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• 'Billions of dollars': Schulz says federal strings on electricity climate funding is a 'threat'

  09-08-2023 23:30
  
  Alberta's minister of environment and protected areas says Ottawa is threatening her province by suggesting it will withhold federal funding from electricity projects that don't reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet 2035 net-zero goals.  "I think that that is not going into negotiations in good faith," said Rebecca Schulz. "Quite frankly, it comes across as a threat to provinces who've already said, 'Look, this isn't doable for us based on our grids and based on the sheer costs that have
  
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• RCMP charge Lethbridge man following mischief incident in Coaldale - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 23:15 via news.google.com
  
  RCMP charge Lethbridge man following mischief incident in Coaldale  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Suspicious candy bear-shaped substance found in park confirmed to be fentanyl: Lethbridge police

  09-08-2023 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Lethbridge police have confirmed a suspicious substance resembling a candy bear that was previously found in Galt Gardens is fentanyl.
  
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• Calgarian heading to 2023 Toastmasters International Speech Contest Semifinals

  09-08-2023 23:03
  
  Calgarian Molly Hamilton is making her way to her second international speech competition in as many years hopeful she can beat her 2022 eighth-place finish. "I practice every day," said Hamilton. "So this competition started like seven months ago, it's a long process and then again, if you're practicing every day, you get better and better." The Toastmasters International Speech contest started in 1938 and involves more than 33,000 participants from 143 countries making it the world's largest o
  
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• Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80

  09-08-2023 22:13
  
  Robbie Robertson, The Band's lead guitarist and songwriter who in such classics as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" mined and helped reshape American music, has died at 80. Robertson died surrounded by family, a statement from his manager said. From their years as Bob Dylan's masterful backing group to their own stardom as embodiments of old-fashioned community and virtuosity, The Band profoundly influenced popular music in the 1960s and '70s, first b
  
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• Canadian musician Robbie Robertson dies at 80: multiple reports

  09-08-2023 22:13
  
  Canadian musician Robbie Robertson has died, according to multiple reports. He was 80. Robertson, the renowned guitarist and primary songwriter of The Band, died surrounded by his family. More to come…
  
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• ‘Slept in my wedding dress’: Couple spends wedding night on mountain after Banff gondola breakdown

  09-08-2023 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A photographer who was taking wedding pictures at the top of Sulphur Mountain earlier this week says there didn't appear to be a contingency plan when the Banff Gondola broke down.
  
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• ‘Slept in my wedding dress’: B.C. couple spends wedding night on mountain after Banff gondola breakdown

  09-08-2023 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A photographer who was taking wedding pictures at the top of Sulphur Mountain earlier this week says there didn't appear to be a contingency plan when the Banff Gondola broke down.
  
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• Banff visitor says company didn’t appear to have a plan when gondola broke down

  09-08-2023 21:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A photographer who was taking wedding pictures at the top of Sulphur Mountain earlier this week says there didn't appear to be a contingency plan when the Banff Gondola broke down.
  
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• 'Killing my business': 7 Street South business owners enraged with new construction, bike lane project

  09-08-2023 21:48
  
  A new construction project on 7 Street South and 4 Avenue South is digging up concern from businesses. “It’s essentially killing my business,” said John Pyska, owner of Big John’s Books on 7 Street South. “Like we may not make it through the winter because of it.” The multi-faceted project will include a water main renewal along 7 Street South from 3 Avenue South to 6 Avenue South Pavement rehabilitation and the addition of a protected cycling lane. “As
  
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• Jobs will be wiped out with Alberta’s pause on renewable energy: industry group

  09-08-2023 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  A group that assists fossil fuel employees transition to the renewables industry, says the United Conservative Party government's move will wipe out an entire season of work.
  
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• Lethbridge News Now's Facebook no longer available - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 19:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Man threatened online vehicle buyer with pellet gun: Airdrie RCMP

  09-08-2023 19:44
  
  A 24-year-old Airdrie man faces several charges in connection with an attempted robbery at an online vehicle sale, RCMP said Wednesday. On Aug. 6, a Calgary man called police to report that he was the victim of an attempted robbery while he was in Airdrie looking to buy a used vehicle, officials said. When the buyer arrived in response to the online advertisement, the seller produced a firearm and threatened him. "The buyer fled the area and contacted police; the suspect fled on foot," RCMP said
  
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• 7 people arrested in connection with 2022 drug bust, ALERT says

  09-08-2023 19:06
  
  Seven people face charged in connection with a multi-million-dollar bust that targeted a variety of offences in Calgary including drug trafficking and money laundering. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) says it began an investigation, called Project Carlos, last year. The operation already resulted in the seizure of $4.5 million in drugs and $1 million in cash, but police have now made a series of arrests in the investigation. "A major source of drugs into Calgary was effectively
  
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• 7 people arrested in connection with 2022 drug bust

  09-08-2023 19:06
  
  Seven people face charged in connection with a multi-million-dollar bust that targeted a variety of offences in Calgary including drug trafficking and money laundering. The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) says it began an investigation, called Project Carlos, last year. The operation already resulted in the seizure of $4.5 million in drugs and $1 million in cash, but police have now made a series of arrests. Authorities say the suspects face a total of 33 charges and are expected i
  
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• Arrests made in $4.5 million drug bust in Calgary - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 18:59 via news.google.com
  
  Arrests made in $4.5 million drug bust in Calgary  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Woman dead after being struck by CTrain

  09-08-2023 18:51
  
  A section of downtown Calgary was shut down for several hours on Wednesday following a fatal incident involving the CTrain. Emergency crews were called to the scene on Centre Street at about 9 a.m. for reports that a woman had been struck by the train. The victim, who was between 45 and 55 years old, died on the way to hospital, EMS told CTV News. Police closed the street between Sixth and Ninth Avenue S.W. to investigate. Calgary police are reviewing security footage of the area and speaking wi
  
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• Airdrie woman missing since late June

  09-08-2023 17:46
  
  Airdrie RCMP are asking for help to find a woman who hasn't been seen in more than a month. Mounties say Kateryna Bajer, 33, was last seen at her home in the Tower Lane neighbourhood on June 29. She is described as:152 centimetres (5'2") tall; Weighing 58 kilograms (127 pounds); and Having brown hair and grey eyes.Anyone with information about Bajer's whereabouts is asked to contact Airdrie RCMP at 403-945-7200. Anonymous tips can be forwarded to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or by going onli
  
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• Zoom says it will not use audio, video or chat content to train AI without customer consent

  09-08-2023 16:24
  
  Zoom has updated its terms of service to be more "transparent" to customers on how the technology giant would use meeting conversations to train its artificial intelligence (AI), a blog post published Monday reads. In March, the company updated its services on how it would train AI features like Zoom IQ Meeting Summary and Zoom IQ Team Chat Compose.Read more headlines related to science and technology hereUsing data from meetings, the AI can summarize the conversations and then use that informat
  
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• Lethbridge native offers lessons in “shmealing” | Spare News ... - pentictonherald.ca

  09-08-2023 16:05 via news.google.com
  
  Lethbridge native offers lessons in “shmealing” | Spare News ...  pentictonherald.ca
  
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• It's official: July was the hottest month on record by far

  09-08-2023 13:54
  
  Now that last month's sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record by a wide margin. July's global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tent
  
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• European scientists make it official. July was the hottest month on record by far

  09-08-2023 13:54
  
  Now that last month's sizzling numbers are all in, the European climate monitoring organization made it official: July 2023 was Earth's hottest month on record by a wide margin. July's global average temperature of 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 degrees Fahrenheit) was a third of a degree Celsius (six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record set in 2019, Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday. Normally global temperature records are broken by hundredths or a tent
  
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• Nickelback love remains in Alberta hometown after highway signs ... - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 12:43 via news.google.com
  
  Nickelback love remains in Alberta hometown after highway signs ...  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• At least 9 killed in fire at French vacation home hosting people with disabilities

  09-08-2023 12:18
  
  At least nine people were killed and two are missing after a fire broke out at a vacation home in eastern France early Wednesday morning, authorities said. Firefighters were alerted to the blaze in Wintzenheim, a small town near the German border about 315 miles (500 kilometres) east of Paris, at 6:33 a.m., according to Philippe Hauwiller, the town’s head of rescue operations. First responders arrived to the scene 14 minutes later, where 17 people had already evacuated from the home.Read m
  
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• 11 killed in fire at French vacation home hosting people with disabilities

  09-08-2023 12:18
  
  Eleven people were killed when a fire tore through a pair of attached vacation homes hosting people with mental disabilities in a picturesque eastern French town early Wednesday morning. The tragedy rattled French society, which in August usually sees much of the country go on vacation. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Minister of Solidarity and Families Aurore Berge traveled to the scene of the fire in Wintzenheim, a small town near the German border about 315 miles (500 kilometres) east of P
  
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• Exclusive: The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?

  09-08-2023 10:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  How a pipeline project, purchased by the Trudeau government, went from an initial estimate of $5.4 billion to $30.9 billion, potentially leaving Canadian taxpayers on the hook.
  
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• The Benefits of Energy Conservation - City of Lethbridge

  09-08-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  The Benefits of Energy Conservation  City of Lethbridge
  
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• Sylvan Lake Gulls sweep Lethbridge Bulls Tuesday night - LacombeOnline.com

  09-08-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Sylvan Lake Gulls sweep Lethbridge Bulls Tuesday night  LacombeOnline.com
  
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• Lethbridge business owners upset over downtown revitalization - CTV News Calgary

  09-08-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  Lethbridge business owners upset over downtown revitalization  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Could East Vancouver’s iconic Kingsgate Mall be sold for development?

  09-08-2023 04:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Could East Vancouver’s iconic Kingsgate Mall go up for sale? Recent court filings in a dispute with the current tenant reveal the Vancouver School Board is thinking about it.
  
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• Teens charged in fight with knife, baseball bat at southern Alberta spray park

  09-08-2023 03:59
  
  Two southern Alberta teens are facing charges after a violent fight at a public park last month. RCMP officers from the Coaldale and Picture Butte detachments were called to an area spray park at 5:16 p.m. on July 14 for reports that two groups were involved in an altercation. One group included a 16-year-old with a baseball bat and a 14-year-old with a knife. The second group included a 17-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man, neither of whom were armed. RCMP say their investigation determined
  
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• Bibee pitches 7 strong innings, Guardians edge Blue Jays 1-0 - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 03:59 via news.google.com
  
  Bibee pitches 7 strong innings, Guardians edge Blue Jays 1-0  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary housing headache: Students scramble for spots as campuses reach capacity

  09-08-2023 03:21
  
  Calgary's tight rental market is creeping onto post-secondary campuses, with the city's three biggest institutions completely full for housing, with hundreds on wait lists.  The on-campus residences at University of Calgary, SAIT and Mount Royal University (MRU) are all completely spoken for, leaving some students scrambling for a place to live ahead of the fall 2023 semester.  "This is unprecedented, honestly, in my time at least — and I think since West Residence (at MRU) was b
  
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• Manon Vautour prepares for 2023 World Ringette Championships in Calgary

  09-08-2023 02:51
  
  Ringette player Manon Vautour is making the most of her second chance with Canada's junior national team. Team Canada's U-21 Junior National team is hard work at an August training camp, getting ready for the upcoming World Ringette championships which are being held in Calgary from Oct. 30 to Nov. 4 at the WinSport Event Centre. Forward Manon Vautour, 20, of New Brunswick, was one of the final cuts last year and says she'll never forget the feeling of being released from the team. "It was reall
  
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• Southern Alberta senior walking to survive terminal illness - Global News

  09-08-2023 02:04 via news.google.com
  
  Southern Alberta senior walking to survive terminal illness  Global News
  
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• Southern Alberta senior walking to survive terminal illness

  09-08-2023 02:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  At just 93 and a half years, Sunao Ayukawa has walked nearly 5,000km, about the distance from Lethbridge to Sydney, N.S., in the last year.
  
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• Yankees' Boone embarrassed by his theatrical display after ejection - Lethbridge News Now

  09-08-2023 01:39 via news.google.com
  
  Yankees' Boone embarrassed by his theatrical display after ejection  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Convicted Lethbridge sex offender to spend another 3 years behind bars - Global News

  09-08-2023 01:36 via news.google.com
  Convicted Lethbridge sex offender to spend another 3 years behind bars  Global News
  
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• Convicted Lethbridge sex offender to spend another 3 years behind bars

  09-08-2023 01:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sohil Bindra, already serving more than a decade in prison for convictions involving three victims, was sentenced for an incident involving a fourth woman.
  
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• Alberta to cover large portion of newly-approved ALS treatment drug

  09-08-2023 01:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  The province will cover $18,500 a month for ALS treatment drugs that were approved by the Alberta government last week.
  
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• ‘Sunday family dinners won’t be the same’: 2 brothers IDed from Kananaskis plane crash

  09-08-2023 01:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Braydon and Benjamin Ryan were two brothers aboard the plane that went down in Kananaskis Country on July 28, 2023, killing all six on board.
  
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• ‘Family dinners won’t be the same’: Brothers in fatal Kananaskis crash identified

  09-08-2023 01:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Braydon and Benjamin Ryan were two brothers aboard the plane that went down in Kananaskis Country on July 28, 2023, killing all six on board.
  
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• Convicted sex offender in Lethbridge to spend another 3 years behind bars - Global News

  09-08-2023 00:56 via news.google.com
  Convicted sex offender in Lethbridge to spend another 3 years behind bars  Global News
  
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• Charges laid in sexual assault outside Calgary library

  09-08-2023 00:55
  
  One man is facing charges in a weekend sexual assault outside a northwest Calgary library. Calgary police say officers were called to the Louise Riley Library in the 1900 block of 14 Avenue N.W. just after midnight on Monday for reports a woman was being attacked in bushes near the building. "The woman was screaming and calling for help," said police in a Tuesday news release. "Several Good Samaritans who were walking in the area intervened to stop the assault, contained the suspect and immediat
  
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• TELUS STORYHIVE Showcasing Lethbridge Talent - Bridge City News

  09-08-2023 00:33 via news.google.com
  
  TELUS STORYHIVE Showcasing Lethbridge Talent  Bridge City News
  
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• Alberta minister says federal strings on electricity climate funding a ‘threat’

  09-08-2023 00:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Billions of dollars in tax credits and grants will be tied to progress toward Ottawa's target for a net-zero electricity grid by 2035, said the federal energy minister.
  
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• Brian Kemmis Reeves Obituary - Martin Brothers Riverview Chapel ... - Legacy.com

  09-08-2023 00:09 via news.google.com
  
  Brian Kemmis Reeves Obituary - Martin Brothers Riverview Chapel ...  Legacy.com
  
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• Lethbridge threatre groups prepare for 2023-24 seasons - CTV News Calgary

  09-08-2023 00:04 via news.google.com
  Lethbridge threatre groups prepare for 2023-24 seasons  CTV News Calgary
  
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