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3/12/2010
5:50pm
The Federal Public Safety Minister stopped by a Millwoods Temple Friday to celebrate money to make religious and cultural communities safer.
Vic Toews say eight organizations in Edmonton are benefiting from more than a quarter-million dollars to strengthen their security systems.
He says the funding is about upholding values of respect, inclusiveness and safety. "It's about sending the strongest message ...
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3/12/2010
5:30pm
Control operations have been successful at a northwestern Alberta gas well that has been on fire since February 24th.
Energy Resources Conservation Board's Bob Curran says that the well near Hythe is now under control. "Well control operations started this week on the well that was blowing out north west of Hythe, and today very early this morning crews stopped ...
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3/12/2010
11:30am
BREAKING NEWS: Two people are confirmed dead, after a morning shooting incident at a west-end Edmonton automobile dealership.
Edmonton Police say, just before 8 a.m. Friday, a gunman entered Great West Chrysler-Jeep and started shooting.
Police confirm one employee of the dealership was fatally shot, and another wounded, before the gunman turned his weapon on himself, and was ...
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3/12/2010
12:39pm
New job numbers show Alberta is lagging behind other provinces, but economists see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate fell across the country last month. Another 21,000 jobs were created nationally in February because of a boost in full-time positions.
But this province lost 15,000 jobs last month--the biggest loss of any ...
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3/12/2010
12:28pm
Alberta's oil and gas companies are settling into a new royalty regime. But now the industry is hoping for consistency.
Reaction has been mostly positive to the Stelmach government's move Thursday to reduce royalty rates.
Joseph Doucet, an economist at the U of A's School of Business, says royalties can be a political juggling act.
"How do we design the ...
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3/12/2010
11:15am
Six years in prison.
That's the sentence handed a 23-year-old Edmonton man, after police made a big meth bust last week.
Kevin Wells pleaded guilty to two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking.
The charges came after police busted up a cocaine conversion lab. Seven kilograms of cocaine were seized, along with close to $6,000 dollars in cash. ...
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