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• Canadian Natural Resources sees first quarter profit more than double

  05-05-2022 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  With the war in Ukraine pushing oil prices to heights not seen in years, CNRL said it now expects its net debt level to fall below $8 billion in late 2022 or early 2023.
  
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• Alberta allowing energy rebates to be delayed if needed but confident about summer delivery

  05-05-2022 23:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  An order in council signed by the province's lieutenant-governor on Wednesday indicated that distributors have to provide electricity rebates by no later than Dec. 31 this year.
  
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• 'Of great importance': Abortion debate raging in Alberta too despite UCP refusals to engage

  05-05-2022 23:25
  
  Advocates for and against wider access to abortion in Alberta continued to spar over the controversy Thursday despite the premier's unwillingness to have the debate. A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion law is on the brink of being overturned south of the border, forcing the matter into political discussions around the globe. "It is 100 per cent untrue that it is easy to get an abortion here," said Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson with the Alberta Abortion Access Network. "You can have a rig
  
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• Governor General Mary Simon to visit hometown while touring Nunavik - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 23:23 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Governor General Mary Simon to visit hometown while touring Nunavik  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'Heartbroken and devastated': Canmore, Alta. woman killed in crash identified

  05-05-2022 23:09
  
  Several days after a woman from Canmore was struck and killed by a vehicle on Highway 1, RCMP say they are still seeking public information to find the driver that hit her. Canmore RCMP were called to the scene of a fatal crash involving a pedestrian along Highway 1 in the early morning hours of May 1. The victim, a 20-year-old woman from Canmore, was pronounced dead at the scene. Loved ones on social media identified her as Ariana (Ari) Blackwood, who turned 20 on the day that she died. "Ari wa
  
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• Junior A hockey returns to the Crowsnest Pass after 17 years - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 22:58 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Junior A hockey returns to the Crowsnest Pass after 17 years  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 2 charged after drugs, cash and counterfeit currency seized in Lethbridge

  05-05-2022 22:49
  
  Two people are facing charges after Lethbridge police seized drugs, cash and counterfeit currency from a vehicle. The vehicle was reported to police on Wednesday by members of Alberta Sheriff Safer Communities and Neighbourhood (SCAN) unit after officers noted "activity consistent with drug trafficking." The vehicle was stopped in the 1000 block of Fourth Avenue S. and a search turned up:28.2 grams of methamphetamine; 5.8 grams of fentanyl; A smaller amount of cocaine, and; 67.8 grams of marijua
  
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• New $520K inclusive playground for Captain John Palliser School

  05-05-2022 22:37
  
  It's taken three years of hard work by the Captain John Palliser School parents' association to come up with a plan for a new playground and raise most of the money needed to build it. Now parents can see the light at the end of the tunnel as they edge closer to their $520,000 goal that will see their dream for the students of the school in Brentwood become a reality. The group is just $15,330 shy of its target for a new inclusive playground at the school on Northmount Drive Northwest and are ho
  
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• Decommissioned police equipment from Alberta headed to Ukraine

  05-05-2022 22:27
  
  Several police services in Alberta have gathered a stockpile of equipment, which includes clothing, boots, helmets and body armour, to be sent to help Ukraine in its battle against Russia. The provincial government says the donations come as the result of a campaign spearheaded by Calgary Police Service employees. More than 450 kilograms of items – boots, pants, shirts, tuques, gloves and socks – were gathered in bins at CPS offices across the city during the initiative. Justice Mini
  
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• Rocky Mountain Turf Club prepares for new race season - My Lethbridge Now

  05-05-2022 22:23 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
  Rocky Mountain Turf Club prepares for new race season  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Libin family pledges an additional $7.5M to Libin Cardiovascular Institute

  05-05-2022 21:58
  
  A Calgary-based research centre that's dedicated to improving the cardiovascular health of Canadians will receive a funding boost from its namesake over the next decade. The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation announced a pledge of $7.5 million, to be paid over the next 10 years, to the Libin Cardiovascular Foundation. The latest offering brings the foundation's total donations to the research and care centre above the $23-million mark. “Our partnership with (Alberta Health Services) and the U
  
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• Canadians' trips to liquor stores, pharmacies tracked via phones during pandemic - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 21:19 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Canadians' trips to liquor stores, pharmacies tracked via phones during pandemic  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Farkas summits tallest peak in continental U.S. as part of Pacific Crest Trail journey

  05-05-2022 21:18
  
  Jeromy Farkas watched the sunrise Thursday from the summit of Mount Whitney – the tallest peak in the continental United States – as part of his self-supported trek of the Pacific Crest Trail. The former Calgary city councillor, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor in the October 2021 vote, is running and walking the 4,265-kilometre route from Mexico to Canada as a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Calgary and Area. Now 55 days into the journey, he has completed about 1,200 kilo
  
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• Environment minister lays out public input on feedlot near popular Alberta lake

  05-05-2022 21:17
  
  Alberta's environment minister says there has been public input on a plan to build a cattle feedlot near a popular recreational lake southwest of Edmonton. Earlier this week, an Opposition politician said the proposal for a 4,000-heard feedlot near Pigeon Lake didn't receive enough time for the thousands of people in the area to understand its potential consequences and express concerns. Minister Jason Nixon says in a written response to New Democrat environment critic Marlin Schmidt that the pu
  
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• Calgary turns to intimidating Flames winger Milan Lucic for traffic safety

  05-05-2022 20:48
  
  Milan Lucic is fine with his broad shoulders employed as a public safety message. As the Flames kicked off their first-round playoff series with the Dallas Stars this week, traffic signs popped up on Calgary's main thoroughfares reading “If you shoulder check, so will Lucic! Go Flames.” Lucic, an intimidating six-foot-three, 230-pound winger who crunches opposing players into the boards, was tickled when he saw the signs posted on social media. “I actually didn't see it in pers
  
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• Calgary turns to intimidating Flames winger Milan Lucic for traffic safety - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 20:42 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Calgary turns to intimidating Flames winger Milan Lucic for traffic safety  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta's Air Quality, Part II: The Human Impact

  05-05-2022 20:41
  
    "So, you turn this red dial here, and you'll hear a click," my doctor tells me. His eyes show a sympathetic smile beneath a medical mask. I haven't used an inhaler in a long time. I'm still getting used to it. I'm meant to take it before hockey; I have exercise-induced asthma. It usually doesn't bother me, but the personal impact of 2021's smoke was jarring on my lung capacity whenever I participated in sports. So made a choice. I'm surely not alone. We're going to start by talking about
  
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• Zac Brown Band, Brett Kissel coming to Calgary for Cowboys Music Festival

  05-05-2022 20:22
  
  After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Cowboys Music Festival is returning this July and two of the big-name bands set to perform have been announced. The 11-day music festival takes place from July 7 to 17, coinciding with the Calgary Stampede, at the Cowboys Calgary music festival tent. Though the entire lineup hasn't been announced, the performer who will take to the stage on the festival's first night is Brett Kissel on July 7. Kissel, known for songs like "Airwaves" and "Drink About M
  
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• Parks Canada works to restore native plants with controlled burn in Waterton Lakes

  05-05-2022 19:59
  
  Crews will be burning an estimated 1,170 hectares of land in Waterton Lakes National Park starting Tuesday in order to help restore native species of plants and trees in the park. Parks Canada says in a release that its fire managers are set up to burn areas of land south of the Chief Mountain Highway and Maskinonge wetland and east of Lower and Middle Waterton Lake, better known as Y-Camp. The operations will be conducted as long as weather permits and will take an estimated two days to complet
  
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• Lethbridge motorcyclist hospitalized in 2-vehicle crash

  05-05-2022 19:31
  
  Lethbridge police are investigating a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday that sent a motorcyclist to hospital. Police say a 32-year-old man was riding east on Garry Drive, in Lethbridge, about 5:30 p.m. when he struck a median and proceeded into the intersection at University Drive, where he was hit by a southbound pickup truck. The motorcycle rider was sent to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The occupants of the truck were not injured. No other information was released.
  
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• Calgary cardiologist faces 4 more sexual assault charges

  05-05-2022 19:30
  
  A Calgary-based cardiologist accused of sexually assaulting a patient is now facing additional charges. Michael Stephen Connelly, 65, was charged with one count of sexual assault after a patient came forward to police in October 2021 saying she had been touched inappropriately and without her consent during a 2012 consultation. Since police announced the charges in February, four other people have come forward to report their experiences with the doctor. Connelly now faces four more ch
  
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• Coaldale and Lethbridge hockey players named to NHL Central Scouting Final Rankings - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 19:06 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Coaldale and Lethbridge hockey players named to NHL Central Scouting Final Rankings  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• GDP up 5.1% in Alberta in 2021, slightly outpacing national average - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 19:04 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  GDP up 5.1% in Alberta in 2021, slightly outpacing national average  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Annual Lethbridge Public Library report sheds light on pandemic impacts - My Lethbridge Now

  05-05-2022 18:34 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
  Annual Lethbridge Public Library report sheds light on pandemic impacts  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Southern Alberta invests in the future of bluebirds - My Lethbridge Now

  05-05-2022 18:33 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
  Southern Alberta invests in the future of bluebirds  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Suspects sought after man thrown headfirst onto downtown CTrain tracks, left unconscious

  05-05-2022 18:27
  
  Calgary police are hoping to identify two people believed to be responsible for an unprovoked attack on a downtown CTrain platform last month that left the victim lying unconscious on the tracks. The incident happened at the City Hall station just before 8 p.m. on April 18th. Police say the victim, a man in his 50s, had just entered a shelter on the platform when two strangers, a man and a woman, approached him.  "The man grabbed the victim and threw him from the platform onto the train tra
  
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• Canadian Natural Resources first quarter profit more than doubles

  05-05-2022 17:11
  
  Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. saw its first-quarter profit more than double compared with a year ago, helped by higher oil and natural gas prices. The company said it earned $3.1 billion or $2.63 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, up from $1.38 billion or $1.16 per diluted share in the same quarter last year. Product sales in the quarter totalled $12.13 billion, up from $7.02 billion in the first quarter of 2021. Daily production, before royalties, averaged 1,280,180 barrels of
  
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• Work begins on $744M Springbank off-stream reservoir project

  05-05-2022 17:06
  
  Construction has started on the $744-million Springbank off-stream reservoir project, which is expected to be partially completed in 2024 and full completed in 2025, Premier Jason Kenney announced Thursday. The project covers 3,700 acres and the aim is to protect Calgary and other areas along the Bow and Elbow Rivers from a once-in-a-century flood event, like the one that hit in 2013, causing an estimated $6 billion in damage and financial loss across southern Alberta. "This is a major moment an
  
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• Alberta to announce details of contract for Springbank off-stream reservoir construction

  05-05-2022 17:06
  
  Premier Jason Kenney and other provincial officials will provide details on Thursday about the awarding of a contract for construction of the Springbank off-stream reservoir project. Kenney will be joined by Transportation Minister Rajan Sawhney, Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon and Jobs, Economy and Innovation Minister Doug Schweitzer. Agreements were reached in the fall of 2021 between the province and landowners, allowing construction to proceed. The agreements cover 3,700 acres of
  
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• Former Calgary Flame Aliu lands book deal on how he confronted racism in hockey

  05-05-2022 15:57
  
  Glancing at the illustration of the boy with the far-off stare standing next to a bus on the cover of the graphic novel memoir that will tell his story, Akim Aliu immediately remembers the pain of growing up poor and Black in Toronto. From the hours spent alone riding public transit to and from arenas across the city to the strips of duct tape holding together the garage sale-purchased hockey equipment bag slung over his shoulder, the depiction of a teenaged Aliu hits home. Aliu was born in Nige
  
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• Garth Brooks ready for ‘family reunion’ when he returns to Edmonton in June

  05-05-2022 15:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Country icon Garth Brooks is coming back to Edmonton this summer and he said he has been all smiles since the Stadium Tour was announced.
  
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• Flames Game-Day Forecast: You may want to bring a red umbrella

  05-05-2022 14:48
  
  UPDATE: The way this system is developing, Calgary's not out of the woods on rainshowers yet. Firstly, there are two images below; the first is what's expected Friday morning, but with that system popping free of the foothills, Calgary gets a chance of showers this evening; light stuff, as we cool off, somewhat. If you're planning on taking in the Flames game somewhere out-of-doors, that's worth considering. Yesterday's modeling had this setup further north; while a chance for 1-3 mm is in the i
  
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• Calgary's 5-day forecast: Warmer and drier than originally expected

  05-05-2022 14:48
  
  It's time for the Thursday edition of "How Warm Today, And How Much Rain This Weekend?" The answers to these questions are 22 C, and… less that previously predicted. Let's break it all down. A number of forecast models pin today squarely on a high near 20 C, but we're still coping with warm wind. Today it rises from the south instead of yesterday's westerlies, which popped sections of the city to 22-23 C. Still, that's a contributing factor to the high, though it will involve gusts to at
  
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• 'Bill 15 is a mistake': ATA raises concerns over reform of teacher discipline process

  05-05-2022 14:26
  
  The Alberta government has passed a bill that changes the discipline process for teachers. In a series of tweets posted Thursday, Alberta's Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said Bill 15 will "Make the process more timely, transparent, free from bias and elevates the status of the teaching profession to best meet the needs of our children."I am so thrilled that today Bill 15 – the Education (Reforming Teacher Professional Discipline) Amendment Act was passed. Under this act, th
  
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• Lethbridge has much to celebrate and appreciate - Lethbrige Herald

  05-05-2022 14:24 via lethbridgeherald.com
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• Neo Financial becomes Calgary's latest $1B tech 'unicorn'

  05-05-2022 14:03
  
  Calgary's tech community can boast another "unicorn" with fintech company Neo Financial's close of a funding round that values the startup at more than $1 billion.  Neo Financial — which was founded in 2019 by Andrew Chau and Jeff Adamson, co-founders of food delivery app Skip the Dishes, as well as Kris Read — announced Thursday that it has raised $185 million in a series C fundraising round featuring New York-based Valar Ventures as Neo's lead investor. Paul Lee — a part
  
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• Lethbridge College Home Design Expo showcases work of engineering students - Medicine Hat News

  05-05-2022 12:25 via medicinehatnews.com
  Lethbridge College Home Design Expo showcases work of engineering students  Medicine Hat News
  
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• Drugs, cash and counterfeit currency seixed in Lethbridge, 2 charged | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  05-05-2022 09:00 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Drugs, cash and counterfeit currency seixed in Lethbridge, 2 charged | CTV News  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Crash sends Lethbridge motorcyclist to hospital | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  05-05-2022 09:00 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
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• S&P/TSX composite suffers worst day since November as investors weigh higher rates

  05-05-2022 07:13
  
  Canada's main stock index suffered its worst day in more than five months as investors appeared to put aside dovish Federal Reserve comments a day earlier to instead focus on the magnitude of interest rates to come. The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 488.78 points, or 2.3 per cent, to 20,696.17. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 1,063.09 points at 32,997.97. The S&P 500 index was down 153.30 points at 4,146.87, while the Nasdaq composite was down 647.17 points o
  
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• 8 Lethbridge football players heading to Team Alberta U18 selection camp - Global News

  05-05-2022 05:59 via globalnews.ca
  
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• 8 Lethbridge football players heading to Team Alberta U18 selection camp

  05-05-2022 05:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Eight athletes from schools across Lethbridge are among the hopefuls around the province looking for a spot on one of two rosters.
  
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• Sections of B.C. LNG line complete, partnership on disputed portion: Coastal GasLink

  05-05-2022 05:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  The company behind the Coastal GasLink liquefied natural gas pipeline across northern British Columbia says it is nearing 65 per cent overall completion of the project.
  
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• Man killed in southeast Calgary crash identified

  05-05-2022 05:57
  
  The family of a 20-year-old man who died in a crash in southeast Calgary Tuesday has arrived in the city, and are asking for support to help bring his remains home to Ontario. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for the family of Mitchell Donoghue, who died when police say a car driven by a 79-year-old man crossed a centre median and struck Donoghue's Camaro, causing both vehicles to go through a fence into a Calgary backyard. Relatives said most of Donoghue's family lives in Peterborough, and
  
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• NHL not considering new playoff format: Bettman

  05-05-2022 05:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  The NHL has no plans to change its playoff format, regardless of what other leagues are doing, says commissioner Gary Bettman.
  
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• ATA accuses Alberta government of trying to ‘punish’ teachers by passing Bill 15

  05-05-2022 04:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  New legislation passed in the legislature was lauded by Education Minister Adriana LaGrange as a positive step towards improving the professional discipline process for teachers.
  
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• B.C. couple unexpectedly locked out of Amazon Photos account after alleged violation 

  05-05-2022 03:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  The couple stored thousands of precious family photos in Amazon Photos, which offers a cloud storage platform for Amazon Prime members.
  
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• After listening to supporters and partners, CF Montreal will change logo - Lethbridge News Now

  05-05-2022 03:12 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  After listening to supporters and partners, CF Montreal will change logo  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary parents face long lineups at Alberta Children’s Hospital ER

  05-05-2022 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary isn't being spared from increased demands of seriously ill patients, COVID-19 cases and other respiratory illnesses.
  
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• Lethbridge Hurricanes ‘caught off guard’ by ENMAX Centre paid parking decision

  05-05-2022 02:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  On April 26, Lethbridge city council voted 5-4 to implement paid parking at the ENMAX Centre beginning in September.
  
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