With vibrant streets and shops, indoor venues and outdoor spaces as its canvas, Old Strathcona is where the art of celebration comes alive.
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We dont often think about the building envelope until it fails. And in our part of the world with the rigours of climate, that failure can mean a big repair bill.
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Next week, the avenue that runs in front of the City of Edmonton Archives will be named in honour of one of the citys greatest historical storytellers
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Hot on the heels of record-setting growth in 2003, Edmonton's real estate market is poised for another year of exceptional and perhaps record breaking performance.
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If a plan to twin the High Level Bridge hatched in the early 1960s had come to fruition, the century old houses along the west side of 112th Street south of 100th Avenue would now be a busy thoroughfare.
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It began, as do most great festivals in Edmonton, as the hopeful idea of some like minded people who wanted to spread the word and share their enthusiasm for something special and distinctive.
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Dennis French is a mould buster. As president of DF Technical & Consulting Services, he has helped thousands of clients with mould problems in their homes and businesses.
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The trail meanders along the creek and through the mixed wood boreal forest of the Whitemud Nature Reserve, birdsong tumbles from the canopy
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Its amazing to think its been nearly 40 years since a group of community-minded citizens got together and decided to build the Kinsmen Fieldhouse as a 1967 project to mark Canadas Centennial.
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When the northwest Edmonton community of Sherbrooke was devised in the early 1950s under the direction of Edmontons first town planner Noel Dant
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An auditor’s report says the skyrocketing cost to build and operate transit in Edmonton means it is time to re-evaluate how much the city wants to spend on the system.
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After more than 100 years of making fine tailored suits and uniforms in Edmonton, LaFlèche Brothers is preparing to close its local manufacturing plant in April.
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The River Valley Alliance has unveiled an ambitious $605-million plan to create a continuous river valley park from Fort Saskatchewan to Devon.
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The boom that began with the 1947 discovery of oil near Leduc powered its way through Alberta well into the 1960s, and the result was a dramatic change
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Edmonton Realtors, home builders and financial analysts are forecasting another strong year for the city’s housing market, hopefully without the rollercoaster ride of 2007.
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Designed in collaboration with architects and cardiovascular specialists and based on thoughtful input from the best heart institutes in the world,
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Heinrich (Heiko) Schlieper’s panel icons can be found in museums, churches and private collections all over the world. When he died April 13 at the age of 76,
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My father Wilfred and my uncle Louis made an art of going to the dump and returning with more than they took. “Perfectly good binder twine,” my father the packrat would explain.
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One hundred years ago, humans took flight under power for the first time in Canada, and this summer the Reynolds-Alberta Museum is marking the milestone. The museum is “Celebrating 100 Years of Powered Flight in Canada”
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The 2009 Edmonton Urban Design Awards are getting some serious star power. Internationally-renowned architect Douglas Cardinal headlines this year’s jury
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With 47 of them, there are more churches per capita in Lamont County than anywhere else in North America. But it isn't only the tally that is worthy of worship;
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There’s now a lot more green available for community groups who want to develop more Edmonton green space. The city has doubled the funding available for community groups to
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A proposal by an Edmonton developer to demolish most of the Kelly-Ramsey Block and re-attach the east and south facades onto a new building
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Just in time for its peak season of school’s out summer holidays, the Grand Trunk Fitness and Leisure Centre re-opened in May, much to the delight of its legions of loyal users.
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It took more than 17 years and 35,000 volunteer hours to do it, but at last Edmonton Streetcar No. 33 has been returned to its near-original 1912 operating condition.
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Over the last 30 years, Old Strathcona's theatres have been the proving grounds for some of Canadas most talented and successful artists,
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In the tradition of Edmonton’s exceptional network of community halls built starting in the mid-20th century, multipurpose recreation centres
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Renowned University of Alberta water ecologist David Schindler is warning of a dire water shortage for Alberta and the Canadian prairies,
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The new Edmonton Islamic Academy building is the culmination of a remarkable journey for the city’s vibrant and growing Muslim community.
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The next time you drive around an Edmonton traffic circle, you can thank – or curse!– Noel Dant, Edmonton’s first full-time urban planner.
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The 2008 Edmonton Historical Board Recognition Awards, the 34th annual, saluted four citizens for their contribution to building the city and
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Fewer homes are expected to be sold this year, and prices are anticipated to remain about the same comparing last December to December 2009
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Every place has a story and, in Edmonton, some of the most diverse and fascinating tales are to be found in the neighbourhoods that we call home.
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The 2009 Edmonton & Northern Alberta Historic Festival runs from July 24th through August 2nd with an array of interesting and excellent events,
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Work has commenced on a $22 million rehabilitation of the historic Dawson Bridge that will see the crossing closed to motorists, buses, pedestrians and cyclists until November.
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Most of us take for granted the freedom to go where we please and the independence to do it. But when you’re living with a disability, it’s never so easy.
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As 2009 winds down, Edmonton is on the cusp of a paradigm shift. If the city’s new Transportation Master Plan (TMP) becomes more than a document of fanciful thinking,
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Vern Davis and three friends co-founded Edmonton Minor Hockey Week in 1963, and he has worked tirelessly ever since to make it a success.
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The movement to reduce vehicle idling isn’t just sitting idle. Across the country, an increasing number of municipalities are launching awareness campaigns
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Over the next three months, the City of Edmonton is again hosting its popular public seminar series for owners of historic homes. “This Old Edmonton House” sessions begin February 24th
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Beneath the new 30-storey Epcor tower that’s being built at 101st Street north of the CN Tower, work is underway completing an underground tunnel.
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A new plan for downtown Edmonton, approved by city council this summer, is aimed at bringing more people and economic growth to the heart of the city.
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Mintra marvels at the difference in her six-year-old daughter Krysta after Krysta started swimming lessons. She was always excited about her swimming; she talked about it all the time.
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Continuing economic expansion, strong construction activity, outstanding job prospects, substantial investment in the oil and gas sector, strong inward migration and high consumer confidence are having a profound effect
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It began, as do most acts of generosity, in response to a desperate need in the community. In 1940, during the dark days of the Second World War,
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What does home mean to you? Is it a place of drywall and carpet, framed by wood, supported by concrete? Or does home go much deeper than a physical manifestation,
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If you make New Year’s resolutions, chances are you didn’t include a pledge to reduce the amount of salt you ingest. It’s likely we all should.
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For a place once known as “Dog Rump Creek,” Stony Plain has come a long way. A prosperous, rapidly growing community of more than 10,600 residents
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When I was a kid growing up in Edmonton in the 1960s, we used to drive past the A & W Restaurant on 109th Street and 102nd Avenue. It had a grand neon sign
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The economy is in overdrive, yet Alberta’s roads are stuck in a rut. With 10,000 new residents pouring into the province every month and traffic volumes soaring,
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Statistics Canada figures released in November show that Albertans are digging deep and giving big. In 2006, Albertans gave $177 million more than they did in 2005.
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Continuing economic expansion, strong construction activity, outstanding job prospects, substantial investment in the oil, gas and oilsands sector,
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City leaders pondering trenching Gateway Boulevard right through the heart of Old Strathcona should learn from history. Edmonton would be a much different place today
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There’s nothing like historic homes. Bursting with character and charm, they’re a seductive treasure trove of fine workmanship and vintage design features.
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Like its community leagues, Edmonton’s public school system was built of foresight and determination. From the city’s earliest pioneer days,
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In the shadow of the Rockies on the open ridges of southwestern Alberta, change is in the wind. Massive wind turbines turn moving air into electricity
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For the longest time, Terwillegar Park was Edmonton’s poor forgotten natural area. But it was a natural area that really wasn’t natural anymore.
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A new taskforce appointed by the Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel is pushing forward on a quest to reduce crime and make the city safer for Edmontonians.
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When Michael Phair stepped down last year after five terms as city councillor, it marked the end of 15-years of exceptional public service at city hall.
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Love ‘em or hate ‘em, all-terrain vehicles are a big part of recreation and getting around for many people who live, work and play in Alberta’s big outdoors.
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For years, residents of neighbourhoods on the northern fringe of downtown have been lobbying their city councillors and municipal leaders for better recreation facilities.
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The Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance (AEEA), a group of industry, municipal and non-profit organizations and associations, is calling on the province
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A new atlas of Alberta’s last great intact boreal forests shows how quickly industrial development is reducing their size, and paints a stark picture of the impact on air, water, land and wildlife.
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Completed in 1915, the Prince of Wales Armoury has been a part of Edmonton for nearly a century. Since 1991, the venerable structure has been home to the City of Edmonton Archives
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The city’s new Walkable Edmonton Toolkit offers a wealth of tips, strategies and information on making life more walkable, interesting and fun.
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Started in France more than 20 years ago, the Doors Open concept showcases historical and culturally significant spaces and places. The second annual Doors Open Edmonton Festival May 23rd and 24th
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Touch-screen kiosks, archival images and video footage tell the story of Edmonton’s civic history in a new permanent display at City Hall.
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Unlike many other museums, the collection at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin isn’t just for show. The exceptionally dedicated staff keeps most of the pieces of automotive history in working order,
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Opened in 1931 as a place of welcome for newcomers, Edmonton’s Immigration Hall has long languished as a forsaken and increasingly imperilled chunk of Edmonton’s fascinating past.
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With more than 6,000 kilometres of high-speed rail now in service, China is the world leader at moving people and goods faster than 200 kilometres an hour.
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I don’t pass by it much anymore, but when I do, the giant neon sign atop Western Cycle calls to me from the past. It reminds me of the excitement I felt when I was ten-years-old
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Edmonton’s new Ten Year Active Transportation Strategy proposes that the city spend nearly $200 million over the next decade to improve its multi-use trails,
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as environmentally aware. But an Ipsos Reid online survey found that Canadian homeowners are more likely to be motivated
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Earlier this month, the Edmonton Historical Board presented its 2009 Recognition Awards. The awards paid tribute to two citizens and three organizations for their contribution
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The Christmas Bureau of Edmonton kicked off its annual campaign on November 16th, aiming to provide a festive meal to 65,000 less fortunate Edmontonians.
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Ted Harrison is one of Canada’s greatest and yet most unappreciated artists who has been, in the words of Edmonton-raised biographer Katherine Gibson, “loved and snubbed.”
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Mayor Stephen Mandel and members of city council paid tribute to some of Edmonton's most outstanding individuals at the annual Salute to Excellence Citation and Performance Awards,
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Alberta consumers are embracing home energy efficiency like never before. A poll commissioned by the Pembina Institute, NAIMA Canada and the
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Over the last six months, nearly 3,000 Edmontonians took the time to participate in the public consultation process to draft the city’s first people plan.
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When the provincial government announced its new pharmaceutical strategy in December 2008, it was sold as a way to make government-sponsored prescription drug coverage more affordable and accessible, especially for seniors.
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This month, the Edmonton Petroleum Club celebrates 60 years of operation as a favourite place for the city’s executives to relax, entertain, and greet colleagues.
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“Put one foot in front of the other,” my grandmother used to say when offering advice about conquering adversity. Turns out grandma’s words of wisdom
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With its bid to host Expo 2017, Edmonton is thinking big and thinking bold. The proposed theme, Harmony of Energy and Our Future Planet, was developed behind closed doors for more than a year.
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Edmonton made some history of its own April 14th when it officially named Ken Tingley as the first municipal historian laureate in Canada.
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Just one year after the launch of Edmonton’s 10-year plan to end homelessness, more than 500 people who were formerly without a place to live are now in a home of their own.
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Construction has started on the world’s first commercial plant that will convert municipal waste to biofuels at Edmonton’s Waste Management Centre.
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This year, the 14th annual, the theme “Celebrate our Heritage ... Open Our Doors,” recognizes the significance of our built heritage and its influence on our past, present and future
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An effort is underway to save one of the historic places of worship on Edmonton’s “Church Street,” but it may be too late. The Anglican diocese is planning to demolish St. Stephen’s the Martyr Church,
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When the Alberta-based Pembina Institute looked at Canada’s six largest cities to see what they’re doing to encourage lower-carbon choices for personal transportation,
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By encouraging active transportation choices, Edmonton can get more people out of their automobiles and onto their feet, their bikes and public transit.
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In just nine years, Historic Edmonton Week Festival has grown from an eager little celebration of the past into one of our city's most beloved summer events.
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When Westmount Shoppers' Park opened in August 1955, it was Edmonton's first shopping mall and it created quite a stir in the growing city.
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In April 2004, a 26-year-old motorist was convicted of dangerous driving causing death on a downtown Montreal street. He also made history.
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It's a problem nearly as old as old buildings themselves. Gregory Paxton, the executive director of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, summed it up
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Park a vintage automobile and watch the curious flock to it. Or surround it with the sprit of its time with live music, skits and costumes
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From wood stoves to coal stoves, gravity-fed oil burners to natural gas furnaces that squeeze 97 per cent of the available heat energy out of fuel,
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While cities around the world are expanding their trolley bus network, Edmonton continues to dither and dally with its trolleys, and now a city councillor
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We're fortunate to live in this part of the world. Edmonton has some of the cleanest air, safest water and most green space of any city on the planet.
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The newly launched 2005 Edmonton Urban Design Awards were handed out last week. They recognize some interesting, innovative and inspirational parts of the city for their concept, civic design, urban architecture and community improvement.
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Brock Silversides has told the unvarnished story of Fort Edmonton as it should be. While most of the 20th century histories of the very birthplace of Edmonton purposely avoided the warts and wrinkles,
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With demand for a Science degree from the University of Alberta the highest in the province and unprecedented growth in student numbers, the Faculty of Science is bursting at the seams.
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The Edmonton Real Estate Board is a proud sponsor of the Bright Nights Winter Family Festival, as it has been since the first year in 1998.
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Kenneth Chau lives in a world of oscillating electromagnetic waves and terahertz wavelength light. Its a place of curiosity-driven science
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Only $59, Edmonton to Vancouver, the ad proclaims. A fantastic deal. You book your flight pronto. But the total charged is $104.44 nearly double the ticket price,
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Every week, this column goes Inside Edmonton in pursuit of some of the untold stories in the big city. Seldom have I gone underneath Edmonton, but it turns out that some of the most fascinating stories are right under our feet,
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Theres nothing like historic homes. Bursting with character and charm, theyre a seductive treasure trove of fine workmanship and vintage design features. They also come with not so alluring outdated mechanical and electrical systems.
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Thirty years ago, the John Janzen Nature Centre opened its doors to a new way of thinking. It was the first municipally operated nature centre in North America
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Copie and Jack MacMillan have seen considerable changes at Kirk United Church over the last 50 years. The Sherbrooke couple are part of a group of just 16 remaining charter members
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When the city’s community services department held an Open House earlier this month to hear from the public about a proposal to rebuild Queen Elizabeth Pool,
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As it marks its 10th anniversary this year, what began as the Historic Edmonton Week Festival has gotten so big that is just doesn’t fit in one city anymore.
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It began, as do most great festivals, as the hopeful idea of some like-minded people who wanted to spread the word and share their enthusiasm
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When a committee of the Alberta Association of Architects went seeking well-designed buildings that tell the story of how remarkable and meaningful
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Fifty years ago this month, Canadians and Americans crowded around their itsy-bitsy black and white television sets to see history in the making.
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Grand plans for rejuvenating the dilapidated heart of Edmonton’s original downtown have come and gone several times over the last 25 years.
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Concordia University College’s $13 million Hole Academic Centre, which was officially dedicated earlier this month, is the largest and most expensive
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Milton Davies is Edmonton’s urban forester, and over the last few years, he’s seen a lot of trees tumble into what he calls “the spiral of death.”
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Boldly going where some have gone before, the City of Leduc is launching an ambitious plan to build a recreation and fitness complex rivalling those in Strathcona County,
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In the frenetic boom times ignited by the 1947 discovery of oil near Leduc, Edmonton became a showcase of bold and imaginative architectural thinking.
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Before a massive tornado churned its way along Edmonton’s eastern outskirts 20 years ago this month, claiming 27 lives and injuring hundreds more,
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Opened in 1931 in the depths of the Great Depression to provide a place of welcome, Edmonton’s Immigration Hall is again poised to help those in need.
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As they have for their entire lives, the baby boom generation is driving Alberta’s economy and lifestyle trends. There are nine million boomers in Canada,
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When the Winspear Centre opened ten years ago this week, it was sweet music to the ears. Dreamed, devised, designed, engineered and constructed almost entirely by Edmonton expertise,
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Later this month, the new Don Wheaton Family YMCA will officially open downtown, serving a growing inner city, residential and “at work” population.
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Edmonton has been chosen as one of just 20 cities from around the world to share strategies for conservation in a three-year pilot project called Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB).
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Interest in genealogy hasn’t been so strong since Alex Haley’s 1976 novel “Roots” inspired a generation of African-Americans to trace their roots back to Africa.
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In the words of Christmas Bureau chairperson Dorothy Jaques, “To the world you are just one person, but to one person you mean the world.”
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A new national report released by Re/Max says that, over the last decade, homes in Edmonton increased more in average price than anywhere else in Canada.
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Alberta homes have an enormous ecological footprint. There are nearly one million homes in the province, and their construction required substantial resources of materials and energy to build.
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A new report recommends that Edmonton should allow higher density in new developments along with zoning changes and subsidies for rental projects
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As a society, we’ve made enormous progress in the fight to keep impaired drivers off the road. I grew up in Edmonton during a time when drinking and driving
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Early results from a poll now being conducted by the Edmonton Social Planning Council indicate about 60 per cent of Edmonton’s renters are concerned they cannot afford their apartments.
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After nearly 20 years of sitting vacant and abandoned as a forlorn symbol of the deterioration of downtown, the grand neoclassical styled Federal Building is getting a new lease on life.
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Summertime and the coffee patios are buzzing – and not just from the caffeine. Edmonton’s coffee culture is brewing up healthy performance,
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In the days before the automobile, Europe's city planners perfected a design formula that produced compact, people-focused communities where citizens could live,
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A new proposal is aimed at luring more people to ride their bikes by building a network of marked lanes and trails, requiring bicycle parking in new developments
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Earlier this month, when Phase Two of the Louise McKinney Riverfront Legacy Project was unveiled, Mayor Stephen Mandel could barely contain his excitement.
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The second annual TD Canada Trust Green Home Poll found that 68 per cent of western Canadians are willing to spend more on environmentally friendly
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George Hughes’ contributions to Edmonton’s community and sports span more than 60 years, and few citizens have made such an indelible mark on the city
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Expo 2017 Edmonton. It’s got a great ring to it, and when city councillors agreed last month to spend $2.3 million on a bid to become Canada’s nominee
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The City of Edmonton Archives is a treasure trove of photographic delight stretching over more than 120 years, and now more of its exceptional image collections
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While Edmonton wrestles with how – or when! – to expand the city’s cycling system, other Canadian cities are moving ahead with innovative and ingenious ways to improve active transportation options.
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There is at least one Edmonton park that is busier in winter than it is in summer. Thanks to the efforts of the Edmonton Nordic Ski Club, Gold Bar Park
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Earlier this month, citizens were invited to provide input into the city’s planned revitalization and redevelopment of the area around the Stadium LRT station.
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This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Edmonton Real Estate Board. In a resource-dependent city -- first agriculture and later oil and gas --
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When Millet’s two remaining wooden grain elevators were demolished ten years ago this spring, a fascinating chapter of the past went with them.
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With more than 125 activities and 70 events over eight days, this years Historic Edmonton Week Festival promises nearly something for everybody.
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Big roadside attractions are a big draw all over the province. Back in the days before Glendon has its pyrogy, Vulcan had its spaceship or Andrew had its duck, Vegreville had its egg.
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When oil was discovered near Leduc in 1947, just two years after the Second World War ended, it was the start of Edmonton's largest building boom of the 20th century.
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After more than a decade of growth on the fringes of the city and the suburbs, more new home construction is shifting to the heart of the city.
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The buffalo are gone, the cameraman is gone, the camera itself is likely gone, but here I am, sitting in front of a screen, watching a remarkable record of a stampede filmed in 1925 near Wainwright.
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When Greg Southam snapped the photograph of a dying Barb Tarbox, cigarette held between her fingers, head back and eyes closed, he immediately knew it was something enormously potent.
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Canada Day heralds the official beginning of the busy time of the year for Edmontons outdoor pools, but this year, the vintage pool at Queen Elizabeth Pool is eerily quiet.
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In the heart of Stony Plain, a new municipal headquarters has opened a door to the future while respecting some of the glory of the past.
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When city council last week approved a massive plan to redevelop the area north of the former CN rail yards downtown, it laid the tracks for one of the largest residential redevelopments in Edmontons history.
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When the farm machinery gets humming and the ovens get heatin, Reynolds Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin will be celebrating the sights, sounds and smells of bringing in the harvest.
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Edmonton City Council has given Queen Elizabeth Pool a stay of execution. Last week, council decided to place a $4.1 million refurbishment of the 83-year-old pool
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Nearly a quarter century after the Alberta government gave Calgary Kananaskis Provincial Park as its playground and pledged a similar one for Edmonton, the promise may at long last be fulfilled.
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The Alberta government is considering allowing hundreds of billboards along the province's highways near urban centres including Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary.
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One of the films that created the most buzz at last weekends Global Visions Film Festival is one that hits close to home, here in Canadas oil heartland.
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Its a wired world in flux, propelled by innovation, a quest for greater energy efficiency and customer demands for mobility, flexibility and cost savings.
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On the heels of another exceptional year, with 70 records broken in 2004, Edmonton's real estate market is poised for more sizzling performance in the next 12 months.
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Urban sprawl is threatening our environment, our health and our quality of life. Poorly planned and unbridled development is driving up our taxes, increasing traffic,
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Jasper National Park biologist Wes Bradford has vivid memories of an October evening in 2000, when he was called to a collision between a car and a moose on Highway 16 near Jasper.
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Year by year, we’re getting older behind the wheel – individually and as a society. In Alberta, the number of drivers aged 65 and older is going up nearly three per cent a year,
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Alberta is the most affordable housing market in the country, according to RBC Economics in its latest Housing Affordability Index report.
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Today it is called Fort Road, but a century ago, it was the trail to Fort Saskatchewan, and a road to prosperity for Edmontons fledging packing plant industry.
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An ambitious $62 million plan to rejuvenate the historic Bay Building on Jasper Avenue between 102nd and 103rd Streets will give Edmonton a university presence downtown, kickstart revival and revitalize a landmark.
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When Peter Hemingway set out in 1967 to design a new Olympic-sized pool for Edmonton as a Centennial project, he found inspiration at the National Gymnasium and Pool in Tokyo, Japan.
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For years, the Griesbach Barracks was a place of employment for thousands of military personnel. Now, this parcel of land in north Edmonton is about to become home to a new continuing care centre for veterans.
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Over the last few weeks, Edmonton trees have been putting on their best show with myriad colours of autumn. The leaves have pretty much fallen now, and the trees are entering their winter hibernation phase.
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The passing this summer of Sergeant Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith marked the end of an era. Smokey was the last surviving Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross.
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It began, as do most acts of generosity, in response to a desperate need in the community. During the dark days of the Second World War, Edmontons newly formed Council of Social Agencies
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A new program that will transform 20 surplus school sites into locations for 1,000 new, more affordable homes for first time buyers is so inspired it’s easy to wonder why nobody thought of it before.
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Starting June 9th, the Reynolds-Alberta Museum is really “Showin’ Off.” In conjunction with its annual History Road event, the Wetaskiwin facility
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For nearly a century, petroleum has been the potion that has kept Alberta in motion. Fossil fuels continue to be the engines that drive the province’s economy
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Canadian Bioenergy Corporation has filed an application to build Western Canada’s first large-scale biodiesel refinery in Sturgeon County, just outside Edmonton.
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For the first time in 51 years, there won’t be a Hogle in the newsroom at CFRN (CTV Edmonton). Steve Hogle, the third generation of his family to hold the position of manager of news and public affairs at the station
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Edmonton has been named the top metro area in Western Canada for business investment, based on the number of capital projects and expansions
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This year, Catholic Social Services’ Sign of Hope Campaign is aiming to raise $2.12-million, partly to support its new facility to aid refugees and immigrants.
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Coming on the heels of a 12% annual average selling price increase, it might sound a little fantastical to trumpet Edmonton’s housing prices as affordable.
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New products and a healthy construction industry are helping to build an invigorating spirit of innovation and optimism in Canada's building envelope sector.
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Sales of Edmonton real estate will be stable and steady, and prices will increase about 5% on the year, Larry Westergard, president of the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton,
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Todays Realtors are highly skilled specialists who work full time (and sometimes much more!) to provide professional, conscientious service to their clients. It wasnt always that way in Edmonton.
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How can we keep from getting food poisoning?
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September 02, 2010
Vol. 28, Iss. 35
Advertised Listings
New Listings
832
Total in Issue
1620
Mortgage Rates
1 Year Closed
3.23
2 Year Closed
3.6
3 Year Closed
3.82
5 Year Closed
4.46
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