St. Albert news

• Graham Thomson: Emergency pipeline meeting in Ottawa ends with a whimper not a bang

  15-04-2018 23:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Well that went about as badly as expected.
  Sunday’s meeting in Ottawa between Prime Minister Trudeau, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan wrapped up with no end to the pipeline impasse.
  On the positive side, I suppose, nobody stomped out, threats weren’t issued, transfer payments weren’t cut.
  But neither were solutions found.
  Horgan is still fiercely opposed to the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposed pipeline e
  
  Read more

• Flooding on Edmonton's new city sidewalks has neighbours ticked

  15-04-2018 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ursula Boraas is frustrated her brand new city sidewalks are flooding. 
  The problem is at the corners, where the new curb ramp meets the street. The drain is several houses away and water collects in a pool more than a metre round. A senior with a walker knocked on her door to complain.
  She tried to clear it, but that evening, “I looked out and I saw someone fall on their butt in the water,” she said, wondering if something’s wrong with the city’s neighbourhood recon
  
  Read more

• Review: Edmonton Opera's Don Giovanni conjures up visual delights

  15-04-2018 22:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The real stars of Edmonton Opera’s new production of Don Giovanni, which opened at the Jubilee on Saturday (April 14), are the three designers who have conjured up such a compelling visual setting for Mozart’s opera: Bretta Gerecke (set), Deanna Finnman (costumes), and Barry Steele (lighting).
  Together, they have created a dark Seville out of some timeless sci-fi dystopian nether-world. Gerecke’ s sets are stark, monumental, using the whole of the Jubilee stage, concrete back,
  
  Read more

• Trans Mountain pipeline: Justin Trudeau promising money, legislation to get it built

  15-04-2018 21:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has instructed his finance minister to enter negotiations with Kinder Morgan to “remove the uncertainty” hanging over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
  Trudeau also says federal legislation is coming that will “reassert and reinforce” the fact that the federal government is well within its jurisdiction to approve the project and ensure it goes ahead.
  He’s offering few details, however, saying the
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Stony Plain lines 53 Street with hockey sticks for Broncos' Parker Tobin funeral

  15-04-2018 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Humboldt Broncos goaltender Parker Tobin will be honoured Sunday with a service in Stony Plain’s Glenn Hall Arena.
  Community members lined the town’s 53 Street with hockey sticks and are in mourning together for the 18 year old, remembered by many for the years he spent serving as the voice of the local Flyers and Eagles, said Stony Plain Mayor William Choy.
  Tobin grew up in Stony Plain and played in nearby Spruce Grove and Drayton Valley before being traded to the Broncos. The funer
  
  Read more

• Notley, Trudeau offering to shelter Kinder Morgan investors from financial risk to get pipeline built

  15-04-2018 19:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  OTTAWA — B.C. Premier John Horgan says his meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley did nothing to end his ongoing efforts to block plans to expand an existing diluted bitumen line between the two provinces.
  Horgan, Notley and Trudeau met today on Parliament Hill in hopes of finding a solution to the impasse between the two provinces, which is threatening to kill the expansion project.
  Horgan says Trudeau laid out “legislative and financial measure
  
  Read more

• Photos: Yonex 2018 Alberta Junior Badminton Championships

  15-04-2018 17:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Yonex Alberta Junior Badminton Championships was held in the Ralph Klein Centre at Olds College in Olds, Alberta  from April 13 to 15, 2018. The provincial badminton tournament had 248 athletes from across Alberta competing in 639 matches over the three days of competition. At high levels of play, the sport demands excellent fitness, aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed and precision. It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticat
  
  Read more

• Funeral for Humboldt Broncos' Parker Tobin set for Sunday afternoon

  15-04-2018 17:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Humboldt Broncos goaltender Parker Tobin will be honoured and laid to rest Sunday with a service in Stony Plain’s Glenn Hall Arena. 
  The 18-year-old grew up in Stony Plain and played in nearby Spruce Grove and Drayton Valley before being traded to the Broncos. The funeral and celebration of life is scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. for viewing and last respects.
  Tobin was originally thought to have survived the bus collision last week, which killed 16 people. Bu
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• PHOTO GALLERY: Yonex 2018 Alberta Junior Badminton Championships

  15-04-2018 16:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Yonex Alberta Junior Badminton Championships was held in the Ralph Klein Centre at Olds College in Olds, Alberta  from April 13 to 15, 2018. The provincial badminton tournament had 248 athletes from across Alberta competing in 639 matches over the three days of competition. At high levels of play, the sport demands excellent fitness, aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed and precision. It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticat
  
  Read more

• Edmonton remand centre: Five years in critics question value of super-sized jail

  15-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wielding a giant pair of scissors to cut a shiny blue ribbon, a trio of Alberta cabinet ministers officially opened Canada’s largest jail five years ago. 
  Located on the city’s northwest edge, the new Edmonton Remand Centre was state of the art in March 2013 — a 60,000-square-metre, 1,952-capacity detention facility designed to solve the problems of the dank, overcrowded downtown Edmonton remand. 
  Five years later, though, it’s clear the new reman
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Oilers need a few value contracts, and they may have just signed one in Ty Rattie's one-year extension

  15-04-2018 04:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Look closely at the payroll of any team currently competing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and you’re bound to find a few value contracts. They are an essential aspect of the Salary Cap Era, where there are only so many “big dollars” to go around, and the cracks need to be filled with small ones. 
  In the case of the Edmonton Oilers, the big-money deals are on the books already, so it is crucial that Peter Chiarelli makes his remaining cap dollars go a long way. Certainly tha
  
  Read more

• Cannabis job fair highlights opportunities for women, people with cannabis experience

  15-04-2018 04:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The budding cannabis industry presents opportunities for women and people looking to use their experience with cannabis when it becomes legalized in Canada later this year.
  That’s according to those in the industry at the CannabisCon job fair held at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on Saturday.
  Danielle “Miz D” Jackson, an activist and cannatherapy consultant from Vancouver, said as a long-time consumer, the opportunity to create a career helping others was “irresi
  
  Read more

• University of Alberta students competing with eco-friendly cars

  15-04-2018 03:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Which car will go the furthest using the least amount of fuel?
  A team of University of Alberta students from multiple disciplines have put in thousands of hours on hydrogen cell cars that will be put to the test in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition in Sonoma, Calif., from April 19 to 22.
  Third-year engineering physics student Natasha Pye, the EcoCar team project manager, said it’s hard to sum up just one biggest challenge.
  “Nothing ever goes as planned,” she said
  
  Read more

• Edmontonians can donate gently used skates to charity

  15-04-2018 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Edmontonians skate out of winter, there’s a chance for people to donate their gently used skates, helmets and sticks.
  Skate to Great will be in town for one week beginning Sunday to collect gently used skates and hockey equipment for disadvantaged children and youth.
  The charity was founded in March 2012, and aims to provide every child in Canada the opportunity to skate regardless of their economic or physical circumstances, said Evan Kosiner, chairman and cofounder of Skate to Great o
  
  Read more

• Effort to regulate Whyte Avenue buskers was a flop, say city officials

  15-04-2018 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last year’s attempt to regulate Whyte Avenue busking did not go well. That’s one thing City of Edmonton officials and the busking crowd agree on.
  Peace officers descended on the strip last June, gave a list of rules and told buskers they needed permits to play. But according to a city report heading to council’s community services committee next Wednesday, more than half of the buskers refused to comply.
  City officials say that’s because the buskers realized there wa
  
  Read more

Follow @StAlbertNews on Twitter!