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• Two days in a row, eight new COVID-19 cases in Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 23:49 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Two days in a row, eight new COVID-19 cases in Lethbridge  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta adds 133 COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

  29-07-2020 23:43
  
  Alberta Health reported 133 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths Wednesday afternoon. The new counts increased active cases to 1,430 and deaths to 190. There are 87 patients in hospitals across the province with 17 in ICUs. Edmonton's Good Samaritan Southgate Care Centre reported another three deaths at the facility increasing its death toll to 18. The continuing care home has 72 active cases of the coronavirus.   With 551 active COVID-19 cases, Calgary has 300 more than Edmonton. Alberta
  
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• Outside the NHL bubble: 630 CHED broadcasters calling Oilers games remotely amid COVID-19

  29-07-2020 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Oilers bubble has shut fans and broadcasters out of Rogers Place, however, veteran announcers have adapted to call the game from a 630 CHED makeshift studio.
  
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• Alberta man facing charges after B.C. car stolen, dog dragged a block: police

  29-07-2020 23:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP said Rylan Kinsey, 24, of Airdrie, Alta., has been charged with theft of a motor vehicle and causing injury to an animal.
  
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• Calgary navy member reinstated following investigation into alleged white supremacist past

  29-07-2020 23:29
  
  A Calgary-based leading seaman (LS) is back to active duty at HMCS Tecumseh, following several months of investigations by the Royal Canadian Armed Forces about his online past, that allegedly linked him to white supremacy and anti-Semitism. “We find this decision absolutely outrageous,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, director of the anti-Semitism campaign at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Toronto. Boris Mihajlovic’s online involvement, linking him to a violent neo-Nazi web
  
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• ACC schedule includes Notre Dame, 10 conference games - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 23:19 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  ACC schedule includes Notre Dame, 10 conference games  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Pet red-footed tortoise returns to Airdrie backyard after going missing for a week

  29-07-2020 22:54
  
  It's not a cat and it wasn't the very next day, but a missing pet has come back to its home in Airdrie. Georgey, a red-footed tortoise, disappeared from its owner's backyard last week and has since returned.   "As mysterious as he disappeared, he has reappeared," said owner Theresa Dykstra. "We are so happy and cannot thank you all enough for all the posts, media and TV coverage, words of encouragement and believing in the dream he would come home." The 10-pound tortoise is the beloved pet
  
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• Canadian Transportation Agency responds to growing flier frustration over lack of refunds

  29-07-2020 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian Transportation Agency clears up some of the confusion around its position on travel refunds vs. vouchers.
  
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• Small southern Alberta towns feel impact of losing rodeos to the pandemic

  29-07-2020 22:34
  
  Rockyford, population about 325, is around an hours drive east of Calgary. This week many in the community would be talking about last weekend’s rodeo. But COVID-19 cancelled it for the first time in its 63 year history. “I mean it is what it is right now and it’s no use putting a rodeo on if you can only have 50 people in the stands because it costs so much to put it on right?” said Lions Club member Warren Kalbhen. Kalbhen has worked on the Rockyford Rodeo for 30 some y
  
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• Blackhawks ban Native American headdresses at home games - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 22:18 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Blackhawks ban Native American headdresses at home games  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Conservative leadership debate in disarray after MacKay decides to back out - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 22:16 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Conservative leadership debate in disarray after MacKay decides to back out  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Cavalry FC to return to play in CPL's 'Island Games'

  29-07-2020 22:15
  
  The Canadian Premier League has announced its return-to-play plan for the sophomore season. The Island Games, announced Wednesday morning, will be held in Charlottetown, P.E.I., kicking off Aug. 13. The 35-game season will consist of three rounds. The first will include all eight CPL teams in a round-robin format. Four teams will advance to a group stage, and the Top 2 from that round will face off in a winner-take-all final match. "This is our season," said CANPL commissioner David Clanachan. G
  
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• Bullying becomes a problem at secluded Northside skatepark - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 22:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Bullying becomes a problem at secluded Northside skatepark  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Norma Fitzsimmons, founder of 'cheeky' winter flower count, dies at 97 - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 22:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Norma Fitzsimmons, founder of 'cheeky' winter flower count, dies at 97  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 3 Avenue Reconstruction starts Wednesday - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 21:41 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  3 Avenue Reconstruction starts Wednesday  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Tory leadership race causes awkward schism in key veteran constituency - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 21:36 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Tory leadership race causes awkward schism in key veteran constituency  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta Agriculture modernizing Meat Inspection Regulations - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 21:36 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Alberta Agriculture modernizing Meat Inspection Regulations  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Parents uneasy about sending children to daycare amid COVID-19: StatCan

  29-07-2020 21:09
  
  Nearly one-third of Alberta parents say they won't send their kids back to daycare when spaces reopen or when the pandemic ends, according to numbers released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. The report provides an overview of experiences of parents and families with children under 15 years old, both during and after childcare closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical distancing and the impact on employment have meant that parents have changed their usual routines and supports. Many childre
  
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• US is expected to report a record-breaking economic plunge - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 21:05 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  US is expected to report a record-breaking economic plunge  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• The Latest: Lawmakers cite internal Facebook documents - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 21:05 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  The Latest: Lawmakers cite internal Facebook documents  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Quebec shipyard late on delivering icebreakers after pushing feds on purchase - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 20:51 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Quebec shipyard late on delivering icebreakers after pushing feds on purchase  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Canadian Premier League to play 2020 season in Charlottetown

  29-07-2020 20:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Charlottetown won the right to serve as host for the Canadian league's second season over Langford, B.C., and Moncton, N.B
  
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• 4 heat records set across Alberta Tuesday amid summer hot spell

  29-07-2020 20:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  There is expected to be a slight break in the heat on Thursday, before the hot temperatures return for the long weekend, according to Environment Canada. 
  
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• Ottawa Aces make French international halfback Louis Jouffret their first signing - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 20:45 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Ottawa Aces make French international halfback Louis Jouffret their first signing  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Inquest to probe police killing of Indigenous man, New Brunswick says - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 20:23 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Inquest to probe police killing of Indigenous man, New Brunswick says  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• AP source: Another Marlins player tests positive; 16 total - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 20:13 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  AP source: Another Marlins player tests positive; 16 total  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Waterton bracing for a busy long weekend - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 19:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Waterton bracing for a busy long weekend  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Vast majority of Alberta doctors do not have confidence in health minister: AMA referendum

  29-07-2020 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  The results of the Alberta Medical Association's vote are in, and 98 per cent of Alberta's physicians, residents and medical students surveyed say they are not confident in Tyler Shandro as health minister.
  
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• Prolonged oil industry slump leads to third cut in Canadian drilling forecast

  29-07-2020 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  PSAC says it now expects just 2,800 wells will be drilled in Canada this year, down from a nearly 50-year low of 3,100 in its revised forecast in April.
  
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• MacKenzie Scott says she has given away US$1.7B since divorce from Jeff Bezos

  29-07-2020 19:29
  
  MacKenzie Scott, formerly MacKenzie Bezos, has already donated nearly $1.7 billion of her fortune to a variety of organizations and causes after pledging last year to give most of it away during her lifetime. Scott on Tuesday provided an update on that effort in a post on Medium and also announced that she has changed her last name to the middle name she grew up with, following her divorce from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos last year. Scott received a quarter of Bezos' Amazon shares in the couple's divo
  
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• Beef processing still pushed back but recovering amid COVID-19 - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 18:41 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Beef processing still pushed back but recovering amid COVID-19  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Canada's 4 biggest airports to check temperatures of domestic passengers starting this week

  29-07-2020 18:33
  
  Domestic passengers passing through security at Canada's four biggest airports will have their temperature checked as part of a screening process made mandatory by Transport Canada. The federal agency will require passengers be screened at Vancouver International, Calgary International, Toronto Pearson and Montreal-Trudeau International as of Thursday. The temperature checks were first announced in June. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said international passenger checks would be first, starting
  
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• Canada's 4 biggest airports now check temperatures of domestic passengers

  29-07-2020 18:33
  
  Domestic passengers passing through security at Canada's four biggest airports will have their temperature checked as part of a screening process made mandatory by Transport Canada. The federal agency requires passengers be screened at Vancouver International, Calgary International, Toronto Pearson and Montreal-Trudeau International as of Thursday. The temperature checks were first announced in June. Transport Minister Marc Garneau said international passenger checks would be first, starting at
  
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• Kenney to wrap up spring legislative session with news conference

  29-07-2020 18:21
  
  Alberta's premier will discuss a historic spring legislative session hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic and an oil crisis in a wrap-up news conference Wednesday. Jason Kenney and United Conservative Party House Leader Jason Nixon will recap highlights from the session, which they say helped put Alberta on the right path to economic recovery. Some of the bills enabled electricity and natural gas payment deferrals for those struggling to pay during the pandemic, restricted evictions and rent increa
  
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• Alberta passes contentious health, union bills before wrapping up spring session

  29-07-2020 18:21
  
  Hours after passing the final two bills of the spring session, Alberta's premier recapped a sitting hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis in a wrap-up news conference Wednesday. Jason Kenney and United Conservative Party House Leader Jason Nixon highlighted some of the laws passed during the second session of the 30th Alberta Legislature, which they say helped put Alberta on the right path to economic recovery. Kenney said with 34 bills passed and 52 days of sitting, Alberta's
  
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• Northbound lanes of Hwy. 2 back open near Crossfield, Alta.

  29-07-2020 17:51
  
  A collision between a police vehicle and a van caused traffic on northbound Highway 2 to be reduced to one lane just south of the Highway 72 overpass near Crossfield, Alta. for several hours Tuesday. The road was reopened just after 1:30 p.m. An RCMP member involved in the crash was assessed at the scene by EMS and the driver of the van was taken to hospital with minor injuries. Police said an adult male was taken into custody as a result of the crash, however no other information is available.
  
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• Crash reduces northbound Hwy. 2 to 1 lane near Crossfield, Alta.

  29-07-2020 17:51
  
  A collision between a police vehicle and a van has caused traffic on northbound Highway 2 to be reduced to one lane just south of the Highway 72 overpass near Crossfield, Alta. RCMP say delays are expected to last for several hours. An RCMP member involved in the crash was assessed at the scene by EMS and the driver of the van was taken to hospital with minor injuries.   No other information is available.
  
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• RCMP warn to ‘expect delays’ on QEII Highway north of Calgary after cruiser crash

  29-07-2020 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP officers were called to Highway 2 south of Highway 72 near Crossfield, Alta., at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
  
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• RCMP to lay charges in relation to QEII Highway crash involving police cruiser

  29-07-2020 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP officers were called to Highway 2 south of Highway 72 near Crossfield, Alta., at around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
  
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• RCMP arrest man after ‘attempting to befriend’ young girl in southern Alberta park

  29-07-2020 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police in Brooks, Alta., were called to the city's Duke of Sutherland Park at 6 p.m. on Tuesday for reports of a suspicious man.
  
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• RCMP arrest man after ‘attemping to befriend’ young girl in southern Alberta park

  29-07-2020 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police in Brooks, Alta., were called to the city's Duke of Sutherland Park at 6 p.m. on Tuesday for reports of a suspicious man.
  
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• Edmonton man arrested in Brooks, Alta. after allegedly approaching 6-year-old girl

  29-07-2020 17:04
  
  RCMP in Brooks, Alta. arrested a 40-year-old man accused of attempting to befriend a six-year-old girl to try and get personal and inappropriate information from her. Police were told of a suspicious man in Sutherland Park in Brooks — roughly 190 kilometres southeast of Calgary — about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Witnesses said the suspect approached the girl, who was at the park with her family, and engaged in conversation with her, "in an apparent attempt to be-friend her and solicit personal
  
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• Doctors vote non-confidence in Health Minister Shandro, AMA to turn to Kenney 'for help'

  29-07-2020 16:57
  
  Nearly all doctors, resident physicians and medical students who voted in a referendum say they have lost confidence in Health Minister Tyler Shandro after months of heated negotiations and no agreement. About two thirds of the Alberta Medical Association's members cast a vote over the last week – some 8,900 people. Of those votes, just 1.5 per cent reported confidence in the minister, while 97.8 per cent voted no confidence. Fifty-seven abstain votes were also cast. AMA president Dr. Moln
  
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• AMA vote of confidence results due Wednesday

  29-07-2020 16:57
  
  Whether Alberta doctors have confidence in Health Minister Tyler Shandro will be revealed Wednesday morning. Alberta Medical Association members had until 11 p.m. Tuesday to vote in the referendum. According to the AMA, if the membership has confidence Shandro, the association will continue to negotiate with him on a new physician agreement. If the consensus shows the members do not have confidence in him, the AMA will ask Premier Jason Kenney for his "personal attention to this pressing issue."
  
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• More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in June - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 16:55 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in June  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Enbridge’s earnings slip as revenues plunge 40 per cent due to COVID-19 aftermath

  29-07-2020 16:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Enbridge is reporting that its net income slipped to $1.65 billion in the second quarter on a 40 per cent drop in revenues due to lower crude oil prices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and OPEC price war.
  
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• First two COVID deaths in Lethbridge - Lethbridge Herald

  29-07-2020 16:21 via lethbridgeherald.com
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• Source: Canadian Premier League to play 2020 season in Charlottetown - Lethbridge News Now

  29-07-2020 16:20 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Source: Canadian Premier League to play 2020 season in Charlottetown  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Enbridge reports stronger than feared Q2 Mainline oil transport volumes

  29-07-2020 16:19
  
  The main export system for Western Canada's oil production is recovering after volumes fell by less than feared amid the COVID-19 economic slowdown in the second quarter, pipeline company Enbridge Inc. reported Wednesday. The system which accounts for about 70 per cent of Canadian oil exports into the United States moved 2.44 million barrels per day in the three months ended June 30, a decline of about 400,000 bpd compared with the first quarter tally of 2.84 million bpd, the company reported. T
  
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• Enbridge Q2 earnings slip as revenues plunge 40 per cent due to COVID aftermath

  29-07-2020 16:19
  
  Enbridge Inc. is reporting that its net income slipped to $1.65 billion in the second quarter on a 40 per cent drop in revenues due to lower crude oil prices caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and OPEC price war. The Calgary-based energy company says it earned 82 cents per share for the three months ended June 30, down from 86 cents per share or $1.74 billion a year earlier. Adjusted profit came in at $1.13 billion or 56 cents per share, compared with $1.35 billion or 67 cents per share in the seco
  
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