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• Edmonton constable charged with theft of cash, cigarettes, credit card

  03-08-2017 23:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  An eight-year member of the Edmonton police force has been suspended without pay after being charged with stealing cigarettes, prepaid credit cards and cash while on duty. 
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) in October launched a probe into the officer’s conduct based on three separate incidents spanning several months — the most recent occurring on Wednesday. 
  The 40-year-old constable, an eight-year patrol member in northeast division, was charged Wednesda
  
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• Naloxone kits permitted in main stage area of Big Valley Jamboree

  03-08-2017 23:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Big Valley Jamboree festival organizers will allow country music fans to bring naloxone kits into the main stage bowl as long as they are properly marked to allow security staff to easily identify the life-saving drug.
  The decision to allow partygoers headed for Alberta’s biggest country music festival in Camrose to bring private kits with them into the main stage area is in line with an Alberta Health Service recommendation that anyone attending events who is thinking about using dru
  
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• Las Vegas bullish on Edmonton Oilers, but some analytics buffs have major questions. Who is right?

  03-08-2017 22:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Las Vegas gambling oddsmaker Bodog has the Edmonton Oilers with the second best betting odds to win the Stanley Cup, but some analytics folks aren’t so bullish on the team.
  On TSN1260 this week, Allan “Lowetide” Mitchell has been interviewing analytics writers such as TSN’s Scott Cullen. Mitchell has asked them all the same question, whether the Oilers — as they are now formulated — are a strong Stanley Cup contender. 
  Said Cullen:  “If I l
  
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• Man sought after 21-year-old woman slain now charged with second-degree murder

  03-08-2017 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police charged a 20-year-old man with second-degree murder Thursday after a 21-year-old woman was slain early Monday in northern Alberta.
  The body of Joelle Cardinal, 21, was found by RCMP responding to a disturbance in the hamlet of Desmarais at 2:18 a.m. Monday.
  Police said the woman from Bigstone Cree Nation suffered from an “intentional traumatic injury.”
  “There were several witnesses to the incident which led to the death of Ms. Cardinal,” police said in a Thurs
  
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• Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement construction underway

  03-08-2017 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction is finally beginning on the Alberta and Saskatchewan portions of Enbridge’s multi-billion dollar Line 3 pipeline replacement between Hardisty in southeastern Alberta and the state of Wisconsin.
  Guy Jarvis, president of Enbridge Liquids Pipelines, said Thursday as many as 1,600 workers will be involved in the initial phase of construction that will see three sections built across the Prairies.
  As one pipeline company works on the first segment extending between the to
  
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• Jean, in UCP leadership bid, talks tough-on-crime policies

  03-08-2017 20:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Wildrose Leader Brian Jean pledged a series of tough on crime policies Thursday as he continues his bid for the United Conservative Party leadership. 
  Jean was in Grande Prairie to unveil his latest policy planks, including tougher penalties for people who commit violent crimes, more resources for sexual assault victims and tackling the opioid crisis.
  Jean said if his party formed government, he would introduce legislation barring dangerous offenders, murderers rapists, and others on
  
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• Police watchdog to release investigation details involving EPS member

  03-08-2017 19:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s police watchdog is planning to release new information about a “serious and sensitive investigation,” says a Thursday news release. 
  The probe involved a member of the Edmonton Police Service. 
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) will hold a news conference in the afternoon.   
  ASIRT investigates cases involving Alberta police that have resulted in serious injury or death, as well as allegations of police misconduct. 
  More to co
  
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• 10 things to do: Lady Gaga, Blueberry Bluegrass, Echo and the Bunnymen

  03-08-2017 16:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lady Gaga
  While some fans are excited at the prospect of hearing the newest album from Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, a.k.a. Lady Gaga, others are simply losing it over her latest hair colour. In case you haven’t been following, the acclaimed singer-songwriter recently changed her locks to a rainbow hue in advance of the tour for her fifth studio release, Joanne. Rogers Place will be the second stop on the world tour, which looks to have her on the road at least until mid December, th
  
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• Let's face it: Willie Nelson is the coolest musician to play 25 years

  03-08-2017 16:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Having been to more than half the Big Valley Jamborees in its 25-year lifespan, here’s something easy to declare: Willie Nelson — playing Friday — is the coolest act they’ve ever booked.
  That’s nothing against BVJ, mind you — with a penchant for dope, helping out farmers, troubles with the man and, of course, a catalogue of songs which include some of the most recognizable music ever to beam into space from planet Earth. Nelson is seriously untouchab
  
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• Thursday's letters: Black Friday shaped disaster response

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Terrible tragedies like Black Friday 30 years ago brought many changes, besides improving technical early-warning weather systems.
  It was a springboard for dramatically educating a very large group of emergency responders, providing them with enhanced skills in dealing with major disasters. It also served as a crash course in post-traumatic stress, now even being taught to young children.
  In the tornado’s aftermath, some of us were sharing our insights and experiences elsewhere: ­in ac
  
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• Thirty half-ironman races in 30 days? No problem for Edmonton cancer survivor

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton cancer survivor has accomplished an epic quest to complete 30 half-ironman races in 30 days, overcoming not only the unforgiving distances, but also a serious leg injury and a July heat wave along the way.
  Malcolm Stinson wrapped up the exhausting challenge Sunday with a celebratory glass of champagne at Hawrelak Park.
  “It was in a cheap plastic cup, but it was good champagne,” he laughed in an interview Wednesday.
  Over the month-long grind, Stinson covered 57 km in the w
  
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• Teacher decertified after attempting to lure student on Facebook, asking for pictures of her toes

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former teacher has been ousted from the profession after attempting to lure a female student on Facebook.
  Steven McKerrall of Fort Saskatchewan was also suspended Wednesday from his current job teaching children and developing programs at the Telus World of Science when the organization learned of the sanction.
  “We take these matters very seriously,” Telus World of Science president and CEO Alan Nursall said Wednesday.
  McKerrall has been suspended with pay while the organization in
  
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• Popularity brewing at Leduc bar with Alberta's first self-serve beer wall

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Leduc bar has turned that kid-in-a-candy shop dream of being your own bartender into reality by introducing what it says is Canada’s first self-serve beer wall.
  Customers at Barney’s Pub and Grill can try Alberta craft draft from about a dozen high-tech taps controlled by a electronically readable card that allows them to sample as little as an ounce of beer at a time and restricts total consumption to 32 ounces before an employee has to renew the customer’s card.
  A screen at
  
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• Opinion: Red-tape busters should consider the consequences

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brian Jean says he wants to “reduce job-killing government red tape by 33 per cent, and put in place a one-for-one rule after that where any new regulation has to have one at least as onerous taken away.”
  Doug Schweitzer says he “would eliminate two existing business regulations for every new business regulation.”
  I suggest that these two candidates for the leadership of Alberta’s new United Conservative Party (UCP) try saying that in Royal Borough of Kensington and
  
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• Groups of Albertans asked to comment on age discrimination laws

  03-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Edmonton grapples with the issue of adult-only condo buildings, the province is asking a select group of Albertans their thoughts on age discrimination laws.
  On July 20, the Justice Ministry issued discussion guides about age laws to specific groups, including non-profits, condo and tenancy associations, Indigenous organizations and municipalities.
  The government wants to make sure that including age in Alberta’s Human Rights Act won’t have unintended consequences for other legisl
  
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• Police will identify homicide victims on 'case by case basis,' chiefs say

  03-08-2017 06:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary — Alberta’s police chiefs have adopted a framework that will see police consider whether to release the names of homicide victims “on a case by case basis.”
  “Every homicide is unique … and we have to consider certain factors before we release the name,” Medicine Hat police Chief Andy McGrogan, president of the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police, said Wednesday.
  He said lawyers, senior police officers and the Alberta solicitor general’
  
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• Chance discovery reunites mother's stolen ashes with her grieving family

  03-08-2017 05:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lois Gordon says the unlikely reunion with her mother’s stolen ashes is nothing short of a miracle.
  “We finally have some closure and some peace, for her and for us,” Gordon said Wednesday.
  Gordon’s mother, Mary Myers, 91, died peacefully in her home surrounded by family in rural Strathcona County — within walking distance of Gordon’s home — on May 25.
  Gordon recalls bringing Myers’ remains back in a small cherry wood chest wrapped in a green velve
  
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• Do Edmonton Oilers have dark horse prospect who will surprise us all?

  03-08-2017 05:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The annual Cult of Hockey prospect rankings are here, but we’ll be saving the best for last. The top ranked prospects with presumably the best chances of making the NHL will be profiled last in this series. 
  Bruce McCurdy and I will be doing detailed profiles of the Top 20 players in voting. We each ranked the prospects, then we used Allan Mitchell’s prospect list at Lowetide as the tiebreaker for our final list. 
  Today I look at the six defencemen and one goalie who ranke
  
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• Graham Thomson: In UCP leadership race, Jason Kenney marches to his own drummer

  03-08-2017 04:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two things to take away from a recent public opinion poll by Mainstreet Research: the new United Conservative Party would defeat the Alberta NDP if an election were held today; and UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean is viewed by the general public more favourably than his rival Jason Kenney.
  Not surprisingly, the findings are giving a boost to the morale of UCP supporters in general and to Jean in particular.
  A skeptic, though, would point out two things: there is no election today, and the lea
  
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• Edmonton's linguistic diversity surges in new census data

  03-08-2017 03:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is fast becoming one of Canada’s most linguistically diverse big cities, with more people speaking languages such as Tagalog, Punjabi and Arabic than ever before. 
  New census data Wednesday shows the number of people in Edmonton who use a language other than English or French as their mother tongue surged 31 per cent between the 2011 and 2016 censuses — a faster rate than in any of Canada’s other big cities. 
  More than 345,000 Edmontonians claim a non-officia
  
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• Bridget Carleton books a trip to Argentina with Team Canada

  03-08-2017 03:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bridget Carleton has always been a sharp-shooter on the basketball court, and now she’s making the most of her shot with the Canadian women’s national team.
  The 20-year-old was one of 12 players named to the roster for the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup tournament Aug.7-13 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  A top-three finish in the tournament will qualify Canada for the 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup.
  This isn’t her first opportunity to show what she can do on the big stage. Last summer when
  
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• Wildrose 2.0 gets OK for new name

  03-08-2017 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans may see yet another new party on their ballots when the 2019 provincial election rolls around.
  Late Wednesday afternoon, Elections Alberta gave the group that wants to resurrect the Wildrose Party the go-ahead to call itself the Alberta Advantage Party. 
  That’s despite the fact there is already an established Alberta Party with a sitting MLA.
  The leader of that party, Greg Clark, isn’t exactly over the moon about the decision, but knows new parties in this province are
  
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• From farm to table: Open Farm Days to feature more than 100 attractions provincewide

  03-08-2017 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 100 farms and agri-businesses across the province are offering a taste of rural living Aug. 19 and 20 during Alberta Open Farm Days.
  The weekend-long event, now in its fifth year, encourages Albertans to enjoy the best of the countryside, including activities like corn mazes, hayrides and petting zoos, as well as farm tours and opportunities to buy locally grown and locally made products.
  Culture and Tourism Minister Ricardo Miranda previewed the event at a Wednesday news conferen
  
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• Hank Lebioda lighting up two tours at the same time

  03-08-2017 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The scores are down and the air miles are up for the hottest hand on the Mackenzie Tour right now.
  After posting a record-breaking eight-shot victory in Quebec, Hank (Two Tours) Lebioda is carving out a name for himself in both Canada and Latin America at the same time.
  With five top 10 finishes in seven starts on the LatinoAmerica PGA Tour and that decisive win two weeks ago on the PGA Tour Canada, Lebioda has climbed to sixth on the money list on both circuits.
  It’s not often that a play
  
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• Striker Tomi Ameobi hits century mark for FC Edmonton

  03-08-2017 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tomi Ameobi had never spent more than a year with a professional soccer club before arriving to play in Canada.
  Four seasons later, Ameobi, 28, celebrated his 100th appearance with FC Edmonton, scoring a goal in a 2-1 loss to the Indy Eleven on Sunday.
  “It’s definitely been an honour to be given the opportunity to come out here and play my football,” Ameobi said after the loss. “As you know in football, a lot of players bounce around, but FC Edmonton has given me the chan
  
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• Edmonton custom footwear retailer Poppy Barley opens first full-time store

  03-08-2017 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Popular Edmonton custom footwear company Poppy Barley walks into the world of brick-and-mortar retailing Thursday when it unveils its first stand-alone store at Southgate Centre.
  Poppy Barley was started as an online-only operation in 2012 at Startup Edmonton by sisters Kendall Barber and Justine Barber, but they soon realized a physical presence was needed as well, Kendall Barber said Wednesday.
  “Very early on people showed they wanted the option to shop in person. They would show up at S
  
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• Eskimos looking to experienced practice squad in wake of injuries

  03-08-2017 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the wake of last week’s injury-riddled game, four players are being elevated from the Edmonton Eskimos practice roster to starting roles Friday against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  Wide receiver Duke Williams will be replaced by Kenny Stafford, D’Anthony Batiste will play right tackle for Tony Washington, who moves over to left tackle in place of the injured Joel Figueroa, LaDarius Perkins will be the third Eskimos running back to start a game this season following an injury to Travon
  
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• Peters returns to Eskimos secondary against Ticats following suspension

  03-08-2017 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  In a season where losing players to injury has been the norm on the way to their first 5-0 start since 2011, the Edmonton Eskimos are actually getting a starter back this week.
  Garry Peters will return to his usual spot at defensive halfback on Friday (7:30 p.m., TSN, 630 CHED) against the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  The five-foot-11, 190-pound Clemson product is picking up right where he left off following a one-game suspension for contacting an official during a 31-28 win over the Ticats in
  
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