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• Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper, killing pilot - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 23:58 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper, killing pilot  Lethbridge News NowNEW YORK — A helicopter crashed on the roof of a rain-shrouded midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot and briefly triggering memories of ...
  
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• Kenney government to bring in bill to alter union wage deals

  12-06-2019 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government has served notice it will bring in legislation to allow the province to override bargained contract agreements and delay wage talks for thousands of public-sector workers.
  
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• HIV/AIDS group concerned over proposed overdose prevention site at Alberta prison

  12-06-2019 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  The Correctional Service of Canada says it has received a Health Canada exemption that would permit the site at Drumheller Institution by the end of the month.
  
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• Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 23:31 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide  Lethbridge News NowAUGUSTA, Maine — Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with ...
  
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• Husky fined $3.8M for charges arising from Saskatchewan oil spill

  12-06-2019 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  The oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River in July 2016 forced the cities of North Battleford, Prince Albert and Melfort to shut off their water intakes for almost two months.
  
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• Alberta woman charged after allegedly trying to mail puppies and a kitten

  12-06-2019 23:09
  A 53-year-old Alberta woman has been charged after allegedly attempting to ship a cat and puppies through the mail last month. According to Vulcan County Enforcement Services (VCES), Jill Marshall visited a Canada Post office in the village of Milo, about 100 kilometres southwest of Calgary, on two separate occasions. VCES said in a statement a post office employee called authorities on May 7 after discovering a puppy and kitten crammed in a small cardboard box. The box was labelled with a desti
  
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• Alberta woman charged after alleged attempts to mail puppies and kitten

  12-06-2019 23:09
  A resident of Vulcan County has been accused of causing animals to be in distress after she allegedly attempted to ship young animals using Canada Post. According to Vulcan Country Enforcement Services, 53-year-old Jill Marshall visited the Canada Post office in the village of Milo, Alberta on two occasions in May. On Tuesday, May 7, an employee of the post office alerted the authorities after discovering a puppy and a kitten crammed in a cardboard box that was barely sufficient to fit a single
  
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• Tips from public lead to drug seizure

  12-06-2019 22:57
  Police say tips from the public lead them to search a home in Penbrooke Meadows where more than $30,000 worth of cocaine and methamphetamine were seized. The investigation began in the spring, read a release from police, after community members reported alleged drug activity at a home in the 0-100 block of Pennsburg Way S.E. A search warrant was executed June 6 and 17 people were found inside. The search recovered:309 grams of methamphetamine 36.6 grams of cocaine A stun gun disguised as a cane
  
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• Charges laid against woman accused of attacking Lethbridge senior

  12-06-2019 22:53
  A 34-year-old woman is facing charges after a Lethbridge senior was assaulted and robbed in his garage on Tuesday evening. Police were called to a residence along Simon Fraser Boulevard at about 7:20 p.m. for reports of an assault. Investigators say a 68-year-old man had just parked his vehicle in his garage when he was approached by a woman who demanded the keys to his vehicle. The man refused and police say the woman then used her purse straps to choke him. The victim was able to free himself
  
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• Feds cut heavy-icebreaker order from Vancouver shipyard - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 22:10 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Feds cut heavy-icebreaker order from Vancouver shipyard  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA — The federal government has taken construction of the coast guard's next heavy icebreaker away from a Vancouver shipyard, the latest in a string of ...
  
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• Canadian Taxpayers Federation stops in Lethbridge to talk pipeline deficit - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 22:09 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Canadian Taxpayers Federation stops in Lethbridge to talk pipeline deficit  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – The Canadian Taxpayers Federation's cross-country pipeline tour stopped in Lethbridge on Wednesday, June 12, to show how much ...
  
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• Consular officials meet with Canadian detained in China

  12-06-2019 22:08
  Canadian consular officials made another visit Wednesday with Michael Kovrig, the former Canadian diplomat who has been imprisoned in China since December. Canadian consular officials are also continuing to provide support for former Calgarian Michael Spavor, who has also been detained in China since December. “The Canadian government remains deeply concerned by the arbitrary detention by Chinese authorities of these two Canadians since December 2018 and continues to call for their immedia
  
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• Missing Saskatoon man believed to be in Calgary

  12-06-2019 21:57
  Calgary police are releasing details of a man reported missing in Saskatoon who could be somewhere in the city. Allan Crawford, 79, was last seen leaving a health care facility in the 1700 block of 20 Street W. in Saskatoon at 9:30 a.m. on June 11. Crawford is described as 6'1" (185 cm) tall, 190 pounds (86 kg) with short hair. He was last seen wearing a baseball cap, dark brown jacket, blue-tinted sunglasses, black pants with red tape around the bottom and black boots. Family members are concer
  
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• U.S. man accused in cold case deaths of Canadian couple facing trial

  12-06-2019 21:52
  SEATTLE -- A man charged with murder in the 1987 killings of a young Canadian couple is facing trial in Washington state beginning this week, but the case won't challenge the new investigative technique authorities used to link him to the crime. William Earl Talbott II is one of dozens of men authorities have arrested for old, unsolved crimes in the past year using genetic genealogy. The practice involves identifying suspects by entering crime-scene DNA profiles into public databases that people
  
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• Alberta Premier Jason Kenney seeks alliance with Quebec’s Francois Legault

  12-06-2019 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and Quebec Premier Francois Legault are natural allies in the fight to defend provincial autonomy in the face of federal interventions.
  
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• College admissions scandal: Sailing coach gets fine, avoids prison

  12-06-2019 21:43
  A former head sailing coach at Stanford will avoid prison after he admitted to accepting bribes in the college admissions cheating scheme. John Vandemoer apologized to his friends, family, the sailing team and Stanford during the sentencing hearing Wednesday in Boston federal court. U.S. District Court Judge Rya Zobel sentenced him to one day in prison, which he was deemed to have served. He will pay a $10,000 fine and serve two years of supervised release, including six months of home confineme
  
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• Calgary concert series moves because of smoke concern

  12-06-2019 21:28
  A popular concert series scheduled later this year at WinSport will be changing venues to prevent any issues due to air quality issues. Party in the Park, normally held over the Labour Day weekend at the WinSport Amphitheatre, will now be held inside the WinSport Arena after the event was impacted by smoke from B.C. wildfires last year. In August 2018, the Air Quality Health Index reached extreme levels because of multiple wildfires burning in British Columbia, sending smoke into southern and ce
  
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• Trio of Canadian RADARSAT Constellation satellites head into orbit - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 20:42 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Trio of Canadian RADARSAT Constellation satellites head into orbit  Lethbridge News NowMONTREAL — A trio of Canadian satellites that represent the next generation of Earth-observation technology launched successfully into orbit today and will be ...
  
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• 'It makes it unpassable': Alberta Energy Minister on rejected amendments to Bill C-69

  12-06-2019 20:25
  Alberta’s Energy Minister Sonya Savage is expressing her discontent after the federal government rejected the majority of amendments proposed by Conservative senators to Bill C-69.  The bill would make the approval process more stringent for pipelines and other energy projects.  A senior government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed to CTV News that the government has concluded most of the proposals by Conservative senators that were designed to weaken th
  
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• Hormone checks and ultrasounds started to see whether giant panda is pregnant

  12-06-2019 20:14
  Urine analysis has started and Calgary Zoo officials will soon renew training so Er Shun, a female giant panda, will accept ultrasound examinations to help determine whether she is pregnant. Er Shun was artificially inseminated in April, and despite the ongoing observations, officials say they won’t know for sure whether she is pregnant until a heartbeat can be detected, usually about two to three weeks before she gives birth. Gestation for giant pandas is three to five months and pandas c
  
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• Baby delivered in Calgary grocery store parking lot: EMS

  12-06-2019 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  EMS rushed to a Calgary grocery store on Wednesday for reports of a woman going into labour – but the baby was born before they arrived.  
  
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• Calgary and Hamilton's soccer teams face sanctions for misconduct

  12-06-2019 19:36
  Members of Calgary's Cavalry FC and Hamilton's Forge FC are facing disciplinary action following a fight that took place at the end of a match last week. A number of players from both teams were involved in a scuffle after June 4's match that Cavalry players say was sparked when a racial slur was uttered by a member of the Forge's coaching staff. The matter was referred to Canada Soccer and that agency announced the allegations of misconduct will be heard by the Canada Soccer Disciplinary Commit
  
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• Frostbitten big toe donated for Yukon’s Sourtoe Cocktail 

  12-06-2019 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  The frostbitten big toe of former British Marine Nick Griffiths now belongs to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City after Griffiths donated the digit to the Sourtoe Cocktail collection.
  
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• Alberta family donates land to expand farm of the future at Olds College

  12-06-2019 19:20
  Olds Collage received a generous land donation from an Alberta family on Wednesday and the gift will allow the facility to expand its high-tech, Smart Farm.   The 316 acres, valued at $1.2 million, are near Carstairs and were donated by the estate of Willem Pitstra. Willem and his wife, Marrigje, immigrated from Holland and met in Canada. They lived in Calgary before purchasing the farmland west of Carstairs in the 1980s. The Pitstras valued education and loved the trades, horticulture and
  
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• Suspicious death of 54-year-old man found in burned-out travel trailer in northern Alberta

  12-06-2019 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  Two months after remains were found inside the smouldering shell of a travel trailer, RCMP now confirm they are investigating the suspicious death of a man from northern Alberta.
  
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• Ramp from 10th Avenue S.W. to Crowchild Trail north to be closed for two weeks

  12-06-2019 18:41
  Ongoing upgrade work will mean big headaches for westbound drivers wanting to go from 10th Avenue S.W. onto northbound Crowchild Trail as the ramp will be closed for two weeks. The closure will run from 10 p.m. Thursday until 5 a.m. on June 28. “Once complete, the newly-reconfigured westbound 10th Avenue S.W. ramp will temporarily merge onto the right-hand side of Crowchild Trail,” reads a city release. “The westbound Bow Trail to northbound Crowchild Trail ramp will
  
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• Highlights from expert panel report on national pharmacare plan - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 18:32 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Highlights from expert panel report on national pharmacare plan  Lethbridge News NowOTTAWA — An expert panel is calling for a universal, single-payer national pharmacare plan. Here's what it recommends: — The federal government should ...
  
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• Husky pleads guilty over oil leak into North Saskatchewan River

  12-06-2019 18:15
  LLOYDMINSTER, Sask. -- Husky Energy has pleaded guilty in a pipeline leak that sent oil spilling into a major river and fouled the source of drinking water for thousands of people. The spill into the North Saskatchewan River in July 2016 forced the cities of North Battleford, Prince Albert and Melfort to shut off their water intakes for almost two months. Calgary-based Husky entered guilty pleas on one provincial and two federal environmental charges in provincial court in Lloydminster, Sask. Th
  
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• Husky pleads guilty to 3 charges in Saskatchewan oil spill

  12-06-2019 18:14 via globalnews.ca
  The oil spill into the North Saskatchewan River in July 2016 forced the cities of North Battleford, Prince Albert and Melfort to shut off their water intakes for almost two months.
  
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• Over $2M in drugs, cash seized after drug ‘pipeline’ disrupted: ALERT

  12-06-2019 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  Twelve people are facing charges after more than $2 million in drugs and cash were seized in what police are calling a "drug pipeline."
  
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• Teens arrested, imitation firearm seized after Red Deer schools locked down

  12-06-2019 17:50
  Two teens are facing charges and police are looking for a third after three boys allegedly entered a school in Red Deer with a firearm Tuesday afternoon. Police were called to Eastview Middle School just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday for reports three males had entered the school with a firearm. The school and surrounding schools were put into lockdown as RCMP cleared the building. The suspects fled and two males were later arrested. Police are now looking for a third suspect. A replica firearm was a
  
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• Hiring in Calgary expected to be flat in third quarter of 2019, says report

  12-06-2019 17:19
  The hiring climate in Calgary will be a flat one for the third quarter of 2019, according to the latest Employment Outlook Survey from ManpowerGroup. The data shows 11 per cent of employers plan to add staff in the upcoming quarter, while six per cent are planning to cut back. The remaining 83 per cent plan to maintain current staffing levels. “It is also a two percentage point decrease from the Outlook reported during the same time last year, indicating a reserved hiring pace for the upco
  
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• Grunewald, runner with cancer who inspired many, dies at 32

  12-06-2019 16:21
  MINNEAPOLIS -- Gabriele Grunewald, one of the country's top middle-distance runners, has died at her home in Minneapolis after inspiring many with her long and public fight against cancer. She was 32. Her husband, Justin Grunewald, posted on Instagram about her death late Tuesday and confirmed it Wednesday in a text to The Associated Press. Grunewald was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma -- a rare form of cancer in the saliva glands -- in 2009 while running for the University of Minnesota.
  
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• You consume 'a credit card a week' of tiny plastic: study

  12-06-2019 16:16
  You might be consuming a credit card’s worth of microplastics every week, according to a new study. Researchers in Australia, commissioned by environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund, combined data from more than 50 bodies on the consumption of microplastics. The results showed a global average ingestion rate of over 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic, or 5 grams, every week. That’s the “equivalent weight of a credit card,” the University of Newscastle found. The ingestion
  
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• Group set to break ground on musical garden in honour of Brentwood homicide victims

  12-06-2019 15:55
  A ground breaking ceremony will be held in South Glenmore Park on Wednesday morning to honour the legacy of the five young people who were killed at a house party over five years ago. Quinterra Legacy Garden will be constructed to pay tribute to Lawrence Hong, Josh Hunter, Kaitlan (Kaiti) Perras, Jordan Segura and Zackariah Rathwell. The five were attacked and killed by a man suffering from a mental disorder on April 15, 2014. Families of the five young people have been working together for more
  
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• Group breaks ground on musical garden in honour of Brentwood homicide victims

  12-06-2019 15:55
  A ground breaking ceremony was held in South Glenmore Park on Wednesday morning to honour the legacy of the five young people who were killed at a house party over five years ago. Quinterra Legacy Garden will be constructed to pay tribute to Lawrence Hong, Josh Hunter, Kaitlan (Kaiti) Perras, Jordan Segura and Zackariah Rathwell. The five were attacked and killed by a man suffering from a mental disorder on April 15, 2014. Families of the five young people have been working together for more tha
  
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• Development permit denied for composting facility operating in Rocky View County

  12-06-2019 15:49
  Residents in Rocky View County are breathing a sigh of relief after council denied a development permit to a composting facility. The decision comes after months of complaints over the stench from Thorlakson’s Feedlot, located between Airdrie and Irricana, which has been in operation for decades. Officials say the facility had been operating without proper permits. In December, council agreed to allow the compost facility to continue, but the operator had to address a number of issues, inc
  
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• 'Mysterious' gravitational mass found buried on far side of moon

  12-06-2019 15:05
  A “mysterious” gravitational mass has been discovered on the far side of the moon buried below a 4-billion-year-old crater. In research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists say the mass may contain metal from the asteroid that created the South Pole-Aitken basin. In January, China landed a probe for the first time in the crater, which is the largest in the solar system at some 2,000 km wide, roughly the distance between Victoria, B.C., and Brandon, Man. T
  
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• 'Mysterious' gravitational mass found buried on dark side of moon

  12-06-2019 15:05
  A “mysterious” gravitational mass has been discovered on the dark side of the moon buried below a 4-billion-year-old crater. In research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists say the mass may contain metal from the asteroid that created the South Pole-Aitken basin. In January, China landed a probe for the first time in the crater, which is the largest in the solar system at some 2,000 km wide, roughly the distance between Victoria, B.C., and Brandon, Man.
  
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• Expert panel recommends single-payer pharmacare plan for Canada

  12-06-2019 15:05
  OTTAWA -- An expert panel is calling for the federal government to work with the provinces and territories to create a single-payer pharmacare plan to cover every Canadian. Eric Hoskins, Ontario's former health minister, released the findings in Ottawa, giving advice on how to address the country's patchwork of private and public prescription-drug plans.Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter, delivered twice weekly to your inbox and every day during the election Canada has a variety of drug
  
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• Coyote pups captured on camera in community of Arbour Lake

  12-06-2019 14:57
  A litter of coyote pups and their parents took up residence in a rock wall in the northwest community in May and residents have been keeping an eye on them. Hassaan Majid captured a video of five of the pups as they played and chased each other through the community earlier this week. City officials say the public should keep a respectable distance. They are also monitoring known coyote dens in Aspen Woods, Nose Hill and Panorama. Related story: Coyote pups prompt safety warning from city M
  
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• Two Canadian women abducted in Ghana have been rescued, authorities say

  12-06-2019 10:52
  ACCRA, Ghana -- Authorities say two Canadian women who were abducted earlier this month in Ghana have been rescued. Ghana's information ministry says the rescue operation was completed early Wednesday in the south-central Ashanti region. No other details are immediately available. The ministry has sought to assure travellers that the West African nation remains safe despite a recent uptick in kidnappings for ransom. The country has been considered one of the safest in the region for foreign trav
  
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• Canadians identified, safe after abduction in Ghana

  12-06-2019 10:52
  The two Canadian women who were rescued Wednesday, after being abducted in Ghana last week have been identified. Youth Challenge International, the Toronto-based non-profit organization the women were working with in Ghana, says Lauren Tilley and Bailey Chitty are safe and unhurt following their ordeal. “Bailey and Lauren are receiving emotional and psychological support from professionals as they travel home,” the statement posted to their website on Wednesday read. The organization
  
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• 2 Canadian women safe after abduction in Ghana; 8 suspects arrested

  12-06-2019 10:52
  Authorities say eight people have been arrested following the early-morning rescue of two Canadian women who were abducted in Ghana last week. At a press conference on Wednesday, Ghana’s Minister of Information Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah said five Ghanaians and three Nigerians were taken into custody after security forces raided a building in a Kumasi suburb where the women were being held. The two women, aged 19 and 20, were abducted from the Royal Golf Club in Kumasi’s Ashanti Region on J
  
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• First Nations push for massive conservation area in northern British Columbia

  12-06-2019 10:39
  LOWER POST, B.C. -- First Nations in northern British Columbia are calling on the provincial government to endorse an ambitious proposal for a 40,000-square-kilometre conservation area to protect major watersheds and sensitive species. The proposal would cover the ancestral areas of three Kaska Dena First Nations and would be larger than Vancouver Island, taking up a massive section of north-central B.C. Premier John Horgan's government hasn't said whether it supports or opposes the idea after s
  
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• Liberals set to unveil social-finance strategy, including $755M in new fund

  12-06-2019 10:34
  OTTAWA -- The federal government is to unveil its promised strategy today, planning to use hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to finance new, experimental ways to deliver social services. Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos is scheduled to make a mid-day announcement in Montreal. The Liberals have been crafting a strategy for social finance, as it's known, for years, hoping to bring private money into social services governments provide themselves or directly fund. Under
  
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• 5-year-old boy dies of Ebola as Uganda cases rise to 3

  12-06-2019 10:24
  KASINDI, Congo -- A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in Congo. The boy, part of a Congolese family who crossed into Uganda earlier in the week, died overnight, the World Health Organization said. Ugandan authorities said the two new cases are his 3-year-old brother and 50-year-old grandmother, who have been
  
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• Former Canada international gets death threats for U.S. goal celebration criticism

  12-06-2019 09:23
  GRENOBLE, France -- Former Canadian international Kaylyn Kyle says she has received death threats for her TV criticism of the U.S. team for excessive goal celebrations in a 13-0 rout of 34th-ranked Thailand at the Women's World Cup in France. It was the largest margin of victory in tournament history. And the top-ranked Americans did not hold back on the celebrations as they began defence of their World Cup crown. After making it 9-0 in the 79th minute Tuesday night in Reims, captain Megan Rapin
  
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• Lethbridge woman convicted of killing her mother in 2016 granted full parole - Lethbridge News Now

  12-06-2019 08:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge woman convicted of killing her mother in 2016 granted full parole  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – A Lethbridge woman convicted of stabbing her mother as she slept, has been granted full parole just eight months after she was granted ...
  
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• No special treatment: Fake video of Zuckerberg stays on Instagram

  12-06-2019 07:47
  Instagram will refrain from taking down an ultra realistic "deepfake video" posted Tuesday of Facebook's CEO bragging about controlling billions of people's "stolen" personal data. "Imagine this for a second: one man with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures," an AI-generated Mark Zuckerberg says in the video. "I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data controls the future." The video was shared by British
  
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