St. Albert news

• Search continues for missing boy near Grande Prairie

  07-07-2018 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emergency services near Grande Prairie resumed their search Saturday for a missing two-year-old boy.
  The youngster was with his family when he disappeared Friday evening at the Canfor Bridge over the Wapiti River.
  The search was halted Friday at 11 p.m., but an RCMP news release said police and members of Grande Prairie Technical Search and Rescue resumed looking for the boy Saturday morning after staying at the scene overnight.
  Police have asked members of the public to avoid the area so emerge
  
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• Edmonton Oilers situation with Milan Lucic is "almost untenable" and he must be moved "whatever it takes," says NHL insider. Huh?!

  07-07-2018 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from NHL insider Frank Seravalli of TSN, a rather dire take on the Edmonton Oilers situation, especially in regards to Milan Lucic’s future with the team. Speaking to Allan “Lowetide” Mitchell on TSN1260 on Friday, Seravalli said:  “I’m concerned about the Milan Lucic situation. I mean, you talk about Erik Karlsson and what a mess that has been in Ottawa, and you talk about Jeff Skinner and the fact that he hasn’t been traded from Carolina, and Ju
  
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• Rollover near Janvier leaves one dead, two injured

  07-07-2018 17:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man was killed and two women injured after a highway collision near Janvier Friday.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP were called around 6 p.m. to a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 881 north of Janvier, according to an RCMP news release.
  The man driving was killed. Police are notifying his next of kin.
  Two women also in the vehicle were flown to hospital by helicopter. The extent of their injuries was unknown at the time of the release.
  An RCMP traffic analyst was on the scene Friday evening as part of t
  
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• Saturday's letters: Take corrosion claims with grain of salt

  07-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City’s new anti-icing method harder on cars, expert says,” July 5
  Today’s cars and trucks are extremely well-built in terms of preventing rust and corrosion.
  For example, there are no pockets or voids in the fenders or bumpers that retain moisture. In fact, fender skirts and bumper covers have been made of high-grade plastics for years now. Higher-end vehicle panels are often made from high-grade aluminum. The same goes for Ford trucks.
  Unless the vehicles of these r
  
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• Opinion: Focusing on family, culture holds promise for child welfare system

  07-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last week, the government of Alberta released a report titled A Stronger, Safer Tomorrow with 39 specific actions to strengthen our child welfare system.
  As the C5, we are five agencies working with children, youth and families every day who will be impacted by this plan. And we believe that, when fully implemented, it will affect their lives for the better.
  The importance of working within a cultural and spiritual context is embedded throughout the plan. Imagine how significant this is for chil
  
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• Melissa Etheridge is playing all the hits on tour as new album is on the way

  07-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In June 2016, Melissa Etheridge was on tour when she heard about the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
  Forty-nine people were killed and 58 were injured, making it the worst mass shooting in American history at the time. (Sadly, that distinction lasted for only just more than one year when a gunman killed 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas.)
  As with most people, the Orlando killings enraged and saddened Etheridge. Unlike most, she was quickly able to turn those emotions into a song. Pulse,
  
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• LitFest announces its #YEGSummerReads list in advance of October events

  07-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You can read a book, sure — but here’s your chance to book a read.
  Multiple-award-winning poet Billy-Ray Belcourt and food artisans Karen Anderson and Matilde Sanchez Turri are just a few of the thinkers sharing their realities at this year’s LitFest — Canada’s original and only dedicated non-fiction festival.
  Laying the cement for the 11-day event running Oct. 11-21 at multiple venues, LitFest has released its #YEGSummerReads list: seven books by authors from acros
  
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• Fitness: Wear workout clothes to bed is one tip from avid exercisers who reach goals

  07-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The best advice comes from people who have pushed past the barriers that stand between them and their goals. The following words of wisdom come from exercisers who have figured out how to make health and exercise a priority.
  1.     Wear your clothes to bed.
  Exercise is about choices. Make the decision to exercise the night before your workout when you are wide-awake — not in the morning when you are half asleep. Pack your gym bag, prep a healthy lunch or, as one of our
  
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• Edmonton Oilers situation with Milan Lucic is "untenable" and he must be moved "whatever it takes," says NHL insider. Huh?!

  07-07-2018 09:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from TSN’s Frank Seravalli, a rather dire take on the Edmonton Oilers situation, especially in regards to Milan Lucic’s future with the team. Speaking to Allan “Lowetide” Mitchell on TSN1260 on Friday, Seravalli said:  “I’m concerned about the Milan Lucic situation. I mean, you talk about Erik Karlsson and what a mess that has been in Ottawa, and you talk about Jeff Skinner and the fact that he hasn’t been traded from Carolina, and Justin Fa
  
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• St. Albert charity hockey tournament honours fallen Humboldt Broncos - CBC.ca

  07-07-2018 09:00 via cbc.ca
  St. Albert charity hockey tournament honours fallen Humboldt Broncos  CBC.caFour hockey teams are facing off in St. Albert this weekend to honour four fallen Humboldt Broncos players. More than 84 local junior or minor hockey players ...
  
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• Sailfish celebrate 50 years with annual swim meet - St. Albert Gazette

  07-07-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sailfish celebrate 50 years with annual swim meet  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Sailfish are gearing up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their swim meet next weekend. The club is hosting its annual swim meet next.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos honoured through charity hockey tourney in St. Albert - Global News Calgary

  07-07-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Humboldt Broncos honoured through charity hockey tourney in St. Albert  Global News CalgaryShauna Nordstrom, the mother of Humboldt Broncos' Logan Hunter, thanked organizers of a charity hockey tournament Friday for putting together the game to ...
  
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• Humboldt Broncos honoured through charity hockey tourney in St. Albert

  07-07-2018 06:19 via globalnews.ca
  Exactly three months after a horrific bus crash that has claimed the lives of 16 people, injured others and devastated the global hockey community, a charity hockey tournament hit the ice north of Edmonton to pay tribute to the Humboldt Broncos and raise money for their families.
  
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• Memorial hockey tournament begins for Humboldt Broncos victims

  07-07-2018 05:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A ceremony to kick off a memorial hockey tournament organized by friends of four Humboldt Broncos hockey players from St. Albert who died in the tragic bus crash three months ago was held in St. Albert on Friday, July 6, 2018.
  The weekend tournament, running Friday through Sunday at the Mark Messier Arena in Servus Place, honoured four fallen Broncos who were St. Albert hockey alumni — Stephen Wack, Jaxon Joseph, Logan Hunter and Conner Lukan — and the
  
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• St. Albert charity tournament commemorates Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims

  07-07-2018 04:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A charity hockey tournament in St. Albert to commemorate 16 people killed and 13 injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash kicked off Friday with a puck drop for the ages.
  Hundreds gathered at Mark Messier Arena for the first night of a weekend tournament organized by friends and teammates of four St. Albert area men killed in the April 6 bus crash in Saskatchewan.
  After opening speeches from organizers and family of the victims, two surviving Humboldt Broncos — Derek Patter and Tyler Smit
  
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• Saskatchewan man gets 10 years for crash that killed three Edmonton women

  07-07-2018 04:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Battlefords, Sask. — A Saskatchewan man who pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  A judge at Battleford’s Court of Queen’s Bench handed down the sentence to Brandon Stucka on Friday.
  The sentence also includes a 10-year driving ban.
  Court heard that Stucka, who is 27, drove a stolen truck in the wrong lane of Highway 16 for three kilometres before crashing into a
  
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• Teen girls weep as judge dismisses sexual assault charges from West Edmonton Mall wave pool incident

  07-07-2018 04:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of sexual assault hugged his wife after learning his charges were dismissed Friday. Meanwhile, a group of teenage girls and their supporters left the courtroom in tears.
  Soleiman Hajj Soleiman was arrested in February 2017 after several teenagers reported being touched by a man in the West Edmonton Mall water park. He was acquitted of all charges against him — six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child — in a provincial court ruling
  
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• Alberta will become more urban, more diverse and more grey as it grows to 6.4 million people by 2046

  07-07-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is expected to become more urban, more diverse — and more grey — as it adds 2.1 million people over the next three decades, according to the Alberta government’s latest population projections.
  By 2046, Alberta is projected to have a population of 6.4 million — up from around 4.3 million now. That year, Alberta will have about as many people as the U.S. state of Indiana has now.
  The government’s projected population growth rate through 2046 is around 1.4 per
  
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• Social Seen: Edmonton Music Awards Gala

  07-07-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Music Awards Gala
  Where: Winspear Centre
  When: June 28
  What: The eighth-annual Edmonton Music Awards gala
  Featuring: Live performances by Bardic Form, Celeigh Cardinal, Dizzy, Josh Sahunta, Keltie, Lusitania Lights and Whale and the Wolf
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at 
  
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• 'A part of Edmonton's history': First store opens in restored Oliver telephone exchange building

  07-07-2018 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  The restored telephone exchange building is opening its doors to fresh ideas while keeping much of the historic 1913 architecture in tact.
  Plum Home + Design was the first business to launch on Friday morning in the Oliver building that will soon be home to several locally-owned food and retail businesses.
  Mother and daughter owners, Pamela Freeman and Jenna Pryor, said they were immediately drawn to the space and the decision by the building developers, Beljan, to keep as much of the original b
  
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• Graham Thomson: NDP goes a-courtin' one more time at the Calgary Stampede

  07-07-2018 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is a Calgary Stampede tradition as predictable as a white Stetson and as common as a cow patty: the government-spending announcement.
  This year, on the eve of the Stampede, the Alberta government committed itself to completing the final leg of the Calgary ring road. There was no dollar figure attached because the government hasn’t actually signed a construction contract yet, but the deal is said to be worth about $1 billion.
  “The need for that ring road is becoming critical,&rdquo
  
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• Scrap metal train cart mishap in southeast Edmonton leaves two people clinging to life

  07-07-2018 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were clinging to life in hospital Friday after being injured by a scrap metal train cart in southeast Edmonton, say police.
  Officers responded to an industrial work site near 45 Street and 68 Avenue around 11 a.m. Friday, said police in a news release.
  When officers arrived, they found two men on the ground in medical duress, says the release.
  The men were transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
  Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) has been notified and will inves
  
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• Cross Cancer Institute marks 50 years by opening time capsule, honouring employee

  07-07-2018 01:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  On a day when the Cross Cancer Institute marked its 50th anniversary by opening a time capsule of memories, the facility also celebrated a long-time employee who is a vault of history in her own right.
  Back in 1968, the same year Richard Nixon was elected U.S. president, Delores Gerke was one of the first people to open the brand new, sparkling facility on University Avenue.
  She quickly made herself indispensable as the “one-stop shop” of health information for the institute: operati
  
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• Teas and sweets from around the world to celebrate DiversiTEA at Metro Continuing Education

  07-07-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A desire to showcase different cultures and a clever play on words was the motivation behind DiversiTEA, a celebration of teas and sweets from around the world hosted by Metro Continuing Education students Friday afternoon.
  It was a warm day for tea, but that didn’t stop the English-language students from sharing the popular drink as well as homemade baked goods from dozens of different cultures.
  The Canada Day-themed event is a chance for the students, with an enrolment around 200, to cel
  
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• 10/3 podcast: 29 charges in fatal Humboldt Broncos crash

  07-07-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Friday RCMP announced that they have laid more than two dozen charges in connection with the crash that killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team.
  Jaskirat Sidhu, a 29-year-old man from Calgary, has been charged with 16 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and 13 counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm. Sidhu was arrested Friday without incident at his residence in Calgary. He was remanded and is scheduled to appear next
  
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• Paula Simons: From social justice warrior to Holocaust-denying hate-monger

  07-07-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Monika Schaefer spent years as a warden at Jasper National Park.
  She was an environmental activist, a spokesperson for the Jasper Environmental Association.
  She was a musician, a violin and viola teacher who performed all over Jasper and Hinton. She was a perennial candidate for the Green party, running in federal elections in 2006, 2008 and 2011.
  But this Tuesday, Schaefer went on trial in a Munich courtroom. She’s charged with six counts of Volksverhetzung. 
  The literal transla
  
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• Man found at recycling centre after bin dump was crushed to death: police

  07-07-2018 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 35-year-old homeless man whose body was discovered after a load was dumped at a north Edmonton recycling centre died of crush injuries, say police, ruling the case non-criminal.
  A Friday autopsy on the body — discovered at the 15003 128 Ave. Capital Paper Recycling plant about 9:30 a.m. Thursday — determined the cause of death was “consistent with being crushed,” said a Friday release from police.
  The man has since been identified by investigators who say he had no
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #237: The Hail to the Bus Driver edition

  07-07-2018 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  After a long career in both municipal and provincial politics, NDP Transportation Minister Brian Mason announced this week that he is retiring and won’t run for re-election in 2019. The panel discusses the legacy of Mason’s career — from transit driver to city councillor to opposition leader to cabinet minister — and also considers the hole he will leave for Rachel Notley’s party as it tries to stay in office.
  The panel also discusses the province’s decision t
  
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• Teas and sweets from around the world celebrate DiversiTEA at Metro Continuing Education

  07-07-2018 00:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A desire to showcase different cultures and a clever play on words was the motivation behind DiversiTEA, a celebration of teas and sweets from around the world hosted by Metro Continuing Education students Friday afternoon.
  It was a warm day for tea, but that didn’t stop the English language students from sharing the popular drink as well as homemade baked goods from dozens of different cultures.
  The Canada Day-themed event is a chance for the students, with an enrollment around 200, to ce
  
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• Nurse fined $3,000 for snooping into health data of two people

  07-07-2018 00:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fox Creek registered nurse has been fined $3,000 after pleading guilty to accessing health information of two people over three years, says Alberta Health Services.
  Jasmine Badger, a nurse at the Fox Creek Healthcare Centre, on June 25 pleaded guilty to accessing health information in contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA) and received a $3,000 fine, plus a victim fine surcharge of 30 per cent of the imposed fine, said AHS in a Friday release.
  In 2016, two people requ
  
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