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• Claire Dalton's hat trick leads PWHL Montreal past Ottawa 6-3 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 23:54 via news.google.com
  
  Claire Dalton's hat trick leads PWHL Montreal past Ottawa 6-3  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary Kinsmen Club donation to food bank will help feed Calgary families

  24-02-2024 23:48
  
  The statistics are staggering. The Calgary Food Bank’s emergency food hamper program distributes up to 700 food hampers every day to families who need food support. The Kinsmen Club of Calgary mobilized to help during Saturday’s Kin Kindess Day by presenting the food bank with a cheque for $20,000. Betty Jo Kaiser with the Calgary Food Bank says this donation is fantastic. “First of all, for every dollar that’s donated we can distribute $3.50 worth of food so we’re
  
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• Oil Kings beat Hurricanes 2-1 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• World junior hockey championship returning to Alberta in 2027

  24-02-2024 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  The world junior hockey championship is returning to Alberta.
  
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• Cameron advances to Canadian women’s curling championship semifinal with 6-4 win over Sturmay

  24-02-2024 23:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  Manitoba's Kate Cameron has advanced to the Canadian women's curling championship semifinal with a 6-4 win over Alberta's Selena Sturmay.
  
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• Calgary’s Congolese community shines light on forgotten war

  24-02-2024 23:03
  
  Members of Calgary's Congolese community were at city hall Saturday protesting the killings in that country. In 2022, heavy tensions broke out between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, which have led to several alleged attacks by Congolese and Rwandan forces on each other's territory. “The regime in Rwanda is being heinous in Congo. There’s been Rwandan soldiers coming into the country attacking people; destabilizing the region,” said Ike Kenzo the president of SOS C
  
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• Alberta set to host international hockey events including world juniors

  24-02-2024 22:47
  
  The Alberta government wants to make the province a top hockey destination. On Saturday, the UCP announced plans to host 10 international hockey events over the next four years. Those include the World Para Ice Hockey Championships, the Hlinka Gretzky Cup, IIHF World Junior Championships, Canada vs. USA National Women's Rivalry Series, as well as Hockey Canada summer camps. The province said the 2024 budget – if passed – will include $11 million to support the hosting of the events,
  
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• Alberta to host world junior hockey championship in 2027 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 22:34 via news.google.com
  
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• Polar plunge kicks off Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary Festivities.

  24-02-2024 21:38
  
  This year, the 12th annual Polar Plunge in Calgary is also part of the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Law Enforcement Torch Run. Officials from the games as well as Alberta Sheriffs, the Calgary Police Service, Calgary 911, the Calgary Emergency Management Agency, Calgary Transit Public Safety, the Calgary Remand Centre, and the Special Olympics cheer team athletes took a very chilly plunge into Arbour Lake Saturday morning. Sarah Desilits was one of the 250 people participating in the Cal
  
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• 2 years into Ukraine-Russia conflict, people reflect on hard choices, fractured families

  24-02-2024 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  Back in Ukraine, residents like Olyna Mischenko continue to deal not only with razed homes but with severed relationships.
  
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• Arizona Coyotes terminate Adam Ruzicka's contract after social media video surfaces - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 21:04 via news.google.com
  
  Arizona Coyotes terminate Adam Ruzicka's contract after social media video surfaces  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 'It's the water crisis': Newest Alberta NDP leadership candidate to focus on climate

  24-02-2024 20:51
  
  A rookie legislature member for Alberta’s NDP is making a bid for the party's top job, promising a campaign focused on climate change and drought. "I think I'm going to garner support because I'm a new voice and my colleagues have already had their shot at being government,” Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, 49, said in an interview with The Canadian Press. “I bring a diverse perspective and a new energy, a new light to the party.” Calahoo Stonehouse, a first-term member represent
  
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• Some Ukrainians in Quebec struggle with French requirement for immigration - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 20:08 via news.google.com
  
  Some Ukrainians in Quebec struggle with French requirement for immigration  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Alberta NDP leadership candidate to focus on climate change, drought

  24-02-2024 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse, a rookie legislature member for Alberta's NDP, is making a bid for the party's top job.
  
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• Surrey's Arshdeep Bains relishing call up to Vancouver Canucks - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 19:44 via news.google.com
  
  Surrey's Arshdeep Bains relishing call up to Vancouver Canucks  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Country musician Corb Lund criticizes Alberta minister over coal application support

  24-02-2024 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Corb Lund says that after meeting with Energy Minister Brian Jean, he doesn't believe the minister knows enough about the issue.
  
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• Lac La Biche RCMP seek public assistance identifying suspect in liquor store robbery

  24-02-2024 18:38
  
  Lac La Biche RCMP are asking for public assistance to help them identify a suspect in a Thursday night robbery at a downtown liquor store. Police responded that night around 9:40 p.m. after a suspect was reported to have used bear spray against store employees before fleeing with stolen alcohol in a dark vehicle. Police on scene determined that two women had gone into the store. One took a number of bottles of alcohol off the shelf and ran out, while using bear spray on two store employees. Poli
  
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• Country star Corb Lund criticizes Alberta minister over coal application support

  24-02-2024 16:57
  
  An Alberta country music star is criticizing the province's energy minister for advising its energy regulator to accept initial applications for a coal mine project in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta. Corb Lund says that after meeting with Energy Minister Brian Jean, he doesn't believe the minister knows enough about the issue.  "I met with Brian Jean to discuss the coal issue a couple of months ago. And I was alarmed by how little he knew," Lund said in an ema
  
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• Two years in, Ukraine-Russia conflict brings hard choices, fractured families

  24-02-2024 16:32
  
  For Ukrainians in country and as far away as Canada, Saturday’s grim second anniversary of the Russian invasion means reflection on lives lost, families shattered, hard choices made and even harder choices to come. In Edmonton, Archpriest Cornell Zubritsky, sees it every week among parishioners at Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. He says early hopes for victory and peace when the Russians invaded Feb. 24, 2022, have been overtaken by pessimism and gloom, exacerbat
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 'weakling' Putin executed Navalny to crush dissent

  24-02-2024 16:19
  
  Justin Trudeau wrapped up a surprise trip to war-torn Ukraine with a blistering attack on Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian leader a “weakling” who uses police and the military to crush his opposition. Speaking with reporters at the end of his visit to the capital Kyiv, Trudeau accused Putin of "executing" opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died unexpectedly a week ago in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Navalny, 47, was roundly considered Putin&r
  
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• 1 man in hospital after Friday night drive-by shooting in southwest Calgary

  24-02-2024 16:13
  
  A drive-by shooting took place in a southwest Calgary neighbourhood Friday night, sending one man to hospital. Around 9 p.m., witnesses heard several shots coming from a vehicle that fled the area of James McKevitt Road and Mill Rise Hill. A 27-year-old man was shot in the leg and transported to hospital. Police said he was walking in an alley and don’t know if the shooting was targeted. The victim is cooperating. This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes
  
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• Matt Boldy's two-goal performance lifts Wild over Oilers 4-2

  24-02-2024 15:55
  
  The Minnesota Wild weathered the Edmonton Oilers' third period onslaught on Friday. Matt Boldy scored a pair of goals as Minnesota came away with a 4-2 victory over the Oilers, despite getting outshot 24-7 in the final frame. "We needed to get the job done and play well and I thought we played well tonight," said Boldy. "There was a little bit of a lull in the second period, but you expect that against a team like this and the guys that they have. "It was a whole team effort, it was ni
  
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• An attack on a cargo ship in the Red Sea has caused a miles-long oil slick. Things could get worse

  24-02-2024 15:07
  
  An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused an 18-mile (29-kilometre) oil slick, the U.S. military said Saturday. It also warned of the danger of a spill from the vessel's cargo of fertilizer. The Rubymar, a British-registered, Lebanese-operated cargo vessel, was attacked on Feb. 18 while sailing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, U.S. Central Command said. The missile attack forced the crew to abandon the ves
  
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• Widow of Navalny accuses Putin of mocking Christianity for refusing to return her husband's body

  24-02-2024 14:56
  
  The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in a penal colony. Yulia Navalnaya said in a video released Saturday that Navalny's mother, who wants her son's body returned to her, is being “literally tortured” by authorities who had threatened to bury Navalny in the Arctic prison. They suggested to his mother that she does not have much time to m
  
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• The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, aide says

  24-02-2024 14:56
  
  The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, an aide to Navalny said Saturday. Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked “everyone” who had called on Russian authorities to return Navalny’s body to his mother. Earlier Saturday, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his
  
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• Two years in, Ukraine-Russia conflict brings hard choices, fractured families - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 14:02 via news.google.com
  
  Two years in, Ukraine-Russia conflict brings hard choices, fractured families  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Lethbridge Rallies for the 'Coldest Night of the Year' to Warm Hearts and Homes - BNN Breaking

  24-02-2024 12:25 via news.google.com
  Lethbridge Rallies for the 'Coldest Night of the Year' to Warm Hearts and Homes  BNN Breaking
  
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• Hurricanes Edged 2-1 by Oil Kings - Lethbridge Hurricanes - Canadian Hockey League

  24-02-2024 07:32 via news.google.com
  
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• Kyle Connor scores in OT as Jets beat Blackhawks 3-2 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 06:08 via news.google.com
  
  Kyle Connor scores in OT as Jets beat Blackhawks 3-2  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Matt Boldy's two-goal performance lifts Wild over Oilers 4-2 - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 05:53 via news.google.com
  
  Matt Boldy's two-goal performance lifts Wild over Oilers 4-2  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• HKO-WHL-Sums-Edmonton-Lethbridge - Houston Chronicle

  24-02-2024 05:46 via news.google.com
  
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• Kerri Einarson ousted in Tournament of Hearts, falls short of record fifth title

  24-02-2024 05:24
  
  Kerri Einarson's bid for a record five straight Canadian women's curling championships ended Friday with a playoff loss to Kate Cameron. Einarson fell 9-4 to Manitoba's Cameron to remain tied with Colleen Jones at four consecutive Scotties Tournament of Hearts titles. Einarson's team from Manitoba's Gimli Curling Club was minus regular lead Briane Harris in Calgary. Curling Canada announced hours before the opening draw Feb. 16 the organization was told Harris was ineligible to compete. Nei
  
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• Info watchdog investigating record destruction allegations related to ArriveCan app - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 05:23 via news.google.com
  
  Info watchdog investigating record destruction allegations related to ArriveCan app  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• CTV Lethbridge Weather at 5 for Friday, February 23, 2024 - CTV News Calgary

  24-02-2024 05:13 via news.google.com
  
  CTV Lethbridge Weather at 5 for Friday, February 23, 2024  CTV News Calgary
  
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• CTV News Lethbridge at 5 for Friday, February 23, 2024 - CTV News Calgary

  24-02-2024 05:09 via news.google.com
  
  CTV News Lethbridge at 5 for Friday, February 23, 2024  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Rachel Homan, Jennifer Jones inch closer to Tournament of Hearts crown

  24-02-2024 04:46
  
  The road to another Canadian women's curling championship for both Ontario's Rachel Homan and Manitoba's Jennifer Jones shortened with their playoff victories Friday. Those wins set up a Saturday meeting of two skips with a combined nine Scotties Tournament of Hearts crowns between them.  The victor banks an express ticket to Sunday evening's final in Calgary. The loser needs to win Sunday's semifinal to gain a rematch for the title. CAN'T STOP WINNING@TeamHoman's perfect run at #
  
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• Wind, snow and winter set to return to Calgary for weekend

  24-02-2024 03:50
  
  Friday came with a high of 11 C and lots of sun…don’t expect that tomorrow. The high tomorrow will be 0 but that will be before 6 a.m. Most of the day will be -2 C with a wind chill of -8 (quite different than Friday). We will also be gusty (NE 40 km/h at times) and pick up a couple centimetres of snow.There are two waves of snow. heading our way The first on Saturday, and the second Saturday night through Monday. Here is the breakdown of snowfall to expect in Calgary:Temperatures w
  
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• ‘He’s determined’: Edmonton Oil Kings coach impressed by play of WHL prospect Joe Iginla

  24-02-2024 02:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Joe Iginla appears to have already gained some valuable insights about what it will likely take for him to excel in the game he's passionate about.
  
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• Puppy-Palooza brings joy to Coaldale Health Centre residents - Global News

  24-02-2024 02:48 via news.google.com
  
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• Puppy-Palooza brings joy to Coaldale Health Centre residents

  24-02-2024 02:48 via globalnews.ca
  
  The program is looking for extra volunteers, but for now, staff are hoping to make it a monthly event and bring twinkles to the eyes of residents.
  
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• Economists point to zoning laws, not REIT profits, for rent increases

  24-02-2024 02:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  With rents continuing to climb and REITs posting continued profits, it's easy to blame the real estate investment trusts, but economists disagree.
  
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• ‘It’s already affecting the front lines’: new AHS hiring policy drawing criticism

  24-02-2024 02:30
  
  Health workers and their unions are criticizing what they’re referring to as an Alberta Health Services (AHS) hiring freeze, saying it’ll further damage an already-dysfunctional system of care.  AHS announced Thursday that a “funding shortfall “is pushing in a new staffing policy.  Until at least the end of the first quarter of 2024, recruitment of management and non-union, non-clinical support positions has been paused. Any exceptions must be run through the AH
  
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• Journey to the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in Calgary begins

  24-02-2024 02:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  Known as the guardians of the flame, 14 law enforcement officers from coast to coast, including the Yukon, carry the flame of hope through 12 communities.
  
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• Canadian rugby 7s women's, men's squads lose opening match - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 01:34 via news.google.com
  
  Canadian rugby 7s women's, men's squads lose opening match  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• 2 Calgarians experiencing hearing loss granted gift of hearing

  24-02-2024 01:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Sixty per cent of Canadians reported having a hearing problem, were not able to regain hearing loss due to the cost of hearing aids. But that's about to change for two Calgarians.
  
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• Final leg of the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games torch runs began in Lethbridge

  24-02-2024 00:28
  
  They ran through the streets of downtown Lethbridge Friday morning for the final leg of the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) for the 2024 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games. Leading the pack was Special Olympics athlete David Hall. “Running across the province helps people with the Special Olympics so it's a big opportunity,” he said. “Being an athlete myself, it's kind of important for everyone to be all included.” Hill has been competing in track and field for the pas
  
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• RCMP launches criminal investigation into 'alarming' breach of its networks - Lethbridge News Now

  24-02-2024 00:14 via news.google.com
  
  RCMP launches criminal investigation into 'alarming' breach of its networks  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• ‘We can actually afford this’: Alberta NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley pitches minimum wage increase

  24-02-2024 00:07
  
  NDP leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley is proposing a hike in Alberta’s minimum wage to $16 an hour. Alberta's present minimum wage of  $15 an hour matches that of Newfoundland and Labradour, PEI, and Nova Scotia. In B.C., it's $16.75 and in Ontario, it's $16.55. The only province with a lower minimum wage is Saskatchewan, at $14.00 an hour."A handful of provinces are planning to raise minimum wage this year, which will leave Alberta with among the lowest rates among provinces."http
  
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• Alberta minimum wage lagging behind other provinces

  24-02-2024 00:07
  
  According to the Retail Council of Canada Alberta has the third lowest minimum wage in the country -- and some say it's time to bump it up. Alberta's present minimum wage of  $15 an hour matches that of Newfoundland and Labradour, PEI, and Nova Scotia. In B.C., it's $16.75 and in Ontario, it's $16.55. The only province with a lower minimum wage is Saskatchewan, at $14.00 and New Brunswick at $14.75. One economy and labour expert believes the province’s wage floor needs to rise to be b
  
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• Why a European man chose to train for a world record attempt in Calgary

  24-02-2024 00:01
  
  A European man with dreams of breaking a world record says he chose to train in Calgary because of a 1996 movie starting John Candy. "When I was younger I got inspired by the movie called Cool Runnings with four Jamaicans coming to Canada when it's like – 30 C," Andre Belibi said.   "I was really inspired by them, and I went to school here (at Chinook College), so I have a lot of friends here." Belibi's goal is to break the Guinness World Record for staying in a box filled with i
  
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