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• Data nerds rally to create new bank of expertise for non-profits

  26-11-2017 23:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Organizers liken it to the “big bang” — an explosion of data to finally help the information-starved not-for-profit sector understand itself and the money available. 
  More than 100 data scientists gathered for a 24-hour marathon of volunteer analysis this weekend, pulling together massive never-before-available data sets from Canadian Mental Health Association 211 calls for help and government grants. 
  “It’s the big bang explosion of data and information,&
  
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• Nick Lees: Academic-turned-novelist publishes first book

  26-11-2017 20:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dr. Jana Rieger is an academic by day, a novelist at night and a boxer in her spare time.
  Her just published first book, “A Course in Deception,” has won a prestigious U.S. award and she hopes it will become a runaway best-selling Christmas stocking stuffer.
  “My writing career didn’t start well,” she says. “The first real essay I ever submitted was in Grade 7 and came back from Mr. Lent my teacher with the word ‘Plagiarism?’ And there was a big at
  
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• Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world this week

  26-11-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Watch the video for five things coming up this week in Canadian business.
  
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• No more individual letters to kids at school from Santa

  26-11-2017 19:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Santa will be sending a lower number of personalized notes to kids this year but he will still respond to every letter.
  
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• Former Bruins Peter Chiarelli, Milan Lucic return to Beantown with plenty still to prove

  26-11-2017 19:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 24: Oilers at Bruins
  It’s been two and a half years since General Manager Peter Chiarelli was fired by the Boston Bruins after nine years. He was snapped up by the Edmonton Oilers after nine days, opening a new chapter to the convoluted relationship between the two NHL clubs. Chiarelli became the third man with NHL roots in Beantown to assume the GM’s role in Edmonton, following Glen Sather and Craig MacTavish. 
  Despite relieving the Bruins of outstanding salary obligat
  
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• ENTER TO WIN: Tickets to William Prince - St. Albert Gazette

  26-11-2017 17:32 via stalbertgazette.com
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  ENTER TO WIN: Tickets to William Prince
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  William Prince considers himself a storyteller. His country, gospel and folk rhythms resonate with the lyrical poignancy and authenticity of everyday living. Lean acoustics and warm slide-guitar complement his compelling baritone voice that brings ...
  
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• Year-long city police strategy targeting gun violence shows results

  26-11-2017 17:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police is on target with its goal of reducing violent firearm incidents and firearm injuries from last year.
  But acting police chief Kevin Brezinski has sounded a note a caution.
  “I think time will tell,” he said. “I think it’s not true to say that we’ve solved this problem overnight. I think we have to monitor it moving forward.”
  Edmonton police service saw 212 violent firearm incidents this year, marking a 21.8 per cent reduction from the same
  
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• Sherwood Park lawyer speaks about residential school apology efforts

  26-11-2017 06:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After 10 years of working on the case, Sherwood-Park-based laywer Steven Cooper has got an apology and $50-million settlement from the federal government for his clients, the Innu and Inuit former students of Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools run by the International Grenfell Association and the Moravian Church.
  “I feel tired, I feel drained, I feel elated, I feel sad that it’s over,” Cooper said.
  “It was the best case I’ve ever worked on. It’s the
  
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• New councillor pushes 'local first' in public art program

  26-11-2017 05:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is getting ready to re-open debate around its Percent For Art policy and at least one councillor wants a new focus on buying local.
  “I’m hugely in favour of hiring local artists first,” said Coun. Jon Dziadyk, weighing in on the sometimes controversial program Saturday. 
  “We can be proud to celebrate our own heritage and our own creative people. We don’t have to go for what’s flashy in another city.”
  The City of Edmonton currently puts one
  
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• 'Our Alberta' counters hate after last month's Edmonton attack on police, pedestrians

  26-11-2017 05:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A month into the semester, undergraduate and graduate students taking John McCoy’s “Modern Terrorism” course at the University of Alberta got a learning opportunity in their own backyard.
  The class is participating in the Peer-to-Peer Facebook Global Digital Challenge program, countering hateful or extremist narratives responding to local issues.
  McCoy said their campaign aims to tone down hyper-partisan rhetoric, and instead speak to people in an individually in a calm, p
  
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• Worker at Lafarge dead, Occupational Health and Safety investigating

  26-11-2017 05:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A worker at Lafarge is dead and Occupational Health and Safety is investigating.
  Speaking on behalf of OH&S, Nicole Appleton said they were called to investigate the death at the Lafarge Precast site at 4425 92 Avenue at 7:40 a.m.
  She said no orders have been issued as the investigation is ongoing.
  No other details were immediately available.
  
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• Oilers Alumni Team faces off against Special Olympics athletes

  26-11-2017 05:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers alumni dusted off their floor hockey sticks as they faced off a Special Olympics floor hockey team at the Edmonton Expo Centre on Saturday afternoon.
  “It was not easy,” said Ryan Dowling, a defenceman who played on the Special Olympics team in the match. “It was challenging especially against old-time heroes of our city.”
  And even though the Special Olympics team won, Dowling said it wasn’t about winning.
  “These are guys who I grew up watching
  
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• Mayor Don Iveson hoping for Leduc-Edmonton airport transit deal by spring

  26-11-2017 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton region could see renewed bus service to the Edmonton International Airport by spring, if Mayor Don Iveson has his way.
  The new plan would also achieve the region’s first integrated transit system, potentially pulling together basic service for the entire south side in order to connect shoppers and employees with the new airport mall, which is scheduled to open in May.
  “In principal, we all agree,” said Iveson in an interview Saturday. He’s been meeting with a
  
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• Hundreds gather to remember Ukrainian genocide

  26-11-2017 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds gathered at Edmonton’s City Hall Saturday to remember a time of “extraordinary evil” when millions of Ukrainians were deliberately starved.
  In Edmonton, one in five people can claim at least some Ukrainian ancestry. But it’s important for people of all nationalities to remember events like this, said Mayor Don Iveson, speaking at the Holodomor ceremony Saturday.
  “Human beings, under the wrong circumstances, are capable for extraordinary evil,” said Iv
  
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• Jordan Eberle says it straight, about life with the Oilers in Edmonton

  26-11-2017 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers trials this season have caused many fans, writers and watchers alike, to “walk back through the snow,” as Pierre Elliott Trudeau once famously quipped. When a result is not entirely (or not at all) what you thought it would be, prudence often leads one to re-examine what changed “between then and now” (or what didn’t, whatever the case may be).  Why is this happening?
  Why, indeed?  The Edmonton Oilers of 2016-17 won 47 games and earned
  
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