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• Fringe review: Alex Clark

  18-08-2017 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alex Clark
  • 3 stars out of five
  • Stage 4, King Edward Academy
  He looks like he’s either going to sell you a three-in-one kitchen appliance or eternal salvation, but juggler/comedian and Youtube celebrity Alex Clark is really just after the laughs.
  The Los Angeles-based Clark has had years of experience in getting them as a street performer, and now as a bona fide Fringe act he’s taken the show indoors, making use of the enclosed space at King Edward for a performance that
  
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• Fringe review: Mad Fantastic Maid of God: Joan of Arc

  18-08-2017 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mad Fantastic Maid of God: Joan of Arc
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 36, La Cite Francophone – L’unitheatre
  Tracing the life of one of France’s most influential characters, Mad Fantastic Maid of God: Joan of Arc is a frenetic — if not a little too frenetic at times — and commanding performance by two very talented artists.
  Melissa Leanne Blackwood plays the role of Joan, a young farm girl who inspired a nation in the 1400s by leading French armies
  
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• Fringe review: Animal Farm Treatment

  18-08-2017 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Animal Farm Treatment
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre
  It’s no surprise the program for this updated version of George Orwell’s classic advertises that the show is available for high school bookings — it comes across as a class on big business as presented by the Canadian Labour Congress.
  As in Orwell’s fable about the Soviet Union, the pigs lead a revolution against nasty Farmer Jones and create what’s at first an animal co-operative.
  Howe
  
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• Fringe review: Blindside

  18-08-2017 23:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blindside
  • 5 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library 
  It says a lot about a performer or a show that can pack the room for a noon show on the opening Friday of the Fringe.
  You either have great reviews from other Fringe festivals, or have developed a reputation from past festivals for crowd pleasing work. 
  In the case of one-eyed comedian Stephanie Morin-Robert, it is a well-earned reputation.
  She returns with her show Blindside, her hilarious and at t
  
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• Police won't lay charges after spat between Coun. Dave Loken and an opposing candidate

  18-08-2017 23:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police will not lay any charges following an angry confrontation between a city councillor and an opposing candidate in the upcoming municipal election.
  That ends one chapter in what has become a tense race for councillor in the Ward 3 riding on the north edge of the city.
  On Saturday, Coun. Dave Loken and candidate Sarmad Rasheed appear to have had a yelling match at the Castle Downs Park during a youth day event.
  Loken said he approached Rasheed’s booth to warn him it was illega
  
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• Mounting injuries and poor first half ends Eskimos' win streak

  18-08-2017 22:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  All good things must come to an end.
  Unfortunately for the Edmonton Eskimos, there has been nothing good about their ongoing injury situation.
  So although their winning streak was interrupted Thursday by a 33-26 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after a 7-0 start to the season, the list of walking wounded continues to grow.
  This time it was middle linebacker Korey Jones leaving the stadium in a walking boot after his night ended in the first half, along with offensive lineman Jean-Simon Roy and
  
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• Londonderry Mall bets on local retailers to complete resurrection

  18-08-2017 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The phrase “shop local” will take on new meaning this month at Londonderry Mall. As the final phase of a $130 million renovation project, eight stores run by local entrepreneurs will open at Londonderry.
  “We had some space to be a little bit creative,” says Nancy Jarnevic, the mall’s retail manager. “With the rise of online shopping, there is always a drive for us to bring in something a little bit different.”
  That meant identifying and reaching out to i
  
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• Metallica thanks Edmonton with beautiful instrumental video of Nothing Else Matters

  18-08-2017 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  This video features an instrumental version of Nothing Else Matters playing over footage of Edmonton landmarks and early shots of fans at Metallica’s Wednesday night concert. Read our full review here.Metallica previously released footage of their entire Edmonton concert.
  
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• Fringe review: Cut

  18-08-2017 21:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cut!
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 4, King Edward Academy
  Four characters from four different plays meet up in a kind of literary purgatory, where they bemoan their lot.
  They’ve been axed from the final version of their respective works, which makes them all just a little bit frustrated and angry. Prince Clyde (Jim Zalcik) especially so; he rails against playwright Shakespeare and brother Hamlet (who got all of his lines) acts cranky towards the genial butler Fiddleditch (John Dol
  
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• Mayor, Indigenous leaders raise Treaty 6 flag at city hall

  18-08-2017 21:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson emphasized that reconciliation is a work in progress at a Friday ceremony to commemorate the historic signing of Treaty 6. 
  “The treaty to me is not just a legal agreement … but it’s also a commitment to shared prosperity and we still have a long way to go to deliver (that) for all of the people who share this land,” Iveson said outside city hall. 
  Iveson and Treaty 6 First Nations Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild raised the Treaty 6 flag in hono
  
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• Fringe review: The Life Henri

  18-08-2017 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Life Henri
  • 2.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library
  French naive painter Henri Rousseau was the talk of Paris for decades, but for all the wrong reasons  — critics generally saw him as a childish incompetent who had no right to hang his work with the masters.
  Nonetheless, as we learn in what is effectively an illustrated one-hour lecture by Toronto’s Adam Bailey, Rousseau was so blithely sure of his own talent that he quit his job as a toll co
  
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• Parkland Sharks win against St. Albert | Spruce Grove Examiner - Spruce Grove Examiner

  18-08-2017 20:46
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  Photo supplied by Parkland Sharks Rugby The Parkland Sharks Rugby Club poses for a group photo after a number of games in Grande Prarie. The Sharks ...and more »
  
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• Parkland Sharks win against St. Albert, prepare for end of season - Stony Plain Reporter

  18-08-2017 20:46
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  Parkland Sharks win against St. Albert, prepare for end of season
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  Photo supplied by Parkland Sharks Rugby The Parkland Sharks Rugby Club poses for a group photo after a number of games in Grande Prarie. The Sharks added a first time second division win to their record in a triumphant match against the Grande Prairie ...and more »
  
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• Parkland Sharks win against St. Albert, prepare for end of season - Spruce Grove Examiner

  18-08-2017 20:46
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  Parkland Sharks win against St. Albert, prepare for end of season
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  Photo supplied by Parkland Sharks Rugby The Parkland Sharks Rugby Club poses for a group photo after a number of games in Grande Prarie. The Sharks added a first time second division win to their record in a triumphant match against the Grande Prairie ...and more »
  
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• Fringe review: Flask'd N Strapped

  18-08-2017 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flask’d N Strapped
  • 3.5 stars out of five
  • Stage 32: Kasbar
  Less a play than a mess of disjoined poetry, Flask’d N Strapped’s erupts from the energy and allure of its author and solo performer Kristy Nanise.
  Shambling and vogue-ing, singing and massaging her beautiful accordion, the story as such is a series of vignettes-via-narrative poetry — bawdy as a good limerick without the structural handcuffs.
  I don’t even need to look at my notes to remembe
  
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• Police won't lay charges after spat between Dave Loken and an opposing candidate

  18-08-2017 19:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police will not lay any charges following an angry confrontation between a city councillor and an opposing candidate in the upcoming election.
  That ends one chapter in what has become a tense race for ward councillor in the riding on the north edge of the city.
  On Saturday, Coun. Dave Loken and candidate Sarmad Rasheed appear to have had a yelling match at the Castle Downs Park during a youth day event.
  Loken said he approached Rasheed’s booth to warn him it was illegal to have si
  
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• Fringe review: Ron Pearson's Mystery Wonder Show

  18-08-2017 19:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ron Pearson’s Mystery Wonder Show • 3 stars out of 5•Stage 5, King Edward Elementary School
  Do you believe in magic? I’m not talking about magical fantasy worlds, or magical wizards. Nor am I talking about some magical love or a happy magical setting. Do you believe in magician sort of magic.
  Hometown funnyman Ron Pearson brings his one-man magic show to the Fringe this year, a mix of silent story and funny magic show. There’s no lines to get in the way of t
  
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• Fringe review: Mormonic! A Latter Day Musical

  18-08-2017 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mormonic! A Latter Day Musical
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 21, El Cortez Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar
  Everyone has doubts. Sister Olsen (Amanda Neufeld) has deep existential doubts. Sister Pratt (Jaimi Reese) doubts her ability to be a good Mormon. And Brother Bradshaw (Dave Belland) … well, his doubt is something a little different.
  But the three will have to set their doubt aside as they educate you, the laypeople of Edmonton, about how amazing it is to be a Mormon
  
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• Magician stuck in time

  18-08-2017 17:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Magic to the Future
  3 stars out of 5
  Stage 7, Yardbird Suite
  Los Angeles magic man Tim Hoffman is the writer-performer and amateur magician all-in-one, taking on two extra video roles in a page from Back To The Future to stitch together this hour-long comedy.
  As video messages through a time portal explain, Tim has accidently come back in time to 2017, and needs to work enough magic to return to his own time.
  A few audience members get to help as Tim tries out card tricks, pocket pool, a rubik&r
  
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• Fringe review: Letters to West 113th

  18-08-2017 17:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Letters to West 113th
  • 4 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 7, Yardbird Suite 
  The story of magician Thomas Whitford is told in unique and enjoyable fashion in Letters to West 113th. In this one-man show, Jeff Newman puts on what he calls a recreation of the performance the great Harry Houdini would have seen when he went to visit Whitford.
  The mentalism show, juxtaposed with Newman’s storytelling, is effective in keeping the audience entertained throughout.
  Is Newman really a mi
  
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• The story behind the disaster

  18-08-2017 17:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  73 Seconds
  3.5 stars out of 5
  Stage 18, Sugar Swing Ballroom (Main)
  That title is a reference to the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster of 1986. 73 seconds after the launch, the shuttle exploded killing all seven astronauts on board, taking many more hopes and dreams with them.
  Despite the shock that moment brought for many this is not some sort of attempt to relive the suspense of the disaster (by now everyone knows what happened anyway). We do get a basic replay in remnants of audio voice-overs
  
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• Fringe review: Gigantic Lying Mouth

  18-08-2017 17:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gigantic Lying Mouth
  • 3.5 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 1, Westbury Theatre
  If you are looking to explore spoken word performance for the first time (or the umpteenth time for that matter), a good place to start at this year’s Fringe is with Gigantic Lying Mouth. 
  Killed in a tragic yoga accident, Glaswegian Kevin P. Gilday must convince his guardian angel to allow him to finish his performance masterpiece before being shipped off to spend eternity in purgatory.
  But to
  
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• Fringe review: Olive Copperbottom: A New Musical by Charles Dickens and Penny Ashton

  18-08-2017 17:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Olive Copperbottom: A New Musical by Charles Dickens and Penny Ashton
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 37: Suzanne Thibadeau Auditorium
  Can orphaned Olive Copperbottom find happiness in the festering streets of Victorian London?
  Is she really a wealthy aristocrat? 
  And is there any end to the jokes she can make with mock-Dickensian names such as honest Edward Goodsoul, Russian actor Ivana B. Castalot, rich cad Maximilian Moneybages and evil Mrs. Sourtart?
  Playwright and solo performer P
  
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• Oilers gearing up to "sell well below market value" on Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, hockey commentator says. Hmm

  18-08-2017 15:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  My own bet is RNH will have a career year and Oilers will find a way to keep him
  This in from hockey commentator Justin Cuthbert of Yahoo Canada Sport, his critique of the Stanley Cup prospects of the Edmonton Oilers and their coming cap issues: “Leon Draisaitl’s contract reveals two certainties for the Edmonton Oilers: 1) This upcoming season might be their best chance to win the Stanley Cup; it’s the last before McDavid’s contract moves from six figures to eight, and it
  
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• Properly fitted dentures mean more self confidence

  18-08-2017 14:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Marilyn Davidse, 73, a longtime denture wearer, endured years of discomfort before finding relief in customized dentures.
  Five years ago, Davidse bought a set of standard dentures at an Edmonton shopping centre. Within less than a year, two of the false teeth had fallen out—while Davidse was on holiday, no less—and the fit was so uncomfortable she sometimes couldn’t wear the dentures at all.
  “They weren’t lined up properly, and that’s why the teeth broke off,
  
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• Opinion: Online hate must be confronted, drowned out

  18-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The events last week in Charlottesville are a stark reminder of the deep racial divide that exists in North America.
  The offline mobilization of white supremacist, alt-right, and flat-out racist groups are often the byproduct of prolonged and sustained interaction in online spaces. In our digital society, instant messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, and “good ole” popular white nationalist websites like Stormfront, give l
  
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• Now the details: Here's exactly how the Valley Line LRT could impact you

  18-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five minutes to get over Whitemud Drive, one or two extra minutes at intersections all along 66 Street — the picture for anyone hoping to commute by car beside the Valley Line LRT by on opening day is a bit grim.
  The Edmonton Journal scrutinized 90 traffic data tables city officials released late Thursday for intersections all along the Valley Line LRT. They predict opening day congestion in fine detail: average wait time to the second, average and maximum queue length for every turn or tr
  
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• Friday's letters: Jasper Avenue makeover causing headaches

  18-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Jasper Avenue Experience Project (109 Street to 115 Street) is causing more disruption than pleasure by taking out the outside lanes on both sides of Jasper Avenue.
  It is one of the busiest traffic routes and the adjacent streets on 100 Avenue and 102 Avenue have had lanes reduced for the introduction of bicycle lanes.  This creates more congestion, especially at rush hour and impedes the flow of traffic especially with buses not being able to pull off and with no right-turn lanes.
  The
  
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• Oilers gearing up to "sell well below market value" on Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, hockey commentator says

  18-08-2017 10:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  My own bet is RNH will have a career year and Oilers will find a way to keep him
  This in from hockey commentator Justin Cuthbert of Yahoo Canada Sport, his critique of the Stanley Cup prospects of the Edmonton Oilers and their coming cap issues: “Leon Draisaitl’s contract reveals two certainties for the Edmonton Oilers: 1) This upcoming season might be their best chance to win the Stanley Cup; it’s the last before McDavid’s contract moves from six figures to eight, and it
  
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• Prospects lose in deciding game of Western Major Baseball League final

  18-08-2017 06:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the second year in a row, the Swift Current 57s broke the hearts of the Edmonton Prospects in pursuit of their first Western Major Baseball League championship.
  The Prospects fell 4-0 to the 57s in Game 5 of their best-of-five series Thursday night in front of a record crowd of 1,189 spectators at Mitchell Field in Swift Current, Sask.
  Swift Current carried their momentum from their 6-4 come-from-behind Game 4 victory on Wednesday in Edmonton and didn’t look back.
  Matt Michalski was sp
  
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• Bombers quarterback Matt Nichols knows what Willis is talkin' 'bout

  18-08-2017 04:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Odell Willis came into Thursday’s game tied for the division lead with six sacks.
  But the Edmonton Eskimos pass rusher and defensive captain is also known for talking a good game.
  In both departments, the nine-year CFL veteran appears to be at the top of his game at age 32.
  “To me, Odell’s always been a difference maker, a guy that changes games,” said Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Matt Nichols. “I don’t know if he’s done anything different in the of
  
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• Report highlights challenges Syrian refugees face settling in Edmonton

  18-08-2017 04:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The settlement process is far from over for 2,090 Syrian refugees who settled in Edmonton after Canada committed to rapid resettlement efforts in November 2015.
  A report to be presented at a community and public services committee meeting at city hall on Monday gives an update on the challenges still faced by Syrian refugees forging a new life in Edmonton.
  Mohamed Huque, executive director of the Islamic Family and Social Services Association (IFSSA), said Thursday the expectation that a re
  
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• Traffic snarls inevitable from Valley Line LRT — too late to change

  18-08-2017 04:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials finally released their detailed traffic mapping for intersections along the coming Valley Line LRT route and it’s a pretty mixed bag. 
  People trying to access southern neighbourhoods such as Tawa and Hillview from 66 Street during the afternoon rush face average wait times of up to five minutes to cross the tracks and head west.
  But pinch points further north — the Bonnie Doon traffic circle and the Whyte Avenue/83 Street intersection — are already probl
  
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• Health minister and Alberta dental association at odds over new fee guide

  18-08-2017 04:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The organization that represents Alberta’s 2,600 dentists has found itself in the crosshairs of Health Minister Sarah Hoffman, who demanded Thursday the group “get back to the drawing board” in its efforts to make dental costs more affordable.
  Hoffman’s ire was specifically directed at a new dental fee guide — the province’s first such guide in 20 years — released by the Alberta Dental Association and College.
  While the association insisted the newly rec
  
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• British Columbia increases promotions to Albertans to stem tourism decline

  18-08-2017 04:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Facing a decline in summer tourists due to wildfires, British Columbia is doubling-down on courting their second-largest tourism market — Alberta.
  Due to multiple wildfires this summer, a provincial state of emergency was declared just a few days into the peak of tourism season.
  “There has been a sense that B.C. is burning,” said Maya Lange of Destination British Columbia. “Because (the fires are) the largest on record for British Columbia.”
  But she said many a
  
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• David Staples: Secret downtown beach can be a game-changer for Edmonton

  18-08-2017 03:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has a secret downtown beach that is so spacious and lovely it should become a major attraction and a game-changer for the city.
  For little cost, there could be a permanent downtown beach with a spectacular postcard view of the downtown, close to the new Valley Line LRT station on one side and to Louise McKinney Riverfront Park and the new funicular on the other.
  What’s not to like? 
  “It’s a magnificent, clean beach,” said Paul Bunner, one of the Cloverdale r
  
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• Edmonton's Touch the Water Promenade project hits a snag

  18-08-2017 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Touch the Water Promenade, which would create access to the North Saskatchewan River near the former Rossdale power plant, is currently on hold.
  That’s according to a report scheduled to be presented to the city’s urban planning committee on Aug. 23, which states administration will come back and ask for funding in the 2019-2022 budget cycle.
  “Administration anticipates that resolution to the land complexities will not be completed until (the fourth quarter) of 2018 an
  
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• Police cracking down on traffic violations along new bike lanes

  18-08-2017 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police enforcement has started on traffic violations, which can lead to substantial fines, resulting from the new downtown bike network.
  The Edmonton Police Service has been at several downtown intersections this week to enforce the new restrictions for motorists travelling along the network.
  Sgt. David Jones took to Twitter earlier this week to inform residents of the control change and that police are enforcing new rules and issuing tickets.Doing traffic enforcement this morning in #yegdt. Wat
  
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• Alberta Health Services issues blue-green algae advisory for Chip Lake

  18-08-2017 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Services has issued another blue-green algae warning for an Edmonton-area lake.
  Blooms of the hazardous algae have been identified on Chip Lake, located about 130 kilometres west of the city. There are now five lakes under advisory in the Edmonton zone and 33 province-wide.
  Lake users were advised on Thursday not to swim or wade in areas where the algae is visible. Anyone who comes into contact with a bloom should wash with tap water as soon as possible, a news release said.
  Peopl
  
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• United Conservative Party finds more expense irregularities, pays back cash

  18-08-2017 01:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party is paying around $550 back to taxpayers following an internal audit of its expenses. 
  The caucus conducted its own review of MLA expenses after it was revealed members from that party and the NDP had double-dipped on meal claims paid for out of the public purse.
  Beleaguered MLA for Strathmore-Brooks Derek Fildebrandt, who resigned from the UCP caucus Tuesday night, was one of the MLAs with questionable expenses.
  Late Thursday, the party said an internal review
  
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