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• Alouettes hold off Argonauts in 38-33 regular-season finale victory - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 23:37 via news.google.com
  Alouettes hold off Argonauts in 38-33 regular-season finale victory  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Hitmen break losing streak to Oil Kings

  29-10-2022 22:35
  Calgary came out on top in the first half of a pair of Alberta battles scheduled for this weekend. Five different Calgary Hitmen scored goals as the team defeated the Edmonton Oil Kings Friday at Rogers Place. Billal Noori and Carson Wetsch scored 13 seconds apart in the second period to stretch a 1-0 lead - thanks to a first period tally by defenceman Grayden Siepmann - to three goals. Keegan Staney and Jacob Wright also scored for the Hitmen, while goalie Brayden Peters stopped 18 shots to rec
  
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• Calgary veterans commemorate launch of annual poppy campaign with special parade

  29-10-2022 21:39
  A special parade ceremony held Saturday morning at the Centennial Calgary Branch 285 welcomed young cadets and lifelong veterans to gather and officially open up this year’s poppy campaign set to run until Remembrance Day. The initiative honours fallen soldiers with all poppy purchases, with donations going to current and retired veterans in need of support. Linda Veresh is the poppy chair for 285 Legion and a 14-year veteran herself who highlighted the importance of wearing a po
  
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• Premier Smith won't permit mask mandates in schools - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 21:14 via news.google.com
  Premier Smith won't permit mask mandates in schools  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'We must turn the page': Alberta premier explores blocking future school mask mandates

  29-10-2022 20:08
  Alberta's premier says she will "not permit any further masking mandates of children" in schools following a court ruling on the government's decision to drop and block those mandates. Earlier this week, the Alberta Court of King's Bench ruled that the government's decision to block school boards from imposing their own mask mandates after provincial ones were dropped "was made for improper purposes." Justice G.S. Dunlop presided over the case, noting that while Chief Medical Officer of Health D
  
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• Smith looking to block future mask mandates in schools

  29-10-2022 20:08
  Alberta's premier says she will "not permit any further masking mandates of children" in schools following a court ruling on the government's decision to drop and block those mandates. Earlier this week, the Alberta Court of King's Bench ruled that the government's decision to block school boards from imposing their own mask mandates after provincial ones were dropped "was made for improper purposes." The ruling was met with praise from the Alberta Federation of Labour's president, Gil McGowan.
  
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• Alberta premier looking to block future mask mandates in schools

  29-10-2022 20:08
  Alberta's premier says she will "not permit any further masking mandates of children" in schools following a court ruling on the government's decision to drop and block those mandates. Earlier this week, the Alberta Court of King's Bench ruled that the government's decision to block school boards from imposing their own mask mandates after provincial ones were dropped "was made for improper purposes." The ruling was met with praise from the Alberta Federation of Labour's president, Gil McGowan.
  
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• Tenant union calls for rental caps and registry again amid soaring housing costs

  29-10-2022 19:54
  Alberta ACORN will protest outside Boardwalk’s Head Office in Calgary on Saturday to demand measures for rent control in the province. ACORN Canada say rent prices for a one-bedroom rental in Calgary have risen more than 27 per cent in the past year, one of the biggest hikes in the country. The union group says an August 2022 report on Rentals.ca is pricing the average two bedroom rental in Calgary at $1,934 per month. “The result of this being that working people and families are be
  
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• Calgary man charged in East Village homicide

  29-10-2022 19:18
  A Calgary man has been charged in relation to a homicide that took place Tuesday in the East Village. At around 1:20 a.m. on Oct. 25, police were called to the 400 block of 6 Avenue S.E. for reports of a man in medical distress on the sidewalk.The man, 27-year-old David Kendall Williams, was transported to hospital where he died. Raven Big Sorrel Horse, 22, of Calgary has been charged with second-degree murder. He will appear in court Nov.3. Anyone with information is asked to contact Calgary po
  
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• Officials: 146 dead after Halloween crowd surge in Seoul

  29-10-2022 18:00
  At least 146 people were killed and 150 others were injured in a stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul, officials said of one of the biggest disasters in South Korea that will likely raise serious questions about public safety standards. The massive death toll is being tallied after people were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow alley in Seoul's Itaewon neighbourhoods, a major leisure and night-life district in the capital. Choi Seong-Beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fir
  
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• Crush kills at least 151 at Halloween festivities in Seoul

  29-10-2022 18:00
  A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea's worst disaster in years. Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the capital's nightlife district of Itaewon on Saturday night. Those killed or hurt were mostly teens and people in their 20s, according to Choi Seong-beom, chief of Se
  
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• Crush kills at least 149 at Halloween festivities in Seoul

  29-10-2022 18:00
  A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween festivities in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 149 people and injuring 150 others in South Korea's worst disaster in years. Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the capital's leisure district of Itaewon Saturday night. Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise further
  
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• Crush kills at least 146 at Halloween festivities in Seoul

  29-10-2022 18:00
  A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween festivities in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 146 people and injuring 150 others in South Korea's worst disaster in years. Emergency workers and pedestrians desperately performed CPR on people lying in the streets after the crush in the capital's leisure district of Itaewon Saturday night. Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise further
  
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• At least 146 dead after Halloween crowd surge in Seoul: officials

  29-10-2022 18:00
  At least 146 people were killed in a stampede when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween crammed into an alley in a night life area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said. A further 150 people were injured in the crush in Seoul's Itaewon district, Choi Sung-beom, head of the Yongsan Fire Station, said in a briefing at the scene. Many of the injured were in serious condition and receiving emergency treatment, the officials said. Many of the party-goers were wea
  
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• 120 dead after Halloween crowd surge in Seoul: officials

  29-10-2022 18:00
  At least 120 people were killed and 100 more were injured as they were crushed by a large crowd pushing forward on a narrow street during Halloween festivities in the capital of Seoul, South Korean officials said. Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul's Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could rise and that an unspecified number among the injured were in critical conditions following the stampede in the leisure district of Itaewon Saturday night. He said 74 of the dead have been sent to hosp
  
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• Woman injured in Forest Lawn hit-and-run dies

  29-10-2022 17:35
  A woman who was struck by a vehicle Thursday night in Forest Lawn died early Saturday morning. At around 7:55 p.m. on Oct. 27, a dark-coloured sedan travelling westbound on 17 Avenue S.E. struck the woman, who was crossing 17 Avenue northbound. She was transported to hospital by EMS in critical, life-threatening condition. The sedan, which possibly had front-end damage on the passenger side, didn't stop. Instead, it was last seen driving west on 17 Avenue S.E. Police are asking that anyone who s
  
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• Russia says it will suspend UN-brokered Ukraine export deal - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 17:20 via news.google.com
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• Innisfail RCMP investigate report of possible abduction - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 17:17 via news.google.com
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• Alberta's 2022 Crop Report shows significantly higher yields - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 17:08 via news.google.com
  Alberta's 2022 Crop Report shows significantly higher yields  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 3 finals in 3 weeks, Felix Auger-Aliassime beats world number-one Carlos Alcaraz in Basel

  29-10-2022 16:45
    Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime is on an incredible roll. The Montrealer defeated the world's number one tennis player Carols Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2 at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel on Saturday to book a date in his third consecutive ATP Tour final. He will face either Roberto Bautista Agut or Hoger Rune. Auger-Aliassime tapped into his power from the baseline throughout the clash with Alcaraz, while continuing the fine serving from his title-winning performance at the European Op
  
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• 'A game changer': Calgary archeologist says technology unveiling ancient Mayan city

  29-10-2022 16:38
  The use of light technology is allowing archeologists to peel away the rainforest and reveal the remains of an ancient Mayan city nearly twice the size of Vancouver. LIDAR, which stands for light detection and ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser. The light pulses and combines with other data recorded by the airborne system to generate precise, three-dimensional information about the shape of the Earth and its surface characteristics. "It's
  
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• Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko named 2022 Honens Laureate

  29-10-2022 16:21
  A 21-year-old Ukrainian pianist is the 2022 Honens Laureate. Ilia Ovcharenko was named the winner late Friday evening at Jack Singer Hall, following performances by the three finalists. Ovcharenko won $100,000 and a three-year long artistic and career development program. Friday night, he performed Tchaikovsky's First Concerto in B-flat minor. The other finalists, Americans Rachel Breen and Sasha Kasman Laude each won $10, 000. Adam Balogh won $2500 for best performance of a commissioned work, w
  
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• Guilbeault slams oilpatch for raking in cash and sitting idle on climate action

  29-10-2022 15:08
  The federal environment minister is calling out Canada's oil companies for failing to put cash behind their promises to tackle climate change. Steven Guilbeault says the country's major oil players have promised to do something about greenhouse gas emissions, but instead have funnelled most of their record-breaking profits to shareholders. This is at least the third time in the last six months Guilbeault's frustration has spilled over as oil company profits soar. This time his critiques came in
  
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• Cashless Canada: Why Canadians are leaders in the cashless trend

  29-10-2022 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  Whether you pay by debit, credit, your mobile wallet or a smart watch, speed and convenience are driving the way Canadians are choosing to pay, but it comes with a price.
  
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• Jets beat Coyotes 3-2 in overtime to spoil Mullett debut - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 07:32 via news.google.com
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• Marino loses tough semifinal match in Mexico - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 07:21 via news.google.com
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• Carroll-Lethbridge Highlights - Independent Record

  29-10-2022 06:16 via news.google.com
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• No. 16 Carroll routs Lethbridge in season-opener; Carroll women fall in exhibition - 406mtsports.com

  29-10-2022 05:25 via news.google.com
  No. 16 Carroll routs Lethbridge in season-opener; Carroll women fall in exhibition  406mtsports.com
  
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• Loved ones hold vigil in memory of Lethbridge mother - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 05:15 via news.google.com
  Loved ones hold vigil in memory of Lethbridge mother  Lethbridge News NowTia Blood found dead, Lethbridge man faces charges | CTV News  CTV News CalgaryAlberta RCMP investigating after body located outside Lethbridge  Global NewsRemains of Lethbridge woman Tia Blood found | CityNews Calgary  CityNews Calgary'Our shining light': Missing Indigenous woman found deceased outside Lethbridge  Calgary HeraldView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Possible abduction in Innisfail, Alta., has police looking to the public for help

  29-10-2022 04:47
  Mounties in Innisfail, Alta., are investigating a possible abduction after a disturbing incident on Friday. Concerned citizens called police shortly after 4 p.m., saying they had witnessed a woman screaming and trying to get out of the passenger side of a car at the intersection of 49 Street and 50 Avenue. According to the witnesses, the woman was pulled back into the car by the driver, a man, before he drove off. Innisfail RCMP say the vehicle is believed to have left town, west on 49 Street. I
  
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• Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey dominant as Sixers rout Raptors 112-90 - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 04:16 via news.google.com
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• RCMP seek tips on vehicle of interest as they investigate ‘possible abduction’ in central Alberta

  29-10-2022 03:58 via globalnews.ca
  Police are asking people in central Alberta to be on the lookout for a car they believe may have been used in what they are describing as a "possible abduction" on Friday.
  
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• Siksika Nation creates prosecutor's office to enforce bylaws

  29-10-2022 02:40
  The Siksika Nation has created its own prosecution office to enforce its own bylaws, as a major step toward self-governance. The First Nation has hired Calgary area law firm Mincher Koeman LLP to establish what's believed to be the first office of its kind in the country. The prosecutors will be dedicated to enforcing Siksika bylaws with a goal of eventually hearing matters at the provincial court located on reserve. During the swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Siksika Chief Ouray Crowfoot says it
  
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• National anthem singer flubs lyrics at World Series opener - Lethbridge News Now

  29-10-2022 02:39 via news.google.com
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• 'Best day ever': 4-year-old boy assists firefighters with shed fire

  29-10-2022 00:51
  When fire broke out in a back alley across from his home, Edmonton’s youngest firefighter jumped into action. Four-year-old Charlton Priest saw the flames and alerted his dad before he put his firefighter costume on. “He came back in and told Mike that ‘there’s a fire!’ and he changed into his costume without being prompted,” his mom Cynthia Priest told CTV News Edmonton. When the fire was out, the unexpected happened. “The firemen had blocked off the wh
  
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• Police charge 15-year-old girl after she allegedly steals mom's vehicle, hits officer

  29-10-2022 00:24
  A 15-year-old girl has been charged in relation to a stolen vehicle that turned into a hit-and-run involving a police officer. On Thursday, Oct. 27, around 3:30 a.m. police received a call from a woman who told them her 15-year-old was missing, and so was her vehicle. Using a locator app on her daughter's phone, the woman was able to track her location to the Huntington Hills area. Police found the vehicle in the 100 block of Hunterhorn Drive N.E., with two people inside. As a police officer spo
  
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