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• New Canadian fighter jets will need U.S. certification: DND - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 23:54 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  New Canadian fighter jets will need U.S. certification: DND  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA - American officials will need to certify the fighter jet Canada buys at the end of a multibillion...
  
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• Toronto Wolfpack to launch line of athlete-focused cannabidiol products

  12-05-2019 23:11
  TORONTO -- The Toronto Wolfpack, no strangers to blazing a trail, are getting into the cannabidiol products business. The transatlantic rugby league team and its wholly owned subsidiary HowlBrands are partnering with Vancouver-based companies International Cannabis Corp. and Organic Flower Investments Group Inc. to launch a line of athlete-focused cannabidiol products. "CBD is a very good, natural way to deal with a lot of issues that athletes have and this is a logical step for us with our own
  
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• Opposition calls for emergency debate on prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman

  12-05-2019 22:10
  Opposition MPs are calling for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on National Defence to hold an emergency meeting on the government’s conduct in the investigation and prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, CTV News has learned. Federal prosecutors stayed a breach of trust charge against the military’s former second-in-command last week, staving off a potential political headache for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals ahead of this fall’s election. In
  
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• Mother and stranger celebrate unusual delivery this Mother’s Day

  12-05-2019 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Crystal Black and Tamala Peters met for the first time on April 2 when Peters helped Black deliver her baby in a grocery store parking lot.
  
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• Two people injured in avalanche in Kananaskis Country

  12-05-2019 20:45
  STARS Air Ambulance was called to respond to the scene of an avalanche on Saturday evening and officials confirm they transported one person to hospital. The service was called in to assist in the Fortress Junction area in Kananaskis Country at about 6:15 p.m. One patient was flown to Foothills Hospital as a result. There is no information on the condition of the victim at this time. Kananaskis Country Public Safety issued the following statement on Sunday afternoon about the incident:Karl Klass
  
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• STARS called to airlift patient after avalanche in Kananaskis Country

  12-05-2019 20:45
  STARS Air Ambulance was called to respond to the scene of an avalanche on Saturday evening and officials confirm they transported one person to hospital. The service was called in to assist in the Fortress Junction area in Kananaskis Country at about 6:15 p.m. One patient was flown to Foothills Hospital as a result. There is no information on the condition of the victim at this time. Karl Klassen, with Avalanche Canada, says there isn't much information about what happened but says there was a g
  
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• Kidnap claim unravels: Baby thrown down hill, mom charged - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 19:32 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Kidnap claim unravels: Baby thrown down hill, mom charged  Lethbridge News NowA mother's claim that her 7-week-old baby was kidnapped quickly unraveled after her infant was found at the bo...
  
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• Trump says China tariffs help, not hurt the US - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 19:26 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Trump says China tariffs help, not hurt the US  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON — After U.S.-China trade talks broke off, President Donald Trump said that “conversations into the future will continue” but that new tariffs the U.S. ...
  
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• Fort Whoop-Up gets an explosive start to the season - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 19:26 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Fort Whoop-Up gets an explosive start to the season  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE — The Fort Whoop-Up summer season began with booms and bangs that reverberated along the coulees Saturday (May 11) afternoon.
  
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• Family safe after northwest Calgary home reportedly explodes

  12-05-2019 19:11
  A family of four is safe after they managed to escape their home early Sunday morning when it reportedly exploded and caught fire. The suspected explosion occurred at about 4:00 a.m. in the northwest community of Arbour Lake. The subsequent fire ended up causing severe damage to the home, garage and two vehicles in the driveway. Luckily, the occupants, two boys and their parents, managed to escape relatively unharmed. The exact cause of the fire is under investigation. More to come. (With files
  
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• Family safe after northwest Calgary home explodes into flames

  12-05-2019 19:11
  A family of four is safe after they managed to escape their home early Sunday morning when it burst into flame. The suspected explosion occurred at about 4:00 a.m. in the northwest community of Arbour Lake. The subsequent fire ended up causing severe damage to the home, garage and two vehicles in the driveway. Luckily, the occupants, two sons and their parents, managed to escape relatively unharmed. Neighbours tell CTV News they were awoken by the sound of what they believed were explosions and
  
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• Family safe after northwest Calgary home explodes into flame

  12-05-2019 19:11
  A family of four is safe after they managed to escape their home early Sunday morning when it burst into flame. The suspected explosion occurred at about 4:00 a.m. in the northwest community of Arbour Lake. The subsequent fire ended up causing severe damage to the home, garage and two vehicles in the driveway. Luckily, the occupants, two sons and their parents, managed to escape relatively unharmed. Neighbours tell CTV News they were awoken by the sound of what they believed were explosions and
  
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• Man charged after vehicle crashes into Edson provincial building

  12-05-2019 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  A 35-year-old man has been charged after a vehicle rammed into the provincial building and courthouse in Edson, Alta., over the weekend.
  
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• Man arrested after going on destructive rampage in Edson, Alta.

  12-05-2019 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Charges are pending against a man who drove a stolen truck through the Provincial Building in Edson.
  
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• Man's body found inside northwest Calgary home

  12-05-2019 18:49
  Calgary police have blocked off a home in a northwest community after a man was found dead early Sunday morning. Officials say they responded to the scene, in the 100 block of Hampstead Close N.W., after they received a report of a body found at about 3:00 a.m. When they arrived, they found a man in his 40s who was pronounced dead at the scene. A preliminary investigation of the premises uncovered evidence that has led police to believe the death is suspicious in nature. The CPS Homicide Unit ha
  
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• Suspect held in death of woman flung off Rome's Sisto Bridge

  12-05-2019 18:30
  Rome police say a suspect has been detained in the slaying of a 37-year-old woman whose body was found May 2 on a Tiber River walkway near Sisto Bridge. Police say Imen Chatbouri, who was born in Tunisia and in the past competed for Italy in amateur javelin competitions, was thrown from the Rome bridge. Investigators obtained video footage showing a man grabbing Chatbouri by the ankles as she leaned on a parapet before dawn that day and tossing her over the barrier. Italian broadcaster RaiNews24
  
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• 'No negotiations:' Inuit group wants Arctic areas saved from development

  12-05-2019 18:01
  IQALUIT, Nunavut -- An Inuit land-claim group is asking the federal government to permanently protect large sections of the Eastern Arctic from any industrial development. The request is part of a huge effort to map out how and where oil, gas and mining should go ahead on land and water around Baffin Island and how they can co-exist with traditional Inuit life. It comes in the final year of a five-year moratorium on Arctic offshore energy development, which is to be reconsidered in 2020. "There'
  
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• White House expects China to retaliate over trade tariffs

  12-05-2019 17:56
  WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is awaiting retaliation from China over increased tariffs, after talks in Washington ended without a deal on trade, the president's chief economic adviser said on Sunday. "The expected countermeasures have not yet materialized. We may know more today or even this evening or tomorrow," Larry Kudlow told "Fox News Sunday." Kudlow also said that U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to raise US tariffs on Chinese goods across the board could take months to take effect. "Call it
  
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• Two Southern Alberta homeowners try selling properties with essay contest - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 17:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Two Southern Alberta homeowners try selling properties with essay contest  Lethbridge News NowEDMONTON — Albertans struggling to enter the real-estate market have at least two chances to win a home this year. A house south of Calgary and a historic ...
  
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• Top WH adviser's admission about who pays tariffs contradicts Trump

  12-05-2019 17:56
  WASHINGTON -- The White House's top economic adviser has acknowledged that U.S. consumers and businesses pay the tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on billions of dollars of Chinese goods, even as President Trump himself insisted in a tweet, incorrectly, that China pays. Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday," asked him, "It's U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers who pay, correct?" "Yes, I don't disagree with that," said Larry Kudlow, the head of the president's National Economic
  
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• Top WH adviser Kudlow admits U.S. consumers pay tariffs

  12-05-2019 17:56
  WASHINGTON -- The White House's top economic adviser acknowledged Sunday that U.S. consumers and businesses pay the tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed on billions of dollars of Chinese goods, even as President Trump himself insisted in a tweet, incorrectly, that China pays. "Yes, I don't disagree with that," said Larry Kudlow, the head of the president's National Economic Council, when Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday," asked him, "It's U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers wh
  
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• Social media giants ignore law, don't take Canada seriously: MPs

  12-05-2019 17:24
  OTTAWA -- Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law -- at least in a small country like Canada. Their concern was on display last week at a meeting of the House of Commons access to information, privacy and ethics committee, where Liberal MPs raked Google over the coals for its decision not to run any political ads during this fall's federal election campaign, rather than comply with a new law tha
  
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• 'Community, safety issue:' Saskatchewan struggling with crystal meth addiction

  12-05-2019 17:19
  REGINA -- It was 2015 when Cybil Cappo spent her first night of what would turn into months of getting high on crystal meth. She had grown up in foster homes and suffered abuse. Her mother had died and she was angry. She crashed with different friends in Regina and robbed people to pay for the drug. It was hell, she says. "My one friend, we lived in his basement and it was November ... Next thing you know it was February and I was still in that basement, like just doing meth." Now off meth and l
  
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• Roll out of higher CPP costs expected to affect HR budgets for wages, benefits

  12-05-2019 16:41
  TORONTO -- It may not happen this year, or next year, or even the year after that. But sometime between now and 2025, Canadian employers will almost certainly need to re-think their retirement policies in response to Canada Pension Plan expenses that began to go up in January. Canadian pension experts say higher mandatory contributions to the CPP and the Quebec Pension Plan, will inevitably ripple through human resource budgets over the next six or seven years. "When a corporation designs a pens
  
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• UN leader arrives in New Zealand on climate change trip - Lethbridge News Now

  12-05-2019 15:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  UN leader arrives in New Zealand on climate change trip  Lethbridge News NowWELLINGTON, New Zealand — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the political will to fight climate change seems to be fading at the ...
  
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• Wildfire prompts evacuation order, state of emergency in central B.C.

  12-05-2019 15:17
  FRASER LAKE, B.C. -- Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of her central British Columbia community. The blaze grew from four hectares Saturday morning to 260 hectares that night, prompting a local state of emergency and several evacuations for an area about 140 kilometres west of Prince George. "We drove into pretty much a big huge, smoky billowing cloud and you
  
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• State of emergency declared, evacuations ordered amid central B.C. wildfire

  12-05-2019 15:17
  FRASER LAKE, B.C. - An active wildfire in central British Columbia has prompted a local state of emergency and several evacuations. The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako issued a state of emergency Saturday night and ordered people to leave an area near the community of Lejac, about five kilometres east of Fraser Lake. Regional district chairman Gerry Thiessen said he first received a call at around 4 p.m. when the fire was about four hectares in size, and it grew to 260 hectares by the eveni
  
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• Danger subsiding after B.C. properties threatened by several weekend wildfires

  12-05-2019 15:17
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- The BC Wildfire Service has come through its busiest period of the young 2019 wildfire season, responding to several blazes, including one that prompted an evacuation order west of Prince George. Weather has been unseasonably warm in the province, but wildfire service spokesman Kevin Skrepnek said they believe fire conditions will improve.For more on this story, visit CTV Vancouver."Bit of an early season blip," said Skrepnek in an interview. Temperatures are due to fall betwee
  
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• Search for missing Canadian hiker continues in California months later

  12-05-2019 15:08
  Fifty-one-year-old Paul Miller of Guelph, Ont., has been missing for months. Last July he was on a trip with his wife in California, when he decided he wanted to do one last hike of the famous Joshua Tree National Park before returning home to Canada. He never returned. His rental car was found in a parking lot, but no other signs were found – search and rescue was called and multiple searches were done over a period of week. Miller’s sister, Dawne Robinson, traveled to the Californi
  
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• Man who reported girl missing arrested in her disappearance

  12-05-2019 13:51
  HOUSTON -- Trained dogs detected the scent of human decomposition in the vehicle of a man arrested in connection with the disappearance of a 4-year-old Texas girl, according to a prosecutor. Derion Vence, 26, remained jailed Sunday on a US$1 million bond after being arrested a day earlier on a charge of tampering with evidence, specifically a human corpse. His next court appearance is set for Monday. Houston police said investigators have not found Maleah Davis and the investigation is continuin
  
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• India's marathon election reaches next-to-last phase

  12-05-2019 13:43
  NEW DELHI -- Indians voted Sunday in the next-to-last round of a six-week-long national election marked by a highly acrimonious campaign that has seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi blame opposition party chief Rahul Gandhi's family for the country's ills. Sunday's voting in 59 constituencies, including seven in New Delhi, the capital, completed polling for 483 of 543 seats in the powerful lower house of Parliament. The voting for the remaining 60 seats will be held on May 19, and vote counting be
  
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• Sajjan says he regrets the process Mark Norman had to go through

  12-05-2019 13:00
  OTTAWA – Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says that he regrets what Vice-Admiral Mark Norman had to go through over the years-long legal battle that came to an end this week when federal prosecutors stayed the breach of trust charge he was facing. “I have a deep respect for everybody who serves… I regret that the fact that Admiral Norman had to go through [it]… I regret the fact that the system had to go through this,” Sajjan said in an interview on CTV’s Ques
  
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• Organ donor who inspired Humbolt Bronco remembered at Lethbridge Kidney Walk - Global News

  12-05-2019 02:09 via globalnews.ca
  Organ donor who inspired Humbolt Bronco remembered at Lethbridge Kidney Walk  Global NewsRic Suggitt, a well-known rugby coach and friend of Logan Boulet, was honoured at Lethbridge's annual Kidney Walk.
  
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• Organ donor who inspired Humbolt Bronco remembered at Lethbridge Kidney Walk

  12-05-2019 02:09 via globalnews.ca
  Ric Suggitt, a well-known rugby coach and friend of Logan Boulet, was honoured at Lethbridge's annual Kidney Walk.
  
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• Technology team for southern Alberta Indigenous youth holds robotic powwow

  12-05-2019 01:17
  Members of a group that helps teach robotics and technology to Indigenous students held its inaugural tournament in Calgary on Saturday. IndigeSTEAM involves students from Tsuu T’ina, Siksika and Kanai First Nations as well as a number of Indigenous youth from Calgary’s urban centre and uses Lego Mindstorms robot kits to help develop skills. Deanna Burgart, IndigeSTEAM president, says the goal of the group is to create culturally relevant programming to inspire youth about a future i
  
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• Soldiers help protect Pembroke water supply from Ottawa River

  12-05-2019 00:22
  PEMBROKE, Ont. -- Soldiers from a Canadian base in Petawawa were deployed Saturday to protect infrastructure in the nearby city of Pembroke, Ont. -- one of several communities threatened by historically high water levels on the Ottawa River. Major Adam Graham said one of the first priority assignments for his unit, which numbered about 64, was protecting the water treatment plant near the river's edge. "So we've dispatched some soldiers down to that location to help conduct flood mitigation meas
  
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• Flooding turns Ontario neighbourhood into island accessible only by boat

  12-05-2019 00:22
  Flooding has left about 100 people northwest of Ottawa living temporarily on an island. Sandbags protecting a neighbourhood in the Lacroix Bay area near Pembroke, Ont. were overwhelmed in recent weeks when the Ottawa River rushed in, leaving residents completely surrounded by water. Now, they can only access their homes by boat. “It’s a challenge,” resident Lynda Rose told CTV News. “We all take turns using the boat.” Rose only visits her home on weekends to drop of
  
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• Log costs, wildfires cited in decision to close B.C. sawmill

  12-05-2019 00:15
  QUESNEL, B.C. -- The mayor of Quesnel says the closure of a sawmill in his community is a necessary if difficult step toward keeping British Columbia's forestry industry alive. Bob Simpson said lumber processing capacity in the province's Interior has outstripped a supply ravaged by pine beetles, wildfires and overharvesting. "Mills have to close, the total capacity in B.C. has to come down to match the long-term sustainable fibre supply and it needs to come down fairly quickly and fairly dramat
  
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