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• Grim drowning at U.S.-Mexico border underlines peril facing migrants

  25-06-2019 23:38
  GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains a photograph of a young child and a man who died, an image readers may find distressing. The image is lower down in the story. MEXICO CITY -- The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments. The searing photograph of the sad discovery of their bodies on Mon
  
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• Drowning of father, child at U.S.-Mexico border underline perils facing migrants

  25-06-2019 23:38
  GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains a photograph of a young child and a man who died, an image readers may find distressing. The image is lower down in the story. MEXICO CITY -- The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments. The searing photograph of the sad discovery of their bodies on Mon
  
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• Drowning of father and child at U.S.-Mexico border highlights migrants' perils

  25-06-2019 23:38
  GRAPHIC WARNING: This story contains a photograph of a young child and a man who died, an image readers may find distressing. The image is lower down in the story. MEXICO CITY -- The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck suggesting she clung to him in her final moments. The searing photograph of the sad discovery of their bodies on Mon
  
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• 101 Mexican firefighters arrive in Alberta to combat wildfires - Lethbridge News Now

  25-06-2019 22:51 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  101 Mexican firefighters arrive in Alberta to combat wildfires  Lethbridge News NowAs significant wildfires continue to ravage northern Alberta, Mexico looks to do its part to help out.Both fir...
  
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• Video shows rescue of baby from plastic bag in Georgia woods

  25-06-2019 22:46
  WARNING: This story contains a link to a disturbing police body-cam video CUMMING, Ga. -- A Georgia sheriff released dramatic body-cam video Tuesday showing the rescue of a newborn girl who was found alive inside a plastic bag in the woods. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office made the video public in hopes that it will generate credible tips in the case. Authorities have been searching for the baby's mother since June 6, when a family in a nearby home heard her crying in a wooded area in Cumming
  
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• Mother of Alberta boy who died of meningitis breaks down testifying at trial

  25-06-2019 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Collet Stephan told court that she still counts Ezekiel, who was 18 months old when he died, among her current living children.
  
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• Community walk in Stand Off, Alta., honours MMIWG

  25-06-2019 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  A community healing event began in Stand Off on Tuesday in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
  
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• Missing 16-year-old from Maskwacis found dead under suspicious circumstances

  25-06-2019 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  A 16-year-old who disappeared in central Alberta last week was found dead Tuesday morning, RCMP said.
  
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• Man sentenced in home invasion in northwest Calgary in 2015

  25-06-2019 21:14
  A man who was charged in connection with a violent home invasion that left a couple in their 70s with serious injuries has been sentenced to 11 years by a Calgary court. Cory Owen Eide, of Clive, Alberta, was originally charged with break and enter, aggravated assault and unlawful confinement after police were called to a home invasion at a residence along Buckthorn Road N.W. on December 18, 2015. At the time, police said a pair of men forced their way into the home and demanded money and valuab
  
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• Boulet family named honorary marshals of 2019 Whoop-Up Days parade

  25-06-2019 21:10 via globalnews.ca
  Logan Boulet and his impact on others continues to be remembered in Lethbridge, as the Boulet family is named honorary marshals for the 2019 Whoop-Up Days parade.
  
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• Man airlifted to Calgary in life-threatening condition after incident near Rimbey

  25-06-2019 20:34
  Mounties are remaining tight lipped after an incident near Rimbey on Monday. Police put out a news release on Monday afternoon that the Major Crimes Unit was investigating an incident that had occurred in the area around 4:11 p.m. A spokesperson for STARS Air Ambulance confirms that a 52-year-old man suffered a trauma and was taken to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary in life-threatening condition. CTV News has reached out to police for more information, but at the time of publication, RCMP ha
  
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• Man accused of killing father in central Alberta

  25-06-2019 20:34
  A 28-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly killed his father in Lacombe County Monday afternoon. Rimbey RCMP found Patrick Alexander Freeman, 52, with significant injuries just after 4 p.m. He was airlifted to a Calgary hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries. His son, Patrick William Freeman, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He's scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.
  
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• Debunking the myth of the evil stepmother

  25-06-2019 20:31 via globalnews.ca
  "Being a stepmom is sometimes like a dirty little secret. Like there's a lot of shame."
  
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• Powell says economy facing growing uncertainties - Lethbridge News Now

  25-06-2019 20:22 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Powell says economy facing growing uncertainties  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the economic outlook has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over ...
  
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• Calgary Fire Department could face $9M budget cut

  25-06-2019 19:28
  The Calgary Fire Department could be facing up to a $9 million cut to its budget, as city council attempts to find $60 million in savings to ease the rising property tax burden on small business.  According to the Calgary Firefighters Association (CFA), the cuts will have to come directly from the CFD’s 2019 operating budget.  CFA President Mike Henson, says he hasn’t been made aware of what areas could be cut, but says the move will directly impact all Calgarians who rely
  
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• 'Pile of hypocrisy': Trudeau called out for single-use plastic forks in photo

  25-06-2019 18:38
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being criticized after appearing to have plastic cutlery during a meeting, despite his government’s plan to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021. He tweeted a photo of his meeting with the youth council in his Quebec riding, in which a pile of plastic cutlery can be seen on the table. Single-use cutlery is among the world’s biggest non-biodegradable sources of garbage. “Always great to be back in my riding! I had a good meeting with the Papi
  
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• Calgary Zoo welcomes western lowland gorilla

  25-06-2019 18:31
  The Calgary Zoo has welcomed its newest western lowland gorilla. Jasiri has arrived in Calgary from Zoo Atlanta and is expected to join the local troop this fall after completing a quarantine period and health checks. Western lowland gorilla populations are found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea as well as in large areas in Gabon and the Republic of Congo. Officials say gorilla numbers have declined by more than 60 per cent over th
  
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• 'Shocked' woman undergoes partial amputation after broken foot undiagnosed

  25-06-2019 18:14
  GRAPHIC WARNING: Some of the images in this story may be distressing for some viewers A Newfoundland mother says part of her leg had to be amputated after she developed an infection from an undiagnosed broken foot. Samantha Rideout said she slipped and fell down the stairs of her home in St. John’s, N.L. last September. She knew she had injured herself because she felt pain in her foot, which was rare for her because she was born with spina bifida -- a spinal birth defect that caused her t
  
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• Houston infant dies with 90-plus fractures; parents charged

  25-06-2019 18:03
  HOUSTON -- The parents of a Houston newborn who suffered a cracked skull and more than 90 fractures just days after being brought home from the hospital were arrested in their daughter's death, according to police and Harris County prosecutors. Jazmine Robin, who was born prematurely, was 10 weeks old when she died July 15, 12 days after leaving the hospital, prosecutors said Monday. Her father, 24-year-old Jason Paul Robin, is charged with murder. Her mother, 21-year-old Katharine Wyndham White
  
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• Sexually explicit texts shown at soccer coach's luring trial

  25-06-2019 17:47
  An undercover officer testified Tuesday he took on a false identity in cyberspace to find out if a suspect was serious about targeting a child sexually. The officer cannot be named because of the work he currently does as a detective. In 2016, he was an investigator with the Northern Alberta Internet Child Exploitation Unit. He worked on the case of 46-year-old Wesley Vander Leeuw, a soccer coach who was arrested in 2017. The officer told court his work involved following up on tip from a woman
  
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• Officer who posed as mom online to testify at child porn trial

  25-06-2019 17:47
  A specialized officer who pretended to be the mother of a young girl on an instant messaging website is testifying at the trial of a youth soccer accused of child sex crimes. The undercover officer went by the name “Shannon” according to an agreed statement of facts. 46-year-old Wesley Vander Leeuw was arrested in 2017 after police received a tip and orchestrated a sting operation, according to one officer who has already testified at trial.  After the soccer coach was arrested,
  
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• 8,100 Alberta wildfire evacuees allowed to return home Tuesday

  25-06-2019 17:30 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government said a shift in weather, including cooler temperatures and rain in recent days, has helped firefighters in the High Level region.
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada sets date for Saskatchewan’s carbon tax appeal

  25-06-2019 17:24 via globalnews.ca
  Saskatchewan’s appeal of its challenge to the federal carbon tax is slated to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in December.
  
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• Petition started against Okotoks affordable housing project

  25-06-2019 17:06
  Residents in Okotoks packed into a town hall meeting Monday night to voice concerns over a taxpayer funded affordable housing project. Last month, town councillors approved the first phase of the $4.26 million project, which will see 42 tiny homes built in the D’Arcy neighbourhood, ranging from 350 to 550 square-feet in size. Town officials want land lease agreements to be signed by the end of the month but residents aren’t happy about the proposal. A community group has started a pe
  
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• Bear that swiped at tourist in Burnaby put down

  25-06-2019 17:02
  A black bear who swatted at a tourist in Burnaby Mountain Park on Monday afternoon has now been located by conservation officers and put down. Sgt. Simon Gravel said they got a call around 2:30 p.m. that a bear had been spotted near one of the traps set up in the area. Gravel told CTV News Vancouver the bear was eating garbage close to a residential neighbourhood. The conservation service had a photo of the bear from the park incident, and also ended up matching paw and bite marks found at the s
  
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• Mars mysteries: NASA rover captures strange white light, detects methane spike

  25-06-2019 16:04
  NASA scientists have tried to explain a mysterious white light captured in a photograph of the surface of Mars. The space agency published a black-and-white picture taken by the Curiosity rover on June 16, which shows a bright spot on a distant hill. Photos taken immediately before and after show no bright flash. A NASA spokesperson told Fox News the anomaly is "likely an effect of the Sun" and "images with effects like this" are seen "pretty routinely." Another NASA spokesperson told DailyMail.
  
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• Alberta Teachers Association launching legal challenge of Bill 9

  25-06-2019 15:11
  The Alberta Teachers Association is launching a legal challenge of the provincial government’s Bill 9. Called the Public Sector Wage Arbitration Deferral Act, the legislation would delay an arbitrated decision on teacher salaries, which is supposed to happen by Sept. 30, according to an agreement signed with the previous government. The ATA says the act violates their right to collective bargaining. The bill would also delay salary decisions for nurses and provincial employees. Bill 9 was
  
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• Intersection at 17th Avenue and 14th Street S.W. to close over Canada Day long weekend

  25-06-2019 14:44
  Calgary drivers will have to stay away from one of the city’s busiest intersections over the Canada Day long weekend. The intersection at 17th Avenue and 14th Street S.W. will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Tuesday so construction crews can complete underground utility upgrades.  The work is part of the city’s $44-million 17th Avenue Reconstruction Project.  In a news release, the City of Calgary says it will help maintain access to shops and restaurants during c
  
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• Bombardier sells regional jet business to Mitsubishi

  25-06-2019 14:29
  MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc. announced Tuesday a deal to sell its regional jet program to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for US$550 million, cementing the plane-and-train maker's exit from commercial aviation. "With our aerospace transformation now behind us, we have a clear path forward and a powerful vision for the future," Bombardier chief executive Alain Bellemare said in a statement. The definitive agreement paves the way for Bombardier to focus on its rail and business jet units, which to
  
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• Hayley Wickenheiser one of six going into Hockey Hall of Fame

  25-06-2019 12:35
  TORONTO -- Longtime Canadian women's team star Hayley Wickenheiser is one of six new members of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Wickenheiser joins fellow Canadian Guy Carbonneau in the player category, along with Czech forward Vaclav Nedomansky and Russian defenceman Sergei Zubov. Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford, a native of Beeton, Ont., and Boston College head coach Jerry York were selected in the builder category. The selections were announced Tuesday, with the induction ceremony
  
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• Crime Beat podcast: The day Mark Mariani came face-to-face with evil

  25-06-2019 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  Mark Mariani was the most carefree and happy-go-lucky of all the Mariani kids. His family was devastated to learn he had been murdered.
  
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• Bounty hunter's wife remains in coma in Honolulu hospital - Lethbridge News Now

  25-06-2019 11:16 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Bounty hunter's wife remains in coma in Honolulu hospital  Lethbridge News NowHONOLULU — The wife of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” reality TV star Duane “Dog” Chapman remained in a medically induced coma Monday so that she can be ...
  
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• Licence revoked for fertility doctor who used own sperm to inseminate patients

  25-06-2019 10:20
  TORONTO -- An Ottawa fertility doctor who used his own sperm as well as that of the wrong donors to artificially inseminate several women caused "irreparable damage" that will span generations, a disciplinary panel with Ontario's medical regulator said Tuesday as it revoked his medical licence. Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin betrayed the trust of patients who turned to him for help in starting a family, the discipline committee for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario said. The committee
  
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• Fertility doc used own sperm to inseminate patients: medical regulator

  25-06-2019 10:20
  TORONTO -- Ontario's medical regulator says a fertility doctor used his own sperm to inseminate several patients as well as the wrong sperm with several others, finding that he committed professional misconduct. A discipline committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is now being asked to revoke Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin's medical licence.Watch the W5 exclusive: Norman Barwin addresses the early lawsuits against himAn uncontested statement of facts read before the committee l
  
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• Kenney government launches website to let Albertans help decide where to cut red tape

  25-06-2019 07:04 via globalnews.ca
  Two weeks after passing its Red Tape Reduction Act, Alberta's UCP government announced the launch of a website to allow Albertans to have their say on what government regulations they want scrapped, kept or improved upon.
  
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• Open house examines a future transit connection to the airport

  25-06-2019 06:36
  The City of Calgary is hosting back-to back open houses on a future cross-town transit line connection to the Calgary International Airport. A future transit connection will ultimately provide improved transit access to the Calgary International Airport by connecting the future Green Line LRT with the future Blue Line LRT. It includes recommendations for the alignment, as well as number and location of stations between the future 96 Avenue Northeast Green Line station and 19 Street Northeast. Th
  
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• Parks Canada euthanizes young grizzly after it was struck by a car

  25-06-2019 04:28
  A young grizzly bear has been euthanized after Parks Canada officials believe it was struck by a vehicle. On Saturday, June 22; parks staff responded to a report of an injured bear on the Sunshine Road in Banff National Park. “The bear, a yearling female grizzly bear was visible, visibly limping due to a severe injury on its back right leg, but it was also unable to bear weight on it right first off. Observations made by resource management officers on Saturday and early Sunday confirmed t
  
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• 'I just wanted the bullying to stop': Boy suspended for standing up for little sister

  25-06-2019 03:11
  A Metro Vancouver boy claims he was unfairly suspended from school for standing up to his little sister’s bully earlier this month. The series of events began Monday, June 14. Coquitlam, B.C. father Kelly Wayne went to pick up his 11-year-old daughter from Montgomery Middle School, and said he found Rhianna in tears. "She said, 'A kid at school pushed me, and he wants to fight me.' So I turned around and said, 'What's going on?'" Kelly recounted to CTV News 10 days later. Kelly said he cal
  
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• Italian mobster escapes 'through the roof' of Uruguayan prison

  25-06-2019 02:49
  MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- A top Italian organized crime boss escaped during the night from the Uruguayan prison where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, Uruguay's interior ministry said Monday. Rocco Morabito and three other inmates got out "through the roof" of a prison in Montevideo around midnight before making their way "through a neighbouring farm and robbing its owner," a ministry statement said. Morabito has been on the run from Italy since 1994 and has been sentenced there to 30 years in
  
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• Small plane crashes into Okanagan Lake

  25-06-2019 02:37
  Officials are on the scene of a small plane crash in Okanagan Lake. According to Castanet, two people were taken to hospital. There's no word on their condition. Police and firefighters are on the scene with the aircraft overturned in the water. This is a developing story and will be updated. With files from AM 1150 and CastanetA small plane has crashed into Lake Okanagan. No casualties. pic.twitter.com/jPwKjFmIVk — AM 1150 (@AM1150) June 25, 2019
  
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• Pilot error may be to blame for plane crash on Okanagan Lake

  25-06-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  The 72-year-old pilot, a man from Alberta, and his 59-year-old passenger were picked up soon after the crash by a passing boat, police said. 
  
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• Iran says 'idiotic' new U.S. sanctions shut doors of diplomacy

  25-06-2019 02:16
  TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran warned Tuesday that new U.S. sanctions targeting its supreme leader and other top officials meant "closing the doors of diplomacy" between Tehran and Washington amid heightened tensions, even as the country's president derided the White House as being "afflicted by mental retardation." President Hassan Rouhani went on to call the sanctions against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "outrageous and idiotic," especially since the 80-year-old Shiite cleric has no plans to tr
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Jun 24

  25-06-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, June 24, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Liam Nixon.
  
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• Alberta pilot and passenger walk away from plane crash on Okanagan Lake

  25-06-2019 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  The 72-year-old pilot, a man from Alberta, and his 59-year-old passenger were picked up soon after the crash by a passing boat, police said. 
  
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• Federal transport minister approves sale of WestJet to Onex at price reduced by 737 Max issues

  25-06-2019 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has given his approval to the proposed $3.5-billion acquisition of WestJet Airlines by Onex Corp.
  
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• Lethbridge Police asking for help in finding missing 16-year-old - Lethbridge News Now

  25-06-2019 01:51 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Police asking for help in finding missing 16-year-old  Lethbridge News NowUPDATE (3:22 pm Tuesday): Neiko Morning Bird has been found safe and sound. Lethbridge Police are thanking the...
  
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• ‘It’s because of you my son is dead,’ mother expresses heartache at sentencing hearing

  25-06-2019 01:47
  The family of Brett Wiese, who was fatally stabbed at a house party in the northwest neighbourhood of Brentwood six years ago, shared their pain in a Calgary courtroom Monday at the sentencing hearing for convicted killer, Mitchell Harkes, 26. Last month, a jury found Harkes guilty of second-degree murder at his re-trial. In the early morning hours of January 12, 2013; 20-year-old Brett Wiese, a University of Calgary business student, was stabbed six times by Harkes. A seventh stab wound came at
  
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• 'It’s because of you my son is dead': mother expresses heartache at sentencing hearing

  25-06-2019 01:47
  The family of Brett Wiese, who was fatally stabbed at a house party in the northwest neighbourhood of Brentwood six years ago, shared their pain in a Calgary courtroom Monday at the sentencing hearing for convicted killer, Mitchell Harkes, 26. Last month, a jury found Harkes guilty of second-degree murder at his re-trial. In the early morning hours of January 12, 2013; 20-year-old Brett Wiese, a University of Calgary business student, was stabbed six times by Harkes. A seventh stab wound came at
  
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• Garneau approves sale of WestJet to Onex at price reduced by 737 Max issues

  25-06-2019 01:42
  CALGARY -- Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau has given his approval to the proposed $3.5-billion acquisition of WestJet Airlines by Onex Corp. The Calgary-based airline says the minister determined the deal doesn't raise public-interest issues for national transportation. WestJet and Onex entered into a friendly deal last month to pay $31 per share cash for the airline, which will operate as a privately held company. The offer was a reduction from the preliminary price of $35.75 per share
  
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• UCP, NDP swap accusations, attacks in earplug debate

  25-06-2019 01:40 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta's earplug debate got louder Monday as the Opposition NDP accused Premier Jason Kenney of lying and sought to have Government House Leader Jason Nixon found in contempt of the legislature.
  
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