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1 hr ago | Canada.com

Killam residents relieved after arrest of man charged with attempted murder of two RCMP officers

Youth will look to be served in the B Event final at the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup.

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5 hrs ago | Canada.com

Heartland actor Shaun Johnston returns to the stage

Last week, passersby might have noticed a dusty 1990 Chevy pickup parked on the pad smack in front of the Varscona Theatre lobby.

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Related Topix: Heartland, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Shaun Johnston, Fool for Love, Drama Movies, Celebrities, Sam Shepard, Canada,

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Weyburn This Week

Injured describe scene of sheer horror after bus rolls over on Alberta highway

Firefighters and crews investigate after a bus rolled over on on Highway 28 near Redwater, about 65 kilometres northeast of Edmonton on Friday, February 10, 2012.

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Las Cruces Sun-News

Bus rollover injures about 30 people

The general manager of a Canadian motorcoach travel company says about 30 people have been injured after a bus rolled over on a highway near Edmonton, Alberta.

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CBC News

Stubborn fire on Tsuu T'ina still smoldering

The view from a helicopter shows the landfill fire on the Tsuu T'ina reserve continues to smolder while crews work to extinguish it.

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Journal of Commerce

Photo Gallery: Merit Alberta open house

Merit Contractors Association held an open house Feb. 9 to unveil their completely renovated facility on St.

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Calgary Herald

Alberta budget ignores small business, group says

Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered a pointed message Friday directly to the People's Republic of China from the people back home: Canada wants to sell you its oil and gas, but won't trade its principles... No new taxes.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Small Business, Personal Finance, World News, China, Asia, North America, Canada,

Castanet.net

Alberta shooting suspect arrested

Sawyer Clarke Robison, 27, is shown in an RCMP handout photo. The man wanted in the shooting of two Alberta RCMP officers has been arrested without incident.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Alberta RCMP Robison had been on the run since Tuesday afternoon when the officers were shot while executing a search warrant for a gun on his family farm near Killam, ... (more)

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Calgary Herald

Alberta health budget given eight per cent boost, including $232 million for south Calgary hospital

Scott Thompson, project director EllisDon, at the new south Calgary hospital, which received more than $200 million for operations in the Alberta government's 2012 budget.

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Spruce Grove Examiner

Fire destroys home in Parkland County

Early Wednesday, Parkland Village and Stony Plain fire departments responded to a fire at a single family dwelling at Wilderness Heights, near Beach Corner.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

The Globe and Mail

Camp Oil Sands: Alberta's new economic boom

Next to them is the assembly line, where dozens of 18-metre-long mobile housing units are rapidly taking shape, with workers using overhead cranes to raise completed walls and roofs into place.

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Brandon Sun

Two days set aside for clemency hearing for only Canadian on death row in U.S.

A clemency hearing has been set for two days in early May for the only Canadian on death row in the United States.

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Castanet.net

Record spending in Alberta budget

Alberta Finance Minister Ron Liepert models his new shoes, a pre-budget tradition, at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

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Canada.com

Survey of contemporary native art both powerful and beautiful

As I rounded the corner leading to the Narrative Quest exhibition in the Royal Alberta Museum, I was met with a "wow" factor that sent an agreeable ripple of pleasure to my core.

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Calgary Herald

Three Canadians rescued at sea in Pacific Ocean

In the small community of Sedgewick, the Clarkes are known as a family that "keeps to itself" - people who don't chat with their neighbours at the post office, or stop by Jodi&#... In a world rattled by economic uncertainty, new national census figures released Wednesday are enough to give anyone a serious dose of Alberta envy.

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Calgary Herald

Okotoks undergoes explosive growth, latest census reveals

For the Patel family, the journey to Okotoks was long and often discouraging, but today they say the home they've built in the booming southern Alberta town made it all worthwhile.

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Lethbridge Herald

Catholic Charities, diocese in court fight over local properties

The Catholic Charities Clothes Bank is seeking a ruling in court regarding ownership of its facilities.

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Wed Feb 08, 2012

Penticton Herald

Search is on for man seen leaving the scene where two Alberta Mounties were shot

Sawyer Clarke Robison, 27, is shown in an RCMP handout photo. RCMP confirm one man has been found dead in a rural Alberta house that had been surrounded after two Mounties were shot.

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National Post

Mounties seeking 'person of interest' in Alberta shootout

KILLAM, Alta. - The man sought in connection with the shooting of two Mounties is believed to be armed with long-barrelled weapons and should not be approached, the RCMP said Wednesday.

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Lifestyles

Search is on for man seen leaving the scene where two Alberta Mounties were shot

Sawyer Clarke Robison, 27, is shown in an RCMP handout photo. RCMP confirm one man has been found dead in a rural Alberta house that had been surrounded after two Mounties were shot.

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