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A look at Saturday’s Edmonton weather from Environment Canada. It’s -2 C at the Edmonton Blatchford weather station early Saturday morning with 4 km/h winds out of the west and a wind chill of minus 3. Rejoice every day but especially this one, waking up with a February wind chill before the mercury climbs to

Mother Mother: Sister and brother Molly and Ryan Guldemond bring their high-energy electro-folk band from B.C. into a nice week of Canadiana Downtown arena shows where Our Lady Peace just stopped the show Thursday to sing the national anthem after Connor McDavid scored that sweet sudden-death goal. MM’s set list could include Verbatim, Burning […]

Justin Trudeau will (thankfully) be done as Canada’s prime minister in two weeks. So where does he get off committing nearly $4 billion dollars this week to planning (not building, just planning) a high-speed rail line from Toronto to Quebec City? This is exactly why once political leaders have announced they’re quitting, they should leave

Canadians won it in overtime! Just what we need to take us away from Trump and tariffs. Even the weather has taken a turn for the better. Let’s all enjoy the day. Mark Johnson, Edmonton Infill rules, parking bans don’t mix Over the past couple of weeks there have been complaints about people not moving

The courtroom erupted in applause — while others filed out, muttering in frustration — after an Edmonton woman was found not guilty of murdering her octogenarian mother. Court of King’s Bench Justice Wayne Renke on Friday acquitted Vini Buecken of the second-degree murder of 85-year-old Dagmar Petersen, who was bludgeoned to death in her […]

There is a saying that has made its way around Edmonton since Connor McDavid was drafted that “anyone could score X number of goals alongside 97”. A fourth liner. An AHL player. My Grandma. My Dog. But just having just watched the Four Nations Face-Off tournament where Canada had a roster full of elite-level wingers

The numbered company led by Mraiche told Postmedia in a statement that the deal was "a very traditional real estate transaction"

They call him the best in the world, and on Thursday, he proved it. And on the international stage, too, scoring a dramatic overtime goal in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off to push Team Canada to a 3-2 win over Team USA. It took him a while to finally put the proof in

Last year, longtime way-more-than-a-classical-tribute-band Apocalyptica released the overdue sequel to their 1996 head-turner, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos with Plays Metallica, Vol. 2. The new album shows how far the band has come in nearly three decades from early days as a mere cello quartet where guitar and bass now live and thrash in the