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• Election rhetoric kicks up - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 23:34 via stalbertgazette.com
  Election rhetoric kicks up  St. Albert GazetteWith election rhetoric heating up at the Alberta legislature, residents say they are ready for the writ to drop and to have their say in the next group of.
  
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• Trudeau’s top adviser steps down - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 23:19 via stalbertgazette.com
  Trudeau’s top adviser steps down  St. Albert GazetteOver the weekend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's principle secretary resigned in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin scandal. Gerald Butts, who served as.
  
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• Edmonton physiotherapist remains in hospital after Whitemud Drive collision Saturday

  19-02-2019 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton physiotherapist is currently in critical condition after a collision on Whitemud Drive Saturday morning left her with life-threatening injuries.
  Police responded to a call around 8:15 a.m. Saturday after a blue Lexus RX350 travelling on Whitemud Drive lost control and struck the centre barrier. The 31-year-old woman left her vehicle and was speaking to another driver who stopped to help her when a black Dodge Nitro slid into her.
  The woman has been identified as Alicia Souveny, a phy
  
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• Morinville parks plan unveiled Thursday - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 22:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Morinville parks plan unveiled Thursday  St. Albert GazetteMorinville residents will get a big-picture look at new rec-centre lands Thursday during an open house on the town's parks master plan. The Town of.
  
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• Shooting suspect turns himself in to police

  19-02-2019 22:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 26-year-old man wanted after a woman was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound Saturday morning turned himself in to police Tuesday.
  On Saturday, police responded to a call for an assault with a weapon at a multi-unit residence near 101 Avenue and 95 Street. There, they found a 22-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound. The woman was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition.
  Scott Pattison, an Edmonton police spokesman, said Tuesday there is no update to her condition.
  Johnathan
  
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• Fill up on Tuesday for 95.9 - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 22:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Fill up on Tuesday for 95.9  St. Albert GazetteMost stations offering gas for 105.9 are now back to 95.9 in St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. The least expensive gas in the city is 95.9 at.
  
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• Memo to Edmonton Oilers: Let's say you approach a home game like you intend to win it

  19-02-2019 22:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game 59: Coyotes at Oilers
  The Edmonton Oilers headed off on a three-game road trip to the tough Metropolitan Division last week with their head coach, Ken Hitchcock, bravely proclaiming the club’s plan to make the playoffs was to take four points from every three-game segment the rest of the way.
  Three games and zero points later, that plan has already come off the rails. In fairness to the Oilers, they busted their tails in all three games, outshooting each opponent by a combined 116-85,
  
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• Experience helps former soldier Tim Isberg reinvent himself in song

  19-02-2019 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  After serving in the Canadian Army for decades Tim Isberg is well on his way to a new career plying original and insightful roots music, but in some ways he will never put the soldier role behind him.
  “It’s all so interwoven,” Isberg explains. “I don’t think I would ever get (the army) out of me and I don’t think I would want to because it’s part of who I am. I spent 30 years doing something that taught me a lot about myself and other people, and ga
  
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• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra showcases Finnish master's works during Sibelius Festival

  19-02-2019 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sibelius is not only the greatest of all the Scandinavian composers, but arguably the greatest composer of all the northern lands. He captures the intricacies of light and the ruggedness of northern landscapes. Deep in his soul are the great myths of the north, especially those of the Kalevala, the national epic of his homeland, Finland.
  All this makes his music attractive to Canadians — we can recognize this world. It also appeals to those who love Romantic music, for he is perhaps the ve
  
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• Crowdfunded Daze Magazine crisply rises from euthanized Vue Weekly

  19-02-2019 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Daze Magazine founding editors Chelsea Novak and Stephan Boissonneault.
  The editors of the recently euthanized arts and culture periodical Vue Weekly did something too few of us do when robbed of something we love: they said uh-uh.
  To quote Fred Rogers, there are many ways to say I love you, and former Vue editors Stephan Boissonneault, Chelsea Novak and Doug Johnson are using their obvious passion for Edmonton’s arts and culture as the molten energy pushing their new project forward.
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• Province scales back crude-by-rail plan, will lease 4,400 cars

  19-02-2019 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government will lease 4,400 rail cars to move oil out of the province, resulting in 120,000 barrels per day by mid-2020, Premier Rachel Notley announced Tuesday afternoon as part of the crude-by-rail strategy.
  Instead of purchasing trains, the government will buy rail service from Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway to ship crude oil to market with pending destinations including International markets and the U.S. Gulf Coast.
  Initial estimates in Nov. 2018 called fo
  
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• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 20:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW Mary Poppins Jr. Phoenix Tales Productions Feb. 21 and 22 at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets: $15 at door.
  
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• Memo to Edmonton Oilers: What say you approach a home game like you intend to win it?

  19-02-2019 20:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game 59: Coyotes at Oilers
  The Edmonton Oilers headed off on a three-game road trip to the tough Metropolitan Division last week with their head coach, Ken Hitchcock, bravely proclaiming the club’s plan to make the playoffs was to take four points from every three-game segment the rest of the way.
  Three games and zero points later, that plan has already come off the rails. In fairness to the Oilers, they busted their tails in all three games, outshooting each opponent by a combined 116-85,
  
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• Deadline draws closer for housing society - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 20:04 via stalbertgazette.com
  Deadline draws closer for housing society  St. Albert GazetteA much-anticipated meeting between the city and the St. Albert Housing Society is set for Friday, giving the two parties less than a week to hash out an.
  
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• How soon is now — Morrissey coming to the Jube April 18

  19-02-2019 19:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  British singer Morrissey is coming to Edmonton April 18.
  Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me … and, can it be? — maybe they do, because Morrissey is finally coming to Edmonton, to the Jubilee Auditorium April 18!
  Love him or hate him, the groundbreaking former lead singer of the Smiths is coming to Canada for the first time since the turn of the century, a seminal figure in the emergence of indie rock and post-Beatles-generational Britpop — besides Nick Cave, as dark an
  
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• Elise Stolte: 'Say carrot' … UCP phone bot conversations feel creepy, sound creepy

  19-02-2019 19:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Semi-human — that might be the best way to describe a new United Conservative phone system that’s so awkward, it’s laughable.
  It called New Democrat volunteer Kyle Hamilton recently to see if he wants to vote conservative in the upcoming election. The voice sounded real. So Hamilton asked about the UCP platform.
  But something was slightly off. Hamilton got only the bio of candidate Marjorie Newman in return. He asked what small business she runs and the voice said it couldn&rsq
  
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• City Launches Open Data Portal

  19-02-2019 16:54
  The City of St. Albert has launched its Open Data Portal. Residents can now freely access, download and analyze municipal... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's -4 C today with a chance of gorgeousness

  19-02-2019 14:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -16.0 C with 2 km/h winds out of the south, southwest contributing to a -18 wind chill.
  This is more like it. I think it’s safe to say (knock on wood) the recent cold snap is behind us. Sure, there are a couple nights in the long-term forecast where temperatures could dip below -20 C but at this point so long as it doesn’t say “
  
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• Opinion: Bighorn proposal puts politics over public input

  19-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For Alberta off-highway vehicle (OHV) users and an increasing number of user groups, municipalities and First Nations to say the provincial government’s approach to consultation regarding public land-use policies has been troubling would be an understatement.
  The Bighorn Country proposal is just another example of the NDP government’s disregard for stakeholder and public input, leading to the increasing strain between backcountry users and the government of Alberta. The Alberta Off-
  
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• Good Morning, St. Albert! Chance of flurries in the forecast - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 13:59 via stalbertgazette.com
  Good Morning, St. Albert! Chance of flurries in the forecast  St. Albert GazetteTuesday's daytime high of -3 C will feel like -18 C in the morning and -9 C in the afternoon, as a result of 20 km/h winds gusting to 40 km/h. Cloudy in.
  
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• 'It's like a doctor telling you, you have cancer:' Alberta farmers fight a growing battle

  19-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  John Guelly is blunt about how tough it was five years ago to be hit with the news that clubroot had found its way into his canola crop.
  “It’s like a doctor telling you, ‘You have cancer,'” the Westlock-area farmer recalled. “Your main source of income on most farms in this area is canola and as soon as you find clubroot you’re worried that you’ll never be able to grow canola again.”
  Canola producers in the Edmonton region are now years into their
  
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• Elise Stolte: UCP phone bots, NDP's fake Facebook … technology creeping into election campaign

  19-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Semi-human — that might be the best way to describe a new United Conservative phone system that’s so awkward, it’s laughable.
  It called New Democrat volunteer Kyle Hamilton recently to see if he wants to vote conservative in the upcoming election. The voice sounded real. So Hamilton asked about the UCP platform.
  But something was slightly off. Hamilton got only the bio of candidate Marjorie Newman in return. He asked what small business she runs and the voice said it couldn&rsq
  
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• Alberta's artist-in-residence plans large-scale map focusing on Indigenous culture

  19-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s first artist-in-residence is an Indigenous woman who plans to travel the province and to create a large-scale painted map highlighting Indigenous culture, language and deep connection to the land.
  Lauren Crazybull, 24, said her collage will focus on Indigenous stories and the natural world at a time of “ecological disaster.” Climate change affects everyone, she said. “As an artist, I’m not exempt from that.”
  Crazybull, who is Blackfoot and Dene, is a
  
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• Prep basketball roundup: Treynor handles T-C; St. Albert advances - The Daily Nonpareil

  19-02-2019 09:00 via nonpareilonline.com
  Prep basketball roundup: Treynor handles T-C; St. Albert advances  The Daily NonpareilThe Treynor boys had plenty of offensive runs in the Class 2-A, District 14 final Tuesday night against Tri-Center, and it was the Cardinal defense that sparked ...
  
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• Magic, maggots and music dance onto Shoctor stage with Matilda The Musical

  19-02-2019 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Generally speaking, being an adult is a pretty good gig. But after meeting the spunky Matilda and her spirited classmates at Crunchem, a school for Revolting Children, a dip in their pool of pranks, class camaraderie, and parental pay back feels a simply delicious retro treat.
  The stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s story opens Thursday at the Citadel (I caught one of the previews starring Winnipeg’s Anna Anderson-Epp as Matilda). If you or your children has eve
  
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• More moves as Edmonton Oilers place Puljujarvi & Khaira on IR, activate Sekera & recall Currie

  19-02-2019 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers acting General Manager Keith Gretzky might have an “Interim” in front of his title, but he sure is making lots of moves in the here and now. After waiving a controversial player on Monday morning, he triggered a further four (4) moves later in the day:Andrej Sekera has been formally activated off Long Term Injured Reserve, where he has spent the entire season to this point. Sekera recently underwent a 5-game conditioning stint in Bakersfield (0-2-2, +6) and by most ac
  
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• Have Mercy creates new recession-proof menu for destination dining in Old Strathcona

  19-02-2019 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  I was skeptical about the new menu at Have Mercy, I admit that. Co-owner Michael Maxxis had done some research among customers and discovered that folks were, surprise!, finding the recession a little hard to bear. Money for eating out was tight.
  So he tasked chef Nate Henry (whose background includes running the former 12 Acres restaurant in St. Albert and time at the new OEB restaurant on Rice Howard Way) with creating an inventive and delicious menu that emphasized affordability.
  “We&rs
  
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• 'A lot of loyal fans': Hardcore crowd turns out for Edmonton Oilers autographs no matter what the score

  19-02-2019 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lining up hours before any players arrived, Oilers fans used a Family Day autograph signing at West Edmonton Mall to show their support for their struggling team.
  “The Oilers are like a family in this city. You have to support them no matter what,” said Rainer Doberstein, who showed up with his friend Sean Deren at 2:30 a.m. They entered the mall through a hotel door, got kicked out by security, then snuck in again three hours later.
  The signing session, the first of its kind since t
  
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• Gas still at 95.9 in St. Albert on Monday - St. Albert Gazette

  19-02-2019 00:42 via stalbertgazette.com
  Gas still at 95.9 in St. Albert on Monday  St. Albert GazetteGas in St. Albert is still available for 95.9 at most gas stations in the city, according to GasBuddy.com. The least expensive gas in the city is 95.9 at.
  
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• RCMP seize drugs, cash and a weapon in Bonnyville

  19-02-2019 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two men were arrested after RCMP seized drugs, a weapon and money in Bonnyville.
  Bonnyville and Cold Lake RCMP seized the items after they executed a search warrant in the southeast part of the eastern Alberta town last Friday.
  “Police located and seized a quantity of cocaine, over $2000 in cash, a shotgun, and other drug paraphernalia typically used in drug trafficking,” said Const. Ben Burgess in a news release on Monday.
  Charlie Matthew Josh Houle, 24, charges of possession o
  
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• Quirky tattoos, historical treasure hunt draws families to legislature for Family Day

  19-02-2019 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Families intrigued by provincial politics spent their holiday Monday dressing up as the sergeant-at-arms, completing a historical treasure hunt and building legislature-inspired Lego structures.
  The legislature celebrated Alberta’s 30th annual Family Day, with thousands of people expected to flow through the doors of the Federal Building for activities that also included a magic show and story time with mascot Rocky the Ram.
  “We make a point of doing something together,” said C
  
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