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• Oilers prepare for game against Vegas Golden Knights

  14-11-2017 22:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers play the Vegas Golden Knights for the first time at Rogers Place tonight at 7 p.m.
  The surprising expansion team from Las Vegas is seven points ahead of the Oilers in the standings.
  
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• Video: U-Haul rampage driver makes his second court appearance

  14-11-2017 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Defense lawyer Karanpal Aujla spoke with media outside of the Edmonton courthouse on Tuesday, Nov. 14, after the second appearance of Adulahi Sharif, who is facing numerous serious criminal charges, including five charges of attempted murder stemming from an incident in downtown Edmonton on Sept. 30, 2017.  Aujla has requested a psychiatric assessment to determine if Sharif is fit to stand trial.
  
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• What are the Vegas Golden Knights doing right that the Edmonton Oilers are not?

  14-11-2017 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 18: Oilers vs. Vegas
  Two of the major stories of the 2017-18 NHL season collide head-on tonight when the feel-good story of the year, the expansionist Vegas Golden Knights, take on one of the major disappointments to this point, the Edmonton Oilers.
  The Golden Knights make their first visit to Edmonton riding high, sitting in second place in the Pacific Division with a 10-5-1 record for 21 points. This despite playing one fewer game than the Oilers, lagging in seventh place in the now e
  
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• Court orders mental health assessment for man accused in U-Haul attack

  14-11-2017 19:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused in a violent attack on central Edmonton will be assessed for fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility, a provincial court judge ordered Tuesday. 
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif is the lone suspect in a Sept. 30 rampage that included an attack on a police officer and four pedestrians in Edmonton. 
  On Tuesday his defence lawyer Karanpal Aujla asked the court to order fitness to stand trial and not criminally responsible assessments.
  Aujla told the court he has “
  
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• Man, 58, found slain in rural home east of Edmonton

  14-11-2017 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 58-year-old found dead in his rural home east of Edmonton on Sunday is a victim of homicide, say RCMP.
  Two Hills RCMP, along with the major crimes unit, are now investigating the slaying of James Craig, found dead inside his rural Elk Point home, said police in a Tuesday news release. 
  The forensic identification section from the St. Paul RCMP detachment has also been called in. The investigation is in its preliminary stages as police process the scene at the rural home, about 222 km east
  
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• NDP to introduce traffic legislation ahead of cannabis legalization

  14-11-2017 19:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is planning to introduce traffic legislation Tuesday related to the legalization of cannabis on July 1.
  Transportation Minister Brian Mason is scheduled to table amendments to the Traffic Safety Act and will hold a news conference after the legislation is introduced around 3:15 p.m., according to a news release.
  A separate piece of legislation on cannabis sales is expected Thursday. 
  The government is opting for a hybrid system including private stores and online
  
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• Edmonton's mayor says tough decisions on LRT's Metro Line coming

  14-11-2017 18:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council grilled administration on the poor performance of the Metro LRT Line Tuesday morning asking whether the train will ever run as planned.
  “Is it going to run as it was designed? Will we ever get to plan A?” asked Coun. Michael Walters. 
  “I don’t think we can answer that,” said city manager Linda Cochrane, promising more information in private and public at the next council meeting Dec. 5.
  Mayor Don Iveson said council will have to make a serious deci
  
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• Chef Ned Bell serves sustainable, and delicious, seafood at NAIT Nov. 28

  14-11-2017 17:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s an enormous amount of hype about chefs, many of whom are designated as celebrities, for reasons that are not always clear.
  Well, I’m here to tell you that Vancouver chef Ned Bell is the real deal. If you are able to attend his sustainability supper at NAIT on Nov. 28, you will not only enjoy a stellar meal (as one would expect of a celebrity chef), but also have the experience of listening to a cook who injects pure passion into every dish.
  I first met chef Bell in 2014, when
  
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• Accused Edmonton attacker to appear in court

  14-11-2017 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused in a violent attack on central Edmonton is expected to appear in provincial court Tuesday morning.
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 30, faces five counts of attempted murder for allegedly going on a rampage on Sept. 30, first driving a car into and then stabbing Edmonton police Const. Mike Chernyk, then later intentionally running down four pedestrians with a rented U-Haul truck near Jasper Avenue.
  Sharif is also charged with four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle ca
  
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• Booster Juice founder Dale Wishewan snaps up share in NHL franchise

  14-11-2017 14:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dale Wishewan, owner of Booster Juice and part-owner of the new NHL team the Vegas Golden Knights, stands in front of Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017.
  Meet Edmonton’s other NHL team owner.
  When Dale Wishewan, the founder of Booster Juice, became one of 19 minority owners of the NHL expansion Vegas Golden Knights, he joined an elite group of Canadians who own a share in the nation’s favourite pastime.
  But for a man who grew up in Alberta’s ca
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Origin of word Eskimo is innocuous

  14-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson should do a little research before he tries garnering media attention by jumping on the politically correct bandwagon concerning the use of the word Eskimo.
  Modern linguists believe the word Eskimo actually came from the French word esquimaux, meaning one who nets snowshoes. Netting snowshoes is the highly precise way that Arctic peoples built winter footwear by tightly weaving, or netting, sinew from caribou or other animals across a wooden frame. Pray tell; how is that offensi
  
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• 'They feel … betrayed': Pockets of toxic workplace culture drive some city employees to quit

  14-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton is overhauling its workplace complaints process in the face of serious concerns about pockets of festering harassment and discrimination.
  Past and current employees in multiple city departments told Postmedia the system allows a toxic work culture to develop in pockets of the city administration. Their stories — along with city surveys evaluating employee satisfaction, interviews with councillors hearing staff complaints, and union officials managing an increasing numb
  
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• Opinion: MLAs should vote with their conscience on Bill 24

  14-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bill 24, an Act to Support Gay-Straight Alliances, has caused much debate throughout the province. As the author of many of the province’s GSA educational resources, I know first-hand the power and importance of these groups in schools.
  GSAs may be new to many, but they are not new to our schools. The first GSA in Alberta was created in 2000 in Red Deer by teacher Darren Lund who heeded his students’ call when they asked for a safe space to find support and know they were not alone.
  
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• Councillor stumped with 'dozens' of complaints by city employees

  14-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The file that Coun. Tony Caterina keeps on harassment and other complaints that come into his office from upset and frustrated city employees is several inches thick. 
  He receives dozens of complaints a year, he said. He’s stumped about what to do with them.
  Why are employees not going through the city’s regular complaint process, he asked, after finally reaching his limit. He filed a motion to get a full description of the city whistleblower and harassment complaint process at
  
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• Man wanted after two people left fearing for their lives in Fort McKay

  14-11-2017 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wood Buffalo RCMP have issued an arrest warrant after a 33-year-old man was allegedly beaten into a coma and a 37-year-old woman was left fearing for her life.
  Investigators said Monday they were looking for Lenny Walter Whitford, 37, of Fort McKay, who is wanted on charges of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, overcoming resistance to the commission of an indictable offence and uttering threats.
  RCMP officers received a 911 call with a report of someone uttering threats in Fort McKay on
  
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• Hutterite colony ordered to pay into WCB for construction biz

  14-11-2017 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Hutterite settlement in Alberta has lost its appeal to the Workers’ Compensation Board and will have to pay dues for workers at the Twin Valley Precast concrete manufacturing business.
  The Nov. 1 decision confirms one already made by the Alberta Workers Compensation Dispute Resolution and Decision Review Body on April 12, 2016.
  The Spring Ridge Colony is a Hutterite settlement east of Edmonton near Wainwright sustained largely on agricultural business — making up around 90 per cent
  
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• Southern Alberta physician admits to inappropriate relationships with patients

  14-11-2017 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A southern Alberta physician will face disciplinary action for unprofessional conduct after admitting he had sexual relationships with women patients.
  At a hearing that began at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta offices in Edmonton on Monday, a three-person tribunal heard that Dr. Johann Maritz, a family physician in Blairmore, Alta., had inappropriate relationships with two women more than a decade ago.  
  The first began in 1999. Afterwards, Maritz attended a residenti
  
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