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• Naked in the ditch: RCMP responding to 'not accidental' Nisku crash find five people 'unclothed'

  06-11-2017 21:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four of five people found naked after a two-vehicle crash at Nisku that RCMP call ‘not accidental’ are being treated for injuries in hospital. 
  Leduc RCMP called to the crash at 9:47 a.m. Monday on Township Road 510 in Nisku found a vehicle in the ditch before taking five people into custody, all of them “not clothed at the time of their arrest,” said Leduc RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott in a news release.  
  Four of the five were transported to hospital. 
  
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• Paperwork, red tape leads to burnout on community league projects: volunteers

  06-11-2017 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s approval process for neighbourhood tennis courts, gardens and other amenities is so frustrating it burns out earnest volunteers, community league members told city councillors Monday. 
  “The project itself is not the hard part … It’s the paperwork,” said Lori Kraus, after the Grandview Heights Community League struggled to refinish its tennis courts and build a facility for beach volleyball.
  “The burden on our volunteers is overwhelming,”
  
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• Clairmont man killed in single-vehicle rollover in northern Alberta

  06-11-2017 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 35-year-old Clairmont man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover in northern Alberta Sunday morning. 
  The man was driving north on Highway 2 near the town of Webster — about 30 kilometres north of Grande Prairie — when his car left the road, police said in a news release Monday.
  A passenger in the vehicle was transported to hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries.
  Conditions were icy at the time, police said.
  The exact cause of the crash is still under investig
  
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• Chris Kelly? Expect Edmonton Oilers to sign him shortly, says NHL insider

  06-11-2017 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from NHL insider Mark Spector of Sportsnet, news on veteran free agent Chris Kelly whom Edmonton brought in on a try-out contract in training camp and has since remained in Edmonton: “Expect Chris Kelly to be signed shortly.”My take
  Spector is as connected as they come when it comes to Oilers insiders. Does he have this right? We’ll know shortly, it would seem. On rumours like this Spector has a damn good batting average. 
  That said, the Oilers just called up grind
  
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• Man refused job due to sexual orientation, race gets $56,000

  06-11-2017 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Human Rights Tribunal awarded a Cold Lake man $56,000 in lost wages and damages from a Vegreville company that refused to hire him because of his sexual orientation and race.
  The Human Rights Tribunal of Alberta found Vegreville Autobody — partly owned by the former mayor of the town, Myron Hayduk — violated the Alberta Human Rights Act when it didn’t hire Rambo Landry.
  “Mr. Landry’s race, sexual orientation and marital status were factors in the respond
  
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• Edmonton Oilers take the long view on Kailer Yamamoto, send him back to major junior

  06-11-2017 18:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brad Malone recalled from Bakersfield
  It took the full 9-game trial plus a few more watching from the press box, but Kailer Yamamoto’s dreams of making the full jump to the NHL in 2017-18 are over. The Edmonton Oilers made that official on Monday morning:Yamamoto will rejoing the Spokane Chiefs for his final year of junior eligibility, very likely with time out to play for the United States at the World Junior Championship.
  After an impressive preseason, Yamamoto got plenty of opportunity
  
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• Youth suicides signal need for culture change in child welfare system: Advocate

  06-11-2017 18:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Indigenous teen girls who died by suicide and a third who died after being hit by a car all experienced traumas ignored by child welfare services, says a new report. 
  “These girls experienced significant early childhood trauma that was not addressed and impacted them throughout their young lives,” said Del Graff, Alberta’s child and youth advocate. 
  In his report released Monday, Graff urges a culture shift within children intervention services to focus on lo
  
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• Player grades: Oilers set stage for PBR by dropping a stinker to close out dismal home stand

  06-11-2017 17:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Wings 4, Oilers 0___
  The PBR Global Cup moves into Rogers Place Sunday night, as the Edmonton Oilers head out on the road for a four-game road trip. But the smell of rodeo was apparent in the rink during Saturday’s 4-0 loss to Detroit long before the bulls moved in.
  The turning point of this game came in the 1st Period. With the game 1-0, a terrible call against Patrick Maroon nullified an Oilers Power Play. Shortly after a brief period of 4-on-4 play, the Oilers committed the rarest o
  
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• Is it time for coach Todd McLellan to break up Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl? Yes

  06-11-2017 16:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  McLellan has solved issue on defence, but now needs to do the same at forward
  There are a number of things that one might reasonably find fault with Oilers coach Todd McLellan, but to be fair to him there are some things going right with the team. 
  For example, when it comes to creating Grade A scoring chances (hard or dangerous shots on net from the inner slot), the Oilers have outchanced the opposition in this category nine out of 13 games. 
  But the Oilers have just three wins and si
  
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• Red ink rising: Economic experts spar over solutions to Alberta's growing debt

  06-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Call it the battle of the bottom line, a red ink rumble sure to take centre stage leading up to Alberta’s next provincial election.  
  Alberta’s finance minister insists the province has the best balance sheet in the country and is sticking with a plan to balance the budget by 2024. But critics paint a far bleaker picture, arguing the NDP is crippling Alberta’s economy through a muddled strategy that won’t effectively address its ballooning debt.
  Government
  
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• Geothermal dispute heats up battle of experts raging over Blatchford

  06-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The development of Blatchford — Edmonton’s signature green community — is running into criticism from within the geothermal industry, and an external “fairness adviser” has been brought in to settle contracting and design concerns.
  “We’re satisfied for now,” said Mickie Poon, CEO of general contractor Karlen-Elecom, whose complaint led the city to hire the independent fairness adviser.
  The company had wanted to bid on a contract to construct the fi
  
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• Player grades by Kurt Leavins: Oilers set stage for PBR by dropping a stinker to close out dismal home stand

  06-11-2017 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Wings 4, Oilers 0
  by Kurt Leavins
  Don’t be fooled by the picture on the byline, the following player grades and comments from tonight’s Washington at Edmonton game were written by Kurt Leavins, who has encountered technical difficulties in publishing them directly.
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  The PBR Global Cup moves into Rogers Place Sunday night, as the Edmonton Oilers head out on the road for a four-game road trip. But the smell of rodeo was apparent in the rink during Saturday’s 4-0 loss to De
  
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• Live-fire exercise sharpens combat skills of troops at CFB Wainwright

  06-11-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Far on the horizon where grey skies meet white earth, something moves very slowly. Almost at a crawl. At first it seems like it’s simply two trees swaying in the wind.
  As enemy soldiers’ eyes and attention turn towards the “trees”  — actually antennas attached to tanks silhouetted against the white background — an opposing armada pulls up behind them as softly as the falling snow and as deadly as black ice.
  Soldiers spill out of tanks camouflaged in white
  
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• Son tracks down father's Edmonton grave after nearly 70 years of searching

  06-11-2017 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every time John Noble discovers new information about his father — a man who disappeared 68 years ago, leaving a young wife and three small children to fend for themselves in a rural hamlet in Ontario — a fresh batch of questions emerges from the void.
  Seven years ago, the retired mathematics teacher, who lives in Peterborough, Ont., began his genealogical journey, picking away at threads in a bid to unravel the mystery of what happened to the man whose first name he shares
  That jour
  
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• Oilers community foundation big winner at charitable gala

  06-11-2017 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavid were altruistically on the same team last week when some $500,000 was raised by the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation.
  But while the entire Oilers hockey team turned out at Rogers Place to support the gala, all had swapped their orange jerseys for formal wear.
  “This was our inaugural Iron and Frost gala,” said Natalie Minckler, executive director of the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation, the club’s charity arm. “We plan to make it on
  
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• Ardrossan firm dredges up business around the world

  06-11-2017 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of an Ardrossan company has developed technology that should speed the removal of toxic tailings ponds polluting defunct mine and industrial sites around the world.
  Conventional dredging generally relies on people operating vessels that float on the surface and suck or dig up material from the bottom, but Canada Pump and Power’s underwater Mighty Dredge is pulled into place by winches and directed by computer, owner Jeremy Leonard said.
  That cuts costs and means humans don’
  
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• Families prepare to testify at inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women

  06-11-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The loved ones of missing and murdered Indigenous women are slated to testify starting Tuesday as the national inquiry gets underway in Edmonton.
  Chief commissioner Marion Buller and commissioner Brian Eyolfson will attend a three-day community hearing from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9, a news release said.
  They will be listening to more than 40 family members and survivors who can testify publicly or in private as well as in sharing circles or through artistic expression panels.
  The National Inquiry i
  
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• Irene Dixon addresses pedestrian safety with new reflective products

  06-11-2017 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  November tends to be the most dangerous month of the year for pedestrians.
  Daylight savings time has just ended and drivers are still adjusting to darker conditions at rush hour. Last year there were 37 pedestrian collisions (fatal and injury) in Edmonton during the month of November, more than twice July’s total.
  Irene Dixon, the creator of Reflective Advantage — a reflective garments line that launched this week — wants to prevent future collisions by making pedestr
  
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• Edmonton lawyer faces disciplinary hearing for critique of judicial appointment

  06-11-2017 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer is facing a disciplinary hearing with the Law Society of Alberta for criticizing a judicial appointment.
  Criminal defence attorney Naeem Rauf appeared before a panel at the society’s downtown Edmonton office on Friday afternoon to make an application related to evidence in his hearing.
  The society alleges that Rauf’s comments breached its code of conduct, and that such conduct is deserving of sanction.
  During his application related to calling witnesses to give evi
  
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