Heat warning issued for Edmonton as high temperatures expected all week | Search for Edmonton teen intensifies as police deem disappearance 'suspicious' | Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets
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Good evening, these are your top stories for Sunday, August 24, 2025.
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Heat warning issued for Edmonton as high temperatures expected all week; Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a heat warning for the Edmonton area, with high temperatures expected to last over the next week\.

Heat warning issued for Edmonton as high temperatures expected all week

August 24 , 2025 at 02:11:39 p.m. MDT • :

Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a heat warning for the Edmonton area, and special weather statements for most of the province as it expects high temperatures over the next week.
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Search for Edmonton teen intensifies as police deem disappearance 'suspicious'; A graphic announces that Samuel Bird is missing, and asks people to report info to EPS\.

Search for Edmonton teen intensifies as police deem disappearance 'suspicious'

August 24 , 2025 at 08:02:29 p.m. MDT • :

Samuel Bird's mother says she's relieved Edmonton Police have deemed her 14-year-old son's disappearance suspicious. Now, as Sam Samson reports, the search has gone from the streets to the North Saskatchewan River.
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Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets; Thomas Lukaszuk, a former conservative deputy premier of Alberta, is the head organizer of the Forever Canadian petition\.

Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets

August 24 , 2025 at 09:29:06 a.m. MDT • :

Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting.
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Stuff not lasting like it used to? Here's what people are doing about it; Scott Noble's Cuisinart blender from the 1980s has lasted longer than his mother's new blender\.

Stuff not lasting like it used to? Here's what people are doing about it

August 24 , 2025 at 02:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

Many people are making a conscious choice to spend their dollars on products that will last them a lifetime. But those kinds of items are getting harder to find, and experts say companies are deliberately making products that will need to be replaced, all in the name of profit.
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Indigenous teen's disappearance from Edmonton deemed suspicious; Samuel Bird, 14, was last seen on the evening of June 1, 2025, leaving his residence to visit a friend in the Canora neighbourhood in west Edmonton\.

Indigenous teen's disappearance from Edmonton deemed suspicious

August 22 , 2025 at 12:31:12 p.m. MDT • :

The disappearance of a 14-year-old Indigenous boy, who vanished last month, has been deemed suspicious by the Edmonton Police Service.
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Edmonton Pride parade returns after seven years; Eevee Crane speaks about Pride\.  

August 23 , 2025 at 09:09:39 p.m. MDT • :

Edmonton Pride parade returns after seven years

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Police watchdog to investigate Edmonton officer who shot man from fire truck bucket; The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says its investigation will examine the use of force in an incident where an EPS officer shot a man from the bucket of a fire truck\.  

August 21 , 2025 at 04:15:34 p.m. MDT • :

Police watchdog to investigate Edmonton officer who shot man from fire truck bucket

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'Basically starting from scratch': Alberta hailstorm wreaks havoc on farmland; Multiple properties in and around Brooks suffered significant damage when a hailstorm hit the area on Aug\. 20\. Pictured is damaged irrigation equipment on Curtis Harbinson's farm\.  

August 22 , 2025 at 02:21:44 p.m. MDT • :

'Basically starting from scratch': Alberta hailstorm wreaks havoc on farmland

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Why some youth are ready to tap out of tipping culture; Ren Alva, a 22-year-old from Bahrain who lives in Edmonton, was taken aback during a recent visit to a U-pick berry farm, where he and his friends were asked to leave a tip at checkout\.  

August 23 , 2025 at 11:12:10 a.m. MDT • :

Why some youth are ready to tap out of tipping culture

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Fed-up Canadians say no one at CRA is taking their call. The union says it's set to get worse; CRA workers' union blames job cuts for poor response times  

August 22 , 2025 at 02:00:00 a.m. MDT • :

Fed-up Canadians say no one at CRA is taking their call. The union says it's set to get worse

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