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• Ice District will be 'like nothing in North America', says Katz Group

  12-09-2017 22:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton media were given the chance to tour the 25-acre downtown Ice District redevelopment Tuesday morning. Reporter Juris Graney tagged along to see how the site is taking shape. 
  How’s it looking out there?
  Construction work at Canada’s largest mixed-use sports and entertainment district is busy. Very busy. And that brings a lot of joy to Glen Scott, president of Katz Group Real Estate. 
  “There is nothing like this in North America or the world that I’ve see
  
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• New prosecutor assigned to Lance Blanchard dangerous offender hearing

  12-09-2017 21:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Crown prosecutor in a high profile sexual assault case that saw the victim shackled and jailed in order to ensure her testimony is no longer working on the file.
  Patricia Innes has been replaced as the lead prosecutor in the Crown’s case against Lance Blanchard, 60, who was convicted of a brutal sexual assault in December 2016, and is now awaiting a dangerous offender hearing scheduled to begin in January 2018.
  At a hearing in Court of Queen’s Bench Tuesday morning, prosecutor Ch
  
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• Council calls cratering photo radar budget a 'good news' story

  12-09-2017 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s photo radar fund now risks dipping into the negative as local speeders lighten up on the gas.
  Council heard Tuesday the fund was $3 million under budget this year because people aren’t speeding as much as expected, said chief financial officer Todd Burge. “(There are) the same amount of tickets being issued but at a slower speed.”
  “I would argue that’s a good news story,” said Coun. Ben Henderson, suggesting council wants the budget to hit zer
  
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• Council pushes possible cuts to airport bus until after the election

  12-09-2017 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials will keep looking for help funding the city’s airport bus service, pushing any debate on service cuts to after the election. 
  “There’s some really positive discussion around the airport table,” Mayor Don Iveson said Tuesday, suggesting the Edmonton International Airport, City of Leduc and Leduc County may be interested to help fund the service, especially if it can be rerouted to serve more regional passengers.
  The bus debate is one part of the lar
  
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• Edmonton-based soldiers return from Ukraine deployment

  12-09-2017 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cpl. Vince Lucas, while deployed in Ukraine, missed watching his daughter learn to crawl. But all things considered, he feels pretty lucky. 
  “I watched guys watch their kids starting to walk on Skype,” he said Tuesday morning at CFB Edmonton, as his wife Jessie held their seven-month-old Brooke. “I couldn’t imagine how hard that must have been.” 
  Lucas was one of around 40 Canadian Forces troops stationed in Edmonton welcomed home Tuesday from a month
  
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• Young Stars tournament child's play for Oilers rookies

  12-09-2017 18:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON, B.C. — There’s no Stanley Cup to parade around the ice at the Young Stars Classic, but the Edmonton Oilers keep winning year after year.
  This season’s successful edition wrapped up Monday with free-agent signee forward Joe Gambardella and centre Chad Butcher carrying them offensively in the deciding 5-4 overtime win over the Vancouver Canucks’ prospects.
  This is the fourth consecutive affair they’ve finished first.
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  What we learned about the Oilers
  
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• Top 17 triggers for the Edmonton Oilers fans in debate

  12-09-2017 17:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cult’s “What will happen to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins?” podcastWhat some hockey people like to say — and how it absolutely enrages other Oilers fans
  If there’s one thing Edmonton fans love to do, it’s root for their home team. If there’s another, it’s relentlessly debate fellow hockey fans and commentators on the merits of this, that and the other thing related to the team. 
  In such debates on Twitter and Facebook, in message boards and comments
  
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• Public hearing into Holyrood development delayed until November

  12-09-2017 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  A public hearing into the Holyrood Gardens project scheduled for Monday night at Edmonton City Council has been postponed until after the election and will now take place in November.
  Councillor discussions about the project didn’t start until just before the session was supposed to be adjourned at 9:30 p.m., the last of 29 agenda items to be addressed on Monday’s long public hearing agenda.
  Council had the choice to either come back to the issue late this week — forcing at lea
  
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• Young Stars tournament child's play for Edmonton Oilers rookies

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON, B.C. — There’s no Stanley Cup to parade around the ice at the Young Stars Classic, but the Edmonton Oilers keep winning year after year.
  This season’s successful edition wrapped up Monday with free-agent signee forward Joe Gambardella and centre Chad Butcher carrying them offensively in the deciding 5-4 overtime win over the Vancouver Canucks’ prospects.
  This is the fourth consecutive affair they’ve finished first.
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  What we learned about the Oilers
  
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• Westlawn schools could merge into new early years and middle schools

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A decision whether to merge four west-end schools into a K-3 early years school and a Grade 4-9 middle years school will go before the Edmonton Public School Board on Tuesday.
  However, members of the Glenwood Community League plan to ask the board to deviate from the school district administration’s recommendation to replace Afton and Westlawn schools while closing Glendale and Sherwood schools.
  Closing Glendale and Sherwood, which are both near planned stops on a multibillion-dollar westw
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Playground speed limits raise questions

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Slow down on new speed limits around playgrounds: critics,” Sept. 8
  What is a speed-limit reduction supposed to achieve?
  Changes in traffic flow, roadway design and speed limits are normally based on statistical analysis. However, it appears a decision to reduce the speed limit next to playgrounds to 30 km/h from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. 365 days per year is based on an emotional decision to “protect the most vulnerable.”
  For reference, I am a parent, grandparent and grea
  
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• Opinion: Science backs the safety of 30-km/h limits

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council will vote this week on whether to calm roadway speeds in playground zones. Some will portray this as a decision that could increase commute times, gridlock or as yet more evidence of council’s so-called war on the car. This vote is none of these things. It is instead a vote to determine how much our council values life.
  In June, a four-year-old Edmonton boy named Parker died when the driver of a car struck him on a residential street. That this boy died on a such a street wher
  
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• Editorial: Pipeline victim of overreach

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  TransCanada Corp. has hit pause on its Energy East pipeline, throwing the future of the project in doubt. 
  That the company put on hold for 30 days an application to build the 4,500-kilometre pipeline to carry Alberta and Saskatchewan crude from Hardisty to Saint John, N.B. — a possible prelude to outright cancellation — should raise alarm bells for not just Albertans and New Brunswickers, but all Canadians.
  Both provinces were banking on the $15.7-billion project for expanded a
  
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• Back to school: Literacy help coming to Fort Saskatchewan schools

  12-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When public school teachers in Fort Saskatchewan heard they’d have access to extra cash to improve life in their classrooms, helping children with their reading skills was a top choice.
  They’re not just thinking of youngsters sounding out their first words. When students wrestle with comprehension in junior and senior high school, many of their teachers with secondary school training aren’t equipped to help them, said Sandra Stoddard, associate superintendent with Elk Island Pu
  
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• Jones: Eskimos' passing game goes Sky high with receiver's return

  12-09-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sky Walker is back. And maybe for the Edmonton Eskimos, the sky is no longer falling.
  It was like he hadn’t been away. And even though the Eskimos lost their fourth in a row and head to Toronto this week a 7-4 third-place team, the return of Derel Walker is the positive that cancels or at least deflects attention from some of the negatives.
  Certainly, when the team returns to practice today, the Eskimos will have to answer to Chris Edwards’ throat slashing in the final minute, and Ke
  
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• What we learned about the Oilers at Young Stars tourney in B.C.

  12-09-2017 04:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  PENTICTON, B.C. — Here’s what we clearly know after the Edmonton Oilers continued to treat the annual Young Stars September tournament here like a Ho vs. Hum exercise, winning all three of their games running their record over the last four years of the prospects event to 10-0-2.
  1. They’ve got absolutely no issues in their pipeline with goalies with their recent draft picks Dylan Wells and Stuart Skinner, who are both trying to make Canada’s world junior team to bac
  
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• Graham Thomson: Connecting the dots — NDP environmental policy and hurricane Irma

  12-09-2017 04:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a long way from Parkland County to the Florida Keys.
  But on Monday morning, the two were connected.
  As hurricane Irma battered its way up Florida, Alberta Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous was holding a news conference in Parkland County, just west of Edmonton.
  He didn’t mention Irma. In fact, the news conference had nothing to do with hurricanes.
  But it did, if you connected the dots.
  Dot 1: Bilous was announcing a new Coal Community Transition Fund to help Alberta&rsq
  
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• Crown won't enter evidence about who pulled trigger in Whyte Avenue condo killing

  12-09-2017 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trial for a man accused of being amongst a group of masked suspects responsible for the shooting death of an Edmonton computer repairman will rely on forensic and wiretap evidence.
  Boutros Abdiaziz Mohamed, 25, is charged with manslaughter in connection to the 2012 death of Bogdan Pamfil. However, Crown prosecutor Lawrence Van Dyke said Monday he won’t be offering any evidence about who actually shot Pamfil.
  Pamfil, 25, was found dead in a utility room in his Whyte Avenue condominium com
  
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• Kailer Yamamoto shows his quality as Edmonton Oilers Young Stars beat Canucks 5-4

  12-09-2017 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cult’s “What will happen to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins?” podcastYamamoto and Maksimov put on thrilling performances
  Kailer Yamamoto stinks of skill, and all that he has to offer — his lighting quickness, surprising grit, deft stickhandling and fine shot — were on display Monday as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 in the Young Stars tournament in Penticton.
  The win, courtesy of a dynamic overtime goal by Kirill “The Thrill” Maksimov, had th
  
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• Paula Simons: Walterdale Bridge to open 'any day now,' Mayor Don Iveson says

  12-09-2017 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  It hangs there, shimmering white in the river valley, haunting and taunting us.
  We were supposed to be able to drive over the fancy new Walterdale bridge in the autumn of 2015.
  Then we were told we’d be able to cross the North Saskatchewan River in the autumn of 2016.
  We’re still waiting.
  Word from City Hall is that it won’t be much longer. 
  “The bridge will open to traffic this September,” deputy city manager Adam Laughlin assured me in a brief email Monday. &
  
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• Firefighters lost to illness, disease in spotlight at 9/11 memorial

  12-09-2017 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Michael Hauck rang a bell in Edmonton’s Firefighters Memorial Plaza on Monday in memory of his dad. 
  Vernon William Hauck, his father, fought fires in Edmonton for 43 years, retiring as a captain. He died in July at age 70 due to heart and lung ailments related to his years spent fighting fires. 
  “One hundred per cent proud of his work,” said his son. “It was his life.” 
  Hauck was one of 18 retired firefighters who died in the past 12 months honoured
  
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• Released convicted sexual offender in Edmonton at risk of reoffending

  12-09-2017 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A convicted sex offender with a history of violence recently released in Edmonton may commit another sexual or violent offence while in the community, police warned Monday. 
  City police said Ernest Bruno, 59, will be closely monitored by the Edmonton Police Service’s behavioural assessment unit and is the subject of a series of court-ordered conditions.
  Bruno, who as part of his release conditions must abstain from alcohol and drugs, including marijuana, is descri
  
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• 5 things we learned in the Labour Day rematch: Stampeders 25, Eskimos 22

  12-09-2017 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Labour Day rematch had everything you’d want in a good ol’ fashioned rivalry game.
  Saturday’s Battle of Alberta went right down to the wire in a back-and-forth affair that had it all: blood and guts on display in an arena where, unfortunately, not all players were able to walk out of on their own; coaches cussing out opposing players, thrown headsets, big plays and, last but not least, its fair share of controversy.
  In the end, the Calgary Stampeders won 25-22. Here’s
  
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• Terry Jones: Vasek Pospisil looked at to lead Canada in Davis Cup play vs. India

  12-09-2017 00:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  ‘Tennis Denis’ was out there, live and in person.
  ‘El Shapo’ was drilling fuzzy balls off almost every inch of the 23-carton jigsaw puzzle of travelling tennis surface at Northlands Coliseum along with his teammates as Davis Cup week began in Edmonton with practices Monday.
  But Denis Shapovalov, the 18-year-old shooting star of the sport who defeated Rafael Nadal at the Rogers Cup in Montreal and began the just-completed U.S. Open defeating eighth-seed Jo-Wilfred Tsonga i
  
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