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Countries Shaped Like Stars: Review
4.5 stars Stage 33, Strathcona Prebyterian Church As an invitation to enchantment, how can you do better than this? “Once upon a time countries were shaped like stars,” we’re told, in song, at the...
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RiderGirl: Review
4 stars Stage 34, Sugar Swing Dance Club I’m not much of a sports guy but this hilarious, bittersweet bio-piece about football fanatics written and performed by Colleen Sutton left me a new fan — of...
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Album review: sirch., north of fifty-four.
Album: north of fifty-four. Artist: sirch. (Bandcamp) Four stars (out of five) Imagine taking snippets of your past — home videos, Vine clips, text messages — and setting them to music. Sounds like...
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Trevor McLeod: Hydroelectric power for Alberta's oilsands worth a closer look
Earlier this month, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark – in Ottawa looking for money – suggested her province could help Alberta reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by delivering hydro-generated...
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Alberta's Rachel Notley the last NDP premier in Canada
Tuesday’s defeat of Greg Selinger in Manitoba’s provincial election has left Rachel Notley as the last NDP premier standing. The election saw Manitoba’s NDP decimated by Brian Pallister’s Progressive...
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Alberta consumers struggling with mounting debt as insolvencies spike in May
Albertans continue to struggle under the ever-increasing weight of a heavy debt load, with the number of consumer insolvencies up 35 per cent between May 2015 and 2016. That figure comes from the...
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Canadian troops leaving Edmonton for Ukraine as part of Operation UNIFIER
Soldiers from Edmonton’s 3rd Canadian Division are readying for deployment to Ukraine. About 30 military personnel — including some from CFB Shilo, Man. — will fly out of Edmonton International Airport...
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Alberta hail damage payouts jump to $64 million
Hail damage payouts to western Canadian farmers were expected to top $250 million this summer, more than double what was paid out in 2015. Inspectors were still finalizing claims, but since the first...
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Edmonton man facing long list of human trafficking charges
A 25-year-old Edmonton man is facing a string of human-trafficking-related charges after a woman was forced to work in the sex trade, said city police vice detectives. A man was arrested in the city’s...
View ArticleBody of missing Manitoba boy Chase Martens found in creek, no "obvious signs"...
Austin, Man. — Days of searching by hundreds of volunteers for a missing Manitoba toddler have ended with the tragic discovery of the boy's body in a creek. Read More
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