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• City of St. Albert Spring and Spring Break Recreation Activities

  18-03-2019 23:55
  Spring is in the Air! The City of St. Albert invites residents to enjoy a healthier and more active lifestyle... Read Post
  
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• Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council calls for crackdown on Canadian alt-right groups

  18-03-2019 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Muslim Public Affairs Council is calling for the paramilitary, anti-Islamic Three Percenters group to be added to the national terror watch list, and for the federal government to step up funding for de-radicalization of those embroiled with hate groups.
  The council made its demands at a solidarity event at city hall Monday, days after an attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. left 50 people dead and many more injured.
  “The lives that were lost — we don&rsquo
  
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• NDP's pre-election throne speech promises to defend against 'American-style health care'

  18-03-2019 22:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Any doubt the NDP will home in on public health care ahead of the election was erased with Monday’s throne speech, delivered to a packed legislature by Alberta’s Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell.
  The government pledged new measures to reduce wait times, strengthen critical women’s health services and reduce the cost of drugs for seniors. The speech also promised a significant expansion of affordable childcare.
  All of that will come after Bill 1, an act to protect public health care.
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• UCP leader Jason Kenney dismisses new details in emerging 'kamikaze' scandal

  18-03-2019 22:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  As politicians return to the Alberta legislature with the UCP under a cloud over its 2017 party leadership race, leader Jason Kenney said Monday there was nothing improper about communication between his campaign and that of rival Jeff Callaway.
  “This is not the least bit unusual for campaigns to communicate,” Kenney said, speaking to 630 CHED’s Ryan Jespersen and Danielle Smith in an interview in the legislature rotunda Monday morning.
  But Premier Rachel Notley said Monday mor
  
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• Cases of mutilated cat remains in Edmonton and St. Albert blamed on urban coyotes - Toronto Star

  18-03-2019 21:55 via thestar.com
  Cases of mutilated cat remains in Edmonton and St. Albert blamed on urban coyotes  Toronto StarEDMONTON—According to a recent study that examined grisly cat remains found around Edmonton and St. Albert, coyotes — not animal cruelty — were the ...
  
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• Postmedia Edmonton newsroom snags two National Newspaper Awards nominations

  18-03-2019 19:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Postmedia Edmonton’s sports reporting and photography earned two National Newspaper Award nominations on Monday, recognizing outstanding work in 2018.
  National sports writer Dan Barnes is a finalist in the sports category for his feature on former Edmonton Eskimos player Dorian Boose, who lived his football dream only to take his own life after years of living on Edmonton streets.
  The gentle 6-foot-6, 300-pound giant played 16 games and starred for the Eskimos in 2003 as they rolled toward
  
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• Why I don't buy Brian Burke's same old, same old plan for fixing the Edmonton Oilers

  18-03-2019 19:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Burke urges trading Puljujarvi in order to get cap space to acquire top end players
  On Sportsnet this weekend, former NHL GM Brian Burke set forth his seemingly radical plan for turning around the Edmonton Oilers. “You’re talking about a massive rebuilding job,” Burke said. “This is like digging the Suez Canal.”
  Burke’s plan?Top priority is to create some cap room. “If you look at their cap situation it’s desperate. What I would try and do is put J
  
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• Review: Alberta Baroque Ensemble ushers in spring with celebration of song, soloist

  18-03-2019 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lidia Khaner has long been one of the mainstays of Edmonton’s classical music scene, as the admired principal oboe of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for over two decades, as a chamber musician, and as a soloist.
  Recently she has turned towards conducting, founding the Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton in 2018, and gaining a Master’s degree in wind band conducting at the University of Alberta.
  So although she will be widely missed, it’s understandable that she has announced that sh
  
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• Gurf Morlix and Joe Nolan on Northern Lights Folk Club's 2019-2020 lineup

  18-03-2019 17:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Northern Lights Folk Club has announced its 2019 – 2020 lineup, including performances by Lucinda Williams collaborator Gurf Morlix, Eric Bibb’s buddy Michael Jerome Brown and a two-act night featuring Ottawa singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson and our own smiling troubadour, Joe Nolan.
  Until April 30, a season ticket to all 11 shows is $210, which jumps ten bucks May 1. All 11 shows purchased individually would run you $267.
  Various package deals are also available, check northernlig
  
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• Alberta's Brett Kissel takes Country Album of the Year Juno with grace

  18-03-2019 16:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brett Kissel accepts his award at the Juno Awards in London, Ont.
  Flat Lake, St. Paul and Edmonton, Alberta’s Brett Kissel has won the Country Album of the Year award at the 2019 Junos, beating out Tim Hicks, Jess Moskaluke, Meghan Patrick and the Reklaws.
  Shaking hands and grinning as he walked onstage, Kissel yelled, “Oh my God, London!” as he was handed the prize during the live broadcast from Budweiser Gardens in London, Ont., Sunday night.
  “Making an album as artists
  
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• Keith Gerein: UCP leadership revelations a scandal of ethics, integrity and hypocrisy

  18-03-2019 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The leader has lost the moral authority to govern.
  You can bet that’s what Jason Kenney would be saying if it was Rachel Notley, Justin Trudeau or any other rival politician who was at the centre of a scandal like the one now consuming the top ranks of the United Conservative Party.
  And that’s what this whole “kamikaze” candidate case is now.
  A scandal.
  You can say it freely.
  Where the scandal ends up is still unknown, whether it be more resignations and firings, more fin
  
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• Throne speech to kick off final session before Alberta election

  18-03-2019 13:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta MLAs from all parties will convene at the legislature Monday to launch the last session before an election call expected in a matter of days, or weeks.
  Lt. Gov. Lois Mitchell is scheduled to deliver the government’s speech from the throne beginning at 3 p.m.
  The speech, a parliamentary tradition, is meant to outline a government’s broad goals. Premier Rachel Notley and the NDP caucus have kept their cards close as to the direction of the speech. At an event Sunday, Notley wou
  
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• Edmonton weather: Nothing but blue skies do I see

  18-03-2019 13:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 2.1 C with 8 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  It’s nothing but clear skies and sunshine as far as the eye can see. Or at least as far as the seven-day forecast is concerned. Honestly, this doesn’t feel like the March I know. But I’m not going to complain. Forecasters are calling for sunshine and highs of 14 C Tuesday and 13
  
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• Elise Stolte: I want more than speed traps; new cultural approach needed for residential speeding

  18-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When a Grade 1 student from Holyrood was struck and killed crossing the street, residents grieved together and debated the most effective way to make their neighbourhood safer.
  Then they built a bench.
  A bench? Yes, a bench. The beautiful tile-covered concrete bench that now sits outside the Holyrood School at 79 Street and 94 Avenue. Other benches have been installed on the city boulevards throughout the neighbourhood to match it.
  It’s a small, incomplete effort, but in my books, one more
  
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• 'Don't have the demons': Afghanistan veteran woodworking to help others battling PTSD

  18-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Using hand tools to bring a piece of wood from rough to smooth helps Afghanistan war veteran Ron Noftall keep his demons at bay.
  Noftall — who served two tours with his engineer regiment in 2005-06 and 2010-11 — is now raising money to organize a woodworking class that could help other veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  He wanted to maintain his creative focus after being diagnosed with PTSD and found woodworking — using hand tools, not machines — was
  
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• Cult of Hockey Player Grades: Edmonton Oilers goaltending comes up craps in 6-3 loss to Vegas.

  18-03-2019 05:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers were not going to run the table on this road trip.
  So a 6-3 loss in Las Vegas Sunday night doesn’t absolutely sewer their post-season hopes, although they are rapidly running out of road. But every time the club gave itself a chance with the puck, they handed it back again without it. And no one was more guilty in that than the goaltender, who was not good. At all.
  In an effort to be as fair as possible to Mikko Koskinen, he was playing on back-to-back road games. That&
  
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• 'Lived his life to the fullest': Motorcyclist killed in Anthony Henday crash leaves behind two children

  18-03-2019 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A memorial of flowers continues to grow on the shoulder of Anthony Henday Drive at the site of a Wednesday evening crash killing a a 31-year-old male motorcyclist.
  The man has been identified as Marcel Murray by family who created a GoFundMe page “to bring Marcel home.”
  “We would like to bring Marcel home so we can celebrate his life,” Claudia Martel wrote. “Unfortunately he didn’t have any insurance to cover anything.”
  Murray wanted to be bury in Messin
  
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• What we know about the Kenney-Callaway saga

  18-03-2019 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney has been fielding questions about an RCMP investigation and allegations of a kamikaze campaign during the 2017 party leadership race. Ahead of what will undoubtedly be a heated election, the ongoing controversy has taken centre stage in Alberta politics.
  Here’s what we know so far.
  What’s happening in a nutshell?
  In 2017, Kenney squared off against contenders Jeff Callaway, former Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean and Doug Schweitzer to successfully win the tit
  
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• Watch: Rachel Notley accepts NDP nomination for Edmonton-Strathcona

  18-03-2019 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley accepted the Alberta New Democratic Party nomination for Edmonton-Strathcona at St. Basil’s Cultural Centre in Edmonton on Sunday. She spoke of a hopeful campaign of inclusiveness while taking political shots at her opponent, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney’s plans for lower corporate taxes and frozen education spending.
  St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, located in her riding in the Old Strathcona neighbourhood, was filled with hundreds of
  
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• Notley takes aim at UCP in NDP Edmonton-Strathcona nomination speech

  18-03-2019 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley emphasized Sunday that an election could be called any day, rallying support at a packed event for her NDP nomination in Edmonton-Strathcona.
  She spoke to a crowd of nearly 1,000 supporters, some brandishing placards with campaign slogans including “fighting for you,” and intermittently chanting “four more years.”
  Notley’s speech covered policy divisions between the UCP and NDP, while promising that positivity and optimism would outshine what s
  
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