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• PM Trudeau presenting premiers with health-care funding offer

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is presenting the federal government's offer for billions in new health-care funding to the provinces and territories at a highly anticipated meeting in Ottawa today. At the first in-person meeting of all First Ministers in years, Trudeau is set to outline how much money his government is willing to provide, and what his expectations are for improving care.

  

• WestJet pilots at an 'impasse' with airline over contract talks: union

  The union representing WestJet pilots says contract negotiations with the airline have been unproductive and federal arbitration may be needed to avert a strike.

  

• Aspiring pilots say licence processing backlogs at Transport Canada slowing careers

  Against the backdrop of a global pilot shortage, hopefuls aspiring to a career in the skies say their Canadian licensing applications are taking far too long to process.

  

• Canadians now expect to need $1.7M in order to retire: BMO survey

  Canadians now believe they need $1.7 million in savings in order to retire, a 20 per cent increase from 2020, according to a new BMO survey. The eye-watering figure is the largest sum since BMO first started surveying Canadians about their retirement expectations 13 years ago.

  

• Mother charged with sexual abuse of toddler in Edmonton area after FBI tip

  A Strathcona County toddler has been rescued from suspected sexual exploitation, and the child's mother has been charged, police said.

• U.S. actor facing sex charges in Nevada also facing charge in B.C.

  A former actor in the movie 'Dances With Wolves' who is facing eight sex-related charges in Nevada is also facing a charge in British Columbia.

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  WEATHER | Evening snow showers possible in Calgary

  The warm spell speed bump arrives in Calgary on Wednesday.

• 'Buildings are broken': Calgary man in Turkiye describes disaster scene post-earthquake

  Calgarians at home and abroad are reeling in the wake of a massive earthquake that struck a war-torn region near the border of Turkiye and Syria.

• Smith joins premiers in Ottawa to talk to Trudeau about health care, just transition

  Canada's premiers are in Ottawa to meet with the prime minister over access to more health care funding. But that's not all Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has on her mind.

• New details emerge ahead of Trudeau-premiers' health-care meeting

  As preparations are underway for the anticipated health-care 'working meeting' between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers on Tuesday, new details are emerging about how the much-anticipated federal-provincial gathering will unfold.

• Quake deaths pass 6,200 as Turkiye, Syria seek survivors

  Search teams and emergency aid from around the world poured into Turkiye and Syria on Tuesday as rescuers working in freezing temperatures dug, sometimes with their bare hands, through the remains of buildings flattened by a powerful earthquake. The death toll soared above 6,200 and was still expected to rise.

• Alexis Lafreniere scores in OT to lift New York Rangers over Calgary Flames 5-4

  Alexis Lafreniere scored 1:37 into overtime and Jaroslav Halak made 28 saves as the New York Rangers beat the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Monday night.

• Medicine Hat takes initial step toward butting out smoking in public

  Medicine Hat city council passed the first reading of a proposed bylaw that would ban smoking in parks and at public events.

• Lawyers vote to keep mandatory Indigenous history training in place at virtual special meeting

  Mandatory Indigenous history training for lawyers in Alberta is not going anywhere following a debate and vote held Monday.