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Budding Scientists Get Hands-On with Synthetic Biology
An ECF-supported student club grapples with real-world issues Every Thursday, a group of curious students between Grades 7 and 12 gathers in a science lab at Our Lady of the
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Biking Without Barriers
Inventive Programs Free Seniors from Isolation Remember speeding your two wheeler down the streets in your neighbourhood? The wind whipping through your hair, the sound of your friends laughing beside
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Connecting our City
Paths for People finds the Missing Links What if there was a way to better connect our city with a means of transportation that was easily accessible for all? In
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Tracks Through Time
Edmonton Radial Railway Society Preserves City’s Streetcar Heritage On a bright summer Saturday, it is standing room only in the Edmonton Radial Railway Society’s car No. 247 for the trip
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Small Steps to Big Solutions
Martin Garber-Conrad was a newly minted college graduate when he hit the road for Edmonton from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. It was 1971 — coincidentally, the same year city
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Thirty Years is Just the Start
A history of ECF Have you ever seen the sign for Slatter Way and wondered, “Who is that?” Tucked away in the heart of downtown Edmonton, this cosy little back
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The Transformer
A $43-million mixed-use complex could finally renew Alberta Avenue entirely When Christy Morin and her husband moved into the Alberta Avenue neighbourhood in 1994, she soon thought she had bitten
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Hitting the Right Note
Edmonton’s professional choir creates endowment fund in honour of long-term supporters Russ and Johann Mann Like many nonprofits, Edmonton choir Pro Coro Canada was hit hard by the global recession