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• Michael Bloomberg opens door to 2020 presidential campaign - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 23:50 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Medicine Hat plays host to 2019 World U-17 Hockey Challenge

  07-11-2019 23:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Liam Nixon speaks with Terry Bartman, the Medicine Hat chair of the 2019 World U-17 Hockey Challenge about how the high-calibre hockey event is being received in that city.
  
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• Police investigate dog attack in Panorama Hills

  07-11-2019 23:46
  
  CALGARY – Officials are conducting an investigation after an apparent dog attack in the northwest Calgary community of Panorama Hills. Police and bylaw officers were called to a home in the community Thursday afternoon. While there are few details on what exactly occurred, city officials confirm to CTV News a mastiff-type dog was seized from its owner at the scene. "Investigation is ongoing as it just occurred this afternoon," said Kaila Lagran, bylaw service spokesperson with the City of
  
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• Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86 - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 23:28 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Made-in-Alberta ‘robot body’ that allows lungs to stay alive between surgery helps with 12 successful transplants

  07-11-2019 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Ex-Vivo Organ Support System (EVOSS) essentially mimics the human body, using negative pressure that allows the lungs to breathe similarly to how they would in a person.
  
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• Exxon denies it misled investors on climate risks

  07-11-2019 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Climate change may be the defining risk for oil and gas companies in coming decades, and attorneys for New York state are saying Exxon Mobil misled investors about how it was handling that risk.
  
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• Potential McConnell opponent goes off air after complaint - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 23:08 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• RCMP arrest 18-year-old Airdrie man in connection with buttocks-slapping incidents

  07-11-2019 23:04
  
  RCMP filed 18 criminal charges against an 18-year-old Airdrie man in connection with a number of sexual assaults committed by a cyclist. The charges came following an Oct. 16 press release issued by the RCMP, in which they detailed the behavior of a man who had a pattern of riding up behind women on his bicycle and slapping them on their buttocks, and fleeing the scene. Following the release, a number of other victims came forward to report that they had experienced the same thing. In the ensuin
  
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• Wildlife expert identifies rogue goose likely responsible for attacking woman - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 22:40 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Canadians with cystic fibrosis being denied access to life-changing drug, Taber man says

  07-11-2019 22:22
  
  LETHBRIDGE — A Taber, Alta., man is calling on government to take action and help grant Canadians with cystic fibrosis better access to breakthrough treatments. Marten Devlieger was diagnosed with CF when he was two-years-old. CF is a fatal, genetic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. More than 4,300 Canadians suffer from the disease. The median age of survival is 52 years. A U.S.-based drug company, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, has spent years developing life-changing medicati
  
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• Mount Royal Cougars basketball game draws record crowd

  07-11-2019 21:32
  
  CALGARY — A record-setting crowd of about 1,500 are out to watch Mount Royal University basketball on Thursday. A schedule conflict forced the Mount Royal Cougars to shift their game against the University of Regina Cougars to Thursday, with the woman tipping off at 11 a.m. and the men at 1 p.m.. As a result, they decided to invite a bunch of kids to watch. They’re calling it “Get Schooled” games and it worked so well they want to do it again. More to come.
  
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• Dozens of teens pack Saskatoon courtroom during appearance of 3 boys accused of killing 15-year-old

  07-11-2019 21:26
  
  SASKATOON -- As three teens facing murder charges appeared in provincial court Thursday morning, a crowd of young people filled the courtroom and overflowed into the hallway. A 17-year-old boy and two 15-year-old boys are facing second-degree murder charges in connection to the death of another 15-year-old boy.  The 15-year-old victim was found by police at an Arlington Avenue business on Saturday after officers responded to a call about a teenage boy in distress. Efforts to save the boy we
  
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• Lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off Maine coast - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 21:16 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Influx of scam calls frustrate Canadians across the country

  07-11-2019 20:56
  
  TORONTO – Canadians across the country have expressed their frustration with the influx of scam and robocalls purporting to be from federal organizations like the Canadian Revenue Agency and RCMP across the country. For many Canadians, these calls involve a robotic voice that informs the listener that they are in imminent danger of arrest or a lawsuit, then proceeds to ask for personal information. Many Canadians report receiving multiple calls a day.Kitboga: The Internet star giving scamm
  
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• ‘We’re one of the losers’: Alberta rural school division pens letter over UCP education cuts

  07-11-2019 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A rural Alberta school board has penned a letter to the UCP government that calls its education budget changes "draconian." 
  
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• Trial date set for man charged with breaking into Lethbridge businesses - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 20:45 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Alberta Budget 2019: UCP earmarks money for First Responders and Heroes Fund

  07-11-2019 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Alberta government is promising $9 million over three years to implement a fund to help families of first responders who die as a result of their job.
  
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• Judge orders Trump to pay US$2M for charity foundation misuse

  07-11-2019 20:28
  
  NEW YORK -- A New York judge on Thursday ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay US$2 million to an array of charities to resolve a lawsuit alleging he misused his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests. Judge Saliann Scarpulla said Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Trump Foundation by allowing his campaign staff to plan a fundraiser for veterans' charities in the run-up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses. The event, which passed money through Trump's non-prof
  
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• Scammers target military members in a variety of ways, BBB says

  07-11-2019 20:18
  
  CALGARY – Service members, veterans and their families are among the most tantalizing targets for fraudsters, the Better Business Bureau says, as that group carries a significantly higher risk to be scammed than the general population. According to a new report released Thursday, the BBB says military consumers are 32 per cent more likely to be scammed than the general population. The agency says the most common scam that military members and veterans fall victim to are employment scams, w
  
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• Should Alberta opt out of CPP? Jason Kenney looking at options amid Wexit sentiments

  07-11-2019 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney claims there's a "compelling case" to be made for Alberta to exit the half-century-old Canada Pension Plan, but some experts say there's no economic argument for opting out.
  
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• Premier Jason Kenney spent $16K to fly premiers to Saskatoon after Calgary Stampede event: NDP

  07-11-2019 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  "This is a gross misuse of public dollars," said NDP Leader Rachel Notley.
  
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• Premier Jason Kenney spent $16K to fly premiers to Saskatoon after Calgary Stampede event

  07-11-2019 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  "This is a gross misuse of public dollars," said NDP Leader Rachel Notley.
  
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• More than 500 objects forgotten in surgery patients over 2 years, data shows

  07-11-2019 20:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  More than 550 objects have been mistakenly left in Canadian surgery patients in just two years, according to new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Kendra Slugoski has the details.
  
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• Exhibition Park and Rotary expand $10000 Ag Scholarship program - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 20:06 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Notley grills Kenney over $16,000 chartered flight on taxpayers’ dime

  07-11-2019 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Jason Kenney is in the hot seat. He’s being grilled by the NDP over the use of taxpayer dollars to charter a fight for other Conservative premiers. Tom Vernon has the details.
  
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• Canadian Natural Resources reports $1.03B third-quarter profit

  07-11-2019 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  The company says the profit amounted to 87 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 compared with a profit of $1.47 per diluted share a year ago.
  
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• Toyota 2Q profit up 1% on healthy global sales - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 19:31 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• First Nation groups drop out of appeal against Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion

  07-11-2019 19:31
  CALGARY — A pair of B.C. Indigenous groups have dropped out of the appeal process for the Trans Mountain Pipeline epxansion project. The Upper Nicola Band, located near Merritt, B.C., and the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation, based in Kamloops, are no longer trying to block construction, but other opponents are still continuing their fights against the project.  EcoJustice — Canada’s largest environmental charity — has now filed an appeal to the Supreme Court
  
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• Historic Masonic temple hits the market as property taxes soar

  07-11-2019 19:26
  CALGARY – The Freemasons' Hall in the city’s Beltline is up for sale, a move the organization says was prompted by significant jumps in property taxes in recent years. The Freemasons say skyrocketing property taxes forced them to give up the space in the 300 block of 12th Ave. S.W. that originally opened in 1928.  The group is looking to the city to ease the tax burden. The Freemasons say property taxes were: $93,622.12 in 2015 $112,816.96 in 2016 $128,939.25 in 2017In 2018
  
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• Study says school shooters showed warning signs - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 19:19 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Encana reveals Denver will be its new headquarters after leaving Calgary

  07-11-2019 19:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Calgary-based company didn't say which city would be its home base when it announced last week it would establish a ``corporate domicile'' in the United States to replace its longstanding home in Calgary.
  
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• Winnipeg police upgrade charge to murder in stabbing of 3-year-old boy

  07-11-2019 18:53
  WINNIPEG -- Police in Winnipeg have upgraded a charge in the death of a three-year-old boy to second-degree murder. Daniel Jensen had been charged with attempted murder after the sleeping boy was stabbed multiple times in a home last week.For more on this story visit CTV WinnipegHunter Haze Straight-Smith suffered severe brain damage and died on Saturday after his family decided to take him off life support. Family said the injuries were brutal. A relative said Hunter's mother, Clarice Smith, ha
  
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• Notley slams Kenney for spending $16K to fly fellow premiers on charter

  07-11-2019 18:49
  
  EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Jason Kenney spent more than $16,000 of taxpayer money to fly Conservative premiers and their spouses on a charter flight, says NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley. Notley fired the accusation at Kenney during a morning meeting of the Standing Committee on Alberta's Economic Future. She said Kenney chartered a flight from Calgary, where the premiers and their spouses were attending Stampede in July, to Saskatoon. The passenger list included Kenney, Saskatchewan Premie
  
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• Steyer aide offered money for endorsements - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 18:29 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Donations to Veterans Food Bank in Calgary outpaced by increasing demand

  07-11-2019 18:25
  CALGARY — A program run by veterans providing food and supplies to former service men and women is urgently calling for donations. The Veterans Association Food Bank sponsors veterans and their family with hampers through the holiday season. Volunteer organizers say they need food and cash donations to help the growing number of recipients. This is an ongoing story and will be updated throughout the day.
  
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• Don't force military court to hear Omar Khadr appeal, U.S. government argues

  07-11-2019 18:21
  TORONTO -- Forcing a military court to hear and decide an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is inappropriate, the American government says. In new legal filings, U.S. government lawyers argue the years-long delay in hearing the Canadian's case is reasonable, and civilian court intervention unjustified. American troops captured the Toronto-born Khadr, 33, as a badly wounded 15-year-old in Afghanistan in 2002. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to five war crimes, including the murder o
  
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• 'Hydrants aren’t important to you guys?': Video appears to show Calgary Parking Authority vehicle illegally parked

  07-11-2019 18:15
  CALGARY — Video of a Calgary Parking Authority vehicle left parked in front of a fire hydrant has prompted a response from the city. The video, which was forwarded to CTV News, shows a Park Plus vehicle left in front of hydrant, which the filmer says was on Fourth Street S.W. “Hydrants aren’t important to you guys?” the man filming can be heard saying as another man in a Calgary Parking Authority outfit walks up to the car. “It’s a parking zone,” comes t
  
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• New numbers show Alberta GDP still growing

  07-11-2019 17:38
  CALGARY – A new national report says the province’s economy isn’t doing as poorly as you may think. The 'Provincial and territorial economic accounts, 2018' report from Statistics Canada shows Albertan, and Canadian, real gross domestic product (GDP) rose once again in 2018. In the province, the economic rise was 1.6 per cent. That’s not as high as the 4.8 per cent upsurge in 2017, but it still shows improvement. The rise was led by export growth, which the report attribu
  
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• US trade deficit falls to $52.5 billion in September - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 16:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Ongoing incident has traffic disrupted in downtown Calgary

  07-11-2019 16:27
  CALGARY — Traffic is being disrupted on Fifth Avenue S.E. in downtown Calgary as police respond to a report of a man with a weapon. Police say the man is contained in an apartment building. Emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Fifth Avenue S.E. about 6 a.m. Traffic is reduced to one lane and drivers are advised to avoid the area.UPDATE: , EB 5 Ave at 1 St SE, blocking the two left lanes EB. 4 Ave and Macleod Tr. Blocking the left lane. #yyctraffic #yycroads pic.twitter.com/qur81
  
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• Man arrested after lengthy incident in downtown Calgary

  07-11-2019 16:27
  CALGARY — A man is in custody following a lengthy incident in downtown Calgary that saw traffic disrupted for several hours. Emergency crews were called to the 200 block of Fifth Avenue S.E. about 6 a.m. following reports of a man with a weapon. A minor traffic collision was reported at the same time, however it is not known if that was connected. Traffic was reduced to one lane on Fifth Avenue at First Street S.E. for several hours. The incident was resolved about 10:30 a.m. Police said t
  
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• Indigenous report urges B.C. government to demand miners pay cleanup costs up front

  07-11-2019 16:16
  VANCOUVER - A report is urging British Columbia to get better financial guarantees that mining companies will pay for the mess they make. The First Nations who commissioned the study say that if the government doesn't do it, they will. “There's clearly a recognition by the government and the courts that we have ownership and lands and we have jurisdiction and authority,” said Allen Edzerza of the B.C. First Nations Energy and Mining Council. “What this report is suggesting is t
  
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• Warrant issued for Calgary woman in connection with fraudulent mortgage applications

  07-11-2019 15:49
  CALGARY –  A High River RCMP investigation into fraudulent mortgage applications has resulted in a warrant for the arrest of a 22-year-old Calgary woman. Keelie Linda Peterson is wanted on charges of:Using a forged document Failing to comply with a condition of a releaseRCMP believe Peterson is in Calgary and say the wanted woman remains active on social media. Anyone having information regarding Peterson's whereabouts is asked to contact the High River RCMP detachment at 403-352-2357
  
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• Outrage after T.I. says he takes daughter for annual hymen check

  07-11-2019 15:39
  American rapper T.I. has come under fire for revealing he takes his 18-year-old daughter to the gynecologist every year, to have her hymen examined to ensure it’s “still intact.” During an episode of the podcast “Ladies Like Us,” which was released on Tuesday, the famous rapper, actor, and current judge on the Netflix series ‘Rhythm + Flow’ was asked about parenting and the sex education his six children receive. T.I. responded that he’s had &ldquo
  
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• Southern Alberta filled with many historical war landmarks - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 15:24 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• Ontario trucker fined for watching TV while driving

  07-11-2019 15:20
  TORONTO -- Police in Ontario have charged a transport truck driver after other motorists on Highway 401 witnessed a swerving truck with a screen playing in its cab late Tuesday night. Ontario Provincial Police pulled over the Toronto driver, who was hauling two sea containers, near Napanee, Ont. at about 11:30 p.m. They found a screen mounted to the dashboard that was playing a TV show. The 38-year-old was given a $615 fine for driving with a display screen visible to the driver.
  
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• Blake Shelton added to 2020 Calgary Stampede concert lineup

  07-11-2019 15:07
  CALGARY – Country music superstar Blake Shelton will take to the stage of the Scotiabank Saddledome during the 2020 Calgary Stampede. The Grammy-nominated artist, who served as a coach on The Voice, will perform in Calgary on Saturday, July 11 as part of the Virgin Mobile Stampede Concert Series. Tickets start at $59.99 plus fees and will go on sale to the public on the morning of Friday, Nov. 15 through Ticketmaster. Presale tickets will be available beginning Monday, Nov. 11.
  
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• Alberta moves toward 'opt out' organ donation system

  07-11-2019 14:54
  EDMONTON -- All Albertans may soon become organ and tissue donors without prior consent. The Human Tissue and Organ Donation (Presumed Consent) Amendment Act passed first reading in the legislature Wednesday. Right now, if someone in Alberta wants to donate their organs when they die, they must 'opt-in' and make their wishes known to their family. If Bill 205 becomes law, Alberta will switch to an 'opt-out' system, meaning a person would have to refuse to donate instead of agreeing. "A 90 per ce
  
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• Nigerian firefighters battle huge blazes at market in Lagos - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 14:36 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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• MLB union unhappy with Braves GM's 'connecting' comment - Lethbridge News Now

  07-11-2019 14:36 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
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