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• Body found 7-feet beneath garage in north Edmonton

  30-09-2017 22:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives are investigating after the discovery of an unidentified man’s remains beneath a north Edmonton garage.
  In a news release Saturday, Edmonton police said the body was recovered beneath a garage in the area of 96 Street and 118 Avenue by investigators on Friday.
  A forensic search got underway earlier in the week when police received a tip that a body was buried in the garage floor.
  The garage was excavated and the body was found seven feet beneath the cement floor, Edmont
  
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• Social Seen: Lumen

  30-09-2017 16:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Lumen
  Where: Telus World of Science
  When: Sept. 21
  Who: Telus World of Science
  What: Annual fundraising event transforming Telus World of
  
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• Saturday's letters: What is beach doing to opposite bank?

  30-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I live in Riverdale, across the river from Cloverdale. I’ve watched with fascination as the river silt downstream from the temporary berm settled out and formed the sandbar that has grown into the accidental beach.
  I can see why many Edmontonians would like to see it stay, and developed further into a downtown recreation area.
  But I have serious concerns about the river bank on the north side of the river opposite the beach. The huge sandbar has altered the natural flow pattern of the rive
  
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• Opinion: Minimum wage hikes help the working poor

  30-09-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last June, I stood with local restaurateurs, retailers, doctors, poverty-reduction advocates and women’s social service organizations to announce our government’s three-year plan to increase the minimum wage to $15-per-hour by 2018 and make life better for those Albertans earning the bare minimum.
  This Sunday, our province will take another step forward by helping roughly 94,000 Albertans better make ends meet when the minimum wage increases to $13.60 an hour. Most of these Albertans
  
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• No need to get "shorts in a knot" if Edmonton Oilers send Jesse Puljujarvi to AHL, Ray Ferraro says

  30-09-2017 08:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Preseason Game Day 8: Oilers vs Canucks
  The way the Oilers have changed their lines at recent practices could well be seen as an indicator that 19-year-old Finnish winger Jesse Puljujarvi is going to be sent down to Bakersfield again.
  Puljujarvi was on the fifth line with Iiro Pakarinen and Chris Kelly at Thursday’s practice, then alternated with Jussi Jokinen and Drake Caggiula on a line with Ryan Strome at Friday’s practice. 
  Such placement doesn’t exactly scream the nam
  
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• 'Tis the season of sign crimes - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:13
  'Tis the season of sign crimes
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  Less than two weeks after candidate signs began appearing along roadways and on lawns, an unpleasant election tradition has surfaced in St. Albert. Destruction, vandalism and theft of election signs have hit at least 11 candidates in St. Albert. Tash ...
  
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• Controversial signs on St. Albert Trail - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:13
  Controversial signs on St. Albert Trail
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  Controversial signs that were taken down earlier this week by city staff have been altered and put back up by a resident. St. Albert resident Ted Durham placed two signs on St. Albert Trail that drew attention to his blog “St. Albert Stickman.” The ...
  
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• School Notes: Orange Shirt Day in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  School Notes: Orange Shirt Day in St. Albert
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  Students across St. Albert and Canada donned orange shirts Friday to raise awareness of Canada's history with residential schools. Sept. 30 is Orange Shirt Day in Canada. The event, organized in Alberta by the Society for Safe and Caring Schools and ...and more »
  
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• Reconciliation for all on a blanket - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  Reconciliation for all on a blanket
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  If you're looking for a more tangible way to participate in the important truth and reconciliation movement, a new series of blanket exercises has started up again. The experiential program is designed to cover more than half a millennium of the ...
  
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• Free energy audit kits arrive at library - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  Free energy audit kits arrive at library
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  St. Albert residents will be able to save money and the environment next week with the introduction of free home energy audit kits at the public library. The City of St. Albert's Environment department is hosting an official launch event for its new ...
  
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• Environment File: Eco-rebates and eco-grants return - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  Environment File: Eco-rebates and eco-grants return
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  City residents can once again get cheap energy savings with the return of a popular provincial in-store rebate on efficient products. Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips kicked off the second round of Energy Efficiency Alberta's in-store ...and more »
  
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• Are lentils the new vegan and vegetarian superfood? - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  Are lentils the new vegan and vegetarian superfood?
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  In a three-year project food scientists at the University of Alberta placed the plain looking lentils under a microscope and uncovered a few surprises. In a breakthrough moment, they discovered a leavening quality that increases baking options for ...
  
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• A lifetime of saving lives - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 08:06
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  A lifetime of saving lives
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  Donations can also be made anytime during regular business hours at Canadian Blood Services' main clinic, 8249 – 114 St. in Edmonton; open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.. 1-888-2 ...
  
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• Fall chores to keep dahlias and roses alive - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 07:53
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  Fall chores to keep dahlias and roses alive
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  Keeping the fall chores to a minimum is the goal for two of St. Albert's best gardeners. Award-winning rose grower Richard Plain has his system down pat. Though he grows some 30 or more roses, cleaning them up and getting them ready for winter seldom ...
  
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• Primary Care Network makes the move to St. Albert Centre - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 07:28
  Primary Care Network makes the move to St. Albert Centre
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  An empty building is all that remains of the former St. Albert and Sturgeon Primary Care Network building located on Sir Winston Churchill Avenue. The network has made the move to St. Albert Centre mall and will be ready to open on Oct. 17. Dr. Ashan ...
  
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• Oil Kings earn first win of the season in wild contest

  30-09-2017 06:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  They made things tougher than it should have been, but the Edmonton Oil Kings earned their first win of the 2017-2018 Western Hockey League season Friday at Rogers Place.
  The Oil Kings scored three third-period goals after giving up a three-goal lead in a wild 7-6 victory against the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
  Nick Bowman and Colton Kehler each scored two goals for the Oil Kings, while Will Warm, Trey Fix-Wolansky and Scott Atkinson had the others.
  Dylan Cozens scored twice for the Hurricanes. Shawn
  
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• Press Gallery #199: The Municipal Politics Special edition

  30-09-2017 04:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the province in the middle of civic elections, the Press Gallery podcast team takes a departure from its regular programming to zoom in on local politics. 
  Join host Emma Graney with guests David Staples, Janet French and Paula Simons as they talk mayoral races in Edmonton and Calgary, the big issues for voters in the City of Champions, and what’s happening in the race for school board trustees.
  Good stuff from the gallery
  David’s pick: The Rubin Report podcast, hosted by c
  
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• Diplomatic niceties: University of Alberta offers first course in protocol

  30-09-2017 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Miss Manners wrote that “protocol is etiquette with a government expense account,” but for expert Gary Biggs, protocol is a crucial ingredient to smooth the road of personal and professional interaction.
  Biggs and colleague Lawrence Dunham from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., are in Edmonton this week to lead the University of Alberta’s first course in diplomacy and protocol.
  About 50 people from government, industry and academia have signed up for the three-d
  
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• Posters comparing Alberta Education to Nazis taken down at University of Alberta

  30-09-2017 04:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Posters comparing Alberta Education to Nazis with drawings of swastikas have been removed by the University of Alberta.
  The university received several complaints about the posters, put up without authorization and that violated the institution’s policies and procedures on posting announcements, notices and banners, university spokesman Bryan Alary said in an e-mail Friday.
  The university’s Protective Services was investigating, Alary said.
  The posters accused the provincial educatio
  
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• Officer injured by thrown liquor bottle while responding to call of impaired driver

  30-09-2017 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Throw a bottle at RCMP officers, they might throw the book at you.
  A Lloydminster RCMP officer was hit by a liquor bottle while responding to reports of a suspected impaired driver just before 3 a.m. on Sept. 28, according to a news release from RCMP sent Friday.
  Mounties arrived on scene to find two men outside of a vehicle in the 5400 block of 44 Street in the city on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. As police were investigating, the two men became aggressive, throwing a bottle at on
  
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• GERRY MODDEJONGE'S GAMEDAY: Bombers vs. Eskimos

  30-09-2017 03:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  GAME DATA:
  Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-3) at Edmonton Eskimos (7-5)
  Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Commonwealth Stadium, TSN, ESPN3, 103.9 CISN
  Weather: 18 C, increasing cloudiness, wind northwest 20 kph gusting to 40 kph. Eskimos by 2.5
  STATS PACK:
  Points for: EDM 27.3 (4th), WPG 34.1 (1st)
  Points against: EDM 29.5 (8th), WPG 29.4 (7th)
  Passing yards: EDM 338 (1st), WPG 307 (4th)
  Rushing yards: EDM 84 (7th), WPG 112 (1st)
  Net yards: EDM 398 (2nd), WPG 401 (1st)
  Net yards against:EDM 346 (3rd), WPG 393 (8th)
  
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• Pasemko looking to lead Pandas to national championship

  30-09-2017 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jamie Pasemko was given a great nickname by her University of Alberta Pandas soccer teammates.
  She’s known as Crazy J.
  Some people may not consider it flattering, but it suits her perfectly – at least on the soccer field.
  “I would say off the field, I’m an introvert. I’m quiet and keep to myself, but the game brings a different side of me out,” said Pasemko this week as the No.9-ranked Pandas (4-1-1) face two crucial weekend match-ups against the University of
  
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• Family organize ground search near Fort McMurray in cold case of missing Indigenous woman

  30-09-2017 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wilbert Alook believes he’ll see his sister again.
  Over the last 13 years, he hasn’t stopped scanning the sidewalks when he’s in public. Sometimes when he’s sitting at home, he glances at the doorway, hoping she might walk into the room.
  “I’ll ask her, ‘Why have you been gone for so long? … Do you know how long we’ve been looking for you?,’ ” he said. 
  Elaine Frieda Alook, 35, was reported missing on May 27, 2004. The mother
  
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• Schools aren't immune to fentanyl crisis, police say

  30-09-2017 02:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police Const. Brandon Myhre keeps a photo of a smiling young man in a graduation gown on his desk at Mother Margaret Mary High School, where he’s the resource officer. 
  A recent graduate from the small Catholic school in southwest Edmonton, the young man in the photo died after a fentanyl overdose last year. 
  “It cuts deep for a lot of these kids still,” Myhre said recently. “We just can’t have this happen any more. It’s got to stop.”&
  
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• Terry Jones: Eskimos slide began with loss in Winnipeg

  30-09-2017 02:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winnipeg has gone longer without winning a Grey Cup than any team in the league. It’s been 27 years.
  Coming into this season, the Blue Bombers had just two winning seasons in the last nine — just three in the last 13 — and one playoff appearance in the last five years. They’re on their 11th head coach and eighth GM since winning their last Grey Cup.
  Going into that game in Winnipeg the Eskimos owned the Blue Bombers. Edmonton had a five game winning streak in Winnipeg and
  
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• Not guilty verdict in Whyte Avenue condominium slaying

  30-09-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of being involved in a fatal shooting in a Whyte Avenue condominium was acquitted Friday.
  Following a trial that began in mid-September and spanned several days, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Larry Ackerl found Boutros Abdiaziz Mohamed not guilty of manslaughter in connection to the death of Bogdan Pamfil.
  Pamfil, 25, was found dead in a utility room in his condo complex near 97 Street with two gunshot wounds in his torso on Sept. 4, 2012. His pit bull, Deebo,
  
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• Banged up Eskimos don't see staying healthy as too much of a stretch

  30-09-2017 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos went a rare week without adding any names to what’s become a challengingly long injury list this season.
  Coming off a bye week certainly helps. But the team has also been taking added steps to try and avoid adding to the list of walking wounded that currently sits at 21 names.
  In contrast, the injured list of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers who are coming into Commonwealth Satadium on Saturday (7:30 p.m., TSN, ESPN3, 103.9 CISN) is just three names long.
  “We talked thr
  
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• Motorcycle crashes more prominent in rash of Edmonton traffic fatalities

  30-09-2017 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost one in four fatal crashes in Edmonton this year involved motorcycles.
  After two motorcyclists died in separate collisions Sept. 10, Liane Langlois, president of the Alberta Motorcycle Safety Society, voiced the concerns of the motorcyclist community.
  “It’s a hard thing to wake up to,” she said. “Waking up to two fatalities, it’s ‘How did that happen and how can we prevent that going forward?’ It doesn’t help the friends and families who are
  
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• Special teams key for Oilers to survive penalty crackdown

  30-09-2017 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the NHL’s latest crackdown on hooking and slashing extends into the regular season, and referees are still wearing out their whistles trying to correct the market in October, then Edmonton’s special teams need to be very special.
  They key to a quick start could very well depend on it.
  So no wonder the Oilers are making power play and penalty kill a central focus in the final days of training camp.
  “Power play and PK on a lot of nights are going to determine if we win the gam
  
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• City council candidates talk relationship building - St. Albert Gazette

  30-09-2017 01:42
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  City council candidates talk relationship building
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  Council relationships have been in the spotlight since George Cuff released his municipal inspection report on St. Albert at the end of August. In his report, Cuff referenced what he saw as a lack of collegiality, respect and co-operation between ...
  
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• Oilers rookie Kailer Yamamoto still trying to earn a roster spot

  30-09-2017 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  What Kailer Yamamoto wants is his name above an Edmonton Oilers’ locker stall.
  Not the chair in the middle of the room where he changes because he hasn’t made the NHL yet.
  Yamamoto turned 19 on Friday, and if there were ‘Happy Birthday’ wishes and a cake from his teammates, we missed it. It was business as usual for the rookie trying to make the team with one exhibition game left. He’s still picking up the pucks, he still waits until all the veterans are on the elev
  
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• Not guilty verdict in manslaughter trial for Whyte Avenue condominium slaying

  30-09-2017 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of being involved in a fatal shooting in a Whyte Avenue condominium was acquitted Friday.
  Following a trial that began in mid-September and spanned several days, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Larry Ackerl found Boutros Abdiaziz Mohamed not guilty of manslaughter in connection to the death of Bogdan Pamfil.
  Pamfil, 25, was found dead in a utility room in his Whyte Avenue condominium complex near 97 Street with two gunshot wounds in his torso on Sept. 4, 2012. H
  
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• Matt Benning ready to take on bigger role on Oilers blue line

  30-09-2017 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Never to assume anything because when you take away the last three letters you can look like a donkey’s butt if you’re wrong, which brings us to Matt Benning.
  We’ve all assumed he would slide into the No. 4 defence spot on the Edmonton Oilers with no fuss and no muss with the torn knee ligament surgery to Andrej Sekera, but we forget that Benning has played all of 74 NHL games, if you count 12 in the playoffs. That’s not even a full season.
  He was one of the surprises las
  
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• Paula Simons: Can fairy tale hopes for Alberta's political centre come true?

  30-09-2017 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Once upon a time, in a corner of the legislative assembly, there sat three MLAs: an Alberta Party leader, a lone Progressive Conservative and a fresh Independent.
  That’s not how I used to tell The Three Bears to my daughter. But it’s Alberta’s current version of the tale.
  When the legislature resumes one month from now, the Alberta Party’s Greg Clark and lone PC MLA Richard Starke, the member for Vermilion-Lloydminster, will be joined in splendid isolation by Rick Fraser,
  
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• Province improves grade in annual nutrition report card but lacks affordable healthy food options

  30-09-2017 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta has improved its overall nutritional food environment, but fails to provide low-income families with affordable options, says a new report. 
  The province earned a C grade in the 2017 Nutrition Report Card on Food Environments for Children and Youth released Thursday — up from last year’s D. The report collects data on physical, social and economic environments to determine accessibility to healthy food during grade-school years. Using 36 indicators, researchers
  
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