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• Police investigating two robberies on same St. Albert block - CTV News

  04-02-2019 23:38 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Police investigating two robberies on same St. Albert block  CTV NewsPolice are advising store owners to be vigilant after two St. Albert businesses were robbed.
  
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• Councillors shut the door on pricey office renovations, opt for cheaper noise barrier within common budget

  04-02-2019 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Councillors struck down four options for renovations to their offices with costs ranging up to $5.2 million, opting instead for the installation of a door to help noise reduction with funds already accounted for.
  All 12 city councillors and the mayor spent Monday morning discussing necessities and policies for councillors to carry out their daily activities.
  The council services committee was presented with four options for renovations to councillor offices following a motion in October 2018 to
  
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• Fill up for 88.9 Monday in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  04-02-2019 21:58 via stalbertgazette.com
  Fill up for 88.9 Monday in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteGas is still available at 89.9 in St. Albert today, according to GasBuddy.com. Several gas stations on St. Albert Trail are priced at 100.9, but a few.
  
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• Petrochemical facility set for construction in Sturgeon - St. Albert Gazette

  04-02-2019 20:46 via stalbertgazette.com
  Petrochemical facility set for construction in Sturgeon  St. Albert GazetteA petrochemical upgrading facility is set to be constructed in Sturgeon County. The provincial government announced Monday Canada Kuwait Petrochemical.
  
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• Housing lows: Year over year drop in Edmonton area home sales, prices

  04-02-2019 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residential sales along with prices of homes in the Edmonton area are both lower than they were last year at this time, show the latest real estate figures.
  Total residential unit sales in the Edmonton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) decreased 15 per cent relative to last January, the Realtors Association of Edmonton said in a Monday release.
  Single family home sales dropped 14.34 per cent while condominiums decreased 18.56 per cent and duplex/rowhouse sales dipped 1.02 per cent.
  But when compare
  
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• Watch: Dale McFee sworn in as Edmonton's new Chief of Police

  04-02-2019 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s 23rd police chief Dale McFee was sworn Friday during an Edmonton Police Service and Police Commission swearing-in and change of command ceremony at city hall. Among the many, he received gifts of recognition from First Nations groups in Saskatchewan (where he most recently worked).
  He takes on his new role as chief after serving as Saskatchewan’s deputy minister of policing and corrections since 2012.
  One of the new chief’s first orders of business will be launching
  
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• What could be more romantic than bratwurst for Valentine's Day?

  04-02-2019 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Everybody knows that Valentine’s Day itself can be a culinary zoo, with set menus you may not like, speedy seatings and a good deal of pressure to look as happy as the couple at the next table.
  If you want to get ahead of the heart, think about celebrating Valentine’s Day (and your love of Alberta pork) early with a special Swine and Dine at Salz Bratwurst Co Ltd.
  On Tuesday, Feb. 12, chef and Salz co-owner Allan Suddaby is preparing a three-course menu featuring Alberta pork from ap
  
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• Oilers in 60: A weekend full of loss and a boring Super Bowl

  04-02-2019 16:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Talk about Déjà vu.
  After a lengthy 10-day hiatus, the Oilers played in back-to-back matinee games this weekend and somehow wound up tanking in the third and losing both games in overtime.
  Yup. Sounds about right.
  On Saturday, the Oilers gave up four, count ‘em FOUR, shorthanded goals to the Philadelphia Flyers en route to a 5-4 loss.
  How does that even happen?
  But on Sunday, against the Montreal Canadiens the Oilers penalty killing units recovered, going 3-4 on the afternoon
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's still extremely cold out there

  04-02-2019 15:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -28 C with 5 km/h winds out of the north,  contributing to a -33 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.
    
  Today’s forecast
  Today: Light snow ending this afternoon then cloudy. Wind up to 1
  
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• Extreme cold continues in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  04-02-2019 14:28 via stalbertgazette.com
  Extreme cold continues in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteEnvironment Canada's extreme cold warning is still in effect: The coldest wind chill values will be between minus 40 and minus 45. Cold arctic air has.
  
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• What happened to Myrah Whitstone? Months later, mother still looking for answers

  04-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alvina Whitstone wonders every day what happened to Myrah.
  To Alvina, Myrah was Murray, her 34-year-old son. The two were like best friends, and lived together at Alvina’s north Edmonton home.
  Around others, Murray was Myrah — an aspiring social worker with long hair and makeup who liked to spend time in bars on 118 Avenue.
  Ten months ago, Alvina’s world was turned upside down when she learned Myrah’s body had been found along a highway in rural Strathcona County. Police
  
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• Elise Stolte: We can do better than a new Whyte Avenue homeless shelter

  04-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new temporary emergency shelter off Whyte Avenue is now full to capacity, giving warmth and a mat to 40 people per night and sending them back to the dark streets by 6 a.m.
  As people wander the alleys, it looks like downtown. But this crowd is slightly different. They’re more likely to shy away from the label “homeless.” The men in the shelter regularly warn a new city-funded research team: You won’t see me here next month.
  Here in Edmonton, we live with a myth t
  
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• Advocates push to name victims of deadly domestic violence as privacy pressures mount

  04-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sometimes Jill Dean thinks about her late sister, Nancy Cooper, and wonders what she would be saying about how it has all shaken down.
  The murder.
  The press coverage and the widespread scrutiny.
  How the kids have fared.
  Cooper, born in Edmonton, was killed by her husband in North Carolina in 2008. What followed was a dramatically public situation in which Cooper, her family and her life were laid gruesomely bare.
  ‘Is what she would have wanted?’
  The Cooper murder made international h
  
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• Northlands neighbours anxious for Coliseum redevelopment to move forward

  04-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than a year after the city of Edmonton permanently shuttered Northlands Coliseum, the once-bustling attraction remains in “dark operations,” with only security guards roaming its echoing halls.
  Although the closure of the arena doesn’t seem to have been detrimental to most nearby businesses, those invested in the area are eager for change.
  “I think our worst-case scenario is playing out before our eyes,” Brett Finnie, civics director of the Bellevue Community L
  
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• In internal survey, 17 employees at Edmonton prison say they were sexually assaulted by a co-worker

  04-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An internal survey of employees at Edmonton’s maximum security federal prison shines new light on the extent of workplace sexual violence and harassment at the facility.
  The survey reveals, for the first time, that 17 current staffers say they have been sexually assaulted by a co-worker — either at the facility or off-site. Only five reported the assault to management, and just three went to police.
  Two indicated they were sexually assaulted by a manager or supervisor. Both of those
  
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• School buses cancelled in several communities around Edmonton

  04-02-2019 06:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Several school districts near Edmonton have cancelled or reduced school bus service on Monday due to extremely cold temperatures.
  Elk Island Public Schools and Elk Island Catholic Schools, which run schools in Strathcona County and other areas east of Edmonton, have cancelled all Monday bus routes.
  Parkland School Division, which includes Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, and areas west of Edmonton, have cancelled all Monday school buses.
  Evergreen Catholic Schools has cancelled all Monday buses in Par
  
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• Government makes changes to better accommodate LGBTQ youth in foster care, group homes

  04-02-2019 05:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mandatory training for all front-line children’s services workers to equip them to meet the needs of LGBTQ youth could be coming by May 2019, a government spokesman said.
  The children’s services ministry is also updating training for all foster parents and kinship caregivers to include information on caring for LGBTQ youth, spokesman Benjamin Lof said in a Friday email. In-depth guidance to support LGBTQ youth should be ready by fall, he said.
  These changes are among many the provinc
  
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• Send in the plows: City crews working around the clock to clear snow

  04-02-2019 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  It could have been so much worse — like in Grande Cache, which was deluged with 50 centimetres of snow on the weekend.
  Or, Kananaskis, which saw 48 centimetres accumulate.
  Edmonton received a relatively paltry 12-16 cm of snow since Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a snowfall warning on Thursday, said Sara Hoffman, a meteorologist with the agency.
  The dump was nowhere near record breaking for Edmonton in February, and much better than the “very scary picture” some o
  
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• Player grades: Another blown lead, another Bettman point as Oilers continue to spin their wheels

  04-02-2019 02:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 3, Canadiens 4 (OT)
  For the second day in a row, Edmonton Oilers took a 3-2 lead into the third period, and for the second day in a row, they failed to finish the job. Each time they managed to reach overtime and garner a standings point, but the end came mercilessly on the second shift of OT each time.
  The Oilers had a real chance to put this one away on the first shift of the extra frame when their two best players, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, broke in together on Carey Price but
  
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• PHOTOS: Year of the Pig

  04-02-2019 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  According to the Lunar calendar, the Year of the Pig starts on Tuesday February 5, 2019, and is celebrated by millions of people around the world, including in Edmonton where Lunar New Year celebrations were held across the city on the weekend.
  Men born in the Pig year are optimistic and gentle. They are very focused. Once they decide on a goal, they’ll put everything into it. They are not the best with money. Though cool-headed, they are also gullible. They trust others easily a
  
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