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VIDEO: Alison Redford Editorial Board

VIDEO: Alison Redford Editorial Board

Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful Alison Redford stopped by the Gazette offices on Thursday, Sept. 1, to answer a few questions about the race and her platform. Video by Glenn Cook
Liberals pick new leader Saturday

Liberals pick new leader Saturday

With an entirely new approach to the selection, the Alberta Liberals will pick their new party leader this week.
Orman touts outsider status, promises shake-up

Orman touts outsider status, promises shake-up

Rick Orman is promising a shake-up to the party, the government and the province if he wins the Progressive Conservative leadership later this month.
New math makes the grade

New math makes the grade

Want a good read? Try the new Pre-Calculus textbook that Grade 11 students throughout the province are using for the first time this year, which is at the leading edge of the new revised math program that is gradually being implemented into the curri
More surgeries more beds in Alberta healthcare

More surgeries more beds in Alberta healthcare

Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky touted more surgeries, more beds and reduced waiting times in his first update on the province’s action plan on health.
Candidates square off in Red Deer

Candidates square off in Red Deer

Red Deer — Progressive Conservative leadership candidates traded light verbal barbs, but found many places to agree Thursday night as the race to replace Ed Stelmach entered its final three weeks.
Water ban lifted

Water ban lifted

A non-essential water use ban in St. Albert has been lifted, so residents are now allowed to water their lawns and wash their vehicles. The city lifted the ban at 5 p.m. Wednesday after repairing a water main break near the Oakmont reservoir.
Morton makes his case

Morton makes his case

Ted Morton believes he is a more complex figure than the right-wing character he is portrayed as and his platform is a mix of conservative ideas and progressive ones. Morton made the comments in a meeting with the St.
Terry Fox Run lacing up for 31st year

Terry Fox Run lacing up for 31st year

Participation in St. Albert’s annual Terry Fox Run has been declining the last couple of years, but three decades after Fox died of cancer, local organizer Alan Luck is hoping to reverse that trend.
Environment File

Environment File

A St. Albert woman is about to go on a trip of a lifetime after her bird placed first in the city’s first annual duck race. Sharon Brownlee was declared the winner of the Wetlands and Wildlife Day Duck Race on Aug.
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