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• Calgary man deemed dangerous offender appeals sentence, asks for 5 years instead

  30-01-2020 23:39
  
  A man designated as a dangerous offender after being convicted of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy in an Elbow Park alley in 2017 has filed an appeal, asking that his sentence be reduced to five years, followed by two years of probation with close monitoring. A dangerous offender designation means an indeterminate prison sentence. Kenneth Dale Horby was handed the sentence Jan. 17 by Justice Suzanne Bensler following a two-week dangerous offender hearing after he pleaded guilty to sexual
  
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• Federal Court of Appeal to release decision in Trans Mountain challenge

  30-01-2020 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Four First Nations from British Columbia filed court challenges after the federal government approved the project a second time last June.
  
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• Calgary student heading to United Nations event in Abu Dhabi

  30-01-2020 23:12
  
  Michael Batas is a 21 year old Mount Royal University student working on his undergrad in international business. In December he learned he was chosen to be one of eight Canadians to take part in the World Urban Forum. The World Urban Forum was established in 2001 by the United Nations to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. Convened by UN-Habitat, the forum is a high leve
  
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• Partial Slushee 'instrumental' in arrest of suspects in Redcliff, Alta.

  30-01-2020 22:47
  
  Mounties seeking to arrest a pair of Alberta suspects were glad when this trail went cold. Charges have been laid against two Medicine Hat men after police tracked them down with a Slushee. Redcliff RCMP, who were patrolling the community at 5 a.m. on Jan. 1, attempted to stop a vehicle seen driving without its lights on. The vehicle did not stop and fled from police. Officers did not pursue the vehicle but soon found it abandoned, stuck in the snow at the end of a rural road, about 20 minutes l
  
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• New life for Exshaw School as feds pledge 3-year funding commitment

  30-01-2020 22:23
  
  A funding agreement involving the federal government has provided assurance that a school west of Calgary with a primarily Indigenous student body will remain open for the next three years. Exshaw School — located in the hamlet of Exshaw, east of Canmore, along Highway 1A — faced an uncertain future after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) reduced its funding from $19,268 per student to $11,500 per student in December 2019. The cut prompted a Canadian Rockies Public Schools (CRPS) trus
  
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• Canadians should be concerned about influenza, not coronavirus, expert says

  30-01-2020 21:23
  
  While many people are focused on the threat of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, medical experts say seasonal influenza poses a much greater concern for those in North America. Alberta Health Services says another patient who was admitted to hospital for treatment of influenza died this past week. The patient, in the Central Zone, is the 20th person to die in the province this season because of the illness. International medical experts, who are keeping a close watch on the spread of the coronavi
  
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• Should Alberta have 24-hour slot machines?

  30-01-2020 20:39
  
  Slot machines in Alberta casinos could soon be open 24 hours a day. Casinos are currently allowed to run their slot machines from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m., a maximum of 16 hours a day. Alberta Gaming, Liquor & Cannabis is exploring the idea of allowing them the option to operate day and night. "AGLC has heard from both casino operators and consumers over the years who have expressed interest in this opportunity for expanded hours," AGLC said in an emailed statement. The change would not apply to vi
  
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• Edmonton doctor suspended 15 months, fined $80K after sex assault conviction

  30-01-2020 20:14
  
  An Edmonton doctor was fined more than $80,000 and had his permit suspended after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a coworker, according to Alberta's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Akadri Alarape was convicted of sexual assault on May 18, 2018.The sexual assault occurred between Nov. 1, 2016 and Jan. 28, 2017, according to CPSA. As a result of the criminal charges, which netted Alarape 12 months' probation and a $100 victim surcharge, a CPSA tribunal found him guilty of unprofessi
  
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• Average rental price in Lethbridge fell slightly in 2019 - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 20:12 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Brooks RCMP investigate report of suspicious person near recreation centre

  30-01-2020 20:11
  
  Police are looking for the public's help to locate a suspicious person in connection with an incident involving a young student outside a recreation centre in Brooks, Alta. Officials say the victim was waiting for the school bus outside the JBS Canada Centre, located on 1 St. E., on Wednesday morning when a man in a truck drove up to them. The man began to speak with the student, but the interaction was brief and police say the student did not respond. The suspect drove away once the school bus
  
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• Pair of suspects sought in connection with fraud investigation in Airdrie

  30-01-2020 19:52
  
  Airdrie RCMP are looking to identify two persons of interest in connection with a fraud investigation last year. Authorities say two women at the Home Depot store in Airdrie on Nov. 8, 2019, were involved in a fraudulent transaction. The first woman is described as:East Indian Black hair Possibly in her 40s Wearing a black/grey sweater, dark pants and dark shoesThe second woman is described as:East Indian Black hair Possibly in her 30s Wearing dark clothing and blue sneakersAnyone with informati
  
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• How journal writing can help your child’s mental health

  30-01-2020 19:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Journal writing can offer children and youth a tool to manage their emotions, problems, mental health issues and social pressures.
  
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• RCMP pipeline checkpoint 'arbitrary and discriminatory,' say complainants

  30-01-2020 19:44
  
  The Wet'suwet'en hereditary clan chiefs and their supporters want a public investigation into the way the RCMP are controlling access along a rural road in northern British Columbia. The RCMP have said they set up a checkpoint along the Morice Forest Service Road south of Houston in order to prevent a dispute over the Coastal GasLink pipeline from escalating. But the chiefs along with the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs allege that the Mounties are unlawfully
  
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• Funding deal reached for Exshaw School

  30-01-2020 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  A three-year funding deal has been reached to keep Exshaw School, near Canmore, open.
  
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• CAPP predicts $2B increase in upstream oil and gas investment in Alberta this year

  30-01-2020 19:21
  
  The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is forecasting a $2 billion increase in upstream oil and gas investment in 2020, which the province says will support 8,100 jobs in Alberta and 3,700 jobs across the country. The increase represents a four per cent jump in capital investment on the conventional side and an eight per cent jump in the oilsands, according to CAPP. Conventional oil and natural gas capital investment for 2020 is forecast at $25.4 billion, up from an estimated $24
  
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• Weinstein: Private eyes were hired 'for days like this'

  30-01-2020 19:02
  
  Harvey Weinstein offered an unscripted defence Thursday of his use of private undercover investigators who allegedly tried to silence his accusers, saying he did it "for days like this." The remark came as the former Hollywood producer left his New York City rape trial when a reporter asked him why he hired Black Cube, a firm founded by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defence Forces. Prosecutors say the firm's investigators used fake identities to meet with journalists and track the
  
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• Oil and gas spending expected to increase by $2B in 2020: industry group

  30-01-2020 18:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  After four years of declines, oil and gas spending is forecast to go up in 2020, according to one energy industry group.
  
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• Alberta craft brewery showcases local authors, musicians on beer cans: ‘The wider world is digging it’

  30-01-2020 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lacombe-based Blindman Brewing is printing a collection of short stories, poems and musical lyrics on the labels of one of its beers this winter.
  
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• Shirtless man with stab wounds found wandering in southern Alberta city

  30-01-2020 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said two men were involved in a "familial dispute" earlier this week.
  
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• How Alberta schools are responding to the coronavirus in China

  30-01-2020 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Edmonton Public Schools has cancelled all field trips to China for the rest of the school year and other institutions are adjusting their travel plans as well.
  
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• Fight between family members leads to stabbing in Brooks: RCMP

  30-01-2020 18:26
  
  Brooks RCMP say a fight between family members led to one man being stabbed and another being charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon. Officers were called to a Circle K store in Brooks on Tuesday, about 190 kilometres southeast of Calgary, for reports of a man walking nearby with no shirt on and a stab wound to his chest. Further investigation revealed the man had been at a nearby home when he allegedly got into a fight with his brother-in-law. The fight allegedly saw one man
  
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• Cenovus Energy commits $50M to Indigenous housing in northern Alberta

  30-01-2020 18:16
  
  Cenovus Energy has announced it will commit $10 million per year for five years to build new homes inside First Nations and Metis communities closest to its oilsands operations in northern Alberta. The new homes will be constructed in the following six communities near the Christina Lake and Foster Creek oilsands projects:Beaver Lake Cree Nation Chard Métis (Local 218) Conklin Métis (Local 193) Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation Cold Lake First Nation Heart Lake First Nation"Inves
  
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• Traction trouble leads to arrest of alleged vehicle thieves outside High River

  30-01-2020 18:05
  
  A Calgary man and an Okotoks woman face charges after an attempted off-road getaway was halted when the vehicle they were in became stuck in snow. In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 25, High River RCMP attempted to stop a vehicle in a rural area outside of the townsite. The driver of the suspect vehicle failed to stop and drove away. The RCMP member did not pursue the vehicle and, approximately 20 minutes later, it was located stuck in the snow, off the road. Police determined the vehi
  
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• Traction trouble leads to arrest of alleged vehicle thieves in southern Alberta

  30-01-2020 18:05
  
  A Calgary man and an Okotoks woman face charges after an attempted off-road getaway was halted when the vehicle they were in became stuck in snow. In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 25, High River RCMP attempted to stop a vehicle in a rural area outside of the townsite. The driver of the suspect vehicle failed to stop and drove away. The RCMP member did not pursue the vehicle and, approximately 20 minutes later, it was located stuck in the snow, off the road. Police determined the vehi
  
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• Survey finds 1.8 million Albertans have been sexually abused

  30-01-2020 17:30
  
  Approximately 43 per cent of the province’s population have experienced sexual abuse in their lifetime, according to new statistics. "With an estimated 1.8 million individuals in Alberta experiencing sexual abuse in their lifetime, this research shows us that sexual abuse is a health and safety issue of epidemic proportions," said Debra Tomlinson, CEO of Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services (AASAS) in a press release. The AASAS surveyed 1,512 adult Albertans and found 45 per cent
  
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• Suicide Prevention Friendship Bench installed at Lethbridge College - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 17:09 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Suicide Prevention Friendship Bench installed at Lethbridge College  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Friendship Bench installed at Lethbridge College - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 17:09 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Mandatory alcohol screening being expanded in Calgary

  30-01-2020 17:01
  
  Calgary police is expanding its mandatory alcohol screening program, meaning all drivers can expect to blow into a roadside device when pulled over or going through a Checkstop. Mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) came into effect in December 2018 as part of Bill C-46, which meant police could ask any driver to provide a preliminary breath sample when pulled over. The expansion will see all frontline officers with Calgary Police Service issued with roadside screening devices.Watch Live at 1:30 p.m
  
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• Co-op Refinery, Unifor returning to bargaining on Friday

  30-01-2020 16:48
  
  Two months of job action could be moving towards the finish line. Unifor and Federated Co-operatives Limited are heading back to the bargaining table on Friday morning. "We're hopeful and I'm optimistic that we're going to get a deal done over the next couple of days,” said Scott Doherty, Executive Assistant to the National President, Unifor Canada. “Co-op has come to the table and we're going to take that as a good sign, but obviously this has been a long dispute and this has been a
  
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• Plane to help 196 Canadians leave China awaits Chinese approval: official

  30-01-2020 16:41
  
  An Ontario father says he missed his 15-month-old daughter's first steps because she is stuck in the Chinese city at the centre of a new coronavirus outbreak. Richard Fabic is hoping to get the Canadian government's assistance so he can be reunited soon with his daughter, Chloe, he said in a telephone interview on Thursday from his home in Mississauga. "We are very worried," he said. "Very concerned."Up-to-date map: Tracking the spread of the coronavirusWuhan has been essentially sealed off from
  
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• Plane to help 156 Canadians leave China awaits Chinese approval: official

  30-01-2020 16:41
  
  Canada's top foreign-affairs official says 156 Canadians have asked for help to leave China amid an outbreak of a new virus. Marta Morgan, the deputy minister of foreign affairs, tells a House of Commons committee this morning that Canada is still working on getting Chinese approval to send a chartered plane to collect them.Up-to-date map: Tracking the spread of the coronavirusTo try to contain the novel coronavirus, China has all but sealed off one of its central provinces, beginning with the c
  
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• Remains of 2 US troops recovered from Afghanistan crash site - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 16:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Remains of 2 US troops recovered from Afghanistan crash site  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Trivial traffic? Calgary ranked 338th most congested city for motorists

  30-01-2020 15:48
  
  A new study confirms the headaches and frustrations of drivers on Calgary streets are nothing compared to the tie-ups in the majority of major cities around the globe. According to the TomTom Traffic Index 2019 — a review of traffic in 416 cities in 57 countries — Calgary is ranked 338th in the world when it comes to the worst traffic congestion. The study found Calgary to be 18 per cent congested, drastically less congested than the cities at the top of the list. Bengaluru, India an
  
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• Edmonton Oilers, Zack Kassian agree to four-year contract extension - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 15:28 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Edmonton Oilers, Zack Kassian agree to four-year contract extension  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• US economy grew at moderate 2.1% rate in fourth quarter - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 14:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Europe evacuation flight off to China, cruise ship checked - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 14:33 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Appeals court acquits French cardinal of sex abuse coverup - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 14:15 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Appeals court acquits French cardinal of sex abuse coverup  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• CBE meeting with parents amidst threatened closure of National Sport School

  30-01-2020 14:11
  
  Calgary Board of Education officials will meet with parents Thursday to discuss how to keep a local sports school from closing its doors. The board’s lease for the National Sport School (NSS) at WinSport expires this June but funding concerns have created additional uncertainty. The CBE allocated $1.8 million annually to the NSS and "the cost of maintaining this program as its exists is no longer affordable," according to a document posted on the school’s website. Moving the program
  
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• Spirits high in Alberta’s burgeoning distilling industry

  30-01-2020 14:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  For the last three years, the first rye whisky to be distilled in Edmonton has been aging inside the barrel. It's now ready.
  
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• Bell Let's Talk Day sets record, raises $7.7M for mental health initiatives

  30-01-2020 14:00
  
  The 10th edition of Bell Let's Talk Day was the most successful one yet. Bell, which owns CTV News, says it logged 154,387,425 "messages of support for mental health" on Wednesday – a six per cent increase from 2019. Those messages took the form of voice calls, text messages, views of a Bell Let's Talk video on social media, and certain actions on Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. With the company pledging to donate five cents to mental health initiatives around the country from each interac
  
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• Parents charged after Chicago boy shot in struggle over gun - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 13:45 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Bank of England keeps main interest rate unchanged at 0.75% - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 13:45 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Not being prescribed antiviral medications for the flu? There's a simple explanation

  30-01-2020 12:40
  
  If you’ve ever come down with a case of the flu, you know it can be a nasty virus. There are medications to treat it, however. Prescription antiviral medications come in pill or liquid form with the most popular being oseltamivir, more commonly known as Tamiflu. Dr. Sohail Gandhi, the president of the Ontario Medical Association, said these drugs aren’t typically prescribed to flu patients, however, because they just don’t work that well for the general population. “The a
  
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• Conservatives lodge complaint over RCMP's refusal to probe PM's island stays

  30-01-2020 12:37
  
  The federal Conservatives want the RCMP watchdog to review the police force's refusal to launch a criminal investigation into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the law by accepting family vacations on the Aga Khan's private Caribbean island. In a letter to the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP this week, Tory MP Michael Barrett says there are troubling elements the commission is well-placed to investigate. Last May, Conservative MP Peter Kent asked RCMP Commissione
  
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• Florida police searching for missing newborn after father, 3 women found dead

  30-01-2020 12:20
  
  A relative called police to a Florida home after finding three women shot dead and a one-week-old baby missing this week, authorities said. Police issued an Amber alert Tuesday night for the baby, who was believed to be with his father, Ernesto Caballeiro, 49. A day later, on Wednesday, the father was found dead in a rural wooded area in Pasco County -- about 300 miles away from the victims' home in Miami. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and was 50 yards away from the van described in
  
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• Germany confirms 1st cases of new virus from China - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 11:44 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Germany confirms 1st cases of new virus from China  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Hughes, Virtanen lead streaking Canucks past Sharks, 5-2 - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 11:20 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Hughes, Virtanen lead streaking Canucks past Sharks, 5-2  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'Much different person:' Former Broncos coach reflects on healing, forgiveness - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 10:37 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  'Much different person:' Former Broncos coach reflects on healing, forgiveness  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Netanyahu pulls request for immunity on corruption charges - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 10:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Netanyahu pulls request for immunity on corruption charges  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Birds flocking to national parks in the Canadian Rockies - Lethbridge News Now

  30-01-2020 10:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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