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• Premier Rachel Notley stands by pipelines despite TransCanada oil spill

  17-11-2017 23:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is standing by the safety of pipelines to transport oil despite a 795,000-litre spill on the Keystone XL pipeline in South Dakota earlier this week.
  The spill on Thursday could not have come at a worst time as Nebraska is set to vote Monday on whether TransCanada Corp. can cross the state with its Keystone XL pipeline project.
  Once in Nebraska, it would connect with pipelines that feed Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
  Speaking Friday, Notley said the timing of the
  
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• Bean-to-bar production expands with renovation at Jacek Chocolate Couture

  17-11-2017 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jacqueline Jacek of Jacek Chocolate Couture has expanded her chocolate-making facility in Sherwood Park, tripling the space to 7,600 square feet from 2,200 square feet in a renovation topping $150,000.
  “We couldn’t continue to take on more business if we didn’t grow,” says Jacek, 36.
  The business has been burgeoning by some 30 per cent per year since Jacek started making and selling chocolates from her basement in 2009, moving to the Sherwood Park facility at 406 Kas
  
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• Councillors shocked one fifth of city employees report harassment at work

  17-11-2017 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s auditor is adding his voice to calls for a review of the city’s internal complaints system after nearly one-fifth of city employees said they have experienced harassment.
  Eleven per cent also said in a citywide employee engagement survey in September 2016 that they had experienced discrimination.
  But only 36 per cent said they told someone about it.
  “The reporting process is broken,” said David Wiun after releasing his audit Thursday. He urged the city to ensur
  
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• Social Seen: Christmas in November

  17-11-2017 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  For this special event, Donna Christensen, visuals editor and arts and features editor at the Edmonton Journal, was at Christmas in November at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge and took photos for an extra edition of Social Seen edition.
  Our regular weekly Social Seen column is shot by Edmonton photojournalist Codie McLachlan, who hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. Email your event suggestions to 
  
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• Man accused of having sexual chats with 12-year-old girl

  17-11-2017 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 30-year-old man from Rocky Mountain House is facing charges of child luring after parents found sexually explicit chats between a man and their 12-year-old daughter.
  Tyler James Cumberland, 30, was arrested on Thursday after an investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team’s (ALERT) Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit.
  According to police, parents reached out for help in August after discovering sexualized photos and online conversations between their 12-year-old daughter
  
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• Missing woman may be with man wanted for first-degree murder

  17-11-2017 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lac La Biche RCMP are looking for a missing woman who may be with a man wanted for first-degree murder after a father of three was fatally shot in his home.
  Earlier in November, Lac La Biche RCMP issued an arrest warrant for Lloyd Wesley Boudreau, 22, who is facing a first-degree murder charge in connection to the death of Michael Mountain, 26.
  Mountain was fatally shot at his home in Lac La Biche, where he lived with his wife and three young daughters, on Oct. 28.
  Michael Mountain, 26, was fata
  
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• Third arrest made after woman's body pulled from Lesser Slave River

  17-11-2017 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Slave Lake RCMP officers have made a third arrest in connection to the death of 21-year-old woman whose body was found in the Lesser Slave River in August.
  Nicole Brenda Robar, 21, was reported missing to Spruce Grove RCMP on Aug. 1 after she was last seen in Slave Lake on July 10.
  Robar’s body was found in the Lesser Slave River on Aug. 5.
  Nicole Robar pictured here was last seen in Spruce Grove on July 14.
  Warren Kyle Warren, 34, of Slave Lake, and Melinda Davis, 27, of Spruce Grove were
  
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• Get way down with Hadestown, onstage at the Citadel

  17-11-2017 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is a reason myths stick around. Forever and always, there is a villain to be vanquished, and a love story to believe in. 
  The myth that roots Hadestown, which made its Canadian debut Thursday at the Citadel, is that of Orpheus, the charming musician, and Eurydice, his beautiful bride. The ancient Greek myth involves death by snake bite and a speedy descent for Eurydice to the underworld. But in the reimagined version by Anaïs Mitchell, Eurydice does not die, but chooses to leave
  
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• Construction on new southwest high school to start as early as 2019

  17-11-2017 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction on a new southwest Edmonton high school will begin in late 2019 or early 2020, premier Rachel Notley announced Friday morning.
  The new school will be located west of James Mowatt Trail and north of 35 Avenue in the Heritage Valley area. There will be space for up to 1,800 students.
  “We know that building new schools is one of the most important investments we can make as a government, and we know this area of Edmonton desperately needs a new high school due to growing enrolmen
  
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• Large class sizes becoming unmanageable, says Alberta Teachers' Association president

  17-11-2017 19:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Grade 5 teacher has 36 students in his class. Fourteen of them need extra help.
  An Edmonton mom said 31 children are crammed into her son’s too-small kindergarten classroom. An Edmonton high school English teacher says all five of her classes have 30 or more students, and 50 of the students are learning English. It adds up to 165 papers to mark.
  The Alberta Teachers’ Association is prompting teachers and parents to share scenarios like these on social media, and with their MLAs, af
  
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• St. Albert Launches Wastewater Management Education Program

  17-11-2017 19:31
  What you flush may come back to haunt you! The City of St. Albert has partnered with the Alberta Capital... Read Post
  
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• Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh visits Edmonton

  17-11-2017 19:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making his first official visit to Edmonton since being selected as the party’s leader earlier this year. 
  Singh, who is in the midst of a cross country tour, will visit the campus of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology early Friday afternoon with Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan.
  He is also scheduled to have a media availability at NAIT and will later hold a “Jagmeet and Greet” with students at a pub near the University of A
  
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• Another milestone for Edmonton's Stantec Tower

  17-11-2017 17:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction in the downtown Ice District reaches another milestone Friday when a ceremony will be held to mark the completion of the Stantec Tower’s commercial section.
  A restaurant and offices for such companies as Stantec, financial services company PricewaterhouseCoopers and Dentons law firm will take up the first 28 floors of the 66-storey tower, slated to be Western Canada’s tallest building when it’s finished in 2019.
  The office half is expected to be ready next yea
  
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• Dear Canada: We just became two of your newest citizens. Thank you.   

  17-11-2017 15:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Many people have asked us what it was like to get our Canadian citizenship this week. 
  Thankfully, your editor doesn’t often ask you to write a first person piece about the symbolic meaning of an event — but it’s not often you become the citizen of your adopted homeland, either.
  Here’s a few questions you might want to know about how and why we ended up here. 
  Australia has great weather. Why did you even move to Canada? 
  Emma: C’mon, Canada. Don&rsqu
  
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• St. Albert Catholic board rejects parents' call to move 'unsafe' bus stop - CBC.ca

  17-11-2017 14:01 via cbc.ca
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  St. Albert Catholic board rejects parents' call to move 'unsafe' bus stop
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  Parents of two St. Albert children aren't backing down after the Catholic school board rejected their call to move a bus stop they say is unsafe. Ryan Catena, whose 5-year-old daughter boards the bus every day on Old Coal Mine Road, said the safety ...
  
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• Opinion: GSAs only work if students know it's a truly safe space

  17-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The point of a gay-straight alliance (GSA) in schools is to provide a safe space for gay and supportive straight students. In 2004, my son started the GSA at Strathcona High School.
  In his proposal to the school principal, he said high school students have three groups in their lives; their family, their friends and their school. He knew there were students who couldn’t go to their family for support and didn’t have friends they could turn to for help. These students needed a place a
  
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• Friday's letters: Leadership needed to realize ski club's potential

  17-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City terminating lease with Edmonton Ski Club,” Nov. 14
  The fact the Edmonton Ski Club will not be able to operate this winter after 106 years is a tremendous loss for our city and has me very concerned about the future prospects of reopening after an as-yet undetermined hiatus.
  This is a recreational area in the heart of our city, which is already accessible by public transit, but will soon have an LRT station less than a block away. It is ideally situated in the central r
  
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• David Staples: Another wrong step in the war of the roads

  17-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Julie West first saw the 30 km/h speed limits signs popping up along one of the busiest commuter roads in her south Edmonton suburb this fall, she was flabbergasted.
  “I thought, ‘How the heck did I miss this?’ ” said West, who is plugged into her community and civic politics as vice-president of the Yellowbird Community League.
  In mid-September, Edmonton city council approved a new citywide speed limit of 30 km/h on roads next to hundreds of playgrounds and playing f
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers lose the plot on home ice yet again, get blown out by Blues

  17-11-2017 09:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blues 4, Oilers 1
  Edmonton Oilers may have designs on being a Western Conference power, but have a long, long way to go if Thursday night’s game is our guide. One of the best teams in the West skated on to Edmonton ice and it wasn’t the home side. The visiting St. Louis Blues wiped the floor with the Oilers, rolling to a 4-1 win that wasn’t as close as the score indicated.
  The game featured a spirited and evenly-played first period, but as time wore on the Blues turned up the h
  
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• Michael Cammalleri joins his new team for the Edmonton Oilers morning skate

  17-11-2017 04:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers forward Michael Cammalleri comments after the team’s morning skate on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.
  Cammalleri was acquired from the Los Angeles Kings in a trade for Jussi Jokinen on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
  Goaltender Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens stretches out the stick to make a save on Michael Cammalleri #14 of the Los Angeles Kings during the NHL game at the Bell Centre on Oct. 26, 2017 in Montreal.
  
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• Paperboys still delivering the sounds at 25

  17-11-2017 03:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tom Landa feels he was a bit of a “late bloomer,” coming to music in his late teens, starting that Vancouver band The Paperboys  at 20. You could argue he has made up for any lost time.
  Twenty five years later he continues to lead one of that city’s most travelled, celebrated and influential groups. Landa won’t speak to any example they have set, but The Paperboys were among the earliest, most enduring indie bands from Vancouver to sport an eclectic mix of roots and
  
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• Northern Pikes mark album's 30th anniversary with three-disc re-release, tour

  17-11-2017 03:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Don Schmid of the Northern Pikes has plenty of time to reflect on the 30th anniversary tour of his band’s 1987 major label debut, Big Blue Sky.
  The drummer is whiling away the hours lying in one of 12 bunk beds on the Pikes’ tour bus, setting out on the second leg of the cross-Canada jaunt that will see them playing Festival Place in Sherwood Park this Friday. Just a few days before, Schmid and his wife were opening vinyl reissue copies of Big Blue Sky (Super-Sized), a remastered, th
  
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• Jeff Mooij, owner of 420 Clinic, welcomes cannabis legislation

  17-11-2017 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jeff Mooij, owner of 420 Clinic, was at Thursday’s news conference where  Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley provided details of proposed cannabis legislation in support of the Alberta Cannabis Framework.
  Jeff Mooij, owner of 420 Clinic shakes hands with Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley at the Legislature in Edmonton, on Nov. 16, 2017.
  
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• 'Demand will be huge': Alberta government releases cannabis retail rules

  17-11-2017 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Private retailers who want to sell legal marijuana in Alberta next July 1 won’t be able to do so alongside alcohol, or even a bag of chips.
  Under proposed rules introduced by the province Thursday, retailers will be restricted to sales of cannabis and cannabis-related goods such as lighters and rolling papers.
  There’s no word on how much legal marijuana will cost, but 420 Clinic founder Jeff Mooij says that won’t matter to consumers. 
  As a medical marijuana clinic owner an
  
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• Six-year-old girl sexually assaulted; police believe there are other victims

  17-11-2017 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in an Edmonton home and police believe there may be more victims.
  On two separate occasions over the summer, a six-year-old girl was taken to a suspect’s home and sexually assaulted, the Edmonton Police Service said in a news release Thursday.
  Police believe the suspect befriends mothers with young children to gain their trust and, eventually, to gain access to the children. An extensive investigation led officers to believe there may be
  
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• One-fifth of city employees report harassment at work

  17-11-2017 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s auditor is adding his voice to calls for a review of the city’s internal complaints system after nearly one-fifth of city employees said they have experienced harassment.
  Eleven per cent also said in a citywide employee engagement survey in September 2016 that they had experienced discrimination.
  But only 36 per cent said they told someone about it.
  “The reporting process is broken,” said David Wiun after releasing his audit Thursday. He urged the city to ensur
  
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• Thomson: The NDP's new slogan? Making belts tighter for all Albertans

  17-11-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Suck in your gut, Alberta.
  The provincial government wants to tighten your belt.
  But not in a sharp, painful way, apparently. This is not going to leave a bruise.
  At least that’s how Premier Rachel Notley on Thursday described a future ramping down of government spending.
  “Now is the point in the plan where the same steady approach that saw us through the recession is going to see us carefully and compassionately tighten our belts,” said Notley. “And ask others to tighten
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Alberta in the Middle East, Bill 24 memories

  17-11-2017 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous is in the Middle East this week on a trade mission. 
  Bilous is heading to Abu Dhabi and Dubai to tout the province as a responsible energy producer and innovation hub for the oil and gas sector. He will also visit the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference — the region’s largest oil and gas expo — with 15 Alberta companies. Bilous will also meet with local industry and government officials.
  
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• Boyle Street Community Services pitches plan for reusing remand centre

  17-11-2017 00:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $93-million plan could see the empty remand centre in downtown Edmonton redeveloped into a comprehensive wellness centre for Edmonton’s most vulnerable.
  “What we’re envisaging there is a partnership of 16 agencies, non-profit and government and private sector (coming) together to deliver collaborative services, and integrated, not just separate and co-located, but to work together,” Julian Daly, executive director of Boyle Street Community Services, said after a present
  
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• Pedestrian safety prompts police enforcement campaign

  17-11-2017 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  High pedestrian areas including school and playground zones and high collisions areas will see an increased police presence to try to reduce the number of crashes in Edmonton.
  Eight pedestrians have been killed so far this year on Edmonton’s streets, traffic section Sgt. Kerry Bates said in a release Wednesday.
  “We want to make sure everyone knows the rules of the road so pedestrians and motorists can stay safe,” Bates said. 
  So far this year, 907 charges have been laid ag
  
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• Lack of roadside testing for marijuana worries Alberta police chiefs

  17-11-2017 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s police chiefs are feeling “overwhelmed” figuring out how to adjust policing practices ahead of marijuana legalization, said Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht.
  “The timelines are extremely tight,” Knecht said outside an Edmonton Police Commission meeting at City Hall on Thursday.
  In an open letter, the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police warned the scheduled legalization July 1 leaves “insufficient time for the full consideration necessary in the c
  
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