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• Air-1 city police chopper may fly in under budget

  25-11-2017 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is it a bird? Is it Superman? 
  It’s a new Edmonton Police Service helicopter.
  And what makes it even better is that, according to the latest police commission report into capital project costs, the new helicopter may be less expensive than what was previously budgeted.
  “Current projections indicate that the project may be underspent by approximately $500,000 due to lower than anticipated equipment and installation costs,” the notes said.
  “This projection include
  
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• Mind your mortgage: New guidelines to include tougher ‘stress test'

  25-11-2017 18:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homebuyers looking to qualify for an uninsured mortgage through a federally regulated financial institution will soon face a new hurdle. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) will roll out revised guidelines for residential mortgage writing practices and procedures starting Jan. 1, 2018.
  One change is a new “stress test” for uninsured mortgages, requiring the borrower to qualify at the higher figure between the five-year benchmark rate published by th
  
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• Man critically injured in collision near Bonnyville flown to Edmonton

  25-11-2017 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 24-year-old man was flown by STARS air ambulance to the University of Alberta Hospital in critical condition Friday after a collision near Bonnyville.
  STARS spokesman Mark Oddan said the air ambulance met EMS at Bonnyville Hospital around 3:30 p.m.
  While STARS initially thought there would be another patient to transport, the 24-year-old man was determined to be in more critical condition, Oddan said.
  STARS arrived in Edmonton around 6 p.m.
  Details of the collision were not immediately availab
  
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• Man charged after abduction, standoff that ended in Spruce Grove

  25-11-2017 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 31-year-old man has been charged with several offences after assaulting his ex, and abducting their three-year-old daughter Thursday.
  Edmonton police were called to a home around 8:45 a.m. Thursday after a report of an abduction.
  When officers arrived, they found the three-year-old girl’s mother had allegedly been assaulted by her former common-law spouse, who took off, threatening to harm himself and their daughter.
  Police found the suspect and his daughter in a Spruce Grove home on Thu
  
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• Saturday's letters: Dental fee guide lacks teeth

  25-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Our NDP government appears overjoyed with the 8.5-per-cent reduction in dental fees in the new guide. This now means Albertans will only be paying 35 per cent more than people in other provinces for common dental services.
  Hardly a windfall for Albertans! We should all be so excited as Health Minister Sarah Hoffman. What was missing in the press conference was whether the dental association would now be allowing their members to advertise their fees, which was the original intent back in 1997.
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• Opinion: Have a conversation about Eskimos name but fight real racism

  25-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Depending on who you talk to, the word Eskimo means either “snowshoe-netter” in Montagnais — or “eats something raw” in Cree. It is a 200-year-old Indigenous word from the fur trade era, which eventually had its spelling Anglicized and meaning slightly altered to “eaters of raw meat.”
  Today, however, some Inuit and Aboriginal people find this Indigenous word offensive —like the words “Indian” or “Half-Breed”– but many
  
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• Former French legionnaire, Edmonton Eskimo among police graduates

  25-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former minesweeper with the French Foreign Legion who served in Afghanistan, Const. Marko Sabanovic was one of the graduates of the Edmonton Police Service’s recruit training class No. 139.
  In a plume of pageantry and tradition, 29 police officers including Sabanovic joined the service’s ranks Friday at a ceremony at City Hall.
  The new police boots pounding the city streets include a former Edmonton Eskimos player, a head chef, a firefighter and a street outreach worker.
  “It&
  
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• St. Albert Children's Theatre mixes sentimentality with laughter and ... - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert Children's Theatre mixes sentimentality with laughter and ...
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  At first, St. Albert Children's Theatre pairing of the perennial chestnut It's a Wonderful Life and the contemporary Elf, the Musical Jr. seemed baffling.and more »
  
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• St. Albert Children's Theatre mixes sentimentality with laughter and music - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert Children's Theatre mixes sentimentality with laughter and music
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  At first, St. Albert Children's Theatre pairing of the perennial chestnut It's a Wonderful Life and the contemporary Elf, the Musical Jr. seemed baffling. It's a Wonderful Life is a popular parable about George Bailey, a desperate businessman who ...and more »
  
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• School Notes: yoga classes and health conferences - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  School Notes: yoga classes and health conferences
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  St. Albert Catholic students will learn how to teach others yoga as part of a pilot program taking off next year. Greater St. Albert Catholic parents are invited to come to an information session at École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d'Youville this ...
  
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• Kennedy slides into Roar of the Rings - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Kennedy slides into Roar of the Rings
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  The Roar of the Rings Olympic Trials starts next Saturday at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa for the third on the Kevin Koe rink. “It sure sneaks up on you fast when you're busy and enjoying what you're doing,” said Kennedy, prior to Thursday's ...
  
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• Joly moves to defer Housing Society funding - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Joly moves to defer Housing Society funding
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  The St. Albert Housing Society's growth could be jeopardized if city councillors pass a motion next week to delay approval of the society's 2018 operating grant. A motion from Coun. Natalie Joly aims to push the society's operating funding approval for ...
  
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• Environment File: tree swallow science and green awards - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Environment File: tree swallow science and green awards
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  Pollution may be making male tree swallows shinier, suggests a new study done in part at Big Lake. University of Alberta PhD candidate Natalia Lifshitz will give a free talk at the Edmonton Nature Club next week on her research into the effects of ...
  
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• Dentist says new fee guide won't help patients - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Dentist says new fee guide won't help patients
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  The Alberta Government and the Alberta Dental Association and College announced a new optional dental fee guide on Wednesday in a bid to help lower-income households and seniors afford dental care. But one St. Albert dentist said that the fee guide isn ...and more »
  
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• Cyber Monday sales to hit the web on Nov. 27 - St. Albert Gazette - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cyber Monday sales to hit the web on Nov. 27 - St. Albert Gazette
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  The deals keep dropping for shoppers looking for the best bang for their buck. Cyber Monday is taking place on Nov. 27, a chance for St. Albertans to cash in ...and more »
  
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• Cyber Monday sales to hit the web on Nov. 27 - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cyber Monday sales to hit the web on Nov. 27
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  The deals keep dropping for shoppers looking for the best bang for their buck. Cyber Monday is taking place on Nov. 27, a chance for St. Albertans to cash in more sales following Black Friday. Cyber Monday is a U.S. tradition that offers the best deals ...and more »
  
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• Are you All In For Alex? - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:18 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Are you All In For Alex?
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  Today is the big day for people keen on registering to be bone marrow donors. The All in for Alex event takes place between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Servus Place. You must be between the ages of 17 and 35 to get your cheek swabbed. The effort has been ...
  
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• Ringing it up for Team USA - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:03 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Ringing it up for Team USA
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  A graduate of the St. Albert Ringette Association is playing a major role introducing the sport in the United States. It's a daunting task for Brenda Rossetto (nee Sadoway), who lives in Midland, Michigan. “It's pretty tough. It's very hard to get ...
  
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• Chatter dishes on a concert and a play - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 08:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Chatter dishes on a concert and a play
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  Michael Massey kick-starts his prestigious 41st anniversary as conductor for Edmonton Youth Orchestra with a rich palette of classical compositions from the 18th century through to the 20th. The EYO, composed of the nationally acclaimed Edmonton Senior ...
  
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• Player grades: Bug-ridden Oilers bogged down in Buffalo

  25-11-2017 07:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 1, Sabres 3
  So much for traction. Two days after one of their most encouraging games of the season, the Edmonton Oilers moved on to Buffalo to face the slumping Sabres, losers of seven straight games. 
  Slump over. Predictably, the Sabres came out and played desperate hockey, outworked their flagging opponents for the better part of the full 60 minutes and deservedly skated away with a 3-1 victory. It wasn’t pretty, but it was effective, effectively throwing a wet blanket over E
  
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• Do the Edmonton Oilers need a new coach as last gasp to save season?

  25-11-2017 05:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  After a game where the Edmonton Oilesrs lacked all focus and effort in losing 3-1 to the Buffalo Sabres, the team now has eight wins and 15 losses. They rank 28 out of 30 NHL teams.
  Sportsnet analyst Drew Remenda talked about Edmonton failing to play its “A” game against Buffalo and instead playing its “B” game.
  But that had more of the feeling of an “F” game. 
  Another one. 
  It will be difficult, perhaps extremely difficult, for the team to turn arou
  
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• Woman dead after crash on Whitemud Drive

  25-11-2017 03:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman is dead after a single-vehicle crash Friday on Whitemud Drive near 53 Avenue.
  Paramedics pronounced the woman dead on scene when they arrived about 6 p.m., according to a news release from the Edmonton Police Service.
  The police major collisions investigations unit had taken over the scene and was investigating.
  Traffic on the Whitemud Drive westbound was being diverted as of 7 p.m. while crews were on scene.
  The woman’s death is the 29th traffic fatality of 2017.
  Police were askin
  
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• Police officer Mike Chernyk injured in attack thanks public for support

  25-11-2017 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton police officer who was struck by a car and stabbed while at a traffic barricade Sept. 30 has issued a letter to the public thanking them for their support.
  Const. Mike Chernyk’s letter, published on the Edmonton Police Service website, thanked well-wishers from Edmonton, Alberta and Canada for their kind words and cards. 
  “The last eight weeks have finally returned to normal for me,” he wrote in a letter released Friday.
  Chernyk said he didn’t want
  
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• Stakeholders concerned national housing strategy funds won't come soon enough

  25-11-2017 02:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Politicians were in Edmonton Friday touting the benefits of the federal government’s first national housing strategy, but community stakeholders are concerned help may not be coming soon enough.
  While the new national housing strategy includes a promise to renegotiate expiring agreements with housing co-operatives that would maintain the number and affordability of units, “I will want to see timelines, because I know that in between agreements it may be very difficult for some c
  
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• NDP plans big shakeup of Alberta's workers' compensation system

  25-11-2017 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  After spending the past week sounding like a Conservative premier promoting pipelines, the familiar social-justice NDP Premier Rachel Notley will be back in the legislature Monday.
  Her government will make a point of looking very much like what an NDP government is supposed to look like.
  They won’t be hugging trees or dancing around the maypole. But they will be introducing major changes to the workers’ compensation system.
  Sources say the changes will be massive. We have few details
  
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• Alberta group helps companies develop technology to drive autonomous vehicles

  25-11-2017 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The black car slowly roaming a south Edmonton parking lot doesn’t look out of the ordinary, but the technology it’s testing could represent a giant Alberta economic opportunity.
  The 2013 e6 from Chinese manufacturer BYD has been modified to help develop navigation systems and other equipment created in the province that would be crucial components in the potentially massive world of self-driving vehicles.
  “In the next few years, the types of products that go into autonomous sys
  
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• Paula Simons: Accidental Beach could be drowned in red tape.

  25-11-2017 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  It appeared at the end of an Edmonton summer like a mirage, an accidental beach in the heart of the city. And for a few sweet weeks, we flocked there with our kids and our dogs and our picnic hampers and our volleyballs, to paddle and swim and play in the sand.
  And then the snow fell, the ice formed and our beach vanished, leaving us to wonder if it would ever return. 
  Could it be more than an ephemeral marvel? Could we make it last?
  That was Ward 8 Coun. Ben Henderson’s question
  
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• Family of woman killed by drunk driver tell of shattered lives, broken hearts

  25-11-2017 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  On her wedding day, the daughter of a woman killed by a drunk driver found herself surrounded by flowers from her mother’s funeral held three days earlier.
  Many people wiped away tears in an Edmonton courtroom Friday as they listened to two dozen accounts of shattered lives and broken hearts in the aftermath of the death of Joann Christou, 50, who was killed on Oct. 24, 2016, when Eric Lestar drove his car into the back of her Nissan Xterra. 
  Court heard submissions on sentencing
  
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• Study says St. Albert collisions declining - St. Albert Gazette - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 00:48 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Study says St. Albert collisions declining - St. Albert Gazette
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  The number of vehicle collisions in St. Albert is declining, according to a new study released by Allstate. This week, a study released by the insurance company ...and more »
  
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• Study says St. Albert collisions declining - St. Albert Gazette

  25-11-2017 00:48 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Study says St. Albert collisions declining
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  The number of vehicle collisions in St. Albert is declining, according to a new study released by Allstate. This week, a study released by the insurance company compiled the data from Allstate drivers from 2015 to 2017 and compared the numbers to the ...and more »
  
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• Man faces multiple impaired driving charges after Mountie injured in crash

  25-11-2017 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 53-year-old Leduc County man faces multiple impaired driving charges after a Devon RCMP officer suffered serious injuries during an attempted traffic stop Thursday, say police. 
  The Mountie — recovering in an Edmonton hospital — was found near his marked RCMP vehicle after a head-on crash just west of Highway 60 after a 2:30 a.m. attempt to pull over an erratic driver.
  The drama began when another officer tried to stop the vehicle before the driver fled south through Devon. Th
  
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