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• Four Catholic schools damaged by broken water pipes

  06-01-2018 21:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Arctic temperatures during the Christmas holidays broke water pipes at four Edmonton Catholic schools, causing floods and minor damage.
  Repairs are complete at all four schools and classes will resume on Monday as scheduled, Edmonton Catholic Schools spokeswoman Dana Prefontaine said in an email Friday.
  On Thursday, Edmonton Public Schools announced 11 buildings had been damaged by burst water pipes during a late December and early January deep freeze. Around 300 students will be displaced from
  
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• Urban coyotes may be drawn to garbage, compost during cold snaps, says researcher

  06-01-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s urban coyotes were probably as miserable as their human neighbours during the city’s recent cold snap, foraging for food in frigid temperatures and warding off frostbite. 
  “They do have to keep finding food in really cold weather, and at the same time their need for food increases,” explained Colleen Cassady St. Clair, a University of Alberta biological sciences professor who heads the Urban Coyote Project. “I’m speculating, but I thi
  
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• Freezing rain warnings issued for areas north of Edmonton

  06-01-2018 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Environment Canada issued freezing rain warnings Saturday for a large region around Edmonton.
  The warnings, released around 10:30 a.m., included Fort Saskatchewan, Vegreville, Redwater, Smoky Lake, Slave Lake and the Westlock, Barrhead and Athabasca area.
  The warning was later expanded to cover Bonnyville, St. Paul, Cold Lake and Lac la Biche, as well as Lloydminster, Wainwright, Vermilion and Provost.
  Environment Canada issues freezing rain warnings when rain in sub-zero temperatures creat
  
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• Freezing rain warnings issued for areas around Edmonton

  06-01-2018 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Environment Canada issued freezing rain warnings Saturday for a large region around Edmonton.
  The warnings, released around 10:30 a.m., included Fort Saskatchewan, Vegreville, Redwater, Smoky Lake, Slave Lake and the Westlock, Barrhead and Athabasca area.
  The warning was later expanded to cover Bonnyville, St. Paul, Cold Lake and Lac la Biche, as well as Lloydminster, Wainwright, Vermilion and Provost.
  Environment Canada issues freezing rain warnings when rain in sub-zero temperatures creat
  
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• Steenbergen lifts Canada to world-junior gold over Sweden

  06-01-2018 19:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  BUFFALO — They saved the best for last.
  Best crowd. Best game. And, for Tyler Steenbergen and Team Canada, best finish.
  Canada, which had lost 5-4 in an overtime shootout to the U.S. in last year’s world junior championship final, redeemed itself in a dramatic 3-1 win against Sweden in Friday night’s gold-medal game.
  It was Canada’s second gold medal in four years — the team won in Toronto in 2015 — and the fourth straight time that the Canadians had defeated
  
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• Logging truck crash partially closes Highway 63 near Boyle

  06-01-2018 17:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A logging truck crash partially closed a section of Highway 63 near Boyle Saturday morning.
  RCMP in the town 150 km northeast of Edmonton responded to the crash near highway kilometre 32 around 5 a.m. 
  Police said in a news release that the logging truck was travelling south when it crossed into the northbound lane, forcing a partial closure of the highway. No other vehicles were involved in the crash. 
  The northbound lane was still closed around 8 a.m. Police expected the closure to r
  
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• Social Seen: Big Dreamer Jam

  06-01-2018 16:00 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)
  Big Dreamer Jam
  Where: Mercury Room
  When: Jan. 2 (every Tuesday)
  What: Celebrating its fourth year, Big Dreamer Jam is a weekly jam sessio
  
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• Mom column: Nothing appealing about trying to buy a house in Edmonton for some couples

  06-01-2018 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My name is Julia Lipscombe and I’m a renter.
  Not only that, I’m happy with our current situation. That said, my husband and I are in our mid-30s. Among our friends, we’re in the minority. Despite the fact that owning a home isn’t as easy as it once was, most of our friends — not all — do own their own homes.
  I thought about this while reading a recent Globe and Mail article which featured parents who are buying property for their children, worried for their fu
  
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• Fitness column: Simple guidelines to change strategy instead of failing at New Year's diet resolutions

  06-01-2018 16:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost 50 per cent of us commit to some form of New Year’s resolution. The other 50 per cent are realistic.
  With a success rate of less than 10 per cent, it seems that late-night, libation-steeped goal-setting may not be the best approach to self-improvement planning. Still, where there’s opportunity, there’s hope.
  Close to one-third of midnight revellers focus on diet and weight loss while the rest zero in on finance, love and lifestyle. With close to 100 per cent of diets fai
  
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• Saturday's letters: Headline on expenses article misses the point

  06-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “$10,000 buffet tops expenses,” Jan. 4
  One has to wonder why the Journal chose to headline and lead its front-page story on travel and hospitality expenses by the Alberta government with news of a $10,000 buffet lunch.
  Maybe because it sounds outrageous?
  But anyone who read past the headline and first paragraph would see the real story: that the government cut its travel and hospitality expenses from $18.4 million two years ago to $3.8 million in 2017.
  Even the Canadian Taxpayers
  
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• Who’s guilty of the Edmonton Oilers woes? Nobody but themselves, Adler argues

  06-01-2018 09:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  By PETER ADLER
  All that ails the Edmonton Oilers, thus the current wisdom, is their inadequate penalty kill.
  This is the sentiment that comes from those same people who as recently as Wednesday, October 4, 2017, insisted Edmontonians should start planning their new Stanley Cup parade route right then and there. The chorus would not die down even after the opening night Oiler win over the Calgary Flames was followed by an inexplicable series of losses.
  After all, the popular (in the sense most Ed
  
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• NHL insider criticizes Edmonton Oilers leadership for stubborn resistance to change up special teams

  06-01-2018 05:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former NHL GM Craig Button, who was director of player personnel for Dallas Stars in 1999 when that team won the Stanley Cup, has let it rip on the Edmonton Oilers coaching staff for their problems with the team’s failing power play and atrocious penalty kill, which has been the worst in the NHL for more than a year.
  TSN1260 radio hosts Jason Gregor and Jason Strudwick asked Button, a TSN commentator, about possibly shaking up things on the Oilers coaching staff due to the special team fai
  
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• Vancouver penthouse owned by Daryl Katz listed at $38 million

  06-01-2018 05:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A piece of property owned by Daryl Katz is up for sale.
  The Fairmont Pacific Rim penthouse on West Cordova Street in Vancouver is listed as being for sale for $38 million.
  The condo is one of the properties occupied by the owner of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team. It was purchased in April 2010 by a numbered company and that year had an assessed value of $14,592,000.
  According to the listing, taxes for the property are $49,759 and maintenance is $4,762.79.
  In 2009 Daryl Katz and Renee
  
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• Eastern Orthodox faith community prepares to celebrate Christmas on Sunday

  06-01-2018 04:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Christmas is making an encore appearance this weekend as people who practise Eastern Orthodox faiths are preparing to celebrate the holiday on Sunday.
  Denominations of the Eastern Orthodox Church have more commonalities than differences, say priests and cultural experts, but there are some nuances as to how each culture celebrates the birth of Jesus.
  Introduction of the Gregorian calendar
  Tom Tavouktsoglou, a former secretary for the Greek Orthodox community in Edmonton, said only a minority of
  
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• Recycle your natural Christmas tree beginning Tuesday

  06-01-2018 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s time to pull off the lights and ornaments and wrestle your needle-shedding houseguest outside.
  The city of Edmonton will begin collecting natural Christmas trees beginning next Tuesday and transform the seasonal plants into wood chips.
  To guarantee free tree pickup, residents must put their tree — unbagged and bereft of all decorations — next to their garbage bags or bins by 7 a.m. Tuesday. Waste management teams will collect the tree within the next three weeks, and not n
  
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• 'Freezing Father' holds winter camping fundraiser for Stollery hospital

  06-01-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Peter Burgess might be the lone Edmontonian wishing for -40 C weather this week.
  A deep chill, he hopes, means more donations for his Freezing Father fundraiser — a weeklong commitment to winter camp in Rainbow Valley and raise money for the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
  A decade after Burgess’ three-year-old daughter died from a mysterious cause at the Stollery, the chilly new ritual is a way to express gratitude to the hospital staff and raise money for pricey pediatric
  
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• Edmonton real estate agent jailed for defrauding clients, colleague

  06-01-2018 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former Edmonton real estate agent who defrauded clients and a colleague out of more than $100,000 was sentenced on Friday to nearly two years in jail and ordered to repay his victims.
  Christo Courelias, 51, was convicted of three counts of fraud over $5,000 after a November 2017 trial when a judge found he’d taken various sums that totalled $112,500 from four people between 2007 and 2009 while he was working as an agent in the Edmonton area. 
  Courelias was sentenced to two years les
  
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• Indigenous women get behind the wheel of heavy machinery thanks to funding boost

  06-01-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dozen Indigenous women will soon be behind the wheel of heavy machinery thanks to specialized training provided through the Alberta Employment Partnerships Program.
  “I wanted to be in one of those machines helping out, being a crew, and now here I am,” said Misty Bull, who graduated from a 12-week heavy equipment operator program with High Velocity Equipment College through the funding partnership. “I’ll be one of those Aboriginal women in the machine being out there pr
  
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• Recent Alberta Sheriff graduates fill courthouse and prisoner transport vacancies

  06-01-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s a new sheriff in town. 
  Actually, there’s nine. Alberta Justice confirmed Friday that several recent graduates of the province’s latest Alberta Sheriffs’ recruit class have been assigned to courthouse security and prisoner transport in the Edmonton region, filling some of the existing vacancies.
  The recruits graduated from a 14-week training program on Dec. 23.
  According to Alberta Justice spokesman Jason van Rassell, as of Friday there remains 27 vacancies o
  
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• Alberta doctors prescribing free gym passes

  06-01-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you need to get more active, there’s a chance your doctor could prescribe you a free gym pass. 
  Alberta’s Prescription To Get Active program is in full swing, with more than 50 recreation facilities partnering with 4,000 health-care providers around the province this year to get people moving. 
  Launched in 2011 in Leduc as an answer to the rising epidemic of chronic disease, the program became a national not-for-profit in 2015.
  The concept is simple: Get a pres
  
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• Latest job figures show Edmonton economy growing faster than expected

  06-01-2018 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton region created so many jobs in 2017 that the city’s economist says the coming year could be even stronger than he originally expected.
  “We continue to see employment gains in Edmonton pretty much throughout 2017. In December, a modest 1,500 jobs was added. Nonetheless, it was positive,” John Rose said Friday.
  “With the unemployment rate coming down, this is obviously a good thing … I will be probably boosting my forecast for 2018.”
  New figures fr
  
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• The Godfather of St. Albert rugby gone - St. Albert Gazette

  06-01-2018 00:28 via stalbertgazette.com
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  The Godfather of St. Albert rugby gone
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  St. Albert will have trouble filling the shoes now left vacant by the passing of a titan among citizens. People from all corners of the city were shocked and saddened to hear that Gareth Jones died in the early hours of Dec. 31. The former city ...
  
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• Hugging Hythe quadruplets go viral

  06-01-2018 00:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Hampson, Daily Herald-Tribune
  A video of identical quadruplets in Hythe, Alberta, lovingly hugging each other has received more than 20 million views within a few days.
  Beth Webb recorded the minute-and-a-half video of her four identical daughters on New Year’s Day and posted it to the Facebook page, “Webb Quadruplets Updates.” It started spontaneously after the girls had finished watching Moana, a Disney film.
  “One pair of sisters started hugging, and then the
  
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• St. Albert has the lowest crime severity in the province - St. Albert Gazette

  06-01-2018 00:23 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert has the lowest crime severity in the province
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  According to the city's annual policing report, St. Albert had the lowest crime severity index in Alberta in 2016. In the 2016 Annual Policing Report released this week by the St. Albert RCMP documenting crime in 2016, it shows a drop in crime severity ...
  
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• Flight regulator releases details on fatal Cold Lake Air Show crash

  06-01-2018 00:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A stunt pilot killed during a routine at the 2016 Cold Lake Air Show was in the middle of a low-altitude roll when the nose of his plane pitched toward the ground, a new report states. 
  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) on Friday released an investigation brief detailing the July 17, 2016 crash that killed Calgary pilot Bruce Evans. 
  Evans was flying a T-28B — a propeller plane built in 1954 to train U.S. navy pilots — when it slammed into the ground at Canadi
  
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