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• Indian restaurant to move into former Jasper Avenue Sobeys space

  21-11-2017 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Part of the prime Jasper Avenue building once occupied by a Sobeys grocery store finally appears to have a new tenant.
  A sign in the window of the site at 10404 Jasper Ave. indicates Tiffin India’s Fresh Kitchen is opening next spring, a restaurant that advertises itself as “Indian fast casual dining experience” and has an outlet on Ellerslie Road.
  Edmonton’s downtown Sobeys Urban Fresh store closed in 2014 and the location in what’s called Cecil Place has
  
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• Edmonton Oilers organization cuts ties with Russian defensive prospect Ziyat Paigin

  21-11-2017 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Breaking news from the Edmonton Oilers:That would be same Ziyat Paigin who was ranked as the Oilers’ #3 prospect in the Cult of Hockey‘s summer prospect series, so this is in one sense a big development and an unwlecome one. Not much in the way of detail in that tweet nor on the Oilers’ website but it’s not hard to read between the lines. Talented European kid dreams of NHL, spins wheels in AHL, gets homesick. Oilers fans have seen similar scenarios play out in recent yea
  
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• Milan Lucic & 6 other Edmonton Oilers who must pick it up pronto for team to start winning

  21-11-2017 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 21: Oilers vs Blues
  When the Edmonton Oilers and the St. Louis Blues last met last week, the Blues smoked the Oilers so decisively that Oilers coach Todd McLellan was at last persuaded to change up his lines. McLellan finally broke up the Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl combo, which had been stale for many weeks.
  St. Louis took over that game in the second period, outchancing the Oilers 13-to-4. It was down and depressing night for Oilers fans, proof that this current team is in troub
  
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• Alberta Legislature marks Holodomor Remembrance Day

  21-11-2017 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A commemoration ceremony at the Alberta Legislature Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the Holodomor genocide in Ukraine.
  “The Holodomor is remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the history of humanity,” Robert Wanner, speaker of the legislative assembly, said in a statement. “In commemorating the Holodomor, we honour those who lost their lives during this horrific time and we give voice to their stories.”
  In 1932-33, between four and 10 million people died in Uk
  
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• Social Seen: Swim Drink Fish Salon

  21-11-2017 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Swim Drink Fish Salon
  Where: Home of Kevin and Karen Lowe
  When: Nov. 4
  Who: Karen and Kevin Lowe
  What: Fundraiser for the North Saskatchew
  
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• U of A hopes to reduce needle-stick injuries in nursing students

  21-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prompted by an increase in the number of students suffering needle-stick injuries each year, a study by two University of Alberta researchers could have real-world benefits for nursing students around the globe. 
  The slip of a needle might not mean much to student or mannequin in a training situation, but a needle-stick injury in day-to-day nursing duties has real health ramifications and can put students at risk of blood borne illnesses like hepatitis B and C and HIV. 
  About 10 per ce
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Find a way to keep CFR in the Coliseum

  21-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The uncertain future for the Canadian Finals Rodeo started with Mayor Stephen Mandel and council and continues with Mayor Don Iveson and council. The Oilers Entertainment Group, Canadian Professional Rodeo Association and Northlands all had roles that leave an uncertain and potentially dismal future for CFR.
  A non-compete clause on Northlands not only potentially kills CFR, but destroys its ability to continue attracting events that sustain their facilities and enrich the business and socia
  
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• Opinion: It's time to stop using a racial slur for our football team

  21-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos had a big football game Sunday and thousands of people in my hometown who hoped their team would make it to the Grey Cup were ultimately disappointed. But when I think of my city’s Canadian Football League team, I have a different hope — that it will soon stop using the word “Eskimos.”
  The use of the Eskimos name has been a recurring issue the past few years, especially since Natan Obed, national Inuit leader for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
  
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• Editorial: Beetles don't respect borders

  21-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One problem — among the many — with mountain pine beetles is they don’t respect borders. 
  The interprovincial boundary didn’t matter 11 years ago when a plague of the pests was devouring swaths of British Columbia’s forest thanks to a laggardly response in that province from industry and government to an infestation starting in the mid-’90s.
  In 2006, swarms of wind-borne beetles flew eastward into west-central Alberta. Since that initial invasion, Alberta
  
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• Performers cancel at Needle Vinyl Tavern over sexual harassment allegations

  21-11-2017 06:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Acts are cancelling performances at a popular live-music venue over allegations of sexual harassment from a former employee.
  The Needle Vinyl Tavern on Jasper Avenue has asked the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton and the YWCA to review its policies and training, one of the owners, Robert Campbell, said Monday in an emailed statement.
  “The Needle Vinyl Tavern has absolutely zero tolerance for any behaviour or actions by staff or patrons that impacts the positive environment we have worked
  
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• Catholic school boards have intervener status in Trinity Western case

  21-11-2017 02:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Catholic school boards and their counterparts in Ontario and Saskatchewan are interveners in a case bound for the Supreme Court involving a B.C. private Christian liberal arts university that pits religious freedom against equality rights.
  The move prompted Alberta Education Minister David Eggen to say school boards should be spending public education dollars in schools, and not on litigation.
  “I recognize how they would be concerned, but I would caution any school board
  
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• Correctional officer attacked at Edmonton Remand Centre

  21-11-2017 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A correctional officer was briefly knocked unconscious last week in an unprovoked attack at the Edmonton Remand Centre, the union that represents provincial employees said Monday.
  On Nov. 15, an officer escorting an inmate back to his cell received a fairly serious punch to the head, said Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. 
  Other officers came to the injured guard’s aid, he said. 
  “From what we understand, it was an unprovoked attack and it i
  
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• Paula Simons: David Belke's child pornography conviction a tale of tragedy

  21-11-2017 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  David Belke was never known for tragedy.
  For decades, the playwright and director has entertained audiences with his bright and charming comedies. Joyous musicals. Literary send-ups. Romantic romps. They were lighter-than-air confections that rarely pushed audiences out of their comfort zones.
  Fringe fans lined up for Belke’s sunny, witty plays. Theatre groups across North America performed them.
  But Belke had a dark side, one that we never saw on stage, one he kept carefully hidden from a
  
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• Edmonton mayor responds to workplace harassment allegations

  21-11-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson responds to allegations of workplace harassment from 20 per cent of City of Edmonton employees on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017. Workplace bullying specialist Linda Crockett also comments about the situation.
  
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• Does Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens to Edmonton Oilers rumour make any sense? I can't see it

  21-11-2017 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette, his suggestion that Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price might make sense for the Oilers:  “One team that might be interested in Price is the Edmonton Oilers, who have talented centres like Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl and could use help in goal after Cam Talbot allowed six goals on 21 shots in a 6-3 loss to the Stars on Saturday. Edmonton is also close to Price’s home in British Columbia. The Oilers, who had high hopes
  
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• Families, daycare staff may have been exposed to tuberculosis: AHS

  21-11-2017 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The families of children at a Fort McMurray daycare, as well as the staff, have been informed by Alberta Health Services (AHS) they may have been exposed to a case of tuberculosis (TB).
  In a Monday afternoon news release, AHS confirmed the group’s TB Services and Communicable Disease Control Teams, working with pediatric clinicians and the medical officer of health, were completing a follow-up screening routine following potential TB exposure.
  According to AHS, the impacted families and st
  
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• School boards who share buildings will reap benefits, education minister says

  21-11-2017 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education minister will reward school boards that opt to share school buildings, he told trustees from across the province.
  Education Minister David Eggen pointed to a new shared public and Catholic school building with a civic centre in Grimshaw as a “signpost for the whole province,” as he spoke to trustees assembled at an Alberta School Boards’ Association meeting Monday in Edmonton.
  The joint northwestern Alberta schools opened in September and accommod
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Marking transgender remembrance day, spotlight on rural crime

  21-11-2017 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The transgender Pride flag was hoisted in Edmonton and Calgary Monday to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance. 
  In a statement, Tourism and Culture Minister Ricardo Miranda — Alberta’s first openly gay minister — said the day was a reminder that we don’t yet live in a world where all people are free to be who they are.
  Along with remembering lives lost, he said, the day is a call to action to help those still in need.
  “As we’ve recently seen, we know
  
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• Windermere Drive house fire being investigated as arson

  21-11-2017 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fire that caused $3 million in damage to a house is being investigated as arson.
  “The cause of the fire is determined to be deliberately set,” said Maya Filipovic, spokesperson for fire rescue services, in a news release Monday. “Edmonton Police Service is investigating. Damage is estimated to be $3 million to all affected properties.”
  In the early morning hours of Nov. 15, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services was called to a fire at a house under construction on Win
  
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• Two EPS drug investigators fall ill after fentanyl contact

  21-11-2017 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two drug investigators handling a fentanyl seizure were examined in hospital after they reported feeling ill, an Edmonton Police Service official said Monday.  
  As far as deputy chief Kevin Brezinski knows, it is the service’s first case of fentanyl contamination, which in other jurisdictions has reportedly led to first responders accidentally overdosing.   
  “It’s definitely concerning,” Brezinski said at a public event Monday afternoon.
  “I
  
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• A ‘classic Canadian winter’ with plenty of snow is coming, says meteorologist

  21-11-2017 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  One prominent weather forecaster says you should “buckle up” for a stormy winter.
  This year’s La Nina is similar to the one that brought Toronto its snowiest winter ever in 2007. The West will see snow and below normal temperatures Atlantic Canada snow piles will be smaller due to higher temperatures and some rain.
  Eastern Canada will get most of the snow in December, while Western Canada is getting the worst of it in January.
  La Nina winters can mean many snowstorms but also m
  
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