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• Alleged thieves charged after gun fired, woman injured in Highland Park

  05-04-2019 23:55
  The Calgary Police Service confirms two people have been charged in connection with a late March incident involving weapons at a home in a northwest neighbourhood. In the early morning hours of Friday, March 29, police were called to the 7-Eleven in the 2900 block of Centre Street North after a woman suffering from a gash to her forehead had been located. Officers determined the woman had been at a friend’s home in the 3300 block of 1 Street NW, in the community of Highland Park, when a fi
  
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• The story of the Humboldt Broncos: One year later

  05-04-2019 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  It’s not just the Humboldt communities that will mark the anniversary with remembrance. It’s all of Canada, too.
  
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• Keystone XL pipeline opponents ask judge to strike down Trump's permit

  05-04-2019 23:20
  BILLINGS, Mont. -- Opponents of the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline asked a federal court Friday in a lawsuit to declare President Donald Trump acted illegally when he issued a new permit for the project in a bid to get around an earlier court ruling. In November, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ruled that the Trump administration did not fully consider potential oil spills and other impacts when it approved the pipeline in 2017. Trump's new permit, issued last week, is intended to circum
  
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• Young offender charged with second-degree murder on Eden Valley First Nation

  05-04-2019 23:17
  Turner Valley RCMP say a youth is facing murder charges after the death of a 19-year-old man on the Eden Valley First Nation. Authorities were called to attend a call for EMS on the reserve, located south of Calgary, for an injured male on April 3. When crews arrived, they found a man’s body inside a home. The RCMP Major Crimes Unit took over the investigation and an autopsy was conducted on April 5. The victim is identified as Jarvis Ear, 19, of Eden Valley First Nation. Police say a 17-y
  
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• You could face criminal charges for vandalizing Alberta election signs: RCMP

  05-04-2019 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  Police are warning Albertans that election sign vandalism can result in charges under the Criminal Code of Canada.
  
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• Impaired driving suspect charged in connection with fatal December crash near Sundre

  05-04-2019 23:07
  A 22-year-old man from Sundre has been charged following an RCMP investigation into a fatal 2018 highway crash. On the morning of December 15, 2018, an eastbound pickup truck and a westbound car collided head-on on Highway 27 near Range Road 44. The driver of the car, 39-year-old Darryl Hyslop of Olds, was pronounced dead on scene. Jaylan Armstrong, the 22-year-old driver of the pickup truck, was transported by ambulance to a Calgary hospital in non-life threatening condition. On Thursday, March
  
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• WestJet, regional pilots land tentative collective bargaining agreement

  05-04-2019 22:35
  CALGARY - WestJet Airlines Ltd. and its 510 regional pilots have reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement. The Calgary-based airline says the deal with WestJet Encore pilots will be presented to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) for ratification. WestJet did not disclose details of the agreement. It comes more than three months after an arbitrator set the terms for the first collective agreement between the company and its other 1,600 or so pilots, who are also represented by ALP
  
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• Survivor of Humboldt Broncos bus crash recounts road to recovery

  05-04-2019 22:22
  It’s been almost a year since 16 people were killed and another 13 were injured in a bus crash on a Saskatchewan highway and a member of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team who survived the crash is hoping to return to the team next year. Graysen Cameron’s life was forever changed on April 6th when his team’s bus was involved in a crash with a transport truck south of the town of Nipawin. Graysen, from Olds, Alberta, signed with the Humboldt Broncos for the 2017/2018 season and br
  
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• Day parole extended six months for Lethbridge woman who killed her mother in 2016 - Lethbridge News Now

  05-04-2019 22:09 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Day parole extended six months for Lethbridge woman who killed her mother in 2016  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE - The Parole Board of Canada has granted another six-months of day parole to Jessica Leann Praill, the Lethbridge woman convicted of killing ...
  
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• Day parole extended six months for Lethbridge woman who killed her mother in 2016

  05-04-2019 22:09
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - The Parole Board of Canada has granted another six-months of day parole to Jessica Leann Praill, the Lethbridge woman convicted of killing her mother two and a half years ago.
  In November 2016, the now 31-year-old admitted to the stabbing death of her 54-year-old mother, Shelley Kristine Praill, in April of that year. After hearing a joint sentencing submission from the Crown and defence, the judge sentenced Praill to eight years
  
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• Families deal with repercussions after rare but severe complications from laser eye surgery

  05-04-2019 22:00
  W5 continues to report on rare but severe complications from laser vision correction surgery. Part one told stories of people who felt suicidal because of pain and vision problems. This time, Avis Favaro and Elizabeth St. Philip report on two deaths, and the questions they raise. Ask anyone who knew her, and they'll say Jessica Starr was a special woman living a charmed life.  She was a successful TV personality working at her dream job. A beloved wife and devoted mother of two young childr
  
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• City eyes upgrades to Stephen Avenue

  05-04-2019 21:47
  The City of Calgary wants to spruce up Stephen Avenue and make it a more lively place, especially on evenings and weekends. Officials are asking design and landscape architecture firms to submit proposals until April 19 that reimagine the well-known pedestrian hub in the downtown core. Created in the 1990s as a way to preserve heritage buildings from demolition, the Stephen Avenue Mall runs along 8th Avenue from Macleod Trail S.E. to 11 St. S.W. and has grown to include shops, restaurants, bars
  
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• B.C. public schools to provide free menstrual products for students

  05-04-2019 21:29
  Free menstrual products are being made available in every British Columbia public school. Education Minister Rob Fleming says a ministerial ordered requires all public schools to provide free menstrual products for students in washrooms by the end of the year. Fleming says the province will provide $300,000 in start up funding for school districts and supply ongoing money for the program. The minister says free menstrual products should have been a basic service long ago at schools, and it will
  
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• Calgarian wins $1M in Lotto 6/49 draw

  05-04-2019 21:20
  What would you do with $1 million? That a question Mohamad Abou-Khodoud is now pondering after winning the $1 million guaranteed prize in the March 2 Lotto 6/49 draw. “I took my ticket to the store and used the self-checker,” he said. “I was really happy, it feels good to win.” The Calgary resident said he hasn’t decided what he will do with his winnings just yet, and he’s not going to rush his decision. “I’m going to put it in the bank for now,&rd
  
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• Comic books stolen in break-in caught on camera

  05-04-2019 20:17
  Windsor police released surveillance video of a suspect after several comic books were reported stolen from a business on Howard Avenue. Officers responded to a report of a break and enter just occurred to a business located in the 2800 block of Howard Avenue on Friday around 4 a.m. Officers arrived, confirmed that the front glass door to the business had been smashed open, and entry had been gained. Video surveillance revealed that the suspect was wearing a black hooded sweater, baseball cap, l
  
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• New property addressing bylaw comes into effect April 24

  05-04-2019 20:16
  By Lara Fominoff @LaraFominoff on Twitter
  LETHBRIDGE - If your property or business backs onto an alley or laneway where vehicles have access, you have less than three weeks to have your address displayed at the back of your property.
  City Customer Services and Business Support Manager in Planning and Development Services, Ryan Slovack, says the Municipal Addressing and Naming Bylaw 6049 was passed back in April 2017. Citizens were given two years to comply with the bylaw.
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• Woman arrested after home invasion, police chase and rollover crash

  05-04-2019 20:10
  A 29-year-old woman is facing a raft of charges after a brazen daytime home invasion and police chase that ended in a rollover crash on the Pat Bay Highway. Police say the woman walked into the Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre in downtown Victoria around 1:45 p.m. Thursday, claiming she had been stabbed. But before emergency services could arrive, the suspect left, walking up Quadra Street into Saanich, where she broke into a house on Holmes Street, according to Saanich police spokesperson Sgt. J
  
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• Helen Schuler Nature Centre coordinator preps residents for tick and rattlesnake season

  05-04-2019 20:06
  By Justin Goulet (@JustinGoulet21)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – With the weather getting nicer, residents and visitors to Lethbridge will be tempted to explore the region’s sprawling fields.
  Unfortunately, on average this time of year, ticks make their home in local parks.
  However, there have been no reports of ticks in Lethbridge yet this season, according to Jessica Deacon-Rogers, program coordinator at the Helen Schuler Nature Centre.
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• 'I hugged her for five minutes': Kentucky toddler beats stage 4 cancer

  05-04-2019 19:35
  Toddler Molly Hughes cruises her Kentucky yard, swinging in a tire, drawing with pink chalk on the driveway, and picking weeds that she presents to her mother in a bouquet. The 21-month-old hardly wants to keep still and who can blame her? She’s spent most of her young life battling to stay alive. Molly’s family has recently received word that she’s cancer-free after 15 months of gruelling treatment for stage 4 neuroblastoma ended in January. Mom Chelsea Hughes says she fell to
  
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• Thousands of fossils found in southwest Calgary home

  05-04-2019 19:28
  A clean-up company hired by a family to help out with a move came across a prehistoric surprise when they discovered dozens of boxes of fossils. The fossils, that include bones of all shapes and sizes as well as petrified wood and many others, were all apparently collected by the homeowner over a number of years in southern Alberta. Mike Derbyshire, the owner of JUST JUNK in Calgary, says his team was called by a family who was helping their uncle move out of his home. He says his team did find
  
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• N.B. radio host allegedly solicited sex from FBI agent posing as 13-year-old girl

  05-04-2019 19:14
  A well-known Fredericton radio personality has been arrested in Puerto Rico after he allegedly asked an FBI officer posing online as a 13-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity at a beach. According to court documents filed in San Juan, special agent Brian O’Sullivan was working undercover when he posted a meme on a messaging application called Whisper on Sunday. The meme read: “Just a girl in PR who is booooored.” The documents state that someone by the username “in
  
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• Lethbridge-Medicine Hat Jobless Rate Jumps to 6.1% in March

  05-04-2019 19:01
  Another month-over-month increase in the local unemployment rate.
  
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• High Level Bridge Streetcar plans to extend to Whyte Avenue

  05-04-2019 18:53
  Edmonton’s High Level Bridge Streetcar could soon run all the way to Whyte Avenue. The Edmonton Radial Railway Society, who runs the streetcar line, is looking at extending the track from behind the Strathcona Farmers Market across Gateway Boulevard, with a stop at Whyte Avenue and Gateway, across from the Strathcona Hotel. “The benefits will be better location, more visibility and also take people right to the heart of Old Strathcona,” said Chris Ashdown, president of the ERRS
  
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• High Level Bridge street car line to be extended to Whyte Avenue: ERRS

  05-04-2019 18:53
  Edmonton’s High Level Bridge streetcar could soon run all the way to Whyte Avenue. The Edmonton Radial Railway Society, who runs the streetcar line, confirms they’re looking at extending the track from behind the Strathcona Farmers Market across Gateway Boulevard with a stop at Whyte Avenue and Gateway, across from the Strathcona Hotel. Currently the line runs May – October, with passengers getting on and off behind the farmers market on the south side of the river, and at a te
  
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• High Level Bridge street car line to be extended to Whyte Avenue

  05-04-2019 18:53
  Edmonton’s High Level Bridge streetcar could soon run all the way to Whyte Avenue. The Edmonton Radial Railway Society, who runs the streetcar line, confirms they’re looking at extending the track from behind the Strathcona Farmers Market across Gateway Boulevard with a stop at Whyte Avenue and Gateway, across from the Strathcona Hotel. Currently the line runs May – October, with passengers getting on and off behind the farmers market on the south side of the river, and at a te
  
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• Security guard charged in alleged attempted sexual assault

  05-04-2019 18:49
  A man was arrested during a break-and-enter at a condo complex in southeast Calgary earlier this week that officers believe was an attempted sexual assault. Police were called to the 0-100 block of Legacy Boulevard S.E. about 9:40 a.m. for reports a man had broken into a unit while a woman was asleep inside. The woman managed to escape and police arrested a man inside the residence. Staff Sgt. Bruce Walker of the sex crimes unit said the accused and victim are known to each other, but were not
  
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• Man charged in alleged attempted sexual assault

  05-04-2019 18:49
  A man was arrested during a break-and-enter at a southeast Calgary home earlier this week that officers believe was an attempted sexual assault. Police were called to the 0-100 block of Legacy Boulevard S.E. about 9:40 a.m. for reports a man had broken into a home while a woman was asleep inside. The woman managed to escape and police arrested a man inside the home. “This incident is believed to be sexually motivated and these types of criminal allegations are of serious concern to the Ca
  
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• Mother charged with attempted murder after baby stabbed

  05-04-2019 18:35
  A 36-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after her baby was stabbed in Toronto on Wednesday. Toronto police say paramedics located a woman and infant suffering from stab wounds at an apartment building near Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue. Both were taken to hospital, where the baby remains in critical but stable condition. Const. David Hopkinson told CTV Toronto that the baby suffered “multiple stab wounds.” The woman, who has not been identified, appeared befo
  
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• Freeland says foreign election meddling in October federal vote is likely

  05-04-2019 17:56
  OTTAWA -- Malign foreign actors will likely try to meddle in the Canadian federal election in October, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland warned Friday, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pointed the finger at Russia as the most likely culprit. Freeland sounded the alarm over election interference at a G7 foreign ministers' gathering in France. At a parallel G7 meeting of interior ministers, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said the bloc wants the world's big internet companies -- Goo
  
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• Gerard Bouchard warns Quebec government against perils of religious symbols ban

  05-04-2019 17:43
  MONTREAL -- Quebec's proposed legislation banning religious symbols for some public servants drew more strong criticism Friday, with one of the province's leading intellectuals rebuking the Coalition Avenir Quebec government's approach. Gerard Bouchard, co-author of a 2008 report cited as inspiration for the government's Bill 21, wrote in Friday's La Presse that it would be a serious mistake to prohibit teachers from wearing religious symbols. He questioned whether Premier Francois Legault had "
  
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• Barbs traded during Leaders Debate but no knockout zingers landed, say political observers

  05-04-2019 16:50
  Plenty of verbal jabs were traded during the Leaders Debate in Edmonton on Thursday, but none stung enough to sway voters, say political observers. “With debates, you judge them like you do a boxing match, so there was no knockout last night,” said Marc Henry, president of ThinHQ Public Affairs. “And I don’t think, frankly, the debate moved a lot of voters one way or the other. So then you’ve got to go to the scorecards, and the scorecards are based upon, what are t
  
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• Alberta election Day 18: The day after the debate

  05-04-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  There were no knock-out blows delivered in Alberta's election debate on Thursday night.
  
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• Alberta election Day 18: Notley, Kenney renew attacks over budget, jobs

  05-04-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  NDP leader Rachel Notley and UCP leader Jason Kenney renewed their attacks against each other Friday over balancing the budget and jobs.
  
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• 'Our country is full': Trump says migrants straining system

  05-04-2019 15:51
  CALEXICO, Calif. -- Declaring "our country is full," U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday insisted the U.S. immigration system was overburdened and illegal crossings must be stopped as he inspected a refurbished section of fencing at the Mexican border. Trump, making a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election, participated in a briefing on immigration and border security in Calexico before viewing a 2-mile (3.2-kilometre) see-through steel-slat barri
  
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• Canadian couple safe after witnessing kidnapping of American tourist in Uganda

  05-04-2019 15:04
  KAMPALA, Uganda -- An elderly Canadian couple came face-to-face with armed gunmen while on safari in Uganda this week, but managed to escape unharmed. Global Affairs Canada confirms two Canadian citizens were present during an ambush of tourists in the country on Tuesday. Spokesman Richard Walker says the couple are safe and have been provided with consular services. Ugandan security forces are searching for a U.S. citizen and a local driver who were abducted in Queen Elizabeth National Park, an
  
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• Twelfth annual Coulee Clean-Up gets underway this month

  05-04-2019 14:54
  By Justin Goulet (@JustinGoulet21)
  LETHBRIDGE, AB – It’s time to clean up the coulees.
  The twelfth annual Coulee Clean-Up event starts on April 22. The community initiative is organized by the Helen Schuler Nature Centre (HSNC).
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• Humboldt Broncos memorial exhibit displays outpouring of support from around the world

  05-04-2019 14:47 via globalnews.ca
  Thousand of items have been sent to Humboldt to show support for the Broncos and community since the devastating bus crash on April 6, 2018.
  
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• Canadian economy's six-month streak of job creation comes to an end

  05-04-2019 14:47
  OTTAWA -- The Canadian economy's six-month streak of job creation -- that included a number of big gains -- came to an end in March. Employment last month dropped by 7,200 net jobs, the bulk of which were full-time positions, Statistics Canada said Friday in its latest labour force survey. The unemployment rate held firm at 5.8 per cent. The March result followed a pair of big gains in January and February, and together the three-month period still gave Canada its best quarter of job creation si
  
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• Canada's economy lost 7,200 jobs in March

  05-04-2019 14:47
  OTTAWA -- The economy shed 7,200 positions in March after a pair of strong monthly gains to start the year that helped the country still manage to close out its best quarter of job creation since late 2017, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency's latest labour force survey found the unemployment rate held firm last month at 5.8 per cent. The March decline followed monthly increases of 66,800 net new jobs in January and 55,900 in February -- which was the country's best two-month start to a y
  
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• Red Deer RCMP arrest man after armed standoff

  05-04-2019 14:42 via globalnews.ca
  A large police presence could be seen on Galbraith Street.
  
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• SNC-Lavalin selling stake in Highway 407 to OMERS for $3.25B

  05-04-2019 14:20
  MONTREAL -- SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has signed a deal to sell part of its stake in Ontario's 407 toll highway operator for $3.25 billion -- some of which will be used to repay part of a loan from Quebec's pension fund. The OMERS pension plan will buy a 10.01 per cent stake in 407 International Inc., a deal that will reduce SNC-Lavalin's interest to 6.76 per cent, according to an agreement announced Friday. For more than six months, SNC-Lavalin has been mulling a partial sale to help pay down its
  
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• Nipawin, Sask. paramedic thanks all Canadians for their support

  05-04-2019 12:59 via globalnews.ca
  Jessica Brost, general manager of North East EMS in Saskatchewan held back tears as she thanked Canadians for the cards, donations and support following the Humboldt Broncos crash.
  
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• Former Broncos president speaks about impact the crash had on Humboldt

  05-04-2019 12:59 via globalnews.ca
  Kevin Garinger, former Broncos president, said the crash had a profound impact on the young people of Humboldt.
  
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• Father of Humboldt Broncos player talks about 1 year anniversary of crash

  05-04-2019 12:59 via globalnews.ca
  Scott Thomas, father of 18-year-old forward Evan who was killed, is hoping to celebrate the wonderful life his son had.
  
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• ‘Still so much pain’: Humboldt and the Broncos continue to heal 1 year after crash

  05-04-2019 12:55 via globalnews.ca
  The Humboldt Broncos became a symbol of mourning for everyone across Canada — even around the world — who felt connected to the sport of hockey
  
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• Study challenges health benefits of moderate drinking

  05-04-2019 12:43
  LONDON -- A new study challenges the idea that moderate drinking could actually be good for you. People who have one or two drinks a day have long been noted to have a lower risk of stroke and heart problems, but scientists were unsure if this was because light drinking protected them. In a large genetic study done in China, scientists found moderate drinking raises risk of stroke and high blood pressure -- but they didn't have enough data to say whether the same is true for heart attacks. The r
  
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• Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival results - Medicine Hat News

  05-04-2019 11:09 via medicinehatnews.com
  Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival results  Medicine Hat NewsWednesday results from the Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival: Musical Theatre. Class 99290 – Solo – School Musical Theatre Ballad ...
  
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• 'The world will never be the same:' Humboldt one year after deadly bus crash

  05-04-2019 10:55
  HUMBOLDT, Sask. -- After the last funeral, Matteo Carboni didn't go back. Ten months passed before the minister from Humboldt, Sask., realized he hadn't set foot again inside the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team. "There could be some kind of subconscious reasons why," he says. Thousands gathered at the arena last April to mourn after the team's bus and a semi-truck collided while the Broncos were on the way to a playoff game. Sixteen people were killed and an
  
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• Saudis punished Canada by halting shipments in ports, denying visas: memo

  05-04-2019 10:23
  OTTAWA -- The fallout from Saudi Arabia's move to punish Canadian companies was felt within a month of the countries' sudden diplomatic feud last summer, leading to visa rejections, a government ban on food from Canada and a blockage of shipments at the kingdom's ports. A newly released federal document provides a close look at Saudi Arabia's retaliation against Canada, following criticism by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on Twitter of the regime's arrest of women's rights activists
  
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• U.S. attorney general defends handling of Mueller's Russia report

  05-04-2019 09:29
  WASHINGTON -- Attorney General William Barr is defending his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation, saying the confidential document contains sensitive grand jury material that prevented it from being immediately released to the public. The statement Thursday came as Barr confronts concerns that his four-page letter summarizing Mueller's conclusions unduly sanitized the full report in President Donald Trump's favour, including on the key question of whet
  
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