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• Council Formally Appoints St. Albert Policing Committee Members

  05-12-2017 23:11
  First Committee Meeting to be held in January 2018 On December 4, 2017, St. Albert City Council formally appointed nine... Read Post
  
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• Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock appointed to provincial court

  05-12-2017 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Alberta Premier Dave Hancock has become one of three new judges appointed to Alberta’s provincial court.
  Hancock spent 18 years an MLA before he retired in 2014, serving as justice minister and premier during his tenure.
  His former Progressive Conservative colleagues said Hancock was an “excellent choice” for the bench.
  Ric McIver, member for Calgary-Hays, called Hancock “one of the finest gentlemen in Alberta,” and said he is one of the most qualified Albert
  
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• Local broadcaster Fil Fraser was humble, despite wealth of accomplishm

  05-12-2017 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Broadcaster Fil Fraser, a prolific storyteller and filmmaker and a leader in the human rights movement, has died in Edmonton after a lengthy illness. He was 85.
  Born in Montreal in 1932, Felix “Fil” Blache-Fraser, was the eldest of six children. As a black, English speaker in Montreal, he knew what it was to be discriminated against; he channelled those experiences into his work.  
  “He was an outstanding leader,” said Ron Scrimshaw, a member of the Alberta
  
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• Opposition to introduce child abuse-reporting bill inspired by Serenity case

  05-12-2017 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The official opposition will put forward a private member’s bill Tuesday to protect Alberta kids.
  Calgary-West United Conservative MLA Mike Ellis is set to introduce Bill 216, Protecting Alberta’s Children, in the house Tuesday afternoon. 
  It will likely be along the lines of legislation Ellis wanted to introduce almost a year ago, which he called Serenity’s Law. 
  That bill would have required adults to report to police any child who needs intervention, under the
  
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• New grant to explore a Community Food Centre in west Edmonton

  05-12-2017 19:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Food4Good, a division of the Jasper Place Wellness Centre, has received seed funding from Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) to explore the creation of a Community Food Centre in west Edmonton.
  Community Food Centres (CFCs) address food insecurity, poor health and social isolation through a mix of programs that have food at their core, according to a news release from Food4Good. Community Food Centres offer community meals and affordable markets, and build food skills through community kitchen
  
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• Man freed from Edmonton Remand Centre found slain nearby less than two hours later

  05-12-2017 19:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man freed from the Edmonton Remand Centre was found slain two kilometres away by the side of a road less than two hours later, say police.
  Ahmed Farah, 25, was freed from the massive remand centre, 18415 127 St., at 12:50 a.m. on Nov. 25, said RCMP in a Tuesday press release.
  But less than two hours later, at 2:40 a.m., his body was found at the side of Range Road 251, around 250 metres north of Poundmaker Road in rural Sturgeon County, said Edmonton’s RCMP K-Division’s Cpl. H
  
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• Man dead in traffic collision on Anthony Henday

  05-12-2017 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating a fatal collision that killed a man on the Anthony Henday Monday morning.
  The collision occurred at around 8 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of the Henday at Gateway Boulevard when a semi-tractor-trailer unit was seen veering off the road, before striking a light post.
  It was reported to police the vehicle continued to travel off the road and down a berm and through a barbed-wire fence, before coming to rest approximately 200 metres from the Henday, said Scott
  
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• Share your stories of kindness

  05-12-2017 18:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Christmas is a time of generosity and selflessness. Over the next 10 days, we invite you to share with us, and Journal readers, your memories of the best acts of kindness that others have done for you. They can be from any time of the year — not just during the holidays.
  Was it the night someone stopped to help you boost a battery in a dark, deserted parking lot? Or when the stranger behind you helped pay for your groceries when you were a little short? How about the time someone showed up
  
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• Police chase down Sky Shuttle Bus stolen from the airport

  05-12-2017 16:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton woman is facing numerous charges after police chased down a Sky Shuttle Bus stolen Sunday from the Edmonton International Airport.
  According to airport RCMP, a woman entered an empty Sky Shuttle bus that had been left parked and running outside the airport around 4 p.m.
  The woman drove it around near Beaumont and Wetaskiwin before heading north on Highway 2 towards Edmonton.
  Officers tracked the stolen bus using its on-board GPS and found it when the bus became stuck driving into a p
  
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• Kris Russell, Drake Caggiula & Jujhar Khaira make biggest moves up in Edmonton Oilers power rankings

  05-12-2017 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s far easier to the list the Oilers who have trended up this year than those who have trended down. That’s because almost no one has trended up as compared to their play in 2016-17. 
  Here are the power rankings for the Oilers, with the most weight attached to each player’s performance in the last 17 games since Nov. 1 and our previous power rankings.
  Connor McDavid. ⇔His even strength effectiveness has taken a hit, largely because of the flu, which he still hasn&rs
  
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• University of Alberta's $248-million dentistry and pharmacy renovation project faces early delays

  05-12-2017 14:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The majority of first-year funding for the University of Alberta’s $249-million dentistry and pharmacy building renovation project is being pushed over into the next financial year, but the move shouldn’t affect plans for its 2022 grand opening, a university spokesman said.
  In this year’s March budget, the NDP government committed $149 million over four years to overhaul the aging main campus centrepiece starting with $52 million this financial year. 
  However, because of d
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Share your stories of good deeds

  05-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Christmas is a time of generosity and selflessness. Over the next 10 days, we invite you to share with us, and Journal readers, your memories of the best acts of kindness that others have done for you. They can be from any time of the year — not just during the holidays.
  Was it the night someone stopped to help you boost a battery in a dark, deserted parking lot? Or when the stranger behind you helped pay for your groceries when you were a little short? How about the time someone showed up
  
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• Opinion: Trials a step in the right direction for divided region

  05-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The final days of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague have been marked by courtroom dramas.
  A week or so ago, we had witnessed the former commander of the Army of Republic of Srpska, General Ratko Mladic, hurl insults at the judges after they convicted him of genocide and war crimes. He was taken away for medical check-up because his blood pressure skyrocketed upon hearing of a life sentence. His exit was not fitting of a soldier.
  More recently, we w
  
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• Opinion: Government must prepare for greying of Canada

  05-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada, like all industrialized countries, is experiencing an aging population. Unlike most industrialized countries, however, Canada is doing almost nothing to prepare for the implications of an older population, and in some cases, is moving in the wrong direction.
  There’s ample evidence that Canadians are living longer. According to Statistics Canada, life expectancy in 2011 was 81.7 years of age compared to just 57.1 years of age in 1921. The combination of Canadians living longer with
  
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• Future unclear for luxury Whitemud Drive condominium project

  05-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A retired heart transplant pioneer says he’s still trying to arrange financing for a southwest Edmonton luxury condominium development and could wind up selling the site.
  Dennis Modry has been working to develop the 45-unit Privada Private Residences at the 2.8-hectare Whitemud Road home where he lives with his wife, but said Monday he has to meet with potential investors over the next few weeks to determine what happens next.
  In the meantime, what’s described as his “one-of-a-
  
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• Alberta legislative offices receive more funding for 2018-19

  05-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Legislative offices will receive more funding in 2018-19 while the Alberta government moves to tighten its purse strings.
  Seven offices — including those of the auditor general, child and youth advocate and chief electoral officer — submitted budgets that were approved by a standing committee Friday.  
  Child and youth advocate Del Graff asked for close to $2.2 million in additional funding to bolster a growing number of investigations into the deaths and serious injuries of
  
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• Hope Mission banquets brighten Christmas season for city’s vulnerable

  05-12-2017 04:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the band played jazzy Christmas tunes, friends greeted each other warmly Monday before settling down at long tables decorated for a full Christmas meal.
  “I have goose bumps,” said Kenneth Poirier, looking around as his friends laughed and chatted over warm plates of food.
  Monday night was the first Christmas banquet of the season at the Hope Mission, 9908 106 Ave., an organization that has offered a helping hand to the city’s impoverished and homeless since 1929.
  “We k
  
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• Graham Thomson: After targeting 'big money' in elections, NDP now aims at 'dark money'

  05-12-2017 02:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  It has a title so warm and fuzzy you could wear it to bed — An Act to Strengthen and Protect Democracy in Alberta.
  Alberta’s NDP government has introduced legislation to encourage people to vote, make it easier for them to cast a ballot and give them more confidence in the electoral system by creating the new position of election commissioner.
  But there is nothing warm and fuzzy about the real target of Bill 32 — “dark money.” This is money raised and spent, no
  
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• Two University of Alberta students named Rhodes Scholars

  05-12-2017 02:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two students at the University of Alberta are among the 11 Canadians who were named Rhodes Scholars for 2018.
  The prestigious scholarships, which fund two or three years of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, recognize outstanding students who display intellect, leadership and commitment to service. Successful applicants must earn the endorsement of their schools and a regional selection committee.
  Iain Sander and Mackenzie Martin learned they had been selected by the prairies commit
  
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• Search halted for Edmonton-bound plane missing in B.C.

  05-12-2017 02:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The search for a single-engine plane that went missing nine days ago on a flight from Penticton, B.C., to Edmonton has been called off.
  The plane, carrying pilot Dominic Neron, 28, of Spruce Grove and his girlfriend Ashley Bourgeault, 31, a mother of three, was  last tracked on radar Nov. 25 near Revelstoke, B.C.Since then, Royal Canadian Air Force and Parks Canada aircraft have flown approximately 120 hours, searching more than 22,000 square kilometres along the most likely fligh
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Advocate reappointed, embargo faux pas and light up the legislature

  05-12-2017 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Liberals had their wrists slapped Monday after violating an embargo about political finance legislation.
  As reporters sat in a morning technical briefing about the NDP bill, the Liberals issued a news release slamming the legislation. Problem was, information about the legislation was to be kept strictly under wraps until it was tabled in the legislature later in the day.
  Thirty-one minutes later, the party sent out a retraction, saying its release was intended for internal use and w
  
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• One of two Remand Centre inmates believed to have overdosed dies

  05-12-2017 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton Remand Centre inmate hospitalized after a suspected drug overdose died Friday, Alberta Justice has confirmed.
  The man was one of two inmates found unresponsive in their cells by correctional staff Wednesday.
  “Onsite medical staff immediately responded and began emergency first aid, including the use of naloxone to address the possibility of drug overdose,”Alberta Justice and Solicitor General spokesman Dan Laville said of the first inmate to be found unresponsive.
  He
  
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• Paula Simons: No passing grades for Edmonton's Metro Line

  05-12-2017 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Metro Line LRT Math 200
  An Exam for Students of the Absurd
  1. Two trains are travelling on the same track. One train leaves at 7:45 a.m.,  heading south, travelling at 50 km/h. The other train, which leaves at 7:48 a.m., is heading north, travelling at 30 km/h. Calculate the odds that they are both travelling on the Metro Line.
  2. If the City of Edmonton reports that there were 49 “safety-related events” with the Metro Line in the last two years, but that there was only an incre
  
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• NDP government hoping to get "dark money" out of politics

  05-12-2017 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  It has a title so warm and fuzzy you could wear it to bed — An Act to Strengthen and Protect Democracy in Alberta.
  Alberta’s NDP government has introduced legislation to encourage people to vote, make it easier for them to cast a ballot, and give them more confidence in the electoral system by creating the new position of election commissioner.
  But there is nothing warm and fuzzy about the real target of Bill 32 — “dark money.” This is money raised and spent, n
  
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• Shots fired! "There is not one Oilers fan…that has confidence in Brossoit," says Sportsnet commentator

  05-12-2017 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chiarelli under the gun to bring in another goalie to Edmonton
  This in from Sportsnet commentator John Shannon, his assessment of the confidence that Edmonton Oilers fans have in goalie Laurent Brossoit.
  Shannon told Bob Stauffer of Oilers Now that Brossoit let in several weak goals in Edmonton’s 7-5 win over Calgary on Saturday. Two Calgary goals game on undeflected, unscreened shots from the corner.
  “Those are fully on Brossoit’s plate,” Shannon said. “Those two.
  
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• Eight kilometres of pipes, first road pave way for buildings at Blatchford

  05-12-2017 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  With more than eight kilometres of pipe in the ground and the first paved road, city officials are keen to see buildings go up in Blatchford next year.
  “We’re making exactly the kind of progress we’re intending to do,” said development manager Mark Hall, giving an update on the neighbourhood’s progress Monday.
  The city’s call for builders closes Friday. City officials hope to select builders willing to commit to townhouses and low-rise apartments at a wide ran
  
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• NDP bill puts limits on collusion between political action committees and political parties

  05-12-2017 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s government is attempting to walk the tightrope between free speech and cracking down on dark money flowing into politics.
  New rules introduced Monday restrict the activities of so-called political action committees, or PACs. There will be no more selling party memberships, giving mailing lists to a political party or promoting a candidate.
  Political collusion between PACs and parties, candidates or leadership contestants will also be stamped out, and a $150,000 spending limit wil
  
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• RCMP investigate suspicious death at Bigstone Cree Nation

  05-12-2017 00:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were investigating the suspicious death of a man Monday after receiving a report from a family member who discovered a body in a residence on Bigstone Cree Nation in the afternoon on Dec. 2.
  “The deceased man was found within the residence on Saturday afternoon by a family member who had stopped by to check on him as he had not been heard from recently,” said Cpl. Hal Turnbull of the RCMP’s K Division in a news release. “Police were called to the scene where t
  
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