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• Southwest Airlines pilots accused of streaming video from bathroom cam

  26-10-2019 23:22
  PHOENIX -- A lawsuit filed against Southwest Airlines by a flight attendant alleges pilots on a 2017 flight had an iPad streaming video from a hidden camera in a bathroom in one of the airline's jets. Southwest responded Saturday by denying it places cameras in aircraft lavatories and by calling the 2017 incident an "inappropriate attempt at humour" not condoned by the company. The lawsuit alleges flight attendant Renee Steinaker saw an iPad streaming video from the plane's forward bathroom when
  
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• Alta. universities, colleges say UCP funding cuts are ‘significant’, ‘a challenge’

  26-10-2019 23:08 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta universities and colleges are bracing themselves for the fallout from cuts to post-secondary education as a result of the province’s 2019 budget.
  
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• Volunteers set up Field of Crosses memorial in Calgary

  26-10-2019 21:10
  CALGARY – Hundreds of white crosses are being installed in a Calgary park on Saturday, once again forming the Field of Crosses, a special display meant to honour Canada's fallen soldiers. Each year, volunteers and students from around the city help install 3,500 crosses in the five acres of parkland along Memorial Drive for the Remembrance Day memorial. Murray McCann, founder of the Field of Crosses, says it's important to recognize everyone who gave their life in the name of freedom. "It'
  
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• GAME NOTES: Tigers look to bounce back Saturday in Lethbridge - CHAT News Today

  26-10-2019 20:59 via chatnewstoday.ca
  GAME NOTES: Tigers look to bounce back Saturday in Lethbridge  CHAT News Today
  
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• Ex-Trump aide wants judge to decide on impeachment testimony

  26-10-2019 20:53
  WASHINGTON -- An ex-White House adviser who's supposed to testify before House impeachment investigators on Monday has asked a federal court whether he should comply with a subpoena or follow U.S. President Donald Trump's directive against co-operating in what he dubs a "scam." After getting a subpoena Friday, former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman quickly filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court in Washington. He asked a judge to decide whether he should accede to House demands
  
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• B.C. Appeal Court says Canada must rethink extradition of Indigenous man

  26-10-2019 20:14
  VANCOUVER -- The federal Justice Department has been ordered by the British Columbia Appeal Court to reconsider the extradition of an Aboriginal man to the United States because it says the minister failed to factor in Canada's historical mistreatment of Indigenous families. Glenn Sheck, a member of the Bonaparte Indian Band in B.C., is accused of money laundering in the United States and last year then-federal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who is Indigenous, ordered the extradition. Wr
  
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• Calgary police investigate after bullets strike northeast home

  26-10-2019 20:02
  CALGARY – Police are hunting for suspects after shots rang out in northeast Calgary late Friday night. Officers were called to a home in the 100 block of Castleridge Crescent N.E. for reports of gunshots. When they arrived, they found it had been struck by two bullets. It also appears a silver sedan nearby was also struck, but police could not confirm that detail. No one was injured as a result and no suspects were found in the area. Police remain at the scene to try and learn more about w
  
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• Drake mingles with Adele at his casino-themed 33rd birthday party

  26-10-2019 18:56
  TORONTO -- Drake marked his 33rd birthday with a celebrity-splashed night of festivities, but it was a photograph with Adele that set social media on fire. The Toronto rapper posted a shot of himself sitting alongside the "Rolling in the Deep" singer at the mob-themed costume party. Adele was dressed in a black, off-the-shoulder gown in tribute to Ginger McKenna, the character played by Sharon Stone in Martin Scorsese's 1995 crime drama "Casino." Rapper French Montana was among the other perform
  
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• Chileans in Calgary stand in solidarity with protesters back home

  26-10-2019 18:02
  CALGARY – Chileans living in Calgary will be gathering for a rally in the downtown core on Saturday to shed light on the violent situation taking place in their home country. The movement, inspired by the social unrest in Chile, one of Latin America's wealthiest countries, is organized by the Chilean Canadian Community Association of Calgary. The group says it will be gathering at the east side of Olympic Plaza at 1:30 p.m. According to a press release, the Chilean government raised prices
  
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• Calgary man charged in stabbing death of case worker

  26-10-2019 17:51 via globalnews.ca
  An 18-year-old Calgary man was taken into custody Friday and faces a murder charge in connection with the fatal stabbing a case worker in South Calgary.
  
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• Lebanese block roads as mass demonstrations enter 10th day

  26-10-2019 17:12
  BEIRUT -- Lebanese anti-government protesters stepped up their efforts to block roads in and around the capital Beirut on Saturday, lying in the streets and chanting "peaceful, peaceful" as security forces struggled to drag them out of the way. The dispersals were largely peaceful, but clashes broke out near the northern city of Tripoli, injuring a number of people. The campaign of civil disobedience came on the 10th day of nationwide anti-government protests, the largest Lebanon has seen in yea
  
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• Trump lawyer Giuliani talks money and Bidens in pocket-dial calls to reporter

  26-10-2019 17:08
  Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, left two apparently unintended voicemails on a reporter's phone this fall in which he discussed his need for hundreds of thousands of dollars and disparaged the Biden family, NBC reported on Friday. The unwitting calls and messages from Giuliani, colloquially called "butt-dials," come as sources tell CNN that Giuliani has been approaching defense attorneys for possible representation following escalating reports regarding a federal in
  
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• Hong Kong bans posting of police officers' personal details

  26-10-2019 17:01
  Hong Kong authorities won a temporary court order banning anyone from posting personal details or photos of police officers online, in their latest effort to clamp down on the city's protest movement. The government said Saturday that the High Court granted the Department of Justice's request for the interim injunction to "restrain doxing and harassment of police officers and their families." The wide-ranging order prohibits unlawfully "publishing, communicating or disclosing" officers' details
  
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• Russia calls U.S. move to protect Syrian oil 'banditry'

  26-10-2019 16:06
  MOSCOW - Russia's Defence Ministry is harshly criticizing the United States' decision to send armoured vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to protect oil fields. U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper says the move is aimed at keeping the fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants. But Russian ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday that "what Washington is doing now, the seizure and control of oil fields in eastern Syria under its armed
  
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• Group encourages Canadians to shop local on Small Business Saturday

  26-10-2019 15:54
  CALGARY – The country's largest association of medium and small business owners is asking all Canadians to consider going to their own local businesses for their shopping needs on Saturday. Small Business Saturday, now in its seventh year, was created by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in partnership with Interac to honour entrepreneurs who do so much to support their local economies. The CFIB says those businesses are the "cornerstone of their community." "These entreprene
  
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• More heartburn meds recalled as Health Canada investigates impurity levels

  26-10-2019 15:48
  TORONTO -- Health Canada has recalled even more ranitidine medications while it continues to investigate levels of an impurity known as N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in the drugs. According to the latest recall notice on Friday, Dominion Pharmacal, Laboratoire Riva Inc., Pharmascience Inc. and Vita Health Inc. are all recalling batches of their prescription and over-the-counter products “as a precautionary measure.” Prescription ranitidine drugs are commonly used for treating and pre
  
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• Former Alberta premier says she'd support federal Liberals navigate Western division

  26-10-2019 15:30
  OTTAWA – Former Alberta premier Alison Redford says she’s willing to lend a hand to the Trudeau Liberals as they begin to mend the relationship between Ottawa and the West amid growing economic hardships. In an interview with CTV’s Question Period, the province’s 14th premier said "I haven’t been asked. I am happy to help in any way. This is something Canadians have been thinking about for a long time and I think the key is that there has to be a lot of voices at th
  
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• Murder charge laid in connection with stabbing of Calgary caseworker

  26-10-2019 14:57
  CALGARY – Police say a Calgary man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Deborah Onwu, a caseworker remembered as "hard working and devoted" to the people she supported. Officers were called to an assisted living home in the 1800 block of 27 Avenue S.W. at 2:45 a.m. on Friday for reports of a stabbing. When they arrived, they found a woman suffering from several stab wounds. Paramedics administered first aid to the victim, but she died at the scene. The victim was iden
  
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• Young children left alone for 4 hours should be considered child neglect: survey

  26-10-2019 14:45
  If a child younger than six years old is left home alone for more than four hours it should be considered child neglect, a new survey of U.S. social workers suggests. The survey found that social workers were overall more inclined to label such scenarios as child neglect if a child was physically hurt.Scroll down or click here to vote in our poll of the day "Social workers were significantly more likely to consider it child neglect when a child was left home alone, if the child had suffered an i
  
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• Lethbridge company strikes a deal with Dragon's Den's Arlene Dickinson - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2019 14:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge company strikes a deal with Dragon's Den's Arlene Dickinson  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Winds fan raging California wildfires as thousands flee homes

  26-10-2019 13:53
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday, and the state's largest utility began power shut-offs for an estimated 2.35 million people due to forecasts of severe winds and extreme fire danger. Two previous blackouts in recent weeks were carried out amid concern that gusty winds could disrupt or knock down power lines and spark devastating wildfires. Some gusts this weekend might reach 120 km/h or higher as
  
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• New evacuations for 50,000 people near California wildfire

  26-10-2019 13:53
  SAN FRANCISCO -- New evacuations have been ordered for at least 50,000 people near a huge wildfire and millions of Californians prepared to live in the dark again as the state's largest utility warned it might cut power for the third time in as many weeks because of looming strong winds and high fire danger. Pacific Gas & Electric said it would decide early Saturday whether to black out 850,000 homes and businesses in 36 counties for 48 hours or longer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area,
  
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• 'Historic' wind event forecast amid raging California wildfires

  26-10-2019 13:53
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Authorities ordered at least 50,000 people to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday, and the state's largest utility announced power shut-offs for an estimated 2.35 million people due to forecasts of severe winds and extreme fire danger. Two previous electricity shut-offs in recent weeks were carried out amid concern that gusty winds could disrupt or knock down power lines and spark devastating wildfires. Some gusts this weekend might reach 120 km/h
  
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• Fire threat raises spectre of more blackouts for California

  26-10-2019 13:53
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Millions of Californians prepared to live in the dark again as the state's largest utility warned it might cut power for the third time in as many weeks because of looming strong winds and high fire danger. Pacific Gas & Electric will decide Saturday whether to black out 850,000 homes and businesses in 36 counties for 48 hours or longer throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, wine country and Sierra foothills. The two previous shutdowns were done amid concern that gusty winds
  
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• Costco recalling infant formula due to possible Cronobacter contamination

  26-10-2019 13:25
  OTTAWA - Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. is recalling Kirkland Signature brand Non-GMO Infant Formula for Babies Sensitive to Lactose due to possible contamination by Cronobacter bacteria. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the product was sold nationally in 1.36 kg packages with a best before date of Nov. 5, 2020. Anyone who has the product is advised to either throw it out or return it to the place of purchase. There have been no reports linking the product to any illnesses, however, the CF
  
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• Vietnam villagers await news on their loved ones' fate in U.K. truck case

  26-10-2019 13:14
  DO THANH, Vietnam -- Residents of this rural village in central Vietnam said Saturday that they fear their family members could be among the dozens of people found dead in the back of a truck in England. The mother and a sister of Bui Thi Nhung cried as they set up an altar with incense and a photo of the missing 19-year-old where family and friends can pray at their home in Do Thanh. The family heard from a friend living in the U.K. that "Nhung is one of the victims," said one of Nhung's relati
  
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• 'I'm dying': Relatives await answers in smuggling case

  26-10-2019 13:14
  LONDON -- One family received a final text from their daughter saying she couldn't breathe and was dying. Another grieving family set up a makeshift altar for their missing daughter who paid $10,000 in hopes of pursuing a career as a nail technician in Britain. A desperate father is searching for his son, who frequently calls home but hasn't since last week. They are some of the dozens of families looking for any information about their loved ones following the discovery earlier this week of 39
  
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• Families demand answers after 39 bodies found in sealed truck

  26-10-2019 13:14
  DO THANH, Vietnam -- One family received a final text from their daughter saying she couldn't breathe and was dying. Another grieving family set up a makeshift altar for their missing daughter who paid $10,000 in hopes of pursuing a career as a nail technician in Britain. A desperate father is searching for his son, who frequently calls home but hasn't since last week. They are some of the dozens of families looking for any information about their loved ones following the discovery earlier this
  
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• WHL Roundup: Friday, October 25, 2019

  26-10-2019 07:32 via globalnews.ca
  Chase Wouters had a hat trick as the Saskatoon Blades defeated the Winnipeg Ice 8-3 on Friday in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Hurricanes earn 6th straight win in 5-2 victory over Brandon

  26-10-2019 07:05 via globalnews.ca
  The Lethbridge Hurricanes earned their sixth straight win on Friday thanks to a 5-2 win over the Brandon Wheat Kings. Danica Ferris has a recap of the game.
  
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• Red Deer RMCP warn of Bitcoin scam with suspect posing as police

  26-10-2019 05:33
  EDMONTON -- Police are issuing a warning after a Red Deer citizen was scammed out of a "large amount of money" in Bitcoin by a person pretending to be with RCMP. Mounties were told the victim was convinced to believe the call was legitimate and from RCMP in Spruce Grove. "The victim was threatened with arrest over a social insurance fraud and was directed to withdraw a large sum of money in order to safeguard money in the victim’s account," RCMP said. The scammer then gave the victim a cod
  
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• 'A terrible tragedy': Two children, paramedic killed in ambulance crash near Beauval, Sask.

  26-10-2019 05:05
  SASKATOON --Three people, including a paramedic and two children, were killed in a crash involving an ambulance near Beauval, Sask., according to RCMP. Police say the ambulance carrying two people collided with a truck with five occupants inside, around 5 p.m. on Friday. The man driving the ambulance, and a boy and a toddler-aged girl from the truck were taken to hospital and later pronounced dead. The girl has been identified to CTV News Saskatoon as Kinzey Iron-Couilllonneur by her mother. She
  
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• Huge ski sale derailed by power outage due to weather

  26-10-2019 04:31
  CALGARY – Organizers of a massive ski and winter gear sale on at the Max Bell Centre are struggling to deal with long lineups after windy weather ended up knocking out power to the facility late Friday. The Calgary New and Used Ski Sale, which takes place all this weekend, opened up to customers looking to outfit their entire family for the upcoming ski season. Unfortunately, when the sales started ringing up, officials say the power was knocked out to the entire facility. "We were having
  
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• This way to ‘Wexit’: Navigating Alberta’s theoretical secession

  26-10-2019 02:48 via globalnews.ca
  The road to secession is a long and complicated one, involving the House of Commons, the Senate, First Nations and all of the provinces.
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Oct 25

  26-10-2019 02:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, October 25, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Quinn Campbell.
  
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• Alberta budget finds supporters in rural Alberta

  26-10-2019 02:29 via globalnews.ca
  The latest Alberta budget, released by the UCP government on Thursday - drew concerns from the two big cities, but in the heart of UCP country - rural Alberta, many were pleased with the rollbacks.
  
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• Analysis: Western alienation is very real in Alberta and Saskatchewan

  26-10-2019 02:22 via globalnews.ca
  Conservatives won two Saskatchewan ridings with more than 80 per cent of the vote. Similar routs were even more frequent in Alberta, where Conservatives won some races by more than 40,000 votes.
  
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• Lethbridge testing speaker system for people who are visually impaired - Global News

  26-10-2019 02:14 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge testing speaker system for people who are visually impaired  Global News
  
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• Lethbridge testing speaker system for people who are visually impaired

  26-10-2019 02:14 via globalnews.ca
  Some downtown Lethbridge intersections are looking and sounding a little different. The city is taking part in a trial project to help those with visual impairments cross the street safely.
  
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• Lethbridge stakeholders react to Alberta budget - Global News

  26-10-2019 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  Lethbridge stakeholders react to Alberta budget  Global News
  
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• Alberta farmers continue to battle weather

  26-10-2019 02:07 via globalnews.ca
  Farmers across the province continue to battle the weather to finish up harvest.
  
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• Inclusive election in Lethbridge riding - CTV News

  26-10-2019 02:06 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
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• Inclusive election in Lethbridge riding

  26-10-2019 02:06
  LETHBRIDGE – The recent federal election shows Lethbridge might be more open and inclusive than it has a reputation for. The Lethbridge riding has been represented by centre-right MPs without interruption since the 1930s, but in this election, three of the six parties were represented by candidates who identify as queer. Green Party candidate Stephnie Watson is queer and a drag monarch who performs under the name "Killa Watt." She says this election has demonstrated a more open and inclusi
  
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• 15 youth file lawsuit against government, demanding climate action

  26-10-2019 02:01
  TORONTO -- Fifteen young people filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Friday demanding that Ottawa do more to address the climate crisis. The group, ranging in ages from seven to 19, announced the legal action at a Vancouver rally attended by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Each plaintiff says they suffer from the harms of climate change. “I think we need to hold our government accountable because right now our politicians and the people in power are not representing our
  
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• City tests speaker system for visually impaired

  26-10-2019 01:30 via globalnews.ca
  Some downtown intersections are looking and sounding a little different. The city is taking part in a trial project to help those with visual impairments cross the street safely. Jasmine Bala has more.
  
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• Stolen Mercedes recovered, suspects arrested by RCMP and Calgary police

  26-10-2019 00:42
  CALGARY – A number of suspects have been arrested and a victim's stolen Mercedes has been recovered in connection with an armed carjacking that took place on October 20. Police say a man was returning to his car after shopping at the Walmart in Airdrie when two men, sitting in a parked pickup truck, approached him with guns.Thieves steal car at gunpoint in parking lot of Airdrie WalmartThey demanded the man's keys and wallet and the victim complied. The offenders then fled the scene with o
  
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• Pitbull saves N.B. woman who was attacked by deer in her own backyard

  26-10-2019 00:16
  A Saint John, N.B. woman says she was saved by her pitbull after an ordinary afternoon turned into a terrifying wrestling match with a buck in her own backyard. Trinda Short had no idea what kind of ordeal she was about to go through when she took her dog Tyson out into the backyard for some fresh air on Tuesday. She told CTV News Atlantic that the two of them walked down the steps of her house like any other day, but when she reached the bottom and looked up, an enormous deer was right beside h
  
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• Burning mattress in northeast Calgary duplex fire sends 1 to hospital

  26-10-2019 00:10
  CALGARY — One person is in hospital after a Duplex caught fire in northeast Calgary Friday afternoon. The Calgary Fire Department was called to the multi-unit residence in the 200 block of 23th Avenue N.E. shortly before 1 p.m. for reports of a fire in a lower unit. When crews arrived they found smoke coming from the building’s entrance and they headed to the basement where the found a mattress on fire in one of the suites. The mattress fire was quickly put out with water. The suite&
  
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• ‘A heck of a player’: Canadian Heisman nominees back Sherwood Park star Hubbard

  26-10-2019 00:01
  
  EDMONTON -- An Albertan leading U.S. college football in rushing is rare enough, but if Sherwood Park’s Chuba Hubbard keeps up his torrid pace he could soon join another exclusive club. Hubbard, 20, has racked up 1,265 yards in seven games this season for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, nearly 300 more than the next closest rusher.'Hi Chuba, this is Wayne': Gretzky gives props to local star in U.S. college football 'A life-changing time': Sherwood Park’s Hubbard running away with U.S. co
  
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