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• Annual Christmas Bird Count now underway in Lethbridge

  15-12-2019 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  The annual Christmas Bird Count is now underway in Lethbridge. The season starts on Dec. 14 and goes on until Jan 5.
  
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• Morning fire damages West Hillhurst home

  15-12-2019 20:34
  
  Members of the Calgary Fire Department spent Sunday morning knocking down a kitchen fire in a northwest Calgary home. The fire department found fire at the house on Sixth Avenue N.W. shortly before 8 a.m. while responding to a smoke investigation. Firefighters at the scene found smoke coming from the single-storey home and called for a full working response, the fire department said in a release. No one was home at the time of the fire, but fire crews found the kitchen floor burned out with fire
  
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• Calgary man with multiple sclerosis sold on tongue-tingler neural therapy

  15-12-2019 18:21
  
  Isaac Kohtakangas just cleared several hurdles to becoming more self-sufficient as he lives with multiple sclerosis. The 38-year-old business intelligence analyst from Calgary has completed 14 weeks of neurological treatment at the city's Synaptic Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre. The hurdles were literal — eight green barriers, about 15 centimetres off the ground, that Kohtakangas high stepped over with the use of two poles. "It's less about leaning on (them) for support
  
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• ‘Greedy Co-op’: Unifor launches nationwide boycott of Co-op retailers

  15-12-2019 17:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Unifor members will start picketing at Co-op locations across Canada in a boycotting campaign launched in Regina, Sask. on Sunday.
  
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• Man dies in Fort Macleod single-vehicle crash

  15-12-2019 17:38
  
  RCMP are investigating a single-vehicle crash in southern Alberta that claimed the life of a man early Sunday. The crash happened on Highway 3 near Fort Macleod. It was found by RCMP officers at around 2:40 a.m. Police say the driver of a small sedan was killed after the vehicle left the road. According to RCMP, the driver, whose name and age have not been released, was alone in the car at the time of the crash. No one else was injured. They said traffic in the eastbound lanes of the highway was
  
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• Blood in and outside Lethbridge apartment leads police to assault victim

  15-12-2019 16:54
  
  Police in Lethbridge are investigating an assault that was discovered by a blood trail in the early morning hours of Dec. 14. Around 1 a.m. Saturday, police were called to an apartment building in the 3500 block of Sylvan Road S. after someone reported finding blood on both the outside and inside of the building. According to police, officers were led to an apartment where they found a man bleeding profusely from injuries to his face. He was taken to hospital. Police have one man in custody, but
  
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• Jury finds former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi guilty on all charges

  15-12-2019 16:48
  
  A former SNC-Lavalin executive has been found guilty of paying off foreign officials and pocketing millions as he worked to secure contracts for the Canadian engineering company in Libya. A jury found Sami Bebawi, 73, guilty Sunday of all five charges he faced, including fraud, corruption of foreign officials and laundering proceeds of crime. Neither the accused nor his lawyer commented as they left the courtroom. Federal prosecutor Anne-Marie Manoukian declined to say what sentence she intends
  
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• Businesses face lower tax burden in Canada even after Trump tax cuts: Finance Department

  15-12-2019 13:21
  
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau was told months before he gave a federal helping hand to the country's businesses that companies operating in Canada faced a better tax environment than in the United States -- even after the Trump administration's sharp tax cuts. The August 2018 analysis said the American tax reforms had "reduced, but not eliminated" the tax advantage for businesses north of the border. The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the document through the Access to Information Act. That N
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, December 14, 2019

  15-12-2019 09:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Orrin Centazzo scored twice and Zane Franklin had three assists as the Kamloops Blazers defeated the Prince Albert Raiders 4-2 in Prince Albert on Saturday in Western Hockey League action.
  
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• Signing Santa greets deaf, hard of hearing Calgary youth

  15-12-2019 05:39
  
  Santa Claus is making sure he receives the wishes of all Calgary kids, no matter their ability to hear him ho ho ho in response. Calgary’s Inside Out Theatre Company organized an event on Saturday especially for deaf and hard of hearing kids, featuring a Santa and elves who were equally jolly as they were well-versed in American Sign Language. Father Marc Racine said it was the first time his deaf son had really communicated with Santa. “He’s a little bit in shock,” Racin
  
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• Conservation officers shoot black bear that ate Christmas cake, poultry

  15-12-2019 03:25
  
  People living in a rural Maple Ridge neighbourhood have reported a black bear that has a craving for poultry and Christmas rum cake. Agneta Eikelenboom noticed two of the three cakes were swiped from a table inside her storage room earlier this week. A trail of cake crumbs was found outside the home, but the culprit was nowhere to be seen. The next day, she ensured the door was locked, but the animal still managed to get inside. "A Christmas cake sprinkled with rum attracted a bear from afar," E
  
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