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• Gas for 88.9 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 23:54 via stalbertgazette.com
  Gas for 88.9 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteMost gas stations are offering gas at 88.9 in St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. Most locations along St. Albert Trail have dropped their prices back.
  
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• Report: Alberta woman among those fleeing last ISIS pocket in Syria

  07-02-2019 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman from Alberta was among those fleeing the last Syrian village held by the so-called Islamic State group, according to a reporter on the ground.
  On Thursday, New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi tweeted that a woman from Alberta was among the thousands of people coming out of Baghuz, Syria. The town — currently surrounded by the Syrian military, Iraqi forces and American-supported Kurdish and Arab fighters — is the last physical territory held by ISIS in Iraq and Syr
  
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• Review: Justin Timberlake's song-and-dance spectacle heats up Rogers Place

  07-02-2019 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Promising to warm things up on a frigid February evening, Justin Timberlake delivered a song-and-dance spectacle at Rogers Place Wednesday night, treating concertgoers to a pop-fueled procession of hits.
  Making a two-night stint in the City of Champions on his Man of the Woods tour, it seemed fitting that the opening night was divided into two halves. The first half offered a carefully choreographed trip through material off Timberlake’s latest album — which inspired the tour’s
  
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• Edmonton police searching for man they believe stole credit card, spent $17K

  07-02-2019 22:08 via globalnews.ca
  Police believe the man stole the card during a break and enter and then allegedly made hundreds of purchases at 41 locations in Calgary, Red Deer, St. Albert and Edmonton.
  
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• Trying, and mostly failing, to make sense of Edmonton Oilers' bizarre goaltending situation

  07-02-2019 22:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 54: Oilers at Wild
  This isn’t just a competition for ice time, but for NHL future. Both [Cam Talbot and Mikko Koskinen] are on expiring contracts, and by far the likeliest outcome is that exactly one of them will be signed to an extension. Talbot convincingly won his previous such battle vs. Anders Nilsson in 2015-16, but this is a different season and a different competitor.
  I wrote the above in a Game Day preview in mid-November when the 2018-19 NHL season was a third its p
  
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• 'I'm very sorry': Edmonton councillor says he'll reimburse city for executive MBA tuition

  07-02-2019 21:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton city councillor is reversing his decision to bill taxpayers for thousands of dollars in post-secondary tuition costs.
  Ward 3 Coun. Jon Dziadyk initially posted a blog to his website on Jan. 11 announcing his enrolment in the University of Alberta’s Executive MBA program. At the time, he said he would personally pay one-third of the tuition for the program while using “some discretionary public dollars, from my ward account, to finance this degree.”
  According to the
  
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• Drug lab team descends on Mission - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 21:53 via stalbertgazette.com
  Drug lab team descends on Mission  St. Albert GazetteA federal drug team was in St. Albert Wednesday morning after a landlord became suspicious of a drug lab in his rented garage. On Feb. 5, the St. Albert.
  
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• Impaired driver rams police vehicle - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 21:42 via stalbertgazette.com
  Impaired driver rams police vehicle  St. Albert GazetteAn alleged impaired driver rammed a police vehicle and attempted to flee after an RCMP officer tried to pull him over last weekend. On Sunday, Feb. 3, at.
  
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• Edmonton councillor says he'll reimburse city for executive MBA tuition

  07-02-2019 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton city councillor is reversing his decision to bill taxpayers for thousands of dollars in post-secondary tuition costs.
  Ward 3 Coun. Jon Dziadyk initially posted a blog to his website on Jan. 11 announcing his enrolment in the University of Alberta’s Executive MBA program. At the time, he said he would personally pay one-third of the tuition for the program while using “some discretionary public dollars, from my ward account, to finance this degree.”
  According to the
  
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• On Tap: Midget AA action - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 20:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  On Tap: Midget AA action  St. Albert GazetteThe top two teams in the Northern Alberta Midget AA Hockey League face off Friday at Mark Messier Arena. Puck drop is 8:45 p.m. between the No. 1-ranked St.
  
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• Edmonton is cold but it's par for the course, says Environment Canada

  07-02-2019 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  While Old Man Winter has Edmonton currently locked in an icy grip, he has also brought higher than normal temperatures for the city this season, according to Environment Canada.
  Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the average temperatures for November, December and January have all been above normal.
  In November, the average temperature was -2.2 degrees while the 30-year average, calculated between 1981 and 2010, was -4.1 degrees, making the month about two degrees warmer th
  
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• Simple solutions to waste (not) - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 19:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Simple solutions to waste (not)  St. Albert GazetteAll around us there are solutions to our waste issues. Focusing our creativity, business sense and common sense on the task is our challenge. We are all.
  
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• Recycling questions answered? - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 18:57 via stalbertgazette.com
  Recycling questions answered?  St. Albert GazetteRecycling has been in the news recently, and not in a good light. Some good questions were asked in recent letters to the editor. As a past chair of St.
  
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• Seven for Sabres - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 17:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  Seven for Sabres  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Gregg Distributors Sabres head to Calgary this weekend undefeated in seven games in the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League. The Sabres ...
  
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• Police officer assaulted after breaking up bar fight in Jasper

  07-02-2019 16:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were arrested after a fight outside a Jasper nightclub in late January involved broken glass, an assault on a police officer and the use of a taser.
  In a release Wednesday, Jasper RCMP said at around 1:15 a.m. on Jan. 27, officers responded to a call for assistance from bouncers for the Athabasca Hotel nightclub about a fight involving multiple people.
  Police were able to break up the fight and arrest two males. However, one male resisted arrest and assaulted one of the officers. The
  
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• Edmonton weather: Extreme cold is here to stay. Or is it? Yes.

  07-02-2019 14:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -24.7 C with calm winds.
  Extreme cold warning
  The extreme cold warning was extended Thursday as forecasters don’t expect an end to this madness for at least another four or five days.
  “A multi-day episode of very cold wind chills continues. The coldest wind chill values will be between minus 40 and minus 45.
  “Regions in central
  
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• Thursday's letters: Photo radar all about the money

  07-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Better signage would cut speeding,” Letters, Feb. 5
  I wholeheartedly agree with Kuldip S Riar, especially the “heavy on enforcement and not much on education and engineering” part.
  Over the past 18 months I received two photo radar tickets, one for nine kilometres over and the other for 11. In both cases, the last speed sign I saw was for 60 km/h. Nowhere did I see any sign indicating a speed reduction to 50.
  Many articles have been published regarding the validity o
  
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• Opinion: Asking oil firms to help pay for climate change is good economics

  07-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 1998, an internal Royal Dutch Shell memo predicted that as the impacts of climate change got worse, fossil-fuel companies might be sued in a class-action lawsuit “on the grounds of neglecting what scientists (including their own) have been saying for years …”
  In January, the City of Victoria, in response to a letter from Shell implicitly denying the company’s responsibility for climate impacts from its products, started examining options for a class-action lawsuit aga
  
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• Rapidly growing school program for kids with behavioural challenges needs new home

  07-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Catholic school that helps students whose behaviour is too challenging to manage in conventional schools has grown substantially and is running out of space.
  Less than a year-and-a-half since it reopened as an alternative school, St. Margaret School now has 90 students enrolled in four programs that surround students with educators and specialists who help manage their behavioural challenges.
  “The program itself is a lifesaver for parents who have to put their kids in it,” parent N
  
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• Edmonton fire crews adapt to conditions during extreme cold

  07-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The extreme cold weather wrapping its icy grip around Edmonton means fire crews have to change how they attend calls because the freezing weather can create more hazards than just flames.
  Firefighters are just one group of many that have to be aware of the elements during winter and especially during a cold snap. District Chief Randy Shakura said Wednesday cold weather can create issues for fire crews, including equipment freezing over, crews getting wet and cold and hazards caused by ice.
  
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• Antique collector's Indiana Jones dreams uncovered in a little house on the prairie

  07-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dilapidated farmhouse on the cold Prairies with no heat, stacked more than one metre high with clutter, would scare most potential home buyers.
  Antique hunter Alex Archbold, however, is not like most people.
  The 40-year-old Edmontonian, who grew up on ’80s adventure flicks like the Indiana Jones franchise and The Goonies, knows antiquing gold lurks in unexpected places. A 100-year-old house in northeastern Alberta is his latest treasure chest.
  “When I’m clearing cobwebs and f
  
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• Charges pending against St. Albert man after dog kicked, found in critical condition: RCMP - Globalnews.ca

  07-02-2019 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Charges pending against St. Albert man after dog kicked, found in critical condition: RCMP  Globalnews.caCharges are pending against a 27-year-old man, after a St. Albert RCMP investigation found a dog that had allegedly been kicked more than once and was in ...
  
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• St. Albert man arrested after pickup rams police vehicle

  07-02-2019 06:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A St. Albert man faces multiple charges after a truck ran into an RCMP vehicle in St. Albert on Sunday.
  St. Albert RCMP say an officer responding to a report of a possible impaired driver in a grey Ram pickup spotted the suspect vehicle travelling westbound on Villeneuve Road, and followed it into the Northridge neighbourhood.
  “The suspect truck did not stop when the police officer activated the emergency lights on the police vehicle,” said Cpl. Laurel Kading in an RCMP news release.
  
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• Budget townhall: Public dials in to question finance minister

  07-02-2019 05:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Education, housing and a provincial sales tax took centre stage at the first of two budget telephone town halls with Finance Minister Joe Ceci on Wednesday.
  Ceci spent a large portion of Wednesday’s call-in session by answering questions about what the NDP government has done since coming to power in 2015. He noted a combined investment of $1.2 billion in capital funding in affordable housing and repeatedly said the government is committed to building new schools.
  “We know that Alber
  
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• St. Albert man arrested after pickup rams police vehicle - Edmonton Journal

  07-02-2019 05:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert man arrested after pickup rams police vehicle  Edmonton JournalA St. Albert man faces multiple charges after a truck ran into an RCMP vehicle in St. Albert on Sunday.St. Albert RCMP say an officer responding to a report of a ...
  
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• Winter Feast: Salvation Army hosts dinner to warm hearts and bellies

  07-02-2019 03:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is nothing quite like a hot meal from generous hosts to warm hearts on cold days.
  Salvation Army staff recognized the cold February days are a perfect time to host such dinners and Wednesday night held the first Winter Feast event for anyone in need.
  The roast beef meal — held at the 9611 102 Ave. Salvation Army Centre of Hope — was to include performances by Chubby Cree, an Indigenous drumming group and local musician Paula Kirman.
  “Winter Feast is a new event for The Sa
  
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• Lady Bulldogs chase elusive banner - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 03:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lady Bulldogs chase elusive banner  St. Albert GazetteFinishing second best is not an option for the Bellerose Bulldogs in metro Edmonton division three women's basketball. The Bulldogs were bridesmaids.
  
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• 'A life after oil': Edmonton's chief economist says shift to growing services sector essential for economic growth

  07-02-2019 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  With no clear sign of a prosperous recovery in the energy sector any time soon, Edmonton should shift its focus to “exporting brains” globally rather than resources, the city’s chief economist says.
  “I don’t want to suggest for a moment that we’re going to walk away from the energy sector or walk away from manufacturing, no,” chief economist John Rose said during an economic forecast presentation Wednesday morning. “But thinking about where growth
  
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• NAIT to double in size as it expands into Blatchford, financial details not public

  07-02-2019 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  NAIT’s main campus will nearly double in size after buying 13 hectares of Blatchford land from the city, becoming the “anchor tenant” for the green development on the site of the former municipal airport.
  The deal announced Wednesday makes way for the school’s long-term plan to consolidate students on its central campus. Blatchford borders the school to the north and west.
  The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology was able to make the purchase in part by refinanci
  
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• Watch: Oilers leave Talbot hanging

  07-02-2019 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Following the team’s 6-2 loss to Chicago on Tuesday, head coach Ken Hitchcock discussed the game and his decision to pull goalie Cam Talbot.
  “We turned the puck over too many times on critical ice and paid for it. We did a lot of watching in the D zone. We didn’t finish any checks one-on-one and we paid for it in the third period. To me we tried to stop the bleeding at the end of two and we didn’t get enough minutes into start the third period before we got scored on, ban
  
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• Body of Morinville man recovered from Yukon lake - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 00:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Body of Morinville man recovered from Yukon lake  St. Albert GazetteThe RCMP have recovered the body of a Morinville snowmobiler known to his family as a passionate hunter and outdoorsman. The Yukon Coroner's *Service* .
  
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• Body of Alexander man recovered from Yukon lake - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 00:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Body of Alexander man recovered from Yukon lake  St. Albert GazetteUPDATE A previous version of this story described Jason Keith as a Morinville resident based on information from the Yukon RCMP and coroner's *service*.
  
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• Filling up? Gas is sitting at 88.9 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  07-02-2019 00:38 via stalbertgazette.com
  Filling up? Gas is sitting at 88.9 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteGas is sitting at 88.9 in St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. Most locations on St. Albert Trail are offering gas for 89.9, but a few locations are.
  
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• Cinnaholic to open a second Edmonton location on Whyte Ave.

  07-02-2019 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cinnaholic, the specialty cinnamon roll bakery popular for its vegan offerings, has announced that its second Edmonton location will open late this month at 10345 Whyte Ave. The new Edmonton bakery is the sixth Cinnaholic location in Canada.
  In a special grand opening deal, the bakery will offer cinnamon rolls for $1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on opening day. (They haven’t announced which day in late February that will be; start saving up those loonies and watch this space for details as they
  
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