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• Why is the federal government looking to create a national emergency agency?

  08-06-2023 23:28 via ponokanews.com
  
  The federal government is looking at creating some kind of national disaster response agency in the face of an unusually intense and destructive start to the wildfire season across the country.
  
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• GM’s electric vehicles will gain access to Tesla’s vast charging network

  08-06-2023 23:25 via ponokanews.com
  
  Electric vehicles made by General Motors will be able to use much of Tesla’s extensive charging network beginning early next year under an agreement the two companies announced Thursday.
  
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• Trudeau Foundation board chair says donation from Chinese company has been returned

  08-06-2023 23:20 via ponokanews.com
  
  The chair of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s board says the organization has returned a $140,000 donation to Millennium Golden Eagle International.
  
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• New Canadian War Museum exhibition explores historic connections between war, games

  08-06-2023 23:17 via ponokanews.com
  
  A new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa explores the connections between conflict and games throughout history.
  
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• Biden condemns wave of state legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, says ‘these are our kids’

  08-06-2023 23:13 via ponokanews.com
  
  President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state laws curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, especially children, leaving them feeling under attack like never before and the White House with limited options to intervene.
  
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• Smoke from wildfires, a fact of life in the West, catches outdoor workers off guard in the East

  08-06-2023 23:06 via ponokanews.com
  
  The hazardous haze from Canada’s wildfires is taking its toll on people whose jobs have forced them outdoors along the U.S. East Coast even as a dystopian orange hue led to the cancellation of sports events, school field trips and Broadway plays.
  
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• Leduc traffic stop results in charges against three

  08-06-2023 22:14 via ponokanews.com
  
  A May 19 traffic Leduc by the RCMP Drug Unit has led to an arrest and the seizure of weapons and drugs.
  
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• PDHF raffle winners announced - Ponoka News

  08-06-2023 18:40 via news.google.com
  
  PDHF raffle winners announced  Ponoka News
  
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• PDHF raffle winners announced

  08-06-2023 18:40 via ponokanews.com
  
  The Ponoka and District Health Foundation’s (PDHF’s) raffle was drawn on June 1, at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre.
  
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• Ponoka Hospital Ladies Auxiliary beautifies long-term care patio

  08-06-2023 18:30 via ponokanews.com
  
  Volunteers from the Ponoka Hospital Ladies Auxiliary have spent numerous hours beautifying the long-term care (LTC) patio at the Ponoka Hospital and Care Centre. This is one of many ways the 50 auxiliary members fulfill their mandate of “patient comfort and care.”
  
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• Reckless driver causes mayhem on section of Aspen Beach

  08-06-2023 17:30 via ponokanews.com
  
  A reckless driver caused plenty of chaos on a section of Aspen Beach during the evening of June 4.
  
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• Veteran quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell welcomes new beginning with Hamilton Tiger-Cats

  08-06-2023 17:24 via ponokanews.com
  
  Quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will certainly be hitting the ground running to open the 2023 CFL season.
  
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• Bell Media touts ‘strike-proof’ TV slates as Hollywood labour disputes heat up

  08-06-2023 17:21 via ponokanews.com
  
  Executives at Bell Media say they’ve designed a “strike-proof” fall television lineup that will carry its banner CTV network and Crave TV and streaming platform through months of potential labour unrest that’s already shut down much of Hollywood.
  
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• Government policy tells CRTC to exclude social media users from online streaming bill

  08-06-2023 17:18 via ponokanews.com
  
  The federal government is telling Canada’s broadcasting regulator to exclude individual social media creators in the regulations to implement the government’s new online streaming law.
  
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• Lawyer tells Alberta’s highest court review board biased in de Grood’s case

  08-06-2023 17:14 via ponokanews.com
  
  Alberta’s highest court is being asked to overturn a review board decision that confined a man to a supervised Edmonton group home after the stabbing deaths of five young people at a Calgary house party.
  
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• Air pollution cloaks eastern US for a second day. Here’s why there is so much smoke

  08-06-2023 17:12 via ponokanews.com
  
  Intense smoke blanketed the northeastern United States for a second day Wednesday, turning the air a yellowish gray and prompting warnings for people to stay inside and keep windows closed. The smoke was flowing from dozens of wildfires in several Canadian provinces.
  
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• Loblaw-owned T&T Supermarkets to open U.S. flagship store in Bellevue, Washington

  08-06-2023 17:09 via ponokanews.com
  
  T&T Supermarkets, the largest chain of Asian grocery stores in Canada, is expanding into the U.S. with a store in Bellevue, Washington, set to open next summer.
  
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• Wildfire battles continue under heat, air quality alerts over most of Canada

  08-06-2023 17:06 via ponokanews.com
  
  The battle against hundreds of wildfires continues today as large swaths of Canada remain under either heat or air quality warnings.
  
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• Police watchdog investigating after Alberta RCMP shooting leaves man dead

  08-06-2023 00:42 via ponokanews.com
  
  Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating after Valleyview RCMP shot and killed a man Monday night.
  
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• Feds looking at options for a national disaster response agency as wildfires rage

  08-06-2023 00:38 via ponokanews.com
  
  The federal government is studying options for creating a new national disaster response agency.
  
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• Bail hearing to continue for Alberta man accused of sexually assaulting five women

  08-06-2023 00:35 via ponokanews.com
  
  A bail hearing for a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women in Calgary will continue later this month.
  
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• Vancouver Island road closed, campfire bans, as drought raises wildfire risks in B.C.

  08-06-2023 00:33 via ponokanews.com
  
  A small but aggressive wildfire on Vancouver Island is burning beside the only major highway linking Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet to the rest of British Columbia.
  
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• CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure

  08-06-2023 00:29 via ponokanews.com
  
  The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network’s journalists were losing confidence by the day.
  
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• Defrocked Nunavut priest arrested on historical sexual assault charges

  08-06-2023 00:24 via ponokanews.com
  
  A defrocked Oblate priest and convicted sex offender is facing eight new criminal charges for past sexual assaults he allegedly committed while living in Nunavut.
  
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• Canada marks Clean Air Day with worst air quality in the world as wildfires rage

  08-06-2023 00:22 via ponokanews.com
  
  Hazy skies tinged with an eerie yellow glow greeted millions of Canadians in Quebec and Ontario again Wednesday as the smoke from hundreds of wildfires continued to cause air quality warnings in Canada’s most populated corridor.
  
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• Alberta High School Rodeo Assoc. finals held in Stettler

  07-06-2023 21:30 via ponokanews.com
  
  The high school rodeo was held June 1-4, 2023
  
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• Rory McIlroy has ‘mixed emotions’ at PGA Tour deal with Saudi Public Investment Fund

  07-06-2023 18:01 via ponokanews.com
  
  Once again, Rory McIlroy found himself in the eye of the storm.
  
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• Statistics Canada reports merchandise trade surplus rose to $1.9B in April

  07-06-2023 18:00 via ponokanews.com
  
  Statistics Canada say the country’s merchandise trade surplus increased to $1.9 billion in April, helped by higher exports of gold, oil and cars and light trucks.
  
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• Three men, including police officer, face charges after overdose death in cell

  07-06-2023 17:55 via ponokanews.com
  
  An Edmonton police officer and two former community peace officers have been charged after an internal investigation into the death of man in custody.
  
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• Shell’s clean energy advertising campaign is misleading, UK watchdog says

  07-06-2023 17:55 via ponokanews.com
  
  A marketing campaign by oil major Shell has been banned by the U.K.’s advertising watchdog Wednesday for implying a big proportion of its business was in low carbon energy even though fossil fuels make up the “vast majority” of its operations.
  
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• Canadian forest fire centre responds to unprecedented wildfire season

  07-06-2023 17:55 via ponokanews.com
  
  Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made.
  
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• Leduc RCMP warns public of rise in online sextortion practices

  07-06-2023 17:32 via ponokanews.com
  
  The Leduc RCMP is warning Albertans of “financial sextortion” tactics targeting the public.
  
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• Cenovus fined after wastewater release from former Husky-owned pipeline

  07-06-2023 00:13 via ponokanews.com
  
  Cenovus Energy is facing a fine over a release of wastewater into a wetland.
  
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• Wheat prices jump following collapse of major dam in southern Ukraine

  07-06-2023 00:10 via ponokanews.com
  
  Global prices for wheat and corn soared Tuesday after a major dam in Ukraine collapsed, renewing market fears about the fragility of the country’s ability to ship food to Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia as it fights a war with Russia.
  
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• Teck Resources receives indications of interest for steelmaking coal business

  07-06-2023 00:07 via ponokanews.com
  
  Teck Resources Ltd. says it has received an unspecified number of “indications of interest” for potential deals on a spinoff of its coal assets as it seeks alternatives to the unsolicited takeover bid being pushed by Glencore.
  
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• Known travellers from 13 more countries can skip visa to come to Canada: minister

  07-06-2023 00:05 via ponokanews.com
  
  Low-risk travellers from 13 more countries will be able to skip a visa application if they want to visit Canada, the immigration minister announced Tuesday.
  
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• Michael White, convicted of killing pregnant wife, gets full parole

  07-06-2023 00:01 via ponokanews.com
  
  An Edmonton man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body in a ditch has been granted full parole.
  
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• Town of Ponoka seeks citizen input on Municipal Development Plan - LacombeOnline.com

  06-06-2023 23:12 via news.google.com
  
  Town of Ponoka seeks citizen input on Municipal Development Plan  LacombeOnline.com
  
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• Ponoka Secondary Campus celebrate their grads

  06-06-2023 19:00 via ponokanews.com
  
  Valedictorian: ‘Our time to shine is right now’
  
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• OpenAI CEO suggests international agency like UN’s nuclear watchdog could oversee AI

  06-06-2023 17:15 via ponokanews.com
  
  Artificial intelligence poses an “existential risk” to humanity, a key innovator warned during a visit to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, suggesting an international agency like the International Atomic Energy Agency oversee the ground-breaking technology.
  
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• PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf litigation

  06-06-2023 17:13 via ponokanews.com
  
  The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday when the PGA Tour and European tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia’s golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.
  
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• Feds warn 2023 on track to be the worst fire season ever seen in Canada

  06-06-2023 17:11 via ponokanews.com
  
  Canada’s emergency preparedness minister says images of wildfires burning across the country are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity.
  
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• David Johnston expected to begin public meetings on foreign interference next month

  06-06-2023 17:10 via ponokanews.com
  
  Former governor general David Johnston says he will begin holding public meetings next month on foreign interference attempts in Canada’s elections.
  
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• Conservative filibuster threatens potential citizenship for children born abroad

  06-06-2023 17:08 via ponokanews.com
  
  Advocates for would-be Canadians born abroad say Conservative efforts to filibuster amendments to the Citizenship Act are threatening their hopes of passing their nationality on to their children and grandchildren.
  
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• Ermineskin Cree Nation Powwow grand entry: An inspirational experience

  06-06-2023 14:55 via ponokanews.com
  
  By Kinnukana, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Alberta Native News
  
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• Successful weekend at Central Alberta Raceways drag strip

  06-06-2023 14:30 via ponokanews.com
  
  Big weekend ahead on June 10 and 11 with Funny Cars and two seat dragster
  
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• Union gives failing grade to companies handling veterans rehabilitation contract

  05-06-2023 23:33 via ponokanews.com
  
  The union representing workers at Veterans Affairs Canada is calling the deal to privatize rehabilitation services a failure, six months after it was implemented.
  
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• Liberals accuse Tories of ‘hijacking’ Parliament after threatening to filibuster

  05-06-2023 23:25 via ponokanews.com
  
  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is threatening to use procedural tools to delay passage of the federal budget in the House of Commons if the Liberals don’t meet his demands.
  
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• Calgary ‘88 Olympic Games leader Bob Niven dead at 80

  05-06-2023 23:25 via ponokanews.com
  
  One of the men who brought the Winter Olympic Games to Calgary in 1988 has died.
  
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• Wildfire risk remains well above average across Canada this month

  05-06-2023 23:23 via ponokanews.com
  
  An area of land 11 times bigger than the city of Toronto burned from wildfires in the last four days — Canada’s worst spring wildfire season to date.
  
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