St. Albert news

• Press Gallery podcast #258: The Calendars and Chicanery edition

  18-01-2019 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week in Alberta politics saw the release of the 2019 legislature session calendar (there will be a throne speech, mark it down for March 18) and more shenanigans added to the ever-growing list of political intrigue in the lead-up to the election.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Keith Gerein, Clare Clancy and Dave Breakenridge to talk about what the session calendar means for election timing, and go over the four biggest instances of internal party chicanery.
  The team al
  
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• Afternoons of fun and play - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 23:47 via stalbertgazette.com
  Afternoons of fun and play  St. Albert GazetteA new program for adults with developmental disabilities is meant to offer them more than just the chance to participate in some fantastic activities and hang out ...
  
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• Dining Out: Noorish welcomes patrons with revamped menu, décor

  18-01-2019 23:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Noorish was at the forefront of the vegetarian and vegan food wave in Edmonton, long before it became one of the hottest restaurant trends of 2018. Opened in 2013, the 109th Street eatery was among the early adopters on the local scene, offering a menu that was not only all vegan, but almost completely raw as well.
  It was a bold move in a wintry prairie city, and one that earned Noorish a loyal following among the growing minority of plant-eaters. Now, as Edmonton’s vegan options have
  
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• Theatre review: Sweat reveals cultural cracks in tale of loss and dislocation

  18-01-2019 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Think of him as your momma, the best boyfriend ever, or perhaps that sage uncle you wished would have anchored your Sunday dinner table, but never did. Yes, he’s Stan the bartender, the very soul of Sweat, which debuted Thursday at the Citadel’s Shoctor.
  Played with grace and guts by Ashley Wright, Stan delivers my new favourite line to the bits of broken people who populate his bar in the crumbling city of Reading, Pennsylvania.
  “You gotta find a rhythm and stay inside it &mda
  
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• Newfoundland's best blows the dust off traditional repertoire

  18-01-2019 23:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  What attracts a young person to ages old traditional folk songs?
  Since his parents had their own folk duo you could argue that award-winning Newfoundland folksinger and guitarist Matthew Byrne grew up in the midst of it. But today, at 33, he argues no one is immune to the special lure of these songs.
  “First and foremost I’m attracted to melody before I hear story lines and words,” he explained in a recent chat from St. John’s, “and I just think some of the complex m
  
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• Bernd Gretzinger is St. Albert’s new fire chief - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 23:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bernd Gretzinger is St. Albert’s new fire chief  St. Albert GazetteThe City of St. Albert has hired a familiar face as its new fire chief. Bernd Gretzinger, who was formerly the deputy fire chief of logistics for the.
  
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• Mark Stoneleigh takes a seat as chair of chamber - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 22:53 via stalbertgazette.com
  Mark Stoneleigh takes a seat as chair of chamber  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce has welcomed a new head honcho to its board. Mark Stoneleigh, the new board chair, said he will focus on.
  
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• Distracted driving numbers continue to climb - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 22:46 via stalbertgazette.com
  Distracted driving numbers continue to climb  St. Albert GazetteDrivers are 23 times more likely to be in a collision or have a close call when they're texting, and four to five times more likely when they're on a phone call – yet ...
  
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• Fill up starting at 84.4 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 22:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Fill up starting at 84.4 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteGas is sitting as low as 84.4 going into the weekend. Costco is offering its members access to gas in St. Albert. Most gas stations on St. Albert Trail are sitting at ...
  
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• Highway twinning and overpass in Acheson to cost up to $105 million

  18-01-2019 22:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province will twin Highway 60 east of Edmonton and build an overpass to ease traffic congestion at a rail crossing in Acheson, says Premier Rachel Notley.
  The infrastructure project, which will overhaul the stretch of road between highways 16 and 16A, is slated to cost between $85 million and $105 million.
  “It’s very, very important to the growth and development of this particular industrial sector and area,” Notley told reporters after a news conference at Supreme Steel in
  
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• Remembering Gene - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 22:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Remembering Gene  St. Albert GazetteFriends and family of beloved Alberta politician Gene Zwozdesky celebrated the life of the former Speaker of the House at St. Albert's Enjoy Centre.
  
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• Sabres focused for playoffs - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 21:39 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sabres focused for playoffs  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres are prepping for the post-season as the host team for the John Reid Memorial Tournament. “These teams are better.
  
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• Best Buy closure ‘hard to believe’ - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 21:34 via stalbertgazette.com
  Best Buy closure ‘hard to believe’  St. Albert GazetteWith its lease expiring and nowhere to go, the store is moving employees to other locations.
  
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• Man who admitted to negligence in baby's shaking death gets two years in jail

  18-01-2019 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young woman sobbed in an Edmonton courtroom Friday after learning the man who pleaded guilty to criminal negligence in her infant daughter’s death will serve just under two years additional jail time.
  Brandon James Calahoo was sentenced Friday to two years less a day by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice June Ross. The 22-year-old was accused of shaking two-month-old Raelyn Supernant after her crying roused him from bed during the early morning hours of July 25, 2016.
  The bab
  
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• Rigney’s 2015 election challenge hits the courts - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 20:35 via stalbertgazette.com
  Rigney’s 2015 election challenge hits the courts  St. Albert GazetteA court case put forth by former Sturgeon County Mayor Donald Rigney in 2015 challenging former Premier Jim Prentice has finally made it to court. Rigney,
  
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• Councillors weigh in on seasonal parking ban - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 20:17 via stalbertgazette.com
  Councillors weigh in on seasonal parking ban  St. Albert GazetteIn an effort to make plowing streets as easy as possible, most members of city council believe there's merit to looking into a seasonal parking ban –
  
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• Council defends need for confidential planning - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 20:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Council defends need for confidential planning  St. Albert GazetteBeing able to have frank and open discussions is the main reason the majority of city councillors believe their strategic planning sessions should be held.
  
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• Budget engagement; fire hall; a look at Monday’s meeting - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 19:29 via stalbertgazette.com
  Budget engagement; fire hall; a look at Monday’s meeting  St. Albert GazetteCity councillors want to do something about the low level of engagement St. Albert gets from its residents on the municipal budget. The city held several public ...
  
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• “Surprising” amount of idling complaints - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 18:37 via stalbertgazette.com
  “Surprising” amount of idling complaints  St. Albert GazetteComplaints about people idling their vehicles in St. Albert are starting to trickle in in numbers the city's peace officer supervisor says are surprising.
  
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• The wolf that’s really four wolves - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 17:41 via stalbertgazette.com
  The wolf that’s really four wolves  St. Albert GazetteNew study finds that some lichens are a foursome rather than a twosome.
  
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• Girl of the Earth in touch with roots - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 17:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  Girl of the Earth in touch with roots  St. Albert GazetteStudent Ella Hagen draws an intricate symbol on the whiteboard of the art room at Sir George Simpson. To those not in the know, it looks like a cross made from ...
  
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• New course aims to spread rare Michif language - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 17:27 via stalbertgazette.com
  New course aims to spread rare Michif language  St. Albert GazetteA new course coming to St. Albert this month aims to help keep one of Canada's rarest tongues alive. St. Albert Further Education is offering a Michif language ...
  
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• Edmonton Oilers have hurt Jesse Puljujarvi's confidence and his game, says Finnish sportswriter

  18-01-2019 16:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Finnish sports writer Tommi Seppala of Yle.fi, an article where he complains of the Edmonton Oilers handling of Jesse Puljujarvi.
  The article was kindly translated for me by Finnish hockey fan Veikko Lehtonen.
  Seppala notes that Puljujarvi only got nine shifts against Vancouver as he played with no-name Colby Cave and low scoring Jujhar Khaira.
  Seppala said: “In December, head coach Ken Hitchcock assured him that he would offer a fair opportunity to Puljärvi, but now
  
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• David Staples: Four major takeaways on Alberta's petrochemical future

  18-01-2019 16:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s little but depressing news out of Alberta’s pipeline business but not so with petrochemicals.
  Indeed, the first of four major takeaways from Thursday’s Alberta Industrial Heartland stakeholder event is there’s much reason to be bullish about with petrochemicals.
  Twenty years ago, the Heartland’s first such stakeholder event was held at a hotel in Fort Saskatchewan and attended by 70 people. On Thursday, after two decades that saw an estimated $40 billio
  
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• More frostbite risk going into Friday - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 15:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  More frostbite risk going into Friday  St. Albert GazetteFriday's forecast sees a continued risk of frostbite, as a result of a daytime high of -13 C with a -25 C wind chill in the morning and -20 C in the.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Extreme cold warnings. Extreme cold warnings everywhere

  18-01-2019 14:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -15.7 C with 13 km/h winds out of the east, southeast contributing to a -23 wind chill.
  Looking at a map of Canada and staring at the sea of red ‘Extreme Cold’ warnings blanketing much of the country today, turns out we’re actually pretty lucky here in Edmonton. This Arctic air mass stretches all the way from north Alberta i
  
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• Friday's letters: Honoured to have known Zwozdesky

  18-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I indeed had the honour of attending the funeral of my friend Gene Zwozdesky on Wednesday. I am not sure of the numbers both upstairs and in the basement of the St. John’s Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, but it was hundreds. Each one of us, sitting quietly from all levels of life recalling our memories of engagement with one of Alberta’s finest citizens.
  He will be missed at all levels of life. I could not help but thinking what Gene would say about this caring gathering. He would have
  
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• Editorial: Good-bye construction-zone guessing

  18-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Drivers on Alberta highways know the construction-zone guessing game.
  Seeing signs indicating road work ahead, they slow to the posted speed limits; Most drivers generally obey the laws and want to keep workers out of harm’s way.
  But the situation becomes a dilemma when drivers realize they’ve cruised into a phantom construction zone — no workers anywhere. Maybe it’s a weekend or the day’s work is done. Either way, drivers are left wondering whether they should cont
  
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• Picture perfect: New Walterdale Bridge is making its mark on Edmonton's look

  18-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even before the bright, steel-arched replacement Walterdale Bridge opened in September 2017, the structure was a magnet for attention.
  People who couldn’t assemble an Ikea shelf without swearing a blue streak griped about long construction delays, while calls to preserve its historic, surface-humming predecessor in some fashion were shrugged off by some local politicians.
  Yet for an architectural object with so much affixed tension, the new Walterdale quickly clicked without friction as a
  
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• Elise Stolte: Stalled out gondola project is a sad critique of Edmonton's openness to new ideas

  18-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s private gondola project is now mired in politics and bureaucratic uncertainty, at risk of fizzling out entirely. That calls for soul searching.
  When Amber and Gary Poliquin first won The Edmonton Project ideas competition with a gondola from downtown, through Rossdale to Whyte Avenue, reaction was swift, often angry and highly critical.
  First the two got ridiculed on social media. Then grilled by council in June before it grudgingly approved the next step: asking staff to s
  
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• David Staples: Four major takeaways on Alberta's petrochemcal future

  18-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s little but depressing news out of Alberta’s pipeline business but not so with petrochemicals.
  Indeed, the first of four major takeaways from Thursday’s Alberta Industrial Heartland stakeholder event is there’s much reason to be bullish about with petrochemicals.
  Twenty years ago, the Heartland’s first such stakeholder event was held at a hotel in Fort Saskatchewan and attended by 70 people. On Thursday, after two decades that saw an estimated $40 billio
  
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• Case challenging 2015 snap election call gets its day in court

  18-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A court case challenging former Premier Jim Prentice’s decision to call an early election in 2015 — as well as the meaning of Alberta’s fixed election laws more generally — got its day in court Thursday.
  Donald Rigney, who planned to seek a Wildrose Party nomination in the last election, and Tom Engel, an Edmonton defence lawyer, sought an injunction in March 2015 in an attempt to stop Prentice from calling the snap election.
  Rigney told the court he had “arranged h
  
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• Don’t mess with China - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 09:34 via stalbertgazette.com
  Don’t mess with China  St. Albert GazetteIt was just a matter of time before someone got really hurt when we decided to arrest Meng Wanzhou, a top official of Huawei, a major Chinese telecom.
  
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• Watch: Alberta Premier talks about energy strategy

  18-01-2019 06:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks about the Made-in-Alberta energy strategy at the Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association’s Annual Stakeholder Event held at the Edmonton Convention Centre on Thursday January 17, 2019. The strategy’s aim is to create jobs by diversifying and getting more value for the province’s resources.
  In her speech, Notley also lauded the province’s energy diversification plan, which included a royalty credit program that spurred pr
  
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• Edmonton Oilers have hurt Jesse Puljujavi's confidence and his game, says Finnish sportswriter

  18-01-2019 06:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Finnish sports writer Tommi Seppala of Yle.fi, an article where he complains of the Edmonton Oilers handling of Jesse Puljujarvi.
  The article was kindly translated for me by Finnish hockey fan Veikko Lehtonen.
  Seppala notes that Puljujarvi only got nine shifts against Vancouver as he played with no-name Colby Cave and low scoring Jujhar Khaira.
  Seppala said: “In December, head coach Ken Hitchcock assured him that he would offer a fair opportunity to Puljärvi, but now
  
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• Connor McDavid shuttles suprise to Ronald McDonald House

  18-01-2019 05:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two families were left speechless as Connor McDavid opened the door to present two new shuttles at Ronald McDonald House on Thursday.
  “It was such a shock,” said Carmen Musiowsky, who is staying at Ronald McDonald house. “When I opened that door I didn’t know what, it was just, it caught me off guard big time that it was Connor McDavid sitting there, asking me if I wanted to go for a ride.”
  McDavid made the appearance to showcase two new shuttles that families will
  
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• Sweetheart Soiree: an Evening with Martin Kerr - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 04:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sweetheart Soiree: an Evening with Martin Kerr  St. Albert GazetteThe Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools Education Foundation is pleased to present an evening with Martin Kerr at the Sweetheart Soirée. Martin Kerr has been ...
  
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• Read for 15 at the Library - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 04:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Read for 15 at the Library  St. Albert GazetteTake the province-wide Read for 15 Challenge, and help St. Albert become Alberta's most “readerly” community! Read anything for 15 minutes on Friday, Jan.
  
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• Daniel Gervais Jazz Quintet from Edmonton - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:58 via stalbertgazette.com
  Daniel Gervais Jazz Quintet from Edmonton  St. Albert GazetteDaniel Gervais – violin; Jeremiah McDade – saxophone; Chris Andrew – piano; Keith Rempel – bass; Jamie Cooper – drums. Daniel Gervais and his group will ...
  
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• Go Deeper and Find Your Inner Wisdom - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:57 via stalbertgazette.com
  Go Deeper and Find Your Inner Wisdom  St. Albert GazetteDo you find yourself stuck in a place in life you would rather not be? Do you find that you don't have the strategies to obtain your optimal wellness? Join us on ...
  
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• Canadian Jazz Series: BMC Organ Trio from Toronto - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:57 via stalbertgazette.com
  Canadian Jazz Series: BMC Organ Trio from Toronto  St. Albert GazetteBen Bishop, guitar; Jeff McLeod, Hammond organ; Morgan Childs, drums. The BMC Organ Trio is a soul jazz trio from Toronto featuring Ben Bishop on guitar, ...
  
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• Bach and Coffee - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:57 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bach and Coffee  St. Albert GazetteLove classical music as well as coffee, tea, chocolate? Then we have the perfect pairing for you! J.s. Bach's Coffee Cantata and a coffee/tea/chocolate tasting ...
  
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• Seniors United Now - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  Seniors United Now  St. Albert GazetteThe voice of seniors in Alberta. The St. Albert chapter of Seniors United Now is having their regular monthly meeting at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 28.
  
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• Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan in QuebecFest - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:56 via stalbertgazette.com
  Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan in QuebecFest  St. Albert GazetteLong joined in both blood and spirit, Le Vent du Nord and De Temps Antan now combine forces in an exciting tribute to Québec's musical revival. As charter ...
  
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• Micro Greens and Sprouting - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:54 via stalbertgazette.com
  Micro Greens and Sprouting  St. Albert GazetteIt's always a sight for sore eyes having the lush green-filled jars and trays she brings (and lets us sample!). Participants will go home with a tray of seeded ...
  
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• Ice on Whyte - St. Albert Gazette

  18-01-2019 03:53 via stalbertgazette.com
  Ice on Whyte  St. Albert GazetteA fun-filled winter experience. Ice carvings, ice bar, DJ nights, food truck, ice carving lessons, outdoor games and more! The Canada Cup of Ice Carving will be ...
  
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• St. Albert resident wins $7.9 million on LOTTO 6/49 - FortSaskOnline.com

  18-01-2019 03:26 via fortsaskonline.com
  St. Albert resident wins $7.9 million on LOTTO 6/49  FortSaskOnline.comSt. Albert man wins $7.9M  CTV News$7.5-million lotto win music to St. Albert musician's ears  Edmonton JournalSt. Albert man wins $7.9M jackpot: That 'what if' question keeps you buying  CBC.caView full coverage on Google News
  
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• 'It's very troubling': Report shows number of crisis calls to High Level Bridge remain high

  18-01-2019 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The High Level Bridge is still a magnet for people in crisis three years after the city installed controversial barriers on one of Edmonton’s most important thoroughfares, leading one councillor to question if the fencing along the bridge is good enough.
  On Thursday, the Edmonton Police Commission got an update to the number of crisis calls, including suicide attempts, they received about the High Level Bridge.
  Between Jan.1 and Oct. 30 last year, the most recent information available
  
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• Watch: Oil Spills: Should the Edmonton Oilers be big-fish shopping now?

  18-01-2019 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey beat writers Jim Matheson and Rob Tychkowski talk to Craig Ellingson about murmurs around the Edmonton Oilers in mid-January suggesting general manager Peter Chiarelli is on a serious hunt for a top-line forward.
  The timing seems odd, and fans seem leery of the kinds of moves Chairelli might make given he could well be out of a job by season’s end if the Oilers are out of the playoffs.
  
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• Calgary NDP members say voters gave false addresses in nomination race, threaten to quit party

  18-01-2019 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Disillusioned New Democrats in Calgary are threatening to quit the party if it doesn’t investigate what they say are problems that happened in a nomination race.
  Inderpreet Gill says he’s disappointed in the lack of concern NDP brass is showing over what he says were multiple instances of people providing false addresses during the Calgary-North East nomination vote.
  He’s also disappointed in Premier Rachel Notley.
  This weekend Gill and a group of other New Democrats will hold
  
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