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• UPDATED: St. Albert woman facing fentanyl trafficking charges - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2017 23:54 via stalbertgazette.com
  UPDATED: St. Albert woman facing fentanyl trafficking charges
  St. Albert Gazette
  A search warrant was executed on Oct.19 by Stony Plain/Spruce Grove Municipal Drug Unit, with the assistance of the St. Albert Drug Unit and the K Division Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response (C.L.E.A.R) Team at a home in St. Albert.and more »
  
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• Sardinian wines reflect the intense richness of the island

  27-10-2017 23:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  What could be better than a holiday destination with sandy beaches, pastoral hills dotted with grazing sheep, olive groves and best of all, amazing wines? Wine from Sardinia, an island off Italy’s west coast in the Mediterranean Sea, deserves more attention. 
  Cannonau, a.k.a. Grenache, is the Island’s most recognized grape varietal. It produces soft, rich, red wines with concentrated fruits, mingled with floral notes, warm spices and then all-wrapped-up in freshness.  The i
  
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• Press Gallery #203: From Voting To The Vatican edition

  27-10-2017 23:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  From the United Conservative Party leadership race to the Sturgeon River-Parkland federal byelection, this week was all about casting votes for some Albertans. 
  The Press Gallery podcast team takes a look at both those ballots, as well as a flying visit by the prime minister, which didn’t seem to leave much of a dent in the support for Conservative candidate Dane Lloyd. 
  The team also mulls over the kerfuffle surrounding a sex-ed learning plan proposed by Alberta’s Cat
  
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• Fitness: Borrow from both ends of the 'no pain, no gain' continuum to lose a bit of weight or grow muscle

  27-10-2017 23:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nothing has both inspired and terrified budding fitness enthusiasts than the age-old adage “no pain, no gain.” Question is, does it work?
  Well, depending on your perspective, this can be a good/bad news story. The details of the story revolve around individual goals and the motivations that inspire them.
  There is a significant difference between exercising for health and exercising for performance or esthetic purposes. 
  Those in the health camp can rest easy. To achieve results,
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: How do we raise sweet, young boys to be kind, respectful men?

  27-10-2017 22:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  My in-laws have six grandchildren, all of them boys.
  My husband and his siblings are all parents to boys-only, and Jesse is responsible for half of the brood.
  My family and I often say that we were meant to have boys. Because we’ll do everything we can to make sure that they are kind, sensitive and loving. And that, if they are heterosexual, they will have healthy relationships with women.
  The flood of sexual misconduct and assault allegations against Hollywood studio head Harvey Weinstein
  
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• Wanted man arrested outside St. Albert Centre - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2017 22:43 via stalbertgazette.com
  Wanted man arrested outside St. Albert Centre
  St. Albert Gazette
  A man wanted on a Canada wide warrant was arrested this week outside of the St. Albert Centre SportChek. On Tuesday afternoon Nelson Saulteaux, 34, of the Paul Band First Nation was arrested without incident outside of the mall on Red Willow Trail.
  
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• Stolen trailer stuffed with 64 animal-shaped shooting targets

  27-10-2017 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A selection of animal-shaped shooting targets became the targets of crime after a trailer containing 64 of the figurines was stolen from the St. Paul Archery Club, police said Friday.
  St. Paul RCMP were called to the St. Paul Archery Club after a white eight-metre Vanguard trailer was stolen by thieves using a white Ford pickup truck around 4 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12.
  According to police, there were 64 3-D animal targets inside the trailer.
  The trailer itself is valued at around $10,000, but th
  
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• Shadow Theatre's Constellations explores love through time and space

  27-10-2017 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  REVIEW
  Constellations by Nick Payne
  Theatre: Shadow Theatre
  Cast: Mat Busby and Liana Shannon
  Directed by: Amy DeFelice
  Where: The Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave.
  Running: until Nov. 12
  Tickets: available through the Shadow Theatre website at shadowtheatre.org
  The wise and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Carol Shields, while dying of breast cancer, once said that life provides plenty of time to do the things we need to do. Whether that’s true or not ricocheted through my mind throughou
  
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• Politicians set to return to Alberta legislature for fall sitting

  27-10-2017 21:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Politicians returning to the Alberta legislature Monday are slated to debate issues ranging from the education curriculum overhaul to cannabis store regulations during the fall sitting. 
  The NDP will be sparring with opposition parties over public-versus-private cannabis stores, a sex-ed curriculum proposal by Catholic school superintendents, and rules around gay-straight alliances in schools. 
  Labour Minister Christina Gray said earlier this month that she will bring forward measures
  
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• Hybrid vision frees ballet to update enduring tale of seduction

  27-10-2017 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Preview
  Alberta Ballet presents Dangerous Liaisons
  Where: Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
  When: 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov.3, and Saturday, Nov.4
  Tickets: $34 to $145 from Ticketmaster (1-855-985-5000 or http://www.ticketmaster.ca)
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  Seduction, deceit, greed, revenge.
  That’s the sort of dark stuff that has seen Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses — or Dangerous Liaisons — adapted at least four times to film alone, and again to theat
  
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• Memories of man killed in ammonia leak live on through his guitars

  27-10-2017 14:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  When someone plays one of Jason Podloski’s handmade guitars, his mother Donna Podloski says it’s like “Jason is singing.”
  “We cry, we laugh, we’re reflecting on Jason’s life,” his father, Peter Podloski said Thursday from his home near Vilna, Alta., 157 km northeast of Edmonton. “We’re hurting, we’re suffering, but as we think about the celebration of his life, his life where he’s touched people throughout his travels, it ma
  
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• Police centralize victim services, worrying long-time volunteer

  27-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A longtime volunteer worries an Edmonton Police Service plan to centralize support services for crime victims could have unintended consequences.
  The EPS Victim Services Units, currently located in six police stations, will be moved to a single location at the Nexus Building, 14315 118 Ave. 
  That will allow for better staffing and more hours for victims of crime to seek help from a victim services volunteer — who field crisis calls, provide court accompaniments and do home securi
  
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• Opinion: B.C. should build Site C, but get Alberta involved

  27-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) will soon report to the government on the consequences of terminating, suspending or completing the Site C dam. It is an understatement to acknowledge the passionate differences of opinion on what should be done.
  Opponents say Site C isn’t needed and there are better sources if and when B.C. Hydro requires additional power to meet demand for electricity. B.C. Hydro points out that abandoning Site C will force it to write off over $3 billion in sunk and
  
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• Friday's letters: Majority approved of Iveson's performance

  27-10-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Most Edmontonians didn’t vote for Iveson,” Letters, Oct. 19
  I disagree with this interpretation. It is generally agreed that people do not vote for a candidate that they like, they vote against one that they dislike and want to replace.
  Using this logic, only 14 per cent of eligible voters voted against Don Iveson, therefore 86 per cent of voters either voted for him or approved of his performance enough to not vote against him.
  I certainly do not agree with all of Mayor I
  
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• Player grades: Other shoe finally drops, Edmonton Oilers start finding the net in 5-4 barnburner over Stars

  27-10-2017 12:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stars 4, Oilers 5
  After playing three consecutive 2-1 games on an excruciating road trip, the Edmonton Oilers played a trio of 2-1 periods on their return to home ice, winning two of them and ultimately the game, 5-4 against Dallas Stars.
  At long last, the puck started to go into the net for the goal-starved Oil, with the first and second lines contributing two goals each before defenceman Matt Benning delivered the coup de grâce with 2:27 to play in regulation. The third and fou
  
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• The 6 howl-worthy plays in Edmonton Oilers 5-4 win over Dallas Stars

  27-10-2017 06:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not sure how you are as a fan, but I do a lot of howling, cursing and whooping during the average Edmonton Oilers game.
  Here are the six plays that had me doing all three during Edmonton’s 5-4 win over the Dallas Stars on Saturday: 
  Eric Gryba’s big hit on Remi Elie. So far this year Gryba and most of the Oil’s big bruisers haven’t been nearly bruising enough, but they all cranked it up against the big, tough and hated Dallas Stars. Gryba’s hit on Elie was part
  
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• Woman hit by U-Haul truck in Edmonton attack allowed weekend visits home

  27-10-2017 05:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  While Kim O’Hara is functioning at about a Grade 1 level — lower than her nine-year-old son — it’s “leaps and bounds” from where she was after being hit by a U-Haul truck on Jasper Avenue in the early hours of Oct. 1.
  Now being treated at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, O’Hara is allowed home on weekends — but the outlook wasn’t always so positive, Hayley Bradford, a close friend, said Thursday.
  “We had no idea what kind of i
  
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• Alberta heritage fund growth hindered by economic downturn, says government official

  27-10-2017 05:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund reported earnings of $2.3 billion in the last fiscal year, but government officials say the current economy prevents growth of the fund itself.
  “If oil prices were to rise significantly, that would certainly help the budget,” said Lowell Epp, Alberta Treasury Board and Finance assistant deputy minister, at the annual public meeting for the fund’s standing committee Thursday night at the Federal Building.
  The total assets held in the fund
  
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• Crime Stoppers 'jailbirds' help raise funds in Edmonton

  27-10-2017 05:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even as the number of crime tips goes up, the number of people arrested increases and more rewards are given out, Crime Stoppers officials say they have maintained a comfortable budget.
  On Thursday, a “Caught by Crime Stoppers” event was organized for the Crime Stoppers Association of Edmonton and Northern Alberta, which is in its 34th year.
  People in orange jumpsuits sipped coffee, ate doughnuts and browsed their phones as they waited to get “bailed out” — a form o
  
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• Defence lawyers association questions lack of cameras in Edmonton police vehicles

  27-10-2017 04:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $6.2-million price tag has put the brakes on installation of in-car video and audio recording systems in the Edmonton police vehicle fleet. 
  Earlier this month, an Alberta defence lawyers organization sent a letter to police Chief Rod Knecht, asking why the Edmonton Police Service remains one of the only major forces in Canada without in-vehicle camera systems.
  Lawyer Alan Pearse, a member of the Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association’s policing committee and whose practice focus
  
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• David Staples: Aaron Paquette the right leader to help us through difficult conversations

  27-10-2017 04:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Difficult conversations are coming for Edmonton. We’re going to dig deeply into everything from promoting new social housing units across the city to reconciliation with Indigenous people.
  City council newcomer Aaron Paquette is going to help us through.
  I say this with some certainty since I followed Paquette’s campaign and have now talked to him at length. It’s evident he’s got the right blend of common sense, good humour and passion to bring Edmontonians together on co
  
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• Edmonton's family-owned Cowan Graphics sees challenges ahead after 72 years

  27-10-2017 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Staff from Edmonton’s Cowan Graphics Inc. have travelled the country applying new logos on 4,500 Canada Post vans and 2,500 Shaw Communications vehicles.
  The company was hired as the “cleaner” for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics under a seven-figure contract to hide or remove existing branding from non-Olympic sponsors at all the Games locations.
  They put black stretchy material over corporate identification on phone booths and cash machines, used long sticks to apply decals
  
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• NDP seeks input on changes to farm safety rules

  27-10-2017 02:34 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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• Worker crushed to death by paver at South Haven Cemetery

  27-10-2017 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A worker is dead after being crushed beneath a paver at a construction site at South Haven Cemetery in southeast Edmonton on Thursday afternoon and now emergency crews and Occupational Health and Safety are investigating.
  The construction worker was trapped beneath the paver at the construction site at 5004 Meridian St. around 2:53 p.m., said Claire Harvey, a spokeswoman for Edmonton Fire Rescue Services.
  A few minutes after emergency medical personnel arrived, Alberta Health Services prono
  
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• Councillor floats international design competition on Northlands redevelopment

  27-10-2017 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council mused about launching a new international design competition to find the best ideas for the Northlands site Thursday, fishing for ways to deal with a flood of creative ideas coming from citizens and developers.
  “Like Blatchford, you don’t get these pieces of land very often,” said Coun. Ben Henderson during an overview discussion meant to bring new councillors up to speed.
  “In that case, we did an international design competition and this creates the same opportun
  
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• St. Albert ridings redrawn to include Morinville - St. Albert Gazette

  27-10-2017 00:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Gazette
  St. Albert ridings redrawn to include Morinville
  St. Albert Gazette
  The final report from the provincial Electoral Boundaries Commission has realigned the boundaries of the St. Albert constituencies. The final report was distributed on Oct. 19 and altered the St. Albert constituencies since the release of the interim ...
  
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• Premier Rachel Notley weighs in on the Catholic schools sex-ed plan

  27-10-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Speaking at a building dedication in Edmonton on Oct. 25, 2017, Premier Rachel Notley addressed an alternative sex education curriculum being crafted by Catholic school officials.
  Related
  Catholic school districts want their own sex-education curriculumNotley says NDP has no plans to scrap Catholic education system despite sex-ed controversyNot up to premier to dictate how Catholic schools teach sex education: Kenney
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Hey Ladies, Gordon Lightfoot, and the Jesus and Mary Chain

  27-10-2017 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Art exhibit
  We live in precarious times, when it’s better to team up than go it alone. Artists Tanya Harnett and Marilene Oliver are doing just that at the FAB Gallery for the next couple of weeks, mounting their exhibits Attention Please (Harnett) and Tagged (Oliver) side-by-side for maximum effect. Harnett’s work tackles Aboriginal identity, history, spirituality, and place, while Oliver mixes various scanning technologies with printmaking and sculpture. Opening reception is Thursd
  
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