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David Staples: Many ways to win during Edmonton Minor Hockey Week
I’m here to argue that everyone can win during the Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week, although it won’t be easy. The goal of minor hockey is for every child to be a winner, but that gets complicated...
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Edmonton man faces 21 charges after shot fired during lengthy standoff
A 33-year-old Edmonton man is facing 21 charges following a lengthy standoff with police. Among the charges filed against Matthew Brogden are break and enter, uttering threats, unlawful confinement and...
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Edmonton's Ski2LRT glides on despite lack of snow
Not all Edmontonians embrace El Nino’s winter warming effect and the lack of snowfall this season. The cross-country Ski2LRT folks aren’t asking for frigid temperatures, but a little bit more snow...
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Thursday's Editorial: City should rethink backyard rink fine
Edmonton is a sparkling winter city, brimming with crystals of frost and ice and snow. Most of us appreciate its beauty behind glass — though thousands also cross-country ski, skate and walk their dogs...
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Canada volleyball's Blair Bann excited for opportunities to play at home,...
The No. 1 goal, of course, is for the Canadian men’s volleyball team to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in 24 years. But Blair Bann is also excited about a rare opportunity to play in...
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Traditions still alive as Edmonton's Ukrainian community celebrates Orthodox...
For Edmonton’s large Ukrainian-Canadian community, economic struggles in Alberta and prolonged violence in the mother country have turned life upside down, yet that turmoil has strengthened the desire...
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Man wanted in connection to northern Alberta homicide
The Mounties have issued an arrest warrant for a 20-year-old Alberta man wanted in connection to a murder last year. RCMP are looking for Jesse Prestly Laboucan of Atikameg, whom they say is “actively...
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Shooting outside hookah bar becomes city's first homicide of 2016
A man wounded in a New Year’s Day shooting outside a hookah bar has become Edmonton’s first homicide victim of the year, police said Thursday. Abdikadir Mohamed, 25, who died in hospital Thursday, was...
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Video: Muslim youth group on track to raise one million pounds of food to...
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association has launched a nationwide campaign to raise one million pounds of food in an effort to end hunger in Canada. “This is just a small token of our appreciation for...
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'Best winter I've ever had,' says teen who didn't start hockey until age 16
Words like heart, determination and desire are often used to describe hockey players, but in Alex McFarlane’s case, that just gets him to the rink. The 16-year-old Ross Sheppard High School honours...
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Police target increase in traffic fatalities
Edmonton’s police chief says the service will crack down on “poor drivers” by assigning a specialized traffic team to watch over school zones, playgrounds and crosswalks in a new enforcement...
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Edmonton welcomes refugee families at City Hall
Last month, little Mohammad Al Haidar took his first steps in Toronto, not long after his family arrived on an airlift from Lebanon. On Friday evening, one-year-old Al Haidar clambered on stairs inside...
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Athletics Alberta plans $10-million training centre in Edmonton's west end
Athletics Alberta is trying to make the best of a bad situation by forging ahead with plans to build a $10-million indoor training facility in the city’s west end. The amateur sport body responsible...
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Private fertility clinic coming to Edmonton this spring
Edmonton-area women and couples frustrated by long delays to get appointments at the city’s public fertility clinic will soon have another option. The privately run Pacific Centre for Reproductive...
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Learning English as much about coffee shop talk as good grammar
NorQuest instructor Amy Abe followed an unusual path to her current career. The starting point was a 2003 fire in her college apartment, which destroyed her application for a prestigious playwriting...
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Live: Edmonton Economic Development Corp. Impact 2016 event
The Edmonton Journal is pleased to bring you a live broadcast of one of the most anticipated business events of the year, from the Shaw Conference Centre beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12....
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Edmonton man charged in 2011 murder
A 31-year-old Edmonton man was charged Monday with first-degree murder in connection to a homicide five years ago. On Feb. 1, 2011, the frozen body of 53-year-old Ronald Max Hillinger of Edmonton, was...
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Wife mourns husband and father of four shot dead in northwest Edmonton
David Gordon Fleming was a romantic. He proposed to his girlfriend at the legislature grounds when she was 13 and he was 15. He gave her a ring adorned with a small gold frog, with diamonds for eyes....
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Business and government need to claw way out of 'age of anxiety,' EEDC boss says
Individuals, communities and governments need to band together now if they hope to emerge from the current “age of anxiety” prepared for whatever will come next, the head of Edmonton Economic...
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Business planning for 2016
Edmonton entrepreneurs are ready to face the downturn in the economy head-on. We asked what business owners have in mind for the year ahead and it sounds like growth in customers and revenue is most...
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