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• Edmonton-area club makes plea for stolen trailer full of competitive boats: ‘This is a blow for our club’

  27-10-2018 23:24 via globalnews.ca
  Approximately 30 boats, which are carbon fibre, were stolen along with a trailer belonging to the Greater Edmonton Racing Canoe and Kayak Club. The boats are worth about $50,000.
  
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• Yellowknife drone operator fined, banned from flying

  27-10-2018 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Yellowknife man is believed to be the first person in the Northwest Territories to be charged with the unsafe operation of a drone, Mounties said this week.
  The charge dates back to September last year when several people complained to RCMP of a drone being flown in the area of 54 Street and an area close to the Yellowknife Airport.
  Several days after the investigation was launched, Mounties identified the lone operator and charged him with one count of dangerous operation of an aircraft.
  
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• Not a remote chance: Leaving garage door openers in cars invites home robberies

  27-10-2018 22:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leaving a garage door opener in an unlocked vehicle invites robberies, warn city police.
  More than 35 cases of vehicle and garage break-and-enters have been reported to city police over the past month or so. In most cases, thieves gained access to residential garages after finding remote door openers inside vehicles parked outside.
  “Police and its partners, including insurance agencies, have repeatedly messaged the public over the last several years, reminding citizens not to leave garage
  
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• Dopamine stolen from Whitehorse ambulance could kill

  27-10-2018 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are warning thieves who stole dopamine from an ambulance in Whitehorse that its use could cause a heart attack.
  Dopamine, which is not meant to be administered without a medical infusion device, has the ability to cause severe hypertension and tissue necrosis, police said.
  “There is enough medication in the stolen bag of dopamine to cause serious harm or death,” said RCMP in a release this week.
  Police said the theft of the 250-millilitre drip bag along with vehicle gas
  
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• 'Heartbroken': St. Albert Canoe and Kayak Club hopes for return of missing boats worth $50,000

  27-10-2018 22:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Members of the St. Albert Canoe and Kayak Club were devastated after discovering that a storage trailer containing 35 race boats was stolen, says the head coach.
  “We’re so heartbroken,” said Zak Mahmoudi in an interview Saturday, adding the property value amounts to more than $50,000. “It took us almost 10 years to save money, apply for grants, buy these boats.”
  He’s also pleading with the public to keep an eye out for the boats and asking the person who
  
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• Longtime MLA Brian Mason farewells party faithful at NDP convention

  27-10-2018 22:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Longtime Edmonton NDP MLA Brian Mason was a little emotional Saturday afternoon.
  He had just been honoured at his party’s convention, a tribute after announcing he won’t seek re-election in 2019.
  Around 1,200 Alberta New Democrats descended on Edmonton’s Westin Hotel for the first full day of convention, grinding through caucus reports and a handful of resolutions before Mason’s farewell just after noon.
  Mason was first elected to Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in 2000,
  
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• Are you a winner? $60 million Lotto Max jackpot ticket sold in Edmonton

  27-10-2018 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The country’s newest multimillionaire might just be your neighbour in Edmonton after the lone winning ticket for Friday night’s $60 million Lotto Max jackpot was sold in Alberta’s provincial capital city.
  The Western Canada Lottery Corporation listed the winning numbers on its website Saturday morning but it might be a few days, or even weeks, before we know exactly who the winner is or exactly which shop the winning ticket was sold at.
  The draw also offered 56 M
  
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• Gate worth the wait: Edgewater Estates offers Leduc's first gated community

  27-10-2018 15:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Leduc’s first gated community.
  Edgewater Estates, part of Southfork — one of Leduc’s newer neighbourhoods — will feature customizable homes built on oversized lots, with three-car garages and walkout options, including the ability to have a full-size RV or boat bay as part of the garage.
  The new development had a mid-October grand opening, aiming to appeal to the expanding demographic of Albertans who are looking for the luxury of an estate home, while also hav
  
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• Growing Things: Water thoroughly to make fairy rings a fantasy

  27-10-2018 15:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: I own a cottage in central Alberta that is about eight years old, and my lawn there has two large fairy rings. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can control them?
  A: It has been quite some time since we last talked about fairy rings, so this might be a good time to revisit the issue. This problem is caused by a fungus which, when established, cuts off the supply of water to the roots of the grass through its thick mesh of mycelium fibres in the soil.
  You need to get water through that t
  
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• Saturday's letters: Albertan loves curriculum — Saskatchewan's

  27-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “New curriculum prepares youth for real world,” Julia Lipscombe, Oct. 20
  May I say that I usually agree with and enjoy following Julia Lipscombe’s accounts of family life.
  It appears that some Albertans are quite willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to provincial history, social structure and family values in the education system. Our three children not only survived Grades 1 to 12 but have prospered in post-secondary.
  I believe they have largely p
  
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• Oilers prepare to take on Predators

  27-10-2018 05:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  At first glance, the Edmonton Oilers schedule through the first four weeks of the NHL season seemed so daunting there were fears the year could be over before Halloween.
  Yet, after flying to start the season in Europe, coming back to North American for a three-game road trip, and then returning home to host a perennial championship contender, the reigning President’s Trophy winners and defending Stanley Cup champions from the past three seasons, the Edmonton Oilers have come out of it wit
  
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• St. Albert gala remembers four Humboldt Broncos players: 'We are healing, we are not forgetting' - Toronto Star

  27-10-2018 04:26 via thestar.com
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  St. Albert gala remembers four Humboldt Broncos players: 'We are healing, we are not forgetting'
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  EDMONTON—Jaxon Joseph and his hockey teammates would have been humbled to see the support they and their families are receiving from their home community of St. Albert. “All four boys would've probably said, 'C'mon, guys, it's not that big of a deal,' ...
  Jersey Day in St. Albert to remember four Humboldt Broncos playersCTV News
  Jersey Gala honouring fallen
  
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• Two ties knot up Raiders - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 03:02 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Two ties knot up Raiders
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  The St. Albert Nektar Data Systems Raiders have turned the page on letting two wins slip away last weekend. The results were ties of 2-2 against the Red Deer Chiefs and 3-3 against the Okotoks Oilers at Akinsdale Arena. “We're starting from scratch.
  
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• Spotlight on hockey games this weekend in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 03:02 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Spotlight on hockey games this weekend in St. Albert
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  The Northern Alberta Midget AA Hockey League regular season continues this weekend for the Blues and Source for Sports Crusaders of St. Albert. The Blues host the Beaumont Braves (3-2) today at 1:45 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena and Sunday's game against ...
  
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• Cross-country, volleyball and hockey updates - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 03:02 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Cross-country, volleyball and hockey updates
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  Christiane Bilodeau of the St. Albert Skyhawks finished the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association cross-country championships as the fourth-fastest U19 female last Saturday in Vermilion. Bilodeau's time was 21 minutes and 14 seconds on the 5,000-metre ...
  
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• Love and politics share a bond - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 03:01 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Love and politics share a bond
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  Reviewers are reading political and social undertones in Birds of Chicago's latest release Love in Wartime. Yet ironically, the husband and wife duo, J.T. Nero and Allison Russell, were focused on producing an album with a through line promoting love.
  
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• Drum roll, please - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 03:01 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Drum roll, please
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  St. Albert musician Travis Switzer, a five-time winner of the Canadian Country Music Association Bass Player of the Year, was inducted into the 2018 Hall of Honour recently. “It feels great. It feels surreal to know I won't be nominated for anything ...
  
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• Keith Gerein: Lubicon deal offers hopeful resolution to dark chapter in Alberta history

  27-10-2018 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first time I heard about the Lubicon Cree was in 1988.
  I was 13 at the time, growing up in Calgary and, like, totally psyched about the Winter Olympics coming to my city.
  One night I saw a story on the evening news. A group of Indigenous men from northern Alberta, all wearing blue ball caps, were calling for a boycott of the Games.
  I remember being angry. Why would anyone want to shun the best party the province had ever seen?
  My parents calmed me down and did their best to explain the issue
  
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• Sturgeon Medical Centre breaks ground - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 02:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Sturgeon Medical Centre breaks ground
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  It was a triumphant moment for one former councillor as he watched as shovels ripped apart the ground, signifying the start of a new medical clinic in the city. “It's really a good thing for St. Albert,” said Malcolm Parker on Oct. 24. “I can't wait to ...
  
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• Residents home in on housing - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 02:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Residents home in on housing
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  Six residents spent their Wednesday evening weighing in on St. Albert's draft 2019 budget, during an open house dominated by questions about affordable housing in the city. Paul Stalker, a St. Albert resident since 1992, took the opportunity to ask ...
  
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• Landrex proposing recreation facility north of city - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 02:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Landrex proposing recreation facility north of city
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  Residents of St. Albert could see a multi-use recreation facility constructed north of the city by 2023 if a Landrex proposal is approved by council members. The land development company has submitted a proposal to the city to bring together the YMCA ...
  
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• A growing city - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2018 02:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  A growing city
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  St. Albert continues to grow on almost all sides. With construction booming in Jensen Lakes, Riverside and Ville Giroux, the St. Albert Gazette decided to join a bus tour and compile a list of major construction projects across the city. Hosted by the ...
  
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• New lab brings fledgling health tech companies together in shared space

  27-10-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A local startup with plans to market a more accurate prostate cancer screening test is one of the first businesses to set up shop in a new downtown shared lab space for health tech companies.
  “Being downtown, in more of a business environment out of the university, I think is going to have a lot of benefits for us as we start to grow and commercialize our technology,” said Colin Coros, the chief commercialization officer with Nanostics Precision Health on Friday at the launch of TEC
  
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• New collection of Indigenous knowledge now available to First Nations schools

  27-10-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  As chiefs from across Alberta prepared to snip a bright red ribbon with large novelty scissors, hung behind them on the wall was a framed black-and-white picture from 1970.
  In it, Chief Norman Yellowbird is handing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau the Red Paper, a set of counter-proposals to a government plan to eliminate Indian status in Canada.
  The Red Paper set the course for First Nations people to take control of their historical and cultural resources and protect their languages, said Piikani
  
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• David Staples: Alberta united (at last) on the war path against pipeline opponents

  27-10-2018 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a dark time for Alberta energy but there’s reason to hope. Out of despair and anger, out of getting shafted on oil prices and getting schooled by anti-oil propagandists, we’re coming together in a way that will lead to success.
  On the left, the governing NDP has dropped the last shreds of its old naive anti-pipeline politics. On the right, both oil industry and conservative political leaders have generally backed away from their own counterproductive resistance to working
  
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• Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Centre opens in Edmonton

  27-10-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the first time, First Nations band-operated schools in Alberta will receive resources and support to help facilitate preservation and revitalization of Indigenous culture and language after the Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Centre opened in Edmonton on Friday.
  “Today is a remarkable day for Indigenous people” said CEO Clayton Kootenay.
  “Education is the silver bullet in the hunt for transformational change and the advancement of our nations. It is the secret we
  
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