St. Albert news

• Expect Oilers' Cam Talbot to be back in net against Jets

  08-10-2017 23:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the whole, it’s never a bad thing to wonder who to play in goal.
  Better that than having to play your top dog every night because that’s all you’ve got, baby.
  So, you’re Edmonton Oilers’ coach Todd McLellan. With only four games in the first 10 days, do you shrug off Cam Talbot’s off-night in Vancouver where three of seven shots beat him in 20 minutes and one shift into the second period and come back with him against Winnipeg Jets Monday because, well, he&
  
  Read more

• Alouettes look to keep playoff hopes alive against Eskimos

  08-10-2017 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  MONTREAL – Things could always be worse for the Edmonton Eskimos.
  As bad as things have gotten for the once-mighty club that started the season 7-0, only to lose their last six, at least they’re not the Montreal Alouettes.
  Not only is the home side in Monday’s Thanksgiving Day showdown at Percival Molson Stadium (12 p.m., TSN, ESPN3, 630 CHED) on a seven-game skid, but the Alouettes’ post-season prayers are on the line as they bring up the back of the Canadian Football Le
  
  Read more

• Police identify man killed in gas station hit and run in Thorsby

  08-10-2017 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have identified Ki Yun Jo as the 54-year-old man who was killed in a hit and run at a Thorsby gas station Friday. 
  Jo, who owned the Fas Gas, was trying to stop or catch the attention of a driver who drove away without paying for gas around 3:45 p.m., said the RCMP.
  Mounties are searching for a suspect and a white 2006 Ford cube van that was stolen around 2 p.m. Friday in Spruce Grove, said a Sunday news release. It was then driven to Thorsby, about 70 kilometres southwest of Edmonto
  
  Read more

• Daycare operator wins battle to open facility in old Westmount church

  08-10-2017 22:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A more than year-long battle between a family-run daycare business and Westmount residents has come to an end after a decision from the Court of Appeal of Alberta.
  Residents opposed the 120-child daycare facility — to be run out of an old church on 126 Street and 110 Avenue — after a city development officer granted a development permit to the Ranu family last July. The officer also granted a parking variance, which allows the daycare to have all, rather than part, of the 10 required
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Police search for suspect after home invasion east of Edmonton

  08-10-2017 22:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are searching for a third suspect in a reported armed home invasion east of Edmonton, after capturing two others. 
  RCMP officers responded to a call regarding a home invasion in the rural Vegreville area around 4:45 a.m., said a Sunday news release.  
  About 30 minutes later, police found the suspects’ vehicle in Strathcona County and attempted to perform a traffic stop. When the vehicle continued to move, police used a tire deflation device. The vehicle then rammed
  
  Read more

• Kids on Track hosts Thanksgiving dinner for hundreds in west Edmonton

  08-10-2017 19:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seventy-five Kids on Track volunteers served a full traditional Thanksgiving dinner to 400 people on Saturday at the Howard Johnson Hotel.
  Kids on Track is an organization that offers support and programming to economically disadvantaged youth and families.
  Ling Jiao is from China and said she didn’t have a Thanksgiving dinner until her sons became involved with Kids on Track. This year, her 14-month-old daughter will get to try turkey for the first time.
  They have been attending the dinne
  
  Read more

• How quickly can a city councillor expect to make significant change?

  08-10-2017 18:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Andrew Knack made change look easy last winter.
  He took his first vacation in Europe, was floored by how easy it was to get around as a tourist, then returned to start Edmonton working on a new intermodal transportation hub in this city.
  It looks like a sitting councillor can do anything — promise the moon and take action. 
  That’s a myth, says Coun. Bryan Anderson, watching the election from afar this time as he cleans out his office to retire.
  Knack’s motion succeede
  
  Read more

• Brossoit was brightest light in Oilers loss in Vancouver

  08-10-2017 17:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  As 82-year-old former NHL coach and current Boston Bruins’ pro scout Tommy McVie so often says “the only place success comes ahead of work is in the dictionary” which, in a nutshell, summed up why the Vancouver Canucks got the W and the Edmonton Oilers the L Saturday night in Vancouver.
  The Oilers wanted it, the Canucks wanted it more.
  As complete from goal on out as the Oilers 3-0 win over Calgary was on opening night at Rogers Place, this 3-2 loss at Rogers Arena was the abso
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Taxes, tiffs and traffic dominate St. Albert mayor's race - CBC.ca

  08-10-2017 16:35 via cbc.ca
  CBC.ca
  Taxes, tiffs and traffic dominate St. Albert mayor's race
  CBC.ca
  Voters in St. Albert are going to be choosing a new mayor in this municipal election following Nolan Crouse's decision to step down after 10 years on the job. But the big question is who will replace Crouse, whose last council was accused of being ...
  
  Read more

• RCMP hope DNA database provides break in Septic Tank Sam cold case

  08-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Septic Tank Sam lies in an unmarked grave in an Edmonton cemetery, his identity no less a mystery than when his tortured body was pulled from a rural septic tank on a spring day in 1977. 
  But 40 years after Sam met his grisly end, cold case investigators hope a new national DNA database will give fresh leads on who he was — and who killed him. 
  Set to launch in 2018, the RCMP’s national children and missing persons unidentified remains database will allow investigators
  
  Read more

• At The Cult of Hockey: The Edmonton Oilers get taken off their game early, often by feisty Canucks, lose 3-2

  08-10-2017 08:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers did not play a disciplined or an engaged game against the Vancouver Canucks, Saturday night. As a result, they paid dearly for that, dropping a 2-point decision in the Canucks home opener, 3-2.  The lack of discipline showed up most acutely in the form of seven Vancouver man advantages, many of those the result of careless or lazy stick infractions. The shortage of engagement saw far too many Oilers enter the fray far too late into the evening, including a power play per
  
  Read more

• Three Edmonton Oilers positives in a dreary 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks

  08-10-2017 08:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey podcast: looking on the bright side of a stinker in VanIt’s too early in the year to go negative on the Edmonton Oilers, even after a 3-2 loss to the rebuilding Vancouver Canucks. 
  Let Vancouver enjoy this one, as their fans most certainly are. This in from Corey Hirsch, who does colour commentary for Canucks games: “Props to coach Travis Green 1st win….out coached @EdmontonOilers coach Mclellan tonight with the Granlund-Sutter-Dorsett matchup.”
  So in
  
  Read more

• Oilers come up short in tight loss to Canucks

  08-10-2017 07:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  VANCOUVER — If the Edmonton Oilers got an A plus on their report card, acing their season-opening test against their rival Calgary Flames, they got a D as in defeat against the Vancouver Canucks Saturday.
  The Canucks got better starting goaltending from Jacob Markstrom, who gave up a goal to Kris Russell on the game’s first shot but was excellent after, robbing Oscar Klefbom and Mark Letestu in the last 40 seconds, while Cam Talbot only stopped four of his seven shots
  
  Read more

• Community remembering mother of three, Realtor killed in early morning crash

  08-10-2017 07:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Friends have identified Steffi Stuetz, a mother of three young children, as the 28-year-old woman killed in an early-morning crash on the Anthony Henday Drive on Saturday.
  Steve Reid called Stuetz a “phenomenal human being” who never had a negative word to say. Stuetz’s children are four, five and seven years old.
  “It’s devastating,” Reid said in an interview Saturday night.
  Reid, who owns the Realty Executives firm Stuetz worked at, said Stuetz was hired in A
  
  Read more

• Oilers notes: Connor McDavid says 100 goals 'not possible'

  08-10-2017 05:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  VANCOUVER — Connor McDavid is bullish on his own ability, but when asked for the first time Saturday about Jaromir Jagr’s wildcat prediction that he could score 100 goals, you’d have thought somebody stuffed a dirty sweat sock into his mouth.
  He absolutely turned up his nose at the idea.
  “It’s not possible at all … no one’s ever done it,” said the Edmonton Oilers captain, who had three goals on seven shots in the opening win over Calgary
  
  Read more

• 15th annual Alberta harvest helps to feed people around the world

  08-10-2017 05:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta farmers from across the province are harvesting crops this Thanksgiving in order to help feed people around the world.
  Thousands of volunteers working on 35 projects in Alberta will donate proceeds from their crop sales to the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, which provides emergency food assistance and farm training programs in developing nations.
  At a 150-acre canola field just east of Gibbons, Alta., a group of local farmers and volunteers gathered for their 15th annual charitable harve
  
  Read more

• Kailer Yamamoto healthy scratch for Oilers game in Vancouver

  08-10-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  VANCOUVER — Win and you’re in … not necessarily.
  While the Edmonton Oilers blanked Calgary Flames 3-0 Wednesday, Oilers’ coach Todd McLellan is making one lineup change for Saturday’s game against the Canucks. He’s taking out rookie right-winger Kailer Yamamoto after the nervous teenager played just seven minutes in his NHL debut.
  Zack Kassian will take Yamamoto’s spot on the No. 2 line with centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Milan Lucic. Kassian started on
  
  Read more

Follow @StAlbertNews on Twitter!