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• Police warn of new 'SIM swapping' scam that could empty your bank accounts

  09-11-2019 22:47
  
  TORONTO -- Ontario residents are being warned of a new scam called "SIM swapping" that allows fraudsters to steal your personal information and even empty your bank accounts. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said through the scam, fraudsters have the potential to access your social media accounts, calendar, contacts and money. Police said scammers can even apply for credit in your name or impersonate you to defraud your entire contact list. How the scam works Police said fraudsters will call
  
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• High school basketball players in Calgary for big tournament

  09-11-2019 21:58
  
  CALGARY – Young basketball players from all over the continent are in Calgary this weekend for an inaugural tournament at a private school outside city limits. The Prep School Basketball Tournament, at Edge School for Athletes in Rocky View County, brings players from as far as California and Arizona to compete. Organizers of the tournament say it's a great opportunity for local talent to see how good they are compared to their peers in the United States, where basketball often has a much
  
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• Snowfall warning for Southern Alberta and Central areas - Lethbridge News Now

  09-11-2019 21:32 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Snowfall warning for Southern Alberta and Central areas  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 10-20 cm of snow expected after warning issued for Calgary, Lethbridge and surrounding areas

  09-11-2019 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  A snowfall warning was issued for parts of southern Alberta on Saturday.
  
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• Realtors in Crossfield pitch in to help Veterans Food Bank

  09-11-2019 19:19
  
  CALGARY – A group of realtors in Crossfield are teaming up on Saturday to collect some much-needed items for the Veterans Food Bank in Calgary. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., visitors to open houses in the southern Alberta community are invited to bring some non-perishable items to donate to help out in the annual effort. The urgently needed items include gift cards to grocery stores, laundry soap, fabric softener, toilet paper, mouthwash and cereal. Donors are also asked to bring other items
  
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• A plane crashed after dumping 1,324 litres of pink water for a gender reveal

  09-11-2019 18:38
  
  TORONTO -- Authorities say a small plane crashed in Texas after dumping hundreds of litres of coloured water in another case of a gender reveal event gone wrong. The pilot reported that he was maneuvering at a low altitude in order to pour out 1,324 litres of pink water for the gender reveal, according to a press release put out by the National Transportation Safety Board. Things went wrong when the plane “aerodynamically stalled,” from moving too slow, the release said. The plane cr
  
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• Unattended cigarette may have caused Montreal fire that killed mother, daughter

  09-11-2019 18:01
  
  MONTREAL -- An unattended cigarette may be behind a fire inside a west-end Montreal apartment late Friday that left a woman and her eight-year-old daughter dead and her five-year-old daughter fighting for her life, police said Saturday. Five members of one family were inside the apartment when the fire broke out around 11 p.m. Friday, Montreal police said, in a 51-unit building in Lachine in the city's west end. The mother, 40, and her eight-year-old daughter were pronounced dead in hospital whi
  
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• Supporters in Alberta sling backpacks for walk to support veterans and first responders

  09-11-2019 18:01
  
  CALGARY – People in Alberta's two largest cities are getting together Saturday for an event aimed at supporting both Canada's armed forces members and those who put their lives on the line to help others. The third annual Rucksack March for Remembrance is hosted by Wounded Warriors Canada, a group that works to help soldiers, officers, firefighters and paramedics affected by injury, illness and suicide. The walk brings together people from every aspect of life for an event that raises awar
  
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• Quebec overturns decision to deny French woman immigration documents over language issue

  09-11-2019 17:46
  
  MONTREAL - The Quebec government has overturned a decision to deny a French woman her Quebec immigration documents because of a chapter in English in her PhD thesis. Emilie Dubois says she is relieved after receiving the news late Friday from an Immigration Department official. Dubois, a native of France whose mother tongue is French, had been denied a Quebec selection certificate after bureaucrats ruled her level of French wasn't adequate under the Quebec experience program. Her story made head
  
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• Woman abducted, raped and 'left to die' in desert by father and daughter: police

  09-11-2019 17:38
  
  A man and his daughter abducted and raped a Las Vegas woman, taking her to California and holding her about a week before she was "left to die" outside Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, investigators said. Among the charges against Stanley Lawton, 54, and his daughter Shaniya Poche-Lawton, 22, are kidnapping to commit robbery, attempted murder, rape and robbery, according to the complaint. Military police found the alleged victim, cold and disoriented, outside the base during
  
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• Nova Scotia jury deliberates in case of constables charged in jail cell death

  09-11-2019 16:25
  
  HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia jury resumed deliberations today in a case where two special constables are facing charges in the jail-cell death of a 41-year-old man left lying in police lockup with his face covered by a hood. Daniel Fraser and Cheryl Gardner have been on trial in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on charges of criminal negligence causing the death of Corey Rogers on June 16, 2016. The Crown has argued the death was caused by the constables' failure to follow basic safety practices, such as en
  
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• Over $30,000 worth of action figures and DVD sets seized in Alberta bust

  09-11-2019 16:19
  
  CALGARY – Optimus Prime would be proud of the effort Medicine Hat police put into arresting this Decepticon. Authorities in Medicine Hat have arrested a 37-year-old man after a six-week-long investigation into fraudulent transactions that targeted a number of big retailers. Charles Dale Glasier was arrested on November 7 by the Medicine Hat Police Service. Investigators recovered over $30,000 worth of items, consisting mainly of Transformers action figure toys and a variety of DVDs and DVD
  
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• Over $30,000 of action figures and DVD sets seized in Alberta bust

  09-11-2019 16:19
  
  CALGARY – Authorities in Medicine Hat have arrested a 37-year-old man after a six-week-long investigation into fraudulent transactions that targeted a number of big retailers in the southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan regions. Charles Dale Glasier was arrested on November 7 by the Medicine Hat Police Service. Investigators recovered over $30,000 worth of items, consisting mainly of Transformers action figure toys and a variety of DVDs and DVD box sets. The property is believed t
  
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• One person dead following crash on Highway 2A in Okotoks

  09-11-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Okotoks RCMP are on scene after a single vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Highway 2A.
  
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• Calgary man dead following crash on Highway 2A in Okotoks, Alta.; police say speed a factor

  09-11-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Okotoks RCMP were on scene Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Highway 2A.
  
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• 1 person dead following crash on Highway 2A in Okotoks, Alta.

  09-11-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Okotoks RCMP were on scene Saturday after a single-vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Highway 2A.
  
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• 1 person dead following crash on Highway 2A in Okotoks

  09-11-2019 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Okotoks RCMP are on scene after a single vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Highway 2A.
  
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• Hundreds of thousands evacuated ahead of Bangladesh cyclone

  09-11-2019 15:37
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh -- With a strong cyclone approaching Bangladesh on Saturday, authorities used more than 50,000 volunteers and officials to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people to shelters across the low-lying delta nation's vast coastal region. More than 300,000 people had already moved to safer places and up to 1.8 million were expected to be evacuated by the evening, said Enamur Rahman, Bangladesh's junior disaster management minister. Cyclone Bulbul was moving over the Bay of Bengal and
  
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• More than 70 nations pledge to reduce food waste

  09-11-2019 15:21
  
  ROME -- More than 70 countries have pledged to do more to cut down on the amount of food lost due to poor refrigeration. The countries signed the pledge Saturday at an annual meeting of the Montreal Protocol where ministers, government officials and experts work on regulating man-made chemicals used in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems that are harmful to the ozone layer. The meeting took place at the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome. About one-thir
  
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• Traffic flowing again after fatal crash near Okotoks

  09-11-2019 15:12
  
  CALGARY – A highway south of the City of Calgary was shut down for a number of hours after a fatal single-vehicle rollover Saturday morning. Emergency crews were called to the scene, near the intersection of Northridge Drive and Banister Gate in Okotoks, at about 2:30 a.m. RCMP were called about an SUV driving southbound into traffic in the northbound lane of Highway 21. As officers were on their way, police said they received a second call that the vehicle had rolled over into the median.
  
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• Serious crash closes Highway 2A south of Calgary

  09-11-2019 15:12
  
  CALGARY – The province says a highway south of the City of Calgary has been shut down in response to a crash Saturday morning. 511 Alberta says the incident has closed Highway 2A in both directions.NB Hwy2A btwn Milligan Dr and 338 Ave E is CLOSED due to an MVC. Choose an alternate route. An ETO is not yet available. (6:36am) #ABRoads #yyctraffic — 511 Alberta (@511Alberta) November 9, 2019Okotoks RCMP say the incident is a single vehicle rollover that occurred in the northbound
  
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• Indian court rules in favour of Hindu temple on disputed land

  09-11-2019 15:12
  
  NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favour of a Hindu temple on a disputed religious ground in the country's north and ordered that alternative land be given to Muslims to build a mosque -- a verdict in a highly contentious case that was immediately deplored by a key Muslim body. The dispute over land ownership has been one of India's most heated issues, with Hindu nationalists demanding a temple on the site in the town of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state for more than a centur
  
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• Fatal crash on highway near Okotoks under investigation

  09-11-2019 15:12
  
  CALGARY – A highway south of the City of Calgary was shut down for a number of hours after a fatal single-vehicle rollover Saturday morning. Emergency crews were called to the scene, near the intersection of Northridge Drive and Banister Gate in Okotoks, at about 2:30 a.m. EMS confirm to CTV News that one person was killed in a single vehicle rollover. They were the only occupant in the car. 511 Alberta say the incident closed Highway 2A in both directions but the closure has since been li
  
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• Significant snowfall expected in City of Calgary and area

  09-11-2019 14:54
  
  CALGARY – Residents in the City of Calgary enjoyed double-digit temperatures on Friday thanks to a chinook, but the weather has turned again as 10 to 20 cm is expected to fall over the weekend. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning Saturday morning, due to a cold front moving into southern Alberta. There hasn't been any snowfall reported in the city so far, but the agency says it's expected to begin in the evening and intensify through the overnight hours. Officials say many areas a
  
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• Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak has emergency surgery, Vanna White subs in

  09-11-2019 14:51
  
  After nearly four decades of being co-host of the Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White has temporarily stepped into the role of host while Pat Sajak recovers from surgery. The show put out a tweet Friday afternoon explaining that taping had to be canceled on Thursday when Sajak was forced to undergo an emergency surgery to “correct a blocked intestine.” A photo attached to the tweet shows the iconic wall of letters spelling out “GET WELL SOON PAT!” “He is resting comfortab
  
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• 3 dead, dozens injured as Australia wildfires raze homes

  09-11-2019 14:15
  
  CANBERRA, Australia -- Wildfires razing Australia's drought-stricken east coast have left three people dead, several missing and dozens injured, with over 150 homes destroyed, officials said Saturday. Around 1,500 firefighters were battling more than 70 fires across Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, with the most intense in the northeast, where flames were fanned by strong winds, Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said. A woman who was found unconscious and with se
  
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• Germany marks 30 years since Berlin Wall fell

  09-11-2019 13:41
  
  BERLIN -- Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. Leaders from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic attended a ceremony at Bernauer Strasse -- where one of the last parts of the Berlin Wall remains -- before placing roses in the once-fearsome barrier that divided the city for 28 years. "The Berlin Wall, ladies and gentlemen, is history," German Chancellor Ang
  
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• Germany, allies mark 30 years since Berlin Wall fell

  09-11-2019 13:41
  
  BERLIN -- Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. Leaders from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic attended a ceremony at Bernauer Strasse -- where one of the last parts of the Berlin Wall remains -- before placing roses in gaps in the once-fearsome barrier that divided the city for 28 years. Axel Klausmeier, head of the Berlin Wall memorial site, recalled t
  
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• On Scheer same-sex marriage stance, Tory MP accuses parties of 'anti-Catholic bigotry'

  09-11-2019 13:00
  
  OTTAWA – A Conservative MP is accusing the Liberals and NDP of “anti-Catholic bigotry” in their questioning of his leader Andrew Scheer’s position on same-sex marriage. In a panel interview on CTV’s Question Period airing on Sunday, Alberta MP Garnett Genuis was asked if he thinks that Scheer needs to recalibrate his position on social issues like same-sex marriage before the party’s leadership review in April. His response was that “if anything,”
  
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• WHL Roundup: Friday, November 8, 2019

  09-11-2019 07:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - D-Jay Jerome completed the comeback with the shootout winner as the Lethbridge Hurricanes edged the Edmonton Oil Kings 4-3 on Friday in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Hurricanes complete comeback in 4-3 shootout win over Edmonton

  09-11-2019 07:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Lethbridge Hurricanes rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the third period to pick up their tenth win in 13 games as well as sole possession of first place in the WHL’s Central Division. Tom Roulston has a recap of the game.
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Nov 8

  09-11-2019 06:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Friday, November 8, 2019 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Liam Nixon.
  
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• Lethbridge Firefighters save dog stuck on Oldman River ice shelf - Lethbridge News Now

  09-11-2019 05:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge Firefighters save dog stuck on Oldman River ice shelf  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• AHS identifies issue that led to lab result delays after Connect Care launch

  09-11-2019 03:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  After hearing from family doctors who said they weren't receiving lab results since Connect Care launched, Alberta Health Services said Friday it had identified the "e-delivery" issue.
  
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• Lethbridge's Japanese garden ranked in North America's Top 10 'Places to Travel for' - CTV News

  09-11-2019 03:21 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge's Japanese garden ranked in North America's Top 10 'Places to Travel for'  CTV News
  
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• Lethbridge's Japanese garden ranked in North America's Top 10 'Places to Travel for'

  09-11-2019 03:21
  
  The Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden is being recognized by peers in the North American garden industry, as a place worth seeing.  Nikka Yuko was named as one of the 2019 Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For  November 5, at the North American Garden Tourism Conference in Victoria, British Columbia.  The awards are given out every two years, by a jury made up of members from the Canadian Garden Council, the Mexican Association of Botanic Gardens, and the American Public Gar
  
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• New rail yard facility open in Foremost

  09-11-2019 01:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  "Leonard was a good friend to all of us. Everyone has pulled together to make his dream come true."
  
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• Southern Alberta sugar beet farmers unable to harvest nearly half of 2019 crop

  09-11-2019 01:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadian sugar company Rogers has announced that it has been forced to terminate the 2019 sugar beet harvest in southern Alberta due to the impact of severe weather.
  
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• Granum residents vote to dissolve town

  09-11-2019 01:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  A vote has seen 75 per cent of people who cast a ballot say they are in favour of dissolving the town of Granum, Alta. Demi Knight reports.
  
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• 'Glasses ban' in some workplaces have women in Japan seeing red

  09-11-2019 01:16
  
  TORONTO — Companies in Japan reportedly banning female employees from wearing glasses is sparking fresh outrage and debate on social media over the country’s stringent workplace dress-code practices that specifically target women. Nippon TV reported that various companies banned eyewear for females for various reasons, including airlines that cited safety in emergency situations, retailers who said glasses made a “cold impression,” and traditional restaurants who felt the
  
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• New rail yard facility opens in Foremost

  09-11-2019 01:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  A new railyard, named in honour of the late former MLA Leonard Mitzel, is officially open in Foremost, Alta. As Emily Olsen reports, the community is excited for the opportunities it will bring.
  
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• 'It's just not right': preschool operators say subsidy cuts devastate families

  09-11-2019 01:11
  
  CALGARY -- Parents who relied on specific government subsidies to enroll their children in preschool and childcare programs say they will be scrambling to find solutions in the new year. That's because the Kin Care and the Stay-at-Home subsidies have been eliminated, effective January 1, 2020, under Alberta Budget 2019. “We were devastated," said Shona Robinson. Her second-born daughter is enrolled in preschool under the subsidy. “We were like, 'oh no, now we have to re-budget, we ha
  
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• Residents vote to dissolve Town of Granum into M.D. of Willow Creek

  09-11-2019 00:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  The vote comes on the heels of a viability report conducted by the province, outlining Granum's options to remain a town or join the M.D. of Willow Creek.
  
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• Another ATM theft in Alberta has RCMP looking for suspects

  09-11-2019 00:46
  
  EDMONTON -- Mounties are searching for two people who wore disguises as they tied a tow rope to an ATM machine and ripped it out of a Slave Lake gas station. The theft happened around 4:30 a.m. Friday, according to Slave Lake RCMP. The thieves forced their way into a Petro Canada gas station in Cornerstone Plaza and once inside, rigged up the machine to their truck and drove off with the ATM in tow, police say. The theft caused "extensive damage" to the interior of the gas station. Both thieves
  
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• ATCO unveils memorial monument honouring Royal Canadian Air Force

  09-11-2019 00:15
  
  On Friday ATCO unveiled a memorial monument to the Royal Canadian Air Force. The monument is a pair of airplane wings. It's located on the ATCO Park site, which used to be the Number 10 Repair Depot for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. "The importance of celebrating our total armed forces in Canada is very important to me," said ATCO Chair and CEO Nancy Southern. "I want this to be a place where people can reflect," she added, "And not take for granted how important our
  
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• Do you recognize this man? Poppy box theft caught on camera

  09-11-2019 00:14
  
  CALGARY – The manager of a Boston Pizza location in southern Alberta has turned to social media in hopes of catching the individual who made off with their poppy donation box. Nick Wright, who manages a BP location in Okotoks, posted some videos and information about a man believed to have taken the box from their front counter on Monday Nov. 4.In the videos, an unknown male is seen entering the restaurant and conversing with a staff member at the front desk. The man waits patiently, then
  
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