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  • Edmonton biologist on international team monitoring disappearance of Arctic tundra in Canada’s Yukon
    University of Alberta biologist Isla Myers-Smith and her colleague were taking down their research camp in the Ruby Mountain Range when a snowstorm with winds of near hurricane force blew down their tent and sent their electric generator tumbling down a hillside. For nearly three days, Myers-Smith and Helen Wheeler hunkered down, eating what little food they had and watching nervously as the batteries of their satellite phone got weaker and weaker.




  • Last call for the York Hotel
    Days after their February 1943 wedding, Lac La Biche newlyweds Dan and Helen Beniuk took a friend’s suggestion and spent their honeymoon at the York Hotel, booking a third-storey suite that overlooked 96th Street into downtown Edmonton.




  • Iris Evans vows to retread, not retire
    Iris Evans seems genuinely puzzled. Everywhere she goes these days, people in her beloved Sherwood Park are congratulating her on her retirement, after 15 impressive years in the legislature. “Isn’t that strange? Why would they do that?”




  • Wildrose: no garden-variety threat to 40-year Tory dynasty
    The Wildrose party's path to power in Alberta, once seemingly clear, has become a bit more thorny of late.




  • Snowboarder dies after hitting tree stump at Castle Mountain Resort
    A man in his 30s died after losing control while snowboarding at Castle Mountain Resort in southwestern Alberta on Saturday afternoon and sliding into a ditch. The man, who was wearing a helmet and chest protector, was reportedly speeding down the Buffalo Flats run around 3 p.m. when he swerved to try to avoid other people on the slopes, said Andrew Rusynyk, the resort’s director of marketing.




  • Edmonton to start celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Monday night
    The bells will ring at City Hall Monday evening to mark Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee. God Save the Queen and O Canada will be played at 6 p.m. to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. Jerrold Eilander, operations manager for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, will ring the bells.




  • Lees: Putting a grand on the line for weight-loss wager
    There were a number of reasons why I placed a $1,000 bet on dropping 14 pounds by June 16. I ignored the people dancing on a table and cries Friday of, “You’ll never do it,” from Yianni Psalios, with whom I was sharing spanakopita, shrimp, keftdes (Greek meat balls) and lamb chops at his new The Meze By Koutouki restaurant on 82nd Avenue and 111th Street.




  • Edmonton a “favourite” on the hip-hop dance circuit
    The Shaw played host to a wedding and a hip-hop convention Saturday afternoon, the result a head-tilting juxtaposition of apparel. Sightings of cocktail dresses and suits were rare, though, swallowed up in a sea of sweatpants, T-shirts, unlaced oversized runners and flat-brimmed ball caps.




  • Diary was no wimpy kid on library’s lending list
    And the winner of the award for most popular DVD at the Edmonton Public Library goes to — Up. The 93 copies of the animated film about a grumpy old man who floats away in his house with a young stowaway aboard were taken out or renewed 3,463 times last year, more than any other movie, book or CD.




  • Man charged in connection to two attempted child abductions in Edmonton
    A 67-year-old man who police say tried to abduct three young children in the Edmonton area was arrested in British Columbia on Friday.




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