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• Aga Khan Garden set to open just outside Edmonton

  28-06-2018 02:29 via globalnews.ca
  After almost a decade of planning and months of construction, the highly anticipated Aga Khan Garden is set to open at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden in Devon on Friday.
  
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• Police to share update on probe into stabbing at Edmonton Sikh temple

  10-09-2026 14:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police in Edmonton will hold a news conference Thursday afternoon on their probe into the stabbing of two worshippers at a Sikh temple in the city’s northeast.
  
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• Health study begins examining potential oilsands impacts on Fort Chipewyan

  10-09-2026 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Many people in a community located more than 200 kilometres north of Fort McMurray have long believed there are links between cancers in their region and the industrial developments upstream along the Athabasca River.
  
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• Trade war, Alberta referendum loom large as Carney charts cabinet's year forward

  10-09-2026 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Prime Minister Mark Carney is huddling with his cabinet ministers and secretaries of state in Banff, Alta., over the next two days to plan a return to Parliament that’s expected to be anything but normal, as the trade war escalates with the U.S. and Alberta prepares for a fall referendum that includes a question that could trigger an eventual separation from the country.
  
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• Investigation needed into how Iranian VP’s son got government contracts, groups say

  10-09-2026 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Global News investigation found an Edmonton resident won millions in federal contracts while under investigation for allegedly helping Iran's missile program.
  
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• Canadian citizenship certificate applications now facing nearly 3-year delays

  10-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Less than nine months after Parliament allowed those with Canadian ancestors to be recognized as Canadian citizens, the backlog of applications has soared to a new high.
  
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• Canadian bank CEOs can't stop bragging about AI. Will they kill jobs?

  10-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  According to a study by Toronto Metropolitan University, 98 per cent of financial sector workers are highly exposed to AI technologies. However, at least one Canadian bank expects its human headcount to rise.
  
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• Canada's big banks embrace AI as workers face job uncertainty

  10-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  According to a study by Toronto Metropolitan University, 98 per cent of financial sector workers are highly exposed to AI technologies. However, at least one Canadian bank still expects its staff levels to rise.
  
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• Oilers lose superfan after Formenton signing

  10-09-2026 07:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Edmonton Oilers announcement to sign a former Team Canada junior player acquitted of sexual assault last year has come as a massive bodycheck to one longtime superfan.
  
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• Canada’s largest carbon capture project breaks ground in central Alberta

  10-09-2026 05:09 via cbc.ca
  
  Enhance Energy broke ground Wednesday on its Origins project hub near Clive, about 140 kilometres south of Edmonton.
  
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• Zelenskyy arrives in Calgary ahead of Carney meeting

  10-09-2026 05:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife, Olena Zelenska, are also set to visit Toronto and North Bay, Ont., before leaving Friday.
  
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• AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade, Anthropic researcher says

  10-09-2026 03:05 via cbc.ca
  
  There is a more than 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a researcher at Anthropic estimated in a post, hours after social media posts went viral from someone saying they had just quit Anthropic over concerns that AI companies are “gambling with our lives” in the AI development race.
  
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• AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade, Anthropic employee says

  10-09-2026 03:05 via cbc.ca
  
  There is a more than 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a researcher at Anthropic estimated in a post, hours after social media posts went viral from someone saying they had just quit Anthropic over concerns that AI companies are “gambling with our lives” in the AI development race.
  
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• Canada's finance minister speaks to Alberta business leaders amid trade war

  10-09-2026 02:10 via cbc.ca
  
  Canada's finance minister joined business leaders and industry watchers in Edmonton on Wednesday to talk trade as global tensions rise with the U.S. As the CBC's Mrinali Anchan explains, the minister says Alberta has a key role to play in maintaining a united national front.
  
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• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to visit Alberta on Thursday

  10-09-2026 01:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Canada this week for his first visit to the country in nearly a year as his country copes with an onslaught of deadly airstrikes.
  
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• Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven

  10-09-2026 01:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.
  
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• Release of detainee into Chinatown parking lot prompts anger, calls for reform in Edmonton

  10-09-2026 01:22 via cbc.ca
  
  Surveillance video showing a former detainee being released from a corrections transport van into the streets of Edmonton’s Chinatown has raised concerns over how Alberta offenders are released into the community.
  
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• Central Alberta carbon capture hub on track to be largest in Canada

  10-09-2026 00:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Origins carbon capture and storage hub, located east of Lacombe, is to initially have capacity to permanently store up to 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
  
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• Enbridge makes US$2.55B acquisition of pipeline, storage systems in U.S. midwest

  09-09-2026 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Enbridge's acquisition of Tallgrass Energy includes a 75 per cent interest in the Pony Express Pipeline system that transports oil to a major storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma.
  
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• Liberals remove layer of review process for energy projects, backing off bypassing at-risk species protections

  09-09-2026 23:44 via cbc.ca
  
  The federal government is moving ahead with changes that will exempt a number of energy projects from a layer of its environmental assessment process. At the same time, a senior government source says the Liberals are preparing to back down on proposed changes that would have bypassed regulations meant to protect at-risk species.
  
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• Government exempts interprovincial pipelines from review by impact assessment agency

  09-09-2026 23:44 via cbc.ca
  
  The federal government is moving ahead with changes that will exempt a number of energy projects from a layer of its environmental assessment process.
  
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• New Winnipeg goalie Skinner excited to be a Jet

  09-09-2026 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Stuart Skinner is well aware that he could very well become the Winnipeg Jets' starting goaltender this season.
  
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• Canadian pump prices creep higher as Middle East fighting escalates

  09-09-2026 23:21 via cbc.ca
  
  Fuel prices tend to ease off around this time of year, but one industry expert says drivers should expect no such relief this time.
  
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• Edmonton police ‘concerned’ for welfare of dad, 2 kids missing for 12 days

  09-09-2026 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Edmonton Police Service is asking for help finding a 42-year-old man and his two children — a nine-year-old girl and six-year-old boy — who've been missing since Aug. 28.
  
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• Free course covering basics of AI to be available to all Canadians by end of the year

  09-09-2026 20:46 via cbc.ca
  
  With the artificial intelligence boom sweeping across Canada and around the world, the federal government is making efforts it says will ensure Canadians understand what AI is, what it can do and how it will impact them.
  
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• Acquitted world junior player Alex Formenton signs one-year deal with Edmonton Oilers

  09-09-2026 18:39 via cbc.ca
  
  The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Alex Formenton to a one-year contract worth $850,000 US.
  
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• Oilers sign acquitted 2018 World Juniors player Alex Formenton

  09-09-2026 18:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Formenton, a 26-year-old native of Barrie, Ont., spent three seasons over the last four years with HC Ambri-Piotta in Switzerland. 
  
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• Edmonton Oilers sign 2018 world junior player Alex Formenton to one-year deal

  09-09-2026 18:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Formenton, a 26-year-old native of Barrie, Ont., spent three seasons over the last four years with HC Ambri-Piotta in Switzerland. 
  
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• Elks return home chasing sweep versus Stampeders

  09-09-2026 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Vernon Adams Jr. and the Calgary Stampeders don't have time to lament their Labour Day loss to the Edmonton Elks.
  
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• Oilers sign forward Formenton to one-year deal

  09-09-2026 17:31 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Alex Formenton to a one-year contract worth US$850,000.
  
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