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• City works overtime to clear snow - St. Albert Gazette

  02-02-2018 23:58 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City works overtime to clear snow
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  St. Albert public works employees have been working to clear snow froml areas in St. Albert February 1, 2018. Here, a contractor bulldozes snow on the massive pile brought in from the city streets at the St. Albert snow yard off Villeneuve Rd. near Ray ...
  
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• Press Gallery #215: The Put That In Your Pipeline And Smoke It edition

  02-02-2018 23:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Much as this week’s political news centred around pipelines, so too does this week’s episode of The Press Gallery podcast. 
  Join host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Janet French and Graham Thomson to talk British Columbia, pipelines, Premier Rachel Notley’s response and a visit to Edmonton by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  Good Stuff from the Gallery
  Clare’s pick: This piece on Splinter called How To Not Die In America, about the state of health care. 
  Ja
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Identifying ways to mitigate stress crucial to being a present parent

  02-02-2018 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  How can I parent when I’m stressed?
  Stress is a pretty familiar sensation for me. I feel stressed about myriad things — freelance projects, interpersonal conflict, money. I feel stressed when my husband is stressed. I feel stressed when other family members are stressed. 
  And that stress manifests itself in many ways — how I eat, how I sleep, and of course how I parent. Sometimes how I talk to our three sons is exactly how I find out that I’m feeling stressed. When I
  
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• Wine: A selection of value and iconic Merlot wines certain to suit everyone's palate

  02-02-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2004 film Sideways started an anti-Merlot movement that still resonates in our market. We can’t help quoting the famous line by Paul Giamatti’s character, Miles, “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any #@%* Merlot.” Sure, there are many cheap, simple, fruity versions — but there are many high-quality, top-rated wines in the world made from this varietal.
  Merlot is an underappreciated and misunderstood grape that’s grown in almost
  
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• Fitness: Which health and wellness behaviour pattern do you fall into?

  02-02-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  After 30 years in the fitness industry, you start to notice some pretty distinct patterns in people’s health and wellness behaviours — from a religious fervour for all things sedentary to daily toil under an oppressive squat rack.
  More relevant than these two extremes, perhaps, is the cohort of frustrated resolutionists who wrestle with daily weight-loss struggles — treadmill vs. couch, salad vs. cheeseburger.
  As you trip over your gym bag, take solace in the fact that many sha
  
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• Guitarist defies the usual rock and blues labels

  02-02-2018 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Between his album packaging and what’s inside, Mike MacKenzie’s brand of rock is atypical of what you might find on most nights at Blues on Whyte, where he headlines next week. Shades of progressive rock or metal come into play, but the Calgary guitarist knows where it all comes from.
  “Hopefully, people are still getting that blues is at the root,” explains the Calgary guitarist, singer and songwriter. “It’s gotta have that feel and that soul and that groove t
  
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• Edmonton Grey Cup festival almost double the size of 2010 celebrations

  02-02-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Organizers of Edmonton’s 2018 Grey Cup festivities are hoping an expanded festival area — including an eight-storey snow slide and zip line — will bring out more revellers than when the city last hosted the CFL’s premier event. 
  Commonwealth Stadium will host the 106th Grey Cup on Nov. 25, 2018. The organizing committee on Friday announced details about attractions and events in the week leading up to the football game at a news conference at the Shaw Conference Cent
  
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• Two-vehicle crash closes Highway 16a near Spruce Grove

  02-02-2018 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A two-vehicle collision just east of Spruce Grove that sent a woman to hospital with serious injuries just after noon Friday has closed Highway 16A in both directions. 
  Mounties are diverting westbound traffic at Highway 60 and eastbound traffic is being diverted at Century Road. The crash happened at the train bridge on Highway 16A near Range Road 270.
  Collision analysts are on scene. 
  Traffic is expected to be diverted for a few hours.
  
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• High Level Bridge to go red and blue Saturday

  02-02-2018 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s High Level Bridge will be going red and blue Saturday night to mark the regimental birthday of the 20th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery’s Alberta’s Gunners. 
  The bridge illumination between 5 p.m. and midnight is part of a larger weekend celebration at the Lt.-Col. Philip Debney Armoury to mark the 98th birthday of the regiment.
  
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• Player grades: Same old same old as slow start, stinky special teams sink Oilers yet again

  02-02-2018 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Avalanche 4, Oilers 3 (OT)
  #FireTheMall
  That’s an old meme on the Oilogosphere that is a weird admixture of gallows humour and utter frustration, but one wonders at what point it might apply to those responsible for Edmonton Oilers’ execrable special teams, which have cost the team countless games this season, especially on home ice. The latest example occurred on Thursday night, when the Oilers parlayed three powerplay opportunities and just a single shorthanded situation into a net
  
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• Edmonton home condemned after record $3.2-million carfentanil bust

  02-02-2018 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fire call to a south Edmonton home netted police a record $3.2-million seizure of drugs containing the deadly synthetic opioid carfentanil, police said Friday. 
  Edmonton Fire Rescue services discovered a suspicious powder in an empty basement suite at a residence near 109 Street and 69 Avenue on Sunday and called police.
  Officers executed a search warrant at the suite resulting in the seizure of 12 one-kilogram bags of white powder, 16 one-kilogram bags of blue powder, a similar pin
  
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• Fired city police officer's appeal of dismissal denied by court

  02-02-2018 19:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton city police constable fired from the force in 2015 for deceit has lost his appeal of the dismissal. 
  Elvin Toy was granted the leave to appeal last January. This week the Court of Appeal of Alberta dismissed the application.
  Over a decade ago, Toy was one of several Edmonton city police officers investigated over allegations of harassment and intimidation of other officers — including some wearing “No rats” T-shirts to a baseball game in June 2005.
  During a cit
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snow, wind and cold — a triple winter whammy

  02-02-2018 15:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you like wintery weather then today is the day for you!
  Edmontonians can expect brutally cold temperatures and blowing snow Friday, as Environment Canada is calling for five centimetres of snow in the morning  with a 20 km/h wind in the afternoon. Temperatures are expected to reach a daytime high of -18 C but the wind will contribute to a -29 C wind chill.
  Snowfall is expected to continue into the evening with another five centimetres predicted. Wind is expected to die down in the evenin
  
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• Opinion: Vegreville, and Alberta, suffer from Ottawa's indifference

  02-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans can be forgiven if they are feeling underappreciated these days.
  The federal government’s non-existent response to British Columbia’s most recent hurdle erected to stop bitumen pipelines is the latest in a growing list of issues where elected leaders in Ottawa seem to have forgotten the province on the eastern Rockies.
  Certainly, the economic uncertainty caused by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s lukewarm support for pipelines to western tide waters are being felt most
  
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• Friday's letters: B.C. treats its environment poorly

  02-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Funny how the B.C. politicians can hold up the pipeline to Burnaby because there is the remotest of possibilities that there might be a crude oil spill that will affect their environment.
  Meanwhile in Victoria, they pump millions of litres of raw sewage into the ocean every day, they allow coal from the U.S. into their port by rail to be exported to China and we all know how clean coal is for the environment. They leave all kinds of old fishing and mining villages along the coastline to deterior
  
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• Editorial: Anthem catches up with country

  02-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Senate voted Wednesday to change the lyrics of Canada’s national anthem to make it more gender neutral. As a result, Canadians did not riot, the economy did not falter and rivers did not reverse course.
  Given the resistance of a group of recalcitrant Conservative senators, observers might have anticipated any manner of dire consequences would befall the country after formally tweaking the second line of O Canada from “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command.
  
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• Player grades: Same old same old as stinky special teams sink Oilers yet again

  02-02-2018 11:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Avalanche 4, Oilers 3 (OT)
  #FireTheMall
  That’s an old meme on the Oilogosphere that is a weird admixture of gallows humour and utter frustration, but one wonders at what point it might apply to those responsible for Edmonton Oilers’ execrable special teams, which have cost the team countless games this season, especially on home ice. The latest example occurred on Thursday night, when the Oilers parlayed three powerplay opportunities and just a single shorthanded situation into a net
  
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• Remand centre hunger striker says issues at jail haven't been fixed

  02-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who went four days without eating as part of a hunger strike by inmates at the Edmonton Remand Centre says the government is not holding up its end of the bargain.
  Timothy Crowe was one of 19 inmates in Pod 2B who stopped eating to protest conditions at the provincial jail, located at 18415 127 St.
  The inmates were protesting increased time spent in lockup and the removal of an inmate to a high-security unit. They also allege correctional officers sometimes used excessive force. 
  
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• David Staples: The 16 stages of the dreaded Man Cold

  02-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’ve been unfortunate enough to be around me in the past three weeks, you’ll know I’m suffering from that most dreaded of all minor health issues, the controversial Man Cold.
  After having for years now experienced Man Colds, as well as the even more dreaded Man Flu, I’m here to report the condition is real and it’s backed by science.
  By my reckoning, the Man Cold has 16 stages:
  1) Dangerous optimism. The patient has gone for many months without a cold, so much
  
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• Cold Case Files: Teenager Lisa Kopf was killed nearly two decades ago

  02-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly two decades after 17-year-old Lisa Kopf was found slain in a farmer’s field on the edge of west Edmonton, the case remains unsolved.
  On Aug. 4, 1998, Kopf and her sister left their Callingwood home for a house party near 102 Street and 132 Avenue. 
  At 10 a.m. the next day, on Aug. 5, a farmer feeding his cattle discovered Lisa’s body in a slough near 186 Street and 118 Avenue. 
  Detectives said she had been held face-down in the mud until she suffocated
  
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• Canada's first Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant coming to West Edmonton Mall

  02-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is opening its first Canadian restaurant at West Edmonton Mall partly because it has experience with the mall’s owners, a company official says.
  The 43-outlet seafood chain will own rather than franchise the Edmonton outlet, now expected to start serving customers in late spring or early summer rather than March as originally hoped, chief operating officer Jim Dufault said.
  “The biggest key for Edmonton was working with West Edmonton Mall and (owners) the Tr
  
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• Player grades: Same old story as stinky special teams sink Oilers yet again

  02-02-2018 10:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Avalanche 4, Oilers 3 (OT)
  #FireTheMall
  That’s an old meme on the Oilogosphere that is a weird admixture of gallows humour and utter frustration, but one wonders at what point it might apply to those responsible for Edmonton Oilers’ execrable special teams, which have cost the team countless games this season, especially on home ice. The latest example occurred on Thursday night, when the Oilers parlayed three powerplay opportunities and just a single shorthanded situation into a net
  
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• Justin Trudeau quizzed by sometimes testy audience at Edmonton town hall

  02-02-2018 06:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced a sometimes testy audience Thursday night at a town hall in Edmonton.
  The 1,400-strong crowd at MacEwan University lobbed tens of questions at the PM.
  What’s he doing to follow through with actions on Indigenous reconciliation, and not just words? Can he explain the reasoning behind changes to small business taxes? What is the federal government doing about wait times for treatment of incurable diseases? Will the Liberals bring in universal free post-sec
  
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• Five ways Alberta could retaliate against B.C.'s pipeline obstacles

  02-02-2018 03:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Faced with a potential new obstacle to exporting Alberta oil, Premier Rachel Notley has pledged to stand firm in defence of jobs and the battered oil industry — but has so far offered few specifics.
  The British Columbia government took direct aim at Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from Alberta to the West Coast earlier this week by proposing to restrict increases in bitumen shipments until it can conduct further spill response studies. 
  What legiti
  
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• Low-floor Valley Line LRT vehicle mock-up to go on public display

  02-02-2018 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fully accessible mock-up of the new Light Rail Vehicle that will run on the Valley Line LRT will be on display at Bonnie Doon Mall.
  Valley Line LRT contractor TransEd and manufacturer Bombardier want Edmontonians to view “first hand” the new low-floor LRV.
  “The vehicle you’re getting is something modern, the latest technology,” Bombardier spokesman Marc-Andre Lefebvre said Thursday. “It’s night and day. The first vehicle is coming this July. We wanted
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at Edmonton town hall

  02-02-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is speaking at a town hall in Edmonton Thursday, hours after the Alberta premier called on him to do more to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline is built.
  Trudeau said Thursday morning that the Kinder Morgan pipeline is in the national interest and the federal government will make sure the expanded pipeline to the West Coast gets built.Trudeau made the comments in radio interviews on CBC’s Edmonton AM and 630 CHED’s Ryan Jespersen show ahead of his v
  
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• Trudeau missing in action over Alberta/B.C. pipeline war

  02-02-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau performed an interesting political trick Thursday in Edmonton.
  He managed to be clearly visible at photo-ops in the city while simultaneously being missing in action.
  He even held one of his town hall-style meetings Thursday night where the audience asked him questions. But when it came to demonstrating definitive leadership in the growing trade war between Alberta and British Columbia over energy pipelines, he was pretty much invisible and silent.
  Oh, he did make a
  
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• Opinion: Edmonton police doing what's right by withholding names of homicide victims

  02-02-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “A very public crime; a very private investigation,” Paula Simons, Jan. 29
  Despite repeated attempts to provide Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons with the reasons governing our controlled release of information on homicide files, she continues to assert that the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is cloaking those releases in “… an aura of mystery” and “… keeping the truth about who’s dying (homicide victims) in the dark.”
  Nothing coul
  
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• City's bridges are fine, although there is room for improvement

  02-02-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s bridges are doing fine. Although, they could be better.
  The city’s bridge maintenance program, which is responsible for ongoing inspection and maintenance of 73 non-city owned and 305 of the city’s bridges, could do better on quality assurance and control of bridge inspection, and maintenance program for completeness, accuracy and quality. Bridges include river crossings, park bridges and culverts.  
  “We also recommended that the city should work
  
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• British cellist Robert Cohen returns to Edmonton for two concerts

  02-02-2018 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The last time the distinguished British cellist Robert Cohen was heard in Edmonton, it was as a member of the famous Fine Arts Quartet at the 2016 Solstice Summer Music Festival.
  Since then, there have been major changes to the quartet. Cohen and Canadian-born violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez both left in January, playing their farewell concert just before Cohen flew to Edmonton. The quartet itself ceased to be the quartet-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where it has been bas
  
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• Two pianists and a gaming band

  02-02-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Growing up in Grand Prairie, Stefan Kijek recalls having a natural attraction to the piano.
  “I was drawn to it from the time I could walk and I was sitting down at the piano by three, plunking out notes and melodies. My parents thought, ‘We should probably put him in lessons.’”
  With 12 years of classical training, he became an excellent player. And at age nine, jazz beckoned.
  “I kept wanting to add notes or take them away, and then I found out there was a whole genr
  
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• Provincial student council calls on Alberta government to freeze international tuition fees

  02-02-2018 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The body representing more than 100,000 undergraduate university students in Alberta is calling on the province to immediately freeze international tuition.
  In what they’ve labelled “exploitative” behaviour by the province’s publicly funded universities, the Council of Alberta University Students said foreign students were increasingly being targeted to make up for budget shortfalls.
  As well as freezing international tuition fees, the council called on the government to t
  
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• Arrest made after St. Albert stabbing sends 2 victims to hospital

  02-02-2018 01:05 via globalnews.ca
  A 35-year-old man is facing assault and weapons-related charges in connection with an "altercation" in St. Albert that saw two people suffer multiple stab wounds on Wednesday night, according to the RCMP.
  
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• Two people hospitalized after being stabbed in St. Albert

  02-02-2018 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were recovering from multiple stab wounds after an attack Wednesday night in St. Albert.
  Mounties were called to a fight between several people in the Grandin area around 10:50  p.m. They found two people with multiple stab wounds.
  The victims were taken to an Edmonton hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  The suspect took off on foot and was quickly arrested with the help of the Edmonton police Air One helicopter.
  Residents of the Grenfell Gatewood area of St. Albert were
  
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• Two people hospitalized, one man in custody after St. Albert ... - Edmonton Journal

  02-02-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Anyone with information can call St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700. To submit a tip anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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• Two people hospitalized after being stabbed in St. Albert - Edmonton Journal

  02-02-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Two people hospitalized after being stabbed in St. Albert
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  Anyone with information can call St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700. To submit a tip anonymously call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Catherine Griwkowsky More from Catherine Griwkowsky. Published on: February 1, 2018 | Last Updated: February 1, 2018 4 ...
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• Seafood, steaks valued at $100,000 stolen from Sherwood Park

  02-02-2018 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Early morning thieves stole an estimated $100,000 of seafood and steak from a Sherwood Park business, say Mounties. 
  Bandits broke into a locked trailer in the back parking lot of Fins Seafood Distributors on Cree Road about 1 a.m. Jan. 22 and made off with several pallets, including crab, salmon and steak, said Strathcona County RCMP in a Thursday news release.
  Mounties were looking for two vehicles in connection to the robbery. The first was a dark blue Dodge Caravan with a front pla
  
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• 'Whatever it takes': Premier Rachel Notley demands more from PM on Trans Mountain pipeline

  02-02-2018 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s premier is demanding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau step in to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion goes ahead.
  “We need the full weight of the federal government … behind the laws of the land,” said Premier Rachel Notley at a news conference on Thursday. 
  The British Columbia government placed restrictions on bitumen shipment increases from Alberta, citing the need for more spill response studies. Notley called the move unconstitutional a
  
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