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• 1 dead following crash in southwest Calgary

  Officials say a driver has died after a serious crash early Saturday morning in southwest Calgary.

  

• Canada tops Czechia 5-1 in world junior hockey championship

  Canada improved it record to three wins and no losses Saturday at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton after scoring a 5-1 win against Czechia.

  

• Calgary Carifest honours Caribbean culture as thousands gather to celebrate

  A couple thousand Calgarians wore colourful costumes, played traditional music and danced for hours in the downtown streets Saturday morning to celebrate Caribbean culture.

  

• Calgary police investigate after stolen truck crashed

  Calgary police are looking for the public's help to track down a female suspect who they say stole a truck and then crashed it in Bowness.

  

• Calgary police, humane society seize 42 animals in northeast Calgary

  Police and the Calgary Humane Society have launched a joint investigation after seizing 42 animals from a northeast Calgary property Friday morning.

• Small wildfire burning near Banff's east gates

  A small wildfire was burning Friday night around 8:30 p.m., according to the national park's Twitter feed.

• Divisional clash of Lions, Stampeders features quarterback intrigue

  Which quarterback will grab the spotlight is a prominent subplot of Saturday's divisional clash between the B.C. Lions and host Calgary Stampeders.

• Police seek public assistance identifying man in attempted child luring

  Calgary police seek public assistance identifying an unknown man who they believe tried to lure a young girl who was out with her mother and sister Thursday night.

• Indigenous group walks to honour loved ones lost to overdoses

  More than a dozen people walked from Morley to Calgary Friday, in support of those working towards sobriety and to pay tribute to loved ones who have lost their lives to addiction.

• More than 10,000 Canadians received a medically-assisted death in 2021: report

  More Canadians are ending their lives with a medically-assisted death, says the third federal annual report on medical assistance in dying (MAID). Data shows that 10,064 people died in 2021 with medical aid, an increase of 32 per cent over 2020.

• Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after he was stabbed on lecture stage in New York

  Salman Rushdie, whose novel 'The Satanic Verses' drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York.

• FBI seized 'top secret' documents from Trump home

  The FBI recovered documents that were labelled 'top secret' from former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the unprecedented search this week.

• Anne Heche legally dead, remains on life support for donor evaluation

  Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday.

• Passengers tackle Canadian man after he became violent, tried to open plane doors mid-flight

  A plane bound for Toronto has been forced to divert to Iceland after a Canadian man allegedly became violent and tried to open the aircraft door mid-air.