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• Gas in St. Albert as high as 102.9 - St. Albert Gazette

  03-02-2019 23:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  Gas in St. Albert as high as 102.9  St. Albert GazetteMany gas stations are now pricing their gas to 100.9 in St. Albert today, according to GasBuddy.com. Several gas stations on St. Albert Trail are priced.
  
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• Review: Edmonton Opera's Hansel and Gretel at Jubilee Auditorium

  03-02-2019 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s rare indeed in any version of the classic fairy-tale Hansel and Gretel that the appearance of the witch is something of an anti-climax.
  But that’s what happened in Edmonton Opera’s new production of Humperdinck’s ever-popular opera, which opened on Saturday (Feb 2) at the Jubilee.
  The highlight occurs in Act Two, where all that is best in this production comes together for a special kind of magic. Director Robert Herriot’s conception lives on the dark side, shi
  
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• Familiar faces, safe selections highlight Edmonton Opera's 2019-2020 season

  03-02-2019 20:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Opera announced its 2019-2020 season on Saturday (Feb. 2), and, entertaining though it will be, there’s a whiff of retrenchment about it.
  Largely gone are the stars or international figures who once regularly appeared in Edmonton. Absent, too, is the spirit of adventure we have seen in some of the programming (such as the Donizetti operas it has presented recently, or Strauss’ Elektra).
  Instead, the fare is really safe. There’s Verdi’s ever-popular Rigoletto &mda
  
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• Death of man found near Commonwealth Stadium cold weather-related: police

  03-02-2019 20:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A passerby discovered the frozen body of a man near Commonwealth Stadium Sunday morning in what police say is the weekend’s first cold weather-related fatality.
  Officers were called to the edge of a parking lot north of Clarke Stadium at around 10 a.m., where they found a man’s body in a snowbank. The temperature was hovering around -37 C with the windchill Sunday morning.
  A solitary police officer in a cruiser kept watch over the body as people came and went from the nearby rec cent
  
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• Edmonton weather: 'Frostbite in minutes' sums it up succinctly

  03-02-2019 17:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Sunday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -29.7 C with 12 km/h winds out of the north, northwest contributing to a -38 wind chill.
  Extreme cold warning
  An extreme cold warning remains in effect for the city of Edmonton with forecasters calling for wind chill values to fall below -40 to -45.
  “As the cold air continues slumping south, temperatures have dropped causing wind chill value
  
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• Edmonton weather: Extreme cold warnings blanket Alberta

  03-02-2019 17:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Sunday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -29.7 C with 12 km/h winds out of the north, northwest contributing to a -38 wind chill.
  Extreme cold warning
  An extreme cold warning remains in effect for the city of Edmonton with forecasters calling for wind chill values to fall below -40 to -45.
  “As the cold air continues slumping south, temperatures have dropped causing wind chill value
  
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• PHOTOS: Paul Brandt 2019 Concert in Edmonton

  03-02-2019 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadian country music artist Paul Brandt performed in concert at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Saturday February 2, 2019.
  Paul Rennée Belobersycky (born July 21, 1972) is a Canadian country music artist, known professionally as Paul Brandt. Growing up in Calgary, he was a pediatric RN at the time of his big break. In 1996, he made his mark on the country music charts with the single “My Heart Has a History,” propelling him to international success and making him the first male
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #52 – The Edmonton Oilers arrive in Montreal with their playoff hopes hanging in the balance: 9 Things

  03-02-2019 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers can’t afford to wait for the cavalry. It’s probably not coming. Not from the outside, anyway.
  So if the Oilers are to keep their fading playoff hopes alive they need to find ways to harvest points out of this next stretch of games with what they’ve got.
  While the 5-4 overtime loss in Philadelphia was frustrating, at least they managed a point out of it. And while playing back-to-back road games isn’t usually a good recipe for Wins, today’s opposi
  
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• Extreme cold warning in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  03-02-2019 14:25 via stalbertgazette.com
  Extreme cold warning in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteEnvironment Canada has released an extreme cold warning in St. Albert: Watch for cold related symptoms: shortness of breath, chest pain, muscle pain and.
  
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• Police officer who struck car after running red light disciplined for 'deceitful' version of events

  03-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police officer who slammed his cruiser into a civilian vehicle after running a red light will be disciplined for professional misconduct, after a hearing found his statements about the incident didn’t match up with reality.
  The officer, identified as Constable A.A., was behind the wheel of a police cruiser on May 2, 2017, when he heard a call about a suspicious F-150 truck.
  The officer rushed to get to the area, reaching top speeds of 105 km/h in a 60 km/h zone, a disciplinary
  
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• Carbon monoxide prompts firefighters to evacuate McConachie condominiums

  03-02-2019 06:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A buildup of carbon monoxide prompted the evacuation of a McConachie-area condominium building Saturday evening.
  A frozen vent was to blame for an accumulation of the poisonous gas, which prompted firefighters to tell people to leave 100 suites in the building, said fire department spokeswoman Suzzette Mellado on Saturday night.
  Eight Edmonton Fire Rescue Services crews were called to a report of a gas leak at the building on McConachie Boulevard near McConachie Way at 6:44 p.m. The fire departm
  
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• Alberta health-care workers learn more about transgender patient care

  03-02-2019 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dr. Gail Knudson sees a blind spot in Canadian health care that needs illumination.
  In their four years of medical school, the average North American med student is spending between one and three hours learning about LGBTQ health issues, said Knudson, a B.C. clinical psychiatrist and immediate past-president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
  Since 2013, the association has attempted to fill that knowledge void by running courses helping health-care providers a
  
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• Critics and supporters of Bighorn proposal attend Edmonton consultation

  03-02-2019 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Backcountry users wondering about the province’s plan to formally protect a swath of wild lands east of Jasper and Banff national parks trudged through the snow to attend an information session on the proposal this weekend.
  More than 120 people attended the public consultation at Edmonton’s Polish Hall Saturday on the future of the Bighorn Country. In November, the province proposed creating or expanding four parks, four recreation areas and two public land use zones in the area at a
  
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• Epcor responds to multiple power outages in central Edmonton

  03-02-2019 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Power outages in central Edmonton affected about 9,000 customers Saturday afternoon, Epcor said.
  The outages began at around 1:40 p.m. with Epcor crews responding to outages in downtown Edmonton, including Central McDougall, Inglewood, Oliver and Westmount neighbourhoods.
  Similar outages were reported in neighbourhoods south of the river in Bonnie Doon, Cloverdale, Holyrood, Idylwylde, Strathearn, Garneau, Queen Alexandra and Strathcona.
  Power has now been restored to all affected customers in c
  
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