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• Man handed 15-year sentence for 2015 shooting death in Sherwood Park

  02-01-2018 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who admitted to killing a 30-year-old and leaving the body to burn after setting a vehicle on fire told court Tuesday that he regrets his crime and has found religion in jail.
  Shane Terry Tym was handed a 15-year prison sentence on Tuesday for the 2015 manslaughter death of Adrian Gregory.
  With credit for time in pre-trial custody, Tym, 30, has 11 years and one month left to serve.
  Court heard that when Tym and his then-girlfriend Sarah Posthumus met up with Gregory and Jeremy Pershaw in S
  
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• Millar Western buys Spruceland Millwork

  02-01-2018 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton-based Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. announced Tuesday it has bought wood manufacturer Spruceland Millworks Inc. 
  Spruceland, started in 1982 by chief executive Ben Sawatzky, has operations that include a 12,000-square-metre plant in Acheson, where it employs about 100 people making such dimensional-lumber products as decking, studs, and industrial access mats.
  The company also runs a 1,700-square-metre sawmill in Fort Assiniboine.
  Millar Western operates a pulp mill and sawmi
  
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• Homicide detectives take over investigating suspicious death of 21-year-old man

  02-01-2018 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are asking for help in the case of a suspicious death of 21-year-old man found on New Year’s Day in the Holyrood neighbourhood.  
  Ruben (Ben) Baker was found dead in the area of 92 Ave. and 77 St. at about 1:20 p.m. on Monday, police said in a Tuesday news release. Homicide detectives are now leading the investigation and police describe Baker’s death as suspicious.
  “We are hopeful someone may have information on where Mr. Baker was residing and where
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #40: Spinning the Edmonton Oilers wheel of decisions, as the Kings come to town

  02-01-2018 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers will arrive at the half-point of the 2017-18 season by the time this current home stand is over.
  Game #40 is against the Kings tonight, Game #41 against the Ducks Thursday. And the outcome of those matches, both against Pacific Division rivals that the Oilers are chasing in the standings, could well foreshadow how the rest of this season will need to be approached. Fair to say, to this point, that not much has gone to plan or well.
  Either way, decisions will have to be made.
  
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• Residential property values drop for second year in a row in Edmonton

  02-01-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the second year in a row residential property values decreased in Edmonton.
  Between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, overall residential properties dropped 0.2 per cent, according to the city’s property value assessment, released Tuesday. That compares to a 2.7 per cent decrease the year before.
  However, a typical single-family, detached home in Edmonton increased by 0.6 per cent and is now valued at $399,500.
  Duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes decreased by 0.2 per cent, while Condo
  
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• Crime Severity Index in St. Albert Decreases by Four Per Cent in 2016

  02-01-2018 18:57
  City releases 2016 Annual Policing Report The 2016 Annual Policing Report, released by the City of St. Albert, shows a... Read Post
  
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• Injury & illness have taken huge bite out of Adam Larsson, Andrej Sekera and the Oiler defence

  02-01-2018 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers review, Part 3: OK on the attack
  Thirty-nine games into the year, I’m digging into the Oilers at even strength and on the power play in order to come up with mid-season power rankings. In Part 3 today, I look at even strength play this year as compared to last year. In Part 2, I look at the Oil’s attack this year. In Part 1, I looked at special teams.
  Compared to last year, a number of crucial Edmonton Oilers players have seen a drop in their even strength performance. At the
  
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• Are the Oilers finished? Fans rage after embarrassing 5-0 loss

  02-01-2018 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers playoff hopes are dwindling and fans are unhappy, even booing during the team’s 5-0 loss to the Winnipeg Jets on New Year’s Eve.
  One commenter on our game story said the team is “godawful” and said that Connor McDavid is nothing more than “oh so average,” suggesting “He’s gonna bomb just like the last five first over all picks.”
  While some commenters pointed out that McDavid won the Hart and Art Ross trophies last season, or called
  
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• Water pipes burst across Edmonton keeping fire crews busy overnight

  02-01-2018 16:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Burst water pipes across Edmonton kept fire crews busy all night long.
  Edmonton fire has been responded to as many as 39 water-pipe related calls since 6 p.m. last night.
  “At times throughout the night, we had three or four calls at a time for this,” said Maya Filipova, spokesperson for fire services, on Tuesday. “Locations ranged from homes to apartment building to businesses.” 
  Water has been shut off in parts of the city.
  More to come…
   
  
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• What happened to winter? It is mild and getting milder

  02-01-2018 14:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  How is this for relief?
  At 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, it was -3C outside and temperatures are expected to keep rising.
  The high for the day is -1C, and it will be mainly sunny. Tonight’s low is -10C.
  The mild weather will continue through the week, with highs of -2C onWednesday, -3C Thursday and -2C Friday.
  It also isn’t forecast to snow until the weekend.  
  
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• Five big decisions facing Edmonton city council in 2018

  02-01-2018 14:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  From a rotting compost depot to multimillion-dollar LRT upgrades, Edmonton’s city council has a string of tough decisions to make in the new year.
  Certainly, criticizing from the sidelines will be an easier role.
  Expensive upgrades to the west LRT design threaten Edmonton’s ability to expand services in other directions. A vote on demolishing the beloved Coliseum will make residents angry no matter how it goes.
  And on garbage, Edmonton was just realizing its much-lauded recycling tar
  
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• West-end recycler pitches a big idea for ending poverty

  02-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  At first glance, the dusty bay in a northwest industrial park looks like a simple mattress recycling shop.
  But there’s something unusual happening.
  Bring your old mattress to any city-run eco station or big bin event and you’re not just saving the planet. You’re helping a new immigrant feed his kids or giving job skills to those who were homeless.
  The City of Edmonton waste management contract supporting this business fights poverty, and founder Murray Soroka hopes the small-sc
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Time for a new police chief

  02-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht has got to go. From his near-obsession with speeds in Edmonton at the expense of most everything else, to his hopelessly outdated 1950s views on cannabis, to his offensive-to-the-public, ultra-secret operations — he does remember he works for us, right?
  With department morale tanking and now not even being able to keep track of how many homicides we’ve had, to say nothing about them trending in the wrong direction, this is all getting absurd. He is no
  
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• Editorial: Hoping for an even better new year

  02-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The best thing about 2017 is that it was not 2016. If you remember — and how could anyone forget — 2016 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.
  Our editorial last year predicted that 2017 was a good bet to be a happier time for the very reason that it followed what Her Majesty would describe as an “Annus Horriblus” — a horrible year.  
  A star-crossed 2016 plagued us with calamities and tribulations such as the Fort McMurray wildfire, rock-bottom
  
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• Jesse Puljujarvi taking over Jordan Eberle's attacking role on the Edmonton Oilers

  02-01-2018 07:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers review, Part 2: OK on the attack
  Thirty-nine games into the year, I’m digging into the Oilers at even strength and on the power play in order to come up with mid-season power rankings. In Part 2, I look at the Oil’s attack this year as compared to last year. In Part 1, I looked at special teams.
  How are the Edmonton Oilers doing on the attack? Not so bad. Pretty good, save for a wonky top power play unit.
  The team is still a short a top puck moving d-man, especially with Andre
  
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• Paula Simons: Time to fix our broken public fatality inquiry system

  02-01-2018 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last month, Alberta Justice issued a fatality inquiry report into the death of a 17-year-old boy who died of an overdose of methamphetamine and amphetamine. 
  The teen, whose name is subject to a publication ban, was a ward of the province when he died at a Calgary group home. He’d previously been apprehended — more than once — under the Protection of Sexually Exploited Children Act, because he’d been working in the sex trade to support his addiction.
  The report, writ
  
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• More than 1,200 new year's meals served at Bissell Centre

  02-01-2018 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Live music played in the background as people dug into a warm meal of turkey and fixings on New Year’s Day at the Bissell Centre.
  About 1,200 meals were served to those struggling to find food or living on the streets.
  “It is very important for people in the inner city to have a place in the city … to celebrate the start of the new year with friends and family,” said centre spokesman Darren Brennan. “At the same time, seeing how cold it is, a warm place and a warm
  
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• Police investigate suspicious death in Holyrood

  02-01-2018 03:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives were investigating a suspicious death Monday in a quiet south-side neighbourhood still adorned with holiday lights.
  Southeast division officers responded to a report of a dead male found in the area of 92 Avenue and 77 Street about 1:20 p.m., said an Edmonton Police Service news release.
  At least six police cruisers were still in the area around 4 p.m. after officers cordoned off an alleyway. Members from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner arrived shortly after.
  An auto
  
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• Lieutenant-governor welcomes public to New Year's Day levee

  02-01-2018 03:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dressed in their best, people of all ages queued Monday to meet Lt-Gov. Lois Mitchell at Government House for the annual New Year’s Day levee. 
  While they waited, members of the public signed a postcard of thanks and encouragement to Canadian soldiers serving overseas, and oohed and aahed at the holiday decorations and Downton Abbey-esque building.
  “We are in a world where having accessibility to the government is becoming harder and harder,” said James Smibert, who moved
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death in Holyrood

  02-01-2018 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were investigating a suspicious death in southeast Edmonton Monday afternoon.
  At least six cruisers were on scene at 92 Avenue and 77 Street around 4 p.m. officers cordoned off an alleyway.
  Members from the office of the chief medical examiner arrived around 4:30 p.m.
  More people continue to arrive at the scene, but we have very little information. pic.twitter.com/PSD8TPjmy6
  — Clare Clancy (@clareclancy) January 1, 2018There at least six cruisers near the scene. pic.twitter.com
  
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