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Tree that killed Lansdowne Middle School student appeared to have toppled in wind: RCMP

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Students are being offered grief counselling after a 13-year-old boy in Grade 8 at Lansdowne Middle School was struck and killed by a falling tree Wednesday afternoon during ...

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