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• 5 takeaways from Edmonton Eskimos' win over B.C. Lions

  26-06-2017 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Eskimos are 1-0 to not only start the season, but also the tenure of new general manager Brock Sunderland, who received the game ball from his team following a 30-27 win over the B.C. Lions at BC Place Stadium on Saturday.
  The victory got them off on the right foot to sit in sole possession of first place in the West Division thanks to Calgary tying, Winnipeg bye-ing and Saskatchewan, well, being Saskatchewan.
  Sure, it was only from nine-yards out as the clock ran out, but a game-wi
  
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• Alberta Golden Bears coaching legend Clare Drake makes it to Hockey Hall of Fame

  26-06-2017 21:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Coach Drake will now answer to Hockey Hall of Famer.
  Clare Drake, the mentor to so many National Hockey League coaches past and present — from George Kingston and Dave King to Ken Hitchcock, Mike Babcock and Barry Trotz, and the legion of coaches throughout North America after his 28 years at U of Alberta as a selfless dispenser of information — was finally elected Monday to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder category after a vote in Toronto.
  Drake, 88, joined Boston Bruins owner
  
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• Local coaching legend Clare Drake finally admitted to Hockey Hall of Fame

  26-06-2017 21:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Fantastic news Monday as Clare Drake, “the Coach’s Coach”, has finally been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.To say this nomination is long overdue is an understatement, but the great news here is that not only has it finally happened, the news has come during his lifetime. Coach Drake turns 89 later this year, and as the old saying goes, there are no guarantees. 
  In addition to his superb record coaching University of Alberta Golden Bears for 28 seasons, Drake has exten
  
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• Three adults charged with second-degree murder after 17-year-old slain Friday

  26-06-2017 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two men and a woman are each charged with second-degree murder after a 17-year-old boy was found slain Friday in a northeast Edmonton parking lot.
  Police called to the Parkridge Estates parking lot near 29 Street and 116 A Avenue found the victim around 7 a.m. and the homicide unit was called in.
  Several residents on scene later Friday morning said men armed with wooden fence boards had been seen beating the teen to the ground. 
  Police on Monday said they are not naming the victim in this c
  
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• Edmonton Oilers sign Zack Kassian to three-year contract

  26-06-2017 20:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Zack Kassian, who was looking for a port in a storm when his off-ice troubles had his National Hockey League career in serious jeopardy two years ago, signed a three-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Monday for $1.95-million a season.
  Kassian — acquired in late December 2015 from Montreal Canadiens for goalie Ben Scrivens, who is now playing in Russia’s KHL — signed for $5.85 million over the three years after playing this past season for $1.75 million on a one-year dea
  
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• Zack Kassian's three-year extension with Edmonton Oilers a solid deal for both sides

  26-06-2017 20:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Qualifying offers issued to Draisaitl, Simpson, LaLeggia and Yakimov
  The Edmonton Oilers took care of some business Monday morning in advance of today’s 3 PM Mountain deadline for NHL clubs to declare their intentions for restricted free agents. One such player was signed outright while qualifying oiffers were issued to four others.McKenzie’s math is indeed correct, and from this distance that looks like a pretty good deal for the Oilers. Many were expecting a two-year extension in t
  
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• Crown blocks attempt by family to release name of jailed victim

  26-06-2017 19:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Crown prosecutors have refused to allow the family of a sexual assault victim who was jailed by the court to fight for the removal of a publication ban on the young, indigenous woman’s name.
  On Monday, Edmonton’s chief Crown prosecutor Shelley Bykewich confirmed that the Crown would maintain its position that the publication ban should stay in place. Bykewich sent the email to a lawyer representing the Journal and CBC who, along with the victim’s family, had sought to have the
  
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• Bodies of last Fort Chipewyan hunters missing since April found

  26-06-2017 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The bodies of Andrew Ladouceur and Keith Marten, two of four hunters who went missing from Fort Chipewyan in late April, have been found..
  Community members confirmed the body of Ladouceur, who was last seen April 23, was located eight kilometres north of Fort Chipewyan on the Rocher River. His body was recovered from the river sometime on June 24.
  Police confirmed Sunday morning that an autopsy is scheduled Monday in Edmonton. More details are expected to be released.
  On Sunday evening, friends
  
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• Mounties rescue ducklings from Fort McMurray sewer

  26-06-2017 18:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Seven ducklings that tumbled into a sewer drain over the weekend were rescued by Mounties in Fort McMurray. 
  Police got a report around 8 a.m. Sunday about some ducklings that had fallen into the drain near Ash Way and Lodgepole Way.
  When officers arrived, they found the mother duck nearby and could hear her babies in the underground drain.
  Officers removed the manhole cover and one of them climbed into the sewer, plucking each one to safety.
  RCMP officers rescue ducklings that fell into th
  
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• Alberta to spend $1.2 billion on affordable housing

  26-06-2017 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta will spend $1.2 billion over the next five years as it expands its portfolio of affordable housing by building another 4,000 units.
  The investment is part of Alberta’s provincial housing strategy, unveiled Monday in Edmonton.
  It’s the first time the province has had a long-term plan, joining the rest of Canada and leaving Prince Edward Island as the only province without an affordable housing plan.
  The new strategy will likely see more Albertans eligible for affordable housin
  
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• Two charged after Lloydminster RCMP officer attacked

  26-06-2017 18:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two men have been charged after a Lloydminster RCMP officer was attacked in a bar parking lot after responding to a fight. 
  Lloydminster RCMP were responding to a fight in the parking lot of a local bar around 1 a.m. on Friday when the officer was attacked by two men.
  The pair were quickly arrested and taken into custody.
  The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
  Jeffory Cowan, 41, of Lloydminster and Riley Cowan, 37, are each charged with assault on a police officer, causing a di
  
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• Photo Enforcement Locations - July 2017

  26-06-2017 16:32
  The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of the Day locations for July 2017.   Enforcement... Read Post
  
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• Connor McDavid's contract dilemma: get paid his value or take a bullet for the team?

  26-06-2017 16:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If McDavid signs for maximum contract, Oilers fans should celebrate. But he may yet pull a Crosby ….
  Under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, it’s not possible for the Edmonton Oilers to overpay Connor McDavid.
  McDavid could get the maximum amount of $14 million over 8 years and he’s such a unique player that he’d still be underpaid. A player who adds as much to winning as McDavid does would fetch a killing on an open market. It’s easy to imagine some tea
  
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• Residents displaced as fire rips through east Edmonton apartment building

  26-06-2017 15:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Theresa Baran sprang awake Monday morning when she smelled smoke pouring through the vents of her apartment. 
  “I just panicked,” she said. “I grabbed my birds and my dog… it was hard for me to breathe. I just grabbed what mattered to me.”
  Baran and other residents of six-unit Terrace Heights apartment are wondering what’s next after a fire tore through the building Monday morning.  
  Karen Burgess, spokeswoman with Edmonton Fire Rescue Services, said
  
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• 'Love letters to the world' etched into community's sidewalks

  26-06-2017 14:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Kendra Black calls the poems etched into her neighbourhood’s sidewalks “little love letters to the world.”
  The Meadows Community League, which encompasses Wild Rose, Larkspur and Silverberry, finished the third instalment of Poetry Pathways in the Meadows, a four-part public art initiative, over the weekend. The project sandblasts poems written by local residents into the sidewalks around the neighbourhood.
  The newest poems are etched into the sidewalk along 34 Avenue at M
  
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• Rolling stop on the table as Alberta-wide bike review launches

  26-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Rolling through a stop sign, letting motorists back into angle parking – cyclists have some very specific hopes for a new province-wide bike review getting its Edmonton launch Monday.
  Alberta and its major cities have agreed to develop a shared bicycle facilities guideline. A review of the Alberta Traffic Safety Act would follow, said the City of Edmonton’s Claire Ellick, a partner on the project.
  Consultant Urban Systems is meeting with health-care providers, police, bike advocates,
  
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• New $228-million High Prairie hospital might be the last rural Alberta sees for awhile

  26-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The gift shop at the newly opened $228-million High Prairie hospital sells chocolate cigars for celebrating the arrival of a baby.
  For those eager to make a fashion statement, there are little infant-sized outfits bearing the words, “I Was Born At The High Prairie Health Complex.”
  Down the hall, the gleaming new maternity ward has a special warming machine, a set of shiny new cribs and even ankle bracelets that trigger an alarm when a baby is taken from the ward without permission.
  T
  
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• Alberta government failing to address justice system backlogs, says Wildrose

  26-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Alberta government is failing to take criminal justice backlogs seriously in light of new information suggesting that hundreds of cases could be dismissed due to delays, says Wildrose Leader Brian Jean.
  “The major thing is to allocate enough resources to immediately get enough Crown prosecutors and judges in place to respond to this,” Jean said last week. “We have a lot of lawyers who don’t have work … They would love to supplement their income with Crown prose
  
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• Brewery District patrons parking in adjacent lot get hit with tickets

  26-06-2017 03:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Brewery District customer is warning other motorists after he was hit with a $50 parking fine for walking to the wrong building.
  Kevin Hicks said he has been going to the GoodLife Fitness gym for approximately six months, about twice per week. Often, he will walk across the parking lot to Booster Juice for a smoothie.
  But earlier this month, when he returned to his vehicle, parked between GoodLife Fitness and Staples, he found a parking ticket.
  “It’s stupid,” Hicks said.
  Good
  
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• Oliver highrise gets a thumbs-down from city staff

  26-06-2017 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The city’s sustainable development department is recommending against a proposed high-rise apartment in the Oliver neighbourhood, saying the building’s design does not fit with the neighbourhood’s characteristics.
  The proposed site, sitting on two lots at 9918 and 9922 111 St., is currently zoned to allow apartments up to four storeys. A 165-unit high-rise would climb 30 storeys if it goes forward.
  The rezoning application comes from Westrich Pacific Corp., the developer behind
  
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• Fire in west Edmonton apartment building triggers evacuation

  26-06-2017 03:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Residents of a west-end apartment building were displaced for the night following a fire Sunday afternoon.
  Fire crews were called to the building at 15430 100 Ave. around 4:26 p.m., said Karen Burgess, speaking on behalf of Edmonton Fire Rescue Services.
  Firefighters arrived to see flames and smoke billowing out of a second-storey unit in the walkup apartment.
  “Crews were targeting an interior attack and they were able to get the fire under control by 4:54 p.m.,” Burgess said. &
  
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• Curtis Stock: MS can't keep Allen Henschel off golf course

  26-06-2017 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Golf is an obsession. Often infernal, it is a game that its participants spend a lifetime trying to master but never can.
  It is nature. It is bad breaks and occasional good breaks. It is cruel. It is vexing and, while rare, at times exhilarating.
  “One minute you’re bleeding. The next minute you’re hemorrhaging. The next minute you’re painting the Mona Lisa,” summed up former PGA player, Mac O’Grady when asked to describe a typical round of golf.
  But to Allen H
  
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• Clare Drake will once again wait to see if he gets into Hockey Hall of Fame

  26-06-2017 02:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Clare Drake, who’s been a road map for a score of NHL coaches with his coaching foresight, keeps saying his storied life will be just fine, thank you, if he doesn’t get that elusive Hockey Hall of Fame selection.
  At 88, he’s comfortable in his own skin, well aware that Ken Hitchcock, Barry Trotz, Mike Babcock, Dave King, Perry Pearn, George Kingston and others have been beating the drum for Coach Drake for some time now to get their favourite mentor the final recognition as a h
  
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• Body of third missing hunter found on the bank of Rocher River

  26-06-2017 02:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The body of one of four missing hunters was found Saturday on the banks of the Rocher River, Mounties have confirmed.
  The body was found about eight kilometres north of where the hunters’ boat was earlier recovered, Fort Chipewyan RCMP said Sunday.
  The four men had gone on a hunting trip headed for Devil’s Gate and were reported missing April 23.
  An autopsy identifying the man is scheduled for Monday in Edmonton.
  The body of Walter Ladoucer, 42, was found April 30.
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• Brock gets the rock: Eskimos new general manager given game ball

  26-06-2017 02:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  VANCOUVER — The Edmonton Eskimos have officially put the off-season behind them.
  Whatever happened leading up to, during and after the major shakeup in football operations that saw former general manager Ed Hervey replaced by Brock Sunderland in the span of two weeks with less than two months to go until training camp, they put themselves back on track with Saturday’s season-opening win over the B.C. Lions.
  Going 1-0 under new management, the locker-room gave the game ball to Sunderl
  
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• Oilers developing patience as well as talent

  26-06-2017 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  CHICAGO — When it comes to the Edmonton Oilers top prospects, company policy has changed from “hurry up” to “take your time.”
  Rather than rushing their picks into the NHL, as has been the case in the past, the Oilers have become much more patient in their approach to developing talent.
  Part of that comes, of course, from having a better team that doesn’t need immediate help in almost every position. And part comes from learning from experience that forcing thi
  
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• Sherritt's injury in season opener a flashback for Eskimos QB Reilly

  26-06-2017 01:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  VANCOUVER – Mike Reilly had a horrible flashback on the field of BC Place Stadium on Saturday night.
  It was an all-too familiar scene when a member of the Edmonton Eskimos got hauled off the field and onto the trainer’s table with what looked like a serious leg injury suffered in their season opener.
  This time, J.C. Sherritt left with a suspected Achilles issue.
  And Reilly knows exactly what it’s like being forced to leave a stadium on crutches in that exact situation.
  Back in
  
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• Nick Lees: Cyclists return after rugged 900-km ride between Vancouver and Jasper

  26-06-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two businessmen, who began cycling last month, stormed home Saturday with a 45-strong group of Edmonton riders after a rugged 900-km ride between Jasper and Vancouver, and said they would be the $25,000 presenting sponsors of next year’s CASA ride.
  “We had time to think about the children, adolescents and their families who need help with mental health issues,” said Chad Stewart, 41.
  The cycling adventure began in February when CASA Foundation chairman Arash Vahdaty called his
  
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• Edmonton Muslim communities celebrate end of Ramadan

  26-06-2017 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s Muslim communities were celebrating the end of Ramadan after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting Sunday. 
  Eid al-Fitr, meaning the festival of breaking the fast, is celebrated for up to three days depending on the country, with feasts, charity and gift-giving. 
  In Edmonton, Al-Hadi Mosque was the site of a festive celebration Sunday for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
  “Although this happy occasion comes at a time when global peace is being threatened
  
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