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• Mefloquine expert calls for study into effects of antimalarial drug

  29-07-2017 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A leading voice against the military’s use of mefloquine is calling on the Canadian government to launch an independent study to better understand the lasting effects of the use of the controversial antimalarial on troops.
  Remington Nevin, a former U.S. army physician and staunch opponent of mefloquine, said making a “concerted effort” to track down surviving members of the Canadian Airborne Regiment deployed to Somalia in 1992-93 had the potential to finally end the debate abo
  
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• Eskimos avoid kicking themselves with Sean Whyte insurance

  29-07-2017 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not all was right with Sean Whyte in the days leading up to Friday’s game.
  The Edmonton Eskimos kicker felt something was wrong. And it caused enough concern for the club to seek a second kicker, bringing in University of Alberta Golden Bears product and one-time Eskimos player Hugh O’Neill back into the fold and signing him onto the practice squad last week.
  Before that, it’s all been up to Whyte in both games and practices since former Eskimos punter Grant Shaw, another Golde
  
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• FC Edmonton ready for a fresh start in Fall Season

  29-07-2017 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  FC Edmonton crawled to the finish line of the North American Soccer League Spring Season.
  The club could barely field a team in their final contest against the New York Cosmos with all the injuries sustained during the 16-game campaign.
  Yet, the two-week break leading into the second half of the year has done wonders for the Eddies, who open the Fall Season against the Indy Eleven on Sunday (2 p.m.) at Clarke Stadium.
  “It’s actually quite exciting,” said FC Edmonton head coach
  
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• Kenney announces he is running for the leader of United Conservative Party

  29-07-2017 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The race for United Conservative Party leadership officially has a third candidate.
  Progressive Conservative leader Jason Kenney announced his leadership bid Saturday morning in Edmonton, to around 500 supporters at the Italian Cultural Centre.
  After entering the packed room to cheers and strains of Paul Brandt’s “Alberta Bound,” Kenney declared himself the right person to lead the newly established UCP to victory in the next provincial election.
  In a 35-minute speech dominated
  
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• Officers offer common sense advice for preventing property crime

  29-07-2017 19:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Snooping through a back alley in Bonnie Doon on Thursday, it didn’t take long for southeast division neighbourhood foot patrol police officers to identify easy targets for thieves and vandals.
  “It really is a crime of opportunity. A lot of these people are just looking for high-ticket items or things that are in the vehicle that are just out in the open,” said Const. Jeff Eichmann, who led reporter on a walk-and-talk tour through an alley near 91 Street and 82 Avenue.
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• Kenney announces he is running for the leader of UCP

  29-07-2017 19:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Progressive Conservative leader Jason Kenney is expected to announce Saturday he will run for the United Conservative Party’s top job.
  Kenney is holding what he labelled a “special event” in Edmonton at 10 a.m., followed by one in Calgary at 4 p.m.Oh here come the back-up crew for Kenney. That's some well-picked diversity there.#ABLeg pic.twitter.com/Ospy9Ui0Lg
  — Emma Graney (@EmmaLGraney) July 29, 2017Here at the Jason Kenney "special event" in Edmonton where he's expect
  
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• The Phantom of the Opera: Eva Tavares brings emotion, singing and dancing skills to lead role

  29-07-2017 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last year it was Maria in the Citadel’s West Side Story for Vancouver actor Eva Tavares.
  This year it’s Christine in Broadway Across Canada’s touring production of Phantom of the Opera, running at the Jubilee Auditorium until Aug. 6.
  “I feel that everything, including West Side Story, has prepared me for this life-changing role in Phantom of the Opera,” said Tavares, who stepped into the role of the young opera singer who becomes the mysterious Phantom‘s prote
  
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• Jason Kenney expected to launch UCP leadership bid

  29-07-2017 16:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Progressive Conservative leader Jason Kenney is expected to announce Saturday he will run for the United Conservative Party’s top job.
  Kenney is holding what he labelled a “special event” in Edmonton at 10 a.m., followed by one in Calgary at 4 p.m.
  Kenney won the Tory leadership in March under a mandate to unite his party and the Wildrose. 
  Unity was given the thumbs up by both conservative parties last weekend, with 95 per cent approval from the members who voted.
  Former
  
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• Wine: Summer-inspired food and wine pairings

  29-07-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sommeliers follow a few basic guidelines when pairing wine with food, carefully matching the intensity of flavours and body of the wine to the dish. What we’re looking for is an interaction where the food and wine complement each other. 
  There are no hard and fast rules. Ultimately, it’s subjective — if you like the pairing, that’s what counts.  Sometimes we’re reminiscing about a place we’ve visited or people with whom we’ve enjoyed a glass, a
  
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• Wedding Tales: Pharmacists find love, have simple ceremony with stunning backdrop

  29-07-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Monday after her first date with Suzanne Henry at the Mercer Tavern on the summer solstice in 2014, Nicole Chu just knew.
  “I was golfing with my buddies and I said, ‘I’m totally going to marry her.’ My friends were like, ‘Wow. We’ve never heard you say that before, so we know it’s real’, ” said Nicole.
  Suzanne was on the same page.
  “I always had a crush on her,” she said. “We were friends for a while, so we had that conn
  
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• Saturday's letters: Riding review panel had wide representation

  29-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Riding proposals unfair to north,” Letters, July 26
  Brock Smith’s understanding of the boundaries commission was wrong on several counts.
  He accuses the commission of “NDP arrogance.” In reality, the commission operates under rules set by the Boundaries Commission Act of 2000. It consists of five people: two nominated by the opposition, two by the government, and the chairperson is impartial. The chairperson is Justice Myra Bielby, who spent 20 years as a judge
  
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• Opinion: Trump's transgender military ban ignores their courage

  29-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Recently, the president of the United States announced via his Twitter account that transgender people will no longer be allowed to serve in their military.
  He called us a burden, a distraction. Sadly, they are words that many of us transgender people have gotten used to hearing, often from our own families. 
  I could talk about how hurtful that is to us as individuals and an entire community. I could say how his derogatory words against transgender people and other minorities are extremely
  
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• Wild fruit ripe for the picking in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:12 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Wild fruit ripe for the picking in St. Albert
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  Becky Shepherd picks Nanking cherries just off of Villeneuve Road. She's currently working on mapping out all the free fruit picking areas in St. Albert. DAYLA LAHRING/ St. Albert Gazette. Nanking cherries are one of the wild berry bushes located ...
  
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• Kids show grit for mental health - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:12 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Kids show grit for mental health
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  CELEBRATE – Garrison kids held a relay race to celebrate the end of the three day iSTEP course, which teaches kids how to live with parents who have operational stress injuries at Edmonton Garrison on Thursday. In this photo Lochlynd Adams, 9, ...
  
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• Crouse calls court case a trophy hunt - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:12 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Crouse calls court case a trophy hunt
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  Mayor Nolan Crouse says his detractors are on a “trophy hunt” following a Court of Queen's Bench hearing Wednesday in Edmonton to remove him from office. “They are grandstanding. They want to get a trophy during the election campaign,” Crouse said, ...
  
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• How to raise chickens - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  How to raise chickens
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  APPLE FOR YOU – Chris Ladouceur and son Saulus get a grip on Apple, one of the Wyandotte chickens they're keeping in their Morinville backyard. The Ladouceurs are the first family in town licensed to keep backyard chickens. CHRIS COLBOURNE/St.
  
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• Yellow ribbons in the shopping basket - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Yellow ribbons in the shopping basket
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  St. Albert organizer Raemonde Bezenar (middle, in the gorilla suit) enjoys a relaxing moment with some volunteers at last weekend's Ice Cream Run in Edmonton's River Valley. EDMONTON ICE CREAM RUN/FaceBook Photo. If you're planning to do some ...
  
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• VASA and CAVA big with St. Albert artists - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  VASA and CAVA big with St. Albert artists
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  Cathy Bible's atmospheric Halcyon, painted by hand. The abstract artist has arthritis and has great difficulty using paintbrushes, so she just uses her hands. This piece is on display for Through the Paint at VASA. CATHY BIBLE/Photo. Andrew Raczynski's ...
  
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• The summer's supreme food fight - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  The summer's supreme food fight
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  St. Albertan Miroslaw Kolasa prepare his dish in the steak competition of the Canadian Food Championships in Edmonton's Sir Winston Churchill Sq. as part of the Taste of Edmonton July 21, 2017. DAN RIEDLHUBER/St. Albert Gazette. St. Albertan Lindsay ...
  
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• Rare losses for midget AA team - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Rare losses for midget AA team
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  PACKING HEAT – Kade Knight winds up to pull the trigger for the midget AA St. Albert Cardinals, the team to beat at the Baseball Alberta Tier I provincials next weekend in Spruce Grove. The first-place Cardinals are 16-2 in league play and 25-8-2 ...
  
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• Brezovski scores special win - St. Albert Gazette

  29-07-2017 08:09 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Brezovski scores special win
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  PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT – Brooke Brezovski, 14, of the Sturgeon Valley Golf & Country Club works on her swing at the driving range at the start of the season. The Grade 9 Richard S. Fowler student recently won her first Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour title ...and more »
  
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• Yellow ribbons in the shopping basket

  29-07-2017 08:06
  If you’re planning to do some fresh produce shopping at the St. Albert Farmers’ Market today then you should maybe add a yellow ribbon to the list.
  
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• Wild fruit ripe for the picking in St. Albert

  29-07-2017 08:06
  One local woman is mapping the way for wild berry picking in St. Albert.
  
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• Weightloss victory: local wins second place in national competition

  29-07-2017 08:06
  One local man is holding his head high after placing in a nation-wide weight-loss competition.
  
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• Water dangers

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Statistics show that we are in the middle of the deadliest time of the year. Sixty per cent of all Alberta drowning deaths occur in the summer. There were three drowning deaths in Alberta this week alone. A teenage girl drowned in Edmonton, a man...
  
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• VASA and CAVA big with St. Albert artists

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Cathy Bible, Miles Constable and Janet Sutanto are more abstract these days than they’ve ever been. These three artists from the Visual Arts Studio Association have joined forces to put together a rock-solid exhibit of their abstract works, a show...
  
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• Traffic studies support both arguments

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Interesting discussion between Mr. Bohachyk (Gazette, June 10) and Mr. Kish (Gazette, July 5) regarding what each perceives to be the right thing to do with respect traffic safety. The studies apparently support both arguments.
  
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• The summer's supreme food fight

  29-07-2017 08:06
  For the third year in a row Lindsay Porter, executive chef of Woodwork, won a berth to compete at the World Food Championships in Orange Beach, Alabama.
  
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• Terrorism breeds in alienated communities

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Many of us for years have been concerned about terrorism in Canada. Most concerns are since 9/11 (Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attack on U.S). Individual terrorists of any ilk are usually self-creating. Nothing can be done to safeguard us from them...
  
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• Scouts Canada’s top 10 tips for safely exploring the great outdoors

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Summertime in Canada is all about having fun and being adventurous in the great outdoors – and the opportunities to explore stunning landscapes are endless. In fact, Parks Canada is offering free admission to national parks all year to mark Canada’s...
  
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• Rare losses for midget AA team

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Losing never felt better for the midget AA St. Albert Cardinals.
  
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• Phantom of the Opera features technical wizardry

  29-07-2017 08:06
  The Phantom of the Opera is unparalleled in its success worldwide grossing more than $6 billion in its 30-year life span.
  
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• Party with the stars tonight

  29-07-2017 08:06
  The galaxy’s hottest stars will be out and about tonight as astronomers across the region hold a party to celebrate Canada’s 150th.
  
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• Managing people well can achieve goals

  29-07-2017 08:06
  I have spent a lifetime observing the human condition, especially as it relates to people working in businesses. In the last ten years, my observations have concluded that senior management in most companies has been so focused on technology and...
  
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• Man charged with four bank robberies

  29-07-2017 08:06
  A man charged with four counts of robbery including two robberies in St. Albert will make his first appearance in court on Monday.
  
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• Kids show grit for mental health

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Edmonton Garrison kids put in a gold-medal performance this week as they learned how to handle post-traumatic stress disorders in their families.
  
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• Ken MacKay vying for a council seat

  29-07-2017 08:06
  A retired police officer has entered the race for St. Albert city council.
  
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• How to raise chickens

  29-07-2017 08:06
  How appropriate that the first place in Morinville to get backyard chickens is next door to a KFC.
  
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• Group home changes the right thing to do

  29-07-2017 08:06
  I must commend St. Albert city council on their decision to proceed with bylaw amendments for group homes. While I can respect the idea that other changes will be coming with the Land Use Bylaw work underway, the current practice was too outdated...
  
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• Former school board trustee running for council

  29-07-2017 08:06
  A school board veteran is running for a seat on St. Albert city council.
  
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• Crouse calls court case a trophy hunt

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Mayor Nolan Crouse says his detractors are on a “trophy hunt” following a Court of Queen’s Bench hearing Wednesday in Edmonton to remove him from office.
  
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• County home part of biggest fentanyl bust in Canada

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Edmonton-area police say that a Sturgeon County drug lab was part of a ring that led to the biggest fentanyl bust in Canadian history.
  
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• Container gardens can deter pests

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Many gardeners understand the frustration that stems from seeing a garden destroyed by wildlife. While protecting wildlife is a cause that’s near and dear to many gardening enthusiasts, even the most ardent wildlife supporter does not want to see...
  
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• Brezovski scores special win

  29-07-2017 08:06
  The first Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour victory for Brooke Brezovski was a major milestone.
  
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• Abortion drug now available in Alberta

  29-07-2017 08:06
  Albertans now have free access to legal medical abortion drugs, the province announced. It joins New Brunswick and Ontario in offering universal coverage of RU-486 known by its trade name Mifegymiso to all people covered by provincial health care.
  
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• A jubilee moment for jubilant Vilcsak

  29-07-2017 08:06
  The tireless Emily Vilcsak finally had her moment in the sun.
  
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• Terry Jones: Eskimos embrace moment, stay perfect

  29-07-2017 07:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Diane Jones-Konihowski and Graham Smith, the two stars of the 1978 Commonwealth Games, carried in the Queen’s Baton into the 39-year-old stadium before a crowd of 32,837 Friday night.
  The Baton, making a trip around the Commonwealth en route to the latest edition of the event, probably felt at home in the building the Eskimos played their first game in back in 1978 — back when equipment man Dwayne Mandrusiak was barely at 100 games not the 1,000 he reached Friday.
  The Eskimos, back a
  
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• New CFL commissioner makes his return to Commonwealth Stadium

  29-07-2017 05:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The way injuries have hit the Edmonton Eskimos this season, Randy Ambrosie should count himself lucky his old team didn’t try and put a jersey on him Friday night.
  While visiting Commonwealth Stadium for the first time since becoming the Canadian Football League commissioner, the former offensive lineman said the game has changed since retiring here as a player after winning the 1993 Grey Cup.
  “I can tell you, I saw the size of these guys and any suggestion at all that I am any less
  
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• Unbreakable bond helps Katie Kelly dominate paratriathlon

  29-07-2017 05:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  So often in sports, athletes talk about the bond they share with their teammates.
  For Katie Kelly and Michellie Jones – their bond is simply unbreakable.
  Kelly has Ushers Syndrome, which is a degenerative condition that causes vision and hearing loss.
  The 42-year-old has been losing her hearing and sight since her early 20s, and in 2015, she was declared legally blind.
  No longer able to compete in iron man races and marathons, she made the switch to paratriathlons and paired with Jones by
  
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• Outlook gloomy for more free public Wi-Fi in Edmonton, experts say

  29-07-2017 04:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s access to free public Wi-Fi is lagging, and despite a wide-range of benefits, few potential stakeholders appear to be phishing for a more expansive network, experts say.
  Free internet can be accessed at Edmonton Public Library locations and Open City Wi-Fi at municipal buildings and some LRT stations, but Michael McNally, a library and information studies professor at the University of Albe
  
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