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• Hack to the house: Scientist's mathematical model shows why a curling rock curls

  11-12-2017 23:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sadly for University of Alberta professor emeritus Ed Lozowski, his latest foray into the dynamics of ice friction may never be classed as performance-enhancing mathematics for curlers. 
  His groundbreaking paper, co-authored with University of Northern British Columbia professor of physics Mark Shegelski and published in early November, is the first mathematical model that explains just how a curling rock makes its way from the hack to the house.
  But the former ice resea
  
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• Alberta universities, colleges told to tighten their belts

  11-12-2017 22:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Post-secondary institutes have been given until the end of the week to submit a “discretionary spending restraint plan” to the Alberta government to find savings at campuses across the province for the current academic year and future years. 
  Exactly what universities should or will consider discretionary spending has not been released, but a letter to universities and colleges gives examples of what government departments are currently doing to reduce expenses and asks institut
  
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• 'There's no excuse anymore': Drunk driver gets four years for crash that killed 50-year-old

  11-12-2017 21:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The son of a woman killed in a 2016 collision with a drunk driver is calling for tougher sentences in similar cases.
  Eric Lestar, 21, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Friday, to be followed by a five year driving prohibition after he pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing the death of Joann Christou, 50.
  Christou was killed on Oct. 24, 2016 when Lestar drove his car into the back of her Nissan Xterra.
  Christou’s son Ian Harris said he and his fam
  
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• Edmonton Oilers said to be looking at bringing in a goalie, NHL insiders say

  11-12-2017 19:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hutchinson and Mrazek mentioned as possibilities by Kypreos and Friedman
  This in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the latest on the Edmonton Oilers search for a goalie:  “Laurent Brossoit is improving in the Edmonton goal, but the Oilers have looked at some external contributions to their crease. Nick (Kypreos of Sportsnet) mentioned Winnipeg’s Michael Hutchinson, playing extremely well for AHL Manitoba, but another goalie they looked at was Detroit’s Petr Mrazek.
  
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• Red Deer RCMP searches of storage locker, home turn up dozens of guns

  11-12-2017 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two 25-year-olds are facing almost 200 criminal charges after police searched a Red Deer storage locker and turned up dozens of weapons — including rifles, shotguns and crossbows. 
  RCMP in the city south of Edmonton searched a storage locker and a home last month, seizing 29 firearms, four crossbows, and stolen property that included electronics, dirt bikes and identity documents. 
  In a news release, police said the searches are “part of a larger crime reduction strategy&rd
  
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• Two dead after collision between bus, minivan north of Fort McMurray

  11-12-2017 16:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two men are dead after a collision between a minivan and a bus north of Fort McMurray Sunday evening. 
  The crash happened around 5 p.m. Dec. 10 at the top of Highway 63’s Super Test Hill, around 20 km north of Fort McMurray, RCMP said in a news release Monday morning.
  Police believe a 2009 Chrysler Town and Country minivan was travelling southbound on the highway near the Noralta Lodge exit when it rear-ended a Diversified bus, which was carrying a driver and 11 passengers.
  The news r
  
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• New deal with China set to deliver $20 million in annual Alberta beef sales

  11-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta beef producers are rubbing their hands at the potential of $20 million in annual growth from a new trade deal with China. 
  The agreement will allow chilled and bone-in Canadian beef and pork to be exported to China for the first time.
  It’s a pilot project for now, but Dennis Laycraft, executive vice-president at the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, is confident it will prove successful and be expanded to all beef processing plants.
  Announced as part of a swath of t
  
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• In Edmonton schools, a push to preserve Indigenous languages

  11-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eunice Hunter-Beaver begins her lessons at Ben Calf Robe School with a cheerful “tansi!” 
  An instructor at the Edmonton Catholic elementary to junior high school in Montrose, Hunter-Beaver spends about 40 minutes each class teaching Plains Cree to her Grade 5 to Grade 9 students, all of whom are Indigenous. Each month has a theme. In September, they talk about hunting and gathering. Other months, they might cover food, or the calendar, or the weather.  
  For Hunter-Beav
  
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• Player grades: Snakebitten Edmonton Oilers deserve better but can't solve McElhinney, posts

  11-12-2017 07:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 0, Maple Leafs 1
  One night after driving the NHL’s consensus best goalie, Carey Price, from the net with a barrage of goals, the Edmonton Oilers couldn’t solve Toronto Maple Leafs backup Curtis McElhinney even once. The Oilers fell behind on the game’s first shift, gradually took over control of the game as the night wore on, but that 1-0 scoreline survived for 59 minutes and 26 seconds right through to the final buzzer.
  McElhinney was nothing short of uncanny in the Tor
  
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• Grief and support at Edmonton vigil for victims of impaired driving

  11-12-2017 05:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Families of those who lost loved ones due to impaired driving gathered at the Holy Cross Anglican Church for the 20th annual Candlelight Vigil held by MADD Edmonton on Sunday.
  For the “wounded healers” it was a chance to grieve and support one another in a safe place where there was no pressure to say the right thing or move on from a loss that never fully goes away.
  Some read poetry, some sang, some prayed.
  Gillian Phillips, victim services manager for MADD’s western regi
  
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• Former Klondike Kate tracks down half-siblings after 50-year search for father

  11-12-2017 03:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Susan Whalen Janzen found the obituary of her biological father, she thought her search of 50 years had come to an end.
  But when she dug deeper, she found half-siblings she never knew she had.
  Janzen, 63, who has kept her maiden name of Whalen through her life in hopes her father would reach out, found her father’s obituary in late November, five years after he died.
  “I couldn’t believe I had finally, at my age, found him,” she said last week.
  Now an Edmonton real es
  
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• Barbershop chorus brings cheers and tears to hospital patients

  11-12-2017 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  While stationed with the Air Force in France, Jim Cochrane picked up a Mills Brothers LP he played on a Gerard turntable. The a-cappella music spoke to Cochrane and, since 1963 when he joined the North Vancouver Chorus, he’s been singing baritone in barbershop quartets and choruses ever since.
  Each year the Grove City Barbershop Harmony Chorus based in Spruce Grove visits Edmonton and area hospitals around Christmas time to spread a little cheer.
  “It’s a very warm thi
  
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• Budding chef Jonathan Giovannoni earns local and international acclaim

  11-12-2017 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lots of children start their working lives in the kitchens of local restaurants, most washing dishes or busing tables.
  But when 14-year-old Jonathan Giovannoni started his part-time cooking job at south Edmonton’s Why Not Bar and Cafe, which opened at the beginning of December, he already had substantial experience at the grill.
  The winner of the bacon category at last summer’s Canadian Food Championships in Edmonton, Giovannoni is also a veteran of Food Network, having appeared on C
  
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• Nick Lees: Country star trades his guitar for a pen to write autobiography

  11-12-2017 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Country music icon R. Harlan Smith wrote Ode to Suburbia on the dashboard of his car while driving home on the Sherwood Park Freeway one night.
  “I strummed it on the guitar as soon as I got home,” he says. “I was elated when the song became one of the most played songs in Canada in 1970.”
  Smith’s talent was no surprise to his friends. He was later named to the Alberta, Western Canadian, Canadian and North American country music halls of fame.
  A legion of musicians h
  
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• Health minister Sarah Hoffman urges the public, and health care worker

  11-12-2017 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Megan Bailey has a message for anyone who will listen — get a flu shot.
  “It’s personal for us,” said the mother of five-year-old Finnley Bailey, who’s in treatment for leukemia.
  “We need her protected.”
  Finnley Bailey’s treatment has compromised her immune system, making her vulnerable to many diseases, including the flu.
  The entire Bailey family have been immunized. 
  “When you have a sick child, you become powerless,” Megan Bailey
  
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• Protesters at legislature decry Trump's decision to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem

  11-12-2017 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Protestors who gathered outside the legislature Sunday castigated a recent move by U.S. President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 
  “Awareness is the biggest thing,” Mousa Qasqas, spokesman for the Canada Palestine Cultural Association, said in an interview.
  “People really need to start … learning the truth about what’s going on there.”
  The crowd — brandishing signs with slogans including “No U.S. embassy in Jerus
  
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