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• Murder charge laid in death of missing senior

  11-07-2017 23:30
  
  St. Albert RCMP and the RCMP Major Crimes Unit have laid a murder charge in the death of Ronald Worsfold. The 75-year-old went missing on the weekend and his body was discovered on Sunday in a rural area of Parkland County near Stony Plain.
  
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• Murder charges laid in death of missing senior Ronald Worsfold

  11-07-2017 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  RCMP have charged a 28-year-old woman with first degree murder after discovering the body of a St. Albert senior reported missing over the weekend.
  Ronald Worsfold’s death was declared a homicide after an autopsy by Edmonton’s Chief Medical Examiner Tuesday. 
  Worsfold, who worked as a gas station attendant and as a caretaker at an apartment building, was reported missing on July 8. His body was discovered in a rural area of Parkland County near Stony Plain after a search was lau
  
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• Woman charged after using laser pointer on police chopper

  11-07-2017 22:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A 28-year-old woman faces fines and potential jail time after pointing a “blinding” laser pointer at an Edmonton Police Service helicopter.
  Air 1 and Edmonton police members were responding to an attempted break-and-enter at around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning in the Bonnie Doon area when pilots realized someone on the ground was targeting them with a laser pointer.
  The air unit called patrol officers on the ground, who went to the residence near 88 Street and 84 Avenue and arrested a woma
  
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• Woman, 28, charged with murder in death of St. Albert senior Ron Worsfold - CBC.ca

  11-07-2017 22:08 via cbc.ca
  
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  RCMP have charged a 28-year-old woman in the death of St. Albert senior Ron Worsfold. Worsfold was last seen Friday at a home in St. Albert. The 75-year-old was reported missing Saturday and police asked for the public's help in finding him. On Monday ...
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  11-07-2017 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  
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  A 28-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in the death of a St. Albert senior.
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• Edmonton artist asks for help after carload of paintings stolen

  11-07-2017 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An Edmonton artist is asking for the public’s help after a thief stole a car loaded with 36 of her paintings.
  Chris Riley was coming off a successful Whyte Avenue Art Walk Sunday evening when she parked her car on the driveway of her rural property south of Spruce Grove. 
  She planned to restock an exhibit at Edmonton’s Highlevel Diner the next morning, and decided to leave her pop-up gallery, paintings and prints in her silver 2010 Ford Flex. But when she went to find her car ju
  
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• Council squashes talk of partnering with Uber in transit

  11-07-2017 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton officials will not even start a conversation with Uber about partnering to get people from their homes to key LRT stops after a narrow vote in council Tuesday.
  Council voted 5-5 against exploring the option, which administration proposed as part of the transit strategy. The tie vote failed, three councillors were absent. 
  Some of the cities in North America have found a partnership to subsidized Uber rides in some areas is cheaper than running half-empty buses and still gives peopl
  
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• Islanders hire ex-Oilers captain Buchberger as assistant coach

  11-07-2017 21:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  NEW YORK — The New York Islanders have hired Kelly Buchberger to be an assistant under coach Doug Weight.
  Buchberger served as vice-president of player development for the Edmonton Oilers last season, after spending the previous two as the club’s manager of player personnel. He spent six seasons (2008-2014) as an assistant coach with the Oilers.
  During his 18 NHL seasons as a player, Buchberger had 309 points in 1,182 regular-season games. He won two Stanley Cups with the Oilers, in
  
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• Canada’s historic gold-medal winning U19 basketball team welcomed home

  11-07-2017 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Canada’s men’s basketball team came home to a warm welcome Monday after winning gold at the FIBA under-19 World Cup in Cairo — the first world title for a Canadian basketball team in any age group. The team calls the win “surreal.”
  Canada beat Italy in the gold-medal game on July 9, 2017.
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• B.C. wildfires lead to air quality advisories west of Edmonton

  11-07-2017 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Environment Canada has issued air quality notices for six areas west of Edmonton as smoke from B.C. wildfires drifts into Alberta. 
  The agency is warning children, seniors and people with cardiovascular, lung disease and asthma to take precautions over the next few days. The alerts cover:
  M.D. of Greenview near Grande Cache Botten and Amundson
  M.D. of Greenview near Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park and Nose Lake
  Willmore Wilderness Park
  Yellowhead Co. near Big Berland and the Wildhay River
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• Eskimos running back set to capitalize on chance to start

  11-07-2017 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The best thing about being thrown into the starting role without any warning is that Travon Van had a lot of time to prepare for it.
  With the Edmonton Eskimos heading into a bye week the day after running back John White went down with a season-ending knee injury, Van had some time to digest what it all means: He’s the new No.1. The responsibility for Edmonton’s ground game is on his shoulders now.
  That’s a lot of pressure for a guy who’ve never played a full season in th
  
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• Duran Duran leaves Rogers Place hungry for more

  11-07-2017 15:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Following the charge of the Thin White Duke, this second British Invasion came across the ocean, its bands as disparate as Billy Idol, Def Leppard and Gary Numan. To pulverize our charts, what they and others like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Eddy Grant and Wham! — even Iron Maiden — had over our continental efforts was an overall superior video savvy at the dawn of MTV, when absolutely nothing mattered more.
  Fashionista five-piece Duran Duran mastered this as well as anyone else,
  
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• Residents get new village-style housing passed by council

  11-07-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton approved zoning for its first co-housing apartment block Monday, creating a new option for those hoping to create a true village within the city.
  The 26-unit apartment in Old Strathcona will be built with a great room large enough to host everyone for dinner, and a shared backyard and patio to let seniors and children interact. But each family or couple will have their own kitchen and living space in their condo as well.
  It’s an ideal place to age, said Kathleen Harper, 80, one of
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Khadr payout more than residential school survivors

  11-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The federal government paid Omar Khadr $10.5 million in settlement of his lawsuit.
  The maximum award in Canada for pain, suffering and loss of enjoyment of life was capped by the Supreme Court of Canada 40 years ago, so that for these damages people rendered quadriplegic or suffering devastating brain injuries due to the fault of another can only claim about $360,000.
  The maximum amount recoverable from the federal government for the most serious cases of sexual, physical and psychological abuse
  
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• Opinion: Now is the time for a western Canadian electricity grid

  11-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Trading in electricity between the western provinces – is it effective?
  The 2017 Canadian Free Trade Agreement does not do much to encourage provinces to trade electric energy east and west. Would a western Canada electric grid help electricity consumers in the western provinces? Some Alberta officials feel that their electric utilities are investor owned and they perceive the Crown corporations of BC Hydro, SaskPower and Manitoba Hydro to be subsidized by their provincial governments, so
  
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• Edmonton Catholic's superintendent highest paid in the province

  11-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The superintendent of Edmonton Catholic Schools, Joan Carr, remains the highest paid school district leader in the province, newly published data show.
  Carr, who has spent 11 years at the helm of the province’s fourth-largest school district, received $415,905 in salary and benefits in 2015-16, according to Alberta Education’s recently released annual report.
  Her salary is at the highest level due to her long service in the post and market conditions at the time her contract was nego
  
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• Editorial: Let's hope new Edmonton snow removal policy gets it right

  11-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Summer is here, which in Edmonton means it’s time for councillors to discuss, yet again, the city’s winter road cleaning policies.
  Few issues rile local drivers more than finding streets blocked by slush, slop, drifts and other forms of snow and ice, but every time road maintenance staff think they’ve solved the problem another one pops up.
  A decade ago the city hoped to make people happy by voting to clear arterial roads and bus routes within 48 hours of a storm, plow resident
  
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• Bath Fitter makes bathroom renovations quick and cost effective

  11-07-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When Bruce Keegan opened a Bath Fitter franchise in Alberta in 1993 it was only the third location, and thus a relatively new business model for the now 33-year-old manufacturer that was setting out to revolutionize how people upgrade their bathrooms.
  Using a patented process of installing a specifically moulded acrylic bathtub liner and one-piece seamless acrylic bath wall, then sealing the two to create a waterproof unit, Bath Fitter created a way to install a complete high-quality solution in
  
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• Edmonton police investigate two downtown shootings

  11-07-2017 06:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton police were investigating two separate shootings that happened within a few blocks of each other in downtown Edmonton on Monday evening.
  Police were first called to a convenience store near 104 Street and 107 Avenue after an injured woman came in looking for help around 6:30 p.m.
  The woman was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  At 8 p.m., officers were called to an alley near 108 Avenue and 112 Street where witnesses reported a man was riding his bicycle when he appea
  
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• Heat has rightly gone out of debate about trading away Jordan Eberle

  11-07-2017 06:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Increasingly clear that coming Edmonton Oilers’ cap crises forced move
  It’s odd but the Jordan Eberle trade is already losing its bite. For weeks Oilers fans fiercely debated the pros and cons of the deal, but I hear hardly a word about it now.
  It’s not at all like the Taylor Hall trade, where every word Hall uttered about the Oilers for many months after the trade was big news in Edmonton, re-opening the wound. Eberle has given a few interviews about his time in Edmonton
  
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• Heat has rightly gone out of the debate around trading away Jordan Eberle

  11-07-2017 06:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Increasingly clear that coming Edmonton Oilers’ cap crises forced move
  It’s odd but the Jordan Eberle trade is already losing its bite. For weeks Oilers fans fiercely debated the pros and cons of the deal, but I hear hardly a word about it now.
  It’s not at all like the Taylor Hall trade, where every word Hall uttered about the Oilers for many months after the trade was big news in Edmonton, re-opening the wound. Eberle has given a few interviews about his time in Edmonton
  
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• Duran Duran brings synth-pop to Rogers Place

  11-07-2017 06:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Legendary synth-pop band Duran Duran thrilled fans at Rogers Place on Monday night. The British group, made up of current members Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes, will be celebrating 40 years of music next year.ShareDuran DuranTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmailGALLERY:Duran Duran plays Rogers Place Lead singer Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran in concert at Rogers Place in Edmonton, July 10, 2017. Ed Kaiser/Postmedia Lead singer Simon Le Bon of Duran Du
  
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• Paula Simons: Raise a glass to new sidewalk cafe rules

  11-07-2017 05:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Raise a toast! Charge your glasses!
  This week, we drink to the decision to liberate our summer decks from the surly bonds of Prohibition. Finance Minister Joe Ceci announced Sunday that Alberta’s arcane rules governing the consumption of alcohol on outdoor patios have been relaxed.
  Until this week, no restaurant or bar could operate a sidewalk cafe unless it was enclosed in a one-metre-high fence or barricade. No one could just enter a patio and sit down. You could only access them by walk
  
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• Graham Thomson: Deadline approaches for PCs in unity vote

  11-07-2017 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  One deadline down, two to go.
  Last Saturday, July 8, was the deadline for anyone interested to join the Wildrose to vote on the tentative merger deal with the Progressive Conservative party.
  The next deadline is this Wednesday, July 12, to join the PCs.
  PC Leader Jason Kenney is sending out last-minute appeals urging people to join so they can cast a ballot in time for the final deadline, July 22.
  “In the two years since the NDP have been in power, they’ve hiked taxes, hurt our econo
  
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• Wildfire smoke over Edmonton no cause for concern

  11-07-2017 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Smoke from burning wildfires in British Columbia left a haze over Edmonton on Monday afternoon.
  The smoke wasn’t enough to cause any air quality concerns for Environment Canada by late afternoon, but the department was monitoring conditions.
  “If it gets to a certain point, we will issue a health bulletin,” said Dan Kulak, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. “We’ve had air quality bulletins issued for persons in Alberta last year during the Fort McMurray event w
  
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• Daughter of St. Albert senior missing under suspicious circumstances devastated to hear body found - CBC.ca

  11-07-2017 02:19 via cbc.ca
  
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  The daughter of the 75-year-old St. Albert man who disappeared last week said police told her late Sunday night they believe they found his body. Stacey Worsfold says her life will never be the same. "We've all lost something very great and wonderful ...
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  11-07-2017 02:19 via cbc.ca
  
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  The daughter of the St. Albert man who went missing last week says police told her late last night they believe they found his body.
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• Social activist Desmond Cole to speak in Edmonton amid carding debate

  11-07-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  An activist who has been carded by police dozens of times says he’s not surprised by data showing that black and Indigenous Edmontonians are over-represented in police street checks.
  Desmond Cole, who’s spent five years campaigning against police carding in Toronto, will speak in Edmonton on Saturday amid fresh debate over the use of the controversial law enforcement practice in Alberta.  
  “The data is great, I’m glad we have data,” he said of police statistics
  
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• Alberta researchers create guitar pedal with a molecular sound

  11-07-2017 02:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two Alberta chemists have created the first commercial application of molecular electronics — a guitar pedal made with a molecular device to help musicians improve sound quality.
  Rick McCreery, a University of Alberta chemistry professor and senior researcher at the National Institute of Nanotechnology, said the initial goal was to find out what would happen if molecules were part of an electronic circuit.
  Molecular electronics is the study and application of molecular building blocks to f
  
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• Officers seize $240,000 worth of drugs, a car and cash in Edmonton bust

  11-07-2017 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Officers have arrested a suspected drug dealer after seizing $240,000 worth of drugs, cash and a handgun from an Edmonton home.
  The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team’s (ALERT) Organized Drug and Gang Unit in Edmonton arrested a man on June 29 before executing a search warrant at an Edmonton home.
  “Organized crime is still a major threat to the safety of people across Alberta, so getting guns and drugs out of the hands of suspected dealers will help ensure community safety,”
  
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• Oilers' latest free agent signing, defender Yohann Auvitu, brings some promising fancystats to Edmonton

  11-07-2017 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton Oilers made another addition to their roster on Monday, and an intriguing one at that:Yohann Auvitu is an experienced defenceman who turns 28 later this month. The French national spent most of his career in the Liiga, the top Finnish league, where he played 216 games over 5 full seasons, scoring 19-38-57, +33. He came over to North American last summer on a one year trial, splitting the 2016-17 season between the New Jersey Devils (25 GP, 2-2-4, +1) and their AHL affiliate in Albany (2
  
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• Strathcona County family pleads for return of woman's stolen ashes

  11-07-2017 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Strathcona County family is pleading for the safe return of a chest containing a woman’s ashes. 
  Lois Gordon was at her recently deceased mother Mary Myers’ house in rural Strathcona County to water plants on Saturday evening. She walked back to her own, neighbouring house and was sitting in the kitchen at about 9:45 p.m. when she heard the security alarm go off at Myers’ house. 
  Gordon and her sister jumped in a car and drove to Myers’ house, where they encou
  
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• Pedestrian-friendly Jasper Avenue construction begins

  11-07-2017 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Jasper Avenue is getting a summer makeover. The city’s “main street” pilot to transform the strip over the summer into a more pedestrian-friendly space began Monday and is scheduled to be ready for a Saturday kickoff event.
  Construction crews will be blocking off the outer lanes on Jasper Avenue between 109 Street and 115 Street to make room for more patios and walking space. The changes are supposed to make the stretch of road more appealing for pedestrians and street-front bu
  
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