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• Folk legend Ian Tyson, known for ‘Four Strong Winds,’ dies

  29-12-2022 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  The Victoria native died Thursday at his ranch near Longview, Alta., following a series of ongoing health complications.
  
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• Ian Tyson, Canadian folk and country legend, dead at 89

  29-12-2022 22:45
  Canadian folk and country legend Ian Tyson has died. Family of the long-lauded singer-songwriter confirmed he died at home, at his ranch in southern Alberta, on Thursday. He was 89 years old. He had ongoing health complications, his family said in a release put out by music publicist Eric Alper. Alper noted Tyson's many accomplishments in Thursday's release. He is an inductee of the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame as well as the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. He is also an inductee of the Albe
  
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• Murder charge laid against Nanton, Alta., man after fight

  29-12-2022 22:41
  A 45-year-old Nanton, Alta., man faces charges in connection with a stabbing that took place earlier this week, police say. Nanton RCMP say they were called to a home on Dec. 27 for reports of a stabbing. When they arrived, they found several people had been hurt and one person had died from their injuries. Three people were taken to hospital, as well as Ryan Kelly Sutherland, who is believed to be the suspect in the incident. The Alberta RCMP Serious Crimes unit, which has taken the lead on the
  
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• Nanton man charged in connection to homicide - Lethbridge News Now

  29-12-2022 22:38 via news.google.com
  Nanton man charged in connection to homicide  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Banff and Canmore to ring in 2023 with lower-noise pyrotechnic displays

  29-12-2022 22:29
  The towns of Banff and Canmore will both host free New Year's Eve festivities this Saturday but with an altered approach to traditional firework displays to prevent spooking wildlife and pets. In Banff, visitors are encouraged to gather in Central Park for an evening of family-friendly outdoor performances that will begin at 6 p.m. and culminate in a countdown to 2023 followed by a low altitude, lower noise pyrotechnics display. The Banff New Year's Eve is weather dependent and the pyrotechnics
  
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• Banff officials investigating fatal pedestrian collision involving train - Lethbridge News Now

  29-12-2022 22:21 via news.google.com
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• Calgary's mouse armourer goes viral, grabs 12M views on National Geographic's Instagram page

  29-12-2022 22:19
  A Calgary artist known for his cat and mouse armour has gone viral. Jeff De Boer, who was profiled on the National Geographic website last week, shared an email he received from National Geographic's social media director concerning a video and photo montage about De Boer that has been posted since Dec. 22. "The part 1 video on Instagram has gathered more than 12 million views," it said. "The version on TikTok has almost 500K views, both of which are well above our median view rate."  
  
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• Woman killed while walking on railway tracks in Banff, Alta.

  29-12-2022 22:15
  Banff RCMP and the Canadian Pacific Police say a woman has died after she was struck by a train while walking on tracks near the community on Thursday. Officials say the victim, a 19-year-old woman, was walking on the Canadian Pacific's main line when the accident occurred. Authorities believe the woman was distracted and may not have heard the train coming. "A westbound CP intermodal container train contacted a 19-year-old female pedestrian while she walked westbound on CP's main line through B
  
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• TC Energy restarts Keystone pipeline extension after oil leak repairs

  29-12-2022 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  The Calgary-based company says it will operate the pipeline under plans approved by U.S. regulators, including additional safety measures such as reduced operating pressure.
  
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• Canadian folk legend Ian Tyson has died at the age of 89, former wife says

  29-12-2022 21:22
  Canadian folk legend Ian Tyson, best known for the hit single ``Four Strong Winds'' as one half of Ian & Sylvia, has died at age 89, his former wife Sylvia Tyson says. This is a breaking news update. More coming.
  
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• Edmonton pharmacies seeing shortage of adult pain medication

  29-12-2022 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  Mahmoud Sarhan, pharmacy manager at Landsdowne Pharmacy, said he’s never seen a shortage of adult meds like this.
  
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• Edmonton pharmacies seeing shortage of adult cough and cold medication

  29-12-2022 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  Mahmoud Sarhan, pharmacy manager at Landsdowne Pharmacy, said he’s never seen a shortage of adult meds like this.
  
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• Forensic pathologist from Stephans trial sentenced in Indiana DUI case

  29-12-2022 21:01
  A forensic pathologist who became a source of interest at the controversial 2021 trial of David and Collet Stephan in 2021 pleaded guilty recently on a misdemeanor charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated in Indiana. Dr. Bamidele Adeagbo was arrested in 2020 for driving under the influence, after an incident in which he rear-ended a second vehicle. On Dec.16, a judge sentenced Adeagbo to one year in prison with two days credit, then suspended the sentence to 363 days of informal probation
  
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• Lethbridge man charged following stabbing death of wife

  29-12-2022 20:38 via globalnews.ca
  The woman died from multiple stab wounds. Her husband is facing a first-degree murder charge.
  
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• Pele, Brazil's mighty king of 'beautiful game,' has died

  29-12-2022 20:03
  Pele, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82. The standard-bearer of "the beautiful game" had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021. He had been hospitalized for the last month with multiple ailments. His agent Joe Fraga confirmed his death. Widely regarded as one of soccer's greatest players, Pele spent nearly two decades enchanting fans and dazzling opponents as
  
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• Lethbridge man faces murder charge in death of wife

  29-12-2022 19:57
  A Lethbridge man has been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the death of his wife. On Dec.27, just after 11 p.m., police responded to reports of a disturbance involving a man and a woman at a house on the 2500 block of 13 Avenue North. Police arrived to discover the man leaving. He was arrested without incident. Inside, they discovered a critically injured woman.  They initiated life-saving measures until EMS arrived. The 59-year-old, identified as Shelley Dragland, had a numb
  
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• Lethbridge man facing first degree murder charge in stabbing death ... - My Lethbridge Now

  29-12-2022 19:54 via news.google.com
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• 7-Eleven opens restaurant in Calgary serving beer, wine and pizza

  29-12-2022 19:47
  Calgarians looking to sit down and enjoy the fine dining inside a 7-Eleven store can now do so as the company opened the service at a southeast location. 7-Eleven Canada says it has expanded its licensed restaurant program in Alberta with a new location at 3455 Douglasdale Blvd. S.E. With the addition of the service, customers can now enjoy a variety of offerings including chicken wings, chicken strips, sandwiches, potato wedges, taquitos as well as the store's signature Big Bite hot dogs. Offic
  
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• 3 Calgarians named to Order of Canada along with Sidney Crosby, Eugene Levy and others

  29-12-2022 19:11
  Three Calgarians joined such prominent names as Sidney Crosby, Rich Little, astronaut  David Saint-Jacques and Eugene Levy on the list of the latest appointments to the Order of Canada, which were announced Thursday morning. Dr. Michael Davis Hill of Calgary was named an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his major contributions to the advancement of acute stroke care and treatment at the provincial, national and international levels," according to the government website. Banker William Ge
  
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• GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Looking back at words we welcomed in 2022 - Saltwire

  29-12-2022 18:40 via news.google.com
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• Canada-wide warrant issued for Alberta man accused of Christmas ... - Lethbridge News Now

  29-12-2022 18:40 via news.google.com
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• The only way to afford Super Bowl tickets? Win this contest

  29-12-2022 17:42
  Calgary NFL football fans are being offered a chance to score a pair of Super Bowl tickets at less than face value. In fact, they're free. Starting Saturday at CF Chinook Centre, a pair of larger-than-life tickets to Super Bowl LVII will be on display – and on offer for one lucky entrant. Anyone interested in throwing their name into the ring can visit the mall, snap a photo on your phone, scan the code, and enter for a chance to win. The contest includes airfare for two, a hotel near the
  
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• Extreme weather, fires forced shutdown of Colorado refinery: Suncor

  29-12-2022 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  Suncor Energy Inc. says its Colorado refinery is offline following mutliple fires and it expects it to be out of commission until late March.
  
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• Lethbridge house fire sends 1 to hospital

  29-12-2022 17:19
  One person was taken to hospital by ambulance following a Wednesday evening house fire that left a northside Lethbridge home with considerable damage. Fire crews from three stations responded to reports of a basement fire at a home on Eagle Road. City officials say all of the occupants of the home had escaped the burning building prior to the arrival of firefighters. One adult, gender not released, required additional treatment in hospital for their undisclosed injuries. The blaze was extinguish
  
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• Alberta set for 2023 election: Smith just got the job, Notley wants it back

  29-12-2022 16:26 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premiere Daielle Smith has promised to honour the scheduled May 29 voting day, which is to come seven months after she won the United Conservative leadership contest.
  
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• Suncor says extreme weather and fires forced shutdown of Colorado refinery

  29-12-2022 15:46
  Suncor Energy Inc. says its Colorado refinery is offline following multiple fires and it expects it to be out of commission until late March. The company says the 98,000-barrel-a-day Commerce City refinery was damaged by the extreme and record-setting weather that swept across large parts of the continent, leading it to initiate a shutdown of the refinery on Dec. 24. Notifications from the company show early damage included a pump fire on Dec. 19, while alarms were triggered on Dec. 22 and Dec.
  
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• Alberta set for 2023 election: One premier just got the job, the other wants it back

  29-12-2022 14:20
  Premier Danielle Smith’s wood-panelled third-floor legislature office is bereft of bric-a-brac.  There are no pictures, mementoes or books — only a small stack of Alberta sovereignty act bills perched on her desk.  The décor is less by design and more by default. “If I was spending a lot of time in the office, I wouldn’t be doing my job. I’ve got to meet a lot of people offsite and do a lot of work out there,” Smith said in a year-end intervie
  
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• Huberdeau breaks tie in third, Flames beat Kraken 3-2

  29-12-2022 14:19
  Calgary has been waiting for Jonathan Huberdeau to start scoring points the same way he did a season ago.  Maybe a winning goal will be what Huberdeau and the Flames needed.  Huberdeau broke a tie with eight minutes left in the third period with his seventh goal of the season and Calgary beat the Seattle Kraken 3-2 on Wednesday night. "We all know what he’s capable of and we all know his numbers from last year and all that kind of stuff," Calgary defenceman Rasmus Andersson said.
  
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• Canadian airlines come in at low end of on-time performance: analytics firm

  29-12-2022 13:46
  Aviation analytics company Cirium says Canada's two biggest airlines ranked low in terms of on-time performance this year. The data firm says that among the 10 biggest airlines in Canada and the U.S., Air Canada and WestJet Airlines Ltd. ranked worst and second-worst for their punctuality. Cirium says Air Canada had on-time arrivals (meaning within 15 minutes of the schedule) for about 55.6 per cent of its roughly 143,000 flights as of mid-December. WestJet managed on-time arrivals for 60.7 per
  
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• Family of fallen Calgary police officer troubled by OPP constable’s death

  29-12-2022 03:21
  The shooting death of an Ontario Provincial Police constable just outside of Hagersville is hitting close to home for the family of a fallen Calgary police officer. Grzegorz “Greg” Pierzchala was responding to a call about a vehicle in a ditch around 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday when he was shot and killed. “It was devastating to hear that one of our officers had been shot so violently. That is not something that we are used to in Haldimand County at all,” said Shelley Ann Bentle
  
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• The tale of Bunbun, stranded at Vancouver’s airport, has happy ending in Edmonton

  29-12-2022 02:56 via globalnews.ca
  A spokesperson for Vancouver International Airport says the saga of Bunbun the stuffed rabbit has a happy ending, with the toy now on its way back to its young owner.
  
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• Redwood Meadows in midst of fight for control of local government

  29-12-2022 02:49
  It got bad enough that on Dec. 20, two councils – both claiming to represent the community of Redwood Meadows – were meeting simultaneously. The scrap started after cost overruns on two community capital projects raised flags for several former mayors. "The overages are potentially a quarter-million dollars because of rugby fields and skate shacks," said John Welsh, who was the townsite's mayor during the 2013 flood. "The math's pretty simple, from that standpoint." "We don't have th
  
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• 'Dangerous avalanches are likely': Avalanche Canada issues advisory in the Rockies

  29-12-2022 00:31
  Officials have issued an advisory about an extreme avalanche risk in a large region of the Canadian Rockies. Avalanche Canada called a special public avalanche warning (SPAW) on Wednesday for most of B.C.'s Columbia Mountains, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National Parks as well as the Northern Rockies. "The SPAW extends from the southern boundaries of the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy and Kokanee and Valhalla Provincial Parks to Williston Lake north of Pine Pass and Mackenzie," Avalanche Canada
  
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• 'Dangerous avalanches are likely': Avalanche Canada issues advisory

  29-12-2022 00:31
  Officials have issued an advisory about an extreme avalanche risk in a large region of the B.C. Interior and Canadian Rockies that's expected to create "dangerous" conditions. Avalanche Canada called a special public avalanche warning (SPAW) on Wednesday for most of B.C.'s Columbia Mountains, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National Parks as well as the Northern Rockies. "The SPAW extends from the southern boundaries of the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy and Kokanee and Valhalla Provincial Parks to
  
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• 'We're busy': Castle Mountain Resort off to a busy ski season, record snow fall broken

  29-12-2022 00:21
  With a record snowfall at Castle Mountain Resort, skiers and snowboards have been in for a treat this season. “Despite a bit of a mixed bag of weather here over the last 72 hours, we're still at about 350 centimetres of snowfall on the season, so three and a half metres, that puts us at the top in Alberta, which we’re used to having that crown, so we’d like to keep it,” Cole Fawcett, sales and marketing manager at Castle Mountain Resort. Richard Hill and Craig Maki have b
  
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• Earthquake felt in northern Alberta on Wednesday

  29-12-2022 00:04 via globalnews.ca
  A 4.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in northern Alberta on Wednesday morning, according to the federal agency that monitors seismic activity.
  
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• U.K. man visiting family in Calgary ends up in ICU on Christmas Day

  29-12-2022 00:03
  It was supposed to be David Verlander’s first time visiting Canada, and his first time in 10 years seeing family for Christmas. But Christmas morning, something did not feel right and he was admitted to the ICU at Rockyview Hospital. “We just know how excited he was and we know how much he was looking forward to it,” said his 26-year-old daughter Olivia from their family home in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. “We just feel a little bit helpless, just sitting around and w
  
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• England man visiting family in Calgary ends up in ICU on Christmas Day

  29-12-2022 00:03
  It was supposed to be David Verlander’s first time visiting Canada, and his first time in 10 years seeing family for Christmas. But Christmas morning, something did not feel right and he was admitted to the ICU at Rockyview Hospital. “We just know how excited he was and we know how much he was looking forward to it,” said his 26-year-old daughter Olivia from their family home in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. “We just feel a little bit helpless, just sitting around and w
  
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