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2/4/2012
Calgary Police are looking for help finding a missing teenaged girl. 14 year old Brianna Morin left her home in southeast Calgary on February 2nd, and hasn't been heard from since.She's described as aboriginal, 120 pounds, 5 foot 6, with brown hair, and brown eyes. She was wearing skinny jeans with studs on the back pocket area, a pink tank top and a black sweater. Anyone who has any information is asked to call Police or Crimestoppers.
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2/4/2012
Jan Hudec of Calgary raced to gold in a World Cup downhill in France today on a spectacular day for Canadian skiing. Canadian teammate Erik Guay won bronze while Ben Thomsen finished fifth. Hudec has been plagued by knee injuries and six surgeries. Today marked his second World Cup victory after a downhill triumph at Lake Louise, Alberta in November 2007.
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2/4/2012
It's early February and fire crews are fighting grassfires. Calgary fire officials say a grassfire sparked on Bearspaw Dam Road near the Calgary West Soccer Centre is now under control. Officials say they fought the 10 acre blaze, to try to keep it away from the soccer centre and a city storage facility. No evacuations were necessary. Officials say it's pretty rare to have grassfires in February, noting that conditions are very dry.
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2/3/2012
The Alberta winners of a $25 million Lotto 6-49 jackpot from January 21st have been identified.Tim and Kendolyn Elliott, of Medicine Hat, came forward Friday to claim their prize.The couple is planning to pursue their dream of retiring to the Okanagan.Tim says he checked his ticket at a gas station in Leduc, where he was staying for some job training, and couldn't believe it.He says he went back to his hotel room and called his wife to tell her the good news.After that he called his parents and then quit his job.Tim and Kendolyn say they look forward to being able to help out some family and close friends with their money.The winning ticket was purchased in Calgary.
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2/3/2012
The recent deaths in Calgary, because of ecstasy, prompted Alberta Health Services to use social media to answer a number of questions and provide resources for people concerned the illegal drug. For an hour on Friday, health officials were on twitter taking questions and providing answers about drug use.They stated that students tend to try drugs at so called high risk times, which is when they are unsupervised between 3 and 6 in the afternoon. Health officials wanted to stress that this isn't a case of a bad batch of ecstasy, adding that there is no safe dose of any illegal street drug and that while a number of recent deaths are linked to the chemical PMMA, there have been deaths from MDMA for years, the chemical normally used to make ecstasy.
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2/3/2012
The federal and provincial governments have revealed details of a long awaited plan to track the environmental impact of oilsands development.Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen says a monitoring program will be run, at least at first, by bureaucrats instead of an independent agency and testing will be done more often.The cost will be 50 million dollars and will be paid by industry.The plan is meant to silence critics who believe that the industry is being allowed to move ahead with projects at a quicker pace than government's ability to regulate it.
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2/3/2012
The long wait is over for lottery ticket buyers who've been wondering when the owners of a winning jackpot would come forward. A couple from the Medicine Hat area has come forward to claim the 25 million dollar Lotto 6-49 jackpot from the January 21st draw. The single winning ticket was sold in Calgary. The lucky winners will be officially introduced to the public at two o'clock this afternoon.
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2/3/2012
It was another busy year at Calgary International Airport. Garth Atkinson, the Airport Authority's President and CEO, says over 12.8 million passengers travelled through the airport in 2011. He says despite challenging global economic factors, YYC continued to be a hub of activity, with new non-stop services and more flights added to current destinations. In a release, Atkinson also says YYC broke ground on the two largest expansion projects in the airport’s history - the 2 billion dollar construction of the new runway and international terminal - while continuing to make improvements to the current building to improve shops, services, security and customs facilities.
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2/3/2012
The Calgary Parking Authority is defending a hike in its rates at surface lots and parkades. CPA General Manager Troy Macleod says the increase this week is in line with a policy requiring city owned lots to stay within 10% to 20% of the rates charged by private operators.
Macleod says there was no general release about the increase, but signs were erected in the facilities and communication was sent directly to regular users. On-street parking rates are not affected.
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2/3/2012
More than 100 million people will get a glimpse of the breathtaking and majestic scenery that Albertans often take for granted as it features prominently in one of Sunday's much-anticipated SuperBowl ads. The 60 second commercial for a Suzuki car shows sled dogs bobbing their heads to the beat of a Hip Hop song, while cruising across the snow inside the vehicle. The ad was shot on the frozen snow-covered surface of Spray Lakes near Canmore. Andrew Nickerson from Canmore Tourism says it's phenomenal exposure for the Rocky Mountain community, although he admits it does little to counter the perception that Canada is a frozen wasteland and that we live in igloos. He says they'll be using Facebook and Twitter to let people know that the ad was not shot in the Arctic and to show them what the area looks like in summer. You can view the ad at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCGikHT6gKQ
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2/2/2012
Alberta's envoy to Washington says despite the fact the U.S. President has basically shelved the Keystone pipeline project, he's still hopeful it'll go ahead, even if it's after the U.S. election in November. Former Calgary mayor Dave Bronconnier says he's been on the road meeting with groups who want this pipeline to go ahead, and. Bronconnier sasy there are several bills before the house right now, aimed at moving the Keystone project along. The pipeline would carry crude from Alberta's oilsands to refineries on the Gulf coast.
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2/2/2012
An 18-year-old southwest Calgary man faces more than a hundred charges in connection with vandalism incidents. The charges were laid following a 2 month investigation. It's alleged the man committed over 45 separate incidents of graffiti vandalism mostly in the downtown and south Calgary. The damage estimate from the incidents is about 30-thousand dollars. The man was a teen when the incidents occurred so he cannot be named.
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2/2/2012
RCMP say a family of four travelling from Edmonton to California was killed last night in that head-on crash on highway 5 north of Kamloops, B.C.Police say an S-U-V slid across the centre line and collided with the oncoming tractor trailer rig.The 47-year-old father, his 37-year-old wife, their 7-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter all died.The trucker wasn't seriously hurt.The highway was icy at the time.
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2/2/2012
Liberal leader Raj Sherman says his team is ready for the next session of the legislature, and will hold the Tories accountable when the budget comes down. Sherman says the government is guilty of wasteful spending, and there's no need for a province so wealthy to have a deficit. Sherman also says he wants perfection when it comes to the new Education Act that will be introduced this session. MLA's are back at the legislature on Tuesday.
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2/2/2012
A 19 year old Vulcan is facing attempted kidnapping charges after a young boy was approached and chased by a man in a pickup this week. The boy was scared he was going to be abducted and quickly ran home unharmed.A.J. Gregory has been charged.In an unrelated matter , Gregory is facing sexual assault charges involving two girls under the age of 16. Mounties say these were not random acts and say Gregory had a sexual relationship with both girls.He is set to appear in court tomorrow.
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2/2/2012
The husband of Sheila Nabb, the Calgary woman severely beaten in Mazatlan has issued his first public statement since the couple returned to the city last week. In a written statement, Andrew Nabb says the family sees improvements in his wife's condition every day since she underwent successful facial reconstruction surgery Saturday. Nabb says although still sedated, his wife has been very responsive. But he says she has a long recovery ahead. He's also thanking Canadians from coast-to-coast for their concern and support. Jose Quintero, the 28-year-old Mexican man accused in the brutal attack has been ordered to stand trial.
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2/2/2012
Just days before a spring session of the legislature which is expected to end with an election call, the Wildrose Party has released its second platform plank--a committment to education. In Airdrie this morning, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said if she becomes premier, Alberta parents will have a committment to more funding, more teachers and more parental choice in the education system. Rob Anderson, the Wildrose MLA for Airdrie, says the Alberta Tories have been playing games with the future of our children. Anderson says a Wildrose government would put new schools and teachers ahead of perks for politicians and corporate welfare. Earlier this week, the Wildrose released a commitment to power consumers.
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2/2/2012
More protests are planned as hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline move back to B.C. A march and rally has been organized by several first nations groups ahead of review panel hearings in Fort St. James in Northeastern Brisith Columbia. Enbridge hopes to pipe Alberta oilsands crude across B-C to port in Kitimat for shipment to Asia. Protesters fear a spill is almost inevitable.
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2/1/2012
The $25-million pedestrian bridge over the Bow River has been delayed yet again. The last tentative date for completion of the controversial Peace Bridge was the end of January, but city officials have pushed back the opening for at least another couple of months. Ward 7 Alderman, Druh Farrell says the bridge is so close to completion she can almost taste it. "Some pieces of the temporary bridge have already started to come out. There's some decking work that needs to be done, and some of the pre-formed concrete arrived with some damage and needed to be re-poured, but it's getting close to being done." Farrell says the city's transportation department is waiting to hear back from the project's contractor on a firm completion date, but despite the delays the project isn't over budget.
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2/1/2012
Calgary Police are investigation a shooting in Martindale late Wednesday afternoon. Duty Inspector Keith Cain says emergency crews were called to the scene at the 100 block of Martin Crossing Way NE around 5:30 pm. There they found a man in his 20's suffering from a gun shot wound to the lower body. He was taken to hospital for treatment, and his injuries are considered non-life threatening. Cain says it's too early to determine the motive of the shooting, but investigators believe it isn't a random act.Two people believed to be involved in the shooting are in custody, but charges have not been laid.
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