admin on August 25th, 2010

Bad bison golfing etiquette…They probably didn’t ask if they could play through!
See YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO61PZ63xzg

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admin on August 24th, 2010

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Bison make a break for it in the Big Valley Jamboree campground in Camrose on Aug. 24, 2010.
Photograph by: John Lucas, edmontonjournal.com

CAMROSE — The stampede started as a slow trot.
After a lazy day in the shade, one bison made its way over the slopes of a field usually used as [...]

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admin on August 23rd, 2010

Albertosaurus and Edmontosaurus discovered in province’s capital.
A sharp eyed City of Edmonton worker halted the construction of a sewage tunnel earlier this week when he spotted what he thought might be a dinosaur bone. The city contacted Jack Brink, Curator of Archaeology at the Royal Alberta Museum, who brought Mike Burns, a Ph.D. student in [...]

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admin on August 21st, 2010

Looking west down Jasper at 107 St in Edmonton, Alberta. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/forest+fire+smoke+fills+Alberta+skies/3419674/story.html#ixzz0xG8NKLmO
ENMONTON — There’s been no roasting marshmallows, but Edmonton residents could be excused Thursday for thinking they were surrounded by a giant campfire.
Heavy smoke from British Columbia wildfires has drifted across much of central Alberta, causing strong odours, reducing visibility, and prompting [...]

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If you’ve been to our main site, at yagotta.ca, we now have a general western Canada adventure travel discussion and specific discussions for the western Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. There is also a discussion group for northern Canadian Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
If you’ve been to our international site [...]

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admin on August 7th, 2010

Welcome to Reel Adventures: Alberta Movie Maps, home to everything you ever wanted to know about movies filmed in Alberta, before you hit the road.
We have compiled a series of driving tours around Alberta for movie buffs and adventure seekers, families and friends who want to see where the scenes [...]

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admin on July 18th, 2010

7/6/2010 By Stephen Carlick (Exclaim.com)
Alberta indie music store Megatunes, which has a single location in both Calgary and Edmonton, has announced that it will close its doors for good by the end of summer.
On Monday (July 5), Sarafina Kaine (a Calgary store manager) put a sign up in her shop’s window advertising [...]

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The Province of Alberta has thrown its support behind the bid to bring EXPO 2017 to Edmonton.

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CPAWS welcomes the June 3rd announcement that the Alberta government has listed the Grizzly Bear as a threatened species.

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If you are planning to travel to western Canada, there is one tradition that music fans need to take in. During the last quarter century western Canada has become a hot-bed of roots based music and hosts a fabulous selection of folk music festivals.

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