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• Alberta auditor general seeks funding for health care audits, staff wage increases

  05-12-2025 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta's auditor general appeared before a committee of MLAs Friday to seek further funding to address rising staff salaries, outdated software, and audits of eight new health organizations formed after the break-up of Alberta Health Services. Read More
  
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• 'Built to survive': Edmonton grieving parents group shares holiday hope

  06-12-2025 16:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Around their last Christmas together, Gibson Glavin remembers tobogganing down a large steep hill and keeping close to his 8-year-old son Brendan to make sure he didn’t get hurt. Read More
  
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• Lorne Gunter: Federal workforce reduction plans show Carney Liberals won't bring spending under control

  06-12-2025 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ontario Conservative MP Vincent Ho asked a simple question in the House of Commons. He received a simple (yet horrifying) answer. Read More
  
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• Saturday's letters: UCP making laws to serve themselves

  06-12-2025 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For a government that wants to reduce red tape, the UCP has done an incredibly bad job of adding plenty with Bill 14 for the sole purpose of serving themselves. Read More
  
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• Convicted sex offender, 74, with priors for hijacking airplane, living in Edmonton: Police

  06-12-2025 03:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service issued a warning Friday afternoon that a recently released convicted sex offender will be living in Edmonton and police have “reasonable grounds to believe he will commit another sexual offence against someone while in the community.” Read More
  
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• Will Edmonton Oilers use ther NHL's new nuclear option on under-performing veterans?

  06-12-2025 03:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from former Florida Panthers Asst. GM Steve Werier on the PDOcast with Thomas Drance, Werier's description of a nuclear option some NHL teams will almost certainly use on under-producing veteran players in this year's playoffs. I'll suggest the nuclear option may even used in relation to high-price but low-productivity vets on the Oilers in coming playoffs years. Read More
  
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• Will Edmonton Oilers use the NHL's new nuclear option on under-performing veterans?

  06-12-2025 03:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from former Florida Panthers Asst. GM Steve Werier on the PDOcast with Dimitri Filipovic, Werier's description of a nuclear option some NHL teams will almost certainly use on under-producing veteran players in this year's playoffs. I'll suggest the nuclear option may even used in relation to high-price but low-productivity vets on the Oilers in coming playoffs years. Read More
  
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• Measles confirmed at Edmonton's Stollery Children's Hospital: AHS alert

  06-12-2025 02:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A confirmed case of measles at the Stollery Children’s Hospital emergency room this week has prompted Alberta Health Services (AHS) to issue an alert to the public. Read More
  
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• What your poppy bought: $1.2 million helping Edmonton and other veterans at university

  06-12-2025 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Connecting members of Canada’s Armed Forces to their futures — that’s the new job of all those toonies and $5 bills stuffed into donation boxes. Read More
  
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• As winter settles in, Edmonton opens up 300 new day shelter spaces

  06-12-2025 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winter has arrived and day shelters are stepping up their efforts to help the city's unhoused stay warm with a $1 million boost from the City of Edmonton. Read More
  
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• Judge calls Alberta bill on referendum drives undemocratic

  05-12-2025 22:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta judge says a bill introduced this week by Premier Danielle Smith's government is undemocratic. Read More
  
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• 'I used to be the kid looking for help': Can Man Dan marks 15 years of holiday food and toy drive

  05-12-2025 22:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  As if on cue, a snowstorm began to pick up while Daniel Johnstone (also known as Can Man Dan) was setting up camp in front of the Toys "R" Us on Gateway Boulevard on Friday.  Read More
  
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• Major League Soccer to Edmonton? Oilers pour ice on rumours of Whitecaps move

  05-12-2025 22:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Major League Soccer's (MLS) move to a winter schedule has made the chances of the Vancouver Whitecaps relocating to Edmonton slim at best. Read More
  
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• Amarjeet Sohi: What TMX taught me about nation-building

  05-12-2025 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  When I was appointed Canada’s minister of Natural Resources in 2018, I knew I was stepping into a very political and emotionally charged file: the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX). Read More
  
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• Alberta chief electoral officer says current recall verification will cost $6.7 million

  05-12-2025 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta's chief electoral officer says verification of the approved 21 recall petitions will cost $6.7 million. Read More
  
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• Alberta auditor general seeks funding for health care audits, mandated staff wage increases

  05-12-2025 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta's auditor general appeared before a committee of MLAs Friday to seek further funding to address government-mandated increases to staff salaries, outdated software, and audits of eight new health organizations formed after the break-up of Alberta Health Services. Read More
  
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• Alberta auditor general seeks funding for health care audits, government-negotiated staff wage increases

  05-12-2025 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta's auditor general appeared before a committee of MLAs Friday to seek further funding to address government-negotiated increases to staff salaries, outdated software, and audits of eight new health organizations formed after the break-up of Alberta Health Services. Read More
  
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• Oilers notebook: Vasily Podkolzin embracing his inner-Leon Draisaitl sniper mentality

  05-12-2025 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lost in the blizzard of goals by the Edmonton Oilers Thursday was a one-timer by winger Vasily Podkolzin from Leon Draisaitl’s usual neighbourhood—a slapper from a bad angle, on one knee—this one beating Joey Daccord. Read More
  
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• Averton's new townhome rentals offer location and lifestyle

  05-12-2025 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Renting in greater Edmonton is taking on a bit of a different look. Read More
  
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• Opinion: Why we must remember the women who fell at L’Ecole Polytechnique

  05-12-2025 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thirty-six years ago on Dec. 6, 14 women were killed as they attended class at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. They were killed because they were women in post-secondary. Read More
  
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• Edmonton Oilers finally showing signs of life. But is this real?

  05-12-2025 18:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is a stinging indictment on how the Edmonton Oilers have played so far that three wins in a six game span represents the best stretch of their season. Read More
  
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• Lorne Gunter: Edmonton city council refuses to live within taxpayers’ means

  05-12-2025 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Well, that didn’t take long. Read More
  
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• Albertans are feeling skeptical about province's dual-practice model: Leger poll

  05-12-2025 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans are skeptical the province's legislation to allow physician to work in both private and public health-care systems will help wait times, with many concerned it will actually increase them, according to a December Leger poll. Read More
  
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• Friday's letters: MLAs should vote on staying in Canada

  05-12-2025 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Close to 500,000 Albertans have sent a clear message — Alberta’s future lies with Canada. What happens next is completely in the premier’s hands. Despite what she may say, there is no requirement for a referendum. Read More
  
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• Player grades: Savoie comes alive, Oilers finally with a blow-out, 9-4 over Kraken

  05-12-2025 05:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the same night that Oilers insider Bob Stauffer guaranteed that rookie Matt Savoie will sign a new contract with the Edmonton Oilers, Savoie came alive as an NHL scorer, potting two goals in Edmonton's 9-4 blow-out of the Kraken of Seattle. Read More
  
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• Edmonton Oilers spank Seattle 9-4, take two steps forward on the road back

  05-12-2025 05:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  It took a little over two months, but the Edmonton Oilers are finally giving everyone a reason to believe. Read More
  
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• 'Mark my words': Oilers will sign top rookie to new deal, insider pledges, not lose him like Broberg and Holloway

  05-12-2025 05:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Edmonton Oilers insider Bob Stauffer during Edmonton's broadcast against the Kraken, his assurance that the Oilers won't lose rookie Matt Savoie to an offer sheet, but will sign him to a new contract. Read More
  
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• Edmonton Oilers will sign top rookie to new deal, insider says, not lose him like Broberg and Holloway

  05-12-2025 05:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Edmonton Oilers insider Bob Stauffer during Edmonton's broadcast against the Kraken, his assurance that the Oilers won't lose rookie Matt Savoie to an offer sheet, but will sign him to a new contract. Read More
  
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• Stopping speeders and Whitemud widening top priorities on last day of budget talks

  05-12-2025 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Property tax increases are holding at 6.9 per cent after Edmonton councillors rubber stamped widening of Whitemud Drive and approved funding for more traffic enforcement on their last day of budget talks. Read More
  
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• Review: Revamped Nutcracker a holiday treat from Alberta Ballet

  05-12-2025 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Wednesday night, curtains opened on a brand new iteration of The Nutcracker at the Northern Jubilee Auditorium. Read More
  
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