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Calgary-based company charged with pandemic price gouging

Alberta has charged a Calgary-based supply company with COVID-19 price gouging, but the company's owner says he himself is paying massively inflated prices just to bring in supplies like masks and sanitizer.



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Dear Diary: How this retired teacher is staying connected with her dad

In this instalment of our series, Dear Diary: In a Time of COVID-19, Karen Pollock tells us about learning the ukulele and how it’s helping her stay connected with her father.



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Alberta reports 59 new COVID-19 cases, one additional death

Alberta reported 59 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, marking a full week of daily new cases remaining in the double digits.



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Calgary coffee shop ordered to close its patio by Alberta Health Services

A Calgary coffee shop must close public access to its patio and dine-in services, Alberta Health Services says.



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McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Pity Us

Danes haven’t built a “socialist” country. Just one that works.




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Tessitore, McFarland out of Monday Night Football booth: report

The tandem of Joe Tessitore and Booger McFarland won't return to ESPN's "Monday Night Football" broadcast booth, according to media reporter Richard Deitsch of The Athletic.



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Report: Memorial to allow fans and use technology to ensure social distancing

The Memorial could be the first PGA Tour event to reopen with fans, and people on the course grounds will be wearing badges equipped with chip technology to ensure social distancing.




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Amateur B.C. baker proves you don't have to go to Paris to learn to make delicious bread

One sister was formally trained in France. The other learned how to bake off the internet and shows how you don't need to go abroad to know about bread.



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Some businesses find ways to thrive as COVID-19 forces them to change their business models

Some businesses have been more successful than others finding ways with new business practices to maintain the same level of success they did pre-pandemic. 



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After 101 years in business, Army & Navy department stores to permanently close

The family owned Army & Navy department store chain is closing after more than a century in business.



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B.C. fire-related fatalities on the rise in 2020, says province

Fire officials are asking people in B.C. to test smoke alarms and take care in the kitchen as 15 people have died in the province so far this year due to fires — three times the number of deaths for the same time period in 2019.



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Update on Refugee Emergency in Italy

(Source: Italian Evangelical Alliance) North African refugees flooding into Lampedusa are now being moved to various centres throughout Italy. The Italian Evangelical Alliance and their partner organisations are working to reach out to these displaced peoples.




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Never too old to serve

Instead of planning for their retirement, Rose and Matthew Gibson followed God's calling to full-time missions with OM Italy.




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Sparks of freedom

On the anniversary of religious freedom for Christians in Italy, OM Arts International hosts its first OM Arts School of Missions at Forterocca.




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Communicating art whole-heartedly

A team of artists from the OM Arts School of Mission reach out locally to people with special needs in Val Pellice, Italy.




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Children read the Bible for the first time

OM Italy, FCA and church volunteers impact the community of Torre Pellice in northern Italy through the fifth annual English/sports camp in June.




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Transform: Reaching across borders

Tim and Sophie, an Australian couple with OM in Paris, experienced life in North Africa, and its many different needs and difficulties, through Transform 2012.




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An unexpected call at Transform

How God called Andrea from Italy to leave his comfort zone during the Transform conference and his experience with OM Lifehope in the UK.




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OM Italy launches Saturday football games

To counter negative effects caused by lack of jobs and activities in the local area, OM Italy now offers free football games.




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Clowning around in Italy

The experience of a group of young people going on an outreach in Italy after Transform 2013.




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Around the walls of the Vatican

An Italian girl receives a vision of Jericho that guides her to speak with a woman on Transform 2013 outreach day.




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Samba and sports in Italy

A Transform 2013 outreach team in Vasto, Italy, uses samba music and sports to connect with children.




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Transforming the Mediterranean

Around 340 people participated in the Transform 2013 mission conference in Rome before spreading across the Mediterranean on 29 outreaches.




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Incarnate School of Art and Mission 2014 begins

For the second time, OM Italy hosts the Incarnate School of Art and Mission in Bobbio Pellice.




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Students model Christ through art

Incarnate 2014, a course in arts and mission hosted by OM Italy, touches the lives of the students and local community.




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Seeds planted amongst kids

OM Italy impacts 150 children during their annual summer camp in Torre Pellice.




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Culturally exposed while exposing Jesus

A new OM Italy team member participates in an English Scout Camp, which brings the Gospel to children and gives her new cultural insight.




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Good times and God times

As the OM Transform team share the Gospel with children in Sicily, Italy, they also experience God’s touch in their own lives.




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Prophetic art for the people of Isola del Gran Sasso

OM Arts artists participating in the Incarnate programme in Italy create a collaborative piece of prophetic art for the local community.




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What I do have, I give to you

Christian Pilz spent a week in the refugee camp in Idomeni, where 13,000 people camp at the closed border. “What happened to us?” he wonders.




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Connecting with kids in Fucecchio

The team in Fucecchio, near Pisa puts on their first English Sports camp after a year of local ministry through an after school programme.




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The God of all comfort

A Muslim woman relates to the story of the Good Samaritan and receives comfort from God.




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For the kingdom

What elements do you hold in your hands that can be used for eternity?




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Ministering God’s Word in Urfa

God opens doors for an international team to minister in Urfa, Turkey, an ancient city with no Christian church and only a handful of believers.




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A dream comes true

More than 15 years after catching the vision to bring teenagers to TeenStreet Europe, OM worker Markus, serving in Turkey, sees God answer his prayer.




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A needle in a haystack

In an Istanbul neighbourhood of 200,000 people, an OM worker, prompted by God, asks a question to the only person who knows the answer.




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Old and new creation

A Turkish believer remains strong in his faith through persecution.




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Three men and a postman

Long-termers in Turkey get an unexpected opportunity to share the gospel while also representing the Turkish Post Office!




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Married and ministering together

Newly married couple temporarily in Turkey uses spare time and unexpected opportunities to reach out to refugees.




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One sows, one waters, God gives the growth

Church planters with the BCC in Turkey are encouraged by growth in a city where the gospel was previously unknown.




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Jemima and Amitaf

God uses an OMer working amongst Kurdish refugees in Turkey to reach a whole family through one contact.




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Fresh bread brings openness

An OMer in Turkey who likes to bake is able to bless her neighbours in their apartment block.




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Elazağı trip – God’s timing

Two OMer's plan a trip out to eastern Turkey to share the gospel with the lost, as their plans keep changing along the way.




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Drawing people in through dreams

Two stories of how God is using dreams in the Muslim world to draw people to Himself.




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2.6 million new friends

OM Turkey helps the local church to minister to the 2.6 million refugees in their country.




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Turks turn to Christ: The story of the Bible Correspondence Course

No known believers from a Muslim background existed in Turkey when the first two OMers arrived in 1961. Now, nearly half of the 7,000 believers there can trace their journey through the Bible Correspondence Course.




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Delia's story

An Uzbek girl living in Istanbul, Turkey enters into relationship with Jesus after having a dream.




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Modern "Acts"

A family in Turkey is impacted by the gospel through contacts with the Bible Correspondence Course.




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A calling confirmed

Turkey is a 'hot-climate' culture, meaning that people are relationship-oriented rather than task-oriented.




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Trips around Turkey

Travelling around Turkey, one OM worker shares truth with people in some of the country's least reached provinces.