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• Enbridge declines to estimate Line 3 pipeline startup despite positive state ruling

  10-12-2019 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  The CEO of Enbridge Inc. says an updated environmental review released by a Minnesota state agency on Monday is a "good outcome'' but declined to speculate on when its oft-delayed Line 3 pipeline replacement project will be completed.
  
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• Edmonton Public School Board raising school bus fees Feb. 1 in wake of provincial budget

  10-12-2019 23:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some parents with kids in the Edmonton Public School District will be paying higher school bus fees starting Feb. 1.
  
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• City of Lethbridge announces resignation of city manager

  10-12-2019 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Tuesday, the City of Lethbridge said Bramwell Strain will be stepping down due to personal circumstances effective Jan. 13.
  
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• What is a pre-existing condition and how does it impact travel insurance?

  10-12-2019 22:54
  
  As the weather gets colder, many Canadians are heading abroad—hoping to catch some sun or experience an adventure before the new year begins. But with travel comes risk of injury and illness. This week, a Canadian man was diagnosed with a brain tumour while vacationing in Thailand and was told that he needed brain surgery, chemotherapy and radiation immediately.  The insurance company initially said that they would not cover the cost of an air ambulance because the man had checked int
  
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• Flames recall Calgary native Matthew Phillips

  10-12-2019 22:42
  
  The Flames have recalled forward Matthew Phillips from the Stockton Heat, and he shouldn't have any trouble finding his way around town. That's because the 21-year-old forward is a Calgary native, who played as a youth hockey player, for the Triple A Calgary Bisons and Buffaloes. The 172 cm (5'8") Phillips has been averaging over a point a game with Stockton, with nine goals and 16 assists for  25 points in 22 games this season. That came after a 38 point (13 goals, 25 assists) professional
  
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• Flames call up Calgary native Matthew Phillips

  10-12-2019 22:42
  
  The Flames have recalled forward Matthew Phillips from the Stockton Heat, and he shouldn't have any trouble finding his way around town. That's because the 21-year-old forward is a Calgary native, who played youth hockey for the AAA Calgary Bisons and Buffaloes. The 172 cm (five-foot-eight) Phillips has been averaging more than a point a game with Stockton, tallying nine goals and 16 assists for  25 points in 22 games this season. That came after a 38-point (13 goals, 25 assists) profession
  
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• Cochrane Anglican church parishioners search for new bell

  10-12-2019 22:27
  
  They’ve been without a bell since 2007 when the All Saints Anglican Church in Cochrane bought St. Mary’s Catholic Church — and the previous owners took the bell with them when they left. Parishioners are now on a mission to get a bell for their church. Lynda Alderman has been at the parish for 15 years and said more people are talking about putting a bell in the tower above the church. She’s been searching for a replacement. "I’ve had phone calls, one from Ontario a
  
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• Matthew Good announces North American tour, 28 Canadian dates

  10-12-2019 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Moving Walls tour also serves as a promotion for Matthew Good's newly announced album of the same name.
  
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• Deep freeze, extreme cold to spread across much of Canada this week

  10-12-2019 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Temperatures could hit the low -20s C, which, combined with wind, creates a wind chill approaching -40 C.
  
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• Multiple people killed in New Jersey shooting, including police officer

  10-12-2019 20:45
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- A police officer and multiple others were killed in a shooting in Jersey City Tuesday that authorities say is not believed to have been a terrorism attack. One officer was pronounced dead at a hospital and multiple other people were found dead at the scene, Mayor Steven Fulop said without indicating how many were killed. A second officer was struck in the shoulder by gunfire, and two others were injured by shrapnel, Fulop said. The nearby Sacred Heart School was put on lockd
  
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• Jersey City's mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

  10-12-2019 20:45
  
  The mayor of a New Jersey city said Wednesday that authorities believe gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shooting that killed six people and filled the streets with the sounds of heavy gunfire for hours just across the Hudson River from New York City. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said in a tweet that a review of security cameras show the gunmen targeted the market. He said two officers one block away immediately responded and engaged with the gunmen. But Fulop did not elaborate
  
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• 6 people killed in New Jersey gunbattle, including police officer

  10-12-2019 20:45
  
  Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy fire for hours, authorities said. The dead included the two gunmen, Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said. The slain officer, Detective Joseph Seals, 40, was credited by his superiors with having led the department in the number of illegal guns removed from the streets in recent years, and might have been trying to stop an in
  
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• Alberta government announces plans to reduce surgery wait times

  10-12-2019 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  The United Conservative government says Albertans are waiting too long for many surgeries and announced Tuesday its plan to tackle those delays. As Kendra Slugoski explains, the health minister says private clinics can take on more of the load.
  
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• Loaded .22 calibre semi-automatic rifle recovered after police fatally shot man in Cochrane: ASIRT

  10-12-2019 20:27
  
  RCMP recovered a loaded, .22 calibre, semi-automatic rifle near where a 28-year-old man was shot and killed by officers early Saturday, according to the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team investigating his death. And the police watchdog says several bullets were fired through a garage door toward officers before the man emerged, where he was shot. RCMP and Calgary police were called to a home in Cochrane Friday evening by two separate people concerned about the man's behaviour and messages h
  
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• Alberta surgery initiative aimed at reducing wait times, funding up to 80,000 more operations

  10-12-2019 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  The UCP said it expects a new surgical wait-times initiative to "improve and standardize the entire surgical system."
  
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• Former neurologist now facing total of 63 sexual assault charges

  10-12-2019 19:47
  
  A former Kitchener neurologist has been charged with sexually assaulting 29 more women. Jeffrey Sloka was already facing 34 charges for sex crimes against former patients. He appeared in a Kitchener courtroom on Tuesday morning and is expected to appear again in January. In September, regional police told CTV that most of the sexual assault allegations stemmed from his time working at Grand River Hospital. One of his former patients was referred for persistent migraines. She told CTV back in May
  
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• Third Alberta ‘Fair Deal Panel’ town hall in Calgary sells out

  10-12-2019 19:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Fair Deal Panel is touring the province until Jan. 30 to hear from Albertans.
  
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• Crown argues father was drunk, speeding in crash that killed his daughter

  10-12-2019 19:33
  
  Evidence of intoxication and speeding are two main closing arguments from the Crown in the trial for a father charged in a crash that killed his teen daughter. Michael Shaun Bomford, 54, pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial. He's charged with impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm in connection with the October 2016 single-vehicle collision on McKnight Boulevard N.E. that ejected all three people. The crash killed Bomford’s 17-year-old daughter Megh
  
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• ‘Chaotic and violent’: Crown argues father was drunk, speeding in Calgary crash that killed his daughter

  10-12-2019 19:33
  
  Evidence of intoxication and speeding are two main closing arguments from the Crown in the trial for a father charged in a crash that killed his teen daughter. Michael Shaun Bomford, 54, pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial. He's charged with impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm in connection with the October 2016 single-vehicle collision on McKnight Boulevard N.E. that ejected all three people. The crash killed Bomford’s 17-year-old daughter Megh
  
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• World Juniors coming to Alberta: Priority ticket draw announced for 2021 tournament

  10-12-2019 18:55
  
  The World Juniors are coming to Alberta next year, and today Hockey Canada announced the priority ticket draw for fans looking to attend the holiday hockey tradition.  The tournament will be co-hosted by Edmonton and Red Deer between Dec. 26, 2020 and Jan. 5, 2021.  "The priority draw is the only way for fans to guarantee their chance to see the tournament live and in person, and we encourage everyone to enter the draw ahead of the Jan. 5 deadline," said Hockey Canada's Dean McIntosh i
  
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• $1M lotto ticket sold in Leduc leads to win for 2 sisters and friend

  10-12-2019 18:54
  
  Three women are cashing in after winning the $1-million Nov. 2 Lotto 6/49 draw on a ticket sold in Leduc. Roberta Schneider of Crofton B.C., her sister Della Schneider of Parkland County and their friend Sharon Besler-Rahmoun of Leduc are the three winners. “It was a fluke,” said Della Schneider. “We always play LOTTO MAX together. But, I bought a LOTTO 6/49 ticket by accident this time.” Della bought the ticket from the Leduc Town Petro Canada at 3916 50 Avenue in Leduc.
  
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• Time is running out to ensure your holiday packages ship on time, says Canada Post

  10-12-2019 18:17
  
  Canada Post has a message for last minute gift-givers: Time is running out to send your holiday packages. If you plan on sending a present via standard shipping you will need to get your package to Canada Post before the end of Wednesday (Dec. 11) for it to arrive on time for Christmas. Those willing to pay for express shipping have until Dec. 20 to send their parcels. However, Canada Post warns that the holiday rush is already well underway and causing delays for some deliveries. Many of those
  
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• More than 6K Big Macs eaten daily in Sask.

  10-12-2019 17:42
  
  According to information from McDonalds, more than 6,300 Big Mac sandwiches are consumed daily in Saskatchewan. The fast-food giant announced it will sell Big Macs for $3 plus tax fro, Dec. 10 to 16 at participating locations. When broken down, the number of Big Macs consumed by Saskatchewanians comes down to 2.1 burgers per person, per year. According to McDonalds, 11.3 million fries were sold in Saskatchewan in 2019.
  
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• RCMP find suspected truck thief asleep behind the wheel in Olds

  10-12-2019 17:37
  
  Falling asleep for several hours was the apparent undoing for a suspected truck thief in Olds RCMP received a report of a suspicious truck being parked behind a business in Olds — about 100 kilometres north of Calgary — on Monday afternoon. The complainant said the truck had been there for several hours and the only person inside appeared to be asleep. When officers arrived, they discovered the truck had been reported stolen from Red Deer earlier that day. The slumbering man inside w
  
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• Woman taken to Calgary hospital after being struck by vehicle in Auburn Bay

  10-12-2019 16:43
  
  A woman was transported to hospital in serious condition after being struck by a vehicle Tuesday morning in southeast Calgary. Emergency crews say she was hit in an alley around Auburn Bay Street and Auburn Bay Blvd. S.E. Police remain on scene to investigate the crash and have parts of the road blocked off. EMS says the woman was stable when transported to Foothills Hospital.
  
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• Interior First Nation says Fraser River slide has 'huge' impact on its community

  10-12-2019 16:40
  
  High on the Chilcotin plateau in British Columbia's Interior, the chief of a local First Nation says the traditional diet of its members is threatened by a landslide more than 150 kilometre away. Tl'etinqox Chief Joe Alphonse, who also represents five other local nations as tribal chairman of the Tsilhqot'in National Government, says Fraser River tributaries once teeming with salmon have shown paltry returns since the Big Bar landslide was discovered in June. “On a good year, you can run a
  
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• $500,000 in cash stolen from Alberta business leads to charges against Sylvan Lake woman

  10-12-2019 16:18
  
  Rimbey RCMP has laid charges against a Sylvan Lake woman after a local business reported that one of their employees was taking cash from the business account in excess of half a million dollars. Police believe the fraudulent activities started as early as February 2017. The investigation was launched on July 24. On Aug. 30, Laurie May Watts, 55, turned herself into police. She has been charged with theft over $5,000, use of credit card data, forging a document and uttering a forged document. Wa
  
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• Province to reveal plans for reducing surgical wait times

  10-12-2019 16:15
  
  Health Minister Tyler Shandro is scheduled to unveil the province's plans to address lengthy wait times for surgery in Alberta Tuesday morning. Shandro will be joined by Geoff Williams, the co-founder of Southern Alberta Eye Centre, as well as eye surgery patient Stan Grad at the announcement at Calgary Retina Consultants. A livestream of the 10 a.m. announcement will be available here. According to an annual Fraser Institute study, Canadians waited an average of 20.9 weeks for medical procedure
  
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• Province reveals plan for reducing surgical wait times, provide more surgeris

  10-12-2019 16:15
  
  Health Minister Tyler Shandro unveiled the province's plans to address lengthy wait times for surgery in Alberta Tuesday morning. "In total, over the next four years, we'll provide up to 80 thousand more surgeries to Albertans," said Shandro during the announcement at the Southern Alberta Eye Centre. "By 2023, we'll be doing about 10 per cent more scheduled surgeries than we do now and we'll manage the volume as needed to sustain access at our targets." "We're committing to provide all scheduled
  
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• Province reveals plan for reducing surgical wait times, provide more surgeries

  10-12-2019 16:15
  
  Alberta will provide up to 80,000 more surgeries over the next four years in an effort to reduce wait times in the province, Health Minister Tyler Shandro announced Tuesday. "By 2023, we'll be doing about 10 per cent more scheduled surgeries than we do now and we'll manage the volume as needed to sustain access at our targets," he said during a press conference at the Southern Alberta Eye Centre. "We're committing to provide all scheduled surgeries within a certain time based on evidence. For mo
  
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• Calgary-based Enbridge to raise dividend by nearly 10 per cent

  10-12-2019 16:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  In its outlook for 2020, Enbridge says it expects earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about $13.7 billion.
  
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• 'We have very little time': Canadian diagnosed with brain tumour stuck in Thailand as condition worsens

  10-12-2019 15:27
  
  The wife of a Canadian diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in Thailand says her husband's condition is getting worse and time is running out, while their travel insurance is still denying them a $265,000 air ambulance trip home because he had the flu a month ago. Kitchener resident Alex Witmer and his wife Jennifer Witmer, who had been living in Moncton, quit their jobs earlier this year and went on a six-week trip to Thailand before planning to relocate to Toronto. The couple was about a mo
  
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• Canadian diagnosed with brain tumour in Thailand will have flight home paid for but condition worsens

  10-12-2019 15:27
  
  The wife of a Canadian man diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in Thailand has been told his insurance will now cover the $265,000 air ambulance trip home after initially being rejected because he had the flu a month ago—but there are still fears it's too late. Kitchener resident Alex Witmer and his wife Jennifer Witmer, who had been living in Moncton, quit their jobs earlier this year and went on a six-week trip to Thailand before planning to relocate to Toronto. The couple was about
  
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• Signing ceremony underway, Canada set to sign on to updated new NAFTA deal

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to sign on to an updated text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of Canada at a ceremony in Mexico City. The agreement on the updated deal was reached between Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, and comes after U.S. Democrats secured adjustments to the deal, paving the way for the new United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement to finally be ratified. This will bring the deal the closest it has been to the finish line since the lea
  
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• Signing ceremony set after U.S. Democrats agree on new NAFTA language

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  OTTAWA –An agreement on an updated North American Free Trade Agreement has been reached, after the U.S. Democrats have agreed to adjustments to the deal, paving the way for the new NAFTA to finally be ratified. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday morning in D.C. that her party has reached an agreement with the Trump administration on changes to the language of the trilateral trade deal— first reached in September 2018—after it hadn’t moved, despite U.S. Pres
  
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• Let's make a deal: Canada, U.S., Mexico agree to tweaked NAFTA replacement

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has signed on to an updated text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of Canada at a ceremony in Mexico City. “Canada, United States, and Mexico today took an important step towards ratification of the new NAFTA deal,” Freeland told reporters at a Tuesday evening press conference, calling the amendments made an “improvement” to the trade pact that she’s now looking to pass quickly. The agreement on
  
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• Democrats reach deal on USMCA, clearing way for new deal

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing U.S. President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him. The California Democrat said the revamped U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is a significant improvement over the original North American Free Trade Agreement, crediting Democratic negotiators for winning stronger provisions on enforcing the agreement
  
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• Canada signs on to updated text of new NAFTA deal

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has signed on to an updated text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of Canada at a ceremony in Mexico City. The agreement on the updated deal was reached between Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, and comes after U.S. Democrats secured adjustments to the deal, paving the way for the new United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement to finally be ratified. This brings the deal the closest it has been to the finish line since the leaders of
  
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• Canada signs on to updated new NAFTA deal in Mexico

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has signed on to an updated text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of Canada at a ceremony in Mexico City. The agreement on the updated deal was reached between Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, and comes after U.S. Democrats secured adjustments to the deal, paving the way for the new United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement to finally be ratified. This brings the deal the closest it has been to the finish line since the leaders of
  
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• Canada signs on to updated new NAFTA deal

  10-12-2019 14:58
  
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has signed on to an updated text of the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement on behalf of Canada at a ceremony in Mexico City. The agreement on the updated deal was reached between Canada, the U.S, and Mexico, and comes after U.S. Democrats secured adjustments to the deal, paving the way for the new United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement to finally be ratified. This brings the deal the closest it has been to the finish line since the leaders of
  
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• 'Armed and dangerous' suspect sought by High River RCMP

  10-12-2019 14:56
  
  High River RCMP are asking for tips from the public as the search continues for a man wanted in connection with weapons offences and theft. Warrants have been issued for Robert Duane Vincent of no fixed address on charges including:Careless use of a firearm Possession of a weapon dangerous to the public Possession of stolen property over $5,000 Uttering threatsVincent is considered armed and dangerous and is known to frequent the High River area. Anyone who encounters Vincent, or who has informa
  
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• Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson dies at 61

  10-12-2019 14:28
  
  Marie Fredriksson, the female half of the Swedish pop duo Roxette, has died at age 61, her management agency said Tuesday. Fredriksson formed Roxette with Per Gessle in 1986. The two released their first album the same year and went on to achieve international success in the late 1980s and 1990s. The Dimberg Jernberg agency said Fredriksson died Monday "of the consequences of a long illness." It "is with great sorrow that we must inform you that one of greatest and most-loved artists is gone," t
  
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• Jason Kenney bringing 5 demands to Justin Trudeau: ‘We are simply asking for a fair deal’

  10-12-2019 14:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is bringing Justin Trudeau a list of five demands he says must be met to get the Alberta and Canadian economies back up to speed.
  
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• Travis Vader appealing sentence in deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann

  10-12-2019 14:19
  
  Travis Vader will be back in court Tuesday, this time appealing the length of his manslaughter sentence. He was convicted in 2016 in connection with the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann, the St. Albert couple who disappeared in July 2010 while on their way to meet family in British Columbia for a camping trip. The McCann's burned-out motorhome and a vehicle they had been towing were later discovered in the bush. Vader was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years. "We t
  
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• 'Demonstrably unfit': Travis Vader appealing life sentence in deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann

  10-12-2019 14:19
  
  Travis Vader's appeal of his life sentence in the deaths of Lyle and Marie McCann was heard in an Edmonton courtroom Tuesday, with his lawyer arguing the term was "demonstrably unfit."  An Alberta Court of Appeal heard Vader's lawyer state the Crown failed to prove Vader used a firearm in the killings, and so he should not have been sentenced as though he had. Lawyer Nathan Whitling told the three justice Court of Appeal of Alberta, that the sentencing judge, Justice Denny Thomas, was wrong
  
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• Gary Bettman says the NHL will not tolerate abusive behaviour

  10-12-2019 14:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  "We will not tolerate abusive behaviour of any kind.," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday.
  
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• Southern Alberta gun dealer fined, given conditional sentence for Firearms Act violations

  10-12-2019 14:13
  
  The owner of a Cardston hardware store will not have to serve jail time for selling guns and ammunition to people who didn’t provide a Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL). Dean Sommerfeldt, the owner and president of K & D Implements Ltd. has been handed a 13-month conditional sentence and fined $20,000 for violating the Firearms Act. The 60-year-old pleaded guilty in September to three counts of transferring weapons or ammunition without authority and one count of contravening th
  
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• Cenovus says capital spending to edge higher in 2020, production to rise

  10-12-2019 13:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Cenovus plans to increase its capital spending in 2020 compared with 2019.
  
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• 'We must act': Democrats unveil Trump impeachment charges

  10-12-2019 11:51
  
  WASHINGTON -- House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring his actions toward Ukraine "betrayed the nation" as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define his presidency and shape the 2020 election. The specific charges aimed at removing the 45th president of the U.S.: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of impeachment inquiry committees at the U.S.
  
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• Democrats' impeachment charges say Trump 'betrayed' U.S.

  10-12-2019 11:51
  
  House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring he "betrayed the nation" with his actions toward Ukraine as they pushed toward historic proceedings that are certain to help define his presidency and shape the 2020 election. The specific charges aimed at removing the 45th president of the U.S.: Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the chairmen of impeachment inquiry committees at the U.S. Capit
  
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