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• Cold case: Memorial walk marks seventh year of Jolene Cote's homicide

  13-10-2018 23:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Family and friends of Jolene Cote gathered Saturday in Spruce Grove to mark the seventh anniversary of her murder.
  Cote, a married mother of two, was found dead by her husband on the grass outside their home at about 6 a.m. on Oct. 13, 2011.
  The 36-year-old Spruce Grove middle-school teacher was last seen alive by surveillance cameras leaving a Wal-Mart in west Edmonton at 10:40 p.m. on Oct. 12, 2011, after buying Christmas presents for her then six-year-old son and four-year-old
  
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• Santa to join Grey Cup parade in Edmonton

  13-10-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Santa Claus will be headed for the end zone this year when the big, bearded bloke takes part in the Grey Cup Parade scheduled for Nov. 24.
  And fans of the man in the big red suit will get a little bit of extra joy as the Grey Cup parade will double as the fourth annual Santa’s Parade of Lights.
  The parade will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. and will begin at Jasper Avenue and 108 Street, turning left at Jasper Avenue and 101 Street, and will end at 103 Street and 103 Avenue.
  Of course San
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers earn 2 big early-season points against the Rangers in the Big Apple

  13-10-2018 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers got it’s defensive you-know-what together Saturday in New York City, and squeezed out just enough offence to earn 2 points…crucial ones, considering the tough schedule ahead of them.
  The Oilers started slower but gained momentum as the game wore on, out-shooting the Rangers 20-14 over the final 40. One of the keys to that was a momentum swing in the Oilers favor, as Nugent-Hopkins tallied just 1:28 after the Rangers had. And Cam Talbot was more than solid at the
  
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• Royal Lifesaving Awards: Pair rescued amputee whose boat sank in Wizard Lake

  13-10-2018 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dramatic rescue at Wizard Lake last summer has earned Lifesaving Society honours for two Albertans.
  Alexander Thompson and Shauna Recknagle were honoured Friday for their quick-thinking and dedication to safety in the rescue of Ken Sagert, a diabetic an amputee whose boat capsized on the lake.
  He was momentarily trapped under the boat but, even after he managed to free himself, was left struggling in the water.
  Thompson was at the lake that day with his wife and kids when he not
  
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• Police locate missing Edmonton toddler unharmed

  13-10-2018 19:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police say a missing two-year-old boy has been found safe.
  Police had said the boy left home Friday night with a 42-year-old man and that the pair were last seen at the MacEwan LRT station in the city’s downtown at 9 p.m.
  Police said they knew each other, but that it was unusual for the man to have the boy with him for so long and they were concerned for the toddler’s safety.
  Late Saturday morning, police issued a news release stating the boy was found safe and unharmed in w
  
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• Man dies in three-vehicle highway crash near Ponoka

  13-10-2018 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 46-year-old man is dead after a three-vehicle collision on the QEII near Ponoka late Friday night.
  The crash happened around 10:25 p.m. at the Highway 53 overpass when a pick-up truck hauling a utility trailer collided with a mini-van and an SUV, all of which were northbound.
  The van caught on fire, its driver trapped in the vehicle. He later succumbed to his injuries.
  The male driver of the pick-up truck was not injured. The female SUV driver was transported to hospital via ground ambulance,
  
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• Saturday's letters: City's plan is build anything, anywhere

  13-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Too many towers,” Oct. 9
  As a former professional city planner, I find it disconcerting to read of Edmonton community leaders who act more like professional city planners than Edmonton’s city planners.
  It’s even more disconcerting to read of Mayor Don Iveson’s call for a more thoughtful approach to adding density when, after eight years of thoughtful consideration by seven communities to create a plan for the careful distribution of increased built form and den
  
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• Opinion: Health-care workers at risk for mental illness

  13-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Each week, 500,000 Canadians will not go to work due to mental illness.”
  With that in mind, the Canadian Mental Health Association Working Stronger Conference provided an opportunity for employers, employees, unions, occupational-health, employee-assistance and human-resources personnel to explore ways to create healthier, stronger workplaces.
  According to Dr. Tyler Amell, specialist in strategic and integrated workplace health and productivity, the promotion of psychological health
  
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• What goes down must come up - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  What goes down must come up
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  “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.” – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's Finance Minister. Here we go again. Yes, that was the ...
  
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• The best of the best - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  The best of the best
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  VOLUNTEERISM TRIVIA. • More than 250 million volunteer hours contributed in Alberta annually. • That's the equivalent of 176,000 full-time jobs. • This translates to $8 billion worth of contributions to the province's economy, or approximately 2% of ...
  
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• Road test revamp - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Road test revamp
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  Putting the brakes on privatized driver's licence road tests in Alberta is a welcome and long-overdue move. As of March 1, all driver examinations will be conducted by government employees – a significant shift in what Transportation Minister Brian ...
  
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• Hydrants on private land could come with cost - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Hydrants on private land could come with cost
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  City staff in St. Albert are suggesting council create a maintenance and inspection fee for property owners who have fire hydrants on their land. The suggestion came to Tuesday's governance, priorities and finance committee meeting. The Alberta fire ...
  
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• Help reverse low-income housing crisis - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Help reverse low-income housing crisis
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  The fight to build and sustain affordable housing isn't always easy. But the challenges faced have demonstrated St. Albert's determination to provide support to those most in need. For more than a decade, St. Albert Affordable Housing Society has ...
  
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• Bantam, peewee and atom teams huddle up - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Bantam, peewee and atom teams huddle up
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  Two games remain for St. Albert's bantam teams in the Capital District Minor Football Association. The senior varsity Palmer 49ers (3-1-1) huddle up in the Susan Morgan division against the host Leduc Wildcats (5-0) today at 2:30 p.m. and the Edmonton ...
  
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• Automation taking over jobs - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:21 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Automation taking over jobs
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  One expert says the only way to combat automation is for employees to embark on a journey of lifelong learning. “Technical innovation is changing faster than we actually adapt to it,” said Neil Fassina, president of Athabasca University. Fassina spoke ...
  
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• The grey bus gap - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 08:07 via stalbertgazette.com
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  The grey bus gap
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  Two St. Albert seniors hope the city's Handibus service can be expanded to help more seniors get where they need to go. Chateau Mission Court residents Don Hiron and Donna Brown spoke to the Gazette this week about a seniors' transportation gap in St.
  
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• Pressure mounts on struggling Edmonton Oilers to find the win column

  13-10-2018 08:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 3: Oilers at Rangers
  Ten days into the 2018-19 NHL season, 30 of the league’s 31 teams have already played a home game, the last three home openers having been played on Thursday night.
  Odd team out is the Edmonton Oilers, still 2000 light years from home with two more road contests to go before they finally play one in their own barn next Thursday, fully a week after everyone else. This wouldn’t be a problem were the team holding its own on the road, but an 0-2-0 start lead
  
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• Natural gas users asked to keep conserving in wake of pipeline explosion

  13-10-2018 03:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Vancouver — Transportation Safety Board investigators plan to remove pipeline wreckage debris from an explosion site near Prince George, B.C., while the province’s major natural gas supplier asked industrial users Friday to continue to conserve natural gas.
  The explosion Tuesday in the underground Enbridge pipeline temporarily shut down two natural gas pipelines. One of the pipelines was cleared to start shipping gas late Wednesday but on a reduced basis, forcing residents and indust
  
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• Keith Gerein: Amarjeet Sohi walks a risky path as he asks Albertans for pipeline patience

  13-10-2018 02:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three years ago, he was the winner of one of the closest elections in Edmonton’s history.
  Today, Amarjeet Sohi is the country’s natural resources minister, responsible for quelling a rising maelstrom over Ottawa’s handling of energy projects vital to his constituents.
  A year from now, the Edmonton Mill Woods MP may be joining Albertans on the unemployment line if he and the Trudeau government don’t get the ship righted.
  In a conversation with the Edmonton Journal’s
  
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• St. Albert & District Garden Club celebrates the harvest - St. Albert Gazette

  13-10-2018 02:39 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert & District Garden Club celebrates the harvest
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  ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen will do a presentation on 'Preserving the Harvest' Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the lunchroom, at Richard Fowler School, 65 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue. Admission is $2 members and $3 non-members. Coffee, goodies and door ...
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #246: The Soldiering On edition

  13-10-2018 02:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  All kinds of soldiering happened in Alberta politics this week, from the United Conservative Party Soldiers of Odin controversy to the provincial government soldiering on with curriculum changes.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Sarah O’Donnell, Janet French and Keith Gerein to take a look at those issues, along with UCP Leader Jason Kenney joining forces with Ontario Premier Doug Ford for a rally in Calgary.
  The team also talks about the importance of cucumber sandwiches. Y
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Smoky Lake seniors home opens, volunteer awards and a youth council meeting

  13-10-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Bar-V-Nook Manor officially opened its doors in Smoky Lake Friday.
  The home’s 60 large units offer more flexibility for seniors in the level of care they can access, allowing them to remain close to their families and communities. It replaces the old manor, which could only house 48 people.
  The provincial and federal governments kicked in $23 million for the redevelopment project, which is part of the National Housing Strategy — a 10-year, $40-billion plan to create 100,
  
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• Crowd of students inspired at WE Day Alberta in Rogers Place

  13-10-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eleven-year-old Alyson Norman cut her hair off to raise $2,800 for breast cancer research.
  Her classmates at École Saint-Vital in Beaumont collected socks and warm clothes to donate to the Edmonton Emergency Relief Services Society, 10-year-old Reid Beaulieu said.
  At Duffield School, 67 km west of Edmonton, students held a bake sale to ship eight donated computers to school in Apemanim, Ghana.
  An estimated 16,000 Alberta students performed generous acts to earn tickets to Edmonton’s
  
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• Alberta RCMP say they're ready to enforce new stoned driving laws, but some questions remain unanswered

  13-10-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta RCMP officials say they’re ready to enforce Canada’s stoned driving laws when cannabis becomes legal on Wednesday.
  But a number of questions — including when they’ll receive roadside testing equipment and how they’ll withdraw blood from suspected drug-impaired drivers — remain unanswered.
  RCMP officials held a news conference at K Division headquarters in Edmonton Friday to explain their approach to drug-impaired driving enforcement ahead of cannabis l
  
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• Q and A: WestJet CEO talks future of Swoop and partnership with the U of A in Edmonton

  13-10-2018 00:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  WestJet’s new low-cost airline Swoop took its first flight out of the Edmonton International Airport in June en route to Hamilton. The city’s airport now holds two Swoop aircraft and is the second operational base, currently offering five direct flights out of the provincial capital — three within Canada and two in the United States.
  Just days after announcing three WestJet direct flights out of Calgary to three European capitals, WestJet president and CEO Ed Sims stopped in Ed
  
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• Tracking crime across Alberta: Dozens of municipalities adopt RCMP real-time map

  13-10-2018 00:53 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta RCMP have been testing out a new map that points out where certain crimes are occurring and now it's expanding across the province.
  
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• Man convicted in 2014 nightclub killing: Victim shot in the chest

  13-10-2018 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man was convicted Friday of second-degree murder for the 2014 nightclub killing of Bekri Mohamed.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Adam Germain found Luqman Osman guilty on the second-degree murder charge, as well as several firearms offences.
  Mohamed, 31, was shot dead at Papyrus Restaurant and Lounge, 11124 107 Ave. on Nov. 5, 2014.
  A Canada-wide warrant for Osman was issued by Edmonton city police after the killing. More than a year later, he was finally arrested in Montreal.
  
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