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• 11-year-old aspiring marine biologist experiences shark tagging on Atlantic Ocean

  25-07-2019 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Shayla Lindsay won a chance to get some first-hand experience on the job after winning a contest.
  
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• The Calgary Zoo welcomes five baby Vancouver Island marmot pups

  25-07-2019 22:58
  The Calgary Zoo has five new residents after an announcement Thursday that five Vancouver Island marmot pups were born in the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre. That’s a pretty big deal, because as it turns out, the Vancouver Island marmot is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. The Calgary Zoo is one of three facilities that breed them, in order to help increase the wild population. Marmots born in captivity are eventually relocated to Vancouver Island, where they spend th
  
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• Tourism Lethbridge moves to former Chinook Country Tourism location on Scenic Drive - Lethbridge News Now

  25-07-2019 22:56
  Tourism Lethbridge moves to former Chinook Country Tourism location on Scenic Drive  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – One year after the new Lethbridge Tourism organization opened its doors on 5 St. S. in the city's downtown, it's preparing to close its doors.
  
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• LPS seeking rightful owners of valuable jewelry - Lethbridge News Now

  25-07-2019 22:48
  LPS seeking rightful owners of valuable jewelry  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police *Service* is searching for the rightful owners of stolen jewelLPS said on Thu...
  
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• Lethbridge police seek owners of jewelry lifted during break-ins over decade ago

  25-07-2019 22:40
  Police in Lethbridge are working to find the owners of some pieces of jewelry that they believe were stolen during break and enters in the community over a decade ago. Officials released images of three rings, a gold necklace and a gold charm bracelet on Thursday and say they were likely taken in robberies between 2005 and 2007.Police are hoping to return the pieces to their rightful owners and say proof of ownership will be needed to claim the property. Anyone who recognizes an item is asked to
  
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• Ex-wife of slain former NBA player pleads guilty - Lethbridge News Now

  25-07-2019 22:30
  Ex-wife of slain former NBA player pleads guilty  Lethbridge News NowMEMPHIS, Tenn. — The ex-wife of slain former NBA player Lorenzen Wright pleaded guilty Thursday to facilitation of first-degree murder in his shooting death ...
  
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• Lethbridge girl competing in nationals for tumbling this weekend - Lethbridge News Now

  25-07-2019 22:22
  Lethbridge girl competing in nationals for tumbling this weekend  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Kariya Lepko arrived in Toronto Thursday morning to prepare for the 2019 Canadian Championships in Trampoline Gymnastics. Although ...
  
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• Police warn public about bobcat in Brentwood area

  25-07-2019 22:09
  Police and Fish and Wildlife officers are working to track down a bobcat after a member of the community encountered the animal in the Brentwood area. CPS tweeted out the warning just after 1:30 p.m. on Thursday.Animal Notification:CPS currently assisting @FWEnforcement with a Bobcat in the community of Brentwood following an encounter with a member of the public and their domestic pet. Please give members room to work as they attempt to resolve the situation.#yyc #Calgary — Calgary Police
  
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• Mother bobcat and kittens hang out in Brentwood backyard

  25-07-2019 22:09
  Calgary police are warning the public about a bobcat after a member of the community encountered the animal in the Brentwood area on Thursday afternoon. CPS tweeted out the warning just after 1:30 p.m. after a woman came across the cat while walking her dog.Animal Notification:CPS currently assisting @FWEnforcement with a Bobcat in the community of Brentwood following an encounter with a member of the public and their domestic pet. Please give members room to work as they attempt to resolve the
  
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• Calgary Folk Fest prepares for first ever legal cannabis consumption area

  25-07-2019 22:03
  Calgary’s Folk Music Festival is celebrating its 40th birthday in 2019 with something that it's never had before — a legal cannabis consumption area. In what is a first for a public event in Calgary, cannabis users will be able to smoke in a designated area at the back of the festival grounds. “Given our audience, I think it made sense,” said Kerry Clarke, the festival’s artistic director. “It made sense to accommodate some people who like to smoke, but to als
  
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• Calgary Folk Fest offers first ever legal cannabis consumption area

  25-07-2019 22:03
  Calgary’s Folk Music Festival is celebrating its 40th birthday in 2019 with something that its never had before, a legal cannabis area. In what is a first for a public event in Calgary, cannabis users will be able to smoke in a designated area at the back of the festival grounds. “Given our audience, I think it made sense,” said Kerry Clarke, the festival’s artistic director. “It made sense to accommodate some people who like to smoke, but to also accommodate the pe
  
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• Canada Strong and Proud registers as third party ahead of election

  25-07-2019 21:51
  OTTAWA -- A third-party organization linked to a series of robocall and text campaigns in Canada is now officially registered as a third party for the upcoming federal election. Canada Strong and Proud sent out robocalls in late June asking for information about voting intentions and support for pipelines. According to Elections Canada's website, the third party was registered July 23 by Chris Russell of St. John's, N.L. Russell is also a director of at least two similar political action groups
  
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• Photo of Nazi paraphernalia allegedly shared by B.C. murder suspect

  25-07-2019 21:46
  Update: Manitoba RCMP say the two teens were reportedly seen in the Gillam area prior to the discovery of the burned out vehicle on Monday. Developing story on the manhunt here. Original article follows. Mounties say they are investigating a photograph of Nazi paraphernalia allegedly sent by one of the suspects in three British Columbia deaths to another user on a video game network. Sgt. Janelle Shoihet says RCMP have received the photos that a Steam user says were sent by 18-year-old Bryer Sch
  
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• Airdrie RCMP seek indecent exposure suspect

  25-07-2019 21:40
  Investigators with the Airdrie RCMP detachment have released a surveillance still of a suspect in connection with a recent report of a man exposing himself to a victim. According to RCMP, the incident occurred in the late afternoon hours of Friday, July 19 near the Urgent Care Centre. The offender is described as:Approximately 20 years old Having a dark complexion Being between 160cm (5'3") and 170cm (5'7") tall Having a slight buildAt the time of the incident, the suspect was wearing blue jeans
  
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• Kenney falsely accuses federal Liberals for $2.5M grant to attack energy industry in deleted tweet

  25-07-2019 21:34 via globalnews.ca
  In a now-deleted tweet, Kenney accused the Trudeau Liberals of giving $2.5M in grant money to a "left-wing special interest group," but the funding was handed out six months before the Liberals took office.
  
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• RCMP apologize to Amber Tuccaro’s family; say investigation into her death ‘not best work’

  25-07-2019 21:20 via globalnews.ca
  Amber Tuccaro was 20 years old in August 2010 when she flew to Edmonton from her home in Fort McMurray, Alta., and booked into a hotel near the airport.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers decry 'abusive' imprisonment of two Canadians in China

  25-07-2019 21:01
  OTTAWA -- U.S. lawmakers in the House of Representatives are being asked to condemn the "abusive" imprisonment of two Canadian men in China. China imprisoned former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor in December, little more than a week after the RCMP's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on an American warrant. The U.S. wants to extradite Meng and prosecute her for allegedly lying to banks to avoid U.S. sanctions on Iran. The motion introduced in t
  
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• Fourth body recovered from site of Labrador plane crash, three still missing

  25-07-2019 20:56
  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The RCMP say a fourth body has been recovered from the Labrador lake where a float plane carrying seven men, including the pilot, crashed July 15. Cpl. Jolene Garland said divers recovered the body from the remote Mistastin Lake, about 100 kilometres southwest of Nain, on Wednesday. The body has not yet been identified and is expected at the office of the province's chief medical examiner sometime today, Garland said. Divers continued to search Thursday for the three remaining
  
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• Cabin owners ‘shocked’ by damage after tornado hits central Alberta

  25-07-2019 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  Boats flipped over in the lake, the family cabin's siding and roof torn off -- that's what Scott Thostenson found when he arrived at Hanmore Lake.
  
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• Cabin owner ‘shocked’ by damage after tornado hits central Alberta

  25-07-2019 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  Boats flipped over in the lake, the family cabin's siding and roof torn off -- that's what Scott Thostenson found when he arrived at Hanmore Lake.
  
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• Reconstruction of Ha Ling trail close to completion

  25-07-2019 20:23
  The popular mountain trail has been closed for almost a year but the reopening of it is just a few weeks away as crews start to wrap up work. Ha Ling trail is one of the most heavily used in all of Kananaskis Country and Alberta Parks as a whole. During peak times in the summer, as many as 600 people per day use the trail. Alberta Parks recognized that it needed a major facelift. "The trail was not constructed with erosion, environmental or public safety in mind. It had never received any major
  
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• Break-in suspect arrested while allegedly attempting to sell stolen tablet

  25-07-2019 19:49
  A 34-year-old Calgary man faces 15 charges following a police investigation into recent break-ins of homes in Marlborough Park, including two that occurred while the residents were asleep. According to police, three homes in the neighbourhood (two on Manora Place N.E. and one on Manora Hill N.E.) were targeted between Friday, July 12 and Thursday. July 18. In all of the break-and-enters, a suspect gained access by cutting through the screen of an open window or opening an unlocked window. A numb
  
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• Patio furniture swiped ahead of Angel Cafe’s liquor licence launch

  25-07-2019 19:28
  A popular riverside eatery is asking the public to watch out for a custom patio set swiped just days ahead of its liquor launch.  Angel’s Cappuccino & Ice Cream owner Cathy Jacobs says she noticed the couch, two chairs and coffee table missing Tuesday, likely putting them out some outdoor seating when they start serving liquor on Friday. She posted the theft of the furniture on Facebook hoping someone the recognizable pieces with custom cushions might be recovered. More to come.
  
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• Alberta oilsands producers report boost in Q2 net incomes thanks to corporate tax cuts

  25-07-2019 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government's move to cut corporate taxes has added more than $2 billion to second-quarter net incomes of major oilsands producers Suncor Energy Inc., Husky Energy Inc. and Cenovus Energy Inc.
  
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• Harkes appeals conviction for second time in stabbing death of Brett Wiese

  25-07-2019 19:04
  Mitchell Harkes, the 26-year-old convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal 2013 stabbing of Brett Wiese, has appealed his conviction claiming the judge erred. Harkes was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years in June of this year. On July 24, Harkes filed a notice of appeal of his conviction in which he claimed "The Trail Judge erred in his charge to the Jury on the issue of causation, resulting in prejudice to the Defence". Wiese, 20, was fatally stabbed at a hou
  
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• Canadian realtor sues Gucci, Saks Fifth Avenue over 'coerced' eyeliner application

  25-07-2019 18:37
  A Canadian woman who claims to have been left disfigured after a Gucci sales rep “forcefully” applied eyeliner on her at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City is suing both companies for US$2.25 million. Tracey Dunn, from Toronto, was visiting the Big Apple with family in summer of 2016 for a surprise birthday weekend when the alleged incident occurred. Dunn, of Dunn Real Estate Corporation, decided to visit the flagship Saks store in Manhattan with her family after breakfast on July 31
  
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• Pamela Anderson calls on Alberta premier to end chuckwagon races

  25-07-2019 18:05 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian-born actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson has sent a letter to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his agriculture minister urging them to end chuckwagon races.
  
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• Pop-up cafe on 17th Avenue offers free coffee, banking advice

  25-07-2019 17:59
  Credit Unions Of Alberta offered complimentary coffee and pastries at a pop-up cafe at Analog Coffee along 17th Avenue Southwest Thursday morning. The unusual addition to the coffee shop attempted to educate customers on how credit unions can potentially assist people with achieving their life goals. "If you are a student, if you are a first time home buyer, if you are trying to start a business, if you are getting ready for retirement, if you are in financial distress or if you just need help w
  
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• Calgary martial arts school releases security video to identify burglar

  25-07-2019 17:14
  The owner of a recently opened martial arts school in northwest Calgary said they were targeted by a thief last week and hope surveillance video can help identify the offender. Security video captured a man inside Shogun Martial Arts Club, located on 13th Avenue N.W. in Crescent Heights, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 17. The owner says a few electronics such as an iPad and cash float were taken, but what's most upsetting is the theft of a fundraising kit. The business fundraises
  
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• RCMP investigating photos of B.C. murder suspects, Nazi paraphernalia

  25-07-2019 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and his longtime friend Kam McLeod, 19, are on the run from police after being charged by RCMP with second-degree murder in the death of Leonard Dyck.
  
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• City to provide additional details on fallout from approved budget cuts

  25-07-2019 16:26
  City officials are expected to provide some clarity regarding the planned job cuts and adjustments to service as a result of the recently approved $60 million budget reduction for 2019. City manager Glenda Cole and the City of Calgary's Chief Financial Officer, Carla Male, will address the media on Thursday morning. CTV Calgary will carry the announcement live here beginning at 10:30 a.m. This is a developing story. It will be updated throughout the morning. City of Calgary - 2019 budget reducti
  
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• City provides additional details on fallout from approved budget cuts

  25-07-2019 16:26
  City officials provided some clarity regarding the planned job cuts and adjustments to service that will result from the recently approved $60 million budget reduction for 2019. City manager Glenda Cole and the City of Calgary's Chief Financial Officer, Carla Male, addressed the media on Thursday morning. The announcement is available live here This is a developing story. It will be updated throughout the morning. City of Calgary - 2019 budget reductions by CTV Calgary on Scribd
  
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• History made as Cavalry FC knock Whitecaps out of Canadian Championship

  25-07-2019 15:59
  Cavalry FC were quite literally playing 'out of their league' Wednesday night, but that didn’t stop the club from stunning the soccer world in a huge victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps.  In a surprise upset, Calgary defeated Vancouver 2-1 in front of more than 16,000 fans at BC Place to advance to the Canadian Championship semifinals. This was the second and final game of the two-game, total goal series after both sides drew scoreless two weeks ago back at Spruce Meadows’ ATCO
  
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• Search intensifies in small Manitoba town for suspects in B.C. homicides

  25-07-2019 15:40
  Residents in a small community in northern Manitoba remain on edge as RCMP intensify their search in the area for two teenagers wanted in connection with the murders of three people in British Columbia.More coverage from CTV News Vancouver More coverage from CTV News Winnipeg Interactive map and timeline of northern B.C. deathsRCMP have deployed an armoured Tactical Assault Vehicle (TAV) vehicle and set up a checkpoint on the only road in and out of Gillam, a small community of 1,200 people loca
  
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• Minister champions chuckwagon racing in response to Pamela Anderson's call to ban sport

  25-07-2019 15:07
  Model turned actress and noted animal rights activist, Pamela Anderson, has penned a letter to Alberta's premier and the province's minister of agriculture and forestry in an effort to halt chuckwagon racing. The letter, posted on the Pamela Anderson Foundation's website Thursday morning, was addressed to Premier Jason Kenney and MLA Devin Dreeshen and reads as follows: Dear Messrs. Kenney and Dreeshen, After recently moving back to my beautiful native Canada, my heart sank as I read about six h
  
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• Actress Pamela Anderson calls for chuckwagon racing ban in letter to Jason Kenney

  25-07-2019 15:07
  Model turned actress and noted animal rights activist, Pamela Anderson, has penned a letter to Alberta's premier and the province's minister of agriculture and forestry in an effort to halt chuckwagon racing. The letter, posted on the Pamela Anderson Foundation's website Thursday morning, was addressed to Premier Jason Kenney and MLA Devin Dreeshen and reads as follows: Dear Messrs. Kenney and Dreeshen, After recently moving back to my beautiful native Canada, my heart sank as I read about six h
  
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• CFD High-Angle Rescue Team retrieves dog and owner from southwest ravine

  25-07-2019 14:41
  A man suffered cuts and bruises and his dog required a stretcher after the two were unable to exit from a heavily-wooded area in a southwest neighbourhood. Members of the Calgary Fire Department's High-Angle Rescue Team were deployed to a ravine along Patterson Boulevard S.W., in the community of Patterson, at around 10 p.m. Wednesday following reports a dog and its owner were stuck. Officials say the two had been out for a walk when the dog got loose and the owner followed it into the treed rav
  
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• Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein found injured in cell: reports

  25-07-2019 14:08
  U.S. billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who is accused of sexually assaulting underage girls, was found injured in his jail cell after a possible suicide attempt, according to sources cited in multiple media reports. Epstein was found semi-conscious with marks on his neck, anonymous law enforcement sources told media including NBC New York, the New York Post and TMZ. The injuries are not believed to be serious, they added in reports Wednesday night. Guards are also investigating whether he was the vic
  
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• New British PM Johnson urges EU to renegotiate Brexit deal

  25-07-2019 13:55
  LONDON -- On his first full day in office, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the European Union on Thursday to rethink its refusal to renegotiate the Brexit deal, setting himself on a twin-track collision course -- with the bloc and his own lawmakers -- over his vow to leave the EU by Oct. 31. Johnson pledged to deliver Brexit and a "broader and bolder future," as he addressed a rowdy session of Parliament. He was heckled loudly by an opposition determined to thwart him, with Labour Par
  
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• New British PM Boris Johnson urges EU to renegotiate Brexit deal

  25-07-2019 13:55
  LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the European Union on Thursday to rethink its refusal to renegotiate the Brexit deal, setting himself on a collision course with both the bloc and his own lawmakers over his vow to leave the EU by Oct. 31. Addressing a rowdy session of Parliament for the first time since becoming prime minister a day earlier, Johnson pledged to deliver Brexit and a "broader and bolder future." Rejecting the Brexit withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predece
  
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• North Korea fires new type of short-range ballistic missiles

  25-07-2019 11:30
  SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of -- North Korea fired a new type of short-range ballistic missile in two launches into the sea Thursday, South Korean officials said. They were North Korea's first weapons launches in more than two months and appeared to be a pressuring tactic as Pyongyang and Washington struggle to restart nuclear negotiations. The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from near the eastern coastal town of Wonsan and flew about 430 kilometres (270 miles) and 690 kil
  
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• MPs to question justice minister about Trudeau's latest Supreme Court pick

  25-07-2019 11:05
  OTTAWA – MPs are back in Ottawa today to question the justice minister as part of hearings to discuss Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s nomination of Quebec judge Nicholas Kasirer to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti and former prime minister Kim Campbell, who chairs the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments, are appearing today before the House Justice Committee to take questions ab
  
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• MPs questioning justice minister about Supreme Court pick

  25-07-2019 11:05
  OTTAWA – MPs are back in Ottawa today to question the justice minister as part of hearings to discuss Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s nomination of Quebec judge Nicholas Kasirer to fill an upcoming vacancy on the Supreme Court. Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti and former prime minister Kim Campbell, who chairs the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments, are appearing today before the House Justice Committee to take questions ab
  
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• Lethbridge police seek owners of jewelry lifted during break-ins over decade ago - CTV News

  25-07-2019 09:00
  Lethbridge police seek owners of jewelry lifted during break-ins over decade ago  CTV NewsPolice in Lethbridge are working to find the owners of some pieces of jewelry that they believe were stolen during break and enters in the community over a ...
  
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• RCMP seeking suspects in southern Alberta ammolite thefts - Lethbridge News Now

  25-07-2019 05:22
  RCMP seeking suspects in southern Alberta ammolite thefts  Lethbridge News NowRAYMOND, AB - RCMP in Raymond and Magrath have identified two suspects in the theft of a fossil from a local m...
  
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• Troops partake in NATO chemical training exercise at CFB Suffield in southern Alberta

  25-07-2019 04:53 via globalnews.ca
  Troops from 12 allied countries are training for chemical attacks alongside the Canadian Armed Forces at CFB Suffield.
  
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• Pride parade leaves every political party off the invite list for 2019

  25-07-2019 04:34
  This year’s Calgary Pride Parade will be as non-partisan as a parade can get. That’s because Calgary Pride announced Wednesday that it has decided to not approve any political parties to march in this year’s parade. “Calgary Pride received a record number of applications to participate in the Pride Parade this year, and we were not able to accommodate them all,” said Pride communications rep Kathryn Kolaczek, in a release. The Pride board arrived at its decision fol
  
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• Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello resigns in face of protests

  25-07-2019 04:17
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello announced his resignation overnight, ceding power after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and insulting chat messages between him and his top advisers. A crowd of thousands outside the governor's mansion in Old San Juan erupted in cheers and song after his announcement on Facebook just before midnight on Wednesday. "Despite expecting to serve the term that the people democratically
  
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• Gillam, Man. on high alert as manhunt descends on the area

  25-07-2019 03:58
  A normally quiet and safe northern Manitoba town has been on edge as the manhunt for two teenagers wanted in connection to three deaths in British Columbia has descended on the community. Gillam, Man., a community of 1,265 people more than 1,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg, is one of the last towns before the northbound highway ends. The community has been on a near-lockdown since police found the burned-out Toyota Rav 4 that Bryer Schmegelsky, Kam McLeod had used earlier this week to cross the
  
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• Revelstoke RCMP urge caution after serious Trans Canada crashes

  25-07-2019 03:26 via globalnews.ca
  Three serious collisions in the span of just four days claimed three lives.
  
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