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• Press Gallery interview: Tourism minister Ricardo Miranda on failed Calgary Olymipc bid

  06-02-2019 23:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Legislative reporter Clare Clancy sat down with Culture and Tourism Minister Ricardo Miranda to talk about his experience as Alberta’s first openly gay cabinet minister, and issues he’s dealt with in the past year such as Calgary’s Olympic bid.
  They also chatted about the upcoming election after two NDP MLAs in Calgary said they wouldn’t be running.
  
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• Lacombe Lake dog park was there before residents - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 22:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lacombe Lake dog park was there before residents  St. Albert GazetteOnce again, I'm astounded and amazed by how much attention city council pays to a few self-interest groups in St. Albert. The latest is proposing that the.
  
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• Watch: NAIT campus will double in size

  06-02-2019 22:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NAIT campus will double in size after purchasing about 21.5 hectares of land from the City of Edmonton.
  About 13 hectares of land along Princess Elizabeth Ave. near 109 Street, was parcelled with a former city transit garage.
  The new land will allow NAIT to construct a student residence, a first on the north Edmonton campus. Plans for the future also include consolidation of all programs at the main campus, except Cranes and Hoisting, which will remain in Spruce Grove.
  
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• The art of reconciliation - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 21:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  The art of reconciliation  St. Albert GazetteSam and Cliff: Pacing by Anna Marie Sewell Sam Sinclair knew politics is a runner's game pacing is everything. The last time I saw him Sam.
  
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• The rise of RISEdmonton - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 20:50 via stalbertgazette.com
  The rise of RISEdmonton  St. Albert GazetteReconciliation would still exist without Miranda Jimmy or her organization that actively works for it. It probably wouldn't be as open and accessible.
  
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• Comedy at the diner - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 20:28 via stalbertgazette.com
  Comedy at the diner  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW Daddy's Girl Feb. 7 to 9, 14 to 16 and 21 to 23 Kinsmen Banquet Hall 47 Riel Dr. Tickets: Adult $55, senior $50. Call 780-222-0102 or online at.
  
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• Discovery boosts chemo while protecting heart: University of Alberta researchers

  06-02-2019 20:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chemotherapy may become more effective and less harmful to heart cells thanks to research at the University of Alberta.
  Researchers have long known that the aggressive attack on cancer cells from chemotherapy often causes damage to other cells in the body, including the heart, making patients more prone to develop heart problems years down the road.
  “This is the first targeted therapy at the preclinical level to actually prevent the side-effects of chemotherapy on the heart and simultaneou
  
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• Blues hoop Bulldogs - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 20:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Blues hoop Bulldogs  St. Albert GazetteThe undefeated Paul Kane Blues remain focused on the big picture after beating the Bellerose Bulldogs in Monday's rivalry game. “We're happy to get the W.
  
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• The prospect of the current Edmonton Oilers leadership hiring the right GM fills me with gloom

  06-02-2019 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who will pick the next Edmonton Oilers GM? That should be the question on the mind of every season ticket holder, every fan and Oilers owner Daryl Katz.
  The current organization was built by Bob Nicholson, who took over the team in April 2015, almost four years ago. Nicholson is fully accountable for all that has happened since that time in hockey operations, having either hired, approved the hiring or retained all staff in hockey ops.
  It’s clear that things have gone off track for the Oil
  
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• Food for thought - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 20:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Food for thought  St. Albert GazetteCanada's revamp of the national food guide is long on feel-good phrases but woefully short on practical advice for the thousands of Canadians who don't.
  
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• Icemen winning streak comes to an end in St. Albert - High River Times

  06-02-2019 19:23 via highrivertimes.com
  Icemen winning streak comes to an end in St. Albert  High River TimesThe Wetaskiwin Icemen's winning streak was halted at 13 after the local junior team beat the Stony Plain Flyers Feb. 1 on the road but fell to the St. Albert ...
  
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• Bentley talk looks at pesticides in water - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 19:22 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bentley talk looks at pesticides in water  St. Albert GazetteAgricultural pesticides are commonplace in Western Canadian waters, but not at levels that are of concern to human health, says a leading pesticides.
  
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• UCP denounces racist letter sent to Edmonton mosque after party logo used

  06-02-2019 19:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  An anti-racism advocacy group is calling on the United Conservative Party to condemn Islamaphobia after an Edmonton mosque received a hateful letter that included the political party’s logo.
  “On behalf of real Albertans, we would like to advise you that you and your religion don’t belong here in Alberta,” said the letter dated Jan. 30.
  “We are White. We are Christians. We are Proud,” the letter continued. “Our Premier to be Jason Kenney is going to take
  
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• Chinook Series breezes through with cutting-edge performances - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 18:20 via stalbertgazette.com
  Chinook Series breezes through with cutting-edge performances  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW Chinook Series Feb. 7 to 17 ATB Financial Arts Barns, Backstage Theatre 10330 – 84 Ave. Tickets: $25 with 25 per cent of seats pay-what-you-will.
  
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• On Tap: U18 curling playdowns - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 18:08 via stalbertgazette.com
  On Tap: U18 curling playdowns  St. Albert GazetteThe Curling Alberta U18 Optimist playdowns slide into action Thursday at St. Albert Curling Club. The 1 p.m. opening draw in the 14-team male division.
  
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• Merchants winning - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 18:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Merchants winning  St. Albert GazetteThe first two-game winning streak since early December bodes well for the St. Albert Merchants with two games left until the Capital Junior B Hockey.
  
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• Oilers in 60: Another loss, another jersey tossed

  06-02-2019 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  It happened again.
  It’s Groundhog day all over again.
  Except this was much, much worse.
  The Oilers, having spent the first two periods of their game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Roger Place Tuesday night on top and seemingly on their way to cruise to a win, went ahead and imploded in the third period to the tune of five unanswered goals en route to a 6-2 loss.
  For whatever reason, the Oilers cannot close out a game. We saw it over the weekend against the Flyers and Canadiens, when the
  
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• Edmonton Film and Music Prize Winners pick up $10K awards

  06-02-2019 16:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two hard-working women artists — Zsofia Opra-Szabo, and Audrey Ochoa — are recipients of the 2018 Edmonton Film Prize and Edmonton Music Prize, respectively. The prize winners and runner-ups were announced in ceremonies at the ATB Arts & Culture Branch Tuesday afternoon.
  Theatre designer, puppeteer and filmmaker Zsofia Opra-Szabo won the $10,000 Edmonton Film Prize for her first film effort, a stop-motion animation short featuring puppets titled Sophia.
  Despite that tit
  
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• Watch: Edmonton Oilers lose 6-2 to Chicago Blackhawks

  06-02-2019 16:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock post game interview after being defeated by the Chicago Blackhawks 6-2 at Rogers Place.
  The Oilers have lost six in a row, and the Hawks, who were supposedly dead and buried in the playoff scramble six weeks ago, are now tied (51 points) with the Oilers, and St. Louis, another team out of it at the start of 2019, has 53.
  They remain only three points out of the second wild card, now Vancouver at 54 points in the West.
  
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• Morinville Jets third in west - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 16:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Morinville Jets third in west  St. Albert GazetteThe Morinville Jets are playing the waiting game to see who they play in the best-of-three qualifying round in the west division of the Capital Junior B.
  
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• Backyard hens cluck into St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 15:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Backyard hens cluck into St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert hens can finally come home to roost. Following a short public hearing during Monday night's meeting, city council unanimously passed second and.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Extreme cold continues; this is life now

  06-02-2019 14:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -27.5 C with 2 km/h winds out of the south, southeast contributing to a -30 wind chill.
  Extreme cold warning
  Just in case you thought things were improving — nope. Still awful. Still terribly cold outside. The extreme cold warning was extended Wednesday though there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.
  “Cold arctic air rema
  
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• Kristoff St. John's last soap episode airs Wednesday - paNOW

  06-02-2019 14:38 via panow.com
  Kristoff St. John's last soap episode airs Wednesday  paNOWLOS ANGELES - The last "Young and the Restless" episode featuring Kristoff St. John will air Wednesday on CBS....
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Grieving a life lost in the cold

  06-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Frozen body found near Commonwealth Stadium,” Feb. 4
  “A solitary police officer in a cruiser kept watch over the body as people came and went from the nearby recreation centre.”
  I was one of those people, hurrying to yoga around 11:15 am, bundled up against the cold, unaware that a person had died in the bitter cold near my home, until the Journal article Monday. Thank you, Edmonton Journal for bringing this story to light.
  I think of the man who laid down in the col
  
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• Opinion: One inclusive education system would turn no one away

  06-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I would like to reply to the recent article entitled Catholic schools add diversity and choice, Jan. 3, written by Ms. Serena Shaw, president of the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association.
  Ms. Shaw states, in essence, that the recently launched Public School Boards’ Association of Alberta (PSBAA) Together for Students campaign is a “thinly veiled contempt for religious rights and Catholicism” under the guise of seeking economic efficiencies. In this she is misinfor
  
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• Opinion: Alberta students can't afford Doug Ford-style policies

  06-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans pride themselves on their ability to ignore Ontario.
  We’ve endured far too many hot takes from the east. We get it, Ontario, you like the Maple Leafs. You blame us for winter weather when it’s not actually cold. Your love of cottage country is predicated on faulty nomenclature. They’re called cabins, Ontario. Cabins.
  But every once in a while, Albertans should pay attention to good old Upper Canada. Recent changes to post-secondary education are a case in point.
  Earli
  
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• Wednesday weather: Frostbite in minutes - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 13:27 via stalbertgazette.com
  Wednesday weather: Frostbite in minutes  St. Albert GazetteEnvironment Canada's warning continues: The coldest wind chill values will be between minus 40 and minus 45. Cold arctic air remains entrenched across.
  
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• Watch: Imagining a new Jasper Avenue

  06-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oliver resident and urban planning graduate Dustin Martin believes that overall, the upcoming changes to Jasper Avenue will be a big improvement for the neighbourhood. The City of Edmonton’s Imagine Jasper Avenue project, which Martin worked on, will lead to changes from 109 Street through 114 Street as the first phase of construction begins this year.
  He argues that placing the emphasis on pedestrian safety and street level enhancements will lead to a safer, more appealing Jasper Avenue.
  
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• New mixed-use residential tower looking to make a 'Wedge' on Jasper Avenue

  06-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed 11-storey mixed-use development hopes to pop on a busy Jasper Avenue — sandwiched between two historic buildings with only a narrow seven and a half metres of width to work with.
  Named The Wedge in response to how it will sit on the busy downtown street, the skinny tower will stand about 38 metres tall and offer up to four units of retail space on the main floor and basement, with 34 residential units above.
  Design company Holo-Blok was brought on by the current property owner O
  
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• Elise Stolte: Jasper Avenue upgrade is worth a little pain for commuters

  06-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Whose needs count the most: the person driving through a neighbourhood or someone living there?
  That’s the issue at the core of the controversial west Jasper Avenue upgrades, expected to increase commute times by up to two minutes for west-end residents during rush hour.
  Those delays caused widespread frustration when the design was street-tested with yellow plastic bollards and picnic tables during summer 2016. But did you know the number of people driving on Jasper Avenue and living in t
  
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• David Staples: Top end old folks homes are now like luxury hotels and resorts

  06-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The eldest of the wealthy baby boom generation are turning 73 this year, but for them there will be no dreary, uncomfortable old folks homes of the popular imagination.
  For several decades now, homebuilders have been erecting a new generation of seniors residences and communities that are more like luxury hotels or resorts than depressing institutional quarters. In Edmonton, home builder Greg Christenson has led this charge.
  “We really championed it,” Christenson said of this new hou
  
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• St. Albert co-op celebrates 125 years of squeaky cheese - CBC.ca

  06-02-2019 10:00 via cbc.ca
  St. Albert co-op celebrates 125 years of squeaky cheese  CBC.caAn eastern Ontario cheese factory famous for its squeaky curds is marking a major milestone with a year-long celebration. The St. Albert Cheese Factory Co-Op ...
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers exposed on home ice yet again, crash 6-2 to Blackhawks

  06-02-2019 09:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blackhawks 6, Oilers 2
  No way to put lipstick on this pig. Edmonton Oilers let down themselves, each other, and most importantly their long-suffering home fans with another brutal performance in the “friendly confines” of Rogers Place on Tuesday night, crashing and burning 6-2 to Chicago Blackhawks.
  For the third game in a row since their ten-day break, the Oilers came out like they were shot out of a coma, taking a penalty in the second minute of play, failing to kill it, and findin
  
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• Parents tell Edmonton public board to keep Confucius Institute agreement alive

  06-02-2019 04:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Political disagreements shouldn’t jeopardize a valuable relationship the Edmonton public school board has with the Confucius Institute, some parents told school board trustees Tuesday.
  In October, the public school board renewed an agreement with the Confucius Institute, whose parent organization is part of the Chinese government. Since then, the two nations have become at odds over the Vancouver arrest of Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou and a Chinese court&rs
  
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• Residents don't like TransEd proposal to close 95 Avenue and speed LRT construction

  06-02-2019 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposal to close a large chunk of 95 Avenue for the remainder of the year to speed up LRT construction doesn’t sit well with one of the businesses along the stretch.
  Valley Line LRT developer TransEd is considering a temporary, full closure of 95 Avenue between Connors Road and 85 Street. During the closure, there will still be pedestrian access, and there will be some north-south crossings for cars and people.
  According to a notice on its website, TransEd believes that if it maintains
  
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• Local teen who broke neck trampolining undergoes cell transplant surgery in Miami

  06-02-2019 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Sherwood Park man underwent a trial spinal surgery in Miami on Tuesday after he broke his neck at a trampoline park two years ago.
  Landon Smith, 20, was one of 10 people selected to participate in the trial surgery that introduces 15 million or more Schwann cells into a patient’s spine.
  “From what the doctors tell us, there were good signs,” said his mother Brenda Smith in an interview Tuesday. “They put in between 17 million and 20 million Schwann cells.”
  Schwann
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: To trade or not to trade: Edmonton Oilers face tough decisions soon

  06-02-2019 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  We’ve been watching this dance in slow motion for weeks now, with the Edmonton Oilers on the edge of it — both before and after their extended break during and after the NHL all-star game.
  It’s the great turtle derby being contested by half the Western Conference. One thing is for sure — at some point, a couple of these teams are going to break away from the pack. The question in Edmonton is: Do the Oilers have the right team to do it?
  And the danger for the Oilers all of
  
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• Head Start: Newly renovated centre opens to guide preschool Indigenous students

  06-02-2019 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jayda Potts credits her time at the Mne Koodi Head Start Centre in Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation for helping her gain her language back after moving to Edmonton.
  On Tuesday, Potts and other members of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, 86 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Head Start program with the reopening of the Mne Koodi Head Start Centre after it underwent renovations and an expansion. The program was the first of its kind to open on any nation in Canada.
  The m
  
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• Skyhawks rising - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 00:42 via stalbertgazette.com
  Skyhawks rising  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Skyhawks proved their No. 1 ranking in 4A provincial high school women's basketball wasn't a fluke at the St. Mary's Saints Senior Classic.
  
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• Rural crime strategy working, says superintendent - St. Albert Gazette

  06-02-2019 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Rural crime strategy working, says superintendent  St. Albert GazetteAlberta's cops are making a dent in rural crime, says an RCMP superintendent, but they need backup from country residents if they are to catch more.
  
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• Birkebeiner ski event cancelled due to deep freeze

  06-02-2019 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The popular Birkebeiner cross-country ski race is the latest victim of the extreme cold weather.
  Organizers with the Canadian Birkebeiner Society made the call to cancel the weekend race on Tuesday afternoon.
  “Today the latest long-range weather forecasts from our various sources now agree that Saturday temperatures in the Elk Island National Park area will not crest above our -25 C cutoff,” organizers said in a statement. “We suspect that these will be much lower at our mornin
  
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