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• Lane closure on 4th Avenue Flyover Tuesday as city starts $12.5 million project

  01-04-2024 23:40
  
  The 4th Avenue Flyover is about to get a makeover. The busy bridge, which transports thousands of Calgarians into downtown every day, needs a $12.5 million rehabilitation in order to extend its lifespan by another 35 years. Starting Tuesday, that means single-lane closures for the rest of the week outside of morning and afternoon rush hours. That will be followed, at 9 p.m. Friday, by a complete closure through to 5 a.m. Monday morning. At that point, one lane of the flyover will reopen starting
  
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• Calgary Woodturners Guild has unique proposal to repurpose Stampede Elm wood

  01-04-2024 23:25
  
  The Calgary Woodturners Guild has reached out to the city with a unique proposal to make use of wood from the Stampede Elm. Terry Golbeck, the program director for the guild, would like to see the wood distributed between non-profit woodworking clubs in the city, then have their finished pieces put on display at the Calgary Stampede at a booth honouring the elm. "I'd like to see the pieces go into the arts and crafts auction and then the proceeds go to the Alberta Junior Forest Wardens," he said
  
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• National school lunch program will feed an additional 50,000 Alberta students per year: feds

  01-04-2024 23:08
  
  A national school food program touted Monday by the federal government that will be included in its spring budget on April 16 is expected to feed an additional 50,000 children in Alberta, says an Edmonton-area MP and cabinet minister. Randy Boissonault, the Liberal MP for Edmonton Centre and minister of employment, workforce development and official languages, said during an announcement of the program on Monday -- parroting the news first delivered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Deputy Prime
  
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• Vives heading into '24 campaign at Woodbine after strong 2023 season - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 23:04 via news.google.com
  
  Vives heading into '24 campaign at Woodbine after strong 2023 season  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Funkanometry takes dance journey across Canada

  01-04-2024 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Canadian dance duo Funkanometry is made up of friends Jacksun Fryer and Carlow Rush. The two are touring across Canada ahead of a big TV appearance.
  
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• ‘It just needs to stop’: Carbon price protesters slow traffic on Trans-Canada Highway

  01-04-2024 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hundreds of protesters, many waving Canadian and Alberta flags and holding "axe the tax" signs, blocked the major highway down to a single lane.
  
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• 'We should be thankful': New exhibit at Calgary military museums highlights the first 100 years of the RCAF

  01-04-2024 22:22
  
  April 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). In Calgary, the Air Force Museum of Alberta marked the occasion by opening a new exhibit celebrating the 100th anniversary of the RCAF. Located in the Founders’ Gallery at Calgary’s Military Museums, the People of Canada’s Air Force: 100 Years exhibit honours the men and women in who wore the RCAF uniform over the last century. Curator Alison Mercer says she wants people to know that while many were her
  
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• Yard waste sites in Lethbridge set to open Tuesday | CTV News - CTV News Calgary

  01-04-2024 21:28 via news.google.com
  
  Yard waste sites in Lethbridge set to open Tuesday | CTV News  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Yard waste sites in Lethbridge set to open Tuesday - CTV News Calgary

  01-04-2024 21:28 via news.google.com
  
  Yard waste sites in Lethbridge set to open Tuesday  CTV News Calgary
  
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• Lethbridge opens 3 seasonal yard waste sites Tuesday

  01-04-2024 21:28
  
  The City of Lethbridge is opening three seasonal yard waste sites Tuesday. The sites, located in the north, south and west side of the city, will be open seven days a week between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. They’re self-service, meaning residents have to be able to unload your own material. The city asks that material be collected in paper bags rather than plastic. Only one customer is allowed at either the compactor or branch chipper at a time. During busy times, people with trailers full of mater
  
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• Interprovincial migration helps fuel tight Calgary housing market as inventory falls

  01-04-2024 21:25
  
  The Calgary Real Estate Board says March home sales were up 9.9 per cent from last year as interprovincial migration to Alberta contributed to tight market conditions. The board says 2,664 units changed hands last month, while the benchmark price across all home types was $597,600 for March - up 10.9 per cent from a year earlier and two per cent from February. Relatively more affordable housing types, such as row and apartment-style homes, saw the most significant year-over-year price gains. New
  
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• Canes Chatter presented by Peka Rollshutters: April 1, 2024 - Lethbridge Hurricanes - Canadian Hockey League

  01-04-2024 21:03 via news.google.com
  
  Canes Chatter presented by Peka Rollshutters: April 1, 2024 - Lethbridge Hurricanes  Canadian Hockey League
  
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• Calgary senior reported missing on April 1 found safe, authorities say

  01-04-2024 20:31
  
  Calgary police say a senior who was reported missing on April 1 has been found. Authorities say the woman was reported missing on Monday after she disappeared on Sunday. in an update on Tuesday, police say she was located.  No further information is expected to be released.
  
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• Calgary police seek public assistance locating missing 67-year-old woman

  01-04-2024 20:31
  
  Calgary police are asking for public assistance locating a missing 67-year-old woman. Joyce was last seen Sunday morning around 11:30 a.m. leaving her care home on the 3500 block of Sarcee Road S.W. Police believe she may have been headed to the Forest Lawn area. Joyce is described as being around 152 centimetres (5 feet) tall, weighing around 90 kilograms (200 lbs.). She has a medium build, brown eyes and shoulder length grey hair.  She was last seen wearing a black jacket and jeans, and u
  
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• Premiers making 'political hay' out of carbon pricing increase, Trudeau says - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 20:24 via news.google.com
  
  Premiers making 'political hay' out of carbon pricing increase, Trudeau says  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Lethbridge MLAs on the impacts of Alberta's large population growth - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 20:16 via news.google.com
  
  Lethbridge MLAs on the impacts of Alberta's large population growth  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Registration available for Open Farm Days 2024 - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 19:47 via news.google.com
  
  Registration available for Open Farm Days 2024  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders sign receiver Emilus to one-year contract extension - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 19:44 via news.google.com
  
  Saskatchewan Roughriders sign receiver Emilus to one-year contract extension  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Pembina Pipeline closes $3.1B Alliance, Aux Sable purchases

  01-04-2024 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  As part of the transaction, Pembina, which is the current operator of Aux Sable, becomes the sole operator of Alliance.
  
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• Raptors guards RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley upgraded to probable vs. Lakers - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 19:27 via news.google.com
  
  Raptors guards RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley upgraded to probable vs. Lakers  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Calgary weather: Sun to snow, Thursday will be 16 C colder than Tuesday

  01-04-2024 19:15
  
  The snow melt continues in southern Alberta with a warm trend setting up to start the week. The daytime high in Calgary on Tuesday will be twice as warm as the average high of 8 C. Some communities may set new record high temperatures, but Calgary is unlikely to be one of those locations as the record high in the city for April 2 is 24.4 C (1992), which is warmer than an average July day in Calgary.The upper ridge of high pressure which is pulling Pacific heat into southern Alberta at the beginn
  
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• National association calls for testing centre for internationally-educated veterinarians - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 19:10 via news.google.com
  
  National association calls for testing centre for internationally-educated veterinarians  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Canada's Haiti airlift expands to include relatives, residents and charter flight - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 19:10 via news.google.com
  
  Canada's Haiti airlift expands to include relatives, residents and charter flight  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Gushue loses 7-6 to Retornaz at world men’s curling championship

  01-04-2024 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Gushue, from St. John's, N.L., said he was struggling with his rocks in the first half of the game.
  
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• Three W.O. Mitchell Book Prize finalists announced

  01-04-2024 18:49
  
  Three authors have emerged as finalists from 56 submissions for this year's W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Established in 1996, the prize honours Calgary storyteller W.O. Mitchell, well known for plays, short stories and books, including Who Has Seen the Wind, which sold close to a million copies. In choosing finalists, the City of Calgary explains jury members considered many factors including themes that resonate with the audience, visual style, storyline structure, and ability to engage the reader
  
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• Calgarians can now pre-order rain barrels to help conserve water

  01-04-2024 18:23
  
  Starting Monday, Calgarians will be able to pre-order a rain barrel, which will be a huge help if water restrictions come into effect later this year. Green Calgary, is providing the barrels for $78 plus GST and delivery is available anywhere in Calgary.Get local, live and breaking news right to your email inbox. Sign up for our daily newsletterAnyone else interested in the equipment will need to pick them up at one of the following locations on the dates listed:April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., IKEA
  
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• Wranglers drop Sunday decision to Barracudas 4-1 but clinch playoff spot nevertheless

  01-04-2024 17:49
  
  Blasty didn’t get a win for his birthday Sunday, but he got something even better: a playoff berth for the Wranglers.A San Jose fan crashed Blasty’s bday party … and got his just desserts! pic.twitter.com/zu4PqGFCfy — x - Calgary Wranglers (@AHLWranglers) March 31, 2024The popular Calgary Wrangler mascot didn’t have much to cheer about on the ice Sunday, where the San Jose Barracudas dominated the scorecard against the Wranglers. Ethan Cardwell, Jack Thompson, Dani
  
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• Gosling cousins make women's world hockey championship debuts together - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 17:26 via news.google.com
  
  Gosling cousins make women's world hockey championship debuts together  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• River Valley Dragons - City of Lethbridge

  01-04-2024 16:31 via news.google.com
  
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• Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Benoît Pelletier dies at 64 - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 16:31 via news.google.com
  
  Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Benoît Pelletier dies at 64  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Carbon tax protesters rally on highway west of Calgary

  01-04-2024 16:31
  
  Protesters against Ottawa's recent raise of the carbon tax have set up a rally west of Calgary and it's created a huge back up on the Trans-Canada Highway. The event, organized by a group called Nationwide Protest Against Carbon Tax, is one of 15 happening across the country on Monday. According to the group's website, its goal is the "Immediate removal of the carbon tax, without replacement by any other form of taxation." The rally began at 8 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 22
  
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• Carbon tax protest set up near highway west of Calgary

  01-04-2024 16:31
  
  Protesters against Ottawa's recent raise of the carbon tax are setting up a rally west of Calgary. The event, organized by a group called Nationwide Protest Against Carbon Tax, is one of 15 happening across the country on Monday. According to the group's website, its goal is the "Immediate removal of the carbon tax, without replacement by any other form of taxation." The rally is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 22 near Cochrane. As of 7:45 a.m., around a
  
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• Gushue tops defending champ Mouat 8-4 at men’s curling worlds

  01-04-2024 14:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  The game was a rematch of the 2023 gold-medal final.
  
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• CPP Investments and Bridgepoint sell Dorna Sports to Liberty Media - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 14:33 via news.google.com
  
  CPP Investments and Bridgepoint sell Dorna Sports to Liberty Media  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Parkland refinery returns to normal operations after unplanned January shutdown

  01-04-2024 14:21
  
  Parkland Corp. says its refinery in Burnaby, B.C., returned to normal operations on March 29. The company says the return comes after an unplanned shutdown on Jan. 12 due to extreme cold weather. Parkland chief executive Bob Espey says that during the shutdown the company accelerated maintenance and refining optimization work that had been scheduled for the third quarter of 2024. The company says the Burnaby refinery produces about 25 per cent of Greater Vancouver's gasoline and about 30 per cen
  
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• Lethbridge musician plays in Athabasca - Town and Country TODAY

  01-04-2024 14:15 via news.google.com
  
  Lethbridge musician plays in Athabasca  Town and Country TODAY
  
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• Idaho man to be tried for 3 deaths including children who were called 'zombies'

  01-04-2024 12:59
  
  The trial of a man charged with the deaths of his wife and his girlfriend's two youngest children is set to begin in Idaho this week, serving as a second act in a bizarre case that has drawn worldwide attention and already resulted in a life sentence for the mother of the children. Chad Daybell's trial is expected to last up to 10 weeks, with jury selection scheduled to get underway in Boise on Monday. The 55-year-old self-published author is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for
  
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• Carbon pricing 101: What today's increase could mean for you

  01-04-2024 12:30
  
  The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here's some questions answered about what this could mean for you. Who pays the carbon price? Canada has two different carbon pricing programs — one for big industry where companies pay the price on a share of their actual emissions, and a consumer carbon levy which is applied to fossil fuel purchases. The consumer levy affects individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, First Nations, as well as public-sector operations
  
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• Air Canada’s Hong Kong jet maintenance deal amid China discord raises security concerns

  01-04-2024 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The maintenance company, HAECO, unveiled its major Air Canada deal with fanfare on Feb. 28, 2024, replacing ST Aerospace company.
  
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• Carbon pricing 101: What today's increase could mean for you - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 10:05 via news.google.com
  
  Carbon pricing 101: What today's increase could mean for you  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Thibodeau, Dr. Steven - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Thibodeau, Dr. Steven  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Global News at 5 Lethbridge: April 2 - Global News

  01-04-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Global News at 5 Lethbridge: April 2  Global News
  
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• Canadian Taxpayers Federation slams double tax hike in Alberta

  01-04-2024 02:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal carbon tax and Alberta's provincial gas tax are both scheduled to increase on April 1. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the "double whammy" will hurt Albertans.
  
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• Missing child found, Calgary police say

  01-04-2024 01:57
  
  Calgary police say a child, who was last seen on Saturday, has been found. Authorities issued an alert on Sunday about the disappearance, but said the case did not meet the threshold of an Amber Alert. At 5:40 a.m. on Monday, police said the child had been found. No further information will be released.
  
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• Calgary Police searching for missing 12-year-old girl

  01-04-2024 01:57
  
  The Calgary Police Service is asking for the public's help to locate a missing 12-year-old girl named Serenity. Serenity was last seen Saturday March 30, 2024 at approximately 2:00 p.m. in the 0-100 block of Shawnigan Drive S.W. Police say it is out of character for her to be out of contact with her family, and they are concerned for her well-being. Serenity is described as 5'3" tall, approximately 115 pounds with a slim build, brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing glasses, brown
  
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• Calgary church blends drag show with Easter Sunday service

  01-04-2024 01:52
  
  A Calgary church celebrated Easter with a drag show during its Sunday service. Calgary Unitarians held the 'DRAG ME to Church' to show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, following the UCP governments controversial proposals regarding transgender youth. "The goal is to let the trans community in Calgary know that faith traditions love and support them and hold them as sacred beings at a time, particularly when hatred is on the rise," says Reverend Samaya Oakley. In January, Alberta Premier Dan
  
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• Steady Jaeger outlasts Scheffler to win Houston Open - Lethbridge News Now

  01-04-2024 01:27 via news.google.com
  
  Steady Jaeger outlasts Scheffler to win Houston Open  Lethbridge News Now
  
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