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• Councillor Andrew Knack puts debate on Uber's role in transit back on the table

  02-11-2017 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A role for Uber in Edmonton’s public transit system was shoved back on the council table Thursday as Coun. Andrew Knack grabbed his first opportunity to raise the question.
  Knack asked the city to explore options for getting residents to and from a major transit centre — the so-called “first and last mile solution.”
  That could include subsidizing a private ride-sharing company such as Uber, as some American cities have done. It could also be a public dial-a-bus option wit
  
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• Graham Thomson: David Swann warns of 'dark money' dangers

  02-11-2017 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  He is a party of one, the last MLA standing in the Liberal caucus.
  Tall and thin with craggy features, if you plopped a top hat on his head, you’d have a pretty good approximation of Abraham Lincoln before the beard.
  Lincoln had it easy; he only had to win the American Civil War.
  As the lone Liberal in the Alberta legislature, David Swann is trying to keep his party relevant — a Herculean task at the best of times. But these aren’t the best of times. This is a time when Alberta
  
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• NDP bill to prevent schools from telling parents when kids join GSAs

  02-11-2017 22:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta parents won’t be notified if their child belongs to a gay-straight alliance, or any other school club, should a newly introduced bill pass.
  Bill 24, introduced in the legislature Thursday by Education Minister David Eggen, would also close legal loopholes in the School Act that some schools have used to delay students’ requests to start a gay-straight alliance or similar club.
  “I am so grateful that this government is making changes to ensure that these spaces remain sa
  
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• Council Briefs for October 30th

  02-11-2017 22:08
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Solstice, Wildflower Grill and The Marc vie for your wine-drinking tal

  02-11-2017 21:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Aligra Wine and Spirits is providing the libations for two wine dinners coming up at Edmonton restaurants.
  On Saturday, Nov. 4 at Wildflower Grill (10009 107 St.), Spier Wines from South Africa is profiled during a five-course meal paired with six wines. There are still tickets left if you’re up for a treat this weekend. The cost is $125 and includes tax and tip. To book a seat, go to Aligra’s website at aligrawineandspirits.com/events.
  Then on Tuesday, Nov. 28 Solstice Seasonal
  
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• City officials call for increased parking fines, up to $100 on snow routes

  02-11-2017 21:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Scofflaws beware. Edmonton officials are hoping to increase — in some cases double — the fines for parking on a snow route, over-staying at a parking meter and parking near a fire hydrant.
  The recommendation came out in a report to council’s community services committee Thursday. It gets debated Monday. 
  City officials says the fines are meant to be a deterrent to promote “a safe and orderly city.” They compared the fines to other jurisdictions across Canada an
  
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• More than 200 collisions reported after first seasonal snowfall

  02-11-2017 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of Edmonton drivers got rude reminders Wednesday to slow down when the snow flies. 
  Between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, 213 collisions were reported to the Edmonton Police Service as the city dealt with its first major snowfall this season. 
  One-hundred-and-seventy of those crashes resulted in property damage, while people were injured in 11. In one of the most severe, a mother and her 11-year-old child were transported to hospital after their car struck a bus on Manning Driv
  
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• Andrew Knack puts debate on Uber's role in transit back on the table

  02-11-2017 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A role for Uber in Edmonton’s public transit system was shoved back on the council table Thursday as Coun. Andrew Knack grabbed his first opportunity to raise the question.
  Knack asked the city to explore options for getting residents to and from a major transit centre — the so-called first and last mile solution.
  That could include subsidizing a private ride-sharing company such as Uber, as some American cities have done. It could also be a public dial-a-bus option with smaller publ
  
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• Child advocate calls for better supports after youth stabbed

  02-11-2017 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 16-year-old stabbed multiple times is at the centre of the latest report by Alberta’s child advocate. 
  Dubbed “Dillon” by advocate Del Graff (who uses pseudonyms in all his reports) the teen survived the ordeal, and was able to help Graff’s team understand the circumstances of his life that led to the attack. 
  Dillon lived his life in and out of foster homes. He’s now a resourceful young man being supported by a youth mentor.
  But according to Graff&rsquo
  
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• Gay-straight alliance privacy legislation coming Thursday

  02-11-2017 17:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s Education Minister will today introduce legislation to strengthen privacy protections for students who belong to gay-straight alliances.
  Minister David Eggen said in September he intended to introduce a bill that would prevent school staff from disclosing a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity to others — including family members — without the student’s permission.
  A gay-straight alliance is a school club, supervised by an adult, where students
  
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• 'Dark money' sheds cloud over Alberta politics: David Swann

  02-11-2017 16:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  He is a party of one, the last MLA standing in the Liberal caucus.
  Tall and thin with craggy features, if you plopped a top hat on his head, you’d have a pretty good approximation of Abraham Lincoln before the beard.
  Lincoln had it easy; he only had to win the American Civil War.
  As the lone Liberal in the Alberta legislature, David Swann is trying to keep his party relevant — a Herculean task at the best of times. But these aren’t the best of times. This is a time when Alberta
  
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• 7 things the Edmonton Oilers can do to start winning

  02-11-2017 15:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers now have three wins and eight losses. If they don’t turn things around soon, there will be no turning them around.
  So what to do? 
  Every fan, pundit and blogger, armchair GM and armchair coach has her or his opinion. Indeed, Bruce McCurdy and I did a podcast on this topic last night after Edmonton’s 3-2 loss to Pittsburgh.
  Related: Cult of Hockey player grades in loss to PittsburghHere’s my take, the the top 7 things the Oilers should do right now to tu
  
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• Man killed after fall from south Edmonton construction project

  02-11-2017 14:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man in his late 20s died after a fall at a south Edmonton construction site Wednesday morning.
  A spokesperson for the Alberta Ministry of Labour said the man fell from the third-floor deck of a condo under construction at 101 Street and 84 Avenue, in the city’s Strathcona neighbourhood. 
  Occupational Health and Safety officers were on scene Wednesday and were continuing to investigate, said labour ministry spokesperson Andrew Hanon. 
  The site has been released back to the
  
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• Edmonton commercial real estate prospects looking up

  02-11-2017 13:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  New figures showing a slight rise in Edmonton’s downtown office vacancies since last year and a slight decrease in the suburbs likely bode well for the local economy, a real estate researcher says.
  “I think it’s probably pretty good news,” Craig Hennigar, director of Canadian market intelligence for Colliers International, said earlier this week.
  “Really, there isn’t much change downtown, but my takeaway is we’re past the majority of any hiccups caused b
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Patrick Watson, Casablanca, and Yanni

  02-11-2017 13:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Watson meets ESO
  Patrick Watson sure enjoys experimenting. The Montreal-based singer-songwriter doesn’t sit still stylistically, making music that ranges from indie-rock to cabaret, bringing in unusual instrumentation when it suits him, such as when he decided to “play” a bicycle in the studio for his song Beijing. His Winspear show Thursday, Nov. 2, has Watson continuing along those lines, teaming up with the ESO to augment his unusual sound with expansive orchestral arrangeme
  
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• Thursday's letters: Good riddance to Jasper Avenue redesign demo

  02-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I have never looked forward to the end of October so much as this year, as it brings to an end the Experience Jasper Avenue project, the most ridiculous-ever waste of taxpayer monies.
  How this ever got approved is a mystery and there should be a public accounting of the tax dollars spent to implement, look after and dismantle this ludicrous project.
  Anyone who would actually sit at a picnic table on a main road while cars, buses and trucks go past at 50 km/h within a metre of where you are sitti
  
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• Editorial: Don't let security deter democracy

  02-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Context means a lot when it comes to security shakedowns.
  At the airport, for example, everyone hates doffing one’s shoes, emptying loonies from our pockets and surreptitiously holding up trousers shucked of their belts. We suffer through the tedious indignity because the end reward is enticing: boarding a plane bound for some locale we want to be.
  At Edmonton City Hall, which unveiled somewhat less intrusive airport-style security measures Tuesday, the payoff is less obvious but still imp
  
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• Athabasca University on track with sustainability review: president

  02-11-2017 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost four months after an independent third-party review into the long-term sustainability of Athabasca University was released, its president remains confident the institution can accomplish its series of comprehensive recommendations.
  The report, commissioned by the government and penned by academic Ken Coates, laid out more than a dozen action items that stretch into mid-2018, covering everything from establishing a new mandate and vision statement to addressing northern educational needs a
  
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• Player grades: Another special teams fail, another loss as Oilers run out of race track vs. Cup champs

  02-11-2017 09:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Penguins 3, Oilers 2
  Did Edmonton Oilers find a new way to lose on Wedensday night, or just revisit a few old ones? The Oilers largely matched the Stanley Cup champions stride for stride in a back-and-forth affair, but for the fourth time in four meetings between Sidney Crosby’s Penguins and Connor McDavid’s Oilers, it was the flightless waterfowl who escaped with a one-goal win. In regulation this time, 3-2, leaving the Oilers nothing to show for what was largely a good effort in an
  
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• 'Where they can express themselves': Parents, students offer ideas for Highlands school modernization

  02-11-2017 05:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Natural light, arts programming and energy efficient design were key elements residents want to see in a remodelled and rebuilt Highlands school.
  About 50 people gathered in the 103-year-old junior high Wednesday evening to share how they want a consolidated school to take shape when it becomes a K-9 school in 2020. They scrawled their hopes onto sticky notes, cut pictures out of design magazines and picked interior decor preferences from poster boards.
  “I hope they’ll have an enviro
  
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• Driver killed after minivan, train collide near Viking

  02-11-2017 05:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 49-year-old Viking man is dead after his minivan was hit by a train at Highway 36 and Highway 14 around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
  The minivan was southbound on Highway 36 when it crossed into the path of a westbound train, according to a RCMP news release Wednesday night.
  The man, who was alone in the vehicle, later died in hospital, the release said.
  Traffic was diverted in the area, but has returned to normal, RCMP said.
  The crossing lights and arms were activated at the time of the crash, RCMP
  
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• Christmas In November comes to Ronald McDonald House

  02-11-2017 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jasper Park Lodge hosts a festive meal for the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Edmonton.
  Nik Manojlovich, Gemini Award-winning host helps some of the children make their chocolate bananas as the Jasper Place Lodge once again hosted a festive meal to families at Ronald McDonald House in Edmonton, Nov. 1, 2017.
  On the move is Executive Chef Chris Chafe, as he works to prepare lunch at Ronald McDonald House in Edmonton.
  Executive Chef Chris Chafe, preparing lunch as the Jasper Plac
  
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• Alberta approves pilot programs for injectable opioid therapy

  02-11-2017 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans who have struggled with traditional forms of opioid treatment such as suboxone and methadone could soon have access to an injectable form of therapy.
  The provincial government announced Wednesday it has agreed to develop pilot projects in Edmonton and Calgary that will allow patients to inject the opioid drug hydromorphone under the supervision of medical professionals.
  Currently, such “injectable opioid agonist therapy” is offered only in Vancouver, though Ottawa is also s
  
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• Edmonton releases winter roads maintenance plan

  02-11-2017 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Janet Tecklenborg (Director, Infrastructure Operations, Parks & Road Services, City of Edmonton) talks about the city’s plans to tackle winter road conditions this season. 
   
  
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• Two killed, 14 hurt when vans carrying trick-or-treaters collide on Saddle Lake Cree Nation

  02-11-2017 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were killed and 14 others injured after two vans carrying trick-or-treaters collided on the Saddle Lake Cree Nation on Tuesday evening.
  A van with six occupants was driving southbound on the Northsouth Road when it crossed into the path of a northbound van with 10 occupants around 8:30 p.m, according to RCMP in a news release Wednesday.
  “Both vans had visited St. Paul sometime throughout the evening with regard to trick-or-treating activities for some of the kids, who
  
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• Everyone needs to come together to end family violence, City Hall event told

  02-11-2017 02:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Colleen Sillito was shot to death Oct. 2, 2015, in the driveway of her Fort Saskatchewan home by her ex-boyfriend, who then killed himself. She was a 46-year-old mother of five, and was dating Mike Cameron at the time.
  Speaking at an event to mark Family Violence Prevention Month at the Edmonton City Hall on Wednesday, Cameron said since then, he has decided to be an agent of change so that such a thing does not happen again.
  “I am thrilled because our fine city has recognized that fa
  
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• Company director gets jail time for worker killed in trench collapse

  02-11-2017 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  An excavation company director was sentenced to four months behind bars for his part in the death of a day labourer crushed in a trench collapse in 2015.
  “He got four months for a life,” Dennis Tomyn, the dead worker’s brother, said outside court Wednesday.
  Reading from an agreed statement of facts, Judge Michelle Doyle said Brian Frederick Tomyn, 55 — known by friends and family as Fred — was hired as a day labourer working for cash by Sukhwinder Nagra to
  
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• Notes from the dome: UCP layoffs, Alberta Party status, Métis flag flies high

  02-11-2017 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party is being mum about political staffers laid off under new leader Jason Kenney, but Premier Rachel Notley was happy to bring it up Wednesday.
  She drew the ire of Opposition MLAs in question period by joking the UCP is “struggling with (its) staffing resources right now,” and had to recycle its questions.
  Insiders put the number of layoffs at 26, but house leader Jason Nixon wouldn’t comment on specifics. He said severance payments would be
  
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• New general manager appointed at Shaw Conference Centre

  02-11-2017 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Local hotel and tourism veteran Richard Wong has been appointed the new general manager of the Shaw Conference Centre.
  Wong, who returns to Edmonton after four months as chief operating officer responsible for five British Columbia hotels and resorts with North Coast Hotel Resort Ltd., was previously an executive vice-president with Nova Hotels.
  Before that, his jobs included general manager of the Chateau Lacombe and Sutton Place hotels, vice-president of industry relations with Travel Alberta
  
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• Edmonton city crews test new tool to clear winter roads

  02-11-2017 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thousands of kilometres of city streets will be sprayed with an anti-icing brine as officials test a new tool to keep them clear of snow and ice.
  The expanded pilot program, which began Saturday, will see approximately 3,000 km of streets sprayed with a calcium chloride solution between 24 and 36 hours before a snowfall, helping to prevent snow from sticking to the pavement and, in theory, lessening the amount of plowing and sanding needed to keep roads clear.
  “We’re looking at doing
  
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• "Dark money" sheds a cloud over Alberta politics: David Swann

  02-11-2017 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  He is a party of one, the last MLA standing in the Liberal caucus.
  Tall and thin with craggy features, if you plopped a top hat on his head, you’d have a pretty good approximation of Abraham Lincoln before the beard.
  Lincoln had it easy; he only had to win the American Civil War.
  As the lone Liberal in the Alberta legislature, David Swann is trying to keep his party relevant — a Herculean task at the best of times. But these aren’t the best of times. This is a time when Alberta
  
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• Welcome, all, to the new Edmonton Metropolitan Region

  02-11-2017 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Goodbye, Capital Region. And good riddance.
  For decades, we’ve been saddled with that absurdly generic name, a name that seemed designed, in a quasi-Orwellian manner, to erase our city’s name from the map. We were the anonymous city, which could not speak its name aloud, allegedly for fear of annoying our regional neighbours.
  It was a ridiculous situation, one that savagely undercut our ability to market this place as a magnet for investment, as a tourist destination, as a new home f
  
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• Two killed when vans carrying trick-or-treaters collide on Saddle Lake Cree Nation

  02-11-2017 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were killed and several others are injured after two vans carrying trick-or-treaters collided on the Saddle Lake Cree Nation on Tuesday evening.
  A van with six occupants was driving southbound on the Northsouth Road when it crossed into the path of a northbound van with 10 occupants on board around 8:30 p.m, according to RCMP in a news release Wednesday.
  “Both vans had visited St. Paul sometime throughout the evening with regard to trick-or-treating activities for some
  
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• Woman gets time served for involvement in Sherwood Park manslaughter

  02-11-2017 00:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman who admitted to being an accessory after the fact in a fatal shooting was given time served and two years of probation Wednesday.
  Sarah Jane Posthumus, 31, had been charged with first-degree murder for the 2015 shooting death of Adrian Gregory, 30.
  But Monday, Posthumus instead pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact in a manslaughter. Shane Terry Tym, who Posthumus was dating at the time of Gregory’s death and who also faced a first-degree murder charge, pleaded g
  
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