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• Police chiefs' association paranoid about legal pot deadlines

  16-11-2017 23:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s police chiefs are feeling “overwhelmed” figuring out how to adjust policing practices ahead of marijuana legalization, said Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht.
  “The timelines are extremely tight,” said Knecht outside of an Edmonton Police Commission meeting at city hall on Thursday.
  In an open letter, the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police warned the scheduled legalization on July 1 leaves “insufficient time for the full consideration necessary in
  
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• 'Tighten our belts': NDP signals fiscal restraint, reduced spending

  16-11-2017 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP is signalling a move towards fiscal restraint after warning that the province will tighten its purse strings.
  “Now is the point in the plan where the same steady approach that saw us through the recession is going to see us carefully and compassionately tighten our belts,” said Premier Rachel Notley in a speech at the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC) convention on Thursday.
  The organization — which focuses on advocacy and local govern
  
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• Retailers can't sell cannabis and chips, says Alberta as rules around pot sales introduced

  16-11-2017 23:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Private retailers who want to sell legal marijuana in Alberta come July 1 won’t be able to do so alongside alcohol, or even a bag of chips.
  Under proposed rules introduced by the provincial government Thursday, retailers will be restricted to sales of cannabis and cannabis-related goods.
  Stores also will have to operate under a specific cannabis business licence. That means liquor stores won’t be able to set up a wall and a separate storefront with booze on one side and bud on the ot
  
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• 'We need it. We need two.': Government to announce new high school in south Edmonton

  16-11-2017 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley will announce the construction of a long-sought new public high school in south Edmonton on Friday.
  The first phase of the $79-million high school for 1,800 students in Heritage Valley is at the top of Edmonton Public Schools’ want list.
  “We’re excited. We need it. We need two. We need more. This is a great step. The sooner we can get shovels in the ground, the faster we can do a school opening and get kids in the door,” Edmonton Public school board
  
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• Michael Cammalleri join his new team for the Edmonton Oilers morning skate

  16-11-2017 22:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers forward Michael Cammalleri comments after the team’s morning skate on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
  Cammalleri was acquired from the Los Angeles Kings in a trade for Jussi Jokinen on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
  Goaltender Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens stretches out the stick to make a save on Michael Cammalleri #14 of the Los Angeles Kings during the NHL game at the Bell Centre on Oct. 26, 2017 in Montreal.
  
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• Mike Cammalleri checks in, but it's Leon Draisaitl who needs to step up for Edmonton Oilers

  16-11-2017 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 19: Edmonton Oilers vs St Louis Blues
  New Edmonton Oilers winger Mike Cammalleri, a long-time power play ace at the NHL level, will go into the Edmonton Oilers line-up against the St. Louis Blue tonight.
  Cammalleri, 35, checks in at even strength with Ryan Strome and Iiro Pakarinen, taking the place of Jujhar Khaira, who is out with a shoulder injury.
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  Coach Todd McLellan sees Cammalleri as so
  
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• One-fifth of City of Edmonton employees report harassment at work

  16-11-2017 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s auditor is adding his voice to calls for a review of the city’s internal complaint system after nearly a fifth of city employees said they experienced harassment.
  Eleven per cent also said in a citywide employee engagement survey in September 2016 that they experienced discrimination while working for the City of Edmonton. But these employees are not reporting the issues.
  Only 36 per cent said they told someone about it.
  The city audit was released Thursday and is due
  
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• Alberta to introduce rules around private-public pot sales Thursday

  16-11-2017 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The details of who will be able to sell legal marijuana are expected to be released in the Alberta legislature Thursday. 
  Postmedia revealed last week that the provincial government will target a hybrid model of privately owned physical stores and government-controlled online sales. 
  Thursday’s legislation will likely spell out how old Albertans must be to buy weed when it becomes legal on July 1, and more details around the mechanics of retail outlets. 
  Governments across C
  
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• Constable Daniel Woodall School officially opens

  16-11-2017 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton community celebrated the official opening Wednesday, Nov. 15 of Constable Daniel Woodall School with the parents of the school’s namesake in attendance.
  The Edmonton police officer was shot dead June 8, 2015, while serving a warrant during a hate crimes investigation.
  Woodall’s parents, Denise and David Woodall, flew in from Manchester, England, for the ceremony.
  “Last year, we got the park (in Manchester) and now we’ve got a school,” Denise Woodall said
  
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• Costco coming to Edmonton International Airport

  16-11-2017 18:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Costco plans to open a new warehouse store at the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) late next year, the retail giant announced Thursday.
  Construction has already started on what will be the company’s seventh outlet in the Edmonton area, a 14,000-square-metre facility south of Airport Road on the west side of the Premium Collection outlet mall set to open next spring.
  It will include a gas station and liquor store, Costco said in a news release. More than 250 people will be hired to work
  
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• Libraries' 2018 writers-in-residence: Hagen and Hingston

  16-11-2017 17:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Darrin Hagen has historical plans for his just-announced stint at the library. The accomplished playwright is named one of two writers-in-residence for 2018 by the Metro Federation — a consortium of the public library systems of Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan, St. Albert and Strathcona County.
  Local author and publisher Michael Hingston is the other winning residency recipient. He’ll be spending the 12-month position in the three outlying communities — like Hagen writing, spe
  
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• 'When no one is looking, they attack you': Bullying not confined to City Hall, expert says

  16-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton’s problems with bullying and targeted harassment are not unique.
  The reason it can go on so long is because people can’t believe such insidious “psychological violence” is possible from people who act so nice, said Linda Crockett, founder of Alberta Bullying.
  “They’re really well-liked. But when no one is looking, they attack you … and no one believes you,” she said, describing patterns she’s seen from counselling at lea
  
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• Thursday's letters: Amateur football coverage in high demand

  16-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Journal has consistently ignored reporting upcoming games and game results of amateur football in the Edmonton Region and in Alberta. These are the grassroots producers of the Canadian content in the CFL.
  In the capital region, minor football plays in four levels, midget, bantam, peewee and atom, comprising 57 teams. The Metro Edmonton High School League is made up of 26 teams in three divisions.
  If you include current players, coaches and volunteers, five years of recent graduating
  
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• Optometrist Rachel Mandel remembered for scientific mind, concern for others

  16-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rachel Mandel’s career seemed set from her first visit to the optometrist as a 10-year-old.
  Fascinated by the machinery, Mandel drove the doctor crazy with questions. Finally, he asked the precocious girl if she wanted to be an optometrist. She replied in the affirmative and spent her next 30 years pursuing that dream.
  Mandel, daughter of former Edmonton mayor and MLA Stephen Mandel and Lynn Mandel, died Nov. 1 at the age of 40 from lymphoma, leaving family and friends to mourn a
  
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• Opinion: Reducing drug prices may carry hidden costs

  16-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Half of all Canadians may get cancer in their lifetime, according to a recent Canadian Cancer Society study. Access to cutting-edge medicines for cancer, as well as for other diseases, is crucial to a healthy future for Canadians and Albertans.
  We believe the drug pricing changes Health Canada proposed in May 2017 threatens access to cutting-edge medicines because of fewer clinical trials in Canada and the delay or abandonment of new breakthrough medicines for Canadians.
  Driving the proposed cha
  
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• RCMP warn medical cannabis users to keep pot in prescription packaging after traffic stop leads to arrest

  16-11-2017 06:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite having medical cannabis permits, a motorist faces charges after Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers found 181 grams of pot during a traffic stop earlier this week.
  Officers with Alberta Fish and Wildlife and the Athabasca RCMP Integrated Traffic Unit were screening motorists and hunters Monday when they pulled over a driver believed to be impaired, according to a news release Wednesday.
  “It is not uncommon for people to think they can carelessly possess or transport their&
  
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• One person injured after heavy oil leak at Shell Scotford northeast of Fort Saskatchewan

  16-11-2017 05:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was injured and the Shell Scotford site was evacuated for several hours after a heavy oil mixture leak on Wednesday afternoon.
  The “hydrocarbon release” happened around 12:30 p.m. inside a processing unit at the Scotford Facility near Fort Saskatchewan, according to a statement sent by Tara Lemay on behalf of Shell. The all-clear was sounded at 6:30 p.m.
  One person reported a minor injury and all non-essential personnel were moved off-site as a precaution, the st
  
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• Slain officer's parents in crowd as Constable Daniel Woodall School officially opens

  16-11-2017 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton community celebrated the official opening Wednesday of Constable Daniel Woodall School with the parents of the school’s namesake in attendance.
  The Edmonton police officer was shot dead June 8, 2015, while serving a warrant during a hate crimes investigation.
  Woodall’s parents, Denise and David Woodall, flew in from Manchester, England, for the ceremony.
  “Last year, we got the park (in Manchester) and now we’ve got a school,” Denise Woodall said. “
  
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• Paula Simons: George Takei allegations drop EPL in moral morass

  16-11-2017 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  What do we do about George Takei?
  Takei fans all across North America are wrestling with that question in the wake of an allegation, published last week in the Hollywood Reporter, that the Star Trek star groped a much younger male model back in 1981.
  The consternation is real. Takei, after all, isn’t just a successful actor. He’s a outspoken social media advocate of LGBTQ causes and a long-standing opponent of racial injustice. He’s made himself the most &ld
  
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• Digging into the Jussi Jokinen for Mike Cammalleri trade

  16-11-2017 03:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers traded free agent signing Jussi Jokinen, 34, for Los Angeles Kings free agent signing Mike Cammalleri, 35. Jokinen makes $1.1 million this year, Cammalleri $1 million.
  My take
  Meh.
  Jokinen looked like a decent-to-good signing when the Oilers brought him in this summer. He was 34, yes, and coming off a poor year, yes, but he’d been a strong player before then. Of course, none of that matters in a league where the performance of players can fall off sharply and quickly on
  
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• Education Minister David Eggen confident schools will adhere to new GSA legislation

  16-11-2017 03:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government wants new rules around gay-straight alliances to be in place for the beginning of the 2018-19 school year, at the latest. 
  Bill 24 prevents Alberta schools from notifying parents if their child joins a GSA. It passed Wednesday morning in the legislature 42-23. 
  When Education Minister David Eggen rose to close debate just before 11 a.m., he told MLAs they could be on the right side of history, or they could oppose the bill. 
  After it passed, he said
  
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• Thomson: UCP don't want to refight social conservative battles

  16-11-2017 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  OK, now what?
  Now that the Alberta legislature has passed Bill 24 — An Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances — over the strenuous objections of the United Conservative Party, what’s the UCP going to do about it?
  Well, truth be told, absolutely nothing.
  “This bill has passed the legislature, the decision has been made by the legislature and we’re moving on to the next pieces of business on our docket,” said UCP house leader Jason Nixon after the bill passed by
  
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• Putting an end to bullying

  16-11-2017 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Linda Crockett of the Alberta Bullying Research, Resources and Recovery Centre Inc., talks about what harassment and bullying look like today in the workplace, why it’s happening and what to do about it.
  Linda Crockett of the Alberta Bullying Research, Resources and Recovery Centre Inc., in Edmonton on Nov. 16, 2017.
  
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• Bill proposes standard kindergarten start age, axes 2.4-km busing limit

  16-11-2017 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Families may no longer need to live more than 2.4 km from school for their children to qualify for busing, if a new bill is passed as drafted.
  Bill 28, tabled in the legislature Wednesday by Education Minister David Eggen, would also give the minister the power to “direct boards to co-operate” on busing students where school districts overlap.
  The bill would also put a kindergarten age cutoff into law by September 2020, requiring all children to turn five by Dec. 31. It would leave a
  
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• Court-martialled soldier says he was 'corpse going through motions of life'

  16-11-2017 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton soldier said he was killing himself and couldn’t stop.
  Cpl. Jeffrey Kroetsch, a cook at the Edmonton Garrison Combined Mess, serving with 1 Service Battalion, testified Wednesday at his court martial proceedings after pleading to one charge of stealing and one charge of fraud a day earlier.
  “I gave up on everything,” he said. “I just wanted to die.”
  A cocktail of alcohol and pain medication, which Kroetsch took initially to get a few hours of shut-e
  
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• Opposition questions FOIP actions of premier's former staffer

  16-11-2017 01:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party wants to know why Premier Rachel Notley’s former chief of staff had his hands in a 2016 freedom of information request.
  The official Opposition’s questions stem from a freedom of information request in which the UCP asked for message tracking log files of a number of NDP staffers, including John Heaney.  
  Heaney was transitioning into the chief of staff role at the time. He has since left Notley’s office. 
  According to internal email
  
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• Gamma Knife offers scalpel-free brain surgery at Edmonton hospital

  16-11-2017 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton patient met the surgeon who would treat her brain tumour on a Tuesday, had her procedure on a Wednesday and was on a plane back home to her family on Thursday without suffering any side effects.
  “I got to attend my son’s graduation, that would never have been possible had I chosen traditional brain surgery,” Jan Wasylyshyn said Wednesday.
  Wasylyshyn was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma in early 2012, a noncancerous tumour growing on the nerve that connects her inn
  
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• Notes from the dome: Paramedics demand more resources, rural municipalities voice concerns, and the search is on for great kids

  16-11-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of paramedics urged the province to increase ambulance resources Wednesday. 
  Events leading to emergency calls have risen nearly 36 per cent since 2009, Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, said in a news release.
  He said given that increase, as well as a growing population, there are too few ambulances on the streets.
  “Resources have been stretched to breaking point,” he said. 
  Rural municipalities oppose electoral boundaries change
  
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• Pip joins Old Strathcona with a menu devoted to premium comfort food

  16-11-2017 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  If line-ups outside the door are any indication, the newest restaurant to open in Old Strathcona is off to a jolly start. Pip, the third restaurant owned by the team behind Meat and The Next Act, opened Nov. 1 and has been rocking ever since.
  Originally conceived as a wine and tapas bar, the restaurant decided to go the full-meal route with a range of “premium comfort foods,” says co-owner Saylish Haas. Think roast chicken with crispy kale, mashed potatoes and brown butter gravy ($26
  
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• Digging into the Jussi Jokinen for Mike Cammelleri trade

  16-11-2017 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers traded free agent signing Jussi Jokinen, 34, for Los Angeles Kings free agent signing Mike Cammalleri, 35. Jokinen makes $1.1 million this year, Cammalleri $1 million.
  My take
  Meh.
  Jokinen looked like a decent-to-good signing when the Oilers brought him in this summer. He was 34, yes, and coming off a poor year, yes, but he’d been a strong player before then. Of course, none of that matters in a league where the performance of players can fall off sharply and quickly on
  
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• Tortured love story at the heart of new musical, Hadestown

  16-11-2017 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was an illustrated children’s mythology book that began the journey of 1,000 cues on which Anaïs Mitchell finds herself today. That’s where, as a little girl, the Hadestown creator first met Orpheus, the mythic Greek musician able to charm anything, even stone, with his songs. 
  “This character, his optimism, his belief that if he could write something beautiful enough, he could change the world,” says the singer-songwriter with a sigh and a smile. “And
  
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