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• Old Strathcona Back Street concept shared with public, needs community fundraising to fully move forward

  29-08-2020 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  The project has been in discussion for several years, but now the city said it hopes to move forward with construction by the end of 2021.
  
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• Edmonton Public and Catholic schools receive PPE ahead of school year - CTV News Edmonton

  29-08-2020 23:28
  
  Edmonton Public and Catholic schools receive PPE ahead of school year  CTV News Edmonton
  
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• Coronavirus: Tips to cope with a pandemic in the winter months

  29-08-2020 23:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  To date, Canadians haven't had to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic the harshest winter months, when the cold and snow will affect social distancing and increase isolation.
  
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• Masks required, spandex optional: Free Comic Book Day continues in 2020 - Global News

  29-08-2020 23:26
  
  Masks required, spandex optional: Free Comic Book Day continues in 2020  Global News
  
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• Masks required, spandex optional: Free Comic Book Day continues in 2020

  29-08-2020 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  After being postponed due to COVID-19, Free Comic Book Day returns to Edmonton as an end-of-summer event.
  
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• Coping with a pandemic as winter approaches

  29-08-2020 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Global News’ Sarah Ryan spoke with a registered psychologist about how Canadians can keep their socialization and activity levels up amid COVID-19, even when the snow flies.
  
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• Fluoride interruption to 280,000 homes in Edmonton region extended into late fall due to COVID-19 - Edmonton Journal

  29-08-2020 22:47
  
  Fluoride interruption to 280,000 homes in Edmonton region extended into late fall due to COVID-19  Edmonton Journal
  
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• Calgary chicken processing plant will remain open after COVID-19 outbreak

  29-08-2020 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Sofina Foods/Lilydale poultry processing plant in Calgary will remain open despite a growing COVID-19 outbreak.
  
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• Safe with scholarship money stolen from Edmonton dance studio: ‘It’s really violating’ - Global News

  29-08-2020 22:02
  
  Safe with scholarship money stolen from Edmonton dance studio: ‘It’s really violating’  Global News
  
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• Safe with scholarship money stolen from Edmonton dance studio: ‘It’s really violating’

  29-08-2020 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Staff at an Edmonton dance studio say they feel violated after two people broke in and stole their safe earlier this week.
  
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• Inner city Edmonton landlord charged with fentanyl trafficking - Edmonton Journal

  29-08-2020 21:02
  
  Inner city Edmonton landlord charged with fentanyl trafficking  Edmonton Journal
  
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• Lemonade Stand to honour Bella Desrosiers

  29-08-2020 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Stollery Lemonade fundraiser is set to take place this weekend in Edmonton, but for one family it will hold even more meaning. The mother and sister of Bella Rose Desrosiers, who was killed by a family friend in May, plan to hold a stand again this weekend in her honour. Breanna Karstens-Smith reports.
  
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• What you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Saturday, August 29

  29-08-2020 19:20 via cbc.ca
  
  An outbreak at a Calgary chicken processing plant has now grown to 25 positive COVID-19 cases, according to the union that represents the workers.
  
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• Calgary’s LGBTQ, BIPOC communities join nationwide protest to defund police

  29-08-2020 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Raricanow, DefundYYC and Idle No More have organized a protest Saturday afternoon in Calgary.
  
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• Calgary’s LGBTQ and BIPOC communities to join nationwide protest to defund police

  29-08-2020 18:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Raricanow, DefundYYC and Idle No More have organized a protest Saturday afternoon in Calgary.
  
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• More generator issues creating black smoke at Canada Place: Edmonton fire officials - Global News

  29-08-2020 18:35
  
  More generator issues creating black smoke at Canada Place: Edmonton fire officials  Global News
  
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• More generator issues creating black smoke at Canada Place: Edmonton fire officials

  29-08-2020 18:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fire officials said Saturday that the public should not be concerned if they see black smoke coming from Canada Place.
  
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• Edmonton author examines the ongoing changes to Canada's modern prairie landscape - CBC.ca

  29-08-2020 17:00
  
  Edmonton author examines the ongoing changes to Canada's modern prairie landscape  CBC.ca
  
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• Edmonton author examines the ongoing changes to Canada's modern prairie landscape

  29-08-2020 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Kyler Zeleny's newest book, Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle aims to document people in the prairies and present the area as an understudied region that still faces a great deal of struggle.
  
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• Rock garden aims to spread positivity around Innisfail

  29-08-2020 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The Innisfail Public Library and the community's Youth Action Committee hope to rock your world with positive messages as part of its Kindness Rocks Garden.
  
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• Alberta political parties go virtual for annual meetings

  29-08-2020 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing Alberta political parties to move their annual general meetings from packed hotel ballrooms and hospitality suites to the internet. 
  
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• Alberta doctor says daily verbal abuse and resistance to in-hospital masking is a problem

  29-08-2020 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Dr. Michael Chatenay, who works at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in Edmonton, says increasingly, he's seeing daily bouts of abuse against staff trying to follow protocol.
  
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• Can Chrystia Freeland overcome the Liberals' 'elite' problem?

  29-08-2020 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Newly elected Conservative leader Erin O'Toole is already signalling his party's election-year messaging — the claim that the Liberals are a cadre of out-of-touch elitists indifferent to the needs of the average Canadian. Could Chrystia Freeland do a better job of countering that argument than her boss?
  
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• Attempted robbery, shots fired NE of Edmonton leads to charges - CTV News Edmonton

  29-08-2020 07:39
  
  Attempted robbery, shots fired NE of Edmonton leads to charges  CTV News Edmonton
  
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• Mike Weir surprises Calgary charity with video call and donation

  29-08-2020 07:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  "I was very starstruck as well and it took a minute to register," Carya fund development manager Jennifer Moir.
  
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• Weather forecasting disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic

  29-08-2020 06:50 via globalnews.ca
  
  Few planes have been flying due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what many people may not realize is how much air traffic plays an important role in forecasting. Phil Darlington explains.
  
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• Edmonton family continuing late daughter’s lemonade legacy - Global News

  29-08-2020 06:31
  
  Edmonton family continuing late daughter’s lemonade legacy  Global News
  
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• Edmonton family continuing late daughter’s lemonade legacy

  29-08-2020 06:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  Three months after losing her young daughter, an Edmonton mother is continuing a tradition of raising money for the Stollery with a lemonade stand.
  
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• Man appears to casually set dumpster fire in Edmonton’s Boonie Doon neighbourhood - Global News

  29-08-2020 05:53
  
  Man appears to casually set dumpster fire in Edmonton’s Boonie Doon neighbourhood  Global News
  
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• Man appears to casually set dumpster fire in Edmonton’s Boonie Doon neighbourhood

  29-08-2020 05:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Boonie Doon residents in Edmonton are shocked after a video has surfaced, appearing to show a man eat fast food in his vehicle, get out and then light a paper bag on fire and put it in a dumpster.
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder in Alberta First Nations death

  29-08-2020 05:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP say a 27-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a firearms incident at O'Chiese First Nations Thursday evening that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old man.
  
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• Dumpster fire shocks Edmonton’s Bonnie Doon

  29-08-2020 05:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  The dumpster fire itself didn’t cause a lot of damage, still residents are concerned about how the fire was set. Sarah Komadina has more.
  
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• Unused Heritage Valley Park and Ride sits empty in south Edmonton

  29-08-2020 04:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Heritage Valley Park and Ride has been ready to go for months now, but the transit facility in deep south Edmonton sits empty. Vinesh Pratap looked into why.
  
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• Edmonton weather forecast: Friday, August 28, 2020

  29-08-2020 04:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Here’s Jesse Beyer’s Friday, August 28, 2020 evening weather forecast for Edmonton, Alberta and the surrounding area.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton: August 28

  29-08-2020 04:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  A webcast of Global News Hour at 6 Edmonton with Gord Steinke and Breanna Karstens-Smith from Friday, August 28, 2020.
  
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• Edmonton bakery temporarily shuts its doors in order to try and stay open long-term - Global News

  29-08-2020 04:39
  
  Edmonton bakery temporarily shuts its doors in order to try and stay open long-term  Global News
  
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• Ontario man dies in northern Alberta skydiving crash

  29-08-2020 04:38 via globalnews.ca
  
  Westlock RCMP said a man died in a skydiving crash near the northern Alberta town's airport Friday afternoon.
  
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• Man dead after skydiving crash near rural Alberta airport

  29-08-2020 04:19 via cbc.ca
  
  A 36-year-old skydiver is dead after he crashed onto a field near the Westlock Airport, about 80 kilometres north of Edmonton. 
  
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• Ontario man killed in skydiving crash north of Edmonton - CTV News Edmonton

  29-08-2020 04:02
  
  Ontario man killed in skydiving crash north of Edmonton  CTV News Edmonton
  
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• More Canadian federal prisoners waiting for opioid treatment

  29-08-2020 03:51 via cbc.ca
  
  Health professionals warn that delaying opioid agonist treatment, which keeps withdrawal symptoms at bay, increases the chance of an overdose. But data show the wait list for treatment has increased in federal penitentiaries since March.
  
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• Edmonton schools say they’re as safe as they can be when classes resume next week - Global News

  29-08-2020 03:48
  
  Edmonton schools say they’re as safe as they can be when classes resume next week  Global News
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder in death of O'Chiese First Nation man

  29-08-2020 03:47 via cbc.ca
  
  A 27-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 23-year-old man in O’Chiese First Nation on Thursday.
  
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• Inside the classroom: What Edmonton students can expect when classes resume

  29-08-2020 03:45 via cbc.ca
  
  Spaced out desks, taped off sinks, hand sanitizers throughout — these are a few physical measures schools have taken to greet students back to class in the new COVID-19 pandemic reality. 
  
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• Edmonton councillors defend police armoured vehicle purchase - CBC.ca

  29-08-2020 03:04
  
  Edmonton councillors defend police armoured vehicle purchase  CBC.ca
  
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• Edmonton councillors defend police armoured vehicle purchase

  29-08-2020 03:04 via cbc.ca
  
  The two Edmonton city councillors who served on police commission when the purchase of a $500,000 new armoured vehicle was approved are defending the decision that Mayor Don Iveson has called “remarkably tone-deaf”.
  
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• Union wants Calgary chicken processing plant shut down after COVID-19 outbreak

  29-08-2020 02:43 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Alberta Health official confirms there had been 19 cases as of Friday and 18 of those cases are considered active at the Sofina Foods/Lilydale poultry processing plant in Calgary.
  
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• Edmonton bakery temporarily shuts its doors in order to try and stay open long-term

  29-08-2020 02:06 via globalnews.ca
  
  August is usually the busiest month for Edmonton’s Sugared and Spiced Baked Goods, but with a lack of festivals and less foot traffic the bakery has seen business whisked away. Chris Chacon reports.
  
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• How to fill Alberta’s $24.2 billion fiscal hole

  29-08-2020 02:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  The province is forecast to receive more tax revenue from tobacco than it is from bitumen royalties. Non-renewable resource revenues are down 76 per cent this year, and it’s led to a record setting deficit. As provincial affairs reporter Tom Vernon explains, some believe it’s finally time to have an honest assessment about Alberta’s tax...
  
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• Edmonton schools say they're as safe as they can be when classes resume next week | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  29-08-2020 02:02
  
  Edmonton schools say they're as safe as they can be when classes resume next week | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Edmonton schools say they’re as safe as they can be when classes resume next week

  29-08-2020 02:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  From masks and sanitizers, to gyms filled with desks, both Edmonton public and Catholic school boards say they’ve done what they can to prepare for the first day of school next week. Fletcher Kent went along for a tour inside two schools to see what is different due to COVID-19.
  
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