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• Australia orders mass evacuation of fire-ravaged towns before heat wave

  01-01-2020 23:53
  
  Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Australia braces for a heat wave Saturday expected to fan deadly bushfires. Catastrophic blazes ripped through swathes of the continent's south-east on New Year's Eve, killing at least eight people and stranding holidaymakers as seaside towns were ringed by flames. The New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service on Thursday morning declared a "tourist leave zone" stretching about 200 kilometres
  
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• Baby girl takes title as first new Calgarian of 2020

  01-01-2020 22:24
  
  Calgary’s first baby of the decade officially came into the world early Wednesday morning at the Peter Lougheed Centre, and it was a girl. Baby Maya was born at 12:20 a.m. to mother Ania Dolganiuk, weighing six pounds 10 ounces and measuring 49 centimetres long. "It was actually a joke, kind of, in the family that I’m going to give birth on New Year’s Eve, because my due date is in a week," Dolganiuk said. "We were laughing about it and it actually happened. It’s a nice s
  
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• Someone could be $70M richer after record-breaking lotto draw

  01-01-2020 22:15
  
  What would you do with $70 million? A record-breaking prize will be up for grabs when the winning Lotto Max numbers are drawn at the end of the week. It's the first time such a prize has been offered in Canada. The maximum jackpot was increased in May 2019. Prior to Friday's draw, the largest cash prize handed out in Canada's westernmost province was $60 million, awarded to a resident of Richmond, B.C., in August.  Retired commercial fisherman Joseph Katalinic received the cheque at a news
  
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• 'We are just so thankful': Surrey teen survives fall while climbing Oregon's highest peak

  01-01-2020 19:31
  
  A high school student from Surrey, B.C., is recovering after surviving a fall of about 150 metres while ascending a popular climbing mountain in Oregon on Monday. Sixteen-year-old Gurbaz Singh suffered a broken femur, which required surgery, after being rescued off of Mount Hood, where he and a group had been nearing the summit on Dec. 30. The rescue took several hours as Singh was at an elevation of about 10,500 feet in the Pearly Gates area of the mountain. At about 1 p.m., rescuers reached Si
  
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• Surrey teen survives fall of nearly 500 feet at Oregon mountain

  01-01-2020 19:31
  
  A Surrey teen is recovering from a significant fall at an Oregon mountain that required major search and rescue efforts. On Dec. 30, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office posted to Twitter that a search and rescue operation was underway after a 16-year-old had fallen approximately 500 feet (152 metres) on Mount Hood. The teen was later identified as Gurbaz Singh from Surrey, B.C. by CTV News. The sheriff's office's tweets say the call came in at around 9 a.m. that day and that Singh was part of
  
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• 'I was upside down': Surrey 16-year-old survives 500-foot fall from mountain in Oregon

  01-01-2020 19:31
  
  A high school student from Surrey, B.C., is recovering after surviving a fall of about 150 metres while ascending a popular climbing mountain in Oregon on Monday. Sixteen-year-old Gurbaz Singh had been climbing Mount Hood with a group, and was nearing the summit on the morning of Dec. 30 when he fell. "I was ascending near the Pearly Gates," Singh told CTV News Wednesday, referring to an area with an elevation of about 10,500 feet (3,200 metres). He knew he had to stop his tumble, "because when
  
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• Climber who survived fall in Oregon identified as Surrey 16-year-old

  01-01-2020 19:31
  
  A Surrey teen is recovering from a significant fall at an Oregon mountain that required major search and rescue efforts. On Dec. 30, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office posted to Twitter that a search and rescue operation was underway after a 16-year-old had fallen approximately 500 feet (152 metres) on Mount Hood. The teen was later identified as Gurbaz Singh from Surrey, B.C. by CTV News. The sheriff's office's tweets say the call came in at around 9 a.m. that day and that Singh was part of
  
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• Injunction granted to natural gas company by B.C. Supreme Court

  01-01-2020 18:29
  
  The British Columbia Supreme Court has granted Coastal GasLink an interlocutory injunction against members of a First Nation and others who oppose the company's natural gas pipeline. The company is building a pipeline from northeastern B.C. to LNG Canada's export terminal in Kitimat on the coast. Coastal GasLink says it has signed agreements with all 20 elected First Nations councils along the 670-kilometres route but hereditary chiefs in the Wet'suwet'en First Nation say the project has no auth
  
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• 'I'm so lucky': Canadian teen climber rescued after falling down mountain

  01-01-2020 16:36
  
  A 16-year-old Canadian climber is in hospital with a broken leg after falling over 150 metres down Oregon’s Mount Hood and enduring an eight-hour rescue. Experienced climber Gurbaz Singh was ascending the state’s highest point with friends on Wednesday -- well on his way to completing his 98th climb-- when about 100 metres from the summit, disaster struck and Singh fell. “I was trying to use all of the things that I had learned [to stop], but I lost my ice axe and I wasn’
  
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• New laws and rules coming into effect in 2020

  01-01-2020 13:15
  
  As we usher in another decade, a number of new laws and rules will come into effect in 2020 that may have an impact on your way of life. That includes changes to federal divorce laws, as well as cannabis and vaping regulations in some provinces. Here are the highlights you need to know: CANADA-WIDE Federal tax changesThe basic amount most Canadians can earn tax-free is going up on Jan. 1, to $13,229.  The increase is being phased in over four years until it reaches $15,000 in 2023. For Cana
  
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• A look through the video lens at Lethbridge's impactful stories of 2019 - Lethbridge News Now

  01-01-2020 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  A look through the video lens at Lethbridge's impactful stories of 2019  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• WHL Roundup: Tuesday, December 31, 2019

  01-01-2020 07:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Luke Burzan recorded a pair of goal, including the winner at 17:20 of the third period, to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings past the Moose Jaw Warriors 3-1 on Tuesday in the Western Hockey League.
  
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• Catheter found in Vancouver man's spine years after operation

  01-01-2020 04:33
  
  Nick Woodhouse felt lucky to be alive after surviving a brain tumour, but the discovery of medical equipment that was left inside his body has left him pleading for help 13 years later.  Woodhouse had to abandon a promising career as a competitive racecar driver in the U.K. when he started experiencing mysterious symptoms, including weight gain and extreme fatigue. He was eventually diagnosed with Cushing’s disease; the excess production of his pituitary gland was caused by a tumour i
  
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• Welcome to 2020: Predictions for the new year that almost certainly won't happen

  01-01-2020 04:28
  
  Predicting the future has long captivated scientists and scholars. But when it comes to forecasting what 2020 was supposed to look like, few got it right. We don’t all live in steel houses, like Thomas Edison predicted back in 1911. The world population is 7.7 billion, not 8 billion, as the International Food Policy Institute predicted. And astronauts are still years away from landing on Mars, despite a 2020 prediction by the National Research Council. With plenty of excitement in store ov
  
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• RCMP seeks assistance to locate 2 suspects wanted on warrants

  01-01-2020 04:02
  
  The RCMP are seeking the public's assistance to locate two adults believed to be in possession of a stolen car related to an earlier death investigation. The death was discovered Sunday, December 29, when a deceased individual was discovered near Spring Bank Airport, which the RCMP now believe was a homicide. The victim's car, a bronze-coloured 2013 Kia Optima with license tag E22149 is missing, and the RCMP believe the two suspects may be in possession of it and possibly in the Calgary area. Th
  
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• RCMP seek 2 suspects linked to homicide near Springbank Airport

  01-01-2020 04:02
  
  RCMP are seeking the public's help to find two adults believed to be in possession of a stolen car linked to a suspicious death investigation. A man's body was discovered Sunday off a rural road near the Springbank Airport. An autopsy performed Tuesday determined the manner of death was homicide. Police have not released the victim's identity. The victim's car, a bronze-coloured 2013 Kia Optima with license tag E22 149 is missing and the RCMP believe the two suspects may be in possession of it a
  
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• How to stop your new smart gadgets from eavesdropping on you

  01-01-2020 01:34
  
  Did someone invite a spy into your home over the holidays? Maybe so, if a friend or family member gave you a voice-controlled speaker or some other smart device. It's easy to forget, but everything from internet-connected speakers with voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa to television sets with built-in Netflix can be always listening -- and sometimes watching, too. As with almost all new technology, installing such devices means balancing privacy risks with the conveniences they offer. The
  
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• 'Like finding a unicorn': Victoria researcher photographs ultra-rare orcas

  01-01-2020 00:48
  
  A Vancouver Island marine scientist can now count himself among the very few people who have seen one of the rarest kinds of killer whales on the planet.  Josh McInnes, a Victoria-based marine mammal scientist who works with the Marine Life Studies research organization in Monterey, Calif., has just returned from a three-week expedition in the Antarctic. While in the treacherous Drake Passage, off the southern tip of South America, McInnes and the other researchers aboard the National Geogr
  
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• Mexico says 7 people now detained over killings of 9 Americans

  01-01-2020 00:16
  
  Prosecutors in Mexico said a total of seven suspects have now been detained in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women and children. Federal prosecutors said three men were arrested in recent days and charged with organized crime for drug offences, though none apparently yet faces homicide charges. They said four other suspects are being held under a form of house arrest. The name of one suspect announced by federal prosecutors Monday partially matches the police ch
  
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