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• Calgary parents face capacity issues at schools as student enrolment reaches record levels

  21-08-2024 23:58
  
  With the new school year starting in two weeks, the Calgary Board of Education is looking for ways to deal with record levels of student population growth throughout the next 10 years. Justin Simaluk and his wife have lived in Calgary’s inner city for five years, but the recent birth of their child means they are already worried about where their child will go to school. Simaluk said he got a letter from the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) last year that warned them th
  
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• Blue-green algae detected in lake near Strathmore, Alta.: AHS

  21-08-2024 23:56
  
  Cyanobacteria, known as Blue-green algae, has been detected in a lake in Wheatland County, east of Calgary. Alberta Health Services (AHS) said the bacteria was identified in Eagle Lake, located five kilometres southeast of Strathmore, Alta. AHS encourages anyone near the lake to take precautions, including avoiding all contact with cyanobacterial blooms. Humans and pets should not swim or wade in areas where cyanobacteria is visible.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Downloa
  
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• Prep work begins along 33 Avenue N.W. ahead of water main repairs

  21-08-2024 23:53
  
  City crews began soft cutting the asphalt along 33 Avenue N.W. in Bowness on Wednesday to prepare the road for heavy excavation as they repair segments of the Bearspaw feeder main. "Time is of the essence because we have water restrictions in here," said Darren Finney, leader of the wastewater and storm water capital delivery team in the water department. "We want to get things out quickly and we're hoping to do it during the day." Work starts on Aug. 26 and is scheduled to go 24 hours a day, se
  
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• Pronghorns recognize top academic student-athletes for 2023-24 - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 23:23 via news.google.com
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• Hangar Flight Museum's historic CF-100 restoration near completion

  21-08-2024 23:20
  
  The Hangar Flight Museum's CF-100 Mark 3 is in hundreds of pieces in a hangar in Wetaskiwin, Alta., where it's been since late 2019. It's taken the team at Historic Aviation Services thousands of hours to dismantle, clean, repair and in some cases replace parts that couldn't be salvaged. "The light is at the end of the tunnel," said Byron Reynolds, owner of the restoration company. "It's coming along. We're actually in the finishing stages as we speak." The historic Canadian-made fighter sat out
  
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• 7 Calgary coworkers to split $5M Lotto 6-49 win: 'Most of us are investing'

  21-08-2024 23:19
  
  Seven Calgary coworkers have won a whopping $5 million on a Lotto 6-49 ticket. The prize will be split among colleagues Edmond Beti, Jeremy Buckley, Faye Brautigam, Cindy Einarson, Christopher Ford, Eamon O’Nyons and Jason Penhalagan. "I’m the first one at work every morning," said Einarson in a Western Canada Lottery Corporation news release. "Edmond came to me with the ticket and told me." Brautigam, meanwhile, said she thought she was being fired when her colleagues called her. "T
  
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• Calgary police officer speaks out after fellow cop pleads guilty to sharing sex video

  21-08-2024 22:55
  
  A Calgary police officer pleaded guilty to discreditable conduct on Wednesday, after it was found he shared an intimate video and images of a woman and fellow officer with others on the force. At a Calgary Police Service professional conduct hearing, Const. Mike Oakey, 39, admitted through an agreed statement of facts that he shared a video of him and the victim having sex, as well as nude images of her, with a number of colleagues between 2018 and 2019 without her consent. The tribunal heard Oa
  
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• Not kidding around: Lethbridge's newest celebrity - CBC.ca

  21-08-2024 22:53 via news.google.com
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• Several hospitalized following collision near Coalhurst - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 21:33 via news.google.com
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• The Confluence hires Alpha House outreach workers for public safety pilot project

  21-08-2024 21:28
  
  Calgary’s The Confluence Historic Site and Parkland has hired a team of outreach workers in collaboration with Alpha House which will patrol the area and ensure a “people-centred approach” to public safety. The project, which began on Aug. 12, is funded by the City of Calgary Civic Partner Community Safety Grant Program and will see at least two dedicated outreach workers operate on the site for eight hours every single day. Jennifer Thompson, president of The Confluence, said
  
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• 'Unacceptable': Business groups say rail stoppage would hit grain, groceries and more

  21-08-2024 20:45
  
  An impending labour stoppage on Canada's two national railways has riled industry groups who worry consumers and businesses will be hit hard if goods ranging from grains to french fries to petrochemicals can't be moved.Get the latest Edmonton updates right to your inbox Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. have already begun a phased shutdown of their networks as the deadline approaches to come to an agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference for a ne
  
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• 'Unacceptable': Alberta business groups say rail strike will be felt on farms and in grocery stores

  21-08-2024 20:45
  
  An impending labour stoppage on Canada's two national railways has riled industry groups who worry consumers and businesses will be hit hard if goods ranging from grains to french fries to petrochemicals can't be moved.Get the latest Edmonton updates right to your inbox Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. have already begun a phased shutdown of their networks as the deadline approaches to come to an agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference for a ne
  
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• Check your tickets: Five Alberta winners in Tuesday's Lotto Max draw

  21-08-2024 20:38
  
  Five Lotto Max tickets purchased in Alberta won big on Tuesday night’s draw – with prize money totalling more than $3 million. Two tickets, purchased outside of Calgary and Edmonton, each won $1 million by matching one of the 44 Maxmillions prizes, with numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 16, 21 and 38; and 12, 17, 20, 23, 29, 30 and 48. Two other tickets, also purchased outside of Calgary and Edmonton, matched another Maxmillions number, to each win $500,000. The shared winning numbers were 4, 15,
  
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• Cochrane woman wins $200K while at work: 'Sat at my desk in shock'

  21-08-2024 20:14
  
  A Cochrane woman is celebrating a $200,000 lottery win she discovered while at work. Aileen Anderson says her day started out like any other, but changed drastically when she went through some scratch tickets she had bought. "I started to scratch the tickets and when I got to the second one, I saw I’d won $200,000," she said in a Wednesday news release from the Western Canada Lottery Corporation. "I just couldn’t believe it." Anderson won the top prize on a Lucky Lines Extravaganza t
  
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• Shannon Phillips talks new position at University of Lethbridge - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 20:03 via news.google.com
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• Neil Tabot remembered as Lethbridge’s latest ‘Mighty Neighbour’ - My Lethbridge Now

  21-08-2024 19:12 via news.google.com
  Neil Tabot remembered as Lethbridge’s latest ‘Mighty Neighbour’  My Lethbridge Now
  
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• Calgary's former Rose and Crown reopens as new pub

  21-08-2024 18:25
  
  Calgary's iconic Rose and Crown pub closed its doors last year, but the building is now home to another bar. Located at 1503 Fourth St. S.W., the building was constructed in the 1920s and served as a funeral home until being converted into a bar in 1986.  The Rose and Crown shuttered in January 2023, but the site has since reopened as Elephant and Castle, a British-inspired pub chain. "The pub is perfectly situated to be a top after-hours destination in the area, even boasting live mus
  
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• Rail shutdown: Trudeau says finding solution in ‘best interest of both sides’

  21-08-2024 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon will be in Calgary Wednesday, after visiting Montreal Tuesday, to try and get the railways and union to reach a deal.
  
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• As rail shutdown looms, Freeland vows no tolerance for ‘self-inflicted wound’

  21-08-2024 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon will be in Calgary Wednesday, after visiting Montreal Tuesday, to try and get the railways and union to reach a deal.
  
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• Multiple Jewish organizations, hospitals across Canada receive identical bomb threats

  21-08-2024 18:10
  
  Police in multiple cities across Canada are responding to bomb threats that were sent to Jewish organizations, synagogues and some hospitals this morning. B'nai Brith Canada says more than 100 Jewish institutions received an identical email at 5 a.m. ET threatening explosions including at their offices in Toronto and Montreal.Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and video on all the top storiesSynagogues, Jewish community centres and hospitals in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa are am
  
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• Calgary festival offers barrier-free services

  21-08-2024 17:55
  
  Calgarians who don’t have the means to pay for food, clothing and entertainment can take part in the Calgary pop-up care village festival. Attendees can access more than 40 social services and healthcare agencies on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Olympic Plaza. For free, and without judgement, they can get things like a haircut, employment support or diabetes testing. Since 2022, RadiCalgary has hosted this festival, but they’ve added a few new aspects this year. Everyone will g
  
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• Nenshi seeing optimism in Lethbridge & Alberta for the future - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 17:52 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge-West NDP candidates a strong choice for riding: Nenshi - My Lethbridge Now

  21-08-2024 17:28 via news.google.com
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• Crown prosecutors in Alberta may appeal not-guilty verdicts in Coutts murder-conspiracy case

  21-08-2024 16:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  The blockade tied up traffic for two weeks in early 2022 to protest COVID restrictions, including vaccine mandates for truckers.
  
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• Mid-week dip in temps expected with a return to the above seasonal highs by the weekend

  21-08-2024 16:37
  
  Cooler temperatures are expected in and around Calgary on Wednesday with a good chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms for most of the day, starting in the late morning. While there is instability, the region lacks the ingredients for organization, so most storms should be non-severe in nature. The exception being closer to the eastern edge of central and southern Alberta where there is a slight chance of funnel cloud development in the late afternoon/early evening. Precipitation accumula
  
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• Family dog hurt in hit-and-run crash in Chestermere

  21-08-2024 16:27
  
  Police are looking for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run in Chestermere that injured a family's dog. Chestermere RCMP say a mother, her daughter and their Cockapoo named Joey were out walking at 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 20. The group was near the corner of Paradise Road and Wildermere Drive when they were struck by a vehicle.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 AppOfficials say the mother
  
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• Roadkill numbers in Alberta trend upward

  21-08-2024 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Provincial data suggests Alberta's roadkill numbers are soaring, with snakes hit particularly hard last year.
  
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• Rail shutdown begins as employees locked out

  21-08-2024 15:26
  
  Trains across the country have ground to a halt as 9,300 workers were locked out by both of Canada's major railways after they failed to agree on a new contract before a 12:01 a.m. EDT deadline. The shutdown marks the first ever simultaneous work stoppage at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City.Top business headlines, all in one place The Railway Association of Canada says the shutdown puts a halt to about $1 billion in goods traffic each day, some of which was pre-emptivel
  
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• National rail shutdown begins as employees locked out at both major Canadian railways

  21-08-2024 15:26
  
  Trains across the country have ground to a halt as 9,300 workers were locked out by both of Canada's major railways after they failed to agree on a new contract before a 12:01 a.m. EDT deadline. The shutdown marks the first-ever simultaneous work stoppage at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City and threatens to upend supply chains.Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and video on all the top storiesThe companies haul about $1 billion in goods each day combined
  
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• Business groups warn of dire consequences unless feds step in as rail shutdown looms

  21-08-2024 15:26
  
  Hours away from an unprecedented potential shutdown at the country's two main railways, a coalition of business groups has amplified their pleas for the federal government to step in and prevent a work stoppage that would upend supply chains — even as the prime minister stressed a deal at the table is the best outcome. In a joint statement Wednesday, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Business Council of Canada, Canadian Federation of Independent Business and Canadian Manufacturers and Expo
  
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• As country-wide rail strike looms, business groups want Ottawa to stop it

  21-08-2024 15:26
  
  A coalition of business groups is calling on the federal government to prevent a work stoppage at Canada's two biggest railways. A phased shutdown of the networks at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. is already underway as the clock ticks down on contract talks with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Unless deals are reached, rail service at both companies is poised to stop at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Thursday.Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and v
  
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• Crown files notice, may appeal not-guilty verdicts in Coutts murder-conspiracy case

  21-08-2024 14:58
  
  Crown prosecutors in Alberta have given notice they plan to appeal the not-guilty verdicts given to two men arrested at the 2022 blockade at Coutts, Alta. Michelle Davio, with Alberta Justice, says a final decision on launching the appeal has not been made in the case of Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert. But Davio says there’s a time limit on filing a motion to appeal and says prosecutors want to keep their options open.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right at your finger
  
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• Snake strikes spike as roadkill numbers in Alberta trend upward

  21-08-2024 14:54
  
  Provincial data suggests Alberta’s roadkill numbers are soaring, with snakes hit particularly hard last year. Alberta Wildlife Watch says almost 400 snake carcasses were reported to it in 2023. The year before there were eight, and in 2021 there were just two. The program's database says in all, more than 7,000 animals were reported hit and killed by vehicles last year. That is a 73 per cent increase from 2019. Deer are the most commonly killed animal on Alberta's roads, the data suggests,
  
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• Serious crash shuts down section of Highway 3

  21-08-2024 14:19
  
  Traffic is being detoured on Highway 3 Wednesday following an early morning crash. At 3:30 a.m., Coaldale RCMP responded to a two-vehicle crash in the westbound lands of the highway, near the turn off for Highway 23. As of 6 a.m., traffic is blocked and is being redirected. There is no information on any injuries. Drivers are being told to avoid the area until further notice.
  
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• 4 children, 2 adults hurt in head-on crash near Coalhurst, Alta.

  21-08-2024 14:19
  
  Six people, including four children, are in hospital following a serious crash near Coalhurst early Wednesday morning. At about 12:05 a.m., Coaldale RCMP responded to a head-on crash on Highway 3 at the interchange for Highway 3A. When emergency crews arrived, they found one of the vehicles engulfed in flames and another with "substantial front-end damage" due to a head-on collision, RCMP said. The male driver of the second vehicle, who is from Lethbridge, sustained minor injuries and was taken
  
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• Coaldale RCMP on scene of Highway 3 collision - My Lethbridge Now

  21-08-2024 13:50 via news.google.com
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• Coaldale RCMP investigating Highway 3 collision - My Lethbridge Now

  21-08-2024 13:50 via news.google.com
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• Extreme weather fuelled flames coast to coast, largest study of 2023 wildfires finds

  21-08-2024 12:49
  
  The largest study of Canada's catastrophic 2023 wildfire season concludes it is "inescapable" that the record burn was caused by extreme heat and parching drought, while adding the amount of young forests consumed could make recovery harder. And it warns that the extreme temperatures seen that year were already equivalent to some climate projections for 2050. "It is inescapable that extreme heat and moisture deficits enabled the record-breaking 2023 fire season," says the study, published Tuesda
  
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• Back-to-school inflation: What costs more this year?

  21-08-2024 12:13
  
  For a lot of families, late August means back-to-school shopping, which for the past few years has meant bracing for the painful price of everyday essentials. School textbooks and supplies have continued to increase in costs this year, and while the cost of lunch and snacks is about the same as it was a year ago, the price of filling a lunch bag has gone up dramatically compared to three years ago.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppAccording to the l
  
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• Boissonnault’s former company awarded federal contract in potential conflict of interest

  21-08-2024 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault’s former company won a federal contract in January when he was a shareholder, potentially violating ethics laws.
  
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• Canada watches for defence details at Democratic National Convention - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 10:02 via news.google.com
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• Douglas James Berry - Martin Brothers Funeral Chapels

  21-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Douglas Berry Obituary | Aug 21, 2024 | Lethbridge, AB - Martin Brothers Funeral Chapels

  21-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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• HALO Air Ambulance finds missing woman, Lethbridge police say - CHAT News Today

  21-08-2024 06:52 via news.google.com
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• Fernandez upset in singles, doubles in Cleveland - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 04:32 via news.google.com
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• Springer helps homer-happy Blue Jays rout Reds 10-3 - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 03:42 via news.google.com
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• Cooler temperatures, showers in the forecast Wednesday

  21-08-2024 03:32
  
  Wednesday will be a cool one – especially after the heat we have had so far this week. It will also be rainy and windy at times with the chance of afternoon thunderstorms. This low-pressure system may even drag in a little smoke from the north, so some smoky waves are possible.This is mainly a one-day thing for Calgary. The sun will return on Thursday with normal temps. Friday will be the hottest of the next five days as we get close to 30C. The next system will roll in on the weekend. At
  
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• Here's how Calgary school boards are handling Alberta's classroom cellphone ban

  21-08-2024 03:02
  
  School is around the corner for students and new for the 2024-25 academic year is the new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms. The province announced in June that personal devices will need to be turned off and stored out of sight during class time, with exceptions for specialized learning or medical needs. Here’s how Calgary school boards are handling the new rules. Calgary School Divisions The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) will be implementing the cellphone ban at the start o
  
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• Matt Gaetz and Rick Scott face challengers in Florida primaries - Lethbridge News Now

  21-08-2024 01:42 via news.google.com
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• Whoop-Up Days officially kicks off in Lethbridge: ‘It’s always an exciting time’ - Global News Toronto

  21-08-2024 01:36 via news.google.com
  Whoop-Up Days officially kicks off in Lethbridge: ‘It’s always an exciting time’  Global News Toronto
  
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