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• Yoga to the rescue for those with PTSD - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 22:41 via stalbertgazette.com
  Yoga to the rescue for those with PTSD  St. Albert GazetteTrauma and stress can take a toll on more than just a person's psychological health. They can burrow their way into the muscles and the joints. That's why.
  
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• Lack of trust at regional board - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 22:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lack of trust at regional board  St. Albert GazetteThe 13 mayors who make up the Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board (EMRB) may have some trust issues with each other. That was the sentiment expressed.
  
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• Annexation update - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 22:32 via stalbertgazette.com
  Annexation update  St. Albert GazetteCity council will be getting an update on St. Albert's ongoing annexation negotiations with Sturgeon County, albeit in camera. The meeting was scheduled.
  
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• Three to See Thursday: Malcolm X, RBG and Neil Grahn's Coyote Comedy

  20-02-2019 22:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Denzel Washington as Malcolm X.
  Malcolm X: One of the greatest biographical film ever made, Spike Lee’s epic film stars Denzel Washington as the complicated and ever-evolving civil rights activist as he goes from a two-bit hood to angry political demagogue to, after a trip to Mecca, a man of deeper understanding than almost anyone around him — which made him extremely dangerous to a lot of folks who would rather see him dead. Brilliant score by Terence Blanchard, this is a great
  
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• Local Green Party candidates eye provincial seats - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 22:21 via stalbertgazette.com
  Local Green Party candidates eye provincial seats  St. Albert GazetteThe Green Party may hold no seats right now provincially, but local candidate Cameron Jefferies said the party has a good foundation federally and.
  
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• Morinville RCMP seek assistance to locate missing person - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 20:37 via stalbertgazette.com
  Morinville RCMP seek assistance to locate missing person  St. Albert Gazette“The Morinville RCMP are requesting public assistance to locate 40 year old Deanna ADAMS (AKA MCINNES) who was reported missing on February 19th, ...
  
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• Jason Kenney calls for Alberta Health Services review

  20-02-2019 20:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenney says a United Conservative government would conduct a performance review of Alberta Health Services within 30 days of taking office.
  Speaking to reporters at the west end Matheson Seniors Residence in Edmonton Wednesday, Kenney said the UCP would maintain or increase health spending and maintain a universally accessible, publicly-funded health-care system. He signed a public health agreement on a giant bristol board to put his words in writing.
  “If we can find the money, there
  
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• Outerbridge – Magical Odyssey visits Morinville Cultural Centre - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 20:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  Outerbridge – Magical Odyssey visits Morinville Cultural Centre  St. Albert GazetteWhen illusionists Ted and Marion Outerbridge first debuted their act, Clockwork Mysteries, at Morinville Community Cultural Centre in 2013, the audience was ...
  
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• "Obviously, it's a mistake," Bob Nicholson says of process of hiring Peter Chiarelli

  20-02-2019 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from CBC radio’s Mark Connolly, his interview with Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson, where Nicholson takes responsibility for the plight of the team.
  “There’s no question. It was my responsibility to hire the general manager (Peter Chiarelli) and that general manager hired the coach (Todd McLellan). I have to take a lot of that responsibility. I’m the person who hired Peter Chiarelli. When we hired Peter Chiarelli and when we hired Todd McLellan we tho
  
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• City searching to fill deputy CAO role - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 19:31 via stalbertgazette.com
  City searching to fill deputy CAO role  St. Albert GazetteFollowing the departure of Michelle Bonnici, the city has recently posted the deputy chief administrative officer position online with a salary range of $174,605 to ...
  
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• Hawks sky-high hoopsters - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 19:20 via stalbertgazette.com
  Hawks sky-high hoopsters  St. Albert GazetteThe St. Albert Skyhawks refuse to lose. Undefeated in 14 games, the No. 1-ranked 4A high school women's basketball team in the province is a super strong.
  
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• Junior B and midget AAA playoff updates - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 18:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Junior B and midget AAA playoff updates  St. Albert GazetteMerchants win The St. Albert Merchants swept the Edmonton Mustangs for the right to play the west division leader in the Capital Junior B Hockey League.
  
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• School Notes: Winter walking - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 18:16 via stalbertgazette.com
  School Notes: Winter walking  St. Albert GazetteBertha Kennedy students will get their winter walk on today, now that there's slightly less winter to walk in. Bertha Kennedy youths and teachers will.
  
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• Watch: Oilers lose 3-2 in a shootout to the Coyotes

  20-02-2019 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers announced about 30 minutes before game time Connor McDavid was ill and would not be playing against the Arizona Coyotes.
  After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored with 11 seconds left and with the net empty tying the game, the Coyotes ended up defeating the Oilers 3-2 in a shootout to move within a point of Minnesota for the final playoff spot. And while the Oilers are now six points back, there’s so many teams to climb over.
  Post game interview with head coach Ken Hitchcock as
  
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• Wolves, Bulldogs and Spirits hoop it up - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 17:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Wolves, Bulldogs and Spirits hoop it up  St. Albert GazetteWolves tourney The Morinville Wolves finished second best at their 25th annual home tournament. The men's basketball final went down to the wire with the.
  
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• Cooking up a dinner and an education - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 17:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cooking up a dinner and an education  St. Albert GazetteMixers whir. Pots bubble, steam escaping from lids. Teen chefs in tall, white hats madly chop vegetables. The clock is ticking. The countdown is on. Once.
  
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• Greater St. Albert Catholic holds sod turning ceremony for new Catholic elementary - MorinvilleNews.com

  20-02-2019 17:00 via morinvillenews.com
  Greater St. Albert Catholic holds sod turning ceremony for new Catholic elementary  MorinvilleNews.comAbove: MLA Glenn van Dijken, Joe Becigneul, Joan Crockett, Minister David Eggen, Serena Shaw, Barry Turner, Cathy Proulx, Noreen Radford, Rene Tremblay ...
  
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• Oilers in 60: Oilers suffer another 'tough' loss on home ice

  20-02-2019 16:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers (24-29-6) suffered another tough defeat on home ice Tuesday as they dropped a tough 3-2 decision to the Arizona Coyotes in the shootout.
  It was a tough game. Tough loss.
  The Oilers were without their captain Connor McDavid, who missed the game with an illness — tough blow.
  The Coyotes came out and played a tough brand of hockey, holding the Oilers off the score sheet through the first 40 minutes of the game.
  It wasn’t until the third period when the Oilers got goa
  
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• Faceoff times for Slash and Sabres - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 16:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Faceoff times for Slash and Sabres  St. Albert GazetteSlash at home The St. Albert Slash are winners of 11 in a row on home ice when the midget AAA team closes out the Alberta Female Hockey League regular.
  
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• Three-peat for Holowaychuk - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 15:20 via stalbertgazette.com
  Three-peat for Holowaychuk  St. Albert GazetteLike a fine wine, Dan Holowaychuk is better with age as a competitive curler with the Wade White rink. The third senior (50-plus) provincial championship.
  
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• School Notes: St. Kateri breaks ground - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 15:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  School Notes: St. Kateri breaks ground  St. Albert GazetteCanada's first Indigenous saint could be smiling down on Morinville students in just over a year, predicts a Catholic school trustee. Alberta Education.
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's going to be a great day today – squirrel!

  20-02-2019 14:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -6.3 C with 8 km/h winds out of the northwest contributing to a -10 wind chill.
  Waking up to single digit temperatures is basically heaven; what a great way to start to the day. No warming up the car for 15 minutes, no scraping off the windshield, no jacket, toque, gloves, scarves — nothing. Just wake up and go. Fantastic. But like all go
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Brutal crime took toll on victim's spouse

  20-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was with sadness that I saw the obituary for Lesley Miller. She passed suddenly on Feb. 14 at the relatively young age of 73.
  I have little doubt that the savage beating of her husband Dougald into a waking coma significantly shortened her life.
  Leo Teskey is now responsible to the Miller family for the trauma of both deaths. My condolences to the family in this sad, second loss.
  Doris Quinn, Edmonton
  Focus on issues, not personal attacks
  In a recent well-attended community meeting, it was un
  
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• Opinion: Fact-checking Alberta's pipeline ads

  20-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As an Alberta-born-and-raised earth scientist who has made a career studying fossil fuels and energy issues, I am dismayed at the bombardment of ads from the Alberta government on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  One ad tells us:
  “Canada’s economy loses out on an estimated $80 million dollars in economic benefits every day that the expansion is delayed. Trans Mountain changes that, providing an $80 million-a-day economic boost to our country, supporting thousands of jobs from c
  
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• Cloudy and chance of snow in the forecast - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 13:38 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cloudy and chance of snow in the forecast  St. Albert GazetteWednesday sees cloudy skies and a daytime high of -7 C. Temperatures will feel like -12 C in the morning and -18 C in the afternoon, as a result of 20.
  
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• Education minister does about-face on high school credit clawbacks

  20-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education minister has cancelled an $11.3-million clawback from 59 school boards whose students took too many high school credits last year.
  Frustrated school board trustees and superintendents said last week they may cancel programs and limit options for high school students after receiving notices earlier this month saying Alberta Education was holding back funding for every student who earned more than 45 credit enrolment units during the 2017-18 school year.
  After Postmedia c
  
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• David Staples: Bill C-69 doesn't just kill pipelines, it threatens all Canadian industry

  20-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans are more alarmed than other Canadians about Bill C-69, the most ambitious, aggressive and dangerous piece of legislation put forward by the Trudeau government.
  This doesn’t make us alarmist or wrong-headed. It means Albertans are ahead of the curve in understanding the industry-killing interplay between federal legislation, well-funded groups that fiercely oppose industrial development, and judicial activism in our courts.A new Abacus poll shows 63 per cent of Canadians believe t
  
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• Player grades: Missing their top star, Edmonton Oilers fight back twice to earn a deserved point

  20-02-2019 10:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coyotes 3*, Oilers 2 (SO)
  What a weird team Edmonton Oilers are with their goalie on the bench this season. It’s sure happened a lot of times as the Oilers have trailed late in a lot of games. Many times the moment they pull the goalie the puck seems destined for the open cage as if drawn by a powerful magnet, such as last game when they allowed the clinching empty netter just 4 seconds after Mikko Koskinen left the ice surface. In all, they’ve allowed a ghastly 15 goals into their u
  
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• Under attack - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Under attack  St. Albert GazetteUnited Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney has begun to unveil his long-awaited election platform, and unsurprisingly, the political rhetoric against.
  
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• Someone needs to do more homework on the new curriculum - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Someone needs to do more homework on the new curriculum  St. Albert GazetteSomeone very recently stated that Alberta needs a curriculum that “is focused on essential knowledge and skills, not political agendas and failed teaching.
  
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• The compass was lost a long time ago - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 07:59 via stalbertgazette.com
  The compass was lost a long time ago  St. Albert GazetteTrue North, is it? The letter to the editor entitled “Time for a compass check” by Wilf Borgstede is an example of the power of propaganda: Say something.
  
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• St. Albert, East Mills advance to set up district final - KMAland

  20-02-2019 05:12 via kmaland.com
  St. Albert, East Mills advance to set up district final  KMAland(Tabor) — St. Albert and East Mills will meet in a district final after winning their respective semifinal games Tuesday night at Fremont-Mills High School in Tabor.
  
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• Watch: Beaver Lake Cree Nation rallies in Edmonton for court costs

  20-02-2019 04:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A rally was held at Sir Winston Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton on Tuesday to support the Beaver Lake Cree Nation and its court case for treaty rights.
  In 2008, Beaver Lake Cree Nation launched a case against the provincial and federal governments for permitting unfettered oilsands development on the nation’s traditional territory. This lawsuit is the first ever to challenge and be granted a trial on the cumulative impacts of industrial development. However, the case has been stalled
  
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• Barrhead woman, 76, killed in collision on Highway 18

  20-02-2019 03:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Barrhead RCMP are investigating after a woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-vehicle collision Tuesday afternoon.
  A truck and SUV collided at the intersection of Highway 18 and Range Road 40, RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
  The 76-year-old woman driving the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck was not injured.
  RCMP did not release the name of either driver but said the victim was from Barrhead.
  Barrhead is approximately 120 km northwest of Edmonton.
  
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• Three to See Thursday: Malcolm X, RGB and Neil Grahn's Coyote Comedy

  20-02-2019 03:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Denzel Washington as Malcolm X.
  Malcolm X: One of the greatest biographical film ever made, Spike Lee’s epic film stars Denzel Washington as the complicated and ever-evolving civil rights activist as he goes from a two-bit hood to angry political demagogue to, after a trip to Mecca, a man of deeper understanding than almost anyone around him — which made him extremely dangerous to a lot of folks who would rather see him dead. Brilliant score by Terence Blanchard, this is a great
  
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• Keith Gerein: NDP heads onto unsteady tracks with dubious gamble on crude by rail

  20-02-2019 03:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  For a government that has been trying hard to diversify Alberta’s economy beyond the extraction and selling of oil — not to mention reducing greenhouse gases — Rachel Notley’s NDP administration sure made a big investment in exactly that business Tuesday.
  A $3.7-billion investment, to be exact. Money to lease up to 4,400 new rail cars, fill them with Alberta oil, and then ship the resource to refineries in the United States.
  The expenditure is both urgent and necessary, t
  
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• Watch: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley unveils crude-by-rail plan

  20-02-2019 02:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley unveiled the Alberta government’s new rail deal between Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian National Railway and the Government of Alberta to move more oil by rail during a news conference in Edmonton on Tuesday. The agreement will see an estimated 4,400 rail cars move up to 120,000 barrels per day by 2020.
  In December, the Alberta government announced an oil production curtailment of 8.7 per cent, amounting to 325,000 barrels a day, beginning on Jan. 1 to address a wi
  
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• Nyala Lounge wins appeal, city tribunal allows it to open doors

  20-02-2019 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of a central Edmonton lounge won the right to reopen his business Tuesday, and says the successful appeal is a victory for the local African-Canadian business community.
  A city tribunal composed of three city councillors overturned the cancellation of Nyala Lounge’s business licence. The lounge and shisha bar at 10875 98 St. had its licence cancelled in December. Owner Mulugeta Tesfay appealed and was allowed to keep his doors open until early February when he had to close d
  
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• Singer-songwriter Dan Davidson rolls out new country EP - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 02:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Singer-songwriter Dan Davidson rolls out new country EP  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW Dan Davidson EP Release Party Special guests Cadillac Junkies and Krissy Feniak Friday, Feb. 22 doors at 7:30 p.m. Station on Jasper 10524 ...
  
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• Maskwacis RCMP charge man with first-degree murder

  20-02-2019 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maskwacis RCMP have charged a man with first-degree murder and sexual assault after a woman was found unresponsive on the Samson Cree Nation last Friday.
  Savannah Krystal Buffalo, 33, was found in a residence in the community. She was later declared dead, said an RCMP news release on Tuesday. An autopsy later determined her death was a homicide. A man was found with minor injuries inside the home.
  Sheldon Joseph Jonah Applegarth, 33, of Wetaskiwin is facing charges of first-degree murder, aggrav
  
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• Business breakfast keeps entrepreneurs in the loop - St. Albert Gazette

  20-02-2019 01:46 via stalbertgazette.com
  Business breakfast keeps entrepreneurs in the loop  St. Albert GazetteOne city department will be mixing business and breakfast next week. During the economic development department's 2019 Business Breakfast on Feb. 27,
  
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• Watch: UCP responds to province's crude-by-rail plan

  20-02-2019 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney called a news conference Tuesday to respond to the province’s most recent crude-by-rail announcement.
  The Alberta government announced Tuesday afternoon that it will lease 4,400 rail cars to move oil out of the province, resulting in 120,000 barrels being shipped per day by mid-2020.
  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 pen
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Trade deadline approaches with Edmonton Oilers in sell mode

  20-02-2019 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers are indeed sellers for the 2019 NHL trade deadline coming up on Feb. 25. They dealt goalie Cam Talbot to the Philadelphia Flyers for Anthony Stolarz in order to clear salary cap room for defenceman Andrej Sekera, who returned to the Oilers lineup from injury.
  But can the Oilers under interim general manager Keith Gretzky reasonably do much else besides give players away for middling draft picks to try to clear salary off the books?
  Other questions: should Gretzky — brot
  
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• Police ruled to have acted reasonably after man's arm broken in 2017 arrest

  20-02-2019 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s police watchdog say officers acted reasonably during a 2017 arrest that resulted in man’s arm being fractured.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) determined an officer used reasonable force while arresting an intoxicated jaywalker after the first game of the Oilers’ 2017 playoff run, a news release stated on Monday.
  ASIRT became involved “some time after the incident” when a civil suit was filed against Edmonton police.
  The arrest was
  
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• St. Albert Transit Launches Students Ride Free Program

  20-02-2019 00:39
  The City of St. Albert and St. Albert Transit are launching a pilot program where all secondary school-aged youth (ages... Read Post
  
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