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• Victory garden harvest at southern Alberta museum yields nearly 1,300 pounds of vegetables

  20-09-2020 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  "This was our opportunity to hopefully take away some food insecurities from our local community."
  
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• AHS declares COVID-19 outbreak at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre after 12 cases confirmed

  20-09-2020 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Officials said outbreak control measures have been implemented on the three units.
  
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• Nearly 1,300 pounds of vegetables harvested through victory garden donation project

  20-09-2020 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  WATCH ABOVE: The Heritage Acres Farm Museum planted the idea of a victory garden to assist the Pincher Creek, Alta. community during COVID-19 several months ago. Now, the results of those efforts are showing through a hefty donation. Eloise Therien has more.
  
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• Calgary police walk route to honour fallen soldiers

  20-09-2020 22:40
  
  Members of the Calgary Police Service Honour Guard walked for more than two hours Sunday morning to pay their respects to the city’s fallen. The group marched for more than 11 kilometres to three important locations in Calgary to reflect and pay tribute. “You think about a whole bunch of different things when you’re walking along honouring the dead of wars and honouring our own dead here,” Sgt. Travis Juska said. “You think of the sacrifice they made, what it would&
  
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• Man faces multiple charges in weekend BB shooting incident

  20-09-2020 21:27
  
  A 19-year-old Airdrie man faces numerous charges after a Friday night BB gun shooting spree that left six injured. The incident took place around 9:30 p.m. Friday night, when Airdrie RCMP received numerous 911 calls about a male suspect randomly shooting people. The shooting started at a couple residences in the MacKenzie Way neighbourhood, before moving to the downtown core. Police officers responded to the calls and were able to visually identify the suspect running from the scene. He was disc
  
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• 19-year-old Airdrie man faces multiple charges in weekend BB shooting incident

  20-09-2020 21:27
  
  A 19-year-old Airdrie man faces numerous charges after a Friday night BB gun shooting spree that left six injured. The incident took place around 9:30 p.m. Friday night, when Airdrie RCMP received numerous 911 calls about a male suspect randomly shooting people. The shooting started at a couple residences in the MacKenzie Way neighbourhood, before moving to the downtown core. Police officers responded to the calls and were able to visually identify the suspect running from the scene. He was disc
  
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• Southern California wildfire grows, burns nature centre

  20-09-2020 20:15
  
  The destruction wrought by a wind-driven wildfire in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles approached 156 square miles (404 square kilometres) Sunday, burning structures, homes and a nature centre in a famed Southern California wildlife sanctuary in foothill desert communities. Firefighters were, however, able to defend Mount Wilson, which overlooks greater Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains and has a historic observatory founded more than a century ago and numerous broadcast antennas ser
  
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• California wildfire likely to grow from wind, low humidity

  20-09-2020 20:15
  
  The destruction wrought by a wind-driven wildfire in the mountains northeast of Los Angeles approached 404 square kilometres Sunday, burning structures, homes and a nature centre in a famed Southern California wildlife sanctuary in foothill desert communities. The blaze, known as the Bobcat Fire, is expected to grow through Sunday and Monday as critical fire weather conditions continued due to gusty wind and low humidity. Additional evacuation warnings were issued Sunday afternoon. Firefighters
  
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• ‘It will cost lives’: Alberta mayors continue fight against EMS dispatch changes

  20-09-2020 19:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Four Alberta mayors have penned a letter raising their concerns over a centralization of EMS dispatch in the province.
  
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• Scene cleared in pedestrian-involved incident in southeast Calgary

  20-09-2020 18:51
  
  Traffic has resumed after a pedestrian-involved incident shut down a street Sunday morning in southeast Calgary. The scene was cleared by Calgary police around 1 p.m.CLEAR: The earlier incident involving a pedestrian on 162 Ave and Shawville Wy SE has been cleared. #yyctraffic #yycroads — YYC Transportation (@yyctransport) September 20, 2020The incident took place shortly after 10 a.m. at 162 Ave and Shawville Wy S.E.. causing all lanes to be blocked eastbound and westbound at the LRT trac
  
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• Pedestrian-involved incident in southeast Calgary

  20-09-2020 18:51
  
  A pedestrian-involved incident shut down traffic Sunday morning in a southeast Calgary neighbourhood. The incident took place shortly after 10 a.m. at 162 Ave and Shawville Wy S.E. All lanes are blocked eastbound and westbound at the LRT tracks. There was no information available about the pedestrian. This is a developing story...CORRECTION: There is an incident involving a pedestrian, 162 Ave and Shawville Wy SE, all lanes are blocked EB and WB at the LRT tracks. #yyctraffic #yycroads pic.twitt
  
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• With pandemic pressures stressing out children, U of C offers to listen

  20-09-2020 18:10
  
  The pandemic is stressing everyone out. For Calgarian Barislav Bonthchev, that means pulling his young children out of school. "Before they were going to kindergarten," he said, in an interview with CTV News, "but not anymore. We're a little bit cautious about that."The tension convention of living through a pandemic doesn't end there either, for families like the Bonthchevs. "It's been also (juggling) work and kids," he said. "It's been difficult. That's been the main stressor." That stress has
  
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• Alberta Premier Kenney: Please get Ottawa’s foot off the throat of our economy

  20-09-2020 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  West Block host Mercedes Stephenson speaks with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney about what he would like to see in the upcoming throne speech and why he wants to see the federal share of health-care funding grow from 22 per cent to 35 per cent.
  
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• Canadian Brewhouse hosting fundraiser to help Lethbridge man suffering from illness - Lethbridge News Now

  20-09-2020 16:01
  
  Canadian Brewhouse hosting fundraiser to help Lethbridge man suffering from illness  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Bob Woodward on Trump's re-election chances: 'I think he could win, and I think he could lose'

  20-09-2020 14:28
  
  "I hope you're recording this, so you get it down," Bob Woodward says, nary a hint of irony in his voice. Indeed, relying solely on notes for a conversation with the celebrated Washington Post reporter and editor would border on journalistic malpractice, considering the starring role audio tapes have played in Woodward's 49-year career. At the beginning, of course, was Watergate, the definitive presidential scandal he exposed with colleague Carl Bernstein, culminating in 1974 with what Richard N
  
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• Calgary restaurants speak out against ‘misdirected rage’ from anti-mask patrons

  20-09-2020 02:06
  
  Some Calgary restaurants say they are dealing with belligerent customers regarding the city’s mask policy, from in-person customers and messages online. Modern Steak’s owner Stephen Deere says over the past few days his staff have experienced aggressive behaviour from people over the City of Calgary bylaw for masks to be worn in public indoor spaces to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. “This is a bylaw that has come from the city we are mandated to follow it. If we do not, we ca
  
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• 'To me it's a tragedy': 2 men lament loss of stolen adaptive bikes

  20-09-2020 01:46
  
  Ken Thomas and Ian Young are asking for your help after their adapted bikes were stolen from their downtown apartment building. Both Thomas and Young describe the theft as a violation of their personal space. “To me it’s a tragedy. I don’t know why someone would go after something used by a vulnerable, disabled person. I don’t know what kind of mind frame that is,” Young told CTV News Edmonton. On Friday, Thomas discovered that the bikes were missing from their buil
  
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• NHL commissioner Gary Bettman slows down rumors on next season: ‘Still too much we don’t know’

  20-09-2020 00:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  "Anything that anybody suggests — or reads, or writes, or commentates — about next season is nothing more than speculation," said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
  
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• Edmonton man running local marathon in honour of Terry Fox

  20-09-2020 00:15
  
  A local man is running towards an ambitious goal in honour of a Canadian icon. James Grindlay, the honorary chair of the Edmonton Terry Fox Run ran a marathon through the city on Saturday. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Terry Fox Run. Grindlay is hoping to raise $20,000 through his marathon from Mill woods to River Valley Road to Groat Road Bridge and back. The Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $800 million in support of cancer research. 
  
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