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• Serenity’s mother frustrated as lawyers for accused couple make court appearance

  09-11-2017 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wetaskiwin, Alta. — The mother of four-year-old Serenity says she had “anxiety” about the Thursday morning court appearance for the two people charged with failure to provide the necessaries of life in her daughter’s case.
  Serenity was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital on Sept. 18, 2014, with injuries that included head trauma, severe hypothermia and serious malnutrition. She died nine days later, after being removed from life support. She weighed less than 18 p
  
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• GSAs an 'amazing place' that embolden young people, says Tegan

  09-11-2017 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Passing a bill to bolster gay-straight alliances in Alberta would tell LGBTQ youth their government, communities and schools care about them, says Tegan Quin of the musical duo Tegan and Sara.
  “There should be a place where you can talk to allies, and where you can also talk to other youth, and process your experience, and that should be protected. I just really disagree with this idea that we need to include parents and administrators,” Quin said in an interview Thursday, explaining
  
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• Parkallen Restaurant pares down, and beefs up, its menu

  09-11-2017 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parkallen Restaurant (7018​ 109​ ​St.​) has a re-imagined menu. Fans of the 35-year-old establishment will be happy to know that some of their favourites are still available (including, of course, the pizza). But a thorough paring-down was in order, to reduce the voluminous menu down to a manageable size so as to add some new items.
  Traditional Lebanese favourites such as Joe’s Mezza and Mom’s Charred Chicken (with a new twist) will be retained, and, yes, the
  
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• A Christmas market with local flair comes to Prairie Gardens Dec. 3

  09-11-2017 23:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm, together with RGE RD restaurant and UnWined, are joining forces to host the Northern Lands Prairie Collective Gourmet Holiday Market on Sunday, Dec. 3.
  The event, fashioned after traditional Italian and German Christmas markets, is $5 per person ($10 for a family carload) and runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prairie Gardens is near Bon Accord, at 6311 Lily Lake Road, about 25 minutes north of Edmonton. 
  According to a news release, the focus of the Christmas marke
  
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• Three charged in naked Nisku crash make first court appearance

  09-11-2017 23:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three people arrested in the nude after a bizarre kidnapping south of Edmonton this week made brief appearances in Leduc court Thursday.
  Two women and one man were arrested naked at a Monday morning crash scene in Nisku after a truck driver was rammed from behind when he stopped to help a man, woman and baby who police later said escaped from the suspects’ vehicle on Township Road 510.
  Police said the three had been kidnapped from a home near Nisku about 20 minutes prior to the 1
  
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• Edmonton police lay charges in death of 59-year-old man

  09-11-2017 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police charged a 60-year-old woman with second-degree murder and possession of a dangerous weapon on Thursday.
  The charges are in relation to the death of a 59-year-old man, Mark Huemer, on Tuesday evening, a news release from the Edmonton Police Service said. 
  An autopsy conducted by the Edmonton medical examiner said the cause of death was a single stab wound, police said. The homicide division deemed the death to be a homicide.
  On Tuesday, at around 9:30 p.m., police respon
  
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• Council Briefs for November 6th

  09-11-2017 22:15
  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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• Edmonton's big name players must step up for Oilers to get a winning streak going

  09-11-2017 20:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 15, Oilers vs Devils
  Until the Edmonton Oilers put a winning streak together this year, no one should take them seriously as a playoff contender. 
  And unless the Oilers put a winning streak together as soon as possible, their chances of being a playoff contender will dry up.
  Which brings us to today’s game against Taylor Hall and the New Jersey Devils. Edmonton has had the Devils’ number since the Hall for Adam Larsson trade. The Oilers have beat the Devil in three stra
  
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• UCP suggests government teaching covert sex ed through GSAs

  09-11-2017 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emotion in the house reached boiling point Thursday morning as debate continued on gay-straight alliances in schools. 
  The United Conservative Party says it won’t support Bill 24, an act to support GSAs, but that didn’t stop it proposing an amendment anyway. 
  The change the UCP wanted would have struck at the very heart of the legislation.
  If passed, Bill 24 will make it illegal for teachers to inform parents if their child joins a GSA, unless the child consents.
  As the rul
  
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• 'She belonged to us': Families testify at inquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women

  09-11-2017 20:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman whose mother went missing in 2006 says she was told by police that the missing person’s report she filed didn’t exist. 
  “They told me that I never filed anything,” Vanessa Corado said Thursday at a public hearing in Edmonton, where the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is meeting this week. 
  Corado filed a report with Edmonton Police Service in January 2007, and followed up four years later. 
  “I had lost my
  
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• Marmot Basin opens Tres Hombres slope for 2017-18 season

  09-11-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Folks will have another slope to go down this winter.
  Marmot Basin in Jasper is opening its “Tres Hombres” area for the 2017-18 season.
  The slope is described as having five big runs, seven black diamonds, according to a news release on Thursday.
  Tres Hombres boasts a large, north-facing and 18 hectare treeless slope, which  provides some of the very best off-piste advanced and expert terrain in the Canadian Rockies, the release said. Tres Hombres has an average slope
  
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• Ashes of St. Albert man's wife stolen in home robbery - CTV News

  09-11-2017 19:55 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
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  A St. Albert man is pleading with police and the public to help him find his wife's ashes after they were stolen from his home on Monday afternoon. RCMP said there was a break-in at a home on Deerfield Way between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. The thieves ...
  
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• Couple facing charge in Serenity case have separate lawyers appear in Wetaskiwin court

  09-11-2017 19:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wetaskiwin, Alta. — A couple facing a charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life to a four-year-old Indigenous girl who was in their care had separate lawyers appear on their behalf in Wetaskiwin court Thursday morning.
  Serenity was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital on Sept. 18, 2014, with injuries that included head trauma, severe hypothermia and serious malnutrition. She died nine days later, after being removed from life support. She weighed less than 18 pounds.
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Gwar, Bob Saget, and Halsey

  09-11-2017 19:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Guy Davis 
  It’s possible that you know him as Dr. Josh Hall in One Life to Live, or as Rae Dawn Chong’s co-star in Beat Street, but Guy Davis has mostly made himself a name in the last few decades as a top-ranked bluesman. The New York-born musician and occasional actor has been recording since 1978, grabbing a W.C. Handy award nomination for 2003’s Chocolate to the Bone, with Kokomo Kidd his latest effort. The son of legendary show biz icons Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Davi
  
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• Edmonton targets 3.6 per cent tax increase for 2018

  09-11-2017 19:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are proposing a 3.6-per cent tax increase for 2018 in a budget that sees continued staff reduction and a freeze on management wages.
  It also includes an additional $15.2 million for police, and $1.5 million to maintain the Northlands Coliseum and Edmonton Expo Centre, which transfer back to the city from the non-profit organization on Jan. 1.
  Budget documents were released Thursday morning, with officials expected to speak to the changes shortly after noon. 
  Here are some hig
  
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• Bioware moving offices to downtown Edmonton

  09-11-2017 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s most beloved video game developer Bioware is moving their offices onto three floors of Epcor Tower in late 2018 or early 2019.
  The move to the heart of the city from their current location on Calgary Trail in the Empire Park neighbourhood is being hailed as proof that the ongoing revitalization of the core continues to attract businesses to its core.
  “We’re thrilled to be moving into a modern, state-of-the art facility and live in a space that empowers and inspi
  
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• Teachers' association supports Bill 24 on gay-straight alliances

  09-11-2017 17:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Teachers’ Association would like to talk to Jason Kenney.
  The 46,000-member association, which represents the vast majority of teachers in the province, wants the leader of the United Conservative Party to know it backs Bill 24, an Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances.
  The ATA also doesn’t appreciate Kenney trying to put teachers in a position where they would be responsible for potentially divulging a student’s sexual identity to his or her parents without the stu
  
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• Thursday's letters: Bill 24 infringes on parents' authority

  09-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As a parent in Alberta, I have to sign a waiver before my child gets her ears pierced.  Teachers are not allowed to give my child a Tylenol without my consent. And yet, according to Bill 24, I am not to be informed if my child joins a gay-straight alliance or expresses confusion regarding her sexuality. 
  According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, “Parents or, as the case may be, legal guardians, have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of
  
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• Opinion: Private cannabis stores are better for business and taxpayers

  09-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the legalization of cannabis unfolds, a key question has emerged: should cannabis be sold by the private sector or by government?
  The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce recommends that the province stay out of the retail business and build on the success of our privatized liquor model. Alberta’s entrepreneurs are ready, willing and able to take on the risks and rewards associated with developing this new industry.
  Creating and maintaining a public retail system for the sale of cannabis would
  
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• Couple facing charge in Serenity case to appear in Wetaskiwin court

  09-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A couple who face a charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life to a four-year-old Indigenous girl who was in their care were expected to appear in Wetaskiwin court Thursday morning.
  Serenity was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital on Sept. 18, 2014, with injuries that included head trauma, severe hypothermia and serious malnutrition. She died nine days later, after being removed from life support. She weighed less than 18 pounds.
  Catastrophic head injuries that caused her death have
  
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• Business owners watch closely as Edmonton projects 2018 tax increase

  09-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials will release the city’s projected 2018 tax increase Thursday afternoon and it’s expected business owners will be watching closely.
  The city is on the last year of a three-year budget where, going into this budget season, the increase for 2018 was pegged at 4.8 per cent. Last summer, officials told council they were still trying to whittle that down.
  Thursday afternoon, they’ll announce if they were successful.
  A 4.8 per cent increase works out to roughly $100
  
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• Snacks on chopping block as MLAs look to pinch pennies

  09-11-2017 05:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fewer sandwiches could be on the table at legislative committee meetings next year as part of a penny-pinching proposal for the non-political body that runs the legislature. 
  It could also mean less travel for elected officials and staffers in the legislative assembly office.
  At a Wednesday night meeting in Edmonton, the members’ services committee agreed the office should look closely at the small line items of spending as it sets out the parameters of its 2018-19 budget.
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• Team insider asks: Can Edmonton Oilers have both Milan Lucic and Patrick Maroon as top two left wingers?

  09-11-2017 03:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Oilers insider Bob Stauffer, his opinion that it might not be in Edmonton’s interest to have Patrick Maroon and Milan Lucic as the team’s top two left wingers next year: “I don’t know if you can have both Maroon and Lucic as your top two left wings, OK?” said Stauffer on Oilers Now today. “And I think we all know Lucic is going to be here. I know Maroon is a very popular player. I would be concerned about a long-term contract on Maroon just b
  
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• Paula Simons: 'Mansplaining' row makes classic political theatre

  09-11-2017 03:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The question came from Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark during question period Tuesday.
  You can see why it got right up the nose of Premier Rachel Notley.
  “It is amazing that I have to ask this question,” said Clark. “But do you know that there’s a significant environmental benefit to building a pipeline to tidewater, because it reduces overall carbon emissions by displacing higher carbon crude from places like Venezuela and Nicaragua?”
  I can only imagine how galling
  
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• More than 150 special kids enjoy a little Rodeo Magic

  09-11-2017 02:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tim Soldatenkov traded his white cowboy hat for a black helmet. He climbed astride 13-year-old Boss, a tall horse with red glitter on his dark brown back. 
  It was the seven-year-old’s second time horseback riding Wednesday morning.
  He was one of 155 Edmonton school children who came to be swept away by Rodeo Magic at the Northlands Coliseum. 
  Rodeo Magic is a private event for children with special needs between the ages of six and 14 to help them experience the thrills
  
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• Alleged kidnappers face charges after nude Nisku collision

  09-11-2017 02:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three alleged kidnappers who were arrested in the nude after a collision in Nisku have been charged.
  Mounties have not released many details about the Monday arrests, including why the people in the car were not wearing clothes.
  A 27-year-old man and two women, ages 35 and 30, were to appear Thursday in Leduc court on charges of kidnapping and resisting arrest.
  Two teenage girls were released without charges. RCMP said they are not naming the accused because doing so may identify the youths.
  The
  
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• Passing of Former Mayor Paul Chalifoux

  09-11-2017 02:00
  Mentor will be missed On behalf of St. Albert City Council, Mayor Cathy Heron would like to extend her deepest... Read Post
  
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• Teachers don't want power to out gay kids, teachers' association president says

  09-11-2017 01:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Educators want clear rules — not professional discretion — to protect gay kids’ privacy, the president of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says.
  Although Greg Jeffery was “pleased to hear” United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney say he respects the professional judgment of educators, Jeffery said teachers want a provincial law preventing them from disclosing when a student joins a gay-straight alliance (GSA) or similar group.
  “We would like the le
  
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• One dead, two in hospital after highway crash near St. Albert - CBC.ca - CBC.ca

  09-11-2017 01:21 via cbc.ca
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  One person is dead and two are in hospital after a crash between a car and a pickup south of Morinville.
  Fatal collision north of St. AlbertSt. Albert Gazetteall 8 news articles »
  
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• One dead, two in hospital after highway crash near St. Albert - CBC.ca

  09-11-2017 01:19 via cbc.ca
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  One dead, two in hospital after highway crash near St. Albert
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  One person is dead and two are in hospital after a crash between a car and a pickup south of Morinville around noon Wednesday. RCMP say a westbound car was turning north onto Highway 2 from Highway 37 when it was hit by a pickup heading east.
  Fatal collision north of St. AlbertSt. Albert Gazetteall 8 news articles »
  
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• Notes from the dome: 'Mansplaining' OK, Bill 6 summarized, battle remembered

  09-11-2017 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The term “mansplain” can continue to be used in the Alberta legislature.
  Speaker Robert Wanner ruled Wednesday that using such terms is all about context. However, he also warned MLAs to tread more carefully when it comes to their language in question period. 
  It boils down to a point of order raised Monday by Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark, after Premier Rachel Notley accused him of mansplaining pipelines. “Mansplaining,” a relatively new term, is when a man explai
  
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• Edmonton must change rules to allow needed redevelopment of mature neighbourhoods: planner

  09-11-2017 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city needs to allow a wider variety of housing in mature areas so the population and amenities in these communities don’t stagnate, an Edmonton urban planner said Wednesday.
  Too many neighbourhoods contain almost exclusively traditional single-family houses when they should also offer skinny homes, places where several generations can live together, and condos for empty-nesters, said Simon O’Byrne, Stantec’s vice-president of community development.
  He suggested city officia
  
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• Former soldier remembers fallen colleagues at school ceremony

  09-11-2017 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Remembrance Day for me is everyday,” said Edmonton police Const. Kenneth Mullins Wednesday to students listening in wide-eyed wonder to his stories of military service in Afghanistan.
  Mullins said it was an honour to share his story at the Remembrance Day ceremony and first school assembly hosted by staff and students at the newly opened Constable Daniel Woodall School at 315 Windermere Road not only as a retired member of the Canadian Forces, but as an “old friend” of t
  
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• Guilty verdict in businessman kidnapping case

  09-11-2017 00:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A judge found a 31-year-old guilty of kidnapping a prominent Edmonton businessman on Wednesday.
  Raheel Ghias Khalon was convicted after a trial of the abduction and beating of Alex Davidoff in 2013. 
  Khalon won’t be sentenced until 2018, but he was taken into custody immediately following the hearing, despite court being told his father had died earlier this week.
  Khalon’s lawyer, Brian Beresh, told court that it’s been his experience that the Edmonton Remand Centre where
  
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• Contemporary spin on spirituals finds a surprise audience in choirs

  09-11-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is it possible to write new spirituals for a secular audience?
  That’s one of the questions singer Coco Love Alcorn asked herself a few years back on the way to creating her album Wonderland.
  “I was really curious to write songs exploring the human spirit,” she explains, “songs that weren’t specifically connected to one religion. It’s just open-source spiritual music that doesn’t exclude anyone, that invites everyone in, hopefully.”
  Ultimately, the
  
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• Police arrest man who escaped on a snowmobile after carjacking

  09-11-2017 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP have tracked down 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. Investigators believe an SUV struck a pickup, rendering the SUV inoperable.
  The SUV’s driver then took the truck by force, injuring the pickup’s driver during the struggle, police said in a release Wednesday.
  The pickup was later spotted driving on two flat tires north towards Basha
  
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• Cohen tribute takes a twisting, turning jazzy road

  09-11-2017 00:13 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Rags and Feathers: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
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  It was a year ago this week that Canada’s revered sage of seduction, Leonard Cohen, left us for the tower of song. Edmonton singer Mallory Chipman isn’t the first and won’t be the last to pay homage, but her inventive, just released jazzy treatments of Cohen songs will provoke more surprise than most.
  Of the seven Cohen covers here, only the two that bookend the album stay close to the famil
  
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