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• Government approves Suncor oil project south of Fort McMurray

  19-02-2020 23:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Suncor can proceed with a new oilsands project south of Fort McMurray expected to produce 40,000 barrels per day, the Alberta government announced Wednesday. Read More
  
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• End Poverty Edmonton gets new leader

  19-02-2020 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Eliminating poverty can only be done if the whole community gets involved, says the new head of End Poverty Edmonton. Read More
  
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• New building aims to fill purpose-built construction gap in St. Albert - St. Albert Today

  19-02-2020 23:40 via stalberttoday.ca
  
  New building aims to fill purpose-built construction gap in St. Albert  St. Albert Today
  
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• CN wins injunction against pipeline opponents who blocked rail line in west Edmonton

  19-02-2020 23:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A judge granted CN's request for an emergency injunction against protesters opposed to a Coastal GasLink pipeline in B.C. who set up a blockade on a west Edmonton rail line Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Alberta's emissions could exceed cap if Teck oilsands mine is approved: federal government

  19-02-2020 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The province's 100 million tonne cap on oilsands emissions could be exceeded by 2030 if the $20.6-billion Teck Frontier mine project is approved, Canada's minister of environment and climate Jonathan Wilkinson is warning. Read More
  
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• Alberta's emissions could exceed cap is Teck is approved: Feds

  19-02-2020 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The province's 100 million tonne cap on oilsands emissions could be exceeded by 2030 if the $20.6-billion Teck Frontier mine project is approved, Canada's minister of environment and climate Jonathan Wilkinson is warning. Read More
  
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• 'Never hear our voices': Pipeline opponents block CN rail line in west Edmonton

  19-02-2020 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Indigenous-led coalition of Coastal GasLink pipeline opponents set up a blockade on a west Edmonton CN rail line near 231 Street Wednesday morning. Read More
  
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• 'Bison at large:' Livestock bust out of transport truck at gas station

  19-02-2020 19:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A herd of bison is "at large" in the Hythe area after escaping from a transport truck, warn RCMP in the northern community. Read More
  
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• Alberta's Top Employers: Winner's List

  19-02-2020 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The following organizations have been chosen as Alberta’s Top Employers for 2020 (employee counts refer to full-time staff): Read More
  
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• Absorb Software employees soak up the benefits

  19-02-2020 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  How much fun does Tom Whelan have working at Absorb Software? Read More
  
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• Getting to know producers inspires AFSC employees

  19-02-2020 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Living and working in the Central Alberta town of Hanna, Crystal Wilford had plenty of opportunity to lend a hand when farming friends needed help. She drove combine at harvest time and “pulled calves” in the middle of the night — meaning she extracted a calf from its mother’s womb during a difficult birth. Read More
  
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• Alberta Blue Cross is all about everyone’s wellness

  19-02-2020 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As the province’s largest health benefits provider, Alberta Blue Cross is in the business of promoting the health and wellness of some 1.8 million Albertans. That external mandate is also clearly reflected in how the Edmonton-based company responds to the health and wellness of its own employees. Read More
  
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• Wellness wins at Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis

  19-02-2020 18:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Collaboration and integrity are among the guiding principles for employees of the Crown commercial agency Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC), which oversees those industries in the province. And that’s a lucky thing for the man who left a Red Deer casino a few years ago not knowing that he’d walked away from a progressive jackpot win of $25,000. Read More
  
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• An umbrella of caring covers people at AHS

  19-02-2020 18:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When Alberta Health Services (AHS) was created 10 years ago, it came together quickly. As Canada’s first and largest province-wide, fully integrated health system, serving more than 4.3 million people, the scale is huge. Read More
  
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• ATRF is building the future on a solid foundation

  19-02-2020 18:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Natane Voegtlin joined the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund (ATRF) as a manager, pension policy, in the spring of 2019 and she landed in the right place at the right time. Read More
  
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• ASEBP creates a culture of purpose and growth

  19-02-2020 18:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Kelli Littlechilds started with the Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan (ASEBP) as a receptionist 35 years ago. Today, she’s the organization’s chief executive officer. “What’s kept me here is the constant support for career development, innovation and a common purpose,” she says. “When you have a purpose at work, it’s contagious; it inspires engagement and loyalty. People exude self-confidence, passion and trust.” Read More
  
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• Arts Commons invites staff to spread their wings

  19-02-2020 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For Celina Vides, there’s no business like show business. The Salvadoran-born staffer, who studied both software engineering and the arts in university, is able to draw upon her two passions as the management information systems specialist at Arts Commons. Read More
  
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• Beaver Municipal bucks the Alberta trend

  19-02-2020 18:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As the father of four young children navigating Alberta’s boom/bust economy, Andrew Sorenson has some specific career goals. Job security is right at the top — and he’s found that as a program assistant with Beaver Municipal Solutions (BMS). Based in Ryley, Alta., about an hour east of Edmonton, the waste-management firm employs fewer than 100 people and is deeply rooted in rural Alberta. Read More
  
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• V&B culture is the foundation of Convergint’s success

  19-02-2020 18:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Before Convergint Technologies opened its doors for business in 2001, the founders created 10 Values and Beliefs (V&Bs) that have been woven into a culture that continues to thrive today. Read More
  
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• People come first at the Edmonton Police Service

  19-02-2020 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When the opportunity arose seven years ago, Bridget Powers jumped at the chance to join the human resources department of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). She jumped again shortly afterward when she was asked to join the service’s member support unit. Read More
  
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• Fasken grows stronger with a culture of inclusion

  19-02-2020 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Serene Hawkins had obtained her legal administrative assistant diploma when she joined Fasken in Calgary, and she’d worked for several years for law firms in B.C. She also had experience as a tree planter and a sawmill worker. “Those jobs gave me a strong work ethic to put towards my legal career,” she says. Her work ethic was just one of many qualities that fit into Fasken’s culture. Read More
  
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• Collaboration and positive attitude drive Hallmark’s success

  19-02-2020 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Jasmine Mawji was ready for a change. The McGill University engineering graduate had been working for an international oil field services company for four years — two years in Calgary and then two more in Houston — when she decided it was time to move on. A friend of hers who works at Calgary-based Hallmark Tubulars Ltd. recommended her employer. Read More
  
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• Tough questions bring the right answers at Keyera

  19-02-2020 18:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Not a lot of companies really encourage their employees to ask hard questions and challenge the status quo. But at Keyera, tough questions are the answer to creating a trusting corporate culture. Read More
  
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• Staff can find their own career path at NAIT

  19-02-2020 18:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When he worked for an Edmonton-based software development company, Steven Dytiuk travelled all over Canada and the U.S. teaching clients how to use the company’s product. Dytiuk didn’t care for the travel, which kept him from home and family for up to 20 weeks a year, but he did like the teaching — so much so that in September 2018 he left the private sector to become an instructor in computer engineering technology at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT). Read M
  
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• Employee-owned PCL Construction builds solid careers

  19-02-2020 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As a kid growing up in Regina, Stacey Wormsbecker always preferred Lego blocks to other toys. Today, as a project manager with Edmonton-based PCL Construction, the civil engineering graduate is putting those skills to use on a larger scale — through projects like the $500-million BMO Centre Expansion in Calgary. Read More
  
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• Pembina Pipeline Corp. taps into the power of caring

  19-02-2020 18:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Memphis Keogh studied to be an animal health technologist, but after working for a year in the field she decided she was on the wrong career path. So when she saw a suitable job opening at Pembina Pipeline Corp. in 2013, she eagerly applied. It’s where she’d worked as a summer student — and where her father has been employed for 35 years. Read More
  
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• RS Energy Group heralds tech-savvy change

  19-02-2020 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It might be a bit of an understatement to say Lisa Fancy has seen a lot of change recently at RS Energy Group (RSEG). The Calgary-based energy intelligence, analytics and technology company has refocused its business model, seen its workforce grow sevenfold and launched so many new products that only one of its software programs existed two years ago. Read More
  
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• STARS crews are all in it together — saving lives

  19-02-2020 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  On any given day, the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service, or STARS, has helicopters in the air actively responding to emergency incidents. After a difficult mission, the organization’s critical incident stress management program, CISM, provides immediate peer-to-peer support to help crews manage their stress and restore their mental state. Jon Gogan, provincial director, Northern Alberta Ops, says it’s incredibly important to be able to share your thoughts if you're struggling. Read Mor
  
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• Stuart Olson makes a Promise with its people

  19-02-2020 18:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Seikai Musoki had already accepted a competitor’s job offer three years ago when she was invited for another interview with Stuart Olson Inc. The Zimbabwe-born civil engineer decided to meet again with the Calgary-based construction firm, and she’s never regretted it. Read More
  
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• UFA nurtures a grassroots culture

  19-02-2020 18:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Established in 1909, United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Ltd. (UFA) is an organization that has stayed true to its founding principles. Read More
  
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• At WCB-Alberta, a sense of caring is fundamental

  19-02-2020 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Dustin Berube remembers feeling that sudden surge of panic soon after finishing his standard six-month probationary period at Workers’ Compensation Board-Alberta. Read More
  
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• The WinSport Way empowers employees to go for gold

  19-02-2020 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  After a busy morning juggling the ice sport programs she co-ordinates, Anna Stathakis can shoulder her skis and head for the lifts at Canada Olympic Park, rubbing shoulders with everyone from Olympic athletes to newcomers taking their first run on a snowboard. But what she loves most about working for WinSport is being given the resources to be a gold medal champion in her own career. Read More
  
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• YMCA Calgary puts people and community first

  19-02-2020 18:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For Trisha Skinner, a child-care director with YMCA Calgary, work and family are uniquely connected. Read More
  
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• Evan Bouchard latest in long list of talented prospects in Bakersfield to Edmonton pipeline

  19-02-2020 18:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  This in from the Oilers, their recall of d-man Evan Bouchard from the AHL, with Markus Granlund sent down. Read More
  
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• For the first time in forever, American Hockey League prospects are coming to the rescue of the Edmonton Oilers

  19-02-2020 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  This in from the Oilers, their recall of d-man Evan Bouchard from the AHL, with Markus Granlund sent down. Read More
  
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• Top employers put their focus on their workers

  19-02-2020 16:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta’s Top 75 employers of 2020 are focused on their employees. Read More
  
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• Alberta employers say stability a key attribute

  19-02-2020 16:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The past 12 months have been a political and economic roller-coaster for the people of Alberta and the year ahead looks likely to bring a continuing sense of societal unease. Read More
  
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• Protesters block CN rail line in west Edmonton

  19-02-2020 16:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A group of protesters have set up a blockade on a west Edmonton CN rail line near 231 Street Wednesday morning. Read More
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating suspicious death on Stony Plain Road

  19-02-2020 15:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a man who was found lying in the middle of Stony Plain Road on Tuesday night. Read More
  
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• Edmonton weather: Warming up to above zero temperatures…tomorrow

  19-02-2020 15:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada. Read More
  
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• Attacker came back to save senior with broken hip from house on fire

  19-02-2020 11:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A senior beaten and thrown down a flight of stairs before her home was set on fire says her attacker was also her rescuer, and she forgives him. Read More
  
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• St. Albert boys fall just short at SQ meet - The Daily Nonpareil

  19-02-2020 07:15 via nonpareilonline.com
  St. Albert boys fall just short at SQ meet  The Daily Nonpareil
  
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• Defensive adjustment helps lead St. Albert past East Mills - The Daily Nonpareil

  19-02-2020 07:15 via nonpareilonline.com
  Defensive adjustment helps lead St. Albert past East Mills  The Daily Nonpareil
  
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• St. Albert holds off late East Mills charge to move into regional semi - KMAland

  19-02-2020 05:15 via kmaland.com
  St. Albert holds off late East Mills charge to move into regional semi  KMAland
  
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• Watch: Education minister announces new education funding formula

  19-02-2020 04:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The new formula, which takes effect next September, also simplifies funding for high school students and eliminates the need for students with disabilities to re-qualify for extra funding each year. Those changes are meant to cut red tape and reduce administrative costs for schools, according to government. Read More
  
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• Watch: Funding for children with complex needs is uncertain

  19-02-2020 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Program Unit Funding (PUF) provides integrated early learning supports for children with medical needs or learning or cognitive disabilities beginning in pre-kindergarten to prepare them to enter Grade 1 and learn alongside their peers. Read More
  
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• Edmonton man shot in the head in 2018 has learned to speak again

  19-02-2020 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Edmonton man shot in the head while driving home from the gym during a random 2018 crime spree is talking again. Read More
  
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• 'More connected and more just': Coalition launches campaign for free transit in Edmonton

  19-02-2020 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Four Edmonton city councillors have taken on a local coalition's challenge to solely use public transit this week, part of the group's campaign to advocate for free and improved transit in Edmonton. Read More
  
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• Edmonton Petroleum Club on the move Downtown under new name in effort to attract business community

  19-02-2020 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A rebranded Edmonton Petroleum Club is seeking a new home Downtown to shift its focus to a younger, business sector demographic, almost two years after closing its doors across from Kingsway Mall. Read More
  
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• No fatality inquiry into woman's death at hands of mother, judge rules

  19-02-2020 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There will be no fatality inquiry into the killing of an Edmonton nursing student who died at the hands of her mentally ill mother, a judge has ruled. Read More
  
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