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A proposed ballot initiative would block construction of some new oil pipelines in North Dakota. via KMOT-TV Minot

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“There are options for the route, whether it would be right on Stony Plain Road or along 100 Avenue”

The city's transit hub should be downtown, not at the University of Alberta, says a frustrated Mayor Stephen Mandel. via Edmonton Sun

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“It is a great honour to recognize him with this highly-coveted award.”

" A Medicine Hat-based driver with a 33-year career and 3.94 million collision-free miles, has been named the Canadian Trucking Alliance/Volvo Trucks Canada Driver of the Year for 2007. via Truck News

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“We were wondering what that smell was. It was peculiar and was awful.”

A man's body was found inside a broken-down incinerator on a rural property late yesterday morning by a service worker who opened it up for repairs. via Slam Sports

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“They are highly-trained. They are very good at their job. We don't use them as a resource enough. That's what we are going to communicate next year.”

BANFF, Alta. -- Greg Sokil of Sokil Express Lines is the new president of the Alberta Motor Transport Association. via Ctl.ca

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“They're not going to produce it for free or at a loss, so as your input costs increase the cost for the finished product also must increase”

For Canadians paying big bucks to fill their gas tanks, it might seem unfair that one of the country's biggest energy companies racked up more than $1-billion in quarterly profit, an 86 per cent increase over ... via Calgary Sun

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“I think it's an emotional and a knee-jerk”

Sky-high gas prices might be pinching people's pockets, but experts say the pain at the pump is benefiting governments - and maybe even the environment. via CANOE

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“In the past few years, there has been a change: There are bars and some nightlife going on.”

From a distance, the shimmering skyscrapers and shorter brick buildings in downtown Calgary fold into each other, blocking out the blue sky in between. via Globeinvestor.com

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“It's a project that very few people could make work”

The "sold" sticker has been slapped across troubled oilsands startup Synenco Energy Inc., which took a novel step in landing a minority Chinese partner, turned public in late 2005 at more than $17 a share, but ... via Calgary Herald

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“We've identified the locations for additional rest areas throughout the province, with a particular focus on areas with logging or other resource traffic”

BANFF, Alta. -- While Ontario and Quebec forge ahead with speed limiter legislation in their respective provinces, Alberta has no plans to follow suit, Luke Ouellette, Minister of Transportation said at the ... via Ctl.ca

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“Our operating costs were a lot higher than what I had hoped they would be”

Tyson Foods Inc said on Monday labor shortages and a tight cattle supply at its beef plant in Alberta, Canada, contributed to the company's poor second-quarter results, and it may be some time before problems ... via Calgary Herald

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“I couldn't even shake my hanky out the window.”

Ontario residents were liberated from no-clotheslines restrictive covenants last week by the McGuinty government. via National Post

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April 28, 2008 04:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time Permalink Total strengthens position in Canadian Heavy Oil Total has just entered into an agreement with Synenco Energy Inc., a company listed on the Toronto Stock ... via Business Wire

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Dell Canada, a division of Dell Inc., announced Wednesday it is closing its Ottawa call center, eliminating some 1,100 jobs by summer. via RedOrbit

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“They can even put a chip in the pad and download it from anywhere in the world”

Everything isn't all sunshine and derricks in the heart of Alberta's oilpatch. Calgary's affluence has made it a prime target for high-tech, sophisticated debit and credit-card scams. via Calgary Sun

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“One way or another it will push up prices for Canadian oil sands”

Price rise is in the pipeline http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=356617&type=Business Price rise is in the pipeline By Fred Pals ROYAL Dutch Shell Plc, Exxon Mobil Corp and the rest of the oil industry ... via Shanghai Daily

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Attention Business Editors CALGARY, April 23 /CNW/ - Suncor Energy Inc.'s Board of Directors has approved a quarterly dividend of $0.10 per common share, payable June 25, 2008, to shareholders of record at the ... via Customer Interaction Solutions

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“It's been a pretty busy 24-hour period. I'm crossing my fingers that the worst is behind”

Stars air ambulance takes off from this crash scene just north of highway 19 on QE2 Highway. via National Post

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“This is going to make us cost-competitive overall. The global market we are in, it's very competitive. If you are not cost-competitive, you are behind”

News By Agam Shah Dell's facilities in Canada are being hit by the company's efforts to save US$3 billion over the next three years, with customer service centers in the country being phased out. via CIO

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“We're certainly looking at (the possibility) it is domestic in nature at this time”

Cops say a woman strangled in her home was likely slain in a domestic dispute, her body found a little more than an hour after her husband perished in a fiery car crash east of the city. via Calgary Sun

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“Failure to attend to these things would be a risk to any corporation of our stature, so we do take them very seriously”

The chief executive of TransCanada Corp. was confronted with some questions at the company's shareholder meeting Friday about how it intends to handle a dispute with a northern Alberta aboriginal group over a ... via CBC News

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Weapons charges against an Alberta police officer have been stayed. Const. Nichole Goodyear appeared in a Lethbridge court today to face charges of unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle and ... via CANOE

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The Internet has reached a milestone in Canada with the one millionth dot-ca domain name. via Slam Sports

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“We are thrilled with the support we have had in bringing together such incredible speakers and sponsors from all across Canada to share online marketing tactics and success stories in marketing tourism online.”

With the ever-increasing power of the internet in researching, and booking travel, and a consumer base that is using the internet in new ways every day - Canadian tourism professionals will converge in Calgary, ... via Hospitality Net

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Following its recent announcement of the of iNovia Investment Fund II, L.P. , in an amount of $107M, iNovia Capital has solidified and expanded its network of deal flow collaborators and partners across Canada ... via Canada IT

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Alberta Health says a Saskatchewan senior who died in February was not denied a Calgary hospital bed because of an "Albertans-first" policy. via MyTELUS

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“This is a gross violation of Canada's sovereignty and free artistic expression. They may well have broken the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs and overstepped their diplomatic duties.”

The organizers of a cultural show in Calgary are calling on the Canadian government to review the status of a Chinese diplomat who allegedly threatened some of the show's sponsors into canceling their ... via The Epoch Times

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The change will create a strategic transportation route for light liquid hydrocarbons from the US Gulf Coast to the origination point of the Enbridge Southern Lights Pipeline near Chicago , creating a linkage ... via TurboMachinery International

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“It's amazing to see bidders from all over North America and the world participating in our Grande Prairie auctions”

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted one of the largest Grande Prairie auctions in Company history last week, selling more than 2,400 equipment and real estate items for total gross auction proceeds in excess of ... via Earth Times

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- Two former girlfriends of a man accused of killing two prostitutes in Alberta have testified that Thomas Svekla attacked them years ago and they feared for their lives.

The women, who cannot be identified, said the separate incidents took place in the late 1980s, when they were high school girlfriends of Svekla. The first to testify said she was partying with Svekla and some friends at her family's farm near Fort Saskatchewan when the others left to go to a bar.

She said Svekla returned bleeding and when she went to get him bandages, he threw her to the carpet and choked her. Read more

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“We made some production changes, and when we saw how it came out we were surprised as much as anyone else.”

Blind man apprehends burglary suspect INDIANAPOLIS, April 22 -- A blind Indianapolis man says he "kind of went crazy," wrestling a burglary suspect into submission and holding him with a kitchen knife until ... via UPI

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Winnipeg Police say an alleged killer may be hiding out in Alberta. Police are looking for 25-year-old Gilbert John Jolicoeur who goes by the name, "Fro." They believe he may be hiding in Fort McMurray or ... via CTV Calgary

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“With the completion of the agreements on schedule with BP we are now in the position to proceed with the Sunrise oil sands development on an integrated basis.”

"The next move for Husky is to really look at opportunity for another acquisition and another merger," chief executive officer John Lau told reporters after the company's annual meeting in Calgary. via The Globe and Mail

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Legendary thrash titans Testament team up with Metal Gods Judas Priest for a string of dates this July. via Ultimate-guitar.com

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A proposed pipeline that would bring oil from Alberta, Canada through Minnesota and to Superior, Wisconsin, is running into resistance. via KARE-TV Minneapolis

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“The technology is not there right now to extract oilsands without a lot of environmental impacts”

Trillium Asset Management is urging shareholders of Houston-based ConocoPhillips to support a proposal at the firm's AGM on May 14 that ConocoPhillips' board of directors prepare a report on the expected ... As ... via National Post

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“Upgrades continue to be among our best-returning projects”

A charge from TransAlta Corp's sale of its Mexican power plants led to a 41 percent drop in first-quarter profit, masking a bigger-than-expected jump in operating earnings, the Canadian-based electricity ... via Calgary Herald

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“It's worse if you're driving in from the east”

Spring has turned into a cruel joke in Alberta, where a late-season blizzard dumped heavy snow on much of the province Sunday and created near-whiteout conditions on highways in the province's northeast. via National Post

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“I was surprised to see so many police here this morning. Everyone is curious to find out what happened”

For the third time in just over a week, city police are investigating a bloody scene where a man lost his life. via CANOE

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“We know that physical inactivity and obesity are risk factors for developing cancer. These are also risk factors for the recurrence of cancer. Lifestyle is just as important after diagnosis.”

New research supported by the Canadian Cancer Society shows that many cancer survivors in Canada are overweight and inactive, which could put them at risk for health problems, including their cancer returning. via News-Medical.Net

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“All the tables were full, it was standing-room only and that's how all the games have been like since. I don't think weather is going to be an issue.”

With the white stuff continuing to drop on Calgary last night, the city neared a record-breaking one-day snowfall. via CANOE

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“This is the time of year when you can get real heavy wet snows”

It just didn't seem fair to the Montreal man waiting for an Edmonton bus as wicked winds whipped snowflakes around his uncovered head. via Orleans Star / Weekly Journal

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A passenger in a pickup truck died Friday night after being thrown from the vehicle that lost control on icy roads, police say. via Edmonton Journal

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“He became heavily involved in that, he started becoming really weird and so I never became close friends with him”

The man charged in Wednesday's brazen stabbing of a local senior appears to have made some disturbing entries on his personal website leading up to and following the killing. via Edmonton Sun

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“I don't think there's a greater group of Canadians than the families that are here”

Canada's top soldier praised military families for their understanding and support yesterday as the warship HMCS Iroquois steamed out of port for the Arabian Sea as part of a six-month deployment. via Ottawa Sun

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“I was landing it successfully in training on a consistent basis so I was confident that I could do it here in front of the judges.”

- Alex Siefert of Calgary won two gold medals and double Olympic medallist Karen Cockburn of Toronto continued her comeback from knee surgery on Saturday at the Elite Canada trampoline and tumbling competition.

The competition is the first of three domestic events in the Olympic selection process for trampoline.

In men's tumbling, Siefert landed a highly difficult double lay triple tuck for the first time in competition and placed first with 134.2 points followed by Andrew Egyed of Altadore, Alta., in second at 126.7 and Nick Kurtz of Burlington, Ont., third at 112.1. Read more

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Barrage, an international nine-piece string ensemble, will perform an eclectic mix of music, song and dance at 7 p.m. Monday in the Green Bay Southwest High School Auditorium, 1331 Packerland Drive, Green Bay. via Green Bay Press-Gazette

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Nancy Oakley, 22, right, of Brighton, Ont., reads over notes with Shane Dunsta, 22, of Ottawa, as they relax in the 22 degrees Celsius sunshine on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday. via CANOE

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“It's a horrific incident, that something like this could happen in our city”

The cold-blooded killing of an Edmonton senior brought a city councillor to tears. via Canoe

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“In short Prime Minister, your policies are being derailed”

GATINEAU, Que. - The battle lines over the future of Canadian television were clearly drawn Thursday as two bitter rivals for broadcasting supremacy sat side-by-side to plead for new sources of revenue and to ... via The Chronicle-Journal

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CALGARY, April 16 /CNW/ - Richards Oil & Gas Limited , is pleased to report that it has filed on SEDAR its audited financial statements and related Management's Discussion and Analysis of the results of ... via CNW Group

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“The way soldiers' families are treated today is light years away from what happened years ago and I think Rick Hillier has got great recognition compassion”

Canada's retiring top soldier refused to talk about legacy Thursday, despite travelling to Calgary to promote the one-year anniversary of the Military Families Fund that he helped create. via Canoe

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- Edmonton's medical examiner says a dead newborn found in a rural area west of Edmonton was a boy.

RCMP say the baby was close to full term and there were obvious signs of trauma. A man walking his dog on a undeveloped lot in Stony Plain found the baby's body wrapped in a pink towel on Wednesday.

Police say the medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death.

The baby's race has also not been determined.

Investigators say they are "confident" the body was left in the place where it was found sometime after 7 p.m. on Monday. Read more

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“We've not announced the final date because there's still a little bit of movement taking place on the LPGA Tour”

The LPGA Tour is returning to Alberta. The Royal Canadian Golf Association announced Thursday that Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club in Priddis, Alta., will host the 2009 CN Canadian Women's Open. via Slam Sports

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Jury selection for the first-degree murder trial of a Medicine Hat man is set to begin on Halloween. via Calgary Herald