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Alberta's COVID-19 numbers continue to drop, with 474 new cases reported Monday (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
As the province awaits its next vaccine shipment, the province continues to see declining rates of COVID-19.
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Pipeline dreams dashed: Alberta communities anxious as they await Keystone XL decision (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
The Town of Hardisty, the starting point of the Keystone XL pipeline, hoped to double its population over the next decade as it generated new oil jobs. But with president-elect Joe Biden poised to cancel a key permit, a town official says that future is on hold.
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Canadiens down Oilers, sweep series in Edmonton (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
Shea Weber's goal held up as the game-winner as the Montreal Canadiens beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 Monday night. Rookie Alexander Romanov and Arttuti Lehkonen also scored for Montreal, which beat Edmonton for the second time in three nights.
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Alberta pauses future coal lease sales in Rocky Mountains, cancels 11 recent leases (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
Alberta's energy minister says the province will cancel 11 recently issued coal leases and pause future lease sales that would have allowed open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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What does it take to reintroduce and contain a herd of bison to a national park? (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
With one year left in the Banff Bison Reintroduction Project, facilitators say it has been going well, and expect the herd to grow from 50 to 75 by the end of the year.
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City approves sale of surplus site in Kiniski Gardens to private school society (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
A culture-based private school in Edmonton will take over a surplus school site in southeast Edmonton after council’s executive committee agreed to the move on Monday.
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Kenney urges Biden to 'show respect for Canada' and sit down to talk before cancelling Keystone XL (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney wants U.S. president-elect Joe Biden to give the Canadian government a chance to make the case for building the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Alberta will run out of COVID-19 vaccine today or early Tuesday, Premier Jason Kenney says (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
Alberta is putting a temporary hold on the first dose of COVID-19 vaccinations in order to ensure it has enough vaccine to provide a second dose to people who have already received their first shot, Premier Jason Kenney said Monday. 
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Everything you need to know about COVID-19 in Alberta on Monday, Jan. 18 (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says that because of the supply disruption the federal government announced last week, the province will have no more vaccine doses available to administer as first doses by the end of today or early Tuesday.
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Alberta braces for Biden's Keystone XL decision (Mon, 18 Jan 2021)
If Joe Biden cancels Keystone XL's U.S. permit in one of his first acts as president, it would be a blow for the province of Alberta and the energy sector, but the size of the hit remains one of many questions.
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