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• Update by city hall includes new Jasper Avenue construction dates, LRT-train photos

  22-06-2017 23:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Turning Jasper Avenue into a festival street, re-routing buses and finalizing construction for bike lanes across the city — city officials had lots to share in an alternative-transportation update Thursday.
  Edmonton Transit shared renderings for three transit stations that will be completely reworked with new architectural designs, public washrooms and heated seating areas starting this summer. And TransEd shared photos of the first new Valley Line LRT-train cab.
  “We’re excited
  
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• Eskimos looking to get out of the gates from the ground up

  22-06-2017 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The CFL is a passing league.
  Right up until it’s not.
  And that typically starts happening right around the time when games matter most.
  That much was evident in the Edmonton Eskimos playoff run last year, when both games were decided by a big rushing performance that took control, one way or the other.
  “Really, it’s just about balance. Being able to pass and run,” said Eskimos running back John White. “If you can run in this league, it opens up the passing more and
  
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• Edmonton Oilers' GM Peter Chiarelli explains the Eberle-for-Strome swap, sort of

  22-06-2017 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli had a 10-minute media avail in Chicago this afternoon, in advance of this weekend’s draft and in the aftermath of this morning’s one-for-one trade of Jordan Eberle to New York Islanders for Ryan Strome. That item dominated the early portion of the presser, with a few questions about contract negotiations with Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Kris Russell creeping into the later part of it.
  Here’s a transcript of some of Chiarelli’s rem
  
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• Jordan Eberle relieved trade from Edmonton Oilers to New York Islanders has been completed

  22-06-2017 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In the end, it came down to numbers for Jordan Eberle.
  The ones on his pay-check, not the ones on the stats sheet over his 507 National Hockey League games.
  The Edmonton Oilers winger’s $6-million salary for this season and next was too big for general manager Peter Chiarelli, who needs cap room to sign Leon Draisaitl to maybe $7-million a year, so he dealt Eberle —the longest-serving Oilers player — to the New York Islanders for cheaper and younger right-winger Ryan Strome, wh
  
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• Edmonton retailer Poppy Barley to open flagship store at Southgate

  22-06-2017 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Poppy Barley will be stepping into a new flagship store at Southgate Mall this August.
  The Edmonton-based company sells men’s and women’s leather footwear and accessories that are designed in Canada and ethically crafted in Mexico. It was founded by Edmonton sisters Justine and Kendall Barber in 2012. Currently products are sold out of a Whyte Ave. showroom, online and through temporary pop-up shops in major Canadian cities.
  According to the company, 12 management and retai
  
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• Help shape the future of downtown Edmonton

  22-06-2017 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Rogers Place has been open for a year. The new Royal Alberta Museum is complete and ready to open in 2018. Stantec Tower climbs higher each day; Edmonton Tower is already built. With most major projects well underway or already done, the much-hyped transformation of downtown is now cast in stone. Right?
  Wrong.
  The Downtown Business Association is running an online survey right now that gives every Edmontonian the chance to help shape the future of the Downtown. 
  “The Downtown area ha
  
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• Drugs, weapons, cash seized from rural property west of Edmonton

  22-06-2017 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Police have charged a man after seizing methamphetamine, cocaine, several weapons and $2,520 in cash from a rural property in Parkand County. 
  RCMP officers from the Stony Plain/Spruce Grove/Enoch drug section executed a search warrant on June 20, said a Thursday news release. 
  Mounties seized 96 grams of methamphetamine, 350 millilitres of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), 17.2 grams of cocaine and drug trafficking paraphernalia as well as cash.
  Officers also seized weapons includ
  
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• Kris Russell will re-sign with Edmonton Oilers, says NHL insider

  22-06-2017 20:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  This just in from E.J. Hradek, senior reporter for the NHL Network: “Hearing that D Kris Russell will be re-signing with @EdmontonOilers”
  Hradek’s tweet follows up on a tweet made by Oilers insider Ryan Rishaug of TSN: “Oilers needed cap space, it was either 93 or 14 to go. Wanted to keep the C to allow 29 to move back to wing if need be. Have to think Russell deal may be close, Oilers need some certainty with Sekera out to start season. Can’t risk both being absent
  
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• Edmonton Oilers trade Jordan Eberle to New York Islanders for Ryan Strome. Kris Russell signing next?

  22-06-2017 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Eberle trade: Good move to free up cap space? Or bad asset management?
  This just in from TSN’s Darren Dreger: Twitter reaction from mainstream mediaL
  Dreger: … a great opportunity for Jordan Eberle to hit the restart button as well. Good deal for both.
  Jason Gregor of Oilers Nation adds: Eberle for Ryan Strome. No retained money. No picks. Strome one year left at $2.5 mill. Eberle two left at $6 mill….Chiarelli makes this deal to save cap space and believes a change of scener
  
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• Sears nosedive includes 13 Alberta store closures

  22-06-2017 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Sears Home store in northwest Edmonton will be closing along with 12 other Sears locations in Alberta as part of a larger restructuring across Canada.
  The store at Skyview Power Centre, 13304 137 Ave., will be one of the 15 Sears Home stores closing in Canada, with the only other Alberta closure in Calgary.
  Sears Canada Inc. — after obtaining temporary court protection from creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) — announced Thursday it will close 20 f
  
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• Sisters Christine and Ingrid Jensen plumb rich stream of Canadian jazz with Infinitude

  22-06-2017 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  How did two sisters from Nanaimo, B.C., become shining lights of the Canadian jazz scene?
  That would be trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, a New Yorker since 1993, and saxophonist Christine Jensen, who moved to Montreal in 1990. Both are celebrated bandleader-composers on their own, currently touring the nation’s jazz fest circuit in a project called Infinitude that they co-lead with New York guitarist Ben Monder.
  The real answer starts with the fact that the sisters were raised in a family of music
  
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• Dianne Reeves packs more than jazz tunes into her eclectic concert adventures

  22-06-2017 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Few jazz singers alive have the power, the vocal range, the assured delivery or the wide-ranging taste in repertoire that Dianne Reeves enjoys. In fact, is it still appropriate to call her a jazz singer?
  “Jazz was my foundation and jazz has given me the freedom to sing everything,” Reeves noted recently on the line from her Denver home. “The first I saw Ella Fitzgerald, she was doing a concert of all Beatles tunes. Sarah Vaughn sang everything, too. Jazz musicians have always t
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: The Works, Jazz Fest and Ryan Adams

  22-06-2017 18:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Gretzky is Everywhere
  The  hockey season is over in Edmonton, but is it really? Andy Warhol’s 1984 print of the Great One is the central image for the exhibition currently running at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Gretzky is Everywhere. Running in several galleries across the country via live video feed, Gretzky is Everywhere takes a look at the how the still beloved, retired Oilers centre is something of a pervasive figure in our consciousness, and allows us to participate (Warhol style
  
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• Opera Nuova gives Edmontonians rare chance to see large-cast masterpieces

  22-06-2017 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Take a stage filled with butterflies, crows, a dragonfly, a badger, a little vixen (and her fox mate and cubs), a mosquito and various other forest creatures. Add a forester and a gamekeeper (and his dog), and you have perhaps the most magical opera of all time: The Cunning Little Vixen by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček.
  Edmontonians now have the rare chance to experience this marvellous work. Opera Nuova is giving the work its Alberta premiere from June 23 to 30 at Festival
  
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• Juno-winning Ruth B kicks off Canadian headlining tour Friday at Starlite

  22-06-2017 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s long past the jinxing point: Ruth B is a rising star.
  In April, in a terrifically sincere reaction of joy, the Edmonton pop singer clutched her surprise breakthrough artist Juno in Ottawa.
  Next, her gorgeous, emotive full-length album, Safe Haven, hit the digital airwaves in May, produced by Joel Little, his hand all over Lorde’s Pure Heroine debut.
  And as I interviewed her last week, she was just finished up on Good Morning America in New York City, speeding to the airport to f
  
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• Edmonton Oilers trade Jordan Eberle to New York Islanders for Ryan Strome

  22-06-2017 18:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  This just in from TSN’s Darren Dreger: Jason Gregor of Oilers Nation adds: “Eberle for Ryan Strome. No retained money. No picks. Strome one year left at $2.5 mill. Eberle two left at $6 mill.”
  Joe Yerdon, @NHL Buffalo correspondent: “I get it for the Isles. Gets Tavares a guy he’s done well with in the past. Oilers though? Hope Strome busts out and they cut salary?”
  Jason Brough, NBC’s ProChoiceHockeyTalk: “Apparently Eberle’s trade value too
  
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• Tommy Stinson: Rockin' at 50, touring with Bash & Pop with Axl a memory

  22-06-2017 17:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There’s a great quote from legendary Memphis musician and producer Jim Dickinson in regards to Tommy Stinson of alt-rockers Bash & Pop.
  “I want to say this about Tommy. Some people say that Keith Richards is the embodiment of rock ‘n roll. Well, I know ’em both, and I say it’s Tommy Stinson. Keith is a cowboy, he goes back to Gene Autry. Tommy — he goes back to Johnny Thunders. Tommy Stinson is rock ‘n roll.”
  Those words have been making their
  
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• North Country Fair: A whole different species of outdoor festival beauty

  22-06-2017 17:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  “It for me exemplifies the best aspects of being Albertan — the rugged individualism of, ‘Don’t tell me how to have my fun, I know what to do’,” is how musician Geoff Berner describes the hippy hootenanny North Country Fair, running this weekend in its 39th year,
  For many, the annual event officially running Thursday through Sunday is a pilgrimage, certainly an escape, and a truly unmatched example of an outdoor music festival blending seamlessly into the
  
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• Tighter control on booze reduces hospitalizations: new report

  22-06-2017 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Regions in the country that have tighter control on the sale of alcoholic beverages see lower rates of hospitalization due to over-consumption, according to a report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, an independent non-profit.
  The report finds that stronger government control over where and how alcohol is sold is associated with lower alcohol consumption and, in turn, the number of hospitalizations due to alcohol consumption.
  “People aren’t awar
  
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• Thursday's letters: Boost GST to pay for defence

  22-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  I am advocating for a one-per-cent increase to the GST.
  We need a $10-billion-dollar increase to the defence budget immediately and a raise to $60 billion next year. I am ashamed that we expect to operate a defence force with 50-year-old equipment.
  Every country in the world wants to take over Canada. To sit here with our head in our nether regions is very short-sighted. Buy Saab Sea Gripen NG fighters immediately, an aircraft that we can afford. Two hundred would be a good start. The
  
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• Opinion: Carbon tax won't reduce competitiveness; other policies might

  22-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  On June 1, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intentions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. On this side of the border, Trump’s decision is sure to raise anxiety about Canadian competitiveness. Calls to abandon a carbon tax will only become louder.
  In a world where its largest trading partner and competitor seems poised to shirk its climate responsibilities, Canada should be worried about competitiveness. But when it comes to policies crafted to reduce e
  
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• Edmonton Oilers adjust to picking lower in the first round of upcoming NHL Draft

  22-06-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For an organization accustomed to eating first at the annual talent buffet known as the NHL Draft, this weekend’s feast in Chicago figures to be a lot less satisfying.
  Instead of No.1 overall, as they’ve selected four times in the past seven years, or in the Top 5 (six times in seven years), the Oilers are near the back of the line this time and must wait for most of the league to fill up before they get a chance to pick at the leftovers.
  By the time Edmonton reaches the table a1t 22
  
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• If Edmonton Oilers' wunderkind Connor McDavid can win the Hart, Lindsay, and Ross Trophies at 20, what's next?

  22-06-2017 12:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  2016-17 Edmonton Oilers in reviewConnor McDavid
  It was a great scene for fans of the Edmonton Oilers. When the crowning moment finally arrived of Wednesday night’s convoluted NHL Awards Night Expansion Draft All Rolled Into One, who arrived to do the crowning but this city’s greatest hockey star. Wayne Gretzky was  once the prodigy’s prodigy who set the old NHL record book on fire, then wrote a new one which has never required serious updating. Now an upper-level executive
  
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• Terry Jones: Vegas pulls it off with Awards and Expansion Draft combined

  22-06-2017 06:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There was every expectation that the greatest names in the game would end up with lounge act status to the main showroom Vegas Golden Knights expansion draft.
  It didn’t work that way.
  It worked. It was a wonderful mix of the greats of today and yesterday with the launch of the NHL’s 31st franchise and maybe the greatest example ever of how to give a sucker ($500 million U.S.) an even break for a change and an even better example of how to work it for all it’s worth.
  Connor McDa
  
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• McDavid wins Hart Trophy as NHL's most valuable player

  22-06-2017 06:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  LAS VEGAS — Connor McDavid won his first Hart Trophy. Hardly anybody in hockey believes it will be his last.
  The Edmonton captain claimed the award as the NHL’s most valuable player Wednesday night at the league’s post-season awards show at T-Mobile Arena, the new home of the expansion Vegas Golden Knights.
  McDavid also won the Ted Lindsay Award, given to the league’s most outstanding performer in a vote of his fellow players. He already knew he would win the Art Ross Tro
  
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• Reinhart looking for a fresh start with Vegas expansion team

  22-06-2017 05:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton Oilers defenceman Griffin Reinhart is wading into the mosh pit with 13 other defenceman the expansion Vegas Golden Knights now have on their list, which obviously means some major jostling for NHL employment but he’s hoping for some love in the desert in his third NHL stop.
  While George McPhee wasn’t interested in Benoit Pouliot and his $4 million salary cap hit over the next two years, not after a 14-point season, the Vegas general manager is taking a flier on Reinhart. He&
  
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• Alberta Railway Museum steam locomotive coming out of retirement for Canada 150

  22-06-2017 05:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The 104-year-old Montreal Locomotive Works 1392 is packed up and ready get back on the tracks for the first time in 62 years.
  The 1913 locomotive acquired by the Alberta Railway Museum in 1971, which served in the Edmonton-area in the 1950s on work and weed trains, will be back in action as part of the Rails and Tales Canada 150 celebrations.
  Along with the 1920 Baldwin 41 owned by Alberta Prairie Railway, the steam locomotive will operate several passenger trips June 28-July 5 from Stettler to
  
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• Edmonton Oilers lose Griffin Reinhart to Vegas, but maybe can trade back for a d-man

  22-06-2017 04:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  On a night when numerous National Hockey League teams made deals in order to shed unwanted contracts and keep wanted players for themselves in the Vegas expansion draft, the Edmonton Oilers did no such thing.
  And, as expected, the Las Vegas Golden Knights took Griffin Reinhart from the Oilers.
  Vegas had a choice between prospects and picks or more established players. It often chose to go with prospects and picks. In this way, the Anaheim Ducks have been rumoured to be holding on to Josh Ma
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta's 'progressive' conservatives struggling to find a new political home

  22-06-2017 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Oh, what is a “progressive” conservative in Alberta to do?
  What do you do when your old Progressive Conservative party is being newly piloted by a social conservative who wants to scrap it for parts to meld with bits and pieces from the Wildrose Party to form a brand new hybrid political vehicle?
  Oh, on a superficial level you know the yet-to-be constructive United Conservative Party looks big and powerful — and might be able to easily overtake the NDP pedal-car next election &
  
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• Environment Canada hopes to give emergency managers, public more heads up on thunderstorms

  22-06-2017 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If you don’t get knee pain when a storm’s a-comin’, this might be the next-best thing. 
   
  Environment Canada is rolling out an online tool that will give the public an extra heads-up about incoming thunderstorms.
   
  The agency’s thunderstorm outlook, which is now in an experimental phase, gives emergency managers a 48-hour lookahead at developing storms instead of the watches and alerts that are typically issued the day of a weather event.
   
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• Edmonton public school board backs move to lower voting age

  22-06-2017 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s public school trustees added their support to a growing number of groups calling for a lower civic voting age in Alberta.
  School trustees voted 8-1 in favour of lobbying Alberta’s municipal affairs minister to amend the Local Elections Authorities Act to extend the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds.
  In split votes, both the Edmonton Catholic school board and Edmonton city council have voted for similar advocacy, at the prompting of the City of Edmonton Youth Council.
  Public sch
  
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• Alberta Health Services extends supply of life-saving drug during shortage

  22-06-2017 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta Health Services has extended its supply of a life-saving drug that is running out after a manufacturing shortage and recall. 
  “We did put a plan in place for alternative therapies in prioritizing the use of sodium bicarbonate,” said Dr. Francois Belanger, chief medical officer and vice-president of quality for Alberta Health Services (AHS), on Wednesday.
  The shortage of injectable sodium bicarbonate, used when a patient’s blood becomes too acidic, is due
  
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• First-round draft pick Behar will have to play catchup with Eskimos

  22-06-2017 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Things tend to be seen as black or white for sports fans.
  Especially when it comes to how the Green and Gold faithful view a first-round draft pick who doesn’t report for training camp.
  Such was the case with Nate Behar, the Carleton receiver taken fifth overall by the Eskimos in May’s Canadian Football League draft.
  To be fair, the 22-year-old wasn’t holding out on his contract. He didn’t sign one in the first place as negotiations ground to a halt between agent Jonathon
  
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• Simons previews second Edmonton location at Londonderry Mall

  22-06-2017 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton will be the first city outside of Quebec to have two Simons department store locations when the new Londonderry Mall location opens this August.
  The two-storey, 90,000-square-foot location will feature women’s and men’s fashions, home goods and the chain’s first dedicated shoe department.
  Peter Simons, president of the 177-year old, family-owned department store chain, said the mall’s redevelopment along with the opening of the last section of Anthony Henday Driv
  
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