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• Edmonton Remand Centre on lockdown after increase in assaults on officers

  15-12-2017 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Concerned with the increase in assaults on correctional officers by inmates at the Edmonton Remand Centre, a lockdown was staged beginning at 7 a.m. Friday.
  “There’s been a number of serious assaults on correctional officers at the remand centre, even including up to last night,” said Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, on Friday. “Officers this morning felt the building wasn’t safe and they locked down. The inmates are conta
  
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• Cam Talbot back with Oilers — and not one second too soon

  15-12-2017 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cam Talbot is off the injured reserve list and back with the Edmonton Oilers. There could not have been better news for the team today. While Talbot has yet to consistently play his best hockey this year, his game was picking up before he got hurt. Meanwhile, his replacement, backup goalie Laurent Brossoit, struggled mightily in the starting job. 
  Brossoit has many ardent defenders among Oilers fans and commentators — and good for them sticking up for a player going through a hard ti
  
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• Graham Thomson and the impact of Jason Kenney in the Alberta legislature

  15-12-2017 22:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Now that Jason Kenney has won a seat in the Alberta Legislature, his gaze will shift to the 2019 provincial election in Alberta and winning the hearts and minds of provincial conservatives. But political affairs columnist Graham Thomson wonders if Kenney becomes Alberta Premier, would it be a stepping stone back into federal politics?
  
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• Public invited to bid farewell to Northlands Coliseum

  15-12-2017 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Members of the public are invited to pay their respects in what is being billed as the final farewell to the Northlands Coliseum this weekend.
  The Spruce Grove Saints will face off against the Okotoks Oilers in a free charity hockey game Friday night featuring a special appearance from former Edmonton Oiler Ryan Smyth.
  Those attending will be entered to win a seat from the Northlands Coliseum signed by Smyth.
  Parking is free with a donation to 630 CHED Santas Anonymous, the Spruce Grove Kinettes
  
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• Two more flu deaths in Edmonton, provincial total climbs to 13

  15-12-2017 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A total of 13 Albertans who contracted the flu this season have died, including three people from the Edmonton region, according to new statistics from Alberta Health Services.
  That’s an increase of five deaths province-wide from the last weekly update, and a rise of two deaths in Edmonton zone.
  The Calgary region continues to experience the majority of the flu activity in Alberta, accounting for eight of the flu-related deaths so far this season. There have also been two deaths in the sou
  
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• Discount airline adds flights from Edmonton to Toronto, Kelowna and Vancouver

  15-12-2017 20:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ultra low-cost carrier Flair Airlines now operates a daily direct flight to Toronto from Edmonton International Airport, the company said Friday.
  Flair has also added direct flights to Vancouver International Airport four times a week, and direct flights to Kelowna International Airport three times weekly, according to a Friday news release.
  Kelowna-based Flair first entered the market as a charter airline last year, running flights for NewLeaf Travel Company. The company bought NewLeaf in June,
  
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• One dead in Highway 40 collision near Grande Prairie

  15-12-2017 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pick-up truck driver was killed when a semi hit his vehicle broadside on a highway near Grande Prairie Dec. 14, RCMP said Friday. 
  Police were called to the collision at Highway 40 and Canfor Road, south of the city, at 6:23 a.m. 
  The semi-truck was travelling northbound on Highway 40 when it struck the pickup, which was turning to go southbound from Canfor Road. The pick-up was struck on the driver side. 
  The lone driver of the pick-up, a 59-year-old man from Grande Prairie, wa
  
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• Home delivery of Edmonton Journal, Sun delayed until noon Friday

  15-12-2017 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Due to the freezing rain this morning, home delivery of the Edmonton Journal, National Post and the Edmonton Sun will be delayed until noon today.
  In the meantime, we have opened up access to the ePaper versions of the Journal and the Sun.  
  We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience. 
  
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• Rain, in Edmonton, in December: residents react to winter showers

  15-12-2017 17:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians awoke to rain showers and slippery roads Friday morning, the 15th of December.  
  There were no Environment Canada weather warnings in place for the Edmonton area as of 7:45 a.m., but commuters were reporting icy roads. 
  The Fort McMurray – Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan – Wood Buffalo National Park regions in northeast Alberta were under freezing rain warnings. 
  Environment Canada was calling for cloudy conditions with a 60 percent chance of showers F
  
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• 'So much more than just a football team': Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team remembered one year after plane crash

  15-12-2017 15:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton writer Sheena Rossiter was working as a correspondent in Brazil when LaMia Flight 2933 crashed in the Colombian countryside, killing 71 people — including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team. She reflects on covering the disaster and its aftermath one year later. 
  The image would be flashed on screens across the world: Chapecoense’s starting eleven players, standing at Arena Conda’s midfield in Chapeco, Brazil, just before their 2016 semi
  
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• Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team remembered one year after plane crash

  15-12-2017 15:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton writer Sheena Rossiter was working as a correspondent in Brazil when LaMia Flight 2933 crashed in the Colombian countryside, killing 71 people — including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team. She reflects on covering the disaster and its aftermath one year later. 
  The image would be flashed on screens across the world: Chapecoense’s starting eleven players, standing at Arena Conda’s midfield in Chapeco, Brazil, just before their 2016 semi
  
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• Opinion: Gov't equates veterinarians with ticket resellers, loan sharks

  15-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Since 1906, the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association (ABVMA) has served the public interest, regulating the veterinary profession in our province, ensuring veterinarians and registered veterinary technologists adhere to professional standards of practice.
  These standards have steadily improved over the course of my time as a veterinarian, and with these improvements there has been a corresponding increase in costs. A public minority has raised concern over this and motivated the government of
  
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• New restaurant concept to the cafe at Holt Renfrew

  15-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The cafe at Holt Renfrew, beloved by ladies who lunch, as well as men who munch, is undergoing a change. Sometime in 2018, it will re-open as Colette Grand Cafe, a concept that will be seen in Holts Cafes in Edmonton, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto’s Yorkdale and Bloor Street locations. 
  Inspired by Colette Grand Cafe, an upscale restaurant on Toronto’s King Street, Colette Grand Cafe at Holt Renfrew will introduce a “chic and sophisticated menu and atmosphere to compleme
  
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• Friday's letters: Spare City Hall pool from red tape

  15-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Draining joy from City Hall wading pool smacks of seriously shallow thinking,” Paula Simons, Dec. 13
  I’m very disappointed to hear they are going to re-construct/renovate the wading pool in front of City Hall. Our grandson had a great time wading in the waters during some warm days last summer, and so did his dad.  
  Isn’t there a grandfather clause that would release the city from having to meet the new requirements? I find it especially disturbing that the
  
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• Editorial: City Hall pool plan is all wet

  15-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  To understand the value of the City Hall pool to Edmontonians, one need only listen to children shrieking with joy, watch teenagers frolic in its waters, or office workers dipping their feet.
  Ironically, it’s city officials whose business might take them to City Hall more regularly than most who seem unaware of what the pool out front means to the people they serve and why its planned downgrade would ruin that special relationship.
  Construction expected to start in April will replace concr
  
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• Game grades: Edmonton Oilers get plenty of shots but few good ones in 4-0 loss to Nashville Predators

  15-12-2017 08:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Forget the shot clock, where Edmonton put up 46 shots, with just 23 for the Nashville Predators.
  For all those shots, the Oilers could just generate just four Grade A scoring chances. The Nashville Predators only got six but they scored in four of them in their 4-0 over the Oilers on Thursday night.It was a tough game for the Oilers and something of a bad luck game as well. They directed plenty of shots at the Nashville goal, but could not get a decent bounce. Nashville, meanwhile, scored its f
  
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• Alberta teen’s sneaker design leaves behind lasting legacy following his death

  15-12-2017 06:19 via globalnews.ca
  An Alberta teen had a wish come true when he got the chance to design his own shoes. Those shoes have kicked off a campaign to help kids who need it.
  
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• Get ready for a bare-knuckle brawl in Alberta politics next year

  15-12-2017 06:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenney didn’t just win the Calgary-Lougheed byelection Thursday night.
  He owned it.
  Officials needn’t have gone to the bother of counting his ballots; they should have simply weighed them.
  His victory wasn’t surprising in itself. Virtually everybody watching the campaign, including discreet NDP officials and candid Liberals, predicted Kenney would win.
  Kenney is, after all, a widely known, seasoned politician — and leader of the official Opposition United Conservati
  
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• David Staples: Tim Hague should never have been allowed to fight last bout: former commissioner

  15-12-2017 06:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city investigation into fighter Tim Hague’s death after a June 16 heavyweight boxing match makes it clear Hague dropped through the cracks of inadequate regulations.
  Lax record keeping and poor oversight enabled Hague to keep fighting in the last year of his life, even when he almost certainly should have been suspended from the ring, possibly even for his deadly heavyweight bout against former Edmonton Eskimo Adam Braidwood.
  The city’s report — by consultants MNP as outsid
  
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• Police chief reflects on 125 years of policing in Edmonton

  15-12-2017 03:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  At a ceremony to mark the end of the 125th anniversary of the Edmonton Police Service, a retired staff sergeant couldn’t help but reflect on his own 31-year career.
  “Horse and buggy days then, and now it’s all computerized,” said Joseph Grandish, following the final celebration at Edmonton police headquarters Thursday.
  Grandish first joined the police force of the town of Jasper Place — before it amalgamated with Edmonton in 1962 — on Nov. 7, 19
  
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• David Staples: What killed Tim Hague? Lax oversight and dangerous passion

  15-12-2017 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city investigation into fighter Tim Hague’s death after a June 16 heavyweight boxing match makes it clear Hague dropped through the cracks of inadequate regulations.
  Lax record keeping and poor oversight enabled Hague to keep fighting in the last year of his life, even when he almost certainly should have been suspended from the ring, possibly even for his deadly heavyweight bout against former Edmonton Eskimo Adam Braidwood.
  The city’s report — by consultants MNP as outsid
  
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• Missing Edmonton woman's husband pleads for her to come back home

  15-12-2017 02:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  With their two-year-old son in his arms, Nadia Atwi’s husband, Ali Fneich, pleaded Thursday for his wife to come home.
  “I’m begging you, Nadia, to come back home,” Fneich said, his voice breaking. “Me, your son, every member in your family, everybody in Edmonton is waiting for you … Everybody who loves you is waiting for you. Come back to your son. He just calls your name every night — just come back, please.”
  He was speaking at a news conference
  
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• Edmonton seniors welcome holiday gifts from Operation Friendship project

  15-12-2017 02:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Reaching into her Christmas bag, Bernice Westfall unwraps a warm fuzzy blanket and a bottle of hand lotion that Santa Claus had just delivered to her on behalf of the shoppers at London Drugs.
  “I feel absolutely wonderful,” she said Thursday as she reached for the candy canes and chocolates accompanying her gifts. “They made it very nice for us. Knowing that there is someone willing to adopt a senior is very nice.”
  Nine greater Edmonton stores partnered with the Operation
  
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• Woman accused in toddler death subject to jailhouse 'threats, violence and harassment': lawyer

  15-12-2017 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman co-accused in the murder of her boyfriend’s toddler is being harassed in jail, her lawyer says.
  Tasha Mack, 26, and Joey Crier, 26, each face five charges, including second-degree murder and criminal negligence causing death, after 19-month-old Anthony Raine’s bruised body was found outside Edmonton’s Good Shepherd Anglican Church on April 21. Crier was Anthony’s father.
  Mack was denied bail in July, but was scheduled for another bail hearing Thursday.
  However, he
  
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• Fort Saskatchewan families receive keys to Habitat for Humanity homes

  15-12-2017 01:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The look on Leanne Kirk’s face was a mixture of happiness, contentment and relief. 
  That’s because the mother of two knew she was getting a fresh start thanks to Habitat for Humanity.
  Kirk and her two children, Zoey and Jayce, were among six families who on Thursday were handed the keys to their homes on the edge of Fort Saskatchewan. (The children’s surnames were not disclosed.)
  Construction of the 16 homes about 40 minutes north of Edmonton began earlier this year a
  
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• Sloppy records, vague policy: Report on fighter Tim Hague's death is grim reading

  15-12-2017 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A detailed review into the death of fighter Tim Hague paints a dismal picture of combative sport regulation, not just in Edmonton, but in Lethbridge, too.
  Lethbridge failed to share medical details from a match in April. But Edmonton’s record-keeping was so bad, officials didn’t record whether their own sanctioned fight seven months earlier resulted in the type of head trauma that could have kept Hague from the ring for that fateful June 16 heavyweight boxing match against Adam Braid
  
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• Second person dies after two-vehicle collision near Rimbey

  15-12-2017 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A second man has died following a two-vehicle collision Wednesday, Rimbey RCMP say.
  Police were called to the collision on Highway 22 at the intersection with Highway 53 at 6:46 a.m., RCMP Cpl. Laurel Scott said in a news release Thursday.
  Preliminary investigation shows a truck travelling westbound on Highway 53 collided with a northbound truck on Highway 22, she said.  
  Two of the three men who were in the northbound truck were killed. One of the men died at the scene while the
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Former leader Greg Clark answers Alberta Party leadership question

  15-12-2017 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Alberta Party leader Greg Clark confirmed Friday he isn’t running for the top job again. 
  Clark stepped down last month, saying it was necessary to build the party for the next provincial election.
  In a statement Friday, he said a conversation with his daughter about the time he’d be away from home cemented his decision, although he will run in 2019 in Calgary-Elbow under the Alberta Party banner. 
  Clark said he has heard several candidates are ready to jump int
  
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• Police release photo of van believed to be involved in hit and run

  15-12-2017 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have released a photo of a white van believed to have hit two pedestrians Wednesday evening in south Edmonton before fleeing the scene. 
  Police said in a news release that they hope to identify the driver. 
  The pedestrians — a 49-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man — were hit while crossing at a marked crosswalk. The hit-and-run happened just after 5 p.m. Wednesday at 96 Street and 72 Avenue in the Hazeldean neighbourhood near the Dr. Gerald Zetter Car
  
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• Police seek witnesses to Tuesday morning pedestrian fatality

  15-12-2017 00:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are looking for witnesses to a fatal Tuesday morning collision that killed a 29-year-old pedestrian.
  The woman was hit just before 6:30 a.m. in an unmarked crosswalk in the Desrochers neighbourhood of Edmonton’s southwest Heritage Valley area. She was walking east across James Mowatt Trail SW, toward Allard Boulevard SW, when police believe she was struck by a Dodge Ram driven by a 43-year-old male. 
  “There may have been four or five individuals waiting at a
  
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• Alberta ramps up licence plate war with Saskatchewan

  15-12-2017 00:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  An independent panel is set to examine the Saskatchewan-Alberta licence plate controversy.
  Saskatchewan ignored Alberta Trade Minister Deron Bilous’ midnight Wednesday deadline to roll back a policy announced last week that bans Alberta-plated vehicles from government worksites.
  Thursday morning, as promised, Bilous informed the New West Partnership’s trade secretariat, kicking off a dispute resolution process.
  If Saskatchewan loses — and Bilous is confident it will — tha
  
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