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• No deal for housing society - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 23:59 via stalbertgazette.com
  No deal for housing society  St. Albert GazetteA deal that has been years in the making between the St. Albert Housing Society and the City of St. Albert has failed. The two parties have been working.
  
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• Alberta school seclusion-room ban to take effect in fall, education minister

  01-03-2019 23:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seclusion rooms will be banned in schools across the province before the start of the next school year.
  Education Minister David Eggen signed a ministerial order Friday morning forbidding schools from using isolation rooms, but providing the opportunity for school districts to apply for an exemption.
  “Schools must be a safe and caring environment for all students to learn, especially the most vulnerable,” Eggen said during the announcement.
  Seclusion rooms have been used in some scho
  
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• Lloyd introduces McCanns Law - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 23:50 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lloyd introduces McCanns Law  St. Albert GazetteA law named for the late Lyle and Marie McCann was introduced in the House of Commons today by Dane Lloyd, MP for Sturgeon River-Parkland, which would.
  
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• Veterinarians vote to ban unnecessary surgeries - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 23:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Veterinarians vote to ban unnecessary surgeries  St. Albert GazetteWhen resident Sherri Laliberte heard that veterinarians voted to ban unnecessary pet surgeries, such as declawing, ear cropping and tail docking, she was.
  
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• Watch: Alberta government bans seclusion rooms in schools

  01-03-2019 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Education Minister David Eggen announced the banning of seclusion rooms in schools on Friday, March 1, 2019. The decision will come into effect on Sept. 1 for the 2019-2020 school year.
  Eggen is asking school boards to submit a list of schools with a seclusion room which will need to be decommissioned by Aug. 31.  Alberta Education will then inspect and monitor schools to ensure compliance, the government announced via press release.
  A working group was convened in October 2018 of parents,
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Pharmacists extend funding agreement, Alberta Francophonie Month kicks off

  01-03-2019 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province has extended a deal determining how pharmacies are funded until 2022.
  Last year, the Alberta government and the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association created a funding framework set to expire March 31, 2020. That deal, projected to save the province $150 million, has now been extended for two more years, said a Friday news release.
  The agreement saves 8,700 seniors more than $100 per year in prescription costs, and seniors with significant prescription costs will save even more. Th
  
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• Lac La Biche RCMP charge woman in connection with 2017 murder

  01-03-2019 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lac Lac Biche RCMP arrested a woman Wednesday in connection to a 2017 slaying in the community.
  Margaret Simon, 53, is charged with accessory to murder, said an RCMP news release on Friday.
  She is also charged with failing to comply with a recognizance and possession of a controlled substance.
  Michael Mountain was shot outside his Lac la Biche home in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2017.
  Mountain was transported to hospital where he later died.
  Last month RCMP charged Lloyd Wesley Boudreau, 23, wit
  
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• Murder suspect in north Edmonton killing turns himself in to B.C. RCMP

  01-03-2019 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man sought by police after a northeast Edmonton shooting death has turned himself in.
  On Tuesday, police called for gunshots to a home near Belmont Park near 135 Avenue and 38 Street found a man dead. An autopsy later confirmed the 42-year-old died from a gunshot wound.
  The case is Edmonton’s seventh homicide of 2019.
  Police released information on Thursday in an effort to locate the suspect.
  Matthew Campeau, 24, turned himself in to RCMP in Langley, B.C., on Friday.
  Campeau is to be tra
  
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• A rather gentle palette with a very long brush - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 22:20 via stalbertgazette.com
  A rather gentle palette with a very long brush  St. Albert GazetteREVIEW Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) Stars: 1.5 Starring Lars Eidinger, Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci,
  
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• Most gas available at 101.9 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 22:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Most gas available at 101.9 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteGas has gone up around St. Albert, according to GasBuddy.com. Most locations in St. Albert 101.9, but a few remain at 95.9. The highest price is 107.9 at.
  
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• St. Albert ready to take on Grand View Christian at state - KMAland

  01-03-2019 21:42 via kmaland.com
  St. Albert ready to take on Grand View Christian at state  KMAland(Council Bluffs) -- For the second straight season, St. Albert will face Grand View Christian in the Class 1A state quarterfinals.
  
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• Cooper joins call for Trudeau to resign - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 21:42 via stalbertgazette.com
  Cooper joins call for Trudeau to resign  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert MP Michael Cooper says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost the moral authority to govern after hearing testimony from former justice.
  
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• Two people arrested after police car rammed in Bonnyville

  01-03-2019 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bonnyville RCMP arrested two people after a police vehicle was rammed by a truck last Wednesday.
  Police responded to calls of a break and enter in the community’s north end after a business owner suffered minor injuries from being hit by a U-haul truck, police said in a news release Friday.
  Police found the truck on Highway 28 and began a high speed pursuit.
  “The truck came to a stop near the Village of Glendon where the suspect driver then reversed into the police cruiser that was p
  
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• Family Drop-in Storytimes at St. Albert Public Library - St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 21:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Family Drop-in Storytimes at St. Albert Public Library - St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteFor preschool children and caregivers not registered in other storytimes. There is no need to pre-register for these programs, but please arrive 15 minutes prior ...
  
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• Tours for Tots: Pristine Spaces - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 21:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Tours for Tots: Pristine Spaces  St. Albert GazetteHow do you keep a white space like Cyborg Living Space: Living Room clean? Even with our shoes off, can it stay that way? Create your own version and ...
  
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• Outloud Youth - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 21:02 via stalbertgazette.com
  Outloud Youth  St. Albert GazetteThe Outloud LGBTQ youth group happens on Tuesday, March 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. This group is designed for 13- to 24-year-olds who are queer or questioning ...
  
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• Stop appeals for taxi drivers with criminal records, report recommends

  01-03-2019 20:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A report going before the community and public services committee next week recommends changes to a bylaw surrounding criminal record rules for taxi drivers by tweaking language for clarity and preventing appeals to refusals of driver applications.
  The report comes after council members disagreed on how the vehicle-for-hire bylaw should be interpreted and what counts as a related offence as some taxi drivers were getting licences despite having criminal convictions including domestic assault and
  
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• MacEwan University president resigns for new post on Vancouver Island

  01-03-2019 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  MacEwan University president Deborah Saucier is leaving the post after less than two years on the job to lead a university in Nanaimo, B.C.
  In a Friday news release, the post-secondary institution announced Saucier is resigning as president and has accepted the position of president and vice-chancellor at Vancouver Island University (VIU). She will stay on as MacEwan president until July 3.
  Saucier was name MacEwan president on July 1, 2017, replacing David Atkinson, who spent six years as in th
  
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• Bellrose Bikeathon spins up - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 20:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bellrose Bikeathon spins up  St. Albert GazetteBellerose students will once again ride for a cure to cancer this week, and this year they'll have The Cat in the Hat as their wingman. Roughly 800.
  
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• Bellerose Bikeathon spins up - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 20:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Bellerose Bikeathon spins up  St. Albert GazetteBellerose students will once again ride for a cure to cancer this week, and this year they'll have The Cat in the Hat as their wingman. Roughly 800.
  
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• Oxford nears sale of Edmonton's City Centre Mall, office towers

  01-03-2019 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oxford Properties Group is close to an agreement to sell a large shopping center and two office towers in downtown Edmonton in a deal that could fetch more than C$300 million ($228 million), according to people with knowledge of the matter.
  LaSalle Investment Management Inc.’s Canadian real estate arm, Montreal-based developer Canderel and North American Development Group are teaming up to buy City Centre and the adjacent Oxford Tower and TD Tower, said the people, who asked not to be iden
  
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• Edmonton officer cleared of wrongdoing after police dog bites off woman's ear

  01-03-2019 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s police oversight unit says it was unexpected for a police dog to drag a suspect out from under a truck by the head and ripping off an ear.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says a 25-year-old woman was a passenger in a stolen vehicle police were chasing in May 2017.
  It says the woman ran and hid under a truck and refused repeated orders to come out.
  Her ear could not be reattached.
  ASIRT says police dogs are trained to grab suspects by a limb but for som
  
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• Guns, ammo, drugs seized after six-month northeast Edmonton police probe

  01-03-2019 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police seized three guns, meth and fentanyl after a six-month investigation in northeast Edmonton.
  The case culminated with the execution of search warrants at three Edmonton locations, with three firearms, replica handguns, ammunition, $3,300 in cash, 26.5 grams of methamphetamine and 7.8 grams of fentanyl seized.
  Three people have been arrested.
  “This successful conclusion was the result of excellent teamwork between a number of specialized units across the EPS,” Sgt. Dan
  
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• Education minister bans seclusion rooms in Alberta schools

  01-03-2019 19:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seclusion rooms will be banned in schools across the province in September.
  Education Minister David Eggen issued a ministerial order Friday morning forbidding schools from using isolation rooms, which have been used in some schools to separate students who present a risk to others.
  .@AlbertaEd will be performing on-site inspections and monitoring schools to ensure compliance, Eggen says. All boards in Alberta will be required to report all seclusion rooms that exist in their schools currently
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• 'Project Timber': City police collar four in alleged $3.5-million lumber theft

  01-03-2019 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton city police operation dubbed ‘Project Timber’ has felled an alleged $3.5-million lumber theft.
  Police on Friday said they have laid 80 charges and recovered about $3.5 million in property in connection to the year-long investigation involving a commercial vehicle theft ring.
  Members of the city police commercial vehicle investigation launched the operation Feb. 8, 2018, focusing on several suspects alleged to be stealing semi-tractor trailer units loaded with lumber.
  
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• Three to See Friday: Mellowed out rockers and comic book mentors

  01-03-2019 18:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Young the Giant: Their latest album, Mirror Master, contains a track called Superposition best described by frontman Sameer Gadhia: “Each decision splits into a myriad of mirrors; a system of lines that enlace, entangle, and intersect. But in every one, you and I were bound to meet. It may be on the bleachers, in an airplane, the DMV, a race track, a bar, a tiny ship that crosses the ocean at night; but we would have found each other, and like light yawns across eons to spill on the f
  
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• St. Albert daycare closed after suspected break-in damages water pipe - CBC.ca

  01-03-2019 18:03 via cbc.ca
  St. Albert daycare closed after suspected break-in damages water pipe  CBC.caA St. Albert daycare says it was forced to close after a suspected break-in left the centre with extensive water damage.
  
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• St. Albert Catholic High mounts Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 17:44 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Catholic High mounts Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece  St. Albert GazettePREVIEW The Importance of Being Earnest St. Albert Catholic High Drama Dept. March 6 and 7 at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. Arden Theatre 5 St. Anne Street Tickets:
  
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• Edmonton suffers through coldest February in 40 years

  01-03-2019 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians just went through the city’s coldest February in 40 years.
  This year’s average February temperature was close to nine degrees colder than the annual average, leading to the coldest February since 1979.
  “Our average temperature for the month has been -19.7 C and in an average February we would have a mean temperature of -10.1 C,” said Kyle Fougere, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
  In Edmonton, February is historically the second coldest month of the ye
  
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• Oilers in 60: Ottawa Senators can't handle Alberta oil

  01-03-2019 16:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers redeemed themselves Thursday as they downed the Ottawa Senators 4-2 just one day after taking a 6-2 thumping from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  The Senators struck first when Chris Tierney scored his seventh of the season to give the Sens a 1-0 lead at the end of the first frame.
  Cue Connor McDavid.
  The Oilers captain tied things up less than seven minutes into the second period with a dandy backhand, forehand deke all alone in front of the net sending the puck upstairs above Sens
  
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• Edmonton weather: Extreme cold warnings to the north, -30 wind chill in the city

  01-03-2019 14:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -23 C with 8 km/h winds out of the north, northwest contributing to a -30 wind chill.
  So we’re back to this again, huh? Just lovely. Edmonton is exempt from the extreme cold warnings in the north but that doesn’t make it feel any warmer here. Nope, nope, nope. It looks as though these chilly temperatures are here to stay over the weeke
  
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• Three to See Saturday: Boorman's thriller, Dutcher's songs and Cold War

  01-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kate A. Boorman’s new thriller launches at Audreys Saturday.
  What We Buried: Told from the split viewpoints of Liv and Jory, Edmonton author Kate A. Boorman’s What We Buried is a psychological thrill ride that deftly explores how memories can lie, how time can bend, and how reconciling the truth can be a matter of life or death. Boorman, who will be Skyping Audreys from overseas for the launch, noted on Twitter when the book world-premiered this week, “I’m pretty proud of
  
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• Opinion: Alberta must adapt to looming shift in global energy markets

  01-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Contrary to what you might have heard, Alberta’s current economic malaise has little to do with government policies or “foreign-funded” environmentalists.
  The real problem is that the global oil and gas sector is in the midst of a fundamental transformation.
  The first dimension of this transformation has to do with the United States. As a result of the fracking boom, U.S. oil production has more than doubled in 10 years, turning the U.S. into the world’s largest oil produ
  
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• Friday's letters: Justice must be independent

  01-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The independence of the judiciary is a fundamental cornerstone of a democracy. Reflecting on the quagmire Jody Wilson-Raybould was in recently, the solution is clear. The final decision of the attorney-general is sacred.
  The prime minister’s office, the cabinet and bureaucrats must respect any decision. Of course, politicians will lobby for their constituents (and self interest), but must respect fundamental principles that define our democratic system — the independence of the judic
  
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• Watch: 40 years after the Mill Woods Explosion

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Peter Clark talks about the massive explosion that changed his life and led to the formation of Alberta One Call, better fire resistant clothing and emergency preparedness in Edmonton.
  He was delivering a load of glass windows for homes under construction in Mill Woods and decided to finish the job before breaking for lunch. He was driving slow and vaguely recalled a white cloud he thought was smoke.
  “The next thing I knew, I got this very strong smell of propane. The truck stalled and the
  
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• Three to See on Friday: Mellowed out rockers and comic book mentors

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Young the Giant: Their latest album, Mirror Master, contains a track called Superposition best described by frontman Sameer Gadhia: “Each decision splits into a myriad of mirrors; a system of lines that enlace, entangle, and intersect. But in every one, you and I were bound to meet. It may be on the bleachers, in an airplane, the DMV, a race track, a bar, a tiny ship that crosses the ocean at night; but we would have found each other, and like light yawns across eons to spill on the f
  
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• My not-so-amazing black widow spider adventure in Edmonton apartment

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I bought a plant and ended up with a nasty house guest. On Wednesday night after arriving home from work, I planned to kick back and relax on the couch. Those plans quickly went awry when I noticed a large black figure floating in the air by my newly purchased plant.
  The figure, it turns out, was a spider about five centimetres long. Now, readers should note I understand the usefulness of spiders.  I would like to see them live, but judging by the size and upon closer — and highly cau
  
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• February temperatures nine degrees colder than annual average, coldest in 40 years

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians just went through the city’s coldest February in 40 years.
  This year’s average February temperature was close to nine degrees colder than the annual average, leading to the coldest February since 1979.
  “Our average temperature for the month has been -19.7 C and in an average February we would have a mean temperature of -10.1 C,” said Kyle Fougere, a meteorologist with Environment Canada.
  In Edmonton, February is historically the second coldest month of the ye
  
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• Elise Stolte: Historic Mill Woods explosion a reminder of the threat still flowing under Edmonton

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man was burned and an explosive cloud of propane moving across Mill Woods was bad enough. Then fire crews realized it was seeping into the sewers.
  It sounds like the plot line for an apocalyptic movie but it happened right here; the 40th anniversary is Saturday.
  The 228,000 gallons of propane created an unpredictable, moving bomb underneath the neighbourhood that blew off toilet lids and manholes as the pressure built, leading to one of the largest peacetime evacuations in Canada. As the day
  
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• David Staples: Oil industry takes fierce aim at foreign-funded anti-oil activists

  01-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I did not see anyone actually breathe fire but there was nonetheless plenty of red-hot rhetoric when Edmonton’s business community got together this week to plot about the rebirth of Alberta’s oil and gas sector.
  Alberta’s oilpatch hasn’t fumed like this since the 1980s. It’s now waking up to the fact that paid anti-pipeline activists, many of them foreign-funded, got the best of the industry.
  “We started to believe that our industry was unstoppable, that succ
  
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• St. Albert daycare closed after suspected break-in damages water pipe - Yahoo News Canada

  01-03-2019 09:00 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  St. Albert daycare closed after suspected break-in damages water pipe  Yahoo News CanadaA St. Albert daycare says it was forced to close after a suspected break-in left the centre with extensive water damage. Staff arriving at the Kidco Community ...
  
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• Player grades: McDavid, Koskinen rebound to lead Oilers over Senators 4-2

  01-03-2019 08:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 4, Senators 2
  In a sloppy affair between two teams in the lower reaches of the NHL standings, Edmonton Oilers held on to defeat Ottawa Senators 4-2. They’ll take the two points, even as they probably won’t enjoy certain junctures in the morning-after video session.
  After a horrible showing in Toronto one night previous, the Oilers didn’t hit their pillows in Ottawa until some time after 03:00. They started slow and finished slow, but found enough juice in between times t
  
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• Committee report recommends preventing appeals for taxi drivers with criminal records

  01-03-2019 05:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A report going before the community and public services committee next week recommends changes to a bylaw surrounding criminal record rules for taxi drivers by tweaking language for clarity and preventing appeals to refusals of driver applications.
  The report comes after council members disagreed on how the vehicle-for-hire bylaw should be interpreted and what counts as a related offence as some taxi drivers were getting licences despite having criminal convictions including domestic assault and
  
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• Edmonton police seeking witnesses to violent assault in southeast Edmonton

  01-03-2019 04:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are looking for witnesses to a violent, random assault that has left a 65-year-old man fighting for his life in hospital.
  At around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a call for assistance near 48 Street and 22 Avenue, in the neighbourhood of Pollard Meadows, police said in a news release Thursday.
  There, officers found a man on the ground in medical distress. Emergency medical services treated and transported the man to hospital with life-threatening injuries. He remains i
  
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• Detractors should stop spreading harmful misinformation about GSAs, presenter says

  01-03-2019 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jeremy Dias laughed after hearing that some detractors call school gay-straight alliances groups “ideological sex clubs.”
  Tongue in cheek, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity said they wish it were true.
  “The last thing we’re talking about is sex,” said Dias, who uses the pronoun “they,” in a Thursday interview. “The No. 1 thing we’re talking about is the violence that trans and non-binary people are
  
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• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 04:16 via stalbertgazette.com
  The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee  St. Albert GazetteAn eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home ...
  
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• Free 'Information Session for Caregivers' at SASA - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 04:14 via stalbertgazette.com
  Free 'Information Session for Caregivers' at SASA  St. Albert GazetteA representative from Caregivers Alberta will present you with practical tools to use as a caregiver. Explore ways to handle challenging emotions that may come ...
  
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• Trash or Treasure: Why Do We Collect? - St. Albert Gazette

  01-03-2019 04:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  Trash or Treasure: Why Do We Collect?  St. Albert GazetteThe Friends of Royal Alberta Museum Society (FRAMS) and Friends of the University of Alberta Botanic Garden (FOG) are partnering to host a public talk to ...
  
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• Airport, southwest hospital plan, Valley Line LRT impacting Edmonton's core real estate: CBRE report

  01-03-2019 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton International Airport, a proposed southwest Edmonton hospital, and the Valley Line LRT expansion are driving long-range commercial real estate trends, says a report from the real estate firm CBRE.
  One of the largest outside commercial and economic drivers is the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) expansion, says the 2019 Canadian Real Estate Market Outlook, released Thursday.
  The report notes that the EIA continues to develop its available land to expand flight operations as well
  
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• Child who flew through Leduc with measles was not properly vaccinated: health authorities

  01-03-2019 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A child who flew through Leduc earlier this month with a confirmed case of measles was not properly vaccinated, say health authorities.
  The person was traveling to Inuvik, N.W.T., from an international location and stopped in Leduc overnight Feb. 12-13.
  Damien Healy, a spokesman for the Government of the Northwest Territories health department, confirmed the infected individual was a child who was not properly vaccinated.
  The measles case prompted Alberta Health Services (AHS) to issue a public
  
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