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Heritage festival goes green

The lakeside setting of Hawrelak Park is dotted with red, white and blue tents, each mounted with a Canadian flag flapping in the wind.

Dino forest roars to life

Birds and dinosaurs really do go together. Nowhere is this more apparent than north of Gibbons, where Greg Suess is getting ready to open Jurassic Forest. Peeking inside the mouth of a robotic Styracosaurus, he's surprised to find a bird's nest.

SaveNone ready to save rock

There’s an Arthurian quality shining from the cover of SaveNone’s debut album Always Never. A mysterious twisted hand reaches out from a roiling lake while dark clouds hint at an upcoming storm.

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Charlie St. Cloud (PG) Accomplished sailor Charlie St.

Taking aim at economic killers

Chad Viminitz is as much a guardian angel as he is a writer. He cares about people and, more importantly, he cares about their pocketbooks.

Fairy Berry Fest opens this weekend

Lewis Carroll had a pretty vivid imagination when he penned a story about a young girl named Alice getting lost in the fantasy world of Wonderland, but he could never have imagined his famous tale would get so corny, especially in Bon Accord.

Foodie nirvana awaits at Taste of Edmonton

Summer is typically the biggest party of the year, and one of most popular area events is the 26th annual Taste of Edmonton. Edmonton has a certain harshness that turns some people off. It’s far from any other major centre.

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Vancouver’s thrash metal band Omega Crom is on their Summer Shred Canadian Tour in support of their first and long-awaited album dubbed Blood, Steel and Fire. Although they’d never visited St.

St. Albert student could be The Next Star

A young St. Albert singer has landed a top spot in the nation-wide auditions for YTV's The Next Star and the episode was aired this past Monday. Of the more than 4,000 initial competitors, Madi Amyotte, 15, a Grade 9 student at école Secondaire St.

Nobel nominee speaks on women's rights

It's not easy to be a widow in India, says Ginny Shrivastava. "They are perceived often as being the cause of their husband's deaths," says the Ontario native, who has lived in India for 40 years.
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