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• Inmates bored, traumatized by time in Alberta federal prisons: report

  31-10-2017 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Inmates in federal custody are often poorly equipped to reintegrate into society after their sentences due to sub-par conditions at Canadian prisons, the country’s prison watchdog said.  
  Ivan Zinger, Canada’s correctional investigator, released his annual report on the state of federal prisons Tuesday.  
  He said Canadians are getting a poor return on the roughly $115,000 invested in each federal prisoner each year, due to conditions of confinement that “ser
  
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• New Fairfield Inn coming at Edmonton International Airport

  31-10-2017 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction is underway on a second Marriott hotel at the Edmonton International Airport near what is thought to be the site of a future Costco store.
  The five-storey Fairfield Inn by Marriott will be located south of Airport Road close to the outlet mall, featuring 135 rooms and suites, a swimming pool, hot tub, fitness room and lobby bar, said Nick Kary, vice-president of operations for his family’s K5 Investment Group.
  While the concrete structure will have lower prices than Marri
  
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• RCMP continue to battle vehicle theft - St. Albert Gazette

  31-10-2017 23:29 via stalbertgazette.com
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  RCMP continue to battle vehicle theft
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  St. Albert detachment commander Inspector Pamela Robinson said that the second quarter policing report did not hold any surprises. Most of the numbers reported stayed relatively consistent with the last few years with a few small jumps. But Robinson ...
  
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• Tool library to open in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  31-10-2017 23:19 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Tool library to open in St. Albert
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  A group of volunteers are hammering home the need for a new library. Only instead of shelves filled with books, the library will be filled with saws, sewing machines and other things. “We'll offer those random kind of things that people use once every ...
  
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• Alberta slowing down its infrastructure spending

  31-10-2017 21:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government will ramp down its infrastructure spending as Alberta’s economy continues to recover.
  Transportation Minister Brian Mason said Tuesday his government’s $5-billion, four-year infrastructure investment project was never intended to last forever.
  “We’ll always need to make healthy investment in our infrastructure … but it was a special program to deal with effects of the downturn in the economy,” he said.
  “It’s not permanent
  
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• Alberta privacy commissioner investigating 800,000 deleted government emails

  31-10-2017 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into 800,000 emails deleted by government and political staffers under the NDP, including in the premier’s office.
  According to a letter obtained by Postmedia, privacy commissioner Jill Clayton has directed her assistant commissioner, LeRoy Brower, to look into executive council, Service Alberta, and the departments of education and transportation. 
  The investigation centres around sparse inboxes and sent folders
  
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• City hall security won't allow water bottles in council chambers

  31-10-2017 20:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Security officials running the new metal detectors at city hall said that water bottles must be left behind when members of the public want to watch a council meeting.
  Metal detectors were brought in for the first time Tuesday and will now be used for every council meeting and committee meeting open to the public. According to staff manning the lines Tuesday morning, food and all beverages — plus any flammable substance, weapon or projectile — must be surrendered before entering cham
  
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• New Fairfield Inn opening at Edmonton International Airport

  31-10-2017 18:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction is underway on a second Marriott hotel at the Edmonton International Airport near what is thought to be the site of a future Costco store.
  The five-storey Fairfield Inn by Marriott will be located south of Airport Road close to the outlet mall, featuring 135 rooms and suites, a swimming pool, hot tub, fitness room and lobby bar, says Nick Kary, vice-president of operations for his family’s K5 Investment Group.
  While the concrete structure will have lower prices than Marri
  
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• Privacy commissioner investigating 800,000 deleted government emails

  31-10-2017 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into 800,000 emails deleted by government and political staffers under the NDP, including in the premier’s office.
  According to a letter obtained by Postmedia, Jill Clayton has directed her assistant commissioner LeRoy Brower to look into executive council, Service Alberta, education and transportation. 
  The investigation centres around sparse inboxes and sent folders belonging to top staffers in Premier Rachel No
  
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• Downtown construction puts Edmonton Christmas lights display on hiatus

  31-10-2017 18:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of Edmonton’s most popular festive season traditions — lighting up downtown for more than 20 years — is on hiatus thanks to construction in and around Churchill Square.
  The Downtown Business Association’s Holiday Light Up won’t go ahead this year because of public safety concerns with renovations and construction underway in and around Churchill Square and the LRT station.
  That means plans to erect a giant 70-foot tall Christmas tree have been shelved
  
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• Harsh reaction to Connor McDavid's Trump costume is utterly at odds with the spirit of Halloween

  31-10-2017 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The harsh and over-the-top negative reaction against Connor McDavid’s Halloween costume is utterly at odds with the spirit of Halloween. It’s a sourpuss take on the whimsical, wild and wicked freedom of expression that Halloween represents.
  As everyone on social media now knows, McDavid dressed up as Donald Trump with his girlfriend Lauren Kyle dressing up as Melania for Halloween. 
  This has provoked calls that McDavid’s actions are at least insensitive and at worst an end
  
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• Victim shot in Elk Point area home invasion

  31-10-2017 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was rushed to hospital after being shot during a home invasion near Elk Point Sunday morning, RCMP say. 
  Around 6:15 on Oct. 29, Elk Point RCMP were called to a home invasion in Frog Lake, a rural hamlet 200 kilometres east of Edmonton. 
  Officers were told that “several” suspects broke into the residence after shooting the front door with a firearm. A victim sleeping near the front entrance was hit and was assaulted during the break-in. The suspects stole a TV an
  
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• Player grades, Games 1-10: Edmonton Oilers can't wait to turn the calendar on awful October

  31-10-2017 17:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  O for Oilers, O for Optimism, O for October. Or so it feels as the NHL season’s opening month mercifully comes to a close. The Edmonton Oilers 2017-18 season kicked off optimistically enough, with plenty of discussion around the hockey world naming the locals among the favourites for the Stanley Cup. They shut down provincial rivals Calgary Flames 3-0 in the season opener, and they were on their way …
  … right off a cliff. The Oil lost their next four games, all in regulation,
  
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• Photo Enforcement Locations - November 2017

  31-10-2017 16:11
  The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of the Day locations for November 2017.   Enforcement... Read Post
  
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• St. Albert Celebrates Sports Day

  31-10-2017 15:30
  Learn about all the great sport opportunities in your community! Sports play a very important role in our community by... Read Post
  
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• Old Scona parents complain about longtime lack of gym

  31-10-2017 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Old Scona Academic High School has much to offer students — academic excellence, a small and close-knit community, performing arts classes and the International Baccalaureate program.
  What it doesn’t have is a gymnasium — not in 1976, when the school opened in the Strathcona Collegiate Institute building on 84 Avenue, and not now.
  Parent council members say that should change, arguing a gym should be a basic requirement for any school.
  As other city high schools receive second
  
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• Tuesday's letters: MP misses point of safe injection sites

  31-10-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “MP hosts impassioned debate over supervised injection sites in southwest,” Oct. 30
  The title of your article should have been “MP misses the point.” Supervised consumption services (SCS) primarily save lives, and anyone who has lost a loved one can tell you how important that is.
  Our son Danny died from an overdose in 2014. He was only 25, was a promising young chef and is dearly missed by his family and friends. There are many families like ours who are members in o
  
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• Opinion: Cultural safety must be part of Indigenous health care

  31-10-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Canada 150 celebrations began in July, indigenous people reminded Canadians that they were here long before Confederation. As Canadians consider the impact of colonization on indigenous people, stories about indigenous health care are emerging.
  In his compelling book, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care, Gary Geddes reports elders’ experiences in segregated, under-staffed, overcrowded Indian Hospitals where some were subjected to experimental
  
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• Edmonton ghost hunter haunts cemeteries for signs of paranormal

  31-10-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Beth Fowler is a vision in black. Her blond hair falls on her shoulders like frost tips, and her long, black-painted fingernails poke out from fingerless gloves holding a Doctor Who bag. Her breath comes out in curls of white in the cold night air.
  It’s 8:08 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13, and Fowler, a paranormal investigator is standing with her back to the street, taking pictures of the graves where her grandparents lie at the Edmonton Cemetery.
  She’s searching for paranormal activity. The
  
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• Morinville RCMP investigate body found in field

  31-10-2017 04:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Morinville RCMP were investigating Monday after a man’s body was discovered by a farmer in a field in eastern Sturgeon County.
  The investigation, in conjunction with the RCMP Major Crimes Section, was in the preliminary stages, an RCMP news release said Monday.
  An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday in Edmonton.
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• Man faces charges after pedestrian killed near Red Earth Creek

  31-10-2017 03:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 36-year-old motorist is facing several charges after a pedestrian was struck and killed early Monday near Red Earth Creek. 
  The man was charged with dangerous driving causing death, failing to remain at the scene of an accident where death was caused and two counts of driving while disqualified, RCMP Cpl. Chris Warren said in a news release Monday.
  A 25-year-old man died after being struck by a vehicle at around 12:50 a.m. Monday on Highway 686 near Peerless Lake, police said. 
  Dale
  
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• UCP chief whip Ric McIver demands premier apologize to all Catholics for consent comments

  31-10-2017 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party chief whip Ric McIver demanded Premier Rachel Notley apologize to all Alberta Catholics Monday for her comments about sex education documents, saying she “maligned an entire faith community.”
  “The premier accused every Catholic in Alberta essentially of being in favour of non-consensual sex, or rape, and she needs to apologize,” McIver, who is Catholic, said in an interview Monday.
  At issue is Notley’s response to documents authored by Cath
  
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• 'I thought they were going to kill me': Glenora Skyline kidnapping case goes to trial

  31-10-2017 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trial began Monday for one of the men accused in the kidnapping and beating of a prominent local businessman.
  Raheel Ghias Khalon, 31, and David Chipere, 46, each face a string of charges related to the alleged kidnapping and beating of Alex Davidoff in July 2013.
  Davidoff, who owned a jewelry company and was leading the development of a Glenora condo project at the time, was missing for about 36 hours until he was discovered in a Sherwood Park home by police.
  Chipere pleaded guilty
  
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• Pair charged with murder in industrial park fatal shooting plead guilty to lesser charges

  31-10-2017 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of a man who was shot in the head and whose body was left in a burning Jeep have pleaded guilty to lesser offences.
  Shane Terry Tym, 30, and Sarah Jane Posthumus, 31, were both arrested out of province after an extensive RCMP investigation into the late December 2014 death of Adrian Nicholas Gregory, 30.
  Gregory’s body was discovered in a burning late-1990s green Jeep in an industrial park off 34 Street early on Dec. 30
  
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• It's Halloween every day at the legislature

  31-10-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’ve ever visited the Alberta legislature and wondered if it’s haunted, let me assure you it most definitely is.
  You should have seen the place Monday, on the eve of Halloween.
  There were spectres all over the place.
  There was United Conservative Party MLA Dave Rodney about to shuffle off the mortal coil that is his seat in the legislature. He’s quitting Wednesday to force a byelection to allow new party leader Jason Kenney a chance at a seat in the assembly.
  Speak of the
  
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• Province introduces legislation to make pre-payment for fuel mandatory

  31-10-2017 00:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s labour minister introduced legislation Monday to require pre-payment for fuel in an effort to prevent violence against gas station workers. 
  The bill, which would amend the Occupational Health and Safety Code, makes pre-payment mandatory across Alberta effective next June 1, said Labour Minister Christina Gray. 
  Pay-at-the pump technology — which comes at a price tag of around $30,000 per pump for retailers — isn’t the only option, Gray said, adding th
  
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• All Edmonton compost being sent to landfill after safety fears shutter aeration hall

  31-10-2017 00:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The aeration hall at Edmonton’s signature composting facility has been shut down because of a “significant and imminent risk” to its structural integrity.
  A report heading to utility committee Tuesday says the issues were found recently through a routine assessment of the building. But the facility had to be completely shut down “to protect the safety of employees and contractors.”
  It’s unknown how much this will cost utility ratepayers.
  Waste services branch
  
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• Suicides by Indigenous youth point to need for better support, says child and youth advocate

  31-10-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The suicide deaths of two Indigenous youth after being denied services by government workers are indicators of a larger problem, Alberta’s child and youth advocate said Monday.
  Del Graff’s office has seen a “marked increase” in the number of youth who have asked child intervention services for help but have been denied, a new report said.
  Graff said he isn’t sure whether it’s because more young people are aware of services, “or if there’s an actual
  
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