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• Calgary panel begins work to address public safety concerns downtown

  29-09-2023 23:32
  
  A committee of experts tasked by the City of Calgary with providing downtown public safety recommendations is now beginning work on finding solutions to address addictions issues, housing concerns and crime. The Downtown Safety Leadership Table sat down for its first meeting last week in an effort to take immediate action and identify gaps to public safety barriers. The focus group consists of the following six members:Heather Morley, executive director of Inn from the Cold; Mark Garner, executi
  
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• 'Involving our fans everywhere we can': How CSEC is using tech to boost the Saddledome experience

  29-09-2023 23:17
  
  It may be one of the oldest arenas in the NHL, but that doesn’t mean the Saddledome doesn’t have a few new tricks up its sleeve to kick off the 2023-24 hockey season. While there are some exciting changes and additions to the Flames roster this year, tech is going to be a prevalent player off the ice for hockey fans, from reducing lines at the concession stand to in-game entertainment. One of the standouts this season is Market 213, located on the concourse near section 213, featurin
  
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• WestJet to merge with Sunwing Airlines by October 2024

  29-09-2023 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  
  WestJet said Friday it aims to wind down Sunwing Airlines and integrate the low-cost carrier into its mainline business by October of next year.
  
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• Ottawa says clean electricity regs can be tweaked, but no special deal for Alberta

  29-09-2023 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal environment minister is consulting on draft regulations to compel all electricity to be from renewable sources or equipped with carbon capture technology by 2035.
  
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• Lethbridge's reconciliation efforts 'moving in a positive direction' - Calgary Herald

  29-09-2023 22:43 via news.google.com
  Lethbridge's reconciliation efforts 'moving in a positive direction'  Calgary Herald
  
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• Clean electricity regs can be tweaked, but no special deal for Alberta: Guilbeault

  29-09-2023 22:34
  
  Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says there will be no special treatment for Alberta when it comes to new regulations to make electricity cleaner. Guilbeault is currently consulting on draft regulations published in August that would compel all electricity to be from renewable sources or equipped with carbon capture technology by 2035. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said this week she will use her province's sovereignty act to challenge any attempt by Ottawa to enforce that deadline. She s
  
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• New blood test unveiled in Alberta for prostate cancer screenings - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 22:32 via news.google.com
  
  New blood test unveiled in Alberta for prostate cancer screenings  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Kodiaks launch new Indigenous jerseys - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
  Kodiaks launch new Indigenous jerseys  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Jessica Campbell, Kori Cheverie breaking barriers for female ... - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 21:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Saskatchewan premier defends plan to use notwithstanding clause ... - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 21:47 via news.google.com
  
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• Residential school survivor calling on people to 'learn' on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  29-09-2023 21:42
  
  On Saturday, people throughout Calgary will mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Residential school survivor Lena Wildman wants people to take the opportunity to understand what she and many others went through. “This is an opportunity for everybody to learn the truth about this dark time,” said Wildman. “(Learn) what really happened in the schools. Because when I went to school, none of that was in the social curriculum.” Lena Wildman, was taken from her famil
  
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• Calgary high school unveils Indigenous art ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  29-09-2023 21:42
  
  To help mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, St. Francis High School unveiled a 15-foot Indigenous art piece on Friday. Rick Wolcott, the Indigenous artist who made the totem art piece, had three sons go to the northwest Calgary school. His grandson is currently enrolled at St. Francis, and his wife previously worked at the school. "We feel sort of a kinship with the school," Wolcott said. Friday's event marked the first time he'd seen the work hanging up. "I have been looking at
  
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• Banff encouraging residents to remove fruit trees after dining grizzly bluff charges people

  29-09-2023 21:27
  
  The Town of Banff is urging residents to remove their fruit trees after reports a grizzly dining on crab apples in residential yards began bluff charging people. The town says the grizzly was lured into the north end of Banff by an easy meal, despite "continuous" efforts by Parks Canada to "haze the bear away." Parks Canada says with the property owner's permission, staff cut down the crab apple tree and collected all the fallen fruit. In addition to the large, mature grizzly, there's a black be
  
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• Edmonton student wins international science contest with cancer-treatment project

  29-09-2023 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  Elizabeth Chen, a Grade 12 student at Old Scona Academic School, was awarded a first prize at the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Brussels.
  
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• 4-H Canada names interim CEO - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 20:56 via news.google.com
  
  4-H Canada names interim CEO  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Taber Police charge man in connection with break, enter and theft - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 20:51 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta RCMP urge caution on highways during holiday weekend following head-on collision

  29-09-2023 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  A head on collision that allegedly involved a drunk driver has RCMP warning about safe driving during a weekend that's expected to see more vehicles on the highways.
  
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• Improvement work to shut down Lethbridge intersection Saturday

  29-09-2023 20:47
  
  Weather permitting, the City of Lethbridge will close a road at the intersection of Jerry Potts Boulevard and Algonquin Road West on Saturday to make improvements. The city announced the closure on social media Friday, asking motorists to note the following changes between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.:Jerry Potts Boulevard will be closed north of the intersection; Local traffic will be allowed between the closure spot and Red Crow Boulevard; There will be no access to Jerry Potts Boulevard from Algonquin R
  
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• Residents advised of upcoming and ongoing road work in Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 20:46 via news.google.com
  
  Residents advised of upcoming and ongoing road work in Lethbridge  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• City’s Halloween coupon books available October 1 - My Lethbridge Now

  29-09-2023 20:40 via news.google.com
  
  City’s Halloween coupon books available October 1  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Blinken on Canada-India rift: 'Those responsible must be held ... - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 20:01 via news.google.com
  
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• Sunwing Airlines to fold into WestJet within a year

  29-09-2023 20:00
  
  WestJet says it aims to wind down Sunwing Airlines and integrate the low-cost carrier into its mainline business by October of next year. WestJet, which bought the Toronto-based company's main airline and vacation divisions in May in a move representing a major consolidation of the aviation market, says Sunwing's 18 Boeing 737s and 2,000 employees will be folded into the Calgary-based carrier in a seamless transition. WestJet and Sunwing together make up 37 per cent of seat capacity on direct fl
  
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• Canada disagrees with inclusion of Russians, Belarusians in 2024 ... - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 19:53 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada likely in 'rounding error recession,' more trouble looming: economist

  29-09-2023 19:41
  
  Statistics Canada has released new data about how the economy started off the third quarter, saying the country's GDP remains essentially unchanged. One economist says it highlights an ongoing trend of weak performance. "The economy is flat-lining… we are not seeing any indications of strong growth," David Macdonald, a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, told CTV News Channel's Akshay Tandon on Friday. "If we do end up in a recession, which is very plausible&h
  
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• Witness to the 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted on murder charge in rapper's death

  29-09-2023 18:45
  
  One of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas was charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon Friday in the 1996 killing, a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down 27 years ago. A Nevada grand jury indicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the killing, prosecutors announced in court Friday. Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo said a grand
  
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• Man tied to suspected shooter in Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing arrested in Las Vegas, AP sources say

  29-09-2023 18:45
  
  Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest. They were not authorized to speak p
  
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• Man tied to murder of Tupac arrested in Vegas: AP sources

  29-09-2023 18:45
  
  Las Vegas police have arrested a man in the deadly 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur, a long-awaited break in a case that has frustrated investigators and fascinated the public ever since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago. Duane "Keffe D" Davis was arrested early Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest. They were not authorized to speak publicly ahea
  
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• Fourth suspect charged in Coleman home invasion - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 18:41 via news.google.com
  
  Fourth suspect charged in Coleman home invasion  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Coastal GasLink pipeline project 98 per cent complete

  29-09-2023 18:32
  
  TC Energy Corp. says its Coastal GasLink pipeline project is 98 per cent complete. Coastal GasLink is a 670-kilometre pipeline spanning northern British Columbia that will carry natural gas across the province to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C. TC Energy says the pipeline will be mechanically complete before the end of the year. Earlier this year, the company raised the estimated project price tag for Coastal GasLink to $14.5 billion, up significantly from a previo
  
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• Biosand Filter, a life-saving invention from Calgarian David Manz, turns 30

  29-09-2023 18:24
  
  The Biosand Filter is celebrating thirty years of providing clean drinking water to communities in the developing world. The idea of designing a water filtration system small enough to be installed in rural homes came to Calgary engineering professor David Manz after a trip to South Africa in the late 1980s. "I was familiar with all the water treatment technology of the day. One of the things that always came to mind was this thing called slow-sand filtration. Slow-sand filtration is really eleg
  
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• Drivers avoid injury in head-on crash near Cochrane

  29-09-2023 18:10
  
  RCMP say no one was injured when two vehicles collided head-on west of Cochrane early Thursday morning. At just after 8 a.m., police were called to a crash near Ghost Lake. An investigation later determined that one of the drivers was impaired by alcohol and crossed the centre line, resulting in the crash. "Although both vehicles involved sustained significant damage, there were no injuries," police said in a news release.RCMP is reminding drivers heading into the long weekend about the increase
  
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• Storm pounds New York City area, flooding subways and leading to abandoned vehicles on the FDR Drive

  29-09-2023 17:56
  
  A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppUp to 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain fell in some areas overnight, and as much as 7 inches (18 centimeters) more was expected throughout the day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said. "This is a dangerous, life-threate
  
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• New York stunned and swamped by record-breaking rainfall as more downpours are expected

  29-09-2023 17:56
  
  One of New York's wettest days in decades left the metropolitan area stunned and swamped Friday after heavy rainfall knocked out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranded drivers on highways, flooded basements and shuttered a terminal at LaGuardia Airport for hours. Some 8.65 inches (21.97 centimetres) of rain had fallen at John F. Kennedy Airport by nightfall Friday, surpassing the record for any September day set during Hurricane Donna in 1960, the National Weather Service said. Parts o
  
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• New York City area under state of emergency after storms flood subways, strand people in cars

  29-09-2023 17:56
  
  A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport. Up to 5 inches (13 centimetres) of rain fell in some areas overnight, and as much as 7 inches (18 centimetres) more was expected throughout the day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday morning. By midday, although there was a break in the clouds, Mayor Eric Adams urged people to stay put if p
  
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• New York City area gets one of its wettest days in decades, as rain swamps subways and streets

  29-09-2023 17:56
  
  Rain walloped the New York metropolitan area with a startling punch Friday, knocking out several subway and commuter rail lines, stranding drivers on highways, flooding basements and shuttering a terminal at LaGuardia Airport in one of the city's wettest days in decades. Almost 7 inches (18 centimetres) of rain had fallen in parts of Brooklyn by midday, with at least one spot seeing 2.5 inches (6 centimetres) in a single hour, according to weather and city officials. The nearly 8 inches (20 cent
  
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• 'We are sorry': Newfoundland and Labrador makes first apology for residential schools

  29-09-2023 17:49
  
  Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey made a solemn apology today to survivors of residential schools in southern Labrador. Furey addressed members of the NunatuKavut Community Council in a gymnasium in Cartwright, N.L., where the Lockwood boarding school operated until 1964. The premier's apology included a promise that the province's history of residential schools will be neither forgotten nor repeated. He was presented with a painted drum by the Sandwich Bay Residential School Drumme
  
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• Newfoundland and Labrador expected to apologize today for residential schools

  29-09-2023 17:49
  
  The Newfoundland and Labrador government is expected to make an apology today to survivors of residential schools in southern Labrador. Premier Andrew Furey is to make the apology in the community of Cartwright, in collaboration with the NunatuKavut Community Council, which says it represents 6,000 Inuit in south and central Labrador. The move has angered the Inuit Nunatsiavut government, in northern Labrador, and the Innu Nation, both of which don't recognize the NunatuKavut council's claims. F
  
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• What's Happening in Lethbridge this weekend: September 29, 2023 - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 17:46 via news.google.com
  
  What's Happening in Lethbridge this weekend: September 29, 2023  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Survey suggests Albertans will skip COVID-19, flu vaccinations this fall

  29-09-2023 17:21
  
  New survey data is projecting that fewer Albertans will be rolling up their sleeves for immunizations this fall, suggesting that "vaccine fatigue" is stronger than ever in the province. The poll, conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), suggested that 57 per cent of Albertans are tired of the calls to be vaccinated. The survey said after several consecutive years of intense focus on vaccines during the pandemic, "some Albertans may be inclined to tune ou
  
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• Survey suggests 4 in 10 Albertans will skip COVID-19, flu vaccinations this fall

  29-09-2023 17:21
  
  New survey data is projecting that fewer Albertans will be rolling up their sleeves for immunizations this fall, suggesting that "vaccine fatigue" is stronger than ever in the province. The poll, conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), suggested that 57 per cent of Albertans are tired of the calls to be vaccinated. The survey said after several consecutive years of intense focus on vaccines during the pandemic, "some Albertans may be inclined to tune ou
  
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• GAME DAY: Hurricanes Open Two-Game Set in Edmonton ... - Canadian Hockey League

  29-09-2023 16:58 via news.google.com
  
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• Oil Kings Gameday Preview: Lethbridge Hurricanes - 9/29/23 - The Hockey Writers

  29-09-2023 16:25 via news.google.com
  
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• Statistics Canada reports real GDP essentially unchanged in July - Lethbridge News Now

  29-09-2023 15:37 via news.google.com
  
  Statistics Canada reports real GDP essentially unchanged in July  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Southern Alberta's Blood Tribe launches campaign to prevent opioid-related deaths

  29-09-2023 15:28
  
  Local artists from the Blood Tribe in southern Alberta are contributing their work to a campaign taking on one of the biggest crises the nation has faced in years. A poster and billboard campaign in the community near Lethbridge has been launched in response to the opioid crisis. Its goal is to stop the misuse of opioids and reduce the number of opioid-related deaths on the Blood Tribe. All of the artwork involved in the project was created by artists with input from front-line workers, medical
  
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• Honouring National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  29-09-2023 13:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  As the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaches, many Canadians are look for ways to take part in the national day of commemoration. Sarah Jones has more.
  
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• Some hospitals are bringing back masking - and the general public should consider it this fall too, experts say

  29-09-2023 12:57
  
  As sniffling season falls upon us amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases across the country, should we be bringing masking back in health-care settings and reaching for them more often in our daily lives? Some hospitals are bringing back stricter masking rules again, and although we’ve probably seen the end of broad masking mandates from governments, some experts say the general public should also be making more use of this tool in our arsenal of measures to fight illness.Top coronavirus headlin
  
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• New Alberta ClarityDX prostate cancer blood test ‘groundbreaking’: developers

  29-09-2023 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  The ClarityDX test is touted as three times more accurate at discovering clinically significant prostate cancer than current screening methods.
  
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• Wheatland County hosts major emergency response training exercise

  29-09-2023 03:04
  
  More than 250 emergency professionals from 39 agencies took part in training Thursday to test their ability to respond to a mass casualty disaster. Wheatland County Reeve Amber Link says the exercise is an important test of its two-year-old Emergency Management Partnership. "So we're able to actually test our partnership and see how it will work, we're also able to build relationships," Link says. "[We'll] look for weaknesses, things that maybe we hadn't identified when we were doing our plannin
  
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• How to best experience Alberta’s larch march - before it’s over

  29-09-2023 02:46
  
  It only comes around once a year and it doesn’t stay long, but this year’s larch season has people flocking out to the mountains in Alberta. Alpine larches are a coniferous pine tree that grow in the Rocky Mountains and Kananaskis area but are unique in that they turn a brilliant gold before shedding their needle-like leaves. “They’re deciduous the leaves are sacrificed, if you will, every fall and all the nutrients are drawn out of the leaves leaving behind some pigment
  
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• Police continue to investigate serious collision between e-scooter, U-Haul truck

  29-09-2023 02:11
  
  Calgary police continue to investigate a collision between an e-scooter and a U-Haul truck earlier this week that sent the scooter operator to hospital with serious, life-threatening injuries. The collision occurred at the intersection of Macleod Trail and 4th Avenue S.E. around 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 26. Police said a 34-year-old man was operating an e-scooter when he lost control and fell into the northeast corner of the intersection and the path of an oncoming U-Haul truck. The U-Haul struck the
  
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