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• Santa’s Parade of Lights to take over downtown Edmonton

  17-11-2017 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  The spirit of Christmas will arrive in downtown Edmonton on Saturday night, with Santa's Parade of Lights making its way through the core.
  
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• CN Rail hiring spree to continue into 2018 amid upsurge in shipments

  17-11-2017 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Canada's biggest freight railroad scrambles is scrambling to catch up with surging shipments and fill vacancies, a company official said on Friday.
  
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• Edmonton playwright sentenced to 6 months in jail on child pornography charge

  17-11-2017 23:27 via cbc.ca
  Edmonton playwright David Belke has been sentenced to six months in jail, followed by one year of probation.
  
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• Dangerous offender assessment ordered for Alberta man found guilty of sexual assault

  17-11-2017 23:17 via cbc.ca
  A dangerous offender assessment has been ordered for a man found guilty of sexually assaulting an Edmonton woman in 2015. A jury found Ashton Natomagan guilty of sexual assault with a weapon, kidnapping, overcoming resistance and robbery.
  
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• Smoking materials caused fatal fire at Edmonton seniors’ home

  17-11-2017 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators have determined "improperly discarded smoker's materials" caused the Nov. 9 fire at a seniors' home near 80 Street and 101 A Avenue.
  
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• Child luring investigation results in arrest of Rocky Mountain House man

  17-11-2017 22:15 via globalnews.ca
  Investigators say the parents of a 12-year-old girl found explicit conversations and photos on social media and contacted police.
  
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• 2 men charged with dozens of fraud-related charges, found with stolen IDs, beef jerky in Red Deer

  17-11-2017 22:03 via globalnews.ca
  Two men have been charged with fraud-related offences after police found ID cards, mail, cheques and credit cards stolen from approximately 15 people.
  
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• Edmontonian discovers ‘heartbreaking’ damage to piano in LRT pedway

  17-11-2017 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  A piano that was placed in a pedway connected to the Health Sciences LRT Station for people to play and enjoy was destroyed.
  
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• Nine-year-old girl remains in coma 3 weeks after Manning Drive crash

  17-11-2017 21:36 via cbc.ca
  A nine-year-old Edmonton girl who suffered a head injury in a car crash on Manning Drive earlier this month remains in a coma, but is showing some signs of recovery.
  
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• Alberta Health Services releases latest flu numbers for 2017-18 season

  17-11-2017 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The latest report from Alberta Health Services (AHS) shows there have been four flu-related deaths in the province so far in the 2017-2018 season. 
  
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• Edmonton brothers film extraordinary adventures in ‘How to Learn Anything’ series

  17-11-2017 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  He's completed a Rubik's Cube while skydiving, launched a Jeep over a jump while doing the splits and tap danced on the side of a mountain — all to highlight the value of learning.
  
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• Reality check: Are sugar taxes a cash grab or do they prompt healthier choices?

  17-11-2017 20:47 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages that are meant to encourage people to make healthier choices don’t actually work, but a Waterloo, Ont.,-based researcher says they have drawn on “very little of the real evidence” in making their claim.
  
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• Edmonton development continues to create debate during public hearing

  17-11-2017 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  A day-long public hearing began Friday morning at city council on a controversial highrise development in a south Edmonton neighbourhood.  
  
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• Liberal Leader David Khan to run in Dec. 14 Calgary byelection

  17-11-2017 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  David Khan says the Liberals are an alternative to what he calls the poor-economic policies of the governing NDP and the failed social policies of the United Conservatives.
  
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• Alberta Liberal Party Leader to face United Conservative Party Leader in Calgary byelection

  17-11-2017 20:05 via cbc.ca
  Alberta Liberal Party Leader David Khan will run against United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney in the upcoming Calgary-Lougheed byelection.
  
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• RCMP make 3rd arrest in Slave Lake murder investigation

  17-11-2017 20:04 via globalnews.ca
  A third person has been charged after a Slave Lake, Alta. woman's body was found in Lesser Slave River this summer.
  
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• Controversial Holyrood highrise development debated at Edmonton city hall

  17-11-2017 20:00 via globalnews.ca
  A long debate is underway at City Hall, where council is hearing from the public about a controversial highrise development in the community of Holyrood. Fletcher Kent reports on Global News at Noon.
  
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• Alberta RCMP seeking Lac La Biche murder suspect, missing woman

  17-11-2017 19:52 via cbc.ca
  RCMP are looking for a 22-year-old man wanted for first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Lac La Biche man three weeks ago.
  
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• Lac La Biche RCMP believe homicide suspect and missing woman may be together

  17-11-2017 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP in northern Alberta believe a missing woman and man wanted for murder may be together after sightings across the province, including in Edmonton.
  
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• Documentary retraces Edmonton fur trader's past journeys in Canadian Arctic

  17-11-2017 19:37 via cbc.ca
  Reels of 8-mm film, long forgotten in a dusty attic, inspired Hugh Kroetsch to retrace his steps through Canada’s High Arctic, in a father-and-son expedition nearly seven decades in the making.
  
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• Keystone pipeline leaks 795K litres of oil in U.S. days before XL expansion decision

  17-11-2017 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 795,000 litres of oil onto agricultural land in northeastern South Dakota.
  
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• Mountain pine beetles from Jasper National Park moving east into commercial forest

  17-11-2017 17:35 via globalnews.ca
  The Mountain pine beetle outbreak which has killed thousands of trees in Jasper National Park is moving east into Alberta's commercial forests, and researchers blame Parks staff for not doing enough to stop the spread.
  
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• 'A little bit flat': Frustrated Oilers can't find winning formula against Blues

  17-11-2017 16:44 via cbc.ca
  Adversity + frustration = another loss on home ice. That simple formula played out at Rogers Place on Thursday evening when the St. Louis Blues came limping into town after getting embarrassed in Calgary and beat the Oilers 4-1.
  
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• Patience a necessity for would-be Alberta cannabis retailers waiting on marijuana legalization

  17-11-2017 16:37 via globalnews.ca
  Praise and patience is coming from one entrepreneur who is pining for the opportunity to become a cannabis retailer in Alberta.
  
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• Alberta high school students and parents upset over gender-neutral bathrooms

  17-11-2017 16:00 via cbc.ca
  Some students and parents are upset after gender-neutral washrooms were introduced this year at Sturgeon Composite High School in Namao, 20 kilometres north of Edmonton.
  
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• New south Edmonton high school to be announced Friday

  17-11-2017 15:08 via globalnews.ca
  A new high school is being announced Friday for south Edmonton, which the public school board has identified as a top priority.
  
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• New 1,800-student high school to be built in southwest Edmonton

  17-11-2017 15:08 via globalnews.ca
  The school will be built just west of James Mowatt Trail and north of 35 Avenue and will serve students in neighbourhoods west of Calgary Trail/QEII and south of Anthony Henday Drive, in what is known as the Heritage Valley area.
  
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• Eskimos fans hope to ride momentum into McMahon Stadium for weekend Western Final

  17-11-2017 15:00 via cbc.ca
  Eskimos fans are licking their chops at the thought of what's at stake this weekend at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.
  
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• Pine beetles from Jasper National Park now infesting commercial forest

  17-11-2017 14:50 via cbc.ca
  A massive and uncontrollable buildup of mountain pine beetles in Jasper National Park is starting to explode into commercially valuable forests along its boundaries.
  
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• Santa’s Parade of Lights coming to downtown Edmonton this weekend

  17-11-2017 14:44 via globalnews.ca
  He’s making a list and checking it twice. He’s coming this Saturday to make sure everyone’s been nice. Santa Claus is coming to downtown Edmonton! Dean Heuman has more on Santa’s Parade of Lights.
  
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• CFL playoffs: East final a pick-'em, but Eskimos have edge in West

  17-11-2017 14:27 via cbc.ca
  It's division final weekend in the CFL, as four teams vie for the right to play for the Grey Cup in Ottawa on Nov. 26. Here's a look at what to expect in the Saskatchewan-Toronto and Edmonton-Calgary matchups on Sunday.
  
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• St. Albert Catholic board rejects parents' call to move 'unsafe' bus stop

  17-11-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Parents of two St. Albert children are not backing down after the Catholic school board rejected their request to move a bus stop they consider unsafe.
  
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• Private marijuana industry to be boon for Alberta: Alberta Cannabis Stakeholders Group

  17-11-2017 14:00 via globalnews.ca
  Marijuana is expected to be big business, especially if you look at the private regulation models in Colorado and Washington. A lobby group thinks that means Alberta will see a huge benefit and an entirely new industry spring up from nothing.
  
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• Edmonton early morning weather forecast: Friday, November 17, 2017

  17-11-2017 13:24 via globalnews.ca
  Here’s Mike Sobel’s Friday, November 17, 2017 early morning weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.
  
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• Decision expected in convicted Calgary mother Tamara Lovett’s Jordan application

  17-11-2017 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  A decision is expected Friday as to whether a Calgary mother convicted in the death of her seven-year-old son will be granted a stay of proceedings. 
  
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• Convicted Calgary mother Tamara Lovett’s Jordan application dismissed

  17-11-2017 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  A Calgary mother convicted in the death of her seven-year-old son will be sentenced for criminal negligence causing death.
  
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• 'We have far more pressing issues,' says Inuk who backs Edmonton Eskimos name

  17-11-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  Since the latest push by the mayor of Winnipeg to get the CFL team to change their name, many Inuit have spoken out to voice their support for the Eskimos moniker.
  
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• Details of RCMP undercover operation revealed in court at Alberta triple-murder trial

  17-11-2017 07:23 via globalnews.ca
  The trial of a central Alberta man accused of killing his family heard evidence Thursday that was gathered during an elaborate RCMP undercover operation where Mounties posed as members of a crime organization.
  
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• Graduation ceremony held for new Edmonton firefighters

  17-11-2017 07:05 via globalnews.ca
  Some new firefighters will soon be keeping Edmontonians safe. Twenty-seven people received caps and badges at a graduation ceremony at city hall on Thursday night.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers battered by the Blues

  17-11-2017 06:05 via globalnews.ca
  The Blues beat the Oilers 4-1.
  
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• Brayden Schenn dictates tune as Blues outclass Oilers

  17-11-2017 05:49 via cbc.ca
  Brayden Schenn had two goals and an assist as the St. Louis Blues snapped a rare two-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.
  
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• Blues outclass Oilers as Brayden Schenn dictates tune

  17-11-2017 05:49 via cbc.ca
  Brayden Schenn had two goals and an assist as the St. Louis Blues snapped a rare two-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.
  
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• Train crash in Singapore has Edmonton city councillors thinking about Metro Line problems

  17-11-2017 04:00 via globalnews.ca
  A commuter train crash in Singapore is getting attention in Edmonton because the same contractor doing work on the city's problem-plagued Metro Line has done signalling work for Singapore.
  
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• 'GSAs save lives': why gay-straight alliances matter to teachers, students

  17-11-2017 03:50 via cbc.ca
  Jane MacNeil came out to her parents in Grade 6 and was immediately accepted. But in her Catholic school, one that didn’t have a gay-straight alliance, she felt rejected and isolated.
  
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• Edmonton Weather Forecast: Nov. 16

  17-11-2017 02:29 via globalnews.ca
  The Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.
  
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• Falls are leading cause of injury among seniors but can be prevented

  17-11-2017 02:16 via globalnews.ca
  Falls are the leading cause of injury among seniors but they can be prevented. Su-Ling Goh reports.
  
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• Byelection called for Calgary-Lougheed as Jason Kenney tries for seat in legislature

  17-11-2017 02:10 via globalnews.ca
  Premier Rachel Notley has called for a byelection in Calgary-Lougheed and while its only one riding, the people and issues at play will likely serve as a preview of what’s to come in the 2019 election. Fletcher Kent reports.
  
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• NDP government lays out details of its cannabis legislation

  17-11-2017 02:08 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley laid out details of the NDP’s proposed legislation to deal with the legalization of marijuana. Tom Vernon reports.
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos wide receiver discovers West Edmonton Mall for 1st time: ‘Oh, shoot!’

  17-11-2017 02:05 via globalnews.ca
  Eskimos wide receiver Jamill Smith had his mind blown earlier this week when he stumbled upon West Edmonton Mall for the first time.
  
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• A look at what a repurposed Remand Centre might look like

  17-11-2017 02:05 via globalnews.ca
  We’re getting our first look tonight at what a new use for the old Remand Centre might look like. Vinesh Pratap looks at plans to turn it into a wellness centre.
  
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