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Reason 13: The LRT line between Grandin and University Stations
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 17 hours 18 minutes ago
Reason 13: The LRT line between Grandin and University StationsRiding the LRT can be boring, especially if you hop on anywhere from within the downtown core. For five stops from Churchill to Grandin, the LRT line is buried underground and trains move through black tunnel from one uninspiring platform to the next.

U. S. files US$3B claim against Nortel for back taxes, interest
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 18 hours ago
U. S. tax authorities have thrown a curve at Nortel Networks Corp. creditors by submitting an unexpectedly large US$3-billion claim for back taxes, interest and/or penalties.If the U. S. bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross accepts all or most of the claim as valid, "it will deplete whatever is available to other creditors," said Tony Marsh, a spokesman for Nortel retirees. "That's a pretty scary number."

Greenpeace shuts down Shell mine
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 2 hours 58 minutes ago
EDMONTON Alberta's vast oilsands operations could be vulnerable to terrorist attack, analysts said Tuesday, after more than 20 Greenpeace activists infiltrated Shell's Muskeg River Mine, prompting the company to shutter its 155,000-barrel-a-day operation for several hours.

Funeral for latest Canadian soldier slain in Afghanistan
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 24 minutes ago
QUEBEC A funeral will be held Thursday for Cpl. Jonathan Couturier who was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan last week.Couturier was promoted posthumously from the rank of private to corporal.

Dare to be daring with bling
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 22 hours 57 minutes ago
Many women know how to cook a lobster. Many women know how to eat a lobster. But how many women know how to wear a lobster?"I put it on my shoulder," Mary Hinrichs says, pinning a lobster brooch to her blouse. The lobster is life-size, made from metal and ruby-coloured crystals. It weighs a pound and a quarter; if real, it would take fourteen minutes to boil. "I saw it and had to have it. I know I need something when it kicks me in the teeth."

Recession was awful, but not the worst
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 8 hours 1 minute ago
Even recessions can bring good news, it seems - at least if your definition of good is ``not as bad as we thought.''The recession now sputtering to an end in Canada turns out not to be the worst in postwar history, not even close. What's more, it shows no sign so far of being followed by an especially weak recovery, despite widespread concerns about this.

Venus may have been a water world, space congress told
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 11 hours 13 minutes ago
PARIS Venus is characterised today as the planet from hell yet may have been closer to a cherished idea that it was once Earth's twin, a conference heard on Wednesday.Data sent back by a European scoutship suggests that even though Venus' surface is super-heated and smothered by a lethal atmosphere, the planet may once have been lush with water.

Weather halts Tomahawk sour gas well drilling
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 4 hours 36 minutes ago
Mother Nature did what the residents of Tomahawk could not. She stopped the drilling of poisonous gas wells near the hamlet, 90 kilometres west of Edmonton.Highpine Energy has confirmed the last two wells it drilled near the community's elementary school were "unsuccessful" and there are no plans to drill more in the near future--even though there is another one approved and ready to go.

Declining top marks in English exams puzzles educators
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 1 hour 56 minutes ago
EDMONTON A shrinking proportion of Alberta students writing their Grade 12 English diploma exams are scoring top marks on the important test.Educators at the provincial and local levels are working to figure out why the trend is continuing.

Don't end a marriage for the sake of change
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 6 hours 39 minutes ago
I wonder if this happens to you, too: there's a word or expression you hardly ever hear or see -- and then, all at once there it is, over and over, so that you're forced to contemplate it.Three times within the past month, I've heard or read the same phrase -- a variation on "people do it every day." Each time, the context was the same: one person suggesting to another that to leave a marriage was something people did all the time.

Small is beautiful in Mexico
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 15 hours 59 minutes ago
Seven years ago, John Youden, a Canadian expat who publishes magazines in Puerto Vallarta, was travelling around Mexico with his French-born wife looking to stay in the kind of hotels he enjoyed in Europe: small, high-quality lodgings with character and charm. "I wasn't looking for a Small Luxury Hotel of the World, but I wanted personalized service -- mom 'n' pop owners who cared about their hotel."

Exploring Montreal with the GeoTourism MapGuide
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 20 hours 23 minutes ago
It's a sunny afternoon when my wife and I set out to become tourists in our own city. We've been Montrealers for years, but the most sightseeing we've done together has been in the chip aisle of a local dep while searching for Cool Ranch Doritos.

Desert grottoes shelter China silk road art trove
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 17 hours 46 minutes ago
DUNHUANG, China - The nine-story Buddha statue that towers over one of China's greatest art collections is really the image of a woman, guide Zhang Yanlin says without blinking. Carved out of a cliff as part of a seventh-century bid to legitimize a female emperor, the 30-metre (90 ft) plus giant is one of the most overwhelming pieces in a honeycomb of desert grottoes filled with dazzling frescos and sculptures.

Liberals scramble to quash talk of anti-Ignatieff party rumblings
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 9 hours 46 minutes ago
OTTAWA The federal Liberals tried to quell suggestions Monday that their leader, Michael Ignatieff, is facing a crisis of party unity in the wake of the decision by Liberal MP Denis Coderre to quit as Ignatieff's chief Quebec organizer.

Trouble on the streets
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 42 days 2 hours 40 minutes ago
I don't understand the uproar over releasing mental patients into the community.If you drive anywhere in Alberta, you can clearly see that this has been going on for years. It seems that Alberta Hospital hands them a driver's licence as they are escorted out the door.