Edmonton Examiner

Paula Simons talks about the purchase of the 127-year-old Strathcona Hotel on Edmonton's Whyte Avenue by a developer and his plans for it.

A ceremony to kick off a memorial hockey tournament organized by friends of four Humboldt Broncos hockey players from St. Albert, Alberta who died in the tragic bus crash three months ago was held in St. Albert on July 6, 2018. The weekend tournament, running Friday through Sunday at the Mark Messier Arena in Servus Place, honoured four fallen Broncos who were St. Albert hockey alumni: Stephen Wack, Jaxon Joseph, Logan Hunter and Conner Lukan. A ceremonial puck was dropped by Humboldt Broncos survivors Derek Patter and Tyler Smith before the game.

The path to businessman Mike Liber’s success in hiring people with mental disabilities started with his realization that your average teenager is woefully mediocre when it comes to cleaning restaurant tables. Liber, 54, runs two Dairy Queens in Sherwood Park. He employs 100 workers, about 40 of them are high school students.

Read more: http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/david-staples-sherwood-park-dairy-queen-operator-wins-award-for-inclusive-hiring?video_autoplay=true

Sherwood Park’s Taylor Hatala auditioned with 130 other hopefuls for a chance to dance in Janet Jackson’s 2015.

The 12-year-old was ecstatic when she learned she was selected and said the opening show in Vancouver was “unforgettable”.

Alberta is reviewing its response to a recent trade panel ruling hinging on the province’s small brewer development grant. Alberta must revisit its small brewers development grant after an appeal panel ruled the program “provides a competitive advantage” to locally produced beer.

Read more: http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/albertas-small-brewers-grant-knocked-down-in-court-ruling

“Edmonton does have a large population of mosquitos and always has. It’s largely a result of our essentially prairie topography. We have a lot of rolling, flat land around the city with lots of little depressions that collect floodwater … and we have a fairly sizeable mosquito population that takes advantage of that.”