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• COVID-19 cases in Alberta remain low, 42 more cases reported Sunday

  24-05-2020 23:59
  
  Alberta reported 42 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and no new deaths. The total number of active cases in the province is now 801. The case break down across the province is as follows:Calgary zone: 629 active cases and 4,020 recovered South zone: 92 active cases and 1,132 recovered Edmonton zone: 55 active cases and 455 recovered North zone: 20 active cases and 200 recovered Central zone: three active cases and 95 recovered Two active cases and 22 recovered cases in zones to be confirmedCurre
  
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• 164 workers test positive for COVID-19 at world's deepest mine

  24-05-2020 23:55
  
  Operations have been halted at the world's deepest operational mine after more than one-quarter of COVID-19 tests given to those who work there produced positive results. AngloGold Ashanti said Sunday that it had stopped work at the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa after learning of the 650 tests it has administered since May 14, 164 were positive and "a handful" have yet to be processed. The "vast majority" of those who tested positive had not shown any symptoms of COVID-19, the company said.
  
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• U.S. Muslims try to balance Eid rituals with virus concerns

  24-05-2020 23:07
  
  With no congregational prayers or family gatherings, Salsabiel Mujovic has been worried that this year's Eid al-Fitr celebration will pale. Still, she's determined to bring home holiday cheer amid the coronavirus gloom. Her family can't go to the mosque, but the 29-year-old New Jersey resident bought new outfits for herself and her daughters. They are praying at home and having a family photo session. The kids are decorating cookies in a virtual gathering, and popping balloons with money or cand
  
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• 'It felt like it was a disservice to us': Infectious disease specialist reacts to crowded park

  24-05-2020 22:27
  
  An infectious disease specialist says scenes of people overcrowding a Toronto park on Saturday was an “expression of disrespect” to health-care workers and could spark a surge in new COVID-19 cases. Speaking to CTV News Channel on Sunday, Dr. Abdu Sharkawy said it was “shocking” to see thousands of people at Trinity Bellwoods, a park in the heart of the city. “That was just greatly upsetting to me and in the context of the sacrifices that people like myself and othe
  
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• High Level launches online exhibit to mark 1 year since wildfire evacuations

  24-05-2020 22:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  High Level has launched an online experience to mark the first anniversary of the Chuckegg Creek wildfire, which forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
  
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• Police arrest Utah man suspected of killing his Tinder date

  24-05-2020 21:44
  
  A Utah man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder after police say he told authorities he killed a 25-year-old woman he had met on the popular dating app Tinder. Ethan Hunsaker, 24, called 911 early Sunday to report he'd killed someone inside a home in Layton, the Layton Police Department said in a prepared statement. When officers responded to the home, they found a woman lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds to her torso. Emergency workers tried to resuscitate her, but she died of h
  
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• Pool party at Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri draws a packed crowd

  24-05-2020 21:30
  
  Video posted by a reporter shows partiers crowded together in a pool at the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, this Memorial Day weekend. Scott Pasmore, an anchor for CNN affiliate KTVK, shot the video at Backwater Jacks Bar & Grill in Osage Beach on Saturday. The gathering violates social distancing measures intended to limit the spread of COVID-19. As part of Missouri's reopening plan announced earlier this month, state officials said restaurants may offer dining-in services but must adhere to
  
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• China says virus pushing U.S. ties to brink of 'Cold War'

  24-05-2020 21:15
  
  China said Sunday that relations with the United States were "on the brink of a new Cold War", fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn. Fresh tensions between Beijing and Washington emerged as virus restrictions muted celebrations by Muslims around the world of the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy fasting month. More European nations meanwhile moved to ease their lockdowns. In Bri
  
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• Police release surveillance photos of truck connected to shootings

  24-05-2020 21:03
  
  Calgary police are looking for public information that could help in an investigation into a number of shooting incidents that occurred over the past week. In the first incident, that took place early Monday, police say a suspect fired a shotgun into the front door of a home in the 0-100 block of Shawinigan Way S.W. Five days later, at about 5:15 a.m. Saturday, residents in that same area heard a gunshot. Approximately half an hour later, a home along Queen Anne Place S.E. was shot at with a sho
  
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• Technology, representation butt heads amid debate over resuming Parliament

  24-05-2020 20:49
  
  The battle over the future of Parliament in the age of COVID-19 will resume in earnest Monday when a small group of MPs returns to the floor of the House of Commons to argue about the path forward. The debate has largely coalesced around the limitations and uncertainty associated with virtual House of Commons' sittings as they butt up against demands for full parliamentary representation and accountability during the pandemic. The Liberals on Saturday unveiled their proposed solution, which woul
  
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• Federal parties set to resume battle over future of Parliament during COVID-19

  24-05-2020 20:49
  
  The battle over the future of Parliament in the age of COVID-19 will resume in earnest Monday when a small group of MPs returns to the floor of the House of Commons to argue about the path forward. The Liberals will seek to advance their proposal that the full resumption of Parliament be waived in favour of expanding the special COVID-19 committee that has been acting as a sort of stand-in for the Commons. The Conservatives are expected to argue against the idea and push instead for the resumpti
  
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• Lethbridge Farmers’ Market kicks off 50th year with COVID-19 restrictions

  24-05-2020 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  WATCH ABOVE: Exhibition Park welcomed eager customers to its farmers’ market for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eloise Therien has the details on what is being done to keep the event safe, and how it is expected to change in the coming weeks.
  
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• Possible meteor lights up sky in southern Alberta

  24-05-2020 19:41
  
  A resident in the southern Alberta community of Taber managed to catch a spectacular sight on video late last week. Don Schmitz sent in the video, which shows a large fireball, possibly a meteor, falling to Earth at about 1 a.m. on May 22. He says it happened to the southwest of the community. CTV News has reached out to experts at the Rothney Observatory for any information on the sighting. Taber is located approximately two and a half hours southeast of Calgary.
  
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• Caught on camera: Streak of light spotted in the skies near Taber, Alta.

  24-05-2020 19:41
  
  A resident in the southern Alberta community of Taber managed to catch a spectacular sight on video late last week. Don Schmitz sent in the video, which shows a large fireball, possibly a meteor, falling to Earth at about 1 a.m. on May 22. He says it happened to the southwest of the community. CTV News has reached out to experts at the Rothney Observatory for any information on the sighting. Taber is located approximately two and a half hours southeast of Calgary.
  
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• Picture Butte High School celebrates class of 2020 with drive-in movie and parade

  24-05-2020 19:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Staff felt honouring the hard work of the students in a fun way was vital, after many struggled with the reality they would miss out on their final months at school.
  
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• Advocates applaud country star Paul Brandt as head of Alberta’s new human trafficking task force

  24-05-2020 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Country star Paul Brandt has become an advocate against human trafficking in Canada, and advocates are applauding his appointment last week as the head of a new Alberta task force.
  
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• Prince William opens up about Diana's death in new documentary

  24-05-2020 18:23
  
  The Duke of Cambridge has revealed that the "life-changing" experience of having children brought back the emotions he felt following the death of his mother, Princess Diana. In a new BBC documentary, Prince William opened up about how having children is "one of the most amazing moments in life, but also one of the scariest" when having lost one’s own parent. "I think when you’ve been through something traumatic in life -- and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother
  
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• Airlines searching for ways to get Canadians travelling again

  24-05-2020 17:58
  
  As lockdown restrictions are slowly lifted around the world, the travel industry is looking at ways to get Canadians back on board. While airlines, hotels and cruise ships are eager to open their doors, experts say convincing Canadians to travel again will be a tough sell.  Incentives are being introduced by airlines, resorts and hotels as a way to bring aboard new passengers, according to Allison Wallace, vice-president of communications at Flight Centre Canada. “We should see better
  
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• Fighting human trafficking 'personal responsibility': country star Paul Brandt

  24-05-2020 17:54
  
  Paul Brandt says he knew he would devote his life to fighting human trafficking when, several years ago, he looked into the eyes of a five-year-old Cambodian girl who was being sold for sex between six and eight times a night. “All I could see were my kids,” the Calgary-born country singer said in an interview after he was chosen this past week to lead Alberta's new committee against human trafficking. He said he wanted to be able to tell his son and daughter that he had done somethi
  
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• Millions of cicadas are expected to emerge after 17 years underground

  24-05-2020 17:39
  
  As if we didn't have enough to worry about with giant murder hornets invading the U.S. and a global pandemic, millions of 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground this year. As many as 1.5 million cicadas per acre may emerge, and people living in Southwest Virginia, parts of North Carolina and West Virginia could witness this unique phenomenon, Virginia Tech says in a news release. Luckily, cicadas are harmless to humans. At most, the noise they make could become a nuisance. "Communities and
  
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• First Nations health authorities tell Commons committee they need more PPE

  24-05-2020 17:18
  
  Indigenous health authorities that service Western Canadian First Nations say they are experiencing problems accessing enough medical and protective equipment needed to protect their citizens from COVID-19. Senior representatives from regional First Nations health authorities in Saskatchewan and British Columbia told a Commons committee Friday they need more personal protective equipment. "We have delays in accessing PPE," said Tara Campbell, executive director of the Northern Inter-Tribal Healt
  
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• Second Missouri hairstylist who worked while symptomatic potentially exposed 56 clients to COVID-19

  24-05-2020 15:16
  
  Two Missouri hairstylists potentially exposed 140 clients to coronavirus when they worked for up to eight days this month while symptomatic, health officials said. The Springfield-Greene Health Department announced Saturday that a second hairstylist tested positive for coronavirus, and may have exposed 56 clients at the same Great Clips salon. A day earlier, officials had said another hairstylist with coronavirus at the same salon potentially exposed 84 customers and seven coworkers.Newsletter s
  
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• Wuhan lab head calls virus leak claims 'pure fabrication'

  24-05-2020 13:58
  
  Claims promoted by the Trump administration that the global coronavirus pandemic originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the central Chinese city are a "pure fabrication," the institute's director said. Wang Yanyi was quoted by state media Sunday as saying the institute did not have "any knowledge before that nor had we ever met, researched or kept the virus. We didn't even know about the existence of the virus, so how could it be leaked from our lab when we didn't have it?" U.S. Presid
  
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• Procession for Snowbirds crash victim to make its way through Halifax today

  24-05-2020 13:54
  
  A procession honouring the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team member who was killed in recent a plane crash will make its way through the streets of Halifax this evening. Spectators are encouraged to wear the official Snowbirds colours of red and white to honour Capt. Jennifer Casey during the police-escorted motorcade that will carry her remains through the city to Atlantic Funeral Home on Bayers Road. The 35-year-old military public affairs officer and Halifax native died in the crash of
  
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• Procession for Snowbirds crash victim to make its way through Halifax

  24-05-2020 13:54
  
  A procession honouring the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team member who was killed in recent a plane crash will make its way through the streets of Halifax this evening. Spectators are encouraged to wear the official Snowbirds colours of red and white to honour Capt. Jennifer Casey during the police-escorted motorcade that will carry her remains through the city to Atlantic Funeral Home on Bayers Road. The 35-year-old military public affairs officer and Halifax native died in the crash of
  
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• Procession for Snowbirds crash victim makes its way through Halifax

  24-05-2020 13:54
  
  A procession honouring the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team member killed in a recent plane crash began under blue skies in Halifax Sunday evening, as the remains of the young officer remembered for her bright smile arrived in her hometown. Close friends and family members wearing black and the official Snowbirds colours of red and white laid flowers on Capt. Jennifer Casey's casket during a homecoming ceremony on the tarmac near Halifax Stanfield International Airport. The 35-year-old m
  
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• Employers worry about safety, cash flow, second wave in COVID-19 restart

  24-05-2020 13:20
  
  Chef Kreg Graham says he's been doing a lot of thinking about washing dishes now that some COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted and he can start serving meals again. The executive chef at the Victoria-area Oak Bay Beach Hotel said much of the time he's spending in the kitchen preparing for a restart has been on safety protocols, not the menu. "We've been doing a lot of research and brainstorming on how we can safely operate in the kitchen in tight spaces," Graham said in an interview. "Everyon
  
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• Teen injured in single-vehicle rollover near Brooks

  24-05-2020 04:55
  
  A 19-year-old man is in hospital after a single vehicle rollover on the outskirts of Brooks on Friday. The crash happened on Highway 1 near the 15 Avenue W. Emergency crews were responded at 11:50 p.m. When they arrived, they found the man lying in the median with multiple injuries near a damaged truck. The teen from Duchess, Alberta was taken to hospital in Brooks, then taken to Calgary Foothills Hospital by ground ambulance. Police believe the driver failed to negotiate a curve in the road, ca
  
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• Protesters call on gov't to do more for asylum seekers risking their lives on pandemic frontlines

  24-05-2020 04:00
  
  A group of protesters set up camp outside of the Prime Minister’s constituency office in Montreal on Saturday, calling on the government to do more to help asylum seekers currently risking their lives working in long-term care homes stricken by COVID-19. Protesters are speaking up on behalf of migrants who don’t want to be identified, fearing deportation. According to advocates, hundreds of asylum seekers have been doing essential work in Quebec’s senior homes, which have been
  
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• United Conservative Party applies for federal wage subsidy

  24-05-2020 03:45
  
  The United Conservative Party has confirmed it is applying for federal funding to help pay its staff. A spokesperson for the party said the UCP is a not-for-profit organization, and because of the pandemic, it has lost out on fundraising opportunities. “Rather than fire staff, we plan to apply for the temporary federal program, like thousands of other business and non-profits have across the country, to help maintain our 8 staff and the families that rely on them,” said spokesperson
  
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• RV sales 'surge' as Calgary campers rearrange summer plans

  24-05-2020 00:42
  
  Southern Albertans seem to be looking forward to exploring the beauty of their backyards this summer, as interest in RV camping rises. For Western RV Country in Airdrie, the month of May couldn’t be more different than April. A majority of staff were laid off in the early weeks of the pandemic. Now, nearly the entire work force has been brought back. “Our shop can’t keep up, (our staff) are slammed from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every night getting these trailers ready,” said Bran
  
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• Coronavirus: Alberta reports 18 new cases, 1 more death Saturday

  24-05-2020 00:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Health announced 18 new COVID-19 cases — 16 lab-confirmed and two probable — and one more death on Saturday.
  
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• University of Alberta design student develops augmented reality arachnophobia program

  24-05-2020 00:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  Design student Anna Chakravorty developed an augmented reality program as part of her master's thesis that could be used in the future to help those with arachnophobia.
  
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• 18 new COVID-19 infections across Alberta, no new cases for Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  24-05-2020 00:15 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  18 new COVID-19 infections across Alberta, no new cases for Lethbridge  Lethbridge News Now
  
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