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• Alberta makes it official: Bill passed and proclaimed to kill carbon tax

  04-06-2019 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Members of the legislature voted Monday night to pass the bill that repeals the tax.
  
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• Calgary man presumed dead after being swept up in B.C. river: RCMP

  04-06-2019 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  A 39-year-old Alberta man went missing on May 29 just before 6 p.m. and is believed to have drowned after being "swept away with the fast-rising water," RCMP said.
  
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• Community comes together to help boy following tragedy - Lethbridge News Now

  04-06-2019 23:16 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Community comes together to help boy following tragedy  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – It's a happy ending to a series of unfortunate events. Following many tragic occurrences, the community banded together to help a ...
  
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• Kenney government introduces bill allowing multi-year tax incentives for business

  04-06-2019 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  Introduced Tuesday, Bill 7 would amend the Municipal Government Act to allow for multi-year tax incentives for a wide range of non-residential properties.
  
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• Piikani Nation Partners with AltaLink to Invest in Transmission Infrastructure

  04-06-2019 23:14
  The Piikani Nation has invested 51% of the equity portion of the transmission line and associated substation equipment on its land.
  
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• Ottawa, Quebec announce $500 million reconstruction of La Fontaine Tunnel - Lethbridge News Now

  04-06-2019 23:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ottawa, Quebec announce $500 million reconstruction of La Fontaine Tunnel  Lethbridge News NowMONTREAL - The federal and Quebec governments have announced a $500-million reconstruction project for Ca...
  
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• Alleged Sex Assault Prompts Specialized Self Defense Class for Realtors and New Home Sales Consultants

  04-06-2019 22:34
  The special class has been organized in light of an alleged sex assault that occurred during a show home viewing in Lethbridge.
  
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• Hansen Ranch Near Waterton Park Inks Land Conservation Agreement With NCC

  04-06-2019 21:39
  The 365 hectare ranch in southwest Alberta contains several important habitats which extend beyond the boundaries of the already protected national park.
  
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• As PM, Scheer would try to remove inter-provincial trade barriers

  04-06-2019 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  If elected prime minister, Andrew Scheer says he would undertake a national effort to get rid of inter-provincial trade barriers that have “held back our federation for so long.”
  
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• Scheer outlines his vision for national energy corridor

  04-06-2019 21:35 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer wants to see Canadian provinces work together on a national energy corridor that would help move Alberta oil and gas east and west.
  
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• Strong, effective federal leadership is required: Scheer

  04-06-2019 21:31 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says there are clear areas of federal jurisdiction and, on matters where provinces disagree, strong federal leadership is crucial.
  
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• Trudeau uses ‘my-way-or-the-highway federalism’: Scheer

  04-06-2019 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Justin Trudeau’s “my way or the highway federalism” has forced provinces to fight the federal government in court.
  
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• Carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires: Trudeau

  04-06-2019 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Trudeau said Canadians are seeing the impact of climate change with an increase in wildfires in Western Canada, recent tornadoes in Ottawa and flooding across the country.
  
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• Scheer says Trudeau is pitting provinces against each other

  04-06-2019 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, relationships between provinces and Ottawa have chilled. He says Conservatives will champion Alberta’s natural resources.
  
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• Man injured while in LPS custody, ASIRT investigating - Lethbridge News Now

  04-06-2019 21:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Man injured while in LPS custody, ASIRT investigating  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – An investigation is underway on the circumstances surrounding the arrest of a 23-year-old man by Lethbridge Police *Service*. The Alberta ...
  
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• Kenney thanks Scheer for commitment to scrap the federal carbon tax

  04-06-2019 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he’s looking forward to a federal Conservative government in the fall that will get rid of the carbon tax.
  
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• Alberta Premier Kenney proud to be here with ‘friend Andrew Scheer’

  04-06-2019 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney describes federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer as a man with great integrity with “a heart of real kindness.”
  
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• Hundreds of animals rescued from northern Alberta wildfires

  04-06-2019 21:03
  Hundreds of animals have been rescued from communities threatened by wildfires, Alberta Animal Disaster Response says.Fire north of Slave Lake could burn for months: officialsThe organization, which is run by the Alberta Spay Neuter Task Force and Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society, says 283 animals have been evacuated from the MD of Opportunity/Wabasca and Bigstone Cree Nation. All animals in immediate danger are now believed to have been evacuated from the area, and will be transferred to boar
  
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• Apple is selling a US$1K monitor stand without the monitor

  04-06-2019 20:57
  It wasn’t the newly unveiled Mac Pro computer costing US$6,000 or the specialized monitor for $5,000 that had developers loudly groaning during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday. Instead, a separately sold stand to prop up said monitor caused a titter in the audience with its staggering $1,000 price tag. That’s right. The stand costs $1,000 and doesn’t come with the $6,000 computer. According to an Apple press release, the Pro Stand will complement the new
  
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• U.S. regulator sues Canada's Kik for US$100M, alleging illegal offering of digital tokens

  04-06-2019 20:39
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Ontario-based Kik Interactive Inc. for conducting an "illegal" US$100 million securities offering of digital tokens. The securities regulator said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the Kitchener-based company sold the tokens to U.S. investors in 2017 without registering their offer and sale, or providing proper disclosure, as required by U.S. securities laws. The SEC said this constituted an initial coin offering, or ICO. Kik's chief executive
  
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• 'I want everyone to know what he did': Mother of Calgary man who died saving little girl speaks out

  04-06-2019 20:21
  A Calgary man has died after saving a 10-year-old girl from drowning at Lake Windermere last week. According to his mother, 20-year-old Jonathan Palmiere was spending a weekend in Invermere, B.C., with his girlfriend’s family when a day at the beach took a tragic turn. The group was at the lake on Friday, May 31st, when his girlfriend’s 10-year-old step-sister, Peyton, started drifting away on a floaty. “I guess it went a little too far and she jumped off.  She was he
  
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• Stephans’ trial: naturopath said she told Alberta couple to take toddler to hospital

  04-06-2019 20:19 via globalnews.ca
  A naturopath has testified she recommended an Alberta couple take their toddler to an emergency room before he died of bacterial meningitis.
  
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• Scheer vows internal free-trade deal as part of vision for stronger federation

  04-06-2019 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  During a speech in Edmonton Tuesday, Andrew Scheer said he'll convene a first-ministers' meeting devoted to knocking down barriers to trade among Canada's provinces if the Conservatives win the federal election.
  
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• Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaking in Edmonton on Tuesday

  04-06-2019 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  This is the latest in a series of addresses as federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer rolls out his policy planks ahead of a fall federal election.
  
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• Mount Royal mansion raffled off by Calgary homeowners

  04-06-2019 19:54
  Getting a $3 million home for $35 and a picture of your pet seems like a good trade. The owners of a custom built inner-city home are counting on just that, hoping to sell at least 100,000 entry tickets for the 4,400 square foot Mount Royal mansion. The entry fee allows you to submit a photo of your pet and the best picture wins, with three runner-up prizes of $50,000 each. The dream home was built by a Calgary couple at the height of the boom in early 2014. It took four years and $2.9 million i
  
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• South Lethbridge Search Warrant Turns Up Drugs, Stolen Bicycle

  04-06-2019 19:51
  Lethbridge Police say they started an investigation after receiving several reports of suspicious activity at a south side home.
  
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• Does dodgeball teach our kids to be bullies? Researchers say it might

  04-06-2019 19:40
  A good game of dodgeball used to be a celebratory rainy day activity for phys-ed students, but researchers warn that teaching kids to swarm their peers and pelt the weakest ones with balls may reinforce bullying behaviours. In fact, a team of B.C.-based researchers goes as far as to suggest that dodgeball is a “tool of oppression” that unfairly targets some students. "Dodgeball reinforces the five faces of oppression defined by (theorist Iris Marion Young) as marginalization, powerle
  
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• PM Trudeau increasing funding for global women's health to $1.4 billion

  04-06-2019 18:55
  OTTAWA – The federal government will gradually be increasing its annual commitment to funding for international sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, hitting and maintaining $1.4 billion annually, starting in 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the 10-year funding announcement at the Women Deliver Conference that Canada is hosting in Vancouver. The conference, billed as the world's largest gathering on women’s rights, is being attended by several heads of sta
  
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• Calgary man presumed drowned after falling into northern B.C. river

  04-06-2019 18:20
  Friends are remembering a Calgary man swept downstream while fishing on the Peace River in northern B.C. as a proud father who was close with his own parents. Aaron (AJ) Kingma, 39. was fishing with friends on the Peace River near Hudson’s Hope, north of Dawson Creek, B.C., about 5 p.m. on May 29 when he fell into the water and was swept downstream. RCMP said a ground, air and water search was immediately launched, however his body has not been recovered. The search was called off June 1 a
  
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• Senate report reveals nearly 400 troubled nursing homes - Lethbridge News Now

  04-06-2019 18:01 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Senate report reveals nearly 400 troubled nursing homes  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON - The federal government for years has kept under wraps the names of hundreds of nursing homes arou...
  
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• In Asian-led 'Always Be My Maybe,' ethnicity is secondary - Lethbridge News Now

  04-06-2019 18:01 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  In Asian-led 'Always Be My Maybe,' ethnicity is secondary  Lethbridge News NowThe newly released Netflix movie “Always Be My Maybe,” is an Asian American rom-com with a twist: Ethnicity isn't central to the plot. It's just stand-up comedian ...
  
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• Lethbridge Police Asking For Public Help in Finding Missing Woman

  04-06-2019 17:53
  36 year old Desiree Stabs Down was last in contact with her family on May 19.
  
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• New wildfire near Bonnyville in northern Alberta brought under control overnight

  04-06-2019 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  A wildfire that broke out on Monday near the town of Bonnyville in northeastern Alberta was brought under control overnight Tuesday.
  
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• Marine mystery: Did a great white shark kill a sea lion in B.C. waters?

  04-06-2019 17:01
  Experts are debating whether a badly decomposed sea lion found on Bowen Island was killed by a great white shark. Sasha Rankin made the discovery when she was walking her dog on a trail along The Cape on Bowen. "There was an incredible strong stench, a foul smell," she told CTV News. "I walked up and found a sea lion decapitated, complete serrated at the neck." She said she’d seen sea lions killed by propellers before and these injuries looked obviously different. She contacted a Californi
  
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• Wildfire near Bonnyville no longer out of control

  04-06-2019 16:51
  A wildfire near Bonnyville is now being held, according to the Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority. The blaze broke out around 5 p.m. on Monday between Highway 28 and Highway 660. According to the Municipal District of Bonnyville, it started in a ditch and spread due to dry conditions.Fire north of Slave Lake could burn for months: officialsOvernight crews established guards on both sides of the fire, and a fixed wing aircraft will start water bombing the perimeter close to the lake, and then fou
  
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• Bystanders save mom, baby from random knife attack in Greater Sudbury, Ont.

  04-06-2019 16:41
  SUDBURY, Ont. -- Police in Greater Sudbury, Ont., are hailing a bystander for intervening in a random on-street knife attack on a woman and her baby. They say the incident Monday afternoon left the 35-year-old woman in critical condition with a neck wound and the nine-month-old with multiple bruises. The attacker and victims did not know each other. Police say the bystander disarmed and pinned down the attacker until police arrived. A 25-year-old man is charged with attempted murder and weapons
  
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• Quebec firm Group Mach makes rival offer for Air Transat

  04-06-2019 15:54
  MONTREAL -- Quebec real estate developer Group Mach Inc. has made a takeover bid for Transat AT Inc. worth $14 per share or $527.6 million in cash, seeking to cut off Air Canada's ongoing talks with the tour operator and convince the Quebec government to finance nearly one-quarter of the purchase. The offer comes after Transat announced last month it was in exclusive 30-day negotiations to be acquired by Air Canada for $13 per share or about $520 million. Trading in Transat shares has halted ahe
  
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• Report recommends city take over demolition of Kensington Manor

  04-06-2019 15:52
  The demolition of a vacant, seven-storey residential building deemed unsafe and a fire risk in northwest Calgary will be up for discussion at city hall Tuesday. More than 100 residents were forced out of Kensington Manor in November 2017 after the building in the 300 block of 10th Street N.W. was found to be structurally unsafe. It has remained unoccupied since. The property owner had originally been given until December 2018 to remediate or demolish the building. They were then granted an exten
  
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• Alarm as Ebola outbreak reaches 2,000 cases, picks up speed

  04-06-2019 15:49
  JOHANNESBURG -- The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 2,000 cases and is picking up speed. The number of confirmed cases reached the milestone three times as quickly as it took to reach 1,000, experts said Tuesday. The outbreak declared in August, the second-deadliest in history, has killed more than 1,300 people in a volatile region where rebel attacks and community resistance have hurt containment efforts. The 2,000 figure is a "sad and frustrating milestone. The insecurity
  
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• Virtual reality program launched at Calgary senior centre

  04-06-2019 15:23
  Residents of a Calgary senior’s community took part in a virtual reality experience on Monday that is aimed at easing social isolation. The experience was part of a new program that hopes to improve social connections in seniors by engaging them in VR activities. Residents at the Revera Mount Royal Care Centre slipped on the VR goggles and say it was a stimulating experience. “it's amazing, it feels like you are right there,” said Lorna Curtis. “We saw dolphins playing, w
  
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• Vancouver man fined $18K for trying to smuggle 19 live turtles into Canada

  04-06-2019 15:03
  A Vancouver man has been ordered to pay a fine of $18,000 after he attempted to smuggle 19 live turtles into Canada, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. In January 2018, Li Wan was caught at the Canada-U.S. border with 19 undeclared live turtles consisting of 16 different species. Of those 16 turtle species, the government agency said six of them are listed as endangered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Endangered spe
  
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• Premier Kenney defends supervised drug consumption site funding freeze

  04-06-2019 14:59
  Premier Jason Kenney is rejecting opposition accusations he’s putting Albertans at risk following a move to freeze funding for proposed new supervised consumption sites. The Opposition NDP has labelled the freeze as part of a covert government plan to cancel not only the proposed sites, but also existing ones in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge. Those existing supervised consumption sites were created by the former NDP government as a way to combat the opioid overdose epidemic, and new sit
  
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• At least 4 dead in shooting in Australian city of Darwin

  04-06-2019 14:38
  MELBOURNE, Australia -- A man who was out on parole was arrested after fatally shooting four men and wounding a woman in an hour-long downtown rampage Tuesday in the northern Australian city of Darwin, police said. Police did not reveal a motive for the shotgun attack, but ruled out terrorism. It was Australia's third mass shooting since the country introduced tough gun laws in response to a 1996 massacre in which a lone gunman armed with two semi-automatic assault rifles killed 35 people in Tas
  
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• New fire erupts in northern Alberta, quickly grows out of control

  04-06-2019 14:08
  BONNYVILLE, Alta. - Between 80 and 100 firefighters are battling an out-of-control wildfire near the town of Bonnyville in northeastern Alberta. The Municipal District of Bonnyville says on its Facebook page that the fire started Monday evening west of the town along a range road between highways 28 and 660. The flames erupted in a ditch and spread rapidly due to tinder dry conditions in the Moose Lake forest area. There is no immediate word on the size of the blaze, which is moving in a southea
  
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• Firefighters scramble to rein in fast-moving northern Alberta wildfire

  04-06-2019 14:08
  BONNYVILLE, Alta. -- A wildfire that erupted Monday night not far from a northeastern Alberta town and quickly grew out of control is now listed as being held. The Municipal District of Bonnyville says on its Facebook page that crews managed overnight to contain the blaze west of Bonnyville, about 240 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. The statement says the flames in the Moose Lake forest area have covered about 90 hectares, but no evacuation order has been issued for the town's population of ab
  
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• What to do when your kids stumble on sexual content online

  04-06-2019 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  Within three clicks, Lisa Holts said her seven-year-old daughter, who was searching for a clothing item, was exposed to pornography.
  
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• Lethbridge man charged in Fox Creek abduction case - Lethbridge Herald

  04-06-2019 11:12 via lethbridgeherald.com
  Lethbridge man charged in Fox Creek abduction case  Lethbridge HeraldLethbridge Herald Fox Creek RCMP have charged a Lethbridge man in a child abduction case which prompted an AMBER Alert on Saturday. D'artangan Dirk ...
  
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• Employers face long delays for temporary foreign workers as demand spikes

  04-06-2019 10:25
  OTTAWA -- Some employers looking to hire temporary foreign workers are experiencing significant delays due to an increase in demand this year for migrant workers in Canada. The federal government says the volume of applications is up almost 25 per cent over last year -- a development it says is partly because of Canada's low unemployment rates. Employers who want to hire migrant workers in the "low-skill stream" are now waiting more than 100 days to find out if their labour market impact assessm
  
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• China handles Tiananmen anniversary with usual silence

  04-06-2019 09:01
  BEIJING -- Dissidents silenced. Security tightened. References scrubbed from the internet. China imposed an information lockdown Tuesday on the 30th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, a stark reminder that three decades later, the possibility of democratic change has all but evaporated. Extra checkpoints and street closures greeted tourists who showed up before 5 a.m. to watch the daily flag-raising ceremony at the square in the centre of Beijing
  
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• Trump turns from pomp to business in U.K. visit

  04-06-2019 08:56
  LONDON -- President Donald Trump will turn from pageantry to policy Tuesday as he joins British Prime Minister Theresa May for a day of talks likely to highlight fresh uncertainty in the allies' storied relationship. Trump and May are due to meet with corporate executives from the United States and United Kingdom, before an afternoon news conference on the second day of Trump's state visit. The leaders' top priority is a possible bilateral trade deal to take effect once the U.K. leaves the Europ
  
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