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• Toasting the best wine-by-the-glass no-reservation spots in south Edmonton

  18-11-2017 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is getting well-deserved national attention for its top-quality food scene. To achieve this status, these restaurants all have some things in common — talented chefs with a “vision,” using quality ingredients, plus they all have excellent wine lists with equal creativity and consideration. Thankfully, we are seeing wine-by-the-glass programs improving as well, and they deserve some recognition. Here’s a look at my top wine-by-the-glass spots with no-reservation b
  
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• City shares concepts for reimagined Beaumaris Lake

  18-11-2017 22:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is asking for your feedback on the redesign of a popular park.
  The almost 40-year-old Beaumaris Lake, the city’s first and largest stormwater lake has three concepts for a re-design that the public can look at.
  “Today we have brought back concepts for Beaumaris Lake, based on information we collected from citizens using the area,” said Marlis Foth, director of open space planning and design for the City of Edmonton.
  Easels with concept art encircled the
  
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• Sold-out Alberta Party meeting draws former Progressive Conservatives

  18-11-2017 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Progressive Conservatives bolstered the 400-strong crowd at the Alberta Party’s annual general meeting as members brand it as a party still defining itself.
  “It’s not surprising,” said outgoing Alberta Party president Pat Cochrane on Saturday. “If you look back at Peter Lougheed and that Progressive Conservative Party that he established, a lot of those people are here.
  “We’ve had an influx of new members,” she added.
  The Alberta Party, slat
  
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• Critical lack of depth scoring from kids and vets alike a crippling factor for Edmonton Oilers

  18-11-2017 18:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 20: Oilers at Stars
  One year later, the Edmonton Oilers find themselves in the same place but a different space. 52 weeks ago on this day, the Oilers visited Dallas in the throes of a five-game regulation losing streak, their longest of the season. After a terrific start that saw them win 7 of their first 8 games, the Oilers had blown nearly all of that early capital but nonetheless arrived in Dallas with a 9-8-1 record that saw them hanging around in second place in a weak-ish Pacific
  
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• Alberta Party kicks off sold-out AGM in Red Deer

  18-11-2017 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  About 400 people converged in Red Deer this weekend for the Alberta Party’s annual general meeting as members gear up for a leadership race.
  MLA for Calgary-Elbow Greg Clark said his decision to step down as leader on Nov. 11 was made in order to grow membership before the next provincial election. 
  Saturday’s meeting at the Radisson Hotel was sold out.
  MLA Calgary-Mackay-Nose Hill Karen McPherson gave a speech to open the meeting. The former NDP MLA became the second Alber
  
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• Saturday's letters: Edmonton needs more Indigenous names

  18-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Someone is offended that we have finally used an Indigenous name for a street in Edmonton.
  I love Edmonton; I just don’t love winter, so my wife and I escape to Maui for some time against the cold weather. Our favourite mall is the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center. We also love going up to Haleakala National Park and to the winery in Ulupalakua, or to Ma’alaea to go whale watching. Get the point?  
  When we first went to Maui, we couldn’t pronounce these, or many other na
  
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• Opinion: Investing in pure research is unpredictable but essential

  18-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Where will the next important research breakthrough come from? How will it revolutionize the way we live? It is impossible to predict. We can only be sure of where the journey begins: with a curious researcher testing and analyzing new, untried ideas and theories.
  Fundamental research — research that has no immediate goal — underlies every great invention and every great economic change. It’s risky and unpredictable but it’s essential to the future.
  When the federal Funda
  
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• Looks like the whole neighbourhood is out for brunch at Mill Creek Cafe

  18-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s around noon on a Sunday and, as usual, the Mill Creek Cafe is hopping, with almost every seat filled by a mix of millennials, parents with young kids, seniors and sporty types.
  The cafe, located next to Scona Cycle near the edge of the Mill Creek Ravine, has been a hangout for people seeking good casual eats for more than 15 years, and each weekend a crowd comes out to do brunch.
  Many of those diners live in the area and arrive on foot, a lucky thing given the tight parking on the str
  
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• Crusaders crowned city champs - St. Albert Gazette

  18-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Crusaders crowned city champs
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  So, how humongous was the championship conquest by the William D. Cuts Crusaders in Thursday's volleyball tussle with the Lorne Akins Gators? “Oh my God! It's like winning the Olympics!” exclaimed Gavin Lambsdorff, a powerful Grade 9 middle, as the ...
  
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• City preparing for legal marijuana - St. Albert Gazette

  18-11-2017 07:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  City preparing for legal marijuana
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  The city of St. Albert plans to begin making bylaws in January to prepare for the legalization of marijuana. This week the provincial government tabled two pieces of legislation, which may help the city move forward with planning for the legalization ...
  
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• Students hear real stories of drugs during Addictions Awareness Week - St. Albert Gazette

  18-11-2017 07:03 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Students hear real stories of drugs during Addictions Awareness Week
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  Austin said that he's not sure how he ended up in the hospital after a drug overdose in 2015. He was a young man on the streets of Lloydminster, doing crystal meth, heroin, fentanyl and more. He was “high as a kite” and had been up for 17 days straight.
  
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• Catholic education under attack in Alberta, retired bishop Frederick Henry tells trustees

  18-11-2017 06:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Catholic education is under attack and school trustees must celebrate, preserve, promote and enhance it.
  That was the message to delegates as the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association opened its annual general meeting Friday at the Westin hotel with a keynote address from Calgary’s retired bishop Frederick Henry.
  Henry also said society is overloading children with data on sex without giving them the ability to deal with what they are hearing.
  Children, he said, face “a
  
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• 'Smallest distillery in North America' starting retail sales in Old Strathcona operation

  18-11-2017 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strathcona Spirits owner Adam Smith is so keen to put local ingredients in his company’s booze, he flavours the gin with wild juniper berries and sea buckthorn he picks himself.
  What Smith claims is North America’s smallest distillery opened last December in a 69-square-metre former radiator shop on a gentrifying Old Strathcona industrial block, outfitted with a $100,000 custom-made still he and a friend drove 10,000 km to pick up in the Ozarks.
  Although Strathcona Spirits has b
  
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• Edmonton playwright gets six months for possession of child porn

  18-11-2017 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton playwright has been handed a jail sentence after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. 
  David Belke was sentenced to six months behind bars in an Edmonton courtroom Friday, according to court records. 
  The 57-year-old playwright, performer and former substitute teacher pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography Oct. 26. He was arrested March 17 after turning himself in to police. 
  Belke came under investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcem
  
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• Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh visits Edmonton but doesn't meet with Premier Rachel Notley

  18-11-2017 03:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh heaped praise on Premier Rachel Notley during his first official visit to Edmonton on Friday, but the two leaders failed to meet to discuss disagreements over pipeline projects considered vital to the provincial economy.
  “I think Premier Notley is an incredible premier … Someone who I have personally always really respected and looked up to and continue to do so,” Singh told Postmedia following a tour of the Alternative Energy Centre at the Nor
  
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• Mayor Don Iveson wants extra design review for developments near major LRT stations

  18-11-2017 03:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson said he’ll push for all major new developments around LRT stations to get an additional design review after more than two dozen people turned out Friday to oppose towers proposed for Holyrood Gardens.
  The project would have three 22- and 18-storey towers lining 85 Street in the Holyrood neighbourhood, but neighbours worry new site rules sought by Regency Developments are too vague.
  Residents say the buildings don’t follow Edmonton’s planning guidelines, put tow
  
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• Students' union won't replace smashed piano installed in mental health initiative

  18-11-2017 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A mental health initiative at the University of Alberta has been smashed.
  Two “street pianos” had been installed above the Health Sciences LRT station pedway as part of a mental-health initiative in 2015 by then students’ union president William Lau.
  “The street piano initiative has ended, and plans were underway to donate the pianos to another organization,” said Alix Kemp, speaking on behalf of the University of Alberta Students’ Union.
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• Santa Claus parade set for Jasper Avenue on Saturday

  18-11-2017 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Santa Claus is coming to downtown Edmonton with a modified route from previous years.
  The Santa’s Parade of Lights will start on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. on Jasper Avenue and 100 Street and travel westbound to end at Jasper Avenue and 108 Street, organizers said.
  Food trucks and Porta Potties will be located north of Jasper Avenue at 105 Street in Beaver Hills Park and south of Jasper Avenue near 102 Street.
  Jasper Avenue will be closed to traffic for the length of the parade, but north-south
  
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• Paula Simons: Fixing "abysmal" Edmonton corporate culture a tall order

  18-11-2017 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  According to a disturbing new report by City of Edmonton auditor David Wiun, almost 20 per cent of city staff feel they’ve been victims of workplace harassment or bullying. 
  Of those, only 36 per cent reported the alleged abuse. As an investigation this week by my Postmedia colleague Elise Stolte revealed, many city employees have lost faith in a complaints system which, they say, does little or nothing to stop abusers, and which brings down means of retribution on those who speak up.
  
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• 12-year-old St. Albert girl needs urgent bone marrow transplant - CBC.ca

  18-11-2017 02:01 via cbc.ca
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  12-year-old St. Albert girl needs urgent bone marrow transplant
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  Lying in a hospital bed two days a week is not something 12-year-old Alex Pasichnyk is thrilled about. But since the end of June she's been going to the Stollery Children's Hospital every Tuesday and Friday for blood transfusions after she was ...
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• City of Edmonton employees say they were harassed on the job

  18-11-2017 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Elise Stolte reads some of the emails she’s received from former and current City of Edmonton employees who say they have been harassed and how voiceless they feel.
  
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• Press Gallery #206: The Potcast edition

  18-11-2017 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the Alberta government announcing rules around legal marijuana legislation this week, we finally get to use this much-awaited pun for the podcast title. 
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Dave Breakenridge, Paula Simons and Clare Clancy talk all things weed, from retail sales plans to new legislation around impaired driving. The team also asks what on earth former Alberta Party leader Greg Clark was smoking when he stood down, and the newly announced byelection (or high-e
  
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• Edmonton playwright gets six months on child porn possession charge

  18-11-2017 01:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton playwright has been handed a jail sentence after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. 
  David Belke was sentenced to six months behind bars in an Edmonton courtroom Friday, according to court records. 
  The 57-year-old playwright, performer and former substitute teacher pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography Oct. 26. He was arrested March 17 after turning himself in to police. 
  Belke came under investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcem
  
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• Medical cannabis clinic, possible pot shop coming to Old Strathcona

  18-11-2017 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Ottawa company announced Friday it’s setting up a medical marijuana clinic in Old Strathcona that could become a retail outlet when recreational pot is legalized next July.
  National Access Cannabis Corp. intends to open a 195-square-metre office at 10401 82 Ave. in January where staff will discuss medical marijuana options with patients, the company said in a news release.
  The former bank building on the southwest corner of Whyte Avenue and Calgary Trail is “a prime location for a
  
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• City considering raising private capital for Ray Gibbon Drive - St. Albert Gazette

  18-11-2017 00:59 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City considering raising private capital for Ray Gibbon Drive
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  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci has recommended that the city try to generate some private capital to begin funding Ray Gibbon Drive. During a lunch meeting in St. Albert between the minister, St. Albert MLA Marie Renaud, representatives from the St.
  
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• Alberta Liberal Party leader tosses hat in the ring for Calgary byelection

  18-11-2017 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Liberal Party Leader David Khan announced Friday he’s tossing his hat in the ring in the upcoming Calgary byelection.
  He’ll face off against United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, who also needs a seat in the legislature.
  On Thursday, Premier Rachel Notley confirmed the byelection in Calgary-Lougheed will take place Dec. 14. 
  Longtime MLA Dave Rodney, a former Progressive Conservative who has held the seat since 2004, stepped down to pave the way for Kenney, shor
  
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• What will Accidental Beach look like after its first winter?

  18-11-2017 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A water expert who monitors the North Saskatchewan River said what Edmonton’s Accidental Beach will look like when the ice melts is anyone’s guess. 
  The beach, which formed downstream from a construction berm last spring and captivated Edmontonians last summer, is beneath a layer of snow and ice for the first time in its brief existence. Parts of the beach appeared to be submerged in the icy river earlier this month. 
  Hans Asfeldt, manager of water literacy with North
  
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