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• Friday's letters: Gov't should stay out of selling cannabis

  06-10-2017 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  How wonderful; the NDP, after bungling every other file they have touched during their reign of error, now want to involve themselves in cannabis sales.
  If past history holds true, their “consultations” will consist of being called to the offices of their union masters and given their marching orders. Any Albertan who remembers liquor stores before they were privatized will no doubt relish the return of surly service from overpaid union staff working banker’s hours in
  
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• Should Toronto Maple Leafs trade Auston Matthews and William Nylander for Connor McDavid, TSN broadcaster asks. Huh!?

  06-10-2017 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in, a poll from Toronto broadcaster Michael Landsberg of TSN asking Leafs fans if they would trade Auston Matthews and William Nylander for Connor McDavid. As of 2:00 p.m. on Friday, more than 7,500 fans had voted on the Twitter poll, with the result split down the middle, 49 per cent saying they would do it, 51 per cent saying they would not. 
  Landsberg directed this question at Leafs fans, but the poll got a lot of attention from Edmonton Oilers fans on Twitter, and we can assume the
  
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• Pedestrian dead in south Edmonton LRT collision

  06-10-2017 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pedestrian is dead following a collision with an LRT train, Edmonton police said.
  The Edmonton Police Service said Friday afternoon its major collision investigation section is at 113 Street and 60 Avenue, where the pedestrian was struck at around noon.
  No more information was immediately available, police said in a news release.
  The City of Edmonton said on Twitter that buses were replacing LRT service between South Campus and Century Park stations Friday afternoon.LRT disruption: no service
  
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• Dining Out: Classic curries keep away the cold at Loft Thai Eatery

  06-10-2017 21:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cooler months have swept into Edmonton and with the change in leaves comes my change in appetite, from light and fresh to warm and comforting.
  Hence my recent search for a meal layered with flavours and warm enough to distract me from Edmonton’s biting fall winds.
  Loft Thai Eatery is tucked away in a bland, inward facing shopping plaza just off 53 Avenue. If I hadn’t been looking specifically for the restaurant, I might have missed it entirely.
  Inside, though, is a modern, bright and
  
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• Sugared & Spiced turns back alley bake shop into hot destinati

  06-10-2017 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Could there be anything more appealing than the notion of a hand pie? After visiting Sugared & Spiced Baked Goods, I think not.
  Hand pies, if you’re not familiar, are little pockets of pastry oozing temptation, and I could think of little else for hours after first meeting them at Sugared & Spiced, which just opened in Old Strathcona. But, to be fair, the hand pies are but one of about a dozen charming sweets piled in a deceptively casual fashion behind the sparkling glass cases of
  
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• Serenity's caregivers charged in connection to her death

  06-10-2017 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The caregivers of four-year-old Serenity have been charged in connection with her death.
  The girl’s guardians are charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life over a timespan between May 3, 2013, and Sept. 18, 2014.
  Serenity was airlifted to Edmonton on Sept. 18, 2014, with catastrophic head injuries, severe hypothermia, and serious malnutrition. She died nine days later, after being removed from life support. She weighed less than 18 pounds, or eight kilograms.
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• Jones: Oilers expect 'follow the leader' factor will elevate team

  06-10-2017 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Connor McDavid isn’t going to score all the goals to lead the Edmonton Oilers to victory every game.
  But with his natural hat-trick in the opening game, the question is if the 20-year-old second-year captain will have a ‘Follow The Leader’ factor in play as the returning Hart, Art Ross and Ted Lindsay trophy winner?
  Todd McLellan is expecting it.
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• So far, so good for Oscar Klefbom, Adam Larsson and Co. in the McLellan Challenge

  06-10-2017 17:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan isn’t shy about throwing down the gauntlet and asking for specific performance improvements. This year he’s making a firm demand of his Oilers at the defensive end, that they shave another 15 goals off the team’s goals against.
  Call it the McLellan Challenge.
  Edmonton is off to a promising start in meeting the McLellan Challenge. The team pitched a shut-out against the Calgary Flames and did it in marvellous fashion. This wasn’t a case
  
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• Survivor of crash that killed three women to be released from hospital

  06-10-2017 17:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Janet Wright Gaye, the 32-year-old survivor of a crash that killed three Edmonton mothers near Lloydminster, is expected to be released from hospital by next week, says her husband.
  “She’s still in the hospital actually, but she’s doing good,” says Matthew Gaye.
  Nurses told the family that Janet Wright Gaye may be released this weekend or early next week.
  The three women who died in the Sept. 22 crash – Eva Tumbay, 37, Jeannette Wright, 53, and Glorious David, 35 &n
  
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• St. Albert non-profit group working on new rec centre - Globalnews.ca

  06-10-2017 16:44
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  WATCH ABOVE: Sports facilities are in high demand in Alberta's Capital Region, Now, one group is hoping its twist on the conventional rec centre will help ease the burden on taxpayers while opening up more ice to young athletes. Sarah Kraus reports.
  
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• St. Albert non-profit group working on new rec centre

  06-10-2017 16:44 via globalnews.ca
  After a year of meetings with stakeholders and politicians, Active Communities Alberta is unveiling its plan for a new rec centre in St. Albert.
  
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• Activists drop anti-Kinder Morgan banner from High Level Bridge

  06-10-2017 16:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Activists dropped a 50-foot-wide banner from the High Level Bridge Friday morning to protest a proposed pipeline expansion through British Columbia. 
  The banner, on the east side of the bridge, reads “No Kinder Morgan” in black letters and was visible from River Valley Road. 
  Demonstrators said in a news release that they wanted to convey opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, which would transport oil from the Edmonton area to Burnaby, B.C. The federal L
  
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• A deep dive into Big Oil's "deep state" control over our democracy

  06-10-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  He is the poor man’s Al Gore.
  A prophet of environmental doom, but without the former U.S. vice-president’s money, fame or Nobel Prize.
  And he is all ours.
  Kevin Taft, a former Alberta Liberal leader, has written a new book every Albertan should read, although many will be uncomfortable with, if not outright hostile to, his conclusions.
  The title reads like a Twitter encapsulation of the whole book: Oil’s Deep State: How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops act
  
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• How to ‘teach green’: 4 ways you can help your kids to think sustainably

  06-10-2017 15:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Teaching kids to be energy-efficient is achievable.
  “It’s all about being a role model,” says Conor Tapp, the executive director of Green Calgary, a non-profit that teaches sustainability on a local level.
  Tapp suggests starting by modelling the behaviour you’d like to see in them. Bike or walk, instead of taking the car for short trips. Recycle. Compost. And find other ways to create a greener life at home and in your community. “Show them that you are passionate a
  
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• Ward 7: Northlands offers opportunity to fix mistakes of the past

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residents bordering the 64-hectare Northlands site want one thing when it comes to what happens next in its future development — a voice.
  When Northlands revealed its Vision 2020 proposal in February last year, a multimillion-dollar plan that proposed refurbishing the aging Rexall Place, renovating the Expo Centre’s Hall D and turning the old racetrack and its encircling land into a vast outdoor festival space and concert bowl, there were a few raised eyebrows.
  One of the main questi
  
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• Ward 10 candidates wrestle with issue of derelict properties

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Empty, rundown homes and aging, neglected strip malls can eat away like termites at a community’s foundations.
  Urban decay cuts real estate values, attracts vandals and troublemakers, who move in legally or illegally, and creates a nuisance that drives away neighbours.
  Edmonton is new and prosperous enough to avoid the blight that reduced blocks in such centres as Detroit and New York to rubble, but the city still has problem properties.
  “I think it’s a very big issue in Ward 1
  
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• Opinion: Culture strategy steers Canada into digital age

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Minister of Heritage Mélanie Joly recently launched “Creative Canada,” it was a crucial re-orientation towards the digital realm. While it has been denounced for lack of support for the news industry, satellite, and cable, and for traditional Canadian media, the critics are missing the point.
  The purpose of culture funding is to enable Canadians to tell their stories, and for Canadians to see themselves in music, film, TV and written products however they are distributed.
  
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• One in five Edmontonians feels social isolation from community: report

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly one in five Edmontonians feels socially isolated from their community, with First Nations groups, immigrants and seniors among those more at risk, says a new report.
  The annual Vital Signs report — to be released Friday by Edmonton Community Foundation and the Edmonton Social Planning Council — measured feelings of belonging and social isolation. 
  Eighteen per cent of Edmontonians reported feeling socially isolated in a 2017 Leger poll, said spokeswoman Elizabeth Bon
  
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• Highrise developments, city consultation irk residents of Ward 8

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Within the next year, the first major tower off the Whyte Avenue strip should begin to rise into the sky at 105 Street.
  City council’s approval of the 16-storey Mezzo project came as a shock to many in the surrounding communities, not only for the change to the urban landscape it will bring, but also for the precedent it established.
  Since that initial vote, councillors have also green-lighted Southpark on Whyte, an even bigger project next door that will feature two skyscrapers of up to 1
  
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• Edmontonians divided on future of Northlands, new poll finds

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians are divided on whether closing Northlands Coliseum was a good decision by city council, as well as what should happen to it when its doors permanently shut Jan. 1, a new Mainstreet poll released Friday shows.
  Forty-one per cent of respondents to the poll conducted Sept. 28 — two weeks after council voted to close the sports and entertainment venue — disapproved of the decision while 37 per cent approved. A further 22 per cent were unsure either way. 
  The most vocal
  
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• Editorial: Keep gov't out of cannabis retailing

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta, like all provinces, is scrambling to come up with a plan to adapt to the federal government’s looming legalization of marijuana.
  Given the rush to meet Ottawa’s quickly approaching July 1 deadline, the first proposed rules laid out by Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley are generally promising in their application of common sense to what is a complicated, costly and game-changing file off-loaded onto provinces by the Trudeau Liberals.
  The federal ground rules are: the minimum a
  
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• David Staples: North Edmonton residents want more Griesbach, less Blatchford

  06-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Kris Andreychuk is out knocking on doors in the Ward 7 neighbourhoods around Northlands Coliseum, residents speak to him in a kind of code that only Edmontonians will understand.
  We want Griesbach, they tell Andreychuk. We don’t want Blatchford.
  What they mean is that at the dead or dying Northlands site, they want a redevelopment just like Griesbach, a walkable, attractive neighbourhood of homes, townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings where people don’t have to get in a ca
  
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• Pedestrian struck at intersection where traffic lights just installed, not yet working

  06-10-2017 06:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A truck struck a male pedestrian and took off in north-central Edmonton, witnesses said Thursday night.
  The 40-year-old victim suffered life-threatening injuries, Edmonton police said in a news release.
  Police blocked off 82 Street between 128 and 130 avenues shortly after 8 p.m. and expected traffic to be closed in both directions for several hours.
  Edmonton Police Service is looking for a 2011 white Ford F250 super duty crew with an Alberta licence plate of BDC 1081. Police say the truck has a
  
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• Ward 12 candidates weigh in on future of city's southeast suburbs

  06-10-2017 05:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residential development, public transit and infrastructure concerns were the main debate topics at the Ward 12 forum Thursday, where five candidates squared off on the future of the city’s southeast corner. 
  Ward 12 — known for quiet suburban neighbourhoods that sprawl to Edmonton’s outer fringe — held a byelection in 2016 when 32 competitors vied for a seat on council. 
  This time, incumbent Moe Banga is facing four rivals — Nigel Logan, Mike Russnak, Jo-A
  
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• Ward 11 candidates debate divisive issues

  06-10-2017 05:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Issues and opinions expressed at a Ward 11 civic election forum Thursday night were as diverse as the ward itself.
  Candidates Troy Pavlek, Rob Aromin, Brandy Burdeniuk, Keren Tang, Chris Christianson and incumbent Mike Nickel had their views and values heard in front of constituents at J. Percy Page High School at 2707 Mill Woods Rd.
  While topics varied, most questions came down to finding better value for the public’s tax dollars.
  Aromin said the city must resist public-private partnershi
  
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• Offence not an issue for Edmonton Oil Kings so far this season

  06-10-2017 04:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oil Kings were expected to have issues scoring this season.
  Yet, heading into their game against the Brandon Wheat Kings on Friday (7 p.m.) at Rogers Place, the Oil Kings are among the top-scoring teams in the Western Hockey League’s Central Division, with 18 goals in their first five games.
  Considering the Oil Kings are still in the midst of a rebuild and do not have an established offensive star on their squad, the strong offensive output thus far could be considered surpris
  
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• Zach Sawchenko opts to join Golden Bears hockey team

  06-10-2017 04:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Zach Sawchenko is ready to take his hockey career down a new path.
  It’s not uncommon for Western Hockey League players to leave junior early to pursue their university education, but not for a player with the pedigree and track record like Sawchenko.
  The 19-year-old goaltender chose to forgo his final season with the Moose Jaw Warriors and join the University of Alberta Golden Bears, who open the 2017-18 Canada West hockey season Friday night when they host the Mount Royal Cougars at Clare
  
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• FC Edmonton looking for pick-me-up against Jacksonville

  06-10-2017 04:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  FC Edmonton head coach Colin Miller has played amateur psychologist this week after a disappointing result last weekend.
  Miller has had to try and get his charges up for another crucial encounter after dropping last week’s crucial encounter.
  FC Edmonton are running out of games to try and qualify for a North American Soccer League playoff spot and need a win against the Jacksonville Armada on Friday (7 p.m.) at Clarke Stadium to keep their faint hopes alive.
  The 1-0 loss to the San Francis
  
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• Terry Jones: Oilers captain dazzles on opening night

  06-10-2017 04:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a ‘Holy Spit’ moment.
  And that was if you had a seat at Rogers Place or at home in front of the TV.
  Try being an 18-year-old kid playing your first NHL regular season game. Try being Kailer Yamamoto. Try imagine what his eyes beheld?
  Connor McDavid put on the show of shows, scoring all three goals to lead the Edmonton Oilers to a 3-0 season-opening win over the Calgary Flames.
  With Wayne Gretzky looking on, No. 97 performed a feat that No. 99 — nor any other Oiler &mdash
  
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• Gable guy: Eskimos looking to plug and play former Ticats running back

  06-10-2017 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  C.J. Gable’s memories of playing against the Edmonton Eskimos aren’t all sweet.
  As a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, he hadn’t tasted victory over them in four games, including the 2016 East Division semifinal.
  In a 24-21 win at Tim Hortons Field on Nov. 13, Eskimos running back John White ran rampant to 160 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries to end Hamilton’s season.
  “We played against them in the playoffs and I did my part to help the Ticats win,” rec
  
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• Zylstra the Eskimos' lone bright spot in winless September

  06-10-2017 03:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  It comes as small consolation for an Edmonton Eskimos team that went 0-for-September, but receiver Brandyn Zylstra was named a Canadian Football League player of the month.
  With 31 catches for 532 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the past four games, the six-foot-three, 220-pound Concordia College (Minnesota) product added to his division-leading totals of 1,134 yards on 75 receptions, to go along with three touchdowns in 11 games.
  While he sits second only to Ottawa RedBlacks receiver Greg Ell
  
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• Oilers owner Daryl Katz's children help launch Hockey Helps Kids

  06-10-2017 03:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The children of Edmonton Oilers’ owner Daryl Katz, along with some of the team, launched Hockey Helps Kids, a school-based competition to raise funds for charity, on Thursday. 
  The philanthropic initiative, started in 2015-16 and co-founded by Chloe and Harrison Katz, was rolled out at D.S. MacKenzie School with help from 600 junior high students. 
  This year, the program has expanded to include five local schools teaming up with five Oilers players to serve as captains. The group
  
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• Pipelines and politics and the death of Energy East

  06-10-2017 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  It ended not with a bang or even a whimper, but with a frustratingly vague news release.
  When TransCanada announced Thursday it had killed the proposed $15-billion Energy East pipeline, its brief release cited “changed circumstances.”
  Huh?
  What does that mean?
  Does it mean the depressed price of oil made the line uneconomical? Or did the new environmental review process at the National Energy Board prove one obstacle too many?
  In other words, do we blame world economics? Or dome
  
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• Oilers Yamamoto admits having nerves in NHL debut

  06-10-2017 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  It wasn’t a fairy tale debut for Edmonton Oilers rookie Kailer Yamamoto Wednesday against the Calgary Flames.
  If anything, it was more of a short story as his first NHL gameconsisted of 10 shifts for 6:33, just 28 seconds of it in the third period.
  It’s not the way he had hoped or imagined it would go, but neither he nor the Oilers are reading too much into it right now.
  It happens, and nobody is judging anybody based on one nervous outing.
  “We’ll sit with him and review
  
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• LIVE: Ward 12 candidates to weigh in on future of city's southeast suburbs

  06-10-2017 02:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five candidates are set to debate the future of Edmonton’s southeast corner known for quiet suburban neighbourhoods and sprawling residential development.
  Incumbent Moe Banga will square off with rivals Nigel Logan, Mike Russnak, Jo-Anne Wright and Walter Youb in a forum Thursday night. 
  Voters were at the polls fairly recently for a 2016 byelection that drew 32 competitors in a record-breaking race. Banga was elected as the newest member of Edmonton’s city council, replacing Am
  
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• Ottewell Junior High students lobby minister, school trustees for more high schools

  06-10-2017 02:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a local politics lesson that was all-too relevant to students in teacher Renée Englot’s humanities class.
  The Grade 9 Ottewell Junior High students were startled when they read Edmonton public high schools will soon be full. Potential solutions, such as coming to school in shifts, or taking classes online, caused a “mini uproar” in Englot’s class, student Molly Stetsko said.
  “A lot of us didn’t like that, and didn’t know it was happening. I
  
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• Man shot by police now charged — fifth person to be shot by Edmonton officers this year

  06-10-2017 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man shot by police in a traffic stop is facing 19 charges now that he has been released from hospital, while a fellow accused faces eight charges. A third suspect has not been charged.
  Edmonton Police Service Specialized Apprehension Team investigators were near 44 Avenue and 211 Street just before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at an area known to be frequented by people in the drug trade, according to a news release from police Wednesday.
  When police tried to pull over a suspicious vehicle, the vehicle t
  
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• Live: Ward 11 candidates debate divisive issues

  06-10-2017 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ward 11 city council hopefuls are expected to debate the city’s most pressing issues in a forum tonight at J. Percy Page High School at 2707 Mill Woods Rd. from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
  With opinions as diverse as the ward itself, issues of infrastructure projects large and small could dominate tonight’s topics.
  During an earlier forum hosted at the Ritchie Community League hall on Sept. 27, bike lanes and residential traffic speed limits proved to be divisive issues as well as the struggle
  
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• Mosques open doors, aim to heal in wake of Edmonton attack

  06-10-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Local mosques are opening their doors in an effort to comfort both Muslims and non-Muslims in the wake of last weekend’s downtown rampage.
  At least two mosques were holding events in response to the attacks, which injured four pedestrians and Edmonton police Const. Mike Chernyk, who was working at a game-day traffic checkpoint near Commonwealth Stadium.
  Police arrested Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30, a Somali national, after officers toppled a U-Haul truck used to strike pedestrians during a ch
  
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• Paula Simons: Mr. Mak mayoral mystery seems to be solved

  06-10-2017 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
   I posted a column to our website Wednesday, explaining the curious case of the candidate who wasn’t there. Henry Mak is running for mayor. But he has not come to any of the forums, sending his election agent, George Chung Yan Lam, to sit on the rostrum in his place. Mak has never granted an interview, never allowed the media to take his picture. There are no photos of Mak on his campaign flyers or on his website. And so a zany conspiracy theory took shape that Lam and Mak were really
  
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• Oilers' Klefbom shooting his way to the top

  06-10-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two things we can take away from the Edmonton Oilers’ home opener:
  Defenceman Oscar Klefbom seems poised to take another giant stride in his development as an elite top pairing defenceman.
  Mike Smith’s mask works.
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• Growers hope to create first Alberta retail pot co-operative

  06-10-2017 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dozen medical pot producers plan to start a chain of Alberta marijuana stores if the provincial government allows private companies to sell recreational weed next year.
  The Canadian Cannabis Co-Op hopes to get in on the ground floor of what’s expected to be a billion-dollar Alberta industry when the federal government legalizes dope consumption July 1, 2018.
  “We will build out a retail channel in Alberta and any other province that is looking at including private sector retail and
  
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• Ward 12 candidates to weigh in on future of city's southeast suburbs

  06-10-2017 00:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five candidates are set to debate the future of Edmonton’s southeast corner known for quiet suburban neighbourhoods and sprawling residential development.
  Incumbent Moe Banga will square off with rivals Nigel Logan, Mike Russnak, Jo-Anne Wright and Walter Youb in a forum Thursday night. 
  Voters were at the polls fairly recently for a 2016 byelection that drew 32 competitors in a record-breaking race. Banga was elected as the newest member of Edmonton’s city council, replacing Am
  
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