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• Public safety minister to ask for probe of police actions in clearing campus protests: premier

  14-05-2024 00:30 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta's public safety minister will ask the province's law enforcement watchdog to investigate police actions in clearing pro-Palestinian encampments from university grounds in Calgary and Edmonton, Premier Danielle Smith says.
  
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• Alberta wildfires: Emergency reservist program receives ‘a lot of inquiries’

  14-05-2024 00:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  'We have introduced a program this year for people to become a wildfire reservist and we have been receiving a lot of inquiries -- people who are eager to help.'
  
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• Be ready ‘for anything’ after wildfires hit telecom lines, official warns

  14-05-2024 00:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Telecommunications provider Northwestel reported telephone, internet and long distance services had been disrupted over the weekend after fibre optic lines were damaged.
  
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• Edmonton mayor disturbed by images of police response to pro-Palestinian protesters

  13-05-2024 23:59 via cbc.ca
  
  While speaking on Edmonton AM, Mayor Amarjeet Sohi weighed in on how the University of Alberta and police responded to a pro-Palestinian encampment early Saturday morning.
  
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• Rural Alberta school moves to 4-day week to boost enrolment

  13-05-2024 22:43 via cbc.ca
  
  With less students attending, Granum School faced the possibility of closing. Now, the division hopes a move to a four-day week next year can boost numbers and keep the school afloat.
  
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• Rain provides help to some firefighters in northern Alberta

  13-05-2024 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  While people in a number of communities in northern Alberta remain on evacuation alert because of out-of-control wildfires, a change in the weather is providing some help.
  
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• Saskatoon local ranks as 5th strongest man in the world

  13-05-2024 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tristain Hoath can now boast being the fifth strongest man in the world.
  
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• Wildfire smoke from Canada is prompting health warnings in the U.S. again

  13-05-2024 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Air quality advisories were issued Sunday for parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin due to haze emitting from fires burning across western Canada.
  
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• Edmonton woman speaks out after husband suffers ’20 stabs to his back’ in random attack

  13-05-2024 21:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Sunday morning attack on May 5 left an Edmonton man seriously injured with multiple stab wounds, cuts and damaged teeth. Now, his wife is speaking about what happened.
  
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• Alberta calls Ottawa's impact assessment changes 'unconstitutional'

  13-05-2024 20:48 via cbc.ca
  
  The Alberta government says the recent changes to Ottawa's Impact Assessment Act are 'unconstitutional' and it is considering challenging the legislation in court.
  
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• Man charged in hit and run that seriously injured newcomer to Edmonton

  13-05-2024 19:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said charges were laid on May 10.
  
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• Zadorov fined $5K US, Canucks teammate Soucy to have phone hearing for McDavid cross-checks

  13-05-2024 19:27 via cbc.ca
  
  Vancouver defenceman Nikita Zadorov has been fined $5,000 US by the NHL and Canucks blue-liner Carson Soucy will have a telephone hearing with the league for cross-checks on Edmonton superstar Connor McDavid.
  
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• Soucy suspended 1 game, Canucks teammate Zadorov fined for cross-checking Oilers' McDavid

  13-05-2024 19:27 via cbc.ca
  
  The NHL on Monday suspended Vancouver Canucks defenceman Carson Soucy one game for his cross-check to the face of Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid at the end of Game 3 of their opening round Stanley Cup playoff series on Sunday night.
  
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• Recall petition against Calgary’s mayor deemed insufficient

  13-05-2024 19:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  According to the declaration to Calgary city council Monday, the petition garnered 69,344 unverified signatures, or 5.39 per cent of the city's population. 
  
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• Labour leader Gil McGowan drops out of Alberta NDP leadership contest

  13-05-2024 19:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Another NDP leadership candidate has dropped out of the race as the party announces it has the largest number of members in its history who are eligible to vote.
  
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• Canadian banks directed over US$100B to oil and gas in 2023: report

  13-05-2024 18:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  The top 60 banks together committed US$708 billion.
  
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• Canucks’ Soucy suspended 1 game, Zadorov fined for cross-checking Oilers’ Connor McDavid

  13-05-2024 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Vancouver Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov has been fined US$5,000 for cross-checking Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid.
  
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• Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov fined for crosschecking Oilers Connor McDavid

  13-05-2024 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Vancouver Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov has been fined $5,000 for cross-checking Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid.
  
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• Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov fined for cross-checking Oilers Connor McDavid

  13-05-2024 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  Vancouver Canucks defenceman Nikita Zadorov has been fined US$5,000 for cross-checking Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid.
  
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• Fire involving power line seriously damages garage in central Edmonton

  13-05-2024 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  A garage in central Edmonton sustained significant damage after a fire that involved a power line broke out Monday morning.
  
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• Officials hope rain, favourable winds aid in fight against Fort McMurray wildfire

  13-05-2024 16:50 via cbc.ca
  
  Residents of Fort McMurray remain under orders to prepare to leave their homes at a moment's notice as wildfire threatens the northeast Alberta community.
  
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• More than 85,000 people eligible to vote in Alberta NDP leadership race; McGowan bows out

  13-05-2024 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Alberta NDP's membership has grown to more than 85,000. The announcement comes as one of the people vying for the party's leadership makes the decision to bow out of the race. 
  
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• Police investigate after 65-year-old man’s body found in northeast Edmonton home

  13-05-2024 16:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 65-year-old man in northeast Edmonton this weekend that police have deemed to be "suspicious."
  
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• Cold Lake, Alta., cracking down on aggressive panhandling, encampments

  13-05-2024 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The city of 16,000 people said the number of transient people has recently increased alongside “the brazenness and severity of the vagrancy.”
  
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• Annual flowers are more popular with bees than scientists realized

  13-05-2024 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Flowers that bloom for only one year are thought of as a 'pollinator desert,' but new research published today in the Journal of Economic Entomology suggests some annuals might be more popular among pollinators than scientists realized.
  
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• Lumber industry wary of coming months after record wildfire season in 2023

  13-05-2024 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Dry conditions and drought persisted throughout Alberta after last year's wildfire season. The provincial government and forestry industry are concerned about what this summer might bring.
  
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• Archaeology conference aims to centre Indigenous perspectives in work on ancestral sites

  13-05-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Just over a decade since its inaugural event, the second Blackfoot Archaeology Conference, called Ksaahkommitapii, meaning "spirit of the ground" in the Blackfoot language, wrapped up on Saturday, after two days of collaboration and consultation between conference-goers and member tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy. 
  
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• ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King’s trial set to start Monday

  13-05-2024 13:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  King was part of the original group of organizers that brought thousands of big-rig trucks and other vehicles to Ottawa in January 2022 to protest COVID-19 public health measures.
  
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• ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King pleads not guilty as criminal trial begins

  13-05-2024 13:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  King was part of the original group of organizers that brought thousands of big-rig trucks and other vehicles to Ottawa in January 2022 to protest COVID-19 public health measures.
  
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• Young woman searches for live kidney donor sharing her extremely rare blood type

  13-05-2024 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Sana Ashoori of Calgary is in a race against time — and the odds — as she searches for a life-saving kidney donation.
  
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