Edmonton news

• 'Life-altering consequences:' Edmonton busker jailed for assaulting man

  22-03-2018 23:56 via cbc.ca
  A judge has sentenced a busker to 18 months in jail for attacking a man he thought had swiped some of his change.
  
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• Edmonton police locate and arrest ‘violent offender’ wanted on 49 warrants

  22-03-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Cody Young was taken into custody on March 20.
  
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• Kenney calls carbon tax increase ‘reliable increase in cost of living’

  22-03-2018 23:10 via globalnews.ca
  Tue, Mar 22: Alberta opposition leader Jason Kenney reacts to Alberta NDP’s plan to increase carbon tax.
  
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• Alberta Budget 2018: What’s in it for Edmonton

  22-03-2018 22:39 via globalnews.ca
  What's in Alberta Budget 2018 for Edmonton? Find out right here.
  
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• Behind closed doors: Secret passageways big business for Alberta carpenter

  22-03-2018 22:31 via cbc.ca
  Carpenter Sandy Scheiris helps Alberta homeowners keep their secrets behind closed doors.
  
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• Highlights from Alberta Budget 2018

  22-03-2018 22:29 via globalnews.ca
  Highlights from the Alberta budget tabled on Thursday.
  
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• Alberta post-secondary executive, school superintendent salaries to be reviewed

  22-03-2018 22:28 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the government will do salary reviews of post-secondary executives and school superintendents.
  
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• Budget 2018: Alberta aims to get economy back on 'Path to Balance'

  22-03-2018 22:25
  Finance minister Joe Ceci says the province plans to diversify the economy, protect public services, and return to a budget that no longer operates at a deficit.
  
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• Alberta NDP had worked to stop boom-and-bust spending cycle

  22-03-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci outlines ways the NDP government worked to move away from “wild spending swings.”
  
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• Alberta to see a $1.5-billion reduction in deficit forecast: Ceci

  22-03-2018 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci predicts a $1.5-billion reduction from last year’s deficit forecast.
  
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• ‘Today in Alberta things are looking up’: Joe Ceci

  22-03-2018 22:20 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci says the province’s economy is “growing faster than any province in Canada,” adding the deficit is coming down.
  
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• Four important things buried in the numbers of Alberta's 2018 budget

  22-03-2018 22:20 via cbc.ca
  There are countless stories contained in the 170-page budget document but we’ve picked out four that seem particularly salient at this point in Alberta’s history.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers end road trip against struggling Senators

  22-03-2018 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Oilers are 9-6-1 in their last 16 games.
  
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• Edmonton Galleria Foundation suspends plans for performing arts district

  22-03-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Edmonton Galleria Foundation has suspended plans for a performing arts district near the new Royal Alberta Museum in the downtown core.
  
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• Alberta's balanced budget plan relies on pipelines and debt climbing to $96B

  22-03-2018 21:40 via cbc.ca
  Alberta’s path to balanced budgets is built on hopes for construction of three new pipelines, including the controversial Trans Mountain expansion, plus reaping extra revenue generated by the federal carbon tax.
  
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• Alberta finance minister delivers Budget 2018

  22-03-2018 21:40 via cbc.ca
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci is promising his budget will contain a plan that will eliminate deficits within five years.
  
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• City of Edmonton takes control of Boyle Street Plaza, citing mismanagement by community league

  22-03-2018 21:01 via cbc.ca
  The City of Edmonton is taking back control of the Boyle Street Plaza from the area’s community league after five years, citing mismanagement by the community league.
  
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• AHS warns those who ate at Grey Nuns Hospital after worker diagnosed with hepatitis A

  22-03-2018 20:45 via cbc.ca
  Alberta Health Services has issued a warning to patients, visitors and staff at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital after a cafeteria worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A.
  
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• AHS issues warning after food handler at Edmonton hospital diagnosed with hepatitis A

  22-03-2018 20:45 via cbc.ca
  Alberta Health Services has issued a warning to patients, visitors and staff at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital after a cafeteria worker was diagnosed with hepatitis A.
  
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• Hepatitis A found in Edmonton hospital cafeteria worker, warns AHS

  22-03-2018 20:32
  Alberta Health Services says patients, visitors and staff who consumed food or drink at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital between Feb. 26 and March 18 may have been exposed to the infection.
  
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• Canada’s 100 best restaurants for a night out according to OpenTable

  22-03-2018 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  Online reservations website OpenTable reveals the best places across Canada to eat based on user reviews.
  
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• Preventing child poisonings involving medications

  22-03-2018 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  About 70 per cent of child poisonings involve medication, so for for National Poison Prevention Week the U of A’s Injury Prevention Centre is providing some tips for parents. Su-Ling Goh explains.
  
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• Edmonton’s first safe injection site set to open Friday at Boyle Street Community Services

  22-03-2018 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton’s first supervised consumption site is set to open in downtown on Friday. Kendra Slugoski took tour of the safe injection setup at Boyle Street Community Services and explains how it will work.
  
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• Cenovus cuts oilsands production due to price differential, pipeline constraints

  22-03-2018 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  The company has been operating its Christina Lake and Foster Creek facilities at reduced production levels since February.
  
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• Alberta cannabis operation to open first B.C. facility in Kamloops

  22-03-2018 18:45 via cbc.ca
  Alberta-based Sundial Growers Inc. is looking to set up shop in Kamloops by the end of the year.
  
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• Edmonton police seeking American witness to Whyte Ave-area homicide

  22-03-2018 18:36 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton police trying to find a young man from Atlanta, Ga., who may have witnessed the events leading up to the stabbing death of 39-year-old Marlon Jair Nunez at an apartment building in Old Strathcona.
  
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• Man who pointed rifle at public, police at busy Edmonton intersection goes to prison

  22-03-2018 18:33 via cbc.ca
  An Edmonton man who "terrified the entire city" was sentenced Thursday to 4½ years in prison.
  
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• First supervised consumption site to open in Edmonton Friday

  22-03-2018 18:21
  The first of three planned sites is located at Boyle Street Community Services
  
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• Homicide detectives seek potential witness in Strathcona stabbing death

  22-03-2018 18:09 via cbc.ca
  Homicide detectives are seeking a potential witness in connection with the stabbing death of a 39-year-old man inside a Strathcona apartment building earlier this month.
  
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• 'Artificial magma' technology used to suppress Alberta oil and gas well leaks

  22-03-2018 17:56 via cbc.ca
  New technologies employing brute force as well as artificial volcanic action are being developed to better seal thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in Canada that are leaking methane, a greenhouse gas with an outsized impact on global warming.
  
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• Record narcotics bust at southern Alberta border crossing

  22-03-2018 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  A combined investigation has resulted in the seizure of 31 kilograms of cocaine at the Carway, Alta. border crossing, aproximately 100 kilometers southwest of Lethbridge.
  
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• Edmonton’s first safe injection location set to open

  22-03-2018 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton's first safe injection location will open to its first clients on Friday.
  
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• 10 weird and wonderful things you never knew about Sherwood Park

  22-03-2018 17:00 via cbc.ca
  If you want to shoot a bow and arrow while riding on horseback through a raspberry vineyard, Sherwood Park is the place for you.
  
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• 40K smoke alarms that may not detect smoke recalled in Canada

  22-03-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  Two Kidde dual-sensor smoke alarm models are affected: PI2010CA and PI9010CA.
  
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• 40,000 smoke alarms that may not detect smoke recalled in Canada

  22-03-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  Two Kidde dual-sensor smoke alarm models are affected: PI2010CA and PI9010CA.
  
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• Norwegian technology employs ‘artificial magma’ to stifle Alberta gas well leaks

  22-03-2018 16:21 via globalnews.ca
  A Norwegian company has developed technology to help better seal Alberta oil and gas wells.
  
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• 2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home #2: Adult sanctuary

  22-03-2018 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home tour: Lorraine Mansbridge tours the second of two $1 million dream home in St. Albert, showing off the upper level adult sanctuary. Tickets support programs for local kids, and the winner gets to pick which home they want. (4/4)
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating 'missing person' scene in northeast Edmonton

  22-03-2018 15:15 via cbc.ca
  Homicide detectives are investigating a missing-person scene in northeast Edmonton.
  
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• Forensic experts called to missing-person scene in northeast Edmonton

  22-03-2018 15:15 via cbc.ca
  Forensic investigators are at the scene of a missing-person investigation in northeast Edmonton Thursday morning.
  
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• 2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home #2: Main floor

  22-03-2018 15:13 via globalnews.ca
  2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home tour: Lorraine Mansbridge tours the second of two $1 million dream home in St. Albert, showing off the main floor’s kid’s bedrooms, three-season room, kitchen and family room. Tickets support programs for local kids, and the winner gets to pick which home they want. (3/4)
  
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• 2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home #1: Lower level entertainment

  22-03-2018 14:50 via globalnews.ca
  Lorraine Mansbridge tours the lower level in one of the two $1 million dream home in St. Albert, which features a second kitchen, bedrooms, theatre room and entertainment area.
  
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• Downtown Edmonton Galleria project suspended

  22-03-2018 14:45 via cbc.ca
  The Galleria Project, a sprawling arts district proposed for downtown Edmonton, has been suspended by its board of directors.
  
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• 2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home #1: Main level Kitchen & master bedroom

  22-03-2018 14:22 via globalnews.ca
  2018 Big Brothers Big Sisters dream home tour: Lorraine Mansbridge tours the kitchen, dining room, family room and master bedroom in one of the two $1 million dream home in St. Albert. Tickets support programs for local kids, and the winner gets to pick which home they want. (1/4)
  
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• Grande Prairie region braces for 2018 wildfire season

  22-03-2018 14:00 via cbc.ca
  During wildfire season in Alberta, Trevor Grant and his crew can stand on the roof of their fire station near Grande Prairie and pick out columns of smoke on the horizon.
  
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• Alberta budget to lay out plan to end deficits by 2023

  22-03-2018 13:00 via cbc.ca
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci is promising Thursday’s provincial budget will have a plan to balance Alberta’s budget in the next five years.
  
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• Edmonton early morning weather forecast: Thursday, March 22, 2018

  22-03-2018 12:25 via globalnews.ca
  Here’s Mike Sobel’s Thursday, March 22, 2018 early morning weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.
  
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• Hundreds of charges laid against 32 teens, 2 men for thefts and attacks in Edmonton

  22-03-2018 12:03 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton police released startling video of a series of violent crimes committed in public spaces around the city, allegedly by a large group of teenage boys. Sarah Kraus has more on the hundreds of charges that have been laid.
  
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• Why a sales tax could spring Alberta from the royalty roller-coaster — but will likely never happen

  22-03-2018 12:00 via cbc.ca
  Alberta could slay its deficit in one fell swoop, some say. Boost business investment and jobs. Build more schools and hospitals. Even make it so most Albertans pay zero in provincial income tax. Yes, Albertans have been talking about adding a provincial sales tax for decades. So why hasn't it happened?
  
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• How Global News is covering Alberta Budget 2018

  22-03-2018 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta government will table its 2018 budget on Thursday afternoon. Global News will have robust coverage online and on-air beginning the minute the embargo is lifted, shortly after 3 p.m.
  
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• High River vying for votes to win 2018 Kraft Hockeyville arena upgrades

  22-03-2018 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  The grand prize is $250,000 in arena upgrades and the opportunity to host an NHL pre-season game.
  
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