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• IBM expanding Calgary facility, will create 250 new jobs

  IBM Canada will be opening a new Client Innovation Centre in Calgary, and says its creation will generate 250 new jobs.

  

• Stroke-inducing clots efficiently dissolved by heart attack drug: Canadian researchers

  A drug used to treat heart attacks has proven to be an effective treatment for the most common type of stroke, and an even better treatment than the current clinical standard, says a team of Canadian researchers.

  

• Climate rallies to take place across Canada as groups push for action

  Calgary's rally is scheduled for noon in the 1400 block of Eighth Street S.W.. outside the office of Conservative MP Greg McLean.

  

• Imperial, ExxonMobil Canada selling Alberta assets to Whitecap for $1.9B

  Imperial Oil Ltd. says it and ExxonMobil Canada have entered into an agreement to sell the Montney and Duvernay oil and gas-producing areas of central Alberta to Whitecap Resources Inc. for $1.9 billion.

  

• 'Appreciation and gratitude': Toronto couple thank Calgary fire crew for treating and transporting daughter to hospital

  A Toronto couple expressed appreciation and gratitude for the fire fighters who treated and transported their three-year-old daughter to Children's hospital over the weekend.

• Province extends affordability measures amid fiscal year end $3.9B surplus

  Alberta Finance Minister Jason Nixon says the final number on the 2021-22 fiscal year, which ended on March 31, is a $3.9-billion surplus.

• Calgary International Airport braces for busy summer travel season

  The Calgary Airport Authority and its partners are preparing for the busiest summer travel season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• After 55 years of safe drop offs Rocky View school bus driver finishes his last route

  Murray Poffenroth started driving kids to Kathryn School in the winter of 1967 after things got slow on the farm. Now 73, he made his final drop off Tuesday on the last day of school.

• 'I just pray that they are going to be fine': Witnesses recall violent shooting at B.C. bank

  Witnesses recount what they saw after police officers engaged in a shooting with armed suspects at a bank in Saanich, B.C., on Tuesday morning. Two suspects are dead and six officers are in hospital with gunshot wounds.

• 'This is a very special moment': Graduation day for the students at LCI

  High school is officially done for the grade 12 students at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and they couldn't be more excited.

• Airdrie's Sienna MacDonald on track with heptathlon

  Sienna MacDonald grew up playing a lot of different sports in high school and she was very good at all of them.

• Tornado warning ends for Brooks area

  Around 9 p.m. Environment Canada ended a tornado warning for the Brooks area, downgrading it to a severe thunderstorm warning and tornado watch.

• Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for helping Epstein

  Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

• Alberta Theatre Projects 2022-23 season features 3 world premieres, including The Jungle Book

  Alberta Theatre Projects unveiled its upcoming season Tuesday, revealing a lineup that features three world premieres and a pair of Calgary premieres, including an adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III unlike any other.