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• 'What a great opportunity to give': Couple donates shopping spree haul

  15-06-2019 23:52
  A Bragg Creek couple who won a grocery shopping spree at their community's supermarket have donated everything they collected to the Calgary Food Bank. Ryan Warren and Chantal Leroux won the spree in a contest held by The Grocery People, the group that administers Bragg Creek Foods, a locally-owned grocery store in the community south of Calgary, on June 10. The prize gives them just under a minute to grab all they can from the store. Whatever they grab, they keep. "I immediatley imagined grabbi
  
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• YWCA shows off new facility to celebrate Neighbour Day

  15-06-2019 23:24
  When flood water spilled over the banks of the Elbow and Bow River in 2013, it claimed the lives of five people, caused billions of dollars in damage and left all of Calgary shaken to its core. But the disaster also taught everyone they are part of one city and anyone who needs help will get it. It's that sentiment that created Neighbour Day, which celebrated its sixth year on Saturday. To celebrate the event, the YWCA welcomed the community to its new 124,000 square foot home at 1715 17th Ave.
  
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• Mother uses phone tracking app to find daughter trapped in mountain crash

  15-06-2019 22:08
  A teenage girl who became pinned under her car for seven hours following a mountain side crash was rescued after her mother used a phone tracking app to find her, according to local reports. Teenager Macy Smith hydroplaned off the road between two trees and crashed 25 feet down an embankment at Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, on June 7. The car flipped three times, which saw the 17 year old land in the back seat with her arm pinned between the car and the ground. Concerned mom Catrina Cramer Ale
  
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• Police officer arrested after student uses Snapchat filter to pose as underage girl

  15-06-2019 20:37
  A police officer was arrested after a California student used Snapchat’s popular “gender swap” filter to pose as an underage girl on a dating app, in a vigilante effort to lure potential pedophiles. According to reports, the student created a Tinder account claiming to be a 19-year-old girl named “Ester” in order to meet Tinder’s minimum age requirements. Shortly after, he was allegedly contacted on the dating app by 40-year-old Robert Davies, a police officer
  
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• Seven die cleaning Indian hotel septic tank: police

  15-06-2019 20:03
  Seven people have suffocated to death while cleaning a hotel septic tank in western India without safety gear, police said Saturday. The hotel owner has been charged with causing death due to negligence following the incident Friday night in Gujarat state's Vadodara district, a police official said. Four of those who died had been called to clean the tank while three others were hotel employees who were assisting. Hundreds of thousands of mostly low-caste Indians are employed as "manual scavenge
  
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• Alberta Minister promises to protect LGBTQ2S+ students under new Education Act

  15-06-2019 19:45
  Alberta’s education minister says the amended school act will protect LGBTQ2S+ students. After the NDP criticized the UCP’s proposed Bill 8, saying the legislation would out gay kids and expose them to harm, Education Minister Adriana LaGrange issued a statement to clarify “misconceptions.” The opposition had specifically said the legislation would allow schools to delay the creation of gay-straight alliances and notify parents if their children joined one. “To be a
  
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• Man in life-threatening condition after stabbing at Calgary Tower

  15-06-2019 19:06
  Police are investigating a stabbing that left a man in life-threatening condition early Saturday morning. Officials say the incident took place near the Calgary Tower on 9 Avenue S.W. at about 9 a.m. A man in his 20s was found suffering from a number of injuries. He was taken to Foothills Hospital where he remains in life-threatening condition. The investigation is ongoing.
  
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• Suspect charged in connection with Calgary double murder

  15-06-2019 18:45
  Calgary police say a man has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting deaths of two people in April 2018. Emergency crews were called to the scene, in the 0-100 block of Evanscrest Mews N.W., for reports of gunshots. When police arrived, they found two people dead inside a vehicle. Witnesses reported seeing a man running from the scene. The victims were identified as Joshua Bamfo, 25, and Mahad Abdiraham Ainanshe, 23. Police arrested a suspect two days later but released him wit
  
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• No business case for Trans Mountain expansion, says former environment minister

  15-06-2019 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  David Anderson sent letters to six members of Trudeau's cabinet this week asking them to dismiss the pipeline proposal.
  
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• 'Like quicksand': Farmer was buried up to his neck in a soybean bin

  15-06-2019 17:26
  COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The sea of shifting soybean kernels had risen to Jay Butterfield's knees inside a tall grain bin on his Ohio farm. "I knew I was in trouble then," the 70-year-old said. "Because it's just like being in quicksand or cement." Sometimes a job becomes so routine and familiar that carelessness creeps in. That's the way it happened on Butterfield's 116-acre (47-hectare) farm north of Cincinnati. Soybeans that came out of the field last November were damp, didn't dry well and weren't
  
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• Taiwan leader Tsai gets party nod to run for reelection - Lethbridge News Now

  15-06-2019 16:42 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Taiwan leader Tsai gets party nod to run for reelection  Lethbridge News NowTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, a thorn in the side of China's government because of her pro-independence views, sewed up the ruling ...
  
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• CSIS destroyed secret file on Pierre Trudeau, stunning historians

  15-06-2019 16:22
  OTTAWA -- Canada's spy service destroyed a Cold War dossier on Pierre Trudeau in 1989 instead of turning it over to the national archives, The Canadian Press has learned. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the secret file on the former prime minister was scrapped because it fell short of the legal threshold for retention by either the service or the archives. News of the decision to purge the file, which is coming to light only three decades later, has stunned and disappointed histo
  
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• Runaway golf cart hits 5 people near 16th hole at U.S. Open

  15-06-2019 16:02
  PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Five people were injured at the U.S. Open when one of several boxes being loaded onto a golf cart fell onto the accelerator and sent the cart into spectators. The California Highway Patrol says a vendor parked the cart near the 16th hole Friday at Pebble Beach and was walking away when a box fell onto the gas pedal, moving it forward. It struck four spectators and the vendor before it was brought under control. The Monterey Herald says two victims were taken by ambulance
  
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• Calgarians rally around vulnerable youth ahead of Neighbour Day

  15-06-2019 15:12 via globalnews.ca
  A local pastor and musician is making sure that the city’s vulnerable youth are included ahead of Calgary‘s Neighbour Day.
  
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• Massive protests draw apology from Hong Kong leadership

  15-06-2019 15:11
  HONG KONG -- Hong Kong citizens marched for hours Sunday in a massive protest that drew a late-in-the-day apology from the city's top leader for her handling of legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony. The demonstration looked likely to match in scale one a week earlier that brought as many as 1 million people out to express their concern over Hong Kong's relations with mainland China in one of the toughest tests of the territory's s
  
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• Hong Kong set for march, mourns protester's death

  15-06-2019 15:11
  Hong Kong was bracing Sunday for another massive protest over an unpopular extradition bill that has highlighted the territory's apprehension about relations with mainland China, a week after the crisis brought as many as 1 million into the streets. Pro-democracy activists say Chief Executive Carrie Lam's announcement on Saturday that she was suspending work on the bill that would allow some suspects to be sent for trial in mainland Chinese courts is not enough. They want the proposal withdrawn
  
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• Hong Kong police begin to clear streets of protesters

  15-06-2019 15:11
  Hong Kong citizens marched for hours Sunday in a massive protest that drew a late-in-the-day apology from the city's top leader for her handling of legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony. Nearly 2 million of the city's 7 million people turned out, according to estimates by protest organizers. Police said 338,000 were counted on the designated protest route in the "peak period" of the march. A week earlier as many as 1 million people demo
  
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• Hong Kong leader delays unpopular bill; activists want more

  15-06-2019 15:11
  HONG KONG -- Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam sought to quell public anger Saturday by shelving an unpopular extradition bill that has highlighted apprehension about relations with mainland China, but opponents of the measure said it was not enough. Activists said they were still planning a mass protest for Sunday, a week after hundreds of thousands marched to demand Lam drop the legislation, which many fear would undermine freedoms enjoyed by this former British colony but not elsewhere in
  
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• Police: Off-duty officer shot man who hit him in Costco

  15-06-2019 14:44
  CORONA, Calif. -- An off-duty police officer opened fire inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store, killing a man who had attacked him and wounding two others, the Corona Police Department said. Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside assaulted the Los Angeles Police Department officer Friday night while he was holding his young child, the department said in a statement Saturday. The officer fired his gun, hitting French and two of French's relatives, the department said. French was killed, the departm
  
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• Off-duty LA cop discharged gun during deadly Costco shooting

  15-06-2019 14:44
  CORONA, Calif. -- An off-duty Los Angeles police officer among three people injured during a shooting inside a Costco Wholesale, killing one person, discharged his firearm inside the store, authorities said Saturday. It was not immediately clear whether the unidentified officer was the only person who fired shots inside the store Friday night or if another person also opened fire or had a weapon. Corona Police officer Tobias Kouroubacalis said Saturday he could not confirm if there was more than
  
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• 1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at California Costco

  15-06-2019 14:44
    CORONA, Calif. -- Shoppers and employees have described terror and chaos as shots rang out inside a busy California warehouse store as a gunman in an argument near the freezer section opened fire -- killing one man, wounding two and sparking a stampede. Terrified shoppers ran outside the store and tried to hide during the shootout Friday night in the city of Corona east of Los Angeles as families stocked up for the weekend. The wounded included an off-duty Los Angeles police officer who w
  
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• Knox accuses media of having built false story around her

  15-06-2019 14:38
  ROME - Amanda Knox has accused the media of having built a false narrative around her, depicting her as guilty despite her proven innocence. The American former exchange student who became the focus of a sensational murder case returned to Italy for the first time since an appeals court acquitted her in 2011 in the slaying of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Speaking in Italian at a panel discussion Saturday titled "Trial by media," Knox said she was depicted "on the global scene as cunni
  
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• Victorious Raptors expected to return to Toronto today after becoming NBA champs

  15-06-2019 14:27
  TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors are expected to return home this evening after their electrifying NBA championship win south of the border. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the franchise, says the team is expected to arrive at Toronto's Pearson International Airport around 9 p.m. eastern time. The team became the first franchise outside the U.S. to win the NBA title by beating the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday. They were expected to spend Friday night part
  
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• Victorious Raptors cancel their return to Toronto after becoming NBA champs

  15-06-2019 14:27
  TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors have cancelled their return home Saturday night after their electrifying NBA championship win south of the border. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the franchise, had said the team would arrive at Toronto's Pearson International Airport around 9 p.m. eastern time, but on Saturday afternoon MLSE said the team is extending their trip. The Raptors became the first franchise outside the U.S. to win the NBA title by beating the Golden State Warriors in
  
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• Toronto Raptors basking in championship glow ahead of massive city parade

  15-06-2019 14:27
  TORONTO -- Looking a little bleary-eyed but with smiles a mile wide, the NBA champion Raptors returned to Toronto over the weekend to begin the next phase of their celebration. Hundreds of thousands of supporters are expected to pack the city's downtown core Monday morning for a parade that will serve as one last blowout after the Raptors won their first league title with a six-game victory over the Golden State Warriors. "I stopped at one place on the way home last night and the whole place wen
  
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• Some Raptors return to Toronto after becoming NBA champs

  15-06-2019 14:27
  TORONTO -- Some Raptors players returned to Toronto on Saturday night for the first time since their electrifying NBA championship win south of the border. Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the franchise, initially said the whole team would arrive at Toronto's Pearson International Airport around 9 p.m. eastern time, but on Saturday afternoon said most of the players would extend their trip. Coach Nick Nurse was among the high-profile figures greeted by dozens of fans at Pearson.
  
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• More Raptors return to Canada with Drake after days of celebrating NBA title

  15-06-2019 14:27
  HAMILTON - More Toronto Raptors players returned to Canada today, along with rapper Drake, after days of celebrating the team's historic NBA championship win south of the border. The John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport tweeted Sunday afternoon that some players had touched down aboard Drake's private Cargojet plane. Most of the team arrived at Toronto's Pearson International Airport the previous night after Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which owns the franchise, said the player
  
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• Notre Dame to celebrate first Mass since April fire

  15-06-2019 13:33
  PARIS - The Notre Dame cathedral is holding its first Mass since the April fire that ravaged the edifice's roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. Saturday's mass at the Gothic building will be celebrated by Paris archbishop Michel Aupetit amid reduced attendance. For security reasons, only about 30 people -- mainly priests, canons and church employees -- will be admitted inside the cathedral. Aupetit will be wearing a construction worker's helmet in addition to his miter. Worshippers
  
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• Quebec government to invoke closure on controversial secularism, immigration bills - Lethbridge News Now

  15-06-2019 11:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Quebec government to invoke closure on controversial secularism, immigration bills  Lethbridge News NowMONTREAL — The Quebec government will invoke closure in order to force through controversial bills on secularism and immigration that it says must be ...
  
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• Trio of Canadian RADARSAT Constellation satellites launched and deployed - Lethbridge News Now

  15-06-2019 08:22 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Trio of Canadian RADARSAT Constellation satellites launched and deployed  Lethbridge News NowMONTREAL — Three Canadian satellites representing the next generation of Earth-observation technology have been successfully deployed after being ...
  
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• Trucking company's donation allows special needs school to secure new bus

  15-06-2019 06:49
  Students at Janus Academy will begin taking field trips again after a local business came to their rescue. The southeast school's bus broke down back in December and it was determined that the vehicle's issues could not be repaired.   Student trips were cancelled indefinitely until New West Truck Centre stepped up with a $25,000 donation. The business also sourced a new bus for the school. On Friday, the students celebrated the arrival of their new ride and expressed their gratitude to New
  
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• Alberta Liberals forming committee to decide party’s future

  15-06-2019 04:44 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta Liberal Party were shut out of the legislature in the 2019 provincial election. Now a committee is being formed to decide the party's future.
  
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• SafeWalk initiative now offered by Ambassador Watch program - Lethbridge News Now

  15-06-2019 04:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  SafeWalk initiative now offered by Ambassador Watch program  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE — The downtown Watch program is expanding to include a SafeWalk *service*. SafeWalk will offer an escorted walk to and from any location within ...
  
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• Monkey sighting reported as conservation searches for Campbell River cougar

  15-06-2019 03:35
  BC Conservation Service officers and the RCMP spent Thursday night and Friday morning searching for a cougar that has so far managed to elude them, but there's also rumours of a more unusual animal prowling Campbell River streets. Officials say the cougar was spotted near the recycling bins in the Campbell River Sportsplex parking lot Friday morning as well as along the trail system Thursday night.  "It's a high-use area," Conservation Officer Gord Gudbranson told CTV News on Friday. "A lot
  
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• Cop campout for Special Olympics Alberta

  15-06-2019 03:03
  Officers from the Calgary Police Service, Alberta Corrections, Alberta Sheriffs, and Calgary Bylaw Enforcement will spend the weekend on top of the Royal Oak Walmart roof to raise money and awareness for Special Olympics Alberta. The officers are part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run, a grassroots fundraiser for Special Olympics. “It allows the athletes to do the things that they want to do, go to the provincial games, the national games, and even the international games, so they don&rsquo
  
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• Wheeling for mental wellness: Cyclist rides across Canada for a cause

  15-06-2019 02:38
  Ryan Phillips is in Calgary in the midst of a cross-country ride to highlight mental health, as he and some of his family members struggle with various diagnoses.He cycles between 100 and 130 km each ride during his initiative that began in Victoria, B.C. about two months ago.The former hockey playe,r who played in the Western Hockey League and Central Hockey League, says he struggles with bipolar disorder and depression. His 19-year-old daughter is also being treated for schizophrenia in the Un
  
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• Pediatric doctor cross-examined in retrial of David and Collet Stephan

  15-06-2019 02:37 via globalnews.ca
  The retrial of David and Collet Stephan has reached the end of its second week.
  
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• Online farmers market set to launch in Alberta

  15-06-2019 02:30
  You’ll soon be able to order fresh, locally grown produce and meat and have it delivered right to your front door. Cultivatr is a new company on a mission to connect farmers across southern Alberta with consumers, while reducing food waste. Customers pre-buy products from local producers and it’s delivered straight to your home in 30 days. “By doing that, it allows us the opportunity to have the freshest food. It doesn’t sit on a shelf, it doesn’t sit on a truck, it
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Jun 14

  15-06-2019 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, June 14, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Liam Nixon.
  
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• Alberta RCMP officer found not guilty of dangerous driving causing pedestrian’s death

  15-06-2019 02:06 via globalnews.ca
  A Mountie has been found not guilty of dangerous driving causing death of a man near Fort McMurray, Alta.
  
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• Crowchild Trail upgrade project creates nightmare for drivers

  15-06-2019 02:00
  The westbound 10th Avenue Southwest ramp onto Crowchild Trail has been shut down for construction and will remain so for the next two weeks, causing massive backups for drivers.This phase is part of the $8.7 million Crowchild Trail upgrade project that will eventually see traffic from 10th Avenue connect with northbound Crowchild on the easternmost lane. Mike Wenkoff uses Crowchild Trail often and says traffic will be a mess. “Well, it sucks. I mean we want to go that way and to close down
  
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• Global Calgary inbox flooded with incredible pics after major thunderstorm

  15-06-2019 01:41 via globalnews.ca
  Thunderstorm season is upon us, and Albertans celebrated by taking some incredible photos.
  
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• Pediatric doctor cross-examined at Stephans’ retrial

  15-06-2019 00:58 via globalnews.ca
  The retrial of David and Collet Stephan has reached the end of its second week. The parents are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life after their 18-month old son died of bacterial meningitis in 2012. As Demi Knight reports, after testifying in court on Thursday, a pediatric doctor who dealt with the...
  
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• Garage sale serves as rallying point for veterans community

  15-06-2019 00:34
  A warehouse in northeast Calgary will be stocked with thousands of donated items for the next three days, in the hopes of raising funds for military veterans. The broad range of goods, from analog records to lightly-used shoes, has come by donation from across the province.  The Veterans’ Association Food Bank has transformed its entire space to host the sale. Organizers say the event goes far deeper than simply selling goods; it provides a social framework for the public to personall
  
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• Retiring pharmacist organizes campaign to get entire Alberta town to stop smoking

  15-06-2019 00:21 via globalnews.ca
  A retiring pharmacist is organizing a campaign to get an entire Alberta town to stop smoking.
  
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• Claresholm selected as part of immigration pilot program

  15-06-2019 00:01
  The federal government has chosen 11 communities to be part of a new pilot program aimed at bolstering the economies and population of some struggling Canadian communities and the Town of Claresholm is on the list. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the Rural and Northern Immigration pilot on Friday. The program allows rural employers to select immigrants to work in their businesses while providing immigrants the opportunity to choose one of the communities to live in. Hussen said he ca
  
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