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EDMONTON -- An Edmonton man is $8,000 richer thanks to his childhood love of Pokemon. Seth recently sold his first-edition Charizard Pokemon card for $8,000. He told CTV News Edmonton he’s had the card for about eight years. “Those cards were nostalgic for me and I had more money than I did when I was a 10-year-old kid, so I was on Kijiji one day and I saw this guy was selling a binder full of cards, and I thought, ‘What the heck, it looks like there are some good cards in there,’” he said. He spent about $200 on the full binder of cards, which included the Charizard. At that p...

  EDMONTON -- There’s a sense of fear in Edmonton’s Muslim community after several attacks on Black Muslim women in recent weeks. “It’s been a trend where we’ve seen five in a span of weeks so the community came together and felt that action needed to be taken,” said Noor Al-Henedy, the communications and public relations director for Al Rashid Mosque. “It is really in a way taking a stand and saying we will not tolerate the abuse that our women are going through,” she said. “It’s not right.” She said they were given permission from Alberta Health but must keep cla...

  EDMONTON -- Alberta urban municipalities are concerned provincial cuts to municipal funding will impact their ability to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. On Feb. 25, the province released its 2021-22 budget. That budget shows the Municipal Sustainability Initiative (MSI) - a major source of provincial funding for Alberta's municipalities, especially on the capital side - will live on two years longer than expected, before a new fiscal framework kicks in. More MSI dollars are being doled out this year, before significant cuts take effect in 2022-23 and 2023-24. Alberta Urban Municip...

  EDMONTON -- Another winter festival is ready to take flight in Edmonton on Monday. The Flying Canoe Volant is rooted in French-Canadian and Indigenous legends and folklore. Because of the pandemic, festival organizers have had to cancel canoe rides, snow slides, and indoor events, but they’re still working on creating the sights and sounds of the flying canoe volants with more than 60 light installations for participants to see. “You can sign up to get a timed spot so that we’ll only have theoretically like 2,000 people across the 2.5 kilometres, and that should be enough distanc...

Alberta's rate of daily new cases of COVID-19 continued a gradual upward trend on Saturday with the province reporting 415 new infections.