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• Edmonton Expo 2017: rock and roleplaying amid endless merch

  19-09-2017 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A chat with William Shatner, a Saturday night Gene Simmons concert and an entire shopping centre’s weight in merch — make way for the sixth annual Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo, into which you can slip for as little as $20, dressed as Darth Vader, a dinosaur or a happy dad dragging the munchkins around.
  The very idea of the three-day pop culture fair starting Friday at the aptly-named Edmonton Expo Centre is a fangirl’s dream, as organizer Linsday Thomas tells it.
  
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• City of St. Albert Announces OFFICIAL 2017 Election Candidates

  19-09-2017 23:29
  41 Candidates Running for Office The official list of candidates for the 2017 Municipal Election in St. Albert has now... Read Post
  
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• More than 120 birds dead at oilsands mine, AER investigating

  19-09-2017 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is investigating after over 100 birds were killed at an oilsands site north of Fort McMurray.
  The regulator on Tuesday said Fort Hills Energy reported 123 dead waterfowl and songbirds at its oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray.
  Some birds were found dead. Others had to be euthanized.
  AER spokesman Ryan Bartlett said the birds were found at the site’s tailings pond. The company continues to monitor and collect injured and dead birds, a news release said.
  
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• Aurora Cannabis ships medical marijuana to Germany to offset shortage

  19-09-2017 21:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Aurora Cannabis’ first shipment of Alberta-grown medical marijuana has been shipped to Germany to help offset “a significant shortage of supply” in the European powerhouse, the company announced Tuesday.
  The company shipped 50 kilograms of dried cannabis flower from its central Alberta facility in Mountain View County to Germany’s leading medical cannabis distributor Berlin-based Pedanios after receiving an export permit from Health Canada as well as provis
  
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• Nate Box honours the humble sausage with Salz opening

  19-09-2017 20:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Owner Nate Box calls it a “new Bavarian sausage and beer hall on a micro scale.”
  Indeed, at 600 square feet and with only eight seats, micro is accurate. But the latest addition to Box’s stable of eateries (so far he has Elm Cafe, District Cafe and Bakery, Little Brick, and Burrow in his portfolio) is yet another example of maximizing potential in under-utilized or unappreciated spaces.
  Salz is located at 10556 115 St. It’s actually the front part of the commissary that B
  
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• Brian Webb Dance Company stretches with its 39th season in Edmonton

  19-09-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Brian Webb Dance Company is anything but new. But nearly 40 years into this unique creation — the company mounts the largest contemporary dance season west of Toronto — it is as fresh as its spirited creator.
  Webb, 66, born in a small town in southern Alberta, had not danced before arriving at the University of Alberta’s fine arts program at the age of 17. Influenced by the wide, open Prairie on which he was raised, Webb quickly found his niche, and has since created many w
  
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• Committee decides Albertans should keep changing clocks twice a year

  19-09-2017 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  EDMONTON — An all-party legislature committee has unanimously rejected a private member’s bill that proposes ditching the twice-yearly time change in Alberta.
  The five-member committee says that the bill has merits in terms of health, but there would be too much of an economic impact on business at a delicate time.
  Earlier this year, NDP backbencher Thomas Dang spearheaded the bill that would end the practice of moving clocks forward an hour in the spring and turning them back in the
  
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• Winter is coming: September snow falls in Edmonton

  19-09-2017 19:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s raining, it’s pouring, it’s snowing!?
  Edmontonians got their first dose of winter Tuesday morning after rain quickly turned to wet snow and blanketed the city.
  Environment Canada issued snowfall warnings west of Edmonton for the Hinton and Grand Cache areas, as well as Whitecourt, Edson, Fox Creek and Swan Hills. The national weather watchdog estimates 10 to 15 cm could fall in the area.
  Meanwhile, folks took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the arrival of the white s
  
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• David Staples: New council could let Iveson plow through agenda

  19-09-2017 19:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2017 civic election will answer an essential question about Edmonton’s political landscape: Will voters give mayoral incumbent Don Iveson a steamroller or a “Proceed With Caution” sign?
  Will they elect enough new councillors with a similar vision to help Iveson push ahead his progressive agenda for the next four years? Or will the voters favour the status quo?
  On the current council, Iveson generally had majority, but not overwhelming, support. He often had to deal with tou
  
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• Jones: Is it October 4 yet? Upcoming Oilers season looks bright

  19-09-2017 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  No matter if you are sitting on the Edmonton Oilers bench, in the Rogers Place pews, on a sports bar stool or in your fan cave at home, it’s different this year.
  When the Oilers had missed the playoffs for a record-equaling 10 straight seasons and had a first-overall or exceptionally high draft pick in training camp, a new coach, several scenarios with new players, and questions and story angles galore, training camp and the pre-season was interesting.
  Not so much this one.
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• Take a bite of fall as local apple orchard harvests till month's end

  19-09-2017 17:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  First of all, know this. You don’t become an apple farmer in Alberta to make money.
  Frank Sawyer, who lives in Edmonton’s east end and has a thriving u-pick orchard near Fort Saskatchewan, says he might gross a couple of thousand dollars for roughly six months of back-breaking work, and that’s before he deducts expenses. But hard as it is to imagine for most working folks, it’s not always about the bank account.
  Raised within a farming family and with a degree in agricult
  
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• Police investigating after body found in the street

  19-09-2017 16:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police in Edmonton’s Beverly neighbourhood are investigating after the body of a man was discovered in the street Tuesday morning.
  The man was found in the area of 118 Avenue and 37 Street around 4:30 a.m., police said. The body of the man, believed to be in his 50s, was found with signs of trauma to the body.
  By around 7:30 a.m., police had covered the body and set up a tent to shelter that part of the scene from the rain. 
  Patrick Cruikshank said police came into his apartment build
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Photo radar shortfall shows revenue is goal

  19-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Obviously, the objective of photo radar has become revenue generation, and is now being set up where safety is not even at risk. An example is 95 Avenue between 63 and 60 Streets where there are two lanes each way and service roads on each side.
  Photo radar is an effective enforcement measure, and appropriate where safety is an issue, particularly where children are present, like school zones and playgrounds.
  But its use in arbitrary locations suggests a revenue objective rather than safety, an
  
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• Opinion: Training for judges should include Indigenous perspectives

  19-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In Canada, all judges and those applying to be judges must soon take additional training to address sexual assault cases.
  The Judicial Accountability through Sexual Assault Law Training Bill is intended to correct the overt deficiencies within the criminal justice system regarding sexual violence against women and girls. However, one conspicuous area not being addressed by Bill C-337 which the Senate will be discussing in a second reading this fall, is the fact that Indigenous women are often ta
  
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• David Staples: New council could let Don Iveson steamroll agenda

  19-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2017 civic election will answer an essential question about Edmonton’s political landscape: Will voters give mayoral incumbent Don Iveson a steamroller or a “Proceed With Caution” sign?
  Will they elect enough new councillors with a similar vision to help Iveson push ahead his progressive agenda for the next four years? Or will the voters favour the status quo?
  On the current council, Iveson generally had majority, but not overwhelming, support. He often had to deal with tou
  
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• 5 things we learned: Argonauts 34, Eskimos 26

  19-09-2017 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The season is quickly collapsing on the Edmonton Eskimos, who watched a 7-0 start to the proceedings devolve into a five-game losing streak.
  But as bad as it’s been lately, the skid has hardly wiped out all they accomplished early on as they still sit third in the West Division heading into the playoff stretch. And they get a chance to rest up before doing it, with a bye in their schedule providing pause to a trend that’s seen them pile up weekly Ls on their now 7-5 record.
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• Calgary Flames 5-4 loss to Edmonton Oilers turns into excuse fest on Flames TV

  19-09-2017 07:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  It wasn’t much of a game: ragged, lacking intensity, loose, sloppy.
  In that way it was fitting that the Internet broadcast of Edmonton’s 5-4 win over the Calgary Flames on Monday cut out for ten minutes in the third period.
  The best part? Well, some solid performances by a few Oilers, but as a big time Edmonton homer I most enjoyed the constant excuses the home broadcasting crew of Peter Loudardias and Derek Wills made for the Flames in defeat.
  Several times they called the Oilers&rs
  
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• At the Cult of Hockey: Edmonton Oilers home-town split-squad snuffs out Flames 5-2

  19-09-2017 07:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  In a game that was never in question, literally from the first face-off on, the Edmonton Oilers opened their official 2017-18 Training Camp schedule with a 5-2 win over Calgary at Rogers Place.
  The score, however, hid a number of shortcomings by the home team, not the least of which was a spotty power play. Sure, the Oilers scored thrice on the man advantage, but they had twelve (yes, count ’em) opportunities. The most they had all last season was 6 power plays in a game. Not great, agains
  
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• Flames at Oilers: NHL referees whistle-happy in Edmonton's blowout win

  19-09-2017 06:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Exhibition season is for working on passing and shooting.
  Also for the referees whistling while they work. And not happily.
  Predictably, there were as many slashing penalties as goals Monday in the Edmonton Oilers’ 5-2 split-squad win over Calgary Flames at Rogers Place because the National Hockey League zebras are threatened with being sent to the minors if they don’t crack down on stick infractions, harsh or lame, just as they were on ticky-tack hooking coming out of the lockout.
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• Oilers at Flames: Visitors triumphant in split-squad game at Calgary

  19-09-2017 05:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  CALGARY — Remember all those question marks surrounding the likes of Drake Caggiula, Matt Benning, Laurent Brossoit, Jesse Puljujarvi and Jujhar Khaira last year?
  They’re still there.
  That’s because the youngsters are all being placed in elevated roles this season, promotions that are crucial to the success of an Edmonton Oilers team that needs its home-grown talent to deliver the kind of solid, inexpensive support necessary to contend.
  A few of them definitely delivered it Mon
  
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• Who is running? The official list of Oct. 16 civic election candidates

  19-09-2017 05:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Elections released the official list of municipal candidates Monday for the Oct. 16 civic election.
  Candidates have 24 hours to pull out of the race before the lists are final.
  Running for mayor
  Taz Bouchier
  Mike Butler
  Rob Cousineau
  Carla Frost
  Don Iveson, incumbent
  Don Koziak
  Rob Ligertwood
  Henry Mak
  Fahad Mughal
  Gordon Nikolic
  Steve Shewchuk
  Neil Stephens
  Justin Thomas
  Running in Ward 1
  (Edmonton west, northwest)
  Randy Allen
  Reuben Avellana
  Andrew Knack, incumbent
  Dave Olivier
  Runnin
  
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• Beer, wings and the UCP: Candidate Doug Schweitzer talks at U of A

  19-09-2017 05:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the basement of a University of Alberta campus bar, it seems as though Doug Schweitzer’s cheeks should be hurting by now.
  The United Conservative Party candidate is perpetually smiling, whether he’s meeting young supporters, beers in hand, or talking about his policies in a quick Q&A.
  A personable guy with a warm handshake, Schweitzer is quick to joke about his lack of name recognition in a race otherwise populated by former party leaders and presidents, and MPs.
  A few months
  
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• Sturgeon County tosses ticket for going 1 km/h over the speed limit

  19-09-2017 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  After an Alberta man was apparently cited Friday for driving one km/h over the speed limit and being “disrespectful” by passing a Sturgeon County peace officer in traffic, the ticket has been tossed.
  Larissa Turnbull, posting on social media, said her boyfriend had been following a peace officer in a 100 km/h zone Friday when he decided to pass the officer.
  Her boyfriend believed the officer was travelling below the speed limit and that he didn’t do anything wrong when he
  
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• Detectives investigate second death at north Edmonton rooming house

  19-09-2017 03:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives are investigating another suspicious death at an Alberta Avenue rooming house in Edmonton where a 76-year-old man was fatally shot on Wednesday.
  Northwest division officers responded to a 911 call at the multi-unit residence near 111 Avenue and 94 Street around 2 p.m. Monday and are now investigating a suspicious death of an unidentified man found at the residence.
  Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation.
  This investigation comes after the shooting death of 
  
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• Oilers: Defensive prospects Caleb Jones, Ethan Bear are friends, foes

  19-09-2017 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ethan Bear and Caleb Jones may be fast friends, but when the music stops during training camp and coaches make decisions, there may only be one chair — just one spot on the crowded, experienced Edmonton Oilers blue-line.
  Not right now, but down the road.
  “That’s part of competition,” said Jones, “This organization has let us know they love that, and always want guys pushing up to try to take spots.. So, in a sense, I guess we are fighting for the same job, but it&rs
  
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• Former Wood Buffalo RCMP officer avoids jail time for breach of trust

  19-09-2017 02:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former Wood Buffalo RCMP member won’t face jail time after pleading guilty to inappropriately accessing confidential police databases.
  Kyle Gordon Harrison, who is no longer on the police force, pleaded guilty Monday in Alberta provincial court to two counts of breach of trust. His family wept after Judge J.K. Wheatley ruled the 35-year-old could serve his sentence of two years less a day under house arrest. He also received 100 hours of community service. 
  According to an agre
  
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• Edmonton Public Schools chairwoman only candidate acclaimed in Oct. 16 civic election

  19-09-2017 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The current chairwoman of the Edmonton Public School Board will be back at the table this fall.
  After dozens of school board trustee hopefuls registered to run Monday morning at City Hall, returning officer Linda Sahli announced board chairwoman Michelle Draper was the only civic candidate acclaimed in the 2017 election.
  “I’m honoured, and pleased that no one felt that the job I was doing wasn’t satisfactory, and they felt the need to challenge me,” said Draper, who repre
  
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• Ballet Folklorico lost Angelitos offers young performers path out of poverty, trauma

  19-09-2017 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the young performers of the Ballet Folklorico los Angelitos, the path out of extreme poverty begins by tracing back to their ancestors’ dancing footsteps, to move their own futures forward.
  Many of the dance troupe’s members come from Casa Hogra Los Angelitos, an orphanage and home in Manzanillo, Mexico; some from families in the surrounding community, but all hold a collective history of neglect, exploitation and abandonment.
  By learning the folkloric dance lexicon, they have re
  
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• City of St. Albert Announces Unofficial 2017 Election Candidates

  19-09-2017 01:31
  42 Candidates Running for Office The unofficial list of candidates for the 2017 Municipal Election in St. Albert has now... Read Post
  
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• Alberta dementia strategy promised for this fall

  19-09-2017 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four months ago, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said a dementia strategy for Alberta would be unveiled “soon.” 
  It’s still not done, but government said Monday to expect a strategy this fall.
  Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark wants immediate action on the file. 
  Ontario recently unveiled a comprehensive strategy — including $100 million in funding over the next three years — which is the kind of thing Clark wants to see in Alberta. 
  “A lot of famil
  
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