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• High-risk air quality levels prompt health concerns in Calgary

  18-07-2021 23:33
  
  Calgarians woke up to a thick blanket of smoke Sunday morning as wildfires from B.C. as well as the U.S. continue to waft in and descend throughout the city. Environment Canada’s special air quality statement for Calgary rated the risk at a level 10, which is just shy of the ‘very high-risk’ category or 10+. Health officials like Alberta Health Services public education officer Helene Hamilton are urging caution, especially for those with respiratory conditions, the very young
  
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• Province builds on recovery services with new facility outside Lethbridge

  18-07-2021 23:05
  
  Southern Albertans struggling with addictions will soon have a safe, quiet place to recover thanks to a multi-million-dollar commitment from the provincial government. Officials say a new recovery community is in the works at a location next to the existing Fresh Start Recovery Centre, just east of the city of Lethbridge. "The quiet, country-like setting will allow participants to focus on their health, wellness and long-term recovery," the province said in a release. The community will offer 50
  
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• Alberta under thick haze of wildfire smoke as poor air quality advisory remains

  18-07-2021 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wildfire smoke continues to hang over our province, bringing air quality down and causing health issues for Albertans — and it will be a few more days before it clears out.
  
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• Morikawa wins British Open for 2nd major at age 24 - Lethbridge News Now

  18-07-2021 19:57
  
  Morikawa wins British Open for 2nd major at age 24  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Tadej Pogacar wins 2nd straight Tour de France - Lethbridge News Now

  18-07-2021 19:43
  
  Tadej Pogacar wins 2nd straight Tour de France  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'Reduce your exposure': Poor air quality alerts remain in place for most of Alberta Sunday

  18-07-2021 19:05
  
  Wildfire smoke continues to envelop Edmonton and most of Alberta Sunday, prompting an air quality statement from Environment Canada. Edmonton’s air quality reached a week-high of 10 Saturday afternoon. Environment Canada’s Air Quality Health Index considers a 7-10 to be “high risk” and encourages people to minimize their time outside. The weather agency said Edmonton’s air quality was observed as an 8 Sunday morning and forecasted a value of 10 plus as the maximum v
  
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• 2 arrested in connection with Calgary stolen vehicle investigation

  18-07-2021 18:53
  
  Two people are facing charges after a stolen vehicle they were driving was tracked and deactivated using the OnStar in-vehicle security service. Innisfail RCMP were first notified by the Calgary Police Service at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday about a stolen truck being tracked by GPS. It was believed to be in the Innisfail area. Mounties say the vehicle, which had been reported stolen in Calgary, failed to stop for police and had driven dangerously through the city. It was located again, heading nor
  
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• Jagmeet Singh continues Alberta tour with stop in Edmonton

  18-07-2021 18:19
  
  The federal leader of the NDP continues his tour of Alberta with a stop in Edmonton on Sunday. Jagmeet Singh will visit Edmonton as the second stop for his three-day tour of the province. According to the NDP, Singh will visit the Edmonton Downtown Farmers Market with Edmonton Strathcona MP Heather McPherson – the only sitting MP from his party in the province. Singh is also scheduled to meet with Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations Grand Chief Vernon Watchmaker and the Metis Settlements
  
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• Canadiens' star goalie Carey Price left unprotected for Kraken expansion draft - Lethbridge News Now

  18-07-2021 17:36
  
  Canadiens' star goalie Carey Price left unprotected for Kraken expansion draft  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Home destroyed in 2-alarm fire in Calgary's northwest

  18-07-2021 17:12
  
  Fire officials are investigating after a two-alarm fire ripped through three homes in the northwest Calgary community of Sherwood early Sunday. The Calgary Fire Department says crews were dispatched to the scene, at a home in the 100 block of Sherwood Crescent N.W., at about midnight. "A second alarm was called immediately," officials say in a release, because of the situation, which consisted of a fully involved two-storey home with flames that were threatening additional homes. Fire crews call
  
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• No answers 1 year after Columbia Icefield tour bus crash in Jasper National Park

  18-07-2021 16:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  One year after a tour bus rolled over at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park, killing three and injuring 14, victims still don't have answers.
  
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• OPEC, allies raise limits for 5 countries to end oil dispute - Lethbridge News Now

  18-07-2021 15:23
  
  OPEC, allies raise limits for 5 countries to end oil dispute  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Ottawa still mulling whether officials will attend Olympics, days before it starts

  18-07-2021 14:58
  
  With five days to go before the Olympics Games kick off, the Canadian government still isn't saying whether a federal delegation is heading to Tokyo. A rising rate of infection over the past month and ever evolving rules and restrictions in Japan have kept Ottawa on edge about sending over its usual contingent of dignitaries. Meanwhile skepticism lingers at home about whether the Liberal government has played as strong a role as it might have in overseeing health measures linked to the Games. "W
  
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• OPEC, allies raise limits for 5 countries to end oil dispute

  18-07-2021 14:20
  
  OPEC and allied nations agreed Sunday to raise the production limits imposed on five countries next year and boost their production by 2 million barrels per day by the end of this year, ending a dispute that roiled oil markets. The disagreement, sparked by a demand by the United Arab Emirates to increase its own production, temporarily upended an earlier meeting of the cartel. In a statement Sunday, the cartel announced that Iraq, Kuwait, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE would see their limits r
  
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• Europe flooding toll over 180 as rescuers dig deeper

  18-07-2021 13:34
  
  The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters. Heavy rain fueled new floods in southeastern Germany and Austria, though not on the scale of last week's devastating onslaught. Police put the toll from the hard-hit Ahrweiler area of western Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate state at more than 110 and said they feared the number may still rise. In neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany's most po
  
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• Zero risk? Virus cases test Olympic organizers' assurances

  18-07-2021 13:23
  
  Two South African soccer players became the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, and other cases connected to the Tokyo Games were also confirmed Sunday, highlighting the herculean task organizers face to keep the virus contained while the world's biggest sports event plays out. The positive tests came as some of the 11,000 athletes and thousands more team officials expected from across the globe began arriving, having travelled through a pandemic to get to To
  
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• First positive COVID-19 tests for athletes in Olympic Village

  18-07-2021 13:23
  
  Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19, with the Tokyo Games opening on Friday. Organizers confirmed the positive tests on Sunday but didn't identify the athletes other than to say they were non-Japanese. The South African Football Association later confirmed there were three COVID-19 cases in its delegation -- two players and a video analyst. The players were defender Thabiso Monyane and midfielder Kamohelo Mahlat
  
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• Harvard student, Queen's prof, collaborating to rapidly identify Lyme-infected ticks - Lethbridge News Now

  18-07-2021 13:02
  
  Harvard student, Queen's prof, collaborating to rapidly identify Lyme-infected ticks  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'People are so happy': Vegetarian food served up at Stampede breakfast

  18-07-2021 05:05
  
  A Stampede breakfast was served up this morning with a twist. The Hindu Society of Calgary organized a drive-thru breakfast event on Saturday. Unlike the rest of the breakfasts around town, this one was entirely vegetarian. The two-hour event served approximately 1,500 people – about three times as many people as last year when the event was scaled back due to the pandemic. “This is the only vegetarian Stampede breakfast,” said Navdeep Mahendru, president of The Hindu Society o
  
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• NDP leader Jagmeet Singh promises economic diversity in first stop on Alberta tour

  18-07-2021 04:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal NDP leader says he wants to get Albertans back to work. Jagmeet Singh launched a three-day Alberta tour in Calgary Saturday.
  
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• 'It's like a horror movie': Hordes of grasshoppers invade Lethbridge neighbourhood

  18-07-2021 02:07
  
  The recent hot and dry conditions blanketing southern Alberta have paved the way for the biggest surge in grasshoppers in recent memory. For one neighbourhood in west Lethbridge, the insects have been popping up in droves over the past two weeks, and things are only getting worse. "If we don't laugh about it, I feel like we're all just going to cry about it," said Paige Thornborough, a Copperwood resident who has lived in the area for roughly five years. "It's like a horror movie. It's horrible.
  
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• 'It's like a horror movie': Hordes of grasshoppers invade Lethbridge, Alta. neighbourhood - CTV Toronto

  18-07-2021 02:07
  
  'It's like a horror movie': Hordes of grasshoppers invade Lethbridge, Alta. neighbourhood  CTV Toronto
  
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• 'It's like a horror movie': Hordes of grasshoppers invade Lethbridge, Alta. neighbourhood

  18-07-2021 02:07
  
  The recent hot and dry conditions blanketing southern Alberta have paved the way for the biggest surge in grasshoppers in recent memory. For one neighbourhood in west Lethbridge, the insects have been popping up in droves over the past two weeks, and things are only getting worse. "If we don't laugh about it, I feel like we're all just going to cry about it," said Paige Thornborough, a Copperwood resident who has lived in the area for roughly five years. "It's like a horror movie. It's horrible.
  
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• Desperate search for survivors as western Europe reels from a 'catastrophe of historic proportion'

  18-07-2021 01:14
  
  In Altenahr in western Germany, even the dead were not spared in this week's devastating flood. The village cemetery was swept away, headstones damaged and toppled by the force of the muddy water. Antoinnette Steinhoff stands at the edge of the flooded graveyard, crushed by the sight of destruction in front of her. "My mother is over there," she says, pointing at a black marble grave with a cross on top. When the flooding hit the village, the 76-year-old saw an entire house dragged away by the w
  
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• Calgary Catholic Diocese announces financial support plan for residential school survivors

  18-07-2021 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Calgary Catholic Diocese has announced it’s committed to providing money to support residential school survivors.
  
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