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• Three charged in connection to January shooting death, Edmonton's fifth killing of 2017

  20-06-2017 22:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  One man is charged with second-degree murder and two others are facing charges in relation to the January shooting death of a 28-year-old man. 
  Police found Ian Janvier suffering fatal gunshot wounds after being called to a weapons complaint near 110 Avenue and 84 Street around 6:45 a.m. on Jan. 21. Janvier died later in hospital. 
  Investigators were later searching for a truck in connection to the slaying which they believed was targeted. 
  On Tuesday, police said they charged thr
  
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• Newfoundland father of man slain in Edmonton pleads for help to get body home

  20-06-2017 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The father of a 33-year-old man stabbed to death in a north Edmonton alley last week is pleading for help to get his son’s body home to the tiny Newfoundland town where he was raised.
  Terry Coates — the father of Brent Coates, who was found fatally wounded near 118 Avenue and 50 Street around 3:30 a.m. Friday — said he hopes to lay his son to rest next to his mother at a family plot in Brown’s Arm, N.L., population 400. 
  “I’ve got a lot of pride and I don
  
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• New cost-sharing pitch aims to open up Edmonton's industrial land

  20-06-2017 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City councillors endorsed a new way of funding industrial growth Tuesday, one intended to make the city more competitive in the region. 
  “The city has been under-performing for the last numbers of years,” said Steve Jensen, the city’s development engineer, pitching a plan Tuesday that will give developers predictability without the city committing upfront costs.
  The first developer to work on undeveloped land will still be responsible for building main roads and sewer line
  
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• School boards have until December to submit plans to tap $75-million classroom improvement fund

  20-06-2017 21:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta school districts have until Dec. 15 to submit proposals on how to spend their portion of the province’s new $75-million classroom improvement fund, Education Minister David Eggen said Tuesday morning.
  Eggen made the announcement — along with Mark Ramsankar, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association, and Thomas Holmes, associate superintendent, Sturgeon Public School Division — at the Sturgeon Heights School in St. Albert.
  “The classroom improvement fund
  
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• Bishop David Motiuk Elementary-Junior High opens doors for a sneak peek

  20-06-2017 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The halls are quiet at the new Bishop David Motiuk School in Lewis Estates, but they won’t be for long. This September, the long-awaited elementary-junior high school opens its doors to students.
  Among the features at the school are two gymnasiums, a robotics lab, a wood shop and spaces for art and drama.
  Principal Terry Volk at the west-end school on Tuesday said the community is excited for the school to finally open.
  “The fact that this school is almost at capacity right from the
  
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• Alberta Education minister to give classroom improvement fund announcement

  20-06-2017 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta Education minister David Eggen will give an announcement Tuesday regarding the benefits of the province’s $75-million classroom improvement fund.
  Eggen will be joined at 11 a.m. by Mark Ramsankar, president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association and Thomas Holmes, associate superintendent, Sturgeon Public School Division at the Sturgeon Heights School in St. Albert.
  The fund was first announced in May when Alberta school boards voted to accept a two-year deal with the province&
  
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• Radio pioneer, trumpet virtuoso among those honoured at MacEwan convoc

  20-06-2017 18:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  At MacEwan University’s spring convocation, alumni and community members who mentor and inspire graduates will be honoured. Whether they’re from the external community or got their start at MacEwan, these individuals model the determination, work ethic and innovative thinking that the university encourages in its students.Medal of Excellence
  Every year, MacEwan awards Medals of Excellence to recognize outstanding contributions and achievements by individuals from many fields and sec
  
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• Jason Kenney leadership candidates to face vigorous vetting to stymie 'bozo eruptions'

  20-06-2017 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney says he will push for a rigorous screening of prospective candidates of any new conservative party to spike election-derailing “bozo eruptions.”
  “Let’s be honest about this,” Kenney said Monday at a town hall meeting with 350 people at a St. Albert hotel.
  “I’ve heard it every day for the past year — every single day — I’ve heard about the one or two bozo eruptions that have imposed a
  
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• Oilers star Connor McDavid should win his first MVP award in shadow of NHL expansion draft

  20-06-2017 17:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Connor McDavid is likely to win his first Hart Trophy as NHL MVP later week, but will anyone notice?
  Expansion draft selections will be revealed during the NHL awards meaning the spotlight will likely drift from McDavid, Auston Matthews and other award winners.
  But not here! Our picks on who should — and will — collect this year’s key awards.
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• Residents call for more safety measures after woman, dog killed at west-end crosswalk

  20-06-2017 17:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Overhead lights, lower speeds and cutting back bushes around a west-end crosswalk may have helped prevent the Saturday death of a woman and her dog, say some Lewis Estates residents.
  The woman, 57, and her dog were killed around 7 p.m. Saturday on Suder Greens Drive after being struck by an SUV.
  Floral tributes continued to accumulate Monday. One card tells the victim to “keep laughing” and to “wear that leopard in style.” Another is addressed to “Wanda.&r
  
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• Emotional Adam Braidwood offers condolences to Tim Hague's family in video statement

  20-06-2017 17:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Boxer Adam Braidwood fought back tears in a video statement where he offered condolences to the family of Tim Hague, who died after losing to the former CFL player in a heavyweight boxing match on Friday night.
  Hague was hospitalized after the one-sided loss via second-round technical knockout. His death was announced Sunday by his sister Jackie Neil.
  “I spoke to the Hague family in private and offered my condolences and I wanted to do the same now publicly,” Braidwood said in the po
  
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• City of St. Albert Recreation Summer Activities Guide 2017

  20-06-2017 16:52
  Residents and visitors are encouraged to embrace the sizzling fun of summer in St. Albert If you’re interested in spending... Read Post
  
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• College free-agent Spencer Foo will decide next week if he wants to sign with hometown Edmonton Oilers

  20-06-2017 15:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Spencer Foo, the highly rated college free-agent right-winger from Union College, will make up his mind on whether he wants to sign with his hometown National Hockey League team, the Edmonton Oilers, after he sees what transpires in the expansion draft in Las Vegas.
  Foo’s agent, Michael Kaye, said there are four teams still in the running for Foo, who played junior hockey for the Bonnyville Pontiacs before attending college in the U.S. The Oilers, the Philadelphia Flyers, which has signed
  
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• College free-agent Spencer Foo will decide if he wants to sign with hometown Edmonton Oilers next week

  20-06-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Spencer Foo, the highly rated college free-agent right-winger from Union College, will make up his mind on whether he wants to sign with his hometown National Hockey League team, the Edmonton Oilers, after he sees what transpires in the expansion draft in Las Vegas.
  Foo’s agent, Michael Kaye, said there are four teams still in the running for Foo, who played junior hockey for the Bonnyville Pontiacs before attending college in the U.S. The Oilers, the Philadelphia Flyers, which has signed
  
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• Video: New webcast encourages more women to run in Alberta’s next municipal election

  20-06-2017 14:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Minister of Status of Women Stephanie McLean announced a new webcast Monday to encourage more women to run in Alberta’s next municipal election during a news conference at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton.
   
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Equal space for patients choosing natural death

  20-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Re. “Death on their own terms,” June 17
  The Journal is to be commended for giving Archbishop Richard Smith voice on the Catholic perspective on the contentious and evil nature of assisted suicide.
  The Catholic church’s long-standing opposition to the culture of death is based on sound reasoning and a common-sense understanding of the value of life, from conception to natural death. It should be noted that Smith’s convictions regarding the sacred nature of human life is sh
  
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• Recreation property prices near Alberta's big cities on the upswing: housing report

  20-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta’s recreational property values — particularly those near Edmonton and Calgary — are on the rise, a new market report says.
  Recreational properties near the two cities have begun to see their markets turn a corner, with slight year-over-year price increases so far in 2017, shows the 2017 Royal LePage Canadian Recreational Housing Report.
  Average regional prices in Alberta include:
  • Pigeon Lake: $450,000 for lakefront property; $315,000 for woodland cabin, not
  
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• Opinion: Mental injuries win legal respect after Supreme Court ruling

  20-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As recently reported, suicide rates in Alberta have dropped substantially. Between 2015 and 2016, the number of Edmontonians who took their own lives fell from 158 to 121. Provincially, that number decreased from 668 to 496.
  The reasons for that development are not entirely clear, but they surely include a shift in social attitudes. A great deal of work remains to be done, but the stigma associated with mental illness has been significantly reduced. It has become much easier to ask for help.
  Enc
  
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• Opinion: Alberta's labour-law changes too rushed to be fair

  20-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Alberta government wanted stronger and more unions in the province. Passing Bill 17: Alberta’s Fair and Family Friendly Workplaces this month will certainly advance that agenda. To the winner has gone the spoils.
  But our elected public servants disregarded the tenets of good governance and democracy by rushing the legislation through. Without any reasonably informed liberty to voice their views, Albertans’ right to engage in public dialogue on this important issue was scuttled.
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• Alberta expects 18,600 new cancer cases this year as Canada grapples with aging population

  20-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta needs to redouble its efforts to prevent cancer as the province sees steady growth in the number of new cases, the Canadian Cancer Society says. 
  A new study released Tuesday estimated that 18,600 Albertans will be diagnosed with cancer this year — part of a cross-Canada rise in new cases as the country grapples with an aging population.
  The report found one in two Canadians are expected to contract cancer at some point in their lives, while the country is seeing more new canc
  
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• Edmonton Oilers head coach insists his NHL award nomination a team effort

  20-06-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A few years ago, coaching the Edmonton Oilers into the playoffs warranted a heck of a lot more than a Jack Adams nomination.
  For 10 years and two failed rebuilds, the organization was such a mess that any coach who managed to somehow sneak the NHL’s laughingstock into the post-season deserved a Nobel Prize, The Order of Canada and a lifetime supply of Tylenol.
  But times have changed here in Edmonton. The Oilers won a lottery, watched a third-overall pick emerge into another all-world centr
  
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• What Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli must now avoid? Locking into cap-killing contracts

  20-06-2017 09:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  All kinds of teams sign big name players with high hopes, only for deals to turn sour
  Peter Chiarelli’s first job this summer is to sign up Connor McDavid and Leon Drasaitl to deals that will sufficiently enrich the two players, but not swamp the team’s salary cap. 
  His second job? Avoid club-killing contracts, any deal for an average veteran that includes too much salary, too much term and too many movement restrictions.
  The rub, of course, is that winning is all important, esp
  
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• What Peter Chiarelli must now avoid? Locking into terrible contracts

  20-06-2017 08:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  All kinds of teams sign big name players with great hopes only for deals to turn sour
  Peter Chiarelli’s first job this summer is to sign up Connor McDavid and Leon Drasaitl to deals that will sufficiently enrich the two players, but not swamp the team’s salary cap. 
  His second job? Avoid club-killing contracts, any deal for an average veteran that includes too much salary, too much term and too many movement restrictions.
  The rub, of course, is that winning is all important, esp
  
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• Jason Kenney pushes for thorough vetting of prospective candidates of any new conservative party

  20-06-2017 06:47 via globalnews.ca
  
  Alberta Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney says he will push for a rigorous screening of prospective candidates of any new conservative party to spike election-derailing "bozo eruptions."
  
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• Edmonton 'chasing our tail' on vehicle-for-hire enforcement: councillor

  20-06-2017 05:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton is going in circles trying to enforce its vehicle-for-hire rules, says Coun. Michael Walters.
  It has a problem with people flagging down cars that are not legally cabs in Edmonton, including regional taxis, TappCars and Uber.
  Instead of banning them from having any identification on the outside of their cars, the city is requiring them all to have front and back decals, which will only make it easier to accept street hails, Walters said Monday at the community services committee.
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• Graham Thomson: Brian Jean narrowly averted a mutiny, according to Wildrose party president

  20-06-2017 04:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In what was the worst kept secret in Alberta politics, Wildrose MLA Derek Fildebrandt has let it be known he will toss his hat into the ring for leadership of the new United Conservative Party – provided, of course, the United Conservative Party actually becomes a thing.
  In this, Fildebrandt becomes the fourth almost-declared candidate for leadership of a yet-to-be formed party.
  The others are Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and Calgary lawyer Doug
  
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• Terry Jones: New Edmonton Eskimos receiver aims to add offence, better character

  20-06-2017 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It wasn’t your normal run-of-the-mill, stock sort of quote you’d expect from a player attending a National Football League combine.
  “I’m a first round pick no matter what but off the field I’m a seventh-round pick. My character is a seventh round pick,” said D’haquille ‘Duke’ Williams.
  Turned out his character was ‘Don’t-draft-me-at-all’.
  Duke Williams was not selected in last year’s NFL draft. He went from being proje
  
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• Edmonton's Northlands Coliseum to host Davis Cup play between Canada and India

  20-06-2017 04:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Northlands Coliseum is serving up another sporting event this year.
  Davis Cup tennis returns to Edmonton for the first time in 21 years Sept. 15-17,as Canada faces India in front of crowds of up to 6,800 spectators at the former home arena of the Edmonton Oilers.
  Alberta last hosted a Davis Cup match nine years ago in Calgary.
  The winner of the best-of-five Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group play-off will return to the elite World Group while the loser will be relegated to regional qualifying.
  
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• Residents call for removing bushes near crosswalk where woman, dog killed

  20-06-2017 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The city should get rid of large bushes that obscure the view of a crosswalk where a pedestrian was struck and killed Saturday, Lewis Estates residents say.
  The woman, 57, and her dog died Saturday evening on Suder Greens Drive after being struck by an SUV.
  Floral tributes continued to accumulate Monday. One card tells the victim to “keep laughing” and to “wear that leopard in style.” Another is addressed to “Wanda.”
  Flowers left at a memorial for a
  
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• Death of boxer Tim Hague could have been prevented, says close friend

  20-06-2017 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Tim Hague’s death could have been prevented had more attention been paid to the boxer’s history of concussions, says a close friend.
  “Tim’s life probably would have been spared and he would have spent Father’s Day with his son Brady and that is a fact,” Kris LaBelle, a mixed martial arts commentator and comedian, said Monday.
  Hague, 34, died Sunday after suffering a brain hemorrhage in a boxing match against former Edmonton Eskimo Adam Braidwood on Friday in E
  
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• National Aboriginal Day increasingly celebrates culture, healing

  20-06-2017 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When Irene Morin addressed the crowd at Edmonton City Centre to give the opening prayer for National Aboriginal Day celebrations Monday, she noticed a lot of volunteers wearing red T-shirts.
  “We like the colour red because everybody bleeds red, so we’re all brothers and sisters in this world,” the Enoch Cree nation elder said before delivering a prayer in Cree.
  Hundreds of shoppers and spectators, including provincial Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Fe
  
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• Three charged after RCMP search northwestern Alberta grow-op

  20-06-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Fairview RCMP have charged three people after officers dismantled a marijuana grow operation at a rural northwestern Alberta property June 10.
  Officers searching the Clearhills County property seized 53 marijuana plants in various stages of cultivation, RCMP said in a release Monday.
  Michael Larka, Merry Larka and Andy Larka of Fairview have been charged with production of cannabis marijuana under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
  They are scheduled to appear in Fairview provincial court
  
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• City police name two latest homicide victims, seek information in slayings

  20-06-2017 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City police homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help to solve Edmonton’s two latest homicides, that of a 33- year-old man Friday and an 18-year-old man Sunday. 
  Police on Monday identified Friday’s stabbing victim as 33-year-old Brent Jonas Coates, found fatally wounded in a north Edmonton alley around round 3:30 a.m. Police called an ambulance for the victim after being flagged down but Coates died on scene.
  Homicide Staff Sgt. Duane Hunter is calling for tips
  
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• St. Albert Celebrates Canada Day Presented by Reliance the Furnace Company

  20-06-2017 00:26
  Join us as we celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation! The City of St. Albert is excited to offer an... Read Post
  
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• Advocates push for mandatory identification for men at body rub parlours

  20-06-2017 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Women working in Edmonton’s licensed body rub parlours are being choked, slapped and sexually assaulted with little recourse against bad clients, city officials were told 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 identification and women aren’t reporting the violence to police.
  Even though
  
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