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• Former UCP leadership candidate seeks emergency court order to delay ‘kamikaze campaign’ investigation

  01-04-2019 23:47
  Efforts are underway to secure an emergency court order that would postpone the investigation into alleged illegal United Conservative Party leadership campaign donations until after the provincial election. Six people, including former UCP leadership candidate Jeff Callaway, jointly submitted the request to temporarily halt the investigations by both Alberta’s election commissioner and the RCMP into the unproven claims UCP leader Jason Kenney orchestrated Callaway’s candidacy effort
  
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• Adams Ice Centre Will be Renamed "Logan Boulet Arena"

  01-04-2019 23:45
  
  
  Lethbridge Mayor Chris Spearman stated "Mayor Adams may have been part of our history, but sometimes that history starts today."
  
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• No injuries as lights, tiles fall from Melcor Centre overhang

  01-04-2019 23:40
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - Three cars were damaged Monday afternoon, after tiles and lights from the underside of an overhang at Melcor Centre in downtown Lethbridge fell to the ground below.
  Lethbridge Police and Fire/EMS attended the scene. Platoon Chief Rob Chollak said it didn't look like anyone was injured.
  "Yeah, just some property damage, but there's no personal injuries at all that I'm aware of."
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• 1st place tie at world men’s curling championship between Canada, Sweden, Japan

  01-04-2019 22:44 via globalnews.ca
  Koe, from Calgary, and teammates B.J. Neufeld, Colton Flasch and Ben Hebert were scheduled to play Norway's Magnus Ramsfjell in the afternoon.
  
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• Decision Alberta: Balancing Budgets

  01-04-2019 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Ryan Jespersen of 630 CHED and 770 CHQR’s Danielle Smith take their shows province-wide to discuss budgets and whether balancing the budget is important in this election campaign.
  
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• Speaker issues update of dress code at B.C. legislature; sleeveless dresses OK

  01-04-2019 21:42
  VICTORIA -- The Speaker of B.C.'s legislature says a preliminary review of the building's dress code now permits women to wear sleeveless dresses and sleeveless shirts. Darryl Plecas says a full dress code review is underway, but until the report is complete business attire for women includes sleeveless dresses, shirts and blouses. Plecas ordered the review last week after some female journalists and a staff member with the NDP wore short-sleeved attire in defiance of the dress code after legisl
  
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• Wilson-Raybould says she shouldn't be removed from caucus

  01-04-2019 21:35
  OTTAWA -- Jody Wilson-Raybould says she “does not believe” she should be removed from caucus, despite some of her Liberal colleagues questioning whether she has a future with the party after she released secretly-recorded audio of a conversation she had with Canada's top civil servant. “I do not believe that I should be removed from caucus for doing my job and doing what I believe is right,” Wilson-Raybould told reporters on Parliament Hill late Monday. Throughout the day
  
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• Liberal MPs question Wilson-Raybould's fate in caucus, ethics of secret recording

  01-04-2019 21:35
  OTTAWA – Several Liberal MPs say they expect that the entire caucus will soon be debating the future of Jody Wilson-Raybould as a member of the Liberal team after she released secretly-recorded audio of a conversation she had with Canada's top civil servant. Speaking with reporters on their way into question period, MPs expressed disappointment and condemnation of B.C. MP Wilson-Raybould over her decision to record and subsequently make public a December conversation she had with outgoing
  
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• Victim told to "shhhh" as assailant grabbed woman’s breast during business transaction

  01-04-2019 21:33
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - A 47-year old man from Picture Butte who pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault, after grabbing and holding on to a woman's breast when she was selling him a vehicle, will have to wait until April 11, 2019 to find out if he will go to jail. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 21.
  On Monday, April 1, in Lethbridge Provincial court, Justice G.S. Maxwell heard that in May 2018, a woman and her husband listed a car for sale. She was contacted
  
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• University of Alberta group researching Twitter’s impact on Alberta election

  01-04-2019 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  A University of Alberta group is conducting research on what we can learn about the Alberta election through Twitter.
  
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• Bank of Canada's Poloz says stimulative rates needed for temporary soft patch

  01-04-2019 21:18
  OTTAWA -- Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says the economy needs a longer lift from stimulative interest rates to overcome domestic and global economic hurdles, though he predicts the country's recent economic weakness to only be temporary. With increasing concerns about global trade wars and heightened caution from other central banks, markets will scrutinize Poloz's remarks in Iqaluit, Nunavut, for clues about the path of the bank's key interest rate. Unlike the bank's statement less tha
  
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• Trump pressure on Cuba could hit Canadian companies, business leaders warn

  01-04-2019 21:12
  OTTAWA -- Business leaders are warning that the Trump administration's threat to tighten the U.S. embargo on Cuba could sideswipe Canadian companies that are doing business on the Caribbean island. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says it is worried that the United States could enact a never-before-used section of the 1996 Helms Burton Act that would allow Americans to sue foreign companies linked to Cuban properties that were confiscated after its 1959 revolution. "It's an administration that's
  
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• Halifax police charge man for indecent acts and thefts at hospital

  01-04-2019 20:50
  Halifax police have charged a 49-year-old man in connection with a series of incidents at Halifax hospitals over the last month. Police say they arrested Shannon David McInnis without incident and he was scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Monday to face several charges, including:two counts of committing an indecent act; theft under $5,000; possession of stolen property under $5,000; committing an offence with his face masked, coloured, or disguised. breach of undertaking; and, f
  
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• Aunt of woman in laundry chute death questions police work in other deaths

  01-04-2019 20:41
  REGINA -- The aunt of a woman who died after falling down a hotel laundry chute says a report critical of the investigation raises questions about how police have looked into other sudden deaths. Delores Stevenson also says she believes assumptions were made about her niece because she was an Indigenous woman.For more on this story, visit CTV Regina"I'm not going to sugar-coat anything because it was a very poor investigation," she said at a news conference on Monday. "The police can stand by th
  
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• Grief and sadness an obstacle for many after Humboldt Broncos crash

  01-04-2019 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  Saturday marks the first anniversary of the April 6 Humboldt Broncos crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 on the junior hockey team's bus.
  
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• Lethbridge College Poll: City Residents Fairly Split on Carbon Tax

  01-04-2019 19:34
  The survey indicates nearly 53% of Lethbridge residents are opposed to the provincial carbon tax, while roughly 47% are supportive.
  
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• Alberta scientists use machine learning and Twitter to better understand our health

  01-04-2019 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  University of Alberta computing scientists said a machine learning tool called Grebe used data from Twitter to improve their understanding of people's health and wellness.
  
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• R. Kelly lawyer says Avenatti has 'polluted' sex-abuse case

  01-04-2019 18:59
  CHICAGO -- R. Kelly's attorney accused the state's attorney Monday of succumbing to pressure from attorney Michael Avenatti in bringing sex-abuse charges against the R&B singer in Illinois, saying his involvement has irreparably tainted the case. Steve Greenberg made the accusations in a court filing and in comments after a Monday pretrial hearing in Chicago, highlighting recent charges against Avenatti in New York that accuse him of trying to shake down Nike. Greenberg told reporters outsid
  
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• Amid legal troubles, Avenatti scrutinized for R. Kelly role

  01-04-2019 18:59
  CHICAGO -- A lawyer defending R. Kelly said Monday that the prosecution's sex-abuse case against the R&B singer had been marred by the involvement of attorney Michael Avenatti, who faces extortion charges in New York and embezzlement charges in California. The singer's lead attorney, Steve Greenberg, said in comments to reporters and a court filing that Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx relied way too much on Avenatti in deciding in late February to bring charges against Kelly, saying Av
  
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• New Lethbridge-Medicine Hat Shuttle Service Begins April 15

  01-04-2019 18:58
  The new service, operated by SOUTHLAND Transportation, will run five times a week with two round trips between the cities.
  
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• Family Matters podcast: The cost of travelling as a family of 5

  01-04-2019 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  Travel expert Claire Newell estimates that families with three or more kids pay about 25 per cent more than families with two kids.
  
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• Lethbridge 2019 Civic Census Now Underway

  01-04-2019 18:18
  
  
  This is the year Lethbridge will likely break the 100,000 population threshold.
  
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• Lethbridge firefighters raise over $17000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2019 18:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge firefighters raise over $17000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – They made themselves at home on the roof of Hudsons Pub, all for a great cause.
  
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• Lethbridge firefighters raise over $17,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada

  01-04-2019 18:03
  By Justin Goulet (@JustinGoulet21)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – They made themselves at home on the roof of Hudsons Pub, all for a great cause.
  Five Lethbridge firefighter-paramedics spent the last few days and nights on the roof of the local eatery as part of the annual Lethbridge Fire Fighters Charities Association’s rooftop campout.
  The group raised funds for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.
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• Lethbridge Yard Waste Sites Re-Open For 2019

  01-04-2019 17:25
  Bagging yard waste helps contain the materials. Paper yard waste bags do not have to be de-bagged, but all materials in plastic bags must be emptied out on-site by the user.
  
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• Lethbridge Lightning secure bronze at hockey Provincials - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2019 17:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Lightning secure bronze at hockey Provincials  Lethbridge News NowWAINWRIGHT, AB - In a twist of fate, the Lethbridge Lightning beat the team that kept them from a Ranchland Hockey League Championship to secure bronze at ...
  
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• City council to discuss downtown tax shift proposal

  01-04-2019 16:49
  The city must make up $250 million in lost property taxes from downtown office towers and will meet on Monday to discuss how to make up the shortfall in tax revenue. Vacant downtown office space is one of the topics up for discussion on Monday and Evan Woolley is pitching a plan to alleviate some of the tax burden on businesses. He is calling for a cut of $100 million from the city budget with the hopes of transferring some of the tax burden off of non-residential properties, which could mean cu
  
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• City council discusses downtown tax shift proposal

  01-04-2019 16:49
  The city must make up $250 million in lost property taxes from downtown office towers and is meeting on Monday to discuss how to make up the shortfall in tax revenue. Vacant downtown office space is one of the topics up for discussion on Monday and Evan Woolley has pitched a plan to alleviate some of the tax burden on businesses. He is calling for a cut of $100 million from the city budget with the hopes of transferring some of the tax burden off of non-residential properties, which could mean c
  
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• City council delays decision on residential and non-residential tax rates

  01-04-2019 16:49
  The city must make up $250 million in lost property taxes from downtown office towers and met on Monday to discuss how to make up the shortfall in tax revenue. Vacant downtown office space was one of the topics up for discussion on Monday. and Evan Woolley unsuccessfully pitched a plan to alleviate some of the tax burden on businesses.He called for a cut of $100 million from the city budget with the hopes of transferring some of the tax burden off of non-residential properties, which could mean
  
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• Toronto's one and only pot shop opens its doors

  01-04-2019 16:38
  The weed is on full display at The Hunny Pot, Toronto’s first legal brick-and-mortar cannabis store. Over four floors on the trendy Queen Street West strip, customers in the country’s most populous city can now browse for marijuana openly and legally in-person for the first time. Educational posters lined the walls, products were presented stylishly, including a golden blunt on a small pedestal. Dozens of staff dubbed “budtenders” waited to serve a line of customers &ndas
  
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• Alberta election Day 14: Alberta Party slams NDP, UCP on equalization payments

  01-04-2019 15:59 via globalnews.ca
  On Day 14 of the Alberta election campaign, Rachel Notley and David Khan are in Calgary, Jason Kenney will be responding to the national carbon tax, and Stephen Mandel is talking about sending less money to Ottawa.
  
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• Sundre RCMP search for missing hunter

  01-04-2019 15:39
  RCMP in Sundre are searching for a hunter reported missing over the weekend. Police say a 33-year-old Calgary man went hunting with his son and an adult male friend on Saturday in the Williams Creek area west of Sundre. The man left the group to follow and animal track and did not return. Timothy Benedict Campbell, 33, is described as:Indigenous 6' or 182 centimetres tall Weighs 73 kilograms or 161 pounds Last seen wearing blue jeans and a Carhartt jacketAlong with local RCMP and the RCMP air an
  
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• Search and rescue crews locate missing hunter west of Sundre

  01-04-2019 15:39
  A 33-year-old Calgary man who disappeared during a hunting  trip with his son and a friend on Saturday in the Williams Creek area west of Sundre has been found alive. Timothy Benedict Campbell had left his group Saturday morning to follow an animal track and failed to return. Elise Mahon, Campbell's partner for nearly 15 years, described the disappearance as sheer torture for her in an interview with CTV at the command post approximately an hour before Campbell was found. She said Campbell
  
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• One person killed in rollover crash on Symons Valley Road

  01-04-2019 15:06
  Police are investigating after one person was killed in a single-vehicle crash in the city’s northwest on Sunday evening. Emergency crews were called to a crash on Symons Valley Road, just north of 144 Avenue NW, at about 7:00 p.m. A vehicle was travelling southbound when it rolled, killing the driver. The roadway was closed for a few hours but has since reopened to traffic.CLEAR: The single vehicle incident on Symons Valley Road north of 144 Avenue NW is cleared. #yyctraffic #yycroads &md
  
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• Missing Calgary hunter sought by Alberta RCMP

  01-04-2019 14:52 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta RCMP are hoping to find a Calgary man who went missing west of Sundre while hunting on Sunday.
  
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• Rare glimpse into Saudi Aramco shows US$111 billion net profit

  01-04-2019 14:21
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Aramco's net profits reached US$111 billion last year, according to an assessment published Monday by Moody's Investors Services that offered a rare glimpse into the state-owned oil firm's finances before it issues its first bonds in international markets. That places Aramco ahead of some of the world's most profitable firms. By contrast, Apple booked a net profit of about $60 billion in its last full year, Royal Dutch Shell had net income of $23 billion and
  
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• Rare glimpse into Saudi Aramco shows $111 billion net profit

  01-04-2019 14:21
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Saudi Aramco's net profits reached $111 billion last year, according to an assessment published Monday by Moody's Investors Services that offered a rare glimpse into the state-owned oil firm's finances before it issues its first bonds in international markets. That places Aramco ahead of some of the world's most profitable firms. By contrast, Apple booked a net profit of about $60 billion in its last full year, Royal Dutch Shell had net income of $23 billion and Ex
  
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• Unvaccinated: Pockets of Canada vulnerable to serious outbreaks of disease

  01-04-2019 14:12 via globalnews.ca
  Health officials have identified a number of other places across Canada that are vulnerable to outbreaks because they are largely unprotected. 
  
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• Driver killed in crash on Symons Valley Road

  01-04-2019 13:59 via globalnews.ca
  One man was killed in a collision in northwest Calgary on Sunday.
  
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• Man suffers serious facial injuries after 'unprovoked' attack in Jasper

  01-04-2019 13:25
  Police are looking for a suspect after a man suffered serious facial injuries as a result of an assault in Jasper. The assault happened around 12:30 a.m. on Mar. 30 outside the Royal Canadian Legion. A number of witnesses told police that the 36-year-old victim was hit in the face with a glass and then thrown on the ground and kicked by an unknown man. Police say the attack was unprovoked, and not the result of a previous altercation. The victim was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life t
  
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• 1919: The year they cancelled the Stanley Cup

  01-04-2019 11:49
  Pop quiz: Who won the Stanley Cup 100 years ago? If you don’t know the answer, don’t take a guess. You’ll be wrong. The correct answer, as diehard hockey fans know, is that 1919 was the only year a Stanley Cup final was called off after it began – meaning there was no winner. Just months after the end of the First World War, which saw many of the top players leave the game behind for military service, the professional hockey world was facing a new threat: influenza. &ldqu
  
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• 'Down on my knees:' Grief and sadness an obstacle for many after Broncos crash

  01-04-2019 10:42
  Kevin Matechuk of Colonsay, Sask., wasn't prepared for the emotions that hit him when he visited the site of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. His son, Layne, who is 19 now, had been in a coma and was learning to talk and walk again due to a severe brain injury. Matechuk's wife, Shelley, was too afraid to travel. While in the area for his job as a manager at an agricultural company, he stopped at the site north of Tisdale, Sask., with another Broncos parent. "The emotion, it put me down on my knee
  
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• 'It still knocks you down:' First responders reflect on Humboldt Broncos crash

  01-04-2019 10:36
  When Brian Starkell drives a particular stretch of highway in Saskatchewan, his stomach drops as he approaches the intersection that changed so many lives. The Tisdale fire chief says he still has flashbacks to the 911 call that came in just after 5 p.m. last April 6. A semi-trailer and a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team had collided at the crossroads of Highways 35 and 335. "It doesn't matter how strong a person can be. It still knocks you down a bit," Starkell says, choking
  
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• Ontario cannabis stores set to open today, but not all ready to go

  01-04-2019 10:26
  TORONTO -- Ontario's first brick-and-mortar cannabis stores are set to open today, but it's unclear just how many will be ready to serve customers. The Progressive Conservative government had planned to have 25 stores across the province launch today, but some are still working through a lengthy approval process. Recreational cannabis has so far only been available for purchase legally in Ontario through a government-run website. The Tory government had initially said there would be no cap on th
  
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• Ontario cannabis stores open today, but fewer than half are good to go

  01-04-2019 10:26
  Customers lined up to purchase pot at Ontario's first brick-and-mortar cannabis stores on Monday, but fewer than half of the province's government-licensed outlets were ready to open. The Progressive Conservative government had planned to have 25 stores launch on April 1, but some were still working through a lengthy approval process. The province's Alcohol and Gaming Commission, which is overseeing the store vetting process, said 10 stores were given the green light to open Monday, though the s
  
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• New carbon tax starts for 4 provinces that fought the federal plan

  01-04-2019 10:11
  People in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be paying more for gasoline and heating fuel Monday when the federal government's carbon tax begins in provinces that refused to impose their own emissions pricing. The federal tax is $20 a tonne for this year and is set to increase by $10 annually until it reaches $50 a tonne in April 2022. The starting rate adds 4.4 cents to the price of a litre of gas, about four cents to a cubic metre of natural gas, and also drives up the cost
  
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• No injuries as lights, tiles fall from Melcor Centre overhang - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  No injuries as lights, tiles fall from Melcor Centre overhang  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE – Three cars were damaged Monday afternoon, after tiles and lights from the underside of an overhang at Melcor Centre in downtown Lethbridge ...
  
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• List of advanced polling stations in the 2019 provincial election - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  List of advanced polling stations in the 2019 provincial election  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - On April 16, voters across Alberta will head to the polls. However, there are advanced voting...
  
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• U.S. man charged with trying to steal item from Auschwitz

  01-04-2019 06:54
  WARSAW, Poland -- An American visitor to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attempted to steal a metal part of the historic rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded, officials said Sunday. The 37-year-old man has been charged with attempted theft of an item of cultural importance, according to Malgorzata Jurecka, a police spokeswoman in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, which was under German occupation during World War II. The crime can be punished with up to 10 years in prison. Jure
  
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• WHL Roundup: Sunday, March 31, 2019

  01-04-2019 05:20 via globalnews.ca
  Taylor Ross scored 3:57 into overtime as the Lethbridge Hurricanes forced a seventh game in their Western Hockey League playoff series with a 7-6 win over the Calgary Hitmen on Sunday.
  
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