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• Paula Simons: Liberia preps to join the Heritage Festival party

  04-08-2017 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gizzie Arku hasn’t been getting a lot of sleep lately.
  The co-ordinator of the Heritage Festival’s Liberian pavilion has been putting in a lot of 18 hours days this week, organizing dozens of Liberian community volunteers to build, to cook, entertain. It’s a daunting task.
  “For me, the hours are uncountable,” he says. “It’s our first year, undertaking a major project like this.”
  Last year, Liberia had a small tent as the festival, where they sold s
  
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• Increased competition sees slight drop in BVJ ticket sales

  04-08-2017 20:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Increased competition from Edmonton’s “big shiny new arena” has meant ticket sales for this year’s Big Valley Jamboree are slightly down over the past few years, festival organizers say.
  “It’s a little slower than usual but there’s a lot more competition,” festival producer Mike Anderson said pointing to 16 shows that Garth Brooks put on in Alberta alone this year as well as the increased number of concerts at Rogers Place. 
  Still, Anderson is
  
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• Edmonton indie game producer releases The Low Road

  04-08-2017 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  With their freshly released game The Low Road garnering plenty of accolades and attention, the team at Edmonton-based indie game developer X-Gen Studios can finally feel relieved.
  They like it. The fans like it. The critics like it. 
  Released on July 26, the story-driven point-and-click adventure game was three and a half years in the making and they were a long three and a half years. 
  For any small games developer — X-Gen has eight full-time employees — the game desi
  
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• Edmonton hit with job losses as much of country sees employment gains

  04-08-2017 20:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton and Alberta were left out of a national uptick in employment last month, according to July jobs numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada.
  While Canadian unemployment dropped 0.2 percentage points in July from the previous month to 6.3 per cent, Alberta shed nearly 14,000 jobs, pushing unemployment up 0.4 percentage points to 7.8 per cent.
  Edmonton and Calgary had among the highest unemployment rates in the country of Canadian cities measured in July, both sitting at 8.5 per cent.
  Th
  
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• Man pretending to be priest re-arrested on more child exploitation charges

  04-08-2017 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who pretended to be a member of the Catholic clergy is facing new charges related to child exploitation after more victims came forward with information, say police who earlier this week announced details about the case. 
  The 33-year-old was first charged with the exploitation of two teenage boys after the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) seized electronic devices containing child pornography images at a north Edmonton home on July 27, said police on Tuesday. 
  The investigation
  
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• Pills seized by RCMP in May traffic stop determined to be deadly carfentanil

  04-08-2017 19:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pills seized in a Fort McMurray traffic stop this May have been determined to be one of the most deadly opioids known — carfentanil.
  The 390 pills were seized by Wood Buffalo RCMP on May 24. The pills were originally believed to be fentanyl, but after being tested by a Health Canada lab were determined to be the carfentanil.
  Police say carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and that a dose of as little as 20 micrograms can be fatal to an average human. There is no kno
  
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• Rural area dad charged with sex offences against daughters appears in court

  04-08-2017 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A father accused of sexually abusing his three daughters over six years at a rural property west of Edmonton made a brief court appearance Friday. 
  The 41-year-old man — who is facing a slew of charges including incest, human trafficking and child pornography — appeared from the Edmonton Remand Centre via CCTV at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton.
  In June, investigators with the Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit said the man lived on a rural compound with hi
  
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• Drayton Valley worker dies after ride-on lawnmower goes into pond

  04-08-2017 19:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man in his 20s is dead after the ride-on lawnmower he was operating for the Town of  Drayton Valley went into a pond.
  The man found in the pond with the mower Thursday morning was airlifted to University hospital in Edmonton where he was pronounced dead, Alberta Labour spokesperson Trent Bancarz said.
  Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is now investigating. 
  A spokesperson with the Town of Drayton Valley said the municipality is working on putting together more information about
  
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• Lady Gaga world tour as impressive as it gets

  04-08-2017 15:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Part positive affirmation, part Broadway musical, part rock spectacle.
  That might be the easiest way, to sum up Lady Gaga’s show at Rogers Place last night, but it wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
  A big, over-the-top assault on the senses, Gaga’s Joanne World Tour is as impressive as an arena show gets, with a dramatic arc that hinges as much on the singer’s charisma and vocal skills as it does any of the special effects. That she has both in spades can’t be denied, e
  
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• Voters puzzled as Wetaskiwin school trustee's role limited

  04-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A public school board trustee in central Alberta says her board colleagues are forbidding her to do most of her job after she asked too many tough questions.
  Karen Becker, who lives in Buck Lake and represents the westernmost part of the Wetaskiwin Regional public school board, said she lives under a cloud of suspicion after her colleagues voted in May to remove her from all committees and appointments without explaining why.
  “They’ve really publicly humiliated me,” Becker said
  
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• Opinion: Passing the climate torch

  04-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week, I passed the Pembina Institute’s executive director torch to Glen Murray. Judging by the media frenzy following the announcement, it’s a name many Canadians recognize.
  Murray most recently served as Ontario’s environment and climate change minister, but his accomplishments run much deeper and longer than that. He served as mayor of Winnipeg from 1998 to 2004, president and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute, chair of the National Round Table on the Environment
  
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• No increase in Alberta abortions expected despite universal coverage for drug

  04-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s decision to begin covering the cost of a medical abortion pill is not expected to increase the number of terminated pregnancies in the province, the government says.
  In a set of written statements to the Journal this week, Alberta Health officials said their belief is largely based on data from the United States, where the drug Mifegymiso has been available since 2000.
  “Experience from the United States shows that while the percentage of completed abortions reported as earl
  
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• Friday's letters: Pigeon Lake is looking pristine this year

  04-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just thought you should know our beach and water at Pigeon Lake is the cleanest we’ve seen in years.
  It is sad there are very few people enjoying this on such a beautiful day. Could past unfavourable reporting have anything to do with this?
  It sure would be great if the public was aware of this.
  Ron Lupton, Ma-Me-O Beach
  Triathlon coverage a missed opportunity
  I would like to thank all the volunteers who made this race possible for the many racers and for spectators to watch this exciting
  
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• From 0-5 start to the Grey Cup, Eskimos QB never counts anyone out

  04-08-2017 04:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats aren’t the first team to start a season 0-5.
  Mike Reilly has been there before.
  Before becoming the starting quarterback of the Edmonton Eskimos, he recalls an 0-5 start to the 2011 season as a backup with the B.C. Lions, who used a trip to Commonwealth Stadium to springboard a turnaround into a Grey Cup championship.
  “It was a game, I believe here in Edmonton,” Reilly recalled of a 36-1 drubbing the Lions laid on the Eskimos on Aug. 8, 2011, to improve
  
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• Patrick Newcomb off to blazing start at Oil Country Championship

  04-08-2017 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was the hottest stretch of holes since the Bishop on Caddyshack braved darkness and monsoon conditions to make a late-round charge for the club record at Bushwood.
  Birdie. Eagle. Birdie. Birdie.
  Five under through his first four holes.
  But there was no lightning strike waiting for Kentucky’s Patrick Newcomb on his final hole Thursday at Windermere, just a share of the course record and the first round lead at the Syncrude Oil Country Championship.
  “I hit a lot of really quality sh
  
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• Kramer Hickok makes most of brief time on PGA Tour

  04-08-2017 03:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  When the dream is to play on the PGA Tour, living that dream for just one week is all the incentive an up-and-coming golfer needs to keep on grinding.
  Especially if he plays pretty well in that one week.
  So Kramer Hickok is definitely running on recharged batteries after finishing T19 last week at the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey. The No.3 player on the Mackenzie Tour’s Order of Merit shot 14 under on the big circuit, including 67-69 on the weekend, for a cool $75,000 payday.
  “It was
  
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• Edmonton kids learn about health, science at Rockin' Docs camp

  04-08-2017 03:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  At one end of the craft table at Rockin’ Docs, two young campers discuss the challenge before them. Their goal is to craft an egg protector out of craft supplies, inspired by what they’d learned that day about the brain.
  Earlier, campers had drawn brains on swim caps and identified the different functions of the lobes. Now, they were exploring how to protect them.
  Eight-year-old Nahilli Ahmed’s egg protector featured two Styrofoam bowls joined in the middle with pipe cleaners.
  
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• Eskimos getting band back together on O-line from 2015 Grey Cup game

  04-08-2017 02:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Make no mistake, injuries haven’t been the biggest story of the Edmonton Eskimos’ season.
  With all the Ws they’ve been putting up on the way to a chance to start 6-0 for the first time since 1961, this can only be referred to as a season of ‘winjuries’.
  On Friday against the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7:30 p.m., TSN, ESPN2, 630 CHED), the Eskimos are also combating an injury list 20 players long – 15 of whom have been a starter at some point this season.
  Ev
  
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• Edmonton police search for suspect in fatal stabbing

  04-08-2017 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police were looking Thursday for a suspect after a 49-year-old man was stabbed to death.
  Police were called to a weapons complaint near 118 Avenue and 54 Street around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday when they found a man suffering from stab wounds.
  The man was taken to hospital, where he later died.
  An autopsy confirmed he died as a result of a stab wound.
  William John Robert Monkman, 33, is now wanted for second-degree murder.
  William John Robert Monkman, 33, is wanted for second degree murder af
  
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• Curtis Stock: Carrington walks away with Senior Ladies Championship

  04-08-2017 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A year ago Kim Carrington couldn’t walk. Thursday she won the Guardian Capital Alberta Senior Ladies Championship at the Edmonton Petroleum Club.
  “I didn’t play golf at all for most of last year; I played in March and that was it. My left foot was too painful to walk on,” said an emotional Carrington after her four-stroke victory over B.C.’s Jackie Little.
  The culprit and source of the injury turned out to be, of all things, a two-inch sewing needle that was imbedde
  
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• New dinosaur species named after Alberta researcher who worked on specimen for six years

  04-08-2017 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mark Mitchell knows every nook and cranny of a dinosaur that plodded around Alberta 110 million years ago.
  A species of nodosaur, the 1,300 kilogram creature was an armoured fellow with a penchant for plants.
  When he died, he was swept out to sea, his remains becoming part of the bedrock until he was uncovered in the Suncor Millennium Mine near Fort McMurray in 2011.
  The latest study of his remains found a red-brown pigment, which authors claim to be the dinosaur’s likely colour.
  
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• Terry Jones: Eskimos injury situation starting to get insane

  04-08-2017 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  O.K. This is getting stupid. Beyond stupid. Insane.
  At 9:07 a.m. Thursday, as required by the league, the Edmonton Eskimos released their depth chart, line-up and roster for Friday’s game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  “Holy crap!” was pretty much the reaction from around the league.
  The documents revealed eight players removed from the line-up having suffered injures last Friday in the team’s 37-26 victory over the B.C. Lions.
  Eight Men Out!
  In one game!
  Five of them &
  
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• Rail transit replaces oilpatch as customers for Edmonton tech firm

  04-08-2017 00:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton technology company is aiming to double in size by climbing aboard the international building boom in rail transit.
  Willowglen Systems, which moved last winter into new offices at 9808 42 Ave., creates industrial automation equipment primarily used to help run pipelines and other facilities in the oil and gas industry.
  But with oil prices and capital budgets down from a couple of years ago, the company has increasingly focussed on selling software and hardware to subway, LRT and monor
  
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• Man charged with second-degree murder after woman slain in northern Alberta

  04-08-2017 00:07 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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