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• Officials pledge to cut unsafe contractors out of city bidding process

  07-11-2017 23:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents are being unfairly left to fend for themselves when homes are damaged by city infrastructure projects, says Coun. Mike Nickel. 
  On one drainage project, the city took photos of each foundation before work began. Then a homeowner’s foundation cracked as a contractor tunnelled underneath.
  But when the homeowner approached the city, said Nickel, “the city’s comment was: ‘go sue the subcontractor.'” People are saying “the city has left me i
  
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• Albertans have less risky booze habits than Australians: study

  07-11-2017 22:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  It seems apt that the idea to undertake a study comparing the drinking habits of Albertans with those of people living in the northern Australian state of Queensland happened over a few frothies.
  Richard Franklin, an associate professor at James Cook University in northern Australia, and Don Voaklander, director of the Injury Prevention Centre at the University of Alberta, were at a pub having the perennial debate about which country drank more beer when they decided to do something about it.&nb
  
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• Two taken to hospital after emergency crews respond to car wash call

  07-11-2017 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people have been taken to hospital with what appears to be carbon monoxide poisoning.
  Ambulances and fire rescue crews were called to the Aventus Auto Spa at 9303 111 Ave. around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday after two people fell ill.
  Two people were taken to hospital, one in stable condition the other in serious but stable condition, while fire crews evacuated the auto spa and a neighbouring business as they ventilated the area.
  
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• Memo to Ryan Strome: This would be a great time to bring your "A" game. Signed, Oilers fans

  07-11-2017 21:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 14: Oilers at Islanders
  Among the several off-season moves that has yet to pay dividends* for the Edmonton Oilers, the one with the highest profile comes into direct focus tonight, when Ryan Strome and the Oil pay a visit to Brooklyn to take on Jordan Eberle and the New York Islanders. 
  (* – he said diplomatically)
  Not merely the principals in a trade, these two were dealt for each other one-for-one back on June 22 so the comparables are both inevitable and entirely justified
  
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• RCMP on the hunt for murder suspect believed to be armed and dangerous

  07-11-2017 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP are on the hunt for a murder suspect after 26-year-old Michael Mountain was shot to death in a Lac La Biche home.
  Mountain was found with a fatal gunshot wound around 4 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 28. 
  RCMP were first called for sounds of gunfire at the 10408 102 Ave. home in Lac La Biche where they found Mountain. He was transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  On Tuesday, RCMP said an arrest warrant has been issued for Lloyd Wesley Boudreau, 22, of Lac La Biche, now charge
  
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• Jason Kenney says UCP will oppose gay-straight alliance Bill-24

  07-11-2017 19:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  After five days of deliberation, the United Conservative Party has decided it will oppose the government’s Bill 24, an Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances.
  In making the announcement Tuesday morning, UCP leader Jason Kenney said the act gives the education minister unnecessary powers and is simply a “desperate attempt” by the government to deflect attention away from its failed fiscal policies.
  The act would make it illegal for teachers to inform parents if their child had jo
  
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• Student at Evansdale school diagnosed with diphtheria

  07-11-2017 18:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A “small group” of people may be at risk for contracting diphtheria after an elementary school student fell ill with the vaccine-preventable disease, according to Alberta Health Services.
  Edmonton Public Schools spokeswoman Carrie Rosa said Tuesday the student, diagnosed with cutaneous diphtheria (a skin infection) last week, attends Evansdale School, which is in north-central Edmonton and has a large population of newcomers to Canada.
  Public health staff contacted “a small gro
  
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• Critical shortage of winter gloves, boots prompts public plea

  07-11-2017 18:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Facing a critical shortage of cold weather clothes, two charity organizations are pleading for Edmontonians to donate winter gloves and boots as the mercury begins to plummet. 
  “When temperatures drop, the needs of our community begin to rise,” The Mustard Seed managing director Dean Kurpjuweit said in a release.
  “Given their circumstances, many of our participants face exposure to the elements. Without warm homes to take shelter in, items like gloves and boots become
  
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• City Unwraps Toys for Tickets

  07-11-2017 17:27
  Campaign supports less fortunate families in St. Albert The City will be unwrapping its annual Toys for Tickets campaign to... Read Post
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Look beyond stiffer parking fines

  07-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City officials call for heftier parking fines,” Nov. 3
  Has city council surveyed communities to discover the downside of its parking policies? Do they really believe people park illegally because fines are too low? Or could it be that support and incentives to park near our residences fail us? 
  After years away, I recently returned to Edmonton, and was almost immediately hit with a $50 ticket for parking a couple of metres from a narrow driveway near my residence.
  
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• Opinion: Dying naturally allows terminal patients time for resolution and growth

  07-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Euthanasia is still the new kid on the block in medicine. It seems to be the thing to do if you have any significant health problem that might threaten to cut your life short. 
  As a reminder, euthanasia is not a right. The new law approved in June 2016 allows it in certain circumstances, but the law prohibiting urging a suicide is still, thankfully, in force. So far, over 1,500 people in Canada have had the euthanasia procedure done to them by a doctor or nurse practitioner.
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• Edmonton public school teachers get more professional development money

  07-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton public school teachers will receive more money for individual professional development in a new contract ratified earlier this fall.
  The district’s 6,400 teachers voted 93 per cent in favour of the one-year deal, which runs from Sept. 1, 2017, to Aug. 31, 2018.
  “With what we’ve heard from teachers, they’re happy,” Heather Quinn, president of the Edmonton Public Teachers Local 37, said Friday.
  For the first time in Alberta, teachers bargained their salaries
  
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• Calgary ex-principal accused of having sex in school, housing animals at school and 'fraud'

  07-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The professional credentials of a Calgary elementary school ex-principal are in question for allegedly designating students as “special needs” without proper assessments in an effort to get more money for his school.
  Mark Patrick Buckley is also accused of having a sexual encounter with an adult in the music room of West Dover Elementary School on a weekend, and of housing animals for three years in an unsafe “zoo-like environment” throughout the school, presenting o
  
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• 'Classic neighbour from hell' who idles truck prompts bylaw review

  07-11-2017 03:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Karine Malloy’s neighbour idles his diesel pickup beside her house for so long, the fence is stained black.
  She’s worried about the carcinogens, annoyed by the deep rumble that carries through her house, frustrated because the decibel level is just shy of the city bylaw. That means police and city officials say they can do nothing.
  “We breathe this in on a daily basis,” she told council’s community services committee Monday, pleading for changes to Edmonton’s
  
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• Life sentence for man who murdered Whitefish Lake teens

  07-11-2017 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who pleaded guilty to killing two teenagers at Whitefish Lake First Nation last year has been sentenced to life in prison.  
  Edward Devin Boyce Gladue, who was arrested in the shooting deaths of Dylan Laboucan, 17, and Cory Grey, 19, was given a life sentence at the Peace River courthouse Monday. 
  The teenagers, who were boyfriend and girlfriend, were killed July 23, 2016, after returning to the Laboucan home at Whitefish Lake First Nation. Gladue, who was 19 at the tim
  
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• Impaired school bus driver who hit tree, sign, sentenced to 45 days in jail

  07-11-2017 02:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  RED DEER, Alta. — An Alberta woman has been sentenced to 45 days in jail for being drunk while driving a school bus.
  Shelly Joy Kolodychuk of Red Deer was also given a 12-month driving ban and 12 months’ probation in court Monday.
  The 42-year-old pleaded guilty in September to one count of operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol level over .08.
  No one was injured when the bus carrying 18 students aged five to 12 struck a tree on June 5.
  A witness called 911 after the bus hit a
  
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• Paula Simons: Calgary secondary suite rules are laughably second-rate

  07-11-2017 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Never mind the relative performance of our two hockey teams. Never mind whether the Edmonton Fringe is better than the Calgary Stampede.
  No, if you, as an Edmontonian, ever wish to engage in a little Calgarian-inspired Schadenfreude, secondary suite day is for you.
  Once a month, Calgary city council goes through the painful ritual of hearing individual applications to develop secondary suites. One at a time.
  If hell exists, an entire level of it is dedicated to covering secondary suite hearings.
  
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• Edmonton lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee files suit against federal government

  07-11-2017 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer is representing a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who is suing the Canadian government for its alleged complicity in abuse carried out by American officials. 
  Algerian national Djamel Ameziane is claiming $50 million in damages, alleging the Canadian government co-operated with the United States while he was being arbitrarily detained without cause in the notorious American military prison in Cuba. 
  His lawyer, Edmonton’s Nate Whitling, confirmed the statement o
  
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• Notes from the dome: Alberta Party promoted, forestry fix, Eid al-Adha marked

  07-11-2017 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark couldn’t keep the smile off his face Monday.
  Speaker Robert Wanner has ruled his party will get additional questions in the house and more cash now it has another MLA.
  Clark would also like official party status. It’s still not quite there but, as he said Monday, “baby steps.” He said the change means his party, which doubled in size when former NDP MLA Karen McPherson crossed the floor, can better hold the government to account. 
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• No Stone Left Alone: students lay poppies at cemetery

  07-11-2017 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Ryan Jaworsky stood before a soldier’s gravestone at Beechmount Cemetery before placing a poppy upon it, he couldn’t help but wonder about the life the soldier lived and the price that was paid for his own freedom.
  “It’s a lot more surreal to be in front of the graves of people who have died for your country than to just be in the classroom and learning about it from a book,” said Jaworsky, a Grade 9 student from Riverbend Junior High School, one of hundreds of s
  
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• Five people found naked after Nisku crash arrested

  07-11-2017 00:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five people found naked after a two-vehicle crash in Nisku that RCMP said was “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 RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott in a news release.  
  All five people — four women and one man — were transpo
  
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