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• Province 'disappointed' with latest job numbers, touts diversification plan

  11-02-2019 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The loss of 16,000 Alberta jobs in January was disappointing, but the province is investing in opportunities to boost the employment rate, said Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous.
  “The month-to-month numbers do fluctuate,” Bilous told reporters Monday. “Any time there’s a job loss, it’s disappointing.”
  January marked the second month in a row that Alberta’s job numbers declined. The unemployment rate increased to 6.8 per cent,
  
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• Your Monday gas price is 88.9 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 23:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Your Monday gas price is 88.9 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteMost gas stations are still offering gas at 88.9 in St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. Most locations in St. Albert on Monday are sitting at 88.9, but.
  
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• Casting Notice: Open Auditions - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 22:48 via stalbertgazette.com
  Casting Notice: Open Auditions  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert Dinner Theatre presents: Barely Heirs by David Lassig, by special arrangement with Heuer Publishing. Synopsis: This is the story of Jane, who stands ...
  
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• 'Transformational': $226-million mental health centre receives funding boost

  11-02-2019 22:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed $226-million youth mental health centre in Edmonton will boast more than 100 inpatient beds and bring various treatment programs under one roof, said the province.
  Funding for the child and adolescent mental health centre was first set out in the 2017 budget to the tune of $200 million, said Health Minister Sarah Hoffman.
  On Monday, the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation promised to contribute an additional $26 million to the project. The foundation will receive t
  
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• Police investigate threats at four Edmonton public schools

  11-02-2019 21:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are investigating threats made on social media at four public schools.
  Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) confirmed Eastglen High School was placed on lockdown for 15 minutes on Monday and Centre High School was put on high alert, stopping moving in and out of it’s downtown location.
  “There have been numerous threats today. We take these threats very seriously and they were each reported to the police,” said Megan Normandeau, an EPSB spokeswoman.
  Police said th
  
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• Pentatonix gears up for a world tour - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 20:52 via stalbertgazette.com
  Pentatonix gears up for a world tour  St. Albert GazettePentatonix is about to show audiences you don't need instruments to get stadium shows rockin'. The three-time Grammy Award-winning a cappella group just.
  
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• Five-year ban handed to Alberta Party leader result of 'overreach,' says Kenney

  11-02-2019 20:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP leader Jason Kenney is calling the five-year election ban placed on Alberta Party leader Stephen Mandel a disproportionate sanction that is now forcing Mandel to go to court.
  “I support Stephen’s judicial appeal of his disqualification,” said Kenney in a Sunday statement, arguing that the stiff penalty is the result of government overreach.
  Elections Alberta listed Mandel as ineligible to run until 2023 after he missed a deadline for financial paperwork.
  He said he only fou
  
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• Police investigate social media threats at two Edmonton public schools

  11-02-2019 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are investigating threats made on social media at two public schools.
  Police said they first received several reports of a threatening photo circulating among students on social media at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening at Jasper Place High School.
  Edmonton Public Schools confirmed a second threat at J. Percy Page on Monday but couldn’t say if it was connected to the Jasper Place incident.
  The school board said they reported the threat to police who determined there was no danger t
  
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• Temporary changes coming to Route 204 next week - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 18:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Temporary changes coming to Route 204 next week  St. Albert GazetteSelect Route 204 trips will not be operating next week, according to St. Albert Transit. "Please be advised that due to non-class days at the University.
  
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• Alberta Industrial Heartland Association looks at advocacy - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 18:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Alberta Industrial Heartland Association looks at advocacy  St. Albert GazetteThis year, the Alberta Industrial Heartland Association (AIHA) has set its sights on advocacy. Mark Plamondon, executive director for AIHA, said the.
  
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• St. Albert RCMP seek public help to identify break in suspect - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 18:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert RCMP seek public help to identify break in suspect  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert RCMP are asking the public to help identify a suspect caught on camera breaking into a home on Nemo Terrace in November 2018. "St. Albert RCMP.
  
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• Police respond to shooting victim at 7-Eleven

  11-02-2019 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating after a man walked into a south-side 7-Eleven Sunday with a gunshot wound.
  Cops were called Sunday morning after the man showed up hurt at the Mill Woods store.
  “We responded to the store at approximately 9:30 a.m. after a man entered the store who had been shot,” said EPS spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard in an email Monday morning.
  Sheppard said no suspects were in custody as of Sunday evening and the incident remains under investigation.
  The shooting came the mo
  
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• Lay a nest egg for retirement - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 17:19 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lay a nest egg for retirement  St. Albert GazetteThere is good news and bad news for people preparing to retire within the decade. First, the good news – the life expectancy of a Canadian in 2019 is 82.3.
  
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• Police investigate social media threat at Jasper Place High School

  11-02-2019 15:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have launched an investigation into threatening photos that were sent to students from Jasper Place High School on Sunday.
  Police said they received several reports of the threatening photo at 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening.
  “Police have investigated this, through a variety of steps, and do not believe there is any present danger to the students, staff or public as a result of this social media post,” said Cheryl Sheppard, EPS spokeswoman in a news release.
  Police said ther
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's like The Neverending Story but without the flying dog-dragons

  11-02-2019 14:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -23.3 C with 9 km/h winds out of the northwest contributing to a -31 wind chill.
  Extreme cold warning
  The never-ending extreme cold warning was extended again through Monday as forecasters are calling for more extreme wind chill values in the -40 to -45 range.
  “Extreme wind chill values between minus 40 and minus 45 will continue over many p
  
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• Chance of flurries in Monday’s forecast - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 13:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Chance of flurries in Monday’s forecast  St. Albert GazetteEnvironment Canada's extreme cold warning continues: A multi-day episode of very cold wind chills continues. The coldest wind chill values will be between.
  
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• More than 127,000 visitors flock to new Royal Alberta Museum in first four months

  11-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 127,000 visitors, 13,000 annual mammoth passes issued and 9,613 cups of Alberta-roasted coffee sold in the café.
  These are just a few of the record-setting numbers in the first four months of opening for the new downtown Royal Alberta Museum.
  The $375.5-million attraction at 97 Street and 103A Avenue opened to much fanfare from the public on Oct. 3 with about 42,000 people visiting during the first six days of operation when free admission was offered.
  “I am delighted. I a
  
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• If the Oilers end up buyers at the deadline, which Edmonton top prospects are likely on the Most Wanted List of other NHL teams

  11-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NHL trading deadline is approaching. And whether the Oilers will be buyers or sellers by that time is still unclear.
  Lets be optimistic and agree that the Edmonton Oilers will still be right in the hunt for a Western Conference Wild Card spot by that time. Most teams willing to give up what the Oilers may need are probably not playoff bound themselves. They are probably just as unlikely to want to take on salary. Or the contract of an older player. In short: They’ll be most interested
  
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• Elise Stolte: Tampon donation drive highlights damage of menstrual taboo

  11-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The woman was begging for money, same as every day. But this time, as Scarlet Bjornson reached to find some change, she asked the woman why.
  The answer was both mundane and shocking: she wanted alcohol but needed tampons.
  “I had never, ever thought of that,” said Bjornson, at that time a real estate agent living in Mill Woods. Bjornson went to her car, gave the woman her emergency stash of menstrual products, and that evening started planing a donation drive.
  “Ninety-nine per c
  
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• As rural crime trends down, RCMP remind homeowners to lock up

  11-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rural homeowners can feel safe in their seclusion, leading to habits where cars and homes are left unlocked, something criminals easily use to their advantage. Although rural property crime is trending down, the RCMP says homeowners should remember to “not feed the crooks.”
  According to data provided by the RCMP, property crime was down by eight per cent in RCMP jurisdictions provincewide. In rural detachments, property crime is down 10 per cent and, for municipal detachments, i
  
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• Fire and ice: Burning sculptures in extreme cold at Silver Skate Festival

  11-02-2019 06:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  “You’re all crazy,” said the king to the people who had gathered around the snowplowed circle Saturday night as the temperature fell to a low of -28 C with a wind chill making it feel like -35 C.
  In the circle, a wooden sculpture made throughout the day by a group of artists was soon to be incinerated based on their interpretation of the story “The land of the golden apples.”
  That story is part of the interactive theatre piece in the storytelling tent at the Silver
  
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• St. Albert News - St. Albert Today

  11-02-2019 03:35 via stalberttoday.ca
  St. Albert News  St. Albert TodaySt. Albert's source for daily news, online - updated often at StAlbertToday.ca.
  
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• Three men injured in shooting at southwest Edmonton apartment suite

  11-02-2019 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police responded to a call of a shooting inside an apartment suite in the area of Ellerslie Road and 114 Street around 5:20 p.m. Saturday.
  Officers found three men in the suite injured, one seriously and the other two with non-life threatening injuries, said Edmonton police spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard in a news release Sunday.
  All the men are said to be in their 30s.
  Police believe this is an isolated incident and have no suspects but are asking for information from the public.
  
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• Small bump to transit fares - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 01:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  Small bump to transit fares  St. Albert GazetteAs of Feb. 1, monthly transit passes for adults in St. Albert went up by 75 cents to $74, while student and senior passes increased by 25 cents to $40.60.
  
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• Saddleback’s ‘life-changing experience’ on new Neeson film - St. Albert Gazette

  11-02-2019 00:46 via stalbertgazette.com
  Saddleback’s ‘life-changing experience’ on new Neeson film  St. Albert GazetteIt's Mitchell Saddleback's big break, even if it meant playing a henchman to a crime lord. He's not actually a gangster ... he just plays one in the.
  
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• Nick Lees: Bruce Bowie heading back to the ranch for big 100th anniversary

  11-02-2019 00:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rocking out cowboy boots and blue jeans is 630 CHED’s Bruce Bowie, who this spring heads to Piapot, Sask., for the 100th anniversary celebrations at his family’s ranch.
  “My brother Ian asked me to be there for the annual branding in May,” said Bowie, a radio broadcaster for 47 years.
  “A touch of the old west still happens. All the neighbours bring their best horses and help each other at roundups. Some 300 calves are usually branded and vaccinated at our ranch.&rdqu
  
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