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• Khaira? Pitlick? Pouliot? Reinhart? Handicapping which Edmonton Oiler is most likely headed to Vegas

  19-06-2017 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s a time for rampant speculation about what might be happening in the National Hockey League, given the Cones Of Silence that descended on Saturday as the the Vegas Golden Knights expansion draft process offically got under way. The 30 established clubs made a few last-minute deals among themselves, then submitted their official protected lists at 3 p.m. MDT Saturday afternoon. For reasons known only to its “brain trust”, the NHL held off announcing said lists until the oh-s
  
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• Advocates push for mandatory I.D. for men at body rub parlours

  19-06-2017 22:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Women working in Edmonton’s licensed body rub parlours are being choked, slapped and raped with little recourse against bad clients, advocates told city officials Monday. 
  Federal law makes buying sex illegal, but advocate Kate Quinn said many of the women her team surveyed said they were being held down and forced to have sex when they said no. The parlours don’t force clients to provide I.D. and women aren’t reporting the violence to police.
  Even though 57 per cent of th
  
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• Slave Lake teacher severely reprimanded for massaging students

  19-06-2017 21:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A conduct committee has issued a severe reprimand to a Slave Lake teacher found guilty of professional misconduct for massaging students’ necks and backs.
  The Alberta Teachers’ Association committee found junior high teacher Patrick Lu guilty of failing to treat students with dignity and respect by massaging them in classes from 2012 to 2015 at St. Francis Assisi Catholic school.
  “We’re pleased with the outcome,” Lu’s lawyer Brian Beresh said following a Monda
  
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• City police name latest homicide victim, seek information in slaying

  19-06-2017 20:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City police homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help after a man was stabbed to death in an alley Friday. 
  Police on Monday identified the victim as 25-year-old Brent Jonas Coates, found fatally wounded Friday in the alley around round 3:30 a.m.
  Later Friday, police in a news release said a man flagged down a police vehicle in the Beverly Heights area neighbourhood and directed officers to the wounded man in the nearby alley. Police called an ambulance for the victim but h
  
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• Photo Gallery: Cappies Gala 2017

  19-06-2017 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  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.
  Cappies Gala 2017, Award for Outstanding Critic Team, Archbishop MacDonald High School.
  Cappies Gala 2017, Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Strathcona Christian Academy.
  Cappies Gala 2017, Award for Outstanding Productio
  
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• Violent sexual offender seeks records of victim in effort to argue for a mistrial

  19-06-2017 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man convicted of a violent sexual assault on a woman who was jailed alongside him during the court proceedings is making an application to access records that his lawyer argues will undermine the victim’s credibility and reliability.
  Lance David Blanchard was convicted in December of aggravated assault, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, aggravated sexual assault, possession of a weapon, threatening to cause death or bodily harm and breach of recognizance.
  Although Blanchard has already b
  
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• Robot falcon set to swoop in to keep birds away from airport runways

  19-06-2017 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A new type of security is set to be unveiled at the Edmonton International Airport Monday afternoon — a robot falcon will be unleashed to scare birds away from runways.
  Announced at the beginning of May, the airport teamed up with Calgary-based Aerium Analytics which will be operating the falcon-shaped Robird drone. The robot patroller will flap its wings and mimic the flight pattern of falcons to scare away birds in the area that can be hazardous to aircrafts.
  The bird population around t
  
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• Alberta farmers complete epic mission to get wartime plane back in the sky

  19-06-2017 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  FAIRVIEW  At age 95, former Second World War pilot Hal Burns could be called a living embodiment of Canadian history.
  On Sunday, at the tiny Fairview Municipal Airport in northwestern Alberta, he met another one.
  Not another veteran, mind you. Rather, Burns reconnected with a newly refurbished Canso aircraft, the very same patrol bomber he had piloted three times on submarine hunting missions during the war.
  It was the first time he had seen it fly again in 72 years, and the first time anyo
  
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• Uber defence lawyer says Edmonton enforcement campaign failing in court

  19-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s vehicle-for-hire staff spent $1.5 million on administration and enforcement last year — issuing 278 tickets to Uber, TappCar and other drivers — but Uber’s defence lawyer says not one of the tickets he’s seen stood up in court.
  “There’s never been a conviction of an Uber driver (in Edmonton),” said lawyer Paul Moreau, who estimates he’s had or still has files for roughly 75 drivers since the new bylaw came into effect in March 2016
  
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• Chinese technology incubator giant establishes first Canadian office in Edmonton

  19-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  China’s biggest network of incubators is set to open its first Canadian office in Edmonton, a move that will open up one of the world’s largest markets to Alberta technology innovators.
  The University of Alberta’s relationship with Chinese education powerhouse Tsinghua University helped attract the company, TusStar, to the provincial capital city and the downtown headquarters of TEC Edmonton.
  TusStar — with more than 80 incubators in 45 Chinese cities and its ho
  
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• Bruderheim congregation readies for court battle over church property

  19-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Alberta congregation will fight the Moravian Church in America for ownership of a rural church after an ideological split over allowing clergy of any sexual orientation to become ordained.
  Late last month, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Brian Burrows granted the newly incorporated Bruderheim Community Church a temporary injunction to maintain possession of the church and associated property where it has worshipped as a branch of the Northern Province of the Moravian Church in America fo
  
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• Tobias Enstrom anyone? Edmonton Oilers should have no trouble picking up a stopgap veteran defenceman from Vegas

  19-06-2017 10:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Projected Vegas expansion draft picks (as much as that’s possible)
  In trying to figure out what the Edmonton Oilers might be able to get out of the expansion draft, as opposed to put into it, the starting point is trying to figure out which players Vegas will draft.
  This is a near impossible exercise. There are already rumours of various deals in place  with teams like Anaheim and Columbus, deals that will mean an obvious Vegas pick like excellent Josh Manson of the Ducks stays in Ana
  
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• Improved air-vac technology makes for safer, cleaner digging projects

  19-06-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Emerald Hills Regional Park got a little greener recently. 
   
  Last month, Cutting Edge Landscaping planted 230 new trees at this prime recreation spot in Sherwood Park. 
   
  And they couldn’t have done the job as quickly and safely as they did without a newly improved technology for excavation involving pressurized air instead of water.
   
  “Typically we’d use a hydro-vac truck to expose the underground power lines, but because of concerns about a freshly p
  
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• Police: Vehicle strikes several pedestrians on London road

  19-06-2017 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  LONDON — A vehicle struck pedestrians on a north London road early Monday morning, causing several casualties, police said. One person has been arrested.
  Sky News reported that police said the incident happened after worshippers were leaving the Finsbury Park mosque after prayers.
  Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the scene on Seven Sisters Road at 12:20 a.m. Monday. The London Ambulance Service said it was responding to the incident.
  Transportation officials said roads in t
  
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• Terry Jones: Big picture, Eskimos brass happy with squad out of camp

  19-06-2017 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  They took their turns standing in the south end zone of an empty stadium on an off day in the middle of the afternoon on Father’s Day.
  Their audience was one newspaper columnist, a Global TV reporter, her videographer, the two-man broadcast crew from 630 CHED and a two-man crew from esks.com.
  “I slept like a baby Saturday night. That was the first time in three months I’d slept that well,” reported Edmonton Eskimos head coach Jason Maas of making his cuts by 8 p.m. the ev
  
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• RCMP sent to three river-rescue calls on North Saskatchewan River

  19-06-2017 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Stay off the North Saskatchewan River.
  That’s the message Rocky Mountain House RCMP are putting out after a third rescue on the river on the weekend. The RCMP issued a news release stating with the river’s water levels being “extremely high,” people should stay off the water until the levels recede.
  The International Emergency Response Coordination Centre was called on Saturday after two men capsized a canoe in the North Saskatchewan River near the Saunders Recreatio
  
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• Car show in church parking lot draws 10,000 for Father's Day fun

  19-06-2017 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Car-loving fathers and their families had their hands full with more than 400 classic vehicles to admire Sunday at the annual Father’s Day Show and Shine Car Show.
  It started 16 years ago as a small church event with 30 cars. The annual event in the Celebration Church parking lot has grown to about 10,000 people taking in the city’s best vehicles and celebrate Father’s Day.
  Lead Pastor Dennis Varty said the car show has grown in traction over the years.
  “What it provides
  
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• Curtis Stock: McLennan Ross Tour has history of junior player development

  19-06-2017 03:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Twenty-two years and tens of thousands of junior players later, the highly successful McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour gets underway this week: June 24-25 at Lethbridge’s Henderson Lakes golf course.
  “This year alone we will have between 1,500 to 2,000 entries from 400 to 500 different players,” said Dunc Mills, who has been the Tour’s executive director from its inception.
  “This Tour is an entry-level development tour for Juniors. We get a lot of good players but we
  
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• Program aims to tackle high rates of food insecurity in African community in Edmonton

  19-06-2017 02:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two years ago, Iris Manzano started a job as a support worker in Edmonton helping African and Spanish-speaking immigrants adjust to life in Canada.
  Many of those families faced a host of challenges — raising kids, and finding work, health care, and social supports in a new country. But Manzano started to notice one problem looming over the others — the families didn’t have food.  
  “It’s one issue after another, and the main issue is poor nutrition,” said
  
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• Man found dead in strip-mall parking lot could be city's 26th homicide of year

  19-06-2017 02:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man was lying dead in a north Edmonton strip-mall parking lot when a passerby found him and called police at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
  Police said the citizen came across the deceased person and another man with signs of trauma near 125 Street and 132 Avenue. The surviving man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  If the death is confirmed as a homicide, it’ll be the city’s 26th of the year and the fifth in 11 days.
  Halfway through 2017, Edmonton’s homicide
  
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• Bike box confusion: Cyclists learn to navigate new downtown Edmonton bike lanes

  19-06-2017 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Weekend cyclists took the opportunity to tour downtown Edmonton using new bike lanes, although the new rules are going to take some time to get used to.
  Kristy Lee and her husband Derek Dallorto took their daughter Shana Lee Dallorto, 4, and son Beckett Lee Dallorto, 7, out for a family bike ride on Sunday using the bike lanes installed along 100 Avenue specifically to teach their son how to use the new bike boxes.
  “It would be nice to have someone out on the street to show people, because
  
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• Inner-city communities protest concentration of supervised injection sites

  19-06-2017 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Nearly 200 protesters gathered outside of the Alberta legislature on Saturday to speak out against a concentration of safe injection sites in the Boyle, McCauley and Central McDougall neighbourhoods that they say is part of a larger issue of “systemic ghettoization.”
  “We know the situation is dire, and we do not minimize the issue, but Chinatown and the surrounding communities are already saturated with all shelter beds and over 60 social agencies that contribute to chaos, diso
  
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• Lees: More than $60,000 raised at Pinot on the Patio fundraiser for mental health

  19-06-2017 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There were five heroes last Tuesday night when more than $60,000 was raised at my Canada’s birthday-themed Pinot on the Patio at the Royal Glenora Club.
  The first was Bill Knight, who quietly asked me how much I was short in my three-year bid to raise $500,000 for the CASA Foundation.
  “CASA is outstanding in helping youngsters and their parents with mental-help issues,” says self-effacing business entrepreneur Knight, who has donated multi-millions of dollars to local charities
  
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• Oilers core protected heading into Wednesday's expansion draft

  19-06-2017 00:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Griffin Reinhart or Jujhar Khaira.
  Tyler Pitlick or Laurent Brossoit.
  The Edmonton Oilers are not sweating out the Vegas expansion draft on Wednesday like, say, Minnesota, which has to make a deal to keep exposed defenceman Matt Dumba and/or Eric Staal, or Anaheim, which has to do  some dancing to keep defenders Josh Manson and/or Sami Vatanen.
  Or Islanders’ GM Garth Snow, who left forwards Josh Bailey, Ryan Strome and Brock Nelson and D-man Calvin De Haan unprotected and either alrea
  
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