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• Council Approves 2018 Budget

  19-12-2017 23:54
  Limited spending and maintained service levels for residents At the December 18, 2017 Council Meeting, St. Albert City Council approved... Read Post
  
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• Alberta Health aims to improve dementia care in new strategy

  19-12-2017 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s primary care system must expand its ability to care for people with dementia, while an ongoing public awareness campaign is required to improve Albertans’ understanding of the increasingly prevalent illness, a new government report says.
  Those are among the top recommendations of the province’s long awaited Dementia Strategy and Action Plan, released Tuesday, which also includes calls to make Alberta a leader in dementia research and to enhance the public’s
  
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• Council Briefs for December 18th

  19-12-2017 22:32
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Two 19-year-old sisters killed in weekend crash were headed home for holidays from Fort McMurray

  19-12-2017 21:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two 19-year-old triplet sisters — both on Keyano College’s women’s soccer team in Fort McMurray — are the victims of a weekend collision with a tow truck, confirm friends.
  Zara Chambers was pronounced dead at the scene of the 10:30 a.m. Saturday crash with a parked tow truck near Mariana Lake, about 95 kilometres south of Fort McMurray. Her sister Bridget Chambers was flown to an Edmonton-area hospital but died of her injuries by Monday night. 
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• One worker dead, others injured in Acheson carbon monoxide poisoning

  19-12-2017 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  One worker is dead and others were injured Tuesday in what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning at an Acheson diesel repair shop, an Occupational Health and Safety spokesman says.
  “Our understanding is that several workers were taken to hospital and one worker has passed away,” Alberta Labour’s Trent Bancarz said of the Tuesday case, which occurred around 7:30 a.m.
  Between four and six  people were affected. Bancarz didn’t know the name of the business or the
  
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• Police release video after arson suspect sets Christmas display ablaze

  19-12-2017 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are on the lookout for a local Scrooge who set fire to a Christmas display at a west-end Superstore Sunday.
  Video footage released Tuesday shows a lone man setting fire to a display at a Superstore on Stony Plain Road and 173 Street. Police say they were called to the area at approximately 8 a.m. on Sunday, though it is believed the arson took place just before 3 a.m.
  Police say the man fled northbound on foot after lighting the blaze.
  The man is described as wearing white pants with one
  
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• Oscar Klefbom out, Anton Slepyshev recalled, Mark Fayne loaned, waive Nathan Walker, trade Greg Chase

  19-12-2017 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A morning of heavy activity by the Edmonton Oilers, as they put Oscar Klefbom on injured reserve, recalled Anton Slepyshev, loaned Mark Fayne to another AHL team, waived Nathan Walker and traded away AHLer Greg Chase.
  My take
  Diminutive but speedy Nathan Walker didn’t impress in his short stint with the Oilers but perhaps another team will grab him. Bob Stauffer of the Oilers says that it’s his belief that a number of teams made waiver claims on Walker when the Oilers got him. 
  
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• Driver, passenger dead after car hits tow truck on Highway 63

  19-12-2017 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two 19-year-old women are dead after their car hit the back of a flat bed tow truck on Highway 63 on Saturday.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP were called to the scene on Highway 63, 95 kilometres south of Fort McMurray, just after 10:30 a.m. where a southbound car hit the back of a flat bed tow truck.
  The 19-year-old driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene while a 19-year-old female passenger was flown to hospital in Edmonton with serious, life-threatening injuries. She later died in hospital.
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• 51-year-old man dead after workplace accident near Edson

  19-12-2017 19:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edson RCMP are investigating after a 51-year-old man died on a worksite west of Edson Monday.
  Police were called to a workplace fatality on Range Road 192 north of Highway 16 on Monday around 6:30 p.m.
  Investigators believe the 51-year-old man from Hinton, Alta., was outside of his truck operating equipment when he was killed.
  Occupational Health and Safety has taken over the investigation.
  
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• Lack of detailed inspection led to Sherwood Park Enbridge leak, report finds

  19-12-2017 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The lack of detailed inspection procedures contributed to the leak last March of about 60 barrels of oil from an Enbridge Pipelines Inc. storage tank in Sherwood Park, a new report says.
  Enbridge employees discovered traces of crude oil March 20 on a creek that runs through the company’s Edmonton terminal, according to a Transportation Safety Board report released Tuesday.
  An estimated 10 cubic metres of oil, or about 63 barrels, leaked into the tank’s secondary containment
  
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• Former Edmonton mayor Terry Cavanagh has died

  19-12-2017 17:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Terence “Terry” Cavanagh, Edmonton’s first native-born mayor, has died.
  Family members confirmed Cavanagh, 91, died Sunday night.
  Cavanagh, elected in 1971 as an alderman, served on Edmonton city council for 27 years and was appointed mayor twice.
  He was born in Edmonton in 1926 before moving to Galt, Ont., to play hockey with the Galt Red Wings, skating alongside Gordie Howe.
  After retiring from hockey, Cavanagh found work in the purchasing department of Consolidated
  
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• Valley Line LRT stop-work order on tunnelling not 'complaint-driven'

  19-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  TransEd officials hope a stop-work order placed on downtown LRT tunnelling work will be lifted soon, they said Monday.
  All tunnelling has been at a standstill since Dec. 4 when provincial officials determined the site didn’t have proper shelter-in-place provisions to protect workers in the event of an emergency.
  TransEd, which is constructing the Valley Line LRT from downtown to Mill Woods, failed to mention the issue in an update to reporters on construction progress last Wednesday. 
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Where is ticket blitz for reckless cyclists?

  19-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Blitz targets pet owners who flout bike path rules,” Dec. 16
  I am a walker and a dog owner. These are not bike paths, but multi-use trails, with multi-use rules.
  How much is the fine for failing to have a bell on your bicycle? Who will be sending out the enforcers, and following up on that? Bicyclists have been spooking pet owners, pedestrians and dogs with impunity. My own experience involves a bicyclist that rode through my leash — my dog was on the boulevard and I was o
  
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• Opinion: Most Albertans see benefit of public funding for religious schools

  19-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta has long been an internationally noted model for helping parents to access diverse schooling options for their kids.
  It’s one of three provinces with fully funded public Catholic schools. While its charter schools don’t get capital funding, they do receive full operational funding. And even Alberta’s independent schools get 70 cents on the dollar compared to the per-student operating grants government schools receive.
  That means Alberta parents have some of the easiest
  
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• Hero diagnosed with brain tumour, friends turn to community for help

  19-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Friends of a man hailed as a local hero are hoping the community will rally around him and his family as he battles a brain tumour.
  When a fire broke out at the Oliver Place apartment building at 11740 Jasper Ave. on Jan. 19, as people rushed out to escape the blaze, local pizza shop owner Riza Kasikcioglu rushed in, knocking on doors to wake sleeping tenants and carrying a woman in a wheelchair on his back down the stairs from the seventh floor.
  “He is the kind of person that jumps i
  
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• Cult of Hockey game grades: Edmonton Oilers eke out 5-3 win, in 4-point game vrs. Pacific rival San Jose

  19-12-2017 07:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the Edmonton Oilers season is to turn around and end up back in a playoff berth in Spring 2018, remember this game.
  It was one where Connor McDavid did not register a point, but his teammates generated 5 goals in a back-and-forth battle somewhat reminiscent of the series these two teams fought in last year’s post-season. San Jose did not go away easily. And the fact that the Oilers didn’t crumble in the face of that push-back is a welcome sign of confidence.
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• Police release updated description of hit-and-run suspect vehicle

  19-12-2017 05:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police continue to search for a van believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run that put two people in hospital last week.
  The pedestrians were struck at around 5 p.m. Dec. 13 in a marked crosswalk at 96 Street and 71 Avenue in Edmonton’s Hazeldean neighbourhood.
  A 49-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man were crossing eastbound when they were struck by the southbound van, which fled the scene, police said. 
  City police released an updated description of the vehicle Monday
  
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• Combative sports regulator says it had no role in council's fight ban

  19-12-2017 05:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s fight regulator says it was blindsided by a city council decision to temporarily ban combative sports following the death of boxer Tim Hague this past summer. 
  Members of Edmonton’s boxing, mixed-martial arts and pro-wrestling communities packed Monday night’s meeting of the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission — the first since the city announced Dec. 8 a year-long moratorium on fights as it reviews its regulations.
  Promoters told the commission the morat
  
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• Graham Thomson: Premier steering a middle-of-the-road course in 2018

  19-12-2017 03:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP government isn’t slamming the brakes on its policy agenda or jerking the wheel to the right. But it will be driving a little more to the centre of the political road in 2018 as Albertans head closer to the 2019 provincial election.
  In a year-end interview Monday, Premier Rachel Notley spent less time talking about United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney and more time explaining what she needs to do to convince Albertans she’s focused on the economy.
  “We have to be
  
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• Premier Notley steering a middle-of-the-road course in 2018

  19-12-2017 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP government isn’t slamming the brakes on its policy agenda or jerking the wheel to the right. But it will be driving a little more to the centre of the political road in 2018 as Albertans head closer to the 2019 provincial election.
  In a year-end interview Monday, Premier Rachel Notley spent less time talking about United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney and more time explaining what she needs to do to convince Albertans she’s focused on the economy.
  “We have to be
  
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• City expands salting to combat icy conditions caused by freezing rain and thaw

  19-12-2017 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city got the word out Monday that roads and walking trails will soon be cleared after citizens have been slipping and sliding down the streets this past week due to icy conditions caused by thawing and freezing rain.
  The city is being more proactive by increasing their use of salt to de-ice the roads, said Janet Tecklenborg, director of infrastructure operations.
  “We are treating the ice more aggressively in the residential areas than we historically have,” she said.
  After nearly
  
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• Paula Simons: Covenant Health staff eschew the flu shot

  19-12-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Why don’t staff at the Covenant Health facilities get their flu shots? 
  The question boggles me, year after year.
  In truth, few hospitals and health facilities in Alberta are doing a stellar job of ensuring their workers get immunized against influenza.
  Last week, Alberta Health Services released its latest report card on vaccination rates in health centres. The rates are up from this time last year, by 2.8 per cent. Yet only two facilities in this entire province had vaccination rate
  
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• Suspect in road rage crowbar attack granted bail

  19-12-2017 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of attempted murder for allegedly breaking a woman’s arms with a crowbar in a road rage incident will live under house arrest while he awaits trial, a judge ordered Monday.
  Jared Matthew Eliasson, 29, was denied bail in April but was allowed to have that decision reviewed following a preliminary hearing held earlier this year.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Kevin Feehan granted Eliasson’s release on $2,500 cash bail.
  During the review, defence lawyer Zack Eli
  
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• Underprivileged families receive Christmas gifts for their children

  19-12-2017 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Games, stuffed animals and hundreds of toys filled a room Monday at the Bissell Centre during a Festive Giveaway event for parents living in poverty who need to provide Christmas gifts for their children.
  “Last year, I just had to go with whatever money I had. It was pretty rough. I never knew anything about outside support before,” said Sheryl Steinhaure, the mother of four boys ranging in age from six to 22 years old. “I’m not fussy with what I get; they already helped
  
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• First candidate declares for Alberta Party leadership

  19-12-2017 00:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary lawyer Kara Levis is the first person to throw her hat into the ring for the leadership of the Alberta Party. 
  Levis announced her bid Monday in Edmonton.
  Thanking former leader Greg Clark for his work, Levis said she is poised to bring the vision of the party to every Alberta doorstep. That vision, she said, is based on values, not ideology, and is about bringing forward something to vote for, not against. 
  Sustainability, health care, fiscal responsibility and government
  
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