St. Albert news

• Alberta looking for new refinery to be built in face of ongoing oil price crisis

  11-12-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is putting out feelers to the private sector to see if there’s any interest in building a new oil refinery in the province.
  It’s the latest in an series of moves announced by Premier Rachel Notley to help combat the ongoing oil price crisis.
  Notley’s Tuesday announcement in Edmonton was light on details — there are no goals yet when it comes to job creation numbers, costs or how the government would even support construction.
  But she was firm on one thing: Th
  
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• Alberta seeks oil refinery - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 23:31 via stalbertgazette.com
  Alberta seeks oil refinery  St. Albert GazetteAlberta Premier Rachel Notley wants another oil refinery built in the province, and is asking for proposals from the private sector. On Tuesday afternoon,
  
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• Mac's store clerk killer Laylin Delorme handed two life sentences

  11-12-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 50-year parole ineligibility period on top of a life sentence for the man found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two Mac’s employees in 2015 would have been unduly harsh and extinguished any hope for his rehabilitation, a Court of Queen’s Bench Justice said Tuesday.
  Laylin Delorme, 27, had faced the potential of being ineligible for parole for a half-century if the court had followed the recommendations of Crown prosecutor John Wa
  
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• 2017 collision report released - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 22:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  2017 collision report released  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert's traffic report for 2017 has some good news and some bad news for residents, transportation manager Dean Schick says. On Monday, the city.
  
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• SPUD teams with Food for Thought to raise funds for hungry kids

  11-12-2018 21:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The local school nutrition program, Food for Thought, has partnered with the organic food delivery service SPUD to help raise funds for school lunches and snacks.
  SPUD customers have the option to choose Food for Thought, founded in 2002 by Carol and Bernie Kowalchuk, for an ongoing fundraiser. The non-profit runs a breakfast, lunch and/or snack program in roughly 14 schools across the city, serving nutritious foods to more than 500 students daily.
  When purchasing through SPUD, the customer can
  
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• 'It was really scary': City bus driver recognized for standing up to racist attack

  11-12-2018 21:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A bus driver who stood up to a woman who was in the midst of a racist tirade directed at other passengers was honoured with a standing ovation at city hall Tuesday.
  ETS operator Larry Waters was recognized for intervening in the attack against Dalen Cardinal and her friend, who were riding the bus on route 4 on the afternoon of Nov. 1.
  The crowded bus was headed west from Bonnie Doon down Whyte Avenue when a woman boarded and began hurling vile verbal abuse at Cardinal, who had her six-month-old
  
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• Company gifts resident with new roof - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 21:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  Company gifts resident with new roof  St. Albert GazetteWhen St. Albert's Elaine Reimer found out a local roofing company was going to replace the roof on her house for free, she was speechless. For the last.
  
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• Alberta looking to build a new refinery in face of ongoing oil price crisis

  11-12-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley announced the province will “explore interest from the private sector” for building a new oil refinery in Alberta to help combat the ongoing oil price crisis.
  “For decades, Albertans have been talking about getting more value for our oil at home,” Notley said in a statement Tuesday. “So let’s stop the talk, end the decades of dreaming and start making more of the products the world needs here at home.
  “It’s time to grab the bu
  
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• Sports groups cool on refrigerated ice rink - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 20:27 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sports groups cool on refrigerated ice rink  St. Albert GazetteSome of St. Albert's amateur sports groups don't think the city's newly funded $1.2-million outdoor refrigerated ice rink will be a good fit for them.
  
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• Jason Strudwick defends Taylor Hall as case study of the evolution of a professional hockey player

  11-12-2018 20:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strudwick weighs in on Andrew Ference’s comments about lack of commitment being major sticking point
  This in from former Oilers defenceman Jason Strudwick, his entirely sensible and insightful take on Andrew Ference’s bombshell comments about the 2013-15 Oilers, essentially that the team of that era had young players who partied too hard and did not practice nearly hard enough.
  Speaking with Jason Gregor on TSN1260, Strudwick first made it clear that he could not speak from personal
  
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• MP condemns feds for oil crisis - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 19:48 via stalbertgazette.com
  MP condemns feds for oil crisis  St. Albert GazetteThe federal government is not doing enough to help with the Alberta oil price crisis, St. Albert's MP says. Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP Michael.
  
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• Photo Gallery: CP Holiday Train rolls into Edmonton

  11-12-2018 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Scores of Edmontonians gathered at the Old Strathcona CP yard, 103 Street and 80 Ave, to check out the CP Holiday Train during its stop in town Monday.
  The stop featured musical performances from Terri Clark, Sierra Noble and Kelly Prescott.
  The train will move on to make stops in Innisfail, Olds, Didsbury, Airdrie, Cochrane, Morley, Canmore and Banff.
  The CP Holiday Train arrives at the Old Strathcona CP yard, 103 Street and 80 Ave., in Edmonton Monday Dec. 10, 2018.
  Edmontonians watch as the C
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #31: As the Edmonton Oilers carry a 3-game winning streak into Denver, something's gotta give

  11-12-2018 19:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey Game Day #31:Edmonton Oilers (16-12-2, 34 pts) vs. Colorado Avalanche (17-8-5, 39 pts)
  The Edmonton Oilers have some important decisions to make.
  The club is not only playing well defensively, stringing some wins together and staying with the pack in the Western Conference playoff race. But they also have a few injured bodies healed up and about to return. That’s a nice bonus.
  But all 3 looming transactions will require not just a lineup shuffle but significant roster moves.
  
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• Taxes dollars ‘not on the table’: Heron - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 18:36 via stalbertgazette.com
  Taxes dollars ‘not on the table’: Heron  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert's mayor is calling on her Edmonton counterpart to stop “pounding his fist on the table” and start the conversation about regional cost sharing.
  
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• Notley to announce new 'made-in-Alberta' energy strategy

  11-12-2018 17:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley will announce a new energy strategy Tuesday in the face of the continued oil price crisis.
  The afternoon announcement in Edmonton will see Notley joined by Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd and Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous.
  According to the government, the premier will announce the opportunities the province is exploring to get full value for the energy resources owned by all Albertans.
  The move comes the day after the province unveiled
  
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• Mac's store clerk killer Laylin Delorme faces 50-year parole ineligibility, life imprisonment

  11-12-2018 17:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The man found guilty of two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of two Mac’s employees in 2015 will learn his fate today when a Court of Queen’s Bench justice hands down his sentence.
  Laylin Delorme, 27, faces the potential of being ineligible for parole until he is 77 years old if the court follows the recommendations of Crown prosecutor John Watson.
  Watson on Monday argued that a life sentence with 25-year parole ineligibility — which is the maximum
  
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• Volunteer’s Star for Qaderi - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 17:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Volunteer’s Star for Qaderi  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert's Sophia Qaderi has been recognized with a provincial award for volunteerism.
  
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• Michelle Obama returning to Edmonton on speaking tour

  11-12-2018 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former first lady Michelle Obama must really like Edmonton.
  Having already visited the city in March, Obama will return to the provincial capital in the new year as part of a tour to promote her new book, Becoming.
  More than 7,000 attended a lunchtime event held at Rogers Place in Edmonton earlier this year to hear her talk about private moments from her time at the White House as well as her early life living in Chicago and her husband’s time in office.
  Obama spoke for an hour i
  
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• Wildlife: Rayanne Haines is Audreys' next writer-in-residence; long live the new Doctor!

  11-12-2018 16:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kicking off next year’s local literary news: author, poet and podcaster Rayanne Haines is Audreys Books’ first writer-in-residence for 2019.
  The 45-year-old writer of The Guardian series of novels is also the Edmonton Poetry Festival director, and winner of the 2018 Raven Award for Best Paranormal Romance for her novel-in-verse, Stained with the Colours of Sunday Morning. Her stint will be through January.
  “I’m pretty thrilled that they were wanting to take me on, especia
  
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• Beautiful Babies of 2018 - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 16:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Beautiful Babies of 2018  St. Albert GazetteWould you like to see your child in the paper? For $19.99 the St. Albert Gazette will publish a picture of your Beautiful Baby of 2018. We will be.
  
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• Edmonton weather: The calm before the (wind)storm

  11-12-2018 15:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -8 C with 11 km/h winds out of the south, southwest contributing to a -13 windchill.
  Today looks to be a pretty average winter day, sun and clouds and a high of -1 C and a low of -4 C. Don’t fret though back in 2000 it was -26.8 which is a lot colder than it is now, so don’t count your chicken before leading them to water.
  Tomorr
  
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• Face to Face - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 14:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Face to Face  St. Albert GazetteAre you an adult victim of bullying? Online? At work? By law enforcement? At home? Your bully wants you isolated. Don't be alone. Be part of a respectful, ...
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Nova Scotia needs Alberta's oil money

  11-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “A new message for bumper stickers, Letters, Dec. 8
  The writer suggests Alberta is the site of “ecological devastation.”  Hardly. Has he ever been north of Edmonton, where there is pristine wilderness? Or south, for that matter, writing as he is from Nova Scotia, where my Bluenoser neighbour says ten bucks an hour is a good wage.
  The writer says our oil and gas industry is non-sustainable, and responsible for one-tenth of Canada’s carbon footprint. Maybe so, but
  
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• Ford trucks continue to be top stolen vehicles in Alberta

  11-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Car theft continues to be a scourge on the Prairies with older-model Ford trucks maintaining pole position as the most popular target for thieves in Alberta, new data from the Insurance Bureau of Canada shows.
  Thefts of vehicles in Alberta has jumped 56 per cent over the past five years, placing Wild Rose Country as the hot bed of Canadian vehicle crime. The numbers in 2017 have climbed six per cent over the previous year.
  The Canadian average for theft rates per 100,000 vehicles in 2017 hovers
  
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• 'We’re just like anybody else': Openly gay Alberta minister ignores the wedding haters

  11-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tourism and Culture Minister Ricardo Miranda sits in his office, a gold engagement band studded with four diamonds on his ring finger.
  “It’s because we met on the fourth,” he says, a grin splitting his face.
  Miranda and his fiancé Christopher Brown went public with the news of their engagement last week. Although they’re private people, they saw it as an opportunity to share positive news and be a visible force for change.
  It is, after all, somewhat of an historic
  
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• First-degree murder charges stayed in Junior Laidley homicide case

  11-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  First-degree murder charges against two men were thrown out over disclosure issues related to a confidential informant five weeks into a homicide trial.
  The trial of Christopher Chung and Max Matthews ended abruptly Friday when Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Vital Ouellette entered a judicial stay of proceedings. Each man was facing charges of first-degree murder and indignity to a body in the 2016 death of Junior Morris Laidley, whose body was found in a burned-out car in Lamont Coun
  
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• The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Pageant ... Ever! - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 09:17 via stalbertgazette.com
  The Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Pageant ... Ever!  St. Albert GazetteThe Best Little Newfoundland Christmas Pageant …. Ever! is seemingly a dull task for Mrs. O'Brien, who has been put in charge when the original leader, Mrs.
  
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• Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 09:14 via stalbertgazette.com
  Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?  St. Albert GazetteYou may have heard of this classic European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf, but this story is unlike any other. Come experience Little Red ...
  
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• Local woman looks to community for kidney - St. Albert Gazette - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Local woman looks to community for kidney - St. Albert Gazette  St. Albert GazetteOne St. Albert woman is turning to the public for a new kidney. Margaret Mackevic, 78, has been receiving dialysis three times a week for over a year.
  
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• Andrew Ference goes nuclear, rips terrible practice habits, party atmosphere of 2013-15 Edmonton Oilers

  11-12-2018 06:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Andrew Ference has again ripped into the party atmosphere and lack of work ethic of the 2013-15 Edmonton Oilers.
  This time Ference was speaking to Elliotte Friedman on the excellent 31 Thoughts podcast, and addressed why things went poorly with the Oilers at that time.
  It was a combination of problems, Ference said, including hardcore pressure from the fans and media. “That aspect of feeling, uh, like more so scared to make a mistake and be the whipping boy rather than being bold and takin
  
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• Player grades, Games 21-30: One new coach, two hot goalies spark turnaround in Edmonton Oilers' defensive game

  11-12-2018 04:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  As fate had it, the Edmonton Oilers and Todd McLellan parted company after Game #20 of the 2018-19 season, just as the second 10-game segment of the season had wrapped up. This meant a clean break for purposes of our regular segment reviews here at the Cult of Hockey. The second segment was all McLellan, the third all Ken Hitchcock.
  Usually the breaks between streaks and slumps — or regimes for that matter — are not so clean, and that’s by design. The arbitrary nature of 10-gam
  
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• New drunk driving test allows police to administer breathalyzers without reasonable suspicion

  11-12-2018 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta RCMP hope new rules that allow them to demand a breath sample from any driver they pull over will deter drunk drivers from getting on the road.
  The mandatory alcohol screening that comes into effect on Dec. 18 means officers can approach every car they pull over with a portable Breathalyzer for screening.
  RCMP traffic services Supt. Gary Graham and Sgt. Brent Robinson, an impaired driving specialist with the RCMP traffic unit, demonstrated the test Monday at K Division headquarters.
  Grah
  
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• Girls basketball roundup: Albert lifts St. Mary's over Annapolis - CapitalGazette.com

  11-12-2018 03:00 via capitalgazette.com
  Girls basketball roundup: Albert lifts St. Mary's over Annapolis  CapitalGazette.comWhitney Albert had 24 points and eight rebounds and Karry Kelliher had 13 points, nine rebounds and four blocks to lead St. Mary's to a 62-52 victory over ...
  
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• Real estate agent roars up interest in St. Albert home - CTV News

  11-12-2018 02:34 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Real estate agent roars up interest in St. Albert home  CTV NewsA real estate agent is bringing velociraptor-fast attention to a St. Albert home that has been on the market for nearly three months.
  
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• Chinatown business association takes on safe injection sites in federal court hearing

  11-12-2018 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A local legal battle over the community’s right to be consulted on safe injection sites could have national implications and potentially delay life-saving access to harm reduction services, proponents of the sites say.
  The Chinatown and Area Business Association brought a federal court application Monday, seeking to have the legal exemption allowing three community safe injection sites to function quashed.
  The crux of the association’s argument is that it wasn’t properly consul
  
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• Singin' in the Rain - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 02:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Singin' in the Rain  St. Albert GazetteThe “Greatest Movie Musical of All Time” is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original ...
  
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• 21st Annual Nativity Display - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 02:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  21st Annual Nativity Display  St. Albert GazetteEnjoy a peaceful place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. Enjoy hundreds of different Nativity scenes, large and small, collected ...
  
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• Regional leaders respond to Iveson’s 'passionate' call for sharing costs

  11-12-2018 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Days after declaring “the free ride is over” for neighbouring communities, Edmonton’s mayor said Monday it would be better to focus on financial facts, not feelings.
  Mayor Don Iveson was following up on comments he made last Friday during city council’s budget deliberations in the midst of a debate about how to cover the cost of a $39-million Edmonton Valley Zoo upgrade and the price of new recreation centres. He said Edmonton should put “every single thin
  
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• Edmonton weather: Freezing rain warning lifted for Edmonton and area

  11-12-2018 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  A freezing rain warning issued for the city of Edmonton and surrounding area was lifted late Monday afternoon.
  ‘Skating rink’
  The freezing rain has wreaked havoc on some city streets and highways surrounding the city.
  Stony Plain RCMP issued a statement Monday afternoon warning of treacherous road conditions due to the freezing rain.
  “Range Road 35 in the Kapasiwin area has been described as a skatin
  
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• Girls, six-months and three-years old were stabbed to death, autopsy confirms

  11-12-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  An autopsy on the bodies of two little girls found in a southeast Edmonton apartment last week confirmed that the two were stabbed to death.
  The father of the youngest girl — aged six months — is accused of second-degree murder in their deaths. The second girl was three years old. Their mother is still in hospital.
  Police released additional details about the shocking case Monday afternoon.
  The two were found concealed beneath household items in a storage room of their mother&rs
  
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• Weekend results for Raiders, Flyers, Sharks and Royals - St. Albert Gazette

  11-12-2018 00:32 via stalbertgazette.com
  Weekend results for Raiders, Flyers, Sharks and Royals  St. Albert GazetteRaiders fall short The first loss in five games dropped the St. Albert Nektar Raiders into fourth place in the north division of the Alberta Midget AAA.
  
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• 'Please have mercy on me': Mac's store clerk killer Laylin Delorme pleads to families for forgiveness

  11-12-2018 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The defence lawyer for a man found guilty of two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of two Mac’s employees in 2015 has told court imposing a 50-year parole ineligibility on top of a life sentence would be “vengeful” and “lacking in compassion.”
  Lawyer Naeem Rauf said Monday that even though what his client Laylin Delorme did was “indefensible,” life in prison and a half century before he can apply for parole is “monstrous&rdq
  
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• Police cruiser rolls down McDougall Hill, officers injured but OK

  11-12-2018 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Edmonton police officers were injured when their cruiser rolled down part of McDougall Hill early Monday morning.
  The crash temporarily blocked traffic on the hill during rush hour.
  Police said in a news release Monday that the incident happened after 3:15 a.m.
  The officers were pursuing a white Nissan car that was driving erratically on Jasper Avenue.
  “The suspect vehicle continued westbound on MacDonald Drive, striking the south curb at a high rate of speed,” a news r
  
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