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• Province meets city halfway for Ray Gibbon funding - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 23:59 via stalbertgazette.com
  Province meets city halfway for Ray Gibbon funding  St. Albert GazetteThe provincial government has committed $27.1 million to help St. Albert twin Ray Gibbon Drive. Transportation Minister Brian Mason joined city.
  
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• Townhouses headed for Erin Ridge North - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 23:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Townhouses headed for Erin Ridge North  St. Albert GazetteA change to Erin Ridge North's structural plan means the development of 70 townhouse units along Element Drive North can move forward. St. Albert-based.
  
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• Photo Enforcement Sites - March 2019

  26-02-2019 23:22
  The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of the Day locations for March 2019. Enforcement is... Read Post
  
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• Campaign manager for UCP leadership hopeful Jeff Callaway handed $15,000 fine

  26-02-2019 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s election commissioner has handed a $15,000 penalty to Cameron Davies, who was a co-campaign manager for Jeff Callaway’s bid for United Conservative Party leadership in 2017.
  Two penalties of $7,500 each were issued Tuesday for “obstruction of an investigation.”
  No details were provided about the offences, which is custom during investigations by the elections commissioner.
  Callaway dropped out of the race in October 2017 to endorse Jason Kenney, who went on to w
  
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• Disagreement over LRT flares as council votes to forge ahead with Valley Line West

  26-02-2019 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A shortlist of contenders vying to build the Valley Line West LRT extension will be announced in May, following a Tuesday city council vote to move the project ahead.
  An extra $30.5 million was added onto the project’s budget, bringing the cost of building the line from downtown to Lewis Farms to over $2-billion.
  The extra millions will be used to run the processes and reviews of the bids to build the project.
  “There’s a lot of costs and there’s a lot of resources that go
  
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• Carrying a thirst so far - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 23:15 via stalbertgazette.com
  Carrying a thirst so far  St. Albert GazetteThe irony is far from being lost on Brian Siara: in Alberta in February, there is water everywhere, except that it's all frozen. More than 13000.
  
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• Teen girl beaten after stopping to help fellow motorist west of Edmonton: RCMP

  26-02-2019 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A teen girl suffered assault injuries after being flagged down by a man who appeared to be a stranded motorist west of Edmonton, say RCMP.
  The youth was in her vehicle on Parkland Drive and turned south on Range Road 20 in Parkland County around 9:30 p.m. Friday when she saw a man standing in the middle of the road, a truck with its lights on parked nearby, said RCMP in a Tuesday news release.
  The youth stopped and got out of her vehicle when the man waved her down. But then he grabbed her by th
  
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• Gas prices stable on Tuesday - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 21:06 via stalbertgazette.com
  Gas prices stable on Tuesday  St. Albert GazetteGas prices haven't seen a significant change today in St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. Some locations are still at 107.9 or 103.9, but most are.
  
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• Lynne Rosychuk, an exceptional Woman of Worth - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 20:29 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lynne Rosychuk, an exceptional Woman of Worth  St. Albert GazetteL'Oréal, a worldwide cosmetics giant that in 2017 earned $26 billion, is turning some of these explosive profits into avenues of community giving.
  
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• Homicide probing man's death after gunshots ring out at northeast Edmonton home

  26-02-2019 20:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are probing what may be the city’s latest homicide after gunshots were reported and a 42-year-old man — known to police — was found dead in a northeast Edmonton home early Tuesday.
  Officers responding to a 911 call about shots being fired at a home near 135 Avenue and 38 Street around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday found the man dead.
  Investigators in a release Tuesday afternoon said the victim is known to police.
  Homicide quickly took over the case.
  Officers remained on scene
  
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• Cappies reviews: Chicago

  26-02-2019 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Jaren Voigt
  St. Oscar Romero High School
  Charismatic and provocative, Chicago was a captivating show. With passionate singing, thrilling dance, and stunningly coordinated tech work, Bellerose Composite High School’s fun exploration of this classic musical was enthralling from curtain to curtain.Poking fun at criminal celebrities and the fleeting nature of infamy, Chicago is based on a 1926 play of the same name written by a reporter about real murder cases. The musical was written in 19
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Daniel Romano, Racetime, and Jeremy Dutcher

  26-02-2019 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Daniel Romano
  After releasing three distinctly different albums in 2018 you could be forgiven for wondering exactly what you’ll get with Daniel Romano on Friday night at the Starlite. The Ontario-based singer-songwriter has been wandering through various stylistic terrains with Nerveless, Human Touch, and Finally Free, giving full rein to his interests in country, folk, psych, pop, rock, and punk, refusing to settle on any one direction. With Dead Soft and Bitters.
  When: Friday, March 1 at
  
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• Foreigner brings Cold as Ice tour to River Cree

  26-02-2019 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  For now, the search continues.
  Who is the real Jukebox Hero? Roughly a month ago, Toronto DJ Stu Jeffries sparked interest in finding the inspiration behind one of Foreigner’s best-known songs as part of renewed interest in the iconic 1981 classic-rock staple. Last week, a musical of the same name that is based around 16 of the band’s biggest hits opened at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre. The hope was that the ultimate fan who inspired the song, written by Foreigner founder and g
  
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• Choreographer turns tragedy into complex work for Ballet Edmonton

  26-02-2019 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  How does a choreographer translate the emotional fallout from two real-life mass tragedies to the medium of contemporary dance?
  Back in mid-2017, Edmonton’s internationally celebrated rising star Josh Beamish wasn’t sure how, but he knew he had to try.
  “The end of 2016 and the first half of 2017 kind of felt like that’s when the world went insane,” Beamish recalls. “That’s when Trump took office and Brexit also happened. Nothing seemed to make sense anym
  
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• Audrey Whaley of Audreys Books fondly remembered

  26-02-2019 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Audrey Whaley in her bookstore in 1978.
  As Edmonton’s longest-surviving independent bookseller, Audreys Books is a peak downtown literacy nexus — a community hub for local and visiting authors where you can also pick up a Doctor Who novel not far from Tanya Tagaq’s poetry.
  But what’s the deal with that non-apostrophe in the name? Why isn’t it a more possessive “Audrey’s” Books on Seventh and Jasper?
  It’s because the Audreys are actually a pai
  
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• Man charged with personating a police officer - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 18:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Man charged with personating a police officer  St. Albert GazetteA man is facing charges after he was reported to be personating a peace officer. On Feb. 18, 2018 the St. Albert RCMP received two reports of a black Jeep.
  
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• Homicide probing death at north Edmonton condo complex

  26-02-2019 16:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are probing what may be the city’s latest homicide after a death at a north Edmonton condo complex just after midnight Tuesday.
  Officers remained on scene at the Clareview complex near 38 Street and 135 Avenue Tuesday morning.
  If the case is confirmed, it would be Edmonton’s seventh homicide of 2019.
  The last killing was that of Manvir Singh Sidhu, 23, fatally shot outside the house on the night of Jan. 21.
  
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• Edmonton weather: The broken record of win, win, win, winter

  26-02-2019 15:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -28 C with a wind chill that makes it feel like it’s -36.
  Once again Edmonton and area are under an extreme cold warning. Environment Canada reminding you that the extreme cold puts everyone at risk and coldest wind chill values will be near minus 40. Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elev
  
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• Extreme cold and chance of flurries in Tuesday’s forecast - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 14:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  Extreme cold and chance of flurries in Tuesday’s forecast  St. Albert GazetteThe sun will be shining on Tuesday morning, but mix of sun and clouds in the afternoon. The daytime high of -12 C will feel like -40 C in the morning and.
  
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• Tuesday's letters: High health costs merit a review

  26-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Review a precursor to privatization,” Letters, Feb. 23
  Guy Smith’s letter is extremely misleading and an overt attempt at fear-mongering. No stats, or source of information is provided, only that Alberta spends less as a percentage of GDP on health than other provinces.
  According to the Canadian Institute for Health, the national per capita spent on health care in 2017 was $6,000. Alberta spent the second-highest of all provinces, at $7,300 per capita, with Newfoundland sp
  
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• Editorial: Drop writ or stop campaigning

  26-02-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If something sounds like an election campaign, looks like an election campaign and feels like an election campaign, it probably is one.
  By all appearances, the government is waging a campaign for an election that hasn’t been called with a series of high-profile media events that resemble all-out whistle stops in everything but name. It’s an established tactic in Alberta politics to electioneer with public money, but that doesn’t make it right.
  The latest example is the most egr
  
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• Omar Khadr to ask youth court to declare his eight-year sentence expired

  26-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Omar Khadr is due back in court Tuesday in another effort to loosen conditions restricting his ability to travel and speak to certain family members.
  Khadr, convicted by a U.S. military commission of killing American special forces soldier Christopher Speer during a firefight in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15, has sought to have bail conditions imposed by Alberta courts in 2015 relaxed or disposed of while he appeals the controversial U.S. conviction.
  Khadr has since said he pleaded guilty to get
  
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• McCauley residents question cluster of inner-city pharmacies

  26-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cluster of inner-city pharmacies has some McCauley community and business leaders questioning whether some of the roughly 30 shops are taking advantage of Edmonton’s most vulnerable.
  It’s an issue that has McCauley residents looking to city hall and other regulatory agencies for answers — a count of pharmacies in March 2018 revealed 21 either within or directly on the borders of their community and another nine within two blocks of McCauley’s boundaries.
  “It comes
  
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• Extreme, prolonged cold weather may affect Alberta honeybee population

  26-02-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite the best efforts of beekeepers to keep honeybees warm, prolonged freezing temperatures like what Alberta has experienced in February can make it harder for the bees to survive the winter.
  Honeybees are not native to Alberta, having been brought over by European settlers and then spread across North America. Therefore, they need a little bit of extra help to survive our “normal” cold winters, said Ron Miksha, a beekeeper based in Calgary.
  This means one would be hard-pressed t
  
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• 62-year-old St. Albert man charged with impersonating a police officer - Globalnews.ca

  26-02-2019 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  62-year-old St. Albert man charged with impersonating a police officer  Globalnews.caSt. Albert RCMP have charged a 62-year-old man with impersonating a police officer after investigating two separate reports of an SUV speeding and driving ...
  
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• 62-year-old St. Albert man charged with impersonating a police officer - Global News

  26-02-2019 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  62-year-old St. Albert man charged with impersonating a police officer  Global NewsSt. Albert RCMP have charged a 62-year-old man with impersonating a police officer after investigating two separate reports of an SUV speeding and driving ...
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers hang around to scrape a point out of Nashville

  26-02-2019 08:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 2, Predators 3* (SO)
  Edmonton Oilers were up against it on Monday night, on the road against one of the top powers in the West and again trying to make do without their alpha and omega, Connor McDavid. None of which changed the fact that the Oilers needed some sort of result from this game. And they got one, overcoming a 2-1 deficit in the final period to take the game to overtime and ultimately, the shootout. No joy there, but the Oil still came away with a largely-deserved point for the
  
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• 62-year-old St. Albert man charged with impersonating a police officer

  26-02-2019 06:36 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert RCMP have charged a 62-year-old man with impersonating a police officer after investigating two separate reports of an SUV speeding and driving through a red light in that city while flashing red and blue lights on its dashboard.
  
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• Notes from the Dome: St. Albert road expansion, anti-racism council meets - Edmonton Sun

  26-02-2019 05:27 via edmontonsun.com
  Notes from the Dome: St. Albert road expansion, anti-racism council meets  Edmonton SunA $54.2-million road expansion will reduce traffic congestion for commuters travelling to and from St. Albert, says Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason.
  
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• Keith Gerein: NDP crosses the line with partisan campaigning in public hospital

  26-02-2019 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The government of Alberta owns and maintains some $32 billion of infrastructure, ranging from courthouses and correctional facilities to government offices and museums, not to mention the legislature building.
  Government funded agencies, boards and organizations have an even longer list of facilities, including hospitals, schools and post-secondary institutions.
  All of this is public infrastructure ultimately owned by the people of Alberta, constructed and maintained using taxpayer dollars, and
  
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• St. Albert hockey player battling PTSD to stay in the game he loves - Global News

  26-02-2019 02:28 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert hockey player battling PTSD to stay in the game he loves  Global NewsEthan McKinley suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after a man attempted to abduct him when he was 12 years old. After years of being unable to leave ...
  
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• Baby Art at the Library - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 02:21 via stalbertgazette.com
  Baby Art at the Library  St. Albert GazetteWarm up those little fingers on Wednesday, March 6 from 2 to 2:30 p.m. and make art! Let your baby create, and experience new textures and colours while ...
  
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• Alberta's Solar Industry is Hiring: Employment and Training Opportunities - St. Albert Gazette

  26-02-2019 02:21 via stalbertgazette.com
  Alberta's Solar Industry is Hiring: Employment and Training Opportunities  St. Albert GazetteSolar in Alberta is generating many diverse job positions and new business possibilities. Come and learn from a panel of professionals who make their living in ...
  
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• Notes from the Dome: St. Albert road expansion, anti-racism council meets

  26-02-2019 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $54.2-million road expansion will reduce traffic congestion for commuters travelling to and from St. Albert, says Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason.
  Ray Gibbon Drive, which sits between Anthony Henday Drive and Villeneuve Road in northwest Edmonton, sees about 20,000 vehicles a day, according to the province. It connects St. Albert with Anthony Henday and the Yellowhead Highway.
  The eight-kilometre road will be widened thanks to a cost-sharing agreement between the province and the City of S
  
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• Watch: ASIRT releases finding regarding the circumstances of a woman's death while in custody

  26-02-2019 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is little that could have been done to avert the death of a woman who suffered a stroke while in an Edmonton police jail cell, Alberta’s police watchdog said Monday.
  The 55-year-old woman, who was not identified, died hours after being arrested at the Belvedere LRT station on Aug. 6, 2017.
  Susan Hughson, executive director of the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, said the woman appeared to be fine to officers monitoring the police service’s detainee management unit, locat
  
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• Jason Kenney announces immigration plan to attract entrepreneurs to rural Alberta

  26-02-2019 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenney says a United Conservative government would launch an immigration plan that attracts newcomer entrepreneurs to rural Alberta in order to get “the best bang for the buck” on who settles in the province.
  “We need to use the power of immigration as one strategy to restore investor confidence and to build new businesses,” he told reporters Monday in Chestermere, where he announced the broad intentions of his “Alberta advantage immigration strategy.”
  T
  
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• St. Albert man charged with impersonating police officer

  26-02-2019 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 62-year-old man is facing charges of impersonating a police officer after witnesses described seeing a Jeep with flashing lights driving erratically through the streets of St. Albert.
  On Feb. 18, police received two separate reports of a black Jeep Patriot with flashing red and blue lights on its dash, driving erratically, speeding and going through a red light in the city, said St. Albert RCMP in a news release Monday.
  RCMP said the witnesses initially thought the Jeep was a police vehicle be
  
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• City calls on province, feds for $1.1 billion in affordable housing funding

  26-02-2019 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton is asking the provincial and federal governments to provide billions in funding for affordable housing over the next five years.
  Mayor Don Iveson said Monday the city is asking for $1.127 billion as Edmonton is prepared to build 5,000 new affordable housing units. All that is needed is funding.
  The units would include 3,653 apartments, 920 permanent supportive housing suites, 180 secondary suites, 233 seniors’ apartments, and 14 developer-sponsored projects. Council ha
  
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• St. Albert man accused of running red light with fake police lights - CTV News

  26-02-2019 00:50 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  St. Albert man accused of running red light with fake police lights  CTV NewsA man is facing charges after St. Albert RCMP received reports of a civilian vehicle with red-and-blue flashing lights earlier this month.
  
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• Watch: Alberta's Anti-Racism Advocacy Council holds first meeting

  26-02-2019 00:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s Anti-Racism Advocacy Council held its first meeting in the Federal Building near the Alberta Legislature on Feb. 25, 2019. Introductions were made between council members, who will work to inform government on how to address racism in Alberta. According to the Alberta government, the council is the first of its kind in the country.
  
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• Ray Gibbon Drive to be twinned between Edmonton and St. Albert

  26-02-2019 00:10 via globalnews.ca
  Ray Gibbon Drive between Edmonton and St. Albert will be twinned, the province announced on Monday.
  
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