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• Lethbridge Woman Going To Trial For Hotel Fire - Bridge City News

  08-09-2023 23:58 via news.google.com
  
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• 4-H Canada CEO resigns - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 23:29 via news.google.com
  
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• New exhibit at Casa to explore human mortality - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 23:14 via news.google.com
  
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• Superhero-sized Wonder Woman statue unveiled at Bow Valley College

  08-09-2023 23:09
  
  Wonder Woman has found a new home within the Bow Valley College universe. A 7'6" tall statue of the iconic DC Comics superhero was unveiled on Friday, presiding over the Centre for Entertainment Arts studio. "She just exemplified something our students would resonate with," said Alison Anderson, Dean of Business, Technology and Centre for Entertainment Arts.  "It really shows what the college is about. Inclusivity, creativity, teamwork all those pieces." Dozens of people packed Bow Val
  
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• Quarterback Ta'amu among 10 players revealed on Riders ... - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 23:07 via news.google.com
  
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• N.W.T. wildfires: Hay River evacuees won’t know when they can return until next week

  08-09-2023 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  It will likely be next week before thousands of wildfire evacuees from Hay River, N.W.T., learn when they can return home.
  
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• Northwest Territories wildfires: Hay River evacuees won’t know when they can return until next week

  08-09-2023 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  It will likely be next week before wildfire evacuees from Hay River, N.W.T., learn when they can return home.
  
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• Correctional Service reports death of inmate at Victoria-area prison - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 22:34 via news.google.com
  
  Correctional Service reports death of inmate at Victoria-area prison  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Sherwood Park pharmacy administers first RSV vaccine shot in Alberta

  08-09-2023 22:18
  
  A new vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, commonly called RSV, is now available in Sherwood Park. Health Canada approved the vaccine in early August for people aged 60 and over. It's the first vaccine for RSV available in Alberta. The virus is common but highly contagious and spreads through inhalation of respiratory particles or by touching surfaces that are contaminated by the virus. The Lakeland Ridge Shoppers Drug Mart in Sherwood Park was the first pharmacy in the province to administe
  
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• Alberta pharmacy administers first RSV vaccine shot in Canada

  08-09-2023 22:18
  
  A new vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, commonly called RSV, is now available in Sherwood Park. Health Canada approved the vaccine in early August for people aged 60 and over. It's the first vaccine for RSV available in Canada. The virus is common but highly contagious and spreads through inhalation of respiratory particles or by touching surfaces that are contaminated by the virus. The Lakeland Ridge Shoppers Drug Mart in Sherwood Park was the first pharmacy in Canada to administer a sho
  
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• Kidney March kicks off in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

  08-09-2023 21:41
  
  Marchers arrive at the Millarville Racetrack before the sun is up on a chilly early September morning that feels much later in the autumn. More than 300 of them have all been impacted by kidney disease and are ready to spend the next three days walking 100 kilometres on paved roads in the foothills southwest of Calgary. The 14th annual event is hosted by the Kidney Foundation of Canada Southern Alberta Branch with a goal to raise funds and awareness for kidney health and organ donation. Joyce Va
  
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• Regulator yanks thousands of wells from troubled Calgary oil company, transfers for cleanup

  08-09-2023 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  AER has transferred thousands of wells held by a troubled Calgary company to the group that's responsible for cleaning up poorly maintained or abandoned sites.
  
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• Free stuff: City of Calgary hosting curbside community treasure hunt this weekend

  08-09-2023 20:37
  
  The City of Calgary is throwing a curbside community treasure hunt this weekend and the whole city is invited to participate. This weekend only, residents are invited to place items that are in good condition on your property next to the sidewalk or cub for anyone who wants them to take them away. The hope is that someone's junk is someone else's treasure, and by putting it out on the curb all at the same time, a lot of stuff that would otherwise end up in the landfill will find a new home. Poss
  
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• TIFF 2023: Nickelback entertains the haters in new documentary on Alberta rockers

  08-09-2023 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  On one hand, Nickelback has delivered numerous top-selling albums over their three-decade career, and on the other, they're often called some of the most-hated rockers of all time.
  
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• Officer used reasonable force when he shot machete-wielding suspect: ASIRT

  08-09-2023 20:26
  
  A provincial agency has found a Calgary police officer used reasonable force in the shooting of a man who was high on drugs and threatened him and his partner with a machete. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) investigated the incident on Aug. 25, 2019. In the final report, released Friday, ASIRT said police responded to reports of a suspicious person who was making threatening statements in a southeast Calgary neighbourhood. ASIRT says the situation escalated when the suspect ap
  
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• What's Happening in Lethbridge this weekend: September 8, 2023 - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 19:42 via news.google.com
  
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• Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault looks for third straight ... - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 19:32 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘My stomach just sank': Phillip Heerema victims disappointed in Calgary Stampede's participation in Pride parade

  08-09-2023 19:24
  
  Plaintiffs in a class-action sex assault lawsuit against the Calgary Stampede are expressing deep disappointment that members of the organization were allowed to walk in the 2023 Calgary Pride Parade. The Stampede's presence at Pride celebrations comes just weeks after the organization accepted liability and negligence for the actions of the Young Canadians staffer Phillip Heerema, who had been abusing teenage boys for years before a police investigation was launched. "My stomach just sank when
  
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• Alberta lead employment growth in Canada in August - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 19:18 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta's unemployment rate drops in August, employment increases for second consecutive month

  08-09-2023 19:03
  
  Alberta's unemployment rate fell last month, dropping back to where it sat back in June 2023. Statistics Canada released its August 2023 Labour Force Survey on Friday, which showed Alberta's jobless numbers dropping four-tenths of a percentage point to sit at 5.7 per cent, compared to 6.1 the month before. According to the report, Alberta was one of three provinces to see employment rise in August, while other provinces saw either little change or a decline in employment. Alberta's emp
  
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• Enbridge raises $4.6B in share offering to help pay for U.S. gas utilities deal

  08-09-2023 18:48
  
  Enbridge Inc. has closed a $4.6-billion offering of shares the company announced as part of its deal to buy three U.S. gas utilities earlier this week. The company says it issued 102,913,500 shares under the plan that saw the underwriters exercise the full over-allotment option. The offering price under the bought-deal financing was $44.70 per share. Enbridge says the exercise of the over-allotment option reduces and further derisks its financing requirements to fund the acquisitions. The Calgar
  
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• Legacy spray park closing for the season on Sunday - City of Lethbridge

  08-09-2023 17:39 via news.google.com
  
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• 'Honouring the Children' exhibition features work of a dozen Indigenous artists

  08-09-2023 17:39
  
  Sparrow Artspace is hosting an emotion packed free exhibit at its northeast gallery for the month of September. It's honouring the lost children and survivors of residential schools and the Sixties Scoop. Sheila Norris, the executive director of the Colour it Forward Reconciliation Society, hopes the exhibition starts conversation with visitors. "All of the art in here is so emotional because it does tell a story," she said. "It does tell something about the horrors that we're in, the history bu
  
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• Monique LaGrange removed as Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association director

  08-09-2023 16:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Monique LaGrange has been removed from her position as director of the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association, said Harry Salm.
  
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• Hockey Canada summit puts elite men's hockey culture under the microscope

  08-09-2023 15:25
  
  The outside of the mask was decorated with the words "boys will be boys, power, kings." The inside read "pain, suicidal, need love." Another mask read "smart, focused, money" on the exterior, and "angry, unsure, bi" on the interior. The masks, created by university hockey players — some who played major junior — were a research project presented Friday at Hockey Canada's Beyond The Boards Summit. The two-day summit tackled elite men's hockey, which dominates the sport's culture in Ca
  
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• Canada's sports minister tells hockey leaders at summit to 'step up'

  08-09-2023 15:25
  
  Canada's new sports minister isn't ready to laud Hockey Canada on its efforts to change the sport's culture. “Nobody's going to hear me congratulate anybody on what's been done so far because we're not there yet,” Carla Qualtrough told The Canadian Press. “Kids are still at risk and we can do better.” The Delta MP, who was re-appointed to the sports portfolio in July after serving in it from 2015 to 2017, was on the slate of Friday speakers at Hockey Canada's “Beyon
  
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• YYC art pieces now flying at Calgary's Hangar Flight Museum

  08-09-2023 15:17
  
  A half-dozen tin airplanes that once delighted passengers at the Calgary International Airport have settled into their new home at the Hangar Flight Museum. Officials with the facility say the group of art pieces have been put on display in the mezzanine level of the building for visitors to enjoy. In April, a decision was made to move Calgary artist Jeff de Boer's massive tin toy display out of the airport, where it had inspired future pilots and flight attendants for 20 years. That's where the
  
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• 'Freedom Convoy' lawyers to argue admissibility of Facebook ... - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 14:49 via news.google.com
  
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• 'She wanted to help people:' Calgary breast cancer research advocate, 39, dies after disease metastasized

  08-09-2023 14:42
  
  A young mother who openly shared her experience with terminal breast cancer on social media and called for government changes in research and screening has died. Elizabeth Wilson, or Libby, as she was known, first spoke with CTV News in February 2020, after starting a petition calling for self-breast exams to be part of Alberta's education curriculum. She was 35 then and had just received treatment for breast cancer. She hadn't known the diagnosis was possible at that age. Over the course of tre
  
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• Daniel Remfert projected to have won Taber council by-election - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 13:59 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Freedom Convoy’ trial Day 4: Lawyers to argue admissibility of Facebook evidence

  08-09-2023 13:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are co-accused of mischief, counselling others to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing the police.
  
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• Unemployment rate steady at 5.5% in August as economy adds 40K jobs: Statistics Canada

  08-09-2023 13:24
  
  Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 per cent in August as the economy added 40,000 jobs. Today's report ends a three-month streak of increases in the jobless rate.Business news stories from across Canada and the world The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppThe federal agency says Canada's strong pace of population growth means higher job gains are needed every month to keep the unemployment rate in check. Employment increased
  
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• Canada falls to Serbia 95-86 in basketball World Cup semifinal - Lethbridge News Now

  08-09-2023 12:52 via news.google.com
  
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• The operation could start soon to rescue a sick American researcher 3,000 feet into a Turkish cave

  08-09-2023 12:25
  
  An American researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 metres (more than 3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turkiye, has recovered sufficiently enough to be extracted in an operation that could last three or four days, a Turkish official was quoted as saying on Friday. Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, became suddenly ill with stomach bleeding during an expedition with a handful of others in the Morca cave in southern Turkiye's Taurus Mountains. Rescuers from across Europe have ru
  
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• Rescuers may soon try to remove a sick American researcher from 3,000 feet down in a Turkish cave

  08-09-2023 12:25
  
  An American researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 metres (more than 3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turkiye, has recovered sufficiently enough to be extracted in an operation that could last three or four days, a Turkish official was quoted as saying on Friday. Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, became suddenly ill with stomach bleeding during an expedition with a handful of others in the Morca cave in southern Turkiye's Taurus Mountains. Rescuers from across Europe have ru
  
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• More than 100 friends, family members and others gather at vigil for Danillo Canales Glenn

  08-09-2023 05:15
  
  More than 100 people expressed their sorrow and anger Thursday night as they held a vigil for a young Calgary man fatally stabbed on a basketball court. Friends, family and other residents gathered at the sports facility in the southeast neighbourhood of Copperfield to remember Danillo Canales Glenn. The 18-year-old died after the attack on the court, just over 48 hours earlier. Flowers adorned the wire mesh around the court and balloons were released in his memory. Many were visibly upset as th
  
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• Man arrested, charged in connection with Coronation, Alta., church fire

  08-09-2023 02:54
  
  Mounties out of Coronation, Alta., have arrested and charged a man for allegedly lighting a church on fire. Just before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, RCMP were called to the Evangelical Free Church. Police say witness accounts and video led them to Nickolas Guy Fortier, who is alleged to have attended the church earlier in the day with a jerry can.Fortier, 23, now faces charges of arson and mischief over $5,000. He's been released from police custody, with conditions, and is next set to appear in court in
  
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• 'I don't think we're in a recession,' but BoC Governor isn't ruling out another interest rate hike

  08-09-2023 02:53
  
  The day after the Bank of Canada announced it was holding its key interest rate at five per cent, its governor told a full crowd in Calgary a future rate hike isn't out of the question. Tiff Macklem also refuted suggestions from some economists that Canada was in a recession or close to one. "I don't think we're in a recession," Macklem said following a prepared speech hosted by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. He added the BoC expects "low positive growth" for the next few quarters before the e
  
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• Wordfest Imaginarium Festival brings bestsellers, newsmakers to Calgary

  08-09-2023 02:36
  
  It's being called Canada's liveliest literary event. Next month, the Wordfest Imaginarium Festival comes to Calgary, and over five days, Calgarians will get a chance to meet more than 50 bestselling  and news making authors. CTV News anchor Camilla Di Giuseppe spoke Thursday with Shelley Youngblut, CEO and Creative Ringleader of the Wordfest Imaginarium Festival. Q. Let's chat about the use of the word "Imaginarium" and how it fits into the festival - I love it. A. OK, so I made it up. What
  
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• CFL, CFLPA to use third party to test air quality after Labour Day game dispute

  08-09-2023 02:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  The two organizations said in a joint statement on Thursday that the decision to play, or continue to play, a game will be based on the measurements provided by a third party.
  
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• Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope van on display in Calgary: ‘A big part of Canadian history’

  08-09-2023 02:21 via globalnews.ca
  
  The van Terry Fox used on his Marathon of Hope in 1980 is going on display in the Gasoline Alley Museum at Heritage Park, to promote the annual run raising funds to fight cancer.
  
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• YYC aircraft carousels land at Hangar Flight Museum

  08-09-2023 01:49
  
  "We want it," Hangar Flight Museum director Brian Desjardins had said in April of the massive tin toy plane display that spent more than 20 years at YYC. Several months later, museum staff happily announced they got it. "Six of the tin toys arrived at the Hangar Flight Museum this morning and are now on display on our mezzanine level within the truss system of our historic building," said a release from the museum issued Thursday. "Until we have our new permanent structure built, the carousel ba
  
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• E3 Lithium hosts official opening of commercial scale pilot extraction plant

  08-09-2023 01:32
  
  E3 Lithium celebrated the new operation with a ribbon cutting Thursday at the plant about 20 kilometres east of Olds. The plant is designed to test commercial extraction of lithium from oilfield brines found deep underground. The brine is pumped through the company's unique extraction process to remove the lithium before returning the liquid to the Leduc aquifer otherwise intact. The company hopes that this final commercial scale testing will allow it to start producing battery grade lithium for
  
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• 'This is hell': Families fear for their kids as confirmed severe E.coli cases connected to daycares jump to 128

  08-09-2023 01:29
  
  A food poisoning spate connected to 11 Calgary-area daycares is believed by some to be the largest serious E. coli outbreak of children under the age of five ever reported. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says 128 cases have been confirmed as of Thursday morning, with 25 in hospital and three who've been discharged from hospital. "This may be the largest outbreak of this specific type of Shiga-toxin E. coli in children under five years of age reported," said Dr. Stephen Freedman, a Cumming School
  
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• Families fear for their kids as number of severe E. coli cases connected to daycares jumps to 128

  08-09-2023 01:29
  
  A food poisoning spate connected to 11 Calgary-area daycares is believed by some to be the largest serious E. coli outbreak of children under the age of five ever reported. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says 128 cases have been confirmed as of Thursday morning, with 25 in hospital and three who've been discharged from hospital. "This may be the largest outbreak of this specific type of Shiga-toxin E. coli in children under five years of age reported," said Dr. Stephen Freedman, a Cumming School
  
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• Families fear for kids as number of E.coli cases connected to daycares jumps to 128

  08-09-2023 01:29
  
  A food poisoning spate connected to 11 Calgary-area daycares is believed by some to be the largest serious E. coli outbreak of children under the age of five ever reported. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says 128 cases have been confirmed as of Thursday morning, with 25 in hospital and three who've been discharged from hospital. "This may be the largest outbreak of this specific type of Shiga-toxin E. coli in children under five years of age reported," said Dr. Stephen Freedman, a Cumming School
  
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• Families fear for kids as number of E.coli cases connected to Calgary daycares jumps to 128

  08-09-2023 01:29
  
  A food poisoning spate connected to 11 Calgary-area daycares is believed by some to be the largest serious E. coli outbreak of children under the age of five ever reported. Alberta Health Services (AHS) says 128 cases have been confirmed as of Thursday morning, with 25 in hospital and three who've been discharged from hospital. "This may be the largest outbreak of this specific type of Shiga-toxin E. coli in children under five years of age reported," said Dr. Stephen Freedman, a Cumming School
  
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• More bear activity expected ahead of hibernation in Crowsnest Pass

  08-09-2023 01:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Summer may be winding down, but it's now peak season for hungry bears heading into hibernation. Crysty Pool hopes the community steps up to be more vigilant.
  
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• Incentive imbalance? Alberta municipalities differ on solar panel installation rewards

  08-09-2023 01:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Skyrocketing utility costs have some Alberta homeowners weighing an investment in residential solar panels, but the incentives offered vary from town-to-town, city-to-city.
  
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• Family, Calgary police concerned for missing 18-year-old not seen since July

  08-09-2023 00:27
  
  Calgary police are looking to the public for help as they search for a 18-year-old man missing since July. Joshua Healy-Irvine was reported missing on Aug. 19 after his family were unable to get in contact with him. Police say he was last heard from one month before, on Wednesday, July 19. "While it is not uncommon for Joshua to go extended periods of time without contacting his family, police have made several attempts to locate him, which have been unsuccessful," a Thursday news release explai
  
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