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• The top of the world: Edmonton heart attack survivor aims to climb Everest

  26-01-2020 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Edmonton mountaineer has his sights set very high. He's hoping to becoming the first Canadian heart attack survivor to summit Mount Everest.
  
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• NBA legend Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 41. Bryant died in a helicopter crash near Calabasas, California, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. It was unclear if family members were on the helicopter. The crash happened around 10 a.m. near about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angel
  
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• Kobe Bryant left deep legacy in L.A. sports, basketball world

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Kobe Bryant inspired a generation of basketball players worldwide with sublime skills and an unquenchable competitive fire. He earned Los Angeles' eternal adoration during his two decades as the fierce soul of the beloved Lakers, and he was respected by basketball fans from every place with a hoop and a dream, including his native Philadelphia and in Italy, his other childhood home. Less than four years into his retirement, Bryant was seizing new challenges and working to inspire his daughters'
  
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• Kobe Bryant and daughter among those killed in chopper crash

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 41. Bryant died near Calabasas, California, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. A different person familiar with the case confirmed that Bryant's 13-year-old daughter Gianna also was killed. Aut
  
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• Five killed in helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif.

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Five people were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash on a hillside in Calabasas, California, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The sheriff's department received reports of the downed aircraft just after 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT), officials said in a tweet. Flames have been extinguished, the department said. Calabasas is about 30 miles west of Los Angeles.
  
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• Basketball legend Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash: reports

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Basketball legend Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in southern California, according to multiple reports. This is a breaking news update. More details to come. -- Emergency crews responded after a helicopter crashed and sparked a small brush fire Sunday in Southern California, authorities said. The crash occurred in Calabasas, said Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He didn't know how many people were on board or if there were any injuries.
  
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• Basketball legend Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash

  26-01-2020 20:50
  
  Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash the Associated Press has confirmed. He was 41. This is a breaking news update. More details to come. -- Emergency crews responded after a helicopter crashed and sparked a small brush fire Sunday in Southern California, authorities said. The crash occurred in Calabasas, said Art Marrujo, a dispatch supervisor with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. He didn't know how many people were on board or if there were any injuries. F
  
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• Venezuela opposition leader Guaido to visit Canada, meet with Trudeau

  26-01-2020 20:23
  
  Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido will visit Canada on Monday as part of an international tour aimed at bolstering support for his challenge to socialist leader Nicolas Maduro. The office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that he and senior Cabinet ministers would meet with Guaido, whose trip defied a travel ban imposed by Venezuela's pro-Maduro Supreme Court. "I commend Interim President Guaido for the courage and leadership he has shown in his efforts to return democracy to Venezuela
  
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• Risk to Albertans from coronavirus considered 'low' by Alberta Health Services

  26-01-2020 20:19
  
  Even though a presumptive case of the 2019-novel coronavirus has been found in Toronto, Alberta health authorities say the risk of infection remains "low" in our province. Alberta's Chief Medical Officer of Heath, Dr. Deena Hinstra, posted a statement Saturday, saying officials are continuing to survey all the developments in the illness that began in Wuhan late last year. A presumptive case of 2019-novel coronavirus was announced in Ontario on January 25. The case is travel-related, and the cur
  
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• Quebec Court of Appeal to hear Alexandre Bissonnette appeals on Monday

  26-01-2020 19:59
  
  Quebec's high court will hear arguments Monday as to whether the length of the sentence handed down to convicted Quebec City mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette should be changed. Nearly three years after the massacre that claimed six lives at the Islamic Cultural Centre in the provincial capital, lawyers will argue the matter before the Quebec Court of Appeal. Bissonnette was sentenced to 40 years behind bars after pleading guilty to killing six Muslim men and wounding several others on Jan. 2
  
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• Calgary shirtless run raising money for Inn from the Cold

  26-01-2020 17:48
  
  For the second straight year, about 50 people will lose their shirts to run five kilometres, raising money for Calgary's Inn from the Cold. NATEFIT Integrated Fitness & Nutrition say the funds raised during the Calgary Exposed 5K run will help the emergency shelter that supports for homeless children and families. Last year marked the first annual run and it raised $31,500, where participants battled through the elements with temperatures on the mercury scale around -35 C. Exposed was born f
  
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• Hundreds gather for Lunar New Year festivities in Calgary

  26-01-2020 16:28
  
  A large number of people participated in the opening night for the Chinese New Year celebration in Calgary. The city's Chinatown district was done up in red for the Year of the Rat and visitors enjoyed firecrackers, music as well as traditional lion and dragon dances. The rat is the first animal on the Chinese calendar and is seen as a symbol of wealth and abundance. Organizers say the festival isn't just for Chinese-Calgarians and everyone is invited to take part. "I'm pretty sure every Chinese
  
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• Alberta open to extending Feb. 28 deadline for high-tech panel report

  26-01-2020 16:26
  
  Alberta's economic development minister says she is open to extending the deadline for a looming benchmark panel report on growing the high-tech sector, but says she wants to start taking action no later than the end of spring. Tanya Fir calls the report the natural evolutionary next step to building the economy, but the opposition NDP says it's more like a rescue operation for a vital sector ignored by the UCP during its first nine months in office, left to lose momentum and drift toward the di
  
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• Veteran comedian Debra DiGiovanni set to make Lethbridge laugh with the Snowed In Comedy Tour - Lethbridge News Now

  26-01-2020 16:06 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Veteran comedian Debra DiGiovanni set to make Lethbridge laugh with the Snowed In Comedy Tour  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Police search for suspect in northeast Calgary shooting

  26-01-2020 15:25
  
  Calgary police are looking for a suspect after they say a man was shot inside a vehicle in the northeast community of Taradale. Officers were called to the residential neighbourhood just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday after a witness said they saw someone firing several shots into a vehicle. When police got to the scene, they found a male victim suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital where his condition was stabilized. Police say they have no description of the suspect but believe the
  
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• Milos Raonic reaches quarterfinals at Australia Open

  26-01-2020 15:08
  
  Milos Raonic is into the Australian Open men's singles quarterfinals for the fifth time in the last six years. The 29-year-old Canadian backed up a straight-sets upset of No. 6 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas on Friday with a 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 win over Croatia's Marin Cilic in the fourth round Sunday afternoon. "I did a lot of things really well. I had the idea of how I wanted to play and I was happy I could execute and sort of live up to that," Raonic said. As a reward, Raonic will get an opportunity to do
  
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• Metis leaders raise concerns about national council, call for reform

  26-01-2020 15:05
  
  The regional Metis presidents of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan are calling for reform of the Metis National Council, raising serious concerns about "dysfunction" and about a lack of transparency on the national body's finances and administration. Metis National Council vice-president David Chartrand rejects the allegations, saying the "real issue" involves concerns about the way the Ontario Metis government defines people as Metis, and the national body has told the Ontario body its membersh
  
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• 'Calgarians are better than this': Hunting auction still draws protesters

  26-01-2020 15:04
  
  A controversial elephant tag wasn’t on the table, but that didn’t mean a local hunting auction was spared protests Saturday night in Calgary. About a hundred animal advocates held signs and chanted outside a hunting expo and gala at the Westin Calgary Airport hotel. The gala drew attention this week after critics claimed a listed auction item — an elephant hunt in Botswana — was inhumane.The item was pulled Friday night after being sold to a private buyer, but protesters
  
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• Marc McMorris ties Winter X Games record with 18th medal

  26-01-2020 14:56
  
  Canadian Mark McMorris earned his 18th individual Winter X Games medal to equal American Shaun White's mark in Aspen, Colo. McMorris took home silver during the men's snowboard big air event to match White's record for the highest number of winter medals won by an athlete at the X Games. His compatriot Max Parrot closed out that competition for Canada by taking home the gold. McMorris managed to achieved the feat after he finished seventh in men's snowboard slopestyle earlier it the day -- which
  
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• Trump peace plan could boost embattled Israeli leader

  26-01-2020 14:36
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to Washington on Sunday vowing to "make history" as he prepared to meet U.S. President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the U.S. administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the high-profile meeting in Washington looks set to serve mostly as a sideshow to the two allied leaders' serious legal problems. The Palestinians have not been consulted on the much-trumpeted deal and have pre-emptively rejected the
  
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• Netanyahu hopes to 'make history' with White House visit

  26-01-2020 14:36
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he hopes to "make history" during his upcoming trip to the White House for the expected unveiling of U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast peace plan. Addressing his Cabinet shortly before departing for Washington, Netanyahu described the current environment, characterized by close ties with Trump, as a once in a lifetime opportunity for Israel that "we must not miss." Trump's plan is expected to be extremely favourable to Israel. "We are in
  
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• Turkish teams hunt for quake survivors as death toll hits 36

  26-01-2020 14:20
  
  Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, days after a powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the country's east. Authorities said the death toll rose to at least 36 people. Turkish television showed Ayse Yildiz, 35, and her 2-year-old daughter Yusra being dragged out of the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the city of Elazig. They had been trapped for 28 hours after the earthquake struck on Friday ni
  
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• China has temporarily banned its wildlife trade because of the coronavirus outbreak

  26-01-2020 13:50
  
  Chinese authorities announced a temporary ban on the trade of wild animals Sunday following a viral outbreak in Wuhan, saying they will "severely investigate and punish" violators. Local authorities will "strengthen inspections and severely investigate and punish those who are found in violation of the provisions of this announcement," read the the ban issued by three government agencies. No wildlife can be transported or sold in any markets or online, according to text of the announcement in st
  
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• National security officials struggling to define and address right-wing extremism, documents show

  26-01-2020 13:19
  
  Canadian security officials have been grappling not only with how to address the growing threat of right-wing extremism, but also the best means of defining the phenomenon and explaining it to the public, newly released documents show. In a briefing for deputy ministers responsible for national security, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP openly asked whether, given the nature of the threat, the government of Canada was "able to effectively respond?" The secret briefing was
  
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• More Canadian cases of coronavirus 'would not be unexpected': officials

  26-01-2020 13:10
  
  While stressing that the risk of the new coronavirus being spread from one person to another in Canada remains low, federal health officials said Sunday that Canadians should not be surprised to hear of more individual cases within the country. "It would not be unexpected that there would be more cases imported into Canada in the near-term, given global travel patterns," Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, said at a news conference. Canada's first "presumptive positive" case o
  
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• Everyone who had contact with Canada's first coronavirus patient will be interviewed

  26-01-2020 13:10
  
  Officials in Toronto are interviewing all those who had contact with the man diagnosed with Canada's first case of the new coronavirus to ensure none of them were infected. Authorities announced yesterday that they had detected the respiratory illness in a man who recently travelled to Toronto from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the virus. He's being quarantined at Sunnybrook Hospital, and his family members are in "self isolation" as a precaution to keep the disease from spreading. The illness
  
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• WHL Roundup: Saturday, January 25, 2020

  26-01-2020 08:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  KENT, Wash. - Cross Hanas recorded Portland's first goal at 12:22 of the opening period before scoring the only goal in the shootout as the Winterhawks eked out a 6-5 victory over the Seattle Thunderbirds in the Western Hockey League on Saturday.
  
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• Virus death toll in China rises as U.S. prepares evacuation

  26-01-2020 03:08
  
  A new viral illness being watched with a wary eye around the globe accelerated its spread in China on Sunday with 56 deaths so far, while the U.S. Consulate in the city at the epicenter announced it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. China's health minister said the country was entering a "crucial stage" as "it seems like the ability of the virus to spread is getting stronger." Ma Xiaowei declined to estimate how long it would take to bring the situati
  
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• Death toll rises to 56 as China reports nearly 2,000 cases of Coronavirus

  26-01-2020 03:08
  
  A new viral illness being watched with a wary eye around the globe accelerated its spread in China on Sunday with 56 deaths so far, while the U.S. Consulate in the city at the epicenter announced it will evacuate its personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. China's health minister said the country was entering a "crucial stage" as "it seems like the ability of the virus to spread is getting stronger." Ma Xiaowei declined to estimate how long it would take to bring the situati
  
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• Family, friends search for Lethbridge man last seen in November

  26-01-2020 03:01
  
  Volunteers gathered Saturday at the Friends of Helen Schuler Nature Centre Society at 9 a.m. to continue searching for missing Lethbridge man Marshall Iwaasa. Iwaasa was last seen on Nov. 17, 2019, in Lethbridge.  'Check their video camera,' asks search volunteer Retired search and rescue worker Kelly James, who aided in the Jan. 25 search, said he wants the family to have some answers. “I ask everybody ... (to) check their video camera gas stations, you know, just see if Marshall was
  
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• 'We're not giving up': Friends of social worker killed on the job continue calls for justice

  26-01-2020 00:47
  
  Supporters of Deborah Onwu, the Calgary caseworker killed while on shift, say they will hold rallies on the 25th day of every month until safety standards are addressed. "We're not giving up," said rally organizer Rebecca Opoku in front of the main office buildings of Wood's Homes in Montgomery on Saturday. The non-profit organization once owned the assisted-living building in the 1800 block of 27 Avenue SW where Onwu was stabbed to death on Oct. 25, 2019.  She was the only social worker as
  
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