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• Council Briefs for August 21st

  22-08-2017 23:32
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Alberta digs in to fight for beer rebate program

  22-08-2017 23:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government is appealing a decision handed down by a trade panel in July that found Alberta’s beer taxation system, including a rebate program for local brewers, violates trade agreements. 
  “We stand firmly with Alberta small brewers, we will not abandon them now,” Finance Minister Joe Ceci told reporters Tuesday. “There have been 18 small breweries opened up in the year since the program started, it’s doing what it’s intended to do.”
  
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• Baby boy dead after 'suspicious' southwest house fire

  22-08-2017 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A baby boy is dead and homicide detectives are investigating after a “suspicious” fire Tuesday morning in southwest Edmonton.
  City police including the arson dog unit took over the 4 a.m. fire scene at 1040 Armitage Cres. hours after the infant and five other people were transported to hospital. The baby and one other adult, identified by family as the child’s mother, were transported with critical, life-threatening injuries. The other four adults were transported in stable, no
  
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• AHS warns of phone scam asking women to conduct breast self-exams

  22-08-2017 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Services says it has received several reports of a creepy new scam in which a man claiming to be from a medical imaging clinic has tried to get women to conduct a breast self-exam while on the phone with him.
  At least eight women in the Edmonton, Barrhead and Athabasca areas have recently received such calls, the health authority said in a news release Tuesday.
  “The caller relays breast screening exam followup information and advises an immediate breast self-exam must b
  
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• Council tries to keep perspective on Valley Line traffic impacts

  22-08-2017 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  One councillor wants extra lights to exit the Strathearn neighbourhood, another wants more raised track for the future south extension.
  But as Edmonton council members dug into the Valley Line traffic data Tuesday, they also sought to keep perspective. 
  “The train is being blamed here for the performance of the intersections in 2044,” said Mayor Don Iveson.
  That’s wrong, he said. Every major intersection in Edmonton may struggle with congestion in 2044 – the final da
  
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• Fringe review: The Charm Offensive

  22-08-2017 22:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Charm Offensive
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 12, Varscona Theatre
  You can call it etiquette if you like, but Dinah Block prefers the term “ethical esthetics.”
  A newly minted consultant in the field, Dinah (Morgan McClelland) accidentally interferes in a first date between Buzzy (Don MacCannell) and Renee (Marissa Tordoff), but comes away from the encounter with Buzzy as both her financial benefactor and assistant. Their mission? To help people out with the finer points of
  
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• Fringe review: The 11 O'Clock Number

  22-08-2017 22:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 11 O’Clock Number: The Improvised Musical
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 16, Sanctuary Stage, Holy Trinity
  A name, an occupation and a piano.
  That’s all the 11 O’Clock Number need to put together a show, with the first two provided by the audience. From it the four-piece improv troop can fashion not only a decently funny narrative but a handful of tunes as well, all written on the spot as the piano player at the side of the stage prompts them. It’s a risky way t
  
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• Casino shooting death case comes to a close nine years later

  22-08-2017 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Ontario man has just six months left to serve of the 15-year sentence he was handed Tuesday for his involvement in a fatal shooting outside an Edmonton-area casino.
  Adam Michael Brown was sentenced for manslaughter in connection to the Aug. 30, 2008, shooting death of 24-year-old Mohamed Ali Ibrahim.
  Ibrahim was shot several times after a fight in a lounge at the River Cree Resort & Casino between attendees of a birthday party and Brown and his group of friends.
  Brown, 30, pleaded guilty
  
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• Live: Council tries to keep perspective on Valley Line traffic impacts

  22-08-2017 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  One councillor wants extra lights to exit the Strathearn neighbourhood, another wants more raised track for the future south extension.
  But as Edmonton council members dug into the Valley Line traffic data Tuesday, they also sought to keep perspective. 
  “The train is being blamed here for the performance of the intersections in 2044,” said Mayor Don Iveson.
  That’s wrong, he said. Every major intersection in Edmonton may struggle with congestion in 2044 – the final da
  
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• Help donate 150 pounds of grub to mark Canada's first food bank in Edmonton

  22-08-2017 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A ‘150 for 150’ food drive has launched to recognize the work of Edmonton’s Food Bank — the first official food bank in Canada.
  Dating back to 1981, the Edmonton Gleaners Association established the country’s first food bank.
  The food bank first is now being featured as part of the Provincial Archives of Alberta’s (PAA) newest exhibit, 150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada…Forever. Other province firsts include a 1967 UFO landing pad in St. P
  
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• Fringe review: Six Fine Lines

  22-08-2017 21:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six Fine Lines
  3.5 stars out of 5
  Stage 38, Auditorium At Campus Saint-Jean
  Vancouver’s Mack Gordon explained to us that his perplexing show was “a big collage about this story I’m trying to tell” and that’s probably as accurate a description as any.
  At its root, it’s a very literary piece “because language connects us,” so Gordon says, and he pulls quotes from Kahlil Gibran, Miriam Toews and others to introduce each section. Words like “ambi
  
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• Fringe review: Wooster Sauce

  22-08-2017 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wooster Sauce
  • 5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 14, The de Villars Jones LLP Stage
  A perfect little adaptation of brilliant writing, performed with wit and dexterity — for what more could one possibly ask?
  P.G. Wodehouse’s Reginald Jeeves stories are crisp and clever, the valet perpetually performing subtle U-turns to get his employer Bertram Wilberforce Wooster out of Paddington-Bear-level scrapes the latter doesn’t even fathom will upset the balance of his life.
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• Edmonton endorses new parental leave, aims for gender-shift at council

  22-08-2017 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors endorsed a new 10-week paid parental leave policy for new parents Tuesday, calling it a step toward attracting a more diverse council.
  New parents would also be able to take up to 26 weeks of full or part-time leave, and be compensated for what they work. They would have to work with colleagues and the city clerk’s office to arrange for colleagues to help cover off their duties.
  That’s what happens currently when councillors get sick or take leave to run for election
  
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• Fringe review: Weaksauce

  22-08-2017 20:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Weaksauce
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 3, Walterdale Theatre
  First love might be the deepest, but for Sam Mullins it’s also the one with the most comic potential. 
  His autobiographical show Weaksauce is a sweet, likable monologue about love, hockey and his very first real romantic adversary. Working in a sports camp as a fresh-faced 16-year-old, he meets both the girl of his dreams and the slightly older, sarcastic British kid who intends to scoop her away. Add an angry baboon
  
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• Fringe review: No Moral Compass

  22-08-2017 20:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  No Moral Compass
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 26, The Almanac
  We all have good stories about our lives; not everyone knows how to tell them.
  Trish Parry’s 45-minute autobiography suffers from something like the opposite. She’s got a breathless, yelly gift of gab you might find grating or totally love — but when it comes down to it, all that enthusiasm goes into stories that aren’t so interesting. I mean, whose childhood isn’t fraught with awkward sexuality,
  
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• Jones: Select few chasing Eskimos iron-man award

  22-08-2017 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s called the B-O-N-E Grinder Club.
  “It’s the first 46 guys up,” head coach Jason Maas said of the team the Eskimos took to Vancouver to open the regular season. “If they stay up until the end of the year, they get something at the end of the year for it.”
  It’s becoming an exceptionally exclusive club.
  “Yeah, it’s a small club now,” said quarterback Mike Reilly.
  “After six games, we had 23 guys left of the 46 who made the roster
  
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• Fringe review: '33 (a kabarett)

  22-08-2017 20:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  ’33 (a kabarett)
  • 4.5 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 4, Academy at King Edward
  The Impresario was once part of a thriving cabaret company. Until, one by one, authorities arrested his friends and colleagues as subversives, a threat to the public good.
  Were they jailed? Sent to “the camps”? Killed on sight?
  We don’t know. Now, the Impresario stumbles into his old theatre, in an attempt to hide from the authorities and, finding an audience, recreates the old s
  
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• Baby boy reportedly dead after 'suspicious' southwest house fire

  22-08-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A baby is reportedly dead and police are investigating after a “suspicious” fire Tuesday morning in southwest Edmonton.
  City police took over the 4 a.m. fire scene at 1040 Armitage Crescent hours after the infant and five other people were transported to hospital. The baby and one other adult were transported with critical, life-threatening injuries. The other four adults were transported in stable, non-life-threatening condition.  Multiple sources on-scene confirming death of i
  
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• Live: Elevated tracks on the table again as council reacts to traffic

  22-08-2017 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials may get an earful Tuesday morning as city councillors get a chance to ask about the jams and backups predicted all along the Valley Line LRT tracks.
  Already, one councillor looked at the data and vowed to lobby hard for more elevated or sunken track on the south side.
  “To say this information was pleasing would be false,” said Coun. Michael Walters, filing his reaction in a blog post and assuring his constituents he’ll fight to have the south extension raised or
  
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• Adult, infant facing life-threatening injuries after southwest fire

  22-08-2017 17:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six people were taken to hospital after a fire ripped through a home in a southwest Edmonton neighbourhood early Tuesday morning.
  A home at 1040 Armitage Crescent was gutted by fire around 4 a.m. Tuesday in Ambleside.
  One adult and one infant were transported to hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries. Four other adults were taken to hospital in stable, non life-threatening condition.
  Fire crews were still on scene hours later dousing hot spots.
  More to come…
  
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• City Receives Award for Innovation in Traffic Safety

  22-08-2017 17:23
  Award presented by Vision Zero Advocate Institute on August 10, 2017  The City of St. Albert has won the 2017... Read Post
  
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• Fringe review: The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine

  22-08-2017 17:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 19, Sugar Swing Ballroom Upstairs
  Wedded bliss is wonderful, until you discover your soul mate isn’t aware that tissue boxes don’t belong on the kitchen table.
  That’s the rude awakening for young lovers Ernest (Moe Ahmed) and Ernestine (Aniqa Charania) after they marry and move into a basement suite with a cantankerous furnace and no windows.
  In typical buddy-flick fashion, they’re a study in opposites
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Edmonton has worst big-city waterfront in Canada

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Congratulations to Google for making the world aware of the fact that Edmonton has the worst downtown waterfront of any major city in Canada.
  And it isn’t only the old coal-burning power station but the ugly Terrace Building which hides the legislature. Demolish these two buildings and we have the makings of the best downtown waterfront of any city in Canada.
  With the Terrace Building gone, we would have an outstanding river terrace high above the water at a location John Rowand declared a
  
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• Sentencing on White Boy Posse gangster's third homicide delayed

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The family of a man slain on the orders of White Boy Posse gangster Joshua Dylan Petrin must wait to see justice done after a judge delayed sentencing Monday over issues with a joint submission. 
  Petrin, a full-patch member of the white supremacist organization with links to the northern Alberta drug trade, was convicted of manslaughter in the 2012 slaying of 35-year-old Bryan Gower. He has been convicted of three homicides and is currently serving a life sentence for his involvement i
  
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• Pine Creek Manor makes history with private help on affordable housing

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s affordable housing crisis has grown so big and so fast that it’s now impossible for governments to deal with on their own, said one developer who is standing up to help.
  “There’s nothing like walk the talk,” said Curtis Way, president of RMS Group, which is including 35 units of subsidized housing in a new 174-unit four-storey walk-up project it is building in Mill Wood’s Jackson Heights.
  His team celebrated a sod-turning ceremony Monday and a partn
  
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• 'Orange Hub' roster bursting with not-for-profits on former MacEwan campus

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s MacEwan University West campus will soon be known as The Orange Hub — unless a corporation steps up soon to buy the name and help the new not-for-profit tenants pay the bills.
  The city gets possession of the currents arts campus at the end of September when MacEwan University moves its arts students downtown. Officials are in the final stages of signing leases with 27 different not-for-profit organizations to share the campus. They’ll eventually run the facility on t
  
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• Opinion: Improve access to lifesaving depression drugs

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With one in five Canadians with a mental illness, including depression, it is alarming that so many Albertans continue to face impossible decisions between paying for groceries and paying for medication because Alberta’s public drug plan does not provide access to a full range of mental health treatments.
  While the Government of Alberta’s recently released report Valuing Mental Health: Next Steps offers 18 “actions” to reflect the government’s commitment to co-ordin
  
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• Editorial: Dental fees need new check-up

  22-08-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Following years of complaints about costly dental work and lack of transparency on prices, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman proudly declared last December that Albertans would be getting their first guide for dentists’ fees in 20 years.
  But more than eight months after that announcement, Hoffman wasn’t smiling when the Alberta Dental Association and College released its newly recommended fees last Thursday.
  Hoffman appeared to have been surprised by the fee guide’s release; n
  
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• Door open for prospect Joseph Gambardella to make impact with Edmonton Oilers

  22-08-2017 07:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects
  No. 12: F Joseph Gambardella
  Previously: N/A, signed March, 2017
  Joseph Gambardella will be 24 in December so as prospects go it’s best to think of him as a guy who should at least be established as a strong AHL player, as opposed to any comparison to 18-to-20 year old major junior players.
  In other words, this year is incredibly important for Gambardella in terms of his pro career. He’s got a short time frame to make his mark and move from prospect to
  
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• One man in hospital after shooting in northwest Edmonton

  22-08-2017 06:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police blocked off a strip mall in the Kensington neighbourhood of northwest Edmonton Monday night after receiving reports of shots fired.
  Police were called to the area near 132 Avenue and 114 Street just before 7 p.m., police said in a news release. 
  Shattered auto glass and bullet casings could be seen on the ground at the strip mall where police were investigating. 
  Anthony Lammers, who lives in an apartment behind the commercial area, was resting in his bedroom with the
  
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• Fringe review: Forget Me Not

  22-08-2017 05:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Forget Me Not
  • 4.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 38, Campus St. Jean
  You would think that Rob Gee might tread lightly by setting his one-person, comedy murder-mystery in an Alzheimer’s ward, but no.
  The U.K. based poet, performer and former nurse happily sketches out and inhabits a number of different ward patients with both comic aplomb and tenderness, giving them more respect then he does their attendees, who he also plays.
  What starts as a roll call of players turns into a whodunnit
  
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• Fringe review: A Quiet Place

  22-08-2017 05:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Quiet Place
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts
  There are rules in the small, cramped room that Henry (Braydon Dowler-Coltman) lives in, something that David (Luc Tellier) has to find out.
  David has woken up tied to a chair in the room, and every time he asks why he’s there, Henry punches him into unconsciousness. It looks as though Henry has kidnapped David, but there appears to be no motive. It becomes very quickly apparent that not all is as it seems
  
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• Fringe review: So I Was At A Threesome Last Week

  22-08-2017 05:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  So I Was At A Threesome Last Week
  • 2 stars out of 5
  • Stage 21, El Cortez Kitchen & Bar
  It’s billed as a new work but the theme is as old as the hills. Two inebriated comics, Dion Arnold and Alex Sparling, stand up in a basement bar to talk about their past sexual experiences, about how they wound up in a threesome with a female acquaintance, and about who’s bigger, fatter, etc. Or as the Trumpster would put it, “locker room talk” — except that these
  
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• Fringe review: Fruit Flies Like a Banana

  22-08-2017 05:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fruit Flies Like a Banana
  • 4 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 37, Suzanne Thibodeau Amphitheatre
  It’s not until someone presents you with classical musicians on synchronized hoverboards that you realized that you needed to see it.
  And it was quite an opening to Massachusetts-based trio The Fourth Wall’s music-variety show Fruit Flies Like a Banana.
  This is the kind of Fringe confection that’s a nice bit of refreshment, midway through a run of seeing dark comedies,
  
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• Fringe review: Gordon's Big Bald Head

  22-08-2017 05:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gordon’s Big Bald Head: The Play’s the Thing
  • 5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 12, Varscona Theatre
  It may seem like an unwritten rule that Gordon’s Big Bald Head gets some of the best ratings at every Fringe, but there’s a good reason for that.
  Longtime improv compatriots Chris Craddock, Jacob Banigan and Mark Meer are quite frankly masters at their trade, seamlessly inventing stories out of thin air, riding the most ludicrous narrative arcs and wrapping them up in ex
  
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• Fringe review: 65 Roses

  22-08-2017 05:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  65 Roses
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 2, Backstage Theatre
  This short but moving work offers a glimpse inside the life – and actually the after-life – of someone who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis. Not exactly a happy story, or maybe it is depending on your point of view. Either way, that doesn’t stop the writer from finding a positive angle and some funny lines.
  I don’t think I’m giving away much to explain that Jerome (Ben Osgood) wakes up in a kind
  
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• Fringe review: Blown Away

  22-08-2017 04:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blown Away
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 2, Backstage Theatre“I am the music, the music flows through me.”
  The conductor takes the stage, prepared to lead this Saturday afternoon crowd through some serious Beethoven. This isn’t the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, but rather Blown Away, one part serious classical music and one part slapstick physical comedy.
  Michael Armstrong’s one-man musical mayhem takes a cue from a long history of classical/comedy mashups, going
  
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• City to draft policy to help up to 25,000 undocumented workers

  22-08-2017 03:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Community agencies say Edmonton is experiencing a large wave of undocumented migrants as changes by the federal government to the temporary foreign worker program hit hard, a city council committee was told Monday.
  The new four-year cap for temporary foreign work permits means new permits are being denied, even for families who have worked in Canada for more than a decade, said Marco Luciano with Migrante Alberta. 
  Children who were born in Edmonton are now being denied access to schools, s
  
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• Edmonton Oilers prospects will play combined NAIT-MacEwan team in annual rookie game

  22-08-2017 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The time-honoured Edmonton Oilers rookies vs. University of Alberta Golden Bears game will change on the fly next month.
  The Oilers’ freshmen prospects will instead take on a combined NAIT Ooks-MacEwan Griffins team at Rogers Place.
  The Oilers and the U of A have had a long history with the rookie game, the first one coming in 1988. Apart from a four-year hiatus from 2009-12 when the clubs didn’t play, they’ve met 26 times, with each team winning 13 times. It had been held at t
  
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• Terry Jones: Numbers add up in Edmonton Eskimos acquiring John Chick

  22-08-2017 02:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Anybody in Edmonton have a four- or five-bedroom house for rent from now through the Grey Cup?
  John Chick is bringing his entire team with him.
  Not the Tiger-Cats — his wife and eight kids.
  “Cameron, Robert, Josh, Luke, Julia, Mathew, Dominique and Mary,” he listed them. “They are aged 11, nine, eight, seven, six, twins that are four, then three and two.”
  There was no way the Canadian Football League’s fabled family man, who has Type 1 diabetes and wears an in
  
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• Paula Simons: Should our city councillors get parental leave?

  22-08-2017 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Wednesday, the executive committee of Edmonton city council will debate a groundbreaking new policy proposal — extended parental leave for sitting city councillors.
  No other city in Canada offers such leave, although Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia are all considering following in Alberta’s footsteps — and giving their cities that power.
  The draft policy would allow a councillor to take 26 weeks, or six months, of leave at the time of the birth or adoption of a child wi
  
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• Fringe review: One Man Star Wars

  22-08-2017 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  One Man Star Wars
  • 4.5 stars out of five
  • Stage 37, Suzanne Thibadeau Auditorium
  Perhaps the most reliably kinetic frequent-flyer performance at the Fringe, Charles Ross’ One Man Star Wars (no “Trilogy” in the name this time) is a ribbing love letter to generation X’s answer to having any sort of common-denominator religion.
  In shoes with toes and just one hour to pack, Ross absolutely smashes through the signposts of 6.5 hours of George Lucas’ finest wo
  
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• Fort McMurray teenager drowns at beach resort near Lac La Biche

  22-08-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort McMurray teenager was identified Monday as the victim of a drowning south of Lac La Biche this past weekend.
  According to Lac La Biche RCMP, the 18-year-old man was with friends on Whitefish Lake on the Kikino Métis Settlement, south of Lac La Biche, at approximately 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
  Police say the man was on an inflatable raft on the water when he jumped into the lake. Once in the water, the man had difficulty swimming and did not resurface.
  Officers began searching the area, b
  
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• Watchdog concludes police justified in Christmas Day 2015 killing of suspect in front-end loader

  22-08-2017 02:03 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 m
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos bolster lineup with charge of healthy reinforcements

  22-08-2017 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  It might not have been the most astronomical of occurrences Monday, but the Edmonton Eskimos saw a rare event of their own to coincide with the solar eclipse.
  Newly acquired defensive end John Chick’s arrival to Commonwealth Stadium blocked out the sun, to be sure, but aside from the first player acquired in a trade on general manager Brock Sunderland’s watch, the Eskimos also had a host of healthy players back practising.
  And that was good news considering all the bodies that have p
  
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• Fringe review: Saor

  22-08-2017 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Saor
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 7, Yardbird Suite
  Storyteller Carlyn Rhamey spins an amusing “Celtic adventure tale” about her travels last year in Ireland and Great Britain along with details about her own “lighthearted train wreck” of a life.
  Among other things, she’s happy to tell us she likes to drink alone, she has ADHD and she’ll likely die a spinster whose body is eaten by cats.
  There are enough tangents in this hour to keep a geometry profe
  
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• Fringe review: The Wallaby Way

  22-08-2017 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Wallaby Way
  4 stars out of 5
  Stage 38, Auditorium at Campus Saint-Jean
  England’s Gemma Wilcox re-creates the true story of how she went halfway around the world to find herself on a tiny, remote island off Tasmania that’s populated with wallabies (you know, those small kangaroos).
  Movement, music, island sounds, a short video clip, bones and a strange set enhanced with red yarn all work in building a magical atmosphere, setting up the trip and then setting down on the island to s
  
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• Fringe review: SCUM: A Manifesto

  22-08-2017 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  SCUM: A Manifesto
  4 stars out of 5
  Stage 18, Sugar Swing Ballroom (Main)
  Saskatoon’s Scantily Clad Theatre makes its brazen Edmonton Fringe debut with this clever time-warping dramedy featuring two writer-actresses doubling between two stories.
  In one part we meet radical feminist Valerie Solanas who wrote the treatise S.C.U.M. (Society For Cutting Up Men) back in 1967. Based on real events, the would-be playwright befriends pop art icon Andy Warhol, and then shoots him when he chooses to
  
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• Fringe review: Gruesome Playground Injuries

  22-08-2017 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gruesome Playground Injuries
  • 5 stars out of 5  
  • Stage 8, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre
  When a show just clicks, it can be magic.
  When you can tell the actors are truly inhabiting their characters, and the direction and design choices keep you captivated as the relationship between the characters unfolds, it’s a truly satisfying experience.
  In Gruesome Playground Injuries, the relationship between Doug and Kayleen is complicated, and based around a lot of pai
  
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• Fringe review: Leash Your Potential

  22-08-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leash Your Potential: A Practical Guide to Corporate Survival 
   • 5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 10, Acacia Hall
  Ever had to sit through endless meetings, ladened with corporate buzzwords and forced to discuss goals that no one will ever be able to, or want to, achieve?
  Ever had to prepare or study metrics that mean absolutely nothing to anybody?
  Ever wanted to know the secrets to surviving modern corporate bureaucracy?
  If so, then look no further than Ryan Gunther’s “c
  
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