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• Sad news as Solstice Seasonal Cuisine to close doors in mid-February

  09-01-2019 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chef Jan Trittenbach and managing partner Jon Elson are considering their options as Solstice Regional Cuisine shifts to another business model.
  After four years on 124 St., Elson acknowledges that, at the end of the day, not enough people were coming into the restaurant to make it a viable business. The restaurant will close in its present format on Feb. 16.
  “We were idealistic enough to think that just making good food and drink would be enough,” says Elson.
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• Edmonton Photographic Historical Society - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 21:28 via stalbertgazette.com
  Edmonton Photographic Historical Society  St. Albert GazetteThe Edmonton Photographic Historical Society is a camera/photography club open to the public. There is no charge to join and no cost to belong. We exist to ...
  
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• Watch: Oil Spills: Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid endures flagrant fouls

  09-01-2019 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  NHL beat writers Jim Matheson and Derek Van Diest talk to Oil Spills host Craig Ellingson about the grabs, holds, shots, interference, etc., Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid endures many times per game and why referees are seemingly ignoring most of the fouls.
  
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• ETS cash fare will jump to $3.50 on Feb. 1

  09-01-2019 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Transit riders will have to fork over an extra quarter for a single cash fare, beginning Feb. 1.
  The hike from $3.25 to $3.50 was approved by city council during its four-year budget deliberations in late 2018.
  City staff had proposed increasing the fare to $4 by 2021. Council only agreed to the 2019 bump, electing to wait for administration to prepare a fare policy report before deciding whether to go ahead with the increase to $4, which could make Edmonton’s single fare the most expensiv
  
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• Press Gallery Interview podcast: Paula Simons on what happened with Bill c-69

  09-01-2019 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Regular Press Gallery listeners will recognize this week’s interviewee, who sits down to talk with host Emma Graney about being one of Canada’s newest senators and what exactly happened with the vote on Bill c-69.
  Independent Alberta Senator Paula Simons joins us for the first Press Gallery Interview of 2019 to talk about life in the centre block and why Twitter caused her to miss out on sandwiches.
  
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• Highway robbery: Man charged after attempting to steal snowplow

  09-01-2019 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 26-year-old man has been charged after attempting to steal a snowplow from a good samaritan along a highway north of Edmonton.
  At around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, a man driving a snowplow on Highway 43, west of Valleyview, stopped to help a truck driver who had hit the ditch, said Valleyview RCMP on Wednesday.
  One of the people in the truck then assaulted the snowplow driver and tried to steal the snowplow.
  RCMP responded and the snowplow was not taken or damaged.
  Jake Goodswimmer of Sturgeon Lake Cr
  
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• Man wanted after two northern Alberta weekend shootings

  09-01-2019 19:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are looking for a 30-year-old man after two separate shootings — one of which left a victim with injuries — in northern Alberta over the weekend.
  Desmarais RCMP on Wednesday said they are investigating two Saturday complaints of a man firing a gun at victims in two separate locations.
  One victim was injured and is recovering, the other was not harmed, police said.
  RCMP continue to try to find the gunman who investigators believe may be in the Slave Lake and Athabasca area. T
  
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• Watch: Edmontonians rally in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation

  09-01-2019 18:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Approximately 100 people gathered in Edmonton’s Beaver Hills House Park Tuesday evening to voice their support for the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.
  The Wet’suwet’en are currently blocking access to a planned pipeline on their lands in northern B.C. On Monday, RCMP breached a checkpoint created on unceded Wet’suwet’en First Nation territory and arrested 14 people.
  The checkpoint was put in place three weeks ago after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling an
  
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• Woman faces additional charges after 65 horses seized from Alberta property

  09-01-2019 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman is facing 60 additional animal cruelty charges after an RCMP investigation resulted in the seizure of more than 70 animals from a Parkland County property.
  On Tuesday, 65 horses and six dogs were removed from a rural property after a collaborative effort between Evansburg RCMP, RCMP Livestock Investigations, Alberta SPCA, Brand Inspectors, Sangudo Veterinary Clinic, Parkland County and Lac St. Anne County.
  Three dead horses were previously found on the property.
  Evansburg RCMP said Wedne
  
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• Oilers in 60: Bloopers and Outtakes

  09-01-2019 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers were in San Jose Tuesday taking on the Sharks in hopes of closing out their four-game road trip on a high note.
  That didn’t happen.
  A combination of bad bounces and an uber-talented Sharks team led to the Oilers losing 7-2 to fall to 20-20-3 on the season. It was one of those games where you wanted to call in the guys from the Men in Black to wipe the memory of it from your brain.
  At least Lucic scored.
  Bloopers & Outtakes
  We’re at the halfway point in the sea
  
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• Edmonton weather: This wind chill can frostbite me

  09-01-2019 15:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -10 C with 27 km/h winds out of the southeast making it feel more like -17.
  Looking to be a little cloudy today and a 30 per cent chance of flurries later this evening. Looking at a high of -7 C today with winds gusting from 20 km/h to 40 km/h making it feel more like -17. The winds will die off in the evening and it’s expected to ha
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Zwozdesky held in high regard

  09-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like many other Albertans, I am saddened to learn about the passing of Gene Zwozdesky and convey my sincere condolences and sympathy to his wife Christine and family.
  I knew Gene when I worked for the Alberta NDP opposition caucus during the period 1997-2005 and had to continuously deal with the Speaker’s office on numerous legislative and procedural matters. Following my retirement, I sought his advice on other community-building issues, including the formation of Daughters Day to celebra
  
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• Opinion: Stricter breath-testing laws give police unprecedented powers

  09-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The changes the federal government made on Dec. 18, 2018 are arguably the most radical changes since 1969, when breath-testing for alcohol on a large scale became possible and the offence of “over 80” made its debut in the Criminal Code.
  For the first time, police can require a motorist, under pain of prosecution, to provide a sample of breath into a screening device without having any reason to believe the person is under the influence of alcohol or even suspect the person has consu
  
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• Editorial: Cancelled meetings mark low point

  09-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The polarization of Alberta politics reached a new peak — or rather, a new low — last weekend.
  Four meetings scheduled this month in Edmonton, Red Deer, Drayton Valley and Sundre to gather public feedback on proposed new parks along Alberta’s eastern slopes were cancelled by Environment Minister Shannon Phillips for reasons of public safety.
  It’s encouraging that Albertans are so passionate about this 4,000-square kilometre parcel of stunning terrain whether they are cons
  
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• High water levels bedevil North Saskatchewan River

  09-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The North Saskatchewan River took its sweet time to ice up this winter, resulting in the latest freeze in recent years.
  The river usually freezes in late November or early December, but unseasonably warm temperatures shuffled that date back to Dec. 22, according to Environment and Parks.
  Nadia Kovachis Watson, a river hydraulics and ice engineer with the province, told Postmedia freeze-up occurred close to Christmas in 2006, 2008 and 2009, but 2018 was the latest freeze in years.
  Water levels at
  
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• Elise Stolte: Cut the rhetoric. Bighorn Country 'bomb' is a minor change to what's already protected

  09-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  To hear Brazeau County Reeve Bart Guyon talk, Alberta’s Bighorn Country recreation plan is a twisted sales job about to send the provincial economy into a mud bog.
  It’s a “Bighorn bomb” with “far reaching tentacles,” he said, preparing for an anti-park rally in Drayton Valley early this week.
  Guyon argues the new land-use designation will create a new layer of red tape and freeze out new oil and gas investment. That it’s part of an American environmental
  
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• David Staples: We have it in us to disrupt the dirty U.S.-led "dirty oil" campaign

  09-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s not easy to deliver a successful rah-rah speech to local business leaders right now but venture capitalist Ashif Mawji nonetheless hit the mark, giving a prescription that just might help us break out of tough economic times.
  Pessimism prevails in Edmonton. It was a somewhat deflated crowd of 1,000 local business leaders that gathered at the Edmonton Conference Centre to hear from new Edmonton Economic Development chief executive officer Derek Hudson and others at the Impact 2019
  
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• Player grades: No contest as Sharks hammer 7 goals past Oilers again

  09-01-2019 09:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 2, Sharks 7
  It was clear from the early going that this wasn’t going to be Edmonton Oilers’ night. A date with the San Jose Sharks is always a tough challenge, and when pucks started bouncing flukily into the Oilers’ net at one end and off the posts at the other, well, it wasn’t going to happen.
  The concerning aspect to these eyes was that the Oilers seemed to accept their fate far too willingly, offering precious little pushback in any aspect of the game and ultim
  
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• Civic duty - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Civic duty  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert has long prided itself on being a city with a small-town feel. That small-town feel is no wishful thinking: neighbours helping neighbours is.
  
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• City council – practise what you preach - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  City council – practise what you preach  St. Albert GazetteCity council, reading letters to the editor these past few months, St. Albert seems to be upset with your behaviour. They have good cause. You preach to.
  
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• What’s the point of the blue bag? - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:04 via stalbertgazette.com
  What’s the point of the blue bag?  St. Albert GazetteOur family recalls the good old days where there were bins in Riel Park and once a month or so, I would drive our boxes of cardboard, paper, glass, tins and ...
  
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• Blue bag tag came to the wrong house - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Blue bag tag came to the wrong house  St. Albert GazetteOn Dec. 21, I found a tag in my mailbox indicating a list of unapproved items in my blue bag. I was confused as I had not put out a blue bag this week. So.
  
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• Coal Mine Road closure a bad option - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Coal Mine Road closure a bad option  St. Albert GazetteAs a 20-plus-year resident of Erin Ridge, I am strenuously opposed to the closure of Coal Mine Road. I feel very strongly that closing Coal Mine Road will.
  
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• Coping with the ripple effects of poverty - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Coping with the ripple effects of poverty  St. Albert GazettePoverty is a lack of resources, income and assets necessary for a standard of living that supports economic security, physical stability and social.
  
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• Edmontonians rally in support of Wet’suwet’en First Nation

  09-01-2019 04:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Approximately 100 people gathered in Edmonton’s Beaver Hills House Park Tuesday evening to voice their support for the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.
  The Wet’suwet’en are currently blocking access to a planned pipeline on their lands in northern B.C. On Monday, RCMP breached a checkpoint created on unceded Wet’suwet’en First Nation territory and arrested 14 people.
  The checkpoint was put in place three weeks ago after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling an
  
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• Mac's clerk killer appealing first-degree murder life sentence

  09-01-2019 02:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the men found guilty in the slayings of two Edmonton Mac’s store clerks in late 2015 will appeal his life sentence claiming there was a “miscarriage of justice” in his trial.
  Laylin Delorme was one of three people involved in a robbery spree that left Ricky Massain Cenabre and Karanpal Singh Bhangu dead after they were both shot in separate attacks on Dec. 18, 2015.
  In mid-December Delorme was sentenced to life in prison with a non parole period of 25 years after being f
  
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• Phantom of the Opera appears at the Arden Theatre - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  Phantom of the Opera appears at the Arden Theatre  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW The Phantom of the Opera Paul Kane High Musical Theatre Jan. 9 to 11 at 7 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets: $16 to $19. Call Paul Kane.
  
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• Sturgeon Community Hospital welcomes New Year’s baby - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sturgeon Community Hospital welcomes New Year’s baby  St. Albert GazetteLittle Joshua Joseph Samil rang in the new year as the first baby born at Sturgeon Community Hospital. Weighing seven pounds and three ounces, Joshua ...
  
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• She lived through history so that she could teach it - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  She lived through history so that she could teach it  St. Albert GazetteThe extended family and many former students of Maria Romanko are in mourning after the 93-year-old passed away at the end of December. Romanko, a.
  
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• Local realtors boast growth despite slow market - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Local realtors boast growth despite slow market  St. Albert GazetteEven though 2018 was a tough year for the housing market, some St. Albert realtors had their strongest sales to date. Shandrie Lewis, broker and owner of.
  
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• Environment File: bird count and loose dogs - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Environment File: bird count and loose dogs  St. Albert GazetteWoodpeckers and collared doves dominate bird count. Also, keep your dogs leashed in Riverlot 56, please.
  
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• Upcoming shows in Morinville will help shake the winter blues - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 02:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  Upcoming shows in Morinville will help shake the winter blues  St. Albert GazetteThere's a dynamic blend of top talent and a fabulous assortment of hit shows tagged to perform on Morinville Community Cultural Centre's 2019 stage and the ...
  
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• Canada Games torch makes Edmonton stop en route to Red Deer

  09-01-2019 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canada Games torch made its way through Edmonton on Tuesday as it travels across the country to Red Deer for the February games.
  A crowd of 50 athletes, dignitaries, and Canada Games staff greeted the flame inside Re\Max Field as Mayor Don Iveson completed the city’s final leg.
  “It’s a real privilege to be here on behalf of my city council colleagues and the people of Edmonton to bid welcome to the torch as it journeys through Alberta,” said Iveson. “It serves a
  
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• Second man linked to $250,000 Edmonton fraud arrested, charged

  09-01-2019 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A second man has been charged with defrauding a number of Edmonton businesses over a four-month period to the tune of more than $250,000 using stolen credit card information.
  Police had previously arrested 60-year-old Peter Philip Cardinal in September last year, charging him with five counts of fraud over $5,000, two counts of fraud under $5,000 and uttering a forged document.
  Last week investigators arrested 42-year-old Richard Joseph Zukowksi and charged him with the same offences.
  Polic
  
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• The natural wonder of an ice castle - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  The natural wonder of an ice castle  St. Albert GazetteIf you've never visited the ice castle now open in Hawrelak Park, it's an alluring and mystical world of snow and ice, a maze of dream-like icy walls that transport ...
  
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• Snowfall prompts call for seasonal parking ban - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  Snowfall prompts call for seasonal parking ban  St. Albert GazetteThe most recent snowfall has some St. Albert residents calling for a seasonal parking ban. The majority of the white stuff fell on Friday, triggering a.
  
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• Games of glory for ringers - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  Games of glory for ringers  St. Albert GazetteA trio of U19AA ringette players with the St. Albert Mission are living the dream playing for the provincial Canada Winter Games team. Power forward Vail.
  
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• Cannabis retailer owns 20 per cent of Alberta pot shops - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cannabis retailer owns 20 per cent of Alberta pot shops  St. Albert GazetteOne local cannabis store currently owns more than 20 per cent of all pot shops in Alberta. NewLeaf Cannabis owns 14 out of 65 cannabis stores currently.
  
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• Council closes the book on branch library - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:50 via stalbertgazette.com
  Council closes the book on branch library  St. Albert GazetteThe notion of a future standalone branch library in St. Albert is dead and buried. City council put the final nail in the coffin during Monday night's.
  
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• Access denied - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 01:50 via stalbertgazette.com
  Access denied  St. Albert GazetteThe pleas of teachers, church officials and even the mayor of Sturgeon County couldn't convince St. Albert councillors to put the brakes on partially.
  
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• 'There's a big a hole in our family': Families of Humboldt bus tragedy feel mixed emotions after truck driver guilty plea

  09-01-2019 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Families and friends are still trying to process their feelings and emotions following the early guilty pleas of the truck driver involved in the Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy.
  Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, 29, was originally scheduled to appear Tuesday in Melfort provincial court in Saskatchewan for defence election but instead entered guilty pleas to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm in connection with the crash last April.
  Mar
  
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• Suspicious death near Wetaskiwin deemed homicide by RCMP

  09-01-2019 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a 40-year-old man whose body was found on a grid road on the outskirts of Wetaskiwin over the weekend has been deemed a homicide by Mounties.
  Officers were called to the scene near Range Road 243A and Township Road 473 at about 1 a.m. Sunday where they discovered the body of the as-yet unidentified middle-aged man.
  At the the time of the discovery police said there was no risk to public safety. The body was found about halfway between the town of Millet and Wetas
  
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• New economic development CEO calls for business community input on way forward

  09-01-2019 01:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Input from the business community will drive a new economic growth strategy that the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) hopes to put before city council in 2019.
  EEDC CEO Derek Hudson announced the community engagement campaign to about 900 local business people at his organization’s annual Impact luncheon on Tuesday.
  “We want to take in the input that we get, that hopefully this meeting generates, and we want to focus on defining what the objective is,” Hudson sa
  
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• 'We just don't have the volunteers': Deep Freeze festival in dire need of support for annual winter celebration

  09-01-2019 01:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  At least 150 more volunteers will be required to pull off Edmonton’s first festival of 2019 set to turn Alberta Avenue into a frigid winter wonderland.
  The 12th annual Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival running Jan. 12-13 has struggled to secure enough community assistance and will need Edmontonians to step up for the event to happen, festival artistic director Christy Morin said at the launch event Tuesday morning.
  “This year for some reason, I think because of the later school s
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Brian Jean's baby announcement, photo radar and the carbon tax

  09-01-2019 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Wildrose leader Brian Jean took to Facebook Tuesday to announce he and his wife Kim are having a baby.
  Jean’s Monday tweet giving followers a heads-up about the live video kicked off speculation he may re-enter the world of Alberta politics after his UCP leadership defeat at the hands of Jason Kenney.
  But no, the couple just wanted to tell the world about their expanding family. Or, as Jean put it, “our newest plan for making Alberta better — a new, Alberta-grown additio
  
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• Tournament weekend for basketball at PK - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 00:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Tournament weekend for basketball at PK  St. Albert GazetteThis weekend's Paul Kane Invitational is a slam-dunk tournament highlighting the high school women's basketball scene. The expanded draw this year from.
  
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• Test time for Skyhawks - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 00:40 via stalbertgazette.com
  Test time for Skyhawks  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Skyhawks prepped for the Paul Kane Invitational as if the tournament was the final exam in high school women's basketball. “We're really.
  
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• Wednesday night hockey in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 00:35 via stalbertgazette.com
  Wednesday night hockey in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteSlash homestand A four-game homestand for the midget AAA St. Albert Slash continues tonight in the Alberta Female Hockey League. Faceoff is 8:15 p.m..
  
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• Raiders, Merchants, Jets and Sabres coverage in Rinkside Report - St. Albert Gazette

  09-01-2019 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Raiders, Merchants, Jets and Sabres coverage in Rinkside Report  St. Albert GazetteRaiders results The St. Albert Nektar Raiders shook off the hangover of winning the Mac's Cup in Sunday's 5-1 victory against the Fort Saskatchewan.
  
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