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• Fire crews save Alberta Beach post office … and Christmas

  05-12-2018 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Firefighters in Alberta Beach helped save Christmas for the tiny hamlet when they managed to prevent the post office from burning to the ground early Wednesday morning.
  North West Fire Rescue-Onoway arrived at the 47 Street building just after 2:20 a.m. to find smoke coming from the roof vents. The fire was contained by 2:45 a.m., fire Chief David Ives said in a news release.
  Letters, packages and gifts were salvaged and the building remains intact. It did, however, suffer significant smoke dama
  
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• Bloom Cookie expands from mere markets to mortar and bricks

  05-12-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oh Edmonton, sweet city of baked goods! Thank you for the new Bloom Cookie shop, yet another addition to our fragrant fresh cookie scene.
  If you have spent time at the City Market or St. Albert farmers market, you’ll probably have run into Ashley Benson and her husband, Andrew. For the past six years, Ashley has been creating delicious, dairy and egg-free wares for sale at markets and in a few, select coffee shops and restaurants. Now, Bloom has expanded into an attractive new, space at 10
  
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• Province hands out notices to companies forced to cut oil production

  05-12-2018 22:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is in the process of notifying the 25 companies that will have to make production cuts to reduce the oil differential, says Alberta’s energy minister.
  “Right now we’re working with each individual company,” said Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd on Wednesday. “There wasn’t agreement before but I think companies realize these are extraordinary times.”
  Premier Rachel Notley announced Sunday that Alberta would slash oil production temporarily by 8.7 p
  
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• Prab Gill stands by comments slamming UCP, won't confirm he's joining new party

  05-12-2018 22:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary-Greenway Independent MLA Prab Gill is tight-lipped over rumours he will join the Freedom Conservative Party.
  When asked on his way into the legislature Wednesday, Gill repeatedly said “no comment,” before adding he has to consult with his constituents before he makes any decisions.
  He said he has not yet organized any town hall meetings in his riding.
  Gill took the unusual step of raising a point of privilege in the Alberta legislature Tuesday, saying he wanted to clear his n
  
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• Edmonton Oilers' over-reliance on a handful of goal scorers an unnerving trend in 2018-19

  05-12-2018 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 28: Oilers at Blues
  Not to say that the Edmonton Oilers have struggled to score, but their provincial rival Calgary Flames scored as many goals (9) in a single game last night as the Oilers have tallied over their last five contests combined.
  Indeed, lack of offence is threatening to become the story of the season for the northern Alberta club, this despite the presence of two time scoring champion Connor McDavid. (And at least today we can talk about the presence of #97 rather than his
  
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• Edmonton group home worker charged with sexually assaulting child in care

  05-12-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton group home worker has been charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old who was in his care.
  On Wednesday, the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) announced charges including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and making child pornography against a 40-year-old Edmonton man.
  The man was arrested Nov. 2 after an investigation by ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit. Police believe there may be other victims.
  Local police first learned of the man
  
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• Stantec pitches digital signs to light up western Canada's tallest tower

  05-12-2018 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city’s tallest tower will project corporate advertising from 69-storeys up if a rezoning proposal to allow digital signs on the building’s exterior is approved.
  A pitch to light up the outside of the new Stantec Tower has been submitted to the city, and the public are invited to discuss the plan at a drop-in session that will be held in the tower’s lobby from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday. The amendment the company wants would change the overall lighting scheme of the ice di
  
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• 'Too soon to tell': Investigators looking into possible arson at Zar Zor restaurant fire

  05-12-2018 18:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fire stemming from a north-central restaurant Wednesday morning is under investigation for the possibility of arson.
  Six crews responded to the fire call at 8:13 a.m. in a strip mall at 121 Avenue and 90 Street, fire rescue services spokeswoman Maya Filipovic said in a statement.
  They arrived within five minutes to find a working fire at the Zar Zor Restaurant, Filipovic said. The restaurant specializes in Mesopotamian cuisine.
  People in adjoining businesses in the strip mall, including a dayc
  
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• The unforgettable story of an elephant, and her home, on stage at Workshop West

  05-12-2018 18:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  One benefit to being an internationally recognized theatre town is that Edmonton is home to talented artists who know River City inside out.
  So it is with the award-winning Conni Massing, the playwright behind Matara, a 90-minute one-act running at Workshop West’s Backstage Theatre until Sunday. Massing’s play, inspired by Lucy, the long-debated Asian pachyderm at the Valley Zoo, presents a narrative rooted in Edmonton’s natural environment — its smelly spring run-off, it
  
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• By the time Seattle in NHL, Edmonton Oilers roster will be transformed by youth

  05-12-2018 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Evan Bouchard, Tyler Benson, Cameron Hebig, Ryan McLeod, Kirill Maksimov, Caleb Jones, Joe Gambardella, Joel Persson and Shane Starret.
  Basic goals, assists and save percentage stats only tell us so much, but they tell us quite a lot, and they’re giving mighty good signals about a number of Edmonton Oilers prospects.
  Indeed, by the time Seattle enters the NHL for the 2021-22 season, this group of players will have transformed the roster of the NHL Oilers.
  The focus of right now is Milan Lu
  
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• Elise Stolte: Edmonton's transit stations are dead, empty, soulless places. An extra security guard won't change that.

  05-12-2018 15:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  I hate our transit stations.
  I hate how cold and lonely they feel — islands of concrete cut off from anything that makes living in a city worthwhile.
  Grocery stores, coffee shops and dry cleaning services might be just across the street or parking lot, but that feels miles away in the biting cold wind.
  No wonder these spaces feel unsafe.
  Council is spending $20 million to increase security, putting a private security contractor at every major station, upgrading lights and adding mirrors to
  
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• Hold my beer: Oil Kings forward makes sick trick shot from Rogers Place bleachers

  05-12-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  So you think you can do this?
  Not many can, but Edmonton Oil Kings forward David Kope made it look easy. In a video posted to social media Tuesday evening marking ‘World Trick Shot Day’ Kope showed off some pretty slick skills by firing a puck from the upper deck of Rogers Place all the way down to the ice and into the back of the net. *slow clap*
  In honour of #WorldTrickShotDay, here is @david_kope18 potting one from the upper deck at @RogersPlace! #allhail pic.twitter.com/23cI
  
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• Edmonton weather: An ode to windchill … how I loathe thee

  05-12-2018 14:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -9.7 C with 10 km/h winds out of the west contributing to a -15 windchill.
  There’s nothing worse in winter than windchill. I can put up with the snow — heck the snow is the best dang part of winter. And I can put on extra layers to deal with the cold. But nothing stops the wind from cutting through each and every layer and chil
  
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• Wednesday's letters: City's snow response impresses

  05-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I actually want to congratulate the City of Edmonton — particularly the bus drivers — for managing the deluge of snow so efficiently.
  I have recently moved here from B.C., so have not previously witnessed a city that can mobilize like this during a weather event. It really is impressive.
  Cynthia Friedman, Edmonton
  No time-change impact on Oilers
  Oilers’ CEO Bob Nicholson makes a ludicrous claim about the dire effects of “that insane idea of scrapping daylight savings time
  
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• Opinion: The sports psychology behind 'grit'

  05-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Grit has multiple meanings, including grainy and abrasive. That’s the prevailing hockey definition, typically referencing “playing with an edge.”
  But in psychological terms, grit means something else. It means passion and perseverance, and it predicts achievement and success in life and sport over and above things like intelligence and ability. In a psychologically gritty sense, passion refers to focused goal-directed behaviour over long periods of time; perseverance, to unwave
  
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• Wildlife: Judas Priest, Black Thunder and the nervous system of a cat

  05-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In what’s surely the happiest flaming arrow to shoot from the gilded realm of heavy metal lately, Judas Priest is finally returning to Edmonton Tuesday, June 11, at Rogers Place.
  Proper bangers will debate which living metal act stands screaming at the top of Bald Mountain with that big demon, but Rob Halford feels like the perfect contender in these revolutionary times, having been bold enough to openly declare he was gay exactly 20 years ago now. Not to mention he can out-sing and certai
  
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• Small but mighty Canada fights for space in highly competitive artificial intelligence world

  05-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  AI AMBITIONS: There’s a global race underway to capitalize on artificial intelligence, a cutting-edge industry that’s no longer science fiction. Canada, looking to carve out its place, is up against world economic superpowers. Reporter Emma Graney visited China to explore the country’s growing AI expertise and what Canada needs to do to compete. Her reporting was supported with a fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation. This is the final instalment of a three-part series.
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• Elise Stolte: Endless dead space. New security guard isn't going to change soul-less transit centres

  05-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I hate our transit stations.
  I hate how cold and lonely they feel — islands of concrete cut off from anything that makes living in a city worthwhile.
  Grocery stores, coffee shops and dry cleaning services might be just across the street or parking lot, but that feels miles away in the biting cold wind.
  No wonder these spaces feel unsafe.
  Council is spending $20 million to increase security, putting a private security contractor at every major station, upgrading lights and adding mirrors to
  
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• David Staples: New tech plus old business model turn rare veggies into hot biz startup

  05-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Trusted Freshness, a new Edmonton greenhouse vegetable producer, is charging ahead because of a major shortage at grocery stores in rare vegetables, the increasing mastery of greenhouse tech, and a new spin on the old business franchising model.
  “We can grow massive amounts of produce and we can grow pretty much anything, from weed to wheat,” says Trusted Freshness director Doug Kirillo. “What we want to grow is crops that are heavily sought after but no inventories.”
  Tru
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Joel Plaskett, Zoominescence and Rupi Kaur

  05-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Double the Plasketts
  … double the fun, as Joel Plaskett and his pop Bill come to town for another concert supporting their 2017 collaboration, Solidarity. The father-son duo have picked up some nice reviews for their first album, which sees the elder Plaskett infusing his son’s indie-rock tendencies with a dash of Celtic flavouring. Opening are Peterborough’s fuzz-folk duo The Mayhemingways.
  When: Thursday, Dec. 6 at 8 p.m.
  Where: Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900 114 St., Students&
  
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• Winter 2019 Class Registration at the St. Albert Seniors Association - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Winter 2019 Class Registration at the St. Albert Seniors Association  St. Albert GazetteIt is time to set those New Year's Resolutions and sign up for your fitness classes on Wednesday, Dec 5. Sign up for fitness and dance classes between 2:30 and ...
  
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• Tax matters - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Tax matters  St. Albert GazetteHomeowners are expecting a 0.4-per-cent property tax increase now that St. Albert councillors are done with their budget deliberations. Council members.
  
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• Coal Mine Road … a Sturgeon County perspective - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 08:04 via stalbertgazette.com
  Coal Mine Road … a Sturgeon County perspective  St. Albert GazetteRe: “Planning problems” (St. Albert Gazette, Our View, Nov. 14) Thank you for pointing out the problem. As a representative for residents of Sturgeon.
  
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• Alberta carries an unfair burden - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 08:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Alberta carries an unfair burden  St. Albert GazetteNext to my last letter in the St. Albert Gazette are two more people trying to wrongly explain how the equalization system works (Gazette, Your Views,
  
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• Storefront library discussion disappointing - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 08:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Storefront library discussion disappointing  St. Albert GazetteA year and a half ago, we moved to St. Albert. We did so believing St. Albert was that “different” city where the councillors actually listened to the.
  
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• Paying attention to wording a key plebiscite lesson - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Paying attention to wording a key plebiscite lesson  St. Albert GazetteIn last week's budget debates, council approved funding for a storefront library despite the results of the plebiscite from last October's municipal.
  
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• Watch: Light Up the Legislature for Christmas

  05-12-2018 04:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Light Up the Legislature may just be Edmonton’s most beautiful Christmas light display. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley was on hand to kick off the annual event as hundreds of people came to watch and enjoy hot chocolate, Christmas cookies, and the sounds of the University of Alberta Mixed Chorus, as the lights shone bright.
  For more than 30 years the Legislative assembly has celebrated the holiday season by inviting musical ensembles from all over the province to perform festive music in th
  
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• St. Albert Trekkers Edmonton Pedway Walk - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Trekkers Edmonton Pedway Walk  St. Albert GazetteLet's go for a walk with the St. Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club as they walk downtown Edmonton pedways and enjoy Christmas decorations and displays.
  
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• Pop-up Library at St. Albert Community Village with St. Albert Public Library - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  Pop-up Library at St. Albert Community Village with St. Albert Public Library  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Public Library will be popping up at the St. Albert Community Village on Friday, Dec. 7 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Sign up for a library card, check out ...
  
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• Pop-up Library at Servus Credit Union Place with St. Albert Public Library - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  Pop-up Library at Servus Credit Union Place with St. Albert Public Library  St. Albert GazetteThe Outreach Literacy Van will be popping up at Servus Credit Union Place and sharing what's new with the library and providing on the spot programming, ...
  
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• Celebrate the Season at the Alberta Legislature - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  Celebrate the Season at the Alberta Legislature  St. Albert GazetteFor more than 30 years the Legislative Assembly has celebrated the holiday season by inviting musical ensembles from all over the province to perform festive ...
  
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• A Christmas Past - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  A Christmas Past  St. Albert GazetteDeck the halls and carol with us for a traditional Rutherford House Christmas! What activities did the Rutherfords enjoy during the winter months? Warm up ...
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Alberta Party pushes unemployment supports, family law bill passes

  05-12-2018 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Alberta Party MLA Karen McPherson introduced a private member’s bill Tuesday to support unemployed and underemployed Albertans.
  It’s the first piece of legislation ever tabled by the Alberta Party.
  McPherson said Tuesday she has heard from a lot of people in her riding who aren’t able to find a job. The bill was a response to that, and involved consultation with unemployed Albertans, economists, recruiters, First Nations and post-secondary institut
  
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• Ousted UCP MLA slams former party over 'crooked party politics'

  05-12-2018 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former UCP MLA used a rare point of privilege in the Alberta legislature Tuesday to slam the United Conservative Party over what he labelled “crooked and racist nomination politics.”
  MLA Prab Gill left the UCP caucus in July following allegations of improper vote handling at the founding meeting of the UCP Calgary-North East constituency association.
  Retired judge Ted Carruthers investigated the matter at the behest of the UCP. His report led to Gill’s departure.
  At
  
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• Former teacher in Athabasca facing sexual exploitation charge

  05-12-2018 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former teacher in Athabasca has been arrested and charged with sexual exploitation following an RCMP investigation launched in October.
  Mounties said in an email Tuesday the “serious charges stem from allegations of misconduct towards a former student” while the man was a teacher.
  The RCMP did not specify exactly where except to say it was in Athabasca.
  Charles Beamish, 38, of Athabasca, faces one charge of sexual exploitation. He has been released and is expected to appe
  
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• Dynamite and detonators: Mounties continue to recover explosives from rural Alberta properties

  05-12-2018 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the past year Mounties have recovered dozens of kilograms of explosives and detonators discovered on rural properties across Alberta, prompting them to issue a warning to the public with a simple message — Don’t touch.
  Between Nov. 2017 and Oct. 2018 the explosives disposal unit recovered 205 sticks of dynamite, eight slurry explosives and 25 kilograms of a gelatin dynamite that is made for “deep hole conditions encountered in the seismic industry.”
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• Christmas theatre, markets, sleigh rides and more: 10 local ways to kickstart festivities

  05-12-2018 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s no shortage on the list of festive things to do this season. Here are just a few local options to partake in the joy.
  Christmas Glow takes over the Enjoy Centre.
  Christmas Market: The Makers Keep & Glow Christmas
  Growing season is over but the greenhouses at St. Albert’s Enjoy Centre are staying open into the new year to host a sparkling indoor market and light gallery. For those needing gift ideas, the Glow Christmas is offering items from more than 20 local makers this
  
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• Watch: City begins evaluation of Thales' signalling system

  05-12-2018 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Time is up for Thales to complete work on the Metro Line signalling system and the City of Edmonton will now begin to evaluate their work.
  Thales Canada Inc. committed to the Dec. 4, 2018 deadline after the city issued a notice of default on May 1, 2018. The city expects it will take a number of months to complete the evaluation, which will include a review of documentation and field testing.
  The Metro Line will continue to operate as is, with trains running between Century Park and NAIT station
  
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• City testing to continue for months before Metro Line LRT runs at full capacity

  05-12-2018 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The final deadline for Thales Canada to deliver the completed signal system for the Metro LRT Line has passed, but the city can’t say when it will finish its own testing to determine if it is satisfied with the company’s work.
  Exactly five years after the city first announced delays with the system’s implementation, Thales declared the system is ready for service Tuesday, functioning with “no major deficiencies.”
  But city administration said it will continue to test
  
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• Santa's Workshop - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 01:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Santa's Workshop  St. Albert GazetteGet in the holiday spirit and visit Santa's Workshop in the Feature Pyramid. See a stunning display of poinsettias and presents of all sizes and colours. Pop your ...
  
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• Watch: Gamma knife at the University Hospital has treated more than 250 patients

  05-12-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The gamma knife at the University Hospital has treated roughly 15 per cent of brain surgery patients with a non-invasive procedure.
  The radiosurgery team at the hospital, are able to deliver painless and scalpel-free radiation to difficult regions of the brain to treat a variety of disorders including lesions and tumours.
  The $17-million Gamma Knife Centre opened in December 2017, funded entirely by community donors through the University Hospital Foundation.
  
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• Kickstarter launches as Antonio Bilotta's Al Centro poised to open downtown

  05-12-2018 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Café owner and coffee aficionado Antonio Bilotta has launched a Kickstarter campaign to “get us across the finish line” at his new downtown café and restaurant, Al Centro.
  The concept — three years in the making — is due to launch in January, once the last permits and final touches are complete. Located at 9888 Jasper Ave., Al Centro is both a cafeteria-style restaurant and a sit-down dining space, depending on the time of day. Featuring two espresso machine
  
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• Oh! Christmas Tree - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:55 via stalbertgazette.com
  Oh! Christmas Tree  St. Albert GazetteA new comedy by Conni Massing. A relentlessly cheerful extrovert and a cynical loner plan to get married but first they must deal with the ghosts of Christmas ...
  
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• U of A students find record levels of mercury released into Canadian Arctic waterways from thawing permafrost

  05-12-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic as a result of climate change is releasing unprecedented levels of toxic mercury into the country’s waterways, according to research by three University of Alberta graduate students.
  The study focused on eight different thaw slumps in the Northwest Territories measuring samples both up and downstream to determine the amount of mercury in the water, co-lead researcher Kyra St. Pierre said from Denmark Tuesday morning.
  Results found mercury concentra
  
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• Doggy daycare set to open at Edmonton International Airport

  05-12-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parting with a canine companion can be the toughest part about flying off for a vacation. But furry friends staying behind in Edmonton will soon be able to accompany their owners and see them off prior to departure with the opening of the first Dogtopia daycare in an airport.
  The city’s second Dogtopia dog daycare location is expected to open in a brand new building at the airport next summer, the Edmonton International Airport announced in a news release Tuesday.
  “Keeping current wi
  
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• Owners hope for Christmas business boost - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:35 via stalbertgazette.com
  Owners hope for Christmas business boost  St. Albert GazetteAlbertan entrepreneurs are becoming a little more optimistic about the future. Small business confidence in Alberta rose by 0.7 points to 53.8 last month,
  
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• Townhouses spark density concerns - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:25 via stalbertgazette.com
  Townhouses spark density concerns  St. Albert GazetteThe fate of a proposed new 70-unit townhouse development in Erin Ridge North is now in the hands of a regional board. On Monday, St. Albert councillors.
  
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• New app helps cancer patients stay informed - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:23 via stalbertgazette.com
  New app helps cancer patients stay informed  St. Albert GazetteWhen Doris Stapleton learned in 2001 the brown lines growing under her left thumb nail were cancer, she was in shock. “First of all, I'm numb in shock.
  
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• Thousands in community grants approved - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:21 via stalbertgazette.com
  Thousands in community grants approved  St. Albert GazetteCompetition grants awarded St. Albert athletes and not-for-profit organizations are getting a helping hand from the city. City council approved more than.
  
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• 'Full ride' scholarship courtesy of wheelman alum - St. Albert Gazette

  05-12-2018 00:20 via stalbertgazette.com
  'Full ride' scholarship courtesy of wheelman alum  St. Albert GazetteThere's a bit of a buzz at Sturgeon Composite High School over a new scholarship that won't even be awarded this year. School officials recently announced.
  
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