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• Spruce Grove gas station puts up new anti-carbon tax sign

  03-01-2018 21:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Spruce Grove gas station owner who was asked to take down a “profane” anti-NDP sign has replaced it with a sign targeting the carbon tax.
  The Tempo owner’s new sign reads “NDP Carbon Tax Hurts Us All.”
  The original sign took aim at Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP as well as at Justin Trudeau’s Liberal federal government, displaying the words “F**K NDP/Trudeau.” 
  The owner changed the wording Wednesday after he was asked to do so by Federat
  
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• Edmonton enjoys brief respite from cold temperatures

  03-01-2018 21:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The deep freeze is over, giving Edmontonians a brief respite from winter’s cruel cold.
  Wednesday night will see a low of -6 C while Thursday will peak at a balmy 1 C, with a mix of sun and cloud, then see a low of -10 C, said Environment Canada.
  Friday is forecast to have a high of 0 C with clouds. The weekend is expected to have below zero temperatures but remain in the single digits, with the coldest dip being a low of -5 C on Saturday night.
  “That’s the cold arctic air comin
  
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• Unique cigar-box guitar stolen from Sherwood Park lounge

  03-01-2018 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are looking for help to bring music back to a performer after a guitar was stolen.
  A unique guitar was taken from Polo’s Social Lounge, 950 Emerald Dr. in Sherwood Park, sometime between 8 and 9:30 p.m. Dec. 13, police said in a news release on Wednesday.
  “The victim completed a live musical performance at the lounge and, when packing to leave, the guitar was gone,” police said.
  The guitar is described as a Winston and Fidel Cigar Box Guitar and was inside
  
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• With respect, 13 questions for Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan

  03-01-2018 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers in review, Part 4: Questions for and about the coaching staff
  Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan seemingly made all the right moves last year. He unleashed Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on the attack. He concocted a top power play unit that was as good as any in the league. He had his team working as one, with an exceptional work ethic. 
  Much of this has fallen apart this year, with Edmonton now having 17 wins and 23 losses. They’re well out of the playoff race and extrem
  
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• Local volunteers organize first ever Chinatown Dining Week

  03-01-2018 18:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oh, January can get long. So I am pleased to report a new event on the dining scene that will spark up the endless nights.
  Organized by local volunteers including food blogger Sharon Yeo of Only Here for the Food, the first ever Chinatown Dining Week kicks off January 20 to 28, 2018. There are five restaurants participating, all offering $15 two-course menus after 5 p.m.
  “The restaurants represent some of the varied cuisines that can be found in Chinatown, including Chinese, Thai, and Viet
  
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• Christmas day murder suspect appears in court

  03-01-2018 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 22-year-old charged in a Christmas day homicide made a brief court appearance Wednesday.
  Stephan Hendrick Kody, 22, appeared in provincial court via videoconference from the Edmonton Remand Centre. Kody is charged with second-degree murder and possession of an offensive weapon in the death of Eddie Eugene Melenka, who was found dead in an Avonmore home in the early hours of Christmas Day.
  Several people were in the courtroom gallery to observe the appearance and spoke with Kody’s lawye
  
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• Back to Basics at Sorrentino's celebrates comfort food and value

  03-01-2018 17:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you love pasta, you’ll be feeling perky at the news of Sorrentino’s special promotion, running throughout the month of January. It’s called Back to Basics and features a three-course meal for $28, available at all six Sorrentino’s locations in the Edmonton area, as well as Bistecca Italian Steakhouse and Wine Bar.
  To further stretch your post-Christmas dollars, there is an option to bring your own wine and not even pay a corkage fee. You can do this at Bistecca, as wel
  
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• Salty Spruce Grove Tempo gas station sign takes aim at Notley, Trudeau

  03-01-2018 17:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Spruce Grove gas station is attracting a lot of attention for a political sign.
  The Tempo store owner is using his store sign to take aim at Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP and Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
  The sign, which reads “F**K NDP/Trudeau,” is gaining traction on Twitter from both sides of the aisle.
  A Twitter user who goes by the name Susan said the gas station owner is just saying what others think.
  Support Spruce Grove Tempo they say what all think pic.twi
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Editorial showed disrespect for Trump

  03-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “What will 2018 hold?” Editorial, Jan. 2
  I am very disappointed that your editorial staff have seen fit to join those who take cheap shots at the president of the United States of America.
  You are entitled to your personal opinion but you should not use the Edmonton Journal editorial for public expression of those views.
  As a Canadian I find it distasteful to read, in your editorial,  “the election of a man with little honour, few scruples and too many tweets &hel
  
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• Opinion: LGBTQ equality moved closer in 2017 but fight isn't over

  03-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was an unprecedented year for LGBTQ equality in Canada. Here are 10 critical moments that moved our nation forward and the challenges remaining.
  1. Canada’s LGBTQ2S Apology
  Prime Minister Trudeau offered a heart-felt apology, and compensation, for the federal government’s “gay purge.”
  In 2017, the government also established a new LGBTQ2S secretariat led by MP Randy Boissonnault. Look for progress to accelerate with this important foundation in place. 
  2. Strength
  
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• College of physicians looks to rein in problematic doctor-patient relationships

  03-01-2018 13:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Doctors should avoid financial, legal and other “close personal” relationships with patients, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta says in a set of proposed rule changes for the profession.
  While sexual interactions between doctors and patients are already banned, the college is now seeking to broaden its regulations on so-called “boundary violations” to include other types relationships that similarly risk creating a conflict of interest.
  “As an exampl
  
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• 'Rathole,' tunnel or skyway? Council set to debate tricky west LRT options

  03-01-2018 13:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are finalizing plans for the west LRT line and struggling with how to avoid snarling traffic at 149 Street.
  One option could make a new “rathole” — sending north-south traffic under an LRT track at grade.
  Another fix — putting the track on stilts as it follows Stony Plain Road — could force officials to expropriate local businesses and create an unfriendly concrete monolith for an eight-block stretch of the commercial district.
  After a full design rev
  
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• Player grades: Shambolic special teams sink Edmonton Oilers yet again

  03-01-2018 10:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kings 5, Oilers 0
  “The penalty kill sucked the life out of us.”
  So spake Todd McLellan in the aftermath of a second consecutive 5-0 beatdown of his Edmonton Oilers right on their home ice, this one by Los Angeles Kings. He could have saved himself the last five words and his statement would be just as accurate.
  Edmonton’s deplorable PK was lit up for three goals on the same five-minute powerplay early in the third period  after Patrick Maroon’s match penalty for a hi
  
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• Big bang, possibly an ice quake, shakes Alberta Beach during the night

  03-01-2018 06:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Beach — Some residents of a village west of Edmonton awoke earlier this week to a very loud bang, and in the morning they reported cracks in homes and the ground.
  Alberta Beach Mayor Jim Benedict says people thought something had hit their houses — or that something had fallen on their houses — early Tuesday morning.
  Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Jordan Fitzgerald said staff at the regulator’s Alberta Geological Survey confirm there were two seismic events of
  
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• Driver dies after pickup truck hits wide load on Highway 63

  03-01-2018 06:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 51-year-old man was killed and another man injured after a pickup struck a transport truck towing a wide load Tuesday on Highway 63.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP and emergency crews raced to the scene of the crash approximately three kilometres north of Fort MacKay just after 5 p.m.
  The southbound pickup hit vehicle equipment that was loaded on the transport truck heading north. Pilot vehicles were escorting the load in front and behind.
  The pickup’s driver was pronounced dead at the scene while a
  
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• Homicide detectives probe suspicious Holyrood death

  03-01-2018 04:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are asking for help as homicide detectives probe a suspicious death on New Year’s Day in the Holyrood neighbourhood.  
  The body of Ruben (Ben) Baker, 21, was found near 92 Avenue and 77 Street at about 1:20 p.m. Monday, police said in a Tuesday news release.
  “We are hopeful someone may have information on where Mr. Baker was residing and where he had been prior to his discovery yesterday afternoon,” EPS homicide section acting Staff Sgt. Darrin Gordon
  
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• Alberta family grieves after Edmonton man dies at Montana ski resort

  03-01-2018 04:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta family is grieving for a snowboarder found dead by rescuers early Sunday after he was reported missing at the Whitefish Mountain Resort in Montana.
  According to the Flathead County Sheriff, friends called police for help after a fellow snowboarder didn’t show up at the bottom of the hill Saturday afternoon.
  Searchers found the missing man’s body around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
  Friends and family have identified him as Scott Hornstra of Edmonton.
  “No matter where he was goin
  
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• Edmonton police officer suspended without pay after assaulting ex-wife

  03-01-2018 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A veteran Edmonton police officer has been suspended for 30 hours without pay after being accused of assaulting his now ex-wife in 2015.
  Const. Binoy Prabhu was arrested and charged with assault Nov. 5, 2015, after his then-wife called 911 the day before, saying during a verbal argument, Prabhu threatened her with a kitchen chair before scratching her cheek.
  According to an agreed statement of facts submitted to court after the couple agreed to a peace bond and the criminal charge was withdrawn,
  
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• As carbon tax increases, Albertans continue to pay less than most Canadians at the pump

  03-01-2018 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  With Alberta’s carbon tax of $30 per tonne in effect as of Monday, drivers can expect a 2.24-cent-per-litre increase on gasoline at the pumps.
  But motorists will continue to be taxed less on gasoline compared to most other provinces (see chart, below). 
  The carbon tax was $20 per tonne when it was introduced last year, with the Alberta government touting the move as an investment in green infrastructure and energy diversification. 
  The official Opposition has repeatedly crit
  
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• River valley sauna would help cure our immature winter

  03-01-2018 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  If we do nothing else major in 2018 in terms of building a healthier, happier city, let’s find a way to build a large, gorgeous and public sauna spa next to the river in the valley downtown.
  This suggestion will strike some of you as odd and maybe even frivolous, but only if you’ve never been to a sauna resort in Finland, Sweden or Germany.
  Most of us have an image of a sauna as a horrid, enclosed, cramped place next to an indoor swimming pool, but that is a sauna done wrong. It&rsqu
  
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• Edmonton residential property values drop for second year in a row

  03-01-2018 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s recent recession is likely the culprit as the overall residential property assessments released Tuesday sank for the second year in a row.
  Although the value of single-family detached houses rose by 0.6 per, the total for all residential locations dropped by 0.2 per cent compared to 2017, city assessment and taxation branch manager Rod Risling said.
  The results were pulled down by lower values for condominiums, townhouses, duplexes and other homes, city figures show.
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• Judge defines 'weapon' in dismissing Travis Vader's bail violations appeal

  03-01-2018 01:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge created a new test for defining a “weapon” under the Criminal Code while dismissing an appeal by Travis Vader.
  Vader was found by police “in the middle of nowhere, driving and behaving erratically” on Feb. 28, 2015. Inside his pickup, officers discovered a machete and a fishing knife, which led a provincial court judge to convict Vader in 2016 of violating a condition of his bail. 
  At the time, Vader was awaiting trial for killing St. Albert seniors
  
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• Trapped thief shoots out windows after owner remotely locks vehicle

  03-01-2018 01:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A car thief who became trapped in a car when the owner remotely locked it escaped by shooting out the windows, police said Tuesday.
  The suspect then discarded a long-barrelled firearm in the La Perle neighbourhood in the city’s southwest, which was later recovered by police.
  At around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, police received a report that a man had broken into a vehicle in the area of 96 Avenue and 180 Street.
  The female owner watched the man break into her vehicle and locked its doors rem
  
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• Driver dies in hospital 11 days after rolling vehicle in Edmonton

  03-01-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 74-year-old driver died in hospital 11 days after his vehicle hit a pile of dirt in a field west of Anthony Henday Drive.
  A white 2016 Nissan Rogue heading south on Anthony Henday Drive turned west on 109 Avenue before continuing through a dead end and hitting a mound of dirt. The vehicle rolled numerous times before landing on the passenger side.
  Police rushed to the scene about 5:30 p.m. Dec. 16.
  Firefighters pulled the driver from the wreckage and the man was taken to hospital with serious,
  
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• Everything on the table as province looks to change drunk driving laws

  03-01-2018 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta will rejig drunk driving laws in the spring, and the government is keeping all options on the table.
  According to Transportation Ministry spokeswoman Julie MacIsaac, government and the department are still talking to key stakeholder groups, including police, but have yet to develop policy options. 
  That will come later this year. 
  Any changes must be given the thumbs-up by cabinet.
  The province passed changes to drunk driving laws in November, under Bill 29.
  Those additions lar
  
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• Increase in parenting coordinators who mediate family disputes requires provincial standards: report

  03-01-2018 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parenting coordination offers families an alternative to court battles. A recent report from the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family recommended the development of Alberta guidelines for the relatively new field, which was established in British Columbia in 2007. The centre’s executive director, John-Paul Boyd, who is also a family lawyer and trained coordinator, spoke to Postmedia about the need for training standards.
  Q. What standards currently exist in Alb
  
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• Edmonton residential property values drop for second year in row

  03-01-2018 00:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s recent recession is likely the culprit as the overall residential property assessments released Tuesday sank for the second year in a row.
  Although the value of single-family detached houses rose by 0.6 per, the total for all residential locations dropped by 0.2 per cent compared to 2017, city assessment and taxation branch manager Rod Risling said.
  The results were pulled down by lower values for condominiums, townhouses, duplexes and other homes, city figures show.
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