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• Lethbridge Police looking for six suspects involved with weekend assault - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2019 23:24 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Police looking for six suspects involved with weekend assault  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Outside of Boss Hogs Country Saloon at 2:36 am on Saturday, August 17th, a group of unknown men allegedly attacked a 25-year-old man.
  
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• Lethbridge Regional Park and Ride set to open in one week - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2019 23:22 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Regional Park and Ride set to open in one week  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – It's a project more than 18 months in the making, but on Aug. 28, the city's new regional Park and Ride facility will open its doors to the ...
  
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• Lethbridge College aims to increase diversity and inclusion through pilot project - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2019 23:22 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge College aims to increase diversity and inclusion through pilot project  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – 17 post secondary schools across Canada are taking part in the Dimensions pilot program, a project that aims to recognize those that are ...
  
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• ‘Noise’ makes Trans Mountain pipeline bid unlikely: Pembina CEO

  21-08-2019 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  The CEO of Pembina Pipeline Corp. says the Trans Mountain pipeline system would fit neatly into his company's business model but he wouldn't want the "noise'' associated with its controversial expansion project.
  
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• Bankruptcy cases up by 10 per cent in Alberta

  21-08-2019 23:06
  A new report on insolvency in Canada shows the number of people and businesses filing for bankruptcy this year has increased by 10 per cent since the same time last year. According to the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada's June report, there were 4,294 total insolvency cases filed in Alberta during the second quarter of this year, up from 3,884 the year before. MNP Ltd., Canada's largest insolvency firm says one of the chief contributors to household debt are home equity lines o
  
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• 5-year-old unknowingly brought cocaine to kindergarten, police say

  21-08-2019 22:51
  NEW ORLEANS -- A 5-year-old boy unknowingly brought cocaine to a kindergarten in a New Orleans suburb, leading to the arrest of a man and a woman, police said Wednesday. A teacher saw the child holding a bag of a white powder Tuesday and called in the school resource officer, who found one bag of powdered cocaine and two of crack cocaine, Slidell police spokesman Daniel Seuzeneau said. The boy clearly knew nothing about the drugs, Seuzeneau said. Investigators who searched the child's home found
  
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• Trump flip-flops on tax cuts, saying US has 'strong economy'

  21-08-2019 22:38
  WASHINGTON -- A day after considering cutting taxes to promote economic growth, President Donald Trump changed course and said he would abandon the idea because the nation already had "a strong economy." Trump's flip-flop on Wednesday came after recent market volatility and economic uncertainty, and amid a debate about whether the United States was heading for a slowdown that would imperil his reelection chances. Trump earlier this week acknowledged, for the first time, that his China trade poli
  
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• Lethbridge’s new Park ‘n’ Ride transit terminal slated to open Aug. 28

  21-08-2019 22:31 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge’s new hub for transit is in its final stages of construction. The City of Lethbridge is gearing up to open the new Park 'n' Ride terminal to the public next week.
  
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• Entrepreneurs thrive at Southcentre Mall

  21-08-2019 21:54
  Wednesday marks World Entrepreneur Day and about a dozen small business owners with retail space in Southcentre Mall are celebrating. Sashi Behl has owned her own business for the last 20 years. Her latest idea, Joydrop, sells all kinds of locally made jewelry out of a retail space on the second floor of the mall. "Someone told me when I first started that the definition of an entrepreneur is you work 12 hours a day, you just pick those 12 hours," said Behl. "You can only do that if you’re
  
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• Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defence project

  21-08-2019 21:52
  WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defence at a time of rapid technological change. The announced reason for cancelling the Boeing contract, effective Thursday, was that the project's design problems were so significant as to be either insurmountable or too costly to correct. Beyond those immediate concerns
  
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• Trans Mountain puts contractors on notice to get ready for pipeline restart

  21-08-2019 21:37
  SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - Trans Mountain Corp. has advised construction contractors to get ready for the restart of its pipeline expansion project to the west coast. Trans Mountain says its directive gives contractors 30 days to ready equipment, start hiring workers, secure goods and services and develop detailed plans. The company says work is to begin soon in communities along the right of way between Edmonton and Edson, Alta., and in the greater Edmonton area. Work is also to resume at the termi
  
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• Bigger, more frequent wildfires turning Canada’s boreal forest into source of carbon: researchers

  21-08-2019 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  The boreal forest, a band of green that stretches over six provinces and two territories, has long been a storehouse of carbon.
  
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• Lost teddy bear with message from dead mother to be reunited with 7-year-old owner

  21-08-2019 20:59
  A community-wide effort to find a young visitor's missing teddy bear, which contains a message recorded by its owner's mother prior to her death, has ended with surprising success. Seven-year-old Duncan MacMaster was in Airdrie, Alta. last week with his family, on a vacation from Nova Scotia. Somehow, the boy's backpack went missing over the course of the trip. In the bag was a teddy bear that had a special voice message MacMaster's mother had recorded before she died.See more stories that will
  
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• Trans Mountain restarting pipeline construction ‘not reason to celebrate’: Jason Kenney

  21-08-2019 20:56 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta's premier says Trans Mountain announcing it will resume construction on its pipeline expansion project is a step forward, but not a reason to celebrate.
  
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• Liberals shut down opposition bid to hear from ethics czar on SNC-Lavalin report

  21-08-2019 20:41
  Liberal members of the House of Commons Ethics Committee have shut down an opposition bid to hear from Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion following the release of his report into the SNC-Lavalin affair. The committee met Wednesday to discuss whether Dion would be invited to testify about his recently-released report, which found that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had contravened the federal Conflict of Interest Act by seeking to influence Jody Wilson-Raybould in "many ways."Sign up for our Election
  
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• Support for Trudeau on the decline among women: Nanos tracking

  21-08-2019 20:37
  As Canadians head into a federal election campaign, women’s support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is waning, and that’s a problem for Liberals as the female vote was key to their 2015 majority coalition, says pollster Nik Nanos. The latest Nanos Preferred Prime Minister tracking, which measures Canadians’ top preferences for prime minister, shows Trudeau in the lead at 32 per cent over Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, at 24 per cent. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh (seven per ce
  
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• Calgary officers justified in 2018 Abbeydale shooting: Alberta police watchdog

  21-08-2019 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  Calgary Const. Jordan Forget was rushed to hospital with critical injuries after being shot in Abbeydale on March 27, 2018.
  
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• Colton Boushie documentary to make debut at Calgary International Film Festival

  21-08-2019 20:32
  Eight acclaimed films from the National Film Board of Canada will be screened during next month's Calgary International Film Festival, including a documentary about the death of Colten Boushie. The event, which runs from September 18 to 29, will be the first time that Edmonton filmmaker Tasha Hubbard's award-winning documentary nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up will be screened in Calgary. The film has a look at the shooting death of Boushie on Gerald Stanley's rural property in 201
  
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• Alberta supervised consumption site review: Associate minister responds to critics, outlines plan

  21-08-2019 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  Critics were quick to say the Alberta government’s safe consumption site review has a predetermined outcome. Associate Minister of Mental Health Jason Luan responds to those claims and outlines what the review is looking to achieve.
  
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• Only half of Southern Albertan crops rated “Good to Excellent” - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2019 20:16 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Only half of Southern Albertan crops rated “Good to Excellent”  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – The latest report from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry (AAF) is not painting a bright picture in Southern Alberta, but it does depend on what ...
  
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• Three confirmed dead in fiery Alberta crash

  21-08-2019 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  Three people are confirmed dead after a fiery crash in eastern Alberta. Michael King has the latest.
  
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• Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research

  21-08-2019 19:57
  Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a significant new source of climate-changing greenhouse gases, scientists say. The shift, which may have already happened, could force firefighters to change how they battle northern blazes, said Merritt Turetsky, an ecologist at the University of Guelph and co-author of a paper that appeared in the science journal Nature on Wednesday. "It's making it much more difficult for us to target those reductions in human emissions bec
  
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• Public service scheduled for Calgary MP Deepak Obhrai

  21-08-2019 19:29
  A public memorial to honour the life of the Honourable Deepak Obhrai, the member of Parliament for Calgary-Forest Lawn will be held on Monday. Obhrai passed away on August 2 following a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer. According to statement from his family, the 69-year-old was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer just a few weeks prior to his death. A funeral service will be held on Monday, August 26 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary. The doors will open at 9:30 a.m. for
  
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• Memorial service for MP Deepak Obhrai to take place Monday morning

  21-08-2019 19:29
  A public memorial to honour the life of the Honourable Deepak Obhrai, the member of Parliament for Calgary-Forest Lawn will be held Monday. Obhrai passed away on August 2 following a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer. According to statement from his family, the 69-year-old was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer just a few weeks prior to his death. A funeral service will be held on Monday, August 26 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary. The doors will open at 9:30 a.m. for the
  
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• Family and friends, including political dignitaries, pay respect to the late Deepak Obhrai

  21-08-2019 19:29
  A public memorial to honour the life of the Honourable Deepak Obhrai, the Member of Parliament for Calgary-Forest Lawn is underway. Obhrai passed away on August 2 following a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer. According to a statement from his family, the 69-year-old was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer in the few weeks prior to his death. A funeral service is underway at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary. A livestream of the celebration of life is available here. Former Pr
  
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• Trans Mountain to resume construction on pipeline expansion

  21-08-2019 19:19 via globalnews.ca
  The company expects to have close to 4,200 workers on the job in various communities by year's end.
  
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• Calgary Zoo's premature king penguin chick 'out of the woods'

  21-08-2019 19:09
  Calgary Zoo officials say a king penguin chick that arrived prematurely is thriving and successfully gaining weight. The unnamed penguin, gender yet to be revealed, was saved by zoo staff after its egg prematurely broke. The egg was patched together using pieces from a Humboldt penguin's egg from years earlier. When the king penguin was unsuccessful in its attempt to break through its patchwork egg, staff intervened. The undersized chick was helped out of the egg and placed with a foster penguin
  
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• American tourism to Canada hits 12-year high

  21-08-2019 19:00
  Most Americans might never make good on their threats to move to Canada if an election result doesn't go their way – but they do seem more willing to at least check out the country than they have been in a long time. New data from Statistics Canada shows that the number of trips to Canada taken by U.S. residents through the first six months of the year was more than 12.3 million – 2.2 per cent higher than it was in the first half of 2018, and the highest first-half total recorded sin
  
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• Calgary Police hosting seminars to stem violence in northeast quadrant

  21-08-2019 18:26
  The Calgary Police Service is hosting seminars to address an increase of violence and shootings in the northeast quadrant of the city. In a press release, police said the issue requires broader community support, education and awareness. Starting on Thursday, the YouthLink Calgary Police Interpretive Centre is launching community safety presentations. “These presentations will help educate and inform residents about how to keep their families safe in the wake of increasing violence in Calg
  
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• ASIRT clears officers in fatal shooting of suspect in Abbeydale

  21-08-2019 17:42
  An investigation conducted by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team determined three Calgary Police Service officers who shot at a suspect during a March 2018 response in northeast Calgary acted reasonably. This is a developing story. It will be updated throughout the morning.
  
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• ASIRT clears officers in 2018 shootout with suspect barricaded in Abbeydale garage

  21-08-2019 17:42
  An investigation conducted by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team determined three Calgary Police Service officers who shot at a suspect during a March 2018 response in northeast Calgary acted reasonably. On the morning of March 27, 2018, an armed robbery was reported at the Petro Canada convenience store in the 2200 block of 68 Street N.E. While officers attended to the initial call, reports of two attempted vehicle thefts involving a man with a firearm emerged from the community of Abbe
  
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• 'I went nuts, I tell ya': Retired fisherman wins B.C.'s largest ever lotto jackpot

  21-08-2019 17:17
  After nearly a month of mystery, the winner of a record-breaking B.C. lottery prize was revealed. Former commercial fisherman Joseph Katalinic was identified at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, and handed a giant cheque for $60 million. The Richmond, B.C. resident has been living a peaceful life after retiring about two decades ago, but said he now plans to "live like a king." Katalinic described the moment he found out he'd won the Lotto Max jackpot: "I went nuts, I tell ya." He said he s
  
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• Chinese official tells Canada to back off on Hong Kong 'before it's too late'

  21-08-2019 17:15
  A spokesperson from China’s foreign ministry delivered a harsh warning to Canada Tuesday, in response to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's concerns about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. When asked about Freeland's remarks, spokesperson Geng Shuang said Canada has time and again "interfered with China’s internal affairs. China deplores and firmly opposes that." His comments were circulated by China's daily news program, Xinwen Lianbo. Over the weekend, Freeland – w
  
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• Canada won’t 'back down' on Hong Kong stance: Trudeau

  21-08-2019 17:15
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is standing firm on his government’s response to the ongoing Hong Kong protests, despite increased caution from Chinese authorities to step aside. While delivering a foreign policy speech in Montreal on Wednesday, Trudeau said his government is monitoring the situation in Hong Kong “closely” and despite political differences with China, Canada will continue to defend its values of human rights and international law. “As a global community, we
  
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• Jasper National Park stops issuing bear reports so people 'give wildlife space'

  21-08-2019 17:08
  Jasper National Park has stopped issuing its regular bear warnings so that people will ‘give wildlife space’ and stop forming crowds to snap photos of the animals. The weekly reports were originally created to warn people about areas to avoid if a bear had been spotted nearby. But now, they seem to be counterproductive. In late July, Parks Canada posted a notice saying that “in an effort to give wildlife space and to reduce bear jams in Jasper National Park, we have discontinue
  
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• Federal natural resources minister to talk Trans Mountain pipeline expansion progress

  21-08-2019 16:35
  Federal Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi will be in Sherwood Park on Wednesday morning to discuss progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Ottawa gave the expansion a second lease on life in June, nine months after the federal court of appeal ripped up the original approval.  At the time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said shovels could be in the ground as early as this summer. Some introductory work on the project began moving ahead earlier this month after the
  
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• Construction ramping up on Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project

  21-08-2019 16:35
  Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will further begin ramping up after “Notice to Proceed” directives were issued, company officials said Wednesday. That means contractors will have 30 days to mobilize equipment and start the process of hiring workers, procuring goods and services and developing detailed construction work plans for expansion of the 1,150-km pipeline running from northern Alberta to the B.C. coast. Work is expected to begin “soon&rdquo
  
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• Teacher who slept in same hotel bed as student loses her licence

  21-08-2019 15:31
  A high school teacher who had an "inappropriate personal relationship" with a student, including sexual contact, has had her licence revoked by Ontario's governing body for teachers. The Ontario College of Teachers pulled Sheryl Anna Jean Fontaine's licence July 9 following a disciplinary hearing. "As an educator, (Fontaine) took advantage of her position of trust and authority to make sexual advances to a student," the college's discipline committee wrote in its decision, which was recently pub
  
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• Investigation underway into northeast Quonset fire

  21-08-2019 15:02
  The cause of a Tuesday afternoon fire in the city's northeast that sent plumes of dark smoke into the sky remains under investigation. Firefighters were called to a location in the 7600 block of 36th Street Northeast shortly before 4 p.m. following numerous call to 9-1-1 reporting a fire as the smoke was visible from a significant distance. A Quonset with a vehicle parked within was engulfed in flames and additional Calgary Fire Department resources were deployed to the scene. A section of 36th
  
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• Highway 9 remains closed morning after deadly crash

  21-08-2019 15:01 via globalnews.ca
  Highway 9 east of Calgary remained closed on Tuesday following a deadly multi-vehicle crash. Michael King has more details from the scene.
  
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• Inflation hits Bank of Canada 2% target for second straight month

  21-08-2019 14:45
  OTTAWA -- Canadian annual inflation hit the Bank of Canada's ideal target for a second straight month, providing a stretch of price stability that's unlikely to weigh heavily on next month's interest-rate decision. The inflation number came in at two per cent last month, Statistics Canada said Wednesday, which kept it right at the mid-point of the central bank's range of one to three per cent. Compared with a year earlier, consumers paid less in July for gasoline, internet services and traveller
  
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• Province extends oil curtailment program, raises base limit

  21-08-2019 14:42
  Alberta will continue to curtail oil production into December of 2020 but producers will be permitted to increase production beginning in October of this year. Energy Minister Sonya Savage announced Tuesday that the base limit for curtailment will increase from 10,000 barrels per day to 20,000 barrels per day this fall.  The move will reduce the number of producers impacted by the curtailment from 29 to 16. Savage says the curtailment program's extension is the result of the continued lack
  
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• Pembina to buy Kinder Morgan Canada, U.S. part of Cochin pipeline for $4.35B

  21-08-2019 14:19 via globalnews.ca
  The Cochin pipeline runs 2,900 kilometres between Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., and Chicago.
  
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• Deadly crash closes Alberta Highway 9

  21-08-2019 14:01 via globalnews.ca
  One person was killed and multiple others were injured after a crash on Highway 9, west of Cereal, Alta., on Tuesday. Michael King has more details from the scene.
  
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• Royal Bank hikes its dividend as its Q3 net income rises 6 per cent to $3.3B

  21-08-2019 12:36
  TORONTO -- Royal Bank of Canada increased its dividend as its third-quarter profit rose five per cent to $3.3 billion, but the lender's latest earnings missed estimates as challenging market conditions weighed on its capital markets division. The Toronto-based lender said Wednesday it will now pay a quarterly dividend of $1.05 per share, up three cents or three per cent. The increased payment to shareholders came as RBC reported $3.3 billion in net income for the quarter ended July 31, up five p
  
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• China ties shape cautious reaction to Hong Kong protests

  21-08-2019 12:00
  For Canada and the European Union, they are a "situation." For President Donald Trump, a potential stumbling block in ongoing trade disputes. And for South Korea, an issue to be monitored. With the notable exception of Taiwan, cautious comments from the few governments willing to speak out on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong fall far short of support for the demonstrators. They are so mild that even the word "protest" itself was left out of the joint EU-Canada statement that was the most recent
  
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• Liberals unhurt, Tories not helped by scathing SNC-Lavalin report: poll

  21-08-2019 10:55
  OTTAWA -- A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair hasn't so far hurt the Liberals' chances of re-election this fall -- and it hasn't helped the Conservatives. Indeed, the Leger poll suggests the two parties were locked in a dead heat, with the support of 33 per cent of voters, as they jockey for position at the starting gate for the Oct. 21 vote. Liberal support was unchanged from last month, despite last week's damning r
  
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• Country music star George Canyon to run for Tories in Nova Scotia

  21-08-2019 10:12
  OTTAWA -- One of Nova Scotia's best-known country music stars is walking on to the political stage. George Canyon has announced he's running as a Conservative candidate in the riding of Central Nova in the upcoming federal election.Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily update on the campaign, once the federal election is underway His name was added to the Tory roster after existing candidate Roger MacKay dropped out this week, for what he said were "personal reasons." Canyon h
  
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• NDP calls on Alberta government to release committed funding for assisted living facility

  21-08-2019 06:07 via globalnews.ca
  "The government has stated its priorities are to reduce health care costs. This is an opportunity for them to do precisely that."
  
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• Nova Scotia child’s lost teddy with dead mother’s recorded message found in Alberta

  21-08-2019 04:40 via globalnews.ca
  "To the woman who found it, thank you for getting it back for me from the park and I wish I met you."
  
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