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• Lees: Floating down the river in the 58th annual sourdough raft race

  23-07-2017 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Admiral Nick Danger here, filing to you at The Edmonton Journal, from Her Majesty’s Canadian Raft CASA taking part in the 58th annual sourdough raft race.
  We have just set off on the North Saskatchewan River from Terwilligar Park with 14 other craft for about a three-and-a-half hour cruise down to Rafters’ Landing.
  “I have lain awake for 20 years dreaming of building your raft,” says Roger Kehoe, who has been involved in the raft race for a couple of decades. “I bel
  
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• Camrose man drowns at nature reserve pond

  23-07-2017 22:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  An underwater dive team recovered the body of a 25-year-old Camrose man Sunday morning after he drowned at a local nature reserve pond. 
  The man was with friends at the Camrose County Nature Reserve Pond, located about 30km southeast of the city on Saturday afternoon.
  He was last seen in the water at 8 p.m., RCMP spokesperson Laurel Scott said. 
  A multiagency search and rescue effort Saturday night failed to locate the man but they managed to find and recover his body at about 10
  
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• Edmonton cocktail creators set to compete for regional crown

  23-07-2017 21:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city’s top barchefs will be competing for the regional crown in Edmonton’s first Made With Love craft cocktail competition Monday night.
  Made With Love is an annual international competition with barchefs presenting original cocktail creations paired with a food dish and judged by industry professionals as well as the public who purchase tickets to the event.
  The fourteen barchefs competing from Edmonton restaurants will be judged on their cocktail’s originality, creativity
  
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• Curtis Stock: Plenty of quality holes at public courses

  23-07-2017 20:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two weeks ago I listed the Top 10 private course golf holes as voted on by 35 of Edmonton’s golf professionals and executives and there was some clear consensus.
  But with the exception of RedTail Landing’s 11th hole, the voting for the Top 10 public courses was all over the place.
  In large part that’s because there are ‘only’ nine private courses as opposed to some 70 public courses within an hour’s drive of Edmonton.
  But an equal factor seems to be there are
  
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• Five things we learned: Eskimos 31, Tiger-Cats 28

  23-07-2017 20:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos are 4-0 for the first time since the 2014 season, maintaining their spot atop the Canadian Football League standings they’ve held since opening week. It was another hard-fought, physical game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats that went down to the wire in front of a sold-out crowd at Tim Horton’s Field on Thursday, where the Eskimos trailed the entire time before putting together a five-play, 75-yard drive in the final 70 seconds to come back from a 12-point fourth
  
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• Alberta barrel racer carrying on family legacy at K-Days Rodeo

  23-07-2017 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  There may not be a more famous rodeo family in Alberta than the Daines family.
  Every time Sydney Daines races out on to the arena grounds on her horse named Flame and flies around three barrels in a clover leaf pattern, she’s carrying on her family’s legacy.
  But the 21-year-old isn’t just making a big name for herself in the rodeo sport that women rule. She’s also proving to be ruling the soccer pitch too as she wrapped up her rookie season with the Alberta Pandas that sa
  
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• OK Google, it's time to change Edmonton's display picture!

  23-07-2017 17:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  If a picture says a thousand words, those who perform a Google search for “Edmonton” are saying a lot of ugly things about our city.  
  The image Google displays prominently at the top of their Edmonton search results page features two aging industrial buildings perched along the shore of what appears to be a small swamp. A dull skyline vaguely peeks out behind 10 smokestacks perched atop the two featured buildings. 
  
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• Sensible tops scare tactics when making good food choices

  23-07-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  We’ve been fielding many questions lately about the What the Health documentary currently running on Netflix.
  If you haven’t seen the movie, its based on the premise that big industry (U.S. meat and dairy) has buddied up with government and non-profits, much like the tobacco industry did years ago. The documentary suggests agencies trusted with keeping us healthy have compromised their mandate in exchange for lucrative funding.
  There are no shortage of documentaries out there questio
  
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• Province 'reining in' $400,000 in overspending on sports scholarships

  23-07-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference administrators want a meeting with government to discuss funding alternatives after they were told the province would be “reining in” a $400,000 overspend on sports scholarships.
  The Jimmie Condon Athletic Scholarship, named in honour of Alberta Sports Hall of Fame member and Calgarian philanthropist, recognizes athletic performance at universities, colleges and technical institutes in Alberta with up to $1,800 in funding.
  About $3.5 million is se
  
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• Thomson: With new party conservatives take scalpel to Alberta politics

  23-07-2017 07:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta politics got a facelift Saturday night.
  Not just a nip and tuck but a full-on reconstruction.
  Never again will you see the prominent mug of the old Progressive Conservative party or the familiar scowl of the Wildrose.
  They have been transformed into one new face — the United Conservative Party — thanks to scalpel wielding members of both parties.Wildrosers voted 95 per cent — as did PC members — to scrap their old parties to form the new.
  Interestingly, turnout wa
  
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• Girl rushed to hospital after being pulled from lake in north Edmonton

  23-07-2017 05:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl has been transported to an Edmonton hospital after being rescued from a man-made lake at one of the city’s new housing developments in north Edmonton.
  Fire services received a call at 1:54pm for a water rescue opposite a vacant block of land on 78 Street in the Crystallina Nera neighbourhood. 
  Two fire trucks arrived at 2 p.m. and deployed their rapid deployment craft.
  They found the victim four minutes later.
  Officers dragged her onto the boat and once ashore immediately
  
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• United Conservative Party: The next steps

  23-07-2017 04:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  After declaring a resounding, 95-per-cent “yes” to unity Saturday, Alberta’s Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties are well and truly on the path to creating a single conservative political force.
  But there is a vast expanse of legislative, political and financial territory to navigate before the United Conservative Party morphs from a nine-page agreement in principle to a live and kicking entity ready to take on the NDP in the 2019 election.
  The first meeting
  A joint c
  
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• Police seek person of interest after man found dead in west Edmonton

  23-07-2017 04:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are asking the public for help in finding a person of interest after a man was found dead inside a west Edmonton residence Friday.
  James Joel Dunham, 40, was found dead in a residence at 10125 153 St. after police responded to a weapons complaint at around 5:20 a.m. Friday.
  James Joel Dunham, 40, was found dead in a residence at 10125 153 Street after police responded to a weapons complaint at around 5:20 a.m. Friday, July 21, 2017 in Edmonton, Alta.
  Police would like to speak to
  
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• The five most unique products at the K-Days marketplace

  23-07-2017 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Grand marketplace at K-Days is always full of surprises. Among the over 350 exhibits are merchant stalls featuring innovative electronics, locally produced goods and, as always, objects sure to surprise. Here are five of the more unique products to keep an eye out for this year:
  Cartoonish backpacks
  Get back to nature with a backpack shaped like a ladybug or a toadstool. They have waterproof shells and mesh pockets inside to help keep organized. While they’re designed for children
  
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• Adrenaline rush in high supply as trampoline show makes K-Days debut

  23-07-2017 03:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  K-Days soared into new heights with a brand new trampoline show featuring past United States national team members and up and comers.
  Featured in the Adrenaline Rush hall, the extreme trampoline show from Flippenout Productions highlights four athletes from the United States performing three times a day.
  Sean Kennedy, operations manager and team leader, was on the United States national team, placed fourth at the Olympic Trials and is currently the Guinness World Record holder for highest bounce
  
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• Wildrose, Progressive Conservative parties to merge with 95% approval

  23-07-2017 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Wildrose and Progressive Conservatives have voted to unify under a single conservative banner in an historic vote Saturday.
  Just over ninety-five per cent of both Wildrose members voted yes for unity, well above the 75 per cent majority it needed to give the merger a go-ahead for Wildrose and the half needed by PCs.
  The last few months have seen Wildrose Leader Brian Jean criss-cross the province in a bid to secure the yes vote, holding myriad meetings and town halls and answering questions
  
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• Girl rushed to hospital after being pulled from muddy man-made lake in north Edmonton

  23-07-2017 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl has been transported to an Edmonton hospital after being rescued from a man-made lake at one of the city’s new housing developments in north Edmonton.
  Fire services received a call at 1:54pm for a water rescue opposite a vacant block of land on 78 Street in the Crystallina Nera neighbourhood. 
  Two fire trucks arrived at 2 p.m. and deployed their rapid deployment craft.
  They found the victim four minutes later.
  Officers dragged her onto the boat and once ashore immediately
  
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• Did Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli make the most of Connor McDavid's ELC in 2016-17?

  23-07-2017 01:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rating Peter Chiarelli, Part 2
  One year after #FireChiarelli was huge on Twitter, do any of the arguments hold up against Oilers GM?
  In the first post in this series of three rating the work of Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, I looked at how Chiarelli’s work has compared to other GMs of the Katz era, Kevin Lowe, Steve Tambellini and Craig MacTavish. These three GMs collectively turned the Oilers into the worst franchise in the NHL, so that’s not a high bar for Chiarelli to cross. 
  To
  
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• FC Edmonton coach impressed with play of Canadian national team

  23-07-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like many Canadian soccer fans, FC Edmonton head coach Colin Miller was impressed with the performance of the men’s national team at the Gold Cup.
  Canada were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the continental tournament Thursday, losing 2-1 to Jamaica in a game they dominated.
  Canada had 64 per cent of the possession, took 19 shots to Jamaica’s eight, and forced a number of excellent saves out of Reggae Boyz goalkeeper Andre Blake.
  “I thought the best team lost (Thursday) ni
  
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• Wildrose votes yes to unity with 95% of the vote

  23-07-2017 00:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Wildrose Party approved unifying with Progressive Conservatives in an historic vote Saturday.
  Just over ninety-five per cent of Wildrose members voted yes for unity, well above the 75 per cent majority it needed to give the merger a go-ahead.
  The last few months have seen Wildrose Leader Brian Jean criss-cross the province in a bid to secure the yes vote, holding myriad meetings and town halls and answering questions and concerns about the proposal.
  The room erupted in cheers when results of
  
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• Girl rushed to hospital after being pulled from pond in north Edmonton

  23-07-2017 00:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl has been transported to an Edmonton hospital after being rescued from a pond in the north of the city.
  Fire services received a call at 1:54pm for a water rescue in the Crystallina Nera neighbourhood.
  Two fire trucks, one with a rapid deployment craft, arrived at 2 p.m. and found the victim four minutes later.
  They immediately put her in advanced life support care before being rushed to Royal Alex hospital with a police escort.
  Acting Fire Service chief of District 5 Edwin Pitman sa
  
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