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• Alberta researcher raises alarm on rare tapeworm

  19-07-2017 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A rare type of tapeworm recently found in Alberta has infected four people in as many years, enough cases that the parasitic disease could warrant closer monitoring.
  The tapeworm was describe as “essentially a brand new phenomenon in North America” by Dr. Stan Houston, a University of Alberta expert on infectious diseases.
  Although four cases in Alberta in four years presents little direct danger to any single individual, “for the very small number of people who get it, it is a
  
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• Appeal court overturns sexual assault acquittal, finds judge relied on myths and stereotypes

  19-07-2017 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Court of Appeal of Alberta has overturned an acquittal in a sexual assault case after finding that the trial judge relied on stereotypes and myths about sexual assault victims.
  In a 2-1 decision filed Wednesday, the appeal court found that Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Terry Clackson had erred while coming to his decision by relying on an “impermissible stereotype, or myth” about the way a sexual assault victim ought to act.
  The accused in the case cannot be identified in
  
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• Smoke blankets city - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 22:34 via stalbertgazette.com
  
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  St. Albert residents are in for at least two days of terrible air this week due to the ongoing forest fires in B.C., and might have to keep coughing all weekend. Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement Tuesday warning of severe smoke ...and more »
  
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• Smoke blankets city

  19-07-2017 22:15
  
  St. Albert residents are in for at least two days of terrible air this week due to the ongoing forest fires in B.C., and might have to keep coughing all weekend.
  
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• Thursday letters: Bring on the UCP

  19-07-2017 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  I’m a Wildrose and PC member who considers the proposed United Conservative Party of Alberta so nice, I’ll vote for it twice. Yes, unification will trigger some old-school “Lake of Fire” Rosies to bolt, while most of the “P”s (proponents of progressive taxes and profligate public spending) on the PC side “P”d off months ago. 
  But for every one on the fringes who pulls the chute, I reckon there’ll be a dozen severely normal conservative A
  
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• Rare tapeworm infecting Albertans warrants closer watch

  19-07-2017 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A rare type of tapeworm recently found in Alberta has infected four people in as many years, enough cases that the parasitic disease could warrant closer monitoring.
  Though four cases in Alberta in four years presents little direct danger to any single individual, the number does represent a major jump to researchers. The last known case in Canada was in 1928 in Manitoba.
  “The public should not be overly worried about getting this disease as it is rare in North America,” said Dr. Kla
  
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• Children in child advocate's latest report identified

  19-07-2017 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Three First Nation children who died shortly after being returned to their mothers’ care are the subject of Alberta child and youth advocate Del Graff’s latest report.
  In each case, the children spent much of their short lives living in foster care, as their biological parents faced challenges with substance abuse, neglect and domestic violence.
  The Edmonton Journal has identified the three children.
  Traezlin Denzel Starlight, age two:
  A funeral notice for Traezlin Starlight. The Fir
  
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• Andrew Knack becomes first city councillor to shun developer dollars

  19-07-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Incumbent Andrew Knack is expected to announce Wednesday he will not accept corporate or union donations for his re-election campaign, becoming the first city council candidate to reject such donations in recent memory.
  It’s a tricky issue for municipal candidates. In 2015, Edmonton city council supported a motion to lobby for a ban on corporate and union donations.
  But the province failed to act. And so far, other incumbents have been following the existing rules, which allow such donatio
  
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• New general manager tapped to take over BioWare top job

  19-07-2017 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton-based video game developer BioWare is getting a new general manager.
  Aaryn Flynn, who has been with the company for 17 years, announced on their website he was leaving the studio at the end of this month.
  Replacing him at the top of one of Canada’s most successful gaming companies is a familiar face: Casey Hudson.
  “I have been contemplating changes in my own life for some time, but when I heard that Casey had confirmed he was up for the task, I realized the opportunities bef
  
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• Alberta’s entertainment destination: Cree River Resort & Casino features exciting lineup

  19-07-2017 17:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If you think you need to hop on a plane to see Vegas-calibre performances, think again. River Cree Resort and Casino is Alberta’s biggest entertainment hub, and its lineup has more in common with a luxury hotel than any other venue in the province – with a roster of performers that has included Diana Ross, ZZ Top, Alabama, Chris Tucker, Salt-N-Peppa and Jay Leno, among many other famous names. Yet it’s right at the corner of Whitemud Drive and Winterburn Road, just five mi
  
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• Protest pushes for national health accord as premiers continue meeting

  19-07-2017 17:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Protestors outside the Council of the Federation meeting in Edmonton Wednesday demanded premiers stand up to Ottawa to secure a national health accord.
  Health care, legalized marijuana and the opioid crisis are the focus of discussions at the final day of the premiers’ meeting.
  Standing outside the Hotel Macdonald, protestors from various unions and health action groups took issue with the federal Liberal government backing away from a promised national health accord.
  Adrienne Silnicki fro
  
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• Marijuana legalization on agenda as premiers continue Edmonton meeting

  19-07-2017 17:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Marijuana, the opioid crisis and health care will be the focus of discussions as the Council of the Federation meeting wraps up Wednesday in Edmonton.
  Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister said Tuesday he would push for a one-year extension to Ottawa’s July 1 deadline to develop provincial rules governing cannabis, but his proposal doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of traction among premiers.
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said Wednesday morning the deadline was explicitly set by the fe
  
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• Smoke from B.C. wildfires expected to hit Edmonton Wednesday

  19-07-2017 16:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Thick smoke from the B.C. forest fires is expected to remain over western and central Alberta until at least Thursday evening when a thunderstorm should help clear the skies.
  Environment Canada maintained its poor air quality warning first issued Tuesday morning for the corridor between Hinton, Red Deer, and Edmonton and the province’s air quality health index remains at 10 (Very High Risk).
  People with breathing difficulties are being warned to stay inside today.
  “Individuals may ex
  
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• Tingling tastebuds: Taste of Edmonton starts serving Thursday

  19-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton is about to get a little more flavourful as Taste of Edmonton spices up Churchill Square again.
  Starting Thursday, 47 restaurant vendors and 14 food trucks will offer a variety of food and beverage choices from cuisines across the globe.
  Events Edmonton general manager Paul Lucas said the festival has eight new vendors this year, many offering food from East Asia, including Parkallen and Afghan Chopan Kebab.
  As well, nine of the 14 food trucks will offer gluten-free options, which Lucas
  
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• Thomson: Unite-the-right vote will shake up Alberta politics

  19-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Hello UCP, goodbye NDP.
  At least that’s the plan.
  This weekend, members of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives will decide if they want to merge their parties into one new entity, the United Conservative Party (UCP).
  The sole purpose of the new party: defeat Alberta’s NDP government next election.
  Approximately 50,000 PCs and 40,000 Wildrosers are eligible to cast a ballot on the tentative merger deal worked out by a joint planning group in May. (Keep in mind some people are m
  
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• Developer dollars: Incumbent forces tricky issue onto public agenda

  19-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Incumbent Andrew Knack is expected to announce Wednesday he will not accept corporate or union donations for his re-election campaign, becoming the first city council candidate to reject such donations in recent memory.
  It’s a tricky issue for municipal candidates. In 2015, Edmonton city council supported a motion to lobby for a ban on corporate and union donations.
  But the province failed to act. And so far, other incumbents have been following the existing rules, which allow such donatio
  
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• After six years as an Edmonton Oiler, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins may be skating on thin ice

  19-07-2017 09:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  2016-17 Edmonton Oilers in reviewRyan Nugent-Hopkins
  “Just wait until Nuge gets his ‘old-man strength’!”
  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard variations of that statement over the time Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been in Edmonton, but forgive me for feeling the expression itself is getting old faster than RNH himself seems to be.
  Nugent-Hopkins is now 24 years old, six years removed from being the first overall pick in the 2011 NHL Draft and suddenly the sen
  
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• Suspected fentanyl production site shut down - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  
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  Notices attached by Alberta Health Services to the exterior of this home at 306 Northern Lights Estates claiming deadly material inside and prohibiting human habitation as seen in Sturgeon County north and west of St. Albert on Monday.
  
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• St. Albert Special Olympics victorious over the EPS - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Edmonton Police Service recruit Const. Laura McKenna, right, right, battles with St. Albert Special Olympic athlete Michael Weir during a friendly soccer match at Ronald Harvey School on Monday night. CHRIS COLBOURNE/St. Albert Gazette. Edmonton ...
  
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• St. Albert scores high on health care bar: report - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  
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  ... • St. Albert has a life expectancy at birth of 83 years old, higher than Alberta's average of 81.3 years old. • Only 5.2 per cent of residents have low income after taxation, compared to Alberta's average of 11.1 per cent. • The average family ...
  
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• Local business owner enters council race - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Ufuoma Odebala-Fregene, a 10-year St. Albert resident and mother of four kids, aged nine to 20, has entered the race for city council. SUP. The race for city council is heating up with another new face entering the ring. Ufuoma Odebala-Fregene, a St ...
  
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• Sailfish blow past competition - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:06 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Tayte Parayko competes in the Girls 25M short fly for the Sailfish during the St. Albert Sailfish Invitational Swim Meet at Fountain Park Recreation Centre in St. Albert on Saturday. DAN RIEDLHUBER/St. Albert Gazette. The St. Albert Sailfish Swim Club ...
  
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• Three new councillors at Alexander band

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Alexander residents gave their chief a second term last week but also swept out half of band council.
  
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• The Komodo dragons are at the Edmonton Valley Zoo

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  If you want to see one of the largest lizards in the world, now is your chance.
  
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• Taking Canada by storm

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  She’s one of St. Albert’s volunteerism wunderkinds who has already spent years trying to make this city and even the world a better place. It comes as no surprise that Sophia Qaderi, 19, was chosen to travel to Ottawa to do what she could for the...
  
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• Suspected fentanyl production site shut down

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  RCMP and Edmonton Police are investigating a suspected fentanyl lab in Sturgeon County.
  
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• St. Albert Special Olympics victorious over the EPS

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Laughing loudly, Alexis Morgan, 22, kicks the soccer ball past the goalie at the final shootout. Raising her arms high in victory, she runs and joins her other Special Olympics teammates.
  
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• St. Albert scores high on health care bar: report

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  St. Albert has been given close to a clean bill of health, according to a report released by Alberta Health.
  
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• Seven still magnificent but we should aspire for higher

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  St. Albert’s weather this summer has been great thus far, with stretches of several hot sunny days followed by the welcomed reprieve of a cold front bringing occasional thunderstorms and a couple of cooler days. There have been more opportunities to...
  
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• Sailfish blow past competition

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  The St. Albert Sailfish Swim Club breezed through the annual Sailfish Swim Meet, winning the tournament with a combined score of 1,238 points, almost double that of the second place finisher.
  
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• Russell seeks another term on council

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  A second incumbent councillor has jumped into the city council race.
  
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• Regency dance lessons offered for Pride and Prejudice Ball

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Once more Regency Encounters recreates the classic 1813 balls from Jane Austen’s epic Pride and Prejudice.
  
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• Open water rescue pulls couple to safety

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Over the weekend one young couple discovered how a date can quickly turn disastrous. What started as a calm canoe trip along the river ended with the duo warming up in the back of an emergency truck.
  
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• NCABL celebrates 50 years with all-star game

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  The NCABL celebrated 50 years with a family tailgate party and all-star game on a cloudy and rainy Sunday afternoon at the Legion Memorial Ballpark.
  
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• Local business owner enters council race

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  The race for city council is heating up with another new face entering the ring.
  
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• K-Days concert lineup boasts 22 acts

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  The biggest Edmonton show returns to liven up the summer.
  
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• Inclusive choice

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  It may be a small text amendment to the city land use bylaw, but it could send a powerful message that St. Albert is an inclusive community.
  
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• I Heard About Your Murder looks at family and secrets

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Playwright-director Stewart Lemoine’s world premiere of I Heard About Your Murder is far from your typical murder mystery. Now that doesn’t mean there’s minimal subterfuge.
  
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• Heartland homeowers say: what about us?

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  A group of homeowners still stuck in the Alberta Industrial Heartland want county council to buy them out with about $60 million from the Sturgeon Refinery.
  
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• Franklin and company

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Edmonton-area residents may have heard strange reports in recent years about a man strolling about in public with a large tortoise.
  
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• Founders’ Walk ornamental garden is not your produce section

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  To the lady in the boxy white SUV type vehicle: I live on Mission Avenue, across the street from the Public Garden along Phase Two of the Founders’ Walk. Recently you and your mother parked your car in front of my house and proceeded to harvest the...
  
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• Electoral boundary recommendations concerning

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Further to the St. Albert Gazette article or June 14th regarding the Proposed Provincial Electoral Divisions, I express deep concern regarding the Interim Report boundary recommendation of the new provincial St. Albert-Redwater constituency. There...
  
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• Corner turned?

  19-07-2017 08:03
  
  Thankfully the talk of those endlessly sprouting green shoots has gone while the brief blather about bright lights being spotted has dimmed. Instead, Premier Rachel Notley confidently informs us that we have turned a corner in the province.
  
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• Taking Canada by storm - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  
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  St. Albert's Sophia Qaderi, 19, spent 10 days in Ottawa as part of a youth congregation organized by ExperiencesCanada. They created projects about how to make the country better that they then presented to Gov.-Gen. David Johnston. SOPHIA QADERI/ ...
  
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• NCABL celebrates 50 years with all-star game - St. Albert Gazette

  19-07-2017 08:02 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Nick Creelman, one of the pitchers for the home team all-stars and representing the St. Albert Cardinals, delivers a pitch during the North Central Alberta Baseball League's 50th anniversary festivities and all-star game at Legion Memorial Park in St ...
  
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• All Alberta women should have free abortion pill access, health minister says

  19-07-2017 05:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Every woman living in Alberta will have universal access to a new medical abortion therapy regardless of whether she has provincial health insurance, Alberta’s health minister says.
  An announcement about how the Alberta government will cover the cost of mifegymiso — a pill-based alternative for early-stage abortions — is coming “very soon,” Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said Tuesday evening — possibly within weeks.
  “Any women who live in Alberta —
  
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• Graham Thomson: Mischievous Brad Wall tries to shake up premiers' conference

  19-07-2017 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  He is the Dennis the Menace of Canada’s premiers.
  When other provincial leaders turn up at their annual conference armed with platitudes, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall comes brandishing a slingshot. And delights in taking aim at the plate-glass window that is the premiers’ fragile solidarity.
  On Tuesday, when most premiers were carefully measuring their words on upcoming NAFTA negotiations between Canada and the U.S., Wall for the second day in a row suggested we start compiling an
  
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• David Staples: Challenger poses threat not to Mayor Don Iveson, but to democratic deficit

  19-07-2017 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s highly unlikely business analyst Fahad Mughal will pose a political threat to Mayor Don Iveson in the Oct. 19 civic election. This is Mughal’s first time running, he’s got little political experience and he’s not on council. Indeed, as of last week, Mughal, 35, had been planning instead to run against Coun. Michael Walters in Ward 10. 
  But he does pose a different kind of threat to Iveson and all of council. The thrust of Mughal’s campaign is to challenge
  
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• Midfielder Daryl Fordyce returns to FC Edmonton

  19-07-2017 03:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The grass was not necessarily greener in Cincinnati for Daryl Fordyce, who is happy to be back in Edmonton.
  The midfielder rejoined FC Edmonton on Tuesday after a short stint with FC Cincinnati of the United Soccer League.
  Fordyce, 30, spent four years with Edmonton before departing for FC Cincinnati this season, playing nine games for the club before requesting a release.
  “I wasn’t happy, personally, and my wife didn’t settle too well,” Fordyce said. “It was just b
  
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• Activists want public carding meetings after declining chief's invite

  19-07-2017 03:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Black Lives Matter will hold a rally outside an Edmonton Police Service office Wednesday after declining an invite-only meeting with the police chief on the issue of street checks. 
  The group is calling for a province-wide ban on street checks, also known as carding, where an officer stops a citizen who is not suspected of a crime to gather information. 
  Two members of Black Lives Matter (BLM), including police issues spokesperson Bashir Mohamed, were invited to a meeting Wednesday wit
  
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