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• Calgary development applications more than double compared to last year

  22-08-2024 23:59
  
  New statistics from the City of Calgary show development permit applications have doubled over the past year. According to the data, requested by CTV News, Calgary saw 24 applications for development permits on R-CG and H-GO parcels from May 14 to August 12, 2023. During that same period this year, there were 51 applications which would have required a land use if not for rezoning. The city started accepting applications for R-CG development as soon as council made a decision to approve new blan
  
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• Calgary hosting pop-up info session for those affected by current water-main repair work

  22-08-2024 23:41
  
  The City of Calgary will hold a pop-up information session on Friday for community members impacted by the water-main repair work along 33 Avenue N.W. and 16 Avenue N.W. Francois Bouchart, director of capital priorities and investment, said Thursday that the city will reach out to impacted community members directly to give them information on the time and location for the meeting. The repair work will fix so-called "hot spots" in the Bearspaw feeder main – segments of pipe that need urgen
  
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• Top Alberta Court allows appeal of coal miner's exploration applications

  22-08-2024 23:25
  
  Alberta's top court is allowing a southwestern ranching community to appeal applications for coal exploration permits. The Alberta Court of Appeal says it will hear arguments from the Municipal District of Ranchland that the province's energy regulator shouldn't have accepted applications for Grassy Mountain. Australian-owned Northback Holdings is trying to develop a coal mine at the site in the Crowsnest Pass area of southwestern Alberta and has filed three applications for exploration permits.
  
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• Local therapy facility for disabled children attracting families from all over the world

  22-08-2024 22:55
  
  The Canadian Centre for Development has become one of the first places families with disabled children turn to for help, coming to Calgary from all over the globe, according to founder and executive director Julie Rubin. "We have kids travelling here not only from all over Canada but even from the States, from Europe," she said. "We have a family here from Ghana right now." The centre has a team of 13, made up of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a speech language pathologist, therapy a
  
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• Invasive species include the troublesome, but lovable goldfish - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 22:24 via news.google.com
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• Locals featured in documentary film ‘Fallen Heroes’ - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 22:23 via news.google.com
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• Man dead after personal aircraft crashes in Alberta: RCMP

  22-08-2024 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP say a 46-year-old man from Rivercourse, Alta., died after a propeller plane crashed near the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Charges laid in connection with murder of missing Calgary man

  22-08-2024 21:55
  
  Calgary police say a man who went missing last year was murdered and they've arrested a suspect in the case. Christopher Stevenson, 37, was last seen entering a building on Sixth Avenue S.E. on Aug. 24, 2023. The investigation led police to search a home in downtown Calgary and a property in Rocky View County, which helped them collect enough evidence to determine Stevenson was murdered. One person has since been arrested in the case.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right at your
  
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• Rodeo competitors in final push for championship points this weekend - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 21:45 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge drug house shut down by Alberta Sheriffs - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 21:39 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge drug house shut down again due to continued illegal activity - CTV News Calgary

  22-08-2024 21:38 via news.google.com
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• Lethbridge drug house shut down again due to continued illegal activity

  22-08-2024 21:38
  
  Alberta Sheriffs have shut down a drug house in Lethbridge for the second time this year due to illegal activity. The Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit obtained a court order against the owner of 1607 3 Avenue N. Investigators have closed the property for 90 days, starting at noon on Aug. 22. “Any tenancy agreement or lease is terminated effective that date, requiring all tenants to vacate the premises,” SCAN said in a news release.The information you need to know, sen
  
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• North Lethbridge drug house shut for second time this year - Lethbridge News Now

  22-08-2024 21:35 via news.google.com
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• Coaldale RCMP looking for witnesses, footage of Wednesday morning collision - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 21:31 via news.google.com
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• Whitecaps FC and Lethbridge Soccer Association extend technical services partnership through 2026 - Vancouver Whitecaps FC

  22-08-2024 20:59 via news.google.com
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• Week-long burger festival returns to Calgary in September

  22-08-2024 20:18
  
  Chefs at several Calgary restaurants are in the process of crafting creative and tasty burgers for La Burger Week. The annual festival, held in the first week of September, sees eateries nation-wide create deluxe burgers for the public to try. This year marks the 13th edition of the festival. "This prestigious food festival is committed to supporting local restaurants across Canada," said a Friday news release. "It highlights the passion, dedication, and artistry chefs pour into every creation,
  
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• Pilot killed in crash near Alberta-Saskatchewan border: RCMP

  22-08-2024 19:53
  
  One person was killed in a plane crash in eastern Alberta on Wednesday. Emergency crews in Kitscoty, Alta. got a call around 10 a.m. from nearby Rivercourse, Alta., that a personal plane had crashed shortly after takeoff near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppCrews from both provinces located the wreckage shortly afterwards. The 46-year-old man flying the plane, the sole occupant, was declared dead at the scene. Trans
  
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• Coalhurst council approves funds for new dog park - Lethbridge News Now

  22-08-2024 19:50 via news.google.com
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• Driver charged after allegedly travelling 151 km/hr while impaired - Lethbridge News Now

  22-08-2024 19:25 via news.google.com
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• Alberta Energy Regulator imposing penalty on Imperial Oil amid ongoing Kearl investigation

  22-08-2024 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Thursday, the regulator said its investigation found that industrial wastewater bypassed a seepage interception system.
  
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• Groundwater projects to inform communities, protect water and ecosystems

  22-08-2024 19:08
  
  Living Lakes Canada, a non-governmental organization dedicated to freshwater protection, announced a new Alberta-based groundwater monitoring project being piloted in the Oldman Watershed and starting up this fall. The goal of the Alberta Groundwater Program, announced last month, is to gather valuable data and support drought resiliency. Maggie Finkle-Aucoin, Living Lakes Canada’s database manager, spoke in a July 25 webinar about the significance of this new program. “Careful manag
  
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• Citizens petitioning Ottawa to finish twinning Highway 1 in Yoho National Park

  22-08-2024 19:08
  
  A group of citizens is petitioning the federal government to finish twinning Highway 1 through Yoho National Park to improve safety. The petition asks the government to provide funding to twin the highway through the national park, upgrading it from a two-lane highway to a four-lane highway, “in order to increase safety for the growing number of vehicles that use this highway for travel and commerce.” It also asks the government to fund the creation of wildlife overpasses and underpa
  
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• Record-breaking number of first-year students moving into U of C residence in fall 2024

  22-08-2024 18:49
  
  The University of Calgary says the number of first-year students moving to campus this fall is the highest number yet. Officials say the number of spots on campus has been expanded due to "overwhelming demand." An unparalleled 1,267 first-year students are moving into residence in fall 2024 – along with more than 1,700 returning students – bringing the total number of students living in residence to more than 3,000. Despite the additional spaces created, the university says it contin
  
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• Imperial Oil fined $50K over Kearl wastewater leak

  22-08-2024 18:47
  
  Imperial Oil is being penalized by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), after the agency released its first findings from the ongoing investigation into the Kearl Mine site.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App In a press release, the AER said Imperial Oil will be fined $50,000 after it was discovered that a shallow underground pathway from wastewater sources at the Kearl site bypassed the deep groundwater seepage interception system.Federal politi
  
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• Hundreds expected to attend Calgary networking event

  22-08-2024 18:40
  
  The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) is welcoming hundreds of people to a networking event Thursday. TIES provides specialized skills training, and employment programs to help their clients land employment and thrive in the Canadian labour market. Registration isn’t mandatory, but already more than 500 people have signed up for the free event at the Genesis Centre running from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. They’ll have a chance to connect with potential employers, including the Ironworkers Uni
  
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• Former Lethbridge-West MLA takes on new position at University of Lethbridge - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 18:39 via news.google.com
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• Railways prepare to restart after federal government forces binding arbitration in labour dispute

  22-08-2024 18:23
  
  Canada's Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is intervening to end a work stoppage that saw this country's two largest railways grind to a standstill Thursday, by forcing the parties into binding arbitration. Announcing the major move from Parliament Hill, MacKinnon said he is invoking powers under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to direct the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to "assist the parties in settling the outstanding terms of their collective agreements by imposing final bind
  
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• Federal government to intervene in rail labour dispute, force binding arbitration

  22-08-2024 18:23
  
  Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is invoking powers under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to intervene in the labour dispute that has brought Canada's two largest railways to a standstill. Invoking this power will force all parties into binding arbitration. This is breaking news. More developments to come…. Canada's two biggest railways have ground to an unprecedented halt, and as pressure mounts for federal intervention, Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon will provide an update on th
  
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• Federal government to force binding arbitration in rail dispute, operations to resume

  22-08-2024 18:23
  
  Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is invoking powers under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to intervene in the labour dispute that has brought Canada's two largest railways to a standstill. Invoking this power will force all parties into binding arbitration, and operations on both railways will resume. This is a breaking news story. CTV News' previous article is below. More developments to come…. Canada's two biggest railways have ground to an unprecedented halt, and as pressure moun
  
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• Pronghorns name recipients of academic excellence awards - My Lethbridge Now

  22-08-2024 17:34 via news.google.com
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• Railway shutdown will cost Prairie farmers $17M a day: expert

  22-08-2024 17:33
  
  A local expert says the railway shutdown that started Wednesday evening will be detrimental to Prairie farmers. "This is catastrophic to agriculture, to the province, in every facet," Milt Miller of Providence Grain Solutions told CTV News Edmonton on Thursday morning. "From the Edmonton region, down to Red Deer, across to the Saskatchewan border, there's close to probably $17 million a day of grain deliveries being delivered to the various elevators and processing plants. All rely on rail to mo
  
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• New deputy commissioner heads Alberta RCMP - Lethbridge News Now

  22-08-2024 17:23 via news.google.com
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• Warm and mild on Thursday, evening thunderstorms likely Friday

  22-08-2024 16:16
  
  Thursday will be a pretty average day – literally – with a mix of sun and cloud and the diurnal temperatures right on par with the seasonal averages. The exit region of a deepening trough along the Pacific coastline will create an intensifying southerly flow in Alberta Friday evening and early Saturday.Showers and thunderstorms are likely in southern Alberta – including in Calgary - with some of those cells potentially becoming warned storms due to the threat of heavy rain, med
  
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• 1 in 3 Canadians report being personally impacted by severe weather: poll

  22-08-2024 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  The number of people touched by extreme weather jumped significantly in almost every province but Alberta saw the biggest increase.
  
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• 10 things to do in Calgary this weekend (Aug 23-25)

  22-08-2024 16:00
  
  There are plenty of local events and activities you can check out in Calgary this weekend. Here's a look at just 10 things happening around the city: HozierWhat: Watch Irish singer and songwriter Hozier perform at the Saddledome as part of his Unreal Earth tour. When: Friday, Aug. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Scotiabank Saddledome, 555 Saddledome Rise S.E. Cost: Prices vary.      View this post on Instagram                    
  
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• Municipalities say Alberta oilpatch policies harming tax base, environmental oversight

  22-08-2024 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  The province is reviewing how assets in regulated industries are taxed.
  
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• Southern Alberta man sentenced to 4 years for possession of child porn

  22-08-2024 15:21
  
  A 41-year-old southern Alberta man has been sentenced to four years after police found more than half a million images and videos of child porn on his computers. The man, who can't be identified in order to protect the identity of the young victim, was charged last November after police followed up on a tip about possible child abuse.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppOn Sept. 19, 2023, members of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams' Internet
  
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• Multiple homes damaged, one cat injured in Riverbend fire

  22-08-2024 14:59
  
  The Calgary Fire Department and arson investigators are looking into what started an overnight fire in the southeast community of Riverbend. The fire started in a detached garage located in the 100 block of Riverglen Crescent around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday. “On approach, the first arriving fire crews observed a large fire that had moved from a detached garage to a house and was spreading to adjacent homes,” a CFD news release said.Sign up for breaking news alerts from CTV News, right
  
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• Multiple fires set overnight in Riverbend; police investigating possible connection

  22-08-2024 14:59
  
  The Calgary Fire Department and arson investigators are looking into what started multiple suspicious fires overnight in the southeast community of Riverbend. The fire started in a detached garage located in the 100 block of Riverglen Crescent around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday. “On approach, the first arriving fire crews observed a large fire that had moved from a detached garage to a house and was spreading to adjacent homes,” a CFD news release said.Sign up for breaking news alerts fro
  
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• Multiple fires reported overnight in Riverbend; police investigating possible connection

  22-08-2024 14:59
  
  The Calgary Fire Department and arson investigators are looking into what started multiple suspicious fires overnight in the southeast community of Riverbend. The fire started in a detached garage located in the 100 block of Riverglen Crescent around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday. “On approach, the first arriving fire crews observed a large fire that had moved from a detached garage to a house and was spreading to adjacent homes,” a CFD news release said.Sign up for breaking news alerts fro
  
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• Multiple fires reported in Riverbend; police investigating possible connection

  22-08-2024 14:59
  
  The Calgary Fire Department and arson investigators are looking into what started multiple suspicious fires Thursday in the southeast community of Riverbend. The fire started in a detached garage located in the 100 block of Riverglen Crescent S.E. around 12:40 a.m. on Thursday. "On approach, the first arriving fire crews observed a large fire that had moved from a detached garage to a house and was spreading to adjacent homes," a CFD news release said. More crews were called to help as the fire
  
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• Rail shutdown: Trudeau says Ottawa ‘not taking this lightly’

  22-08-2024 13:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Freight trains across Canada have come to grinding halt as thousands of workers at the country’s two main railway companies have been locked out.
  
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• Rail shutdown: Ottawa imposing binding arbitration on parties

  22-08-2024 13:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Freight trains across Canada came to grinding halt Thursday as thousands of workers at the country’s two main railway companies were locked out.
  
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• Canadian rail services shut down as CN, CPKC workers locked out

  22-08-2024 13:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  Freight trains across Canada are have come to grinding halt as thousands of workers at the country’s two main railway companies have been locked out.
  
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• Railways, union still seem far apart as pressure builds on feds to end rail shutdown

  22-08-2024 12:27
  
  Negotiators returned to the bargaining table Thursday after Canada's two largest railways locked out their employees after midnight in an unprecedented shutdown of freight traffic across the country. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt as talks broke off last night, threatening to upend supply chains still reeling from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. Rail
  
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• Rail companies, union resume talks as lockout shuts down both major railways

  22-08-2024 12:27
  
  Contract talks resumed Thursday after Canada's two largest railways locked out their employees overnight in what is an unprecedented shutdown of freight traffic across the country. Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains still reeling from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. On Thursday morning, the Teamsters Canada Rail Confere
  
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• 9,300 employees locked out: Latest updates on shutdown of Canada's 2 largest railways

  22-08-2024 12:27
  
  In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways has simultaneously ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties disagreed on a new contract before the midnight deadline. The Teams
  
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• COVID-19 tied to higher risk of depression, anxiety, PTSD and other conditions, with the unvaccinated most affected, study shows

  22-08-2024 12:15
  
  Editor's note: If you or anyone you know is struggling with mental health, there are a number of ways to get help, including by calling or texting the Suicide Crisis Helpline at 9-8-8. A list of local crisis centres is also available here. Having a severe case of COVID-19 appears to be linked with an increased risk of subsequent mental illness, including depression and anxiety disorders, and a new study finds that the association is strongest among people who were not vaccinated against the dise
  
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• Pete Janzen - Martin Brothers Funeral Chapels

  22-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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• Douglas Berry - Martin Brothers Funeral Chapels

  22-08-2024 09:00 via news.google.com
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