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• Fringe With Us

  21-08-2017 23:45
  This week, the Edmonton International Fringe Festival is the biggest game in town. With more than 220 productions to choose from, the St. Albert Gazette has kept an eye on and given a few shout-outs to hometown shows.
  
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• NDP MLA pays back $457 after double-claiming expenses

  21-08-2017 23:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  NDP MLA Debbie Jabbour is the latest politician to explain how overbilling on expenses led her to reimburse taxpayers around $450. 
  “In March of this year, I reimbursed $457 in expenses, an amount that corrected some double-filings for meals and per diems, as well as some mistakenly filed expenses,” said the Peace River MLA in an email Monday. 
  “Ensuring that expenses are filed in a responsible manner is important, and that is why our team regularly reviews expen
  
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• Fringe review: White Rhino

  21-08-2017 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  White Rhino Comedy
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 2, Backstage Theatre
  It must be so brutal to have an improv show at midday on a Monday at the Fringe, doubly so when there’s a partial solar eclipse outside.
  Thankfully the White Rhino Comedy troupe up didn’t let a small, shy crowd get in the way of putting on a solid show.
  Sure there were some skits that didn’t quite land, there always is with improv, but as a whole, Wayne Jones, Ken Hall, Matt Folliott and Kris Siddiqi p
  
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• Police watchdog concludes Christmas Day 2015 killing of suspect in bulldozer justified

  21-08-2017 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer Mounties who fatally shot a 37-year-old man on Christmas Day in 2015 after he went on a rampage in a stolen front-end loader acted appropriately, concludes an investigation by Alberta’s police watchdog.
  “The force used was necessary and reasonable in all the circumstances notwithstanding the tragic outcome,” said Susan Hughson, executive director of the Alberta Serious Incident Response Teams (ASIRT), at a Monday news conference. 
  An autopsy determined the ma
  
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• Fringe review: Felix Checks Out

  21-08-2017 18:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Felix Checks Out
  • 2.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 18, Sugar Swing Ballroom, Main Floor
  My ears are ringing. Not in the good way, where the tunes from the last show are still bouncing around your head. My ears hurt.The music in Felix Checks Out is so loud it’s painful. I feel like I was assaulted, punched in the side of the head with a speaker. It’s unfortunate for a dance show with some amazing performances that it was sullied by an overzealous sound technician.That’s not
  
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• Live: Edmonton debates 'sanctuary city' for undocumented immigrants

  21-08-2017 18:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors will debate Monday a new effort to let undocumented immigrants or those with uncertain immigration status access city services without fear of deportation.
  Community agencies estimate Edmonton has 10,000 to 25,000 undocumented immigrants – temporary foreign workers whose papers have lapsed or others who try to stay in the country for family reasons with lapsed visas.
  These immigrants face a precarious existence – no health care coverage, no legal ability to work and
  
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• Edmonton dragon boat paddlers find success going against the current

  21-08-2017 17:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival featured some of the strongest dragon boat paddlers in the country this past weekend. The secret to their success was easily visible as the boats raced in the occasionally choppy waters of the North Saskatchewan River.
  “We’re practicing on a river and competing on a river,” said the festival’s treasurer, Laura Tocher.
  “It actually makes our paddlers really strong, because they’re paddling up current. We’re going up again
  
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• Roger MacMillan sets 100th marathon milestone at age 79

  21-08-2017 17:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  What started as a way to get race T-shirts like the one his buddy always wore culminated in an emotional run down the main stretch of the Edmonton Marathon on Sunday as Roger MacMillan completed his 100th marathon at the age of 79.
  “I reached my target so it’s great satisfaction,” MacMillan said following the race. 
  Not an athlete growing up, MacMillan started running 10-kilometre races as a way to get these running T-shirts. And then it grew into something much more.
  He d
  
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• Family grieving the loss of 'tiny, frail' woman known as Mama D

  21-08-2017 17:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Samantha Noname wants people to know her mother, Deanna Noname, was a good woman.
  Deanna Noname, 55, died in police custody on Aug. 7 after being arrested the day before and family members are waiting for the truth about how she died.
  “My mom was a good woman, she was well loved, well known,” Noname said, speaking on the phone from Calgary. “Everybody knew her as Mama D.”
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is currently investigating the death. Accor
  
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• Alberta's far-right has a long history — and it's growing

  21-08-2017 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  As images of clashing white supremacists and counter-protesters flashed across her phone screen one week ago, Renee Vaugeois thought back to a cold day in front of Edmonton city hall. 
  In Churchill Square that day, a small group of people aired grievances about — among other things — a motion in the House of Commons condemning Islamophobia after a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque. A larger counter-protest formed, organized by members of Black Lives Matter. The two sides scu
  
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• New charge on water bill to help study the North Saskatchewan River

  21-08-2017 16:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  River enthusiasts want to see more perfect swimming days on Edmonton’s North Saskatchewan River and hope a new multimillion-dollar river monitoring program might help.
  It’s being funded by a 10- to 15-cent monthly environment charge on residential water bills to create a $1-million annual fund and is supported by staff time, equipment and other in-kind support from Alberta Environment worth up to $2 million.
  Currently, the river is normally clean enough to swim in anytime the wa
  
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• Edmonton to debate 'sanctuary city' for undocumented immigrants

  21-08-2017 15:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors will debate a new effort to let undocumented immigrants or those with uncertain immigration status access city services without fear of deportation Monday.
  Community agencies estimate Edmonton has 10,000 to 25,000 undocumented immigrants – temporary foreign workers whose papers have laps or others who try to stay in the country with lapsed visas for family reasons.
  These immigrants face a precarious existence – no health care coverage, no legal ability to work and of
  
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• Fringe review: The Man with the Broken Brain

  21-08-2017 15:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Man with the Broken Brain
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 7, Yardbird Suite
  If the audience’s response is anything to go by, Byron Bertram has a solid show on his hands. 
  The Vancouver stand-up comedian’s routine doesn’t so much tip toe around the comedic minefield of race, multiculturalism and sexuality as it does steamroll right through it.
  As Bertram puts it, if you are a hypersensitive person then maybe going to live stand-up comedy show is probably not for
  
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• Fringe review: The Great American Songbook Cabaret

  21-08-2017 15:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Great American Songbook Cabaret
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 18, Sugar Swing Main
  With its classic hits from a golden age in music, The Great American Songbook Cabaret has so much potential.
  From Carolina in the Morning to Lazy Afternoon to Old Buttermilk Sky (the Hoagy Carmichael song made famous by Willie Nelson) to Frank Sinatra’s Why Can’t You Behave and Ella Fitzgerald’s Black Coffee, this show has some of the best songs of a generation.
  Yet the eight-piece&rsq
  
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• Curtis Stock: Edmonton-area golf business losing Grant Cammidge, Bill Penny

  21-08-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Grant Cammidge and Bill Penny, two of Alberta’s top golf general managers and professionals — the latter especially true in every sense of the word — are, sadly, leaving the business.
  Penny, the current GM at Camrose, is retiring; Cammidge, the current GM at the Edmonton Petroleum Club, is simply moving on to a yet unannounced future endeavour.
  “Grant is going to be tough to replace,” said the Pete Club’s president Leon Marciak.
  “He has carried the club
  
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• Terry Jones: Is Eskimos vs. Roughriders The Big Game or just The Next Game?

  21-08-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Back in the 1960s, radio broadcaster Bryan Hall used to feature founding Edmonton Eskimos executive member Henry Singer on the pre-game shows.
  Local haberdasher Singer cared. Really, really cared. He used to get himself so lathered up every week about the importance of the game at hand.
  I can imagine Henry going into this one. It’s the won-their-last-game Saskatchewan Roughriders versus the lost-their-last game Eskimos, a 3-4 team versus a 7-1 team Friday at Commonwealth Stadium.
  The Eskim
  
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• Fringe review: Peter N' Chris' Best Bits

  21-08-2017 08:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Peter N’ Chris’ Best Bits
  3 stars out of 5
  Stage 23, Princess Theatre
  Not in the mood for comedy? This might be the comedy show for you because it only seemed funny in fits and starts.
  It brings together the best of nine years from the Vancouver duo of Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson. The premise? They’re holding a party and we’re invited. Unfortunately our high energy hosts seemed to have a rather two-dimensional friendship, loud, violent disagreements one moment, best bu
  
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• Fringe review: Candy Bones

  21-08-2017 08:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Candy Bones
  • 3.5 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 4, Academy King Edward
  A desperate former starlet, a depressed etiquette host and an aging hoser walk into a theatre.
  That’s not the setup for a joke, but the setup for the one-woman show Candy Bones, written by and starring Candy Roberts.
  Candy Bones was the name she was called as a child because she was so scrawny, but she says she named the show Candy Bones because the characters make up who she is.
  It’s dubbed an auto
  
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• Fringe review: Hanlon House

  21-08-2017 06:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hanlon House
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 11, Studio Theatre
  Hanlon House is a bit like a Newfoundland version of the Odd Couple, with fussy father Gus filling in for Felix and his sloppy son Gary taking Oscar’s role.
  Gary (Trent Wilkie) is visiting Gus (Andy Northrup) in St. John’s on a trip back from his Toronto home, and his father can’t stop riding him about returning to school, settling down, working hard, wearing a warm hat and arriving two hours early when he tak
  
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• Nick Lees: Emerging Fringe artists getting boost from new Westbury award

  21-08-2017 06:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $25,000 annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival award to a local emerging artist — and a $400,000 fund to support it — was announced Saturday night.
  Fringe board member Brian Heidecker revealed at a celebratory dinner on the day some 220 shows opened that the award will be called The Westbury Fringe Theatre Award.
  “The award will be given to one local emerging artist each year to help them produce a new show in the Fringe Theatre season spotl
  
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• Teenager drowns at beach resort near Lac La Biche

  21-08-2017 06:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The body of an 18-year-old man was pulled from the water at Kikino Silver Beach Resort on Sunday morning after he drowned on Saturday afternoon.
  The teen was on the water in an inflatable raft when he jumped off and started swimming, police said. He was last seen struggling, RCMP said in a news release on Sunday.
  Lac La Biche RCMP were called when the man did not resurface.
  RCMP Air Services, the Kikino Fire Services, Alberta Parks and Lac La Biche Fire were called and the RCMP helicopter and bo
  
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• Fringe review: One Turtle, Two Turtle, Three Turtle, Dead

  21-08-2017 06:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  One Turtle, Two Turtle, Three Turtle, Dead
  • 4 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre
  Sarah is a teenager who struggles with attachment, so she’s having a hard time feeling grief over the death of her turtle, Stacey 3.
  She named Stacey, and the previous two that shared the name, after her school counsellor, Dr. Stacey.
  Dr. Stacey is handing Sarah off to a new counsellor, a grief counsellor, a plan of which Sarah is not a fan.
  She hates change. She i
  
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• Fringe review: Pompeii, L.A.

  21-08-2017 04:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pompeii, L.A.
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre
  We open with Judy Garland drinking glass after glass of wine as she chats amiably with the makeup woman preparing her for a spot on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
  Is this a tale about the doomed singer’s final unhappy days in Hollywood? No, that would be a little too linear for this engaging, well-acted but definitely not straightforward play about Tinseltown’s molten core that burns brightest when it&rsquo
  
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• Fringe review: Leegion, Improv Macabre

  21-08-2017 04:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leegion, Improv Macabre
  • 2.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre
  A story without a strong conclusion is like a 100-metre race where the competitors can’t find the finish line — exciting at first, but by the end you’re wondering what was the point.
  Leegion, a one-man improvised horror show by Lee Boyes, feels a bit like that half-done sprint. Inspired by an audience member’s suggestion, he incorporates a lime into his narrative, he mimes a fantasy of a
  
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• Fringe review: The Sinner's Club

  21-08-2017 04:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Sinner’s Club
  • 4 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 4, Academy King Edward
  Patty Swan, a young woman, is getting ready for a party she’s hosting.
  Just before guests start arriving, a cop shows up to tell her that her boyfriend — well, they had just been seeing each other for a month — has died in a car crash.
  And then things get weird.
  Patty’s group of friends, who are all socially dysfunctional in their own way (Wilbur is a standout with Chris Farley
  
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• Fringe review: Hanging Out

  21-08-2017 04:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hanging Out
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 16, Sanctuary Stage at Holy Trinity
  The first thing you notice as you walk into the Sanctuary Stage at Holy Trinity is the dead body hanging in the middle of the stage.
  It’s a particularly gruesome welcome, one that doesn’t really lessen a few minutes into the performance when the corpse opens his eyes and speaks to shocked roommate David (Matt Mihiliewicz), who has just entered the room. This isn’t a tasteless trick between fr
  
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• Doctor jumps out of car to help half-marathoner who collapsed on course

  21-08-2017 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A doctor driving by the Edmonton Marathon on Sunday rushed to the aid of a man who collapsed and stopped breathing just blocks away from the finish line.
  The man was resuscitated by Dr. Tamara Kuzma, who rushed from her car to assist a police officer and administer CPR at Jasper Avenue and 103 Street.
  A spokesperson at Alberta Health Services and race organizers said they didn’t have any information on the status of the man when contacted Sunday evening.
  He was running toward the finish of
  
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• Ben Fisk scores his first goal of the season as FC Edmonton plays to a draw with Puerto Rico

  21-08-2017 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  FC Edmonton is making things complicated for themselves and it’s costing valuable points.
  On Sunday afternoon at Clarke Stadium, the Eddies let another lead slip away and FC Edmonton had to settle for a 1-1 draw against Puerto Rico FC.
  It’s the second straight draw for the Eddies, who are now 1-2-1 in the North American Soccer League fall season.
  FC Edmonton midfielder Ben Fisk scored his first goal of the season in the 45th minute, while Puerto Rico forward Conor Doyle scored t
  
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• How Do You Solve A Problem Like Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

  21-08-2017 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  I hate the salary cap.
  The cap does accomplish a number of things, not the least of which is that it allows relatively small markets such as Edmonton to compete with the New York’s, Chicago’s and L.A.’s of the world. But I hate it because it distracts us from talking about what should really matter: results. Instead, it’s all of this “what talent fits under the cap” crap. I got enough of that while playing Strat-Matic against my brothers as a kid, thanks. What
  
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• Fringe review: The Merkin Sisters

  21-08-2017 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Merkin Sisters
  • 4.5 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 1, Westbury Theatre
  During comments to the audience at the end of The Merkin Sisters, Ingrid Hansen, one of the pair of performers who make up this show, puts it pretty plainly: “This show is really hard to describe.”
  Even they struggle in their program description: “Think Olsen Twins + Grey Gardens + The Muppets.” Okaaay, then.
  This is a physical comedy/dance/performance art show, but to call it that,
  
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• Fringe review: Banned in the U.S.A.

  21-08-2017 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Banned in the U.S.A.
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 24, Roots on Whyte Community Building
  Gerard Harris, the playwright and sole cast member of Banned in the U.S.A. reminds me of someone you’d meet at the bar. For the first 10 minutes, you’d think he was grand. You’d love his clever and self-deprecating stories, and be charmed by his accent. But 20 minutes later, you’ve lost patience. That’s because it’s become clear that your new drinking buddy has litt
  
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• Group releases first water quality test for river swimming

  21-08-2017 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents tempted to dip their toes in the river can now get a better sense of just how clean or dirty that water is right here in the city.
  The North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper is testing for recreational water quality at three different sites and started posting results online three weeks ago. Water quality can change quickly in the swift-moving river, but the weekly updates are intended to at least give historic trends to help swimmers make wise decisions.
  “Recreational users wan
  
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• Fringe review: Missed Connections

  21-08-2017 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Missed Connections
  • 2.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 30, Rutherford Room at Varscona Hotel
  There’s a great premise behind an improv show made up of scenes derived from “missed connections” personal ads, the ones seeking to get together with an interesting stranger you saw or spoke to briefly.
  The sketches put on by Quinn Contini, Ellis Lalonde, Anyssa McKee and Joleen Ballendine bear no real connection to the actual ads that inspire them, which allows the actors wide latit
  
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• Fringe review: Princess Confidential Fortress Falls

  21-08-2017 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Princess Confidential: Fortress Falls 
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 11, Studio
  It looks like a simple break-and-enter at the palace, but Princess Abigail knows it’s more than that.
  All the signs point to one person, the mysterious gang boss Fortress Jones, as the culprit. The princess has been working with law enforcement to track down and capture Jones, who has been terrorizing the kingdom, and she’s convinced that the robbery is a coded message to her. To unravel the m
  
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