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Salute to health care workers set for Monday

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    Trudeau announces more financial help for country’s most vulnerable

    $40 million will go to Women and Gender Equality Canada

    Feds pulled between bailing out oil and gas and moving to cleaner energy

    Number of national environment organizations demanding no cash be spent to help oil companies

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    Pandemic forcing NBA players to work out with what’s on hand

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    Community

    Sylvan Lake mom says transition to at-home learning going well

    Melissa Hicks’ sons, Jackson and Parker, are students at École Our Lady of the Rosary School

    Sylvan Lake photographer captures family life from the front steps

    Deb McNeil is taking porch portraits to share the uniqueness of families during COVID-19

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    Obituaries

    Herbert Eugene Perry

    Mar 20th, 2020

    Donald Ernest Hemeyer

    Mar 17th, 2020

    Jean Crawford

    Mar 9th, 2020

    Pamela Rae Stewart (nee Krossa)

    Mar 8th, 2020

    Stanley Darrel Stewart

    Mar 7th, 2020

    Cameron Mannix Clandfield

    Mar 6th, 2020

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    Opinion

    Letter: Reader more scared of ‘foolish’ decisions than pandemic

    Let’s try not to lose our minds over this

    Some thoughts on the coronavirus crisis

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    Entertainment

    ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81

    ‘Lean On Me,’ ‘Lovely Day’ singer Bill Withers dies at 81

    Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker Giles Walker has died in Toronto

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    Life

    Policing the pandemic will put marginalized communities at risk, advocates say

    Policing the pandemic will put marginalized communities at risk, advocates say

    Alberta RCMP are asking citizens to consider helping crime prevention in their spring gardening plans.

    “Consider planting prickly plants such as raspberries or roses for a natural barrier.”

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