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• Man struck and killed by train in Wetaskiwin

  02-12-2017 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old man has died after being hit by a train in Wetaskiwin.
  According to Wetaskiwin RCMP, emergency crews were called to a collision between a train and a pedestrian near 40 Avenue and 49 Street in Wetaskiwin around 4:46 a.m. Saturday.
  A severely injured man was found laying face down on the east side of the tracks. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Investigators believe the man was struck by a northbound train.
  Wetaskiwin is approximately 70 kilometres south of Edmonton.
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• McDavid, Caggiula, & Draisaitl the "poster boys" for 3 things Edmonton Oilers need to do different in December

  02-12-2017 20:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 27: Oilers at Flames
  The Edmonton Oilers’ 2016-17 season is not yet a third over, but times are already desperate for the NHL’s northernmost club as the calendar turns to December. Tonight they make the short road trip to Calgary to play the late game on Hockey Night in Canada in desperate need of a victory, preferably in regulation. 
  Consider: the Oilers start the day seven points in arrears of the Flames, who also hold a game in hand. Calgary is barely hangi
  
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• Edmonton Valley Zoo lights up for Zoominescence

  02-12-2017 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Zoominescence is a winter holiday themed fundraiser for the Edmonton Valley Zoo organized by the Valley Zoo Development Society that runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p. m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in December with additional openings Dec. 26 to 28.
  
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• First flu-related death of the season hits Edmonton

  02-12-2017 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton region has recorded its first influenza-related death of the season.
  New weekly statistics issued by Alberta Health Services show five Albertans who contracted the flu this season have died as of Nov. 25, including the first case in Edmonton zone.
  Three previously reported deaths occurred in the Calgary zone, while one occurred in the southern region of the province.
  The numbers indicate the Calgary area has been the hardest hit area of the province so far, with 652 lab-confirmed ca
  
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• #Landmarks: Alberta Legislature celebrates province's past

  02-12-2017 17:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was the year that witnessed the discovery of vitamins, the tragic sinking of the RMS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, and the births of Julia Child, Perry Como, Woody Guthrie and Gene Kelly. It was a year of gains and losses and firsts, and in 1912 the newly formed province of Alberta opened the doors to the Alberta Legislature.
  The Alberta Legislature is one of the most recognized landmarks in Edmonton. Perched on a high precipice overlooking the North Saskatchewan River, “the Le
  
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• Saturday's letters: Holyrood decision bodes well for future

  02-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Developer accuses council of ‘making rules on the fly,’ ” David Staples, Nov. 29
  On Nov. 27, the Holyrood Development Committee (HDC) and community members stood before city council at a public hearing regarding Regency Developments’ up-zoning proposal for Holyrood Gardens.
  At the community’s request, council referred the proposal back to administration to “… return with a proposal that generally meets the large site guidelines for the 35-per
  
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• Opinion: Alberta needs industry incentives to diversify the economy

  02-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta continues to endure the boom-and-bust struggle of a resource-based economy.
  The benefits of diversifying Alberta’s economy are well-documented and most experts agree that economic diversification is imperative to the success of our province and our nation. Yet it is slow to be realized. Alberta has largely failed to attract new investment in energy-diversification projects, which has led to continued volatility in the economy, less opportunity for our children and less spending on
  
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• Neuroscience program teaches kids how to protect their brains

  02-12-2017 03:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  If the Brain Waves educational program prevents even one child from suffering a serious brain injury, it’s worth the effort, says an advanced care paramedic.
  “One of the most unfortunate things I can see in my career is the young kid who has permanent brain damage because of something totally preventable,” Jillian Danko said Friday, after helping teach the program to students at Clara Tyner School at 9420 Ottewell Rd. “Unfortunately, you can’t really heal the brain
  
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• Paula Simons: Bill 31 no magic bot battling bullet

  02-12-2017 03:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  I hate them. You hate them. Ticketmaster hates them. Musicians hate them. So do pro sports teams.
  Ticket bots are selfish, sneaky algorithms that pounce as soon as tickets to a hot show or game go on sale. While the rest of us are phoning or hitting refresh or even lining up, old school, bots swoop in and in a binary blink, scoop up thousands and thousands of tickets. Then they hold them for ransom, reselling them for an absurd profit, to anyone willing to pay an inflated price.
  Bots also tie up
  
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• Make-A-Wish and the Calendar of Wishes

  02-12-2017 02:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brendan Prince, 17, sings at the Make-A-Wish Northern Alberta second annual Calendar of Wishes launch in Winter Wish Square (Abbey Glen Park) on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton.
  The Organization’s mission is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Brendan’s wish was granted this past summer when he was able to sing with his favourite band, OneRepublic at Rogers Place.
  Brendan was paralyzed on one side of his body after surgeons removed a golf ball-sized pi
  
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• Will Notley's pro-pipeline sales pitch convince British Columbians?

  02-12-2017 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Another speech, another standing ovation.
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has had so many audiences jumping to their feet to applaud her pro-pipeline speeches these days you have to wonder why they bother to put chairs in the rooms.
  Her latest ovation came from the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Thursday after her by-now familiar address pushing for construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Construction has been delayed by nine months thanks to opposition in Bri
  
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• Man involved in kidnapping of Edmonton businessman freed after sentencing hearing

  02-12-2017 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who admitted to unlawfully confining a prominent Edmonton businessman during a 2013 abduction received 15 months in jail, equal to time spent in custody, on Friday.
  David Chipere, 46, spent 10 months in custody before entering his guilty plea in October for his participation in the kidnapping of Alexander Davidoff, 66.
  Although the court accepted the joint submission on sentencing for 15 months by Crown prosecutor Kevin Mark and defence lawyer Steve Fix, with enhanced credit for time serve
  
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• Missing a wedding album? The Edmonton Police Service may have it

  02-12-2017 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is looking for someone who may be missing their wedding album.
  Anyone who may recognize the photos from the album can get in touch with police through [email protected].
  The wedding album is the latest item the police service has put on its Pinterest account, which has included everything from a mounted jackalope head to comic books to distinctive jewelry. 
  Do you know someone who is missing their wedding photos? This week officers recovered
  
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• Four new murals across town made of 3168 individual paintings for Canada 150

  02-12-2017 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three artists based out of Sturgeon County have created 90 visually linked murals across Canada, built out of almost 70,000 individual, community-sourced paintings. Each mural depicts a different car on an ever-growing train on a single track.
  Lead artist Lewis Lavoie, his brother Paul Lavoie and fellow artist Phil Alain are behind the ongoing Canada Mosaic Mural project, which has brightened walls everywhere from Victoria, B.C., to Torbay, N.L. — an artistic collaboration between thousand
  
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• Wine: A look at the best by-the-glass wine purveyors north of the river

  02-12-2017 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here are my favourite by-the-glass wine programs, no-reservation required, on the north side of the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton. (BTG is the industry term.)  
  By-the-glass wines must be quick sellers to minimize spoilage — the main culprit is oxidation. We know the disappointment of ordering a glass that tastes awful. The aromas and flavours are unpleasant, weird, oxidative (sherry-like) and tired (little or no fresh fruit). Consider it like leaving a slice of apple
  
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• 'Cold letter' tells Edmonton fertility clinic patients to move frozen embryos

  02-12-2017 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans who have frozen embryos stored at the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s fertility centre are being told they need to decide quickly on a new home for the biological specimens or else have them destroyed.
  The move is part of a controversial decision by Alberta Health Services to stop offering non-insured services such as in-vitro fertilization at the Regional Fertility and Women’s Endocrine Clinic.
  Therese Heidecker, who attended a rally at the legislature Thursday against the
  
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• Social Seen: Festival of Trees Gala

  02-12-2017 01:44 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)
  Festival of Trees Gala
  Where: Shaw Conference Centre
  When: Nov. 29
  What: Invite-only fundraiser gala for the Festival of Trees
  Featuring:
  
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• Dining Out: Sophisticated Pip proves popular next to Meat and The Next Act in Old Strathcona

  02-12-2017 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Restaurant trios are becoming a bit of a thing in Edmonton with several local hot spots expanding to a second and third offshoot, not just nearby but next door.
  The first was Corso 32, which launched Bar Bricco and Uccelino side by side on Jasper Avenue. Then came El Cortez, Have Mercy and Holy Roller clumped together along Gateway Boulevard.
  The most recent example is The Next Act on 104 Street just north of Whyte Avenue, which opened its first sibling, Meat, on one side, followed last month by
  
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• Slain teen’s family calls killing ‘senseless’ as 21-year-old gets prison sentence

  02-12-2017 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The parents of a 19-year-old stabbed to death in the river valley found no comfort in the prison sentence handed to their son’s killer Friday.
  Provincial court Judge Elizabeth Johnson handed Connor James Miller, 21, a seven-year prison sentence after he admitted to manslaughter in the 2016 death of Christopher Fawcett.
  With credit for time served in pre-trial custody, Miller has six years and four months left to serve. Johnson also ordered Miller to submit a DNA sample to a federal databas
  
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• Alberta landowners seek answers about Trans Mountain pipeline route

  02-12-2017 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  SPRUCE GROVE — A group of Parkland County landowners voiced their opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline route Friday during a National Energy Board panel hearing in Spruce Grove.
  This was one of numerous hearings planned for landowners affected along the planned pipeline route and offer affected individuals the opportunity to present and resolve any issues with where the pipeline will be placed.
  Representatives of Trans Mountain were present to field questions.
  Keelan Petterson and his
  
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• Judge sentences 21-year-old to seven years for 'senseless' killing

  02-12-2017 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The parents of a 19-year-old stabbed to death in the river valley found no comfort in the prison sentence handed to their son’s killer Friday.
  Provincial court Judge Elizabeth Johnson handed Connor James Miller, 21, a seven-year prison sentence after he admitted to manslaughter in the 2016 death of Christopher Fawcett.
  With credit for time served in pre-trial custody, Miller has six years and four months left to serve. Johnson also ordered Miller to submit a DNA sample to a federal databas
  
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• Windermere condo arsonist gets two years behind bars

  02-12-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A contractor who pleaded guilty to arson in a fire that destroyed a Windermere condo development was handed a two-year jail sentence Friday.
  Eric Gould, 31, was the framing contractor for the four-storey condo development near 10 Avenue and 173 Street. 
  Gould was sentenced during a brief Court of Queen’s Bench hearing Friday. 
  According to an agreed statement of facts entered when he pleaded guilty in June, Gould and Jeremy Thibert, a framer who worked for and lived with Gould, w
  
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• Press Gallery #208: The Bills, Bills and More Bills edition

  02-12-2017 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The fall 2017 session of the legislature has seen bill after bill after bill after bill after bill after … well, you get the picture. 
  On this episode of the Press Gallery podcast, join host Emma Graney with guests Dave Breakenridge, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson  to discuss two whopping huge bills that were tabled this week. One reforms the Workers’ Compensation Board and occupational health and safety, the other includes a swath of new rules to protect consumers and ou
  
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• Chef's Table – A delicate balance between restaurant dining and catering - St. Albert Gazette

  02-12-2017 00:26 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Chef's Table – A delicate balance between restaurant dining and catering
  St. Albert Gazette
  Cut chicken. Lay chicken in roasting pan and season with salt, pepper and small amount of curry powder, approximately 1 ounce. Bake in oven at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes. In saucepan add butter, onions and crushed chilies. Sauté for 10 minutes on ...
  
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• Demolition of Northlands Coliseum will cost at least $15.5 million, city report says

  02-12-2017 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tearing down Northlands Coliseum could cost up to three times more than originally expected, but the building doesn’t appear to have any uses that make economic sense, a new report says.
  The price to demolish the former home of the Edmonton Oilers is estimated at between $15.5 million and $25 million, compared to the $8.8 million to $10.5 million calculated by Northlands last year, according to a city report released Friday.
  But razing it might be the best option because it will cost about
  
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• New water meters set to flow this week - St. Albert Gazette

  02-12-2017 00:13 via stalbertgazette.com
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  New water meters set to flow this week
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  New online water meters are coming to your neighbourhood, St. Albert, and they could help you save water using the Internet. St. Albert will turn the taps on a $6.4 million water meter replacement program this week. Residents will soon have contractors ...
  
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• Census shows many St. Albertans leave the city for work - St. Albert Gazette

  02-12-2017 00:13 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Gazette
  Census shows many St. Albertans leave the city for work
  St. Albert Gazette
  Most St. Albert residents continue to commute out-of-town for work and the bulk of those who do drive their cars to get there. This information was confirmed in the final instalment of the 2016 federal census data released on Wednesday which showed 65 ...
  
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