St. Albert news

• American NHL players wade in on NFL anthem protest

  25-09-2017 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Given that the majority of National Hockey League rosters are made up of white Canadians and Europeans, anthem protests that are dominating National Football League headlines in America haven’t yet made their way to the hockey rinks.
  But they are impossible to ignore, especially for U.S.-born players who, like the rest of the world, are concerned by what’s going on in their country right now.
  “I was pretty surprised,” said Edmonton Oilers defenceman Mark Fayne, a New
  
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• Jesse Puljujarvi to get the McDavid push as Oilers' "A team" faces Hurricanes

  25-09-2017 22:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Preseason Game Day 6:Hurricanes at Oilers
  With the weekend’s cuts of seven players, the Edmonton Oilers’ roster continues to take shape.  That makes it an even 20 players who have been reassigned since the Oilers were split into two groups just five days ago. Every last one of those cuts came from Group B, which should surprise exactly nobody.At this point 35 players are still in camp, even as five of them — defenders Andrej Sekera and Ryan Stanton along with wingers Anton
  
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• Lacombe Lake Dog Park Fence Installation

  25-09-2017 22:10
  Fencing and plantings to be installed during the month of October The City of St. Albert is undertaking a fence... Read Post
  
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• Oilers Game Day: Puljujarvi starts on top line against Hurricanes

  25-09-2017 21:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Carolina Hurricanes at Edmonton Oilers; 7 p.m., Rogers Place, radio: 630 CHED, TV: EdmontonOilers.com
  Winger Jesse Puljujarvi will get another shot with Connor McDavid.
  And Kailer Yamamoto, tied for the exhibition high in points with five, will get his fourth Edmonton Oilers’ look against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.
  For the first time this pre-season, the Oilers will field a fairly representative NHL opening-night roster. The Hurricanes will do the same in their fifth
  
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• Trio of stolen boats found on rural property near Cold Lake

  25-09-2017 20:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three boats worth $600,000 reported stolen from a Calmar dealership earlier this month were found nearly 350 kilometres away at a rural Cold Lake property.
  The boats, with trailers, were among four 23-foot Nautique Super Air G23s taken from Wizard Lake Marine on Sept. 13. At the time, investigators said they believed four pickup trucks played a part in the theft.
  RCMP in a Monday news release said that officers found the boats on Saturday — 10 days later.
  One boat and trailer, worth about
  
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• Whitemud Drive now open after fatal, fiery crash

  25-09-2017 19:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A male drive is dead after his car hit a concrete barrier westbound, throwing him from the vehicle that then exploded into flames around 4 a.m. Monday.  
  Police reopened the westbound lanes from Fox Drive to 149 Street just before 11 a.m., after crews cleared the site. Investigators spent hours at the scene and say speed is likely a factor in the spectacular crash. 
  The driver died before emergency crews could arrive.
  The car hit the centre concrete barrier before skidding across
  
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• Whitemud Drive closed as police investigate fatal collision

  25-09-2017 15:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sections of Edmonton’s busiest freeway are closed Monday morning as police investigate a fatal collision.
  Police say Whitemud Drive westbound from Fox Drive to 149 Street will be closed for the next several hours after a westbound car struck a concrete barrier around 4 a.m. Monday.
  The crash ejected the male driver from the car, which burst into flames.
  The driver died before emergency crews could arrive.
  Police believe speed was a factor.
  Whitemud Drive westbound betweenFox Drive to 149 S
  
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• Education minister overruled proposed busing fee hikes at seven school districts this fall

  25-09-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education minister rejected school transportation fee hikes proposed by seven school boards this summer, said his press secretary.
  St. Albert Public Schools, Sturgeon school division, Grande Yellowhead, Rocky View, Northwest Francophone, and Fort McMurray public and Catholic schools had to scale back their busing fees when Minister David Eggen said they were asking for too much money.
  “Our government is doing things differently. We’re making life better and more affor
  
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• Races in capital region may put Iveson's co-operation agenda at risk

  25-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is losing at least four friends in the capital region as retiring politicians leave wide open election races to the south and north of the city.
  Edmonton, Leduc and Leduc County have been working to build the Edmonton International Airport south of the city into a key job generator for the region. But two of the three political leaders behind a deal signed just this year are departing their posts.
  To the north of Edmonton, St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse — who poured his heart
  
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• RCMP lay robbery charges against four men for incidents in Lac La Biche and Redwater

  25-09-2017 06:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four people, including two teenagers, have been charged with robbery and other offences in connection to series of incidents that began in Lac La Biche and ended in Wetaskiwin early Friday.
  Barry Monias, 24, of Lac La Biche is facing 12 charges, including robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault, dangerous driving, criminal flight from police, and firearms offences.
  A 16-year-old man from Lac La Biche, who cannot be named, is facing eight charges including robbery with a firearm, firearms offe
  
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• Ceremony honours 100 Alberta officers killed in the line of duty

  25-09-2017 05:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The names of men and women killed while protecting Albertans were read out outside the legislature Sunday as law enforcement members and families paid their respects to the province’s fallen officers. 
  No new names were added to the Pillar of Strength monument on the south grounds of the legislature, but for many the losses are still raw. 
  One hundred law enforcement officers — including city police, RCMP, North West Mounted Police, correctional officers, military police an
  
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• Thelma Chalifoux, Canada's first female Indigenous senator, dead at 88

  25-09-2017 04:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thelma Chalifoux, the first Indigenous woman to serve as a Canadian senator, has died at age 88.
  Chalifoux’s eldest son, Bob Coulter, said his mother died Friday night at St. Albert’s Citadel Care Centre after a long period of frail health. 
  “Mom was a real trailblazer and she just did not take no for an answer,” Coulter said Sunday. “She changed hearts and minds. When she saw a problem, she went after it with all of her energy. As she used to say, ‘Just
  
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• Church worships for first time since three women killed in crash

  25-09-2017 04:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pastor Glory Blamo sat beside an empty chair, shrouded in black cloth, at the front of his congregation Sunday.
  A week earlier, his wife and assistant, Glorious Decontee David, had sat in the seat at the head of Solid Rock International Ministries, a Pentecostal church that worships each week on the second floor of an office complex and shopping centre in northeast Edmonton.
  But in an instant on a highway east of Edmonton Friday, she was gone.
  David was one of three women killed in a collision b
  
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• Oil Kings blow two-goal lead and lose home opener to Red Deer Rebels

  25-09-2017 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oil Kings are expected to be a work in progress this season, with an emphasis on progress.
  Still very much in rebuild mode, the Oil Kings did plenty of good things in a 5-3 loss to the Red Deer Rebels in their home opener in front of 8,218 at Rogers Place on Sunday, but not enough to hold off their more experienced opponents.
  “There’s the very obvious, the discipline killed us,” said Oil Kings head coach Steve Hamilton. “We gave up four power-play goals (this
  
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• Thelma Chalifoux, Canada’s first Indigenous woman to be appointed to Senate, dies at 88

  25-09-2017 01:05 via globalnews.ca
  Thelma Chalifoux, a high-profile member of Alberta's Metis and Indigenous community and once a Canadian senator, died in St. Albert, Alta. on Friday with friends and family at her bedside. She was 88 years old.
  
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• How much is Patrick Maroon worth to Oilers?

  25-09-2017 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Patrick Maroon is playing the mime, lips velcroed when it comes to discussing his parameters for a long-term Edmonton Oilers contract.
  But there are a lot of talking points to chew on for Connor McDavid’s left winger who had a ground-breaking season last year.
  1. How many of Maroon’s 27 goals were only because he played with the NHL scoring champ? Remember when we heard that about Jari Kurri in the early days when he was on right wing with Wayne Gretzky? We’re overlooking the s
  
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