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• 'A limitation': Five-person Indigenous medical student cap lifted at University of Alberta

  28-11-2018 23:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A five-person limit on the number of Indigenous students admitted to the University of Alberta’s medical school each academic year is being eliminated.
  All Indigenous students who meet eligibility requirements will be admitted, ending the three-decade-old quota system created as a means to track what was a small number of Indigenous students, the university announced Wednesday.
  “Thirty years ago, Indigenous postsecondary enrollment was nowhere near where it is now, so holding five sp
  
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• Sherwood Park explosion restoration work could cost $14M, county says

  28-11-2018 22:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Insurance assessors estimate the restoration work required to repair a Sherwood Park complex at the epicentre of twin explosions earlier this month could cost about $14 million.
  Strathcona County mayor Rod Frank said Wednesday the county has approved the sum in unbudgeted expenditures to restore the community centre and that it is working with its insurers to recover the full costs.
  Frank said the county is moving forward with the restoration process and will be required to pay the costs as
  
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• Watch: Alberta will purchase rail cars to ship crude

  28-11-2018 22:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced today that Alberta will purchase rail tankers to ship crude to international markets.
  The move comes after Ottawa has failed to step up and respond to Alberta’s proposal, she said during a speech at the Canadian Club of Ottawa.
  New rail cars would move an an additional 120,000 barrels a day out of the province, starting late 2019, said the province. The full complement of cars would ship out in 2020.
  Crude-by-rail shipments already increased to a rec
  
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• Tribute to Mitchell becomes a search for Blechinger

  28-11-2018 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  So you’re a singer-songwriter getting ready to record your first album. Where do you draw the line between paying homage to your biggest influence and expressing your inner self?
  Kate Blechinger came up with an elegant solution for her debut disc Under A Dancing Sky. Half the tracks are new interpretations of her self-admitted biggest inspiration, Joni Mitchell, while the other half are the Edmonton singer’s originals that sometimes take off from or tie into the covers.
  The result of
  
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• Carol, dance and cheer your way to the holidays: Your best guide to Edmonton's Christmas entertainment scene

  28-11-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is your Christmas tree up already?
  Are you one of those people who looks forward to humming jingles from the end of November through to the very last days of December? Can’t get enough of those holiday season feels? Well, we’ve got the perfect roundup of listings for you, a guide that will allow you to be in the spirit of Christmas for almost every day in December.
  In Edmonton, we start counting down the days with A Christmas Carol, over at the Maclab Theatre in the Citadel. Julien A
  
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• Review: The Tenors wade unabashedly, and pleasingly, through fields of Christmas cheer

  28-11-2018 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The world is not lacking in tenors.
  Aside from the groundbreaking Three Tenors there’s the 3 Welsh Tenors, The Irish Tenors, The Four Tenors, The Countertenors, The Australian Tenors, even The Redneck Tenors, to name just a few. In Canada we have The Tenors, formerly (go figure) The Canadian Tenors, a carefully manufactured unit that caught fire back in 2008 for their rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Since then they’ve been a constant presence on the classical charts in
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Clear view of Edmonton Oilers challenges for Ken Hitchcock

  28-11-2018 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ken Hitchcock has had a good glimpse at what ails his new team, what works and what doesn’t early in his tenure behind the Edmonton Oilers bench.
  With other teams who had gone through a ‘rebuild’ phase at the same time as these Oilers finally realizing success — like the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres — is there anything Hitchcock, the third-winningest coach in NHL history, can do to jumpstart flailing Edmonton?
  Podcast host Craig Ellingson talks to Oile
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Matara, Royal Bison and Ed the Sock

  28-11-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Matara
  The real-life saga of Lucy the Elephant and her life at the Edmonton Valley Zoo is the basis behind Matara, playing at the Backstage Theatre until Dec. 8. Originally produced as part of Workshop West’s This is YEG, New Plays for a Changing City series, Matara (playwright Conni Massing’s name for the elephant in her production) circles around three characters who work at the zoo: Matara’s caregiver Karen, marketing consultant Romney, and Marcel, the Rwandan security guard
  
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• Three to See on Thursday: Viennese classical, Festival of Trees and a journalistic memoir

  28-11-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  ESO’s Viennese Favourites: Part of the Traditional Classics series, conductor Alexander Prior leads us through dances and operettas from Vienna’s glittering 19th century, excerpts of inspirational Bach and a moving Christmas Oratorio in a lively blend of sacred and secular music. Featured composers also include Haydn via Brahms, Strauss the Younger and Richard Strauss’ “Seien wir wieder gut!” (Ariadne auf Naxos). Featured performers include mezzo-soprano Catherine D
  
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• Live at noon – Elise Stolte: Thales is not the bogeyman. Metro Line LRT doomed from the start

  28-11-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Take a 1970s Chevy Chevette and add on today’s Tesla-style automated technology.
  Sound easy?
  Maybe it’s possible, but I’ll bet it’s a recipe for misery and an unending series of software tweaks and disappointments.
  Like Edmonton’s Metro Line.
  The final deadline for Thales Canada to hand over the long-delayed LRT signalling system is one week away.
  Thales executives say incredible, unsung feats of technical engineering have been achieved and the signalling system is
  
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• Notley promises new rail cars to ship oil, slams Ottawa for failing to step up

  28-11-2018 19:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta will buy trains to ship crude in an effort to reduce the oil price differential burdening energy producers, says Premier Rachel Notley.
  The move comes after Ottawa has failed to step up and respond to Alberta’s proposal, she said during a speech at the Canadian Club of Ottawa.
  “We need the federal government at the table, treating it like the crisis it is.”
  New rail cars would move an an additional 120,000 barrels a day out of the province, starting late 2019, said the
  
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• Online tirade over needles in Edmonton yard prompts debate on supervised injection sites

  28-11-2018 18:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  An online debate over supervised injection sites sparked overnight after an Edmonton reporter shared his story of finding a used needle in his backyard Tuesday.
  National Post reporter Tristin Hopper posted the eight-tweet thread just after noon Tuesday. The thread garnered hundreds of responses from both supporters and those critical of his stance.
  “We decided to have a family in large part because we thought Edmonton was a place with the courage not to let this happen,” Hopper wrote
  
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• From $10 to $100: Parking tickets at University of Alberta set to skyrocket

  28-11-2018 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tickets for parking violations at the University of Alberta are about to get a whole lot more expensive for vehicle owners, with administration recommending increases to many infractions, in some cases as much as 10 times the current cost of fines.
  Between 2013 and 2017 the total number of tickets issued has jumped by 34 per cent and the number of tickets issued for use of parking space without a permit in the same period has increased by 48 per cent.
  That comes even though there has been no dra
  
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• Richard Starke, last Progressive Conservative standing, will not seek re-election in 2019

  28-11-2018 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s last Progressive Conservative MLA, Richard Starke, has announced he won’t seek re-election in 2019.
  Starke was elected as the MLA for Vermilion-Lloydminster in 2012. He ran unsuccessfully against Jason Kenney for PC Party leadership in 2017.
  When the PC and Wildrose parties merged to become the United Conservative Party, Starke refused to join, sitting instead in the corner of the house by himself under his own brand.
  He said Wednesday he has “zero regrets” abou
  
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• Oilers in 60: The non-goal heard around the world

  28-11-2018 16:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  It took 60 minutes of hockey for something to finally happen between the Edmonton Oilers and the Dallas Stars last night at Rogers Place, and that’s when things got interesting.
  It was just over a minute into overtime when Connor McDavid slid a puck past Stars’ goaltender Anton Khudobin only to have it slapped away just in the nick of time by Stars defenceman Gavin Bayreuther — but wait!
  Did he, in fact, stop that puck?
  You be the judge.
  Unreal… #LetsGoOilers pic.twitter
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's slippery out there, folks. Adjust accordingly.

  28-11-2018 14:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -4.3 C with 7 km/h winds out of the southwest contributing to a -7 windchill.
  It sounds so simple doesn’t it. “Adjust accordingly.” Think about it; all you have to do is adjust your driving habits and everyone around you will be all the safer for it. What a concept! No tailgating, no swerving in and out of lanes without signalling, no sp
  
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• Wednesday's letters: No thanks, to long icy walk for bus

  28-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Yesterday, I tried to walk from my home in Brander Gardens at 56 Avenue down to 53 Avenue but had to turn back; although sections of the sidewalk were clear, many parts were covered with small seas of ice, rendering the sidewalk unwalkable.
  Throughout this month’s occurrences of freezing rain, wet spring-like snow that turned to frozen slush, and fluctuations of temperatures that resulted in cycles of thawing and freezing, this sidewalk has remained unmaintained.
  The responsibility for mai
  
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• Opinion: Russia playing with fire in Ukraine

  28-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Russia’s violent seizure of three Ukrainian naval vessels sailing to Ukrainian ports on the Sea of Azov is but the latest instance of the Kremlin’s brazen aggression directed toward its neighbour and former colony.
  The rote denials and false claims accompanying the attack can be regarded as having the same credibility as Russia’s insistence that it was not a Russian missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 over Ukrainian territory; that Russian intelligence op
  
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• Opinion: Edmonton closer to getting its own Kananaskis

  28-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With last week’s announcement to designate Bighorn Country, the government of Premier Rachel Notley and Minister of Environment Shannon Phillips have made good on a commitment to protect Edmonton’s headwaters and provide more parks for Albertans to enjoy.
  Forty years ago, Progressive Conservative premier Peter Lougheed designated Kananaskis Country for the conservation of Calgary’s water supply, to protect fish and wildlife, and ensure residents of southern Alberta had wilderne
  
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• Public school board tweaks budget, moves some school attendance boundaries

  28-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  New classroom furniture, paint jobs and better access to academic and psychological assessments are coming to public schools as the school district reaches deeper into its piggy bank.
  The Edmonton public school board approved a revised 2018-19 budget on Tuesday that included $9 million more revenue, and pulled $22 million more from reserves, bringing its planned spending to $1.23 billion this year.
  In total, the district plans to draw $48.6 million from its $64.7-million operating reserve to pay
  
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• Elise Stolte: Thales is not the bogeyman. Metro Line LRT doomed from the start

  28-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Take a 1970s Chevy Chevette and add on today’s Tesla-style automated technology.
  Sound easy?
  Maybe it’s possible, but I’ll bet it’s a recipe for misery and an unending series of software tweaks and disappointments.
  Like Edmonton’s Metro Line.
  The final deadline for Thales Canada to hand over the long-delayed LRT signalling system is one week away.
  Thales executives say incredible, unsung feats of technical engineering have been achieved and the signalling system is
  
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• David Staples: Today Fort McMurray, Tomorrow the Moon — big plans for young businessman

  28-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Today Fort McMurray! Tomorrow the Moon!
  Nicolas Olmedo, president of Edmonton’s Copperstone Technologies, has big dreams for his robotics company, but not without some justification.
  Olmedo and Copperstone have designed a series of autonomous robots that can already go to places and do work that is extremely difficult for humans to manage.
  Copperstone’s amphibious robots specialize in propelling themselves into industrial tailings ponds at mines and oilsands facilities so that measur
  
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• Player grades: Koskinen, Klefbom come through in the clutch as Edmonton Oilers snuff out Stars

  28-11-2018 09:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stars 0, Oilers 1 (OT)
  Oscar Klefbom was the ultimate hero on Tuesday night, but he has Mikko Koskinen to thank, and in more ways than one. Koskinen made the biggest of his 28 saves with under 2 seconds left in regulation when he robbed former Art Ross winner Jamie Benn from point-blank range to spare the Edmonton Oilers what would have been a devastating defeat, this after Klefbom was among those caught puck-watching on the play. Disaster averted, the Oilers and Dallas Stars moved on to overtim
  
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• What was the purpose of last year's plebiscite? - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 08:36 via stalbertgazette.com
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  What was the purpose of last year's plebiscite?
  St. Albert Gazette
  With 62 per cent of ballot-casting St. Albert residents voting against another library in 2017, why is council ignoring the results and continuing to pursue a library that the majority of people do not want? What is the purpose of holding a plebiscite ...
  
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• North end of St. Albert Trail an embarrassing mess - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 08:36 via stalbertgazette.com
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  North end of St. Albert Trail an embarrassing mess
  St. Albert Gazette
  On Nov. 17, and definitely not the first time, I sat for 15 minutes trying to get from the lights by Costco gas bar to the Best Buy lights. There were hundreds of vehicles on the trail, uh no Highway 2, trying to go south and then there were all the ...
  
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• City should partner with schools on library service - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 08:36 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City should partner with schools on library service
  St. Albert Gazette
  I have never before written a letter to the editor of the Gazette, but I am so disgusted with our mayor and council over their refusal to honour the will of the people when it comes to opening a new, and may I say totally unnecessary, second site for a ...
  
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• A hand up - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 08:36 via stalbertgazette.com
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  A hand up
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  With a looming election, Premier Rachel Notley's plan to boost assistance payments for Albertans with disabilities who are unable to work might be seen by cynics as a ploy to garner favour with voters. But the 60,000 residents – including many St ...
  
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• Watch: Protection for People Seeking Addiction and Mental Health Services

  28-11-2018 07:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman held a news conference after introducing legislation that “would protect people seeking addiction and mental health services.” She was joined at the news conference by Nicole Imgrund (chairperson, Federation of Associations of Counselling Therapists in Alberta) and Kim and Mike Argent, founders of the Taylor Argent Legacy Foundation.
  The province is proposing a new professional regulatory college and licensing requirements to protect Albertans r
  
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• Watch: Edmonton Oilers Defeat Dallas Stars 1-0 in Overtime

  28-11-2018 07:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock on the bench against the Dallas Stars during NHL hockey game action in Edmonton on Tuesday November 27,2018. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock gives a post game summary after his team defeated the Dallas Stars in overtime by a score of 1-0 in Edmonton on Tuesday November 27, 2018.
  This was the first home game for newly hired head coach Ken Hitchcock after Todd McLellan was fired. Hitchcock had retired last season aft
  
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• Watch: $60 million Lotto Max winner hasn't come forward yet

  28-11-2018 06:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly a month after a winning ticket sold in Edmonton for a record-equalling $60-million Lotto Max jackpot the winner has yet to come forward.
  Historically, some winners have been known to deliberately avoid claiming their winnings for months on end while they get their lives in order and work out their new life priorities.
  “Sometimes with the really big wins people take their time. It’s also possible that someone is not aware of it,”  said Western Canada Lottery Cor
  
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• Parking violation tickets at University of Alberta set to skyrocket

  28-11-2018 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tickets for parking violations at the University of Alberta are about to get a whole lot more expensive for vehicle owners, with administration recommending increases to many infractions, in some cases as much as 10 times the current cost of fines.
  Between 2013 and 2017 the total number of tickets issued has jumped by 34 per cent and the number of tickets issued for use of parking space without a permit in the same period has increased by 48 per cent.
  That comes even though there has been no dra
  
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• Downtown parking revenue falls short of projections; neighbourhood levy tapped for arena debt

  28-11-2018 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  With downtown parking revenues coming up short of projections, the city will reach into the pockets of a special levy for core projects to pay off arena debt.
  City council passed a motion Tuesday to use revenue from a downtown community revitalization levy to cover the $45-million shortfall in parking revenue — revenue the city was counting on to cover a portion of its debt on Rogers Place.
  That means annual payments from the levy of about $2.3 million for the next 18 years, whic
  
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• Alberta women's shelters 'beyond full capacity'

  28-11-2018 02:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Crisis calls to women’s shelters in Alberta have jumped 10 per cent since 2015-16, while the number of women, children and seniors sheltered last year is up on the previous 12 months, a new report released Tuesday says.
  The report, produced by the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, says that “the rising demand for services has taken many shelters beyond full capacity” and that “women using shelter services are facing the highest level of danger in seven years.&rdq
  
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• 'Extensive cockroach infestation': Southgate Korean BBQ restaurant ordered closed after inspection

  28-11-2018 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Korean barbecue restaurant was ordered closed by health officials after an inspection found a number of public health violations, including an “extensive” cockroach infestation.
  Koryo Korean BBQ, located at 901 Southgate Shopping Centre, was also operating without a valid food handling permit, Alberta Health Services executive officer Sarah Stephen wrote in a notice of closure dated Nov. 19.
  AHS ordered the owner immediately close the premises, apply for a valid food handling permi
  
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• City to study interim housing for Edmonton homeless, why some choose camping over shelters

  28-11-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A city councillor hopes a study examining why people are choosing to camp instead of accessing emergency shelters will also provide interim housing options for people living rough.
  “We have a horrendous issue here. We have a housing crisis,” said Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen, speaking after city council passed his motion asking administration to take a look at what’s driving people dealing with homelessness to camp.
  Recent map data provided by the city shows that in 2018, camps ha
  
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• 'Not a planned, targeted event': charges laid after Edmonton International Airport fence breached

  28-11-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP have charged a 27-year-old man with using an SUV to breach an outer fence at Edmonton International Airport.
  They offered no comment on the man’s motivations in a news release Tuesday.
  “The RCMP will not be providing any speculation as to the reason for this occurrence but can assure the public that this was not a planned, targeted event,” the news release read.
  “This matter is now before the courts and further information will not be provided.”
  Police said an
  
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• Man pleads guilty to manslaughter in random killings of Queen Mary Park seniors

  28-11-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has admitted to manslaughter in the grizzly, random slayings of a Queen Mary Park couple in 2016.
  Police found Joao and Maria Nascimento dead from a series of knife wounds after armed tactical officers chased a man into the couple’s basement on Sept. 2, 2016.
  That man, 33-year-old Edward Kyle Roberts, pleaded guilty to manslaughter this week in Edmonton’s Court of Queen’s Bench.
  The Nascimentos, husband and wife of 40 years, were known as avid gardeners and active members
  
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• Rail fence to cost city less than expected - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 01:55 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Rail fence to cost city less than expected
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  In August, the city secured a $500,000 grant for fencing around parts of the city's rail corridor to prevent trespassing. On Monday, city councillors heard that means the city will pay a smaller share of the costs than it had budgeted for. While the ...
  
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• City sculpting new committee for public art - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 01:55 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City sculpting new committee for public art
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  The city is going to be drawing up a bylaw for a new council committee on public art, thanks to a motion from Coun. Natalie Joly that received the support of most city councillors Monday night. The motion passed 6-1 with Coun. Ray Watkins casting the ...
  
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• Budget approved for new city building - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 01:55 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Budget approved for new city building
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  St. Albert councillors voted Monday to approve the operating budget for a newly acquired city building. In August, the city announced it had officially taken over ownership of 110 Carleton Drive for $8.8 million. The city expects the building – which ...
  
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• Not quite the Polar Express - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 01:46 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Not quite the Polar Express
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  The biggest holiday tradition is on “track” to roll into town this week. The CN Christmas Express Train is all decked out and ready to meet the gleeful expectations of festive spectators. “I think it's wonderful that the public wants to come out and ...
  
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• Let it snow - St. Albert Gazette

  28-11-2018 01:46 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Let it snow
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  The heart of St. Albert lit up with Christmas glow last Friday as residents celebrated the annual Snowflake Festival. Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive to help kick off the Snowflake Festival on Perron Street Friday night. Organized by the St. Albert and ...
  
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• Trapper's wife, child killed in suspected Yukon bear attack

  28-11-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trapper in Canada’s Yukon Territory shot and killed a grizzly bear on his way back from his trapline Monday afternoon — only to find his wife and 10-month-old child dead from an apparent bear attack outside their cabin.
  The Yukon Coroner’s Service released details about the shocking incident Tuesday.
  According to a news release, RCMP in Mayo, near the Northwest Territories border, received a call at about 3:45 p.m. from a man who had been trapping in the Einarson Lake area.
  T
  
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• Watch: ATA fines former teacher $32,500

  28-11-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Frieda Anne Mennes was banned from teaching by the Alberta Teacher’s Association on Monday and fined $32,500 for unprofessional conduct toward students, staff and parents dating back to 1981.
  Mennes taught in several schools around Brooks in southeastern Alberta but spent most of her career in Bassano, a community 140 km east of Calgary.
  She hasn’t taught since November 2016, when a complaint was filed and she went on paid leave.
  The panel held a hearing for 23 days between March and
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Albertans use new sex marker on ID, energy minister 'disappointed' with feds, $1 M added to grant program

  28-11-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province says 177 people have checked the X sex category to register for a driver’s licence or identification card after the option was rolled out earlier this year.
  Twenty-six people have used the marker for vital statistics records such as birth certificates and marriage licences, said Service Alberta Minister Brian Malkinson during Tuesday’s question period.
  In June, Premier Rachel Notely announced the third sex category, adding to F and M, saying the non-binary option would s
  
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• Lotto Max mystery: Record $60-million lotto winner still to come forward

  28-11-2018 00:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The winner of a record-equalling $60-million Lotto Max jackpot last month has yet to come forward to claim the cash but, somewhat surprisingly, that in itself is not an unusual thing.
  In fact, some winners have been known to deliberately avoid claiming their winnings for months on end while they get their lives in order and work out their new life priorities.
  “The latest is there’s no latest,” joked Western Canada Lottery Corporation spokesman Kevin van Egdom on Monday abo
  
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• Alberta brings in rules for treating alcoholism and drug addiction, enforced by fines up to $100,000

  28-11-2018 00:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is preparing to regulate addiction treatment facilities and launch a college to oversee professionals who call themselves counsellors and therapists.
  Legislation tabled Tuesday aims to ensure safe, competent care for Albertans searching for a therapist or addiction treatment centre, said Health Minister Sarah Hoffman.
  Currently, there are no minimum standards for treatment centres, leading to about 35 complaints since 2012, according to the province. Complaints ranged from being una
  
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