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• Federal government announces $60M funding to restore Wood Buffalo National Park

  21-12-2020 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wood Buffalo National Park is to receive nearly $60 million over the next three years to consider threats from hydro and oilsands development and climate change.
  
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• COVID-19 outbreak declared at Nakiska Ski Area west of Calgary

  21-12-2020 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Nakiska Ski Area in Kananaskis Country. Alberta Health said as of Sunday afternoon, there were 15 active cases linked to the ski resort.
  
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• Calgary Stampede announces passing of CEO Warren Connell

  21-12-2020 23:22
  
  Calgary Stampede CEO Warren Connell has died, the organziation announced Monday. Connell joined the Stampede in 1984 and became CEO in 2015. "During his time as CEO, Warren worked tirelessly toward the vision of creating a world-class, year-round gathering place for the community," officials said in a statement sent to volunteers and employees. "This included setting the direction for the final fulfillment of the Stampede’s 20-year Master Plan, a bold and unprecedented accomplishment. "War
  
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• Calgary Stampede announces death of CEO Warren Connell

  21-12-2020 23:22
  
  Calgary Stampede CEO Warren Connell has died, the organziation announced Monday. Connell joined the Stampede in 1984 and became CEO in 2015. "During his time as CEO, Warren worked tirelessly toward the vision of creating a world-class, year-round gathering place for the community," officials said in a statement sent to volunteers and employees. "This included setting the direction for the final fulfillment of the Stampede’s 20-year Master Plan, a bold and unprecedented accomplishment. "War
  
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• 'A visionary leader': Calgary Stampede announces death of CEO Warren Connell

  21-12-2020 23:22
  
  Calgary Stampede CEO Warren Connell has died, the organization announced Monday. Connell joined the Stampede in 1984 and became CEO in 2015. "During his time as CEO, Warren worked tirelessly toward the vision of creating a world-class, year-round gathering place for the community," read a statement sent to volunteers and employees. "This included setting the direction for the final fulfillment of the Stampede’s 20-year Master Plan, a bold and unprecedented accomplishment. "Warren will be r
  
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• Sheriffs shut down ‘drug house’ in northeast Calgary

  21-12-2020 23:06
  
  The Alberta Sheriffs have shut down a northeast Calgary house that has been a known source of drug use and criminal activity. After several complaints, the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit obtained a court order against the owner of a home in the community of Renfrew, resulting in a closure of the property for 90 days. “Law-abiding residents of this community should not have to tolerate this kind of activity that endangers their families. I applaud law enforcement for their
  
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• Alberta judge to rule on court challenge of provincial COVID-19 restrictions

  21-12-2020 22:59
  
  Lawyers representing a pair of southern Alberta churches and three individuals argue COVID-19 restrictions violate the Charter of Rights and should not have been imposed. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Anne Kirker is expected to rule on the matter Monday afternoon. Lawyers representing the group of plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to temporarily stay rules Alberta announced in early December. Nearly two weeks ago, the provincial government unveiled a series of health measures to try an
  
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• Alberta judge dismisses challenge to provincial COVID-19 restrictions

  21-12-2020 22:59
  
  An Alberta judge dismissed a legal challenge filed by two southern Alberta churches and three individuals arguing that COVID-19 restrictions violate the Charter of Rights and should not have been imposed. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Anne Kirker ruled on the matter shortly after 3 p.m. Monday afternoon, rejecting it. "I am of the view that there is a greater public interest in maintaining the integrity of order 42 than there is in staying the part of it the applicants asked me to suspend
  
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• The Privileged And Exploited Story Behind 'A Christmas Carol' - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 22:45
  The Privileged And Exploited Story Behind 'A Christmas Carol'  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Victim of fatal Panorama Hills stabbing identified, search for suspect continues

  21-12-2020 22:44
  
  Calgary Police Service officials have identified the victim of last week's fatal stabbing in a northwest neighbourhood as the search for his alleged killer continues. Police confirm the deceased is 20-year-old Kyreese George Wright of Calgary. Emergency crews responded to a home in the 200 block of Panatella Court N.W. on the morning of Dec. 16 following reports of a stabbing. An injured Wright suffering from stab wounds was pronounced dead on scene. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the
  
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• Edmonton doctor concerned with 4th COVID-19 ward opening at U of A Hospital

  21-12-2020 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Branko Braam, section chief for nephrology in the Edmonton zone of Alberta Health Services, said the University of Alberta Hospital has opened a fourth COVID-19 ward and health-care staff who have never worked in that type of unit are having to step in to help treat patients.
  
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• Homegrown receiver Lemar Durant signs extension with B.C. Lions - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 22:14
  
  Homegrown receiver Lemar Durant signs extension with B.C. Lions  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Gabriel Bump named 2020 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 22:14
  Gabriel Bump named 2020 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• WHL delays 2021 draft from May to December - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 22:10
  WHL delays 2021 draft from May to December  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Coronavirus: Edmonton ICU doctor shares photo of dwindling ventilator supply

  21-12-2020 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Edmonton ICU doctor is sharing a photo of the ventilator supply at his hospital as a reminder of how serious COVID-19 can be and what it can do to a patient's lungs.
  
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• Calgary road crews at the ready ahead of blast of wintry weather

  21-12-2020 21:40
  
  As Calgary braces for upward of 20 centimetres of snow over the next two days, the City of Calgary Roads department says it's prepared to keep streets cleared. "We're in for a little bit of winter weather here, holiday weather," said Chris McGeachy, City of Calgary Roads spokesperson. "We just want to remind people that there is a big snowfall coming. Our crews are prepared. They're preparing their equipment right now. They'll be applying anti-icing material. "We've also called in our additional
  
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• Man dressed as Santa rescued from power lines in California - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 21:33
  
  Man dressed as Santa rescued from power lines in California  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary police and bylaw to comment on weekend COVID-19 enforcement at 2 p.m.

  21-12-2020 21:22
  
  Calgary police and bylaw officials will speak Monday about weekend enforcement of COVID-19-related restrictions. Police Chief Mark Neufeld and Chief Bylaw Officer Ryan Pleckaitis are scheduled to speak, along with Dr. Peter Jamieson, medical director at Foothills Hospital and the associate zone medical director for Calgary. The virtual press conference will take place over Zoom. Police and protesters clashed outside Calgary's city hall during a rally Saturday and police said several tickets were
  
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• Calgary police and bylaw to comment on weekend COVID-19 enforcement

  21-12-2020 21:22
  
  Calgary police and bylaw officials will speak Monday about weekend enforcement of COVID-19-related restrictions. Police Chief Mark Neufeld and Chief Bylaw Officer Ryan Pleckaitis are scheduled to speak, along with Dr. Peter Jamieson, medical director at Foothills Hospital and the associate zone medical director for Calgary. Police and protesters clashed outside Calgary's city hall during a rally Saturday and police said several tickets were handed out for health restriction violations. And 21-ye
  
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• 30 tickets, 5 criminal charges handed out at weekend rallies in Calgary: CPS

  21-12-2020 21:22
  
  Around 30 tickets and five criminal charges were handed out at weekend rallies against COVID-19 health restrictions, Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld said during an update Monday. Neufeld said officers have been gathering information at the numerous rallies that have been held weekly in recent months, rather than actively ticketing people for not following health restrictions, but Saturday's event was a little different, prompting a different response. "A lot of times because the gatherings inv
  
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• Travellers arriving in Alberta from UK ‘should immediately get tested for COVID-19’

  21-12-2020 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta is "strongly encouraging" all travellers who arrived from the United Kingdom within the past 14 days to immediately book a COVID-19 test.
  
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• Did you recently return from the U.K.? Alberta asks that you test for COVID-19

  21-12-2020 21:05
  
  Travellers who arrived to Alberta from the United Kingdom within the past two weeks are asked to get tested for COVID-19. The Canadian government on Monday stopped all fights from Britain for 72 hours as a new variant of the coronavirus spreads there.What we know about the U.K.'s new novel coronavirus variant“A variant of COVID-19 has been identified in the United Kingdom with mutations that may cause increased infectivity,” Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said in a
  
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• Snowy start to the week, warmer later on

  21-12-2020 20:46
  
  The winter solstice has arrived and it’s bringing lots of snow to kick off astronomical winter. Snow spreads across southern Alberta on Monday afternoon and reaches central regions by Monday evening. Light afternoon snow intensifies overnight before tapering off late Tuesday. Tuesday morning could be a tricky one for commuters as wind speeds pick up with northerly gusts of 50 or 60 km/h possible. The snow, coupled with the gusty winds, will lead to blowing snow and hazardous road condition
  
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• 'A bombshell': Canadians stuck in U.K. face uncertainty after Canada shuts air travel

  21-12-2020 20:38
  
  Mark Sultana says Canada's decision to halt most air travel from the United Kingdom, where a mutated strain of COVID-19 has been discovered, landed "like a bombshell." The 52-year-old Canadian entrepreneur, who has called London home for the better part of two decades, said the move announced late Sunday has been especially disconcerting for Canadians who had planned to visit family and friends back home over the holidays. "We can't go anywhere -- any of us," Sultana, an administrator of the Fac
  
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• Alberta doctor on rising COVID-19 hospitalizations: ‘We’ll not be able to treat all patients’

  21-12-2020 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Dr. Branko Braam says the situation has become so dire, the U of A Hospital has opened a "forced COVID ward" and asked kidney disease health-care workers to help staff it.
  
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• Dr. Deena Hinshaw to update the COVID-19 situation in Alberta on Monday afternoon

  21-12-2020 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's chief medical officer of health is set to provide her usual update on COVID-19 in the province at 3:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon
  
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• Alberta adds 1,240 cases of COVID-19; Hinshaw says province sees ‘positive signs’

  21-12-2020 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's chief medical officer of health is set to provide her usual update on COVID-19 in the province at 3:30 p.m. on Monday afternoon
  
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• Biden's profoundly private Pentagon pick joins Twitter - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 19:57
  Biden's profoundly private Pentagon pick joins Twitter  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Historic year for AMA's Fill Our Fleet food bank donation campaign - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 19:48
  Historic year for AMA's Fill Our Fleet food bank donation campaign  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'Completely unmanageable': Pandemic taking women out of the workforce

  21-12-2020 19:37
  
  Bethany Smith loved her job as a barber. Smith loved going into work every day and seeing a new client every half-hour, visiting with regulars who would come back often for a haircut. But when the pandemic hit, Smith was temporarily laid off from her job. When the time came to go back to work, she couldn't - with immunocompromised kids and mom, she decided to stay home and take care of her family. Smith mom said going from being a busy working mom to a stay-at-home mom running a homeschool for h
  
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• Pandemic preying upon perceptions of life satisfaction: Stats Canada - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 19:09
  Pandemic preying upon perceptions of life satisfaction: Stats Canada  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Gatherings might be a little smaller this Christmas but the turkey will likely be standard sized

  21-12-2020 18:50
  
  COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta will see smaller gatherings this holiday season with fewer family members around most dinner tables but the main dish will likely look the same as previous years. Laurel Winter, a fourth generation turkey farmer who farms southeast of Calgary, says raising smaller turkeys isn't as easy as you might think. "This is our busiest time of year," said Winter. "Our business is fresh turkeys at Christmas so we’re run off our feet here." She and her husband Lyle Wei
  
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• Hinshaw to give COVID-19 update at 3:30 p.m.

  21-12-2020 18:44
  
  Dr. Deena Hinshaw will update Albertans on the COVID-19 pandemic Monday afternoon. The weekend saw the province add 2,638 coronavirus cases and 36 more deaths caused by the disease. There are currently 19,201 Albertans infected with COVID-19. More than 750 of them are in hospital and nearly 150 are in ICU.26 more deaths, 1,352 new COVID-19 cases in Alberta on Saturday Alberta reports 1,286 new cases on Sunday; 19,201 residents with COVID-19 across provinceAlberta has reported 90,219 cases and 85
  
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• Hinshaw says 'situation is still serious' as Alberta adds 1,240 COVID-19 cases

  21-12-2020 18:44
  
  Alberta’s top doctor announced 1,240 new cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths Monday afternoon. The province’s positivity rate is at 6.8 per cent after Alberta Health Services conducted 18,306 tests on Sunday. The R-value for the province is 0.92, while Edmonton and Calgary’s are 0.89 and 0.97, respective, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said. “The positive signs that I mentioned on Friday have continued through the weekend, but our situation is still serious,” the chief medica
  
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• 10 community groups receiving grant COVID-19 relief funding - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 17:23
  10 community groups receiving grant COVID-19 relief funding  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgarians embrace new languages as way of connecting during COVID-19 pandemic

  21-12-2020 17:08
  
  A lack of social interaction in the midst of a global pandemic was one of Madeleine Wakefield's largest concerns. "It’s kind of like a period of exile," she said. "When you go into exile you can see that as a waiting period or as a time when you keep progressing, so even at this stage in my life I wanted to progress." The 73-year-old Calgary woman is an award-winning professor, but has recently been trying to find new ways to challenge herself. She took the pandemic as an opportunity to re
  
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• Judge dismisses application to have some of Alberta’s COVID-19 restrictions suspended

  21-12-2020 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  An attempt to have some of the Alberta government's COVID-19 restrictions temporarily suspended was rejected by a judge in Calgary on Monday afternoon.
  
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• Court challenge launched against Alberta’s COVID-19 public health restrictions

  21-12-2020 16:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  A group of lawyers has launched a court challenge against Alberta's COVID-19 public health measures in what they call an attempt to "save Christmas."
  
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• Canada’s preparation for world junior hockey championship continues to face hurdles

  21-12-2020 16:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canada's pre-tournament game Monday against Sweden at Rogers Place came off the schedule.
  
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• Indigenous leaders struggle to support mental health as community access remains restricted

  21-12-2020 15:58
  
  Indigenous communities in the Wood Buffalo area are facing heightened feelings of isolation after closing themselves off to all non-essential traffic in March. This strategy has already highlighted facts Indigenous leaders have raised for decades: access to a strong health care system, food security and stable housing needs improvement. But after 10 months, community leaders are also witnessing the emotional and mental health toll that comes when a community isolates itself. Since March, Chief A
  
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• Cancelled exhibition game alters Canada's world junior hockey championship preparation

  21-12-2020 15:47
  
  A Canadian team already short on game reps ahead of the world junior men's hockey championship in Edmonton must recalibrate yet again with the cancellation of one of its two pre-tournament games. Wednesday's exhibition game against Russia is the only time Canada, limited to intrasquad games so far, will play against anyone other than themselves before the host country's Boxing Day opener against Germany. Canada's pre-tournament game Monday against Sweden at Rogers Place came off the schedule. Co
  
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• Temporary injunction sought against Alberta COVID-19 restrictions at Christmas

  21-12-2020 15:35
  
  Two southern Alberta churches and three individuals are to be in a Calgary court today to argue that the province's COVID-19 restrictions "cancel Christmas" and infringe on constitutional rights. They will be seeking an injunction to temporarily stay select public-health rules brought in by the Alberta government earlier this month. The measures limit Christmas celebrations to individual households, restrict weddings and funerals to 10 people and prohibit outdoor gatherings. Alberta Premier Jaso
  
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• Snowfall warnings blanket southern Alberta, upward of 50 cm expected in some areas

  21-12-2020 14:42
  
  Southern Alberta will have a white Christmas this year as an intense system will arrive Monday and dump a significant amount of precipitation over the coming days. As of Monday morning, Environment Canada has issued snowfall or winter storm warnings for all regions in the southern section of the province. Calgary is expected to receive between 10 and 20 centimetres of snow by the time the snowfall tapers off late Tuesday. Winter storm warnings are in place for the following areas where between 3
  
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• Iran urged not to squander chance to salvage nuclear deal - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 13:23
  
  Iran urged not to squander chance to salvage nuclear deal  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Ontario will enter strict lockdown on Dec. 26, nearly all non-essential businesses to close

  21-12-2020 13:11
  
  Ontario will go into a strict province-wide lockdown on Dec. 26, forcing nearly all non-essential businesses to close. The lockdown will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Dec. 26 and will last until Jan. 23 for all regions in southern Ontario, the government has announced. The health units not in southern Ontario will remain in lockdown until Jan. 9. The lockdown was originally set to begin on Dec. 24 but was pushed back two days by cabinet on Monday. The province-wide lockdown will look similar to the shu
  
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• Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, dubbed 'Christmas Star,' visible tonight - Lethbridge News Now

  21-12-2020 10:11
  Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, dubbed 'Christmas Star,' visible tonight  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Advocates want more action amid Alberta’s new online tool

  21-12-2020 04:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  While the focus is on the COVID-19 pandemic, another health crisis is underway. Opioid deaths in Alberta are drastically increasing and the province has launched a new online tool to help save lives. Chris Chacon reports
  
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• B.C. man accused of dangerous driving for sleeping in self-driving, speeding Tesla

  21-12-2020 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  A B.C. man has been charged with dangerous driving in Alberta after he was allegedly caught sleeping in a speeding, self-driving Tesla in what Canadian legal experts are calling an unprecedented case. Kristen Robinson reports.
  
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• Alberta’s opioid overdose deaths surge during pandemic

  21-12-2020 03:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta is seeing its deadliest year for drug overdoses, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen its already dire opioid crisis. Heather Yourex-West reports on how the province is trying to tackle its other health emergency, and why some are saying it’s falling short.
  
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• White Christmas? A colder and snowy start to the week for southern Alberta

  21-12-2020 02:26
  
  A mild Sunday night as wind speeds continue to diminish, becoming light by Monday morning. A low pressure system developing in Montana begins to spreads snow across southern Alberta mid-day Monday before tapering off late Tuesday.This system is expected to drop 10-20 cm of snow over much of southern and central Alberta, Calgary may see roughly 20 cm. However, areas along the foothills from Banff to the international border could see upwards of 40 cm of snow thanks to upslope flow. The week start
  
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