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• Alberta Budget 2019: Alberta to use budget to get ‘fair-deal’ for province

  24-10-2019 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews announces money to attempt to get a fair-deal for the province.
  
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• Alberta Budget 2019: What’s in it for Edmonton?

  24-10-2019 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  From LRT timelines and municipal funding to road work and health facilities – here’s what the UCP’s first budget means for Edmonton.
  
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• Alberta Budget 2019: Finance Minister asks public sector to ‘work with us’

  24-10-2019 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews asks public sector workers to work with the government during the 2019 Budget Speech.
  
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• Riverbank homeless camps swallowed up by high water

  24-10-2019 23:37
  High water has swallowed up some of the homeless camps along Winnipeg’s riverbanks. It's left some scrambling for a new place to stay and others rushing to clean-up what's been left behind. At some locations, the river is overflowing onto furniture, clothes and bike parts. There is a lot of stuff people can no longer use that will be swept away if it's not cleaned up before the river freezes. On Thursday, CTV News went out with a volunteer clean-up crew in St. Boniface on Lyndale Drive and
  
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• Seeing red: Alberta’s budget and plans to get out of debt ... eventually

  24-10-2019 23:33
  CALGARY — Alberta’s government vows to run a small surplus within four years, but that will come at the expense of the public sector and provincial post-secondary schools. It also plans to get out of the oil-by-rail business, paying an estimated $1.5 billion penalty to let the private sector take that over. “Alberta today has the highest per capita deficit and fastest growing debt of any province or state in North America,” said provincial Finance Minister Travis Toews. &
  
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• Sausage tainted with salmonella also sold in Alberta

  24-10-2019 22:52
  CALGARY – A brand of ready-to-eat dry sausage being recalled across the country after a dozen people became sick from salmonella was also distributed in Alberta, health officials say. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, there are 12 confirmed cases of people sick from salmonella in Ontario and Quebec. The agency says the patients became sick between May and September 2019. One of those people was hospitalized as a result of the exposure. According to the Canadian Food Inspecti
  
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• B.C. realtor fired for social media comment about Alberta ‘cry babies’

  24-10-2019 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  Century 21 Assurance Realty Ltd., says brokerage has suspended the realtor and that he’s no longer with the firm.
  
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• 156 criminal charges later, Calgary police ask public to look out for distraction scammers

  24-10-2019 22:03
  CALGARY — Calgary police have issued a heads-up to every Calgarian, after filing 156 charges against a half-dozen individuals who are allegedly responsible for a series of recent distraction thefts that have taken place in the city. The scam starts with a suspect observing someone enter their PIN number, usually at a retail outlet that doesn’t offer tap payments. Working in groups of two or three, they approach a victim, telling them they dropped a $20 bill. When the victim checks th
  
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• Youth to sue Canadian government for climate change harms, discrimination

  24-10-2019 21:35
  VANCOUVER -- A lawsuit that's expected to be filed Friday claiming young people disproportionately suffer the effects of climate change is potentially precedent setting but also a tough case to argue, legal experts say. The David Suzuki Foundation, which is acting as a partner in the case, outlined in a news release the general arguments in the case being filed by 15 youths who allege they have suffered "specific" injuries due to climate change. It calls on Ottawa to stop conduct that violates t
  
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• Charges against 40-year-old Lethbridge man in connection with carjacking, kidnapping, assaults and robbery - CTV News

  24-10-2019 21:09 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  Charges against 40-year-old Lethbridge man in connection with carjacking, kidnapping, assaults and robbery  CTV News
  
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• Charges against 40-year-old Lethbridge man in connection with carjacking, kidnapping, assaults and robbery

  24-10-2019 21:09
  LETHBRIDGE -- Lethbridge police have filed multiple charges against a 40-year-old man in connection with a number of  recent incidents, including an assault, kidnapping, attempted carjacking and robbery. Cory Ray Williams of Lethbridge has been charged in conjunction with an Oct. 20 assault with a machete, an Oct. 20 assault, carjacking, kidnapping and robbery, an Oct. 22 attempted carjacking with two different knives, and an Oct. 23 assault and robbery of a woman who was thrown to the grou
  
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• Climate change activist Greta Thunberg visits Athabasca Glacier on way to Vancouver

  24-10-2019 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has visited a glacier in Jasper National Park on her way to Vancouver to attend a climate rally.
  
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• Trudeau needs to act on Trans Mountain and equalization to bridge East-West divide: strategist

  24-10-2019 20:55
  OTTAWA – After a fractious election campaign, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's next steps must involve focused action on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and reconfiguring the equalization formula in Alberta or risk further alienation from the West, says a political strategist in Saskatchewan. Earnscliffe’s Jamie Miley said if Trudeau, instead, chooses to approach the concerns of the Western provinces and the ensuing regional divide with symbolic gestures – like hosting mor
  
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• Real estate agent charged in alleged $2.9 million bank fraud investigation

  24-10-2019 19:54
  A Toronto real estate agent has been charged in connection with an alleged $2.9 million bank fraud investigation. Police allege the man operated his own business, that had connections in the Greater Toronto Area and internationally, under the name Grange Real Estate Inc. Brokerage In August 2018, police allege the man made counterfeit deposits, totaling more than $2.9 million.  Police said following the deposits, several transactions involving transfer, credit and bill payments were made at
  
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• City trial project aims to assist those with visual impairments - Lethbridge News Now

  24-10-2019 19:51 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  City trial project aims to assist those with visual impairments  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• A hunter was gored by the deer he thought he shot and killed

  24-10-2019 19:42
  An experienced Arkansas hunter was found severely injured in the woods Tuesday night, his body riddled with antler puncture wounds. He later died. The 66-year-old man from Yellville, Arkansas, had shot a deer, and made plans with his nephew to field-dress the deer's body together, police told CNN. When his nephew found him, the seriously injured man was alert and talking, and was even able to call his wife. But he stopped breathing by the time paramedics could get him to the hospital, the Arkans
  
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• Alberta’s public sector size, pay “not outstanding” compared to other provinces: Parkland Institute

  24-10-2019 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  The report found that Alberta's public sector isn't overly large or excessively paid when compared Canada's other populous provinces.
  
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• Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out opens Friday at Telus Spark

  24-10-2019 19:07
  CALGARY — Body Worlds is back in Calgary with its newest exhibit at Telus Spark. Opening Friday, Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out shows some of the world’s most spectacular creatures like never before. It’s described as an anatomical safari exploring a variety of animals, from goats to giraffes to octopuses and ostriches. Visitors will be guided through the skeletons, muscles, organs and circulatory systems of some of the world’s most spectacular animals. No animals were k
  
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• Ceremony to rename Lethbridge arena after Logan Boulet on Saturday - Lethbridge News Now

  24-10-2019 18:46 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ceremony to rename Lethbridge arena after Logan Boulet on Saturday  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Vulgar slurs spray-painted on Catherine McKenna's office

  24-10-2019 18:23
  OTTAWA -- Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted a vulgar slur on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office. Staff arriving at the office Thursday morning found the four-letter obscenity scrawled in red paint over a photo of the environment minister. A visibly shaken McKenna held a news conference to respond to the incident, saying it sends the wrong message to the women and girls of all ages who worked on her campaign. "It isn
  
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• 'Absolutely disgraceful': Catherine McKenna's office tagged with vulgar and sexist graffiti

  24-10-2019 18:23
  Police in Ottawa are investigating after vulgar and sexist graffiti was spray-painted on the campaign office of newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna. McKenna, who has served as the minister of Environment and Climate Change since 2015, said employees at her office noticed the vandalism on Thursday, which depicts the word “c--t” in red spray paint over her face in the front window. “I was not happy to see that and it was actually really upsetting for the people that are
  
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• Royal Canadian Legion's annual Poppy Campaign begins Friday

  24-10-2019 17:51
  CALGARY — The Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poppy Campaign, honouring those who have fought and served for Canada, will begin Friday. The legion’s largest fundraising campaign, money raised through donations to poppy boxes goes directly toward supporting Canadian veterans and their families. “In 2018, the Royal Canadian Legion’s Poppy Fund provided $1.56 million in direct support to Veterans and their families in Alberta” said Tammy Wheeler, executive directo
  
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• 'Miracle': Car crashes into suspected drunk driver who narrowly missed couple with stroller

  24-10-2019 16:23
  TORONTO -- A couple pushing a baby stroller narrowly escaped serious injury when a motorist slammed into an alleged drunk driver barrelling through a red light, Phoenix police say. In a video posted on their Facebook page, the Phoenix Police Department described the actions of the “hero in the form of a Chevy Cruze.” Sgt. Tommy Thompson told KNXV that the traffic camera footage “pretty much speaks for itself." The startling video – recorded on Oct. 14 -- shows a couple, p
  
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• Car crashes into suspected drunk driver who narrowly missed couple with stroller

  24-10-2019 16:23
  TORONTO -- A couple pushing a baby stroller narrowly escaped serious injury when a motorist slammed into an alleged drunk driver barrelling through a red light, Phoenix police say. In a video posted on their Facebook page, the Phoenix Police Department described the actions of the “hero in the form of a Chevy Cruze.” Sgt. Tommy Thompson told KNXV that the traffic camera footage “pretty much speaks for itself." The startling video – recorded on Oct. 14 -- shows a couple, p
  
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• Post-secondary schools brace for potential cuts in Alberta budget

  24-10-2019 16:07
  CALGARY – The United Conservative Party government is tabling its first budget Thursday afternoon and one area that could potentially see funding cuts is post-secondary education. In an address to Albertans the night before releasing the budget, Premier Jason Kenney used funding for the institutions as an example where he says the province is spending a significant amount of money but not getting the best outcomes. "Alberta overspending is not getting better results. We’re not gettin
  
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• Precision Drilling reports $3.5M third quarter loss

  24-10-2019 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Precision Drilling says it lost $3.5 million in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $30.6 million in the same quarter last year.
  
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• Changes needed in how autism is diagnosed, doctor says

  24-10-2019 15:34
  VANCOUVER - Lindsay Roberts is home schooling her son, not by choice but because the five-year-old boy would be prone to hitting people, screaming and suddenly running away if he became overstimulated in a classroom without any support. “My little guy couldn't start kindergarten because he can't access support without a diagnosis,” Roberts said of Colton Roberts, who is showing symptoms of autism, the same neurodevelopmental disorder that affects his eight-year-old brother Travis. So
  
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• Squatters found living in Windsor man’s garage

  24-10-2019 15:24
  WINDSOR -- A Windsor man says homeless people are living in his garage. Scott Payne says he seldom uses his garage but when he went inside on Sunday, he found a mattress, food, weapons and hundreds of hypodermic needles and drug paraphernalia. "We found many weapons. When we opened the bags there were hatchets and this and that," says Payne. “I found an apartment full of hypodermic needles and garbage and stolen property and people's personal belongings." Payne's home is located in the 600
  
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• Lethbridge police apprehend carjacking, kidnapping and robbery suspect - CTV News

  24-10-2019 15:16 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
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• Lethbridge police apprehend carjacking, kidnapping and robbery suspect

  24-10-2019 15:16
  LETHBRIDGE – A 40-year-old man is in police custody in connection with the Lethbridge Police Service's investigations into a recent robbery, an attempted carjacking and a kidnapping. Officers arrested a suspect Wednesday following a morning robbery in the 2300 block of 5 Avenue North. Police believe the man is responsible for an attempted Tuesday evening carjacking in the 200 block of 27 Street South as well as a Sunday night kidnapping in the parking lot of the McDonald's in the 400 block
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline could lead to $500M a year for clean energy projects, Liberals say

  24-10-2019 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Liberal government bought the existing pipeline for $4.5 billion in 2018, in a bid to overcome the opposition of the British Columbia government to the expansion.
  
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• Greta Thunberg witnesses Athabasca Glacier's decline as part of Alberta visit

  24-10-2019 14:56
  CALGARY – Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg's Alberta trip made a stop in Jasper Tuesday where she was briefed on the profound impact climate change is having on the Athabasca Glacier. University of Saskatchewan (USask) water scientist John Pomeroy, the director of the Global Water Futures program, led Greta and her father on a tour of the university's field research site at the glacier on Tuesday. "The impacts of climate change on these glaciers and the Rockies are profound,"
  
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• TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects: Liberals

  24-10-2019 14:28
  OTTAWA -- The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that pull carbon out of the atmosphere. Finance Minister Bill Morneau told The Canadian Press in an interview this week that the expanded pipeline is not fodder for negotiating with other parties in the minority government. Rather, he said, it is a crucial piece of the puzzle of financing Canada's transition to
  
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• Lethbridge's FresK-O Cheese appearing on Dragons' Den Thursday - Lethbridge News Now

  24-10-2019 14:01 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge's FresK-O Cheese appearing on Dragons' Den Thursday  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Kenney government will deliver its first budget today

  24-10-2019 13:53
  The UCP government will deliver its first budget on Thursday afternoon. Premier Kenney said in a public address Wednesday that it will not be an easy budget for Albertans. "Some programs will be asked to do more with less. Some ineffective programs will be eliminated altogether, and some infrastructure projects will be delayed or scaled back," Kenney said. He said there will be a 2.8 per cent reduction in spending, but health and education funding will be maintained. Advocates in those fields sa
  
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• Calgary-based Husky Energy reports third quarter profit down from a year ago

  24-10-2019 13:51 via globalnews.ca
  Husky Energy says it earned $273 million in its latest quarter, down from $545 million in the same quarter last year.
  
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• Husky Energy reports third-quarter profit down from year ago mark

  24-10-2019 13:39
  CALGARY -- Husky Energy Inc. says it earned $273 million in its latest quarter, down from $545 million in the same quarter last year. The company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing says the profit amounted to 26 cents per share for the three months ending Sept. 30 compared with a profit of 53 cents per share a year ago.Read more from CTV Calgary: Husky Energy layoffs underway in downtown Calgary Revenue totalled $5.31 billion, down from $6.16 billion. Upstream production averag
  
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• How Global News is covering Alberta Budget 2019

  24-10-2019 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  The finance minister will table the Alberta budget on Thursday afternoon. Global News will have robust budget coverage beginning the minute the embargo is lifted, shortly after 3 p.m.
  
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• Former N.S. police chief found guilty of sexually exploiting teen

  24-10-2019 12:32
  BRIDGEWATER, N.S. -- A former police chief in Nova Scotia who was described in court as a "father figure" to a 17-year-old girl with mental health issues was convicted Thursday of sexually exploiting the teen. Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Mona Lynch said John Collyer was the head of the Bridgewater Police Service in 2016 when he groomed the girl for a sexual relationship and later sexually assaulted her in his car. Court heard Collyer became a mentor to the girl when she and her family move
  
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• Babies understand counting long before being able to do it: study

  24-10-2019 12:00
  Long before being able to count out loud, babies may already have a good understanding of what the concept of counting means. That's what researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, discovered in a study published Thursday in the journal Developmental Science. The study tried to answer one big question: Are kids really unaware what counting means until they’re in preschool? Scientists who specialize in building numerical ability in kids worked with 14 and 18-month-old b
  
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• Hundreds flee fire in California wine country amid blackouts

  24-10-2019 10:16
  GEYSERVILLE, Calif. -- Hundreds of people were forced to flee Northern California wine country early Thursday as a wildfire exploded in size amid dangerous winds that prompted utilities throughout the state to impose electrical blackouts to prevent fires. Authorities ordered the entire community of Geyserville to evacuate after the fire in the Sonoma County wine region north of San Francisco grew to more than 15 square miles (39 square kilometres). The town has about 900 residents and is a popul
  
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• Remembrance Poppy campaign gets started Friday - Lethbridge News Now

  24-10-2019 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Death penalty for 16 who set Bangladesh student on fire

  24-10-2019 08:22
  A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday over the murder of a 19-year-old female student burnt alive in April that provoked outrage across the country. Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher of the seminary she attended. "The verdict proves that nobody will get away with murder in Bangladesh. We have the rule of law," prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told reporters after the verdict in
  
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• Trump says wall being built in Colorado, state that doesn't border Mexico

  24-10-2019 07:36
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's boast of building part of the border wall in Colorado is garnering attention in the state, including from the state's governor, Democrat Jared Polis. Trump was speaking Wednesday to an audience in Pennsylvania when he included Colorado in a list of states where the border wall is being constructed, along with New Mexico and Texas. The president said: "We're building a wall in Colorado, we're building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works
  
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• WHL Roundup: Wednesday, October 23, 2019

  24-10-2019 07:12 via globalnews.ca
  PORTLAND, Ore. - Reece Newkirk scored twice, including the winning goal with 39 seconds left, and tacked on two assists to lift the Portland Winterhawks to a 4-3 win over the Prince Albert Raiders on Wednesday in the Western Hockey League.
  
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• Family emergency forces cancellation of Calgary TobyMac concert

  24-10-2019 05:55
  CALGARY -- A family emergency has forced the cancellation of the upcoming Friday concert by award-winning hip hop artist TobyMac. Event Brite sent out a message to ticket holders Wednesday, announcing that the concert was off. "A recent situation has caused us to have to stop the TobyMac Canadian tour today. This morning Toby received information of an emergency in his family, and he will be flying home to Nashville immediately." Wednesday's concert in Saskatoon and the remaining dates on the Ca
  
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• Man arrested in alleged kidnapping, carjacking, and assault - Lethbridge News Now

  24-10-2019 05:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Man arrested in alleged kidnapping, carjacking, and assault  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Body discovered in Kananaskis believed to be missing woman

  24-10-2019 05:10
  CALGARY -- Police have recovered the body of a woman they believe to be the same woman reported missing following a Friday trip to CrossIron Mills. The Calgary Police and RCMP located a body in Kananaskis believed to be Stefanie Hodgson, who was last known to be at CrossIron Mall Friday, Oct. 18 and was reported missing the following Sunday. Late Tuesday, Hodgson's vehicle was discovered by the RCMP in Kananaskis. A deceased woman was discovered near the vehicle early Wednesday. The cause of dea
  
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• Body discovered in Kananaskis believed to be missing Calgary woman

  24-10-2019 05:10
  CALGARY -- Police have recovered the body of a woman they believe to be the same woman who had been reported missing following a Friday trip to CrossIron Mills. The Calgary Police and RCMP located a body in Kananaskis believed to be Stefanie Hodgson, who was last known to be at CrossIron Mills on Friday, Oct. 18 and was reported missing the following Sunday. Late Tuesday, Hodgson's vehicle was discovered by the RCMP in Kananaskis. A deceased woman was discovered near the vehicle early Wednesday.
  
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• Canadian warns against vaccine apathy after flu sends him to hospital for two months

  24-10-2019 04:00
  TORONTO -- As the Public Health Agency of Canada prepares for what could be a long and severe flu season, one Ontario man is urging everyone to get the vaccine before it’s too late. Last year, Kevin Salmon, a 37-year-old father from Acton, Ont., decided against getting his flu shot, but he eventually contracted the virus from his daughter and it left him hospitalized for two months. “I was having troubling breathing, so I’m like: ‘I’m calling 911, I’m going to
  
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