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• Police comb scene after break-in suspect shot in Lewis Estates home

  22-12-2017 23:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were investigating Friday morning after a suspect in a Lewis Estates break-in was shot by an occupant of the home before being taken to hospital with serious injuries Thursday night.
  West division officers were called to the 875 Proctor Wynd home at 7:55 p.m. on Thursday after getting a call about a break-and-enter, followed by a shooting, said an Edmonton Police Service news release.
  The house sits on a quiet lane decorated for the holidays. In the window of 875 Proctor Wynd st
  
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• Edmonton police search for pair of parcel thieves

  22-12-2017 22:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are on the lookout for a pair of thieves believed to be involved in a string of brazen parcel thefts in southeast Edmonton.
  The first suspect is believed to be involved in three thefts from residences in Hazeldean, Forest Heights and Ritchie from Nov. 20 to Nov. 30, between 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
  Police describe the suspect as a woman in her late 20s to early 30s, with a thin build and short dark hair. Police say she left the scene in a white truck.
  Police are searching for two suspects bel
  
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• Family mourns student dead in possible carbon monoxide poisoning

  22-12-2017 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Drayton Valley family is in mourning after the sudden death of a teenage girl found unconscious in a running vehicle early Thursday. 
  RCMP found 16-year-old Shaina Ridenour and a 17-year-old boy in a running vehicle in the town southwest of Edmonton, a family member said. She was rushed to hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.  
  In a message to Postmedia Friday, Ridenour’s sister Breyanna Ridenour wrote that her family is still unsure of exactly what happened but
  
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• Why (exactly) Connor McDavid needs to shoot more on the Edmonton Oilers power play

  22-12-2017 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers power play is now worse than Decade of Darkness levels
  If there is one big ugly issue on the Edmonton Oilers’ power play, it is the team’s inability to manufacture one-timer shots.
  One-timer shots have killed the Oilers when they’ve been penalty killing this year, as pucks have gone cross-crease or cross-seam against the Oilers ineffective penalty kill to set up that most deadly of opposition scoring chance shots, the dreaded one-timer.
  One-timers have absolutely hammere
  
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• Social Seen: Holiday Sip and Shop

  22-12-2017 20:00 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)
  Event: Holiday Sip and Shop
  Where: RAAS Market (West Edmonton Mall)
  When: Dec. 18
  What: An opportunity to finish last-minute Christmas sho
  
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• Police comb scene after break-and-enter suspect shot by someone in Lewis Estates home

  22-12-2017 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were investigating Friday morning after a suspect in a Lewis Estates break-and-enter was shot by an occupant of the home before being taken to hospital with serious injuries, Thursday night.
  West division patrol officer were called to the 875 Proctor Wynd home at 7:55 p.m. on Thursday after getting a call about a break-and-enter, followed by a shooting, according to a city police news release.
  Police officers investigate a shooting that happened in the Lewis Estates area on Thur
  
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• Century Hospitality busts out in Crestwood with Rebel

  22-12-2017 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s been a while since Chris Lachance popped out a new restaurant concept. But now, the owner of Century Hospitality (the umbrella organization for MKT Fresh Food and Beer, Hart’s Table and Bar, Lux Steakhouse, Parlour Italian Kitchen and Bar) has injected new life into the west end with Rebel Food and Drink — a 110-seat property at 9112 142 St.
  The restaurant was the former home of Piccolino, a long-time favourite in the Crestwood strip mall anchored by Andy’s IGA. But
  
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• Shumka's perennial Nutcracker offers a sugar plum surprise every year

  22-12-2017 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shumka’s take on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker – a.k.a. “Clara’s Dream” – is a marvelous hybrid of the original ballet with a special nod to Ukrainian cultural traditions, but for the dance company’s artistic associate Joe Hoffman, managing all those logistics makes it something else.
  “The scale makes it a monster,” he laughs. “But it’s a beautiful monster. We’ve really built up a family around this show.”
  Hoffman por
  
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• Female pedestrian in hospital with serious injuries after morning collision

  22-12-2017 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A female pedestrian is in hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car in north Edmonton Friday morning, say police. 
  The police major collision investigation section took over the case after officers were called at 8:12 a.m. to the collision scene near 137 Avenue and 102 Street. 
  Emergency medical services treated the woman on scene before she was transported to hospital with serious injuries.
  Motorists are unable to travel eastbound on 137 Avenue in the area of 102 Stre
  
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• Pilot survives small plane crash with no injuries after emergency landing near Fort McMurray

  22-12-2017 17:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pilot whose small plane flipped after an emergency landing near Fort McMurray survived with no injuries, say RCMP.
  The pilot of the 1974 Cessna 185 left the Fort McMurray airport for Wetaskiwin around 5:05 p.m. Thursday but about 10 minutes into the flight, the engine started running rough and losing power, said Fort McMurray RCMP in a Friday release.
  The pilot looked for a place to land but the aircraft flipped during the emergency landing and the pilot called for help. About 5:48 p.m., Wood
  
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• One student dead, another in critical after Drayton Valley pair found unconscious in vehicle

  22-12-2017 16:42 via edmontonjournal.com
   
  A 16-year-old girl is dead and a 17-year-old boy is in critical condition in hospital after the pair were found by Drayton Valley RCMP unconscious in a running vehicle Thursday.
  One of the students was from Frank Maddock High School while the other attended Drayton Valley Community Outreach School, said a Thursday news release from the Wildrose School Division.
  “Our school is like a family and I know this hurts us all,” said Drayton Valley Community Outreach School principal K
  
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• Opinion: Objections to medical cannabis 'dead wrong'

  22-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta College of Family Physicians (ACFP) recently published a statement reflecting their stance on medical cannabis, basically stating there is insufficient evidence to recommend it, and that adverse effects outweigh any benefits.
  As a physician working in Edmonton’s only legitimate “physician-and-nurse-run” cannabinoid medical clinic, I must object strongly to this stance. I have an MD from the University of Alberta, with five years’ subspecialty training in anest
  
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• Nearly 25 years later, open adoption remains best decision for 'baby' Haley

  22-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The lives of two Alberta mothers became intertwined nearly 25 years ago thanks to an open adoption they describe as kismet.
  “She just felt loved,” said Donna Hackman of her adopted daughter, Haley Dawn Millender. 
  Millender’s birth mother, Karen Williams, from Vermillion, was 16 when she chose the Edmonton couple to parent her child. 
  “A lot of people maybe didn’t agree with what I was doing,” said Williams. “People didn’t understand
  
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• Friday's letters: Keeping time change makes for brighter mornings

  22-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The best part of the winter solstice is that we begin receiving a bit more sunlight every day for the next six months.
  For the supporters of the idea of year-round daylight time, I encourage you to look outside at 8:30 a.m., and realize that if we had year-round DST, like Saskatchewan, that is how dark it would be at 9:30 a.m.
  Likely not often thought about is that the time of sunrise is later as you move west in a time zone. Today, sunrise in Saskatoon would be 8:13 a.m. (if Saskatchewan had mo
  
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• Alberta jails have had more than 120 overdoses since 2016

  22-12-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta correctional facilities have recorded more than 120 overdoses in the past two years, and dozens more in federal prisons in the province, new statistics show.
  Postmedia obtained the data after a string of overdoses at the Edmonton Remand Centre.
  Since Nov. 29, at least three inmates at the remand centre have been found unresponsive in their cells after apparent overdoses, one of whom died.
  Despite efforts to keep contraband out of correctional institutions — including
  
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• Player grades: Drake Caggiula caps thrilling third period rally as "resilient" Oilers take down Blues

  22-12-2017 10:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blues 2, Oilers 3
  Just a mammoth two points for Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night as they fought back against a couple of tough opponents, St. Louis Blues and Lady Luck, to eke out a 3-2 regulation win in a barnburner of a hockey game. It was an odd one as the two teams exchanged scoring chances for nearly 50 minutes without a goal being scored before exploding for five tallies over the final 10½ pulsating minutes. Twice the Oilers fell behind by a goal, rallying to tie the score each tim
  
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• Break-and-enter suspect in hospital after being shot in Lewis Estates

  22-12-2017 07:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A suspect in a break-and-enter was shot in a home in the Lewis Estates neighbourhood and was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
  West Division patrol members were called out to a home in Lewis Estates around 7:55 p.m. on Thursday after getting a call about a break-and-enter, followed by a shooting, according to a news release from Edmonton Police Service.
  According to police, a number of suspects broke into the home and a man who was inside the home confronted the suspects an
  
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• One student dead, another in critical condition in Drayton Valley

  22-12-2017 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A female student is dead and a male student was critically injured after an incident Thursday in Drayton Valley.
  One of the students was from Frank Maddock High School while the other attended Drayton Valley Community Outreach School, said a news release from the Wildrose School Division.
  “Our school is like a family and I know this hurts us all,” said Drayton Valley Community Outreach School principal Kim Desmarais in the release. “Together, we will support each other as we gr
  
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• Two cannabis dispensaries shut down by police, multiple charges pending

  22-12-2017 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police have shut down two south Edmonton cannabis dispensaries, but the owner of one says he was just trying to help medical marijuana patients fill their prescriptions.
  “I really wanted to be a role model for the city and to get this done right. I wanted them to work with me, not against me,” David Tiefenbach, one of the owners of MediJoint, 7809 109 St., said Thursday.
  Tiefenbach said he was trying to establish a legitimate dispensary, which police raided and closed Dec. 13.
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• St. Albert man pleads guilty to personation, forcible confinement ... - Edmonton Journal

  22-12-2017 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
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• St. Albert man pleads guilty to impersonating police officer, forcible confinement

  22-12-2017 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A St. Albert man received a suspended sentence, 40 hours of community service and one year of probation for pretending to be a police officer and forcible confinement.
  Mark Andrew Capowski, 37, was investigated by both St. Albert and Westlock RCMP after they received reports of a man pulling over motorists using a white or silver Chevrolet Silverado Suburban with a black grill and push bar and “undercover lights,” according to a news release sent Thursday.
  Capowski plead guilty in We
  
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• St. Albert man pleads guilty to personation, forcible confinement

  22-12-2017 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A St. Albert man received a suspended sentence, 40 hours of community service and one-year of probation for pretending to be a police officer and forcible confinement.
  Mark Andrew Capowski, 37, of St. Albert was investigated by both St. Albert and Westlock RCMP after reports of a man pulling people over with a white or silver Chevrolet Silverado Suburban with a black grill with a push bar and “undercover lights,” according to a news release sent Thursday.
  Capowski plead guilty in Wes
  
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• Nine families get keys to Habitat for Humanity homes just in time for the holidays

  22-12-2017 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Abdi Karim is oblivious to Thursday’s piercing cold winds as he is handed the keys to his first home at the Carter Place development site.
  “What a beautiful day it is today,” he said with a wide smile at the Habitat for Humanity event.
  Last January the site at 2216 24 St. was nothing but an empty hole with no sewage system. Thanks to an average of 30 volunteers a day over the past year, Karim and eight other families finally get to move into a space they will call their own.
  Fo
  
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• David Staples: The best idea of the year? The Edmonton Project

  22-12-2017 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The best idea of the year in Edmonton? My vote goes to The Edmonton Project, a competition that seeks not only to brainstorm visions for popular new attractions for Edmonton, but is dead set on actually building one of them. 
  If all goes well with the project, we could have a fantastic new attraction built in Edmonton in a few years, anything from a gondola running from Old Strathcona to downtown to a ferris wheel restaurant, where customers get a view of the river valley while dining on me
  
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• School resource officers serve annual holiday feast to students

  22-12-2017 00:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Thursday, 20 Edmonton Police Service school resource officers served a proper Christmas feast to students of a south Edmonton school.
  For more than 35 years, staff at the school have funded an annual holiday meal at L.Y. Cairns, a public school for students in Grades 7 to 12 with cognitive disabilities. This year’s ingredient list — meant to feed 450 hungry youth — included 25 turkeys, 24 kg of corn, 42 kg of dressing, 35 kg of potatoes, 20 litres of gravy, 40 kg of mandarin
  
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• Take our poll: Should Katz Group get exemption from liquor store zoning rules?

  22-12-2017 00:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Katz Group is asking city council for an exemption to build a liquor store roughly 30 metres away from another liquor store.
  Current rules ban anyone from opening a new liquor store within 500 metres of an existing store anywhere within the mature neighbourhood area of the city.
  So, what do you think? Take our poll.Take Our Poll
  
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