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• CEO Storey adjourns heated bobsled/skeleton AGM over voter eligibility concerns - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 23:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  CEO Storey adjourns heated bobsled/skeleton AGM over voter eligibility concerns  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'Every Child Matters' walk in Morley, Alta., recognizes residential school atrocities

  30-09-2022 23:22
  Indigenous community members and their allies gathered in Morley, Alta., on Friday to recognize the intergenerational traumas of Canada’s residential school system. The second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was commemorated with an "Every Child Matters" walk between the McDougall Memorial United Church and the Morley United Church. Both sites carry a long and painful history for those impacted, including Valentia Fox of the Îethka First Nation, who attended resident
  
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• Russia vetoes UN resolution calling its referendums illegal - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 23:03 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Russia vetoes UN resolution calling its referendums illegal  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Thousands of Calgarians gather on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  30-09-2022 22:54
  Calgarians gathered to remember, educate and listen on Friday for the country's second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. About a dozen events in and around the city — many hosted by Treaty 7 elders — marked the day. The largest gathering was the City of Calgary's Orange Shirt Day event at Fort Calgary, where roughly 2,000 people attended to listen to Indigenous speakers. "Calgarians are now recognizing the importance of remembering the children that perished at Indian
  
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• New cSpace opens at historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Co. building

  30-09-2022 21:34
  The City of Calgary and cSpace have teamed up to open a neighbourhood hub at the historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber Co. building through summer 2024. The cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub launched Thursday, and will host "arts, culture and under-served community groups without space to gather, and for creative happenings to occur." Dennis Hoffart, Eau Claire area improvements program manager, said it was clear the space would be well-suited to support downtown communities and neighbourho
  
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• New cSpace opens at historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber building

  30-09-2022 21:34
  The City of Calgary and cSpace have teamed up to open a neighbourhood hub at the historic Eau Claire and Bow River Lumber building through summer 2024. The cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub launched Thursday, and will host "arts, culture and under-served community groups without space to gather and for creative happenings to occur." Dennis Hoffart, Eau Claire area improvements program manager, said it was clear the space is well-suited to support downtown communities and neighbourhoods. While
  
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• 'It really is a huge step forward': Indigenous court officially opens in Edmonton

  30-09-2022 21:15
  A ceremony was held Friday to officially open the new Indigenous court at Alberta's provincial courts. "The court has been challenged to come up with better ways, more culturally appropriate ways to deal with the issues that face Indigenous communities," said Chief Judge Derek Redman.  "This is our very first concrete step in that regard." It's part of the Alberta provincial court's Indigenous Justice Strategy, announced Wednesday, to address issues including mistrust in the justice system
  
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• ‘Falling in love with Canada’: new book tells female immigrants’ stories

  30-09-2022 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  A new book is allowing readers to learn what it’s truly like to be a female immigrant in Calgary.
  
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• 'Unique ecosystem': N.W.T. First Nations sign benefit agreement with Parks Canada - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 21:06 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  'Unique ecosystem': N.W.T. First Nations sign benefit agreement with Parks Canada  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Creator’s Stone meteorite to be returned to original site in Alberta

  30-09-2022 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  Manitou Asiniy is a 145-kilogram iron meteorite that landed in the Iron Creek area, close to the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, billions of years ago.
  
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• Ian makes landfall again, this time in South Carolina - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 20:34 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Ian makes landfall again, this time in South Carolina  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• House OKs bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 20:34 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  House OKs bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• GAME DAY: Hurricanes Host Tigers in Dairy Queen Home Opener – Lethbridge Hurricanes - Lethbridge Hurricanes

  30-09-2022 20:00 via lethbridgehurricanes.com
  GAME DAY: Hurricanes Host Tigers in Dairy Queen Home Opener – Lethbridge Hurricanes  Lethbridge Hurricanes
  
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• Canada headed for 'severe' and 'inevitable' recession in 2023: economist

  30-09-2022 19:41
  Canada is headed for a recession in early 2023, according to one economist. "I don't think that we're in a recession just yet, but I do think that one is on the horizon," David Doyle, the head of economics at Macquarie Group, told BNN Bloomberg. "Our baseline is that Canada will enter a recession in the first quarter of 2023." Macquarie Group, an Australia-based global financial services provider, estimates Canada will face an approximately three per cent contraction in gross domestic product (G
  
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• Joly, Blinken respond to Putin's 'political theatre' with even more Russian sanctions

  30-09-2022 19:12
  Vladimir Putin's claim to parts of Ukraine is little more than “political theatre” with “no legitimacy,” Canada and the United States declared Friday, and should have no impact on how best to deploy military aid from the West. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly joined U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for meetings in Washington, D.C., on the very day the Russian president claimed he was legally entitled to annex four of Ukraine's occupied regions. Not only are tho
  
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• Nevada governor orders prison head to resign after escape - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 19:02 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Nevada governor orders prison head to resign after escape  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Sailor found not guilty of setting fire that destroyed ship - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 18:43 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Sailor found not guilty of setting fire that destroyed ship  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• High-risk offender found, arrested

  30-09-2022 18:28
  Calgary police have a high-risk offender back in custody. On Wednesday, police put out the call to the public to help them locate Paul Algino Barrett. Police said the 23-year-old vanished following his release on Sept. 21. Barrett was freed upon the completion of a two-year sentence for break-and-enter and theft. Barrett also has prior convictions - for break-and-enter with intent, believed to be sexually motivated - according to police. “After exhausting all options to locate Barrett, he
  
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• Art Exhibit Features Purr-fect Portraits of Nicolas Cage with Cats - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 17:52 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Art Exhibit Features Purr-fect Portraits of Nicolas Cage with Cats  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) names Lethbridge-based man as new board chair › Prairie Post - Prairie Post

  30-09-2022 17:45 via prairiepost.com
  Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) names Lethbridge-based man as new board chair › Prairie Post  Prairie Post
  
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• Montreal Canadiens' retooled front office is focused on player development - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 17:42 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Montreal Canadiens' retooled front office is focused on player development  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Gunfire heard in Burkina Faso, sparking coup fears - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 15:26 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Gunfire heard in Burkina Faso, sparking coup fears  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Hurricane Ian makes second U.S. landfall, this time in South Carolina

  30-09-2022 13:50
  Hurricane Ian made another landfall Friday, this time in South Carolina, after carving a swath of destruction across Florida earlier this week. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Ian's centre came ashore Friday afternoon near Georgetown with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph). Ian hit Florida's Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph (240 kph) winds Wednesday, flooding homes and leaving nearly 2.7 million people without power. Before landfall, Sheets of rain whip
  
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• Hurricane Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida's death toll climbs

  30-09-2022 13:50
  The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian has risen to 17 as Florida authorities on Friday afternoon confirmed several drowning deaths and other fatalities. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the deaths included a 22-year-old woman who was ejected from an ATV rollover on Friday because of a road washout in Manatee County and a 71-year-old man who died of head injuries when he fell off a roof while putting up rain shutters on Wednesday. Many of the other deaths were drownings, including
  
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• Hurricane Ian lashes South Carolina as Florida surveys devastation

  30-09-2022 13:50
  A revived Hurricane Ian battered coastal South Carolina on Friday, ripping apart piers and filling neighbourhoods with calf-high water, after the deadly storm caused catastrophic damage in Florida and trapped thousands in their homes. Ian's centre came ashore near Georgetown with much weaker winds than when it crossed Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday as one of the strongest storms to ever hit the U.S. Sheets of rain whipped trees and power lines and left many areas on Charleston's downtown peni
  
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• ‘Ongoing care’: How to mark 2nd official Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  30-09-2022 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  Friday, Sept. 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. An Alberta professor shares her suggestions of ways Canadians can listen, learn and reflect.
  
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• Indigenous-led healing program tackling ‘epidemic’ of violence, abuse

  30-09-2022 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  "Packing that hurt and pain around for so long instead of being able to, 'I love you.  I'm scared.  I'm afraid.'  It cames out as anger.  That's what I lived."
  
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• Ukrainian sisters starting new life in Lethbridge - Medicine Hat News

  30-09-2022 12:36 via medicinehatnews.com
  Ukrainian sisters starting new life in Lethbridge  Medicine Hat News
  
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• US runs past Canada into World Cup gold medal game - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 11:48 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  US runs past Canada into World Cup gold medal game  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Thai court rules PM can stay, did not exceed term limit - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 10:56 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Thai court rules PM can stay, did not exceed term limit  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Tegan and Sara bring 'love letter to the '90s' to Calgary with High School première

  30-09-2022 05:35
  Calgary's own Tegan and Sara call their upcoming Amazon series a "love letter to the '90s." Both the Quin sisters were in town Thursday for the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) première of High School at the Eau Claire theatre. Debuting the show in the city they grew up in made sense, Tegan said. Tegan pointed out the show was shot here and is about the time of their lives when they resided here. Sara said the show is about Calgary as much as it's about them. "We actually shot a
  
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• Xiyu Lin makes late eagle to take LPGA lead in Texas - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 03:31 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Xiyu Lin makes late eagle to take LPGA lead in Texas  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Is Kenney's plan working? Alberta reports positive net migration

  30-09-2022 02:39
  The number of people moving to Alberta is outpacing those who are leaving by a margin not seen in nearly eight years and some new residents are celebrating their choice to move. Statistics Canada says Alberta experienced positive net migration of 9,857 in the second quarter of 2022 – the last time the rate was this high was in 2014. Ontarians were the majority of new residents to Alberta, with net gain of 6,281. "With cheaper real estate, affordable living, close to nature, a beautiful cit
  
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• Banff and Canmore workers finding jobs, lack of housing

  30-09-2022 02:14 via globalnews.ca
  Businesses in Banff and Canmore can't find people to work because of a lack of housing in the communities, leaving workers in the lurch.
  
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• Alberta student who fled Ukraine wins award for landmine-detecting drone

  30-09-2022 01:56 via globalnews.ca
  A 17 year old who fled war-torn Ukraine and is now student at the University of Alberta has won a global prize for an invention created because of the violence he saw.
  
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• Central Alberta animal rescue helps horse with 'intersex condition'

  30-09-2022 01:38
  A central Alberta horse rescue agency is seeking public support to care for an 11-year-old mare that possessed a rare defect. Bear Valley Rescue, based in Sundre, wrote on its Facebook page that the horse, named Dixie, was surrendered a few months ago. The group says the owner couldn't handle the horse's behavioural issues and wouldn't be able to pay for spay surgery. Upon examination, staff with the group discovered something different about Dixie. "Turns out that Dixie has an intersex conditio
  
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• WHL partners with Orange Shirt Society before National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  30-09-2022 01:28 via globalnews.ca
  The Western Hockey League and the Orange Shirt Society announced a new partnership on Thursday with initiatives to recognize and commemorate the legacy of residential schools.
  
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• Calgary Police investigating suspicious death of a toddler - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 01:21 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Calgary Police investigating suspicious death of a toddler  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Blue Bombers look to bounce back against visiting Roughriders - Lethbridge News Now

  30-09-2022 01:13 via lethbridgenewsnow.com
  Blue Bombers look to bounce back against visiting Roughriders  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Speed a factor in deadly motorcycle crash in southeast Calgary, police say

  30-09-2022 00:10
  Calgary police have released additional details about Wednesday evening's fatal collision involving a motorcycle in the city's southeast. First responders were called regarding the crash around 6:40 p.m., and by 7 p.m. had blocked off northbound Stoney Trail approaching the 17th Avenue S.E. overpass. Police on Thursday said a motorcycle collided with the back of an SUV, then with the cable barrier along Stoney Trail. The motorcycle rider, a 48-year-old man, died at the scene. The driver of the S
  
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