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• Fort McMurray housing starts exceed expectations: CMHC

  20-07-2017 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Fort McMurray — The municipality’s post-wildfire construction boom has been larger and faster than initially anticipated, according to a report the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released Thursday.
  The report — Rebuilding Fort McMurray: One Year Later — records 785 housing starts in the first half of 2017, with the municipality predicting another 200 starts before year-end. The higher-than-expected construction boom is because Fort McMurray has been bringi
  
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• Police watchdog investigating EPS after Whyte Ave. incident

  20-07-2017 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Alberta’s police watchdog is investigating the circumstances surrounding an incident that resulted in serious injury to a 27-year-old man on Whyte Avenue in April.
  According to a news release, Edmonton Police Service officers patrolling the popular Edmonton entertainment district on April 12 stopped two men for jaywalking across the avenue between 105 Street and 106 Street.
  One of the men was ticketed for jaywalking but, after “further interaction” with police, was arreste
  
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• Elk Island public school teacher charged with sexual assault against student

  20-07-2017 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  RCMP have charged an Alberta teacher with four sexual offences, including sexual assault, in relation to a female student.
  Strathcona County RCMP received the complaint against the Elk Island Public School teacher on July 5, RCMP said in a news release Thursday.
  The offences are alleged to have taken place between May 1, 2015 and September 1, 2015, police said.
  Graeme Patrick Forsyth, 32, of Strathcona County is charged with sexual interference, sexual exploitation, invitation to sexual touching
  
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• No charges to be laid in collision that killed 13-year-old St. Albert cyclist

  20-07-2017 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  After an investigation RCMP said no charges will be laid in the collision that killed a 13-year-old boy in St. Albert.
  
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• Johnson to defend his flyweight title at UFC 215 in Edmonton

  20-07-2017 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Finally, Edmonton fight fans know who will be stepping into the octagon at UFC 215.
  The card, which goes Sept. 9 at Rogers Place, will be headlined by a flyweight title fight between champion Demetrious Johnson and challenger Ray Borg.
  If Johnson wins, he will break the record for most consecutive UFC title defences. He’s currently tied with Anderson Silva with at 10.
  Borg, for his part, is one of the 125-pound division’s rising stars. The UFC had been hoping to pit Johnson against f
  
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• Former FC Edmonton player in court on drug charge

  20-07-2017 21:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A former FC Edmonton soccer player accused of cocaine possession for the purpose of trafficking is in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing.
  Said Sadi Jalali, 22, and his older brother Saidkheyam Jalali, 24, were arrested by members of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) in August 2016.
  At the time, ALERT investigators said the brothers were taken into custody during separate traffic stops. Jalali was arrested near Ellerslie Road and 70 Street. Officers seized 16 indi
  
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• K-Days Parade set for Jasper Ave Friday morning

  20-07-2017 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The K-Days Parade will kick off the 10-day exhibition at 10 a.m. Friday along Jasper Avenue. 
  The parade will be back on Jasper Avenue spanning 11 city blocks starting at 97 Street and travelling west to 108 Street. 
  The Canada 150 themed parade will feature 110 entries proceeding down the avenue, including floats, giant balloons, performers, mascots, antique cars and animals.
  The Shriners’ “pre-parade spectacular” will start at 9 a.m. 
  Edmonton police Chief Rod
  
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• EI benefit use on the decline in Alberta as economy recovers

  20-07-2017 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The number of people receiving employment insurance benefits continues to decline in Alberta, outpacing the rest of the country, according to the newest data from Statistics Canada.
  In May, 72,000 people received regular EI benefits in Alberta, down 7.2 per cent from the previous month and down 11.1 per cent from a year earlier. On a national level, the decline from the previous month was 2.4 per cent and the year-over-year drop was only 4.9 per cent.
  The decline in
  
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• No charges laid in Edmonton's latest homicide at mobile home park

  20-07-2017 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  No charges have been laid in Edmonton’s latest homicide in which a 38-year-old Edmonton man died of blunt force trauma to the head, injuries sustained in an altercation at the Evergreen Mobile Home Park.
  Edmonton homicide detectives, in consultation with Crown prosecutors, deemed the death earlier this month as non-culpable.
  Police had attended the mobile home park near 167 Avenue and 6 Street in the city’s far northeast at 11:45 p.m. on July 12 following reports of a physical confro
  
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• Wildlife: Doug Jahma remembered at Front Gallery Saturday

  20-07-2017 19:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Figure painter Doug Jahma, who died suddenly of a heart attack in May, didn’t have a service in a church or funeral home. Instead, his family consented to an art show at Front Gallery this Saturday, an evening of tribute and remembrance.
  Front’s owner Rachel Bouchard discusses the painter, who was born in Edmonton in 1952. “Doug spent ten years as a professional musician. Ten years training as a visual artist, working primarily in abstraction. Ten years of painting, using image
  
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• Opinion: Alberta should hold inquiry into oilsands subsidies

  20-07-2017 19:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For many decades, the fossil fuel industries have benefited from billions of dollars in public subsidies for technology development intended to allow them access to new reserves and lower their costs of production.
  These subsidies take many forms, such as capital cost allowances, exploration tax credits, research and technology development tax credits, or direct government financing of research & development (R&D) (e.g., through university-industry partnerships, research infrastructure,
  
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• Opinion: Time to unite the right

  20-07-2017 19:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Were we slightly ahead of our time?
  Or were we the catalyst that brought Alberta the disastrous NDP government and resulted in over 200,000 unemployed Albertans and many more that are underemployed?
  We may never know.
  But what we do know is that if we don’t learn from our past mistakes, we’ll just keep making them.
  Prescient Jim Prentice knew the danger lurking on the political left and anticipated a rising socialist tide, when he persuaded nine Wildrose MLAs to join with him in a pr
  
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• Opinion: Province takes positive direction on mental health

  20-07-2017 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A positive and likely effective direction for Albertan’s mental health has been announced by the provincial government.
  The Valuing Mental Health report, primarily produced by Liberal MLA David Swann and Minister Danielle Larivee, has resulted in a “next steps” document announced by the government. This document indicates time commitments to the recommendations made with a few additions.
  This is a major first step by the government, for a necessary approach to the growing issue
  
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• Rust Magic returns: 20 new murals hitting Edmonton streets

  20-07-2017 18:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  During the initial Rust Magic Street Mural Festival last September, $20,000 worth of anticipated funding vanished, just like that. Insult to injury, so did the unborn fest’s biggest wall-as-canvas: a 12-storey spot on Capital Tower on 101 Street — pulled due to emergency street repairs.
  Organizers Trevor Peters and Annaliza Toledo needed that cash, hoped for that space. But they said to hell with hurdles and went boldly ahead with the city-spanning public art project, anyway.
  The art
  
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• Ben Henderson worries Holyrood Gardens will rewrite the rules for LRT

  20-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  With a 22-storey tower near a row of bungalows, critics worry Edmonton’s new Holyrood Gardens proposal is bending city rules already and could radically shift expectations around neighbourhood-level LRT stations.
  “This is putting towers next to single-family houses (and) that’s a neighbourhood stop,” said Ward 8 Coun. Ben Henderson, worried land prices around other stops will skyrocket if council doesn’t follow the limits in its own guidelines.
  But supporters s
  
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• Edmonton Oilers should push now to sign up Patrick Maroon, Darnell Nurse and Matt Benning

  20-07-2017 06:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The fact that hits you over the head if you’re a fan of the Edmonton Oilers is that the team is in major cap trouble by next summer. Such will be the push for salary that it will be near impossible to keep together the current roster, let alone add talented players.
  Even with a few value contracts — such as Adam Larsson and Oscar Klefbom locked up at $4.16 million — the Oilers will be hard pressed to sign Leon Draisaitl right now, but also afford to bring back all of Ryan Strom
  
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• Black Lives Matter slams invite-only meeting — Police chief says meeting was productive

  20-07-2017 06:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Ahmed Abdulkadir, executive director Ogaden Somali Community of Alberta Residents, prepares to enter while members of Black Lives Matter demonstrate outside of a meeting between Edmonton Police Service Chief Rod Knecht and community members regarding carding or street checks in Edmonton on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Some community members hoping to speak with Edmonton’s police chief about carding were locked out of a meeting Wednesday, while those who took part said progress is being m
  
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• K-Days Parade returns home to Jasper Avenue

  20-07-2017 04:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Long ago, when this city was a simpler place — and when downtown was much more cosmopolitan — the Klondike Days Parade always went down Jasper Avenue.
  Every July, tens of thousands of people would cram Jasper Avenue for the biggest event of the Edmonton summer.
  They’d climb on top of telephone booths and roof tops. They’d pack the sidewalk, five people deep. They’d shimmy out onto office window ledges. Some came in 1890s’ attire, or what they thought was 1890s
  
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• The only thing worse than having a premiers' meeting is not having one

  20-07-2017 03:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Perhaps the truest words of this week’s annual premiers’ gathering came as something of a joke from Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister during Wednesday’s wrap-up news conference.
  “We have to work at liking each other,” he said of his colleagues. ‘That’s why we get together.”
  Everyone laughed. Because it’s true.
  It’s a testament to Confederation and the spirit of good old Canadian compromise that every year the premiers, new and old, come
  
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• Alberta government won't wait for feds to close child welfare gap

  20-07-2017 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Alberta government plans to provide more money and services to children at risk on reserves, then later “fight with the feds if we have to” about the cost, the deputy premier says.
  In the wake of another troubling report, deputy premier Sarah Hoffman said Wednesday the province will step in with more cash and other help where child and family services are underfunded on First Nations.
  “The federal government obviously has a responsibility to address those funding gaps,&rdqu
  
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• Tiger-Cats head coach denies spying allegations by Chris Jones

  20-07-2017 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The P in pro football might as well stand for paranoia.
  Nary a day goes by without Canadian Football League coaches worrying about inside information getting leaked to the opposition they’re about to face.
  Some handle it better than others, and most times it’s kept in the background. But leading into this week’s slate of games, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats were publicly accused of spying by Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager and head coach Chris Jones.
  On Tuesday, Jones announ
  
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• Veteran protests military's use of antimalarial drug mefloquine

  20-07-2017 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A 14-year military veteran brought his campaign across western Canada to Edmonton on Wednesday to get the federal government to acknowledge the dangers of the antimalarial drug mefloquine and the permanent neurologic and psychiatric side effects it may have had on soldiers who were administered it. 
  A former member of Canada’s Airborne Regiment, Dave Bona has suffered for more than two decades from symptoms he said are directly linked to the use of mefloquine while posted overseas.
  Bo
  
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• Adarius Bowman sitting out game against Hamilton Ticats

  20-07-2017 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  It’s no small task trying to make up for the loss of the reigning receiving-yards leader in the Canadian Football League.
  But if there is one unit up to the task of filling the void left behind by Adarius Bowman, who is on the one-game injured list with a bad hamstring, it’s the Edmonton Eskimos receiving corps.
  An American Air Force of talent with four dedicated international positions in the ratio this season will see Bryant Mitchell added to a crew of Brandon Zylstra, Vidal Hazelt
  
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• Premiers form working group on cannabis legislation

  20-07-2017 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The federal government is leaving provinces and territories hanging when it comes to legalized marijuana, premiers say, and they want answers to help them draft cannabis legislation.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set a July 1 deadline for legal pot, but premiers at the Council of the Federation meeting Wednesday in Edmonton worried the timeline is unrealistic. 
  Earlier in the week, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister was pushing for a delay.
  He said Wednesday it’s “super dooper&rdq
  
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• Ticats only interested in winning, not avenging playoff loss against Eskimos

  20-07-2017 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are 0-3 to start the 2017 Canadian Football League season.
  Or 0-4, if you count last year’s 24-21 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos in the East Division semifinal.
  In fact, Hamilton hasn’t won a game since Week 18 of last season, making for a current stretch of six in a row that includes an earlier regular-season loss to the same Eskimos who ended up knocking them out of the playoffs.
  But the Ticats are adamant the past is in the past and Thursday’s game (7:3
  
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• Nuit Blanche gets $50K boost from ATB; hoping for 10-day mini fest

  20-07-2017 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Nuit Blanche has received a $50,000 boost from ATB Financial for its 2018 edition as the contemporary art festival hopes to stage another mini edition — akin to last year’s Petite Nuit — for 10 days in September.
  The new partnership with ATB was announced Wednesday and also includes an extra $50,000 of in-kind services and community outreach from the province-owned financial institution.
  “I think it’s incredible that ATB Financial has continued to support
  
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• Airport's Premium Outlet Collection scheduled for spring 2018 opening

  20-07-2017 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Those hoping to catch some special deals at the outlet shopping mall on the edge of Edmonton International Airport will have to wait a little longer.
  Originally slated to open in this fall, Premium Outlet Collection will now open to the public on May 2, 2018, Sébastien Théberge, spokesman for developer Ivanhoe Cambridge said Wednesday.
  “Opening a shopping centre is a project of large magnitude, with a multitude of factors requiring timing to work for everyone,” Th&
  
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