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• AJHL could start regular season in mid-November

  26-10-2020 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  "From a perspective of having players ready to play games in a season, most teams would be comfortable basically starting tomorrow."
  
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• Workers and supporters gather outside Chinook hospital in Lethbridge to protest government cuts - CTV Toronto

  26-10-2020 23:44 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Workers and supporters gather outside Chinook hospital in Lethbridge to protest government cuts  CTV Toronto
  
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• Workers and supporters gather outside Chinook hospital in Lethbridge to protest government cuts

  26-10-2020 23:44
  
  Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) across the province walked off the job Monday morning to protest the government's plan to contract out about 11,000 laundry and lab positions, a move AUPE calls dangerous to Alberta’s health care system. More than 100 nursing-care and support workers are participating in the wildcat strike at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. The union says workers at other hospitals across the province are also walking out.  CTV News
  
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• COVID-19: Hinshaw asks younger Albertans to reconsider Halloween parties or follow restrictions

  26-10-2020 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw asks younger Albertans to reconsider their Halloween plans as COVID-19 cases climb in the province.
  
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• COVID-19: Alberta announces 15-person limit on all social gatherings in Edmonton and Calgary

  26-10-2020 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw announces new restrictions for social gatherings in Calgary and Edmonton as COVID-19 cases rise in the province’s largest cities.
  
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• Alberta to notify event organizers of positive COVID-19 cases via e-mail

  26-10-2020 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  In an effort to improve COVID-19 notification in Alberta, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, announces new notification measures for event organizers.
  
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• ‘We have now crossed a tipping point’: Hinshaw issues warning about implications of COVID-19 spike

  26-10-2020 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw warns Albertans of the implications of COVID-19 on the health-care system while talking about a spike in cases over the weekend.
  
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• 15-person limit on social gatherings in Calgary and Edmonton

  26-10-2020 23:29
  
  Following record numbers of COVID-19 infections over the weekend, a 15-person limit has been placed on social gatherings in Calgary and Edmonton. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, announced the new measure during her regular update on Monday. The limit does not apply to restaurants or organized social events like a wedding ceremony or funeral, but would be in place for things like wedding receptions. "The events that fall under this particular measure would be ev
  
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• 15-person limit in social gatherings in Calgary and Edmonton

  26-10-2020 23:29
  
  Following record numbers of COVID-19 infections over the weekend, a 15-person limit has been placed on social gatherings in Calgary and Edmonton. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the province's chief medical officer of health, announced the new measure during her regular update on Monday. The limit does not apply to restaurants or organized social events like a wedding ceremony or funeral, but would be in place for things like wedding receptions. "The events that fall under this particular measure would be ev
  
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• ‘Alberta, we have a challenge’: Hinshaw asks people in province to respect COVID-19

  26-10-2020 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw started her Monday COVID-19 update asking for Albertans to respect COVID-19 and to work together to get through the pandemic.
  
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• Some Alberta nurses worry proposed social media policy would muzzle health advocacy and criticism

  26-10-2020 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  UNA "strongly opposes" the draft standards and is worried about their impacts on nurses' freedom of speech and ability to advocate for good health policy.
  
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• Coronation RCMP investigate fatal collision on Hwy. 12

  26-10-2020 23:18
  
  One person was killed in a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 12 west of Coronation on Saturday. The incident happened around 8:30 a.m. RCMP say the preliminary investigation revealed that a truck was traveling eastbound on Highway 12 when it rolled into a ditch. The 20-year-old driver of the truck from Veteran, Atla., was pronounced dead at the scene. Coronation RCMP and a RCMP collision reconstructionist continue to investigate. RCMP say no further information will be released.
  
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• Record 1440 new COVID cases in Alberta this weekend - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2020 22:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Record 1440 new COVID cases in Alberta this weekend  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Cenovus Energy shares plummet on news of its $3.8B deal to buy Husky Energy

  26-10-2020 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The all-share deal by Cenovus Energy Inc. to buy Husky Energy Inc. for about $3.8 billion will likely spark more mega-mergers among Canadian oil and gas majors, according to a veteran oilsands analyst.
  
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• Lethbridge Police need information on driver involved in case of mischief - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2020 22:14 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Lethbridge Police need information on driver involved in case of mischief  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Tamarack ordered to pay $80K following guilty plea in provincial court

  26-10-2020 22:07
  
  Tamarack Acquisition Corp. has been ordered to pay $80,000 after pleading guity to a charge under the provincial Water Act. The fine stems from the company's conduct after receiving a temporary diversion license from the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) that gave it permission to withdraw groundwater for a well drilling operation clsoe to Veteran, Alberta, between January 2017 and April 2018. Tamarack was found to have not recorded the amount of water it used as it was withdrawing it. Instead, it
  
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• Lethbridge driver sought after windows smashed by parking lot stunts

  26-10-2020 21:36
  
  Police in Lethbridge are asking for the public’s help to identify the driver of a grey-colored Dodge Charger with LED headlights who was recording doing ‘donuts’ in the parking lot of a place of worship.  Officials say the incident happened sometime late Saturday night or even Sunday morning on the 2400 block of 11 Avenue South. While in the process, the vehicle sprayed the adjacent building with gravel and damaged several windows. The damage is estimated at more than $15,
  
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• 'A mess': Patients, doctors upset over minister’s comment on treatment program

  26-10-2020 21:23
  
  The end of an Alberta program used to treat severe opioid use disorders — and comments from a minister about freezing funding to it — are attracting controversy.  The program, Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment, is commonly referred to iOAT. It started in 2018 as a pilot project by the former NDP government. The UCP stretched funding to it for one year before announcing recently that money will not be extended past March 2021.  The province says it plans to transition pati
  
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• Alberta legislature reacts to health-care workers walking off the job across the province

  26-10-2020 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Leader of Alberta’s official Opposition Rachel Notley confronts the UCP after health-care workers walked off the job across the province.
  
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• ‘These cuts are going to harm Albertans’: HSAA president on wildcat strike protesting privatization

  26-10-2020 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  At the AUPE picket line outside the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Monday, Health Sciences Association of Alberta president Mike Parker said the front-line jobs being privatized by the province will harm Albertans and blamed the UCP government for growing anger among health-care workers.
  
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• ‘Albertans have to speak up’: United Nurses on privatization anger

  26-10-2020 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  At the AUPE picket line outside the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Monday, United Nurses of Alberta president Heather Smith says there has been extreme unhappiness among all heath-care workers for some time now and called on all Albertans to speak out against privatization.
  
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• ‘This is the consequence’: Alberta unions support AUPE health-care wildcat strike

  26-10-2020 20:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan spoke in solidarity of the AUPE wildcat strike outside the picket line at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Monday, saying the strike is a consequence of the Alberta government trying to privatize some health-care jobs during a pandemic.
  
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• Kenney, Neudorf, other UCP officials test negative for COVID-19 - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2020 20:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Kenney, Neudorf, other UCP officials test negative for COVID-19  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Province to limit temporary foreign worker program to save jobs for Albertans

  26-10-2020 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  Labour and Immigration Minister Jason Copping says the province's United Conservative government will also reduce the number of jobs for which employers can apply for temporary foreign workers.
  
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• Canada women's security envoy sees rising authoritarian control during COVID-19 - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2020 19:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Canada women's security envoy sees rising authoritarian control during COVID-19  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Swoop set to offer flights from Edmonton to Mexico, Phoenix despite rising Alberta COVID-19 cases

  26-10-2020 19:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Swoop announced Monday that it would be offering flights for Edmontonians to Mexico and Phoenix, despite rising cases of COVID-19 in the province.
  
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• Alberta politicians test negative after coming in contact with COVID-19 infected minister

  26-10-2020 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  In total, five Alberta politicians came into contact with Municipal Affairs Minister Tracy Allard before she tested positive.
  
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• Charges laid following 3-year-long investigation into death of Ronnie Obina

  26-10-2020 19:21
  
  The Calgary Police Service confirms first-degree murder charges have been laid against two men following a three-year-long investigation into the death of a man in a northwest neighbourhood. On Nov. 4, 2017, police were called to the 0 to 100 block of Ranchero Rise N.W. after a dead man was found in a vehicle in the back alley. CPS believe the man was shot in the back alley in the early morning hours on Nov. 3, 2017. The victim was identified as 29-year-old Ronnie Olara Obina of Calgary. Investi
  
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• Alberta health-care support workers stage wildcat strike Monday

  26-10-2020 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Health-care workers walked off the job to hold a wildcat strike at several locations across Alberta Monday morning, to “defend their jobs and the public health-care system that keeps Albertans safe and alive,” according to the AUPE. Lisa MacGregor shares the latest from Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital on the noon news.
  
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• Hinshaw to provide Alberta weekend COVID-19 numbers Monday afternoon

  26-10-2020 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw will be presenting the numbers recorded in the province since Friday and she's expected to speak at 3:30 p.m.
  
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• AUPE on why Alberta health-care support workers are striking

  26-10-2020 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Union of Provincial Employees president Guy Smith explains why front-line hospital workers walked off the job at several locations across Alberta Monday morning and what they want the province and Alberta Health Services to do in order to end the strike.
  
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• COVID-19 in Alberta: What you need to know before Dr. Hinshaw's update

  26-10-2020 19:02
  
  Alberta’s chief medical officer of health will give a COVID-19 update Monday afternoon after daily and active cases hit pandemic highs multiple times last week. Dr. Deena Hinshaw will announce coronavirus case counts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Alberta added more than 400 cases three times last week, setting up the possibility Hinshaw will report more than 1,000 infections this afternoon. Alberta currently has 3,651 COVID-19 cases — the highest active tally since the pandemic be
  
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• Alberta hits single-day record after adding 1,440 cases of COVID-19 since Friday

  26-10-2020 19:02
  
  Alberta reported 1,440 cases of COVID-19 since Friday, including more than 500 cases both Saturday and Sunday. The province has a new pandemic high of 4,477 active coronavirus cases — an increase of 826 since the latest update —after it added 364 cases on Friday, 572 on Saturday and 504 on Sunday. Saturday’s count is the highest daily increase Alberta has had to date.Infographics: COVID-19 in Alberta by the numbers COVID-19 in Edmonton: Numbers broken down by neighbourhood 
  
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• Alberta adds 1,440 cases of COVID-19 in last 3 days

  26-10-2020 19:02
  
  Alberta added 1,440 cases of COVID-19 since Friday, including more than 500 cases on Saturday and Sunday. The province has 4,477 active cases of the coronavirus — an increase of 826 since Friday’s update. Alberta also reported seven deaths over the weekend: Four in the Edmonton zone and three in the Calgary zone. This is a breaking news update. The story will be updated as more information becomes available. Original story: Alberta’s chief medical officer of health will give a
  
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• 'You can't really ask much more than this': Alberta teen scoring big for Clemson's college football juggernaut

  26-10-2020 18:56
  
  He's a budding star at an American college football powerhouse, but Ajou Ajou is all Alberta through and through.  Born in Calgary, raised in Brooks and a two-sport provincial high school champion in Edmonton, Ajou is proud of his roots.  "I'm just super thankful, you can't really ask much more than this," he said from South Carolina.  "It means a lot because I've got so many friends from there and if they sacrificed just a little more they could be doing what I'm doing." Alb
  
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• Volunteers knit baby baskets to help those grieving pregnancy and infant loss in Alta., Sask.

  26-10-2020 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  "We just wanted to provide that soft barrier, but still be able to hold and feel all the creases of your baby," said board member Vanessa Braun.
  
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• ‘Privatization does not save money’: AUPE on wildcat strikes at Alberta health facilities

  26-10-2020 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Bobby-Joe Borodey, vice president with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, speaks with Global News during job action at the Foothills hospital as part of a province-wide walkout.
  
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• ‘We have to stand for our rights’: AHS worker explains why he joined province-wide walkout

  26-10-2020 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Health Services worker Debas Mehari speaks with Global News’ Carolyn Kury de Castillo after walking out of his job at the Foothills hospital.
  
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• Senior dies in hospital weeks after attack at Sunnyside LRT, upgraded charges expected

  26-10-2020 18:26
  
  More than two months after being assaulted at an LRT platform, a senior died in hospital last week and his death has been deemed a homicide. Tiamquan Yang, 81, was on the platform at the Sunnyside LRT station about 9 a.m. on Aug. 15 when he was struck and fell onto the concrete, suffering serious head injuries. He died on Oct. 22. "An altercation over an insignificant misunderstanding, led to the assault on Mr. Yang, and ultimately his completely senseless death. Our condolences go out to Mr. Ya
  
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• RCMP investigating bomb threat against Southland Transportation in Cochrane, Alta.

  26-10-2020 16:08
  
  Southland Transportation school buses have returned to the transportation yard on Griffin Road in Cochrane following reports of a bomb threat Monday morning. According to RCMP, the threat was made against a bus as well as the Southland Transportation building. The company provides school bus service. Officers are investigating the matter. This is a developing story. It will be updated as details are confirmed. 
  
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• RCMP complete search of school buses following bomb threat in Cochrane, Alta.

  26-10-2020 16:08
  
  Southland Transportation school buses have returned to the transportation yard on Griffin Road in Cochrane following reports of a bomb threat Monday morning. According to RCMP, the threat was made over the service's radios shortly before 8 a.m. and appeared to target a bus as well as the Southland Transportation building. RCMP confirmed late Monday morning that all school buses in the yard and the building had been searched and nothing had been located to substantiate the threat. Investigators h
  
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• RCMP complete search of school buses following bomb threat against Southland Transportation in Cochrane, Alta.

  26-10-2020 16:08
  
  Southland Transportation school buses have returned to the transportation yard on Griffin Road in Cochrane following reports of a bomb threat Monday morning. According to RCMP, the threat was made over the service's radios shortly before 8 a.m. and appeared to target a bus as well as the Southland Transportation building. RCMP confirmed late Monday morning that all school buses in the yard and the building had been searched and nothing had been located to substantiate the threat. Investigators h
  
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• Health-care workers walk off the job in wildcat strikes across Alberta: AUPE

  26-10-2020 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Front-line hospital workers walked off the job at several locations across Alberta Monday morning.
  
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• Front-line health-care workers walk off the job across Alberta: AUPE

  26-10-2020 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Front-line hospital workers walked off the job at several locations across Alberta Monday morning.
  
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• Province and feds to announce funding for Alta. flood mitigation projects

  26-10-2020 15:34
  
  The federal government and province of Alberta are scheduled to announce funding for eight infrastructure projects. Prasad Panda, Alberta's minister of infrastructure, will make the announcement alongside Catherine McKenna, federal minister of infrastructure and communities, at the McDougall Centre in downtown Calgary Monday morning. A livestream of the announcement, scheduled to being at 9 a.m. MT, will be available here. According to the Government of Alberta, the projects are located in:Calga
  
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• Province and feds announce funding for Alta. flood mitigation projects

  26-10-2020 15:34
  
  The federal government and province of Alberta have announced funding for eight infrastructure projects. Prasad Panda, Alberta's minister of infrastructure, made the announcement at the McDougall Centre in downtown Calgary Monday morning and Catherine McKenna, federal minister of infrastructure and communities, participated remotely. A livestream of the announcement is available here. According to the Government of Alberta, the projects are located in:Calgary Black Diamond Bassano Siksika Nation
  
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• Alberta hospital workers walk out to protest job cuts amid COVID-19, AHS calls strike 'illegal'

  26-10-2020 15:30
  
  Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) walked off the job Monday morning to protest the government's plan to contract out about 11,000 laundry and lab positions, a move AUPE calls dangerous to Alberta’s health care system. More than 100 nursing-care and support workers are participating in the wildcat strike at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. The union says workers at other hospitals across the province are also walking out.  CTV News has also confirmed
  
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• Alberta hospital workers walk out to protest job cuts amid COVID-19

  26-10-2020 15:30
  
  Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) walked off the job Monday morning to protest what they call dangerous cuts to Alberta’s health care system. More than 100 people are participating in the wildcat strike at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. The union says workers at other hospitals across the province are also participating.  “Nursing-care and support workers decided today that there was no other option but to fight to protect Albertans at risk,
  
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• New assistants named for Kodiak teams - Lethbridge News Now

  26-10-2020 14:37 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  New assistants named for Kodiak teams  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Halloween’s heralding days are looking lovely!

  26-10-2020 14:25
  
  I don'’t know about your area, but the trembling aspen in my backyard is confused as heck. That's just one of many signs of the times. Virgin 98.5’s Danaye Maier told me this morning that her weekend involved both pumpkin-carving and tobogganing in the same day. To be fair, that's not uncommon – Calgary’s average October snowfall hitting a double-digit total is par for the course. But the strength of that first week of the month, with unparalleled warmth not witnessed sin
  
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