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• UCP charges ahead in third-quarter fundraising

  19-10-2018 22:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party raised nearly 75 per cent more than the NDP brought in last quarter, according to the latest financial reports from Elections Alberta.
  From July 1 to Sept. 30, the UCP central party and its constituency associations brought in $1.18 million, compared to $676,450 by the NDP.
  That puts the UCP comfortably at the head of the pack for year-to-date donations, having raised almost $2.7 million in the 2017-18 fiscal year so far. The NDP has raised $1.86 million.
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• Thief in stolen employee vest hits Lowe's, Best Buy in St. Albert - CBC.ca

  19-10-2018 22:46 via cbc.ca
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  Thief in stolen employee vest hits Lowe's, Best Buy in St. Albert
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  Suspect set up 'large theft' at one big-box store before stealing $4,000 in merchandise from another. CBC News · Posted: Oct 19, 2018 2:46 PM MT | Last Updated: October 19. St. Albert RCMP are seeking this suspect from an attempted theft at a Lowe's ...
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• Concert review: Colter Wall conducts living history lesson at Union Hall

  19-10-2018 22:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s plenty of room for everyone in a cowboy hat in that luminous circle, but when Colter Wall makes music live, you just can’t help but feel the difference between name-dropping history and actually paying legitimate service to its continuity.
  A keen moment of this, and you could pick from a dozen at Union Hall Thursday night, was Wall enthusiastically playing Wilf Carter’s Calgary Roundup: Saskatchewan paying tribute to Nova Scotia paying tribute to Alberta.
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• COMMENTARY: Charles Adler calls on the cowards of St. Albert to turn themselves in

  19-10-2018 18:03 via globalnews.ca
  Dear Coward, in this country, neighbours treat neighbours like neighbours, Charles Adler says.
  
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• Baby sea monster discovery: U of A scientists help identify world's smallest Tylosaurus

  19-10-2018 17:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  An ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas has finally been identified with the help of University of Alberta scientists.
  “Having looked at the specimen in 2004 for the first time myself, it too took me nearly 10 years to think outside the box and realize what it really was — a baby Tylosaurus yet to develop such a snout,” said U of A alumnus Takuya Konishi, now a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati and lead author on the study.
  The Tylosaurus specimen —
  
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• Growing Things: Boost sunshine to prevent spindly sunflowers

  19-10-2018 17:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: I had a problem this year with my sunflowers — they grew but were very spindly. The problem was so bad that I tried tying my sunflowers to stakes, but even then they kept falling over. What could have caused them to become so spindly?
  A: It seems most likely that the sunflowers were not getting enough sun. Most sunflowers like to be in full sun for the majority of the day. If they are not, or are shaded, they will stretch for the sun so much that they make themselves spindly in the
  
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• Inspiration by design: Edmonton Fall Home Show offers something for everyone

  19-10-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homeowners may just fall in love with this year’s edition of the Edmonton Fall Home Show. Why? Because Colin and Justin will show you how to love it — your home, that is.
  But if they can’t convince you to stay in a redesigned masterpiece then there’s Todd Talbot, the expert you’ll need if you want to list it.
  Or if you’re sitting on the fence and can’t decide which way to go, professional organizer Helen Youn, the only certified KonMari consultant on thi
  
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• Attainable aspirations: Design duo Colin & Justin continue battle against bad taste

  19-10-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  They may blow a fuse when it comes to bad design, but when it comes to cabins this dynamic duo knows how to deal with the pressure.
  Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, stars of How Not to Decorate and Cabin Pressure, and the headliners of the 2018 Edmonton Fall Home Show — being held October 26 through 28 at the Edmonton Expo Centre — keep working to rid Canada of bad design, a mission they undertook some eight years ago with their plan of attack on Home Heist.
  “I hope so,”
  
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• Oilers in 60: Way to go Kailer Yamamoto

  19-10-2018 16:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers got off to a bit of a rocky start Thursday as the Boston Bruins came to town in the season home opener at Rogers Place. The Oilers mustered just two shots in the opening 13 minutes of the game and were outshot 12-5 in the first frame as Cam Talbot basically stood on his head the entire period.
  Things picked up in the second period, though. The Bruins opened the scoring 9 minutes in but the Oilers responded in the form of rookie Kailer Yamamoto who sniped home his first NHL goal. Way t
  
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• Edmonton weather: Clear skies and sunshine as far as the eye can see

  19-10-2018 14:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 1.7 C with 3 km/h winds out of the west.
  Today’s weather is much like yesterday’s weather, and tomorrow’s weather. And the day after that. And the day after that. And so on. And so on. Looking at the seven-day forecast for the city reminds me of a broken record spinning the same lines over and over again. Sunny. Clear. Sunny. Clear. Sunny. Clear
  
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• Opinion: Aga Khan Garden offers paradise of a different sort

  19-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Any list of world-renowned parks and gardens is likely to feature the great gardens of the western world.
  London’s Hyde Park and New York’s Central Park stand as two iconic examples. Yet the Middle East and Asia would also be well-represented. The gardens of the Al-hambra in Spain, Al-Azhar Park in Cairo, and the gardens of Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, are all magnificent reminders of the Muslim contribution to the world’s horticultural heritage.
  Thanks to His Highness the Ag
  
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• Friday's letters: People at RAM offer bridge to the past

  19-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I attended the grand opening of the Royal Alberta Museum last week and spent five-and-a-half hours there, most of it in the human history gallery.
  I was expecting more interactive displays, but the new museum displayed human, cultural and natural exhibits very thoughtfully.
  I spoke to a Blackfoot woman who had repaired some of the warrior regalia on display and she told me about the significance of coloured beads and the weasel tails on the shirts. I learned the bison on display had been named E
  
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• Editorial: Pot pardons the next step

  19-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Wednesday, Canada became the second, and largest, country to legalize recreational cannabis.
  On the same day, the federal government followed up on its sea-changing new law by announcing it would also introduce legislation that makes it easier to obtain a criminal pardon for past convictions of simple pot possession.
  At any other time in modern history, such a move would have been as momentous as legalized weed itself. Today, in this new era where Canadians can visit a government-sanctioned c
  
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• School trustee says everyone should have a vote in Catholic school board elections

  19-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta voters should be able to cast ballots for both public and Catholic school board candidates, an Edmonton public school trustee says.
  Trustee Cheryl Johner, who represents north Edmonton on the board, said her colleagues should ask school trustees across the province to advocate for the provincial government to amend the law to allow votes for both publicly funded school boards where their boundaries overlap.
  “A lot of people don’t know what they don’t know. A lot of peop
  
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• Elise Stolte: Edmonton has a serious budget issue. Too many roads, too few people to pay for them

  19-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s easy for people living in mature neighbourhoods to feel holier-than-thou in this city budget debate.
  Mayor Don Iveson wants the new suburbs to pay their own way. Of course. Yes. Cheer if you live in an established area and wonder why cracked streets and sidewalks aren’t fixed quicker.
  But that’s not going to solve Edmonton’s budget woes.
  Many planning experts talk about city budgets being like a Ponzi scheme.
  To borrow an analogy from University of Alberta planner Ro
  
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• David Staples: Hugh Bolton on the necessity of keeping politics out of business

  19-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Edmonton business leader Hugh Bolton meets with civic politicians from other cities, he’s often asked about the great success of Epcor.
  How did this particular city-owned utility company become such an international powerhouse when other such entities are mediocre in terms of growth and dividends?
  Bolton, the chairman of the Epcor board from 2000 to 2018, always has the same answer. The key is keeping politicians and political influence off the company board, he says, thus freeing up
  
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• COMMENTARY: Charles Adler calls on the cowards of St. Albert to turn themselves in - Global News Calgary

  19-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  COMMENTARY: Charles Adler calls on the cowards of St. Albert to turn themselves in  Global News CalgaryAfter a family in the St. Albert community of Grandin received a racist, threatening letter in the mail, community members took steps to support them.
  
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• Oilers head coach talks about team's overtime win against the Bruins

  19-10-2018 07:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  After coming back from 4-1 down to beat the Winnipeg Jets in overtime, the Edmonton Oilers were looking to make a statement in their home opener Thursday.
  They did.
  Two of them, actually.
  Firstly, they reaffirmed that they don’t really like showing up for the first period.
  And secondly, they showed there is some serious fight in this team.
  Down to five defencemen and 11 forwards for more than half the game, and reeling after being pistol-whipped in the first period, the Oilers settled down
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers stop the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Overtime

  19-10-2018 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers triumphed 3-2 in Overtime, in their home opener against the Boston Bruins Thursday night.
  The Bruins were far-and-away the best team over the first 12 minutes of the game. But as Boston’s road legs started to wear a bit, Edmonton evened the play. Then by the time 3-on-3 overtime arrived, it felt as if the Oilers had wrestled away the momentum.
  And indeed…that dynamic Overtime pairing of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl that has been so deadly during their NHL ti
  
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• k.d. lang receives Alberta Order of Excellence

  19-10-2018 04:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Singer-song writer k.d. lang was among eight Albertans who received the Alberta Order of Excellence at Government House in Edmonton on Thursday.
  The other Albertans who received the honour were Reg Baskin (Edmonton), Solomon Rolingher (Edmonton), Allan Wachowich (Edmonton), Ralph Young (Edmonton), Rosella Bjornson (Sherwood Park), Wayne Chiu (Calgary) and David Manz (Calgary).
  k.d. lang is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter who has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical
  
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• Edmonton rolls out proposed four-year, $4.3-billion capital budget

  19-10-2018 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed $4.3-billion budget for city construction and repair projects for the next four years has been frustrated by uncertainty, Mayor Don Iveson said Thursday.
  “The fact that we’re going into this budget deliberation with hundreds of millions of dollars of uncertainty for Edmontonians makes it very difficult for Edmonton city council to effectively prioritize,” Iveson said, following the release of the proposed 2019-22 capital budget.
  The current funding agreement, the Mun
  
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• Senior killed in collision with semi near Coronation

  19-10-2018 03:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A senior-aged man is dead after a collision near Coronation Thursday morning.
  Police said the collision between a truck and a semi-tractor happened around 10 a.m. on Highway 12 in Paintearth County.
  Investigators believe the truck was southbound on Range Road 131. It proceeded from a controlled intersection at Highway 12 and collided with an eastbound semi.
  The 77-year-old man driving the truck was killed. Police said he is from Castor, Alta. There was nobody else in the truck at the time.
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• Alberta ninth-grade math scores take a hit with new calculator-free portion

  19-10-2018 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Newly released provincial exam scores show Grade 9 students struggled with a new mental math portion of the test.
  Just half of ninth-graders who wrote the math provincial achievement test last spring passed a new calculator-free segment that requires students to plow through 20 questions in 20 minutes, according to a report released by Alberta Education Thursday.
  Three-quarters of the Grade 9 students passed the second part of the test, in which calculators are permitted.
  “I fully expected
  
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• St. Albert residents show support for family who received racist letter - CBC.ca

  19-10-2018 01:19 via cbc.ca
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  St. Albert residents show support for family who received racist letter
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  An impromptu flash mob and a planned block party are just some of the ways St. Albert residents are showing support for a family of five who received a threatening racist letter this week. 'Go back where Indians belong': St. Albert mother frightened by ...
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• Community north of Edmonton rallies around family that received hateful letter

  19-10-2018 00:44 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of St. Albert residents gathered Wednesday night to show their love and support for the family who received a hateful and racist letter earlier this week.
  
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• Edmonton police plan to allow online sexual assault reporting

  19-10-2018 00:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Letting sexual assault survivors file police reports online could encourage more people to come forward and raise dismal reporting rates for the crime, says the head of the Edmonton police sexual assault section.
  In a presentation to the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday, Staff Sgt. Christa Pennie said city police plan to introduce online reporting for sexual assaults some time next year.
  “It’s not going to be for reporting crimes that are occurring right now. Those crimes still ne
  
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