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Allison Dempster - Reporter-Producer | CBC

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'Everyone deserves to have a roof over their head': How some are turning to motels and campgrounds for housing

Amid an ongoing housing crisis, some in Alberta are turning to alternative living situations outside of homes and apartments, from trailers in RV parks to motels. For some, it's become a "daily battle."
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Kenney, Callaway campaigns collaborated to attack Brian Jean during UCP leadership race, leaked documents show

The leadership campaign of Jason Kenney collaborated with fellow candidate Jeff Callaways campaign during the partys 2017 United Conservative Party leadership race, leaked internal UCP documents obtained by CBC News show.

Wildfire soot darkening glaciers could speed up melt rate, scientists fear

Scientists who study glaciers say the darkening of ice linked to wildfires could speed up the melt rate of glaciers already in retreat.

Small-town Alberta welcomes Mennonites with English lessons

An adult literacy program in Taber, Alta., is helping the growing number of Low German-speaking Mennonites, new to the area, to learn English.
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Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen: The full series

Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen is a podcast series from CBC Calgary about real people who lived in southern Alberta around the time of confederation and a few decades beyond. These are the whisky-soaked, down and dusty, gun-slinging kinds of stories they leave out in school.
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Master of re-invention: How this American soldier and whisky trader became Alberta's first MP

Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen is a podcast series from CBC Calgary about real people who lived in southern Alberta around the time of confederation and a few decades beyond. These are the whisky-soaked, down and dusty, gun-slinging kinds of stories they leave out in school.
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From the life of a slave to a living legend: How John Ware left his indelible mark on Alberta

Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen is a podcast series from CBC Calgary about real people who lived in southern Alberta around the time of confederation and a few decades beyond. These are the whisky-soaked, down and dusty, gun-slinging kinds of stories they leave out in school.

'Dogged in his pursuit of justice': Lawyer Hersh Wolch who championed the wrongfully convicted dies at 77

Prominent Calgary lawyer Hersh Wolch a passionate, tenacious defender of the wrongfully convicted has died of a heart attack at the age of 77.
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Meet Jerry Potts: The warrior, tracker, trader, hunter and horseman who shaped Alberta

Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen is a podcast series from CBC Calgary about real people who lived in southern Alberta around the time of confederation and a few decades beyond. These are the whisky-soaked, down and dusty, gun-slinging kinds of stories they leave out in school.
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'Diamond Dolly' and the brothels of early Calgary

Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen is a podcast series from CBC Calgary about real people who lived in southern Alberta around the time of confederation and a few decades beyond. These are the whisky-soaked, down and dusty, gun-slinging kinds of stories they leave out in school.