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• Edmonton's longest serving councillor pushes back on private debates

  29-08-2017 20:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council is getting too comfortable holding private debates and forgetting to publicly explain itself, Edmonton’s longest serving councillor warned Tuesday. 
  Coun. Bryan Anderson spoke out at council, just before his colleagues voted to go in private again for a list of eight different items.
  Debating items in private is often justified, said Anderson. But when they come back in public to vote, council needs to explain itself.
  “The problem is that .. we can have a fulsome di
  
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• Beach brings garbage: Neighbours wrestle with implications of the surprise downtown beach

  29-08-2017 20:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s new downtown beach is already attracting crowds of Edmonton residents thrilled to stick their toes in the water and the smooth, clean sand.
  But it’s not staying clean for long, says Coun. Ben Henderson, bringing his worries to council Tuesday. 
  “The beach has already proved popular with the citizens of Edmonton, as a result putting pressure on the park area through traffic, parking and litter and noise,” he said, submitting a formal inquiry to prompt actio
  
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• Edmonton's school districts in home stretch before rush of new school openings

  29-08-2017 20:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Vaulted ceilings and soothing wood finishes will greet hundreds of students next week when they arrive at the new Christ the King Elementary-Junior High School in north Edmonton.
  On Tuesday morning, the Edmonton Catholic School District gave reporters a peek inside one of their five new schools opening around the city this September.
  “This year, Edmonton Catholic Schools is making history,” area school trustee Larry Kowalczyk said, referring to the largest number of city schools the
  
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• Comedian Bill Burr carves up obsessed sports fans: "You need to get a life."

  29-08-2017 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Comedian Bill Burr carved up obsessed sports fans on a recent podcast, his rant being relevant to the writers and readers of The Cult of Hockey, as we’re almost all obsessed Edmonton Oilers fans around here.
  Burr himself is obsessive enough that he’s gone to almost every single sporting venue in the United States. He loves a good game, but not so much all the detailed, picky, often negative debate around player salaries and the merits of player trades.
  On the podcast, Burr, a Celtics
  
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• Photo Enforcement Locations - September 2017

  29-08-2017 20:03
  Site of the Day Locations for September 2017 The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of... Read Post
  
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• Dad of baby killed in house fire in court on stolen property charge

  29-08-2017 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The father of a five-month-old child killed in a house fire last week will go to trial on a stolen property charge this fall.  
  Cordell Brown was in provincial court in Edmonton Tuesday to set a trial date for a possession of stolen property under $5,000 charge.
  Brown pleaded not guilty. He is set to appear in court Oct. 11.
  Brown is accused of unlawfully possessing fire extinguishers belonging to Mactaggart Ridge Gate, a southwest Edmonton condominium complex. The alleged offence occurred
  
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• UCP leadership hopeful proposes buying Port of Churchill

  29-08-2017 19:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jeff Callaway added another policy concept Tuesday to what he’s calling his “big ideas.”
  If elected leader, he would push for Alberta to buy the Port of Churchill in Manitoba, thus giving Alberta oil more access to global markets through Hudson’s Bay.
  He would couple the port purchase with fixing the grain terminals and reopening the rail line shut down earlier this year — a $20-million investment he called “a sma
  
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• 'My heart is with Hunter': Mother pens letter on baby's death in arson

  29-08-2017 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton mother silenced by her injuries after being trapped in a house fire that killed her five-month-old baby hand wrote a note expressing her love for her lost son.
  “My heart is with Hunter always. And I choose to remember the way he lived in my arms and wait (until) I hold you again,” read the note penned by Angie Tang.
  Taped to a fence outside the ruins of her former home at 1040 Armitage Crescent, a note on coloured stationary thanked those attending the growing memorial of
  
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• Arson victims thank firefighters for saving mother's life

  29-08-2017 17:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A family still grieving the loss of a five-month-old baby killed in an arson that reduced an Edmonton home to ashes is expressing gratitude to the firefighters and first responders who saved his mother’s life.
  Angie Tang remains in hospital after being trapped in her bedroom by fire, hiding in closet with her five-month-old son Hunter as flames ripped through her home at 1040 Armitage Crescent around 4 a.m. on Aug. 22.
  Firefighters rescued Tang and her baby as their home burned around them
  
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• Edmonton Oilers loaded up with Swiss Army knife forwards

  29-08-2017 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey’s Ryan Strome will be better fit for Oilers than Jordan Eberle podcastDavid Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey dig in to what Matt Hendricks brought to the Oilers, how newcomers Ryan Strome and Jussi Jokinen will fit in on the Edmonton squad, and also look back at the summer of 2012, the last summer for Steve Tambellini in the driver’s seat of the Edmonton Oilers.
  Oilers have no less than eight all-purpose forwards
  It’s common to hear Oilers all-purp
  
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• Q & A: Edmonton a 'great' market for Rec Room as second location opens, Cineplex CEO says

  29-08-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s second Rec Room location opens Monday night in West Edmonton Mall. Cineplex’s new 54,000-square-foot “eats and entertainment” experience offers more than 90 arcade games, a wide range of food options, a live entertainment hall and more than 75 big screens for sports lovers.
  This is only the third Rec Room location in Canada and the first to offer a multi-sports simulator and an augmented climbing wall.
  We sat down with Cineplex president and CEO Ellis Jacob ahe
  
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• Arden Theatre announces new Family Series - St. Albert Gazette

  29-08-2017 01:42
  St. Albert Gazette
  Arden Theatre announces new Family Series
  St. Albert Gazette
  When parents think of children's theatre, they remember some of the slapdash performances they saw as kids. But children's theatre today is much more sophisticated and professional. In fact, it's often referred to as “theatre for young audiences ...
  
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