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• Man dead after small plane crashes in Jasper area

  21-07-2019 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  One person has died and another is considered to be in critical condition after a small plane crashed near Jasper, Alta., on Sunday, according to Alberta Health Services.
  
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• 1 person dead after small plane crashes in Jasper area

  21-07-2019 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  One person has died and another is considered to be in critical condition after a small plane crashed near Jasper, Alta., on Sunday, according to Alberta Health Services.
  
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• Prince George turning 6 as U.K. palace releases new photos

  21-07-2019 23:41
  LONDON - Kensington Palace has released three new photographs before Prince George's birthday. The future king turns 6 on Monday. It's become a tradition for the palace to release snapshots taken by his mother Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge. In two of the pictures George is seen with a big smile as he wears an English soccer jersey. The third shows him on a family holiday. George is third in line for the throne behind his grandfather Prince Charles and his father Prince William. He is a great-gr
  
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• Witnesses commended for action after fatal plane crash

  21-07-2019 23:23
  One person is dead and another is in a critical but stable condition after a plane crash near the Jasper town site Sunday afternoon. According to officials, the plane crashed into the Athabasca River near the Jasper Airport site. Emergency services arrived at the location around 1:30 p.m., where the 31-year-old passenger was declared dead. The pilot, a man whose age was not released, was taken to hospital by STARS and said to be in critical condition. According to RCMP, the plane crashed shortly
  
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• One dead, one hospitalized after plane crash near Jasper

  21-07-2019 23:23
  One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a plane crash near the Jasper town site Sunday afternoon. According to officials, the plane crashed into the Athabasca River near the Jasper Airport site. Emergency services arrived at the location around 1:30 p.m., where the 31-year-old passenger was declared dead. The pilot, a man whose age was not released, was taken to hospital by STARS and said to be in critical condition. They were the only two people on board. According to RCMP
  
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• Celebration held to remember three-year-old drowning victim

  21-07-2019 22:25
  Friends and family gathered in a southeast park over the weekend to remember a three-year-old Calgary boy who drowned in a pool during a family vacation in Florida last year. Saturday's celebration was held to mark what would have been Noah Catto’s fifth birthday. “He was the light of my life,” said mom Ashley Catto. “He loved Paw Patrol, singing, bouncy castles. We are just overwhelmed by all the support, we didn't expect it. It just makes my heart have a little bit more
  
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• Nearly 8 in 10 Canadians prefer Dems over Trump; Sanders, Biden most popular: poll

  21-07-2019 21:43
  A new poll finds that if Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, nearly eight in 10 would choose one of the five leading Democratic presidential hopefuls over Republican President Donald Trump. The Abacus Data online survey of 1,500 adult Canadians finds that 79 per cent would prefer former vice president Joe Biden or Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over Trump. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren would be preferred by 78 per cent. California Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete
  
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• Record-setting 'Baby Shark' dance organized at K-Days

  21-07-2019 20:15
  Organizers called it "one of the most unique Guinness Record attempts in recent memory." On Sunday, K-Days and guests danced their way to a record for the largest performance of the Baby Shark Dance. The famous—or infamous, debatably—song was first released in 2015 by South Korean education brand Pinkfong. It later blew up with the release of a dance video that earned nearly 3 billion views on YouTube. This year, "Baby Shark" debuted on Billboard Hot 100 at No. 32 in January, and "Ba
  
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• K-Days to attempt world record for most people performing 'Baby Shark' dance

  21-07-2019 20:15
  Organizers are calling it "one of the most unique Guinness Record attempts in recent memory." On Sunday, K-Days and guests will attempt to set a record for the largest performance of the Baby Shark Dance. The famous—or infamous, debatably—song was first released in 2015 by South Korean education brand Pinkfong. It later blew up with the release of a dance video that earned nearly 3 billion views on YouTube. This year, "Baby Shark" debuted on Billboard Hot 100 at No. 32 in January, an
  
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• Elizabeth May says Greens will work with any party that has a serious plan for the climate

  21-07-2019 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  With three months until Canadians vote in the next federal election, Green party leader Elizabeth May says her big hope for the final result is a minority government over which she can exert some influence.
  
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• Early morning assault sends man to hospital

  21-07-2019 19:03
  Police are trying to figure out what happened to an assault victim found injured in the city’s southeast early Sunday who is being uncooperative with investigators. The man was found near a McDonald’s restaurant at 17th Avenue and 48th Street S.E. about 3:17 a.m. He was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police say the man is being uncooperative. Anyone with information is asked to call the police non-emergency line at 403-266-1234.
  
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• Singh: 'Disappointing' to see Butts on Liberal campaign team

  21-07-2019 18:22
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the inclusion of Gerald Butts in the Liberal re-election effort is another sign that the governing party puts its friends first. "It's disappointing," Singh said Sunday in an interview on CTV News Channel. "It again just perpetuates the same fear that people had that this is a Liberal Party and a Liberal government … who are making their decisions based on very questionable priorities." Butts, a longtime close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's, resign
  
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• Canadian video game streamer Alinity apologizes for throwing cat in video

  21-07-2019 18:05
  A Canadian video game streamer is being accused of animal abuse after she was seen throwing her cat behind her during a recent livestream. In a video snippet posted on Thursday, Natalia Mogollon, who streams under the handle Alinity on Twitch, appears to pick up her cat Milo from beneath the camera frame and tosses the animal over her shoulders. The original video has been viewed more than 6.57 million times and, by Friday, several copycat videos had garnered hundreds of thousands of views of th
  
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• Man and dog dead after early morning house fire in Lethbridge - Red Deer Advocate

  21-07-2019 16:20
  Man and dog dead after early morning house fire in Lethbridge  Red Deer AdvocateLETHBRIDGE, Alta. — Officials say a man and a dog are dead after a house fire in Lethbridge, Alta., early Saturday.
  
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• These Canadian scientists hope to get face-to-face with great white sharks

  21-07-2019 16:15
  HALIFAX -- The great white sharks move torpedo-like through East Coast waters, cruelly efficient hunters with multiple rows of serrated teeth devouring seals and other prey. But the "fascinating" creatures are themselves being closely watched by international teams of scientists who are attempting to document their apparent renaissance in the northwest Atlantic. "We are seeing signs the conservation measures we're taking are giving the animals a chance and enabling a comeback," says Frederick Wh
  
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• U.K. navy heard in audio trying to thwart Iran ship seizure

  21-07-2019 14:35
  LONDON -- In an audio recording released Sunday, a British naval officer insists that a British-flagged oil tanker must be allowed to sail through the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian paramilitary forces demand that the vessel change course before commandeering it. The audio, released by maritime security risk firm Dryad Global, shows how the British navy was unable to prevent the ship's seizure Friday by Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces. The seizure has prompted condemnation from the U.K. and its
  
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• Japanese Canadians want action, not just apology, for wartime internment camps

  21-07-2019 14:06
  VANCOUVER -- Japanese Canadians across the country are meeting to discuss how an apology by the British Columbia government could be backed by meaningful action for those who were placed in internment camps or forced into labour because of racist policies during the Second World War. The federal government apologized in 1988 for its racism against "enemy aliens" after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941 but the president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians said British Colum
  
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• Ottawa fights back against proposed class action over RCMP bullying and intimidation

  21-07-2019 14:00 via globalnews.ca
  In a submission to the Federal Court of Canada, lawyers representing the attorney general argue the action spearheaded by two veteran male Mounties, Geoffery Greenwood and Todd Gray, should not be certified.
  
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• Feds say officers' lawsuit against RCMP over bullying shouldn't proceed

  21-07-2019 13:05
  OTTAWA -- The federal government is fighting a proposed class-action lawsuit against the RCMP over bullying and intimidation of members, saying the national police force already has a comprehensive policy on harassment and the Mounties have made strides toward modernization. In a submission to the Federal Court of Canada, lawyers representing the attorney general argue the action spearheaded by two veteran male Mounties, Geoffery Greenwood and Todd Gray, should not be certified. "This motion is
  
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• Former Humboldt Broncos player injured in bus crash hopes for spot on team

  21-07-2019 02:36 via globalnews.ca
  Graysen Cameron's training regimen has included spending copious amounts of time with the trainers of the Calgary Flames.
  
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• Grieving families of couple murdered in northern B.C. speak out

  21-07-2019 02:29
  The grieving family of an Australian man found murdered in northern B.C., along with his American girlfriend, arrived in Vancouver Saturday. "He's a loss to so many people," said Stephen Fowler, father of the slain man. "And his girlfriend also. It’s just devastating and our heart goes out to the whole of her family. You know, we’re just crushed." Somebody killed 24-year-old Lucas Fowler and 23-year-old Chynna Deese on a remote stretch of the Alaska Highway, about 20 km south of Liar
  
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• Calgarians celebrate 50th anniversary of moon landing

  21-07-2019 02:09
  Calgarians partied like it was 1969 on Saturday. A couple hundred people came out to the University of Calgary’s Rothney Astrophysical Observatory near Priddis to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Students and astrophysics fanatics launched model rockets high into the sky to commemorate the great achievement. Courtney Bashnick, with the Student Organization for Aerospace Research (SOAR), and her team showcased their latest projects for the public. The U of C astrophysics
  
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• Rejection of B.C. challenge to 'Turn Off the Taps' legislation 'not a win,' says political watcher

  21-07-2019 01:58
  A judge's decision to deny an attempt from British Columbia to block the piece of Alberta legislation commonly known as the ‘Turn Off the Taps’ bill is not worthy of celebration, according to Alberta political watchers. “It’s not a win at all, because it has nothing to do with the arguments in the case whether or not the legislation is constitutional, this is simply a question of which court is the appropriate one to hear this,” said Lori Williams, a political
  
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• Hamilton, Schwarzenegger tease R-rated 'Terminator' sequel - Lethbridge News Now

  21-07-2019 01:15
  Hamilton, Schwarzenegger tease R-rated 'Terminator' sequel  Lethbridge News NowSAN DIEGO - Leave the kids at home, "Terminator: Dark Fate" is getting an R-rating. Director Tim Miller tells ...
  
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• American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz - Lethbridge News Now

  21-07-2019 01:15
  American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz  Lethbridge News NowWASHINGTON - A U.S. warship on Thursday destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after it threatened...
  
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• Severe thunderstorm warnings lifted across southern Alberta

  21-07-2019 00:58 via globalnews.ca
  More unsettled weather was forecasted in southern Alberta on Saturday afternoon as Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for several areas.
  
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• Parts of southern Alberta under severe thunderstorm warning

  21-07-2019 00:58 via globalnews.ca
  More unsettled weather was forecasted in southern Alberta on Saturday afternoon as Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for several areas.
  
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• 'It's been a long time coming': Cannabis now for sale in Beaumont

  21-07-2019 00:11
  Canna Cabana was the first cannabis store to fully launch in the city of Beaumont on Saturday. "It's been a long time coming, but we finally get to pull open our doors and welcome everybody in for our grand opening," said Blaine Hodgson, northern Alberta retail district manager. The store has been open and selling accessories since February, but only began selling cannabis products on Wednesday. Although Saturday's event was dubbed as a "customer appreciation day," Hodgson told CTV News Edmonton
  
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