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Calgary’s new event centre deal by the numbers

An agreement in principle for a new event centre and development in Calgary’s Rivers District is expected to cost $1.22 billion, with funds coming from the city, the province and the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC). Here’s how the numbers break down. The city will be putting up $537.3 …

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Ontario eliminating post-secondary education requirement to become police officers

Ontario will eliminate the post-secondary education requirement to become a police officer, expand enrolment for its basic training program and axe tuition fees at the Ontario Police College, the premier said Tuesday. The moves are designed to get more police officers into communities, Doug Ford said. “We need reinforcements, we …

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Body found in The Pas, Man. may be linked to missing person, RCMP say – Winnipeg

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A body found by the Saskatchewan River in The Pas, Man., may be connected to a missing person investigation, RCMP say. The body was found Monday afternoon, just off 1st Street East in the northern Manitoba community, police said, and while the …

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Okanagan family sues, seeking answers in son’s police-involved death

It’s been more than three years since an Okanagan man died after police tried to arrest him. But Clayton Donnelly’s parents say they still don’t know the details of what happened. “We want details of what exactly happened on that night and why did a traffic stop turn into a …

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Strike could be last hurrah for Ottawa’s core as public servants fight for telework

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 25, 2023 12:00 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Downtown Ottawa is buzzing with public servants in numbers that haven’t been seen since before the pandemic. And it’s all thanks to workers fighting for the right not to have to …

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‘This is our home’: Lone survivor of Vaughan, Ont. condo mass shooting speaks out – Toronto

Doreen Di Nino is thankful that she and her husband, John Di Nino are alive and can go on with life. The 66-year-old lone survivor of one of the Greater Toronto Area’s worst mass shootings spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday, in an exclusive interview with Global News. “I …

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Girl, 12, stabbed in north Winnipeg house party fracas – Winnipeg

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 12-year-old girl was taken to hospital after being stabbed at a North End home early Tuesday morning, Winnipeg police say. Officers were called to a residence in the 500 block of Flora Avenue around 1:45 a.m., where they found the victim, …

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‘An archaic practice’: Flight attendants protest unpaid work – Calgary

Flight attendants are calling to get paid for time that they’re on a plane but not in the air. Currently, it’s beginning when a plane’s doors are closed and the aircraft pushed back from the gate that flight attendants begin to get paid, until the flight touches down. Attendants figure …

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Ontario to pay $33M in proposed settlement for class actions over London jail conditions

A proposed settlement has been reached in two class action lawsuits against the province over conditions at London’s Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre, and allegations that thousands of inmates were deprived of their Charter rights while at the troubled provincial jail. Under the proposed settlement, still subject to approval by a judge, …

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