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Calgarians woke Tuesday morning to winter’s return in full swing, with snow covering the city causing traffic collisions and flight cancellations. Read More

Toronto’s road warriors The Sadies power through tragedy as a trio, release new live record featuring the late Gord Downie

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Last week, Canadian indie veterans The Sadies played Pappy And Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace, a rustic saloon in California’s Yucca Valley. Read More

Average tax refund up nearly 11% so far this filing season

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The average tax refund was $2,290 through Feb. 6 — up 10.9% from $2,065 a year ago, according to the IRS.

Varcoe: Alberta secures $400M deal to buy water bombers from De Havilland Aircraft of Canada

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The Alberta government is buying in its own backyard, set to announce a major deal on Tuesday to purchase new water bombers from De Havilland Aircraft of Canada to battle wildfires. Read More

Breakenridge: Private school funding a complex issue that may require an election

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This will likely be the Year of the Referendum in Alberta, but it’s still unclear which issues will be put to Alberta voters. Read More

Ford: Being ‘woke’ isn’t a slur, when it means calling out Hollywood’s history of racism, sexism

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Being “woke” has become an insult. Yet, the word’s original intent was to praise those people who have “woken up” to the inherent racism, antisemitism and misogyny in our society. Read More

DHS shutdown has no clear off-ramp: 5 takeaways

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There’s no end in sight for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown as both sides point fingers while seemingly moving no closer to a resolution. The Senate left town on Thursday after Democrats decided against supporting a stopgap spending bill over concerns that talks about the full-year funding measure haven’t advanced far enough. They…

Hawaii eyes ban on reselling tickets above face value

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii concert fans are often priced out by ticket scalpers who snatch up seats and resell them for huge markups Lawmakers and local promoters are now fighting back with new legislation to ban the practice. Tickets often sell out in seconds, only to reappear online at outrageous prices. Legislators and local promoters…

More Manoa Magic on Monday as ‘Bows take 3 of 4 from Gonzaga in opening series

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Ben Zeigler-Namoa delivered a game-tying RBI single and Elijah Ickes scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth as Hawaiʻi rallied past Gonzaga 4-3 on Monday to clinch a three-games-to-one series victory at Les Murakami Stadium. The Rainbow Warriors, who had taken the first two games of the series…

State lawmakers look at proposal opening public school playgrounds on weekends

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