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• Paula Simons: PCs should take no pride in 'reply all' distraction

  12-06-2017 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Last Friday afternoon was a hectic day for PC party staffers at the legislature. 
  Some of them, it seems, were frustrated by the way the Notley government has been handling the paperwork around the all-party child intervention committee — doing big document dumps a few days before each meeting, leaving opposition staffers scrambling to go over all the material. 
  Others were also deeply worried about the upcoming Pride Festival in Edmonton. Jason Kenney, the new leader, had declin
  
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• Photo radar supervisor arrested after man impersonated peace officer, woman sexually assaulted

  12-06-2017 22:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A contracted City of Edmonton automated enforcement supervisor has been arrested after a man posing as a peace officer pulled a female driver over before she was forcibly confined and sexually assaulted last week, say police.
  The 50-year-old man — employed by the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires — is believed to have been wearing his photo radar uniform when the 25-year-old victim pulled over for a vehicle with flashing lights near Anthony Henday Drive and 127 Street around 1:3
  
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• Eskimos receivers showcase good pre-season stuff

  12-06-2017 22:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Brandon Zylstra picked up right where he left off last year, earning 103 yards on three catches Sunday.
  The Edmonton Eskimos receiver’s pre-season performance in a loss to the visiting Calgary Stampeders keeps him on par with the 100-yard average he maintained in each of his five regular-season outings since coming off the practice squad at the end of the 2016 season.
  “I’m cool with that,” said Zylstra, who was making up for some lost time after missing the first week of
  
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• St. Albert is Cultivating Front Yards

  12-06-2017 21:35
  Submit your acknowledgement and video today! The City of St. Albert has launched its Cultivating Front Yards program for another... Read Post
  
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• Rookie Edmonton Eskimos quarterback makes most of pre-season debut, tosses 90-yard TD on first CFL pass

  12-06-2017 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Zach Kline’s first in-game experience in the CFL was as brief as it is memorable.
  The mid-camp addition, who arrived in the fourth and last spot on the Edmonton Eskimos quarterback depth chart in place of the ousted Brett Smith, only came in for one snap in Sunday’s 36-35 pre-season loss to the visiting Calgary Stampeders.
  But he made the most of it.
  The six-foot-two, 220-pound Fresno State product took advantage of busted coverage and fired a 40-yard bullet downfield to fellow rooki
  
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• Fatality inquiry opens into death of eight-year-old girl in group home

  12-06-2017 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An eight-year-old girl who died in 2014 at an Edmonton group home had more than four times the prescribed level of a sleep aid in her system, a fatality inquiry into her death heard Monday. 
  Nevaeh Michaud died in her sleep at a group home on Jan. 5, 2014. Alberta’s Fatality Inquiry Review Board ordered an inquiry into her case that same year. The inquiry lead by provincial court Judge E.A. Johnson, is scheduled to last four days.
  Edmonton’s medical examiner Dr. Bernard Bannach
  
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• Dandelion haze prompts questions at City Hall

  12-06-2017 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The sea of dandelions covering Edmonton parks and sports fields has council members getting ready to grill city staff on their mowing techniques. 
  Ward 9 Coun. Bryan Anderson said he’s being stopped on the sidewalk – even flagged down as he’s driving – by constituents angry at the state of local fields.
  “You can’t play soccer on a field like that because the ball is impeded by an 18-inch dandelion,” Anderson said Monday. “If you have that kind
  
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• July date set for man accused of sex offences against three daughters

  12-06-2017 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Evansburg — A man accused of sexually abusing his three daughters for years on a rural compound west of Edmonton is scheduled to appear in court on July 24 to enter pleas on nearly two dozen charges. 
  Police with the Internet Child Exploitation unit, part of Alberta’s Law Enforcement Response Teams, described the crimes as “monstrous to the family and to society at large” when they announced charges against the 41-year-old last week.  
  The man, whose n
  
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• Breakfast T: Penguins' Stanley Cup triumph a true team effort

  12-06-2017 19:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  You don’t get lucky and win the Stanley Cup.
  And, unlike the NBA, three or four players can’t carry a team to a title.
  So as much as Sidney Crosby is soaking up most of the credit for Pittsburgh’s second straight championship, rightfully solidifying his place among the all-time greats with another Conn Smythe trophy, the Penguins march was one of the most inspiring team efforts in recent NHL history. 
  Most fans were cheering for the honky-tonk Cinderella, which is understa
  
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• The 1984-85 Edmonton Oilers were great, but NHL's all-time best team? Didn't see THAT coming

  12-06-2017 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  With Pittsburgh Penguins’ Stanley Cup win last night, the NHL’s centennial season is in the books and with it more than a little hype and hoopla to mark the occasion. A few days late and more than a few dollars short, but I can’t let last week’s announcement of the 1984-85 Edmonton Oilers being voted the “No. 1 Greatest NHL  Team” of the league’s first one hundred years pass without comment.
  Let’s start with the obvious: that’s one hell
  
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• Homicide detectives take over after man shot outside convenience store dies in hospital

  12-06-2017 18:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City police homicide detectives have taken over the case of a man shot outside a northside convenience store Sunday afternoon after he died in hospital. 
  The 22-year-old was transported to hospital after shots were fired near the store at 118 Street and 145 Avenue around 4:40 p.m. Sunday. He died later that night in hospital, said police in a Monday news release. 
  An autopsy time has not yet been scheduled but homicide detectives are now investigating.
  Witnesses said Sunday the victim
  
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• Alberta 150: The lawmaker, the treaty negotiator and the missionary

  12-06-2017 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun are profiling 150 Albertans who helped shape our province and Canada.  
  Sam Steele Courtesy Glenbow ArchivesSamuel Benfield Steele
  Born: Jan. 5, 1849, near Orillia, Ont. (Died Jan. 30, 1919)
  Occupation: Soldier
  A legendary figure of the West, Samuel Benfield Steele dispensed justice often by sheer force of personality, defusing tensions between First Nations people and white sett
  
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• Two rescued by STARS as high streamflow advisories issued for Alberta rivers

  12-06-2017 18:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) has issued high streamflow advisories for multiple rivers across the province as water levels continue to rise as a result of recent rainfall.  
  Stream levels are rising but while no major flooding is expected in any location, Grande Prairie RCMP had to help evacuate campers in the MacLeod Flats campground just after noon on Sunday due to the rising river.
  Police observed several camping trailers wheel-high in the rising river. During the evacuation, two
  
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• Second sibling dies in hospital after June 4 house fire

  12-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A teenager who was fighting for his life in hospital after a house fire claimed the life of his 11-year-old sister has died.
  Ethan Peters, 16, died in hospital June 9, according to an update shared on a crowdfunding site.
  “It’s with heavy heart that I write this update. Ethan Peters passed away on June 9. He fought so hard since the fire but his injuries were too much to overcome,” stated Edith Vanderpuye in an update.
  “As many of you know, Ethan is no stranger to an uphi
  
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• Medical pot a growing issue in Alberta workplaces

  12-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  While more Canadians are using medical marijuana for myriad issues, it can have an impact on their status in the workplace, as one apprentice found out.
  Apprentice ironworker Johnathan Dickson says his union wouldn’t send him out to construction jobs last year while he was using medical marijuana.
  While an official with Ironworkers local 720 maintains the situation is far more complicated than that, Dickson’s case illustrates some of the workplace issues — mainly involving safe
  
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• How an Edmonton property owner could see a 30 per cent tax hike

  12-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When the City of Edmonton mailed out property tax notices last month, some residents saw bills jump much higher than expected.
  City council passed a budget with a 2.8 per cent citywide increase — 3.3 per cent for individual homeowners when combined with the provincial education tax — but some residents were reporting tax increases of up to 30 per cent when they opened the bill. Now the deadline to pay is coming up June 30.
  Rod Risling, branch manager for taxation and assessment, said
  
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• Aggressive targets for change in child-intervention caseloads

  12-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Social worker caseloads in Alberta are about to undergo a seismic shift as the province’s child intervention systems
  looks to battle skyrocketing job vacancies and mental-health issues among workers.
   
  It marks the first time in more than 25 years that workloads are being overhauled, in an approach that officials hope will ultimately benefit Alberta’s vulnerable children and give front-line workers more time for face-to-face interaction with families, balanced caseloads, and le
  
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• The McDavid-zation of the Oilers & the 9 other moves Edmonton must make to be where Penguins are now

  12-06-2017 08:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s window to win the Stanley Cup is wide open.
  Indeed — and as surprising as this sounds for a team that hadn’t made the playoffs since 2006 and was by far the worst team in the NHL since that time — the window was wide open for the Oilers this year to win the Cup.
  It remains a bitter feeling for Oilers fans that in part because of bizarre, inconsistent refereeing and NHL video review procedures, Edmonton’s Stanley Cup aspirations where thwarted in 2017. In
  
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• The 10 moves Edmonton Oilers must make to be where Pittsburgh Penguins are now

  12-06-2017 08:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s window to win the Stanley Cup is wide open.
  Indeed — and as surprising as this sounds for a team that hadn’t made the playoffs since 2006 and was by far the worst team in the NHL since that time — the window was wide open for the Oilers this year to win the Cup.
  It remains a bitter feeling for Oilers fans that in part because of bizarre, inconsistent refereeing and NHL video review procedures, Edmonton’s Stanley Cup aspirations where thwarted in 2017. In
  
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• 'Trying to keep that momentum going': Missing and murdered indigenous women walk marks tenth anniversary

  12-06-2017 06:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The signs covered the front steps of Edmonton City Hall, left there for safekeeping while the loved ones of the women in the pictures prayed and listened to speeches inside.
  Some bore the names and faces of women who have disappeared from the Edmonton area, including Shelly Dene and Misty Faith Potts. Others called for answers in unsolved homicides, like the one involving Amber Tuccaro.
  Another sign read simply “We Care.”
  On Sunday, friends and family of Edmonton’s missing and
  
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• Hazmat, Environment Canada cleaning up spill from semi-truck rollover near Boyle

  12-06-2017 06:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Motorists are being asked to watch for cleanup crews on Highway 63 at Township Road 634 following a rollover of a semi-truck near Boyle on Saturday night.
  A 22-year-old woman was taken to an Edmonton hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the semi-truck pulling two trailers she was driving rolled into a ditch about 15 kilometres south of Boyle at 9:30 p.m. June 10, according to an RCMP news release.
  A Hazmat team from Edmonton and Alberta Environment are cleaning up the ap
  
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• Edmonton military wives to raise voices at Invictus Games this fall

  12-06-2017 05:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A choir of Edmonton military wives is bursting with pride and excitement at the news they will join dozens of other singing spouses at the Invictus Games in Toronto this September.
  “Everyone is hoping to see Prince Harry,” jokes choir member Debra Poley of the local chapter of Canadian Military Wives Choirs.
  Prince Harry is the patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, which supports the international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick military men and women, both serving an
  
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• Cappies gala celebrates student excellence in high school arts

  12-06-2017 05:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  High school students sported their finest gowns and snazziest suits Sunday as proud teachers, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters celebrated the achievements of the 2016-17 season of theatre.
  The 10th annual Cappies, held in the Citadel’s Maclab Theatre, awarded the best in marketing and publicity, special effects or technology, hair and makeup, sound, props, lighting, costumes, sets, orchestra, choreography, acting and more.
  Two new schools joined the Cappies winners circle this y
  
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• Eskimos starters in preseason form in 36-35 loss to Stampeders

  12-06-2017 05:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Shoddy special-teams.
  Terrible tackling.
  Bad ball protection.
  Poor place kicking.
  The Edmonton Eskimos starters were stuck in pre-season form as they opened their 2017 CFL exhibition schedule, while the depth players answered back with 22-straight points to set up a wild fourth-quarter finish in a 36-35 loss to the Calgary Stampeders.
  By the time Bo Levi Mitchell and the rest of the first-team visitors took a seat Sunday after earning a 15-6 lead ahead of the half, there hadn’t been much f
  
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• Man shot outside Edmonton convenience store as others flee

  12-06-2017 05:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A gunman opened fire, hitting one man as others fled, at a strip mall in Edmonton’s Carlisle neighbourhood Sunday, Edmonton police said.
  Officers were called to a 7-Eleven convenience store at 11868 145 Ave. at 4:40 p.m. Sunday.
  Edmonton Police Services spokeswoman Noreen Remtulla said a man is in life-threatening condition after being shot.
  Police said an argument happened outside a convenience store in Castle Downs.
  Shattered glass lay on the ground outside the store after what one witne
  
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• Terry Jones: Eskimos have blueprint of what not to do in loss to Stampeders

  12-06-2017 04:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Not sure how one should evaluate the Edmonton Eskimos’ 36-35 loss to the Calgary Stampeders in their pre-season debut Sunday but boy did next year’s Saskatchewan Roughriders look good.
  If the speculation turns out to be true that the reason for the Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback experiments this year is mostly to keep the quarterback job open for James Franklin when he becomes eligible for free agency next year, then you could most certainly read it that way.
  Franklin had a hug
  
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• Men flee as gunman opens fire at 7-Eleven

  12-06-2017 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton police are at the scene of a shooting in a strip mall in Edmonton’s Carlisle neighbourhood.  
  Officers were called to a 7-Eleven at 11868 145 Ave. before 5 p.m. Sunday.
  Shattered glass lay on the ground outside the convenience store after what one witness called a gunfight.
  “A couple SUVs pulled up, a few people fled, I guess there was a conflict of some kind,” said David McDonald. “They started opening fire.”
  Witness Steve Blanes said he was leav
  
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• Police search for missing man after canoe capsizes on Smoky River — campground evacuated as flood waters rise

  12-06-2017 01:59 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, northeast of Grande Prairie. Police said all three travellers, a man and two women, went 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 swim to s
  
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• Eskimos Sidelines: Memorable autograph … Following Highbaugh … Coach doesn't Maas around

  12-06-2017 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Eskimos honoured a pair of legends from the five-in-a-row era during Sunday’s game.
  The late, great Larry Highbaugh’s No. 13 was retired temporarily, as its current owner, quarterback Mike Reilly, donned No. 0 for the game, while former head coach, general manager and president/CEO Hugh Campbell was recognized ahead of his induction into the City of Edmonton Sports Hall of Fame Monday.
  As long ago as the five-in-a-row were, meeting Campbell at the time created a lasting
  
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