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• Canadian women’s hockey team to face U.S. in Edmonton ahead of Winter Olympics

  10-10-2017 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canadian women’s hockey team will host its archrival, the United States, in a pre-Olympic matchup Dec. 17 in Edmonton.
  It’s the finale of a six-game series the Canadians and Americans will play prior to February’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  The two countries also square off Oct. 22 in Quebec City, Oct. 25 in Boston, Dec. 3 in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 5 in Winnipeg and Dec. 15 in San Jose, Calif.
  Canada has won four straight Olympic gold medals in women’s h
  
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• Rocker Roger Waters lends star power to Ecuadorians' $9.5B Chevron fight

  10-10-2017 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Roger Waters, who brings his Us + Them tour to Edmonton for two shows at Rogers Place on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, was at a Toronto court on Tuesday, Oct. 10.
  The Pink Floyd bassist was in the courtroom to show support for Ecuadorian villagers in their long-running case against Chevron for alleged environmental contamination. Waters told the Canadian Press the case deeply important.
  Musician Roger Waters (centre) stands with Canadian Indigenous Leader Phil Fontaine (left) and Paul Paz y Min
  
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• Drive-thru voting on the table next election as voting numbers slip

  10-10-2017 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are no drive-thru options for Edmonton voters yet but officials are urging voters to take advantage of traditional offerings with less than a week to the election.
  In Calgary, voters can cast a ballot from the comfort of their car for the first time this election by pulling through a lane at McMahon Stadium.
  Edmonton is not so fancy, but the city is watching Calgary’s experiment and will consider it for next election, said director of elections Iain MacLean. “We’re going
  
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• Edmonton municipal election advance voting numbers down over 2013

  10-10-2017 19:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fewer people have taken advantage of advance voting in the 2017 Edmonton municipal election compared to 2013, despite being able to vote on Thanksgiving Monday, Elections Edmonton says. 
  During the first five days of 2013 advance voting, 8,438 votes were placed. But over the first six days of advance voting this year, 8,495 citizens cast a ballot.
  That total includes 1,254 votes cast Monday on the statutory holiday.
  “Edmonton Elections decided to try out holiday Monday voting thi
  
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• Edmonton man dies after single-vehicle rollover near Prince Albert

  10-10-2017 19:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 24-year-old man from Edmonton died en route to hospital after a single-vehicle rollover south of Prince Albert on Sunday. 
  At approximately 4 p.m., Prince Albert RCMP responded to a rollover on Highway 3 south of the city. The man was the lone occupant of the vehicle. Police said the man died while EMS was transporting him to hospital. 
  An RCMP traffic reconstructionist attended the scene, and police are continuing to investigate the cause of the crash. 
  
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• Edmonton International Airport stages emergency training exercise

  10-10-2017 15:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emergency response teams will take part in a training exercise at Edmonton International Airport Monday morning starting at 9 a.m.
  Edmonton RCMP Emergency Response Team along with airport RCMP and emergency services will training in various secured areas of the airport and is coordinated so as not to interfere with the travel plans of the public or airport operations. 
  There is no actual threat and the general public is not at any risk, the RCMP said in a news release.
  “It i
  
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• MacEwan University's first Indigenous female president Deborah Saucier ready for real change

  10-10-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  New university presidents are prepared to face a few hurdles when they begin their tenure, but for MacEwan University’s new president Deborah Saucier, the baptism of fire was unprecedented.
  A little over a month into her five-year term, Saucier was informed in mid-August that the university had been fleeced of $11.8 million in one of Canada’s largest individual phishing scams.
  “It was absolutely shocking to me that it happened,” she said last week.
  After interna
  
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• What future are we planning? Author Richard Florida weighs in on Don Iveson's 'innovation corridor'

  10-10-2017 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayoral incumbent Don Iveson says he’s “betting on Edmonton” and has pitched a vision of new, hip, medium-density neighbourhoods along one LRT corridor to attract and keep the next generation of talent for a wave of technology-based jobs.
  In New York City, Cornell Tech university is building new shared office space with technology startups on Roosevelt Island, mixing entrepreneurs and researchers to hasten good ideas to market.
  Edmonton’s “innovation corridor”
  
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• In a world of $60 oil, how would candidates ensure Edmonton thrives?

  10-10-2017 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is facing a new economic reality with the price of oil unlikely to rise much above $60 a barrel in the foreseeable future, economists say.
  We asked each ward candidate in the Oct. 16 municipal election what action Edmonton should take to support job creation. A series of thoughtful responses focused on cutting red tape for growing local businesses and support emerging industries in technology and health care.
  “We need to streamline processes for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
  
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• Ward 11 divided on who should pay for repairs of crumbling back alleys

  10-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If Ward 11 resident Nathan Willis finds himself driving through south Edmonton’s back alleys, he’s typically travelling with care.
  “Sometimes you’ve got to take quite a few of them a little slowly in the car for the sake of the car’s suspension,” Willis said on a recent evening. 
  A report to city council earlier this year found 77 per cent of alleys in Ward 11 were in poor or very poor condition compared to 60 per cent across the city as a whole. Many liv
  
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• Tuesday's letters: National unity comes second to local politics

  10-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard must be rubbing his hands in glee that his opposition to the Energy East pipeline helped kill the project.
  It’s yet another example of an eastern Canadian politician whose actions have hurt Alberta’s economic future for the sake of local politics. Will B.C.’s NDP government, and that province’s environmentalists, also be successful in killing the federal government-approved Kinder Morgan oil pipeline to Burnaby, B.C.?
  It appears the anti-
  
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• Top Jets line soars, grounds Oilers' dynamic duo

  10-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Under hoary hockey cliches, No. 1 is “your best players have to be your best players.”
  So, yes, Winnipeg Jets winger Nikolaj Ehlers had 14 shots directed at Edmonton Oilers goalie Cam Talbot Monday, eight on net, four blocked and two that went wide, scored three and could have had four in the visitors’ 5-2 victory, but Talbot stoned him on a breakaway.
  He was better than Leon Draisaitl.
  And Jets centre Mark Scheifele had the game’s first goal and set up Ehlers for two sit
  
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• Pedestrian safety strategies remain priority for Ward 12 election candidates

  10-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council hopefuls are grappling with strategies to reduce pedestrian fatalities at crosswalks, months after a report by the city auditor said that intersections aren’t being effectively monitored.  
  On average, eight people are hit and killed each year in Edmonton crosswalks. More than half of all pedestrian injuries last year happened in a marked crosswalk.
  In June, city auditor David Wiun called for transparent guidelines on how city officials decide what crosswalks to inst
  
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• Player grades: Defensive game collapses as Oilers bombed by high-flying Jets

  10-10-2017 12:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jets 5, Oilers 2
  Not good enough.
  Those three simple words describe the Edmonton Oilers’ play on their home ice on Monday, as they allowed 43 shots and 5 goals to the previously winless Winnipeg Jets in a shoddy defensive performance that lacked both execution and commitment. Not the sort of showing that will earn high grades in my books. Look out below.
  In fairness the Oilers may have deserved a better fate than the 0-2 deficit they faced after a first period they largely dominated, but t
  
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• Seven things wrong with the Edmonton Oilers after 5-2 loss to Winnipeg Jets

  10-10-2017 08:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cult of Hockey’s Jet 5, Oilers 2, fans sour as hell podcastThe Winnipeg Jets scored five times, the Edmonton Oilers scored twice, and the fans are sour as hell. At least David Staples and Bruce McCurdy are as they dig into what’s going wrong with the Edmonton Oilers just now.
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  It’s not time to panic. Nor is it time to celebrate overly much if you happen to be a Peter Chiarelli bash
  
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• MacEwan University launches the John and Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery

  10-10-2017 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Allard Hall, MacEwan University’s newest building, officially opened its doors in September. The building’s primary purpose is to house MacEwan’s fine and performing arts programs, which were previously located on the university’s west-end campus, but Allard Hall is about so much more than providing new classrooms for academic programs.
  The university recognized that moving the arts downtown, and creating industry-quality, purpose-built spaces, would open up opportunities
  
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• Edmonton Oilers snapshots: Hendricks gets warm reception

  10-10-2017 07:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Matt Hendricks got a nice welcome back video highlight package on the big screen Monday but he couldn’t acknowledge it from the ice or the bench because he’s hobbling with a bad foot.
  The former Edmonton Oilers winger who endeared himself to the fans here with his kamikaze style — remember the slapper in Dallas that crushed his cup — was hurt blocking a shot in the dying stages against Ottawa Senators in exhibition.
  He’s on the Jets three-game road trip to Calgary,
  
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• Terry Jones: Edmonton Oilers lacking will against Winnipeg Jets

  10-10-2017 07:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers, sometime between their opener and the flight to Vancouver and the return trip home, forgot the identity they’d forged last season and especially in the playoffs.
  They tried to win with skill without applying the will.
  Edmonton had become a tough building to play in late last season. But it wasn’t last night.
  The shocking thing about the game was how Mark Scheifele’s line outplayed Connor McDavid’s line – the the point head coach Todd McLellan ha
  
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• Winnipeg Jets give humbled Edmonton Oilers a bumpy ride

  10-10-2017 07:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the Edmonton Oilers thought the slumping and reeling Winnipeg Jets were just the pushover they needed to get their house back in order, they were wrong.
  Their house looks a bit of a mess Monday after a humbling 5-2 loss to a previously winless team that gave up 13 goals in first two games of the season.
  The Jets built 2-0 and 4-2 leads in dropping the hometown Oilers to 1-2 on a season that was supposed to be a quick and brilliant ascent to the top.
  It’s not just that they lost, but how
  
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• Nick Lees: Cyclists, volunteers to bring totem pole from B.C. for $24M CASA centre

  10-10-2017 04:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The protocol around asking for a second totem pole carved by internationally renowned Haida Gwaii artist Ben Davidson became much more involved than the first.
  Davidson encouraged me this time to take a flight with him to learn more about the community’s “supernatural beings.”
  Fortunately, I must have learned enough. Friends and I have just returned from Haida Gwaii with the promise another totem pole would be ours in 2019.
  We hope as many as 50 cyclists and 10 volunteers will
  
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• Marcel Rocque coaches China to victory in Horizontal Drilling Fall Classic

  10-10-2017 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Marcel Rocque has a lot to be thankful for this weekend.
  As head coach of Chinese national curling program, his schedule is hectic and busy, but the three-time world curling champion and four-time Canadian champion got to come home from China to be with his family for Thanksgiving. He also helped coach his Chinese team consisting of skip Liu Rui, third Xiao Ming Xu, second Dongxu Jiang and lead Jia Liang Zang to a 6-2 victory in just six ends over Kevin Koe in the Direct Horizontal Drilling Fall
  
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• Decades of sharing Thanksgiving inside Mill Woods laundromat continues in bigger venue

  10-10-2017 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jannette Lindberg has been coming to the Thanksgiving feast at the Millbourne Laundromat since she was a little girl.
  On Monday afternoon, she — along with her sons, Joseph, 4, and Joshua, 8 — dug into sumptuous plates filled with turkey and trimmings, samosa, spaghetti, veggies and more at the Leefield Community League Hall, 7910 36 Ave. The Thanksgiving feast had to change venues so it could fit the swelling crowds attending from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  “I like the faces,&rdq
  
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• Six in hospital — including three kids — after crash near Sherwood Park

  10-10-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six people — including three children — were hospitalized after a serious two-vehicle collision near Sherwood Park on Thanksgiving Monday. 
  The crash happened at the intersection of Township Road 520 and Range Road 232 at around 1:15 p.m., RCMP said in a news release Monday. 
  A GMC pickup and a Toyota car collided in the intersection, police said, adding the cause of the collision was still under investigation. 
  Five people in the truck — three of them child
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos snap losing streak with victory in Montreal

  10-10-2017 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  MONTREAL — It was an all-out Turkey Bowl on a rainy Thanksgiving Monday.
  In the battle between a couple of birds that had been slowly basting over extended losing streaks, the Edmonton Eskimos came up with their first win in two months.
  Defeating the Montreal Alouettes, 42-24, in front of an announced crowd of 18,849 in the drenched stands at Percival Molson Stadium, the Eskimos ended a six-game drought to move into a tie for third-place in the West Division with the Saskatchewan Roughride
  
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• Terry Jones: Eskimos need to crossover to East

  10-10-2017 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  So now that the Edmonton Eskimos have finally won another football game, here we go again?
  Is it in the best interest of the 2015 Grey Cup champions to try to get to the Grey Cup via the crossover route or the traditional way through the Western Division semifinal and final?
  Last year it was pretty much unanimous that going via the East semi and final presented a much better opportunity. Indeed, after Edmonton defeated the Tiger-Cats in the semifinal in Hamilton, there was not only Grey Cup feve
  
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