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• Great weather for event to support Crohn's and colitis research

  02-06-2019 23:48
  Hundreds of Calgarians took advantage of Sunday's great weather to walk in support of a worthy cause. The city's 24th annual Gutsy Walk in support of Crohn's and Colitis Canada took place in Edworthy Park and featured a look at a special summer camp for children with the disease. Camp Got2Go is an overnight camp for youth living with inflammatory bowel disease. Michael Kawchuk, volunteer with the Gutsy Walk, says the event helps support research and awareness of Crohn's and colitis. "We are work
  
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• YouTube, other services down due to eastern U.S. congestion

  02-06-2019 23:38
  NEW YORK -- Google is saying users of YouTube and other services are seeing errors or slow performance due to high levels of network congestions in the eastern United States. YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite services are affected, but Google said it believes it has identified the cause of the congestion and expects to return to normal service shortly. The company first identified the issue on its Google Cloud status dashboard at 3:25 p.m. Eastern time. The sound of millions of cat videos being
  
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• Emergency crews seen outside the scene of a fatal plane crash near Medicine Hat, Alta.

  02-06-2019 22:32 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP along with other emergency responders could be seen near the scene of a plane crash that claimed the lives of three people near Medicine Hat, Alta.
  
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• Massive tax bills send some Inglewood businesses into an 'emotional nightmare'

  02-06-2019 22:16
  When numerous small businesses in Calgary’s trendy Inglewood neighbourhood opened up their 2019 tax assessment, many wished it was a joke. The reality, many saw an increase between 100 and 300 per cent compared to the year before. Several businesses owners have spoken out on social media, calling for the city to respond.Ward 9 councillor Gian-Carlo Carra pledged the emotional nightmare will not become a financial nightmare. "For people who are looking at their tax bills and aren't able to
  
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• High Level wildfire evacuees to return home Monday

  02-06-2019 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  High Level residents will be allowed to return home on Monday after wildfires prompted an evacuation order nearly two weeks ago.
  
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• High Level wildfire evacuees return home Monday

  02-06-2019 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  High Level residents will be allowed to return home on Monday after wildfires prompted an evacuation order nearly two weeks ago.
  
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• Florida police search for twerking shoplifter

  02-06-2019 20:53
  Police in Florida have released surveillance video of a shoplifting suspect putting on a show before allegedly helping to steal nearly US$400 in merchandise from a local store. The woman in the video is shown twerking in an isle of the store, laughing while looking directly at the camera. Employees told police they believe she started dancing after grabbing a few items from the rack to distract them while her partner allegedly stole more clothes. Police are offering a US$3,000 reward for informa
  
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• High Level announces people can return home as mandatory wildfire evacuation lifted

  02-06-2019 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  The Town of High Level, Alta., announced on Sunday that people would be able to return home on Monday morning once the mandatory wildfire evacuation was lifted, but were advised an evacuation alert would still be in place.
  
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• Alberta community announces people can return home as mandatory wildfire evacuation lifted

  02-06-2019 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  The Town of High Level, Alta., announced on Sunday that people would be able to return home on Monday morning once the mandatory wildfire evacuation was lifted, but were advised an evacuation alert would still be in place.
  
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• Three dead in plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat

  02-06-2019 19:54
  RCMP have confirmed to CTV News that three people have died in a small plane crash on Saturday night southeast of the City of Medicine Hat. Cpl. Curtis Peters with the Alberta RCMP says the plane took off at 10:15 p.m. and was scheduled to land in Moose Jaw, Sask., but it never arrived. "The flight was expected to take about an hour and a half and when the plane failed to arrive in Moose Jaw, families there contacted authorities and the search was started." Peters says the plane was later locate
  
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• Small plane crashes in Cypress Hills, no immediate reports of injuries

  02-06-2019 19:54
  Emergency crews have been called to the scene in Cypress Hills after a small plane went down in the southeast part of the province. Eyewitnesses tell CTV News that a small plane had taken off from the Medicine Hat Regional Airport to Moose Jaw, Sask. The small plane reportedly crashed somewhere along Highway 41 near the Saskatchewan border. The witness tells CTV News they saw a parachute deployed in the area. A search is being organized to check around the area where the plane is believed to hav
  
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• Saskatchewan athlete 1 of 3 killed in plane crash near Medicine Hat, Alta.

  02-06-2019 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Three people are dead after a small plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat and near the town of Irvine, Alta. 
  
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• 3 dead after small plane crashes southeast of Medicine Hat, Alta.

  02-06-2019 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Three people are dead after a small plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat and near the town of Irvine, Alta. 
  
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• 3 dead after small plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat, Alta.

  02-06-2019 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Three people are dead after a small plane crash southeast of Medicine Hat and near the town of Irvine, Alta. 
  
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• High Level area residents can go home Monday

  02-06-2019 19:40
  Residents of the High Level area will be able to return home on Monday, exactly two weeks after they were ordered to evacuate.   “We have some excellent news today,” Mayor Crystal McAteer announced Sunday morning at the High Level forestry base. “Yes, you can come home.” Re-entry will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday. Gates will be open at the north and east sides of town, and residents will be given re-entry packages. McAteer said grocers, banks and the hospital are
  
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• One sent to hospital after apartment fire in Bowness

  02-06-2019 19:13
  Fire crews were called to a fire on Saturday evening in the northwest Calgary community of Bowness and say a man was taken to hospital as a result. Firefighters were called to the scene at about 8:30 p.m. after witnesses reported a blaze had broken out in a third-floor unit. Once crews arrived, they found smoke billowing out of the windows of the apartment and immediately evacuated the entire building. A ladder crew was set up to work on extinguishing the blaze from the outside while another cre
  
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• 'We really like doing puzzles': Sherwood Park family finds gold treasure in less than 24 hours

  02-06-2019 18:12
  A treasure hunt in Edmonton ended in less than 24 hours when a Sherwood Park family found the prize Saturday evening. GoldHunt, the competition organizer, said the hidden $100,000 in gold and silver was found at 8:52 p.m. by Bryon and Jody Duff, and their children, 18-year-old Brylee and 16-year-old Logan.  "We are a game-playing family," Bryon Duff said in a statement. "My son and I like to look at logic games on YouTube. We really like doing puzzles and are big into geocaching."  The
  
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• Sherwood Park family finds gold treasure in less than 24 hours

  02-06-2019 18:12
  A treasure hunt in Edmonton ended in less than 24 hours when a Sherwood Park family found the prize Saturday evening. Gold Hunt, the competition organizer, said the hidden $100,000 in gold and silver was found at 8:52 p.m. The hunt started at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, when maps and clues could be purchased from the Gold Hunt website. It stopped selling maps to the Edmonton treasure when it was found. The competition is still running in Calgary and Vancouver.  “Edmonton has proved its wit,&
  
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• Father of two drowns saving child in Sask. Lake

  02-06-2019 17:36
  RCMP recovered the body of a 29-year-old Manitoba man who drowned in a Saskatchewan lake last week after jumping in the water to save a child. Kamasack RCMP said on May 31 that their underwater recovery team located the body of Dallas Miller from Madge Lake in eastern Saskatchewan. Police say that Miller, two women and five children were boating when one of the children who was playing in the water was pulled away from the boat by the waves. RCMP say that Miller, a father of two, jumped in the w
  
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• Scheer removes MP Michael Cooper from justice committee over 'insensitive' comments

  02-06-2019 17:05
  Andrew Scheer says he has removed Michael Cooper from the justice committee over comments the Conservative member of Parliament made earlier in the week. The Tory leader says it was “insensitive and unacceptable” for Cooper to quote the suspected Christchurch shooter to a Muslim witness during a parliamentary hearing. Cooper has apologized for reading an excerpt from a manifesto written by Brenton Tarrant, accused of killing 51 people at two New Zealand mosques, to the witness. He sa
  
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• UPDATE: Cardston RCMP Searching For Missing Teen

  02-06-2019 16:59
  14 year old Zachary Bevans left for a quad ride Saturday night and never returned home.
  
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• Cardston RCMP Searching For Missing Teen

  02-06-2019 16:59
  14 year old Zachary Bevans left for a quad ride Saturday night and never returned home.
  
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• Cardston RCMP searching for missing 14-year-old boy

  02-06-2019 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are searching the Leavitt area after 14-year-old Zachary Bevans didn't come home from a quad ride on Saturday night.
  
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• Cardston RCMP find missing 14-year-old boy

  02-06-2019 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP found a 14-year-old boy on Sunday who didn't come home from a quad ride on Saturday night.
  
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• Trump denies calling Meghan Markle 'nasty,' despite audio recording proving otherwise

  02-06-2019 16:14
  U.S. President Donald Trump denied calling Meghan Markle “nasty” in a Sunday morning tweet – even though the remark was caught on tape. “I never called Meghan Markle ‘nasty,’” he wrote in the tweet. “Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold! Will @CNN, @nytimes and others apologize? Doubt it!” The controversy began late last week. Days before his state visit to the United Kingdom, the president weighed in on the country’
  
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• 5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat

  02-06-2019 13:59
  VENICE, Italy -- A towering, out-of-control cruise ship rammed into a dock and a tourist riverboat on a busy Venice canal on Sunday morning, injuring five people, officials said. The collision sparked new calls for placing restrictions on cruise ships in the famed city. The crash happened about 8:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) on the Giudecca Canal, a major thoroughfare that leads to St. Mark's Square in the northeastern Italian city. The MSC Opera cruise ship, apparently unable to stop, blared its horn as
  
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• Could Wilson-Raybould, Philpott eventually re-join Liberal party? 'Never say never'

  02-06-2019 13:00
  OTTAWA – If a post-Justin Trudeau Liberal Party wanted to welcome Jody Wilson-Raybould back into the fold, she says she wouldn’t rule out rejoining. “Never say never,” was the response former justice minister, turned Independent MP Wilson-Raybould gave during an interview on CTV’s Question Period.Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter, delivered twice weekly to your inbox and every day during the election Joined by fellow Independent MP Jane Philpott, the two f
  
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• Lethbridge students to take part in international business and tech competition - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 04:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge students to take part in international business and tech competition  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Seven women from Lethbridge College, the University of Lethbridge and Victoria Park High School will take part in the international ...
  
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• Police were told deal was in works with Jussie Smollett - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:31 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Police were told deal was in works with Jussie Smollett  Lethbridge News NowCHICAGO — New documents on the Jussie Smollett case released Thursday show that prosecutors told Chicago police detectives that a possible deal with the ...
  
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• Pride flag once again raised outside Taber provincial building - Global News

  02-06-2019 03:14 via globalnews.ca
  Pride flag once again raised outside Taber provincial building  Global NewsA controversial flag raising took place in the southern Alberta town of Taber Saturday afternoon. Two years ago, a pride flag was taken down and destroyed by fire. “Words just can’t explain how I’m feeling to have the pride flag raising again here in Taber for the third year in a row,” said Jayce Wilson, co-chair of Taber Equality Alliance. READ MORE: Dozens flock to Taber for Pride after
  
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• Pride flag once again raised outside Taber provincial building

  02-06-2019 03:14 via globalnews.ca
  A controversial flag raising took place in the southern Alberta town of Taber Saturday afternoon. Two years ago, a pride flag was taken down and destroyed by fire.
  
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• Trevor Story homers twice, Rockies rout Blue Jays 13-6 - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Trevor Story homers twice, Rockies rout Blue Jays 13-6  Lethbridge News NowDENVER — Trevor Story hit a pair of two-run homers as part of a career-high seven-RBI night and the Colorado Rockies beat the slumping Toronto Blue Jays ...
  
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• Prince's bodyguard deposed in wrongful death lawsuit - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Prince's bodyguard deposed in wrongful death lawsuit  Lethbridge News NowCHASKA, Minn. — Prince's former bodyguard answered questions from attorneys for seven hours as part of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of the late ...
  
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• Ottawa expands program to support privately sponsored LGBTQ refugees - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ottawa expands program to support privately sponsored LGBTQ refugees  Lethbridge News NowTORONTO - The federal government is expanding a program offering support to privately sponsored refugees in th...
  
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• New Hampshire repeals death penalty as Senate overrides veto - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  New Hampshire repeals death penalty as Senate overrides veto  Lethbridge News NowCONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire, which hasn't executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, on Thursday became the latest state to ...
  
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• Liverpool beats Tottenham 2-0 to win sixth European title - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Liverpool beats Tottenham 2-0 to win sixth European title  Lethbridge News NowMADRID - No tears of pain this time for Mohamed Salah, who needed only 108 seconds to banish his Champions Lea...
  
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• Lawsuit calls Mississippi's way of choosing governors racist - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lawsuit calls Mississippi's way of choosing governors racist  Lethbridge News NowJACKSON, Miss. — In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its ...
  
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• Kickoff for Stampeders, Roughriders pre-season CFL game delayed - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Kickoff for Stampeders, Roughriders pre-season CFL game delayed  Lethbridge News NowCALGARY — Kickoff for the pre-season CFL game between the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders was delayed 30 minutes Friday.
  
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• Federal procurement minister wishes Irving hadn't threatened reporters - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 03:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Federal procurement minister wishes Irving hadn't threatened reporters  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA — Canada's federal procurement minister says she wishes the Irving company and its lawyers hadn't threatened to sue reporters asking questions ...
  
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• 144 more B.C. crew members deployed to Alberta, Yukon to tackle wildfire threats

  02-06-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  Those members will replace the 267 personnel who were sent to Alberta on May 22 and 23.
  
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• Louisiana's Democratic governor signs abortion ban into law - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 01:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Louisiana's Democratic governor signs abortion ban into law  Lethbridge News NowBATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana's Democratic governor signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy Thursday, a move that puts him squarely ...
  
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• Helen Schuler inviting community to learn about Snake Safety in Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 01:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Helen Schuler inviting community to learn about Snake Safety in Lethbridge  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – As rattlesnakes continue to move to different areas in Lethbridge, moving further from their hibernacula, the Friends of the Helen Schuler ...
  
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• Former US Sen. Thad Cochran, 'Quiet Persuader,' dies at 81 - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 01:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Former US Sen. Thad Cochran, 'Quiet Persuader,' dies at 81  Lethbridge News NowJACKSON, Miss. — In the Washington political scene of bombast and big egos, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi wielded power with a quiet, ...
  
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• Student spellers face off in Calgary Spelling Bee

  02-06-2019 01:30
  Some sharp young spellers were able to show off their stuff at the Calgary I-N-V-I-T-A-T-I-O-N-A-L Spelling Bee on Saturday afternoon. The seventh annual event took place at the Webber Academy Performing Arts Centre on Saturday and about 75 participants took part. CTV Calgary's own Kevin Stanfield was the MC. Organizers say it helps encourage literacy in students from Grade 1 all the way to Grade 6. "Really good sportsmanship on stage and how to win and lose with grace as well," says Gabi Lemion
  
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• Firefighters in Manning keep watchful eye on Battle Complex Wildfire

  02-06-2019 01:04 via globalnews.ca
  Fire crews from the town of Manning may not be doing firefighting but they are keeping busy with patrols and acting as eyes on the ground in case the Battle Complex Wildfire, which is burning close to the town, rages out of control.
  
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• Alberta wildfires: High Level residents unable to return home this weekend

  02-06-2019 00:58 via globalnews.ca
  Uncertain winds and safety concerns mean the re-entry plan into High Level, after residents were forced from their homes by wildfire nearly two weeks ago, will have to be re-evaluated.
  
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• Giant American flag flap flutters on; business owner rallies - Lethbridge News Now

  02-06-2019 00:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Giant American flag flap flutters on; business owner rallies  Lethbridge News NowSTATESVILLE, N.C. — The reality television star who has said he would go to jail before removing a huge American flag from his recreational vehicle store in ...
  
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• New rules come into effect for drone users

  02-06-2019 00:45
  The federal government's new rules on the use of aerial drones came into force on June 1 and some local drone operators say the fresh regulations will really help their hobby take off. In January, federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced all drone operators in Canada would require an official licence that would clearly state where someone can fly a drone and under what conditions. It would also make sure that anyone wanting to fly a drone must pass a proper test to ensure they know the
  
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• ‘Lightning, wind’ will tell the story of where Slave Lake wildfire will go

  02-06-2019 00:31 via globalnews.ca
  Slave Lake Mayor Tyler Warman said Saturday morning the wildfire — formerly the Maria Lake Wildfire — remained about 35 kilometres north of the town and approximately 23 kilometres from Marten Beach.
  
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