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It wasn’t the news Premier Rachel Notley wanted or needed to hear with a provincial election less than 12 months away.

St. Albert’s city council did the oddest thing on Monday – it voted unanimously to extend the long-term facility plan’s deadline by three years.

St. Albertans have reason to boast following another jump in the city’s population. According to initial results of the 2018 Municipal Census, the number of people who call St.

Fortunately, St. Albert didn’t go to pot – it made the right choice. On Monday, city council voted 6-1 in favour of banning the public consumption of cannabis.

St. Albert is rated as the 19th best place to live in Canada, according to MoneySense magazine’s recently released annual rankings. That sounds pretty good when you consider 415 Canadian cities were ranked by this online finance magazine.

Take note, hunters in St. Albert and surrounding Sturgeon County – actually, all Alberta hunters – these are prosperous times for your sport. The popularity of hunting is on the rise in this province.

A spike in the severity of violent crimes in St. Albert is alarming and has some questioning whether police are doing enough to address the problem.

Reefer Madness, an American anti-marijuana propaganda film, was made in 1936. Back then it was used as a tool to scare youth about cannabis addiction – it was fear-mongering at its corny best.

School’s out for the summer and the province’s education minister has definitely been feeling the heat, but it has nothing to do with the rising thermometer.

American President Abraham Lincoln once spoke of the “better angels of our nature.” He would be shocked and appalled by the modern world the way it exists today.