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1 hr ago | AVHerald

Air Canada B763 over Hudson Bay on May 13th 2013, turbulence injures flight attendant

An Air Canada Boeing 767-300, registration C-FCAE performing flight AC-898 from Edmonton,AB to London Heathrow,EN with 142 people on board, was enroute at FL360 over the Hudson Bay at about N61.3 W90 at about 06:30Z, when the aircraft encountered turbulence causing injuries to a flight attendant, who was unable to continue duties.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 767,

2 hrs ago | Canada.com

Lens from glasses used in prisoner hostage taking at Edmonton courthouse: police

Police say a female prisoner used a lens from a pair of eyeglasses to take a fellow prisoner hostage at the Edmonton courthouse.

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6 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald

Hitchhiker's dad stands by son in NJ killing

As an adult he became famous as Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker, his celebrity taking a turn toward notoriety when he was arrested in Philadelphia last week and charged with killing a New Jersey lawyer.

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8 hrs ago | CBC News

Edmonton Remand Centre lawsuit angers family of stomping victim

Natasha Stewart, niece of Barry Stewart who was stomped to death by his cellmate in the Edmonton Remand Centre, is appalled that the man who killed her uncle is suing the province.

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8 hrs ago | CBC News

High winds fan Strathcona County fire

Firefighters continue to fight a wildfire in north Strathcona County where high winds are carrying embers up to 500 metres and lighting new fires.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Canada

Tue May 21, 2013

CBC News

Woman diagnosed with ALS helps fundraise for a cure

Distance wasn't the only difficulty Susann and Hajime Sakaguchi have had to overcome in the course of their own love story.

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CBC News

Grass fire in Spruce Grove

While Zazulak says the RCMP have evacuated a number of homes in the area and are not yet allowing residents to return home, Parkland County has stated via Twitter that no evacuations have taken place.

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CBC News

Edmonton's Mayor Stephen Mandel to announce future

Mandel, 67, was expected to announce his plans last month during a state-of-the-city address, but instead lashed out at the what he called a penny-pinching and short-sighted provincial government.

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Mon May 20, 2013

Daily Mail

Clinton Shepherd: Man rides Ferris wheel for more than Two Days to break world record

An amusement park worker has spent more than two days aboard a Ferris wheel - smashing the world record for the longest ride.

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CBC News

Alberta's beef industry: 10 years after mad cow crisis

A decade after Alberta's mad cow crisis, there's been a sharp decline in the number of cattle producers in Alberta, due in part to an aging population, drought, rising feed and labour costs, the rising value of the dollar and BSE.

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Related Topix: Life, Beef, Food, Meat, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Canada

CBC News

Harper chief of staff resigns amid Senate expense scandal

Nigel Wright has resigned as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, following revelations he wrote a $90,000 cheque to repay improperly claimed housing expenses for Senator Mike Duffy.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Financial Services, Onex, Investment Services, North America, Canada, World News

Sun May 19, 2013

CBC News

Pigeon Lake businesses look forward to full season of camping

Business owners in Pigeon Lake are looking forward to this year's season after most of the provincial campground closed early last year for renovations.

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CBC News

Six campers rescued after getting lost in Kananaskis Country

A group of six campers was rescued Sunday morning after becoming lost when they wandered away from their campsite near Gorge Creek Trail.

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CBC News

Man arrested in stabbings near Kingsway Transit Station

One woman sustained life-threatening injuries in the incident that started in the parking lot of a nearby McDonalds around 6 p.m. Police say a man asked for money from two people, stabbing one of them.

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Edmonton Journal

Alberta's cattle industry recovers a decade after costly mad cow outbreak

The six-year-old Black Angus was one of a small herd Peaster had bought the year before for his grain farm and feedlot near Wanham, in Alberta's Peace Country.

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CBC News

Danielle Smith asks RCMP to investigate Sandhu

Wildrose Official Opposition Leader Danielle Smith has requested the RCMP conduct a criminal investigation into the actions of Edmonton-Manning MLA Peter Sandhu.

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Sat May 18, 2013

CBC News

Downtown market alters layout due to construction

Mild temperatures and sunny skies brought thousands of people to 104th Street on Saturday as the City Market moved outside for the first day this year.

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CBC News

Woman killed in rollover near Ponoka

A 25-year-old Red Deer woman was killed on Saturday when she was thrown from a vehicle that rolled on the QEII Highway near Ponoka.

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CBC News

Loft residents start petition against proposed strip club

Residents of the Cambridge Lofts on Jasper Avenue have started a petition to block a strip club from opening up in the building.

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CBC News

Remand centre sued by man who killed cellmate

The man who was found not criminaly responsible for stomping his cellmate to death at the Edmonton Remand Centre is now suing centre staff.

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