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• 'I love when I see the little kids': A thousand families in need get hampers stuffed with food and toys

  15-12-2018 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sydney Tymo always picks out the candy.
  For three years, the Grade 9 student, her parents and older brother have sponsored at least one family through the Junior Chamber International Holiday Hamper Program. It’s a way for the Tymos and thousands of other Edmonton residents to focus on giving, not just receiving, during the holiday season.
  Choosing a sweet treat is Sydney’s way to make the gift personal. “I like candy and I know what’s good,” she said, on her way to
  
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• Office market helps bolster Edmonton real estate scene in 2018: Report

  15-12-2018 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is continuing to see significant year-over-year increases in real estate transactions with investment levels reaching just over $3 billion so far this year, a new report shows.
  According to the report by Altus Group, that number represents a 38-per cent increase on the first three quarters of 2017 and an 86-per cent jump over 2016.
  But that increase was mostly driven by several large purchases.
  “We’ve observed strong overall investment levels for two consecutive quarters in
  
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• St. Albert RCMP credit awareness campaign for drop in property crime - Edmonton Journal

  15-12-2018 20:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert RCMP credit awareness campaign for drop in property crime  Edmonton JournalThe total number of crimes in St. Albert in the second quarter of 2018 has dropped to its second lowest rate in five years.
  
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• St. Albert RCMP credit awareness campaign for drop in property crime

  15-12-2018 20:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert RCMP are crediting increased public awareness for a drop in property crime and a crime rate now at its second lowest in five years.
  Total criminal code violations between July and September dropped to 1,159, with decreases in break and enter, fraud and theft under $5,000, and mischief to property contributing to the overall dip, according to numbers recently released by the RCMP.
  The number of violations was 1,257 for the same period last year. The lowest number was back in 2014 when
  
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• Journey to Healthy Eating: New Year, New You - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 20:04 via stalbertgazette.com
  Journey to Healthy Eating: New Year, New You  St. Albert GazetteJourney to Healthy Eating in partnership with Red Willow Community Church is pleased to offer CHIP® The Complete Health Improvement Program. What it is: ...
  
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• Why I'm OK with Bob Nicholson's line in the sand for Peter Chiarelli

  15-12-2018 19:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Daniel Nugent-Bowman of The Athletic, his interview with Oilers Entertainment Group boss Bob Nicholson where the future of Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli was touched on.
  Nugent-Bowman asked if Chiarelli’s job would be safe if the Oilers made the playoffs.
  “Yeah. There’s no question,” Nicholson. “I think there’s a lot of things that Peter hasn’t gotten credit for. He’s really started to build. You’re starting to see some of them come u
  
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• Teen dies after hitting street light, police suspect speed and icy roads were factors

  15-12-2018 17:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old man died Friday, nearly a month after he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and crashed into an Edmonton street light.
  Around 7 a.m. Nov. 19, the man was driving a 2002 Dodge Caravan down an on-ramp leading to Yellowhead Trail east from 118 Avenue when he lost control on the icy road, Edmonton Police said in a news release.
  He drove onto the median and crashed into a street light on the passenger side of the vehicle.
  The driver was taken to hospital with life-threatening in
  
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• Saturday's letters: Oilsands camps just fine for workers

  15-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Wood Buffalo mayor calls for end to work camps,” Dec. 13
  Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott should have a conversation or two with shop stewards or just ordinary working folks to see what they think of his plan to force oil workers to live in Fort McMurray.
  Four former clients of mine have called me to say that a schedule of two work weeks at their oilsands camp and one week out with the fly-in, fly-out schedule works for them. They are able to work a 10-hour day, and in minutes be ab
  
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• Opinion: Pay equity law needs to change with the times

  15-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 1977, ABBA’s Dancing Queen was climbing the charts in Canada, highway signs went metric, Elvis died, and the federal minimum wage was $2.90 an hour.
  It was also the year that the Canadian Human Rights Act became law, forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex and putting Canada at the forefront of the movement to ensure equal pay for work of equal value for women.
  Forty-one years later, Canada is once again showing international leadership.
  Last February, our government delivered Bud
  
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• Player grades: Koskinen, PK unit plus a triple dose of McDavid+Draisaitl spark Edmonton Oilers over Flyers

  15-12-2018 10:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flyers 1, Oilers 4
  It was no work of art, but it was never going to be. What it was, was a solid, grinding, workmanlike effort from an Edmonton Oilers club that kept their focus for the lion’s share of the 60 minutes and, also for the most part, managed both the puck and their dwindling energy budget efficiently. In the end the Oilers cruised to a 4-1 win over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers.
  The home side’s big players got the job done, with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl produc
  
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• This Santa’s a keeper - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:08 via stalbertgazette.com
  This Santa’s a keeper  St. Albert GazetteThe other night, my family went to St. Albert Centre to get our kids pictures taken with Santa. I have to say, I think there's something fishy going on in.
  
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• Library approval a poor decision - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Library approval a poor decision  St. Albert GazetteSo the majority of council has gone to great lengths attempting to rationalize their decision to proceed with a second library. Only in St. Albert can.
  
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• Council out of touch with residents on storefront library - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  Council out of touch with residents on storefront library  St. Albert GazetteI was extremely disappointed with the St. Albert city council decision (6 to 1) to fund a storefront library. The plebiscite was an overwhelming no for.
  
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• Tired of breaking shovels on city’s snow-clearing mess - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:04 via stalbertgazette.com
  Tired of breaking shovels on city’s snow-clearing mess  St. Albert GazetteFor each storm with considerable snowfall, residents of Erin Ridge Drive shovel two or three times so that the snow is not so difficult to remove. Before.
  
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• Flat tax would hurt Alberta, not help it - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Flat tax would hurt Alberta, not help it  St. Albert GazetteI feel I must respond to Tony Gull's letter, (Your Views, St. Albert Gazette, Dec. 5). If Tony Gull thinks the flat tax, put in by the Alberta PCs, was so.
  
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• Sales tax would just burden Albertans more - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sales tax would just burden Albertans more  St. Albert GazetteIn 2018-19, equalization payments will rise to a new high of $19 billion. Sixty-two per cent will go to Quebec, while Alberta taxpayers will contribute.
  
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• Yankee go home! - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Yankee go home!  St. Albert GazetteFrom the very beginning the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so the crude could not reach the international market where it could fetch a.
  
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• Watch: Alberta K-4 curriculum announced

  15-12-2018 04:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s new curriculum for the early grades will be tested in classrooms across the province beginning next September, Education Minister David Eggen said Friday.
  Hundreds of teachers, academics, subject area experts, Indigenous people, francophones and representatives from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut were involved in writing the eight subject areas. Eggen said the ministry gathered about 100,000 messages of feedback from the public.
  If testing goes smoothly, a new kindergarten
  
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• Keith Gerein: Jason Kenney's past views continue to haunt him, but how much should Albertans care?

  15-12-2018 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  During my first few years of university, I can remember telling friends I was uncomfortable with the idea of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
  I was young, unsophisticated and felt a misguided duty to defend conservative values — or as I saw them, Alberta values — that were often attacked at the liberal Ontario university I chose to attend.
  My views evolved quickly in the years afterward, as I began travelling the world, met more people and developed better critical thin
  
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• New Alberta K-4 school curriculum ready for classroom testing

  15-12-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s new curriculum for the early grades will be tested in classrooms across the province beginning next September, Education Minister David Eggen said.
  If testing goes smoothly, a new kindergarten-to-Grade 4 curriculum in all subjects will be introduced to schools across Alberta in September 2020, he said Friday.
  “One of the pressing concerns why we are building new curriculum here, especially in K-4, is to make sure that kids are carrying those basic skills each step along the
  
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• Press Gallery podcast: The 2018 Year-End Alberta Politics Quiz edition

  15-12-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  As is the tradition for the final Press Gallery panel podcast of the year, this week the team looks back at 2018 for the annual news quiz.
  Join host and quizmaster Emma Graney with contestants Clare Clancy, Keith Gerein and Dave Breakenridge to find out who remembers the most about what happened over the past 12 months in Alberta politics.
  Play along at home to pit your wits against Edmonton Journal politicos. Merry Christmas and happy new year from all of us in the Press Gallery studio.
  
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• Christmas with Big Bands - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 01:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Christmas with Big Bands  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW It's a Big Band Christmas II (Sequel) Mission Hill Brass With special guests Capital City Big Band Sunday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. St. Albert United.
  
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• Bitcoin bomb threat hits city - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:59 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bitcoin bomb threat hits city  St. Albert GazetteA business in Riel Park was one of dozens of businesses across the world this week hit by a scam that involved a bomb threat and demands for.
  
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• Blues back to defend REB title - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:35 via stalbertgazette.com
  Blues back to defend REB title  St. Albert GazetteJasper Place – The Paul Kane Blues are playing a wait-and-see game as the defending champions at the REB Invitational. “I don't think we're coming in.
  
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• Upcoming hockey games - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:31 via stalbertgazette.com
  Upcoming hockey games  St. Albert GazetteSabres at home The St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres continue a four-game homestand this weekend in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League.
  
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• St. Albert hockey coverage - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert hockey coverage  St. Albert GazetteMerchants game Sunday the St. Albert Merchants square off against the Beverly Warriors in the Capital Junior B Hockey League. Faceoff is 8 p.m. at.
  
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• Skyhawks embrace REB challenge - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Skyhawks embrace REB challenge  St. Albert GazetteJasper Place – The St. Albert Skyhawks are playing from a position of strength at the 37th annual REB Invitational. With three players unavailable for the.
  
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• North St. Albert focus of road network expansion - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:16 via stalbertgazette.com
  North St. Albert focus of road network expansion  St. Albert GazetteA new east-west arterial road is in the works for north St. Albert thanks to funding in the 2019 budget. This year, the city budget focused on roads and.
  
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• Local arts and crafts for Christmas? You betcha! - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Local arts and crafts for Christmas? You betcha!  St. Albert GazetteIf you're like me, you probably like most of your shopping to support the local economy. I'm not just talking about avoiding mass-produced trinkets made.
  
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• City slated to fund Fire Hall 4 - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  City slated to fund Fire Hall 4  St. Albert GazetteThe City of St. Albert will have a fourth fire hall on the horizon once councillors approve the municipal budget Monday. Fire Hall #4 is going to be built.
  
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• RCMP require more space - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:12 via stalbertgazette.com
  RCMP require more space  St. Albert GazetteOn Monday, members of city council will vote on the 2019 budget, which is set to earmark $100,000 to study how to house the RCMP force in coming years.
  
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• Painting a political message to Ottawa - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Painting a political message to Ottawa  St. Albert GazetteMany people can't quite put their finger on how best to tell Ottawa their feelings about supporting tradespeople through these difficult economic times.
  
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• Skillet - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Skillet  St. Albert GazettePastry classes When Confections Cake Co. launched its dessert bar, it pointed to St. Albert's maturation in the food scene. Its roaring start continues as.
  
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• Last stand to boost Kinettes’ drive - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  Last stand to boost Kinettes’ drive  St. Albert GazetteAs the St. Albert Kinettes move into the big weekend that caps off the group's annual Christmas Hamper campaign, campaign spokesperson Natasha Lefebvre ...
  
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• Oh! Christmas Tree – a spirited, warm-hearted comedy - St. Albert Gazette

  15-12-2018 00:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Oh! Christmas Tree – a spirited, warm-hearted comedy  St. Albert GazetteREVIEW Oh! Christmas Tree Blunt Entertainment and Theatre of the New Heart Runs until Dec. 23 Theatre Network, The Roxy on Gateway 8529 Gateway Blvd.
  
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