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• Calgary Flames beat Ottawa 6-3 to end Senators' three-game win streak

  Juuso Valimaki and the Calgary Flames have been talking a lot lately about the importance of quality starts. The Finnish defenceman helped put his team's plan into motion Saturday afternoon at Canadian Tire Centre.

  

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  WEATHER | A stretch of warm and sunny weather ahead for Calgary

  Mostly cloudy conditions Saturday night across southern Alberta, as snow develops in west-central portions of the province and tracks east throughout Sunday.

  

• Order allowing Alberta peace officers to enforce COVID-19 rules expires

  The three-month time period where peace officers were allowed to issue tickets to Albertans violating the Public Health Act has elapsed, but the government says those powers could be restored if needed.

• Emergency crews respond to scene of fallen child near High River, Alta.

  Paramedics, along with the STARS Air Ambulance, were dispatched to a scene south of Calgary Saturday morning where it's believed a child was hurt in a fall.

• Thousands of Calgary customers affected by Friday night power outage

  Electricity has been restored for a number of homes in southwest Calgary after a power outage that occurred Friday evening.

• 'A dream of mine': Lethbridge Olympic hopefuls back in the water

  It’s been a turbulent year for competitive athletes of all stripes, and swimmers are no exception.

• New Democrat MLA Irwin's Edmonton office vandalized

  Vandalism has been removed from an Alberta's Opposition member's riding office after it was tagged sometime overnight Friday.

• Development dispute: Chaparral residents say proposed community would put their homes at risk

  A new community proposal in southeast Calgary has nearby neighbours worried about flooding and calling for a development halt.

• 26 domestic flights, 2 international flights added to Calgary's COVID-19 exposure list

  While just two international flights arriving in Calgary had active COVID-19 cases, passengers on board more than two dozen domestic flights are being notified that they could be close contacts.

• Homan and Einarson improve to 9-1 at Canadian women's curling championship

  With a few surprise teams making the eight-team cut, perennial contenders Rachel Homan, Kerri Einarson and Jennifer Jones posted afternoon victories and showed why they're good bets to reach the playoffs.

• WestJet to lay off undisclosed number of pilots amid labour negotiations

  WestJet Airlines Ltd. says it is laying off an undisclosed number of pilots amid negotiations with the union that represents them.

• Alberta reports 356 COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

  Two of the three deaths are connected to the Olymel meatpacking plant in Red Deer, Alberta Health said.

• Alberta's doctors reach tentative agreement with the province

  Alberta's health minister and the president of the Alberta Medical Association confirm the two sides have reached a tentative agreement regarding physician contracts..

• Blood tests could be early indicator of COVID-19 severity: study

  A new study says that blood tests may be the key for doctors to get an idea of what to expect when treating COVID-19 patients.

• Death certificates don't accurately reflect the toll of the pandemic, experts say

  The number of people who would have died from a COVID-19 infection is likely to be much higher than recorded because death certificates don't always list the virus as the cause of a fatality, experts say.

• Ontario reports more than 1,100 new COVID-19 cases, 16 additional deaths

  More than 1,100 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ontario Saturday.