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• City police waiting for details from MMIW inquiry, cases under review

  21-09-2017 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police are waiting to hear what the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women needs from its investigators as they review dozens of cold cases. 
  In a presentation to the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday, homicide section Staff Sgt. Bill Clark said 11 homicide files and 10 missing persons cases have been under the microscope since the service launched a review of cold cases involving Indigenous women. 
  “We basically set up our review process to m
  
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• Edmonton Oilers assign Ethan Bear, Ziyat Paigin &11 others to Bakersfield in AHL

  21-09-2017 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey podcast on Oilers, Jets, Yamamoto, slashing crackdownCaleb Jones and Ryan Mantha survive first big cut
  This just in from the Edmonton Oilers: “The Oilers have assigned Bear, Betker, Chase, Christoffer, Gambardella, Paigin, Platzer & Starrett to the Bakersfield Condors. The Oilers have also released Butcher & Polei from their amateur tryouts, as well as Currie, Hamilton & O’Brien from their pro tryouts.”
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  No surprises here in the players wh
  
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• GSACRD nominates Rotary Clubs of Morinville & St Albert for award by - MorinvilleNews.com

  21-09-2017 22:03
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  Greater St Albert Catholic Schools have nominated the St. Albert and Morinville Rotary Clubs for an award. The Alberta School Boards Association places a call for nominations annually for various awards that the organization offers. These awards ...
  
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• Oilers: Jussi Jokinen could be another all-purpose player for Edmonton

  21-09-2017 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Mark Letestu looks at Jussi Jokinen, what does he see?
  “A left-handed version of me,” the Edmonton Oilers’ multi-purpose forward said with a laugh.
  So twins, then. If not by birth, then by circumstance.
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  Oilers beat host Jets in pre-seasonEx-Oiler Hendricks starts next chapter with JetsOilers' Fayne makes big money but wants to earn it in NHLJokinen scored a power-play goal and two assists, killed penalties and had five shots in his first game with the Oilers on Wed
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Boney M, Etsy, and Coldplay

  21-09-2017 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Boney M
  They shone briefly but brightly in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and they’re still the only band in history to make a No. 1 single out of the tale of a Russian mystic. Formed by the man who later gave us Milli Vanilli, Boney M has sold over 150 million records since 1975, putting the group high on the list of best-selling artists of all time. They’re still going strong in the form of Boney M featuring Liz Mitchell, the only original vocalist remaining in the Germa
  
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• Kacy and Clayton happy to hit the road on their own

  21-09-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are a number of fun stories attached to the touring life, but Kacy & Clayton seem to prefer the less glamorous ones. 
  Like the epic tale of the mouse that crawled somewhere into the truck the Saskatchewan-based folk duo had borrowed from Kacy’s parents last year, after which it expired. The stench was overwhelming, but in the six months that they drove in it they couldn’t find the deceased rodent.
  “I think it’s gone now,” says guitarist/vocalist Clayt
  
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• Coming soon: a baby bar within a bar to open in Baijiu

  21-09-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Cam, the ambitious owner of North 53 and Baijiu, has another couple of food and drink concepts in the works. The first is Little Hong Kong, presently under construction in Baijiu (located in the Mercer Warehouse at 10359 104 St.). Little Hong Kong will be in a small room inside of the mother restaurant, a cocktail bar within a cocktail bar, and is due to open before Christmas.
  “Think Hong Kong back when it was still under British rule,” said Cam in a text. “High-end cockt
  
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• Graham Thomson: Tailings ponds just as dirty now as under PCs

  21-09-2017 15:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  I guess the birds didn’t get the memo.
  The 120 or so birds that died in a tailings pond this week north of Fort McMurray obviously didn’t understand that the environmentally conscious NDP is now the government in Alberta, not the environmentally unconscious Progressive Conservatives.
  The birds weren’t supposed to do a swan dive, so to speak, into the credibility of the eco-friendly NDP.
  But that’s just what they did this week by ignoring the technology — including s
  
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• William Shatner looks at Wrath of Khan 35 years on; misses Leonard Nimoy

  21-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s a growing misunderstanding about Star Trek’s Capt. Kirk lately — he’s increasingly underrated as a convincer and diplomat. Yet all the ripped shirts and wide-angle wrestling aside, young James Tiberius could effortlessly talk the smoke out of an android’s ears, fashion a gunpowder bazooka on the fly, even outwit Mr. Spock on a good day. Plus, he repeatedly bested the wrathful Khan — genetically superior or no.
  This meshes with the fact Kirk’s rea
  
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• Thursday's letters: Repurpose bridge into park or path

  21-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “New Walterdale Bridge partially open to traffic,” Sept. 19
  Now that the new Walterdale bridge has finally opened after a two-year delay, there is an announcement that the old bridge is going to be demolished.
  Since when did this become part of that plan? It was always assumed that there would be discussions on the future of the old bridge. Why does the city squander every opportunity to enhance the uniqueness of our city? We need to repurpose these old structures instead of tear
  
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• Prosecutors take over from police in first-appearance bail hearings

  21-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You’re under arrest and charged with a crime.
  After being driven to the local police detachment in the back of a cruiser, you’re fingerprinted, offered the phone to call a lawyer and interviewed by a detective.The officer in charge takes a look at your case. She could release you now on a promise to appear in court, but she suspects you might not show up. She believes you might pose a risk to public safety.Police decide it’ll be up to a justice of the peace to make the call abo
  
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• Fewer tornadoes, but still plenty of wild weather reported in Alberta

  21-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If it felt like there were fewer reported tornadoes in Alberta this past summer over last year, you might be onto something. 
  Preliminary numbers from Environment Canada show six supercell tornadoes — tornadoes produced by severe thunderstorms — were reported in Alberta between June and August 2017. 
  The first of this year’s two strongest tornadoes touched down near Three Hills on June 2 and, just over a month later, another caused damage at Breton on July 13. In
  
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• Oilers power play clicks against Jets even without McDavid

  21-09-2017 05:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you think there’s round pegs trying to fit in square holes when Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl aren’t around on the power play, forget it?
  With McDavid and Draisaitl at home, along with first-unit front-presence guy Milan Lucic, it didn’t much matter Wednesday against the Winnipeg Jets because the Edmonton Oilers still had Mark Letestu and newcomer Jussi Jokinen, and the Forgotten One, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
  Letestu, who had 11 power-play goals last year and four more in th
  
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• Cult of Hockey player grades: Kailer Yamamoto crushing it so far in NHL pre-season play

  21-09-2017 05:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  But Yam was only second best thing in Oil’s 4-1 win over Jets
  The best thing about the NHL pre-season so far? From an Oilers fan perspective, it’s the NHL much-needed willingness to crack down on slashing, a move that will hamper the illegal hackers, cheats and bullies of the league, but will free up skilled players of which the Oilers have no shortage.
  The second best thing? The play of rookie forward Kailer Yamamoto. 
  Yamamoto, who will turn 19 next week, first scored a highli
  
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• Aaron Grymes returning to Eskimos

  21-09-2017 05:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Aaron Grymes is coming back to Edmonton.
  On Wednesday, the Edmonton Eskimos announced they signed the international defensive back.
  Grymes spent three seasons with the Eskimos, winning the Grey Cup in 2015. He played in 43 games recording 101 tackles with eight interceptions and a quarterback sack.
  Grymes, 24, was an All-star during the 2015 season. He spent the 2016 season with the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
  A Seattle product, Grymes was among the Eagles final cuts this season.
  The Eskimos
  
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• Labatt marks 170 years of brewing by announcing millions in investment

  21-09-2017 04:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Labatt Breweries of Canada marks 170 years of selling beer, the company is looking to the future by investing more than $1 billion between 2011 and 2020.
  “I think if John Kinder Labatt could come back and see what we have done together and what we have become, he would be justified in saying cheers,” said Peter Delamont, general manager of the Edmonton Labatt brewery at 10119 45 Ave.
  The company has already invested $546 million in capital improvements between 2011 and 2016 across
  
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• Adam Braidwood returns to fight in Edmonton for first time since Tim Hague's death

  21-09-2017 04:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Adam Braidwood steps back into the ring in the co-main event of KO Boxing 80 at the Shaw Conference Centre on Friday night, he’ll be thinking about his good friend Tim Hague.
  Just over three months ago, Hague passed away from a brain injury two days after a brutal knockout by Braidwood.
  “It’s tough. What happened the last fight with Tim was hard for a lot of people including myself and that was part of the reason why I took two fights this month,” Braidwood said on W
  
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• Ryan Ford still waiting for his big break

  21-09-2017 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ryan Ford’s biggest boxing moment is going to have to wait.
  The 35-year-old light heavyweight was to fight Britain’s Anthony Yarde for the WBO light heavyweight intercontinental title on Sept.16 in the United Kingdom.
  Had Ford won, it could’ve launched him into world title contention, but the bout was scrapped.
  “This was a big fight and it really hurt, because that’s where I thought my break was,” said Ford on Wednesday who was on hand to take in the KO Boxing
  
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• Oilers notes: Matt Hendricks starts next chapter with Winnipeg Jets

  21-09-2017 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  WINNIPEG — Matt Hendricks played against his former team for the first time Wednesday but if he was expecting a group hug he wasn’t going to get one.
  There were only eight players from the Edmonton Oilers 2016-2017 lineup dressed against the Winnipeg Jets.
  Hendricks took the opening faceoff and hit the goalpost on his first shift. He’s already endeared himself to Jets coach Paul Maurice, who’s big on work ethic.
  “For me, he has already made the players around him be
  
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• Tailings ponds just as dirty now under NDP as under PCs

  21-09-2017 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I guess the birds didn’t get the memo.
  The 120 or so birds that died in a tailings pond this week north of Fort McMurray obviously didn’t understand that the environmentally conscious NDP is now the government in Alberta, not the environmentally unconscious Progressive Conservatives.
  The birds weren’t supposed to do a swan dive, so to speak, into the credibility of the eco-friendly NDP.
  But that’s just what they did this week by ignoring the technology — including s
  
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• Edmonton civic election: Edmonton Public school board candidates set out platforms

  21-09-2017 02:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  With 212 schools and approximately 99,000 students, Edmonton Public Schools is the second-largest school district in Alberta.
  The public school board trustees elected in nine city wards oversee the district’s $1.12-billion budget and hire and supervise the superintendent of schools — the education system’s version of a chief executive officer. School trustees also write and debate policy, lobby governments, decide which school construction projects are priorities, choose names
  
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• Catholic school system wasteful, promotes 'hatred,' says outgoing Edmonton Catholic trustee

  21-09-2017 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A parallel Catholic school system is wasting taxpayers’ dollars with needlessly duplicated services, says an outspoken Edmonton Catholic school trustee who is not seeking re-election.
  Patricia Grell, a trustee for northwest Edmonton who frequently clashed with her board colleagues and administrators, posted a blog entry Wednesday accusing her colleagues of kowtowing to school district administrators.
  She also alleged the clergy is overstepping its advisory role to Catholic schools and
  
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• Candidate steps forward to serve as Fort Chipewyan school trustee

  21-09-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A candidate from Fort Chipewyan has stepped up to represent the fly-in community on the Northland school board after the race sat vacant for two days.
  Rubi-Helen Shirley was acclaimed to represent the northern Alberta community on the board, which will be the division’s first elected school board in seven years, Northland School Division said Wednesday.
  Northland, which runs 23 schools with 2,700 mostly Indigenous students in an area about the size of Italy, has been without an electe
  
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• Paula Simons: Court of Appeal should make records public

  21-09-2017 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dino Bottos doesn’t back down from a fight. That’s what makes him an effective criminal defence lawyer. But this time, Bottos is taking on the Alberta Court of Appeal itself.
  At the heart of Bottos’ beef with Alberta’s highest court is a basic contradiction.
  In Canada, we have open courts. Trials are public, and so are trial records. Any lawyer, defendant,  journalist or interested citizen can request a complete court transcript of any criminal trial. You might have
  
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• Police identity body found in rooming house, man found in car less than day apart

  21-09-2017 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police have identified a man whose body was found at a north-central Edmonton rooming house days after a 76-year-old man was fatally shot there. 
  Blayne Joseph Burnstick, 25, was found dead at the Alberta Avenue building around 2 p.m. Monday after officers responded to a 911 call. Police have deemed the death suspicious. 
  Nexhmi (Nick) Nuhi, 76, was found dead in the basement of the house at 11119 94 St. on Sept. 13 after being shot through the door. That death was ruled a homicid
  
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• Blind, tumour-ridden dog to be euthanized following emergency court application

  21-09-2017 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge has ordered that a blind, diabetic, tumour-ridden and emaciated dog be euthanized, despite its owner’s protests. 
  Crown prosecutor Christian Lim applied for an emergency order Wednesday to have an American Staffordshire terrier named Pritty euthanized for humane reasons.
  Lim told court he felt compelled to take the “unusual” step because the dog’s owner, Jessica Jacura, refused to give her consent for the dog to be euthanized despite a veterinarian&
  
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• Long time coming for FC Edmonton goalkeeper Tyson Farago

  21-09-2017 01:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tyson Farago has been a patient person.
  The FC Edmonton goalkeeper had to wait his turn for a starting opportunity this season, beginning the year as the third-stringer behind Chris Konopka and Nathan Ingham.
  Farago then had to wait to earn his first professional shutout, blanking the Indy Eleven 2-0 at Clarke Stadium on Sunday.
  “That’s definitely one of those milestones in your career, and it was great to get that off my shoulders,” Farago said following practice Wednesda
  
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• Visiting jazz leaders make Edmonton debut to open Yardbird season

  21-09-2017 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Live jazz returns with a splash this weekend when the Edmonton Jazz Society features two expert bandleaders to open the new season at the Yardbird Suite. Like many artists, both of these visitors feel playing jazz is really about finding your own musical identity.
  Benny Sharoni
  Boston saxophonist Benny Sharoni brings his drummer Steve Langone to work with Edmonton’s Rubim de Toledo on bass and Chris Andrews at the piano for a quartet date Friday that’s likely to focus on tunes from t
  
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• Mounties investigate fatal collision north of Camrose

  21-09-2017 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were investigating a collision north of Camrose that killed a 27-year-old man and injured two others.
  Camrose RCMP were called to the scene on Highway 833 around 11 a.m. Tuesday, said a Wednesday news release. 
  A car travelling east on Township Road 472 was turning north onto the highway when it collided with a truck travelling south, police said.
  A driver and passenger in the car were taken to an Edmonton hospital with serious injuries. A second passenger, a 27-year-old man from Tof
  
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• Fan ejected from Oilers game wants police disciplined

  21-09-2017 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man ejected from Rexall Place during an Edmonton Oilers game four years ago is pushing for the officers involved to face disciplinary action over allegations of mistreatment during his arrest and while he was detained.
  Justin Mutch alleges that a Professional Standards Branch investigation in 2015 into the events surrounding his arrest and a decision by Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht to clear the officers involved was “tainted and biased,” a Law Enforcement Review
  
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• City police officer faces 11 counts of deceit under the Police Act

  21-09-2017 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police constable facing 11 counts of deceit is scheduled to go before a disciplinary hearing early next year.  
  Const. Fiona Moffat, a long-standing member of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), is charged with insubordination, discreditable conduct and 11 counts of deceit under the Police Act. 
  The case is being heard by the EPS’s Professional Standards Branch, an internal body that conducts disciplinary hearings. 
  Moffat’s legal counsel, Pat Nugent, entere
  
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