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• Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall fires back at Alberta over licence plate controversy

  08-12-2017 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said the Alberta government has exhibited a disturbing pattern of behaviour as he fires back amid the recent licence plate spat.
  “There have been a series of provocations from the NDP government of Alberta that regrettably make this retaliatory measure necessary,” Wall said in a statement sent to Postmedia on Friday. 
  “I would urge all Alberta residents to contact their provincial government and urge them to stop the protectionist measures an
  
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• Social Seen: Ginger SNAP

  08-12-2017 23:02 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)
  Print Affair: Ginger SNAP
  Where: SNAP Gallery and Printshop
  When: Dec. 2
  What: Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists’ fundraiser
  
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• Send us photos of your Christmas lights

  08-12-2017 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Crestwood residents get ready to light up Edmonton’s Candy Cane Lane Friday night, we’re asking readers to help us find photo-worthy holiday light displays in neighbourhoods across the city.
  Send us a photo of the lights outside your home, your mom’s home, your pet’s home, your neighbour’s home, or even just a home you happened to see while driving home.
  Include your name, the date you took the photo, and the home’s address or a nearby intersection so
  
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• Police believe stabbing attack on teacher was random

  08-12-2017 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police believe a stabbing attack that put an Edmonton high school teacher in hospital was random. 
  The Centre High School teacher was in stable condition in hospital Friday after what police say was an aggravated assault and personal robbery outside his south Edmonton home. 
  Spokesman Scott Pattison said police now have descriptions of the man and woman involved in the attack, which appears to have been random.
  The man was wearing a black jacket with a green striped shirt and carr
  
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• Attempted murder charge laid in St. Albert fight that sent 2 to hospital - Globalnews.ca

  08-12-2017 22:12 via globalnews.ca
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  Attempted murder charge laid in St. Albert fight that sent 2 to hospital
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  WATCH ABOVE: A teenage boy and a man were taken to hospital with serious injuries after allegedly getting into a fight in a neighbourhood on the north side of St. Albert on Sunday afternoon. X. - A A +. Listen. The teenager sent to hospital with life ...
  
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• Attempted murder charge laid in St. Albert fight that sent 2 to hospital

  08-12-2017 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  The teenager sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a fight in St. Albert last month was targeted, RCMP said on Friday.
  
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• Flu vaccinations in Alberta surpass one million

  08-12-2017 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than one million Albertans have received the flu shot so far this season, which appears to put the province ahead of last year’s immunization pace.
  New statistics from Alberta Health Services show the Calgary region has the biggest uptake with 416,000 doses of vaccine administered to date, while the Edmonton region ranks second with 338,000 doses. 
  The province as a whole appears to have hit the one-million mark about a week or two earlier than last season, although direct compar
  
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• Wine column: Pair a Christmas present of wine to the recipient by learning what they like

  08-12-2017 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you have wine lovers on your Christmas list, consider buying them a terrific book, along with the perfect wine glass and a great bottle of wine — fireplace and armchair optional. Here are some great gift ideas.
  Choosing the right bottle of wine for a gift is easier if you know what the recipient usually purchases. For example, if they love a buttery Chardonnay, consider an oaked Chenin Blanc or Verdejo. Or, if a crisp and zesty white like Sauvignon Blanc is their preference, consider Sa
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Cutting back on some spending, so many Christmas gifts for children

  08-12-2017 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last year, for the first time, the five of us — my husband Jesse, my stepsons, Chile and Tripp, my son, Indy, and I — had Christmas morning for the first time in our own house.
  In the past we’ve done Christmas morning at my parents’ house or Jesse’s house. So, last year was special.
  I wanted our Christmas morning to be like mine were as a kid. My parents were extremely generous and my dad would take his time handing out the presents one at a time. We’d all wat
  
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• "Are you giving yourselves a chance?" Todd McLellan unloads on his Edmonton Oilers for not being ready

  08-12-2017 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the morning after yet another loss where the Edmonton Oilers were seemingly not ready to play, the struggling NHL squad started practice the same way. After some early breakout drills (vs. zero forecheckers) went sideways with sloppy passing, Coach Todd McLellan had seen enough.
  “There is nobody checking us right now. There’s not a @#$% single soul out here checking, and we can’t make the first @#$% pass or the second one. Are you giving yourselves a chance? Is it @#$% impor
  
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• Funiculi, funicula — Edmonton's funicular about to open

  08-12-2017 19:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  No more hauling yourself up and down the stairs if you want to reach the river valley from downtown — Edmonton’s long-awaited funicular is finally set to open Saturday.
  The grand opening of the device, formally called the Mechanized River Valley Access, is set for 10 a.m. on the promenade where it docks, south of the Hotel Macdonald at 10065 100 St.
  Once the speeches are made and the ribbons cut, the funicular will open to the public at noon, with hot drinks. 
  The $24-million pr
  
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• City of St. Albert and Sturgeon County Hold First Annexation Negotiating Committee Meeting

  08-12-2017 18:56
  The City of St. Albert and Sturgeon County Annexation Negotiating Committee met on December 6, 2017. This was the first... Read Post
  
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• Swap or shop? Edmonton women trade clothes while creating community

  08-12-2017 18:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  With an over-stuffed closet populated by garments still sporting price tags, Kim Neeser knew she needed help. 
  But going cold turkey and handing the clothes straight over to a non-profit seemed too hard for the self-described shopaholic. So began Neeser’s love affair with the clothing swap, which started small in her home with a few friends, and has grown big enough to be held in a borrowed retail space on a weekend, with wine, snacks and a charitable component.
  “I’ve alwa
  
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• Fitness column: Great guns in spring start training during winter

  08-12-2017 18:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  This holiday season, when bidding a fond farewell to guests, note whether your arm keeps waving after your hand has called it quits.
  Tight arms have long been a sign of strength and virility. Just Google “Michelle Obama arms” or “Hulk Hogan 24-inch pythons.”
  Firm arms are “in” for both men and women and available to anyone who takes the time to sculpt them. If you want shapely guns to compliment your sleeveless attire this summer, start building your biceps an
  
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• Diana Krall plays banquet of jazzy love songs at Edmonton's Winspear

  08-12-2017 14:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  ‘Tis the season for socializing, relaxing, imbibing and maybe reflecting a little (but not too much). When you spend the evening with Diana Krall and company you’ll get all that, delivered with the utmost musical expertise, even if your host, the jazz singer and pianist, sometimes seems preoccupied with whether everyone’s glass is full.
  Thursday night’s jazzy buffet at the Winspear for a near-sellout crowd of almost 1,800 offered consummate music making from Krall and her
  
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• 'These horses are like family': Six horses stolen from Winfield farm

  08-12-2017 14:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A central Alberta family is reeling after horse thieves made off with six horses from a Winfield area farm Wednesday evening.
  Police say the thieves entered a property along Highway 13 between Buck Lake and Winfield. Tire tracks at the scene indicate that a truck and trailer were used to load the six horses, Breton RCMP said in a news release. The owners discovered the horses were missing the following morning.
  “These horses are like family to their owners,” says RCMP Cpl. Curtis Pet
  
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• Opinion: Analytics show Oilers are losing because of defence

  08-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite the team sitting seventh in the Pacific and tied for 29th overall, I enjoy Oilers games. I also enjoy “Cult of Hockey” player grades by David Staples, Bruce McCurdy, Kurt Leavins, and colleagues.
  Win or lose, I eagerly await their post-game assessments, insightful analyses, and meticulous breakdowns of players’ in-game performances. Their grading criteria typically relate to goals, assists, shots for and against, scoring chances for and against, Grade-A chance
  
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• Friday's letters: Compassion is part of society

  08-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Infertility is not taxpayers’ problem,” Letters, Dec. 6
  I read D.W. Holden’s letter with sadness. He doesn’t feel that the government should fund fertility treatments as the world is “vastly over-populated” and if “you can’t come up with the funds to pay for your own treatments without tax dollars,” he wonders how people are “going to afford raising a child for 18-plus years.”
  What bothers me the most is that we live in
  
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• Editorial: Plate dispute a matter of creative licence

  08-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Et tu, Saskatchewan?
  Of all the jurisdictions that share borders with Alberta, you would think the Land of Living Skies the least likely to ambush the province in what appears to be a manufactured trade skirmish.
  Albertans expect such unneighbourly behaviour from British Columbia, whose doctrinaire government makes no bones about trying to scuttle pipeline projects critical to expanding the oilsands industry next door. 
  On the southern border, the United States has long wrangled with Albert
  
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• Edmonton city council approves 3.2 per cent residential hike for 2018

  08-12-2017 05:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residential property owners will see a 3.2 per cent tax increase next year, costing an extra $77 for the typical homeowner.
  City council unanimously approved the budget increase Thursday after a day and a half of deliberations.
  The increase includes funds to fight dandelions on sports fields with a new eco-herbicide, a population-based increase for police and the last increase needed to fully fund the neighbourhood renewal program.
  After more than a decade of steep increases, Mayor Don
  
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• Airdrie RCMP looking for ATM thief clad in McDavid jersey

  08-12-2017 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  AIRDRIE – While Edmonton Oilers star centre Connor McDavid is dominating the NHL as one of the league’s best players, off the ice one of his fans is taking a different approach in life.
  At 4:55 a.m. Thursday, Airdrie RCMP say two thieves, one wearing an Edmonton Oilers Connor McDavid jersey, broke into a Sobeys grocery store located on Mackenzie Way in Airdrie.
  “That’s definitely not something we see often,” said Const. Daniel Martin, media liaison officer with the
  
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• Edmonton city council approves 3.2 per cent budget hike for 2018

  08-12-2017 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residential property owners will see a 3.2 per cent tax increase next year, costing an extra $77 for the typical homeowner.
  City council unanimously approved the budget increase Thursday after a day and a half of deliberations.
  The increase includes funds to fight dandelions on sports fields with a new eco-herbicide, a population-based increase for police and the last increase needed to fully fund the neighbourhood renewal program.
  After more than a decade of steep increases, Mayor Don
  
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• Arnaud Valade shares Christmas treats in new Oliver cafe

  08-12-2017 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you pop into Arnaud Valade’s new cafe in Oliver, you may be bowled over — in a good way — by the smell of gingerbread. Now, and throughout the Christmas season, the popular market stall operator is going flat out, making special holiday boxes of cookies, squares and biscotti for Christmas, in addition to producing croissants to keep customers happy, as usual, at the Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market.
  Arno’s Fine French Pastry is located at 10038 116 street (780
  
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• Alberta premier lauds National Energy Board ruling on Kinder Morgan pipeline

  08-12-2017 00:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley praised a decision Thursday by the National Energy Board that tipped the scale in favour of Kinder Morgan’s West Coast pipeline expansion. 
  “It probably means that the NEB has accepted our argument that … this is a project that is in the national interest … We can’t have individual jurisdictions interfering with it,” she told reporters Thursday afternoon.
  The NEB ruled that the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain projecdt won’t have
  
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• Suncor to appeal after random drug and alcohol testing blocked by injunction

  08-12-2017 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Suncor will not be able to start randomly testing employees at its oilsands site for drugs and alcohol after an Edmonton judge granted an injunction Thursday.
  The injunction blocks the energy company’s plan to start random testing for about 4,600 safety-sensitive and critical management positions at its mine site north of Fort McMurray while its five-year court battle over the program with its workers’ union continues. 
  The energy company plans to file an “immediate and ex
  
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