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• Police investigate aggravated assault in Evergreen Mobile Home Park

  13-07-2017 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton police are knocking on doors in a northeast Edmonton mobile home park after officers were called to an aggravated assault Wednesday night.
  Officers were called to the Evergreen Mobile Home Park near Evergreen Park Road near 167 Avenue NW and 6 Street NW around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday to a report of an assault.
  A 38-year-old man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
  Homicide detectives are now overseeing the investigation.
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• Former Oilers captain Andrew Ference officially retires from hockey

  13-07-2017 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Former Edmonton Oilers captain defenceman Andrew Ference has officially retired from hockey after 16 seasons in the National Hockey League.
  Ference, 38, spent the past four seasons with the Oilers, serving as captain 2013-2015. 
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• 11 alleged drug dealers arrested in small town trafficking bust

  13-07-2017 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The arrests of nearly a dozen alleged drug dealers in northern Alberta proves that traffickers can’t fly under the radar by selling in small towns, police say.
  Eleven street-level dealers were arrested as part of a multi-unit investigation focused on Peace River and Fairview, RCMP said in a news release Thursday. 
  The investigation involved Peace Regional RCMP and two Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) and turned up 100 grams of cocaine, seven grams of meth, 108 grams of m
  
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• Owner of emaciated, maggot-infested dog pleads guilty

  13-07-2017 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Editors note: This story contains graphic details
  The owner of a 20-year-old dog that was so emaciated and decayed that maggots were living on it pleaded guilty to causing or permitting an animal to be in distress on Thursday.
  Margret Dechambre, 73, pleaded guilty to the offence under the Animal Protection Act more than a year after her dog Sandy was euthanized by the Edmonton Humane Society in May 2016. 
  Sandy, a collie-husky cross, lived in the Edmonton home of Dechambre and her common-la
  
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• Oilers re-sign prospect Laleggia to one-year deal

  13-07-2017 19:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Manitoba Moose centre Patrice Cormier (left) checks Bakersfield Condors defenceman Joey LaLeggia during AHL action in Winnipeg on Nov. 20, 2015.
  Joey Laleggia will stay with the Edmonton Oilers organization for another season.
  The National Hockey League club announced it has signed the 25-year-old left-winger to a one-year, two-way contract. According to Cap Friendly, the contract is worth US$700,000 in the NHL, $95,000 in the minors.
  The 2012 fifth-round draft pick played 67 games with the team
  
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• Edmonton artist's car recovered, but paintings nowhere to be found

  13-07-2017 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Police have located the vehicle stolen from a local artist’s home, but the cache of paintings inside is nowhere to be found. 
  Chris Riley’s vehicle went missing from her rural property near Spruce Grove Sunday evening, shortly after she finished up at the Whyte Avenue Art Walk. 
  The car was loaded with 36 of her paintings, as well as her pop-up gallery, prints and other items. In all, the contents were worth around $30,000.  
  Riley said RCMP located the 2010 Ford Flex
  
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• Editorial: Memorial important for remembering residential schools

  13-07-2017 16:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s good to see Edmonton moving ahead with planning for a memorial to commemorate the people who went through Canada’s residential schools.
  The province is talking to city officials about how to proceed. A city exploratory committee that received $200,000 in funding three years ago is wisely taking the time to build relationships before determining what should be done.
  Key details about design, cost, location and timelines haven’t been discussed, but it’s better to get a
  
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• Edmonton's Alphonso Davies: From refugee camp to national soccer team

  13-07-2017 15:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alphonso Davies does not remember the refugee camp in Ghana where he was born.
  The Edmonton-raised soccer star can only try to comprehend the perils faced by his parents in Liberia during two bloody civil wars.
  But Davies, 16, is grateful his family made the decision to immigrate to Canada and is proud to represent his adopted country at this month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament, which started July 7 in New York.
  “It’s a really big honour for me playing for the national team,&r
  
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• Opinion: What happens in Las Vegas shouldn’t always stay in Las Vegas

  13-07-2017 15:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  As if stir crazy and winter-weary Albertans needed another reason to go to Las Vegas in the middle of hockey season, the NHL has just given them a big one by locating a new team — the Vegas Golden Knights — in the state.
  But Albertans should pay extra close attention to what is happening in and around Sin City these days. Nevada is quietly fashioning for the world the successful model for building an economical renewable energy sector, a feat perhaps more daunting than making profess
  
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• Fort McMurray man sentenced for trafficking fentanyl, cocaine

  13-07-2017 15:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A Fort McMurray man will spend more than five years in prison after an investigation into a drug trafficking network ended with police seizing more than $1 million worth of drugs in 2015.
  During a Wednesday morning court appearance, Justice Kevin Feehan sentenced Paul Ohelo to serve three years and six months for trafficking cocaine and five years and six months for trafficking fentanyl. The sentence is to be served concurrently, minus a day in custody in lieu of time served.
  An emotional Ohelo
  
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• Thursday's letters: Alberta deficits will spur future growth

  13-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  I cannot understand why opposition MLAs and Albertans are so mad about the provincial budget deficit.
  Corporations borrow to invest in capital projects, creating demand for products and making jobs. Why should the government not be allowed to carry debt so assets such as schools, universities, hospitals, roads, sewers and bridges can be maintained? 
  According to Keynesian economics, governments should borrow during economic downturns to create jobs, build infrastructure and spend
  
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• Effort to work with school boards stalled out, say councillors

  13-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s Glendale Elementary School could be within walking distance to two LRT stops before September’s kindergarten kids graduate from Grade 6.
  But the city’s LRT plan got barely a mention this past spring when public school officials recommended the school be closed.
  “We feel there’s no joint planning at all … I’m pretty sure they don’t have any clue what’s going on between the two of them,” said Clayton Johnson, vice-president of
  
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• Edmonton housing market makes a turn for the better: Royal LePage

  13-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s housing market began to pull itself out of a slump during the second quarter of 2017, according to numbers from the Royal LePage house price survey, although condo numbers slid slightly.
  Year-over-year, the aggregate price of a home in Edmonton rose 3.8 per cent to $387,989. Two-storey homes saw the biggest jump at five per cent, to $449,090. Bungalow numbers rose 3.7 per cent to $376,498 while condominium numbers slid 2.3 per cent to $234,697.
  “With prices having relative
  
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• TSN's Ferraro still bullish on Jesse Puljujarvi, who is between a Yak and a Drai place

  13-07-2017 08:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Cult of Hockey podcast: Discussing the 2017-18 rosterFerraro: “I like Puljujarvi and I’ll think he’ll get every opportunity”
  This in from TSN’s Ray Ferraro talking to Steve Matthes on the Pulp Hockey Show podcast, Ferraro’s still bullish take on Oilers forward Jesse Puljujarvi.  Asked if Puljujarvi, who just turned 19, will make the jump to the NHL this year, Ferraro said, “I think he’s given every opportunity to make that team. I know th
  
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• Man in serious condition after being stabbed in Fort McMurray, RCMP look for suspect

  13-07-2017 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A 23-year-old Fort McMurray stabbing victim was in serious condition in hospital Wednesday.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP have charged one man, and are seeking another.
  The man was stabbed around 3:30 a.m. on July 9 near Sitka Drive, according to an RCMP news release Wednesday.
  A 25-year-old Fort McMurray man, whom the RCMP have not named, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in the case.
  He was released from custody and is scheduled to appear in Fort McMurray provincial court July 24.
  Meanwhile
  
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• Plans for loop between downtown, U of A, Old Strathcona, east Edmonton

  13-07-2017 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  City officials are looking at two east-west options for LRT south of the river — Whyte Avenue or 76 Avenue.
  Residents were asked to comment on the alignment of the last leg of the planned LRT network at the first open house into the central/east LRT route Wednesday night at the Bonnie Doon Community Hall. 
  The new transportation system would create a loop for residents to go between downtown, the University of Alberta, Old Strathcona and further east. It would connect to the Valley Li
  
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• Paula Simons: Let's not let haters claim Red Ensign

  13-07-2017 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  First they came for Pepe the Frog. And I said nothing because, to be honest, I didn’t much care that alt-right trolls and white supremacists had co-opted an innocent cartoon frog meme for their own foul purposes.
  But now they’ve come for the Red Ensign.
  On Canada Day, a small group of alt-right agitators who called themselves the Proud Boys disrupted a First Nations ceremonial event in Halifax. They arrived carrying a Red Ensign flag.
  While the Red Ensign was never Canada’s off
  
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• Closing arguments heard in 'Bob the Builder' murder trial

  13-07-2017 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A man who fled to British Columbia and lived under an alias after being arrested for an Edmonton murder had “multiple reasons” to kill his 70-year-old friend, court heard during closing arguments of the trial Wednesday.
  Gordon Shaw is charged with the second-degree murder of Bob Anderson, whose body was found in his northeast apartment suite in June 2011.
  During the trial, court heard evidence that Shaw had been staying with Anderson, but fled the city in a taxi the night Anders
  
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• Police commission announces independent review of street checks

  13-07-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Edmonton Police Service’s oversight body said Wednesday it plans to hire an outside consultant to undertake an independent third-party review of street checks.
  Activists in the city have called the practice by police officers discriminatory and the province began its own review last month.
  The new initiative by the Edmonton Police Commission is supposed to determine whether the current practice of street checking, or carding — where officers stop and question people who are not s
  
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• Interest-rate hike bad news for Alberta: experts

  13-07-2017 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Bank of Canada’s rate hike Wednesday is further bad news for Alberta as it slowly crawls out of a recession. 
  Benchmark interest rates were raised to 0.75 per cent from 0.5 per cent — the first increase in nearly seven years — amid expectations of stronger national economic growth this year.
  A budget bummer
  Alberta’s economy has seen glimmers of hope over the past few months — encouraging job figures, an uptick in manufacturing and positive economic project
  
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• The Life of O'Brien: Backup quarterback finding familiarity with Eskimos

  13-07-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  There is a familiar opponent in the game plan for Danny O’Brien this week.
  For the first time since joining the Edmonton Eskimos in free agency over the off-season, the third-string quarterback and place holder will face the same Ottawa RedBlacks club he spent his first three CFL seasons with on Friday (8 p.m., TSN, 630 CHED).
  Then again, familiarity isn’t something the six-foot-three, 220-pound Catawba product has grown accustomed to over his football career.
  The No. 9 on his jersey
  
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• Flesh-ripping Komodo dragons arrive at Edmonton Valley Zoo

  13-07-2017 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton has its first dragons. Four-year-old female Komodo dragons Ophelia and Saphira arrived at the Valley Zoo last week and are now on display for visitors.
  The venomous lizards are on loan from the Calgary Zoo until permits to send them to Memphis, Tenn., for a breeding program are complete. Their previous enclosure in Calgary is being converted for a new exhibit.
  “These animals are quite rare,” Wade Krasnow, the zoo’s animal care team lead, said Wednesday. “The
  
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• Public celebration for Worsfold on Sunday

  13-07-2017 00:59
  
  A memorial service for Ronald Worsfold has been organized for Sunday afternoon. The St. Albert man was found dead in a rural area near Stony Plain last weekend after going missing under suspicious circumstances. The 75-year-old was much loved in the...
  
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• Dan Barnes: Eskimo depth being tested early

  13-07-2017 00:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For the Edmonton Eskimos, the Ottawa RedBlacks are both a formidable foe and a painful reminder about the importance of depth.
  For context, we take you back to the 2016 Eastern Final, played in a raging blizzard on Nov. 20 in the nation’s capital. The RedBlacks lost their starting running back, Mossis Madu, to a shoulder injury after he rushed the ball exactly twice in the first quarter. Hellacious weather conditions had already turned this tussle into a ground game, and now the home team
  
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