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• Edmonton neighbours baffled by double-lot home

  25-07-2017 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Neighbours on a quiet crescent in Malmo Plains are baffled by the size of a giant new house that’s replaced two single-storey bungalows. 
  “I call it the little Butterdome,” said neighbour Duncan Robertson, with a laugh.
  The two-storey, 6,600 square-foot home is currently shrouded in bright yellow construction insulation and water proofing. Its three-storey elevator shaft for the rooftop patio can be seen from more than a block away.
  “He made two houses into one house
  
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• Plaques honouring veterans stolen in Griesbach neighbourhood

  25-07-2017 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than a dozen metal plaques honouring Canada’s veterans and military history are missing from north Edmonton’s Griesbach neighbourhood in what residents are calling a “brazen and coordinated” robbery.
  The 15 plaques — made out of a metal alloy — were pulled from their concrete bases sometime between July 23 and 24, members of the Griesbach Community League said in a statement. 
  “It’s very upsetting,” said community league president B
  
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• Edmonton's latest homicide had history in drug trade: court records

  25-07-2017 20:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s latest homicide victim as well as a man being sought as a person of interest in the case both have drug-related convictions, court records show. 
  Police responding to a weapons complaint found James Joel Dunham, 40, shot dead in a home near 101 Avenue and 153 Street around 5:20 a.m. Friday. The Edmonton medical examiner on Monday ruled the case a homicide, the city’s 31 of 2017.
  James Joel Dunham is the city’s latest homicide victim. Supplied.
  Police say 32-year
  
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• United Conservative Party names house leadership team

  25-07-2017 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Opposition MLAs in the new United Conservative Party caucus learned Tuesday who will join interim leader Nathan Cooper in the house leadership team.
  Cooper announced the positions in Edmonton one day after the former MLA rivals came together for their first caucus meeting following pro-merger votes by members of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties. 
  Calgary-West MLA Mike Ellis becomes deputy house leader, while Calgary-Fish Creek MLA Richard Gotfried becomes house leader. Both
  
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• Canadian Food Championships take winners down south

  25-07-2017 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some of Edmonton’s best amateur and professional cooks have turned burgers, bacon and steak into a trip to compete at the World Food Championships in Alabama in November. 
  More than 60 competitors in seven categories at the Canadian Food Championships brought their best to the country’s biggest food fight this past weekend, travelling from as far away as Fredericton, New Brunswick to take part.
  The first place winners in each of the categories won $2,500 and a $1,500 travel vouc
  
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• Former civilian Edmonton police employee has child pornography charges withdrawn; jailed for other charge

  25-07-2017 19:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Child pornography charges against a former civilian employee of the Edmonton Police Service have been withdrawn, but he is going to jail for making an arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child.
  Aaron Rothwell, 41, had charges of making, printing and publishing child pornography withdrawn Monday. The charges of distributing and selling child pornography were also withdrawn.
  He was sentenced on a third charge of making an arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child and give
  
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• Police investigate after break-in at Mercer Tavern prompts fire call

  25-07-2017 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mercer Tavern is cleaning up after a break-in Tuesday morning that prompted a response from Edmonton fire crews.
  Fire crews received a call from a person delivering fliers near the 10363 104 St. pub at 4:17 a.m. The caller reported the kitchen in the building “was very hot,” said Edmonton fire spokeswoman Maya Filipovic. 
  “By the time we arrived four minutes later, the sprinklers were already going and there were no active flames, so crews kind of did a sweep to make sure
  
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• NewLeaf Travel name changed to Flair Airlines

  25-07-2017 18:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Discount airline seat reseller NewLeaf Travel marked its first anniversary Tuesday by changing its name to Flair Airlines.
  NewLeaf was bought June 7 by Kelowna, B.C.- based Flair Airlines, which had been supplying NewLeaf with aircraft and crews, in a move designed to bring airline operations and marketing under one roof.
  Over the past year, Flair has flown 320,000 people and completed more than 2,600 flights across Canada, according to a news release.
  Flair Airlines says it intends to expand it
  
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• Hazelton coming into his own in dominating drive against Hamilton

  25-07-2017 14:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a rope-a-dope of Muhammad Ali proportions.
  Nobody hung back on the ropes letting the opponent think they were getting the upper hand better than the champ, only to pounce on a tired and overconfident target in the final round.
  Floating like butterflies and stinging like bees might not have been in the Edmonton Eskimos game plan going into Hamilton last week, but that’s the way things worked out for Vidal Hazelton.
  After being relatively quiet on the stats sheet all night, the third-
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Teach kids to respect public art

  25-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I was driving west over the Quesnell Bridge on Sunday afternoon and glanced over to admire my favourite piece of public art, the Talus Dome.
  I witnessed two small children climbing over the shiny spheres while being “supervised” by a couple who I assumed were their parents. They all had bike helmets on and looked as if they had cycled there as a family.
  My reaction was immediate and reminiscent to seeing Michelangelo’s Pieta protected by acrylic shields in 1974 after a vandal h
  
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• 'Powerful tax tool': New regulations let cities act on derelict land

  25-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  New provincial regulations released Monday would allow Edmonton to impose higher taxes on speculators and other commercial property owners who leave land sitting vacant.
  That’s a win for Edmonton officials, who have been lobbying for the change. It’s a move that would create what one city lawyer previously called “one of the most powerful tax tools that exist” in the fight to clean up derelict properties.
  The new set of regulations also includes a provision that
  
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• 'Please don't interrupt': Judge chastises man accused of slew of sexual offences

  25-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After making multiple attempts to postpone his trial, and just moments before the first witness was to be called, a man facing 11 sexual offence charges related to children decided to enter several guilty pleas. 
  A trial for Timothy Michael Lidkea had been scheduled to begin Monday morning, but after delays resulting from both confusion about support staff, and attempts by the accused to get the matter postponed, provincial court Judge Marilena Carminati ordered that the trial proceed.
  
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• Editorial: The end of an era

  25-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The birth of the nascent United Conservative Party on the weekend has overshadowed the deaths of the two parties it now succeeds.
  The extraordinary and historic demise of not one, but two, provincial political institutions deserves its own moment of reflection and remembrance. While the two small-c conservative houses died on the exact same weekend, the obituaries of the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties can be summed up with remarkably dissimilar themes.
  The PCs are the empire that
  
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• Jack of all trades, master of one — Edmonton Oilers' Mark Letestu really crushed it on the powerplay

  25-07-2017 13:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  2016-17 Edmonton Oilers in reviewMark Letestu
  The calendar was just turning to December and Edmonton Oilers’ coach Todd McLellan badly needed a bandaid for his bleeding powerplay. The struggling special teams group was coming off a desultory 0-for-9 output during a brief, brutal two-game homestand that had seen the Oilers drop regulation decisions to first Arizona, then Toronto. There was a bad taste in the mouth of pretty much everyone associated with or following the team, which had drop
  
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• City launches internal investigation after 14-year-old girl drowns

  25-07-2017 04:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton will be conducting an internal review of safety around its storm water management facilities following the drowning death of a 14-year-old girl who tried to rescue the dog she was walking from a pond Saturday.
  Meanwhile, the president of the Lago Lindo community league is raising questions over the signage of the ponds.
  Krystyna Maksymova, 14, was walking a neighbour’s dog with her younger sister when the animal chased after some geese in the pond near 82 Street and Ch
  
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• Woman accused of killing elderly landlord appears in St. Albert court

  25-07-2017 04:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman accused of killing her elderly St. Albert landlord appeared in court Monday.
  Beryl Musila, 28, is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 14 for an election and plea in St. Albert.
  Beryl Musila in 2015
  Musila was charged with first-degree murder and interfering with human remains after Ronald Worsfold’s body was found in a rural area of Parkland County near Stony Plain on July 9 after being reported missing the day before.
  The 75-year-old man worked three jobs. Hundreds of peopl
  
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• Woman accused of killing elderly landlord appears in St. Albert court - Edmonton Journal

  25-07-2017 04:30
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  Woman accused of killing elderly landlord appears in St. Albert court
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  Beryl Musila, 28, is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 14 for an election and plea in St. Albert. Beryl Musila in 2015 Ted Rhodes. Musila was charged with first-degree murder and interfering with human remains after Ronald Worsfold's body was found ...and more »
  
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• Accused in St. Albert senior's death makes court appearance ... - Edmonton Journal

  25-07-2017 04:30
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  Accused in St. Albert senior's death makes court appearance ...
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  A woman accused of killing her elderly St. Albert landlord appeared in court Monday. Beryl Musila, 28, is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 14 for an election ...and more »
  
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• Paula Simons: Don't shrug off Edmonton's homicide rate

  25-07-2017 03:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The good news? Edmonton isn’t actually the murder capital of Canada.
  In its new report on crime severity in Canada, Statistics Canada awards that dubious distinction to Thunder Bay, Ont.
  In 2016, says StatsCan, Thunder Bay had more homicides per capita than any other Canadian city.
  Metro Edmonton came second.
  According to StatsCan, the greater Edmonton metropolitan area recorded 47 homicides last year. That gave us a rate of 3.39 killings per 100,000 residents. The Thunder Bay region
  
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• MLA rejects UCP membership as birthing pains of new party continue

  25-07-2017 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  And then there was one …
  In what was the worst kept secret of Alberta politics, Brian Jean announced Monday afternoon he was stepping down as Wildrose leader to officially kick off his campaign for leader of the new United Conservative Party.
  “We will repeal, undo and replace much of the damage the NDP has done,” Jean said in an advance copy of his prepared speech that mentioned the NDP eight times and the UCP just once.
  Jean is the first (former) party leader in the race.
  And
  
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• Civilian Edmonton police employee has child pornography charges withdrawn; jailed for other charge

  25-07-2017 02:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Child pornography charges against a civilian employee of the Edmonton Police Service have been withdrawn, but he is going to jail for making an arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child.
  Aaron Rothwell, 41, had charges of making, printing and publishing child pornography withdrawn Monday. The charges of distributing and selling child pornography were also withdrawn.
  He was sentenced on a third charge of making an arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child and given a $20
  
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• Unprepared rafters rescued from Abraham Lake

  25-07-2017 02:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  An evening on the lake took a dangerous turn Sunday, requiring two people and a dog be rescued from a severe storm after their rubber dinghy was blown from shore on Abraham Lake near Nordegg, Alta.
  A 33-year-old man from Smokey Lake and a 22-year-old woman from Willingdon were found by an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer and two firefighters in a near-hypothermic state, according to an RCMP media release. The two were found huddled together under their rubber boat along shore trying to stay war
  
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• BioWare stalks gamers with Anthem design at Edmonton Corn Maze

  25-07-2017 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton game development company is going back to the land to promote its latest outer-space adventure.
  BioWare has sponsored the Edmonton Corn Maze in Spruce Grove to cut a design into the field from Anthem, a role-playing video game the firm plans to release around Christmas 2018.
  “We wanted to partner with the corn maze folks for a while … We thought it would be a good idea to have an Anthem-themed corn maze this year,” BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn said Monday.
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• Autopsy confirms Edmonton homicide victim shot multiple times

  25-07-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kendall Desjarlais
  Multiple gunshot wounds were responsible for the death of an Edmonton man Friday.
  James Joel Dunham, 40, was found dead in a west Edmonton home near 101 Avenue and 153 Street on Friday around 5:20 a.m. after calls for a weapons complaint.
  The homicide was confirmed Monday after an autopsy by the Edmonton medical examiner.
  Police have named a person of interest — Kendall Desjarlais, 32 — in connection with the death and are hoping for information about his whereabou
  
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• Jones: Edmonton Eskimos ensure K-Days event is still magic for the kids

  25-07-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Still magic.
  The wind whistled. The rain drove down. And the temperature felt more like January than July.
  The temperature was 10.2 C at 9 a.m. when it began on a day with the lowest maximum temperature for a July 24 in recorded history a chilly 12.3 C.
  It was the 40th edition of Monday Morning Magic for special needs kids between the ages of three and 12, the first few of which were held in secrecy without publicity by
  Tom Wilkinson and Edmonton Eskimos players and brought tears to the eyes of
  
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• Alberta latest province to cover the cost of abortion pill Mifegymiso

  25-07-2017 00:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta has become the latest province to cover the cost of a medical abortion pill.
  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said Mifegymiso is now available for any woman in the province who requests it.
  Hoffman said providing universal coverage will give women greater choice when it comes to their reproductive health.
  She said it will help women who live in rural areas who have had to travel to urban centres for surgical abortions.
  The province said the pill may be used to terminate a pregnancy of up to
  
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• Fuhr ready for Edmonton's PGA Tour Canada stop

  25-07-2017 00:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Grant Fuhr still loves the thrill of the game, even if he had to change the game.
  His puck-stopping days are long behind him, but the 54-year-old still finds a way to get the competitive juices flowing as often as possible.
  “I can’t play hockey anymore, so you have to find something,” said the Hall of Fame netminder, one of six sponsor’s exemptions announced Monday for next week’s Syncrude Oil Country Championship at the Windermere Golf and Country Club.
  “We&r
  
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• How to keep up with K-Days weather cancellations

  25-07-2017 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the weather forecast doesn’t look good and you’re heading to K-Days, you should check online before planning your trip.
  Poor weather conditions have led to the cancellation of several events at K-Days since the exhibition opened on Friday. The lumberjack and hypnotist shows on Monday afternoon were cancelled due to rain and Sunday night’s firework show was cancelled due to high winds. The Dan Davidson concert on Sunday night was reduced to a condensed set due to rain.
  A repr
  
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