INNISFAIL — Innisfail’s partially revitalized downtown was enjoyed by some early trick or treaters at Saturday’s second annual Pumpkins on Parade.
Pumpkins carved by residents and lit with battery operated tea lights decorated two blocks of 50th Street where work was completed in mid-september. READ
A possible grow-op went up in smoke on Edmonton’s west end Saturday.
Firefighters responded to a call about a garage fire at 161 Street and 97 Avenue around 7 p.m. and called police after spotting what looked like marijuana plants.
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EDMONTON- Almost seven years after the city approved a Malmo Plains seniors’ project, the community is fighting a new development proposed for the site that would be twice as big.
Westcorp Developments Inc. was allowed, despite strong local opposition in January 2006, to build a 250-unit complex, including a 16-storey apartment tower, on a 2.5-hectare property near 51st Avenue and 117th Street.
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Annexation negotiation teams from the City and County of Grande Prairie have met again Friday and the governing municipalities discussed transportation issues and declared to not meet in November.
City and county have been sitting at the negotiation table twice a month since August pounding out details of the city’s proposed annexation.
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Construction of the last piece of the Community Knowledge Campus has officially started, with a ceremonial sod turning on Friday.
The 11,000 square-foot public high school is scheduled to open in Sept. 2014.
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FORT SASKATCHEWAN – City residents got a closer look at the building that is to replace Dr. Turner Lodge and were given some clues as to what they might find inside during an update given by the Fort Foundation.
“One of the things we keep getting asked is when will it be built,” said Ken Fearnly, the project manager for the development.
“The design work is about 60 per cent done, we expect to put to tender sometime in January with construction to begin in March or April and we expect to be open in the fall of 2014.”
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TORONTO– Despite the pending release of polymer $20 bills, Canadians have up to two years to empty their pockets and bank accounts of paper versions.
Printed on a plastic-based, longer-lasting material developed in Australia in the 1980s, the new bills will be issued starting Nov. 7.
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EDMONTON- For Dee Popat, an engineer from Leduc with experience in manufacturing, the chance to get in on the ground floor of a new industry was too exciting to ignore.
“This is a fantastic opportunity. I have the experience and am applying to be the plant manager,” Popat said Saturday at Enerkem’s first job fair.
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Alberta businesses are among the most likely in Canada to hire workers with a disability, although the numbers could be better, according to a new BMO report.
A recent bank survey found 52 per cent of Alberta employers have hired a person with a disability, compared to 44 per cent nationally.
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CALGARY, AB, Oct. 27,2012/ Troy Media/ – Many of us will remember the sketch from the 1983 Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life and the restaurant maître d’ played by John Cleese. “And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint,” he said to his diner, a man of enormous size and girth. Offering the man one more teeny, tiny morsel of food ended badly. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know. (If you haven’t, use your imagination).
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