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• Sitting is the new smoking? Not even close, Athabasca University-led study finds

  06-10-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chances are most of us have heard the claim at some point, maybe from a friend or maybe from something we saw on the Internet.
  Sitting is just as bad for your health — and perhaps even more dangerous — as smoking.
  Versions of the idea have circulated in the media in recent years, while companies have used it to sell products touted to encourage a more active lifestyle.
  The problem is, the claim is very much like a cloud of cigarette smoke — largely without substance, yet still
  
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• Police agencies seek improvements to Alberta's privatized registration system to mitigate VIN cloning

  06-10-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Law enforcement agencies across the province are teaming up with the provincial government to find ways to prevent, or at the very least, raise more red flags when it comes to fraudulent registration of stolen vehicles in the province.
  Detailing the successful bust of a vehicle identification number (VIN) cloning operation in the city, auto theft unit Det. Mark Kassian said this week that Alberta’s privatized system of vehicle registration was not as robust compared to the provincially-run
  
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• Drone deployed to help rescue pair of youth ATVers stranded in muskeg near Rocky Mountain House

  06-10-2018 17:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A successful search and rescue effort in west central Alberta turned up two youth who were stranded when their ATVs got stuck in a muskeg.
  According to Rocky Mountain House RCMP, a call for help came in Friday night from the stuck pair who had wound up in a heavily wooded area southwest of Highway 11, near the Saunders-Alexo area in Clearwater County.
  A fire rescue team deployed a thermal drone in the area and, once the young people had been located, a search and rescue team extracted them.
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• New in town: Leduc's Woodbend grand opening draws a crowd

  06-10-2018 16:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Based on the crowd size alone, Woodbend, one of Leduc’s newest residential developments, is attracting strong interest.
  Neither a cold wind nor a scattering of snowflakes deterred families young and old from attending the grand opening of Leduc’s latest community last weekend. Spanning 160 acres on the city’s western edge, the multi-phase project will contain more than 500 homes once it is fully built out.
  “We were very pleased with the turnout and the great feedback we h
  
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• Holmes Jr. tours Dolce Vita's new Net Zero home

  06-10-2018 16:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mike Holmes Jr. slipped into the Edmonton area last week as The Holmes Group and Holmes Approved builder Dolce Vita Homes continue to entice new home buyers. The professional contractor and television host was on hand for a show home grand opening, as well as a pre-drywall tour of Dolce Vita’s new Net Zero home — located at 137 Greenbury Close in Spruce Grove — to see what goes into building ultra-sustainable homes. Industry specialists also attended the event, sharing inf
  
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• Physical failing - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:32 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Physical failing
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  As the fight continues to get kids to leave their screens and become more active, researchers have discovered another major hurdle to overcome. A national study of more than 10,000 children, between the ages of eight and 12, in 11 cities shows that ...
  
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• Heron discusses issues important to residents - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Heron discusses issues important to residents
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  Mayor Cathy Heron and city manager Kevin Scoble met with the Gazette editorial board for an hour-and-a-half discussion that touched on many topics important to residents of St. Albert. Ray Gibbon Drive. Heron said the city is continuing to work towards ...
  
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• Province punts privatized road testing after 25 years - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:16 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Province punts privatized road testing after 25 years
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  Driver examination tests will soon be carried out by provincial employees after the system was privatized in 1993. Transportation Minister Brian Mason announced Tuesday the province will be taking back driver's licence testing across the province ...
  
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• Housing market ripe for the buyer - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:16 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Housing market ripe for the buyer
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  “There's not a lot going on; it's still pretty much steady as she goes,” said Darcy Torhjelm, chair of the Realtors Association. In September there were 8,969 homes for sale across the Edmonton metro region, a decrease from July and August when a ...
  
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• At City Hall: Note the time change - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:16 via stalbertgazette.com
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  At City Hall: Note the time change
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  The St. Albert governance, finance and priorities committee meeting has been moved to start at noon on Tuesday rather than the usual 3 p.m. start time to accommodate a large agenda. Members of council are slated to discuss: • St. Albert Housing Society ...
  
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• Respected auto mechanic hangs up her wrench - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Respected auto mechanic hangs up her wrench  St. Albert GazetteMargaret Williams reflects long and hard at her impressive career as owner and mechanic at MAR Automotive over nearly the last 35 years. Now in her early.
  
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• Updates on Turkey Ring tournament and Mission AA teams - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 08:56 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Updates on Turkey Ring tournament and Mission AA teams
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  The 20th annual Turkey Ring signals the start of the season for the host St. Albert Ringette Association. SARA is represented by 21 teams in the U10-1, U10-2, U10-3, U12A, U12B, U12C, U14AA, U14A, U14B, U16AA, U16A, U16B, U19A and U19B age ...
  
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• Flyers deep in skill and strength - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 08:56 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Flyers deep in skill and strength
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  “We've got a pretty deep team. Top to bottom we're a pretty solid squad,” said Steve Ewaskiw, the returning head coach of the midget 15 Flyers. Twelve of the Flyers are graduates of the St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres, the 2018 bantam AAA ...
  
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• Bulldogs win first game, peewee Riders rolling and atom scores - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 08:56 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Bulldogs win first game, peewee Riders rolling and atom scores
  St. Albert Gazette
  The first victory of the season for the Bellerose Bulldogs after three losses was celebrated Thursday in Sherwood Park. The Bulldogs defeated the winless Bev Facey Falcons 14-8 in the division one Carr conference match at Emerald Hills. The result kept ...
  
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• New director, big hopes at seniors association - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 08:46 via stalbertgazette.com
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  New director, big hopes at seniors association
  St. Albert Gazette
  Two years after moving back in to Red Willow Place, there are more big plans afoot for the St. Albert Seniors Association, though none of them have to do with construction plans. Newly installed executive director Jonna Grad has plans to make many ...
  
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• Game Day #1 – Edmonton Oilers vs. New Jersey Devils: The pressure is on, starting now

  06-10-2018 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day #1:
  Edmonton Oilers versus New Jersey Devils(in Gothenburg, Sweden)
  For the beleaguered Edmonton Oilers and their long-suffering fans, the long journey back from last season’s derailment begins with a single game, today in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  It’s a new year. 2017-18 is thankfully in the rear view mirror. There is renewed hope and optimism as well as a steely resolve from the club’s best player. Whether or not Connor McDavid and company have it within them to turn arou
  
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• Game Day #1 – Edmonton Oilers vrs. New Jersey Devils: The pressure is on, starting now

  06-10-2018 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day #1:
  Edmonton Oilers versus New Jersey Devils(in Gothenburg, Sweden)
  For the beleaguered Edmonton Oilers and their long-suffering fans, the long journey back from last season’s derailment begins with a single game, today in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  It’s a new year. 2017-18 is thankfully in the rear view mirror. There is renewed hope and optimism as well as a steely resolve from the club’s best player. Whether or not Connor McDavid and company have it within them to turn arou
  
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• Northland schools look to solve low attendance rate problem

  06-10-2018 05:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  At a school in the Elizabeth Métis settlement in eastern Alberta, principal Mark Burke hopes several small changes will encourage his students to come to school more frequently.
  Staff have reinstated a fiddling program this year and are planning more lessons outdoors. Instead of teachers calling home when a student’s absence is unexplained, Burke or the office administrative assistant will follow up, he said Thursday.
  All of Northland School Division’s 20 schools, including El
  
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• Alberta NDP relies on private firms, then excludes them, in effort to build seniors beds

  06-10-2018 05:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly three-quarters of the 2,000 seniors beds the Notley NDP government promised to open by next spring are being built and operated by for-profit corporations, even as the province moves to exclude private firms from its next bed-building program.
  An outline of that new initiative was quietly released online Friday, showing the province will look to non-profits, Indigenous communities and public agencies to add new units in the future, particularly in areas with high needs.
  But for its origin
  
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• Teenager found safe in north Edmonton 20 minutes after Amber Alert

  06-10-2018 05:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 14-year-old girl was found safe in north Edmonton about 20 minutes after emergency officials issued an Amber Alert Friday in what they initially described as a forced abduction.
  Police had issued the emergency alert just after 4 p.m. Friday, saying a potentially armed and dangerous man abducted a 14-year-old girl in Forest Heights.
  The alert, which went out via Alberta’s emergency warning system, said the teen was taken in the area of 84 Street and 105 Avenue on Friday at 3 p.m.
  In a new
  
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• Teenage girl located after Amber Alert issued in Edmonton

  06-10-2018 04:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 14-year-old girl was found safe in north Edmonton about 20 minutes after emergency officials issued an Amber Alert Friday in what they initially described as a forced abduction.
  Police had issued the emergency alert just after 4 p.m. Friday, saying a potentially armed and dangerous man abducted a 14-year-old girl in Forest Heights.
  The alert, which went out via Alberta’s emergency warning system, said the teen was taken in the area of 84 Street and 105 Avenue on Friday at 3 p.m.
  Officers
  
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• St. Albert has third-highest property tax rates in Alberta - St. Albert Gazette

  06-10-2018 03:20 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert has third-highest property tax rates in Alberta
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  St. Albertans are paying some of the highest property tax rates in the province, according to a new report, but city officials say the numbers don't paint a complete picture. An online real estate listing company, Zoocasa, released a report on Tuesday ...
  
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• Paula Simons: I've been traded to the senators. But I'll always cheer for Edmonton

  06-10-2018 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  As a kid, I hated group work.
  I hated it with the white hot passion of a thousand suns.
  I was always the Hermione Granger-type, the insufferable know-it-all, the overachiever who wanted to turn in the best possible work.
  I hated it when I felt people weren’t pulling their weight. I hated it just as much when my group mates failed to live up to my persnickety standards of perfectionism. A control freak, all I really wanted was to do my own projects, all by myself. As much as I hated group w
  
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• Teenager found safe in north Edmonton after Amber Alert

  06-10-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police say a 14-year-old was found safe in north Edmonton about half an hour after emergency officials issued an Amber Alert in what they described as a forced abduction.
  Police had issued the emergency alert just after 4 p.m. Friday, saying a potentially armed and dangerous man abducted a 14-year-old girl in Forest Heights.
  The alert, which went out via Alberta’s emergency warning system, said the teen was taken in the area of 84 Street and 105 Avenue on Friday at 3 p.m.
  Police w
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #245: The Paula Says Seeya Plus Announcement (feat. TMX & Health) edition

  06-10-2018 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Apologies for the long headline, but this week The Press Gallery and Edmonton Journal say farewell to longtime columnist, the smart, sassy and wonderful Paula Simons. She’s off to Ottawa after being appointed senator.
  But it’s not all goodbyes! Join host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Keith Gerein, Sarah O’Donnell and, of course, Simons for a big announcement about columnists and an exciting Press Gallery development.
  Don’t worry — the team wouldn’t lea
  
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• Children's Services launches review after youth charged in city bus driver stabbing

  06-10-2018 00:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is reviewing the case of a 15-year-old boy who is facing attempted murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with a stabbing attack on a city bus driver.
  The teen’s grandfather said Friday that the family had tried to get help from the provincial government in the days before he is accused of attacking the driver.
  “They could have stepped in and helped many, many times and they didn’t,” the man said in a telephone interview.
  The boy cannot
  
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