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• Inglewood’s Blues Can announces closing date – and a new home

  08-12-2024 23:24
  
  The Blues Can has a new home. Owner Greg Smith posted a note on its website Saturday announcing that New Year’s Eve will be ithe beloved music club's final night in its old Ninth Avenue S.E. location. “If you want to see the old place one more time you better get here before the end of the year 'cause we won't be here as of January 1st 2025,” Smith said. That was followed by the news that musicians and music lovers across the city have been hoping for. “But good news!&rdq
  
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• Saquon Barkley sets Eagles season-rushing record against Panthers - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 22:17 via news.google.com
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• Canadian basketball player Kayla Alexander has No.40 retired by Syracuse - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 21:16 via news.google.com
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• Kiwanis Club and Toys ‘R’ Us team up to give hundreds of kids Christmas gifts

  08-12-2024 19:57
  
  Northmount Kiwanis Club of Calgary invited 500 kids to Toys "R" Us for its annual Toy Project Sunday. The goal was to brighten up their holidays and maybe create some magic memories along the way. “This is a celebration for families to who may not be able to celebrate otherwise,” said Northmount Kiwanis Club of Calgary President Elect Elyshia Cheung. “Today is about just experiencing the magic of the season.” Kids had a hance to select a special gift with a $40 in-store c
  
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• Calgary police stage checkstop on National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day

  08-12-2024 19:19
  
  Calgary police launched their first holiday checkstop Saturday night on Stoney Trail. Working with members of Alberta Sheriffs, RCMP and Tsuu T’ina Nation police, members of the Calgary police administered breathalyzer tests to motorists including one familiar figure: Santa. Calgary police Chief Constable Mark Neufeld, who has been a police officer for 33 years, said that was a first for him. “That’s the first time in all my checkstops I’ve seen Santa come through so I th
  
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• Canadian judokas Gauthier-Drapeau, Reyes win bronze at Tokyo Grand Slam - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 18:56 via news.google.com
  Canadian judokas Gauthier-Drapeau, Reyes win bronze at Tokyo Grand Slam  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Canada captain Alphonso Davies sidelined by hamstring strain playing for Bayern - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 17:36 via news.google.com
  Canada captain Alphonso Davies sidelined by hamstring strain playing for Bayern  Lethbridge News Now
  
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• Understanding the science behind Hinton and Hopfield’s Nobel Prize in physics - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 17:16 via news.google.com
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• The fall of Bashar Assad after 13 years of war in Syria brings to an end a decades-long dynasty

  08-12-2024 17:13
  
  Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and international powers. Assad’s exit stood in stark contrast to his first months as Syria’s unlikely president in 2000, when many hoped he would be a young reformer after three decades of his father’s iron grip. Only 34 years old, the Western-educated
  
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• 'Go beyond the board': Chess helping Alberta youth keep troubles in check

  08-12-2024 16:48
  
  Every Friday in a southern Alberta classroom, youth are learning how to keep their troubles in check. Hunched over chess boards at the University of Lethbridge, teens and young adults who are at-risk or have been convicted of various crimes are taught to think, think again, then think some more as they move their pawns, kings, queens and rooks across 64 black and white spaces. The founder of Chess for Life says the program helps them learn how to accomplish short-term goals, like compl
  
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• ’Beyond the board’: Lethbridge program uses chess to help at-risk youth keep troubles in check - Calgary Herald

  08-12-2024 16:45 via news.google.com
  
  ’Beyond the board’: Lethbridge program uses chess to help at-risk youth keep troubles in check  Calgary Herald
  
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• McDavid, Skinner help Oilers beat Blues 4-2

  08-12-2024 16:07
  
  Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist and Leon Draisaitl had two helpers as the Edmonton Oilers won their second game in a row, defeating the St. Louis Blues 4-2 on Saturday. Corey Perry, Zach Hyman and Troy Stecher also scored for the Oilers (15-10-2) who have won five of their last six outings. Dylan Holloway and Jake Neighbours responded for the Blues (13-13-2) who had a two-game winning streak halted and suffered their first regulation loss under new head coach Jim Montgomery, dr
  
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• Kenya LGBTQ2S+ activists try switching role of religion from oppression to empowerment

  08-12-2024 15:37
  
  Every Sunday in the Kenyan port city of Kisumu, an HIV-prevention group gathers dozens of gay and bisexual men for a service to help maintain their physical and spiritual health. Standing in rows under a tin roof, a group of 50 men sing in Swahili, clapping along to the church service. They take their seats on broken plastic chairs, most of them layered two or three on top of each other to maintain stability.Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and video on all the top storiesA pre
  
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• Baby found dead in south Edmonton parking lot: police

  08-12-2024 15:06
  
  Police are investigating the death of an infant in south Edmonton.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppOfficers were called to a sudden death in the parking lot of a shopping complex on Parsons Road SW and Ellerslie Road SW at 2:15 p.m. on Saturday. The body of a baby was found at the scene. The Edmonton Police Service homicide unit has since taken over the investigation. An autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday. Police do not believe the death is co
  
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• Nobel recipient Geoffrey Hinton wishes he thought of AI safety sooner

  08-12-2024 15:01
  
  Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn’t regret the work he did that laid the foundation for artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist says the technology has now progressed so fast that he thinks it could achieve superintelligence in the next five to 20 years. Superintelligence is intelligence that surpasses even the smartest humans.Download the CTV News App for breaking news alerts and video on all the top storiesWhen superintelligenc
  
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• More than 900 people died in Jonestown. Guyana wants to turn it into a tourist attraction

  08-12-2024 14:16
  
  Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after U.S. Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country. It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors, a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past.Download the CTV News App for breaking n
  
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• Russian state news agencies say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad is in Moscow and given asylum

  08-12-2024 13:04
  Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday, Russian media reported, hours after a stunning rebel advance took over the capital of Damascus and ended the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule. The Russian agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source on Assad and his family being given asylum in Moscow, his longtime ally and protector. The Associated Press was not immediately able to verify the reports but contacted the Kremlin for comment.Download the CTV N
  
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• Ousted Syrian leader Assad flees to Moscow after fall of Damascus, Russian state media say

  08-12-2024 13:04
  
  Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad fled to Moscow and received asylum from his longtime ally, Russian media said Sunday, hours after a stunning rebel advance seized control of Damascus and ended his family’s 50 years of iron rule. Thousands of Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire and waved the revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly
  
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• Jubilation and gunfire as Syrians celebrate the end of the Assad family's half-century rule

  08-12-2024 13:04
  
  Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the Assad family's 50 years of iron rule but raising questions about the future of the country and the wider region. Joyful crowds gathered in central squares in Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-
  
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• Oilers starting to look and play like a contender - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 08:21 via news.google.com
  
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• McDavid, Skinner help Oilers beat Blues 4-2 - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 07:06 via news.google.com
  
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• Senators starting to see improvements, consistency - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 05:51 via news.google.com
  
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• Senators pounce on Predators to net 3-1 win - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 04:15 via news.google.com
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• Capitals rebound from poor start to beat Canadiens 4-2 - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 04:00 via news.google.com
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• Man dies after vehicle pins him to tree in southwest Calgary crash

  08-12-2024 03:52
  
  A man is dead after he was pinned to a tree by a truck Friday afternoon in the southwest community of Patterson Heights. It happened around 5:45 p.m. at a parkade in the 200 block of Village Terrace S.W. Police say a driver in a 2020 Ford F-150 truck approached the security garage door of the parkade and got out. The man, in his 70s, was then caught by the truck door as the truck started rolling backwards. The truck continued rolling and eventually crashed into a tree, pinning the driver between
  
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• Calgarians flocking to markets with local vendors for Christmas Shopping

  08-12-2024 02:31
  
  As Christmas is on the horizon, Calgarians headed to the markets across the city on Saturday to get some shopping done while also supporting local businesses. The Marda Loop Business Improvement Area kicked off its annual Spirit of the Loop holiday event. People who made their way there were able to meet Santa, enjoy roaming carolers and shop at more than190 stores. “We’ve got hundreds of people showing up,” said Bob Van Wegen, Executive Director for the Marda Loop Business Imp
  
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• Groups launch legal challenge against Alberta's new gender-affirming treatment law

  08-12-2024 01:29
  
  A pair of LGBTQ2S+ advocate organizations say they've followed through with their plan to challenge Alberta's three transgender bills in court, starting with one that bars doctors from providing gender-affirming treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for those under 16. Bennett Jensen, legal director at Egale Canada, says the groups, which also include Skipping Stone and five Alberta families, are opposing Bill 26 first because parts of the legislation are already in effect. Jens
  
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• Poeltl, Olynyk, Mitchell return to Toronto Raptors’ lineup versus Mavericks - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 00:25 via news.google.com
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• Groups launch legal challenge against Alberta’s new gender-affirming treatment law - Lethbridge News Now

  08-12-2024 00:25 via news.google.com
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• Prince George Swift fans rent car to attend concert after flight to Vancouver cancelled

  08-12-2024 00:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  A flight cancellation forced a diehard group of Swifties to rent a car and make the near 800-kilometre journey to Vancouver to catch the last dates of the Eras Tour.
  
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