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• Plan two ways out: Fire Prevention Week tips to stay safe

  05-10-2017 21:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six people died in Edmonton fires last year.
  This year, the message for Fire Prevention Week, starting Sunday, is “Every second counts: Plan two ways out.”
  Clearly defined exits, with an alternate route in case one is blocked, could mean the difference between life and death, said Martin Landry, a fire prevention officer at Edmonton Fire Rescue Services said Thursday.
  Cooking fires, fires caused by smoking materials and fires from electrical wiring accounted for 68 per cent of all ho
  
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• Violent, sexual offender freed to live in Edmonton area, warn police

  05-10-2017 21:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are warning the public about a convicted violent and sexual offender being released into the community.
  Gregory Ottertail, 40, is at risk of committing another sexual offence, said police in a Thursday news release.
  Greg Ottertail, 40. (Edmonton police handout photo)
  Ottertail — who will be living in the Edmonton area and is to be monitored closely by the behavioural assessment unit — has court-ordered conditions including a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., abstaining from
  
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• Connor McDavid will get 130 points this year, predicts Hall of Fame writer

  05-10-2017 18:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey’s Oilers 3, Flames 0, McDavid a perfect 10 podcastThis in from Hockey Hall of Fame writer Eric Duhatschek of The Athletic, his prediction on Oilers Now that Connor McDavid will score 130 points this year, at least if he follows the path of Wayne Gretzky: “I look at Gretzky’s first year, he tied Marcel Dionne for scoring title, Dionne gets it because of the goal thing. Second year, he’s 29 points clear. Third year, 65 points. And then the next year, 76. So t
  
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• Energy East cancellation leaves Rachel Notley 'deeply disappointed'

  05-10-2017 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says TransCanada’s decision to pull the plug on the Energy East pipeline is “unfortunate.”
  TransCanada President and Chief Executive Officer Russ Girling delivered the company’s verdict on the project in a statement released Thursday morning.
  The energy company has also canned its Eastern Mainline project.
  Notley said although the decision was driven by a broad range of factors, it was an “unfortunate outcome for Canadian
  
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• Graham Thomson: Doobie or not doobie: Framework for pot laws unveiled

  05-10-2017 17:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re old enough to get drunk, you’re old enough to get stoned.
  That might not be a government slogan, but it pretty much sums up the nub of Alberta’s proposed marijuana laws.
  Those laws have yet to be drawn up, but on Wednesday morning, Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley unveiled the direction the government is headed.
  When possession of cannabis becomes legal across Canada next July, here are some of the proposed rules for Alberta:
  • You have to be at least 18 to buy a
  
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• Doobie or not doobie: Alberta unveils framework for cannabis laws

  05-10-2017 16:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re old enough to get drunk, you’re old enough to get stoned.
  That might not be a government slogan, but it pretty much sums up the nub of Alberta’s proposed marijuana laws.
  Those laws have yet to be drawn up, but on Wednesday morning, Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley unveiled the direction the government is headed.
  When possession of cannabis becomes legal across Canada next July, here are some of the proposed rules for Alberta:
  • You have to be at least 18 to buy a
  
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• New Pornographers deliver tight set at Edmonton's Winspear Centre

  05-10-2017 16:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The crossover between hockey and alt-rock can be a tricky thing.
  For instance, booking your band into the Winspear on the night that the Oilers have their home opener. While The New Pornographers brought out a good-sized crowd for the concert celebrating the release of their seventh album, Whiteout Conditions, there’s little doubt that the Vancouver-based alt-supergroup would have packed it on another day. Indie kids who normally would have bought a ticket were no doubt watching the game a
  
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• Millbourne Laundromat Thanksgiving feast moves to larger venue

  05-10-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After more than two decades of serving turkey on Thanksgiving at the Millbourne Laundromat, the 25th annual community Thanksgiving dinner is moving to a larger location.
  This Monday, the Millbourne Laundromat and the Rotary Club of Edmonton Southeast will co-host the dinner between 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday at the Leefield Community League hall at 7910 36 Ave., just a few blocks from where the tradition began at the Millbourne Laundromat at 109 Millbourne Rd. East.
  “It will save us t
  
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• Ward 6 candidates sound off on taxing vacant commercial land, derelict housing

  05-10-2017 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Throughout Ward 6, revitalization projects like Rogers Place and the Quarters live alongside spruced-up heritage homes and historic properties. But empty lots and derelict houses can be a blight on the changing face of the area.
  The city charters are expected to give Edmonton the ability to use tax rates to encourage redevelopment on vacant commercial land, such as the empty lots that line arterial roads such as 124 Street and 111 Avenue in Ward 6.
  Kajsa Buck of the Westmount Community League s
  
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• McDavid showed his warp speed to kill the Flames

  05-10-2017 14:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wayne Gretzky always had a sense of the moment and so does Connor McDavid, obviously.
  At the Edmonton Oilers’ home-opener, with No. 99 in the house with his dad Walter, McDavid scored three on the Calgary Flames — his first-ever hattie here — and would have had four if Mike Smith hadn’t stoned him on the first shift of the night.
  On a night when the Oilers looked in last spring’s playoff form, wrapping the Flames in a 200’x85’ strait-jacket, to where the
  
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• Ward 5: Infill housing and lot-splitting remains divisive issue

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The responses were swift and caustic when Ward 5 Coun. Michael Oshry floated the idea that property owners signing restrictive covenants to prevent their lots from being split should be taxed more. 
  “Shame on council for thinking to punish these awesome people for wanting to preserve their heritage,” wrote an online commenter after Oshry raised the issue earlier this year in a discussion about infill and higher density.
  “How soon can we get rid of these bullies?” ask
  
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• Thursday's letters: Vote wisely for city council

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Raging Grannies is a well-known group of 12 activists on social and political issues, including the municipal election.
  We have developed a list of criteria for a good mayor and city council members, which will guide us in our voting. We will vote for the candidates who:
  Value the public good over developers’ profits;
  Support racial, gender, ethnic, and age diversity;
  Welcome immigrants and refugees;
  Balance affordable housing needs with intelligent, respectful infill projects
  
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• Q&A with Cadence Weapon: Song title Oliver Square now tastes sour

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s been a few years since rapper Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) has called Edmonton his home, but he still keeps up on matters in the city of his birth.
  Like the debate that began in late August when an online petition circulated calling for the removal of turn-of-the-century politician and journalist Frank Oliver’s name from the Edmonton neighbourhood that bears it. This was of interest to Pemberton, who had opened his 2005 debut album Breaking Kayfabe with a song celebrati
  
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• Property tax rate in spotlight for city council election candidates

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Richard Gendron is planning to move his business out of Edmonton as soon as the Valley Line LRT opens.
  Ad-Mart has a prime spot on 75 Street, just across from where the new elevated Davies Station is being built. The LRT will bring new exposure, but he won’t be able to afford the taxes.
  Already, property taxes have nearly doubled since he bought the property in 2008, driven by both an increase in the land value for his distribution centre and the city’s climbing tax rate, he said.&nb
  
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• Music, dance and story intertwine as the Citadel launched Ubuntu

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  PREVIEW
  Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project)
  Theatre: The Citadel
  Cast: Mbulelo Grootboom, David Jansen, Erin McGrath, Andile Nebulane, Tracey Power
  Directed by: Daryl Cloran
  Where: The Maclab theatre of the Citadel, 9828 101A Ave.
  Running: Oct. 11 to 22
  Tickets: citadeltheatre.com or through the box office at 780-425-1820 
  Love, lies and culture collide as Canadian and South African theatre folk take to the stage in the latest Citadel production, Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project).
  The sho
  
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• Jones: 'It's an exciting time' as Oilers open season

  05-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wayne Gretzky picked up on it right off the bat.
  Last year, on this day, Gretzky joined the organization as vice chairman in the morning and participated in the grand opening ceremonies of Rogers Place in the evening.
  “Last year it was a different kind of excitement more tied to the building. Last year they were just hoping they were going to be back in the playoffs,” Gretzky said. “This year there are expectations. But there’s real excitement with those expectations.&rdq
  
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• Player grades: Connor McDavid's brilliance lights the way as Oilers outshine Flames

  05-10-2017 11:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flames 0, Oilers 3
  For the second year running the Edmonton Oilers got their season off to the best possible start with a convincing home-ice win over their provincial rivals, the Calgary Flames. This year’s button-down 3-0 triumph was in many ways the polar opposite of last year’s chaos-on-ice 7-4 win, save two important details: the Oilers were the deserving winner each time; and Connor McDavid was the best player on the ice, indeed the difference-maker, in both games.
  Last year, e
  
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• McDavid runs Wild on Flames with opening night hat-trick

  05-10-2017 08:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  After losing all four meetings last season, the reinforced Calgary Flames viewed Wednesday night as an opportunity to prove they can hang with the Edmonton Oilers.
  Connor McDavid saw things differently.
  So he went out and made sure the visitors understand the Battle of Alberta pecking order by scoring all three goals in a 3-0 season-opening victory.
  Basically, he went all McDavid on them. And the Flames, despite adding a new goalie and a top four defenceman in the off-season, didn’t have a
  
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• McDavid pots three goals to dump Calgary

  05-10-2017 07:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey fans in Edmonton and Calgary can admit it now, we’d been lying about the Battle of Alberta for about 15 years.
  Pretending it was a rivalry. Pretending it mattered. Trying to convince ourselves and everyone else that the Oilers and Flames were anything more than an irrelevant B division sideshow that impacted little more than draft positioning.
  But the Battle is back. Finally.
  The teams are for real. The stakes are high. And there is a very good chance they will be seeing each other
  
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• Residents don't 'speak developer': Ward 9 candidates debate Terwillegar traffic congestion, infill

  05-10-2017 07:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even competing against the Oilers’ season opener, Ward 9 residents packed their election forum at Archbishop Joseph MacNeil Catholic School on Wednesday night. 
  Transportation was a hot topic, with the five candidates promising a dedicated response to Terwillegar Drive congestion. Several stressed the need for provincial and federal grants to complete an estimated $1.1-billion freeway conversion. 
  Businessman and former peace officer Payman Parseyan said a five- to eight-yea
  
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• Catholic trustee candidates tackle board cohesion, future of separate schools, at museum forum

  05-10-2017 06:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Candidates vying for seven seats on the Edmonton Catholic school board crowded the stage Wednesday night of the former Royal Alberta Museum to field questions from teachers and other curious voters.
  The all-candidates forum, organized by Edmonton Catholic Teachers Local 54, saw teachers pose questions to contenders from one or two wards at a time, followed by an informal meet-and-greet.
  Teacher representatives asked candidates how concerned they were for the future of Catholic education, what th
  
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• Charges laid after police shoot driver in fleeing vehicle that ran over officer's foot

  05-10-2017 06:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man faces 19 charges after a driver was shot by police during a traffic stop where a police vehicle was rammed and an officer’s foot run over.
  The man was released from hospital Wednesday, according to police.
  Two officers exited their vehicle near 44 Avenue and 211 Street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in an attempt to arrest three suspects in a suspicious vehicle. The suspects’ vehicle rammed the police vehicle and ran over an officer’s foot. Both officers suffered non-life-threa
  
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• 'Hot-button issues' don't start a fire at Ward 10 forum

  05-10-2017 06:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The “hot-button issues” of infill development and LRT expansion raised interest but little passion as five candidates faced voters at Wednesday’s Ward 10 election forum.
  Former restaurateur Vieri Berretti, University of Alberta administrator Samantha Hees, U of A human resources and budget co-ordinator Sim Senol, incumbent Michael Walters and community volunteer Glenda Williams often had similar positions on issues raised by the crowd of roughly 200 people at L.Y. Cairns Junior
  
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• Whitemud Equine Centre opens

  05-10-2017 05:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The official opening and open house for the new indoor riding arena at the Whitemud Equine Learning Centre is Oc. 21.
  
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• Oilers snapshots: Adam Larsson gets a letter

  05-10-2017 05:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Adam Larsson is the first Swede to get a letter on his Edmonton Oilers jersey.
  The defenceman, in his second year with the team after coming in for winger Taylor Hall, was named an alternate captain Wednesday morning, replacing Jordan Eberle, now with New York Islanders. He joins Milan Lucic and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, assisting captain Connor McDavid.
  The Oilers have never had a European captain since they first started handing out A’s along with the C in 1985-86 but Finns Jari Kurri, E
  
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• Oilers fans back in the game as team opens season on home ice Wednesday

  05-10-2017 05:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers 2017-18 season opened at home Wednesday in a Battle of Alberta against the Calgary Flames with high hopes for the team following a playoff run in the inaugural season at Rogers Place.
  The puck dropped at 8 p.m. following opening ceremonies featuring a “we stand united” message flashed around the bowl during an introduction by Const. Mike Chernyk, the police officer who was attacked by a man with a knife outside the Edmonton Eskimos game at Commonwealth S
  
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• Ward 9 forum Wednesday night — Interest builds in wide open southwest race

  05-10-2017 03:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  There could be a crowd tonight at the official forum for one of the most hotly contested wards in the city.
  Community-organized forums have been drawing 200 to 300 people as supporters turn out and voters try to pick between several experienced candidates.
  Wednesday’s event starts at 7 p.m. at Archbishop Joseph MacNeil Catholic School. The address is 750 Leger Way. The event will also be streamed online and covered on Twitter here and with the hashtag #ward9forum.
  Ward 9 includes the Terwi
  
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• Paula Simons: Who is Mr. Mak, the missing mayoral mystery candidate?

  05-10-2017 03:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Most people who run for city council crave attention.
  That’s true whether they’re serious candidates who want to win, activist candidates who want to advance their cause or fringe candidates who just want someone to listen.
  Henry Mak is different.
  Mak is one of 12 candidates running against Don Iveson for mayor.
  And he’s invisible.
  Mak hasn’t attended a single forum. He hasn’t granted a single interview. He hasn’t allowed anyone to take his photograph.
  George
  
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• Oil Kings acquire European veteran from Kelowna Rockets

  05-10-2017 02:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  As a 20-year-old European, Tomas Soustal could see the writing on the wall with the Kelowna Rockets.
  So when the Edmonton Oil Kings traded for him earlier this week, the overage winger from Sterbert, Czech Republic, was delighted to be able to extend his Western Hockey League career.
  Soustal was acquired Monday by Oil Kings general manager Randy Hansch in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2018 WHL Bantam Draft.
  “I kind of knew it (trade) was coming, because we had an overage situatio
  
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• Escaped female inmates nabbed at Edmonton escape room

  05-10-2017 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Escape rooms are interactive adventure games, not hideouts for fugitives on the lam.
  That’s what two female inmates discovered when they were arrested at Sidequests Adventures Inc. at 10190 104 St. on Tuesday evening.
  Jonathan Liaw, co-owner of SideQuests Adventures Inc., said two women came in and asked what an escape room was about and wanted to see one of the rooms, not an unusual request.
  “It’s funny and ironic that escaped convicts run into an escape room and get caught,&r
  
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• Police shoot driver after vehicle rammed, officer's foot run over

  05-10-2017 00:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A driver was shot by police during a drug-trafficking stop after ramming a police vehicle and running over an officer’s foot while attempting to flee Tuesday night.
  Two officers exited their police vehicle near 44 Avenue and 211 Street around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in an attempt to arrest three suspects during a traffic stop.
  The driver was shot by one officer after the suspects’ vehicle rammed the police vehicle, ran over one officer’s foot and tried to drive off, said police in a
  
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• Calgary MLA leaves NDP caucus to sit as Independent

  05-10-2017 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  CALGARY — One of Premier Rachel Notley’s Calgary NDP members says she is disillusioned with the polarized state of politics in Alberta and has quit the caucus.
  “Albertans need political choices that inspire them, not scare them,” backbencher Karen McPherson said on social media Wednesday.
  “Our world is becoming increasingly polarized with pressures of left and right politics. I don’t reflect either of those options.”
  She said her constituents are concern
  
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• Edmonton attack suspect entered U.S. through Mexico: officials

  05-10-2017 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man believed to be the suspect in an attack that injured five people in Edmonton over the weekend was detained days after arriving in the United States from Mexico, U.S. officials said. 
  Abdullahi Hassan Sharif, who sources say is the same person as Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, the man charged with attempted murder after a knife and vehicle attack in Edmonton on Sept. 30, entered the United States at a pedestrian crossing near San Diego, Calif., in 2011, according to U.S. Customs and Borde
  
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• NHL rule changes for 2017-18 season

  05-10-2017 00:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are some changes in the rules and how they’re called coming to an NHL arena near you.
  The National Hockey League has announced three rule changes for the upcoming season. Referees will also be calling some existing rules more strictly.
  Let’s start with the new ones.
  One: No timeout shall be granted to the defensive team following an icing.
  Previously, coaches would use a timeout to rest players as teams were not allowed to make line changes following an icing. They no longer ha
  
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• 10 Things to do in Edmonton this week: Bloom Festival, UP + DT, Arcade Fire

  05-10-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bloom Festival
  Singer-songwriter Daniela Andrade, author Danielle Laporte, and hip-hop artist/yoga teacher MC Yogi are among the guests scheduled for this year’s edition of the Bloom Yoga Festival. The four-day get together also features various meditation and yoga workshops, a night market, wellness sessions, and more. Check the website for a full list of activities and ticket prices.
  When: Thursday, Oct. 5 to Sunday, Oct. 8
  Where: Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D, 9797 Jasper Ave.
  Admissio
  
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