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• Notley unveils Alberta NDP election platform

  31-03-2019 23:36 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley told a crowd of supporters that the provincial deficit is coming down faster than expected and the party plans to balance the budget by 2023-24.
  
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• Calgary Roughnecks share tips of Canada’s other official sport

  31-03-2019 23:10
  Some lucky kids got a chance to pick up some lacrosse sticks and try out the game alongside members of the Calgary Roughnecks on Sunday. The team was helping to teach dozens of kids at an instructional clinic. The event had lots of drills, a display of some skills and a chance for a meet and greet with some of the country’s best players. “This is a Run with the Roughnecks event, it’s all different kids, all different ages. Maybe first year or fifth or sixth year kids that play
  
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• Notley announces NDP election platform

  31-03-2019 22:39
  While announcing its full election platform on Sunday, the Alberta NDP sold itself as a for-all-Albertans party and coloured the UCP platform as divisive and beneficial to only the province’s wealthiest. "The platform that I am releasing today builds on the work of the last four years," NDP Leader Rachel Notley said Sunday while speaking at the Belgravia Community League in Edmonton. Her platform focuses on the economy and families first, she would tell the crowd, while also criticizing&nb
  
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• Game Day Preview: Edmonton @ Medicine Hat (3-2) & Lethbridge @ Calgary (2-3) - DUBNetwork

  31-03-2019 21:39 via dubnetwork.ca
  Game Day Preview: Edmonton @ Medicine Hat (3-2) & Lethbridge @ Calgary (2-3)  DUBNetworkThe WHL has two elimination games on tap tonight! We'l preview them both today! Edmonton Oil Kings @ Medicine Hat Tigers (3-2 Oil Kings) 4pm MDT.
  
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• Cause of Balzac fire that destroyed building still under investigation

  31-03-2019 21:07
  The man who operated a business out of a building in Balzac that burned to the ground on Friday night is thankful no one was hurt in the fire. Fire crews were called to the scene of a massive fire at a building on the former Balzac Meats site, by Range Road 293 and Township Road 263, at about 9:30 p.m. on Friday. One of the barns on the property had caught fire, sending smoke and flames high up into the air. Ben Penner, who leased the space for his equipment rental company, says he lost more tha
  
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• New regulations for frozen breaded chicken aim to reduce salmonella cases

  31-03-2019 20:23
  New food industry regulations for frozen breaded chicken start Monday with the aim of reducing the number of recalls and salmonella cases in Canada. The new laws require food producers to have salmonella "below detectable levels," which means most producers will simply cook the meat first to destroy the bacteria. Food producers have had nine months to adjust to new rules from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which take effect April 1. Prof. Keith Warriner, who lectures on food safety at the
  
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• Canadian Women’s Hockey League will shut down on May 1

  31-03-2019 19:50
  Just a week after the Calgary Inferno hoisted the Clarkson Cup, the top prize in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, the organization announced it would be shutting down. The CWHL announced on Sunday morning the league would be ceasing operations as of May 1. Officials say a lack of funding is to blame. “While the on-ice hockey is exceptional, the business model has proven to be economically unsustainable,” the league wrote in a release. The CWHL was founded in 2007 and recentl
  
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• Alberta election Day 13: NDP unveils platform while Liberals talk health care

  31-03-2019 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 13 of the Alberta election campaign, the NDP unveiled its election platform.
  
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• Alberta election Day 13: NDP unveils platform

  31-03-2019 19:38 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 13 of the Alberta election campaign, the NDP is expected to unveil its election platform.
  
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• Fans flock to Lethbridge Enmax Centre for the 2019 Pioneer Hi-Bred Men’s Curling Championship

  31-03-2019 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  It's a week that's expected to keep curling fans on the edge of their seats.
  
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• Immune system therapy shows wider promise against cancer

  31-03-2019 19:26
  ATLANTA -- A treatment that helps the immune system fight deadly blood cancers is showing early signs of promise against some solid tumors, giving hope that this approach might be extended to more common cancers in the future. The treatment, called CAR-T therapy, involves genetically modifying some of a patient's own cells to help them recognize and attack cancer. Richard Carlstrand of Long Key, Florida, had it more than a year ago for mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer of the lining of the lung
  
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• Police issue warrants for two wanted in Red Deer homicide

  31-03-2019 19:23
  Red Deer police are looking for two people who have been charged with second degree murder. On March 29, 45-year-old Joseph Junior Alfred Gallant was found injured in a home in Red Deer’s Mountview community. He later died. Two people have been charged with second degree murder and assault causing bodily harm: Quentin Lee Strawberry and Jennifer Lee Caswell. Both are 37 years old and residents of Red Deer. Those with information on their location are asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-
  
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• Anger after Sunwing diversion in New Orleans leads to lengthy delays

  31-03-2019 19:16
  TORONTO -- A replacement aircraft for a grounded Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 Max was forced to make an emergency landing in New Orleans on the weekend, sparking anger among passengers who complained they were stranded for hours. In a statement on Sunday, the charter airline confirmed the Boeing 767-300 en route from Toronto to Cancun, Mexico, was diverted on Saturday due to an unspecified "mechanical issue." However, Sunwing normally has no connection to the New Orleans airport, creating logisti
  
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• Israel, Hamas take first steps toward Gaza cease-fire deal

  31-03-2019 19:09
  JERUSALEM -- A cease-fire deal appeared to take hold between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers on Sunday, with Israel expanding the permitted fishing zone and easing some tight restrictions on movement through its two main crossings with the Palestinian enclave. Egyptian mediators have worked in recent days to broker a cease-fire agreement, but talks have been repeatedly interrupted by Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli military reprisals. The violence has heightened tensions just over a week b
  
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• International aid helps Mozambique fight cholera in Beira

  31-03-2019 18:59
    BEIRA, Mozambique -- As Mozambique battles to control a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in the cyclone-hit central city of Beira, international assistance is arriving. The number of cholera cases jumped to 271 over the weekend although no deaths from the disease had been reported. More than 500 people have died in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai , which slammed into Beira more than two weeks ago, according to government officials. Another 259 people died in Zimbabwe and 56 in Malawi, bring t
  
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• Butts hands over texts to Justice Committee in wake of Wilson-Raybould's evidence

  31-03-2019 17:49
  Gerald Butts, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary, has handed over texts and notes to the House of Commons Justice Committee days after new evidence submitted by former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould was made public. He tweeted Sunday: “Having reviewed Ms Wilson-Raybould’s further testimony, I have tabled with the Justice Committee notes and texts between us related to the events Ms Wilson-Raybould describes.” Butts resigned from his job in t
  
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• Philippine police kill 14 men rights groups say were farmers

  31-03-2019 15:11
  BACOLOD, Philippines -- Philippine police said Sunday 14 suspected communist rebels were killed after they opened fire during raids in a central province but rights groups countered the men were farmers and the latest victims of extrajudicial killings. Dozens of police, backed by army troops, were to conduct court-authorized home searches Saturday in a city and two towns in Negros Oriental province when the 14 men violently fought back. A police officer was shot in the leg and wounded in the ant
  
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• Lethbridge Hurricanes on verge of elimination after game 5 loss to Hitmen

  31-03-2019 14:49 via globalnews.ca
  The Lethbridge Hurricanes are one loss away from being knocked out of the playoffs after a 6-5 loss to the Calgary Hitmen Saturday night.
  
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• Ukrainians vote for president amid voter bribery claims

  31-03-2019 14:39
  KIEV, Ukraine -- Voters in Ukraine cast ballots in a presidential election Sunday after a campaign that saw a comedian with no political experience become the front-runner and two other top candidates, including the current president, face allegations of voter bribery. Opinion polls have indicated that Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who stars in a TV sitcom about a teacher who becomes president after a video of him denouncing corruption goes viral, is leading a field of 39 candidates. The polls also had Z
  
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• Missing Quebec woman was kidnapped, taken to Mali: Human Rights Watch

  31-03-2019 14:06
  A Canadian woman who's been missing in West Africa for several months has reportedly been kidnapped and taken to Mali. Edith Blais of Quebec and her travel companion, Luca Taccheto of Italy, went missing in December while travelling in Burkina Faso. They were travelling by car in southwestern Burkina Faso en route to Togo, where they planned to do volunteer work with an aid group. In a January statement, Burkina Faso's government referred to the pair's disappearance as a kidnapping. The Canadian
  
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• McKenna admits carbon tax will boost the price at the pump in 4 provinces

  31-03-2019 13:00
  With the federal carbon tax coming into effect in four provinces on Monday, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says residents of those provinces can expect to pay an average of four cents more per litre at the pump. She said 90 per cent of this revenue will be returned to Canadians through a tax rebate. "Yes, let's be clear. The price of gas will go up just over four cents," McKenna told host Evan Solomon during an interview for CTV Question Period, airing Sunday. The government is pushing p
  
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• Redcliff/MH-to-Lethbridge bus route to start April 15, with incentive to ride early - Medicine Hat News

  31-03-2019 09:00 via medicinehatnews.com
  Redcliff/MH-to-Lethbridge bus route to start April 15, with incentive to ride early  Medicine Hat [email protected]@CollinGallant. A rural bus route from Redcliff and Medicine Hat to Lethbridge will begin carrying passengers April 15 and will ...
  
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• CWHL to fold as business model deemed “financially unstable” - Lethbridge News Now

  31-03-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  CWHL to fold as business model deemed “financially unstable”  Lethbridge News NowTORONTO — The Canadian Women's Hockey League is no more. The CWHL's board of directors have ...
  
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• Lethbridge Hurricanes on the verge of elimination after game 5 loss to Hitmen

  31-03-2019 08:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Lethbridge Hurricanes are one loss away from being knocked out of the playoffs after a 6-5 loss to the Calgary Hitmen Saturday night.
  
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• Hitmen steal Game 5 in Lethbridge 6-5; can end series Sunday - Ottawa Citizen

  31-03-2019 07:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hitmen steal Game 5 in Lethbridge 6-5; can end series Sunday  Ottawa CitizenLETHBRIDGE — They knew they had to steal one in Lethbridge.And steal one they did.With the Calgary Hitmen's 6-5 Game 5 win Saturday night that saw them ...
  
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• Hitmen steal Game 5 in Lethbridge 6-5; can end series Sunday - Calgary Sun

  31-03-2019 07:34 via calgarysun.com
  Hitmen steal Game 5 in Lethbridge 6-5; can end series Sunday  Calgary SunLETHBRIDGE — They knew they had to steal one in Lethbridge.And steal one they did.With the Calgary Hitmen's 6-5 Game 5 win Saturday night that saw them ...
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, March 30, 2019

  31-03-2019 07:19 via globalnews.ca
  KENT, Wash. - The Vancouver Giants are going to the second round of the Western Hockey League playoffs for the first time since 2010.
  
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• Lethbridge arena may be renamed for Humboldt Broncos bus crash victim Logan Boulet - Calgary Herald

  31-03-2019 00:40 via calgaryherald.com
  Lethbridge arena may be renamed for Humboldt Broncos bus crash victim Logan Boulet  Calgary HeraldThe father of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victim Logan Boulet said he would be “honoured” if an arena in Lethbridge was named after his son.
  
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• Jason Kenney and UCP promise $714M budget surplus by 2023

  31-03-2019 00:33 via globalnews.ca
  The United Conservatives are promising to get Alberta's books out of the red and into a $714-million surplus by 2023 — a year earlier than the NDP.
  
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