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• 1592 new COVID cases in Alberta over past weekend - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 23:58 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Crews continue to monitor B.C. cargo ship fire amid stormy weather

  25-10-2021 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  At least 10 containers on the MV Zim Kingston caught fire on Friday, while another 40 fell into the water and efforts to pick them up are being hampered by the storm.
  
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• Active cases of COVID-19 dip below 10,000 in Alberta

  25-10-2021 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Active cases of COVID-19 in Alberta continue to decline and have dropped below 10,000.
  
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• Woman killed, man injured after train collides with van in southern Alberta

  25-10-2021 23:40
  
  Vulcan RCMP say one person was killed and another was injured in a crash between a van and a train on Monday. The collision happened on Township Road 132 at the railway crossing near Range Road 230 in Vulcan County at 10:30 a.m. In a news release, RCMP said a preliminary investigation suggests the van was westbound on Township Road 132 when it was hit by a southbound train. RCMP said a 49-year-old female passenger in the van was declared dead at the scene. The 52-year-old man driving the van suf
  
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• Province proposes stronger review of capital projects - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 23:27 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Vulcan RCMP attend to fatal van-train collision - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 23:17 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Alberta Bill 49 eases requirements for Canadian skilled workers

  25-10-2021 23:03
  
  The province is looking to make it easier for Canadians to apply for work in Alberta under Bill 49, the Labour Mobility Act. If enacted, it will mean any skilled worker or trades professional who is certified in other provinces will be able to apply for jobs in Alberta.  “(This) will affect more than 100 regulated occupations in a wide range of sectors across Alberta's economy,” said Premier Jason Kenney. “This will be a growth opportunity for job creators in sectors where
  
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• Alberta Bill 49 aims to ease requirements for Canadian skilled workers

  25-10-2021 23:03
  
  The province is looking to make it easier for Canadians to apply for work in Alberta under Bill 49, the Labour Mobility Act. If enacted, it will mean any skilled worker or trades professional who is certified in other provinces will be able to apply for jobs in Alberta.  “(This) will affect more than 100 regulated occupations in a wide range of sectors across Alberta's economy,” said Premier Jason Kenney. “This will be a growth opportunity for job creators in sectors where
  
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• Calgary police seek missing teen last seen in Haysboro

  25-10-2021 21:58
  
  Calgary police are hoping to locate a teenage girl last seen in the city's southwest. Police say 15-year-old Eva Mansell has been missing since Thursday, Oct. 21 when she was seen in the community of Haysboro at around 9:50 p.m. She is described as being 168 centimetres (5’6”) tall and59 kilograms (130 pounds) with grey eyes, auburn hair and a pierced nose. Police say she was wearing a black zip-up shirt, jeans and a black backpack with turquoise trim. "At this time, there is nothing
  
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• Teens charged, cocaine seized after business south of Calgary robbed

  25-10-2021 21:57
  
  An 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old male face charges after staff and a customer at a Foothills County business were confined during a recent robbery. According to RCMP officials, three masked males entered an undisclosed store on the morning of Oct. 20 and threatened two employees and a customer. The victims were confined and the suspects swiped clothing, masks and other merchandise. The suspects were believed to have fled the area in a gold-coloured sedan. RCMP members, with assistance from t
  
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• Calgary's new 88th Street S.E. extension now complete

  25-10-2021 20:52
  
  Work on Calgary's new 88th Street S.E. extension is now complete. The City of Calgary says the extension between Stoney Trail and 196th Avenue S.E. will serve as a connector between future communities. Adjacent to the community of Mahogany, the project allows for development to begin east of the Seton Town Centre and provides direct access to Rangeview as well as a second access to Mahogany. "We are excited to be providing more ways for people to connect with each other," said the city's Senior
  
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• Parents gifting kids record $82K average to buy first home: CIBC report

  25-10-2021 20:35
  
  As Canadian home prices continue to rise and become increasingly unaffordable, parents are giving their adult children record amounts of money -- even outpacing home price inflation -- to help with the expensive purchase, a move that also widens the wealth gap, according to a CIBC report. The report, published on Monday, found that roughly 30 per cent of first-time homebuyers and nearly nine per cent of existing homeowners received financial help from family this past year to purchase a house, a
  
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• Parents gifted $10B to adult children in past year to buy homes: CIBC

  25-10-2021 20:35
  
  As Canadian home prices continue to rise and become increasingly unaffordable, parents are giving their adult children record amounts of money -- even outpacing home price inflation -- to help with the expensive purchase, a move that also widens the wealth gap, according to a CIBC report. The report, published on Monday, found that roughly 30 per cent of first-time homebuyers and nearly nine per cent of existing homeowners received financial help from family this past year to purchase a house, a
  
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• Alberta doctors file lawsuit against AHS over vaccine requirement

  25-10-2021 20:32
  
  Albertans will need to prove they have both jabs of a COVID-19 vaccine to go into most restaurants, movie theatres, sporting events and non-essential businesses beginning Monday, adhering to Alberta’s Restrictions Exemption Program (REP). Second doses must have been administered at least two weeks prior to be acceptable under the government’s new regulations. The REP requires any customer entering businesses it covers to show proof of vaccination or present a negative rapid antigen,
  
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• 4 Alberta doctors file lawsuit against AHS over vaccine requirement

  25-10-2021 20:32
  
  Albertans will need to prove they have both jabs of a COVID-19 vaccine to go into most restaurants, movie theatres, sporting events and non-essential businesses beginning Monday, adhering to Alberta’s Restrictions Exemption Program (REP). Second doses must have been administered at least two weeks prior to be acceptable under the government’s new regulations. The REP requires any customer entering businesses it covers to show proof of vaccination or present a negative rapid antigen,
  
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• Lethbridge's Movie Mill to show award-winning Blackfoot documentary - My Lethbridge Now

  25-10-2021 20:29 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
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• Two arrested following robbery at northside Walmart - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 19:33 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Lethbridge pair charged following robbery at north side Walmart - My Lethbridge Now

  25-10-2021 19:29 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
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• Knife pulled on Walmart employee in Lethbridge, knives, drugs and hatchet seized during arrest of suspects | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  25-10-2021 19:23 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Knife pulled on Walmart employee in Lethbridge, knives, drugs and hatchet seized during arrest of suspects | CTV News  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Hatchet, knives and drugs seized after man allegedly pulls knife on staff at Lethbridge Walmart

  25-10-2021 19:23
  
  A man and a woman were arrested for the second time in a week in connection with thefts in the Lethbridge area including an incident where a worker was allegedly threatened at knifepoint. Lethbridge Police Service members, including the canine unit, were deployed Saturday evening following reports a man had pulled a knife on a Walmart employee who attempted to stop the theft of items. The suspect was spotted fleeing the store in the 3000 block of 26th Avenue N in a vehicle and officers successfu
  
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• Busy fall schedule ahead for Alberta legislature - My Lethbridge Now

  25-10-2021 18:07 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
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• Final Alberta crop report of 2021 yields good and bad news - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 17:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Final Alberta crop report of 2021 yields good and bad news  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Jobs, COVID-19 on the agenda as fall Alberta legislature sitting begins

  25-10-2021 15:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Government house leader Jason Nixon said there will be 18 to 20 bills focused on creating jobs and diversifying the economy.
  
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• Above-seasonal in Calgary, then Friday snow!

  25-10-2021 15:26
  
  Calgary is setting itself up directly in the "eye" of a deep trough, spurned by the deformation of the mid-latitude bomb cyclone that's presently blasting the west coast with damaging winds in the 100 km/h range. As the core of that low pushes north and a high in the U.S. Midwest dominates the pattern east of us, these pieces are combing to generate a sweeping zone of uplift that will travel in a veritable column across the prairies. It will start in Saskatchewan and whipping into Manitoba Wedne
  
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• New Calgary city council to be sworn in

  25-10-2021 14:54
  
  There will be many new faces at city hall Monday afternoon as the newly elected officials will begin their duties with a swearing-in ceremony. Jyoti Gondek will officially become Calgary's first female mayor, after serving one term on city council. There will be nine new council members as well as two councillors — Richard Pootmans in Ward 6 and Andre Chabot in Ward 10 — who are returning after not running to represent their respective wards in 2017. Ward 8 Coun. Courtney Walcott is
  
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• New Calgary city council sworn in

  25-10-2021 14:54
  
  There will be many new faces at city hall Monday afternoon as the newly elected officials will begin their duties with a swearing-in ceremony. Jyoti Gondek will officially become Calgary's first female mayor, after serving one term on city council. There will be nine new council members as well as two councillors — Richard Pootmans in Ward 6 and Andre Chabot in Ward 10 — who are returning after not running to represent their respective wards in 2017. Sean Chu is returning for a third
  
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• Jyoti Gondek officially Calgary's mayor, didn't swear in Sean Chu

  25-10-2021 14:54
  
  Jyoti Gondek is officially Calgary's first female mayor; she was sworn in at city hall on Monday. Gondek served one term as the councillor for Ward 3 before running for mayor, beating rival and former Calgary councillor Jeromy Farkas. Though she took part in the swearing in of 13 of the 14 Calgary councillors, she stepped aside when Ward 4 Coun. Sean Chu stepped up and let Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke swear him in instead.Gondek had previously said she would not participate in Chu's swe
  
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• 'Never going to be ashamed:' Metis, two-spirit NDP MP wants to rebrand Alberta

  25-10-2021 14:44
  
  Blake Desjarlais says he represents what Alberta is truly about and it's not what the rest of Canada might think. Believed to bethe first two-spirit member of Parliament, the 27-year-old says his ancestry and Metis identity tell a juxtaposed story about the Prairies. “We have this terrible reputation across the country for being this redneck, Texas-like state,” Desjarlais says in a recent interview while sitting in a hotel lobby in central Edmonton'sBoyle Street neighbourhood. &ldquo
  
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• 'Never going to be ashamed:' Métis, two-spirit NDP MP wants to rebrand Alberta

  25-10-2021 14:44
  
  Blake Desjarlais says he represents what Alberta is truly about and it's not what the rest of Canada might think. Believed to be the first two-spirit member of Parliament, the 27-year-old says his ancestry and Métis identity tell a juxtaposed story about the Prairies. “We have this terrible reputation across the country for being this redneck, Texas-like state,” Desjarlais says in a recent interview while sitting in a hotel lobby in central Edmonton's Boyle Street neighbourhoo
  
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• Jobs, COVID-19 on the agenda as fall Alberta legislature sitting set to begin

  25-10-2021 14:38
  
  The fall sitting of the Alberta legislature begins Monday, and the government says jobs, diversifying the economy and fighting COVID-19 will be the focus. House leader Jason Nixon says the United Conservative government plans to introduce between 18 and 20 bills during the sitting, which is scheduled to run until the first week of December. The bills will include legislation introduced by Premier Jason Kenney on changes to recognizing professional credentials in order to address labour shortages
  
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• Alberta aims to attract workers with fall session's first bill

  25-10-2021 14:38
  
  The first bill introduced in the fall legislature sitting is meant to attract working professionals to Alberta. The fall session began Monday with Premier and United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney introducing a bill intended to streamline the process of recognizing professional credentials from other Canadian provinces. If passed, Bill 49, the Labour Mobility Act, would: mandate regulatory bodies recognize credentials issued by other provinces for professions with the same work scope; set a 40
  
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• Suspected swatting attack threatening U.S. school prompts numerous emergency calls in Calgary

  25-10-2021 14:33
  
  An online threat that appeared to target a high school in the United States that shares a similar name to a local school prompted multiple emergency calls in Calgary Sunday evening. According to Calgary Police Service officials, calls from concerned citizens starting pouring in at around 7 p.m. regarding a Snapchat post that appeared to outline a threat toward Central Memorial High School in the city's southwest. An investigation into the social media post by law officials on both sides of the b
  
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• New era begins as Lethbridge City Council officially sworn in - Lethbridge News Now

  25-10-2021 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
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• Vehicle set on fire in downtown Calgary Sunday: Video

  25-10-2021 05:06
  
  Video online appears to show someone setting fire to a vehicle in the middle of the street near Calgary city hall around 11 a.m. Sunday. In the video posted to YouTube by user Virtue, someone appears to set fire to a vehicle in the middle of an intersection beside Bow Valley College before walking away. Sirens can also be heard right after the fire is started.According to officials, no one was injured and a portion of MacLeod Trail was closed for several hours while Calgary police and fire inves
  
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• No injures reported after driver sets vehicle on fire in downtown Calgary

  25-10-2021 05:06
  
  Calgary police say no one was injured in a car fire in the downtown core on the weekend. Officers were called to an area near Sixth Avenue and Second Street S.E. at around 10:45 a.m. on Sunday for reports of a vehicle fire.  Police said it's believed the driver of the vehicle was the one to set it on fire. The incident can be seen unfolding in a video posted to YouTube by user Virtue. Sirens can also be heard right after the fire is started.A portion of MacLeod Trail was closed for sev
  
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• Assault and possible firearms incident in Lacombe County shuts down Highway 2A

  25-10-2021 02:15
  
  The Lacombe Police Service and RCMP are investigating an “assault and possible firearms-related complaint” in Lacombe County Sunday evening. Police advised motorists in the area that due to the incident, Highway 2A is blocked in the area of Range Road 270A. Instead, drivers are being asked to use Highway 2 as an alternate.There is an ongoing police operation in #Lacombe County, Alberta. Highway 2a is closed at Range Road 270a. Motorists are asked to use Highway 2. — RCMP Albert
  
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• Preparations for upcoming ski season in Alberta underway

  25-10-2021 01:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  With the thought of snow starting to creep into Albertans’ minds comes the excitement of hitting the slopes. As Jessica Robb explains, preparations for this season are already starting.
  
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• Poppy crosswalk in Chestermere, Alta. unveiled at official event

  25-10-2021 00:24
  
  A controversial tribute to Canada's veterans went ahead in Chestermere Sunday, despite some debate over the local initiative. A series of poppies were painted on a crosswalk at Anniversary Park, home of the city's cenotaph, this week. But the homage was met with some pushback from the national office of the Royal Canadian Legion, which was concerned with crossing feet and tires over the national image. Further, the organization holds the trademark for the poppy and requires permission for use in
  
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• Poppy crosswalk in Chestemere, Alta. unveiled at official event

  25-10-2021 00:24
  
  A controversial tribute to Canada's veterans went ahead in Chestemere Sunday, despite some debate over the local initiative. A series of poppies were painted on a crosswalk at Anniversary Park, home of the city's cenotaph, this week. But the homage was met with some pushback from the national office of the Royal Canadian Legion, which was concerned with crossing feet and tires over the national image. Further, the organization holds the trademark for the poppy and requires permission for use in
  
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