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• Lethbridge greenhouse sees high demand for seeds amid growing inflation concerns

  21-03-2023 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Spring is officially here and many southern Albertans will be looking at ways to cut some of those grocery costs. Seeds and supplies are already in high demand as interest grows.
  
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• Lethbridge city council defers motion to limit election signs on public road right-of-ways

  21-03-2023 23:45
  
  Lethbridge city council admitted there are issues with election signs, but stopped short of rules prohibiting them during a meeting on Tuesday. “This is not saying there will be no signs, this is saying because we've had such issues with sign on public land, that we're saying restricted to private land,” said Coun. Belinda Crowson. A motion brought forward by Councillors Crowson and Jeff Carlson is directing the city manager to amend the guidelines to prohibit the installation of ele
  
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• Lethbridge city council defers motion to limit election signs on public ... - CTV News Calgary

  21-03-2023 23:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Looking to make history: Brooks Bandits on the hunt for a third straight national championship

  21-03-2023 23:39
  
  After a strong regular season, the Brooks Bandits are looking to stretch their AJHL and national championship streak to three. A third straight national championship would also be historic – it's something no Junior A team has ever done. "We had a really good season and we had a lot of momentum coming out of the regular season, so we're really looking forward to a good playoffs. We're preparing a lot for this," said Bandits forward Heath Armstrong. The Bandits earned a league-best 108 poin
  
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• City of Calgary seeing three times as many potholes this year

  21-03-2023 23:16
  
  The City of Calgary says potholes are everywhere and crews are busy trying to keep up with demand to fill them. "We've seen a greater amount of potholes this season – almost three times the number of potholes on our system at this time of year," said Troy McLeod, director of roads. "We're just out doing repairs as well as very versatile as far as snow and ice control season." To permanently fix potholes, crews need dry pavement and warm weather, and that's been tricky this winter season, w
  
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• Missing girl located by Calgary police

  21-03-2023 23:03
  
  Calgary police say a girl who went missing Monday evening has been found. Police issued an alert about the disappearance on Tuesday evening, asking for the public's help in locating her. On Wednesday morning, officials said the girl had been found. There is no further information.
  
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• Calgary police seek help to find missing girl

  21-03-2023 23:03
  
  Calgary police are looking for the public's help to find an 11-year-old girl. Officials say Ayoum Ayo was last seen in the 100 block of 16 Avenue N.E. at 5:45 p.m. on Monday. Police say attempts to locate her have been unsuccessful, so they are now turning to the public for help. "There is nothing to indicate foul play is involved, but police are concerned for Ayoum's well-being," CPS said in a statement. Ayoum is described as:Approximately 142 centimetres (4'8") tall; Weighing 41 kilograms (90
  
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• Alberta premier says changes coming to ensure prompt reporting of oilsands spills

  21-03-2023 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Area First Nations and the Northwest Territories government have said they should have been kept in the loop on the spills from Imperial's Kearl mine tailings ponds.
  
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• 'Just a humble custodian of this art form': Quartet from India teaching Calgary students at Arts Commons

  21-03-2023 23:00
  
  Ayann Ali Bangash grew up in a musical family and has been playing an instrument as long as he can remember. He's the son of Maestro Amjad Ali Khan and in Calgary for a one-day performance of their show, Strings for Peace, at Arts Commons on March 22. Ali Bangash is passionate about playing the sarod and showing others the music it makes. But a day before the group hits the stage, he's making time to spend with Grade 4 students from Bayside Elementary School. "It's just so wonderful to interact
  
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• Lethbridge City Council declares April 7 Green Shirt Day - Lethbridge News Now

  21-03-2023 22:23 via news.google.com
  
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• Thieves steal 7 plaques honouring Allied air efforts from Calgary museum

  21-03-2023 22:10
  
  Thieves made off with seven bronze plaques from northeast Calgary's Hangar Flight museum Monday night, prying them off their sandstone bases. The plaques were installed about 20 years ago to commemorate the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and member air forces from the Second World War. Officials at the museum said they noticed suspicious activity at the site in the middle of the night. "So we saw things happening around midnight, and finishing up at around 3:30," said Brian Desjardins, e
  
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• B.C. child welfare official testifies at inquiry into teen's death in Calgary

  21-03-2023 21:47
  
  A 15-year-old boy who died in Calgary weighing just 37 pounds was also near death in a British Columbia hospital about a decade earlier, a child welfare official from that province testified at the teen's fatal injury. Alexandru Radita was brought to a hospital in 2003 by ambulance with a bloated stomach, rotten teeth and thinning hair, and he was extremely underweight, the deputy director of Child Welfare in B.C. testified Tuesday at the Calgary inquiry. “It was about insulin and it was p
  
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• 'Fill the Jeep' Food Drive returns with 3,000-pound goal, faith in Calgarians to help meet it

  21-03-2023 21:46
  
  The Owen Hart Foundation (OHF) kicked off its "Fill the Jeep" Food Drive on Tuesday. The annual event sees the foundation spend a couple weeks collecting as much food and funding as it can from caring Calgarians. All donations go to the Calgary Food Bank. "I started this food drive when COVID-19 hit in 2020 with lockdowns and isolation devastating so many lives leading to joblessness and inevitable food insecurity. I had a vision that if all my OHF committee members could leave a bag of food on
  
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• Logan Boulet's memory lives on in Lethbridge's Green Shirt Day ... - CTV News Calgary

  21-03-2023 21:43 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge council again declares April 7 as Green Shirt Day

  21-03-2023 21:43
  
  Lethbridge city council has once again set aside a day next month to honour the life of a young hockey player who died in a 2018 crash. Logan Boulet was among victims of the tragic bus crash near Humboldt, Sask., on April 6, 2018, but his death helped save the lives of six other people, who benefited from the gift of his donated organs. Logan, inspired by the actions of his coach and mentor Ric Suggitt, whose donated organs also saved lives, signed his organ donor card before he died. As a resul
  
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• DNA leads police to suspect in break-in assault of Rocky View County homeowner

  21-03-2023 21:31
  
  An investigation into DNA samples found after an attack on a homeowner in Rocky View County has led to the arrest of a serial break-in suspect. Cochrane RCMP members responded to a rural area in Rocky View County on Feb. 2 after a homeowner was assaulted by a masked man who had broken into the home. DNA was secured from the crime scene and investigators identified a Calgary man as the suspect. On March 16, officers searched a Calgary home and found stolen property hidden in the walls that had be
  
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• Edmontonians show support as bodies of slain police officers transported to funeral home

  21-03-2023 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  
  The bodies of Const. Brett Ryan and Const. Travis Jordan are to be kept at the Serenity Funeral Home until a regimental funeral Monday at Rogers Place arena.
  
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• 'New and upgraded': Calgary students, staff enjoy new southeast school

  21-03-2023 19:21
  
  Families in the southeast Calgary community of Auburn Bay now have a new school for their children to attend. The Calgary Board of Education's Lakeshore School, located at 430 Auburn Bay Dr. S.E., actually first began teaching students last fall, but it's one of three new schools in the city to officially open this month. It offers regular classes for students from Grade 5 to 9 and already has 900 children enrolled. Lakeshore's principal says it's always an exciting time for students to learn in
  
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• Alberta support for arriving Ukrainians to top $30M

  21-03-2023 19:07
  
  More than 26,000 Ukrainians have now resettled in Alberta since the Russian invasion began last year and on Tuesday Premier Danielle Smith announced more money to help them. Alberta's new budget promises an additional $2.1 million for pre-arrival services and a centralized help desk. With a UCP majority, it is expected to pass. That's on top of the $28 million the province has already committed to help Ukrainian evacuees resettle. "Thanks to the efforts of so many tireless volunteers in addition
  
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• Alberta to create help line and increase supports for Ukrainian ... - Lethbridge News Now

  21-03-2023 18:28 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta provides additional $2.1M in pre-arrival supports for Ukrainians

  21-03-2023 18:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  As part of the 2023 provincial budget, more funds will be given to supporting newcomers from Ukraine, including creating a Ukrainian help line.
  
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• Suspects arrested after man shot in his Lethbridge home

  21-03-2023 17:42
  
  A man and a woman have been arrested following a Monday morning shooting at a westside Lethbridge home that sent one man to hospital. Emergency crews responded to a home on Rutgers Crescent West shortly before 6:30 a.m. for reports of an assault and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to hospital where, as of Tuesday, he remained in stable condition. According to Lethbridge Police Service officials, the victim, who lives at the address, had confronted a woman he knew as
  
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• Fallen Edmonton police officers to be moved to funeral home today

  21-03-2023 17:05
  
  The Edmonton police officers killed in the line of duty last week will be moved to a funeral home on Tuesday. A procession will take constables Brett Ryan and Travis Jordan from the medical examiner's office to Serenity Funeral Home at noon. The Edmonton Police Service encourages Edmontonians to line up along the following route to show support: Start: 7007- 116 Street NW East on Belgravia Road/71 Avenue NW South on 113 Street East on 61 Avenue NW South on 91 Street East on 58 Avenue NW South on
  
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• Fallen Edmonton police officers moved to funeral home in procession

  21-03-2023 17:05
  
  The Edmonton police officers killed in the line of duty last week were moved to a funeral home on Tuesday. A procession took constables Brett Ryan and Travis Jordan from the medical examiner's office to Serenity Funeral Home at around noon. Several Edmonton Police Service officers and representatives, including Chief Dale McFee, attended the procession.The constables' caskets, each draped in a Canadian flag, were loaded onto hearses before the procession to the funeral home began. Two EPS cruise
  
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• Lethbridge named third best Canadian city for quality of life for ... - Lethbridge News Now

  21-03-2023 16:55 via news.google.com
  
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• RCMP say 2 dead after head-on collision near Medicine Hat, Alta.

  21-03-2023 16:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two people in a pickup truck died after the truck reportedly crossed the centre line, RCMP said.
  
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• Two Medicine Hat residents killed in head-on crash with semi on Highway 3

  21-03-2023 16:43
  
  A 63-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman are dead following a head-on highway crash southwest of Medicine Hat Monday night. The crash occurred shortly before 8 p.m. at a location on Highway 3 near the hamlet of Seven Persons. RCMP suspect an eastbound Chevrolet pickup crossed the center line and into the path of an oncoming semi-truck. The two people inside the pickup, both residents of Medicine Hat, died at the scene. The driver of the semi was not seriously injured. A section of the highway w
  
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• Hearings begin before Supreme Court on federal environmental impact assessment law

  21-03-2023 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta is particularly concerned about the effect the law might have on its ability to export its oil through pipelines.
  
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• Edmonton ranked best Canadian city to live in during a zombie apocalypse

  21-03-2023 15:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Using StatsCan data in five categories — vulnerability, hideouts, supplies, safety and mobility — Rentola determined the best place to be if people started turning into zombies.
  
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• 'They've had years': Renewed calls to change name of Calgary's Sir John A. Macdonald School

  21-03-2023 14:01
  
  Students and community members will gather in protest outside the Calgary Board of Education Centre Tuesday morning, calling for the removal of the Sir John A. Macdonald name from a northwest junior high school. The Reconciliation Action Group, the group behind the protest, also wants the CBE to change the 'Chief' mascot of John G. Diefenbaker High School. The CBE formed a committee to review the possibility of changing the name of Sir John A. Macdonald school nearly a year ago, b
  
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• Protest takes fight over Calgary school's name to the school board's steps

  21-03-2023 14:01
  
  Protesters lined the street outside the Calgary Board of Education Centre Tuesday morning, tying red ribbons around the building to symbolize what they say is a bureaucracy impeding truth and reconciliation efforts. The Reconciliation Action Group, the group behind the protest, wants to change the name of Sir John A. Macdonald school in Calgary's northwest. The reason for the change is because of the former prime minister's involvement with Canada's residential school system. "This is a person w
  
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• Kempe leads Kings into 1st place with 8-2 win over Flames

  21-03-2023 13:03
  
  Drew Doughty and Viktor Arvidsson scored in Los Angeles' four-goal first period, Adrian Kempe had two goals and an assist, and the Kings cruised into a first-place tie in the Pacific Division with an 8-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Monday night. Carl Grundstrom had two goals and Gabriel Vilardi and Mikey Anderson also scored for the Kings, who pulled even with Vegas atop the division by extending their points streak to 10 games (8-0-2) with their second eight-goal outburst of the season.
  
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• New Honour Wall celebrates skills competitions winners at ... - Lethbridge News Now

  21-03-2023 12:51 via news.google.com
  
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• Inflation in Canada: February saw largest deceleration since April 2020

  21-03-2023 11:18
  
  The annual pace of inflation cooled in February as it posted its largest deceleration since April 2020. Statistics Canada said Tuesday its consumer price index in February was up 5.2 per cent compared with a year earlier. The reading compared with an annual inflation rate of 5.9 per cent in January and was the lowest annual inflation rate since January 2022 when it was 5.1 per cent.Food inflation tracker: What are grocery prices like in your province?Statistics Canada noted that the decline was
  
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• Inflation in Canada continues to slow, reaffirming BOC's rate pause

  21-03-2023 11:18
  
  Canada's annual inflation rate continued to slow last month, reaffirming the central bank's decision to hold its key interest rate steady. In its latest consumer price index report released Tuesday, Statistics Canada said the country's inflation rate rose 5.2 per cent year over year in February, marking the largest deceleration since April 2020. <br />Food inflation tracker: What are grocery prices like in your province? Canadian grocery costs rose 10.6% in FebruaryThe reading compared wit
  
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• Suspects arrested in westside Lethbridge shooting | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  21-03-2023 08:00 via news.google.com
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• No sanctuary here: Animal rescue operation faces threat of closure after permit denied

  21-03-2023 02:34
  
  A Wheatland County sanctuary that cares for abandoned and surrendered farm animals faces an uncertain future after having a permit application to keep operating denied. "It is very disheartening. It's very discouraging," said Jeannette Madill, Alice Sanctuary founder. "That's actually quite destructive. And it's something that I think will determine what it feels like, living out here." A recent string of complaints about parking and traffic caused by volunteers and the occasional tour group spa
  
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• Neighbour recalls night two Edmonton police officers were killed outside her door

  21-03-2023 01:51
  
  A woman who lives across from the apartment where a 16-year-old shot and killed two Edmonton police constables has multiple bullet holes in her door, with a couple piercing her doorframe. On Monday, Darlene Blyan showed CTV News Edmonton at least six bullet holes in her doorway, remnants from last Thursday's shooting where Constables Brett Ryan and Travis Jordan were killed. She recalled waking up after midnight to loud noises and the feeling her apartment was shaking. "I thought my pictures wer
  
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• Auto parts shortage continues to drive Canadians to frustration

  21-03-2023 01:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  Frustrated drivers are speaking out after going months without their vehicles thanks to the replacement auto parts not being available.
  
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• Guilbeault wants stronger links with Alberta on issues of oilsands tailings ponds

  21-03-2023 01:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has repeated his call for a stronger federal presence when it comes to environmental monitoring and communications in the oilsands.
  
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• Researchers determine how much 'dog doo' is hiding in Calgary parks

  21-03-2023 01:33
  
  In short - it's a lot. Just under a kilogram per hectare per week is left behind in Calgary's 8,500 hectares of park lands - that's the find of a recently published study. "When you translate it into the total mass in kilograms for six months, it can go up to let's say, about 1,400 kilograms in offleash parks," said study author Alessandro Massolo, a professor in the department of biology at the University of Pisa. The field work was conducted by Massolo about a decade ago when he was teaching a
  
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• Lethbridge Housing Authority looking for new supportive housing provider after YWCA bows out

  21-03-2023 00:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Lethbridge Housing Authority will be looking for a new provider to help with permanent supportive housing after the YWCA announced it wouldn't be continuing with its 24 units
  
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• Lethbridge Pronghorns rugby leader Wright wrapping U Sports career at nationals - Global News

  21-03-2023 00:03 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge Pronghorns rugby leader Wright wrapping U Sports career at nationals

  21-03-2023 00:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  Genna Wright is getting ready to graduate this spring, but will have one more chance to play with her team in Montreal later this month.
  
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