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• Crouse wants to amend plebiscite questions - St. Albert Gazette

  28-08-2017 20:33
  Crouse wants to amend plebiscite questions
  St. Albert Gazette
  Three plebiscite questions approved earlier by St. Albert city council could change before voters go to the ballot box. Mayor Nolan Crouse gave notice Tuesday of a motion to amend the questions, which originally passed May 15. Crouse's motion is ...
  
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• Annual Grosvenor Dog Swim Presented by Adrian Michelutti of Re/Max Professionals – St. Albert

  28-08-2017 18:47
  Bring your dog for a splash and support SCARS (Second Chance Animal Rescue Society) Grosvenor Outdoor Pool will be hosting... Read Post
  
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• Visitor centre sees fewer people - St. Albert Gazette

  28-08-2017 16:48
  Visitor centre sees fewer people
  St. Albert Gazette
  Tourism in national parks has been on the rise thanks to free admission in celebration of Canada's 150th. Highway traffic to Banff has increased by 3.2 per cent compared to the first six months of 2016. – Highway traffic to Jasper has increased by 2.9 ...
  
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• Season of excitement for Skyhawks - St. Albert Gazette

  28-08-2017 16:48
  St. Albert Gazette
  Season of excitement for Skyhawks
  St. Albert Gazette
  The only Tier III metro Edmonton football team in the division two Miles conference welcomes several top-notch newcomers to a lineup of experienced returnees from last year's north finalist in the provincial playdowns. “We're very excited for the season.
  
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• Anti-hate rally pushes for removal of city's historical Frank Oliver tributes

  28-08-2017 15:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of people gathered to reflect and call for a name change to the Oliver neighbourhood at a rally called End Racism Canada: A Response To Charlottesville on the steps of the legislature Saturday night.
  The Edmonton rally follows the violence in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist killed Heather Heyer, an activist who was countering protesters who opposed taking down the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
  While the neighbourhood of Oliver, a plaque and pedway outside
  
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• Commodore Restaurant celebrates 75 years in Edmonton

  28-08-2017 15:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  For 75 years, the Commodore Restaurant has been serving up food in Edmonton, the oldest continuous restaurant in the city.
  For the past two decades, the restaurant was owned and run by David Gee.
  “We’re an original, old-fashioned diner,” Gee said. “A proper greasy spoon, not a reproduction.”
  Gee’s grandfather owned property on Jasper Avenue and 97 Street, which he traded for a different building with the city in 1942.
  That building was a Greek restaurant calle
  
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• All current Edmonton public, Catholic school renovations on schedule, province says

  28-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Infrastructure says all current Edmonton public and Catholic school renovations are on schedule despite the province’s move to defer $260 million in school construction spending this year.
  At least nine Edmonton schools are undergoing, or have recently undergone, a major modernization or addition. A week before school is set to begin for the year, work proceeds on many buildings where children will soon be learning.
  Late last week, the front entrances of Archbishop O’Leary Ca
  
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• Over-ripe Dillon Simpson is ready to make the Edmonton Oilers right now

  28-08-2017 09:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects: No. 9: D Dillon Simpson
  Previously: ranked 8th overall in 2016 Cult of Hockey list
  My hot take on Dillon Simpson? He’s ready for the NHL right now. 
  After four seasons at the University of North Dakota, after three seasons in Oklahoma City and Bakersfield of the American Hockey League, Simpson is over-ripe. He’s developed as much as he’s going to develop at the AHL and has become a good-to-dominant player at that level. He’s ready to s
  
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• Wetaskiwin RCMP investigate suspicious death

  28-08-2017 06:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wetaskiwin RCMP say a man’s death Saturday is suspicious.
  EMS called Wetaskiwin RCMP to an apartment building where a man was found unresponsive with serious, life-threatening injuries around 9:35 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release Sunday.
  The man was taken to hospital, where he died a short time later.
  Police locked down the scene, which was still being investigated Sunday by the RCMP forensic identification section.
  The RCMP major crimes unit has taken over the file and was
  
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• Curtis Stock: Kaitlyn Wingnean on fire heading into junior Tour Championship

  28-08-2017 04:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  It just doesn’t get much better than this.
  The Derrick’s Kaitlyn Wingnean played in seven McLennan Ross Junior Tour events this year. The 14-year-old – yes, 14; no misprint – won six of them and finished second – in a playoff – in her lone defeat.
  Clinching the Srixon Order of Merit for the second straight year, Wingnean, who is going into Grade 9 – no misprint there either – shot 77s to win at the Petroleum Club and at Wetaskiwin’s Montgomer
  
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• Mother of baby killed in fire told of murder, arson charges

  28-08-2017 04:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  An injured, grieving mother shook her head when she heard two former tenants are charged with setting the fire that killed her baby son and left her with smoke inhalation injuries.
  Angie Tang, a 29-year-old registered nurse, is intubated in hospital, and should recover from her injuries, sister-in-law Judith Lam Tang said in an email Sunday. Tang is communicating from her bed at the Misericordia Hospital by writing notes, she said.
  When the arson fire raged through her Ambleside house about 4 a.
  
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• Man found dead in taxi after shooting may be city's latest homicide

  28-08-2017 02:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of a cab whose fare was found dead after shots rang out near a northwest Edmonton bar Saturday was unharmed, says the taxi company.
  Alberta Co-op Taxi spokesman John Hollis said the victim found in the front seat of the cab 5 a.m. Saturday outside Flux Ultra Lounge near 142 Street and Yellowhead Trail — and who responding police tried to resuscitate with CPR — was not the driver. 
  “Our hearts here at Co-op go out to the victim and all of his family,” Holli
  
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• Terry Jones: Classic race leading into Labour Day Classic

  28-08-2017 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The word B.C. Lions coach Wally Buono used Saturday was “discombobulated.”
  “We have eight games left. The West is all discombobulated. We’ve put ourselves in a tough position.”
  Three weeks ago the Lions were 5-2 and a top of the tables team in the CFL’s West Division. Now they’re 5-5 and hoping the wheels fall off on, oh say, the Edmonton Eskimos.
  Saturday night in McMahon Stadium in Calgary the first half of discombobulation came to a conclusion leaving
  
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• City street parties highlight perks of sharing downtown roads

  28-08-2017 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Declan Sheridan is a six-year-old daredevil constantly looking for outdoor adventures.
  Cycling over a bike teeter-totter and weaving around plungers in a downtown Edmonton parking lot Saturday didn’t faze him a bit, and neither did Edmonton’s newest bike lanes.
  On Saturday, Declan was at Bike Party, one of two city events to draw people to contentious downtown projects — the bike lane network, and the Experience Jasper Avenue pilot project.
  It was one of the first times Declan&
  
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