St. Albert news

• Press Gallery #204: The Kids, Kenney and a Crossing edition

  03-11-2017 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Monday marked the beginning of the fall session at the Alberta legislature. But the Press Gallery podcast team heads back in time, two days prior to that, when Jason Kenney was elected United Conservative Party leader. 
  Join host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson to discuss a chaotic week in Alberta politics which included the UCP election, a floor crossing, a resignation, applause (or not) in the house, and the Alberta Party asking for official party sta
  
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• Gas prices jump to $1.25 at most gas stations in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  03-11-2017 23:49 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Gazette
  Gas prices jump to $1.25 at most gas stations in St. Albert
  St. Albert Gazette
  Area motorists were hit with sticker shock on Thursday, when gas prices shot up to $1.24.9 per litre at most stations. It was the second big hike this week, pushing the price up a total of nearly 25 cents a litre since Monday. There has been no ...
  
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• NDPs three top issues: Kenney, Kenney, Kenney

  03-11-2017 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  In Alberta politics these days, all roads lead directly to Jason Kenney.
  And the NDP government is doing its best to fill those roads with steamrollers, bulldozers and anything else politically heavy and destructive.
  The government wants to grind Kenney into the dust.
  It unveiled its heaviest piece of machinery to do that on Thursday — Bill 24: An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances.
  The legislation would make it illegal for a publicly funded school to tell parents their child has joined
  
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• Notes from the dome: Poachers beware and goodbye to televised question period

  03-11-2017 23:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans concerned about poaching can now report suspicious activity online. 
  Previously, the only way to report poaching was through a hotline, said a Friday government news release. Now people can submit an online form at the Report A Poacher website, which will be sent to fish and wildlife officers. 
  Officials are still asking people to use the hotline to report emergencies. Rewards for information range from $100 to $1,000, and those giving information are allowed to remain a
  
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• Edmonton-based soldier shares story of losing close friend under her command in Afghanistan

  03-11-2017 23:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Capt. Ashley Collette still struggles with the complex emotions of losing her close friend in an explosion in Afghanistan while he was under her command.
  In spite of her anguish, Collette is telling her story to encourage other soldiers to share the truth of their experience and embolden members of the public to ask questions even when it’s hard.
  “It’s challenging as a human being, it’s challenging both in the experience but more importantly on the return back home. I wis
  
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• Alberta company receives grant for new technology to extract bitumen

  03-11-2017 23:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The leader of an oilfield technology company hopes a $10-million grant announced Friday will help microwaves replace steam as a key way to extract bitumen from the oilsands. 
  “(This) is a potential game-changer for Alberta’s oil industry,” Geoff Clark, chief executive of Acceleware, said Friday following a news conference at C-FER Technologies in southeast Edmonton.
  “You have no external water (involved), that’s one benefit. You have far less sur
  
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• Oilsands buyout spree paying off as takeovers boost output

  03-11-2017 21:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Kevin Orland
  The acquisition spree that returned much of Alberta’s oil sands to Canadian hands is so far working out as the buyers projected, with results at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Cenovus Energy Inc. beating expectations on the back of higher output and lower costs.
  Canadian Natural posted third-quarter profit on Thursday that topped analysts’ estimates as its buyouts of Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s and Marathon Oil Corp.’s stakes in the Athabasca Oil San
  
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• Social Seen: Dial R for Refinery

  03-11-2017 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Dial R for Refinery
  Where: Art Gallery of Alberta
  When: Oct. 28
  Who: Art Gallery of Alberta
  What: AGA’s film noir-themed Halloween p
  
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• First-generation Italian winemaker vows 'to never stop making something interesting'

  03-11-2017 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Monferrato Hills and wine-producing area are located within the famous Piedmont wine region in northwest Italy, only a short train or car ride from Turin and Milan. It’s also the home of a UNESCO World Heritage Site — imagine medieval castles, palaces and rolling hills covered with vineyards.
  This area is rich in traditional winemaking, but you can find more modern styles here, as well — modern in terms of allowing native varietals to be blended with international grapes (t
  
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• Dining Out: Alder Room stands at vanguard of Edmonton's exciting restaurant flowering

  03-11-2017 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s 5 p.m. Friday on Jasper Avenue in downtown Edmonton. We survey life’s rich pageant passing by, from ubiquitous dumpster divers to costumed Halloween weekend revellers to workers scurrying for the bus on the way home to relative freedom.
  All is quiet inside the candlelit storefront, save for some tasteful electronica on the box and the measured modulations of star Edmonton chef Ben Staley explaining what is involved with the little snack dishes set forth on the Noguchi-style tabl
  
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• Award-winning Cuban-Canadian singer returns to his roots

  03-11-2017 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Most songwriters will tell you they tend to find inspiration more easily in darker, melancholy moments and tough experiences. Not Alex Cuba.
  “It’s just who I am,” he admits. “In the beginning, there were a couple of times I felt almost embarrassed by writing positive music because most people want to feel their misery, and if that works for them, like a therapy, that’s good. But when I’m feeling blue, I don’t write. I hate music. When I’m happy, th
  
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• Scammers sell fake tickets to Edmonton volunteer appreciation concert

  03-11-2017 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  There appears to be no honour among Edmonton thieves as scammers are selling fraudulent tickets to a concert celebrating the contributions of young volunteers.
  City officials warned the public on Friday to be aware of tickets sold online for the NextGen City Jam, a concert at the Needle Vinyl Tavern on Dec. 2.
  NextGen is a youth advocacy group encouraging the next generation to get involved with their city, maintaining a network of volunteers between the ages of 18 and 40 and connecting city adm
  
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• Perfect storm as Taylor Hall's red-hot Devils visit Edmonton to face slumping Oilers

  03-11-2017 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 12: Oilers vs. Devils
  The storyline writes itself for this one, as Taylor Hall and his high-flying New Jersey Devils drop in to Edmonton to face off against Adam Larsson and the struggling Oilers.
  The two were of course traded for each other on the fateful day of June 29, 2016, sending Oil Country into a raging furor that abated somewhat with Edmonton’s success in the 2016-17 campaign, but which has sparked afresh with the locals’ difficult start in 2017-18. For their part,
  
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• One dead after fire in north Edmonton

  03-11-2017 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was found dead after firefighters were called to a blaze in the north Edmonton neighbourhood of Beaumaris.
  Edmonton fire District Chief Leonard Mushtuk said a home care giver arrived at the home this morning and couldn’t enter because of smoke.
  Crews arrived around 9:45 to respond to the burning residence near 98 Street and 156 Avenue. The victim was found dead on the main floor of the home. Investigators are looking into the cause of the fire.
  Mahmoud Handous, who has live
  
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• In-vitro fertilization among services to be cut by public clinic

  03-11-2017 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s publicly run fertility clinic at the Royal Alexandra Hospital will stop offering non-insured services such as in-vitro fertilization and intrauterine insemination as of February, Alberta Health Services says.
  In a memo circulated to staff late Thursday, AHS executives say the Regional Fertility and Women’s Endocrine Clinic at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women will remain open, but only for services that are covered by provincial funding.
  “Providing insured-only servic
  
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• Alberta teen charged with bringing replica gun to school

  03-11-2017 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  A St. Albert teenager has been arrested and charged for allegedly threatening a classmate with a gun. 
  
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• Youth charged after threatening student with replica handgun

  03-11-2017 16:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have charged a 17-year-old with weapons offences after a St. Albert high school student was threatened with a fake handgun.
  St. Albert RCMP were called to St. Albert Catholic High School after class on Monday after a report that a boy brought a handgun to the school. After an investigation, police learned the gun was a replica and had been used to threaten a student, said a Friday news release. 
  That evening, officers seized a fake gun from a home and arrested the teen. The boy canno
  
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• St. Albert teen charged for threatening classmate with fake handgun - CBC.ca

  03-11-2017 15:35 via cbc.ca
  St. Albert teen charged for threatening classmate with fake handgun
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  A St. Albert teenager is facing weapons charges after a student at St. Albert Catholic High School threatened a classmate with a fake handgun. The 17-year-old student brought the replica gun to class on Monday afternoon, RCMP said in a news release on ...and more »
  
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• Injured worker files court document threatening WCB staff, families

  03-11-2017 13:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city police threat assessment unit has been contacted after a man filed a 12-page statement of claim threatening to kill Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) staff and their families.
  In a lawsuit filed with the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench on Oct. 13, an Edmonton man wrote he has arrived at a plan to leave a “legacy after some revenge/justice” after being frustrated by WCB decisions related to a workplace injury he sustained in 2011.
  The 55-year-old man lists a n
  
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• Friday's letters: Community sandboxes for icy walks still missing

  03-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the fall of 2016, for reasons known only to city bureaucrats, the sand boxes at community leagues were removed.
  Last spring, during the annual thaw-freeze there were many falls and resultant complaints to the city. Possibly with the civic election approaching, the city claimed that these boxes would be “immediately” restored.
  Of course, then a week passed, then two weeks, and spring arrived. I checked this week and still no sand boxes. It appears then that “immediate”
  
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• Editorial: Kids can be good neighbours too

  03-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some Albertans are castigating the provincial government for proposing a bill that would ban adults-only condos and rental homes.
  Given that the province had little choice in the matter, critics of the move should at least direct their censure toward the actual source of their aggrievement — the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. Following a charter challenge, a judge’s order in January gave the province one year to add age as a prohibited reason for discrimination into specific s
  
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• Car rental agencies may need to justify age restrictions under proposed human rights legislation

  03-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Proposed changes to Alberta’s human rights code aim to prevent age discrimination — and the move could push consumers to challenge restrictions on certain activities, such as renting a car. 
  “There is a possibility to still defend an age distinction,” Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley said Thursday, adding companies would need to make a legal argument should their policies be challenged. 
  “If they’re able to justify it, it’s fine; if not, it wou
  
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• Regina police offer $25,000 reward in 2016 homicide of Edmonton's Abdisalam Dahir Nur

  03-11-2017 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than a year after an Edmonton man was shot to death in Regina, police there have issued a $25,000 reward, believing someone in Alberta can shed light on the killing.
  Abdisalam Dahir Nur — also known as “Dame” or “Damien” — was found shot to death at a house  in Regina at 5:15 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2016, Regina police said in a news release Thursday.
  Nur, 27, was involved in a violent drug network, police said.
  Answers in the case are “out there somew
  
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• Telephone kidnapping scam targets Chinese community, police warn

  03-11-2017 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are warning the Chinese community about a telephone kidnapping scam.
  Lower Mainland B.C. RCMP were made aware of a telephone scam that usually targets young, female students by crooks posing as Chinese law enforcement or government officials, Sgt. Kevin Harrison, with the Edmonton Police Service Crisis Negotiator Unit, told an Edmonton news conference Thursday.
  The scammers convince their victims to go into hiding, then call their families in China saying the person has been kidn
  
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• Start of flu season brings three deaths in Alberta

  03-11-2017 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flu season has already struck hard in Alberta, where three people have died and 90 patients have been hospitalized after contracting the virus.
  New statistics released Thursday by Alberta Health Services indicate the Calgary region has been the worst hit area of the province to date.
  Two of the deaths and two-thirds of the 90 hospitalizations recorded by AHS have occurred in the southern Alberta city, which also accounts for 176 of the 288 flu cases so far confirmed by lab sp
  
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• Notes from the dome: Defence of softwood, GSA applause and a mouldy mess

  03-11-2017 00:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is unimpressed with the United States for deciding Canadian softwood is being unfairly subsidized and dumped on our southern neighbours.
  Trade Minister Deron Bilous issued a long statement Thursday, saying Alberta won’t leave the industry in the lurch. He called U.S. actions “unfair and punitive,” and said he’s confident an international tribunal will rule in Canada’s favour over the issue for the fifth time since 1982.
  Mould in Cold Lake  &nb
  
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• Edmonton police want extra $4.3 million a year to cover proposed annexation lands

  03-11-2017 00:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police want $4.3 million extra a year to enforce the law in new lands to be annexed from Leduc County.
  In a report Thursday for council’s community services committee, police officials warn if they don’t get enough money for 25 new officer positions, policing in other areas of the southwest and southeast will suffer. 
  Either that, or they won’t police annexed areas to the same standard and Edmonton will have a two-tired policing system.
  The province hasn’t a
  
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