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• NDP seeking input on changes to farm safety rules

  26-10-2017 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  From using heaters in hog barns to farm workers shaving their facial hair or going to the toilet in a field, the government wants Albertans to weigh in on potential changes to farm safety rules.
  It stems from Bill 6, the controversial farm safety legislation passed in December 2015. The law made Workers’ Compensation Board insurance coverage for paid farm and ranch workers mandatory as of Jan. 1, 2016.
  Bill 6 sparked outrage in rural Alberta. Hundreds of opponents descended on the&nbs
  
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• Revel: new restaurant at Alberta Hotel mix old and new

  26-10-2017 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fresh owners have opened up in the Alberta Hotel’s signature restaurant and it was great to be once again inside that space, which combines a new culinary aesthetic with the building’s historical roots.
  The new spot is called Revel, owned by the same folks as Privada Wine and Tapas in St. Albert, which specializes in tapas-style shared plates. Revel shares the talents of Privada chef Tony Krause and moves them downtown with a menu  combining old favourites reflecting the buildin
  
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• Edmonton playwright and former teacher pleads guilty to child porn possession

  26-10-2017 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A well-known Edmonton playwright and former substitute teacher admitted to possession of child pornography on Thursday in connection to images discovered on his personal computer earlier this year.
  David Belke, 57, entered a guilty plea to one possession of child pornography charge as a crowd of his supporters filled the Edmonton courtroom gallery.
  The investigation began in February 2017 after Belke took his computer into a local Staples store for repair, according to an agreed statement of fac
  
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• Todd McLellan set to use Mark Letestu in Top 6 role against Dallas Stars. Huh?!

  26-10-2017 21:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 9, Edmonton Oilers vs Dallas Stars
  Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan looks like he’ll do some expected things but also some surprising things with the Edmonton Oilers line-up against the Dallas Stars tonight.
  Bob Stauffer of the Oilers tweeted out the lines at practice today: “Maroon-McDavid-Leon, Lucic-RNH-Letestu, Caggiula-Strome-Kassian, Jokinen-Khaira-Slepyshev.”
  It’s no surprise to see McLellan go back to Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on the top line.
  
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• New act starts clock on negotiations between local governments in Alberta

  26-10-2017 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Provincial and municipal officials announced the proclamation of the massive new Municipal Government Act Thursday, hoping it will secure a new era of co-operation rather than infighting.
  Every municipality and county in Alberta now has two years to sign co-operation agreements with every jurisdiction on its border, or be forced to pay for arbitration. The agreements could cover everything from shared water and sewage to joint land-use planning and shared recreation facilities.
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• ‘We’re Taking The Next Steps’: St. Albert Healing Garden

  26-10-2017 21:07
  City commits to community reconciliation with release of documentary, cultural teaching A multi-faceted initiative, The St. Albert Healing Garden officially... Read Post
  
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• Vocal trio reaches for their own sound

  26-10-2017 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Something about great vocal harmonies resonates with the human spirit, young or old.
  For the proof look no further than an Edmonton-raised trio, The Willows, who only came to discover their true calling as singers after a move to Toronto.
  The trio – Krista Deady, Lauren Pedersen and Andrea Gregorio – heads home to perform here Thursday on their first national tour, marking the release of their first album of all-original tunes Tea For Three. It’s the group’s strongest sta
  
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• Canada, It's Complicated brings satire to the stage in Spruce Grove

  26-10-2017 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the swirl of sesquicentennial celebrations, it’s easy to forget that it’s not all maple leaves and multicultural miracles. Though Canada remains one of the better places to hang your tuque, the country has made its fair share of embarrassing, and tragic, mistakes. Need we say more than residential schools?
  A new comic revue, produced and directed by Canadian comedy icon Mary Walsh, aims to recognize what this country has to offer, while not letting us off the hook. Canada, It&rsqu
  
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• Yearning fuels Jasmina Odor's beautiful debut short story collection

  26-10-2017 19:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thirteen short stories of yearning and upheaval, Jasmina Odor’s debut book masterfully explores displacement far deeper than merely geographical. 
  That the Edmonton author is navigating a move from one home to another as her book You Can’t Stay Here launches Thursday at Audreys has a lyrical poignancy.
  Each time the Edmonton author has relocated, she nods, it’s been monumental. This includes first coming to Canada from Croatia with her family in 1993 — the Bosnian wa
  
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• New act starts clock on tense negotiations between local governments

  26-10-2017 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Provincial and municipal officials announced the proclamation of the massive new Municipal Government Act Thursday, hoping it will secure a new era of co-operation rather than infighting.
  Every municipality and county in Alberta now has two years to sign co-operation agreements with every jurisdiction on its border, or be forced to pay for arbitration. The agreements could cover everything from shared water and sewage to joint land-use planning and shared recreation facilities.
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• Citie Ballet works to expand the boudaries of ballet

  26-10-2017 19:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The show titles for Citie Ballet’s intriguing new season — Illuminate, Intersect, and Ignite — hint at some of the company’s loftier creative ambitions but their overall goal is more down to earth.
  “We are here to focus on original, made-in-Edmonton contemporary ballet,” said artistic director Jorden Morris. “We’re crafting farm-to-table dance here and it’s great to work with younger dancers, to watch them maturing and becoming a part of that
  
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• Government to review final farm safety reports into Bill 6

  26-10-2017 19:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A final set of reports about controversial farm safety laws introduced by the NDP government will be released Thursday.
  Bill 6 sparked an outcry in rural Alberta when it was passed in December 2015. The law made Workers’ Compensation Board insurance coverage for paid farm and ranch workers mandatory as of Jan. 1, 2016.
  Hundreds of opponents descended on the legislature to protest rules they said would hurt family farms across the province.
  The backlash prompted the governmen
  
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• University of Alberta maintains top research ranking: report

  26-10-2017 19:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The University of Alberta continues to be one of the country’s leading research universities based on research funding figures released Thursday in a new report.
  The report by Research Infosource, which compiles an annual Top 50 list ranking Canada’s best research post-secondary institutes, shows Alberta’s largest university maintained its fifth placed ranking with $433.7 million in research funding in 2016.
  That number is down 7.9 per cent from 2015 when the universi
  
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• St. Albert commercial development on a roll - Western Investor

  26-10-2017 19:07 via westerninvestor.com
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  St. Albert commercial development on a roll
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  While it may appear that residential dominates the St. Albert development scene, a number of commercial real estate and infrastructure projects are also underway in the city. Here are some highlights, courtesy of St. Albert Gazette. The new Alberta ...
  
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• Fentanyl powder, stun gun, cash seized in St. Albert drug bust: police - Globalnews.ca

  26-10-2017 18:41 via globalnews.ca
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  Fentanyl powder, stun gun, cash seized in St. Albert drug bust: police
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  One person has been charged after RCMP executed a search warrant on a home in the Edmonton area and found what police described as equipment to produce and package fentanyl. READ MORE: Health Canada approves safe injection sites in Edmonton ...
  Charges laid after police search St. Albert home, drugs and paraphernalia found insideCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Fentanyl powder, stun gun, cash seized in St. Albert drug bust: police

  26-10-2017 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  One person has been charged after RCMP executed a search warrant on a home in the Edmonton area and found what police described as equipment to produce and package fentanyl.
  
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• UCP candidates vie for leadership job as voting begins Thursday

  26-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party members begin voting Thursday for the first official leader of the fledgling party. 
  Three candidates are left in the fray, each of whom coughed up $75,000 for a stab at the title — Brian Jean, Jason Kenney and Doug Schweitzer. 
  The official leadership race ran for about four months, but the unofficial contest has lasted far longer.
  You could argue it began back in July 2016 when Kenney first started touting the idea of a unified provincial conserva
  
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• Thursday's letters: Save our old structures

  26-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Walterdale bridge is being dismantled. The University of Alberta wants to demolish old buildings because it is too expensive to maintain them. The old Royal Alberta Museum is up for possible demolition. Northlands Coliseum is closing for business.
  One just needs to travel and see the effort to preserve heritage buildings, either via municipalities, the private sector or foundations and private enterprise.
  Is anyone willing to destroy the old buildings at Oxford University? Old Trafford
  
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• Opinion: Fiery summer shows need to manage our forests from pests

  26-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s been a terrible year for forest fires in North America. As I write this, 31 lives have been lost to a massive blaze in northern California. We’ve also seen unprecedented destruction in British Columbia, with some devastating spillover into Waterton National Park. It all brings back painful memories of last year’s Fort McMurray tragedy.
  There’s an important lesson in all of this destruction, though. We can’t let our guard down on forest management. We need to ac
  
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• Home invasion victim says trial has triggered PTSD symptoms

  26-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man shot twice during a home invasion said the trial that wrapped up Wednesday has triggered symptoms of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
  Brad Lemoine said he wasn’t able to attend all of the trial for two of the men accused of breaking into an Edmonton house in February 2016, shooting him, beating him and robbing him of marijuana and cash.
  During closing arguments Wednesday, Crown prosecutor Anders Quist outlined the allegations against Keith Joseph McDermott and Rolland Paul Trudel
  
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• Editorial: Diverse council offers broader vision

  26-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The latest batch of census data released Wednesday shows times are irrevocably changing when it comes to Edmonton’s makeup.
  It’s too bad our city council — while showing modest progress — is falling behind in mirroring a more diverse citizenry.
  Much has been made, and rightly so, of the lack of female representation at City Hall. The gender balance improved marginally when the number of women elected doubled, with newcomer Sarah Hamilton joining incumbent Bev Esslinger. O
  
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• What are we to make of the Oilers excellent shot metrics? Who can say?

  26-10-2017 07:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers are king of shot metrics, but jokes of the NHL. What gives?
  If you go by shot and scoring chance metrics, it’s been Christmas in October for the Edmonton Oilers so far. 
  Edmonton has directed 569 shots in the general direction of the opposition net, while the opposition has directed just 444 at Edmonton’s net.
  This, reports Natural Stat Trick, has the Oilers with a Corsi% (shots at net percentage) of 56 per cent in all game situations. That’s the best Corsi
  
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• Young patients, their parents now asking for medical aid in dying: pediatricians' group

  26-10-2017 06:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group that represents pediatric doctors is weighing into the thorny issue of whether terminally ill children and youth should be permitted medical assistance to end their lives.
  Nearly a year and a half after federal legislation enshrined the right of eligible adults to medical aid in dying, the Canadian Paediatric Society says some young patients and their parents are now asking about the service.
  The finding comes from new surveys of the society’s members, which also found pediatrician
  
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• Paula Simons: Record number of immigrants choose Alberta

  26-10-2017 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Traditionally, newcomers to Canada have chosen to live in Canada’s biggest cities — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Alberta, despite its strong economy and its relatively low cost of living, was rarely their first choice.
  No longer.
  Statistics Canada census data released Wednesday shows 207,790 people immigrated to Alberta from other countries over the last census period, from 2011 to 2016.
  Over that same five-year period, only 175,555 immigrants moved to British Columbia.
  That mean
  
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• University of Alberta plans four per cent budget cut in 2018-19

  26-10-2017 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Facing an escalating structural deficit for the second time in four years, the University of Alberta is planning an across-the-board budget cut of four per cent in the next fiscal year, with further 2.5 per cent reductions proposed in each of the two following budgets.
  To try to eliminate or at the very least curb its $14-million structural deficit, the university announced Tuesday it is asking faculties and administrative units to find “efficiencies” to reduce costs.
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• Slain toddler's family packs Cold Lake courtroom during court appearance

  26-10-2017 04:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cold Lake — “I’ve been waiting a long time for this,” the grandfather of a murdered toddler said about the accused killer’s first court appearance Wednesday.
  Sherman Robert Whitford, 35, appeared in court via CCTV after being charged with second-degree murder in relation to the death of 16-month-old Veronica Poitras.
  Members of Veronica’s family, who packed Cold Lake provincial court, hissed at Whitford when his image was transmitted from the Edmonton Remand C
  
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• Take Back the Night organizers plan Friday rally

  26-10-2017 03:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Woman are continuing to stand against sexual assault and gender-based violence at this year’s Take Back the Night.
  This year’s Edmonton event is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday at the Ironworkers Local 720 Union, 10512 122 St. It will include speakers, a march in the 124 Street area, as well as cultural performances.
  For the second year in a row, the event is being organized by Women 4 Rights and Empowerment, a grassroots organization.
  Speaking on behalf of organizers, Merryn Edw
  
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• Edmonton has Canada's second largest Indigenous population: census

  26-10-2017 02:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 76,000 people in the Edmonton region identify as First Nations, Inuit or Métis, once again making it home to Canada’s second-largest Indigenous population. 
  Between 2006 and 2016, metro Edmonton’s Indigenous population rose to 76,205 people from 52,000, census data released Wednesday shows, an increase of nearly 50 per cent that Statistics Canada attributes to natural growth and a rise in the number of people who identify as Indigenous. 
  Around si
  
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• Kenney doesn't let Jean bask in his one public endorsement

  26-10-2017 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here is perhaps all you need to know about the race for leadership of the United Conservative Party.
  On Wednesday afternoon, candidate Brian Jean announced he had the support of former NHL player Theo Fleury.
  It was a nice, soft and warm endorsement from a Stanley Cup winner who has become an advocate for sexual assault victims.
  “Talking with Brian, I can see the type of man he is,” said Fleury. “He’s someone who cares deeply about his province and his community. He will
  
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• Military, University of Alberta offer one-of-a-kind faculty of law internship

  26-10-2017 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ali Matour and Dane Patton are in their final year of studies at the University of Alberta’s faculty of law.
  They are also interns at the Canadian military’s Judge Advocate General’s office — the first of their kind, because no other law school in Canada offers such an opportunity.
  At a ceremony Wednesday, the internship was made formal after Paul Paton, dean of the faculty of law, and Commodore Geneviève Bernatchez, the Canadian Forces’ Judge Advocate Genera
  
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• Airport security screeners soiled themselves after they weren't allowed breaks, union says

  26-10-2017 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton International Airport pre-boarding screeners have filed hundreds of grievances about delayed or missed breaks that union officials say resulted in at least four staffers soiling themselves.
  Although workers are supposed to receive two or three half-hour breaks a day, depending on the length of their shift, employer GardaWorld changed how it interpreted that provision last spring, Jordan Madarash, vice-president and business agent for Teamsters local 362, said Wednesday.
  The company indi
  
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• Wildlife: Claws to the sky, a pitch for a Wolverine statue in Fort McMurray

  26-10-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sam Singh laughs when I tell him his idea’s a little crazy. Yet his points line up nicely as he pitches a life-size Wolverine statue, which he hopes to have nestled into Fort McMurray — a long-clawed tribute to northern resilience.
  Tuesday night, at PechaKucha, he did the same.
  “After the wildfire in Fort MacMurray,” he explains, “like most Albertans I wanted to think of something to do that could contribute to the community. After the economy collapsed and with the
  
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