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• Calgarians protest injustice in Belarus

  23-08-2020 23:28
  
  Several dozen Calgarians, with ties to Belarus protested peacefully at Olympic plaza Sunday morning, raising awareness of the political discourse continuing in Belarus. “What’s going on right now in Belarus, is something horrible,” said Iryna Sazanovich. “Hundreds of people have been tortured and have a lot of injuries.” Sazanovich was protesting the recent election results in her home country that saw Europe’s last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko win a sixth c
  
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• Ukrainians celebrate independence day with car rally

  23-08-2020 22:13
  
  The pandemic forced Calgary's Ukrainian community to get creative in order to celebrate its independence day. Sunday, dozens of cars decked out with Ukrainian flags drove between three major churches in the city in order to mark Ukraine's independence. Normally, there is a large concert and dinner, but the celebratory crowd driving around town Sunday adjusted for the pandemic, spreading nothing but a message of hope.Okeksandor Danyleiko, the Consul-General of Ukraine, said, "The first Ukrainians
  
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• LPS officer charged with assault - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 22:06
  
  LPS officer charged with assault  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Lethbridge police officer charged with assaulting prisoner - CBC.ca

  23-08-2020 21:40
  
  Lethbridge police officer charged with assaulting prisoner  CBC.ca
  
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• Lethbridge police officer charged and relieved of duty without pay

  23-08-2020 21:40
  
  A Lethbridge police officer was charged with assault in relation to an incident involving a prisoner earlier in 2020. That took place Feb. 9, 2020, in a Lethbridge police short term holding facility, between the officer and a prisoner inside a cell. The prisoner wasn't injured in the altercation. That prompted a complaint by the prisoner, which was investigated by the police department's professional standards unit, being forwarded to the Crown, which recommended a charge of assault. The officer
  
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• A quick look at the four federal Conservative leadership candidates - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 20:56
  
  A quick look at the four federal Conservative leadership candidates  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• TSB report says unstable tracks cause of 2019 Irvine derailment

  23-08-2020 20:38
  
  Instability in the track caused a 2019 train derailment in southern Alberta, according to a report issued by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada Friday. The derailment, which took place in Irvine, Alberta, on August 2, 2019, caused a chemical spill and grass fire, which forced the evacuation of approximately 300 people from their homes, and closed part of the Trans-Canada Highway. Five cars contained dangerous goods, including flammable liquids.According to the report, the temperature Aug.
  
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• U.S. residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes

  23-08-2020 20:31
  
  The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two dangerous storms swirled toward the U.S from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening winds and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama. A storm dubbed Marco grew into a hurricane Sunday as it churned up the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana. Another potential hurricane, Tropical Storm Laura, lashed the Dominican Republic and Hai
  
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• 'There has never been anything like this before': Back-to-back hurricanes force evacuations in Louisiana

  23-08-2020 20:31
  
  The Gulf Coast braced Sunday for a potentially devastating hit from twin hurricanes as two dangerous storms swirled toward the U.S from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Officials feared a history-making onslaught of life-threatening winds and flooding along the coast, stretching from Texas to Alabama. A storm dubbed Marco grew into a hurricane Sunday as it churned up the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana. Another potential hurricane, Tropical Storm Laura, lashed the Dominican Republic and Hai
  
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• Opera's Domingo denies abusing power, seeks to clear name - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 19:13
  
  Opera's Domingo denies abusing power, seeks to clear name  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Freeland's 'Plutocrats' book gives insight into possible approach as finance minister

  23-08-2020 18:55
  
  OTTAWA -- Justin Trudeau first met Chrystia Freeland at a 2012 Toronto signing for her award-winning book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. The tome chronicled how globalization and the technology revolution has created a new class of uber-wealthy people, “a nation unto themselves” who wield outsized political clout that has produced economic policies designed to make them ever richer while incomes for everyone else stagnate. Trudeau wa
  
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• Shipbuilders approve 3-year pact, ending monthslong strike - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 18:51
  
  Shipbuilders approve 3-year pact, ending monthslong strike  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Agent for Vegas goalie Fleury raises questions with tweet - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 18:46
  
  Agent for Vegas goalie Fleury raises questions with tweet  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Made-in-Calgary documentary showcases African-Canadian Calgary dance talent

  23-08-2020 18:26
  
  A made-in-Calgary documentary showcasing African-Canadian - and other - Calgary dance talent is screening for free online this weekend. Digital Unganisha, a dance theatre show created by Calgary producer Wunmi Idowu, explores the African origins of contemporary dance, and how it has inspired some of the most popular dance moves in contemporary popular culture, everything from Fred Astaire to James Brown to Michael Jackson's Moonwalk to some of the steps popularized by So You Think You Can Dance.
  
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• Capitals fire coach Todd Reirden after 2 post-season letdowns - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 17:46
  
  Capitals fire coach Todd Reirden after 2 post-season letdowns  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Freeland's 'Plutocrats' book showcases her views on taxes, deficits, joblessness - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 17:36
  
  Freeland's 'Plutocrats' book showcases her views on taxes, deficits, joblessness  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Marco becomes hurricane headed for U.S. Gulf Coast

  23-08-2020 14:13
  
  Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane. It would be the first time two hurricanes form in the Gulf of Mexico simultaneously, according to records dating to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The National Hurricane Center said Marco was about 300 miles (480
  
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• ‘There is just no way to do this’: Teachers worry over school reopening plans amid coronavirus

  23-08-2020 14:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global News spoke to educators across the country to try and understand how teachers are feeling going back to school during the coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Winner of Conservative leadership race to be named

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is set to be announced imminently, marking the start of a new chapter for the federal party. Tallying of the record 174,849 ballots submitted by mail by party members began in the early morning hours, with the first round of results set to be revealed shortly after 6:30 p.m. ET. It’s a ranked ballot vote, allowing party members to indicate on ballots their first-through-fourth choices to be their party’s next leader, and the winner
  
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• Winner of Conservative leadership race to be determined tonight

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada is set to be announced imminently, marking the start of a new chapter for the federal party. Tallying of the record 174,849 ballots submitted by mail by party members began in the early morning hours, with the first round of results set to be revealed shortly after 6:30 p.m. ET. It’s a ranked ballot vote, allowing party members to indicate on ballots their first-through-fourth choices to be their party’s next leader, and the winner
  
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• Winner of Conservative leadership race set to be revealed tonight

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The federal Conservative party elects a new leader tonight and whomever wins faces two major challenges right out of the gate. One: the party is the Official Oppostion in the House of Commons, and in exactly a month's time, the minority Liberal government will deliver a throne speech laying out a post-pandemic recovery plan. The vote on the speech is a confidence motion and the Liberals have all but dared the Tories to try and bring them down. Two: the new leader will have to unite the party aft
  
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• Thousands of damaged ballots force delay in naming next Conservative leader

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The naming of the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada has been delayed for hours, after thousands of ballots were damaged. The envelope-opening machines being used are “slicing through” some of the 174,849 mail-in ballots, resulting in “several thousand” being damaged, according to the party. By 8 p.m. around 97 per cent of the ballots had been counted. The remaining three per cent of ballots were ripped or damaged and either had to be carefully scrutinized to
  
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• Naming of next Conservative leader delayed

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The naming of the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada has been delayed by at least an hour and a half, with the party saying that the envelope opening machines being used are "slicing through" some of the record-breaking number of mail-in ballots. The additional scrutiny required coupled with the COVID-19 restrictions are being cited as the cause of the hold-up.  Tallying of the 174,849 ballots submitted by mail by party members began in the early morning hours, with the first r
  
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• MacKay leading, Sloan eliminated after first round in Conservative leadership race

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  Peter MacKay is leading after the first ballot in the Conservative leadership race while Derek Sloan has been eliminated and his points are now being reallocated. Erin O'Toole finished in second place after the first round, and Leslyn Lewis is in third. None of the candidates have the majority so the results will go to at least a second ballot.  The announcement of the federal political party’s new leader is now underway, after hours of delay due to thousands of ballots being damaged
  
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• 'I'm Erin O'Toole': New Conservative leader named after a race like no other

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  Erin O’Toole is the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, securing victory on the third ballot after a historic and months-long leadership campaign. “To the millions of Canadians that are still up, that I'm meeting tonight for the first time: Good morning. I'm Erin O'Toole, you're going to be seeing and hearing a lot from me in the coming weeks and months, but I want you to know from the start that I'm here to fight for you and your family,” he said in his first speec
  
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• 'I'm Erin O’Toole': New Conservative leader named after a race like no other

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  Erin O’Toole is the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, securing victory on the third ballot after a historic and months-long leadership campaign. “To the millions of Canadians that are still up, that I'm meeting tonight for the first time: Good morning. I'm Erin O'Toole, you're going to be seeing and hearing a lot from me in the coming weeks and months, but I want you to know from the start that I'm here to fight for you and your family,” he said in his first speec
  
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• Erin O’Toole named new Conservative Party leader

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  Erin O’Toole is the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, securing victory on the third ballot. O’Toole defeated MacKay, Leslyn Lewis and Derek Sloan after a historic months-long leadership campaign. MacKay was narrowly leading after the first ballot, that saw Sloan drop off the ballot and his points reallocated. By the second ballot O’Toole picked up ground. The announcement of the federal political party’s new leader got underway at 12:20 a.m. ET Monday, after
  
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• Ballot issue delays naming of next Conservative leader

  23-08-2020 13:35
  
  The naming of the next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada has been delayed by at least an hour and a half, with the party saying that the envelope-opening machines being used are "slicing through" some of the ballots. The additional scrutiny required on what turned out to be a record number of mail-in ballots, coupled with the COVID-19 restrictions are being cited as the cause of the hold-up. Tallying of the 174,849 ballots submitted by mail by party members began in the early morning ho
  
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• Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 10:50
  
  Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Masks mandatory at Loblaw affiliate stores on Aug. 29 - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 07:19
  
  Masks mandatory at Loblaw affiliate stores on Aug. 29  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• India's virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 06:22
  
  India's virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Kiermaier single in 10th, Rays end Jays' 6-game win string - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 05:00
  
  Kiermaier single in 10th, Rays end Jays' 6-game win string  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Man gets stuck in vent after running from police

  23-08-2020 04:59
  
  Charges are pending against two men after a police incident that led to a man becoming stuck in a vent at a Red Deer school. It started on Saturday around 12:45 p.m. when RCMP officers on patrol spotted a car with a stolen license plate driven by a man who was known to police. Police followed the car, but the driver took off. Later, police were investigating a pickup with a plate that didn’t match the vehicle in a back alley in the Mountview area. The 23-year-old man from the stolen car wa
  
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• Oilers Foundation: Delayed 50/50 draw worth $14.3 million after refunds - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 04:48
  
  Oilers Foundation: Delayed 50/50 draw worth $14.3 million after refunds  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• New Conservative leader ‘will not be able to give Alberta everything it wants’: political scientist

  23-08-2020 03:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  The new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada will face a number of challenges, including in the party's long-time stronghold -- Alberta.
  
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• Trump's vision of American greatness at centre of convention - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 03:10
  
  Trump's vision of American greatness at centre of convention  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• City upgrades may harm Chinatown more than help, community advocates say

  23-08-2020 01:00
  
  Some businesses are concerned a new city initiative aimed at getting more walkers and cyclists into Chinatown will actually drive away traffic. It's all part of the city's Third Avenue 'Walking and Wheeling' upgrades , which would see roads and sidewalks in both Chinatown and Eau Claire revamped to allow for increased foot traffic. The work would be done on four blocks near Third Avenue S.W. and First Street S.E. But some businesses in Chinatown take issue with the development, saying it will ta
  
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• TSB report finds unstable track caused Irvine train derailment - Lethbridge News Now

  23-08-2020 00:34
  
  TSB report finds unstable track caused Irvine train derailment  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Shots fired near local downtown bar early Saturday

  23-08-2020 00:15
  
  Police are investigating after shots were fired near a popular downtown bar early Saturday morning. The police received a call just before one in the morning, from witnesses who said they heard gun shots at the parkade across the street from The National on 10th Avenue S.W. Police say a few vehicles drove off and there were no further shots fired.No one was hurt. Police have not made any arrests nor are there any suspects.
  
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