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• ‘Scary and terrible’: Calgarians welcome women fleeing war in Ukraine to Easter celebrations

  17-04-2022 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgarians gathered Sunday to celebrate Easter and remember those living through the ravages of war.
  
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• Award-winning Alberta musician loses battle with cancer

  17-04-2022 22:07
  
  Bill Bourne, an Alberta musician who won multiple Juno Awards throughout his long career has died of bladder cancer. Bourne's family confirmed the news on Facebook, saying it comes "with sadness and relief." https://www.facebook.com/voodooking/posts/10159888891536136 He was diagnosed with Stage 4 bladder cancer in late 2020 and his family began a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to help him. It's goal was to raise enough money to cover basic living expenses so he wouldn't need to worry about wor
  
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• For many, Easter Sunday marks a return to in-person worship - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 21:58 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  For many, Easter Sunday marks a return to in-person worship  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• University of Calgary students convert ATV to solar to help Indigenous communities

  17-04-2022 20:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  In tests so far, solar batteries have been able to run the ATV for at least 90 minutes and recharging simply involves plugging it into a regular power outlet.
  
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• Calgary families invited to enjoy sensory-friendly Easter at Southcentre Mall

  17-04-2022 19:22
  
  Families with children who have special needs are again invited to enjoy the calm Easter atmosphere provided by staff at a Calgary shopping centre. Southcentre Mall, in partnership with Autism Calgary, has been offering its sensory-friendly Easter celebration for a number of years. This year, 50 families will be participating in the event, which includes treats, activities and a chance for children to have their photo taken with the Easter Bunny. In order to make everything as comfortable as pos
  
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• 'Don't trust rapid tests': Expert advises Canadians to test more than once before making plans

  17-04-2022 17:41
  
  For the first time in two years, Canadians celebrating Easter and Passover are faced with few public health restrictions limiting their ability to gather with family and friends. But experts are urging Canadians to take caution and do what they can to limit the spread of COVID-19. According to Dr. Peter Juni, the outgoing scientific director of Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, this means using more than one rapid antigen test (RAT).Newsletter sign-up: Get The COVID-19 Brief sent
  
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• Alberta harm reduction advocate, drug user challenges government focus on abstinence

  17-04-2022 17:16
  
  It was in a hospital that a Calgary woman says she recalls feeling happy for the very first time as an opioid raced through her body. “When they gave me that IV of hydromorphone, all of the horrible things that I was feeling just went quiet,” says Ophelia Cara, 21. “I felt like I could breathe again for the first time in a long time and, in some sense, for the first time ever.” Being introduced to hydromorphone, sold under the brand name Dilaudid, would change everything
  
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• Arian Williams, 14, of Cardston, reported missing - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 16:47 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Arian Williams, 14, of Cardston, reported missing  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Flames secure playoff berth with a little help from Oilers, then thump Coyotes 9-1

  17-04-2022 16:07
  
  An NHL playoff berth secured in the hours before Saturday's puck drop, the Calgary Flames turned a quiet start to a game into a goal-fest in a 9-1 thumping of the visiting Arizona Coyotes. Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk each scored twice and had two assists for the Flames, while Elias Lindholm also posted a four-point night with a goal and three assists. Calgary missed the single point needed to secure a trip to the post-season Thursday in a 6-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. It was thei
  
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• Solar science: Calgary students develop way for ATVs to run on renewable energy

  17-04-2022 16:00
  
  University of Calgary engineering students have figured out how to convert all-terrain vehicles to solar power and hope it will benefit Indigenous and remote communities in Canada's north. The students, from the Schulich School of Engineering, were asked by a research station northwest of Whitehorse to find a way to convert a gas-powered Kubota used there to an electric motor. Austin Bercier and Jasmine McDermott, who are both of Indigenous descent, were excited to take part in the project. The
  
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• Impaired driving suspected in head-on crash in northwest Calgary

  17-04-2022 15:51
  
  Two people were taken to hospital, including one in serious, life-threatening condition following an early morning crash in northwest Calgary. Calgary police told CTV News that officers were called to the scene of a head-on crash on 14 Street N.W. between Kensington Road and Memorial Drive at about 2:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found two people had been injured and the driver of one of the vehicles appeared to be impaired. The victims were taken to hospital, with one of them in serious, life
  
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• Ukrainians defy deadline to surrender in Mariupol or die

  17-04-2022 14:08
  
  The battered port city of Mariupol appeared on the brink of falling to Russian forces Sunday after seven weeks under siege, a development that what would give Moscow a crucial success in Ukraine following Russia's failure to storm the capital and the loss of its Black Sea flagship. The Russian military estimated that about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters holding out at a hulking steel plant with a warren of underground passageways provided the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol. Russia gave a deadli
  
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• Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol defy surrender-or-die demand

  17-04-2022 14:08
  
  Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port. The fall of Mariupol, the site of a merciless 7-week-old siege that has reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, would be Moscow's biggest victory of the war and free up troops to take part in a potentially climactic battle for contr
  
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• Mariupol teeters as Ukrainians defy surrender-or-die demand

  17-04-2022 14:08
  
    The shattered port city of Mariupol appeared on the brink of falling to the Russians on Sunday after seven weeks under siege, in what would give Moscow a crucial success following its failure to storm the Ukrainian capital and the sinking of its Black Sea flagship. The Russian military estimated that 2,500 Ukrainian fighters were holding out at a hulking steel plant with a warren of underground passageways in the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol. Moscow set a midday deadline for thei
  
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• Pope makes Easter plea for Ukraine peace, cites nuclear risk

  17-04-2022 13:55
  
  On what is supposed to be Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the "senseless" war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world, and cited the "troubling" risk of nuclear warfare. "May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of this cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged," Francis said, speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter's Square. The pontiff had just finis
  
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• Conservative leadership candidate Aitchison calls carbon tax 'effective' but would scrap it

  17-04-2022 13:00
  
  Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Scott Aitchison says while a price on carbon might be the “most effective” policy to curb emissions, he’d scrap it anyway. In an interview on CTV’s Question Period airing Sunday, the Ontario-based MP said while he wouldn’t introduce a tax policy as leader, he will put forward a climate plan. “We need to lower emissions there’s no question about that but we need to actually assist Canadians to reduce their
  
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• Police arrest suspect in South Carolina mall shooting - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 06:54 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Police arrest suspect in South Carolina mall shooting  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Russia strikes Ukraine's big cities, bears down on Mariupol - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 06:31 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Russia strikes Ukraine's big cities, bears down on Mariupol  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman help Lightning beat Jets 7-4 - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 04:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman help Lightning beat Jets 7-4  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Mark Giordano sends Maple Leafs past Senators 5-4 in overtime - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 04:29 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Mark Giordano sends Maple Leafs past Senators 5-4 in overtime  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Toronto FC hands Philadelphia Union its first loss of MLS season - Lethbridge News Now

  17-04-2022 04:19 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Toronto FC hands Philadelphia Union its first loss of MLS season  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary women help abandoned pets in Ukraine as need for food and medicine grows

  17-04-2022 00:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Calgary thrift store has teamed up with a local animal welfare organization to help raise funds for pets left behind in Ukraine
  
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• Alberta man hits major blood donation milestone

  17-04-2022 00:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Saturday, William Taylor donated blood for the 250th time at the University of Alberta blood clinic, a milestone 47 years in the making.
  
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• Embarrassed Flames poised to correct course against Coyotes

  17-04-2022 00:28
  
  A 6-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday was a huge embarrassment for the Calgary Flames. However, that defeat could be just what the doctor ordered as the Pacific Division-leading Flames (45-20-9, 99 points) prepare to play host to the Central Division cellar-dwelling Arizona Coyotes (22-47-5, 49 points) on Saturday. The Flames would have clinched a playoff spot with a win against Vegas, but instead saw their five-game winning streak end emphatically in the type of game that should sn
  
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