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 Quebec plans to bring in legislation to end student tuition strikeThe Quebec government intends to present a bill to end the province's 14-week tuition strike, Premier Jean Charest announced Wednesday night — a proposal that was quickly and decisively rejected by student leaders.
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 Calgary couple offering wedding gift incentive to sell their New Brighton homeCALGARY — Selling a home in Calgary these days is a very competitive enterprise as demand in the housing market keeps rising. Any edge besides price point can be an attention-grabber leading to a possible sale.
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 Downtown Calgary street to remain closed for repairs after wind damages skyscraper windowsFire crews repairing broken windows downtown say the road closure could last until noon. Strong winds caused cords and ropes to whip around and smash windows on a downtown building late Wednesday afternoon, leading to street closures at 5th Avenue between 6th and 7th streets S.W.
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 'We came in peace,' says dissident shareholder as CP Rail proxy battle ends with CEO resignationThe head of an activist New York hedge fund vowed to make Canadian Pacific Railway "one of the best" in the world, after it succeeded in its battle to remove the railway's chief executive on Thursday.
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 Teen injured in longboarding incident near BanffAn 18-year-old man was airlifted to a Calgary hospital with serious injuries after a longboarding incident in the Banff area.
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 Pedestrian assaulted after being run down by pickup in CoaldaleA man was beaten up after getting hit by a pickup truck in Coaldale. Lethbridge Regional Police Service officers are investigating the incident at 8:50 p.m. on Tuesday at 20th Street and 22nd Avenue in which a 44-year-old man was injured.
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 Coffee drinkers live longer, big study finds; regular and decaf are equally goodOne of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer.
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 Labour leader worried CBE is becoming 'dysfunctional'A cadre of union leaders say they have growing concerns about the conduct of Calgary public school trustees, pointing to the debate over a five-month-old tweet as a symptom of worrisome discord.
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 Sexting B.C. teacher handed 60-day jail termFormer Abbotsford high school teacher Martin Careen will serve a 60-day intermittent sentence for sending sexually explicit texts to a student. Careen, 52, was convicted last summer of invitation to sexual touching. He was sentenced Wednesday in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.
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 Suspect arrested after theft of iPad from woman in wheelchair on Vancouver's SkyTrainOne of two suspects has been arrested in connection with the theft of an iPad from a wheelchair-bound woman on SkyTrain, say Vancouver Transit police.
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 Ogden scrap yard fire bill expected to be in seven-figure rangeFinal costs of a devastating scrap metal fire won’t be known for at least 30 days, but it are already estimated to be in the seven-figure range for both the city and the owner of a Calgary metal yard. The blaze smouldered for two weeks before it was doused May 10.
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 Weather may cause chocolate price risePossible El Nino weather conditions later this year could exacerbate a potential global cocoa deficit in the coming season, causing prices to climb, the International Cocoa Organization has said.
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 Some like it hot! Giant Marilyn Monroe statue installed in Palm SpringsPALM SPRINGS, Calif. - A massive statue of Marilyn Monroe has arrived in the desert resort city of Palm Springs.
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 Taylor Swift gives $4M to Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum for children's education centreNASHVILLE, Tenn. - Taylor Swift has taught a generation of kids to appreciate country music over the last five years. Now, she's donating $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to make sure that education continues.
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 Five Red Bull sky divers wearing specially-designed winged suits streak across the sky at 13,000 feet – just inches away from a pair of gliders. The goal, to bring Wing suits and gliders together in one collective flight, not an easy task. In a daring manoeuvre, the skydivers fly alongside the planes close enough to make eye contact with the pilots.
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 Calgary traffic diverted after downtown tower windows breakFire crews are at the scene of a downtown building after cables hit and broke some windows. They were dispatched to the HP Tower at 5th Avenue and 7th Street S.W. after evening rush hour Wednesday.
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 Calgary public school employees to take strike vote todayNearly 5,000 employees of Calgary's public school system are headed for a strike vote today, frustrated they have been working without a contract for 18 months.
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 Update: Flood of late donations buoys Guinness Record hockey marathonThey played 246 straight hours of hockey — but it took the final buzzer to finally slow down them down. Two hours earlier, they had already set a Guinness World Record for the longest hockey game.
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 Girl attacked by dog in Dover: 'It looked like I got shot by a pistol'Wincing in pain, nine-year-old Bonita Carrillo showed her friends and neighbours the thick white bandage wrapped around her stitched-up lower leg where a dog sunk its teeth the evening before.
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 Arrests call attention to dynamics of teacher-student sexual relationshipsThe hot teacher and the lusty student — this duo has been a staple of high school movies, music videos and male fantasies for decades.
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 Police seek calendar store thiefCity police have released recently obtained surveillance footage of a man possibly connected to a break-in at a calendar store around Christmas time in hopes the public can help locate him. The incident took place between Dec. 21 and 22, 2011, at the Calendar Club in TD Square at 317 7 Ave. S.W.
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 First private space flight to space station launches on SaturdayFor the last half-century, space flight has been the domain of the world’s superpowers.
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 Calgary girl rushed to hospital after dog attackA nine-year-old girl was taken to the Alberta Children’s Hospital after a dog bite in Calgary Tuesday night. Police and bylaw officers and EMS were called to Doverdale Mews S.E. at 7:30 after a girl was bitten by a dog on the lower leg.
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 Skechers to pay $40M to settle government charges over claim shoes toned musclesThe government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.
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 The moose final struts onto a Canadian coinAbout 75 years after Canadians began making a national pastime out of mistaking the caribou on their quarters for a moose, the Royal Canadian Mint is selling a silver coin that depicts the real deal — alces alces, the king of all deer, the namesake beast of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Moosehead beer.
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