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• Andrew Knack says west street level LRT makes sense for 109 St/104 Ave

  31-01-2018 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  West LRT is in the final stages of design with council set to make key decisions separating key intersections from traffic. 
  So we asked Andrew Knack – the Ward 1 councillor who’s been knee-deep in LRT planning since his community league days – to be the second guest for our new urban affairs interactive video series. Knack has been involved in debates around the west LRT since he joined the Meadowlark Community League in 2007.
  He was then elected to council in 2013 a
  
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• Notley: B.C. pipeline play 'an attack' on Confederation

  31-01-2018 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  British Columbia has threatened the very foundations of Confederation and will face the consequences, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said Wednesday.
  Potential legal and trade actions are being hashed out at an emergency cabinet meeting in the Federal Building in Edmonton.
  Speaking before the meeting, Notley said the B.C. government has taken direct aim at Alberta with its latest attempt to stall progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  “The government of Alberta will not — w
  
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• Two new local restaurants coming to Highlands' Gibbard Block

  31-01-2018 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Watch for two new restaurants to open in Highlands, now that the historic Gibbard Block has been purchased by new owners.
  Home since 1982 to the La Boheme restaurant and bed and breakfast, the Gibbard Block (6427 112 Ave.) was purchased by Connie Comeau and her husband, Mike Comeau, in 2005. After shepherding the building through the process of municipal historic designation last year, Connie Comeau felt the time was right to move on. While retaining a piece of the business, Comeau sold the
  
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• Graham Thomson: Premier Notley declares 'emergency' in potential trade war with B.C.

  31-01-2018 21:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley has just hit the panic button.
  She called her cabinet together for an emergency meeting Wednesday afternoon to deal with what is threatening to become an outright trade war between Alberta and British Columbia over the Kinder Morgan pipeline project.
  Notley didn’t use the word “retaliation” when she met with reporters for a photo-op before the meeting but you have to think it was going through her mind.
  Notley has labelled as “illegal” and &ldq
  
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• City to Begin Clearing Snow on Residential Streets

  31-01-2018 20:23
  Snow removal to begin February 5, 2018 The City of St. Albert will begin clearing snow from residential roadways Monday,... Read Post
  
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• City to begin clearing snow on residential streets February 5th

  31-01-2018 20:04
  Snow removal to begin February 5, 2018 The City of St. Albert will begin clearing snow from residential roadways Monday,... Read Post
  
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• Paula Simons: Child welfare emergency awaits immediate action

  31-01-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  How do you define an emergency? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” Merriam-Webster defines it as “an unforeseen combination of circumstances that calls for immediate action.”
  So perhaps you’ll forgive Paula Simons if she’s more than a bit cynical about the “emergency summit” held in Ottawa last week to deal with Canada’s indigenous child welfare crisis
  
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• Alberta cabinet to hold emergency meeting on Trans Mountain pipeline

  31-01-2018 19:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley will hold an emergency cabinet meeting at noon in Edmonton Wednesday.
  The meeting will hash out the next steps Alberta will take in the wake of British Columbia’s decision to stall progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 
  Notley will not take questions following opening remarks to media.
  Cabinet last met just 24 hours ago in the legislature. This meeting takes them instead to the Federal Building. 
  More to come.
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• Council Briefs for January 29th

  31-01-2018 18:48
  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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• Child sexual exploitation charges laid against Grande Prairie man

  31-01-2018 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Grande Prairie man accused of posing as a teenage girl on Facebook, sharing explicit photos and videos with teenage boys, and attempting to arrange meetings with his victims will face numerous child sexual exploitation charges, police said Tuesday. 
  Alberta Law Enforcement Teams’ internet child exploitation (ICE) unit arrested the 34-year-old on Jan. 23 after a man lured and attempted to sexually assault a boy in the northern Albertan city. 
  Police believe there may be mor
  
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• Everyone in Edmonton is talking about the super blue blood moon this morning

  31-01-2018 16:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  This morning the extremely rare linking up of a supermoon, a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse had Edmontonians staring at the sky. It won’t happen again until 2037. 
  So don’t worry the world isn’t ending. Have a great day.
  Super Blue Blood Moon from Mrauk-U,Myanmar(Burma)!
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• Hidden Spaces: Inside the Donald Ross School bank vaults

  31-01-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  There may no longer be any treasure, but under the stairs of Edmonton’s Donald Ross School there is still a space for it.
  “No, it’s not possible to get locked in it,” says Geoff Holmes, manager of student transportation for Edmonton Public Schools, whose department now occupies the building. “The locks have all been drilled so no one can accidentally get stuck inside.”
  Behind the iron doors, steel gates and combination locks, building maintenance materials now
  
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• Edmonton weather: Frigid and clear morning, with chance of snow later on

  31-01-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wednesday morning brings cold and clear weather to Edmonton, and it is going to stay like that, Environment Canada forecasts.
  At 6 a.m. the temperature was -24 C.
  Today: Increasing cloudiness throughout the day, with a 30 per cent chance of snow late morning and afternoon. High of -21 C with a wind chill of -34.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of snow. Low of -23 C with a wind chill of -28.
  Tomorrow: Snow is forecast for the morning, with a high of -17 C and a wind chill of -27.
  
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• Albertans among most likely to end up in hospital from slips and falls on snow, ice

  31-01-2018 14:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  For all those pedestrians waddling like penguins along Edmonton’s icy sidewalks this week, a statistic to consider: Albertans wind up in hospital after slips and falls on ice and snow at higher rates than people in most other provinces.
  Nearly 41 Albertans per 100,000 were hospitalized after slips and falls, based on statistics from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) covering 2011 to 2016. Only Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island reported higher hospitali
  
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• Wednesday's letters: West LRT plan would disrupt neighbourhood

  31-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Citizens question updated LRT plans,” Jan. 25
  Recently, the city’s transportation department recommended a very costly land acquisition to improve traffic flow with the LRT.
  As the Journal showed, the east-side strip mall of Jasper Gates — including our only bank, TD, London Drugs and nine stores, doctors’ offices and restaurants — will be expropriated.
  North of Stony Plain Road on 149 Street, another eight stores, Apache Seeds and a mid-sized a
  
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• Researchers seek people for effects of cannabis on cognition study

  31-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you have smoked five joints a week, every week, for the past year, then science needs you. 
  A research collaboration between Alberta Health Services, the University of Alberta and MacEwan University is studying 120 healthy Edmontonians aged between 18 and 35 to understand the short and long-term effects of cannabis use and its residual effects on cognition, motor skills and sensory skills.
  It will also look at how people with mental illness are affected by cannabis. 
  Principal inves
  
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• Opinion: The science behind off-highway vehicle restrictions

  31-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There have been recent cries from some in the off-highway vehicle (OHV) community to “show me” the science behind restrictions on motorized recreational use.
  They should know that their request for “peer-reviewed” science has been heeded and a report from the Environmental Monitoring and Science Division of Alberta Environment and Parks was released in December 2017. The report is titled Ecological Response to Human Activities in Southwestern Alberta: Scientific Assessmen
  
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• Editorial: Downgrading City Hall pool diminishes city

  31-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the City Hall wading pool didn’t already exist, surely some dreamer would be planning to build something very much like it.
  Even now, in the ongoing Edmonton Project, visionaries are pitching ideas such as a food-truck ferris wheel, portable river valley pavilions, saunas along the river, a gondola over the North Saskatchewan and an indoor park heated by a solar globe.
  The idea behind the competition, funded by businesses and the public, is to develop a distinct landmark that is both fa
  
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• Neighbourhood Stories Workshop with Carissa Halton at the Library - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Neighbourhood Stories Workshop with Carissa Halton at the Library  St. Albert GazetteJoin Carissa Halton, author of Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. as she shares ...
  
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• No one has a clue how to unleash Connor McDavid on Edmonton Oilers power play

  31-01-2018 08:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers need ace shooters Draisaitl and Puljujarvi on off-wings. But where will McDavid then go?
  The Edmonton Oilers power play has been the NHL’s worst for months now. There’s been no shortage of suggestions on what the team should do and not do to fix it. In the “not do” category comes this strong statement from TSN’s Jason Strudwick talking on TSN1260 radio, his take that it’s a terrible idea to have left shot McDavid set up on his left side half-wall, as op
  
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• Zebra Centre receives provincial funding - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Zebra Centre receives provincial funding
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  An Edmonton area centre that supports children who have been abused is receiving additional provincial government funding. The Zebra Child Protection Centre, which helps support young survivors of sexual and physical child abuse, will receive a $1.2 ...
  
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• Finding justice - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Finding justice
  St. Albert Gazette
  It seems that every week we are rocked with new allegations of sexual improprieties by men in positions of power. The rumours of sexual misconduct in politics, business, theatre, Hollywood and universities is not new. Rumours have circulated in some ...and more »
  
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• Court Briefs: Trafficking charges downgraded to possession - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Court Briefs: Trafficking charges downgraded to possession
  St. Albert Gazette
  Charges have been downgraded and withdrawn against three men who were charged in a drug bust. The trio was originally slated to begin a preliminary inquiry on Monday in the St. Albert Provincial Court but instead charges were withdrawn against Travis ...
  
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• Business Beat: Landmark Cinemas to open soon - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Business Beat: Landmark Cinemas to open soon
  St. Albert Gazette
  Movies will soon return to St. Albert. Landmark Cinemas is slated to open in mid-February, ahead of its fall deadline. The theatre will feature eight screens in the 35,000 square-foot building at 800 St. Albert Trail. Each auditorium in the theatre ...
  
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• Alberta's economy boasts strong and steady growth - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Alberta's economy boasts strong and steady growth
  St. Albert Gazette
  Both St. Albert and Alberta have seen recent strong and steady economic growth, which is expected to continue throughout the year. Catherine Rothrock, chief economist at Alberta Treasury Board and Finance, said the labour market, consumer spending and ...
  
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• David Staples: Council gets it right with Jasper Avenue, City Hall wading pool

  31-01-2018 02:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council is moving in the right direction on two controversial projects involving major Edmonton landmarks — Jasper Avenue and the City Hall wading pool. 
  On Jasper — as part of infrastructure renewal on the street that is slated to start in 2019 — the essential change will be taking two bus lanes from the six- to seven-lane arterial road and converting them into more space for people and parking.
  Most of Jasper Avenue is a cramped, noisy, gritty, nasty place for a ped
  
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• Edmonton hands out annual film and music prizes.

  31-01-2018 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two members of Edmonton’s entertainment scene were each $10,000 richer after the Edmonton Film and Music Prizes for 2017 were awarded Tuesday during a reception at Metro Cinema.
  Country singer Dan Davidson won the Music Prize, chiefly for his singles, Found and Barn Burner, which were recently collected on the six-track E.P. Songs For Georgia, released last October.
  The Edmonton native was thrilled to pick up the prize.
  “I’m really proud to have been part of this city and invol
  
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• Running the NHL gauntlet is a tough task, even for Connor McDavid

  31-01-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cast your mind back to opening night of the 2017-18 NHL season, a time when the sky seemed to be the limit for fans of the Edmonton Oilers and especially, of Connor McDavid. I wrote a game day post in a twenty questions format, asking this of the captain:
  “#97 Connor McDavid. 2015 first-overall proved his billing as “generational talent” in 2016-17, when at age 19-20 he became the first Oiler since Wayne Gretzky to win the Art Ross Trophy and the first since Mark Messier to rec
  
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• United Conservative Party touts recruitment of women candidates ahead of next election

  31-01-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s official Opposition leader says the United Conservative Party is stepping up its recruitment of women candidates ahead of the provincial election expected in 2019.
  “You’ll see a significant increase in the number of strong Alberta women seeking nominations,” Jason Kenney said Tuesday at his first news conference as a sitting MLA.
  Kenney was sworn in Monday after his sweeping win in the Dec. 14 Calgary-Lougheed byelection. 
  Two of 27 UCP MLAs are women
  
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• Man, 69, found dead in home in northern Alberta

  31-01-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were in custody after a 69-year-old man was found dead on the Woodland Cree First Nation in Cadotte Lake early Monday.
  The suspects were being held at the Peace Regional RCMP Detachment and no one else was being sought in relation to the death, Mounties said Tuesday.
  An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday.
  Cadotte Lake is located 480 km north of Edmonton.
  
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• Big end for McLennan in mixed final - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 00:42 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Big end for McLennan in mixed final
  St. Albert Gazette
  The Doug McLennan rink hurried hard to get the job done at the St. Albert mixed bonspiel. Sunday's 8-3 result in the A final against Ferd Caron was the fifth game that didn't go the eight-end distance for McLennan, third Holly Jamieson, second Colin ...
  
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• Landmark Edmonton Westin Hotel where royalty stayed for sale

  31-01-2018 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s landmark Westin Hotel, which has played host to the Queen, among other famous guests, is up for sale.
  The curving highrise on 100 Street is being sold by Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group, along with the two other Canadian Westins it has in Calgary and Ottawa, said Curtis Gallagher, vice-president of hotel investment for Cushman & Wakefield, which is handling the deal.
  “They have owned them for over 12 years. Ottawa is doing exceptionally well,” he said Tu
  
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• Rachel Notley blasts B.C. government's move against Trans Mountain pipeline

  31-01-2018 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley blasted British Columbia’s provincial government Tuesday over its latest attempt to stall progress on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, calling the move an overreach of constitutional authority that will erode investor confidence. 
  “It is so far beyond the scope of what they have the legal authority to do, they are creating a mockery out of our legal system,” an angry Notley told reporters in Edmonton.
  “The B.C. government has every right t
  
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• Flu numbers on aggressive pace

  31-01-2018 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths across the province has climbed well ahead of last year’s pace, according to Alberta Health Services.
  “When you get vaccinated it’s not just to protect yourself. It’s to protect those others around you that might be at higher risk of disease,” says Dr. Gerry Predy, Senior Medical Officer of Health with Alberta Health Services.
   While people may develop immunity to one particular strain, subsequent flu season
  
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• The many names of Sturgeon County - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
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  The many names of Sturgeon County
  St. Albert Gazette
  It went by “Statute Labour District No. 45” in 1896, and “Ray No. 549” around 1919. It's also been known as “Hazelwood,” “Sturgeon River,” and “Morinville.” It tried out “County of Sturgeon” in the 1960s but ditched that after just four years. That ...
  
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• Council ready to rewrite rules for new highrise towers across Edmonton

  31-01-2018 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council is poised to revamp a part of the zoning bylaw that will make it dramatically easier to build modest highrise towers in many parts of the city.
  Both community groups and developers spoke in favour of the new plan at council’s urban planning committee Tuesday morning, asking for slight changes but endorsing the general city vision.
  The new plan would apply to high-density areas such as Garneau and Oliver. These sites are specifically zoned RA9, and also found near transit centr
  
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• Former councillor slams 'intimidating' city letter - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 00:27 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Former councillor slams 'intimidating' city letter
  St. Albert Gazette
  A letter from the City of St. Albert and Neptune Technology Group reminding residents to book an installation time for new smart water meters has one former city councillor asking for an official apology. In remarks to city council on Monday where he ...
  
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• 1,300 tickets issued for breaking Edmonton parking ban

  31-01-2018 00:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton issued 1,318 tickets and towed 168 vehicles during the two-day parking ban from Saturday to Monday.
  Erin Blaine, spokeswoman for city parking operations, told a news conference Tuesday that some parts of the city were better than others.
  “My team was very pleased with the northeast part of the city,” she said. “That was the area where we had the highest compliance, which means vehicles were moved off the road.
  “The area which had the least compliance,
  
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• Coming up: Andrew Knack agrees to get grilled on west LRT

  31-01-2018 00:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  West LRT is in the final stages of design with council set to make key decisions separating key intersections from traffic. 
  So we asked Andrew Knack – the Ward 1 councillor who’s been knee-deep in LRT planning since his community league days – to be the second guest for our new urban affairs interactive video series.  
  Knack has been involved in debates around the west LRT since he joined the Meadowlark Community League in 2007.
  He was then elected to council in
  
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• Swimming lessons to splash into Servus Place - St. Albert Gazette

  31-01-2018 00:14 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Swimming lessons to splash into Servus Place
  St. Albert Gazette
  City council dove into difficult waters Monday during a debate on opening up Servus Place to swimming lessons, ultimately deciding to move forward with the plan. The Landrex Water Play Centre at Servus Place has been a spontaneous-use facility since it ...
  
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