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• RCMP officer charged after 2016 fatal pedestrian crash near Anzac

  16-06-2017 22:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An RCMP constable has been charged in a 2016 fatal crash near Anzac that killed one man and seriously injured a second man.
  The Alberta Serious Response Team (ASIRT) investigated the crash and determined the officer should be charged, ASIRT said in a release Friday.
  The officer was responding to reports of a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian in the early hours of August 21, 2016.
  The 41-year-old pedestrian was walking on Highway 881 when he was hit and seriously injured, ASIRT sa
  
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• Jujhar Khaira signs two-year extension with Edmonton Oilers, but what does it mean?

  16-06-2017 21:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Breaking news from the Edmonton Oilers this afternoon:It’s an inexpensive deal at $675,000 per season, as per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
  Obviously a move made to position the Oilers for this weekend’s expansion draft, but how so? Some weeks ago, the Oilers signed Iiro Pakarinen to a one-year extension, seemingly for the specific purpose of meeting the bare minimum of expansion draft exposure requirements while allowing the club to protect seven veteran forwards: Milan Lucic
  
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• Second-degree murder charge after northeast apartment stabbing

  16-06-2017 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A 48-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder after a fatal stabbing at a northeast Edmonton apartment Thursday morning.
  Police were called to a report of a fight in the Londonderry Heights apartments at 7220 144 Ave. around 4 a.m.
  Clinton John Bluecloud, 29, and another man were found injured inside the apartment and were taken to hospital. Bluecloud later died from his injuries.
  An autopsy done on Thursday confirmed Bluecloud died from a stab wound.
  Police believe several people were
  
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• Suspect charged after man pretended to be a police officer on social media

  16-06-2017 21:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A suspect has been charged after city police arrested a man they say was pretending to be a police officer on the internet. 
  Detectives at southeast division began investigating a 24-year-old man in May after learning of social media accounts where a man claimed to be a law enforcement officer.
  Officers raided a residence near 30 Street and 22 Avenue on June 2 and found police equipment, uniforms, paraphernalia, ID documents and other items. 
  “Having a person pose as a police off
  
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• New designs aim to make 'End of the World' a safe place

  16-06-2017 21:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The City of Edmonton released new designs for the End of the World viewpoint this week that would tame and make safe a controversial spot on the river bank.
  The site overlooking the North Saskatchewan River is in the Belgravia neighbourhood, where the old Keillor Road met Saskatchewan Drive. The road was closed in 1994 because of the unstable slope and site is supposed to be off-limits to the public.
  The new designs propose demolishing the tall concrete piles that tempt thrill-seekers out above
  
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• Social Seen: Just a Little Night Market's Spring Market

  16-06-2017 21:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Just a Little Night Market’s Spring Market
  Where: Alberta Aviation Museum
  When: June 9 and 10
  Who: Night Market Edmonton
  What: Two-d
  
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• Dining Out: Fabulous fresh house-made fare at '50s diner Rockin' Robyn's

  16-06-2017 20:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Stepping into a classic diner can often feel like stepping back in time.
  The black-and-white checkered tile floors, the chrome-lined counter and red-vinyl seats, the comfy booths, walls covered in kitschy art and old movie posters and the retro jukebox all come together to create a classic ’50s scene at Rockin’ Robyn’s in west Edmonton.
  I decided to take a trip back in time recently over lunch with a friend who had visited and wouldn’t stop raving about the place —
  
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• Forsooth, yonder sunset glows! Freewill Shakespeare Festival woos with words and nature

  16-06-2017 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  To be well-prepped for this year’s tribute to the Bard, patrons streaming into the Hawrelak Park Amphitheatre should absolutely read the play beforehand. Failing that, don’t forget the mosquito repellent.
  Either way, Edmonton audiences will react as they invariably do to the comedy and tragedy presented annually since 1989 amid the chattering squirrels and squawking magpies. Patrons will burst out laughing at the hijinks bored housewives will get up to in the Merry Wives of Windsor.
  
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• Oilers sign Khaira to contract extension

  16-06-2017 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Oilers announced early Friday afternoon they have signed forward Jujhar Khaira to a two-year contract extension.
  The 22-year-old Surrey, B.C., native played 10 games with the Oilers last season, scoring a goal, and played 27 games with the Bakersfield Condors, their American Hockey League affiliate, scoring eight goals and 12 assists.
  The six-foot-three, 214-pound Khaira was a third-round pick of the Oilers in the 2012 NHL Draft.
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating after stabbed man dies in north Edmonton alley

  16-06-2017 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a man found fatally wounded in an alley off 118 Avenue early Friday morning. 
  The man — found around 3 a.m. Friday — was covered with a tarp after officers were called to the scene near at 118 Avenue and 50 Street. Police set up pylons and cordoned the block off with police tape as they investigated later Friday morning.  
  Police in a noon Friday press release said a male flagged down a passing police vehicle just
  
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• Olivia and Liam top 2016 baby name list for 4th straight year

  16-06-2017 20:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For the fourth year in a row Olivia and Liam have topped the list of the most popular baby names in the province.
  Service Alberta published its annual list of the most popular name of children born in the province on Friday. The numbers are gathered from Registration of Live Birth forms.
  The top 10 names and their frequencies are listed below.
  Olivia, 292
  Liam, 277
  Benjamin, 252
  Emma, 249
  Lucas, 247
  Oliver, 230
  Noah, 228
  Sophia, 215
  William, 213
  Ava, 207
  
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• Edmonton mom accused of killing newborn with meth has new court date set

  16-06-2017 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Edmonton woman charged with killing her 11-day-old baby is to appear for a bail hearing June 29.
  Michelle Rice — now being held in custody in Calgary — faces a second-degree murder charge in connection to the death of her newborn daughter. 
  Police and paramedics responded to a call to a home near 72 Street and 83 Avenue in the Kenilworth neighbourhood on March 29 after a report of a baby in distress.
  The newborn was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. A week
  
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• Edmonton to attack sports-field dandelions with eco-herbicide

  16-06-2017 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City officials decided to get Edmonton’s sports fields into shape with a new iron-based eco-herbicide designed to kill off an exploding population of dandelions.
  Doug Jones, head of city operations, announced Friday his crews will be spraying the fields with iron chelate, similar to the backyard product EcoSense Weed B Gon, which costs five times as much as conventional herbicides but leaves no hazardous residue. 
  Crews will also re-seed sections of field where grass has been destroye
  
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• Huge marijuana production facility near Edmonton airport breaks ground

  16-06-2017 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Aurora Cannabis is breaking ground on its huge marijuana production facility near the Edmonton airport today.
  Aurora is investing more than $100 million into the 75,000-square-metre Aurora Sky project, which should be in production by the end of the year and completed construction by the time recreational pot is legalized in July 2018.
  Aurora Sky is described as the world’s largest legal marijuana production facility, going up on 12 hectares of land leased from the federal government.
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• One dead after pipe-carrying semi rolls near Stony Plain

  16-06-2017 17:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The driver of a semi-truck hauling pipe is dead after a Friday rollover on Highway 43, say RCMP. 
  The section of Highway 43 north of Highway 16 was shut down and traffic was being rerouted around the area before Stony Plain RCMP around 7:15 a.m. declared the driver had died. 
  The truck had been loaded with pipe. 
   
   
  
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• Police investigating after body found in north Edmonton alley

  16-06-2017 16:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Police are investigating after a man’s body was discovered in an alley off 118 Avenue early Friday morning. 
  The body — found around 3 a.m. Friday — is now covered with a tarp and officers have cordoned off the area at 118 Avenue and 50 Street with pylons and yellow police tape.
  More to come…
  
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• Police called to body found in alley near 118 Ave and 50 St.

  16-06-2017 15:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Police were called about a man’s body in an alley in the area of 118 Ave and 50 Street around 3 am Friday morning.
  More to come…
  
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• Opinion: Vision of sustainability could power United Conservative Party

  16-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta politics are currently in flux as increasing numbers of people work towards creating a new provincial party – one that can serve as a united, principled, and competent alternative to the NDP government.
  But what vision for the future should the new party present?
  Obviously that vision must incorporate key elements from both the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties in order to maintain the support of their members and voters. But it must also be more than “the sum of
  
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• Friday's letters: Credit Methodists for higher education

  16-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Re. “150 Influential Albertans,” June 14
  While I support the inclusion of Henry Marshall Tory in your listing of important figures in Alberta history, some credit needs to go to the people who brought him to Alberta – Rev. Thomas Buchanan and the people of McDougall Methodist (now United) Church in Edmonton.
  With no high school in the area in 1903, the church decided to act and established Alberta College on land next to the church, land that had been bequeathed for educational
  
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• Edmonton-based online tech startup Songistry takes the stage for struggling musicians

  16-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Edmonton entrepreneur is hoping his latest business will help songwriters and musicians get properly compensated for their work.
  Curtis Serna, president and CEO of Songistry, said one of the industry’s problems is songwriters don’t get paid properly.
  “We are about to disrupt the music industry,” Serna said Thursday.
  The platform is part networking site, part storage for music, a facilitator of financial transactions and a service that tags metadata to help with copyrig
  
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• Editorial: Renewed focus on defence better late than never

  16-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If there is one positive outcome from Donald Trump, it’s that his America-first presidency has finally forced Canada to take its military seriously.
  It might have been Trump’s scolding of NATO allies who don’t carry their weight in defence spending or growing doubt this unpredictable and isolationist president would ever send in the marines to defend an ally under attack.
  Whatever the reason, the sudden realization that a sovereign nation should not rely so heavily on a neighbo
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos football operations shakeup unnoticeable over CFL pre-season

  16-06-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For all intents and purposes, things ran pretty much according to plan for the Edmonton Eskimos in training camp.
  You certainly wouldn’t be able to tell by watching the on-field sessions at Commonwealth Stadium over the past three weeks that the organization went through a major shakeup in football operations in April, when Ed Hervey was fired as general manager.
  From all appearances, the transition to his replacement, Brock Sunderland, whose first day on the job was April 23, has been a s
  
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• Roster reset — Revisiting Edmonton Oilers' 50+ man list on the eve of NHL's player movement season

  16-06-2017 12:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If Thursday was any indication, NHL’s Transaction Season is now officially upon us. This year’s version is different from any other to date in the Salary Cap Era in that expansion looms large in the process. The Vegas Golden Knights will formally enter the scene in the coming days, to be stocked by an expansion draft process that will allow the newcomers to select one player from each of their thirty new partners.
  That pending expansion draft has had something of a chilling effect in
  
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• Could Oilers, Habs swing a Galchenyuk-for-RNH trade?

  16-06-2017 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  With Jonathan Drouin off to the Montreal Canadiens in the blockbuster National Hockey League trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Habs now have a glut of wingers — unless they think Alex Galchenyuk is a centre or Drouin can play there.
  The jury’s very much out on Galchenyuk, the third overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, playing in the middle because he still seems better on the wing even though he was drafted as a centre, so is it a stretch to consider Galchenyuk for Edmonton Oile
  
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• Landrex provides photo booth at St. Albert Farmers' Market - St. Albert Gazette

  16-06-2017 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  
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  Landrex provides photo booth at St. Albert Farmers' Market
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  Landrex is a locally owned land development company invested in building strong, safe and social communities. Having lived and worked in St. Albert, the Landrex family enjoys giving back to the city, and they found a picture perfect way to do this ...
  
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• Eskimos 'B' squad earns pre-season tie with Blue Bombers

  16-06-2017 07:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  WINNIPEG — It was the Winnipeg Blue Bombers versus the Edmonton Green and Gold on Thursday.
  After all, how can you call Edmonton’s team the Eskimos with the likes of reigning Canadian Football League passing-yards leader Mike Reilly, reigning receiving-yards leader Adarius Bowman and perennial all-star defensive tackle Almondo Sewell wearing sweats on the sidelines of Investors Group Field?
  In all, the Eskimos sat six starters on defence and 10 on offence, putting their depth under t
  
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• Former Edmonton Eskimos player credits boxing for helping him move on from drug addiction, time in prison

  16-06-2017 06:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s been two years since Adam Braidwood walked out of his cell at a medium-security prison in Agassiz, B.C. and into what was now his new life.
  The former Edmonton Eskimos defensive end was nowhere near getting back to terrorizing quarterbacks on the football field again. Those days were long gone. Braidwood flushed that chance away after going down a road filled with drug addiction to pain killers and spending two years of a four-and-a-half year sentence for sexual assault and a firearm
  
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• Fake cop targeting sex-trade workers in robberies, police say

  16-06-2017 06:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man impersonating a police officer is targeting women working in the sex trade and robbing them.
  Robbery attempts in Edmonton, Leduc and Calgary were aimed at women who advertise sexual services online, the Calgary Police Service said.
  In one case, a woman met with the man in a hotel room after they’d been on touch online, said acting Staff Sgt. Andy Woodwald.
  He told her he was a police officer and indicated he had a search warrant for drugs.
  The woman demanded a badge number and the su
  
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• What it means when TSN's Bob McKenzie says Jordan Eberle is likely to be traded by Saturday?

  16-06-2017 06:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  My bet? It means an Oilers and Islanders deal
  This in from TSN’s Bob McKenzie on Toronto 1050, his speculation that Jordan Eberle will be traded by Saturday: “By no means is it 100 guaranteed that Eberle will be traded period. It’s not 100 percent guaranteed that he’ll be traded by Saturday. But I’d be the least surprised guy in the world if he was.
  “I would say it’s more likely than not that the trade happens before the freeze on Saturday for obvio
  
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• David Staples: Math results show we must end two decades of educational malpractice

  16-06-2017 05:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Math education in Alberta has reached a new low. Our rate of math illiteracy has doubled for Grade 4 students since 2011, with our most vulnerable students hit hardest.
  The latest results are part of a disturbing trend that has seen Alberta schools embrace an experimental method of teaching math in the past two decades while our students have sunk low on international tests.
  Alberta students used to test well ahead of their Ontario counterparts but behind Quebec students. Alberta now ranks signi
  
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• Edmonton police release photos of shooting suspects in death of Abdullahi Nur-Abdulle, 22

  16-06-2017 05:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Police Service homicide section released photos Thursday of four suspects in the daylight shooting death of a 22-year-old man earlier this week.
  “We believe these four male suspects were directly involved in the shooting death of Abdullahi Nur-Abdulle,” homicide section Staff Sgt. Colin Derksen said in a news release. “With the public’s assistance, we are confident these individuals will be identified.”
  Gunfire erupted about 4:40 p.m. Sunday outsid
  
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• Mounties investigate downed ultralight aircraft near Ponoka

  16-06-2017 04:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Ponoka RCMP were investigating Thursday after an ultralight aircraft went down near Ponoka.
  The male pilot, the only person on board, was not injured.
  The cause of the incident was under investigation by the RCMP. The Transportation Safety Board was notified.
  Ponoka is approximately 100 km south of Edmonton.
  
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• 'We are going to focus like a laser': Key quotes in Alberta's math debate

  16-06-2017 04:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Renowned educational researcher John Hattie and neuroscientist Gregory Yates in the book Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn, on how children need to acquire knowledge about numbers: “There was a period in which teachers were encouraged to believe that rote learning stood in antagonism to deeper understanding. This notion is misleading.”
  It’s no easy thing for children to become adept at basic arithmetic calculations, Hattie and Yates say, so diligent practice
  
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• Photos: Eugene Onegin

  16-06-2017 03:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  NUOVA Opera and Music Theatre Festival presents Eugene Onegin on June 15 and June 16 at 7:30 p.m. at the Oasis Centre, 10930 177 St., in Edmonton. The opera, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin and composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, tells the story of a Russian aristocrat who heads to the countryside to escape the monotony of the city. He meets a young woman who falls for him but when Onegin does not return her affections, she turns to another.
  Amanda Weatherall as Olga (left) and Ri
  
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• Formula race car for international competition unveiled by University of Alberta team

  16-06-2017 03:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Students from the University of Alberta unveiled their formula-style race car Thursday and are set to compete on an international stage.
  The university’s 25-member team will compete at the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition in Lincoln, Neb., from June 21 to 24.
  The competition will feature 80 university teams from around the world including South Korea and Japan. 
  This is the 19th consecutive year the U of A team has entered the competition.
  Team lead Nathan Lentz wil
  
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• Dynamic magazine publisher Ruth Kelly dies at 60

  16-06-2017 02:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Ruth Kelly was remembered Thursday as a woman of strong opinions, generous spirit and fierce ambition.
  News of the death of the president of Venture Publishing broke Thursday. Her family has asked for privacy. Sources close to the dynamic businesswoman said she died by suicide. She was 60.
  Kelly graduated with a poetry degree from the University of Alberta.
  “Clearly, I had to start a business because I was essentially unemployable,” she once joked to the Journal.
  After graduation, Ke
  
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• Terry Jones: Player to set new Canadian rugby games-played record in Edmonton

  16-06-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s one of those worthy sports events that can get lost on the calendar — an international rugby test match between Canada and Romania Saturday at Ellerslie Rugby Park.
  At midafternoon Thursday, however, it officially became more than a game. It became an occasion.
  On Saturday, the all-time national record for international appearances previously owned by Al Charron will be broken when Aaron Carpenter starts for Canada.
  Religiously sticking to the rule of releasing their starting li
  
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• CN Rail fined $2.5 million for small North Saskatchewan River diesel spill

  16-06-2017 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Canadian National Rail has been fined $2.5 million for spilling a pickup tank’s worth of diesel into the North Saskatchewan River in 2015.
  The company pleaded guilty in Edmonton provincial court Thursday to four offences related to the 90-litre spill, which left a smelly, two-kilometre sheen on the river.
  The spill occurred at a train fuelling station in CN’s Bissell yard near 160 Street on April 9, 2015 , according to an agreed statement of facts. 
  A diesel-water mixture collec
  
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• 'He is a con man': Jay Peers gets jail time for Ponzi scheme that cost investors millions

  16-06-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Joan Smith considered Jay Peers a good friend. They met through his father and stepmother, attended family weddings and funerals, and enjoyed parties and Christmas dinners together.
  When the then-single mother decided she needed to boost her retirement savings in the 1990s, she began making monthly deposits with Peers, an Edmonton investment adviser, gradually increasing the amounts until his companies held her life savings and the education fund for her two grandsons.
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• City hopes to have recalled slides replaced before end of summer

  16-06-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  “What would a playground be without a slide?” asks Lori Nagy, spokeswoman for the Edmonton Catholic school district.
  Children in the city will find out this summer after 26 slides were removed due to last December’s recall by the manufacturer.
  Edmonton parks spokeswoman Kristen Wagner said the city removed 24 playground slides earlier this year from neighbourhoods across the city and are waiting for replacements.
  Wagner said the city has not been given clear dates about when th
  
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• Provincial grant to increase elder-abuse prevention programs for Edmonton's Chinese, South Asian seniors

  16-06-2017 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A provincial grant to prevent and address elder abuse will allow Edmonton to tailor its services to Chinese and South Asian seniors, who face additional barriers when trying to access help.
  The province announced the $1.5-million grant at Edmonton’s ASSIST Community Services Centre on Thursday. The grant is divided among 31 community organizations and municipalities throughout the province.
  Edmonton’s Seniors Protection Partnership — a collaboration between the city,
  
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• Suspects sought after central Alberta officer injured after stopping stolen motorhome

  16-06-2017 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  RCMP have issued an arrest warrant for an Edmonton woman after an officer was injured while conducting a traffic stop east of Two Hills earlier this month. 
  Officers responding to a report of a stolen motorhome located the vehicle on Highway 45 and initiated a traffic stop on June 11, police said in a news release Thursday.
  RCMP have issued a warrant of arrest for Stephanie Nadine Woods. 
  The motorhome, containing a female driver and a male passenger, pulled over, but then sped away, p
  
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• Bike box? Education campaign rolls out with new downtown bike lanes

  16-06-2017 00:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The first three downtown bike lanes are set to open Friday and city officials say they’ll be mounting a major education campaign for a complicated set of new rules.
  Cyclists will be required to make two-step turns where ever the lanes end or they must turn across traffic. That means stopping at the intersection, manoeuvering into a bike box when it’s safe to do so, then rolling straight through the intersection with the traffic light.
  “It’s a huge learning curve,” s
  
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