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This week St. Albert’s 2018 proposed budget was presented to council, along with the 2018-20 business plan. The budget outlined a harsh reality: with the city’s current funding, there are few capital projects that can be built in the near future.

For many people Remembrance Day is the occasion to remember soldiers who were killed or fought in the First or Second World Wars. Those two world wars are particularly notable for many because of the scale of the loss of life.

On Wednesday a white, foreign substance fell from the sky. And, wouldn’t you know it, it accumulated on the ground. Undaunted, commuters went about their day as planned, some of them oblivious to this unfamiliar substance.

For 16 months Jason Kenney has been running on a platform of uniting the right to beat Rachel Notley's NDP government in the next election. Early on he criss-crossed the province in his blue pickup truck on that mission.

On Monday, St. Albert will swear in its new mayor and council and conduct its first council meeting of the term.

It was too close for comfort on Sunday when a CN train derailed sending 12 tanker cars off the track just a stone's throw away from houses on River's Edge Place in the Crossing at River’s Edge subdivision, in Sturgeon County, north of Sturgeon Road.

St. Albert voters have had their say and we have a new council in waiting, featuring several new faces.

New mayors have taken over the helm in St. Albert and Sturgeon County at an important point in regional history. Over the years the two adjoining municipalities have had a rocky history. This last term they managed to mend fences.

Mayoral candidate Malcolm Parker painted a polarizing picture of the mayoral race, and by extension, the councillor race, Wednesday night at the mayoral forum.