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• Maskwacis man charged with second degree murder

  14-09-2017 23:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Maskwacis man was charged with second-degree murder Wednesday in relation to a man’s death in Wetaskiwin.
  Justin Eagle, 45, was found unresponsive and suffering from serious life-threatening injuries in an apartment stairwell at around 9:35 p.m., Aug. 26.
  He later died in hospital.
  An autopsy three days later deemed Eagle’s death a homicide, RCMP said Thursday.
  Dustin Walter Okeymow, 34, has been charged with second-degree murder and was scheduled to appear in Ponoka prov
  
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• NAIT, City of Edmonton keeping mum on possible Blatchford land deal

  14-09-2017 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton, the province and Canada’s largest polytechnic are closing in on a significant land deal linked to the Blatchford project.
  Mayor Don Iveson cryptically spoke about “protracted negotiations” between the city, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and the province at Wednesday’s council meeting regarding “the opportunity for NAIT to consolidate many of its different campuses to a central location contiguous to their main campus.&rdquo
  
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• Edmonton blocks Beaumont's growth on disputed annexation lands

  14-09-2017 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton successfully blocked Beaumont’s plan to develop new neighbourhoods and businesses on its disputed northern lands Thursday.
  The vote was a foregone conclusion since Edmonton holds a population-based veto at the Capital Region Board. Mayor Don Iveson successfully drew five other municipalities to his side and really ticked off many others.
  “What stops Edmonton from doing the exact same thing to Bremner?” said Warburg Mayor Ralph van Assen, referring to a contentious new
  
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• Search warrant in St. Albert leads to seizure of guns and cocaine - Globalnews.ca

  14-09-2017 20:59
  Search warrant in St. Albert leads to seizure of guns and cocaine
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  Multiple firearms were seized and a man was arrested after St. Albert RCMP officers executed a search warrant at the end of August. On Aug. 31, officers searched an apartment in the Grandin area of St. Albert. Inside they found an undisclosed amount of ...
  
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• MLAs approve ban on renting out their subsidized apartments on Airbnb

  14-09-2017 20:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta legislative committee has unanimously approved a motion barring MLAs from renting out taxpayer-subsidized apartments on Airbnb.
  Alberta Party leader Greg Clark is calling it the “Fildebrandt rule.” 
  It was proposed by United Conservative Party interim leader Nathan Cooper on Thursday morning, at the first members’ services committee meeting since his former colleague — Derek Fildebrandt, the MLA for Strathmore-Brooks — landed in hot water for re
  
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• Search warrant in St. Albert leads to seizure of guns and cocaine

  14-09-2017 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  Multiple firearms were seized and a man was arrested after St. Albert RCMP officers executed a search warrant at the end of August.
  
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• Oilers cut 12 players following rookie squad loss

  14-09-2017 20:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Amateur tryouts are over for 12 players at Edmonton Oilers training camp.
  The National Hockey League club cut the dozen following the rookie squad’s 2-0 loss to a combined NAIT-MacEwan team Wednesday night at Rogers Place. The loss came on the heels of a perfect run at the annual Young Stars tournament in Penticton, B.C., where the squad went 3-0 in wins over their Calgary Flames, Winnipeg jets and Vancouver Canucks counterparts.
  The Oilers’ main camp opens Thursday with medicals and
  
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• Police seek fresh tips in case of man beaten unconscious last year in Callingwood Park

  14-09-2017 20:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police are turning to the public for more tips after a 24-year-old man was beaten unconscious in Callingwood Park last year. 
  A bystander walking a dog near 69 Avenue and 172 Street called authorities after discovering the unconscious victim in a wooded area of the park around 7 a.m. on Saturday, May 14, 2017. Police and emergency responders arrived before EMS transported the man to hospital.
  Investigators later learned that the victim met an unknown male at West Edmonton Mall
  
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• Man charged with sexual assault after March attack

  14-09-2017 20:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 52-year-old man has been charged in relation to a sexual assault reported earlier this year in Edmonton.
  City police said that as a result of media and public assistance they were able to identify the suspect who is alleged to have attacked a female in southeast Edmonton on Mar. 31.
  Huu Minh Huynh, 52, has been charged with sexual assault.
  
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• Edmonton arts organizations see $105.5 million in revenues last year

  14-09-2017 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s art and culture scene continues to be a significant economic driver for the city and the province, a new study released Thursday shows.
  Participating arts organizations reported revenues of $105.5 million last year, the study shows, a lowball sum considering a total of 182 of the region’s 296 arts organizations took part in the study conducted by the Edmonton firm of Nichols Applied Management.
  According to the report commissioned by the Professional Arts Coalition of Edmo
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating suspicious death

  14-09-2017 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police were investigating a suspicious death in north-central Edmonton after an elderly man died from a gunshot wound Wednesday.
  Police were called to a home at 112 Avenue and 94 Street just before 6 p.m., said Edmonton Police Service Insp. Joel Whittaker.
  “Police received a phone call from a witness stating there was a possible shooting at this address,” he told reporters at the scene. “Upon our members’ arrival, they discovered there was indeed a gunshot bulle
  
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• Edmonton and Beaumont showdown over annexation bid

  14-09-2017 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton and Beaumont officials went head to head at the Capital Region Board Thursday as the larger city stood up to block the town’s new development plan. 
  Last year, Beaumont annexed several quarter sections of land from Leduc County that Edmonton also had eyes for. Then Edmonton launched a counter annexation bid in front of the provincial review board. 
  While that’s been hanging in the air, Beaumont started planning for growth. Its growth plan must be approved by the Ca
  
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• Thursday's letters: Live music not all about that bass

  14-09-2017 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  I walked out of the Yes concert. And I spent half of the Edmonton Blues Festival napping in my car. Both for the same reason: the sound technician had the kick-drum mike so loud that it drowned out the other instruments.
  I am aware that some contemporary music such as Drake emphasize the bass. But there are other styles of music. At the Blues Festival, it was disappointing to watch Dave Babcock onstage but not hear his licks due to the pulsing rumble of the bass drum. And with a band like Yes, k
  
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• Four boats stolen from Calmar dealership

  14-09-2017 18:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four boats and trailers worth a combined $800,000 were stolen from a boat dealership in Calmar Wednesday, according to Leduc RCMP.
  Police were called to a break and enter at a boat dealership around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
  Investigators believe four pickup trucks were used in the theft and that they fled east on Highway 39.
  All of the boats are 23’ Nautique Super Air G23, and each boat and trailer combination is worth approximately $200,000.
  Anyone with information is urged to contact Leduc RCMP
  
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• Senior on scooter killed by motorist in Beaverlodge

  14-09-2017 18:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A senior is dead after being struck by a motorist in the town of Beaverlodge Tuesday. 
  The 74-year-old man was driving his battery-powered scooter east on 11 Street in the town of 2,400 around 8 a.m. when he was struck by a pick-up truck at 4 Avenue, RCMP said.
  Ambulance crews transported the man to the local hospital where he died of his injuries. 
  Police are not releasing the name of the victim. 
  Anyone with information about the collision is asked to contact Grande Prairie
  
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• Emergency room visits, hospitalization from opioid overdoses spike in Alberta: report

  14-09-2017 17:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of visits to hospital emergency departments in Alberta from opioid overdoses has multiplied more than 10 times in five years, according to a new report. 
  In 2016-17, there were an average of 11 emergency department visits per day attributed to overdoses. The issue is especially prominent in youth aged 15 to 24 — the group had the fastest-growing rate of such visits, tripling in five years, said the report released Thursday. 
  The Canadian Institute for He
  
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• How Canadian craft products are making their mark on the business world

  14-09-2017 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s a revolution going on in Canadian industry and small business, and it’s taking the world by storm. It’s the craft revolution, and by making quality products and using the Internet’s reach to market them, young and creative entrepreneurs like Métis Sean McCormick and the beer-making Beauchesnes are carving a new niche in Canada’s industrial landscape.
  McCormick started Manitobah Mukluks out of Winnipeg a decade ago. Its core product is not only quintes
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Rise Against, Tillis and Morgan, and The Sound of Music

  14-09-2017 16:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tillis and Morgan
  They’ve cranked out any number of hit singles on their own, but country singers Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan really seem to enjoy the times they travel under the Grits and Glamour banner, a casual, on-again off-again duo tour that they kicked off back in 2009. Not only do they boast classic country music parentage (Pam is the daughter of Mel Tillis, Lorrie’s father was Hall of Famer George Morgan), they also share a certain musical sensibility, sliding between count
  
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• K-9 competition comes to Edmonton

  14-09-2017 16:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  In a competition to determine who is top dog, the Edmonton Police Service canine unit is hosting the 2017 National Championship Canine Trials this weekend.
  Forty-two canine teams from 14 agencies across Canada will first test their skills in a series of trials on Friday and Saturday, demonstrating their abilities in tracking, locating evidence, searching buildings and compounds as well as detecting drugs and explosives. 
  On Sunday, the public can watch as canine teams showcase their skills
  
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• Opinion: Without generous subsidies, Amazon won't set up shop in Alberta

  14-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It may be the biggest lie Americans tell. Donald Trump, hardly a close companion of the truth, even uttered it during the second presidential debate in 2016.
  Trump claimed that American businesses are being lured from the United States by inducements offered by other countries — tax breaks, tax holidays, subsidies and many others.
  “They (other countries) are taking our jobs, they’re giving incentives. They are doing things that, frankly, we don’t do,” he said.
  When
  
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• Expanded U of A program to train Indigenous teachers for urban schools

  14-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alicia Cardinal can remember playing “teacher” as early as age four.
  With a sign for her desk reading “Mrs. Cardinal,” she handed out worksheets for her brothers to complete early in the morning, before their parents were out of bed. Her father was a teacher, and she yearned to follow his lead.
  Now, the 20-year-old from the Buffalo Lake Métis Settlement is part of a new stream of the University of Alberta’s Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP).
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• After Derek Fildebrandt controversy, MLAs seek changes to expense rules

  14-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tighter MLA expense rules and a $500 fine for violations are on the agenda for a Thursday legislative committee meeting. 
  It’s the first members’ services committee meeting since Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt landed in hot water after the Journal revealed he was renting out his taxpayer-subsidized apartment on Airbnb.
  Fildebrandt has since resigned from the United Conservative Party caucus. 
  The party’s interim leader, Nathan Cooper, told the Journal on Wedn
  
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• Bear and Jones trending up, Paigin trending down as Oilers rookies lose 2-0 to NAIT MacEwan

  14-09-2017 06:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers dominated the game Wednesday evening, outshooting the NAIT MacEwan All-Stars 49-to-19, but still losing 2-0. That’s how sharp the NAIT MacEwan goaltending was. 
  As always, The Cult kept a close eye on the Oilers top prospects in this exhibition game, the fourth game that the Oilers rookie squad has played in recent days.
  After those four games, here is who is trending up and trending down:
  Trending up
  Caleb Jones, 20. Likely the Oil’s best d-man in these game
  
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• Oilers rookies shutout by NAIT and MacEwan All-stars

  14-09-2017 06:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  So much for a blowout.
  The combined NAIT/MacEwan team, dressed in their blue and maroon jerseys while the Oilers kids were in white home sweaters because the NHL team won’t unveil their new orange colours for Rogers Place games until their league opener Oct. 4 against Calgary Flames, surprisingly knocked off first-round draft Kailer Yamamoto and his teammates 2-0.
  Before about 3,500 fans in the lower bowl of the 18,500-seat NHL rink, all paying $20 a pop in the fund-raiser for the NAIT and
  
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• Man who wounded Alberta toddler in drive-by shooting getting out of jail

  14-09-2017 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A gang member who shot a toddler on a central Alberta reserve is to be released from jail when his sentence expires later this month.
  Christopher Crane was convicted for a drive-by shooting that wounded Asia Saddleback of the Samson Cree Nation in 2008.
  The girl was 23 months old when she was hit by a stray bullet as she was eating dinner with relatives.
  While serving his sentence, Crane had his statutory release revoked three times over drug and safety concerns, including this month after he ad
  
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• Edmonton police investigating suspicious death

  14-09-2017 05:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police were investigating a suspicious death in north-central Edmonton after a man died from a gunshot wound Wednesday.
  Police were called to a home at 112 Avenue and 94 Street just before 6 p.m., said Edmonton Police Service Insp. Joel Whittaker.
  “Police received a phone call from a witness stating there was a possible shooting at this address,” he told reporters at the scene. “Upon our members’ arrival, they discovered there was indeed a gunshot bullet through
  
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• Northern mayors think big picture for prosperity in the territories

  14-09-2017 05:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Co-operation, not competition, may seem like a popular catchphrase trotted out by politicians and municipal leaders of all stripes to describe regional strategic thinking, but it’s an idea mayors of northern Canada’s capitals take very seriously.
  That’s because, more than any other region in Canada, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, with their vast resource-rich expanses and relatively small populations, need partnerships with each other, Indigenous communities, mul
  
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• Industry expert urges council to learn from Holyrood Gardens scramble

  14-09-2017 05:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council’s last-minute scrambling on the Holyrood Gardens redevelopment has one industry expert calling for a new approach to planning these new mini-downtowns around LRT stations.
  Edmonton treats large-scale transit-oriented development — which involve new streets, retail strips and multiple residential towers — the same as any single building or commercial property that needs a zoning change.
  It schedules them for the end of the biweekly public hearings which, last Monday
  
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• Prominent philanthropists honoured with University Hospital Foundation’s Peter Lougheed Award

  14-09-2017 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  While prominent philanthropists Dianne Kipnes and Irv Kipnes received the Peter Lougheed Award for the Advancement of Health Sciences — celebrating those who show outstanding leadership and support for advancing research and medical care at the University of Alberta Hospital — at a special event on Wednesday, it is the thanks they get from people in the street that inspire their continued giving.
  “Sometimes somebody will approach us and say, ‘You’ve made s
  
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• Graham Thomson: UCP leadership race just the start of relentless campaigning until next election

  14-09-2017 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The news release from the Jason Kenney leadership campaign touted an announcement Wednesday morning with “special guests.”
  Oooh.
  I wasn’t the only journalist who wondered if one of those “special guests” would be Stephen Harper.
  After all, Harper is a supporter of Kenney’s bid to become leader of the new United Conservative Party.
  And what could be more special than an official endorsement from a former Conservative prime minister?
  But alas, there was nothing
  
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• Paula Simons: End of an era as Northlands fades away

  14-09-2017 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Once, Northlands was one of the most powerful political forces in Edmonton, a group of business and community leaders with the power to cow mayors and premiers.
  Local historian Tony Cashman summed up Northlands’ sway over this community in his 1979 book about the organization.
  “To those inside, it seems merely the biggest of service clubs, with volunteers working their hearts out pro bono publico … From outside, however, the association is often perceived as a private club onl
  
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• Unexpected issues expected to add millions to cost of downtown library rehabilitation

  14-09-2017 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s $69-million downtown library renovation has run into problems with the foundation expected to add millions of dollars to the cost. 
  City and library officials refused to give an exact cost estimate because they are re-negotiating the construction contract, but said the foundation of the 50-year-old Stanley A. Milner Library was not built as expected.
  As well, concrete floor plates have more exposed rebar than expected, which will require extensive remediation, city official
  
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• Terry Jones: India embrace role of underdog in Davis Cup playoff

  14-09-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  India, as a rule, isn’t very scary in very many sports.
  OK, cricket.
  But beyond that, the nation with the second largest population on the planet has the worst Olympic record in terms of medals per head.
  And this weekend you’re being asked to believe that India is becoming very scary in tennis and could bump Canada out of one of the 16 spots in the Davis Cup?
  Correct.
  India is the nation that stands in the way of Canada qualifying for the World Group of the Davis Cup, a.k.a. the Worl
  
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• Terry Jones: Bob Nicholson has exciting vision for old arena site

  14-09-2017 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has already held services for Rexall Place. The farewell has already been held. The goodbyes have all been said. The city has clearly moved on to the dazzling new building, the glorious new Ice District and development of a brilliant new downtown.
  What happened Wednesday with city council voting to take the old Coliseum back from Edmonton Northlands and close its doors on Jan. 1, was simply setting the date to take it off life support.
  Soon it will be gone. The memories will live on. On
  
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• Thousands attend National Gathering of Elders in Edmonton

  14-09-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ten years ago Wednesday, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
  The decade wasn’t marked in Edmonton so much as mentioned in passing, as thousands of Aboriginal elders and their families from across Canada descended on the Expo Centre for the third day of the 2017 National Gathering of Elders. 
  Room 107 was jammed beyond its 320-person capacity, with attendees snaking around the walls as they gathered for an elders forum about reconciliation.
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• Decision to shutter Northlands Coliseum means demolition on the table

  14-09-2017 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council unanimously approved a plan Wednesday to take back and close Northlands Coliseum at the end of 2017.
  It doesn’t necessarily mean demolition for the site of so many great hockey moments. But that’s now on the table.
  “A big piece of Edmonton’s history … is in jeopardy,” said Coun. Mike Nickel, who said he deeply regrets having to vote Yes. He sat up for most of the night reading again through all the paperwork, he said. 
  “I just can&rsqu
  
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• Eskimos sign experienced defensive back A.J. Jefferson

  14-09-2017 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos secondary has been the primary concern for general manager Brock Sunderland this week.
  After losing two defensive backs last week against the Calgary Stampeders, including cornerback Mercy Maston for the season with an Achilles injury suffered in pre-game warmups, the Eskimos found themselves parachuting in some reinforcements.
  While Ahmad Dixon and Devin Smith were added to the practice roster Tuesday, the Eskimos have announced the signing of former National Football Leagu
  
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• Eskimos coach looking for further action by CFL on player safety

  14-09-2017 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos have had their last padded practice.
  In the middle of Wednesday’s session at Commonwealth Stadium’s indoor fieldhouse, the Canadian Football League and CFL Players Association announced some changes.
  Effective immediately, there will be no padded practices allowed after training camp and, by effect, much less contact. As well, a third bye week will be incorporated into next year’s 18-game schedule, which is expanding from 20 to 21 weeks in efforts to cut do
  
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• Alberta farmer's body hidden in tool box, sunk in dugout, court records say

  14-09-2017 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The wife and two sons of a slain Alberta farmer are accused of concealing his body in a toolbox and sinking it in a dugout, according to court records.
  The remains of Miles Naslund, 49, were discovered in a body of water on his family’s farm near Holden, Alta., earlier this month, nearly six years after his disappearance.
  His wife, Helen Naslund, 52, and son, Neil Naslund, 25, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder and offering an indignity to a dead body.
  According to court re
  
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• Council Briefs for September 11th

  14-09-2017 01:08
  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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• Police search for third suspect in Lesser Slave Lake homicide investigation

  14-09-2017 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were searching for a 27-year-old man in connection to the death of a woman whose body was pulled from the Lesser Slave River in northern Alberta in early August.
  Slave Lake RCMP issued an arrest warrant for Braden Eric Foster, who is facing charges including kidnapping, forcible confinement, assault causing bodily harm and extortion, said a Wednesday news release. 
  Nicole Robar, 21, was reported missing from Spruce Grove on Aug. 1. Her body was discovered in the river near Slave
  
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• Ryan Nugent-Hopkins unlikely to play with Connor McDavid

  14-09-2017 00:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  While there’s been a hue and cry this summer to try Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on right wing with Connor McDavid to reboot his offence there’s a better chance of seeing Joey Moss driving the Zamboni.
  Nugent-Hopkins did play a few shifts on the wing at last fall’s World Cup, but he’ll likely open as the No. 3 centre and move up to No. 2 when Leon Draisaitl reunites with McDavid at times this season.
  Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli talked about Nugent-Hopkins and other things before mai
  
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