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• Students helping food insecure students through the U of C's Science Community Garden

  19-04-2024 15:38 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Science students at the University of Calgary use their roof top greenhouse to conduct all kinds of projects and had a little extra space that wasn't being used. so some of them came up with the idea of growing food for the campus food bank. "It was sort of a collaboration between a few people," said Allison Guthrie, grad student. "But I was a big part of starting it, the Dean definitely was very supportive right from the very beginning, encouraged me and pointed out ways that we could do it." K
  
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• Calgary police stop erratic vehicle driving with its hood up

  02-05-2024 17:00 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Calgary police took swift action to stop a stolen vehicle, which was driving erratically in Castleridge Thursday morning. At approximately 7:45 a.m., officers found the van driving with its hood up, covering the windshield. As they attempted a traffic stop, the driver fled, but they didn't get far before officers were able to safely stop the 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 Ne
  
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• Alberta education minister stands behind new social studies curriculum

  02-05-2024 16:52 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A group of educators looking at the most recent draft of Alberta's new social studies curriculum says it still does nothing to address the program's fundamental flaws. However, Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides stands by his government's draft proposal, saying it took into account all of the concerns from educators. "There's a range of different folks that we're listening to, of course, and some of the views that you're hearing are a sample of those views but there are others who have been
  
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• Snow to end Thursday, double-digit highs Friday

  02-05-2024 16:37 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  The synoptic setup that has been responsible for cold and wet weather in southern Alberta will start to break down on Thursday, allowing the bulk of precipitation to taper off as the system tracks south and east out of the region. In line with the nature of an upsloping event, snow and rainfall totals were highly variable with some communities measuring over 45 centimetres of snow from Monday through to early Wednesday. A majority of the heaviest totals were along the foothills which will prove
  
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• Fort Calgary announces rebranding strategy

  02-05-2024 15:05 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Fort Calgary will announce its new name and plans for the future on Thursday. The historic site is looking to revitalize its presence in the community. “This transformation marks a pivotal juncture in the institution’s rich history, reflecting its commitment to inclusivity, reconciliation and acknowledgment of the past,” a news release said.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppFort Calgary is the birthplace of the City of Calgary and
  
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• ASIRT on track for busiest year on record

  02-05-2024 14:16 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Alberta's police watchdog is on pace for its busiest year ever, while it also works through a backlog of investigations from up to six years earlier. The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) says along with a spike in incidents they need to investigate in 2024 there are a few things helping them finalize cases more quickly. CTV News has learned ASIRT is on track for a record number of investigations started and a record number of investigations completed in 2024. “We are the most
  
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• Prince William and Kate release photo of daughter Charlotte to mark ninth birthday

  02-05-2024 12:39 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Prince William and his wife Kate released a picture of their daughter Charlotte to mark the princess's ninth birthday on Thursday. In the photograph taken in the last few days by her mother, the Princess of Wales, Charlotte, the couple's second child, was pictured smiling happily in the garden of their home in Windsor.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News App IN PICTURES: Prince and Princess of Wales before they were married"Happy 9th Birthday, Princess Ch
  
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• Phones, Canada Post hubs operational again at London Drugs; stores otherwise remain shuttered

  02-05-2024 05:17 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  London Drugs' phone lines are operational again following a cybersecurity attack that shuttered the retail chain. Canada Post hubs in London Drugs stores are also now operating. But the main sections of the stores remained closed on Wednesday – as has been the case for several days. Customers who need urgent pharmacy care can go to stores during regular business hours for assistance. The company has yet to release details on the extent of the cybersecurity attack, or whether customers'&nbs
  
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• Snow in the morning, rain in the afternoon for Thursday

  02-05-2024 04:42 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Happy May 1! Expect snow Thursday morning, then it will switch to rain in the afternoon as the temperature climbs to 5 C. It will be another gusty day with cold winds out of the north. Wednesday night through Thursday morning in Calgary, five to 10 centimetres of snow is possible.Things really start to clear out on Friday. Some sunny periods are likely but keep in mind, it will still be unstable, which could lead to some isolated suppertime showers. Saturday looks mainly sunny and warm. Clouds w
  
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• One in custody after man suffers gunshot wound in Okotoks, Alta., incident

  02-05-2024 03:18 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  An Okotoks, Alta., man was rushed to hospital on Wednesday afternoon, believed to have been shot in his own home. Several neighbours told CTV News it was a domestic situation between a father and son. A 26-year-old man is now in custody. Viewer footage shows the suspect coming out of a residence with his hands in the air, and officers placing him under arrest. Neighbours say Mounties convinced him to surrender peacefully.RCMP responded to the Sheep River Court area of Okotoks just after 3 p.m. o
  
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• Man suffers gunshot wound in Okotoks, Alta., incident

  02-05-2024 03:18 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Mounties out of Okotoks, Alta., are investigating a shooting in the town south of Calgary. The incident happened Wednesday afternoon in the Sheep River Court area. RCMP say a 53-year-old man was rushed to hospital with a gunshot wound and a 26-year-old man was taken into custody. The 53-year-old is in serious but stable condition, according to RCMP. Charges are pending against the 26-year-old, RCMP say.
  
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• Alberta invests $19M for irrigation infrastructure upgrades

  02-05-2024 03:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  Irrigation supports about 1.5 million acres of crop production in the province, producing 28 percent of the provincial agricultural gross domestic product.
  
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• TAPYeg announces plans to run candidates in Edmonton’s next municipal election

  02-05-2024 02:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Political party TAPYeg, short for Transparent and Active Partnerships Edmonton, declared its intentions to get candidates elected to Edmonton council after the UCP tabled Bill 20.
  
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• Stampeders draft defensive back Ben Labrosse as CFL says goodbye to former team president Lyle Bauer

  02-05-2024 02:53 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  With rookie camps a week away, the CFL draft was held Tuesday night. The Calgary Stampeders had the No. 4 selection overall and chose defensive back Ben Labrosse from McGill. He was a USports conference all-star. Last season, he had 35 tackles and three interceptions, one of those for a touchdown. Before McGill, Labrosse went to Syracuse. The Stamps traded up to get another pick in the first round. At No. 8 overall, they chose offensive lineman Christy Nkanu out of Washington State.SOMETALENT IN
  
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• Calgary’s Auren Halbert going for gold at the World Para Hockey Championship

  02-05-2024 01:52 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Auren Halbert is the lone Calgarian playing on the Canadian National Para hockey team. This year's world championship is being played at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Winsport and Halbert is one of the key members on the team. Halbert was born with a short left leg that had to be amputated at birth.  When he was eight years old, Auren says he found sledge hockey and fell in love with the sport. “I think my parents saw it on the news one day so they were like we’ve got to try thi
  
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• Trafficking charges laid after several types of drugs seized from Drumheller, Alta. home

  02-05-2024 01:42 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A man is facing drug trafficking charges after RCMP members seized several kinds of drugs from a home in Drumheller, Alta. on Tuesday. Police executed a search warrant at a residence in the 200 block of South Rail Way Avenue in Drumheller around 5 p.m., according to a Wednesday news release. Drugs, including cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and morphine; four cell phones, unstamped illegal tobacco and $1,875 were seized from the home.The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Down
  
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• Ontario man loses $1,500 applying for Nexus cards on social media

  02-05-2024 01:27 via toronto.ctvnews.ca
  
  The trusted traveller program between Canada and the United States is extremely popular and almost two million Canadians have a Nexus card. If you're a frequent traveller to the U.S., a Nexus card can make it a lot easier and faster to cross the border. You need to apply for a Nexus card, follow a process and sit for an in-person interview, but if you’re searching for information online some websites are leading people astray and taking their money. Currently, the price to get a Nexus card
  
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• High River RCMP officer’s car struck by passing truck at highway traffic stop

  02-05-2024 01:27 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  High River RCMP are calling for increased highway awareness after an officer conducting a traffic stop on Highway 2 narrowly escaped being struck by a truck. On Monday at 11:30 a.m., an Alberta RCMP traffic officer using an unmarked police vehicle was conducting a traffic stop on the southbound lanes of Highway 2 close to Highway 540. The officer’s emergency lights were on and they were pulled over behind the first vehicle. Roads were dry and visibility was excellent. The officer was in th
  
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• Capital Power pulls plug on proposed $2.4B Genesee carbon capture and storage project

  02-05-2024 00:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Capital Power said the proposed $2.4-billion carbon capture project at its Genesee natural gas-fired plant west of Edmonton is technically viable but not economically feasible.
  
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• Calgary's best brunch spots for 2024, according to Open Table

  02-05-2024 00:26 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  With Mother's Day quickly approaching, OpenTable has released its list of the 100 Top Brunch Restaurants in Canada for 2024, in case you and your family hope to celebrate the day with a meal out. The list, released on Tuesday, draws upon information from more than 1.3 million verified OpenTable restaurant reviews and dining metrics from Feb. 1, 2023 to Jan. 31, 2024, specifically those that included the tag "brunch." This year, two Calgary restaurants made the list, including: Deane House, and G
  
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• 'Here to help': The Watch celebrating 5 years of patrolling Lethbridge streets

  02-05-2024 00:16 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Volunteers with ‘The Watch’ program in Lethbridge have been patrolling the city centre rain or shine for five years. “I feel amazing about our program and what we have done in the five years,” said Tashiah Robbins, who has been with The Watch since it started on May 1, 2019. What began as a three-year Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) pilot project to enhance community safety during the opioid crisis has grown to become a full-time unit within LPS. “Knowing that we wo
  
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• Meet local artists at the Calgary Artists Studio Tour

  01-05-2024 23:41 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Artists from Airdrie to Okotoks are welcoming people to come meet them at their working studios from Friday May 3rd to Sunday May 5th for the third annual Calgary Artists Studio Tour. Artist and organizer Isabel Ostrom says the event started three years ago with 12 artists and has grown in 2024 to 82 artists in 63 locations. "The idea is actually to build a connection the artists community and the public community in Calgary and surrounding areas," she said. "There are a number of really great a
  
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• Free block party permits offered for Calgary's 2024 Neighbour Day

  01-05-2024 23:32 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  The City of Calgary is once again offering free block party, street play and greenspace permits for Neighbour Day 2024. The annual celebration started back in 2014 as a way to honour the support and generosity Calgarians showed each other during the devastating 2013 floods. This year, it will be held on Saturday, June 15. "Neighbour Day is our city’s annual celebration of community connection, a day that contributes so much to the social fabric of our city," said Mayor Jyoti Gondek in a ne
  
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• New National Music Centre exhibition celebrates 'Godfather of Canadian Hip-Hop', Maestro Fresh Wes

  01-05-2024 22:48 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  The career of the Godfather of Canadian Hip-Hop, aka Maestro Fresh Wes, is getting its close-up in a new exhibition that opens May 15 at the National Music Centre. Toronto’s Wes Williams changed Canadian music in 1989 when he released “Let Your Backbone Slide” on his debut album Symphony in Effect. There were hip hop scenes in cities like Toronto, Halifax and Montreal, but in 1989, hip hop was a musical genre that flew way under the radar of Canadian media, until Scarborough re
  
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• West Bragg logging plan damaging to kilometres of trail, recreation groups say

  01-05-2024 22:39 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A plan to log 450 hectares of old-growth forest near Bragg Creek, Alta., would significantly damage kilometres of popular trails, say groups representing recreational users. The plan by West Fraser, which now owns Spray Lakes Sawmills, is to cut two large blocks of timber in 2026. But the cut blocks cover between 25 and 30 kilometres of existing hiking, equestrian and mountain bike trails. "Obviously, this is going to be a significant impact to the area as far as changing the landscape," said Co
  
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• 'She definitely would be proud': Olds breaks ground on domestic violence shelter named after young mother

  01-05-2024 22:36 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A new emergency shelter for women and children broke ground in Olds, Alta. on Tuesday, named in honour of a young mother who was killed in a case of alleged domestic violence. Kirsten’s Place will provide a safe escape for those fleeing domestic violence and pays homage to Kirsten O’Donoghue, who was a 25-year-old mother of two-year-old twin boys. She was found dead in a Bowden apartment in March 2021. Ross Arran McInnes, 27, was charged with first-degree murder in her death. The cha
  
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• Safety gear, training, helped B.C. wildfire pilot survive crash, safety board says

  01-05-2024 22:07 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A Transportation Safety Board report says experience, recent training and safety equipment were key factors in a pilot surviving the crash of a firefighting plane south of Cranbrook, B.C., in August 2022. The report says the pilot was alone in the Air Tractor AT-802A aircraft and had just finished his eighth water drop when the engine suddenly lost power, with no time to recover because of the low altitude. The report says the pilot couldn't quickly diagnose the problem, so focused instead on th
  
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• Calgary police release photo of minivan that ran pedestrian over twice in hit-and-run

  01-05-2024 21:34 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Calgary police have released a photo of a vehicle thought to be involved in a weekend hit-and-run in Bridgeland that saw a man run over twice. The collision happened in the parking lot at the Centex located in the 0-100 block of Fourth Street N.E. at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 27. Police believe the victim, a male pedestrian, fell and was lying in the parking lot when a light-coloured minivan reversed out of a parking stall, before pulling forward and turning north. "When the minivan pulled fo
  
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• Appeal denied for man convicted in 2019 murder in Airdrie, Alta.

  01-05-2024 21:25 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  The Alberta Court of Appeal has denied the request of an Airdrie man to set aside his murder conviction in the fatal shooting of his neighbour in 2019. Michael Antony Roebuck was convicted of first-degree murder in 2022 and sentenced to life in prison for the brutal slaying of Daniel MacDonald, his former friend, on Sept. 7, 2019. According to testimony heard at trial, the pair of men had known each other for about five years, but "their relationship changed" when they decided to start a cannabi
  
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• On do-or-die night in Brooks, Caelan Fitzpatrick comes up big to lead Bandits past Oilers

  01-05-2024 21:22 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Facing a Tuesday night elimination game, Caelan Fitzpatrick responded with a hat trick to lead the Brooks Bandits past the Okotoks Oilers 5-1. The victory propelled the Bandits into the next round of the BCHL playoffs while it ended the Oilers’ first BCHL season. The Bandits struck with just under 30 seconds left in the first, when Fitzpatrick got his first. In the second Nathan Free doubled the lead to 2-0. Rylan Brown got one back for Okotoks to make it 2-1, but shortly after that, Fitzp
  
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