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• Canadian Cory Johnston wins second Elite Series tournament title - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 23:07 via news.google.com
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• Hardy brings the thunder to the country in a Saturday night to remember in downtown Calgary

  18-08-2024 21:52
  
  Saturday night at The Confluence, Hardy put the thunder in Country Thunder. He kicked off his headline slot on a full-moon Saturday with a pyrotechnic show that spat flames into the sky, before launching into “Rockstar," featuring sledgehammer guitars and some pretty cheeky lyrics. And I ain't sayin' that I'm Nickelback, kickin' it in Cali with today's who's-who But everybody's got a song called "Rockstar" Lately I been feelin' like one so I wrote one too And right from those first few not
  
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• 'We are all one': Woodstock photographer looks back 55 years later

  18-08-2024 21:30
  
  In August 1969, American photographer Henry Diltz was on the phone with a friend who was organizing an outdoor concert. "He said, 'You should be out here at this music festival,'” Diltz recalls.Top entertainment headlines, all in one placeThe invitation was accepted, and within hours, Diltz was on his way to cover a massive counter-culture event set to take place on a dairy farm 60 kilometres from Woodstock, N.Y. “It was a huge concert and it was mainly about the music,” Diltz
  
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• Okotoks wins third straight WCBL title on 9th inning walk-off home run from Connor Crowson

  18-08-2024 19:47
  
  Okotoks’ own Connor Crowson hit the home run of his life Saturday night as the Dawgs defeated Moose Jaw 6-5 to claim the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) title. The Dawgs won their third straight WCBL title, “repeating the three-peat” that they won from 2007 to 2009. In front of a packed house of 6, 341, he Dawgs grabbed an early 3-0 lead but the Miller Express tied it in the fifth on a two-run home run by Nate Mensik. Okotoks pushed back, taking a 5-3 lead in the sevent
  
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• Hundreds of Calgarians participate in global protest to defend Venezuela’s constitution

  18-08-2024 19:11
  
  Members of Calgary's Venezuelan community were at city hall Saturday to highlight ongoing electoral fraud in Venezuela. They said the protest was in response to the compromised integrity of the July 28 presidential election in Venezuela.. The election was conducted under the Barbados Agreement, a 2023 pact guaranteeing electoral fairness between the government and the opposition. However, rally organizers said the agreement was breached, which led to significant delays and issues in registering
  
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• Highway 93 reopens following mudslide

  18-08-2024 18:30
  
  Highway 93 reopened Saturday night after a mudslide shut it down Friday. The province posted on social media shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday that the road was clear.Update: Hwy93N approx. 5km south of jct Hwy11, near Mt. Murchison, has been reopened after the earlier mudslide. (8:24pm) #ABRoads #JasperNP https://t.co/NZDAhdZXTZ — 511 Alberta (@511Alberta) August 18, 2024“Highway 93N approx.. 5km south of jct Hwy11, near Mt. Murchison, has been reopened after the earlier mudslide,&rdquo
  
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• Hot stretch vaults Green to the top of Rogers Charity Classic leaderboard

  18-08-2024 17:59
  
  Australian Richard Green fired 11 birdies on Saturday to vault to the top of the Rogers Charity Classic leaderboard. If not for one bogey and one double bogey, Green could have tied or broken the course record of 61 at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club. Instead, he had to settle for shooting a round of eight-under 62 to move into top spot at 13 under with one round to go at the PGA Tour Champions event. “That was fun,” he said. “It’s been in the making for a while now,
  
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• Calgary pipe woes flag 'dire need' for infrastructure upgrades: municipalities group

  18-08-2024 17:43
  
  The condition of infrastructure across the country is dire and action needs to be taken now to prevent the kind of massive water pipe break that continues to plague Alberta's biggest city, says the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.  Geoff Stewart was in Calgary as part of the federation's annual general meeting in June when the break occurred, leading to months of water restrictions and other onerous measures. Montrealers woke to their own infrastructure fail
  
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• Rankin rushes for three touchdowns to power Elks to 47-22 road win over Ticats

  18-08-2024 17:27
  
  Different running back, same result for Jarious Jackson and the Edmonton Elks. Justin Rankin ran for 108 yards and three touchdowns to power Edmonton to its third straight win, a 47-22 decision over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday night. Javon Leake ran for 266 yards and four TDs on 33 carries (8.1-yard average) over the first two wins but was slowed by a hip ailment at Tim Hortons Field. "I don't know where (the rushing attack) has been but it's here now and it's here to
  
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• CFL reinstates Toronto Argonauts quarterback Chad Kelly with conditions - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 17:13 via news.google.com
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• Ron Barge, creator of iconic Calgary children's show 'Buck Shot', dies

  18-08-2024 17:00
  
  Ron Barge, the creator of Buck Shot, has died. The news broke Saturday evening that Barge, who played Buck Shot on CFCN in Calgary for 30 years, passed away. From the moment he went to air on CFCN in 1967, Buck Shot was a part of every Calgary kid’s childhood. The show ran every weekday at noon for almost three decades. The show was hosted by Barge, otherwise known as Buck Shot, and his sidekicks, Benny the Bear and Clyde the Owl, and featured cartoons and content aimed specifically at chi
  
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• Laval's Leylah Fernandez falls to Pegula in three-set quarterfinal match at Cincinnati Open

  18-08-2024 15:08
  
  Canada's Leylah Fernandez suffered a 7-5, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (3) defeat at the hands of American Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open on Saturday. Already having to win one tiebreaker just to keep herself in the match, Fernandez needed to do it once more to advance to the semifinals. However, Pegula jumped out to a 5-2 lead before eventually taking the tiebreaker 7-3 to emerge victorious. Fernandez of Laval, Que., broke on six of her 15 opportunities and won 59.4 per cent of her
  
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• Calgary pipe woes flag ‘dire need’ for infrastructure upgrades: municipalities group - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 14:03 via news.google.com
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• Quintuplets among Gaza's dead as Blinken visits the region to seek a ceasefire deal

  18-08-2024 13:36
  
  Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 29 people overnight and into Sunday, including young quintuplets, local health officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the region to try to seal a ceasefire deal after months of negotiations. The U.S. and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar said they were closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with American and Israeli officials expressing cautious optimism. But Hamas has signaled resistance to what it called new demands
  
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• Quadruplets among Gaza's dead as Blinken travels to the region to try to seal a ceasefire deal

  18-08-2024 13:36
  
  Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 28 people overnight and into Sunday, including young quadruplets, local health officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the region to try to seal a ceasefire deal after months of negotiations. The U.S. and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar said they were closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with American and Israeli officials expressing cautious optimism. But Hamas has signaled resistance to what it called new demands
  
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• Israel strikes Gaza as Blinken heads to region to try to help close ceasefire deal

  18-08-2024 13:36
  
  Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 24 people overnight and into Sunday, including a woman and her six children, local health officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the region to try to seal a ceasefire deal after months of negotiations. The U.S. and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar said they were closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with American and Israeli officials expressing cautious optimism. But Hamas has signaled resistance to what it says are
  
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• Beef jerky, salted nuts and iodine tablets helped an 89-year-old hiker's 'very unlikely' survival in Idaho wilderness

  18-08-2024 13:00
  
  Equipped with only 19 pounds of gear, 89-year-old Bing Olbum set off on what he intended to be a five-day hiking trip. Instead, Olbum found himself stranded for nearly 10 days in over four million acres of Salmon-Challis National Forest. It’s home to some of the most rugged places in the country beyond Alaska, according to a local search and rescue coordinator. Some of the peaks and saddles Olbum passed through reached over 8,000 feet as he cleared more than 20 miles while traversing the a
  
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• Democrats look to build on Kamala Harris’s momentum at national convention - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 12:03 via news.google.com
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• Hideki Matsuyama surges to a 5-shot lead in steamy Memphis - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 02:18 via news.google.com
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• Chris Johnston becomes first Canadian to Elite Series overall title - Lethbridge News Now

  18-08-2024 01:33 via news.google.com
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• Police identify suspect in assault on 12-year-old child

  18-08-2024 00:04
  
  Calgary police issued a statement Saturday afternoon saying that they have identified and located the man they believe is responsible for an assault on a child in northeast Calgary. Police say the incident took place at around 8:15 p.m. on July 30 at Prairie Winds Park, during which time a 12-year-old had an “interaction” with a boy whose father police say got into a verbal altercation with the 12-year-old, then struck them. The 12-year-old was assessed on scene by EMS suffering from
  
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• Jasper wildfire no longer out-of-control, now classified as ‘being held’

  18-08-2024 00:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jasper residents were finally allowed to return to the community on Friday after they had to flee the raging flames more than three weeks ago.
  
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