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• Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100

  01-09-2019 23:50
  SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni medics said on Monday they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a Houthi rebel-run detention centre that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens. It was the deadliest such attack so far this year in a stalemated four-year war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives, thrust millions to the brink of famine and spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis. The Saudi-led coalition, which has fought the Iran-
  
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• Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

  01-09-2019 23:50
  SANAA, Yemen -- The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention centre operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, officials and the rebels' health ministry said. Franz Rauchenstein, the head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, suggested that the death toll could be higher after visiting the site of the attack, saying relatively few detainees survived. A Red Cross statemen
  
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• Air Canada flight to Vancouver from Shanghai diverted after cracked window pane

  01-09-2019 23:42
  VANCOUVER - Air Canada says a flight from Shanghai to Vancouver was diverted to Tokyo's Narita International Airport after a crack developed in one of the pilot's windows. The airline says the windows are double-paned and the diversion was essentially a precautionary measure. The plane was a Boeing 787 carrying 287 passengers. Air Canada says the passengers are staying in hotels while the aircraft is repaired. It says the plane is set to leave Tokyo for Vancouver on Monday. A spokesperson for th
  
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• Buy Alberta campaign launches on province’s 114th birthday

  01-09-2019 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Sept. 1 marks Alberta's 114th birthday and part of the celebrations in Calgary included kicking off Alberta Verified.
  
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• Stampeders list Mitchell as starting QB for Labour Day game against Esks

  01-09-2019 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Bo Levi Mitchell appears ready to return to the football field for Monday's Labour Day game against the Edmonton Eskimos.
  
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• Albertans celebrate the province's birthday in a big way

  01-09-2019 22:48
  Many Albertans are celebrating the birth of the province on Sunday, marking 114 years since it was formed. In Calgary, a number of people gathered at a northeast recreation centre to celebrate the event. They say the province has done a lot to make everyone feel welcome, including those new to the country. "Alberta, especially in this northeast quadrant, has given us lots, especially to the new Canadians. They are proud to say they are Albertans," said Devinder Toor, UCP MLA for Calgary-Falconri
  
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• Trump says he'll work with Congress to stop mass shootings

  01-09-2019 21:49
  WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump expressed a commitment Sunday, hours after the latest deadly mass shooting, to work with a divided Congress to "stop the menace of mass attacks." He said any measures must satisfy the competing goals of protecting public safety and the constitutional right to gun ownership and seemed to cast fresh doubt on the merits of instituting more thorough background checks for gun purchases. Trump spoke shortly after the death toll in Saturday's rampage in West Texas r
  
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• Over 2,700 students move into dorms at the University of Calgary

  01-09-2019 21:32
  First-year and returning students crowded the University of Calgary campus on Sunday for the school's annual move-in day. University officials say there is a record number of students moving into their residences for the very first time to kick off the institution's Orientation Week. This year, 1,045 first-year students are moving in alongside 1,700 returning students. The university says living on campus isn't just about having a place to stay while they attend class; it's about being a part of
  
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• Driver smashes through wall in northwest Calgary

  01-09-2019 20:18
  Authorities say no one was hurt when a driver lost control of their vehicle and ended up punching through a sound barrier lining a street in northwest Calgary. Emergency crews were called to the scene, in the 100 block of Scenic Cove Circle N.W., at about 7:45 a.m. When they arrived, they found both the wall and the vehicle sustained heavy damage as a result of the crash. Police are working to determine whether or not alcohol was a factor in the crash.
  
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• Calgary resident captures rare bobcat moment

  01-09-2019 20:04
  A Calgary woman who lives in the southwest community of Somerset managed to catch an interesting moment on camera this week. Anna Winiarski sent in a video she took of a bobcat lounging in her backyard. At first, the cat looks like it is by itself but soon you realize it isn't alone after all when a squirrel appears. After a short chase, the squirrel manages to give the larger animal the slip and scurries away to safety.
  
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• Calgary's winning ways continue: $3 million ticket sold in the city

  01-09-2019 19:23
  It has been a winning weekend for some lucky Calgarians after Saturday night's Lotto 6/49 draw came up with three winners, including one ticket sold somewhere in the city. The draw, which has a jackpot of $9 million, was won by three tickets that matched all six numbers. One of the tickets was sold in Calgary, one elsewhere in Alberta and another in Ontario. The winning numbers in last night's draw were 2, 21, 22, 24, 48, 49 and the bonus number was 23. On Friday night's Lotto Max draw, a lucky
  
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• Pride Parade takes over Calgary's downtown core

  01-09-2019 18:52
  Pride festivities are taking over downtown Calgary on Sunday. Thousands of people are expected to attend the signature event of Pride Week in the city, a parade that features nearly 200 separate entries marching along 6 Avenue from 3 Street S.E. and then onto 6 Street S.W. According to a press release, the parade started as a small march by a group of LGBTQ Calgarians who took steps to conceal their identities. "Some of whom wore masks and bags over their faces to protect from persecution, the e
  
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• Hollywood's summer ends 2% down despite Disney dominance

  01-09-2019 18:43
  NEW YORK -- Never before has one studio so dominated summer at the movies. The Walt Disney Co. accounted for about half of all ticket sales in U.S. and Canada theatres on the season, which came to a close Sunday with the Gerard Butler action thriller "Angel Has Fallen" topping the box office for the second weekend. Summer ticket sales finished 2% behind last year, according to data firm Comscore, a slight downturn that came despite an unprecedented display by Disney. The studio's approximate $2.
  
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• Caught on camera: Fireball lights up Edmonton sky

  01-09-2019 18:04
  A bright shooting light illuminated the Edmonton sky—and residents' security cameras—briefly Saturday night.   The fireball was spotted in the northeast skies around 10:25 p.m. Many took to social media to share footage of the moment it passed by on their security and dash cams. A fireball is a bright meteor, sometimes also called a bolide. The term fireball is used when a meteor's brightness exceeds that of the planet Venus in our sky. The brightness may also indicate the objec
  
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• Caught on camera: Fireball lights up Edmonton night sky

  01-09-2019 18:04
  A bright shooting light illuminated the Edmonton sky—and residents' security cameras—briefly Saturday night.   "I was just turning the corner... and I noticed the sky got really bright all of a sudden," recalled Edmontonian Louis Bouchier.Bouchier had been driving home Saturday evening, and was near the Cross Cancer Institute, when he saw the flash. "Like someone turned on a floodlight." The light was a fireball that was traveling an estimated 70 kilometres per second. A firebal
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas with record fury as Category 5 storm

  01-09-2019 17:53
  MCLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas -- Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters. Dorian slammed into Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas as dangerous Category 5 storm

  01-09-2019 17:53
  MCLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas -- Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its 185 mph (297 km/h) winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters. The second-strongest Atlantic hurricane since 1950, Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate. But officials recognized there were not many structures
  
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• Cat 5 Dorian strikes Bahamas with record fury

  01-09-2019 17:53
  MCLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas -- Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph (297 kph) winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters. Dorian slammed into Elbow Cay in Abaco island at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate. "It's devastati
  
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• Police say no explanation yet for Texas shooting frenzy

  01-09-2019 16:36
  ODESSA, Texas -- Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying, 16-kilometre rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended with officers gunning him down outside a movie theatre. Authorities identified the shooter as Seth Aaron Ator, 36, of Odessa. Online court records show Ator was arrested in 2001 for a misdemeanouroffence that would not have prevented him from
  
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• Police: 7 killed, 22 injured in Odessa shooting rampage

  01-09-2019 16:36
  ODESSA, Texas -- Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended with officers gunning him down outside a movie theatre. Two law enforcement officials identified the shooter as Seth Ator, who records show is 36 years old. The officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because they were not aut
  
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• Neighbour: Texas gunman was 'violent, aggressive person'

  01-09-2019 16:36
  ODESSA, Texas -- The gunman in a West Texas rampage "was on a long spiral of going down" and had been fired from his oil services job the morning he killed seven people, calling 911 both before and after the shooting began, authorities said. Officers killed 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator on Saturday outside a busy Odesa movie theatre after a spate of violence that spanned 16 kilometres, injuring around two dozen people in addition to the dead. FBI special agent Christopher Combs said Monday that At
  
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• Death toll in West Texas shooting rampage rises to 7

  01-09-2019 16:36
  MIDLAND, Texas -- The death toll in a West Texas shooting rampage increased to seven Sunday as authorities investigated why a man stopped by state troopers for failing to signal a left turn opened fire on them and fled, shooting more than 20 people as he drove before being killed by officers outside a movie theatre. Odesa police spokesman Steve LeSueur said that at least one person who was shot remained in life-threatening condition. Authorities say the gunman was a white male in his 30s, but po
  
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• New changes announced for blood donation processes in Canada - Lethbridge News Now

  01-09-2019 16:02 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  New changes announced for blood donation processes in Canada  Lethbridge News NowLETHBRIDGE, AB – Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will be making a series of changes that it says will “reduce blood donor screening and rest time for repeat ...
  
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• Cities urge federal leaders to wade into wastewater debate

  01-09-2019 15:01
  OTTAWA -- In Canada's largest city, raw sewage flows into Lake Ontario so often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city's beaches for least two days after it rains. Across the country in Mission, B.C., a three-decade-old pipe that carries sewage under the Fraser River to a treatment plant in Abbotsford is so loaded operators can't even slip a camera inside it to look for damage. If that pipe bursts, it will dump 11 million litres of putrid water from area homes and businesses i
  
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• Pope Francis rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in Vatican elevator

  01-09-2019 14:18
  VATICAN CITY -- Where's the pope? He's stuck in a Vatican elevator. Thousands of people who were gathered in St. Peter's Square for the traditional Sunday on-the-dot-of-noon appearance by Pope Francis were watching for the window of the Apostolic Palace to be thrown open so they could listen to the pope's remarks and receive his blessing. But after seven minutes, people were looking at each other quizzically: no pope? Then Francis popped out and answered their question: "First of all I must excu
  
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• Nine killed after medical evac plane crashes in Philippines

  01-09-2019 14:01
  MANILA, Philippines -- All nine people on board a small medical evacuation plane were killed Sunday when the aircraft crashed into a resort area south of the Philippine capital and exploded in flames, officials said. The light plane crashed into a resort compound in Pansol village in Laguna province near the foothills of Mount Makiling. Police and rescuers retrieved nine bodies from the wreckage, police said. Two people on the ground were injured and brought to a hospital. Eric Apolonio, a spoke
  
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• Protests on roads near Hong Kong airport disrupt air travel

  01-09-2019 13:40
  HONG KONG -- Anti-government protesters blocked roads near Hong Kong's airport with burning barricades and damaged a train station Sunday after a night of violent clashes with police. Train and some bus service to the airport on the outlying island of Chek Lap Kok were suspended. Some passengers walked to the airport, one of Asia's busiest, carrying their luggage, but some flights were delayed. Hong Kong has been the scene of tense anti-government protests for nearly three months. The demonstrat
  
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• Protesters block roads near Hong Kong airport as clashes continue

  01-09-2019 13:40
  HONG KONG -- Anti-government protesters blocked roads near Hong Kong's airport with burning barricades and damaged a train station Sunday after a night of violent clashes with police. Train and some bus service to the airport on the outlying island of Chek Lap Kok were suspended. Some passengers walked to the airport, one of Asia's busiest, carrying their luggage. Hong Kong has been the scene of tense anti-government protests for nearly three months. The demonstrations began in response to a pro
  
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• B.C. man launches class-action lawsuit over hip implant

  01-09-2019 04:11
  A proposed class-action lawsuit has been launched on behalf of Canadian patients with a particular type of metal-based hip implant that the lead plaintiff says led to high levels of toxic compounds in his body and triggered a litany of debilitating symptoms. David Goldsmith from Radium Hot Springs, B.C. received a hip implant in 2009 in hopes of improving his quality of life. The metal-on-polyethylene hip replacement is widely used in Canada and is approved by Health Canada. But over the next 10
  
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• Alberta Birds of Prey Centre sees decline in visitors for 2019 season

  01-09-2019 03:05 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale closes for the 2019 season this weekend and has seen fewer visitors than usual after a West Nile virus outbreak last year.
  
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• Pilot killed in northern Alberta air show plane crash

  01-09-2019 01:10 via globalnews.ca
  A pilot was killed during an air show in northern Alberta on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Northeast Calgary baseball field named in honour of league founder

  01-09-2019 01:08
  Following 40 years of involvement in the local baseball scene, Glen Hansen had his name engraved into Calgary’s history. In front of an enthusiastic crowd braving wind and rain, Airways Park was officially renamed Glen Hansen Field at a ceremony held on Saturday. A founder, coach, president and driving force behind both the Calgary Cardinals and the Foothills Major Baseball Association (FMBA), the 73-year-old accepted the award with a sense of poise and fulfillment. "From a guy who grew up
  
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• New Alberta school fee rules go into effect Sept. 1

  01-09-2019 01:03 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta will introduce new rules regarding school fees on Sept. 1 that could end up affecting what parents will pay for transportation. Carolyn Kury de Castillo reports.
  
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• New Alberta school fee rules go into effect Sept. 1; critics fear parents will end up paying more

  01-09-2019 01:01 via globalnews.ca
  New regulations go into effect on Sept. 1 that could end up affecting how much parents will pay for school fees in Alberta.
  
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• Pilot killed after plane at Alta. town fall fair crashes

  01-09-2019 00:58
  One person was killed on Saturday when a plane that was part of an air show at an Alberta fall fair crashed. Officials said two planes were flying acrobatic maneuvers for the Smith Fall Fair when one aircraft disappeared. When it was found one hour later, the plane's only occupant was pronounced dead at the scene. Transport Canada is investigating. Slave Lake RCMP are asking members of the public to contact them if they have video of the noon air show. The detachment can be reached at 780-849-39
  
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• Alberta government reiterates support for naloxone kits after concerns it may enable some drug users

  01-09-2019 00:44 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Mental Health and Addictions Associate Minister Jason Luan reiterates his support for naloxone kits after hearing concerns from parents.
  
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• Virtual reality project at Lethbridge College could change the way justice studies taught - Calgary Herald

  01-09-2019 00:21 via calgaryherald.com
  Virtual reality project at Lethbridge College could change the way justice studies taught  Calgary HeraldIn an effort to improve the real-life application of justice studies, two researchers at Lethbridge College will be sending their students into a virtual reality world to ...
  
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• Police chief: 5 dead in West Texas mass shooting

  01-09-2019 00:17
  ODESSA, Texas -- Authorities said Saturday that a gunman killed five people during a mass shooting in the West Texas cities of Odessa and Midland that left many more injured. At least three law enforcement officers were among those shot. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said that there were at least 21 injured by gunfire. He described the suspected shooter as a white male in his 30s. The suspect was shot and killed at the Cinergy movie theatre in Odessa, Gerke said. The shooting set off a chaot
  
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• Five dead, 20 injured in West Texas after traffic stop ends in shooting rampage

  01-09-2019 00:17
  MIDLAND, Texas -- At least five people are dead in West Texas after a man stopped by state troopers for failing to signal a left turn opened fire and fled, shooting more than 20 people as he drove before being killed by officers outside a movie theatre, authorities said. The shooting began Saturday afternoon with an interstate traffic stop where gunfire was exchanged with police, setting off a chaotic rampage during which the suspect hijacked a mail carrier truck and fired at random as he drove
  
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• At least 5 dead in West Texas shooting after traffic stop

  01-09-2019 00:17
  ODESSA, Texas -- At least five people were dead in West Texas after a man who was stopped by state troopers when his vehicle failed to signal a left turn opened fire and fled, shooting more than 20 people before he was killed by officers outside a movie theatre, authorities said Saturday. Three law enforcement officers were among the injured. The shooting began with an interstate traffic stop in the heart of Texas oil country where gunfire was exchanged with police, setting off a chaotic afterno
  
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