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• Social Seen: Kurios

  28-07-2017 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Kurios
  Where: Big Top Tent at Northlands
  When: July 20, 2017
  Who: Cirque du Soleil
  What: Edmonton premier of Cirque du Soleil’s Kuri
  
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• Reality Fitness: dad and daughter duo work together for better health

  28-07-2017 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  If a man who won’t give up beer, carries an extra 40 pounds and travels extensively for work can lose weight, so can you.
  That is the message behind a new book called Reality Fitness, penned by Edmonton personal trainer Angela deJong, who helped her father, Terry Thachuk, lose major weight and get fit while still enjoying life’s treats. The program deJong custom-designed for her dad proved so successful that she has applied the regimen to dozens of clients, with similar results. She
  
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• Editorial: OK'ing shelter reno was only option

  28-07-2017 22:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s easy to empathize with area residents and businesses who tried in vain to overturn a City of Edmonton permit allowing the Hope Mission to redevelop the Herb Jamieson Centre.
  The current building has permanent beds and temporary mats to take in 400 homeless men every night. 
  But it’s what some of the shelter’s clients do in the daytime that concerns neighbouring merchants, including one Chinatown bakery owner who complained about panhandling, vandalism and other chroni
  
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• Black Friday tornado left hundreds of near-miss survivors

  28-07-2017 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The image is seared in George Furgala’s mind, 30 years after Edmonton’s deadly tornado. 
  After emerging from the industrial building where he and a half-dozen coworkers hunkered down for one unending minute as the funnel cloud roared past, Furgala saw two cars covered in debris. Their windows had been caved in by the storm’s destructive power.  
  A motorcycle parked in between survived without a scratch.  
  “Picture (it) yourself — cars parked, win
  
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• Food bank puts out call for more Heritage Festival volunteers

  28-07-2017 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Food Bank is in need of more volunteers — 32 for Sunday alone — for its largest annual food drive, the Servus Heritage Festival. 
  The festival celebrating cultural diversity with 70 pavilions runs Aug. 5-7 in Hawrelak Park. 
  More volunteers are needed particularly for shifts Sunday and Monday evening, Doug Hunter, resource development assistant for the food bank, said Friday. 
  They are looking for 32 volunteers for Sunday and 14 for Monday, both crucia
  
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• Trial date set for photo radar supervisor accused in sex assault

  28-07-2017 20:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trial date has been set for a photo radar supervisor who is accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman. 
  Paul David Derksen will go to trial on Feb. 8, 2018 to face allegations that he pulled over a 25-year-old woman driving on Anthony Henday Drive in the early hours of June 7, and then took her to a park and sexually assaulted her.
  In an initial release of information about the incident, police said they believed the suspect may have been impersonating a police officer: they s
  
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• Edmonton police make largest fentanyl pill bust in Canadian history

  28-07-2017 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police smashed a large drug trafficking ring, seizing 130,000 fentanyl pills in what is being hailed as the largest fentanyl pill seizure in Canada.
  “This was a significant drug operation that has been dismantled,” said Staff Sgt. Karen Ockerman in a Friday news release. “We know we have saved lives by taking that quantity of fentanyl off the streets.”
  After police began investigating in March, members of the Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement (EDGE) un
  
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• Judge blames social workers' 'failure' for 2007 death of foster child

  28-07-2017 18:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  First Nations foster child Kawliga Potts was killed by his foster mother Lily Choy in January 2007. Choy was later convicted of manslaughter.
  But in a scathing fatality inquiry report, issued Friday morning, provincial court judge Ferne LeReverend attributed Potts’ death directly to the case workers who failed to follow the rules when they placed Potts in Choy’s home. 
  LeReverend found that social services workers failed to screen Choy properly, that they placed the three-year-o
  
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• Hot weather helps push Alberta to record peak power usage

  28-07-2017 18:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s warm weather has helped push the province to another summer power consumption record.
  Power use peaked at 10,852 megawatts Thursday, setting the third  record this month, according to the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO), which manages and operates the provincial power grid.
  The figure topped the previous record of 10,687 megawatts reached July 7.  The AESO has indicated Alberta has around 16,420 megawatts of installed generating capacity, so there are no po
  
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• Two blockbuster championship bouts in Edmonton

  28-07-2017 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s taken the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 24 years to reach Edmonton and the organization is making up for that oversight with two blockbuster championship bouts for UFC 215 on Saturday, September 9 at Rogers Place.
  At the main event, UFC 215 will see No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter and ESPY Fighter of the Year winner Demetrious Johnson (26-2-1, fighting out of Parkland, Washington, U.S.) looking to make history in a battle with number three-ranked contender Ray Borg (11-2, fightin
  
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• Dining Out: Bottega 104 brings Italian pasta and pizza to pedestrian-friendly street front

  28-07-2017 18:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The downtown dining scene in Edmonton continues to grow with the arrival of Bottega 104, the latest eatery from the family behind the popular Café Amore, in partnership with the owners of D’Amores Deli.
  Not to be confused with Bodega, the cool little wine-and-tapas bar around the corner on 103 Street, Bottega 104 (on 104 Street), like Café Amore, focuses on Italian fare but with a decidedly more uptown vibe.
  While Amore is a bustling, friendly, checkered-tablecloth kind of pl
  
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• Five things you should know about roller derby

  28-07-2017 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The stereotypes that people bring up when they talk about roller derby make skaters’ eyes roll faster than their wheels. Yes, they know who “Skinny Minnie” Miller is and no, they don’t clothesline each other. Here’s a quick rundown of the hardest-hitting game on eight wheels. 
  Play it anywhere
  While there are still some banked-track teams around, “flat track” roller derby has become more common because it can be played on any smooth surface. There a
  
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• Tornado '87 left hundreds of near-miss survivors

  28-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The image is seared in George Furgala’s mind, 30 years after Edmonton’s deadly tornado. 
  After emerging from the industrial building where he and a half-dozen coworkers hunkered down for one unending minute as the funnel cloud roared past, Furgala saw two cars covered in debris. Their windows had been caved in by the storm’s destructive power.  
  A motorcycle parked in between survived without a scratch.  
  “Picture (it) yourself — cars parked, win
  
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• Friday's letters: Edmonton makes a great holiday for U.S. visitors

  28-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My husband and I didn’t know what to expect when we booked our trip to Edmonton.
  What prompted us to think of your city as a destination were the Canadian Food Championships and A Taste of Edmonton happening at the same time.     Both events were extremely well-organized and definitely showcased the outstanding, diverse culinary scene in Canada and Edmonton. We are still reminiscing about some of the dishes we tasted.
  What we discovered while visiting your great city could b
  
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• Former Journal photographer ran towards tornado on Black Friday

  28-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Steve Simon had been working at the Edmonton Journal for around a year when he got the assignment of a lifetime.
  Simon, a new hire in the newspaper’s photo department, was at the Journal’s Eastgate plant near Refinery Row on July 31, 1987, when he got a call over the radio system the photo staff used to communicate in the era before cellphones.  
  The call was from the assignment editor. Funnel clouds had been spotted southeast of Edmonton. Could he get there? 
  “Just a
  
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• Former villain turned folk hero Zack Kassian now figures into Edmonton Oilers' long-term plans

  28-07-2017 08:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  2016-17 Edmonton Oilers in reviewZack Kassian
  I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that not so long ago Zack Kassian was a hated man in Edmonton. He had caused plenty of grief for the Oilers as a Vancouver Canucks ruffian, most notably in a pair of incidents involving Sam Gagner in the fall of 2013. First Kassian caved in Gagner’s jaw with a brutally careless high stick in an exhibition game that earned him an eight-game suspension, then upon his return to Edmonton a
  
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• K-Days guests told to seek shelter inside as stormy weather worsens

  28-07-2017 06:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stormy weather Thursday night put Edmonton fairgoers’ plans on hold.
  Northlands issued a weather warning around 9:15 p.m., telling K-Days guests to seek shelter in the closest indoor location.WEATHER WARNING: Onsite guests are urged to seek shelter in the closest indoor location. Our staff will be available to assist.#KDays
  — Northlands (@Northlands) July 28, 2017
  As a result of the weather, July Talk, the band set to play outside at K-Days tweeted, stating their set was being delaye
  
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• First-place fight features Lions top offence vs. Eskimos top defence

  28-07-2017 06:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Yes, it’s a battle between two teams with four-game win streaks vying for first place early on in the 2017 Canadian Football League season.
  But if you look past the standings to the reasons why they’ve reached the top, a picture beings to get painted that pits the league’s top offence of the B.C. Lions against the Edmonton Eskimos stingiest yard-allowing defence in the CFL.
  Not to take anything away from Edmonton’s offence and the trio of fourth-quarter comebacks where qu
  
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• Brian Jean supports interim leader, says 'no' to mudslinging in leadership race

  28-07-2017 03:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brian Jean isn’t interested in mudslinging during the United Conservative Party leadership race. 
  During his campaign launch and policy announcements early this week, and again when speaking with the Journal Thursday, the former Wildrose Party leader’s language has tended towards sunshine and positivity — aside from when he talks about the NDP.
  “I’m a unifier, I’m not a divider,” Jean said Thursday. “Most people wouldn’t consider me to b
  
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• Edmonton police hunt for arsonists suspected of starting nine fires

  28-07-2017 03:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are looking for a group of arsonists after a series of nine fires appear to have been intentionally set in Callingwood.
  “Several” male suspects have been caught on surveillance footage lighting fires, said Scott Pattison, spokesperson for the Edmonton Police Service.
  All nine arsons took place within blocks of each other, beginning with a fire that damaged a dumpster and scorched the façade of Talmud Torah School at 6320 172 St. around 8 p.m. on July 15.
  Survei
  
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• Vigil to celebrate girl's life after teen drowned in Edmonton pond

  28-07-2017 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  After her neighbourhood was consumed by dark grief when a 14-year-old girl died after becoming trapped in a drainage pond, a Lago Lindo resident is bringing her community together with a vigil to celebrate the “light” that was the girl’s life.
  “It’s about support,” Shvonne Muench said Thursday. “You don’t have to know each other, you just have to be human.”
  Krystyna Maksymova was walking a neighbour’s dog with her younger sister beside
  
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• Open house on new condo rules held before new regulations come into effect

  28-07-2017 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Changes to condo legislation proposed in 2014 are inching closer to reality, with a series of five open houses across the province.
  Provincial condominium legislation was amended in 2014 and the government is now crafting regulations to support those amendments, Service Alberta Minister Stephanie McLean told the meeting Thursday at the Lister Centre on the University of Alberta campus.
  None of those amendments has been proclaimed.
  The previous government didn’t plan to do the work for
  
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• 'Cheeky inmates' likely behind rave Google reviews of Edmonton Remand

  28-07-2017 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it opened in 2013, the new Edmonton Remand Centre was billed as state of the art. 
  The 1,952-bed facility — Canada’s largest jail — is LEED-certified, has 55-video arraignment rooms for remote access to courts around the province, and offers academic upgrading, counselling and parenting courses.  
  And if Google is your guide, inmates agree. 
  The Edmonton Remand has a stellar 4.7 out of 5 stars on Google reviews — better than the Fairmont Hotel MacDonal
  
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• 4.7 out of 5 stars? Former inmate says Edmonton Remand's rave Google reviews are tongue in cheek

  28-07-2017 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it opened in 2013, the new Edmonton Remand Centre was billed as state of the art. 
  The 1,952-bed facility — Canada’s largest jail — is LEED-certified, has 55-video arraignment rooms for remote access to courts around the province, and offers academic upgrading, counselling and parenting courses.  
  And if Google is your guide, inmates agree. 
  The Edmonton Remand has a stellar 4.7 out of 5 stars on Google reviews — better than the Fairmont Hotel MacDonal
  
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• A day on the midway: How visitors spend their time at K-Days

  28-07-2017 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s lots to see and do at K-Days, from the entertainment inside, the shopping, the food and all the action on the midway. The midway grounds were packed again Thursday, which was Day 7 of the exhibition.
  With temperatures reaching 30 C, we caught up with some visitors to talk about how they are spending their day.
  Ava Chamseddine, 21
  Her third time at K-Days so far this year, Chamseddine was by the kids’ rides with her little sister, who just finished riding the Jeeps and was run
  
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• Quick ascent for Stefan Daniel to top of paratriathlon mountain

  28-07-2017 01:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stefan Daniel has never thought of himself as disabled. To him, he’s just like everyone else.
  Born with bilateral radial club hands, the 20-year-old’s right arm is significantly shorter than his left arm, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming one of the best triathletes in the world.
  “Growing up, I never thought of myself as disabled or as a para-athlete. I love competing against my abled-body peers,” said Daniel, who will be competing in the ITU World Para-tria
  
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• Terry Jones: Canada hits a hiccup producing world class triathletes

  28-07-2017 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  It ought to be embarrassing.
  Canada is the only nation in the world with two stops on the ITU World Triathlon Series tour and to this point, only one competitor who has managed to finish a race to acquire a point in either men’s or women’s standings.
  Joanna Brown has been ‘Only The Lonely.’
  Seventeenth at Gold Coast and 35th at Hamburg, Brown has been the only competitor to finish a race on the tour where the other stops in Abu Dhabi, Yokohama and Leeds leading to Canada&
  
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• Thieves shut down oilfield lease site after causing $1M damage

  28-07-2017 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  An oilfield site east of Edmonton had to be closed after thieves took copper wire and caused more than $1 million in damage, police said.
  Mounties estimate the thieves made off with about $200,000 worth of copper wire from the Obsidian Energy site near Cynthia, a town about 150 km west of Edmonton, after breaking in at around 3:30 a.m. on July 17.
  A surveillance camera image shows two men and a truck suspected of stealing copper wire and damaging an oilfield site near Cynthia around 3:30 a.m. on
  
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• Biobank regulations could give Alberta researchers a leg up

  28-07-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the booming, multibillion-dollar biobanking industry, a lack of clarity surrounds the collection and use of patients’ genetic material.
  Biobanks are large collections of genetic samples with patients’ corresponding health and personal information. The banks have become important tools in the development of personalized medicines, but the industry hasn’t found a consensus on the best way to balance research goals with the ethical concerns around the use of such personal infor
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch in effect for Edmonton area

  28-07-2017 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  With heat warnings already in effect, Environment Canada on Thursday issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Edmonton area as conditions create the potential for tornadoes.
  An unstable airmass over Alberta means there is potential for development of dangerous thunderstorms, threatening to bring strong wind gusts, heavy rain and hail as large as golf balls, if not larger, to Edmonton, Sherwood Park and St. Albert, according to a thunderstorm watch notice posted Thursday afternoon.
  The thunders
  
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• Fire Ball ride remaining closed at K-Days following fatal accident in Ohio

  28-07-2017 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Fire Ball ride at K-Days will remain closed until further notice following a fatal incident on the same type of ride at the Ohio State Fair on Wednesday night.
  A malfunction that caused the Ohio ride to break apart killed an 18-year-old man and injured seven others, leaving three people in critical condition.
  Although it is not the operator of the ride in Ohio, North American Midway Entertainment (NAME) has suspended operations of all three of its Fire Balls, one at K-Days and the other two
  
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• Man charged in four robberies

  28-07-2017 00:00
  A man has been charged with four counts of robbery including two robberies in St. Albert earlier this week.
  
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