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• $1M lotto ticket went unfound for two months in Alberta woman's car

  18-01-2020 23:18
  
  Sometimes it pays to clean up your ride. A lucky woman from southern Alberta is $1 million richer after she cleaned up her car and discovered a winning lottery ticket from a draw back in October 2019. Erin Taefu, of Redcliff, recent came home from a convention in Calgary and decided she needed to clean out her car after the trip, officials say. "I found a few tickets in the car that had not been checked," she said in a release from the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. "So, after cleaning, I c
  
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• Annual women's march held at Banker's Hall in downtown Calgary

  18-01-2020 21:59
  
  Dozens of people marched in solidarity with women as part of the global movement celebrating the role of women, marginalized genders and non-men in our society. The event, called the Calgary Womxn's March 2020, began at 11 a.m. at Banker's Hall and proceeded through downtown streets to the Central Library. The demonstration first began as a global action following the results of the 2016 U.S. election, where millions of people took to the streets in January of that year. Organizers say the march
  
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• Trump recounts minute-by-minute details of Soleimani strike to donors at Mar-a-Lago

  18-01-2020 21:33
  
  U.S. President Trump recounted minute-by-minute details of the strike that killed Iran's top military commander during remarks to high-dollar Republican donors at his South Florida estate, according to audio obtained by CNN. Trump, speaking at a GOP fundraising dinner Friday evening, offered new details about the strike that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, which exacerbated tensions in the region and led to an ongoing dispute with Congress over his constitutional ability to wage war. In his speech
  
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• Thousands gather for Women's March rallies across the U.S.

  18-01-2020 21:22
  
  Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as part of the nationwide Women's March rallies focused on issues such as climate change, pay equity, reproductive rights and immigration. Hundred showed up in New York City and thousands in Washington, D.C. for the rallies, which aim to harness the political power of women, although crowds were noticeably smaller than in previous years. Marches were scheduled Saturday in more than 180 cities. The first marches in 2017 drew hundreds of tho
  
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• Prince Harry, Meghan will no longer use 'royal highness' titles

  18-01-2020 19:47
  
  Prince Harry and Meghan will no longer use their "royal highness" titles or receive public funds for royal duties, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday.Sign up for our Royal Dispatch newsletter for all the latest Royal newsReferring to the family as simply, “Harry, Meghan and Archie” in a statement released Saturday, the Queen wished the couple well on their wish for a more independent life. “I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealt
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan will not use 'royal highness' titles

  18-01-2020 19:47
  
  Harry and Meghan will no longer use their "royal highness" titles or receive public funds for royal duties, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday.Sign up for our Royal Dispatch newsletter for all the latest Royal newsReferring to the family as simply, “Harry, Meghan and Archie” in a statement released Saturday, the Queen wished the couple well on their wish for a more independent life. “I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealth and b
  
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• Once proposed as ski resort, B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to First Nation

  18-01-2020 18:57
  
  A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries. After decades of controversy that reached all the way to the Supreme Court, the Jumbo Glacier in British Columbia's central Purcell Mountains is to be handed over to the Ktunaxa First Nation to manage as an Indigenous Protected Area. “It's an opportunity to do so many things,” said Kathryn Teneese, chairwoman of the
  
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• Trudeau, ministers head to Winnipeg for cabinet retreat, western outreach

  18-01-2020 17:44
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reviving his practice of holding periodic cabinet retreats outside the nation's capital -- an exercise in regional outreach that his office maintains is worth the added cost of ferrying ministers around the country. Beginning Sunday, he and his 36 ministers will be holed up in Winnipeg for three days to discuss priorities and plot how to bring them to fruition in a House of Commons where the Liberals hold only a minority of seats. That is to be followed by a thre
  
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• Riots in Lebanon's capital leave more than 150 injured

  18-01-2020 17:32
  
  Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst rioting since demonstrations against the country's ruling elite erupted three months ago. More than 150 people were injured. Thick white smoke covered the downtown Beirut area near Parliament as police and protesters engaged in confrontations that saw groups of young men hurl stones and firecrackers at police who responded with water cannons and tear gas. S
  
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• Lebanon police fire tear gas at protesters amid Beirut riots

  18-01-2020 17:32
  
  Riot police fired tear gas and sprayed water cannon near parliament in Lebanon's capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters after riots broke out during a march against the ruling elite amid a severe economic crisis. The riots began when some protesters started throwing stones at police deployed near the parliament building while others removed street signs and metal barriers and hurled them at security forces. Protesters also threw firecrackers at police. As rioting took place in cent
  
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• China's coronavirus cases likely grossly underestimated, study says

  18-01-2020 17:22
  
  The number of cases in an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus in China is likely to have been grossly underestimated, according to a new study, which warns that human-to-human transmission of the mysterious virus may be possible. Authorities in China's Wuhan city have confirmed 45 cases of the 2019 novel coronavirus, which is in the same family as the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), but so far appears to be less lethal. Two people
  
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• Avery’s Legacy: How an Alberta mother is parenting her daughter after loss

  18-01-2020 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Cathy Decker includes a card in every bereavement gift box she creates with a caring sentiment that helped her navigate her daughter Avery's death nearly three years ago.
  
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• Winter storm brings heavy snow, ice to U.S. Midwest, Northeast

  18-01-2020 16:23
  
  A winter storm that has already caused trouble at airports in Chicago and Kansas City was expected to bring blizzard conditions to the Plains and Midwest on Saturday and could dump up to a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Sunday. National Weather Service forecasters issued winter weather advisories affecting much of the Midwest and into the Northeast, including heavy snow that could make travel difficult in some areas. Forecasters also warned of blizzard conditions expected Saturday aft
  
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• RCMP seek suspect following Innisfail home invasion

  18-01-2020 16:18
  
  Authorities in Innisfail have arrested one suspect but are looking for another in connection with a home invasion that took place in November 2019. Innisfail RCMP were called to an apartment in the community at about 2:26 a.m. on Nov. 24. No sign of the suspects was found when police arrived, but an investigation determined that three people, two men and a woman, got into a unit on the top floor of the Innisfail Hotel. Once inside, they pointed a gun at the occupants and ordered them not to move
  
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• Lethbridge man arrested after multiple hit-and-run crashes

  18-01-2020 15:56
  
  The Lethbridge Police Service says charges have been laid against a man who they say stolen two trucks and caused three crashes in that city's south end. Police were called to a convenience store on Jan. 16 after a suspect reportedly stole a white Ford F-350 truck. The driver refused to stop for police, so units broke off the pursuit in the interest of public safety. A day later, police received multiple reports of the same vehicle involved in three separate hit-and-runs but sustained significan
  
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• Family doctor killed in avalanche on Mount Hector to be laid to rest

  18-01-2020 15:26
  
  She loved being a "family doc" in a small town, her family says, and on Saturday, Laura Kosakoski will be laid to rest following a service in Canmore. Kosakoski, 32, died of injuries she sustained when she was caught in an avalanche on Mount Hector in Banff National Park on Jan. 11. She was skiing with two other people, including her husband Adam Campbell, when the slide occurred in the alpine region of the mountain, located about 20 km north of Lake Louise. Kosakoski ended up being buried in th
  
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• Family doctor killed in avalanche on Mount Hector laid to rest

  18-01-2020 15:26
  
  She loved being a "family doc" in a small town, her family says, and on Saturday, Laura Kosakoski was laid to rest following a service in Canmore. Kosakoski, 32, died of injuries she sustained when she was caught in an avalanche on Mount Hector in Banff National Park on Jan. 11. She was skiing with two other people, including her husband Adam Campbell, when the slide occurred in the alpine region of the mountain, located about 20 km north of Lake Louise. Kosakoski ended up being buried in the sn
  
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• China reports 4 more cases in viral pneumonia outbreak

  18-01-2020 15:20
  
  Four more cases have been identified in a viral pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that has killed two people and prompted countries as far away as the United States to take precautionary measures. The latest cases bring to 45 the number of people who have contracted the illness, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said Saturday. Five are in serious condition, two died and 15 have been discharged. The others are in stable condition. The cause of the pneumonia has been trac
  
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• Will claims of illegal party financing sink Charest's hopes of political comeback?

  18-01-2020 14:09
  
  While former Quebec premier Jean Charest mulls a leadership bid for the Conservative Party of Canada, recently unsealed police warrants have given his political opponents plenty of ammunition. Charest, Quebec premier from 2003-12, and before that a federal cabinet minister and leader of the Progressive Conservatives, is seen as a well-known, experienced, bilingual and talented politician who can unite English and French Canada. But he carries serious political baggage. He's been under investigat
  
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• Ottawa sending help to Newfoundland following historic snowstorm

  18-01-2020 13:27
  
  The federal government is sending help to Newfoundland after the province was hammered with a historic snowfall that buried homes and triggered a state of emergency in St. John’s. Premier Dwight Ball announced Saturday that a request had been made to Ottawa for assistance, including help from the Canadian Armed Forces. Thirty minutes later, Ottawa approved the request. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said he has been in touch with National Defence Minister H
  
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• Newfoundland reeling in wake of monster blizzard that buried St. John's

  18-01-2020 13:27
  
  Environment Canada has ended a blizzard warning for the St. John's, N.L., area this morning but a state of emergency and storm surge warning remain in effect following a monster storm that buried the city. The intense snowfall that brought St. John's and many other communities to a standstill on Friday slowed overnight and according to Environment Canada was expected to end later this morning. Blizzard and storm surge warnings remain in effect in other areas of eastern Newfoundland and Labrador
  
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• Newfoundland and Labrador reeling in the wake of monster blizzard

  18-01-2020 13:27
  
  States of emergency, as well as blizzard and storm surge warnings, remained in effect in parts of eastern Newfoundland and Labrador early this morning. The intense snowfall that buried St. John's and many other communities bringing them to a standstill on Friday slowed overnight, and according to Environment Canada was expected to end later this morning. But with more than 70 centimetres of new snow on the ground in some areas, and strong winds still piling up drifts and creating white out condi
  
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• Eastern Newfoundland reeling, search underway for missing man after blizzard

  18-01-2020 13:27
  
  A search is underway for a missing man who ventured out in a blizzard that battered eastern Newfoundland Friday, as residents of St. John's struggled to tunnel out from homes buried by the largest snowfall ever recorded in the city. The RCMP in Bay Roberts said search teams were looking for 26-year-old Joshua Wall, who remained missing after leaving his home in Roaches Line, a small community about 70 kilometres west of the capital, to walk to a friend's home in nearby Marysvale. Police say they
  
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• LPS lay charges in vehicle thefts and hit-and runs - Lethbridge News Now

  18-01-2020 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  LPS lay charges in vehicle thefts and hit-and runs  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• WHL Roundup: Friday, January 17, 2020

  18-01-2020 07:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ryan Hughes had a goal and four assists, and Max Martin scored twice as the Kamloops Blazers beat the Tri-City Americans 12-3 on Friday in Western Hockey League play.
  
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• Lethbridge Hurricanes win overtime thriller as Cozens and Addison return to lineup

  18-01-2020 07:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Lethbridge Hurricanes hosted the Red Deer Rebels for a Friday night battle of Central Division foes. Danica Ferris has the highlights.
  
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• Skater Steve McNeil braves wind chill to raise funds for Alzheimer Society

  18-01-2020 05:55
  
  Dressed in a black bellaclava, with frost dripping off him, and gripping a piece of wood he calls his 'thunderstick', Steve McNeil looked a bit like a wrestling villain Friday night at Olympic Plaza's skating rink. That wasn't because McNeil was a heel. In fact, he's just the opposite: a good guy.  It was just the reality of skating for over 19 and a half hours (19 hours, 26 minutes) outdoors, in a city where the windchill has exceeded -30 for more than 150 consecutive hours, and figures to
  
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• Alberta judge cites Seinfeld in allowing Edmonton man's appeal

  18-01-2020 05:29
  
  A justice has allowed an Edmonton man’s appeal based on an unusual precedent set not by law but by Seinfeld’s own George Costanza. In “The Kiss Hello,” Episode 17 of Season 6, Costanza cancels a physiotherapy appointment within 24 hours. Later, he finds out he has been charged a $75 fee, and would face a second fee if he were to cancel the next day’s appointment. But when he shows up at the office the next day, a receptionist informs him the physiotherapist has &ldq
  
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• Panama man pulled 2 children from clutches of killer cult

  18-01-2020 04:47
  
  Indigenous farmer Josue Gonzalez recalled how his pregnant wife and children were taken from their home by cult members in the remote hamlet of El Terron in Panama. Gonzalez was out working his fields of taro and rice Monday when the lay preachers of the "The New Light of God" came for the family and dragged them to an improvised church at a nearby ranch. The family had been chosen by one of the lay preachers who earlier had a vision: Everyone in the hamlet had to repent their sins, or die. Ther
  
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• Canadian fire specialists land in Australia to fight wildfire

  18-01-2020 04:00
  
  Canadian fire specialists were greeted with applause when they landed in Melbourne on Saturday to join an international team fighting the devastating Australian wildfires. The team of 28 Canadians will spend the next month in Victoria as part of the state’s emergency response team. Already, dozens of Canadians have travelled to Australia to help out. But rather than battling flames on the frontlines, the new Canadian team will help in a variety of tactical capacities, including aviation, f
  
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• About 30 Canadian citizens, permanent residents killed on Flight PS752 buried in Iran: Alghabra

  18-01-2020 04:00
  
  The remains of about 30 Canadian citizens and permanent residents who were victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 have been buried in Iran, according to the prime minister’s parliamentary secretary. The plane was shot down by the Iranian military near Tehran last week, killing all 176 people on board, including 57 Canadian citizens. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, Omar Alghabra, MP for Mississauga Centre, told host Evan Solomon “about 30
  
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• Alberta court approves Encana reorganization that will see energy firm move HQ to Denver

  18-01-2020 03:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Encana Corp. says an Alberta court has approved the oil and gas company's reorganization that will see it move its headquarters to Denver from Calgary and change its name to Ovintiv Inc.
  
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• National anthem sung in Ojibwe at Winnipeg Jets game

  18-01-2020 03:31
  
  In a stadium packed with thousands of Jets fans, a group of Winnipeg students belted out the national anthem, but they did it a bit differently. On Friday night's Winnipeg Jets game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the group of Strong Warrior Girls Anishinaabe Singers, decked out in newly-designed Indigenous Jets tee-shirts, led the stadium in the singing of Oh Canada in Ojibwe. "With the Jets, it’s a real honour to be able to promote the Indigenous logo and sing in the Indigenous language
  
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• National anthem sung in Ojibwa at Winnipeg Jets game

  18-01-2020 03:31
  
  In a stadium packed with thousands of Jets fans, a group of Winnipeg students belted out the national anthem, but they did it a bit differently. On Friday night's Winnipeg Jets game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the group of Strong Warrior Girls Anishinaabe Singers, decked out in newly-designed Indigenous Jets tee-shirts, led the stadium in the singing of Oh Canada in Ojibwa. "With the Jets, it’s a real honour to be able to promote the Indigenous logo and sing in the Indigenous language
  
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• Stettler, Alta. man charged in the murder of his father

  18-01-2020 03:14
  
  Police in Stettler say a 32-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his father. Officials say they were called to a home in the community, located about two and half hours northeast of Calgary, at 2:55 p.m. on Jan. 15. Once they arrived, the determined the manner of death was suspicious, so arrested an adult male who was at the scene without incident. Following an autopsy conducted in Calgary Friday, the Medical Examiner identified the victim as Ba
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: Jan 17

  18-01-2020 02:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Friday, January 17, 2020 edition of Global News at 5 on Global Lethbridge hosted by Quinn Campbell.
  
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• Lethbridge’s Children of St. Martha School gives out blankets and letters to people in need

  18-01-2020 01:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge's Children of St. Martha School participated in the Blankets of Hope project again this year.
  
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• Lethbridge’s Children of St. Martha School give out blankets and letters to people in need

  18-01-2020 01:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge's Children of St. Martha School participated in the Blankets of Hope project again this year.
  
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• Calls for Calgary rent control

  18-01-2020 01:16
  
  Calgarian Anne Landry says it’s tough enough to pay the rent, even worse when, like a lot of Calgarians, she doesn't know what her rent will be. “This is a huge strain on me to address this every year,” she says. “It’s excessively stressful and it takes a lot out of me.” Landry says she’s been in her current apartment for more than two decades but that her rent varies each year - sometimes, she says, going up by nearly 20 per cent. She says she’s o
  
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• Federal health minister holds Calgary discussion on medically-assisted dying

  18-01-2020 01:15
  
  The federal health minister came to Calgary Friday as part of Ottawa's public consultation process aimed at learning more about what Canadians think about medically-assisted dying. Following a ruling by the Superior Court of Quebec that stated it was unconstitutional to allow only Canadians who are already near death to seek medical assistance to end their suffering, the federal government has agreed to eliminate the near-death requirement. Health Minister Patty Hajdu stopped in Calgary Friday f
  
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• Children of St. Martha School gives out blankets and letters to people in need

  18-01-2020 01:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Children of St. Martha School participated in the Blankets of Hope Project again this year. Given the current cold snap, the children thought it was the best time to distribute warm blankets and letters of encouragement to those who need it most. Taz Dhaliwal reports.
  
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• A year in wildlife: Alta. First Nation releases incredible footage caught by motion-sensor cameras

  18-01-2020 00:49
  
  A lynx nestles down behind tall grass along a river. As several ducks fly by, low to the water, the cat readies itself then leaps into the air with paws outstretched. Dinner is caught. It sounds like a scene from Planet Earth, but this stunning sight is thanks to motion-sensor cameras installed by Fort MacKay First Nation as part of its Environment Guardian program. The cameras, 36 of them, have been installed in and around the remote community, about 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray. For th
  
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• Lethbridge asks residents to be cautious with waste: ‘That shouldn’t go in either cart’

  18-01-2020 00:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Lethbridge is asking residents to be more diligent when disposing of waste as certain materials can cause safety risks to front-line workers.
  
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• City asking Lethbridge residents to be cautious with waste disposal

  18-01-2020 00:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  The City of Lethbridge is asking residents to be more diligent when disposing of waste as certain materials can cause safety risks to front-line workers. Demi Knight reports.
  
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• Princess party fulfills wish for little girl dying of heart failure

  18-01-2020 00:10
  
  As the Irvine family spent hundreds of days in Alberta hospitals watching their little girl Evanna fight for her life, they held onto the dream of getting her to Disneyland once they were through it. Now that their five-year-old’s health is terminal and travel is no longer an option, a fellow Calgary mother threw a princess tea party to bring Disney to Evanna. “I would sit beside her bed and I would even talk to the ICU nurses and say ‘one day, we’re going to go to Disney
  
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• Would-be robbers arrested after hitching a ride to McDonald's

  18-01-2020 00:01
  
  A group of suspects got into a bit of car trouble during their escape from an attempted robbery this week. Members of the Didsbury and Olds RCMP say they were called to a motel in Cremona for reports of an armed robbery Thursday. The caller told them two masked men had come into the building wearing masks and brandished a long-barrelled firearm. They demanded cash from the clerk but were unsuccessful, so they fled the scene in a black Hyundai Elantra driven by a third male suspect. RCMP attended
  
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• Métis nations from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario want direct negotiations with feds

  18-01-2020 00:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Three provincial Métis nations are asking the federal government to negotiate directly with them on issues of self-government and not through their national representative body.
  
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