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• More than 158K COVID-19 vaccine appointments booked through AHS Thursday

  11-06-2021 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Friday in Alberta, there were 296 people in hospital with the virus, 79 of whom were in ICU.
  
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• Zero new COVID cases in Lethbridge Friday - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2021 23:49
  
  Zero new COVID cases in Lethbridge Friday  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Rocky View County couple slapped with massive bill over postal code change

  11-06-2021 23:48
  
  A simple postal code change was supposed to be a positive thing for Jim and Dianne Novak but instead, the couple has been battling their insurance company — SGI Canada — over a premium charge on their bill.  Jim says after notifying their insurance broker of the change, they received a bill in the mail for $625. “I explained to her that we’re not paying the extra premium just for a change of address,  he said. "We didn’t move.” The Novaks have been i
  
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• 30 new murals transform Calgary into 'open air' art gallery

  11-06-2021 23:44
  
  A walk through several Calgary communities will now reveal a colourful series of murals and parklets. Designed by and finished by local artists, the project was undertaken by the Beltline Urban Mural Project (BUMP) to add colour, vibrancy, and an element of safety to the downtown Calgary neighbourhood.  The murals have been painted on concrete barriers, dubbed “jersey barriers” and placed in strategic locations close to patios.  Many portions of sidewalks around the ci
  
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• ASIRT to investigate circumstances surrounding man's death in custody of Airdrie RCMP

  11-06-2021 23:28
  
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is investigating an incident involving Airdrie RCMP and a man who died while in their custody last Monday. The original incident took place at 1:40 p.m. on June 6, when officers arrested a 35-year-old man in relation to a threats uttered investigation. While he was being placed under arrest, the man struggled with police, sustaining minor injuries. EMS were called to the scene and the man was put in the back of the squad car to wait for the poli
  
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• Calgary's Olympic Oval reopens to Canada's speed skaters

  11-06-2021 23:21
  
  Team Canada speed skating athletes have resumed training on the Olympic Oval’s 400 meter ice track after a 12 month shut-down. “It’s a significant milestone for us to reopen the building for our national team and our other athletes that come to train here,” said Peter McCrory, director of Olympic Oval. Along with national calibre athletes, the facility is also open to Calgarians. “We also service a much broader audience,” said McCory. “We are excited to
  
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• The Show Goes On: Documentary chronicles Lethbridge dance students' pandemic year - CTV Toronto

  11-06-2021 22:13
  
  The Show Goes On: Documentary chronicles Lethbridge dance students' pandemic year  CTV Toronto
  
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• The Show Goes On: Documentary chronicles Lethbridge dance students' pandemic year

  11-06-2021 22:13
  
  The pandemic has created some unique classrooms challenges over the past year, but it has also opened up a new opportunity for students at a high school dance academy in Lethbridge. Staff and students at the LCI Arts Academy Dance have created a documentary that chronicles their learning experiences during the pandemic. The Show Goes On features behind the scenes footage, as well as a dozen dance performances under stage lights. “We documented our entire year,” said artistic director
  
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• 16 drug overdose deaths reported in Lethbridge in Q1 2021 - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2021 21:40
  
  16 drug overdose deaths reported in Lethbridge in Q1 2021  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta fire safety company found guilty of using unqualified workers to install life-saving systems

  11-06-2021 20:54
  
  Premium Fire Protection Ltd. has been found guilty in provincial court of 15 fire code violations stemming from the use of unqualified and uncertified staff. A total of 65 charges were laid in the summer of 2019 against the Okotoks-based company — which has branches throughout Western Canada — and 10 of its employees following an investigation into the installation of fire alarms, sprinkler systems, fire extinguishers and other fire suppression systems. "The Court found that Premium
  
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• Police seek driver who hit teen cyclist, took him to hospital and gave him $100

  11-06-2021 19:52
  
  Police are searching for a female driver who hit a 16-year-old cyclist from behind in southeast Calgary, then drove him to hospital and gave him $100 before leaving without providing any personal information. The teenager was on his bike near Fonda Way and Radcliffe Drive S.E. about 9 p.m. on May 21 when he was hit from behind by a white, Audi Q5 driven by a woman. The teen suffered a broken nose and "significant" scrapes to his head and limbs, according to police. The woman drove the teen to th
  
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• 2 charged, 2nd shooter on the lam after shots fired at business south of Calgary on consecutive days

  11-06-2021 18:59
  
  Two men from Fort McMurray, Alta. face numerous charges, including attempted murder, after shots were fired inside a business south of Calgary Monday and the search continues for the suspect in a similar shooting at the same location the following day. RCMP were called to an industrial area in Aldersyde, Alta., north of the town of High River, late Monday morning following reports of a shooting inside a business. Officials say a masked man, armed with a purported pistol, entered the premises and
  
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• Rodeo competitors, workers given quarantine exemption after crossing border for Calgary Stampede

  11-06-2021 18:44
  
  Rodeo competitors, support staff and workers coming to the Calgary Stampede have been granted an exemption from having to quarantine at a government-approved hotel after crossing the Canada-U.S. border. Instead, they will undergo a modified quarantine and follow local and provincial guidelines. Calling it "great news," Premier Jason Kenney announced the exemption on social media Friday morning, posting a letter from Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino. The exemption applies to "professional rod
  
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• Northeast immunization clinic to offer first doses without appointment over 2-day period

  11-06-2021 18:27
  
  The COVID-19 immunization clinic at Genesis Centre will welcome eligible first dose vaccine recipients without an appointment for two days next week. Alberta Health Services confirms up to 500 Pfizer vaccines will be made available on both June 15 and June 16 on a walk-in basis. The clinic, located at 7555 Falconridge Boulevard N.E., will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and the site offers free parking. Eligible vaccine recipients are asked to present their Alberta Health Care card and go
  
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• Shot fired in cannabis dispensary robbery in N.W. Calgary, 4 suspects sought

  11-06-2021 17:39
  
  Police are searching for four men connected to an armed robbery at a cannabis dispensary in northwest Calgary where a shot was fired, causing the suspects to flee. Four men went into the Co-op Cannabis Dalhousie store, in the 5500 block of Shaganappi Trail N.W. about 9:45 p.m. on June 9. Police say the group was armed with a firearm, stun gun and a baton. While collecting product from the store, police believe the firearm accidently went off, prompting the group to flee in a silver 2009 GMC Envo
  
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• REMINDER: Target Hunger volunteers picking up donations Saturday - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2021 17:10
  
  REMINDER: Target Hunger volunteers picking up donations Saturday  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 10 delta variant cases connected to outbreak at Calgary hospital were fully immunized

  11-06-2021 16:40
  
  Alberta’s top doctor confirms 10 people connected to COVID-19 delta variant outbreaks at Calgary’s Foothill Medical Centre were fully immunized before testing positive for the virus. “What we're monitoring now is whether or not they had, as we would expect, a milder course of illness,” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, during Thursday’s provincial COVID-19 briefing. According to Alberta Health Services, one dose of an mRNA vacc
  
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• Helen Schuler Nature Centre's indoor experience reopens today - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2021 16:39
  
  Helen Schuler Nature Centre's indoor experience reopens today  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Tourmaline Oil signs deal to buy Black Swan Energy worth $1.1B in stock and debt

  11-06-2021 16:24
  
  Tourmaline Oil Corp. says it has signed a deal to buy Black Swan Energy Ltd. in a deal worth $1.1 billion in stock and debt. Under the agreement for the privately held company, Tourmaline will pay 26 million shares and assume up to $350 million in debt. Tourmaline says the acquisition of Black Swan and its assets in northeast British Columbia is part of its consolidation strategy in the North Montney region that it expects to be a key area of growth. The company says it now expects to average ap
  
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• GraceLife lawyers file court application to get back church building

  11-06-2021 15:50
  
  Lawyers for GraceLife Church are trying to get the building back from the province. The church, pastor James Coates, and three members of the congregation have filed a court application against Alberta Health Services, the health minister and chief medical officer of health, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced Thursday. Fence went up around the property in Parkland County in the early hours of April 7 after months of public health order violations. The church's lawyers say t
  
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• Alberta making up to $100K available for security upgrades at religious, cultural places

  11-06-2021 15:06
  
  Alberta is taking steps to prevent hate-motivated crime and better investigate when such attacks happen, as well as enable targeted groups to protect themselves.  The justice minister and premier announced on Friday up to $500,000 was available in 2021 for faith-based groups and cultural facilities that have been targeted or are likely to to be.  The Alberta Security Infrastructure Program will make funds available through two streams: one, a grant up to $10,000 to complete a security
  
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• Alberta hate crime unit, government liaison to help combat racism

  11-06-2021 15:06
  
  Alberta has announced two new programs it hopes will help address hate-motivated crimes and racism in Alberta. A new provincial community liaison program and Hate Crimes Coordination Unit were announced in a press release sent on Thursday afternoon. A community liaison is to provide the provincial government with a range of perspectives and expertise by connecting it with ethnic, religious and sexual minority groups most targeted. And a specially tasked unit will work with law enforcement on hat
  
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• Alberta to launch security grant to protect religious, cultural organizations from hate crimes

  11-06-2021 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced a program Friday morning intended to protect vulnerable residents from hate crimes.
  
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• Alberta premier, justice minister to announce program targeting hate-motivated crime

  11-06-2021 15:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Justice Minister Kaycee Madu are scheduled to make an announcement Friday morning aimed at targeting hate-motivated crime in the province.
  
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• Hurricanes trade goalie Tetachuk to Moose Jaw - Lethbridge News Now

  11-06-2021 14:49
  
  Hurricanes trade goalie Tetachuk to Moose Jaw  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Lethbridge College students recognized for asphalt project - Lethbridge Herald

  11-06-2021 13:10
  
  Lethbridge College students recognized for asphalt project  Lethbridge Herald
  
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• Police release sketch of suspect in northeast home invasion

  11-06-2021 05:59
  
  Police are asking for public assistance to help identify a man who broke into a northeast Calgary home while a woman and her kids were at home. The incident took place May 21, around 12:40 p.m. on the 100 block of Abadan Crescent N.E., when a woman was awakened by the sound of her dog barking at a man she didn't know standing in her front yard. The woman asked the man if he needed help, at which point he proceeded to open the door, push her aside and enter the house. An altercation ensued, with
  
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• Donations pour in to help boy left orphaned in London, Ont. attack

  11-06-2021 04:06
  
  Donations are pouring in from around the world to honour a London, Ont. family and support their surviving son, who were victims of a religiously motivated attack earlier this week. On Sunday night, Salman Afzaal, 46, his wife Madiha, 44, their 15-year-old daughter Yumnah and Salman's 74-year-old mother were killed while out for a walk in northwest London in what police have said was a targeted attack because of their Muslim faith. Fayez Afzaal, the family’s nine-year-old son, survived the
  
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• 10 COVID-19 Delta cases linked to Foothills outbreaks were fully vaccinated: Hinshaw

  11-06-2021 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ten people confirmed to have the COVID-19 Delta variant linked to outbreaks at the Foothills Medical Centre were fully vaccinated with two doses before they contracted the illness.
  
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• Lethbridge golf tournament casualty of COVID-19 for second straight year - Global News

  11-06-2021 03:46
  
  Lethbridge golf tournament casualty of COVID-19 for second straight year  Global News
  
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• Lethbridge golf tournament casualty of COVID-19 for second straight year

  11-06-2021 03:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  Scheduling the tournament in 2021 was one of the major obstacles that could not be overcome enroute to the decision to cancel. 
  
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• Alberta opens up more COVID-19 vaccine 2nd doses earlier than expected

  11-06-2021 03:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta is speeding up the rollout of second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, moving up the second shot date for those first vaccinated in April. As Nicole Stillger explains, those who thought they had to wait until June 14 to book their second jab can make that appointment right now.
  
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• #OneOnAdam: Why some Alberta friends are honouring a buddy with beer

  11-06-2021 03:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Edmonton's Sea Change Brewing Company is donating a dollar from each four-pack of Adam's Pale Ale to the ALS Society of Alberta, in memory of Adam Rombough.
  
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• What happens to Alberta’s $1.3B investment into Keystone XL?

  11-06-2021 03:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  TC Energy has officially killed Keystone XL, but Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has already made a major financial investment in the pipeline project. Tom Vernon looks at what this could mean for Kenney, who faces sinking approval ratings and allegations he breached pandemic restrictions.
  
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• Calgary police seek public assistance in arson investigation

  11-06-2021 03:22
  
  Calgary police are seeking public assistance in identifying two people who may have information regarding an arson investigation. The men were seen in Bridgeland on Monday, May 24. One was wearing a light blue hoodie, grey pants and had a BMX bicycle with him. The other wore a red hoodie and blue jeans.Anyone with information about their identities is asked to contact Calgary police at 403-266-1234. Anonymous tipsters can contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, online or via the P3 Tips app av
  
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• 'It's going to kill somebody': Neighbours push for burned-out northeast Calgary home to be cleaned up

  11-06-2021 03:13
  
  When flames started consuming the back of a home in Calgary's northeast neighbourhood of Falconridge in December, neighbours made sure everyone got out safely. Now, six months later, they just want the damaged and abandoned property cleaned up. "The garage is ready to fall down. It's going to kill somebody," said Don Penner, who lives near the home on Falshire Close N.E. Neighbours say the owner can't afford to pay to fix or clean up the home and property. "The poor guy's got no money, no insura
  
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• 'Having funerals every day': Blood Tribe members highlight opioid crisis concerns

  11-06-2021 02:44
  
  According to a group of Blood Tribe members who spoke to local media on Wednesday, there isn’t enough being done to combat the impacts of the ongoing opioid crisis on the Blood Reserve. "All of the complaints people have been coming forward with are falling on deaf ears with our leadership. It has to come to a stop," said president of the Standoff Community Association and Elder Ron Scout Sr. One hot button topic for the group is the handling of the Bringing the Spirit Home Detox Centre. T
  
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• Final year of Mackenzie Tour action in Lethbridge cancelled

  11-06-2021 02:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  WATCH ABOVE: For a second straight year, Lethbridge will not host Mackenzie Tour golfers for PGA Tour of Canada action, as the Lethbridge Paradise Canyon Open has been cancelled. Danica Ferris has more on what the cancellation means.
  
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• Investigators search for cause of Thursday afternoon house fire

  11-06-2021 02:39
  
  Calgary fire crews were called to a single family home in Arcadia around 3:30 p.m. Thursday to put out a house on fire. Upon arrival, crews discovered flames and smoke coming out of the attic of a bungalow. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the attic, by cutting a large hole in the roof in order to access it through the top. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire quickly, before conducting a search for any hot spots due to the presence of cellulose insulation in the attic. An
  
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• Former Calgary GYMVMT client demands refund as company gets ready to reopen

  11-06-2021 02:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Calgary woman is demanding Alberta fitness company GYMVMT give her a refund for personal training sessions she was charged for but did not receive during the pandemic.
  
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• Warriors aim to shore up goaltending with addition of Tetachuk from Lethbridge - moosejawtoday.com

  11-06-2021 02:07
  
  Warriors aim to shore up goaltending with addition of Tetachuk from Lethbridge  moosejawtoday.com
  
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• COVID-19: Lethbridge businesses ‘excited’ and ‘cautious’ over Stage 2 - Global News

  11-06-2021 01:48
  
  COVID-19: Lethbridge businesses ‘excited’ and ‘cautious’ over Stage 2  Global News
  
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• COVID-19: Lethbridge businesses ‘excited’ and ‘cautious’ over Stage 2

  11-06-2021 01:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta has entered Stage 2 of the Open for Summer plan. Some Lethbridge businesses were eager to dust off their open signs, but others are taking a cautious approach.
  
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• Kenney issues cease & desist letter to online news outlet: ‘A fabrication from beginning to end’

  11-06-2021 01:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  Following an online story alleging Premier Jason Kenney and ministers dining indoors against Alberta public health orders, the Western Standard received a cease and desist letter.
  
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• Kevin Hodgson of HEROS hockey program one of three finalists for Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award

  11-06-2021 01:27
  
  Kevin Hodgson has always believed that every kid should have the opportunity to play hockey. That's why he fit in so well when he joined the Heros program as a volunteer in 2006.  In 2009, he was hired as the executive director. HEROS (Hockey Education Reaching Out Society) empowers at-risk youth.  Its compannion program SuperHEROS provides boys and girls living with physical and cognitive challenges with a safe and inclusive environment. Over the years, Hodgson says the program has gr
  
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• Alberta scientists help determine cause of landslide in India

  11-06-2021 01:14
  
  Researchers from around the world have been working to understand the cause of a landslide in Chamoli, India that occurred on Feb. 7. More than 25 million cubic metres of rock and ice caused massive amounts of damage in the Chamoli district in India’s Uttarakhand region. The landslide left 200 people either dead or missing and caused $75 million in damages. It also destroyed two hydro power stations. A team of 53 researcher and scientists were brought together to determine what made this p
  
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• Alberta’s top doctor issues plea for those eligible to get their first COVID-19 vaccine dose

  11-06-2021 01:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw pleads with those eligible to receive the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to book their appointment.
  
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• Alberta identifies 178 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday

  11-06-2021 01:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw updates COVID-19 in Alberta on Thursday.
  
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• Alberta expands eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine second dose

  11-06-2021 01:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announces expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine second doses in the province.
  
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• To open, or not: Lethbridge businesses ‘eager’ and ‘cautious’ over Stage 2

  11-06-2021 00:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  WATCH ABOVE: The province entered Stage 2 of Alberta’s Open for Summer Plan on Thursday. While some Lethbridge businesses were eager to dust off their open signs, others are taking a more cautious approach. Jessica Robb has more.
  
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