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• Press Gallery #207: The Pipeline Party edition

  24-11-2017 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pipelines and parties — what more could you ask for in a week of Alberta politics?
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson (sadly, all without party hats) as they talk about Alberta Party politics and Premier Rachel Notley’s cross-country pipeline promotion tour.
  The team also touches on a private member’s bill set to be introduced in the legislature Monday to help protect recipients of the Assured Income for the Severely Ha
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Ageism, trade missions and a poverty report

  24-11-2017 22:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ageism, the specific needs of older workers and aging at home were all on the table this week at a seniors advisory forum in Calgary.
  More than 25 seniors organizations and advocacy groups from across Alberta took part in the discussion, hosted by Seniors and Housing Minister Lori Sigurdson. It’s the second forum of its kind in the province. This year, talks focused on aging in the community, affordable housing, community supports and older workers.
  Information gathered at the forum w
  
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• Public school board seeks names for three new schools

  24-11-2017 22:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three future Edmonton schools will be resigned to anonymity without your help.
  Edmonton Public Schools has put a call out for name suggestions for three new schools to be constructed during the next three years.
  A new elementary school in northeast Edmonton’s McConachie neighbourhood, a junior high in the southeast area of Larkspur, and a new high school destined for the Heritage Valley all need monikers.
  The new elementary and junior high are slated for a fall 2019 opening. Construction w
  
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• Man facing multiple impaired driving charges after Mountie injured in crash

  24-11-2017 21:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 53-year-old Leduc County man is facing multiple impaired driving charges after a Devon RCMP officer suffered serious injuries during an attempted traffic stop Thursday, say police. 
  The officer — recovering in an Edmonton hospital — was found on the ground near his marked RCMP vehicle after a head-on crash just west of Highway 60 after a 2:30 a.m. attempt to pull over an erratic driver.
  The drama began when another officer tried to pull the vehicle over before the driver fled
  
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• Survey to weed out opinions of residents on cannabis legalization

  24-11-2017 21:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton has decided its high time that it got the opinions of residents on the legalization of recreational cannabis next year. 
  Officials launched a 10-question online survey Friday aimed at finding out what Edmontonians think about key issues on how the city will deal with what could be a perplexing pot predicament.
  The federal government’s bill to legalize recreational reefer takes effect next July and, while the bill creates an overarching legal framework, the provinc
  
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• Line 'fracture defects' blamed in Sturgeon County train derailment

  24-11-2017 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A train derailment near Sturgeon County in late October was caused by “fracture defects” which had been identified one month earlier during a line inspection, a Transportation Safety Board of Canada statement says.
  The accident happened on Oct. 22 at 1:30 p.m. just north of the Campbell Park Station when 12 loaded tank cars derailed while travelling south.
  Four of the cars went on their side while eight cars were left in an accordion position. Two tank cars were confir
  
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• Grieving family packs courtroom for drunk driver sentencing

  24-11-2017 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Witnesses say a 50-year-old Edmonton woman killed in a 2016 crash screamed for help as flames engulfed her vehicle, court heard Friday morning.
  Eric Lestar, 21, pleaded guilty to impaired driving in provincial court in connection to the Oct. 24, 2016, crash that killed Joann Christou.
  A courtroom packed with family and supporters of both Christou and Lestar listened Friday to the agreed statement of facts. It detailed how Lestar, after drinking three pints at a bar, sped through a yellow light a
  
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• Edmonton Oilers' inability to draw penalties is as puzzling as it is persistent

  24-11-2017 21:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 23: Oilers at Sabres
  The first measure of special teams efficiency in the NHL is done by percentages. What is the conversion rate of the powerplay? What is the success rate of the penalty kill? Add the two together and if the combined percentages are north of 100, that’s pretty solid.
  Or it would be, on the dangerous assumption that the number of opportunities are roughly equal for both units. But that has not been the case for the Edmonton Oilers this season, and especially this
  
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• One dead, two injured after two-vehicle crash near Alberta Beach

  24-11-2017 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man is dead and two women were taken to hospital after a serious two-vehicle collision southeast of Alberta Beach.
  Stony Plain RCMP were called to the scene at the intersection of Highway 633 and Range Road 25 at 7:51 a.m. Friday.
  According to police, two vehicles crashed into each other in the intersection.
  The 39-year-old male driver of one of the vehicles was pronounced dead at the scene. A 35-year-old woman who was a passenger in the same car was taken to hospital in Edmonton with serious
  
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• Wine column: Stocking the wine cellar for holiday entertaining without breaking budget

  24-11-2017 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Let the festivities and holiday playlists commence! Time to stock up on wines for parties and impromptu gatherings with friends and family. These are the wines we don’t mind sharing and are great for the nights we may be tempted to open the “good stuff.” But wouldn’t it be nice if the wine was still interesting and enjoyable at that “party wine” price point.
  I find that under $20 is the mark where we find the most bulk wines that fit the genre of homogeneous a
  
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• Social Seen: Best Bar None Edmonton Accreditation and Awards

  24-11-2017 20:14 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)
  Best Bar None Edmonton Accreditation and Awards
  Where: Santa Maria Goretti Centre
  When: Nov. 22
  What: Eighth-annual awards night recognizi
  
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• Mom column: The good and the bad of having four children under age four

  24-11-2017 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Imagine having four children under the age of four. That’s three kids likely still in diapers. Four car seats and boosters. Years of near-constant nursing if you’re breastfeeding. And — assuming you’re in a partnership — being not just outnumbered by your children, but doubled by them.
  “When it’s getting out of hand,” says my friend, Becky Bergeron, who lives in my hometown of Deep River, Ont., “I say to my kids: ‘OK, how many mommies a
  
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• Fitness column: Find an exercise place where participation is easy, accessible and comfortable

  24-11-2017 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you uncovered your gateway exercise?
  What’s a gateway exercise you ask? Pretty much any physical activity that gets you hooked and leads you to a habit of better health. It’s that first positive workout that inspires you to show up a second time and a third.
  Anyone who’s had a ‘bad trip’ in the gym knows that one negative experience can derail the whole thing.
  If you’re just getting started (or re-started) here are a few pointers that could affect the &ld
  
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• Christmas concert season shifts into high gear

  24-11-2017 20:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  It feels as though every year, more and more Christmas concerts are added to the calendar. 
  That’s because people just love them so much. Both of Jann Arden’s evening Christmas concerts on Dec. 1 and 2 at the Winspear are sold out; there are tickets left for her 2 p.m. matinee; they’re $15 to $79, available from the Winspear website, and disappearing fast.
  As for upcoming concerts? Here’s a few:
  • On Nov. 26 at 3 p.m. Vocal Alchemy will present Rejoice! and thei
  
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• George Takei talks 'vacuous' Trump, the Shatner rift and turning 80

  24-11-2017 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hikaru Sulu — dashing helmsman of the Starship Enterprise! Who could have guessed 50 years after he first appeared on TV’s original Star Trek, actor George Takei would be a sassy, politically minded celebrity activist in an electronic boxing ring oddly called Twitter — and quantifiably more watched even than his scene-stealing boss on the bridge, Captain Kirk?
  Not that anyone’s counting, but Takei has slightly more followers than the actor behind Kirk, William S
  
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• 'Here saved my life': Our House has spent more than 30 years helping men get their lives back from addiction

  24-11-2017 17:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shawn’s life truly began to spiral out of control after a horrible car accident smashed open the back of his head and left him in an induced coma for four days at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital with 12 broken ribs and a punctured lung.
  That’s not to say he was really in control before the accident five years ago — his lifestyle was a blur of meth and madness, filled with crime and violence.
  Somehow he managed to cling onto that final thread of sanity, but then, one day, he
  
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• Drake Caggiula puts in claim for Edmonton Oilers job on Connor McDavid's wing

  24-11-2017 16:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  In his first 11 games this year, Drake Caggiula had a goal and an assist. 
  In his last three games, installed on the wing with Connor McDavid as his centre, he’s got three goals and an assist. 
  This is known as seizing an opportunity. 
  Caggiula last played with McDavid in the final games of the 2017 playoffs, where he also had some success. But the 23-year-old winger got off to a slow start in training camp, then got a concussion and missed some games. At the same time, Oile
  
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• Barenaked Ladies bring the laughs to Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium

  24-11-2017 14:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Everything was going smoothly for the Barenaked Ladies until the second song.
  That’s when lead singer Ed Robertson started cracking up at something drummer Tyler Stewart said just before the Toronto-based pop four-piece went onstage at the Jubilee Auditorium. For the record, it was lyrics to Stompin’ Tom’s Goodbye Rubberhead, words so ridiculous that Robertson had them in his head during the song Blame It On Me, causing him to sputter the verse while holding back laughter until
  
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• Union plans to fight Suncor's latest random drug-testing plan

  24-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The union representing Suncor workers in northern Alberta said Thursday it is seeking a last-minute injunction next week to block company plans to start a controversial random drug and alcohol testing program.
  Unifor has been battling the energy giant for more than five years to stop a scheme it argues will violate the privacy of approximately 3,000 members. But Suncor insists it is needed to protect people and equipment. 
  “Despite our commitment and efforts, we continue to have
  
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• Opinion: Holodomor reminds world to act against atrocity

  24-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 1932-33, a terrible famine gripped Ukraine. Brigades of activists under the supervision of the Soviet state security service were ordered to go to villages and requisition grain and other foodstuffs from the peasants. At the beginning of 1933, measures were introduced to stop peasants from leaving their districts of residence. Both the coerced removal of food from the villagers and the controls placed on their movement, condemned millions, mostly in the countryside, to a slow and agonizing de
  
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• Opinion: A new chapter in Canada's relationship with Alberta's Metis

  24-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every November, we celebrate Métis Week. It is a chance to reflect on who we are as a distinct Indigenous people. Nov. 16 is always an important date in our commemorations. This year, it marked exactly 132 years since Canada executed Louis Riel.
  This year, however, it also marked something far more positive — the signing of a new agreement between Canada and the Métis Nation of Alberta meant to renew our nation-to-nation, government-to-government relationship and advance reco
  
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• Friday's letters: Maas should own the error and move on

  24-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fans understand that players and assistant coaches cannot do anything but back Jason Maas’s decision, if they want to keep their jobs.
  But we know full well that Maas’s decision to kick a field goal instead of gambling on third down in the western final was idiotic. The fact that he will not admit it and clings to his empty approach is troubling.
  We only ask that he recognize his error and move on. The stance that general manager  Brock Sunderland takes is also troubling. Is it
  
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• Edmonton boards support police in schools after Toronto axes program

  24-11-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton school board officials are voicing support for police officers in schools after the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) decided to end its school resource officer program over concerns it made marginalized students feel targeted. 
  Canada’s largest school board voted to end its school resource officer program Wednesday. The board pulled officers from schools in August pending a review, The Canadian Press reported.  
  Edmonton’s two largest school boards, h
  
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• NAIT paramedic students run blood drive for injured instructor and colleague

  24-11-2017 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  NAIT students and people from all walks of life rolled up their sleeves in honour of a beloved instructor and first responder Thursday.
  Jennifer McNalley, a practicum co-ordinator of the advanced care paramedic program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, organized a blood drive for Charles Neher, who was badly injured earlier this year.
  Neher was hurt when an almost 15-metre-tall poplar tree fell on him in July.
  He underwent brain surgery and spinal surgery and was in a coma for sev
  
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• Man in custody after standoff in Spruce Grove

  24-11-2017 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man was in police custody after a standoff in Spruce Grove forced residents to shelter in their homes Thursday.
  The call started as a domestic situation in Edmonton about 10:36 a.m., said Edmonton Police Service spokesman Scott Pattison.
  A suspect was alleged to have assaulted a woman and abducted their three-year-old daughter. The man had conditions not to be at the residence, Pattison said Thursday.
  Later Thursday, Spruce Grove RCMP found the suspect, the girl and a female relative at a Spru
  
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• World's Longest Hockey Game raises funds to put cancer on ice

  24-11-2017 03:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jordan Iszcenko is a 19-year-old film editing and production student at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.
  He used to be an active teenager who liked sports and dance.
  When he was 16, he started having pain in his right shoulder that would not go away.
  A few tests and MRIs later, the pain was determined to be from bone cancer — osteosarcoma. Now the cancer has spread to his lungs.
  On Thursday morning, Iszcenko was at Saiker’s Acres in Sherwood Park as optometrist Brent Sai
  
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• David Staples: Will Edmonton's massive bet on Transit Oriented Development pay off?

  24-11-2017 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is investing $3.2 billion in a new LRT line from Mill Woods to downtown, then out past West Edmonton Mall, but the bet only pays off if it spurs Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and a massive increase in people living along the line.
  Part of the reason to build LRT is to densify the city so we don’t have to keep expanding out like a pancake, chewing up farm land to build unsustainable suburbs and road systems. 
  We’ve had LRT for 39 years, but we don’t yet have o
  
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• Transit service to Edmonton International Airport to be discussed

  24-11-2017 02:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  What happens to Route 747 is the question coming to the city’s community and public services committee Monday.
  The Edmonton Transit Service route has taken passengers from Century Park LRT station to the Edmonton International Airport since April 2012, funded by an annual $500,000 subsidy from the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority.
  But that agreement expired April 30 and city administration is asking the community and public services committee what to do until a new agreement can be rea
  
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• Poinsettia grower offers a few tips for caring for the seasonal plant

  24-11-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A poinsettia grower at the Muttart Conservatory provides instructions on how to make your seasonal plant last into the new year.  
  
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• Police impersonator sentenced for stolen Alberta Sheriffs equipment

  24-11-2017 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old man who adopted a fake identity and went to other “extraordinary lengths” to convince friends he was a police officer was sentenced for impersonation and possession of stolen Alberta Sheriffs equipment Thursday.
  Imran Khan was handed a one-year conditional sentence order and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service after admitting to pretending to be an Edmonton police officer named “Taylor Kayden.” Court heard he also variously represented himself
  
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• Spruce Grove RCMP asking people to take shelter or avoid area

  24-11-2017 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spruce Grove RCMP are at the scene of an “unfolding incident” on the east end of Hawthorne Gate in Spruce Grove and are asking residents nearby to stay in their homes and other people to avoid the area.
  Mounties are also asking people not to share police activities on social media, police said Thursday.
  No additional details are available at this time.
  
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• Alberta government still not recruiting a disability advocate

  24-11-2017 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than five months after the Alberta legislature unanimously voted to create a disability advocate, the government has yet to launch the role.
  “As we have on all other issues, we are working collaboratively with the community and are listening to them to get this right,” Community and Social Services Minister Irfan Sabir said in a statement Thursday. “I look forward to announcing recruitment for this position in the coming months.”
  The advocate
  
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• Devon RCMP officer seriously injured after collision with 'erratic' driver

  24-11-2017 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Devon RCMP officer who was found unconscious and seriously injured is recovering in hospital after being struck by a suspect vehicle.
  A Mountie tried to pull over an erratic driver near Devon around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release.
  The suspect vehicle kept driving and took off southbound through Devon. The RCMP officer did not follow. Another RCMP officer was alerted.
  Minutes after the attempted traffic stop, the first officer who tried to pull over the suspect came across
  
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• 'Patently false': Minister slams opposition claims on carbon tax hike

  24-11-2017 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The opposition is being accused of spreading “patently false” information and muddying public discourse about Alberta’s carbon tax.  
  A meme floating around social media claims Albertans’ home heating bills will increase by 75 per cent thanks to a carbon tax hike Jan. 1. 
  The meme is authored by Alberta Can’t Wait, a political action committee that backed conservative unity and, now, the United Conservative Party and its leader Jason Kenney.
  
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• Senior on mobility scooter killed after being struck by truck

  24-11-2017 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  An elderly man has died after he was struck by a concrete mixer truck while crossing the street on his mobility scooter Wednesday. 
  Charges were pending against the truck’s driver, Edmonton police said in a release Thursday.
  The truck struck the 82-year-old man at about 1 p.m. Wednesday at 97 Street and 114 Avenue.
  EMS crews rushed the man to hospital, where he died from his injuries. Edmonton police continued to investigate Thursday. 
  The man’s death is Edmonton’s 27
  
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• Notes from the dome: Ric McIver ethics case plods along, remembering Manmeet Bhullar

  24-11-2017 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A judge has ruled legislature Speaker Robert Wanner can give his two cents worth in an ethics case involving United Conservative MLA Ric McIver. 
  Alberta’s ethics commissioner found McIver breached the conflict of interest act last year by asking a question in the legislative assembly about energy policies, because his wife owns an electricity retail company. The commissioner recommended McIver apologize, pay a $500 fine and recuse himself from future discussions and votes about the p
  
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