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• Edible castle magic: Edmonton bakery creates wizarding world to support the Bissell Centre

  17-11-2018 22:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Welcome to Hogwarts, sweet-toothed Harry Potter fans. You won’t find any trolls in the dungeon but you will find gingerbread and frosting, among other delights.
  It’s all part of the Duchess Bake Shop‘s way of supporting the  Bissell Centre.
  Back in August, co-owner Garner Beggs began this massive 1:100 scale replica build of the Hogwarts castle from the Harry Potter series, which takes up just under 50 square feet of floor space.
  “It’s made
  
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• Watch: Giant Christmas Tree returns to Churchill Square

  17-11-2018 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s giant Christmas Tree returned to Churchill Square in a blaze of Christmas spirit and lights during it’s official light up ceremony Friday.
  Last year construction in Edmonton’s downtown core caused the annual tradition to be put on hold.
  The 65-foot (20 metres) tall, white spruce weighing close to 6,200 pounds (2,800 kg) arrived in the city last week from Whitecourt.
  EPCOR crews decorated the tree with more than 14-thousand LED lights, sparklers, and snow globes. The
  
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• County hall in Sherwood Park to open after parkade blasts

  17-11-2018 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strathcona County’s administration hub will reopen to the public next Wednesday following twin explosions in the parkade earlier this month. However the two-level parking facility will continue to be off-limits for some time yet.
  Late last week engineers deemed the county hall, community centre and parkade in Sherwood Park to be “structurally sound” but required environmental assessments and cleaning.
  That has now been complete.
  The parkade, community centre, library, Gallery@5
  
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• Deadly blast cleanup: County hall in Sherwood Park to open after parkade blast

  17-11-2018 16:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strathcona County’s administration hub will reopen to the public next Wednesday following twin explosions in the parkade earlier this month. However the two-level parking facility will continue to be off-limits for some time yet.
  Late last week engineers deemed the county hall, community centre and parkade in Sherwood Park to be “structurally sound” but required environmental assessments and cleaning.
  That has now been complete.
  The parkade, community centre, library, Gallery@5
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day: The Edmonton Oilers re-engage in the Battle of Alberta with a new weapon to deploy

  17-11-2018 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers Game Day #19Edmonton Oilers (9-8-1) vs. Calgary Flames (10-8-1)
  The Edmonton Oilers brain trust huddled up during the club’s 3-day break to assess their club’s performances and project past the quarter pole.
  While they agreed to stay the course on a number of fronts (including head coach Todd McLellan) they also agreed that the team needed more speed up front. In a deal that was all but completed early Thursday but not consummated until Friday afternoon, Peter Chiarel
  
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• Saturday's letters: Sportswriter fumbles rodent references

  17-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. ” ‘Justin Beaver’ expected to make it to Grey Cups for years to come,” Terry Jones, Nov. 15
  Once again, Terry Jones has revealed the truth about sports writing; it’s frequently entertaining, but short on facts. He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about to lump the beaver in with the northern pocket gopher in the Geomyidae family of rodents.
  Beaver are in their own quite different family, the Castoridae, with only two species worldwide. Gainer t
  
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• Opinion: Alberta needs a better way to fix our roads

  17-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  How would you feel if you read a notice in the elevator you were taking to the 30th floor that said 43 per cent of the cable carrying you was in fair to poor condition?
  Or the pilot announced that 43 per cent of the plane’s wings and fuselage was in fair to poor condition? You would be forgiven for feeling outrage and concern about your safety being placed at risk.
  Thankfully, governments are good at regulating the maintenance of those transportation providers to excellent condition a
  
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• Serving St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  17-11-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Serving St. Albert  St. Albert GazettePersuading St. Albertans to donate their time to worthy causes will be a key goal for many community groups this weekend, and the timing is perfect as the.
  
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• Alleged killer wanted for 2017 Lac La Biche slaying still missing despite several tips

  17-11-2018 03:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are again pleading with the public to help try and locate a suspect wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for the first-degree murder of a man in Lac La Biche in 2017 who has also been linked to the case of a missing woman.
  Lloyd Wesley Boudreau is alleged to have shot Michael Matthew Mountain on Oct. 28 outside the front door of the home where Mountain lived with his wife and three young children.
  Boudreau, who is now 23, and Mountain, 26, were known to each other.
  On Friday RCMP s
  
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• 'A visible beacon': 69-storey Stantec Tower tops out transforming Edmonton's skyline

  17-11-2018 02:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Look up — all the way up — and look some more.
  Eventually you’ll find yourself atop the 69-storey Stantec Tower in downtown Edmonton where members of the homegrown company, Katz Group Real Estate, and the City of Edmonton gathered Friday to celebrate the topping off of the 251-metre tall skyscraper, making it the tallest highrise in Canada outside of Toronto.
  “Sixty-nine floors up it felt like sitting with the sun out … a little bit warmer and you could have had a
  
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• Captain Tractor plays second 25th anniversary show Saturday night

  17-11-2018 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Disruptor Gallery popup: Twice a year, Robert Sleight hosts a four-hour pop-up gallery with amazing art at great prices in an unusual space. “It’s not really meant to be a static space — it’s meant to be dynamic and fun,” he said. This iteration, at a studio over Find on Jasper Avenue, is especially full of great work — just have a look at the artists and craftspeople: Andrew Benson, Brenda Draney, Dana Holst, Alayne Spafford, Anya Tonkonogy, Loyal Loot and St
  
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• Clark Builders takes over troubled Grande Prairie hospital project

  17-11-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  PETER SHOKEIR
  Clark Builders will take over as the new construction manger for the $763-million Grande Prairie Regional Hospital, the provincial government announced Friday.
  A dispute with the previous contractor, Graham Construction, led to the province issuing a notice of default, all work on the site being suspended and the Calgary-based construction firm saying it would pursue a claim for damages.
  In the meantime, residents of the northwest Alberta hub have been waiting for work on the
  
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• Deadly blast cleanup: County hall in Sherwood Park to open after parkade blast triggered by young victim

  17-11-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strathcona County’s administration hub will reopen to the public next Wednesday following twin explosions in the parkade earlier this month. However the two-level parking facility will continue to be off-limits for some time yet.
  Late last week engineers deemed the county hall, community centre and parkade in Sherwood Park to be “structurally sound” but required environmental assessments and cleaning.
  That has now been complete.
  The parkade, community centre, library, Gallery@5
  
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• Dire differential: How to deal with the oil price discount costing Canada billions

  17-11-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta oil producers are dealing with a brutal oil differential that’s costing Canada billions of dollars in lost revenue.
  Premier Rachel Notley called it a “very serious problem” Thursday when the price for Western Canadian Select (WCS) heavy crude reached a record low, at one point dropping below US$14.
  The price discount for WCS has been sitting at around US$40 a barrel.
  “There’s a lack of consensus within the industry about the best way forward, meanwhile
  
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• Youth found guilty of manslaughter in Mac's stores robbery killings

  17-11-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 16-year-old boy was found not guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the death of a Mac’s store employee close to three years ago, but he will be sentenced next month on the lesser charge of manslaughter.
  The youth, who was 13 at the time and whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was part of a trio involved in a crime spree targeting Mac’s stores that left two convenience store workers dead.
  A jury convicted one of the adults accused in the killings, La
  
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• Watch: Investigation underway into Leduc industrial triple fatal

  17-11-2018 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  An investigation is underway in Leduc by occupational health and safety at Millennium Cryogenic Technologies where three men were killed Thursday.
  Mounties said they responded to the premises, which are located just east of the Queen Elizabeth II Highway and south of Airport Road, at 2:55 p.m. along with the fire department and emergency services.
  The deaths of three men at the Leduc Business Park has shocked the tight-knit community, Leduc Mayor Bob Young said.
  “When someone goes to
  
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• Two women dead in head-on crash near Millet, 15-year-old girl passenger in hospital

  17-11-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two female drivers are dead and a 15-year-old female passenger is in hospital with serious injuries following a head-on crash on Highway 2A near Millet Thursday evening.
  Emergency crews responded around 6:30 p.m. Thursday to the scene on Highway 2A near Township Road 471, about 55 km south of Edmonton. A van travelling south on the highway collided with a car travelling northbound, Wetaskiwin RCMP said in Friday morning news release.
  A 68-year-old woman was the sole occupant of the car and was d
  
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