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• St. Albert Residents Invited to Test Smart City Sensors

  02-06-2017 21:10
  The City of St. Albert has launched a second Smart City sensor pilot as part of its review of wireless... Read Post
  
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• Foul play not suspected in fatal Edson house fire

  02-06-2017 21:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Mounties have deemed the death of a man whose remains were found inside a rural residence near Edson on Wednesday as non-criminal.
  Edson RCMP officers arrived at the property about 5:45 a.m. after a report of two vehicles and a trailer home on fire in the rural area about 200 kilometres west of Edmonton.
  After the fire department extinguished the blazes, they found human remains inside the home.
  Because the case was deemed to be non-criminal in nature and that foul play is not suspected, RC
  
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• Guns, drugs seized in Yellowknife bust with links to Edmonton

  02-06-2017 21:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Mounties say they have busted an Edmonton-based drug trafficking network that recently set up shop in Yellowknife.
  Six of the seven people arrested on Wednesday were charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, careless storage of a firearm, and possession of the proceeds of crime exceeding $5,000. 
  About 170 grams of cocaine, 445 grams of marijuana, $20,000 cash and a shotgun were among the items seized.
  “We believe this group is part of a larger drug traffickin
  
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• Canadian international Adam Straith gives FC Edmonton options

  02-06-2017 20:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Adam Straith is happy to be home in Canada, and FC Edmonton is reaping the benefits of having the national team member on their roster.
  Straith scored his first goal for FC Edmonton in a 2-1 win against the Indy Eleven this past weekend at Clarke Stadium, and will be in the lineup at Puerto Rico FC on Saturday (5:30 p.m., NASL.com).
  Prior to joining FC Edmonton this season, Straith, 26, had spent the previous eight years playing in Europe.
  “When I look at Adam Straith, when I work with him
  
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• Industrial instrument company opens new Edmonton training facility

  02-06-2017 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A major Swiss industrial instrument company officially opened a $12-million Edmonton facility Friday expected to provide training in this field for hundreds of people annually.
  Basel-based Endress+Hauser has more than 13,000 employees — including 134 in Canada — who design, manufacture, install and service instruments that measure temperature, flow, pressure and other properties of gases and liquids, such as the amount of water running through a pipe.
  The family-owned company’s
  
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• Area residents weigh in on Elk Island hunt to cull growing herd

  02-06-2017 20:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Devon Rundvall uses Elk Island National Park five or six times a year to go hiking and canoeing. If park biologists believe keeping the trails and lakes he uses require a hunting program to manage the elk population, he trusts them.
  “There’s probably serious ecosystem damage that needs to be fixed,” said Rundvall, filling out a response Wednesday evening at a park open house at Edmonton’s Alfred H. Savage Centre.
  “Because I love the park so much, I want it to s
  
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• Peter Chiarelli has his work cut out solidifying Edmonton Oilers' blueline for 2017-18

  02-06-2017 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Oilers’ defensive depth is about to be put to the test.
  The club’s major step forward in 2016-17 was due in no small part to a rebuilt blueline corps, but that itself hinged in extraordinary good health that saw the top three defenders — Oscar Klefbom (82 GP), Andrej Sekera (80) and Adam Larsson (79) — miss just five games among them. The club was able to roll with a core group of eight defenders for most of the season, and once Darnell Nurse returned from an
  
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• Jones: Eskimos well-positioned for run at Grey Cup city is hosting

  02-06-2017 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For the Eskimos’ players, having a home Grey Cup game in 2018 definitely adds drama and piles on the pressure.
  But for the Edmonton organization, playing host to the 106th Grey Cup game couldn’t come at a better time.
  On the same day your correspondent broke the news that the 2018 Grey Cup game was coming to Edmonton to celebrate 70 years of Eskimos football and the 40th anniversary of Commonwealth Stadium, the early betting odds for next year’s Stanley Cup came out with the Ed
  
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• Smudge walk marks two year anniversary of Truth and Reconciliation report

  02-06-2017 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A smudge walk in northwest Edmonton is paying tribute to the second anniversary of the final report put out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 
  The 2015 TRC report touted the need to educate Canadians about the devastating legacy of the residential school system, which caused multi-generational trauma in Canada’s indigenous communities. The report called for the legacy to be integrated into school curricula.
  Members of the Catholic and public school districts gathered Friday
  
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• Where Can I Get That? — DaVinci Gelato brings high-quality sweets to Edmonton eateries

  02-06-2017 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The restaurant trend toward making every single thing in-house is laudable. But sometimes it’s just smart to outsource — particularly when the source is Yvonne Irnich of DaVinci Gelato.
  The St. Albert maker of Italian-style ice cream has only been in business for two years. But already its reputation for vibrant flavours and top-quality ingredients has led to relationships with cafes and specialty stores not only in Edmonton but in Calgary and Vancouver.
  “It’s made c
  
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• Doctor jailed for trying to lure girl for sex allowed to return to practice

  02-06-2017 15:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Edmonton doctor jailed for attempting to seek sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl over the Internet will soon be allowed to return to his profession.
  Dr. Michael Graff will be subject to a number of conditions — including ongoing monitoring — when he eventually resumes practising medicine, a hearing tribunal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta ruled Thursday.
  In making its decision, the tribunal accepted a joint submission from college and defence lawyers that
  
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• Opinion: Time for Canada to take notice of Alberta's chemistry sector

  02-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As the political environment to the south continues to be highly uncertain, some global investors may look to more stable environments to support their next major capital investments.
  Alberta and the province’s chemistry sector stand to realize big gains for the people of Alberta and the economy.
  Globally, the chemistry industry is a large, fast-growing industry, providing critical inputs to 96 per cent of all manufactured goods. In Alberta, the chemistry sector’s annual $16-billion
  
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• Friday's letters: Gov't's response to children in care deaths disappoints

  02-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  I am disappointed that the minister of children’s services has allowed her bureaucrats to tie the Alberta child and youth advocate’s hands with in-house policies and rules but no accountability.
  She might as well tie his feet and kick him into the ditch because his independence and ability to act quickly has been compromised. Information and facts get lost or forgotten as time passes and also allows time to determine what information people want to share.
  Also, not identifying the ch
  
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• Editorial: Does Trudeau have Alberta's back?

  02-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Like a big brother pulling bullies off of baby sister on the playground, the Trudeau government jumped headlong into a couple of cross-border trade scraps this week.
  For a softwood lumber industry under threat by a protectionist Donald Trump, the Liberals unveiled an $867-million aid package, including loans and loan guarantees for forestry firms and agreements to limit job losses. Ottawa is easing the pain for forestry companies whose bottom lines are now being gnawed at by countervailing U.S.
  
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• Albertans spending way more on locally grown food, survey shows

  02-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  More Albertans than ever are shopping at farmers’ markets, roadside stands and restaurants serving food raised in the province as booming numbers of people embrace the “eat local” philosophy.
  Last year, consumers spent more than $1.5 billion at these locations, up nearly $300 million or almost 25 per cent from 2012, according to local food demand survey figures released Thursday by Alberta Agriculture and Forestry.
  The popularity of farmers’ markets is particularly striki
  
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• Terry Jones: Edmonton to host 2018 Grey Cup

  02-06-2017 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton will play host to the 2018 Grey Cup.
  A press conference to announce Edmonton as the site for the 106th Grey Cup, your correspondent has learned, will be held next week.
  The fifth Grey Cup hosting in Edmonton’s history, the 2018 event will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Commonwealth Stadium and the completion of 70 seasons of Edmonton Eskimos football.
  Previous Grey Cups were held here in 1984, 1997, 2002 and 2010, drawing crowds of 60,081, 60,431, 62,531 and 63,317, respectivel
  
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• There will be more than horses jumping obstacles at Spruce Meadows

  02-06-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When many of us think of Spruce Meadows, we think of the famous show-jumping events: beautiful horses and their riders from around the world, each competing to win big prizes.
  But there’s much more to see and do throughout the summer even if there isn’t a tournament underway at the legendary facility in southwest Calgary. Whether you like extreme adventure, biking, picnics, dogs, horses or horticulture, you’ll find it all.
  “Spruce Meadows is here for people every day,&rdq
  
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• Molson Tower being repurposed as micro-brewery, restaurant and offices

  02-06-2017 05:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Oliver’s iconic Molson sign was taken down and sent to the trash Thursday, soon to be replaced by a smaller, more modern replica.
  Molson Tower, at the corner of 104 Avenue and 121 Street, was built in 1913. The sign went up when Molson took over in 1958. The building has sat empty since 2007.
  The site has twice changed hands since then and is now owned by Sun Life and First Capital Realty. The removal of the sign is one of the first steps in the owners’ $8.4-million heritage restorat
  
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• Killer gets 16 years for Edson manslaughter — body hidden and burned

  02-06-2017 05:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The parents of a man whose body was hidden and then burned after he was fatally shot in a rural area near Edson were in court Thursday to see their son’s convicted killer handed a 16-year sentence. 
  Robert Parkin, 22, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and interference with human remains in early May in connection to the 2014 death of Patrick Whidden.
  Whidden, 25, was killed after arranging to meet to do a drug deal with Parkin, who owed Whidden money. 
  Parkin formed a plan to rob Wh
  
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• Four Korean War veterans honoured with peace medals

  02-06-2017 05:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Four Korean War veterans were honoured Thursday by South Korea with Ambassador for Peace Medals.
  Kangjun Lee, representing the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver, presented the medals to the veterans in Edmonton’s Kipnes Centre for Veterans, where they all live. 
  Samuel Frischknet, William Greeley, Austin McClure and Kenneth Storey were recognized in front of family and friends, members of the Canadian Forces, and fellow veterans.
  “When Canada called in 1950
  
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• David Staples: Can an Edmonton family survive without a car?

  02-06-2017 05:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Can an Edmonton family with children get by without owning a car? 
  More than two years ago, Sandra Gaherty, 39, a civil engineer, decided to give it a go, even as she has to get to a full-time job 50 city blocks away, shop for her family, take her boys Noah, 9, and Samuel, 5, to school and child care, and move them each week between her own house in Ritchie and her ex-husband’s home in Old Scona. 
  Gaherty had been biking to work for years, but wanted to try living without owning
  
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• Everything that is wrong with the National Hockey League in three quotes

  02-06-2017 05:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Are you still watching the Stanley Cup playoffs? I’m not — and the more I hear about the crapitude and nonsense of the Stanley Cup Finals I’m glad for that. 
  I was out awhile ago, back when the Edmonton Oilers were elimated. After the unending run of unpenalized fouls that the Anaheim Ducks got away with against Connor McDavid and the Oilers, after the bizarre mistakes made by league officials on goalie interference calls that robbed the Oilers of at least one and maybe tw
  
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• Hubbard looks to finish high school track career in style

  02-06-2017 04:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Chuba Hubbard has some unfinished business to take care of this weekend at Foote Field before he heads to Oklahoma State University next year on a dual scholarship.
  One year after winning his second straight provincial gold medal in the 100-metre final, the Bev Facey football and track superstar is aiming for the three-peat.
  But there’s one more box to check off on his to-do list.
  He wants to cap off his illustrious high school career breaking one more record by grabbing his second provinc
  
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• Edmonton could see speed-limit reductions at hundreds of playgrounds

  02-06-2017 02:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton motorists could see the speed limit reduced at hundreds of locations as it moves to protect children near parks and playgrounds.
  The city reduced the speed limit around elementary schools in 2014 and will lower the speed limit in junior high school zones this year. But 178 playgrounds and sports fields are not near schools, according to a city report released Thursday.
  Another 194 playgrounds are near schools but are not covered by the current 30 km/h school-zone speed limit. On top of
  
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• Alberta's new air ambulance simulator is a Canadian first

  02-06-2017 02:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta air ambulance paramedics are now able to perfect their trade without leaving the ground.
  On Thursday, Alberta Health Services unveiled a Canadian first — a mobile air ambulance simulator that will be used for training medics.
  The 12-metre simulation trailer, developed in-house by Alberta Health Services and partners, allows hands-on medical simulations to be run in the fuselage of a King Air 200 aircraft. Because the fuselage, donated by Lakeland College, is on hydraulics, tak
  
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• 'It hurts my heart': Mother brings Juno winner Oscar Lopez to Edmonton for benefit concert

  02-06-2017 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Edmonton mother who is trying to help her son battle a debilitating and painful disease has enlisted the help of two-time Juno Award winner Oscar Lopez to serenade supporters. 
  “He’s been a force … trying to rally the community,” said Lisa Phillips-Cardinal, explaining that the master Chilean-Canadian guitarist, who lives in Calgary, will be performing a benefit concert Saturday for her son. 
  Michael Phillips-Cardinal, 17, lives in extreme pain after being d
  
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• Edmonton fire crews used life-saving naloxone 31 times since February

  02-06-2017 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s fire crews have used naloxone to treat suspected cases of fentanyl overdoses 31 times since they received the life-saving kits in February, according to a new city report released Thursday. 
  The report examines what else City of Edmonton officials can do to counter a growing crisis in the city, one that’s widespread and touching both inner core and suburban neighbourhoods across Edmonton.
  In Vancouver, parks staff are now being trained and equipped with naloxone kits.
  
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• B.C. Green leader is 'hypocritical in the extreme,' Alberta environment minister says

  02-06-2017 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta’s environment minister upped the ante in the cross-border war of words on Thursday, saying the B.C. Green Party leader is “hypocritical in the extreme” for his recent comments about Premier Rachel Notley.
  B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver criticized Notley’s advocacy for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline Wednesday, saying she should “get with the program and embrace the 21st century.”
  “I think Andrew Weaver doesn’t get it,”
  
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• Firefighters knock down south Edmonton house fire, as temperatures climb

  02-06-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Fire rescue crews doused a house fire on a hot Thursday afternoon in south Edmonton.
  The fire broke out in a single-storey home at 14 Avenue and 104 Street in the Bearspaw neighbourhood. One person was home at the time, district Chief Ron Sawchuk said.
  The call came in around 1:40 p,m. Twenty-four firefighters responded to the scene.
  When they arrived, flames were visible from the back of the home, which suffered “extensive damage,” Sawchuk said.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue crews responded
  
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• Beer importer tells panel net profits tanked 86 per cent since Alberta brewer tax introduced

  02-06-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Calgary beer importer is challenging what it calls a “discriminatory” beer tax intended to promote Alberta’s craft beer industry that was introduced by the provincial government almost two years ago.
  Ben Grant, legal counsel for Artisan Ales, told a three-person panel Thursday in Edmonton the changes hurt the bottom line of the Calgary company and argued the markup and creation of a provincial grant contravened the federal Agreement on Internal Trade.
  Grant said since the int
  
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