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The Journal was founded in 1903 by three local businessmen — John Macpherson, Arthur Moore and J.W. Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin. Within a week, the Journal took over another newspaper, The Edmonton Post , and established an editorial policy supporting the Conservative Party against ...
Sports journalist. Employer. Edmonton Journal. Awards. Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award. James Donald Matheson (born April 7, 1949) is a Canadian sports journalist who has covered the NHL 's Edmonton Oilers since their inception into the WHA in 1973 and the NHL in 1979. In 2000, he received the Hockey Hall of Fame 's Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award .
University of Alberta shooting. On June 15, 2012, 21-year-old security guard Travis Baumgartner, an employee of G4S Cash Solutions, shot four of his coworkers, three fatally, in the HUB Mall building on the campus of University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He stole his employer's armored truck and money, and gave the cash or left it ...
1966 – CN Tower was completed, the tallest building in Edmonton at the time, and city's first skyscraper. 1967 – Provincial Museum and Archives of Alberta opened. 1969 – Edmonton becomes the first Canadian city to join the North American Emergency Telephone 911 plan. 1970s – Major construction boom occurred.
The Edmonton tornado of 1987, an event also known as Black Friday to Edmontonians, was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern parts of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and parts of neighbouring Strathcona County on the afternoon of Friday, July 31, 1987. It was one of seven other tornadoes in central Alberta the same day.
Terry Jones, nicknamed Large or Jonesy, (born June 25, 1948) is a Canadian journalist and author based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently a sports columnist with the Edmonton Sun. [2] Jones was born in Lacombe, Alberta in 1948. [3] [4] He began his sports journalism career when he was in Grade 7 when he wrote sports stories for the Lacombe ...
Edmonton Journal v Alberta (AG), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1326 is a leading freedom of the press case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada.The Court held that publication restrictions on matrimonial proceedings, section 30(1) of Alberta's Judicature Act, and on pre-trial stages of civil actions, section 30(2) of said Act, were in violation of freedom of expression rights under section 2(b) of the ...
Edmonton ( / ˈɛdməntən / ⓘ ED-mən-tən) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the northern end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary ...