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• Prairie on the Plate arrives at Prairie Noodle Shop this weekend

  15-01-2018 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Taste Alberta hosts a Prairie on the Plate dinner at Prairie Noodle Shop on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. The price is $70 plus GST and includes a welcome drink, plenty of small bites and a selection of larger, shared dishes.
  It’s a family-style dinner put together by the restaurant’s talented back-of-the-house staff, and headed by award-winning chef Eric Hanson. It’s a non-noodle night in which everyone gets to show off their culinary skills. Prairie ingredients being featur
  
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• Canada West Foundation warns small Alberta businesses to prepare for possible end of NAFTA

  15-01-2018 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Companies in Alberta should take steps now to prepare for possible changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a Canada West Foundation official warns.
  There has been recent speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon give notice he plans to end the deal that negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico are trying to rework.
  Carlo Dade, director of the Canada West Foundation’s Centre on Trade and Investment Policy, gives 50-50 odds NAFTA will survive, bu
  
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• Alberta announces $2.3M for NICU in St. Albert

  15-01-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  The Alberta NDP announced funding Monday for a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in St. Albert.
  
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• Edmonton's Table Top Cafe aims for 75 franchise stores across Canada

  15-01-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of Edmonton’s first board game cafe and his partners envision as many as 75 franchise stores operating under his brand across Canada.
  Brian Flowers, who opened the first Table Top Cafe in 2013, has partnered with British Columbia-based franchisor the Define Group to recruit and assist potential owners.
  “The goal is to grow Table Top as big as we can, and I feel like the easiest way to do that is to franchise it all over the place,” Flowers said Saturday.
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• Get down-dog in the tequila cellar at El Cortez with new yoga series

  15-01-2018 22:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tacos are great with beer and salsa, but yoga? Apparently so. El Cortez (8230 Gateway Blvd.) and yeg.date are teaming up to host a yoga class in the Old Strathcona restaurant’s tequila cellar — complete with post-class tacos.
  The first four sessions — two on Jan. 18, and two on Feb. 8 — are already sold out. But there are still some tickets available for the March 15 event. The event costs $25 for the class and two tacos. Tickets are available through eventbrite.
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• Travel data suggests LRT not needed in Edmonton's northwest: councillor

  15-01-2018 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Decisions on any new LRT lines must be driven by data and northwest ridership is not high enough to justify a new LRT line, argued Coun. Michael Walters on his way to what could be another difficult mass transit debate Monday. 
  Pointing to the most recent Regional Household Travel Survey, Walters said the northwest needs a good solution that cuts travel times to downtown to 30 minutes.
  But “politics and money aside,” that need can be met with permanent and good-quality bus rapid
  
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• What's it worth to you? - St. Albert Gazette

  15-01-2018 20:49 via stalbertgazette.com
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  What's it worth to you?
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  Now full disclosure I am actually a Starbucks girl so giving up a Tim Horton's double double is a no-brainer for me. That being said, I'd ditch my grande latte in a minute for a million dollars. In fact, there aren't a lot of things that I wouldn't ...
  
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• City police officer accused of trafficking steroids appears in court

  15-01-2018 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trial for an Edmonton city police officer accused of trafficking steroids between 2007 and 2013 is expected to hear from its first witnesses Tuesday.
  Det. Greg Lewis, 36, is facing three charges of trafficking in a controlled substance after being arrested in March 2016 following a three-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT).
  On Monday, Crown prosecutors Joshua Cramer and Anita Chan indicated they had a slate of 10 witnesses they wished to call in the Court o
  
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• Advocate reviews 5 years of investigations into child deaths, injuries

  15-01-2018 18:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  More supports are needed for Alberta children and their families after child intervention services end, the province’s child and youth advocate says after reviewing investigations into deaths and injuries from the last five years. 
  “One of the things that drove the writing of this report was the need to take a step back and ask what have we learned,” Graff explained Saturday.
  The report released Monday included data on 252 reported deaths or injuries of children and y
  
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• Semi-truck driver killed while adjusting load on side of highway: RCMP

  15-01-2018 16:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A semi-truck driver who was adjusting his load of PVC piping on the side of Highway 63 near Wandering River on Sunday was killed after being struck by another semi-tractor, Mounties confirmed Monday morning.
  Boyle RCMP attended the scene of the crash at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday four kilometres south of the small township about 230 kilometres north of Edmonton.  
  The male driver of the moving semi-tractor suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital by EMS.
  Police are not releas
  
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• Fire and Fury book on Donald Trump a hot commodity at public libraries

  15-01-2018 16:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Public libraries around the country have been inundated with demands for the highly contentious book Fire and Fury.
  Author Michael Wolff’s book, which was published Jan. 5, details the tempestuous tenure of U.S. President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office.
  “The crazy thing about Fire and Fury is there was virtually no interest in it until Trump attempted to have its publication halted early last week,” said Nancy Porteous, collections manager at Edmonton Public L
  
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• Opinion: Guys, men need to step up in the fight against harassment

  15-01-2018 16:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The #MeToo Movement has been gathering momentum since crashing onto social media in October 2017 inspired by the women who spoke out about American film producer Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behaviour.
  The New York Times published a story detailing decades of allegations of sexual harassment against Weinstein in early October with actresses Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd among the first women who came forward. Since then the Weinstein scandal has prompted others to c
  
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• Aussie on Ice week one: You want me to do what now?

  15-01-2018 15:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  For those who haven’t already tired of this series already, this is the first of 12 weekly updates on the progress of my attempts to learn how to play hockey and to go from never having skated to hopefully playing in a mixed non-contact game as part of the Discover Hockey program.Week one of Postmedia writer Juris Graney learning to skate and play hockey as part of the Discover Hockey program at Clareview Arena on January 11, 2018.
  Clearly this is not an exact transcript of the thoughts go
  
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• What's the Alberta Party, anyway?

  15-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Party MLA Greg Clark strode into the rotunda of the legislature building, a dark grey T-shirt clasped in his hands. 
  When he unfurled it for the TV cameras, the slogan popped out in white letters, “Making friends left & right.” 
  That pretty much sums up the Alberta Party, which has tripled its MLA count in less than three months and recently leaped into a leadership race.
  But the party is a comparatively unknown quantity in Alberta politics. Here’s what it
  
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• Edmonton company looks to boost local cannabis sector

  15-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new Edmonton company is raising million of dollars to invest in cannabis-related startup firms that could make the region into a major hub of the Canadian marijuana industry.
  NorthCanvas will be one of the country’s first “accelerators” in this growing field, with plans to provide $3 million to $5 million in seed money and other assistance to 30 fledgling operations over the next three years, co-founder Sam Jenkins said last week.
  He hopes to start a 16-week boot camp in June
  
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• City councillors divided on Whyte Avenue LRT route ahead of Monday debate

  15-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two city councillors have different opinions on the latest debate on Edmonton’s LRT network — the proposed Centre LRT route that would take riders down Whyte Avenue.
  “Administration is confident the preferred east/west connection of the route will be located on Whyte Avenue and not on 76 Avenue,” said a report that will be brought to council’s executive committee on Monday.
  Coun. Ben Henderson’s ward sits to the north of Whyte Avenue.
  “(It’s) where
  
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• Nick Lees: Nasty fall at home resulted in hospital stay over Christmas with fractured femur

  15-01-2018 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  I was travelling toward the ground at warp speed and knew in a fraction of a second my life was going to be totally changed.
  The wind was suddenly knocked out of me and I felt an excruciating pain in my right hip.
  I lay in semi-darkness in my den and breathed deeply, knowing my only course of action was to push myself across the living-room floor on my back to reach a phone and call for an ambulance.
  “Can the paramedics get into your home?” the 911 operator asked.
  I realized my River
  
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• 'Inappropriate' text messages to student's phone a misunderstanding: teacher

  15-01-2018 04:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton Catholic teacher will receive a written reprimand from the Alberta Teachers’ Association for sending “inappropriate text messages” to the phone of a male student who attended a different school than where she taught, a conduct committee ruled Friday.
  While no information about the text messages was presented at the Friday conduct hearing, the accused teacher said in an interview Friday the charge stems from a tussle she had with the student’s mother, who was u
  
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• Two semi-trucks crash on Highway 63 — road closed near Wandering River

  15-01-2018 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two semi-trucks crashed northbound on Highway 63 near Wandering River on Sunday evening and traffic is expected to be diverted for several hours.
  The collision happened approximately four kilometres south of Wandering River.
  Motorists are being diverted to Township Road 612, which is expected to last for several hours, RCMP stated in a news release.
  Wandering River is approximately 240 km north of Edmonton.
  The collision is the third crash involving semi-trucks in less than a week.
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• Crash on Highway 2 near Morningside closes traffic for hours

  15-01-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Highway 2 near Morningside was closed northbound for hours after a two-vehicle crash on Saturday and Ponoka RCMP and emergency personnel remained on scene until late Sunday morning.
  A southbound truck on Highway 2 lost control, crossed the median and hit a northbound semi-tractor around 7:30 p.m., said an RCMP news release sent on Sunday.
  An 18-year-old female driving the truck needed to be extracted from the vehicle and was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. The d
  
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