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• Expanded patios, street musicians replace vehicles in Inglewood on Sundays in August

  12-08-2022 23:56
  
  Inglewood's main drag is going car-free on Sundays for the rest of August. One of Calgary's most walkable neighbourhoods, 9th Avenue S.E. between 11th Street and 14th Street will be closed to vehicles between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sunday August 14, 21 and 28. That means businesses along Ninth Avenue will be able to extend their storefronts to the sidewalk, allowing pedestrians to do a walkabout without worrying about passing vehicles. There will be live music performed by street buskers, and expa
  
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• International partners had concern about Canada's 'ability to handle' convoy protests - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 23:07 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  International partners had concern about Canada's 'ability to handle' convoy protests  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• You can be my wingman any time: 'Top Gun' geese up for adoption

  12-08-2022 21:59
  
  The Calgary Humane Society is hoping to find homes for two geese named after high-flying characters from the movie Top Gun. The fowl are named Maverick and Nick Bradshaw – a character better known by his nickname 'Goose.' In a Friday Facebook post, the humane society said the birds are very intelligent and inquisitive. "They also have a lot to say, and can be quite loud about it," said the post. "They like to spend a lot of time foraging for food, which mostly consists of grazing grass." T
  
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• Canada considered jobs, inflation in decision to return Russian turbine: documents - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 21:58 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Canada considered jobs, inflation in decision to return Russian turbine: documents  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Passengers tackle Canadian man after he became violent, tried to open plane doors mid-flight

  12-08-2022 21:56
  
  A plane bound for Toronto has been forced to divert to Iceland after a Canadian man allegedly became violent and tried to open the aircraft door mid-air. LOT Polish Airlines flight 41 was flying from Warsaw, Poland to Toronto on Thursday when the incident occurred a few hours into the flight, the airline said. A spokesperson for the airline told CTV News Toronto the altercation began after a flight attendant refused to serve a Canadian passenger alcohol. "The man then went to aft galley and shou
  
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• City of Iqaluit declares emergency due to water shortage - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 21:47 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  City of Iqaluit declares emergency due to water shortage  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Negotiations to resume between Edmonton International Airport security screeners and employer

  12-08-2022 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hundreds of screening officers at Edmonton International Airport were set to walk off the job this weekend, but the two sides have agreed to return to the bargaining table.
  
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• Montenegro gunman kills 11 on the street; police kill him - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 21:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Montenegro gunman kills 11 on the street; police kill him  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary Farmers' Market opens new northwest location

  12-08-2022 20:51
  
  Hundreds of vehicles lined Greenbriar Boulevard on Friday morning as Calgarians headed to the city's newest farmers' market. Plans for the opening of a second Calgary Farmers' Market location were announced in 2018, but COVID-19 and supply chain issues pushed back the official opening roughly two years. Still, vendors were excited to welcome customers through the door. "We've done pop-ups here for the last few years, and people just can't wait," said Phil Faba, owner of 
  
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• Everything you need to know about Thursday's supermoon

  12-08-2022 20:45
  
  The last supermoon of the year lit up the skies over Alberta on Thursday night.  Supermoon, a term coined by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979 refers to a full moon at perigee. What is perigee? Well, our moon orbits Earth in an ellipse(oval) pattern, so there is a point where the moon is at it's most furthest and closest distances to Earth. When the moon's orbit is closest to the Earth it is at perigee, alternatively when the moon is at it's furthest point it's called the apogee. Thursday ni
  
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• Part of Hwy 93 north of Lake Louise collapses into river - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 20:43 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Part of Hwy 93 north of Lake Louise collapses into river  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Anne Heche legally dead, remains on life support for donor evaluation

  12-08-2022 20:28
  
  Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday. Under current California law, death can be determined by the loss of all brain function and in accordance with accepted medical standards. While Heche is legally dead, she's on life support and "her heart is still beating" so that the nonprofit organization OneLegacy can determine if she can be a donor, spokeswoman Holly Baird said
  
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• Lethbridge athletes take home silver and gold at Canada Summer Games - My Lethbridge Now

  12-08-2022 20:26 via mylethbridgenow.com
  
  Lethbridge athletes take home silver and gold at Canada Summer Games  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Fires at Calgary municipal building caused more than $1M in damage: city

  12-08-2022 20:21
  
  Officials with the City of Calgary say the damage caused by a series of fires set inside the downtown municipal building will potentially cost millions to fix.   Police were called to city hall at around 4 a.m. on Aug. 2 for reports of a break-in, and arrived to find a man with a knife lighting fires – which then triggered the building's sprinkler system. On Friday, acting city manager Carla Male said in a news release that the building suffered "extensive" water damage to three
  
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• 4 suspects sought by Lethbridge police after woman assaulted along Mayor Magrath

  12-08-2022 20:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  The 24-year-old from Lethbridge told police she was walking home from work when a verbal altercation ensued with an unknown man who passed by.
  
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• Wisconsin GOP leader fires 2020 election investigator - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 20:11 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Wisconsin GOP leader fires 2020 election investigator  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 19:41 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Hundreds of lightning strikes hit B.C. as severe thunderstorms roll through - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 18:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Hundreds of lightning strikes hit B.C. as severe thunderstorms roll through  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Poll suggests most Canadians view Pope's apology as step toward reconciliation - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 18:01 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Poll suggests most Canadians view Pope's apology as step toward reconciliation  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Astronomers Plan To Go Magnet Fishing For Meteorite - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 17:27 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Astronomers Plan To Go Magnet Fishing For Meteorite  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 17:23 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after he was stabbed on lecture stage in New York

  12-08-2022 17:16
  
  Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday evening, with a damaged liver, severed nerves in an arm and an eye he was likely to lose. Police identified the attacker as
  
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• Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 16:40 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Polio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus circulating  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Whitecaps head to Los Angeles looking for fast start against Galaxy - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 16:38 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Whitecaps head to Los Angeles looking for fast start against Galaxy  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Lethbridge woman assaulted, shot in back with BB gun, threatened: police

  12-08-2022 16:37
  
  Lethbridge police are investigating after a woman was assaulted by a group of men while she was walking home from work on Tuesday night. Investigators say the 24-year-old victim was in the 1100 block of Mayor Magrath Drive South at around 10 p.m. when she got into a verbal altercation with a stranger. "He walked away and then returned with three other males," said police in Friday news release. "The four males then began yelling at her before one of them punched her in the face, shot her in the
  
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• Lethbridge police search for suspects in group assault | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  12-08-2022 16:37 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge police search for suspects in group assault | CTV News  CTV News Calgary
  
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• FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump home

  12-08-2022 16:02
  
  The FBI recovered documents that were labeled “top secret” from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week. A property receipt unsealed by the court shows FBI agents took 11 sets of classified records from the estate during a search on Monday. The seized records include some marked not only top secret but also “sensitive comp
  
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• Push for public release of warrant used to search Trump home - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 15:57 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Push for public release of warrant used to search Trump home  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Voting deadline looms in race to replace Jason Kenney as Alberta UCP leader, premier

  12-08-2022 15:35
  
  It’s deadline day to buy $10 Alberta United Conservative Party memberships to vote for the next leader and premier. The party is accepting drop offs by 5 p.m. and online memberships until midnight. The party will then go through the memberships and confirm information and expects to have the final tally ready in two weeks or so. Seven candidates are on the ballot seeking to replace Premier Jason Kenney in the party’s top job. Kenney announced in May he was quitting after receiving a
  
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• Allegiances shift to Danielle Smith as deadline to register for UCP leadership vote looms

  12-08-2022 15:35
  
  Seven candidates scrambled Friday to sign up last-minute memberships in Alberta's United Conservative Party leadership race while political observers say that without hard data on which contender has a leg up, follow the feet. Danielle Smith, who started out with a handful of supporters in the United Conservative caucus and cabinet, has seen more in-house support in recent days, including some who had initially pledged to back rival Travis Toews. “Sometimes when you see people starting to
  
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• Kevin Stanfield's forecast: Heat continues for Calgary; storm risk Friday evening

  12-08-2022 15:34
  
  Yesterday sure swung for the record-book fences. Almost made it, too! We finished the day at 31.7 C, having set a record of 32.2 C in both 1939 and before that in 1906. It’s unlikely that the heat warning in place snaps for very long, if at all over the coming days. While we’re certainly unlikely to see if leave through Friday or Saturday (temperatures are still parameterized for heat warnings there), the brief reprieve from 29 C or warmer highs doesn’t last all that long; anot
  
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• ‘Perplexed but not crushed’: Fire erupts at Bonavista Church

  12-08-2022 15:08
  
  The Calgary Fire Department is asking for anyone with photos or video of an early-morning fire in Bonavista Downs to reach out to them.  Calgary firefighters were called to the Bonavista Church on Lake Ontario Dr. S.E. at around 3:20 a.m. on Friday to find smoke and flames pouring out of the building.More than a dozen emergency vehicles, including Calgary police and Emergency Medical Services, attended the scene. No one was injured in the blaze but one firefighter was as
  
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• Lethbridge College researchers studying ways to simplify potato quality testing - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 14:23 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Lethbridge College researchers studying ways to simplify potato quality testing  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Residents asked to watch for Dutch Elm Disease warning signs - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 14:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Residents asked to watch for Dutch Elm Disease warning signs  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Woman punched, shot with BB gun in Lethbridge assault - Calgary Herald

  12-08-2022 09:00 via calgaryherald.com
  Woman punched, shot with BB gun in Lethbridge assault  Calgary Herald
  
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• Police seeking suspects in reported South Lethbridge assault - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 09:00 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Police seeking suspects in reported South Lethbridge assault  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Equal pay deal for US women's soccer approved by judge - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 07:45 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Equal pay deal for US women's soccer approved by judge  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Stanley Lethbridge Obituary (2022) - Assiniboia, SK - Assiniboia Times - Legacy.com

  12-08-2022 07:06 via legacy.com
  Stanley Lethbridge Obituary (2022) - Assiniboia, SK - Assiniboia Times  Legacy.com
  
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• Alouettes end Blue Bombers' perfect season with 20-17 overtime victory - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 06:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  
  Alouettes end Blue Bombers' perfect season with 20-17 overtime victory  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Child struck by vehicle in southeast Calgary

  12-08-2022 05:50
  
  A child was taken to hospital Thursday evening after they were hit by a vehicle in the southeast. Police said they were called out about 8:30 p.m., to the 300 block of Deerpoint Gardens. The driver remained on scene and a small bike could be seen wedged under the front of the SUV. Police said EMS transported the youngster to the Children's hospital as a precautionary measure. There was no word if charges are pending. This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes avai
  
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• Japanese students get the white hat treatment in Calgary

  12-08-2022 05:08
  
  A group of Japanese students is visiting Calgary for the first time since the pandemic started, to practice English and get white-hatted. The group from Osaka includes 29 high school students who leave Calgary Friday. During their stay, they practiced their English skills with local teens at school sessions each day and visited attractions in and around Calgary. Organizers said a big part of the experience was spending time with their host families to try out new activities. Before the pandemic
  
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• Canada men’s soccer team forms players association as World Cup money talks continue

  12-08-2022 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian men's soccer team has formed a players association as compensation negotiations continue with Canada Soccer.
  
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• Relocation dispute between Athabasca University and Alberta government facing twists and turns

  12-08-2022 03:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  There's been couple of twists and turns to a dispute between Athabasca University and the Alberta Government following public pushback.
  
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• Canada crushes Slovakia 11-1 at world juniors as McTavish nets six points

  12-08-2022 03:48
  
  Four goals and a pair of assists from captain Mason McTavish powered Canada to a dominant 11-1victory over Slovakia at the world junior hockey championship Thursday. Brennan Othmann and Joshua Roy each scored and contributed a pair of helpers for Canada (2-0-0) while Connor Bedard, Will Cuylle, Logan Stankoven and Olen Zellweger added one of each. Zack Ostapchuk also scored. Matej Kaslik put away the lone goal for Slovakia (0-0-2) midway through the second period. Making his first start of the t
  
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• Hockey Canada looks to hire sport safety director focused on tackling abuse, harassment

  12-08-2022 03:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The job posting seeks someone who will lead the development, implementation and evaluation of an "all-encompassing multi-year maltreatment, harassment and abuse strategy."
  
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• Alberta criminal defence lawyers ‘up the ante’ in job action

  12-08-2022 03:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Criminal defence lawyers felt like their concerns weren't being taken seriously during a meeting with Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and Legal Aid Alberta CEO John Panusa.
  
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• Fowler, Day make early bid in Memphis to keep season going - Lethbridge News Now

  12-08-2022 03:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Fowler, Day make early bid in Memphis to keep season going  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• McTavish puts up 6 points as Canada crushes Slovakia 11-1 at world juniors

  12-08-2022 03:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  Four goals and a pair of assists from captain Mason McTavish powered Canada to a dominant 11-1 victory over Slovakia at the world junior hockey championship Thursday.
  
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• Alberta lawyers extend job action, threaten more after 'disrespectful' meeting with Shandro

  12-08-2022 03:04
  
  Four Alberta legal associations teamed up Thursday to accuse Justice Minister Tyler Shandro of being "dismissive" and playing politics in a recent meeting over compensation for legal aid services. Shandro met Monday with members of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (Calgary, CDLA), the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association (Edmonton, CTLA), the Southern Alberta Defence Lawyers’ Association (SADL) and the Red Deer Criminal Defence Lawyers Association (RDCDLA) who jointly claim they are
  
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• Family of little boy struck at Kensington Road crosswalk want city to make safety improvements

  12-08-2022 02:54
  
  Residents who live near Kensington Road in the northwest are calling on the City of Calgary to decrease the number of lanes at the intersection where an 8-year-old boy was struck by a car in the spring. Coen Hansen was on his way to school with a group including a friend's parent in late February. The overhead lights were flashing and traffic had initially stopped, but when the boy started to cross an eastbound vehicle struck the boy, launching him approximately two metres. "Probably one of the
  
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