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• European trade mission will promote green tech investment: Minister

  24-10-2017 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s economic development and trade minister says a European trade mission ending Sunday aims to attract businesses interested in green technology. 
  A German delegation of companies is set to travel to Alberta in December to explore investment prospects, said Deron Bilous Tuesday, speaking in a telephone media conference from Bavaria, a southeastern German state. 
  “Germany has a long history with Canada, and Bavaria … has a sister relationship with the province
  
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• Official swearing-in ceremony for new city councillors

  24-10-2017 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wajjo African drummers and Mattierin Irish Dancers performed amid the pomp and celebration of the official swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected city council Tuesday.
  Edmonton voters picked four new faces to join the others on council — Indigenous artist Aaron Paquette, former Progressive Conservative staffer Sarah Hamilton, engineer Tim Cartmell and urban planner Jon Dziadyk. 
  They’ll join Mayor Don Iveson and eight incumbent councillors — businessman Mike Nickel, for
  
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• Live: Official swearing-in ceremony for new city councillors

  24-10-2017 21:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wajjo African drummers and Mattierin Irish Dancers will be performing amid the pomp and celebration of the official swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected city council Tuesday.
  The ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. in the main room at city hall, with a short council meeting to follow.
  Edmonton voters picked four new faces to join the others on council — Indigenous artist Aaron Paquette, former Progressive Conservative staffer Sarah Hamilton, engineer Tim Cartmell and urban planner Jon Dziady
  
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• As "third-pairing" defenders go, Darnell Nurse sure is playing a big role for Edmonton Oilers

  24-10-2017 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 8 — Oilers at Penguins
  “What’s Darnell Nurse doing back on the third pairing?” — Somebody, somewhere on the Internet.
  I read that more than once in passing on Saturday, when Edmonton Oilers’ defenceman Matt Benning returned to the line-up in Philadelphia after a three-game absence and immediately slotted back beside Kris Russell, his partner through the first three games and most of training camp that preceded it. Nurse moved back to his own original
  
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• Brian Jean lays out his 2019 election plan in final days of UCP leadership bid

  24-10-2017 19:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party leadership hopeful Brian Jean announced a 2019 campaign strategy as candidates enter the homestretch before party members go to the polls. 
  The UCP will announce a leader  — with Jean facing rivals Jason Kenney and Doug Schweitzer — on Saturday, Oct. 28, after votes are cast in a one-member, one-vote preferential ballot system.
  On Tuesday, Jean held a news conference outside the Edmonton-Strathcona constituency office for Premier Rachel Notley, tou
  
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• A snapshot of the new Edmonton council's priorities

  24-10-2017 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  What can Edmonton expect from the new council being sworn in Tuesday? 
  During the election, we asked every candidate running for a ward council seat to pin down their priorities.
  We asked: name one issue you would work on — as an individual and with council — where you feel you could make significant improvements in a single term. What will you aim to achieve?
  Here are the responses from every successful candidate. Mayor Don Iveson’s election promises are summarized at the
  
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• Man dead after pickup slams into back of semi trailer near Leduc

  24-10-2017 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has died after the pickup truck he was riding in crashed into the back of a semi tractor trailer near Leduc late Monday night.
  Leduc RCMP and Edmonton police rushed to the scene around one kilometre south of 41 Avenue on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway for a report of a serious two vehicle collision at 11:30 p.m.
  According to police, a pickup truck slammed into the back of a semi.
  A 34-year-old male passenger in the pickup truck died at the scene while the 30-year-old male driver, from Ledu
  
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• Official swearing-in ceremony for newly elected city councillors

  24-10-2017 17:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wajjo African drummers and Mattierin Irish Dancers will be performing amid the pomp and celebration of the official swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected city council Tuesday.
  The ceremony starts at 1:30 p.m. in the main room at city hall, with a short council meeting to follow.
  Edmonton voters picked four new faces to join the others on council — Indigenous artist Aaron Paquette, former Progressive Conservative staffer Sarah Hamilton, engineer Tim Cartmell and urban planner Jon Dziady
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Enbridge confident in Line 3 project

  24-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Line 3 pipeline faces U.S. hurdles: expert,” Oct. 20
  This story wrongly suggests Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Project faces greater challenges than other pipeline proposals.
  The story relies on an analyst who points to inaccurate Minnesota Dept. of Commerce claims that producers have alternative pipeline routes to get to refiners. The fact is, none of the alternative pipeline scenarios identified by the Dept. of Commerce, including Dakota Access, serve Minnesota or w
  
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• Editorial: One curriculum for all

  24-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Superintendents of the publicly funded Catholic school system are developing a parallel sex-education curriculum which they hope to substitute in place of one in the forthcoming provincial health and wellness curriculum.
  The provincial government rightly rejected the request to fund its development but the project is still going ahead in hopes the province will agree to it. Approving parallel sets of lessons for sex education, or any subject, for certain students should be a non-starter.
  The Alb
  
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• Court rules in favour of three councillors dismissed in Thorhild County

  24-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A judge who ruled in favour of three councillors dismissed in Thorhild County stopped short of exonerating the officials, noting a dysfunctional council “defined by animosity.”
  Reeve Wayne Croswell and councillors Dan Buryn and Larry Sisson were dismissed in a March 2016 ministerial order from Danielle Larivee, then municipal affairs minister. The move followed a municipal inspection report that raised concerns such as biased decision-making and repeated violations of the Municipal A
  
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• Catholic trustee candidate says opponent ineligible, wants byelection

  24-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Saying one of his competitors isn’t Catholic, a defeated Edmonton Catholic school trustee candidate thinks a court should overturn last week’s civic election result in central Edmonton and call a byelection.
  Glen Argan, who placed second in a close three-way race in Ward 75, said Sunday on his blog he’s asked the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association (ACSTA) to challenge the result in court. Fellow candidate Michael Brown, who garnered 34 fewer votes than Argan an
  
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• Amazon HQ: How does Edmonton stack up?

  24-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Retail giant Amazon’s announcement last month that it’s looking for somewhere to build a massive second headquarters touched off gold rush fever that would make the Klondike proud.
  Edmonton was one of 238 jurisdictions across North America that made pitches to host the company’s operations by last week’s deadline, with some centres offering such goodies as a possible US$7 billion in tax incentives over a decade dangled by New Jersey.
  Alberta’s capital and Calgary ar
  
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• Conservative candidate replaces Rona Ambrose in Sturgeon River-Parkland

  24-10-2017 10:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rona Ambrose’s former riding remains staunchly Conservative after a Monday byelection that saw the Tory candidate romp to victory.
  Dane Lloyd had secured 77.4 per cent of the vote in the Sturgeon River-Parkland byelection with 240 of 251 polls reporting at press time.
  Lloyd and his supporters gathered at Sorrentino’s in Stony Plain to watch the results.
  To represent the riding in Ottawa is “a dream come true,” he said.
  Lloyd said his first order of business in Ottawa will
  
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• Conservative candidate poised to replace Rona Ambrose in Sturgeon River-Parkland

  24-10-2017 05:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rona Ambrose’s former riding remains staunchly Conservative after a Monday byelection that saw the Tory candidate romp to victory.
  Dane Lloyd had secured 77.4 per cent of the vote in the Sturgeon River-Parkland byelection with 240 of 251 polls reporting at press time.
  Lloyd and his supporters gathered at Sorrentino’s in Stony Plain to watch the results.
  To represent the riding in Ottawa is “a dream come true,” he said.
  Lloyd said his first order of business in Ottawa will
  
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• Suncor files for 40,000-bpd project south of Fort McMurray

  24-10-2017 03:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — Suncor Energy has applied for provincial regulatory approval to build an oilsands project south of Fort McMurray, which could produce 40,000 barrels per day.
  According to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER), an application for the Meadow Creek West project was filed Friday.
  Suncor’s website says construction could begin in 2023 if approved and first oil would be reached by 2025, although the AER application says construction could begin in 2022.
  The project, which util
  
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• School requests proof of baptism from defeated Catholic trustee candidate

  24-10-2017 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Catholic school trustee candidate who lost in last week’s civic election is questioning why the school her children have attended for six years asked to see her baptismal certificate.
  Mom-of-three Kristin Heimbecker said Monday she’s worried her children have become targets after she publicly questioned the Catholic church during the election campaign.
  She was outspoken about her support for LGBTQ students, and said the needs of students superseded direction from the archdioce
  
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• Family gets keys to Habitat for Humanity home backed by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter

  24-10-2017 02:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited Edmonton in July, joining hundreds of volunteers who devoted their time and effort to help build affordable housing in Alberta’s capital city.
  The fruits of those labours were evident Monday, as Habitat for Humanity Edmonton and Rohit Communities presented the keys to the first Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project home to Edmonton resident Jenna and her daughter, Anabelle. (Habitat for Humanity does not release the last
  
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• Man shot by police after standoff had 35 outstanding warrants

  24-10-2017 01:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man shot by police Friday had 35 outstanding warrants for violent offences, including firearms-related charges, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) said in a news release Monday.
  The 37-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was shot after a standoff in west Edmonton. He was taken to hospital, where he was treated and released into police custody Saturday, ASIRT spokesman Jason van Rassel said in the release.
  Police recovered a loaded shotgun, the release said.
  On Frida
  
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• Oilers' McDavid, Penguins' Crosby set for NHL superstar showdown

  24-10-2017 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  PITTSBURGH — The Edmonton Oilers versus the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday is the game of the year in the NHL so far, which is kind of unusual given that it’s between a struggling underachiever and a team that’s already been beaten 10-1 and 7-1 this season.
  But that’s what happens when Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid step on to the same sheet of ice: Traffic comes to a halt as the rest of the hockey world tunes in to see what the two biggest superstars in the game are about
  
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• Paula Simons: Catholic sex ed plan could be a deal-breaker

  24-10-2017 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  We may have finally come to the moment when publicly funded Catholic education in this province faces its defining existential crisis. 
  As my colleague Janet French revealed Monday, Catholic school districts across Alberta have been working on their own distinct sexual-education curriculum, one steeped deeply in traditional Catholic teachings.
  Not that they admitted as much when French asked them earlier this year. In fact, they point-blank denied it. But when French filed an access to info
  
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• Innovative south Edmonton group provides popular programs for seniors

  24-10-2017 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  An innovative program spearheaded by a Twin Brooks resident is attracting seniors from numerous neighbourhoods in southwest Edmonton.
  Ida Richards started the Seniors Innovation Fund after hearing about Age Friendly Edmonton’s $5,000 grants for senior-focused community projects.
  The longtime resident has always been active in her neighbourhood, examining traffic safety and serving for a time as president of the Twin Brooks Community League.
  “To my knowledge, there wasn’t anythi
  
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• Opinion: Science should guide local response to substance abuse

  24-10-2017 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last week, Health Canada issued the approvals to establish supervised consumption services in Edmonton. Scientific evidence consistently supports the individual and community benefits of these services, and local data demonstrate an urgent need for them in our inner city.
  Unfortunately, some people allege (“Safe injection sites will hurt vulnerable communities”, Oct. 21) that the scientific evidence used to support Health Canada’s approval of Edmonton’s supervised consump
  
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• Cleanup continues after railcars went off the track in Sturgeon County

  24-10-2017 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cleanup continued Monday after a dozen train cars went off the track north of Edmonton on Sunday afternoon, spilling as much as 50 litres of crude oil.
  Sturgeon County residents in 46 homes in two neighbourhoods near CFB Edmonton were evacuated for hours after 12 train cars derailed nearby. Two of those cars spilled between 30 and 50 litres of crude oil.
  At least a dozen rail cars derailed in Sturgeon County at around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, 2017. No injuries were reported. Photo courtesy Patrick
  
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