould had handed over days ago.Listen to and read all the new evidence submitted by
  
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• California man sentenced to 20 years in fatal 'swatting'

  29-03-2019 17:28
  WICHITA, Kan. -- A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making bogus emergency calls to authorities across the U.S., including one that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between two online players over US$1.50 bet in the "Call of Duty: WWII" video game. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren sentenced Tyler R. Barriss, 26, under a deal in which he pleaded guilty in November to a total of 51 federal charges related to fake calls and threats. The 2017
  
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• Transit service shut down along 7th Avenue

  29-03-2019 17:20
  Calgary Transit has shut down LRT service along 7th Avenue as police investigate a suspicious package. Service was disrupted just before 10 a.m. and there is currently no estimate for when it will resume. Transit riders heading west are advised to catch a shuttle bus on 6th Avenue and those heading east can catch a shuttle on 9th Avenue between city hall and 11th Street S.W. Shuttles will also go to the Sunnyside LRT Station. More to come …#CTRiders due to a CPS matter there is no CTrain
  
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• Police investigate suspicious package at downtown Calgary office building

  29-03-2019 17:20
  A downtown Calgary office building was evacauted for a short time Friday morning as police investigated a suspicioius package. Emergency crews were called just before 10 a.m. to the building in the 1000 block of 7th Avenue S.W., which is home to Nova Chemicals. LRT service was shut down along 7th Avenue but resumed just after 12:30 p.m. The incident came one day after RCMP investigated a threat at the Nova Chemicals Joffre Site, east of Red Deer.  “We are cooperating fully with the RC
  
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• Former Lethbridge Man Sentenced to Prison in U.S. Court For Stealing Historic Documents

  29-03-2019 17:12
  Kevin Schuwer was given five years behind bars for stealing historic Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints items from two places in Utah.
  
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• Montreal priest says he hasn't forgiven man who stabbed him yet

  29-03-2019 17:07
  A Montreal priest who was stabbed as he celebrated morning mass says he hasn’t forgiven his attacker yet. Father Claude Grou entered St. Joseph’s Oratory to thunderous applause from hundreds of worshippers on Friday, as he returned to the pulpit for morning mass one week after he was attacked. It was the first day back for the 77-year-old rector who was stabbed by a man in front of dozens of parishioners in an attack captured on video. Following Friday’s mass, in which he thank
  
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• U.S. Court Sentences Former Lethbridge Man to Prison For Stealing Historic Documents

  29-03-2019 17:02
  Kevin Schuwer was given five years behind bars for stealing historic Church of Jesus Christ of Letter-Day Saints items from two places in Utah.
  
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• Mother set to plead guilty in teen's murder, dismemberment

  29-03-2019 16:34
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - A woman is set to plead guilty in the 2016 rape, murder and dismemberment of her 14-year-old daughter. Former adoptions supervisor Sara Packer agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence. She's due to appear in a suburban Philadelphia courtroom Friday afternoon. Packer admitted in court last week that she plotted to kill her adoptive daughter, Grace Packer, saying she hated the teenager and "wanted her to go away." Sara Packer's boyfriend, Jacob Sullivan, pleaded gui
  
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• Trial set for man accused of swimming naked in Toronto shark tank

  29-03-2019 16:06
  TORONTO -- A British Columbia man accused of stripping naked and jumping into a large shark tank at a Toronto aquarium last year is set to stand trial in September. Crown and defence lawyers agreed during a brief court hearing Friday to trial dates of Sept. 19 and 20 for David Weaver. The alleged incident took place on Oct. 12, 2018 at the city's Ripley's Aquarium, police have said. Around 10:30 p.m. a large crowd was sipping cocktails and mingling during a "jazz night" when a man allegedly took
  
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• Joshua Boyle's estranged wife to continue testifying at his trial

  29-03-2019 15:20
  Caitlan Coleman, the estranged wife of former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle, will continue her testimony at his trial in Ottawa today. Boyle, 35, has pleaded not guilty to several offences against Coleman, including assault, sexual assault and unlawful confinement. On Wednesday, Coleman told court that Boyle abused her physically and verbally throughout their relationship, including the years they spent in captivity.
  
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• Joshua Boyle's estranged wife alleges she was hit, tied up, forced into sex

  29-03-2019 15:20
  OTTAWA -- The estranged wife of Joshua Boyle says he allegedly struck her, tied her ankles and wrists with rope and forced her to have sex during an incident following the couple's forced captivity in Afghanistan. Caitlan Coleman, who gave birth to three children during a five-year hostage ordeal at the hands of extremists beginning in 2012, is back on the witness stand at her husband's assault trial in Ottawa. The 35-year-old Boyle has pleaded not guilty to a number of criminal charges for alle
  
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• Canada’s GDP grows 0.3% in January, beating expectations

  29-03-2019 14:44 via globalnews.ca
  The oil-and-gas sector was the economy's only weak spot — but even that industry seems to be on the path to recovery.
  
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• Shrieking heard as father-son duo poach hibernating bear and newborn cubs

  29-03-2019 14:29
  WARNING: Graphic content Disturbing footage of a father-and-son hunting duo’s “trophy hunt” of a hibernating mother bear and her newborn cubs has been released after a Humane Society public records request. The father and son, Andrew and Owen Renner, had travelled last April to the isolated Alaskan island by boat and trekked on skis to find the black bears. The footage, which until this week had only been described in a news release, shows the men approach a bear den and fire s
  
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• Alberta election Day 11: Seniors prescription drugs, forestry and wood construction announcements

  29-03-2019 14:02 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 11 of the Alberta election campaign, NDP Leader Rachel Notley will be in Sherwood Park and Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel will be talking about forestry in Edmonton.
  
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• Alberta election Day 11: Notley, Mandel making announcements in Edmonton area

  29-03-2019 14:02 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 11 of the Alberta election campaign, NDP Leader Rachel Notley will be in Sherwood Park and Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel will be talking about forestry in Edmonton.
  
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• Mnuchin: China, U.S. trade talks in Beijing 'constructive'

  29-03-2019 13:57
  BEIJING -- Chinese and U.S. negotiators adjourned trade talks in Beijing on Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying they had been "constructive." Neither side gave any details on whether the talks made progress on issues preventing them from reaching an agreement to end a wide-ranging dispute over technology and industrial policy between the world's two biggest economies. Mnuchin said in a tweet Friday that he and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer had "concluded const
  
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• Canadian economy grew 0.3 per cent in January, beats expectations

  29-03-2019 13:48
  OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.3 per cent in January as the economy bounced back after contracting in November and December. Economists on average had expected no growth for the month, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. The growth came as 18 of 20 industrial sectors moved higher. Goods-producing industries increased 0.6 per cent, led by growth in manufacturing and construction. The manufacturing sector rose 1.5 per cent in January, while the construction sect
  
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• Police investigate assault near Rundle LRT Station

  29-03-2019 13:37
  One man is in hospital and two people are in custody in connection to an assault near an LRT station in the city’s northeast on Friday morning. Police were called to the Rundle LRT station at about 3:30 a.m. for reports of an assault. A man was taken to hospital from the scene and police say two people were taken into custody. Derek Smith was walking by the LRT Station and called 911 when he came across the bleeding man. “I looked to my left and I saw a man bleeding. He had blood all
  
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• Bottles4Boulet campaign ready to roll for second year in a row

  29-03-2019 13:04
  By Justin Goulet (@JustinGoulet21)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – A Lethbridge teen is looking to make a difference in the community.
  Ryker Morrell is a grade nine student at Winston Churchill High School. He’s also the founder and President of a non-profit charity called Bottles4Boulet.
  “It’s a bottle drive to help support the Logan Boulet KidSport Fund that helps underprivileged kids that cannot afford sports and whose parents can’t afford sports,” Morrell said.
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• Canada’s $27B canola market could lose $2.7B over China’s import block

  29-03-2019 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  The canola farming and export business in Canada is a major economic driver and represents one of the country's most valuable commodities.
  
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• Parents headed to court in college admissions cheating scam

  29-03-2019 10:49
  BOSTON -- More than a dozen parents charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme are due in court. They are expected to make initial appearances Friday in federal court in Boston. They're among 33 prominent parents charged in what authorities have called the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted. Authorities say the parents paid an admission consultant to rig their children's test scores and bribe coaches at sought-after schools. Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughl
  
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• Parents appear in court in college admissions cheating scam

  29-03-2019 10:49
  BOSTON -- A procession of wealthy parents, from a Napa Valley vineyard owner to a Hot Pockets heiress, are appearing in court Friday to hear charges that they paid bribes to get their children into top colleges. The 15 parents, including CEOs, investment executives, real estate developers and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, are slated to appear in Boston federal court on charges related to the nationwide college admissions cheating scheme dubbed Operation Varsity Blues. Former casino executive Gam
  
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• Third time lucky? U.K. lawmakers hold new vote on Brexit deal

  29-03-2019 10:17
  LONDON -- On the day that Britain was long scheduled to leave the European Union, U.K. lawmakers will vote Friday in what Prime Minister Theresa May's government has described as the "last chance to vote for Brexit." The House of Commons was passing judgment -- again -- on May's twice-rejected European Union divorce deal amid continuing opposition from hard-line Brexit supporters and Northern Ireland lawmakers. Almost three years after Britain voted in June 2016 to leave the EU, British politici
  
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• Youth facing terror-related charges back in court for second day of bail hearing

  29-03-2019 09:49
  OTTAWA -- A courtroom in Kingston, Ont., will play host today to the second part of a two-day bail hearing for a youth facing terrorism charges. The youth, who cannot be identified under provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was charged in late January after a Canadian police investigation sparked by a tip from the FBI. It's not yet known if the court will release a decision today on whether the youth will be granted bail. There is a strict publication ban on all evidence, submissions an
  
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• Lethbridge firefighters taking fundraising to new heights - Lethbridge Herald

  29-03-2019 09:44 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge firefighters taking fundraising to new heights  Lethbridge HeraldTim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald [email protected] For four days and three nights five Lethbridge firefighters will be camping out on the.
  
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• Mt. Gox bitcoin exchanges' Karpeles appeals conviction

  29-03-2019 09:32
  TOKYO -- Mark Karpeles, who headed Mt. Gox, a Japan-based bitcoin exchange that went bankrupt after a massive hacking, is appealing his conviction on charges of manipulating electronic data. Karpeles' lawyer Nobuyasu Ogata said Friday his client was just trying to reduce risks for Mt. Gox users. The Tokyo District Court cleared Karpeles earlier this month of embezzlement and breach of trust charges, handing him a suspended sentence, meaning he wouldn't have to serve jail time. But he was found g
  
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• Journalist Maria Ressa arrested again in Philippines

  29-03-2019 08:56
  MANILA, Philippines -- The head of a Philippine online news site that has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Friday for the second time in two months, this time over a ban on foreign ownership of news media. Police served an arrest warrant to Rappler Inc. CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa after she arrived at Manila's airport, and she later posted bail at a regional trial court. Ressa's co-defendants had posted bail for the new charge earlier in the week. Ressa, who was o
  
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• Budget hot topic at Lethbridge West forum - Lethbridge Herald

  29-03-2019 08:00 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Budget hot topic at Lethbridge West forum  Lethbridge HeraldTim Kalinowski Lethbridge Herald [email protected] Four out of six Lethbridge-West candidates took part in the Southern Alberta Council on.
  
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• WHL Roundup: Thursday, March 28, 2019

  29-03-2019 05:49 via globalnews.ca
  Riley Stotts scored once and set up two more and Ryder Korczak had three assists as the Calgary Hitmen downed the Lethbridge Hurricanes 5-2 on Thursday in Western Hockey League playoff action.
  
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