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• Road work to create lane closures on Scenic Drive North overpass - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 23:38 via news.google.com
  
  Road work to create lane closures on Scenic Drive North overpass  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Missing Foothills County man found safe, police say

  27-05-2024 23:38
  
  Mounties out of Okotoks, Alta., say they have located a man who went missing early Sunday morning. RCMP say the man was found safe.
  
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• Foothills County man missing; police say there is concern for his safety

  27-05-2024 23:38
  
  Mounties out of Okotoks, Alta., are working to locate a man missing since early morning Sunday. Jason Coutu, 45, left his Foothills County residence around 1 a.m. and has not been seen since. Okotoks RCMP say Coutu might have been going fishing and that he is known to frequent the Castle Mountain and Crawling Valley areas. He is described as 6'0" (183 cm) and 190 pounds (86 kg), fair-complexioned, brown-haired and blue-eyed with a full beard. He was wearing a blue hoodie, a light-brown jacket an
  
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• 2024 War Amps key tags to be delivered to Lethbridge this week - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 23:32 via news.google.com
  
  2024 War Amps key tags to be delivered to Lethbridge this week  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Prepare to get your Property Tax Notice - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 23:17 via news.google.com
  
  Prepare to get your Property Tax Notice  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• No charges for Lethbridge officers who surveilled Alberta MLA Shannon Phillips: watchdog letter - Global News

  27-05-2024 23:06 via news.google.com
  No charges for Lethbridge officers who surveilled Alberta MLA Shannon Phillips: watchdog letter  Global News
  
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• Foodie Fest in downtown Lethbridge this week - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 23:02 via news.google.com
  
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• Lane closures on Scenic Drive North overpass - My Lethbridge Now

  27-05-2024 22:51 via news.google.com
  
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• Man charged after allegedly exposing himself to girls in Redcliff, Alta.: RCMP

  27-05-2024 22:50
  
  A man has been charged after allegedly exposing himself to a pair of girls in a park in Redcliff, Alta., and police believe there could be more victims. According to an RCMP news release, officers were called to the River Valley Park around 7:30 p.m. on May 18 for a reported indecent act. Police said it was reported that a man approached two girls, pulled down his pants and exposed himself. He fled the scene but was found by RCMP a short time later.The information you need to know, sent directly
  
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• Alleged improper data access investigations conclude without charges - My Lethbridge Now

  27-05-2024 22:46 via news.google.com
  
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• No charges for officers who surveilled Alberta legislature member: watchdog letter - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 22:22 via news.google.com
  
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• Wild horse rescue: Bystander pulls foal from edge of Alberta cliff

  27-05-2024 22:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Wildlife enthusiasts ending up capturing more adventure than they bargained for on camera Sunday, when a foal got precariously close to a cliff near Sundre, Alta.
  
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• Lobby group says emissions cap would cost oil and gas sector $75B in lost investment

  27-05-2024 22:15
  
  A new report commissioned by an industry lobby group on the federal government's proposed emissions cap stirred up strong reactions from both oil and gas supporters and environmental groups on Monday. The report, by S&P Global Commodity Insights, was commissioned by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to examine the impact of various proposed emissions-reducing policies on Canada's conventional (non-oilsands) oil and gas producers. Its conclusions Monday were used to support the
  
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• Hiking with Hounds program takes Cochrane foster dogs to the trails

  27-05-2024 21:57
  
  Dozens of foster dogs have been enjoying some of Alberta's most scenic walks thanks to a program from the Cochrane & Area Humane Society.  The Hiking With Hounds program sees volunteers take a group of pooches out every Monday. Organizer Christine Newman, says it's a great way for the animals to blow off some steam and have some "fun in the sun." "It's a blast, but it's also a way to recognize behaviours you wouldn't see in the shelter," Newman said. "When (we're done hiking), we report
  
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• Alleged Calgary drug house shut down by Alberta sheriffs

  27-05-2024 21:30
  
  Alberta sheriffs have closed a problem property in Calgary, saying officers were frequently called to the Beddington Heights home because of drug activity. The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods unit (SCAN) closed the home, located at 19 Berwick Cres. N.W., for 63 days starting Monday. The community safety order bars people from the property until the closure period ends on July 29. The property will be boarded up and fenced off until then, and all the locks have been changed. Calgary police o
  
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• No charges for Lethbridge officers who surveilled Alberta MLA Shannon Phillips: watchdog letter

  27-05-2024 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta's police watchdog says there will be no criminal charges for two police officers who broke rules when they surveilled a legislature member.
  
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• No charges for officers who surveilled Alberta legislature member: watchdog letter

  27-05-2024 21:22
  
  Alberta's police watchdog says there will be no criminal charges for two police officers who broke rules when they surveilled a legislature member. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says there are reasonable grounds to believe two Lethbridge police officers committed offences when they did a criminal record check on local New Democrat MLA Shannon Phillips. But it says the Alberta Prosecution Service determined the circumstances didn't meet its test to go to court. The information is con
  
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• Alta. man rescues wild foal trapped on steep cliffside

  27-05-2024 21:21
  
  A man’s daring rescue of a newborn wild foal that was trapped after falling down a steep embankment was caught on video over the weekend. On Sunday, a member of the Help Alberta Wildies Society (HAWS), a wild horse advocacy group, spotted a newborn foal in distress on a cliffside near Ya Ha Tinda Ranch, west of Sundre, Alta. The foal had tumbled down the cliffside and was perched near a steep vertical drop-off, tangled in branches. Its mother was unable to help it get free.The information
  
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• Lethbridge Police invite parents, caregivers to Car Seat Check Stop - My Lethbridge Now

  27-05-2024 21:04 via news.google.com
  
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• Lethbridge Police providing information on seatbelt safety at checkstop event - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 21:02 via news.google.com
  
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• Calgary's reputation takes a hit in new quality of life survey

  27-05-2024 20:27
  
  More Calgarians have a gloomy outlook on the quality of life in the city and many say the perception of making a good living here has dropped, a new survey says. The City of Calgary's 2024 Spring Survey, conducted by Ipsos, found that three-fifths of Calgarians believe life has "worsened" over the past three years, which is a "historic high." Fewer people are seeing the city as a great place to live too, the report suggests.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right at your fingertips
  
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• Calgary golf pro fighting lung cancer gets exemption into Charity Classic - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 20:17 via news.google.com
  
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• Calgary golfer Steve Blake staying positive despite lung cancer diagnosis

  27-05-2024 20:00
  
  Steve Blake loves to be on the golf course and says it's how he gets away.  However, eight months ago, he wondered if he would ever be able to pick up a club again. Blake had a persistent cough that wasn't getting any better, so he decided to get it checked out.  That's when he learned that despite not smoking, he had stage four lung cancer. "We knew it wasn't going to be good," said Blake, 56. "(The doctor) said 12 to 24 months, but I really grabbed onto that and said, 'I just want th
  
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• Stars roar back to win Game 3 over Oilers

  27-05-2024 19:39
  
  Jason Robertson's hat-trick goal midway through the third period was the winner, but the difference in Game 3 of the Western Conference Final came 20 minutes earlier. That's when the Dallas Stars wrestled control of Monday night's showdown with the host Edmonton Oilers, scoring three times in a three-and-a-half-minute span to take a 3-2 lead, surprising and quieting a lively Rogers Place crowd.Complete coverage of the Edmonton Oilers' Stanley Cup Playoffs runAnd while Adam Henrique tied the game
  
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• Quebec police investigating after entire herd of 75 cattle allegedly stolen - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 19:37 via news.google.com
  
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• Ottawa working on artificial intelligence strategy for the public service - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 18:57 via news.google.com
  
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• Little Warriors receives $5M funding boost from Alberta government

  27-05-2024 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Alberta organization that focuses on the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse has received a $5-million funding from the province.
  
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• New Canadian Blood Services' Calgary location opens

  27-05-2024 17:54
  
  Canadian Blood Services’ says it needs more than 4,000 donors each month in Calgary to help meet patients’ needs and hopes a new facility will help. The organization is set to open a new location Monday in the east tower of Penn West Plaza located at 207 Ninth Ave. S.W.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppThe donor centre was relocated from Eau Claire Market, as the mall is being demolished to make way for the Green Line LRT. The organizati
  
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• 'Complete surprise': Alberta woman wins big on April Lotto Max

  27-05-2024 17:41
  
  An Okotoks woman who won $100,000 on a lottery ticket says she doesn't yet know how she'll spend the money.  Joyce O’Neill's windfall came from an April 12 Lotto Max and Extra draw. "I had to scan it again and again to be sure of what I was seeing," she said in a Monday news release.   O’Neill says she buys Super Packs weekly, but was still shocked to find she had actually won. "It was a complete surprise,” she said. O’Neill purchased her ticket at the High Riv
  
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• Why Canada's big grocery stores are under investigation

  27-05-2024 17:10
  
  Amid mounting outrage over high grocery prices, a retail expert says there's a solution to fostering more competition in the country. Given that only three retailers (Loblaw Companies Limited, Metro Inc., and Sobeys Inc.) dominate 70 per cent of Canada's grocery market, Doug Stephens said the country must look at "all avenues" to raise the competition level in the country and give consumers more choice. "At the end of the day as much as I love this country, we are small," Stephens, a retail expe
  
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• What Canadian grocery shoppers need to know about anticompetitive allegations

  27-05-2024 17:10
  
  Amid mounting outrage over high grocery prices, a retail expert says there's a solution to fostering more competition in the country. Given that only three retailers (Loblaw Companies Limited, Metro Inc., and Sobeys Inc.) dominate 70 per cent of Canada's grocery market, Doug Stephens said the country must look at "all avenues" to raise the competition level in the country and give consumers more choice. "At the end of the day as much as I love this country, we are small," Stephens, a retail expe
  
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• Judge grants partial injunction against pro-Palestinian encampment at Montreal's UQAM - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 16:17 via news.google.com
  
  Judge grants partial injunction against pro-Palestinian encampment at Montreal's UQAM  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Warm start to the week with chance of lightning in northern Alberta

  27-05-2024 16:11
  
  Southern Alberta will start this week with warm and stable conditions, before a pattern breakdown introduces cooler air and instability by the middle of the week when a Pacific trough edges into British Columbia. In northern Alberta convective activity is possible Monday, especially overnight into Tuesday. More severe thunderstorms are expected along the northern border and into the Northwest Territories before an upper ridge tracks east. As that upper low establishes itself as the main weather
  
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• New pilot program looks to improve breast cancer surgery in Calgary

  27-05-2024 16:02
  
  A new pilot project, which harnesses the power of magnets, is said to drastically improve breast cancer surgery in the province. The Calgary Health Foundation and Alberta Cancer Foundation will be announcing $5.7 million in funding for the Sentimag Project on Monday morning.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right at your fingertips The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppIt uses a magnetic seed about the size of a grain of rice, which is ins
  
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• Construction begins on Calgary compost facility expansion

  27-05-2024 15:41
  
  The city’s compost facility will be breaking ground on an expansion Monday morning. The facility is one of the largest of its kind in Canada and currently processes upwards of 145,500 metric tonnes of residential food and yard waste, and dewatered biosolids every year.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppThe expansion will provide an additional 60,000 tonnes per year of capacity. It will also include an anaerobic digestion module that will turn f
  
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• Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45, prompts global outcry

  27-05-2024 14:37
  
  An Israeli airstrike triggered a massive blaze killing 45 people in a tent camp in the Gaza city of Rafah, officials said on Monday, prompting an outcry from global leaders who urged the implementation of a World Court order to halt the assault. In scenes grimly familiar from a war in its eighth month, Palestinian families rushed to hospitals to prepare their dead for burial after the strike late on Sunday night set tents and rickety metal shelters ablaze.Download the CTV News App for breaking n
  
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• Driver arrested after failing to stop for Calgary police

  27-05-2024 14:29
  
  Calgary police say a driver, who was believed to have been impaired, was arrested on Sunday evening. Officials say around 7:30 p.m., police were attempting to pull over a vehicle, but the driver failed to stop. Police ended up needing to block the vehicle up against a barrier at 7 Avenue and 5 Street S.W. No one was injured and the driver was arrested without incident.
  
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• Police incident at Deerfoot Meadows mall resolved without incident

  27-05-2024 14:11
  
  Calgary police blocked off a road at Deerfoot Meadows mall for about an hour in response to a police incident. Officials say 11 Street S.E. between the entrance to IKEA and Walmart to the entrance to Sportchek was closed in both directions on Monday morning. Police said there is no risk to the public. ONGOING POLICE INCIDENT Please note that there is a significant police presence in the area of Deerfoot Meadows in relation to an ongoing police incident. There is no risk to the public at this tim
  
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• ASIRT recommended charging Lethbridge officers who spied on MLA, but Crown won't prosecute: letter - CBC.ca

  27-05-2024 13:00 via news.google.com
  
  ASIRT recommended charging Lethbridge officers who spied on MLA, but Crown won't prosecute: letter  CBC.ca
  
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• A cross-country look at beer and wine in convenience stores

  27-05-2024 12:12
  
  By Labour Day weekend, Ontarians of legal drinking age could snag a six-pack at their local convenience store on the way to the cottage. Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled the Province’s alcohol expansion plans on Friday, noting consumers could see ready-to-drink beverages such as hard iced tea and larger cases of beer in grocery stores by Aug. 1, and beer, wine, cider and hard beverages in corner stores by Sept. 5. But what are alcohol sales like across the country? Here’s what we k
  
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• Riley gets first individual PGA Tour win by 5 at Colonial - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 02:29 via news.google.com
  
  Riley gets first individual PGA Tour win by 5 at Colonial  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• North Korea informs Japan of a plan to launch satellite - Lethbridge News Now

  27-05-2024 00:38 via news.google.com
  
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