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• Eskimos get host of healthy players back before rematch vs. Stampeders

  06-09-2017 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Derel Walker wasn’t the only reinforcement landing back on what has been a beleaguered Edmonton Eskimos roster.
  The team that got off to a 7-0 start to the season despite a battery of injuries up and down the lineup saw a host of healthy bodies return to the practice field Wednesday, as the Eskimos look to end a three-game losing streak in Saturday’s Labour Day rematch at Commonwealth Stadium (7 p.m., TSN, ESPN3, 630 CHED).
  “We’re getting healthier, we knew that was going
  
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• Solution to isolated Greyhound station in the wings: Transit official

  06-09-2017 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Transit officials are hoping travellers arriving in Edmonton by bus will finally have an alternative, before the snow flies, to trudging one kilometre to reach a transit connection. 
  “I think we’ll have a solution before the snow comes,” said transit branch manager Eddie Robar on Wednesday, addressing one of the worst issues for tourists trying to take public transit in Edmonton. 
  Since May 2016, Greyhound has been operating out of the Via Rail Station at 12360 121 St
  
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• Cody Franson to the Edmonton Oilers? Makes sense if the price is right

  06-09-2017 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Franson could provide solid third-pairing depth — and nothing wrong with that
  This in from Rick Dhaliwal‏ @DhaliwalSports, an anchor at Sportsnet 650 in Vancouver: “Been told UFA Cody Franson is down to Edmonton or Chicago. Vancouver never called.”
  My take
  All kinds of rumours from various sources both credible and incredible about Oilers being in on Franson. The rumour from Dhaliwal comes across as most credible.
  Franson has previously been a darling of the shots metrics s
  
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• Check before you buy: a new homebuyer’s guide to energy efficiency

  06-09-2017 20:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re thinking about buying a new home, you probably hope it’s energy efficient. Not only is it better for the environment, you’ll save money, too.
  With that in mind, here are five places you can look when evaluating a home for energy efficiency.
  Windows
  Most windows have two panes; some have three. Hold a flashlight to a window and count the reflections to see how many panes it has. “The more panes, the better the window,” says Jenifer Christenson of Built Gree
  
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• Embattled MLA Derek Fildebrandt appears in court for hit-and-run

  06-09-2017 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Embattled MLA Derek Fildebrandt appeared in traffic court Wednesday after a former neighbour accused him of a hit-and-run that damaged her van in June 2016.
  In court, the Strathmore-Brooks MLA denied having anything to do with the collision, saying he was likely in an early morning meeting at the Federal Building.
  But provincial prosecutor Lorna Mackie said the neighbour had an unobstructed view of Fildebrandt’s red Ford F-150 pickup truck backing into her van and driving away, and that sh
  
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• Ward 3: Challengers line up to represent Edmonton's growing north side

  06-09-2017 19:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ward 3 encompasses a swath of north-central Edmonton, including mature neighbourhoods such as Kilkenny and Evansdale, and new areas under development, such as Rapperswill and Crystallina Nera.
  Older adults age 50 to 59 are the largest age group in Ward 3, according to the city’s 2016 census. Of those who answered a question about home ownership on the census, 78 per cent in the area own their home, compared to 22 per cent who rent. About 14 per cent of residents are retired.
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• A bird's eye view of the Prairies, on a plate, Oct. 1 in Edmonton

  06-09-2017 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Art meets food on Sunday, Oct. 1 when the Prairie Grid Dinner Series lands in Edmonton for a one-off night of great taste and exceptional visuals.
  Organized by Calgary food writer Dan Clapson (co-creator of the online food platform, Eat North) the Prairie Grid series sees top chefs in the Prairie provinces gathering in several locations between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5. The goal is to create a five-course meal in each location that is a tribute to the food, and natural beauty, that characterizes Albe
  
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• Harvest almost back on track - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 18:12
  Harvest almost back on track
  St. Albert Gazette
  County farmers say they have just about caught up to where they should be with their harvest now that Mother Nature has decided to play nice. Sturgeon County combines started to roll last week to bring in this year's crops, pretty much right on schedule.
  
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• Infill affordability 'what we really need to crack': Don Iveson

  06-09-2017 17:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents are taking on more debt, struggling to find homes within their budgets, and the city’s current infill program isn’t solving the issue, say officials.
  City research heading to council’s urban planning committee for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning shows as many as 66 per cent of Edmonton households can’t afford to buy the average priced home of $360,000, if they use a 10 per cent down payment, and most infill units are more expensive than that.
  Families want
  
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• Shaw Conference Centre puts your turkey on the table this Thanksgiving

  06-09-2017 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thanksgiving is sometimes a veritable blur of turkey, stuffing and sore feet for cooks assigned to the kitchen on behalf of their families and friends. Whom they all love very much. But really, it’s a lot of work.
  But this Thanksgiving, the Shaw Conference Centre promises to make your evening less work, and therefore more enjoyable, by preparing the turkey in your stead. Executive chef Serge Belair and his team of 11 Red Seal chefs have concocted a bird-based feast for you and your hungry
  
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• Childhood witness to domestic violence now raises funds to help those in similar situations

  06-09-2017 16:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Al Madge knows what it is like to live with domestic violence.
  Madge’s father was a drinker, and when he drank, he’d hit Madge’s mother and his older siblings. Madge’s mother went to the police. They told her it was none of their business.
  She eventually managed to leave Madge’s father, taking Al and his siblings to stay with a family friend. His dad sobered up and never hit his family again.
  Madge eventually came to terms with his dad. The abuse was linked to the d
  
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• Football fever: Bellerose Bulldogs, Paul Kane Blues, St. Albert High Skyhawks and St. Albert minor football updates - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 15:10
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  Football fever: Bellerose Bulldogs, Paul Kane Blues, St. Albert High Skyhawks and St. Albert minor football updates
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  The division one Carr conference lid-lifter kicks off at 6 p.m. against the Spruce Grove Panthers at Larry Olexiuk Field. Last year the Bellerose senior team rallied to defeat the Panthers 32-21 in the Tier I (1,250-plus students) qualifier for the ...
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Quiz candidates on infill

  06-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “The Problem With Infill? It’s Just Too Expensive,” Sept. 1
  Based on my conversations with neighbours, very few people want to see horrid skinny homes in their neighbourhoods. Fewer still want mini-apartment buildings and row housing springing up beside their homes.
  People make the largest investment of their lives when they pick a place to live. They consider the city, the amenities, the security; they pick a place that feels right to them. Once they’ve made that inv
  
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• Opinion: Tax changes discredit honest Canadians

  06-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last month, the federal finance department announced a proposed plan to change Canada’s Income Tax Act with the goal of punishing “greedy Canadians” who don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s narrative to support changing the taxation of Canadian controlled private corporations (CCPC) attempts to mislead the public: that the proposed changes are to protect the middle class who do pay their fair share of taxes.
  Small business owners are
  
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• Edmonton Oilers blueline could sport unsung free-agent signing Yohann Auvitu

  06-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Defenceman Johann Auvitu is a man of the world who speaks five languages who is currently working on his masters’ degree in business, but what the 28-year-old wants to learn most is whether he’ll be in the National Hockey League next month.
  In what was the team’s quietest off-season signing, the Oilers picked up the Paris-born Auvitu for one year. They signed the left-shot defender who started last season with the New Jersey Devils for 25 games until he was hurt against Ed
  
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• 5 things we learned: Stamps 39, Eskimos 18

  06-09-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After a 7-0 start to the season by an Edmonton Eskimos squad that found ways through thick and thin to overcome devastating injuries all across the lineup and win close, hard-fought games, the ride appears to be over.
  Suffering their third loss in a row with a 39-18 loss to the Calgary Stampeders on Labour Day, the Eskimos are desperate to stop the bleeding, cut their losses and get back on track with a win.
  They’d take it against anybody at this point, but unfortunately, if they hope to a
  
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• Edmonton Oilers #2 prospect Tyler Benson is a splendid young player skating under a cloud of question marks

  06-09-2017 12:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017 Edmonton Oilers prospects#2: LW Tyler Benson
  Previously: #3 in 2016
   
  There are no guarantees.
  Everybody who follows sports has learned that lesson more times than a few. This observer received a double dose of it on the night of January 4 this past season, when a friend and I purchased tickets to the WHL game at Rogers Place between Vancouver Giants at Edmonton Oil Kings. The plan was to watch Edmonton native and hotshot Oilers prospect Tyler Benson play in his home town against the O
  
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• Sewer upgrades a headache for Glenhaven residents - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:17
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  Sewer upgrades a headache for Glenhaven residents
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  Road closures and safety concerns related to construction work along Glenhaven Crescent have some residents calling the summer of 2017 “a living hell.” On June 8, residents received a notification from Kichton Contracting Ltd. that they would be ...
  
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• Tax changes to impact farmers and small businesses - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:09
  Tax changes to impact farmers and small businesses
  St. Albert Gazette
  Farmers and small business owners are being urged to attend an information session on tax changes, set to take place on September 19 at Cardiff Hall in Sturgeon County. The federal government has proposed several changes to taxes for small businesses.
  
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• Larry Olexiuk Field honours a football fixture in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:09
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  Larry Olexiuk Field honours a football fixture in St. Albert
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  “Can you believe it? I still don't believe it,” said an astonished Olexiuk after St. Albert City Council approved the naming of the Riel Recreation Park artificial turf facility in his honour last week . “It's the most humbling episode I've ever ...
  
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• Historic repeat for St. Albert Miners as Presidents' Cup senior B lacrosse champions - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:09
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  Historic repeat for St. Albert Miners as Presidents' Cup senior B lacrosse champions
  St. Albert Gazette
  The St. Albert Miners set the standard for greatness in senior B lacrosse as the repeat winners of the Presidents' Cup. The first Alberta team to pull off consecutive national championships while amassing an amazing 57-2-1 mark of distinction during ...
  
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• City ponders bike signage - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:09
  City ponders bike signage
  St. Albert Gazette
  St. Albert city council is looking to pare down the cost of putting up signs to remind cyclists to dismount on crosswalks. At last Monday's council meeting, the project was quoted at $101,200. That cost would cover 390 signs placed at crossings on ...
  
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• A tale of 12 Scouts and 850 trees - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:09
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  A tale of 12 Scouts and 850 trees
  St. Albert Gazette
  It was just reported on Friday that the devastating Fort McMurray/Wood Buffalo wildfire is finally, officially deemed out. Friday's announcement comes a full 15 months after the fire forced the evacuation of nearly 90,000 people and eventually ...
  
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• Jan Butler to run for council - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 08:01
  Jan Butler to run for council
  St. Albert Gazette
  Jan Butler announced last week she would be running for council in the upcoming election. Butler, 61, has lived in St. Albert for 31 years. She has three grown children and one grandchild. She said she brings practical knowledge and leadership ...
  
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• Band election overturned - St. Albert Gazette - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 07:34
  Band election overturned - St. Albert Gazette
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  Alexander First Nation residents will head to the polls for a second time this year now that an appeal board has struck down the results of last summer's band ...and more »
  
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• Band election overturned - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 07:34
  Band election overturned
  St. Albert Gazette
  Alexander First Nation residents will head to the polls for a second time this year now that an appeal board has struck down the results of last summer's band election. About 32 people ran in the July 13 Alexander band election, with Audra Arcand ...and more »
  
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• Edmonton suspect arrested in Vancouver after Montreal woman found strangled

  06-09-2017 06:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A suspect wanted in connection to the death of a Montreal woman found slain in Edmonton has been arrested in Vancouver.
  Gregory Christopher Tessman, 49, was nabbed Tuesday evening at a homeless shelter on East Hastings Street, Edmonton police said in a news release. 
  He is charged with second-degree murder in the strangling of Valerie Maurice, 29, of Montreal.
  Police responding to a call Aug. 31 at a home near 144 Avenue and 88A Street found her body. 
  Edmonton homicide Det. Bill
  
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• Homeward Trust calls for surge in housing work to end homelessness

  06-09-2017 04:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Housing officials are calling for a surge to get all of Edmonton’s chronically homeless in stable homes by 2020 and to end short-term homelessness in the city by 2022.
  But that will take money, resolve and help from across the community.
  Homeward Trust officials believe they can house 4,000 individuals within three years, but their annual operating budget will need to grow from $35 million to $65 million. Another $230 million will be needed in capital spending over six years to build new h
  
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• Workshop dresses up history - St. Albert Gazette

  06-09-2017 04:18
  Workshop dresses up history
  St. Albert Gazette
  Local artists sat around the long table, leaning over their masterpieces in deep concentration. Pearls, lace and heirlooms were scattered across the table as artists expertly pushed each piece into its perfect place. Susan Wechsler, mosaic dress ...
  
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• Edmonton could quit buying diesel buses by 2020: transit chief

  06-09-2017 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Electric buses on the market today are good enough to run the whole day on just one charge, which means Edmonton could kick its diesel habit within three years, the city’s head of transit said Tuesday.
  The competition to supply Edmonton’s first 40 electric buses closes Sept. 12 and they’ll be delivered in early 2019, as soon as the new northeast transit garage is built and ready to charge them, said Edmonton Transit chief Eddie Robar.
  The city is designing upgrades to the south
  
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• David Staples: Bridge, bike lane brings construction hell to Glenora businesses

  06-09-2017 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Life in Edmonton has been referred to as eight months of winter followed by four months of road construction, but a group of Glenora business owners has had it far worse. The last three years has been the usual amount of winter for them, but near-unrelenting construction, first with the botched and endless 102 Avenue bridge construction, now with a major bike lane causing more disruption.
  Before you write off the business owners as a bunch of complainers, it’s worth noting their impressive
  
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• Councillors debate plan to sell $10 million in land for a buck to non-profit developer

  06-09-2017 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Several city councillors balked Tuesday at the fine details of a plan to hand over $10-million worth of land for $1 to a new non-profit developer.
  The land doesn’t look like much — several gravel parking lots near the Coliseum, a construction laydown area in McCauley and other blighted sites in the inner city – but councillors worried they were giving up too much control.
  They worried the non-profit developer might sit on the land, or sell the land to a private developer who co
  
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• Cracks in the united armour grow two months from UCP leadership vote

  06-09-2017 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party leadership race is far from an all-in brawl but, as we creep ever closer to the vote, so too comes more of the kind of talk that ends in a barstool being thrown.
  When the UCP leadership committee released race rules late Friday, four candidates had entered the ring: Jeff Callaway (former Wildrose president), Brian Jean (former Wildrose leader), Jason Kenney (former Alberta Progressive Conservative leader) and Doug Schweitzer (a Calgary lawyer).
  It will cost each one
  
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• Cafe Linnea drops no tipping policy in restaurant

  06-09-2017 02:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cafe Linnea, which launched its business with a no-tipping policy roughly one year ago, says the system is just not working. Starting in August, the restaurant returned to the “industry standard,” and resumed a tip-based wage system.
  An announcement on Facebook reads: “While we still support the living wage concept, the current model has proven to be untenable and our team has decided this is the best way for the restaurant to move forward.”
  The announcement continues: &n
  
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• Families meet with officials from national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women

  06-09-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Families planning to testify in the national inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women are privately meeting with officials this week in Edmonton. 
  The community visit — giving victims’ loved ones a chance to meet with inquiry officials in individual sessions from Tuesday to Thursday — aims to prepare those who will be giving testimony in November and answer questions. 
  “It makes me feel more involved now,” said Cynthia Cardinal, who met privately
  
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• Back to School: First public school consolidation experiment put to test in Beverly

  06-09-2017 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly four years ago, the superintendent phoned Rundle Elementary School principal Lynn Schlacht with a difficult question.
  What would families in her northeast Edmonton community say if the district closed and merged aging, underused schools in the area, Edmonton Public Schools superintendent Darrel Robertson asked her.
  “If they were going to just announce, ‘Oh, we’re closing these schools,’ then people would be upset. But if they were replacing them — we’re
  
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• Family to commemorate 25-year anniversary of girl's murder

  06-09-2017 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Around this time every year, dread and sadness begins to seep into the hearts of Karen Vallette and her family.
  It’s an anniversary they’d rather not have. 
  On Sept. 6, 1992, in a crime that shocked Edmonton and the province, six-year-old Corinne “Punky” Gustavson was snatched from the front lawn of her family home near 34 Street and 113 Avenue by Clifford Sleigh.
  Two days later, her body was found in an industrial yard outside the city limits in Strathcona County. A
  
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• Alberta politicians engage in war of words over Canadian military history and curriculum revamp

  06-09-2017 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley says criticisms levelled by United Conservative Party leadership candidate Jason Kenney about a lack of military history in the new Alberta curriculum is a case of “fear mongering.”
  “It’s ironic we’re engaging in fear mongering about history and education on the basis of a complete absence of facts,” she told a news conference Tuesday. 
  Notley — who ushered in the school year at the new Lois E. Hole Elementary School in St. Alb
  
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• Terry Jones: Denis Shapovalov, tennis's shooting star, headlines Canada's Davis Cup showdown with India

  06-09-2017 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Denis Shapovalov, another guy, another guy and another guy.
  That’s how a casual sports fan that hardly ever watches tennis is likely to view Canada’s line-up for the Sept. 15-17 Davis Cup tie at Northlands Coliseum versus India announced Tuesday.
  And two of the other guys — Vasek Pospisil and Daniel Nestor — are not exactly without profile.
  Shapovalov is the shooting star of the sport, the sensation of not only the nation but the entire tennis world.He’s
  
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• Jaromir Jagr looking at option of playing for Team Czech, Adler reports

  06-09-2017 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  By PETER ADLER
  Jaromir Jagr may end up playing for Team Czech at the 2018 Olympic Games in South Korea, after all.
  In a Czech TV show he said Tuesday that if he does not sign with an NHL team soon, Europe will be his other option. And, if that is the case, he would very much appreciate an invitation to go to Pyeongchang.
  Europe does not necessarily mean Russian KHL, he said, mentioning Kladno which he owns as one of the possibilities.
  He did not comment on the fact the Florida Panthers ended up
  
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