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• NDP to impose conflict of interest rules on public agencies

  08-11-2017 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government introduced legislation Wednesday that aims to quash conflicts of interest in public agencies by limiting gifts and forcing disclosure, among other rules.
  “This is not retroactive,” said Finance Minister Joe Ceci, explaining the bill would apply to employees and board members at 140 agencies under the Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act.
  The agencies include Alberta Health Services, post-secondary institutions, the Alberta Securities Commission
  
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• Elderly man found dead by fire crews died before fire broke out

  08-11-2017 23:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  An elderly man found dead when fire crews responded to a blaze at his home died before the fire broke out, Edmonton fire officials say.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue Services officials released more information Wednesday on the Nov. 3 fire, which happened in Edmonton’s Beaumaris neighbourhood. 
  Crews responded to the single-family home at 98 Street and 156 Avenue at 9:47 a.m., after a home caregiver arrived and was unable to enter the home due to heavy smoke. 
  When firefighters entered th
  
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• UPDATED: Necklace containing ashes stolen - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 23:30 via stalbertgazette.com
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  UPDATED: Necklace containing ashes stolen
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  Update: St. Albert RCMP are now looking for a black Honda Fit car that was seen parked on the driveway on Monday with four teenage males in it. A St. Albert man is pleading for the return of his late wife's jewelry box. On Tuesday afternoon, Corey Foy ...
  
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• Christmas on its way as tourtières arrive at Highlevel Diner

  08-11-2017 23:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  No sooner has pumpkin spice left the menu that the aroma of tourtière begins to waft from city eateries. Fans of the style made by the Highlevel Diner will be pleased to know that the traditional savoury Christmas pie goes on sale on Nov. 11.
  Here’s what restaurant co-owner Kim Franklin has to say about their creation, which is a “blend of  aromatic spices, potato, onion, beef, pork and turkey all locally produced, antibiotic and hormone-free.”
  “We bake and ba
  
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• RCMP hunt for alleged carjacker who escaped on snowmobile

  08-11-2017 22:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP are on the trail of an alleged carjacker who escaped police on a snowmobile.
  Blackfalds RCMP were called to a collision around 4 p.m. Monday on Township Road 394 on the southern edge of Blackfalds, Alta. Investigators believe an SUV struck a pick up truck, rendering the SUV inoperable.
  The driver of the SUV then took the truck by force, injuring the pickup truck driver during the struggle, police said in a release on Wednesday.
  The pickup truck was later spotted driving on two flat tire
  
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• St. Albert widow pleads for return of pendant containing wife's ashes - Globalnews.ca

  08-11-2017 20:58 via globalnews.ca
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  St. Albert widow pleads for return of pendant containing wife's ashes
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  St. Albert widow Corey Foy is asking for the return of a pendant containing the ashes of his wife Elaine, who died of cancer last year. Supplied. X. - A A +. Listen. Corey Foy just wants his late wife's jewellery and a pendant containing her ashes back ...
  
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• St. Albert widow pleads for return of pendant containing wife’s ashes

  08-11-2017 20:54 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert widow Corey Foy is asking for the return of a jewellery box and pendant containing the ashes of his late wife Elaine, who died of cancer last year.
  
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• Charges laid in largest fentanyl pill seizure in Canadian history

  08-11-2017 20:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have charged four people in connection to the largest fentanyl pill seizure in Canadian history made this summer.
  After an investigation that started in March, Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement (EDGE) members searched a home July 5 in Edmonton, seizing 67,000 fentanyl pills worth approximately $1.9 million on the street.
  Investigators then searched three other properties in Edmonton and another in Sturgeon County, where police discovered a home at 26023 Township Rd. 544 that ap
  
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• Lawyer to appeal an order to pay costs for client's 'abusive' court application

  08-11-2017 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer is appealing a judge’s order that she pay costs related to an “abusive” court application she advanced on behalf of a client. 
  In reasons for decision filed with the Court of Appeal of Alberta on Tuesday, Priscilla Kennedy was granted permission to appeal the ruling that she is personally liable for solicitor and client indemnity costs related to a court application by her client Maurice Stoney.
  Stoney is also liable for costs related to his latest attem
  
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• Police investigate suspicious death in west Edmonton

  08-11-2017 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton homicide police are investigate the death of man in west Edmonton Tuesday night. 
  Emergency medical crews called police officers to help with a disturbance at a residence near 87 Avenue and 178 Street just before 9:30 p.m., police said in a news release Wednesday.
  Upon arrival, police found an injured man at the residence.
  The man, who is in his late 50s, was treated and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  A female was arrested and remains in custody, police said. She
  
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• Cam Talbot's brilliance and 5 other observations on Oilers win over Islanders

  08-11-2017 16:57 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Goalie Cam Talbot stole a game for the struggling Edmonton Oilers.
  Edmonton won 2-1 in overtime on a brilliant Leon Draisaitl-Connor McDavid combo play, but Edmonton was outchanced 19 to 12, including 7-to-2 in the third period.
  The Islanders deserved better, but Edmonton got what it desperately needed, two points.Here are 5 things that stood out:
  
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• Surviving an Edmonton winter

  08-11-2017 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal columnist David Staples has some advice for surviving an Edmonton winter.
  David Staples walks to work on a cold winter day in Edmonton.
  
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• Wildlife — dc3 Art Projects: Five years and a new art bookstore

  08-11-2017 14:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Friday, dc3 Art Projects is launching the succinctly named Bookshop within its shifting white walls. As gallery director Michelle Schultz explains it, “it’s a shop within the gallery dedicated to contemporary art publications — magazines, books, artist editions.”
  The gallery and this new addition sits where it first opened, at 10567 111 St., north of MacEwan University’s Allard Hall.
  The idea, Schultz says, “is to bring in publications that are difficu
  
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• Wednesday's letters: No excuses left for gas-price hikes

  08-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ten years ago, Big Oil charged $1.28/litre for regular gas as crude hit over $140 a barrel.
  They said crude price was the main factor in the pump price. Prior to crude oil plunging three years ago from $112/barrel, when our pump price was $1.10/litre, Big Oil tied pump price consistently to the world price of crude.
  Since crude oil plunged and stayed over 50 per cent lower than three years ago to around $55/barrel, Big Oil has repeatedly cited supply-and-demand issues ranging from refinery shutd
  
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• More funds needed to chew away at child hunger, public schools say

  08-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton public schools want more money and know-how for school nutrition programs, district leaders said Tuesday.
  “The need is much greater than what’s currently being provided,” Edmonton Public school district superintendent Darrel Robertson told the school board at a Tuesday meeting.
  He wants school districts, government ministries and the university to collaborate to find a more effective way to tackle child hunger in schools.
  A Food Banks Canada hunger count in 2016 found
  
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• Editorial: Take the fight out of city hall

  08-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Everyone knows the maxim, “You can’t fight city hall.” It alludes to the futility of  pushing back against any establishment that employs officials by the office tower and churns out red tape by the reel and regulations by the ream.
  To some extent, it’s understandable for officials trained to go by the book to instinctively make it difficult to circumvent procedures when it comes to battles over parking tickets or a backyard fence that falls short of standards. 
  
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• David Staples: My Top 8 ways to defeat Edmonton's winter

  08-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winter invaded over the weekend and commenced its annual beat down of Edmonton.
  The cold and wind freezes toes and kills car batteries. To escape the onslaught, we scurry from work to home. Our only thought of the great outdoors is to curse it. 
  Each winter exposes what Montreal writer Josh Freed has called our dirty little secret, that we’ve become a nation of winter wimps. Most of us can’t wait to get south for a holiday. Our kids stay inside and obsess about video games
  
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• How virtual reality brings St. Albert parties to the next level - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 13:01 via stalbertgazette.com
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  How virtual reality brings St. Albert parties to the next level
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  You open your eyes and the first thing you see is a bomb. There's a clock on the top-right side of the unit. It's ticking down. But then you hear a sound. Your colleagues are asking you questions about what you see. Only you can see the bomb, and if ...
  
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• Player grades: Cam Talbot slams the door as Oilers nudge Islanders 2-1 in overtime

  08-11-2017 07:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 2, Islanders 1 (OT)
  Edmonton Oilers’ best players came up big when it mattered most on Tuesday night. First netminder Cam Talbot built a flesh-and-blood wall in front of the Oilers’ net to nurse a 1-1 tie through a difficult third period, then offensive guns Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl combined on a spectacular game-winning goal 38 seconds into 3-on-3 overtime to pull out a second point for the visitors. 
  Make no mistake, though, it was Talbot’s game to steal,
  
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• St. Albert Dinner Theatre opens the season with The View From Here, a comedic look at mental illness - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert Dinner Theatre opens the season with The View From Here, a comedic look at mental illness
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  In our politically correct world it's not popular to make jokes about mental health issues. But the minute you say “don't” to anyone in theatre, there's an immediate push-back. Now enjoying its seventh season, St. Albert Dinner Theatre (formerly St ...
  
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• Residents compete in city-wide challenge - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Residents compete in city-wide challenge
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  It might not be bikini season, but that didn't stop Jerry Veldhuis from emerging from the change room wearing only a tiny two-piece bathing suit. Roaring with laughter, his teammate snapped a photo and posted it to her Facebook page. If they were going ...
  
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• Province announces bill to prevent gas-and-dash - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Province announces bill to prevent gas-and-dash
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  The Alberta NDP has its sights on stomping out gas theft in the province. The government announced a new bill that would require both pre-payment for fuel and violence-prevention plans at retail fuel and convenience stores. The bill is designed to stop ...
  
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• Great War calendar shows images of war - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Great War calendar shows images of war
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  If you had a relative who served in the First World War, you might find yourself searching for photos in the 2018 Alberta in the Great War calendar, produced by the Archives Society of Alberta. “Perhaps that's him,” you might think as you look at a ...and more »
  
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• Alberta legislature committee mulls getting 'dark money' out of politics

  08-11-2017 05:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stemming the flow of “dark money” into Alberta politics was top of mind at a Tuesday night legislative committee meeting in Edmonton.  
  The last-minute meeting was called at the behest of Calgary NDP MLA Brian Malkinson.
  He told Postmedia he was concerned about the impact political action committees (PACs) and push-polling had on the recent municipal election in Calgary, and doesn’t want to see the same thing happen in provincial politics. 
  But United Conservativ
  
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• Cam Talbot's brilliance makes up for more of same from struggling Edmonton Oilers

  08-11-2017 04:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Goalie Cam Talbot stole a game for the struggling Edmonton Oilers.
  Edmonton won 2-1 in overtime on a brilliant Leon Draisaitl-Connor McDavid combo play, but Edmonton was outchanced 19 to 12, including 7-to-2 in the third period.
  The Islanders deserved better, but Edmonton got what it desperately needed, two points.Here are 5 things that stood out:
  Darnell Nurse is turning into a tower of power on the blueline. He’s skating, hitting and moving the puck like he’s going to stick in the
  
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• Former Alberta man charged with murder after Abbotsford police killing

  08-11-2017 03:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man charged with murder after a veteran Abbotsford, B.C., police officer was shot dead Monday formerly lived Ashmont, Alta. 
  Oscar Ferdinand Arfmann, 65, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the death of Const. John Davidson. 
  Sister-in-law Linda Arfmann told Postmedia the family learned of Oscar Arfmann’s arrest through media coverage Tuesday morning.
  “We are preparing a family statement,” she said from her Edmonton home.
  Another sister-in-law, Pamela Ar
  
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• U of A Faculty of Native Studies now offering PhD for first time

  08-11-2017 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five Indigenous students have become the first cohort to undertake a PhD at the University of Alberta’s faculty of native studies, a watershed moment for the province’s largest university.
  The faculty, recognized as the only independent faculty of native studies in North America, has been building the three-year postdoctoral program since 2012 to add to its four undergraduate programs and master’s program. 
  One of the architects of the program, faculty dean Chris Ande
  
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• Edmonton picked as international vanguard city for work on homelessness

  08-11-2017 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has been selected as an international vanguard city for its data-oriented and transparent approach to ending homelessness.
  It aims to end chronic homelessness by 2020, an achievement the Institute of Global Homelessness hopes can convince other cities such a goal is attainable. It’s selected 10 cities to work with, sharing best practices between them.
  “It’s critical to have these vanguard cities to make that future look possible,” said Rosanne Haggerty, a member
  
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• Kidnapping preceded Nisku crash with carload of naked people

  08-11-2017 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A bizarre crash in Nisku that ended Monday morning with five naked people in police custody began with a kidnapping, RCMP said.
  A man, a woman and a six-week-old child were kidnapped by an unknown number of assailants at a Leduc County home at 9:30 a.m. Monday, police said Tuesday in a news release. The man, whose age was not given, was forced into a vehicle’s trunk.
  The kidnapping victims were targeted and “all parties” knew each other, police said.
  While the car was in motion
  
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• Christian couple say efforts to adopt rejected over their views on sexuality

  08-11-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  An evangelical Christian couple have filed a court application alleging the province discriminated against them based on their religious beliefs by rejecting their application to adopt a child. 
  The Edmonton couple — whose are identified only by initials in court documents — allege an initial recommendation they be allowed to adopt was revoked after “interference” by the Ministry of Children’s Services, and that they were told their religious beliefs relat
  
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• Thomson: Jason Kenney, Rachel Notley go to war over GSAs bill

  08-11-2017 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  This means war.
  Alberta’s NDP government and the official Opposition United Conservative Party have staked out diametrically opposed positions on the sensitive issue of gay-straight alliances in schools.
  They’re so far apart they need binoculars to see each other.
  The government’s Bill 24 — an Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances — will make it illegal for teachers to tell parents their child has joined a GSA without the child’s consent.
  On Tuesday, UCP Leade
  
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• Alberta's economic future in peril without shift away from fossil fuel, University of Waterloo professor says

  08-11-2017 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s needs to start shifting quickly out of the oilsands to avoid serious economic trouble as the world moves away from fossil fuels, a University of Waterloo professor says.
  Financial, legal and environmental pressures will push countries to deal with climate change by turning away from fossil fuels in coming decades, and that will hit oil-rich Alberta hard, said Thomas Homer-Dixon, an expert on links between society, technology and nature.
  He urged the province to focus on developin
  
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• Notes from the dome: Banning 'mansplaining' in the Alberta legislature

  08-11-2017 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Mansplaining” may soon be added to the list of banned words in the Alberta legislature. 
  Premier Rachel Notley flung the accusation at Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark in Tuesday’s question period, after he asked whether she knew there are environmental benefits to building a pipeline. Clark was not impressed, shaking his head as he stood to note a point of order. 
  The resulting post-QP debate was 10 minutes long. It included references to Australia and members f
  
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• Former mayor Paul Chalifoux passes - St. Albert Gazette

  08-11-2017 00:45 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Former mayor Paul Chalifoux passes
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  The city was saddened by the untimely passing last weekend of a prominent local politician and civic leader. Former mayor Paul Chalifoux passed away suddenly after falling ill recently. He was 74. “He'd really been on the town lately. He was going to ...
  
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• City Manager Presents Proposed 2018-2020 Business Plan and 2018 Budget

  08-11-2017 00:17
  Includes 2.9 per cent tax increase and 2.1 per cent utility rate increase At the November 6, 2017 City Council... Read Post
  
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