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CALGARY A hunter was carried out of the brush and airlifted to hospital in life-threatening condition after being shot south of Calgary on Tuesday morning, and a 62-year-old man is now in custody. Members of the Turner Valley, Okotoks and High River RCMP detachments responded to a location east of Highway 2 and north of Dunbow Road shortly after 9 a.m. following reports of a hunter being shot. According to EMS public education officer Adam Loria, the location near the intersection of Dunbow Road and 80 Street was inaccessible by road and a paramedic crew hiked to retrieve the injured man. The patient was carried out of the brush on a stretcher and a STARS Air Ambulance crew transported the man from the scene to hospital.
EDMONTON Sahra Kaahiye feels more confident now. Kaahiye, a respiratory therapist in Edmonton, was the first Albertan to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday at approximately 4 p.m. “I do feel like I have an extra level of protection for myself as well as my patients,” she told CTV News Edmonton after she received the first of two doses of the vaccine. “I have a lot of compromised patients, especially in the respiratory wards, so I’m definitely feeling like I am protecting them as well as protecting myself.” Sahra, a respiratory therapist in Edmonton, just became the first Albertan to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.