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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Fourteen teenage boys from St. Albert, a small upscale Alberta city bordering Edmonton, are starting their school year in a courtroom instead of a classroom. While some youth consider ''froshing,'' also known as hazing or initiation, to be an innocent rite of passage, police in this community of 60,000 view it as a violent crime. Earlier this summer, the RCMP charged the teens with 28 counts of assault...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
ST. ALBERT, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) Foundation Equity Corporation ("Foundation") acquired pursuant to the closing by Preo Software Inc. ("Old Preo") of a plan of arrangement involving Old Preo and CDG Investments Inc. (the "Arrangement") resulting in a new amalgamated entity known as Preo Software Inc. ("Preo"), from the treasury of Preo, 11,145,324 common shares ("Common Shares") of Preo (being approximately...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Nolan Crouse is very close to becoming my favorite Alberta Mayor.Nolan Crouse is the mayor of St. Albert and the chairman of the Capital Region's transportation planning committee. Right now, he says, his committee is still trying to figure out the region's transportation priorities. While he's pleased to see the province promising $2 billion for transit projects, he's not sure commuter rail would...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
I was encouraged to hear this week that St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse, the chair of a new sub-committee of the Capital Region Integrated Growth Management Planning Board tasked with creating a public transit plan for the capital region, that this could be the beginnings of a unified regional transit system.As I've written in the past, I think a regional public transit service replacing the three current...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Just in case you missed it, David Climenhaga had a pretty insightful column in last week's Saint City News (from St. Albert) on the new super mega health board centralization that went on last week across Alberta. You can read the column on his blog.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
EDMONTON, ALBERTA -- 05/22/08 -- "Before it all begins, it's quiet... and then when the first bus arrives, you can feel the energy. It's like, 'the little people are here and now it's time to kick into high gear.'" That's how Troy Funk explains the..
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
EDMONTON, ALBERTA (MARKET WIRE) "Before it all begins, it's quiet... and then when the first bus arrives, you can feel the energy. It's like, 'the little people are here and now it's time to kick into high gear.'" That's how Troy Funk explains the opening day of the 27th International Children's Festival. "The entire festival is brimming with laughter and excitement. It's pretty spectacular," says...
