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• Nick Lees: Crescendo concert at Winspear Centre raises funds to help battle mental health problems

  11-06-2017 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  John Cameron launched from the Winspear Centre stage Friday night a five-year plan to raise more than $5-million to help Edmontonians with mental health issues.
  Cameron, the Keller Construction company president perhaps better known for his entertainment ventures, brought people near to tears with his production one moment and then had them dancing the next.
  “We are not going to break down the barriers to mental health, we are going to smash them,” he told a near sell-out crowd at hi
  
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• Curtis Stock: Edmonton golf community mourns the loss of Sid Puddicombe

  11-06-2017 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Golf lost one of its legends last week with the passing of Sid Puddicombe.
  Beginning his career in 1947 at the Saskatoon Golf & Country Club, then 11 years as the superintendent at Saskatoon’s Riverside Golf & Country Club, Puddicombe moved on to the Royal Mayfair where he was the head superintendent for 20 years winning several awards along the way including the John B. Steel – the Canadian Golf Course Superintendent’s Association’s highest award for excellence i
  
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• Police search for missing man after canoe capsizes on Smoky River

  11-06-2017 22:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The search is on for a missing man who was travelling along the Smoky River near Grande Prairie with two others when their canoe capsized Saturday.
  RCMP officers responded to a call of a missing boater at around 6:50 p.m. near the River Stone golf course, north east of Grande Prairie. Police said all three travellers, a man and two women, were sent into the river after their canoe capsized but were able to grab onto a log and float down the river for several hours.
  The two women were able to swi
  
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• Paddlers to embark on 1,600-km marathon canoe race

  11-06-2017 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In 1967 Vic Maxwell led a team of young paddlers 5,300 kilometres across Canada in a canoe, racing nine other teams from Rocky Mountain House, Alta., to Expo 67 in Montreal.
  Maxwell, then 31, was coaching a team of First Nations paddlers from the Northwest Territories who recently graduated from residential schools.
  “They were all 18 to 20 years old except for one or two,” said Maxwell of the first year he coached the team in 1965. “Most of them had never had a paddle in their
  
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• Alberta colleges seek to graduate to polytechnic university status to halt urban drift

  11-06-2017 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two Alberta colleges want to graduate to polytechnic university status to combat the urban drift of young, talented students moving to metropolitan centres like Edmonton and Calgary and never returning.
  Under Red Deer College and Grande Prairie Regional College’s proposals, they would combine four of the province’s six-sector models into one new category while including pathways to the remaining two sectors, effectively making an education super-centre capable of offering everything
  
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• Just a click away: Criminals networking to share online child pornography

  11-06-2017 16:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In a perfect world, more resources would be a sensible formula to solve myriad problems for the province’s Internet Child Exploitation unit, but for Det. Steve Horchuk, the math is pretty simple.
  The longer it takes to catch offenders, Horchuk explains, the more likely they are to keep offending and the more likely they are to take steps in learning how to erase or encrypt data in order to obfuscate investigators.
  After all, an online tutorial on the latest app or encrypted video transfer
  
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• Internet child exploitation investigators grapple with growing technological, legal hurdles

  11-06-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Internet child exploitation investigators in Alberta are facing a Supreme Court double-whammy that could stall the start and potentially jeopardize the end of some investigations. 
  Concerns about timely access to basic Internet subscriber information needed to launch many investigations into potential suspects have lingered since the 2014 Spencer decision, a ruling intended to protect privacy and anonymity but which police argue is front-loading undue pressures from
  
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• Grappling to stay ahead of child exploitation files

  11-06-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In a perfect world, more resources would be a sensible formula to solve myriad problems for the province’s Internet Child Exploitation unit, but for Det. Steve Horchuk, the math is pretty simple.
  The longer it takes to catch offenders, Horchuk explains, the more likely they are to keep offending and the more likely they are to take steps in learning how to erase or encrypt data in order to obfuscate investigators.
  After all, an online tutorial on the latest app or encrypted video transfer
  
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• FC Edmonton loses 1-0 squeaker to Miami FC

  11-06-2017 06:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  FC Edmonton was faced with the ultimate tough break on Saturday night at Clarke Park against the league-leading Miami FC.
  Having played their third game this week and having travelled to Puerto Rico and New York earlier this week, Eddies head coach Colin Miller knew his squad was going to be in for a stiff test.
  They passed the test, but fell short, dropping a 1-0 decision to Miami on a late goal in the 80th minute from forward Vincenzo Rennella.
  What stings more is FC Edmonton got a goal called
  
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• Pride flag cut down at Lillian Osborne High School

  11-06-2017 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When neighbours in Trish Horobec’s Terwillegar neighbourhood were debating a pride flag raised at a local high school, she wanted to see what it looked like in person.
  When she got to Lillian Osborne school around 2 p.m. on Saturday, she saw the pride flag had been cut down.
  “I spotted the Canadian flag blowing in the breeze and beside it was what clearly had been the pride flag and the tattered remains,” she said. “Somebody had scaled the pole with a knife and cut it dow
  
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• Four charged following drive-by shooting in Lac La Biche

  11-06-2017 04:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Four people are facing charges after a residence was shot at in Lac La Biche on Thursday.
  Lac La Biche RCMP were called out following a complaint of gunshots around 12:30 a.m. A vehicle involved in the crime took off.
  Mounties later found a vehicle with damage from a firearm.
  Then around 3:30 a.m. in Heart Lake, Mounties got a call about a break and enter in a home.
  Two suspects with a similar description from the gunshot complaint broke into the residence and pointed a firearm at people in
  
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• Traffic closed on Highway 831 south of Boyle following head-on collision between two semi-trucks

  11-06-2017 04:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A 26-year-old man from Edmonton was extracted from his vehicle and flown to an Edmonton hospital by STARS air ambulance after a head-on crash near Boyle.
  Boyle RCMP closed Highway 831 in both directions south of Boyle as they investigated the crash, and re-opened to alternating lanes several hours later.
  According to Boyle RCMP, a semi truck carrying water was driving southbound when a northbound E-350 van crossed the centre line and the vehicles collided. The van veered into a nearby ditch.
  The
  
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• Might Peter Chiarelli "circle back" to Eric Gryba for a third term with Edmonton Oilers? Don't bet against it

  11-06-2017 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  2016-17 Edmonton Oilers in review:Eric Gryba
  I often hear talk of a “Peter Chiarelli player”, but I wonder, what does he look like? This is the GM that signed big Milan Lucic and little Kris Russell as unrestricted free agents, who traded for massive Patrick Maroon and diminutive David Desharnais. 
  One man has been acquired by both methods during Chiarelli’s two years running the Edmonton Oilers: Eric Gryba. The big defender was acquired by trade from Ottawa at the 2015 NH
  
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• Provincial rivalry gets pre-season preview for Eskimos and Stampeders

  11-06-2017 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Battle of Alberta didn’t get to play itself out on the Grey Cup stage last year.
  While the Calgary Stampeders did their part to get to the championship final after finishing one win shy of tying the CFL record for 16 wins in a season set by the Edmonton Eskimos in 1989, their northern counterparts fell one win short of representing the East Division in a crossover.
  While Sunday’s pre-season showdown doesn’t carry nearly the same weight, the rivalry showcased at Commonwealth
  
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• Edmonton's BioWare unveils trailer for new video game Anthem

  11-06-2017 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton-based video game studio BioWare has given fans a first peek at its new project. 
  BioWare released a 52-second video trailer on Saturday for Anthem.
  The trailer, which invites players “into the unknown,” reveals few details but features people in mechanized armour, a giant wall, an inhospitable wilderness and some monsters.
  The company, which was bought by software giant Electronic Arts in 2007, has studios in Edmonton, Montreal and Austin. 
  A Twitter account f
  
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• Friends remember shooting victim as a 'respectful' man who loved the ocean

  11-06-2017 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Tomas Echeverria-Quintana loved his Chilean roots, soccer and the ocean.
  That’s according to his longtime friend Sebastian Alessandro, who said Echeverria-Quintana was his first childhood friend.
  Now, friends and family are planning the teenager’s memorial and funeral service.
  The 18-year-old’s death has been ruled a homicide from a gunshot wound. He was dropped off at the Royal Alexandra Hospital on Wednesday night.
  Alessandro said his friend had been back and forth between&nb
  
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• Maas's message sets tone for Eskimos' season

  11-06-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There was a method to Jason Maas’s madness.
  One day after tearing a strip up and down the entire 85-player roster at Edmonton Eskimos training camp, the fiery head coach got right back to business as usual in Saturday’s walk-through session in the Commonwealth Stadium fieldhouse.
  “Be disciplined, that was a message. Be coachable, that was a message,” said Maas, who made a career out of lighting a fire underneath his teammates during his days as a backup quarterback. &ldqu
  
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• Pride, EPS keep lines of communication open after controversies over police in parades

  11-06-2017 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton police are keeping open lines of communication with the city’s LGBTQ community amid controversies in other Canadian cities over law enforcement participation in pride events.   
  Carrying rainbow flags and banners, around 30 Edmonton Police Service employees walked in Saturday’s pride parade down Whyte Avenue.  
  Supt. Brad Doucette, who organizes the force’s participation in the Edmonton Pride Festival, said the EPS has been consulting with local organize
  
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