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• Ambrosie remains confident CFL, CFLPA can reach agreement in time - Lethbridge News Now

  24-04-2019 23:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ambrosie remains confident CFL, CFLPA can reach agreement in time  Lethbridge News NowTORONTO — The clock is ticking, but CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie remains confident the league and its players can agree on a new contract in time for ...
  
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• Wagon-lugging, gun-possessing break-in suspect nabbed in Ghost Lake Village

  24-04-2019 23:20
  RCMP members have made an arrest in connection with several recent break-ins in a vacation area west of Cochrane. Residents of Ghost Lake Village noticed a suspicious person pulling a cart through the resort in the area on Tuesday evening and notified police. The sighting came a day after someone gained access to a trailer and stole several items including distinctive clothing matching the attire of the suspicious person on Tuesday. Officers responded to the resort and arrested a man who was pul
  
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• Public defender wants to drop Florida massacre suspect - Lethbridge News Now

  24-04-2019 23:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Public defender wants to drop Florida massacre suspect  Lethbridge News NowFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The public defenders representing the young man charged in the Parkland school massacre are asking to withdraw from the case, ...
  
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• Microsoft's cloud growth pleases Wall Street - Lethbridge News Now

  24-04-2019 23:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Microsoft's cloud growth pleases Wall Street  Lethbridge News NowREDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft's ongoing push to get automakers, retailers and other businesses onto its cloud computing platform helped power the company's ...
  
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• Wilson-Raybould slams feds for 'incremental' progress on Indigenous rights recognition

  24-04-2019 22:54
  OTTAWA -- Former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is slamming the federal government she was once a part of for making only “incremental” progress on the Indigenous justice file and their promise to “decolonialize” Canadian laws and policies. “My fear and disappointment is that despite sounding the alarm, providing the advice, pushing and challenging, sharing perspectives of lived Indigenous experience… the federal government has fallen back once
  
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• April Snow & Rain Possible For Southern Alberta This Weekend

  24-04-2019 22:47
  
  
  Environment Canada says parts of southern Alberta will see a mix of rain and possibly 5 to 10 cm of snow as well in some places.
  
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• Police appeal to public to help find Calgary mother and child

  24-04-2019 22:36
  Authorities are trying to locate a woman and child who were reported missing on Tuesday and say the pair have not been heard from since last week. Family members say they usually have regular contact with Jasmine and Aliyah Lovett and it is believed that no one has heard from them since last Tuesday. Police have not been able to locate them and are appealing to the public for help. Jasmine Lovett is described as:25 years old 163 cm or 5’4” tall Slim build Brown hair Brown eyesAliyah
  
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• Late April Snow Possible For Southern Alberta This Weekend

  24-04-2019 22:29
  
  
  Environment Canada says parts of southern Alberta will see a mix of rain and possibly 5 to 10 cm of snow as well in some places as well.
  
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• Former Stampeder Jon Cornish to be inducted in the CFL’s Hall of Fame

  24-04-2019 21:47
  Jon Cornish, who played nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders, winning the Grey Cup twice with the team, will have a new accolade later this year. The 34-year-old running back, who played with the Stampeders from 2007 to 2015, has been named to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame for 2019. Cornish, during his first year as a starter with the team, broke Normie Kwong’s 56-year-old single-season rushing record for a Canadian with 1,457 yards in 2012. He broke his own record the following y
  
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• Two University of Lethbridge Projects to Receive $1.6 Million in Federal Funding

  24-04-2019 21:30
  Both projects will support sustainable and culturally respectful resource development.
  
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• Two years on, no sign of missing N.S. woman whose car burned in the woods

  24-04-2019 21:09
  Dozens of interviews and hundreds of tips have brought police no closer to finding out what happened to a Nova Scotia woman who disappeared more than two years ago. Debbie Hutchinson was last seen April 15, 2017, driving around Sydney, N.S. and shopping. Her car was found the following day, burning in a wooded area on the outskirts of Sydney. More than a week elapsed before Hutchinson’s family reported her missing and investigators realized the burning vehicle was hers. This still left the
  
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• Three charged with staging anti-Semitic attack at Winnipeg cafe

  24-04-2019 20:53
  WINNIPEG -- What looked like an anti-Semitic attack at a Winnipeg cafe that drew public concern and political condemnation was not a hate crime but an alleged sham staged by owners of the business, police said Wednesday. Officers responded last Thursday to a report that a woman who worked at the BerMax Caffe and Bistro was assaulted and that the business was vandalized and spray-painted with hate-related graffiti. It was the night before Passover. After a lengthy investigation involving 25 offic
  
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• Man killed in avalanche near Lake Louise identified as oil and gas industry director

  24-04-2019 20:52
  The man killed in an avalanche on the Des Poilus Glacier north of Lake Louise has been identified as a director in the oil and gas industry. Dana Coffield, a non-executive director with Amerisur Resources, was skiing with two others on the Wapta Icefield north of Lake Louise on Saturday when the slide hit. Coffield was airlifted to a Calgary hospital by STARS Air Ambulance, where he later died. The two others with him were unhurt. "It is with the greatest sadness that we learned of the death of
  
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• Garage in Thorncliffe heavily damaged in early morning fire

  24-04-2019 20:52
  A fire investigator is working to determine what caused a blaze that destroyed a garage at a home in the city’s northwest early Wednesday morning. Emergency crews were called to the 6300 block of Travois Crescent N.W. at about 4 a.m. and found smoke and flames coming from a detached garage when they arrived. Firefighters quickly gained control of the fire and were able to keep it from spreading to the home and neighbouring structures. Crews searched the building and didn’t find any p
  
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• New report identifies 7 extremist groups of threat to Alberta, offers recommendations to combat hate

  24-04-2019 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  A recently released OPV report entitled "Extremism and Hate-Motivated Violence in Alberta" indicates a 78 per cent increase in hate crimes reported to police from 2014 to 2017.
  
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• Immigrant-owned firms create more jobs than those with Canadian-born owners: StatCan

  24-04-2019 20:18
  Immigrant-owned firms create more net jobs and have higher growth than businesses with owners born in Canada, according to newly-released research. The decade-long research, released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, distinguishes between firms owned by immigrants who entered Canada since 1980 and businesses with Canadian-born owners. During the period of the study, 2003 to 2013, companies owned by immigrant entrepreneurs accounted for a quarter of all net new jobs created in the private sector, w
  
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• Calgary-based Cenovus reports Q1 profit after production cuts

  24-04-2019 20:17
  Cenovus Energy says it’s benefitted from improved oil prices generated by the NDP government’s plan to reduce oil production and close the price differential earlier this year. In the first quarter of this year, Cenovus’ generated cash from operating activities and adjusted funds flow of $436M and more than $1B respectively, compared with a $123M shortfall in operating costs and an adjusted funds flow shortfall of $41M in Q1 of 2018. Following the implementation of the mandator
  
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• 47 new MLAs learn ropes of Alberta legislature on orientation day

  24-04-2019 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  Most new members are with the United Conservatives, who won a majority government in the April 16 election.
  
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• Sentencing Set for June for Historic Sex Crimes Case

  24-04-2019 19:46
  A Raymond man convicted in a historic sex crimes case will learn his fate in just over a month.
  
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• Calgary Transit and Alpha House will continue partnering to help vulnerable Calgarians

  24-04-2019 19:45
  Calgary Transit and the Alpha House are continuing a partnership aimed at connecting vulnerable Calgarians with medical aid, housing support and addiction services. Started in September 2018, the initiative sees members of the Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership (DOAP) team partnered with peace officers at transit stops between the Sunalta and Victoria Park/Stampede stations. There they engage with Calgarians facing homelessness or addition, troubled youth and people with developmental disa
  
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• TransAlta vows to defend against ‘frivolous’ lawsuit as meeting date looms

  24-04-2019 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  The chairman of TransAlta Corp. says a lawsuit launched by an American activist investor on Tuesday is a "frivolous tactic" and the power utility intends to defend itself vigorously.
  
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• Amerisur Resources identifies employee Dana Coffield as Yoho avalanche victim

  24-04-2019 19:18 via globalnews.ca
  An oil and gas company has identified one of its employees as a man who died after an avalanche in Yoho National Park.
  
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• Alberta oil production curtailments are working, Cenovus says

  24-04-2019 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  The company says the improvement in prices for western Canadian oil due to the Alberta government's curtailment program more than offset the impact of reduced production and increased operating costs.
  
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• Very Dry Conditions Prompt Fire Advisories Across Parts of Southern Alberta

  24-04-2019 18:33
  A serious lack of precipitation this spring so far, along with warm and winder conditions are heavily increasing the risk of wildfires.
  
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• Family sues Marriott chain after father, toddler drowned at Montreal hotel

  24-04-2019 18:28
  MONTREAL -- An American family has filed a $3.9-million lawsuit against the Marriott hotel chain after a father and his toddler drowned at one of the company's Montreal properties three years ago. The family's Superior Court filing, made public Tuesday, says the hotel is responsible for the deaths because its pool area was allegedly unsafe, improperly supervised and lacked video surveillance or an emergency alarm. William Tchouamou Ganjui and his two-year-old son, Menelik, allegedly fell into th
  
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• Lethbridge College Honouring Indigenous Grads With Special Buffalo Stole

  24-04-2019 18:05
  This year, 129 Indigenous students will receive degrees, diplomas or certificates from Lethbridge College.
  
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• Man sought in downtown Toronto sex assault and confinement investigation

  24-04-2019 17:00
  Toronto police are urging the public to be on the lookout for a man they say sexually assaulted another man and held the victim against his will for two days. Police are warning the public to immediately call 911 if they see him and not to approach him as they consider him armed, violent and dangerous. Officers say the suspect was involved in an alleged sexual assault in downtown Toronto’s Yonge and Gerrard Streets area between April 13 and 14. They allege the suspect sexually assaulted an
  
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• Bank of Canada holds interest rate, drops growth forecast for 2019

  24-04-2019 16:16
  OTTAWA -- The Bank of Canada is keeping its key interest rate unchanged as it releases a downgraded 2019 growth forecast that includes a prediction the economy nearly came to a halt at the start of the year. The central bank also appears to be in no hurry to move the interest rate any time soon because, unlike recent statements, the announcement today removed all mentions of a need for future increases. The decision leaves the trend-setting rate at 1.75 per cent for a fourth-straight announcemen
  
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• Students pitch next wave of science research for national 'Biogenius' competition

  24-04-2019 16:09
  High school students are competing for a spot in a national science competition in May, where the winner for Canada will go head to head against students from across the world. In the past several weeks, teenagers in different parts of Canada have been pitching graduate-level projects competing in the Sanofi Biogenius Competition. “It’s really inspiring to see all these kids really putting a lot of effort into this,” lead organizer Andrew Ross told CTV Kitchener. Students punch
  
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• Trump forms battle plan for post-Mueller probes: Just say no

  24-04-2019 16:00
  WASHINGTON -- Just say no. As House Democrats ramp up their post-Mueller investigations into U.S. President Donald Trump, his strategy for responding is simple: Resist on every legal front. The administration is straining to hold off congressional investigators, including their efforts to obtain the president's tax returns, his business' financial records and testimony from former senior aides. "We're fighting all the subpoenas," Trump declared on Wednesday. And if House members go all the way a
  
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• After Mueller, Trump says he'll fight Dems on all fronts

  24-04-2019 16:00
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that he and his administration will battle House Democrats on all legal fronts after the special counsel's Russia report, refusing to co-operate with subpoenas and appealing to the Supreme Court if Congress tries to impeach him. Trump, seething as Democrats ramp up their probes after Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, said he "thought after two years we'd be finished with it." "I say it's enough," Trump told reporters on the
  
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• Alcohol and cannabis companies form pot-beverage industry group to push changes

  24-04-2019 15:08
  TORONTO -- A group of alcohol and cannabis companies have formed an industry alliance to push for changes to proposed rules governing pot-infused beverages before edibles become legal in the coming months. The Cannabis Beverage Producers Alliance is arguing for, among other things, the ability to produce pot-based drinks in the same facilities where non-cannabis beverages are made. The additional cost of establishing separate manufacturing and processing facilities is a "significant barrier to e
  
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• Fire erupts at southeast metal recycling facility for 15th time in last seven years

  24-04-2019 14:30
  Firefighters worked through piles of debris to douse the flames Wednesday morning during the latest fire to ignite in an industrial yard in the city's southeast. Police and firefighters were called to Calgary Metal Recycling in the 3400 block of Ogden Road S.E. at about 6:00 a.m. “When the first crew arrived they found flames and visible smoke and they called a full alarm assignment to the fire," said Calgary Fire Department Deputy Chief Ken Uzeloc. "When they got there no structures were
  
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• Fire crews contain blaze at metal recycling facility in city’s southeast

  24-04-2019 14:30
  Emergency crews responded to a fire in an industrial yard in the city's southeast on Wednesday morning and it was a challenging fight for firefighters as they worked through the piles of debris to douse the flames. Police and firefighters were called to Calgary Metal Recycling in the 3400 block of Ogden Road S.E. at about 6:00 a.m. About a dozen firefighters responded to the scene and were met with thick, black smoke when they arrived. They set up hand lines on the ground and used an aerial truc
  
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• Fire crews battle blaze in industrial yard in city's southeast

  24-04-2019 14:30
  Emergency crews are at the scene of a fire in an industrial yard in the city's southeast and have closed off a few roads in the area to give crews room to work. More to come...Be advised that Southbound Ogden Rd X Bonnybrook Rd SE is closed due to a fire in an industrial yard. Police and Fire are on scene — Calgary Police (@CalgaryPolice) April 24, 2019
  
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• Fire crews battle blaze at metal recycling facility in city’s southeast

  24-04-2019 14:30
  Emergency crews responded to a fire in an industrial yard in the city's southeast on Wednesday morning and have closed off a few roads in the area to give crews room to work. Police and firefighters were called to Calgary Metal Recycling in the 3400 block of Ogden Road S.E. at about 6:00 a.m. About a dozen firefighters responded to the scene and were met with thick, black smoke when they arrived. They set up hand lines on the ground and used an aerial truck to attack the blaze from above. Offici
  
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• Nutella producer among food makers receiving letters with poisoning threats

  24-04-2019 14:07
  COPENHAGEN -- Major food companies in Italy and Denmark have received letters containing an unidentified powder and written threats requesting they pay money or risk having their products poisoned, authorities said Wednesday. Danish police said the letters in Denmark contained "a hazardous substance" and were sent from Belgium. Danish Crown, which describes itself as Europe's largest meat processing company, confirmed it received such letters but said that staff and consumers were not at risk. S
  
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• Fatality inquiry into shooting death of RCMP Const. David Wynn to begin

  24-04-2019 13:26 via globalnews.ca
  Const. David Wynn, 42, was shot at a casino in St. Albert while investigating a stolen truck in 2015, and died in an Edmonton hospital three days later.
  
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• Fatality inquiry into shooting death of RCMP Const. David Wynn begins

  24-04-2019 13:26 via globalnews.ca
  Const. David Wynn, 42, was shot at a casino in St. Albert while investigating a stolen truck in 2015, and died in an Edmonton hospital three days later.
  
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• Trio from Lethbridge arrested after meth bust of 14 ounces - Medicine Hat News

  24-04-2019 12:06 via medicinehatnews.com
  Trio from Lethbridge arrested after meth bust of 14 ounces  Medicine Hat NewsUndercover officers from the Medicine Hat Police *Service* arrested three methamphetamine dealers from Lethbridge last week. On April 17, the MHPS Priority ...
  
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• 'We want to be good neighbours': Pot plant deals with stink at Edmonton airport

  24-04-2019 10:51
  EDMONTON -- A skunky smell greeting travellers at Edmonton's airport doesn't mean stinky critters are running lose in the area. The scent is coming from the Edmonton International Aiport's new neighbour, Aurora Sky, one of the world's largest cannabis facilities, which produces more than 100,000 kilograms of marijuana per year. Aurora Cannabis, the company that operates the facility, is going to great lengths to mitigate any pot odour wafting over to the airport, as well as local hotels and outl
  
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• Early data suggests no post-legalization spike in drug-impaired driving charges

  24-04-2019 10:41
  VANCOUVER -- Canadian police say they haven't been busting many more stoned drivers six months after legalization, but they are reminding drivers to keep cannabis out of reach. The Canadian Press canvassed police forces across the country and most reported no significant change in the number of impaired driving charges laid, while some said it's too early to release data, and at least one reported a rise in charges. Dozens of charges have also been laid under the new federal Cannabis Act relatin
  
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• Lethbridge College convocation events go this week - Lethbridge Herald

  24-04-2019 10:40 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge College convocation events go this week  Lethbridge HeraldGreg Bobinec Lethbridge Herald [email protected] Lethbridge College is getting ready to celebrate the end of another academic year at its 62nd.
  
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• WHL Roundup: Tuesday, April 23, 2019

  24-04-2019 07:21 via globalnews.ca
  SPOKANE, Wash. - Jake McGrew scored 8:51 into overtime as the Spokane Chiefs edged the Vancouver Giants 3-2 on Tuesday in Western Hockey League playoff action.
  
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• Sri Lanka asks for resignations of top security officials

  24-04-2019 07:03
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's president has asked for the resignations of the defence secretary and national police chief, a dramatic internal shake-up after security forces shrugged off intelligence reports warning of possible attacks before Easter bombings that killed over 350 people, the president's office said Wednesday. It wasn't immediately clear who would be replacing them, but President Maithripala Sirisena said during a televised speech Tuesday that he planned to change the head of t
  
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• UN: Pro-government forces kill more Afghans than insurgents - Lethbridge News Now

  24-04-2019 06:24 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  UN: Pro-government forces kill more Afghans than insurgents  Lethbridge News NowKABUL — Afghan and international forces had killed more civilians than insurgents in the first three months of the year, the U.N. announced Wednesday, the first ...
  
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• Five-year-old with rare disease enjoying 'small miracles' after transplant

  24-04-2019 06:18
  When Julia Berardi was born in 2013, her parents didn’t expect any complications. They’d already had two healthy children. “You sort of expect this to go pretty smoothly,” recalled her mother Jody Berardi in an interview with CTVNews.ca. And it did at first. Julia was “pink and healthy,” weighing in at eight pounds and five ounces. But they soon noticed irregularities. Jody was only able to nurse her for a brief time before Julia would fall asleep for five-hou
  
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• North Korea's Kim upbeat as he arrives for Putin summit

  24-04-2019 04:32
  VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Smiling and upbeat, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday stepped off his khaki-green armoured train in far-eastern Russia for a much-anticipated summit with President Vladimir Putin that comes amid deadlocked diplomacy on his nuclear program. Kim, dressed in a black coat and a fedora, first met with Russian officials at Russia's Khasan train station near its border with the North, before travelling on to the Pacific port city of Vladivostok for a summit with Putin
  
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• Another Grand Canyon visitor dies in fall from edge

  24-04-2019 03:36
  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. -- Another visitor to Grand Canyon National Park has died after falling over the edge of the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. A 70-year-old woman fell about 200 feet (61 metres) over the rim, the second over-the-edge death this month within the confines of the park, according to Grand Canyon officials. The woman had been walking about 200 to 300 feet (61 to 91 metres) off a trail along the South Rim about a mile (1.6 kilometres) east of Mather Point. Park ra
  
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• Lake Louise releases plan on potential changes, gives back 1,000 hectares of undeveloped land

  24-04-2019 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  After years of negotiating with Parks Canada, Lake Louise Ski Resort is proposing some big changes supported by Parks Canada.
  
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