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• 'It's a dream come true': Boyle Street Education Centre students celebrate graduation milestone

  30-06-2017 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Eight young graduates who overcame challenges such as homelessness and addiction walked across the steps inside Edmonton’s City Hall Friday, holding their hard-won high school diplomas. 
  “I’m finally graduating, it’s a dream come true,” said Leonard Akers, 19.
  He graduated from Boyle Street Education Centre, which aims to help high-risk youth or those who have experienced interruptions in their grade-school education.
  “They help you every single step alon
  
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• Alberta Pianofest has grown to offer something for everyone

  30-06-2017 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  In 2011, an enterprising young Edmonton pianist now living in New York, Jason Cutmore, started a new society with two aims — to put on a biannual summer festival of piano playing in Alberta, featuring distinguished artists, and to offer, in conjunction with the festival, a teaching residency for advanced piano students in their teens.
  Those plans came to fruition in 2013 with the first Alberta Pianofest. Some of the concerts took place in the lakeside surroundings of Pigeon Lake, others in
  
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• Social Seen: Moët Party Day

  30-06-2017 23:00 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)
  Moët Party Day
  Where: Courtyard Marriott
  When: June 17
  Who: Moet
  What: Champagne party
  Featuring: Champagne, sunshine, music and a be
  
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• Paula Simons: Happy 150, Canada. Celebrate – but don't rest on your laurels

  30-06-2017 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There is no Canadian word  – or at least no English-language word – for Schadenfreude.
  We’ve had to borrow it from the German – as we’ve borrowed wieners and sauerkraut and giant soft pretzels.
  But Schadenfreude may be Germany’s greatest contributions to Canadian identity. 
  It means the joy we take from the sorrow of others. The sort of joy you take, for when Vancouver gets more snow that Edmonton. When the Flames go out of the Stanley Cup playoffs b
  
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• Dining Out: Simple ingredients made sumptuously spectacular for sharing at Wishbone

  30-06-2017 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Ironically, you won’t find any wishbones at Wishbone, the “modern Canadian surf and turf” restaurant just opened by Three Boars co-owner and chef, Brayden Kozak. As the website descriptor suggests, the menu runs to fish, seafood, beef and a bit of pork, relegating our feathered friends to a wish-boneless skewer of chicken and some wings among the appetizers.
  Local chickens may cheer, but so too will local diners, as Wishbone upholds the high standards Kozak has set at his other
  
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• Expect Oilers to be quiet when NHL free-agency frenzy begins July 1

  30-06-2017 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It might be a frenzy around the rest of the National Hockey League, but in Edmonton, the opening of the free agent market on July 1 could be fairly quiet.
  If not dead silent.
  The big news is expected to be Connor McDavid’s contract extension, rumoured to be in the neighbourhood of eight years and $13.25 million per season, followed soon, they hope, by a new deal for Leon Draisaitl.
  And with those contracts come a new era of fiscal belt-tightening in Edmonton, meaning the last thing the Oil
  
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• Alberta school board ends agreement with Christian school after Bible verse spat

  30-06-2017 21:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A rural Alberta school board said it’s cutting ties with a Christian school that wanted to include a Bible verse condemning “men who have sex with men” in its student handbook. 
  In a statement issued Friday, the Camrose-based Battle River school board said it will terminate an agreement to operate the Cornerstone Christian Academy in Kingman, Alta., at the end of the 2017-18 school year.“This is not a decision we have reached lightly,” school trustee
  
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• Edmonton expands to airport's edge, will pay Leduc $8.5 million

  30-06-2017 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton will not fly its flag at the airport but an annexation agreement announced Friday does include a commitment to invest in that economic hub.
  The Edmonton International Airport will remain part of Leduc County. But planning around its growth will be done by consensus with four parties and their wallets in the room: Edmonton, Leduc County, the City of Leduc and the airport.
  “This is not just about Edmonton, about flying our flag over the airport,” said Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson
  
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• Australian super chef joins REDx Talks at Enoch Cree Nation July 6

  30-06-2017 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Jock Zonfrillo, the Australian celebrity chef sensation, is coming to Edmonton for REDx Talks. He’s one of several international chefs who will be on site for the talks, organized by Shane Chartrand of  Sage restaurant.
  Zonfrillo joins a showcase of speakers including Minnesota’s celebrity “Sioux Chef” Sean Sherman, and 10 of Alberta’s top executive chefs who are gathering to honour the indigenous spirit of oral tradition and storytelling.
  Born in Scotland, Zon
  
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• Hottest ticket this summer as Culinary Lab brings top chefs to YEG for communal meal

  30-06-2017 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  To mark Canada’s 150 birthday, the city’s Culinary Lab team has gathered five stellar western chefs to create a memorable meal, served under the stars on the rooftop patio at Manulife Place.
  The event is Saturday, August 26, and it will see a five-course menu paired with three different wines, all served to 300 folks over two seatings. The price is $150 and tickets are only sold in sets of two.
  The chefs are some of the top talents from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. They
  
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• Edmonton to expand south in annexation deal, will pay Leduc $8.5 million over 10 years

  30-06-2017 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton and Leduc County have finalized an annexation deal that includes a new framework for managing the Edmonton International Airport.
  Officials from four jurisdictions — Edmonton, Leduc, Leduc County and the airport authority — gathered to announce the new deal Friday morning at the airport, calling it an Inter-Jurisdiction Co-operation Accord, according to a new release sent out Friday.Getting started – annexation would include 6,235 hectares west of the QEII, 2,625 hecta
  
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• $13,000 in contraband — including fentanyl — seized at Edmonton Max

  30-06-2017 17:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Correctional staff at Edmonton’s maximum security prison say they’re beefing up security measures after seizing a package containing the deadly opioid fentanyl this week.
   
  Edmonton Institution staff members found the package of contraband at 12:40 p.m. on June 28. Correctional Service Canada estimates the contents of the package are valued at around $13,000 inside the prison. 
   
  Matt James, assistant warden operations with the prison, said police are investigatin
  
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• What to do to celebrate Canada Day 150 in Edmonton

  30-06-2017 17:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Looking to celebrate Canada Day in a big way for Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation? Here’s how you can get in on the action on July 1:
  There are loads of fireworks displays on offer in and around Edmonton
  Canada Day fireworks:
  Where: Edmonton’s River Valley
  When: 11 p.m.
  Watch as fireworks light up the sky near the High Level Bridge. The best viewing locations are at the legislature grounds, Victoria Park, Government House Park, Const. Ezio Faraone Park. Edmonton
  
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• In search of a picture perfect Canada: Edmonton families reflect on their journeys to a new life

  30-06-2017 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Fifty years ago, Canada changed its immigration rules to allow thousands of skilled immigrants — nurses, teachers, doctors, professors, engineers — to leave their families and their homes for opportunities north of the 49th parallel. The year, 1967, marked the beginning of an increasingly open-door policy that ushered in a new era of multiculturalism.
  Clare Clancy and Paula Simons spoke with three families who came in search of a new life and found a new love: The Great White No
  
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• Three Edmontonians named to Order of Canada

  30-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Three Edmontonians are being appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honours, Gov. Gen. David Johnston was to announce Friday. The announcements coincide with the 50th anniversary of the order, whose first list of appointments was announced July 1, 1967.
  Dr. Anita Molzahn.
  Anita Molzahn
  “For her influential research on quality of life in aging populations and for her administrative leadership in the field of nursing.”
  Molzahn thinks other nurses
  
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• Terry Jones: Canadian Colquhoun makes rare start in first CFL game

  30-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  To celebrate the arrival of ‘The Canadian Flash’, the home debut of the player with the Twitter handle ‘thecanuck36’, there will be a fighter jet fly by after the singing of O Canada, free Canadian flags, and a big fireworks display at the end of Friday’s Edmonton Eskimos home opener.
  Hold it. Check that. All that has nothing to do with him. It’s all a lead-in celebration for Canada 150 and Canada Day.
  But maybe there should be some sort of celebration for Arj
  
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• Restorative justice offers better way to discipline students than suspensions, some educators say

  30-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A decade ago, principal Keith MacQuarrie was frustrated with the number of students he was suspending for drugs and sending to board hearings for chronic absenteeism. 
  He piped Frank Sinatra songs into the lunch detention room at Ermineskin Junior-Senior High School in Maskwacis, hoping students would be annoyed enough to follow the rules. It didn’t work.
  Now, when a student acts out at Ermineskin, everyone involved will sit in a circle to discuss what happened, and how it affected th
  
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• Opinion: Police carding is nothing but racial profiling

  30-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As momentum builds behind ending carding across Alberta, some police officials are being constructive —and others are getting defensive.
  Edmonton Police Service Chief Rod Knecht dismissed the community’s concerns while the Calgary Police Service are welcoming consultations on street checks.
  Knecht sets up hypothetical situations where what’s being discussed is not carding but rather the police using other investigative tools. Stopping and talking to someone who is peering into
  
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• Friday's letters: Touched by woman who chose assisted dying

  30-06-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Re. “Death on their own terms,” June 17
  Martine Partridge, you are my hero.
  Your sacrifice was the reflection of real love. It was too much for you to feel the pain of your loved ones more than your own pain. You were a very independent smart and stinkingly beautiful woman.
  Those who criticized you for ending your own life are obnoxious and blinded with their own agenda. Absolutely no one has the right to do so, after all what is more important to you than your own life?
  It was your
  
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• Montreal Canadiens should offer sheet Edmonton Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl, says TSN's Craig Button

  30-06-2017 10:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Chiarelli has made clear he’ll match any offer sheet. Yet the chatter is heating up
  This in from TSN’s Craig Button, the notion that the Montreal Canadiens should prepare an offer sheet for Leon Draisaitl.
  “(Montreal’s) biggest need is a No. 1 centre. It’s a glaring need. It’s a glaring hole. So forget about free agent frenzy, how about free agent shocks. If the Edmonton Oilers don’t get Leon Draisaitl signed by July 1, how about an offer sheet for Leon
  
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• Packs like an SUV, parks like a car: the Nissan Qashqai

  30-06-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Michael Dietrich knows firsthand the challenges and rewards of pushing the body to the max. When he isn’t in the gym, the Edmonton-based personal trainer is in the Rockies, hiking, biking, and climbing. “The outdoors is an amazing playground,” he says. “It blows my mind.”
  “People think I’m crazy because I’ll drive down the mountains two or three times a month,” Dietrich says. “I’m up at four in the morning and there by eight so I
  
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• Scenic Route to Alaska and Nuela Charles win big at Edmonton Music Awards

  30-06-2017 07:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Giving an extra boost into the rafters to local music talent, the Edmonton Music Awards at Winspear Centre Thursday night had two big winners at its musical gala — Scenic Route to Alaska and Nuela Charles.
  Roots-infused, lilting pop delivered Scenic Route four prizes during the night of raised fists and group hugs, including Album of the Year for 2016’s Long Walk Home, Pop Recording of the Year for the album’s first single, Coming Back, Indie Rock Recording of the Year for Love
  
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• Fire crews battle Hamptons blaze

  30-06-2017 05:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton Fire Rescue Services battled a blaze in the Hamptons neighbourhood on Thursday evening near 203 Street and 56 Avenue.
  Crews were called around 7:13 p.m. and arrived on scene five minutes later, said spokeswoman Claire Harvey.
  The fire was declared under control at 7:50 p.m.
  No one was injured and the cause of the blaze was under investigation.
  Neighbour Joanna Bishop said she smelled smoke and when she realized it wasn’t a backyard fire pit, went to investigate.
  The house where th
  
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• Return to 3rd Canadian Division feels like coming home, says new commander

  30-06-2017 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It was less of a welcome and more of a welcome back for Brig.-Gen. Trevor Cadieu as he took command Thursday of 3rd Canadian Division.
  “It feels like I’m coming back home,” Cadieu said following a change of command ceremony in the officers’ mess at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton. “I’m coming back to family members that I’ve worked with, that I’ve soldiered with over the years both in operations and in training, frankly, who have made me who I a
  
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• Ahead of long weekend, Roadbot simulates dangers of impaired driving

  30-06-2017 03:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  One of the newest weapons against impaired driving is the Alberta Motor Association’s Roadbot, demonstrated Thursday. The driving simulator allows participants to test themselves in close to 200 driving scenarios, including donning a pair of goggles to simulate the dangers of driving intoxicated.
  The AMA is forecasting Canada Day weekend to be one of this year’s busiest long weekends on Alberta roadways. Jeff Kasbrick, a vice-president with AMA, said 46 per cent of Albertans pla
  
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• Edmonton finds common, simple solution to snow and ice woes

  30-06-2017 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  This winter, the city doesn’t need a made-in-Edmonton solution, say officials tasked with improving the city’s decades-old winter road maintenance policy.
  “Sometimes, OK, we’re different,” said deputy city manager Doug Jones. “But snow and ice is snow and ice.”
  Edmonton’s new approach will lean on a solution most other winter cities have already adopted — anti-icing. Jones outlined the plan in an interview Thursday. It’s going to c
  
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• Leg amputation delays sentencing for man who shot landlord over rent, missing cat

  30-06-2017 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man convicted of attempted murder for shooting his landlord in the face had his sentencing put off Thursday so he can recover from a partial leg amputation before going to prison.
  Kyle Valentine Ziegler was dressed in a white hospital gown and sat in a wheelchair next to his lawyer during a hearing Thursday. His right leg was bandaged where it had been cut off at the knee June 20 due to complications with Type 1 diabetes. 
  Ziegler, 35, was convicted of shooting landlord Devin Schafer
  
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• Singer-songwriter Martin Kerr shares the secrets behind his sudden change in fortune

  30-06-2017 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If it all falls to pieces in the next few months, Martin Kerr figures he can just go back to busking.
  For close to a decade, the Edmonton-based singer-songwriter has made a good living performing at farmers’ markets and house concerts, cranking out covers and selling CDs from his guitar case. A stint on Canadian Idol back in 2008 hadn’t boosted Kerr’s career in the way he’d hoped, and he had found a small, cosy position for himself in the local scene.
  That all began
  
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• David Staples: Ice District taking shape with 'fantastic' plaza, says Edmonton designer

  30-06-2017 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The most ambitious megaproject Edmonton has ever seen is rising in the sky in our downtown, but it’s still no sure thing that Daryl Katz’s Ice District is going to be a crowd pleaser.
  To get a sense of where the Ice District is heading, I went on a tour of the area with Marcelo Figueira, an urban planner and designer with ParioPlan and a member of the Edmonton Design Committee, which reviews major building projects for the city. Of course, no Edmonton project is more major than the I
  
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• Man ordered to pay restitution for fraudulent immigration scheme

  30-06-2017 02:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man who admitted to acting as an unauthorized immigration consultant was ordered to pay $42,000 in restitution to his victims, and will serve a community sentence.
  Seong Yong Park, also known as David Park, pleaded guilty to three offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on May 9. Park was charged with working as an unauthorized immigration consultant and “inducing” at least 20 foreign nationals to enter Canada under the temporary foreign workers program between 20
  
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• Home opener a new flavour for Eskimos

  30-06-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s home, sweet home for the Edmonton Eskimos on Friday when they kick off their first game inside Commonwealth Stadium.
  And following last week’s season-opening victory over the B.C. Lions, that’s a much better flavour than the bitter defeat they suffered at the hands of the Ottawa RedBlacks in last year’s snowstorm of an East Division final.
  “Just to get that bad taste out of our mouth from last year,” Eskimos defensive end Odell Willis said. “The way
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta $33 billion in debt with no clear plan to balance the books

  30-06-2017 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Alberta government is on track to balance the provincial budget — in six years … maybe.
  That’s as definitive as Finance Minister Joe Ceci would get during a news conference Thursday when he released the government’s “annual report” containing the final audited figures for last year’s provincial budget.
  Among those figures: a record $10.8-billion deficit; and the provincial government now $33 billion in debt.
  (We’re also on track to run up a $1
  
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• Nathan Ingham takes the gloves as FC Edmonton's starting goaltender

  30-06-2017 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Nathan Ingham believed he was capable of being the starting goalkeeper for FC Edmonton this season despite his inexperience at the professional level.
  Four games into his tenure as the starter, the second-year professional is making believers of those around him as well.
  Since taking over in goal, Ingham, 24, has played well for Edmonton and is giving the club an opportunity to win every game.
  “I feel great, it’s a role I’m comfortable in and one I’ve had my whole life, a
  
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• Bowman not THE man? Eskimos receiver isn't sweating limited tosses

  30-06-2017 00:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Adarius Bowman prefers to measure his success in letters and colours instead of numbers.
  That’s why the reigning receiving yards title holder isn’t concerned about only needing his fingers and toes to count his catching stats from Saturday’s season opener.
  His two catches for 13 yards against the B.C. Lions was the least productive the 10-year veteran of the Canadian Football League has been in a game since going catchless against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on August 19, 2015.
  Tha
  
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• Dave Semenko was more than just Edmonton Oilers heavyweight

  30-06-2017 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Dave Semenko was the National Hockey League’s premier protector during the Edmonton Oilers’ early years of glory, but he was much more than just Wayne Gretzky’s bodyguard.
  The hockey heavyweight nicknamed ‘Sammy’ and ‘Cement’ amassed 1,175 penalty minutes over his 10-year NHL career (and another 298 in two seasons toiling for the World Hockey Association version of the Oilers) but he was more than a one-dimensional enforcer — he could skate and he
  
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