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• Man charged with first-degree murder in death of Sask. man

  08-02-2020 23:21
  
  Police say a suspect, arrested in connection with the slaying of Sheldon Wolf, has been charged with first-degree murder. Faiyah (Victor) Briama, 23, of Calgary, has been formally charged. Briama was arrested Friday afternoon in Calgary following a police investigation. Officials say he is responsible for the death of Sheldon Wolf, a man who was visiting the city from Carrot River, Sask. earlier this week. Police began a missing person investigation on Monday when Wolf left the hotel he was stay
  
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• 11 more arrested along pipeline route as Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests continue nationwide

  08-02-2020 23:10
  
  For the third day in a row, protesters in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their supporters blocked trucks from entering or leaving Port of Vancouver facilities on the south shore of Burrard Inlet. Before 6 a.m. Saturday, groups of protesters gathered at the north end of Heatley Avenue, Clark Drive at East Hastings Street and the Commissioner Street overpass at McGill Street. “In shutting down the port, we are recognizing that industry continues to exploit the
  
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• JetBlue founder unveils Utah-based airline Breeze Aviation

  08-02-2020 23:08
  
  An air travel entrepreneur has introduced a new Utah-based airline carrier 20 years after launching JetBlue. Utah native David Neeleman unveiled the official name of his fifth carrier startup Breeze Aviation on Friday, the Deseret News reported. He previously launched Morris Air, WestJet, JetBlue and Azul. Southwest acquired Morris Air in 1993, while WestJet and Azul are top-five carriers in Canada and Brazil, respectively, officials said. “I never started an airline just to start an airli
  
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• Local player joins the Calgary Stampeders' roster

  08-02-2020 22:06
  
  A Calgary-born football player is coming back to the city to play for the Stampeders. The team announced Saturday that Sean McEwen, now in his fifth CFL season, will play for them in the upcoming season after he signed a two-year contract. McEwen graduated from Notre Dame High School and the University of Calgary and was selected by the Toronto Argonauts third overall in the 2015 draft. In his four seasons playing for that club, McEwen was named a CFL all-star and was also the East Division's Mo
  
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• Ancelotti effect kicking in at in-form Everton - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 21:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Wolves send Wiggins to Warriors for Russell in scorer swap - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 20:43 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Walmart shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 20:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Green tea party? State licenses Boston's 1st marijuana shop - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 20:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• NewsAlert: Flight from Wuhan carrying 176 passengers lands in Vancouver - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 19:55 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• First Nation protests force VIA Rail to cancel trains between Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa

  08-02-2020 19:53
  
  Anti-pipeline protesters in Belleville, Ont. have forced VIA Rail to suspend service between Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa for the second day in a row. The protests, in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, come after six people were arrested near a worksite in northern British Columbia where the RCMP had recently enforced an injunction against the Nation’s hereditary chiefs and their supporters. At issue is the $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, which will deliver natur
  
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• Family says controversial professor Jordan Peterson recovering from addiction - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 19:44 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Family says controversial professor Jordan Peterson recovering from addiction  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Trump defends firing of key impeachment witness Vindman

  08-02-2020 19:29
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday defended the firing of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council. The president complained about news coverage of the firing in a tweet, saying reporting was done "as though I should think only how wonderful he was. Actually, I don't know him, never spoke to him, or met him (I don't believe!)." On Friday, Trump fired two key impeachment witnesses, dismissing Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the council, and U.S. ambassador to the Euro
  
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• Health officials investigating Imperial Tobacco ad campaign on vaping - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 19:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Hamilton head coach Orlondo Steinauer unveils 2020 Ticats coaching staff - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 18:39 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Quebec legislature adopts education bill in contentious early-morning vote - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 18:32 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Conservative leadership contenders make pitches on policy, unity at N.S. event

  08-02-2020 18:23
  
  Call it the Iowa of the federal Conservative leadership race. Just as that state is the first stop on the road to the U.S. presidency, Nova Scotia was the setting on Saturday for the debut group event of the 2020 Conservative leadership campaign. Marilyn Gladu, Rudy Husny, Peter MacKay, Erin O'Toole and Rick Peterson each made their case to the hundreds of Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives gathered for their annual convention in Halifax. MacKay, who is from Nova Scotia, peppered his 15 minut
  
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• Kenney takes aim at U.S. Democratic candidates who would block Keystone XL pipeline

  08-02-2020 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's Jason Kenney is the latest Canadian premier to take aim at U.S. Democrats, calling out presidential hopefuls who want to block the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.
  
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• Kenney takes aim at U.S. Democratic candidates who would block Keystone KL pipeline

  08-02-2020 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's Jason Kenney is the latest Canadian premier to take aim at U.S. Democrats, calling out presidential hopefuls who want to block the Keystone XL pipeline expansion.
  
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• Canada, Ethiopia starting talks towards investment agreement: Trudeau

  08-02-2020 18:09
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and Ethiopia are preparing to start negotiations towards a foreign investment protection agreement. Trudeau is in Addis Ababa to meet with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Sahle-Work Zewde. He spent more than two hours with Abiy, including more than an hour in a private tour of a new public park and zoo on the grounds of the prime minister's residence. He also had a working lunch with Zewde at Jubilee Palace. Both meetings are part of Canada's age
  
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• Top Ontario health official says coronavirus surveillance is widening - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 18:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Top Ontario health official says coronavirus surveillance is widening  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 17:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Kenney sets sights on Democratic hopefuls aiming to block Keystone XL pipeline

  08-02-2020 17:18
  
  Alberta's Jason Kenney is the latest Canadian premier to take aim at U.S. Democrats, calling out presidential hopefuls who want to block the Keystone XL pipeline expansion. Kenney, speaking at a news conference at the Canadian Embassy in Washington alongside four of his provincial counterparts, wondered aloud - without being asked - why a party that claims to be best friends with Canada would want to undermine one of its most important industries. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont
  
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• Canada, Ethiopia starting talks towards investment agreement: Trudeau - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 17:05 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Trump unleashes impeachment fury in acquittal 'celebration' - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 16:37 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• India asks Sri Lanka to resume Tamil reconciliation process

  08-02-2020 16:30
  
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his counterpart from neighbouring Sri Lanka on Saturday to resume a post-civil war reconciliation process with minority ethnic Tamils that appears to have stalled since a new president was elected last year in the island nation. "We had an open conversation about reconciliation in Sri Lanka. I'm confident that the government of Sri Lanka will meet the Tamil people's expectation of equality, justice, peace and dignity in a united Sri Lanka," Modi told rep
  
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• Calgary winner of Dec. 31 Maxmillions draw revealed

  08-02-2020 16:10
  
  The Calgary winner of a million-dollar prize in the final lottery draw of 2019 has now come forward. Logan Thomson matched all seven numbers on a Lotto Max Maxmillions draw on Dec. 31. He said the first thing he asked his wife when he found out he won was something we've all asked ourselves at one time or another. "What would you do with a million dollars?" When Thomson first learned of the prize himself, he said he didn't actually know he'd won that much either. "The clerk scanned my ticket and
  
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• Worker taken to Calgary hospital after fall at the airport

  08-02-2020 15:51
  
  Emergency crews were called to the Calgary International Airport early Saturday for a workplace accident. Officials say a man was working on one of the runways when the boom of a de-icing machine struck him and caused him to fall. When he hit the ground, he ended up being pinned by a bucket on the machine. Crews managed to move the equipment off of him and EMS confirms he was taken to Foothills Medical Centre in serious, but stable condition. The investigation into the incident is ongoing. More
  
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• Many communities in southern Alberta, including Lethbridge, under snowfall warning

  08-02-2020 15:22
  
  Many residents in Alberta woke up to snow Saturday morning, but those that live in the far southern regions will be getting a bit more as Environment Canada has called a snowfall warning. The agency says significant snowfall is expected throughout the area over the next 24 hours and accumulations are expected to reach between 10 and 15 cm. The following regions are affected by the warning:Lethbridge - Taber - Milk River Cypress Hills Provincial Park - Foremost Crowsnest Pass - Pincher Creek - Wa
  
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• 'We're definitely not prepared': Africa braces for new virus

  08-02-2020 15:13
  
  At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and health workers have been ordered not to speak publicly about the new virus that has killed hundreds around the world. The virus that has spread through much of China has yet to be confirmed in Africa, but global health authorities are increasingly worried about the threat t
  
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• Thai soldier kills more than 10 people, holes up in mall

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  Police in northeastern Thailand said a soldier shot multiple people on Saturday, killing more than 10, and was holed up at a popular shopping mall. Royal Thai Police spokesman Krissana Pattanacharoen said more than 10 people had been killed. The total number of wounded was not immediately known. Police contacted by phone in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima said the soldier, stationed outside the city, initially shot dead another soldier and a woman and wounded a third person. The city and neighbour
  
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• Thai soldier kills at least 20 people, holes up in mall

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  A Thai Cabinet minister says at least 20 people have been killed and 31 injured in a mass shooting. The gunman, described by police as a soldier angry over a land dispute, holed up in a popular shopping mall in northwestern Thailand on Saturday. Police say they have now secured the mall. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says there are no more bodies left inside the mall. But he says, "we don't know whether there are any additional injuries or deaths or not." He did not say whether the
  
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• Thai soldier kills at least 16 people, holes up in mall

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  A soldier shot multiple people in northeastern Thailand on Saturday, killing at least 16, and was holed up in a popular shopping mall, an emergency worker said. Noppadol Sirijanya, a member of the Sawang Metta Tham Rescue Center in Nakhon Ratchasima, said the death toll reached 16 as of 10 p.m. Police had earlier said that more than 10 people had been killed. It was unclear how many people were wounded. The authorities put nearby hospitals on alert and asked for blood donations. Public Health Mi
  
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• Thai soldier fatally shoots more than 10 people

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  Police in northeastern Thailand said a soldier shot multiple people on Saturday, killing more than 10, and was holed up at a popular shopping mall. Royal Thai Police spokesman Krissana Pattanacharoen said more than 10 people had been killed. The total number of wounded was not immediately known. Police contacted by phone in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima said the soldier, stationed outside the city, initially shot dead another soldier and a woman and wounded a third person. The city and neighbour
  
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• Thai gunman who killed 21 shot dead in mall

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  Thai officials said a soldier who went on a shooting rampage and killed at least 21 people and injured 42 others has been shot dead inside a mall in northeastern Thailand. Officials said the soldier angry over a financial dispute first killed two people and then went on a far bloodier rampage Saturday, shooting as he drove to a busy mall where shoppers fled in terror. Defence Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Kongcheep Tantrawanich said Sgt. Maj. Jakrapanth Thomma was behind the attack in Nakhon Ratch
  
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• Soldier kills 26 in Thailand's bloodiest mass shooting

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  A soldier with a grudge gunned down 26 people and wounded 57 in Thailand's worst mass shooting before he was fatally shot inside a mall in the country's northeast on Sunday, officials said. Officials said the soldier was angry over a financial dispute, first killing two people on a military base and then went on a far bloodier rampage Saturday, shooting as he drove to the mall where shoppers fled in terror. It took police sharpshooters 16 hours to end the crisis. Authorities said Sgt. Maj. Jakra
  
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• 20 dead, 31 hurt in Thai mass shooting; gunman hides in mall

  08-02-2020 14:47
  
  A soldier who holed up in a popular shopping mall in northeastern Thailand shot multiple people on Saturday, killing at least 20 and injuring 31 others, officials said. Police commandos were searching the mall for the shooter, and police said they had secured the building from the ground floor up. Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said there were no more bodies left inside. But he added, "we don't know whether there are any additional injuries or deaths or not." Anutin said a doctor was
  
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• First U.S. citizen dies of coronavirus in Wuhan

  08-02-2020 14:06
  
  A United States citizen died from the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, embassy officials said Saturday, marking the first known American death from the outbreak that has killed hundreds. The patient was age 60, and died at a local hospital Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said. It declined to disclose more details out of respect for the family's privacy. The coronavirus emerged in Wuhan in December, and has killed 724 people worldwide, mostly in China, where it has trapped resident
  
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• First American dies of coronavirus in Wuhan

  08-02-2020 14:06
  
  The rate of increase in new cases of the virus in China rose again after a brief respite, as the death toll rose to 722 on the mainland and countries around the world enforced stricter measures to contain its spread. A U.S. citizen died of the virus in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak, in what was apparently the first American death. A Japanese being treated in Wuhan who was a suspected case also died. Almost all of the new fatalities were in and around Wuhan in central Hubei provin
  
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• 5 Britons with virus hospitalized in France after Alps stay

  08-02-2020 13:48
  
  Five people from Britain, including one child, are hospitalized in France with the new virus from China after contracting it during a holiday in the Alps. Saturday's announcement by the French health minister is the latest example of how the tentacles of the virus can spread across multiple borders. The five British citizens were staying in a chalet in the Alpine resort of Contamines-Montjoie, and were in close contact with another Briton who apparently contracted the virus in Singapore, travell
  
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• Canada's Blondin, Weidemann, Maltais revive speedskating tradition - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 13:33 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in L.A.

  08-02-2020 13:30
  
  Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian, was hit and killed by a car in Los Angeles, authorities said. He was 91. The Los Angeles County coroner's office confirmed Bean's Friday night death, saying it was being investigated as a "traffic-related" fatality. The coroner's office provided the location where Bean was found, which matched reports from local news outlets. A man was walking in the Venice neighbourhood when he was clipped by a vehicle and fell, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Brian
  
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• Lethbridge College hosting open house today - Medicine Hat News

  08-02-2020 10:51 via medicinehatnews.com
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• Premiers bound for Washington to celebrate USMCA, beat back protectionism - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 10:30 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Lethbridge College hosting open house today - Lethbridge Herald

  08-02-2020 10:21 via lethbridgeherald.com
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• Heat, Grizzlies complete trade sending Iguodala to Miami - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 09:38 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• WHL Roundup: Friday, February 7, 2020

  08-02-2020 07:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  BRANDON, Man. - Brett Kemp scored 18 seconds into overtime as the Medicine Hat Tigers rallied for a 3-2 victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings in the Western Hockey League on Friday.
  
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• Night to Shine brings red carpet experience to those with special needs in Taber

  08-02-2020 07:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Tim Tebow Foundation’s Night to Shine prom experience hit Taber, Alta., on Friday night, and those in the community with special needs were given the royal treatment. Danica Ferris has more.
  
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• Life under virus quarantine: Boxing, chalk art and waiting - Lethbridge News Now

  08-02-2020 07:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Life under virus quarantine: Boxing, chalk art and waiting  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Judge beefs up order calling for removal of Unifor’s blockade of Alberta fuel distribution terminal

  08-02-2020 06:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Federated Co-operatives Ltd. said Friday that a judge has agreed to strengthen a court order calling for an end to the blockade of a fuel distribution terminal in Carseland, Alta.
  
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• Alberta couple three days into 14-day coronavirus quarantine on cruise ship off Japan

  08-02-2020 05:40
  
  When Lolita and Hans Wiesner were told they were being put under a 14-day quarantine due to 10 positive cases of coronavirus on their cruise ship, the Alberta couple of 47 years just laughed. They were supposed to leave the Princess Cruises ship Feb. 4 when it arrived in Yokohama, Japan, having planned to spend several weeks in Lisbon and one week in Morocco before heading to Europe to visit family.   But on Feb. 3, the ship captain announced Japan's health ministry had requested they arriv
  
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