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• Does Peter Chiarelli deserve to be fired? "Very much so," says ESPN hockey columnist

  10-01-2018 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you actually believe in shot metrics, should you call for Chiarelli and McLellan’s head?
  This in from Greg Wyshynski of ESPN, his take on which NHL general managers should be fired, with Peter Chiarelli of the Oilers high on the list. “Does he deserve it? Very much so, but it might not ultimately matter this season. In the span of three seasons, Chiarelli has created a strange and unbalanced roster that lacks championship offensive depth and remains thin defensively. He also squan
  
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• St. Albert youth charged after replica handgun brought to school

  10-01-2018 22:02 via globalnews.ca
  A 15-year-old St. Albert, Alta. resident has been charged with a weapons offence after a replica handgun was brought to a high school.
  
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• Alberta man pleads guilty to dangerous driving in 2016 cyclist death

  10-01-2018 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 70-year-old man accused of mowing down a cyclist on a highway southeast of Edmonton in 2016 admitted to dangerous driving causing death in an Edmonton courtroom Wednesday. 
  Philip Wasman was charged with dangerous driving, refusing to provide a breath sample and impaired driving — all causing death — after 61-year-old Allan Bruce Chappell was hit by a vehicle while riding his bike in Strathcona County on May 20, 2016.
  Wasman strained to hear the clerk as she read the char
  
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• Teen charged after replica handgun brought to St. Albert school - Edmonton Journal

  10-01-2018 21:47 via edmontonjournal.com
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  A teenager is facing charges after allegedly bringing a replica handgun to school in St. Albert. Postmedia News. Published on: January 10, 2018 | Last Updated: January 10, 2018 4:26 PM MST. RCMP logo and police car Postmedia. Share Adjust Comment Print ...
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  RCMP seize replica handgun at St. Albert school, teen arrested and charged
  
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• Teen charged after replica handgun brought to St. Albert school

  10-01-2018 21:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A teenager is facing charges after police seized a replica handgun at a St. Albert high school.
  RCMP officers were called to St. Albert Outreach High School at 50 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue, on Tuesday at noon after a report a 15-year-old youth had brought a handgun to school.
  Police arrived and arrested the teen without incident, seizing a replica handgun that was already in possession of school staff.
  The youth is now facing charges including possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, m
  
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• 'We're here when she can't be': Friends wear purple to honour victim at murder trial

  10-01-2018 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Friends of a woman whose estranged husband is accused of killing her in 2014 wore purple scarves to honour her as a jury listened to an opening statement during the man’s trial on Wednesday.
  Purple signifies not only victim Aileen Robinson’s favourite colour but is also meant as a symbol to raise awareness of domestic violence, said Lori McConnell, one of several women who attended court Wednesday, along with a number of Aileen Robinson’s family members who filled benches in th
  
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• Edmonton house prices likely to drop slightly in 2018, realtors association says

  10-01-2018 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Home costs in the Edmonton region are expected to drop this year by about one per cent, but sales will likely show a small increase, the Realtors Association of Edmonton says.
  “We’re looking at them staying pretty stable with 2017, which in my opinion means buyers can be confident there’s not going to be big fluctuations. Sellers too … There’s stability for both sides,” association chairman Darcy Torhjelm said Wednesday.
  His group forecasts that the average s
  
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• Anti-carding activists call for reset of third-party review

  10-01-2018 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Anti-carding activists are calling for a reset of the Edmonton Police Commission’s street check review, saying the third-party researchers hired to study the controversial practice are too close to a law enforcement group.  
  The commission hired Simon Fraser University professor Curt Griffiths in December to review the Edmonton Police Service’s street check policies. The move was prompted by a freedom of information request filed by Black Lives Matter (BLM) that showed blac
  
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• Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel announces Alberta Party leadership bid

  10-01-2018 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel announced his candidacy for Alberta Party leader Wednesday at the Boyle Street Community League in Edmonton.
  The 72-year-old is the second former Progressive Conservative to join the race, following Calgary-South East Independent MLA Rick Fraser, who announced his intentions Tuesday. 
  “Our province is upside down. We don't know if we are moving forward or backward. As leader of the Alberta Party, we will move forward and be both fiscally AND social
  
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• Alberta NDP apologizes for tweet mocking Stephen Mandel

  10-01-2018 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta NDP has deleted and apologized for a tweet mocking Stephen Mandel that was criticized for being in poor taste.
  The tweet featured an upside-down photo of Mandel that seemed to reference a series of tweets from Mandel himself with upside-down photos.
  Mandel is of course slated to announce his leadership bid for the Alberta Party later today. 
  The Tweet from the Alberta NDP around 10:20 a.m. Wednesday also included words referencing a story from Mandel’s time as health minis
  
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• Hitting the books: How Alberta Education is rewriting curriculum for the next generation of students

  10-01-2018 19:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s ambitious plan to overhaul its K-12 school curriculum got political in 2017. 
  United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney accused the NDP of “socially engineering” children with the curriculum, and claimed social studies lessons will be bereft of military history. Former UCP leadership candidate Brian Jean said he would cancel the $64-million, six-year curriculum rewrite, saying it was a waste of money. 
  Critics called for the government to release th
  
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• Murder trial for accused wife killer begins Wednesday

  10-01-2018 18:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A jury trial got underway Wednesday morning for a man accused of second-degree murder in the death of his estranged wife.
  Gilbert Paul Robinson is charged in the April 2014 death of Aileen ‘Gina’ Robinson, who was found with serious injuries in a residence in the Warwick Road area.
  The 54-year-old woman died in hospital two days later. An autopsy determined she died of blunt force trauma.
  Her husband, from whom police said she had previously separated, was arrested and charged in her
  
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• Crews rescue woman trapped underground after explosion rocks downtown

  10-01-2018 18:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emergency crews rescued an elderly woman from underground after an explosion popped manhole covers and knocked out power near 97 Avenue and 106 Street in downtown Edmonton Wednesday morning.
  Fire crews were called to the explosion near 97 Avenue and 106 Street around 7:30 a.m. later found the woman — who suffered what appeared to be a fractured ankle — about 12 feet down the hole. An underground electrical vault explosion blew open a number of manholes in the area, said Edmonton Fire
  
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• Deep Freeze: Byzantine Winter Festival back for eleventh year

  10-01-2018 18:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival is a free family event that brings together Ukrainian, Franco-Albertan, Franco-African, Indigenous, and Acadian/East Coast communities to enjoy all that winter has to offer. It includes a street hockey tournament, ice skating and jam-jar curling, knife and axe throwing, old-time log sawing along with plenty of other authentic cultural and heritage winter games and fun.
  
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• Three charged after ID fraud used to buy, sell prohibited weapons, say police

  10-01-2018 18:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two men and a woman are facing a total of 90 charges after stolen identity and credit card information was used to buy and sell prohibited weapons online, say city police.
  In October 2016, the the cyber crimes investigations unit received information from a concerned citizen that someone was selling a stun gun online in Edmonton.
  An investigation resulted in the February 2017 arrest of two men. Investigators believe the two men were purchasing stun guns from online vendors outside of Canada
  
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• Food Fight pits celebrity chefs in battle for best taste ever

  10-01-2018 17:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Food fights enjoyed a brief, bright existence in Edmonton a couple of years back, with local chefs trash talking each other over great eats and drinks for fun and profit. Now, the concept has returned  in the form of a Taste Alberta sponsored fundraiser for the Alberta Diabetes Foundation.
  On Monday, Feb. 12, local chef Steven Brochu of Chartier fame competes for culinary supremacy with cookbook author and comic Mairlyn Smith in front of a live audience at the Westin Hotel. Doors for #ABfoo
  
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• Power outages after underground explosion rocks downtown Edmonton

  10-01-2018 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emergency crews rescued an elderly woman from underground after an explosion popped manhole covers and knocked out power near 97 Avenue and 106 Street in downtown Edmonton Wednesday morning.
  Fire crews called to the explosion near 97 Street and 106 Avenue around 7:35 a.m. found the woman — who suffered what appeared to be a fractured ankle — about 12 feet down the hole. An underground electrical vault explosion blew open a number of manholes in the area, said Edmonton Fire Rescue Ser
  
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• Did your car start this morning? Edmontonians wake up to deep freeze

  10-01-2018 16:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s cold in Edmonton — like, really cold.
  Just one day after a snowfall warning blanketed much of the province, temperatures have plunged to -24 C in Edmonton with a wind chill of -34 C. There is a 30% chance of flurries today and tonight as the mercury is expected to hover around the -30 C mark overnight. 
  And things aren’t expected to get any better.
  Environment Canada is forecasting temperatures to remain well below freezing until at least the weekend, with forecast te
  
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• Three people found dead in stopped vehicle near Conklin

  10-01-2018 15:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three people are dead after they were found unresponsive in a stopped vehicle near Conklin Tuesday.
  At around 12:25 p.m., Wood Buffalo RCMP members were alerted to the location of the stopped vehicle on the Laguna access road.
  According to a news release, police found a 29-year-old male, a 21-year-old female and a 22-year-old female unresponsive in the vehicle. Police said emergency aid was first provided but all three people were declared dead at the scene.
  Police say the identity of the deceas
  
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• Calgary Trail collision sends two to hospital with serious injuries

  10-01-2018 14:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating a collision on Calgary Trail just under the Ellerslie Road overpass that sent two people to hospital in critical condition.
  On Tuesday, at 8 p.m., a vehicle with lost control and struck a light standard, said Edmonton police spokeswoman Patrycia Thenu, in a statement.
  Two men were treated on scene and rushed to hospital with serious injuries. Police said the passenger of the vehicle is in critical condition.
  The major collision investigation unit is invest
  
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• Detailed City Hall workplace harassment data expected Wednesday

  10-01-2018 14:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is expected to release detailed data on workplace harassment complaints Wednesday, a move that could increase accountability for the worst city branches.
  Officials won’t say how the release will be made — with a public announcement or quietly posted somewhere on its website.
  They committed to the Jan. 10 deadline when they formally dismissed a Postmedia access to information request, saying the information can and will be public. City officials had previously said it was too
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Fury over 'eat less meat' tweet overblown

  10-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After my latest doctor’s appointment, my physician recommended I eat less red meat. Is the Alberta Medical Association conspiring to destroy Alberta’s cattle industry? Judging by the UCP’s reaction to NDP MLA Shannon Phillips’ recent tweet, anything is possible.
  Tweeting about resolutions to save resources, Phillips mentioned we should “eat less meat.” This outraged UCP MLA Ric McIver, who accused Phillips of “trashing our agricultural industry.” N
  
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• Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel to announce Alberta Party leadership bid

  10-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Edmonton mayor Stephen Mandel will announce his candidacy for Alberta Party leader Wednesday.
  The 72-year-old will be the second former Progressive Conservative to join the race, following Calgary-South East Independent MLA Rick Fraser, who announced his intentions Tuesday. 
  Mandel served as mayor from 2004 to 2013. 
  He later jumped to provincial politics. 
  Appointed as health minister by Jim Prentice in September 2014, despite not holding a seat at the time, Mandel won an
  
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• Alberta researchers help launch study to compare opioid treatments

  10-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta researchers are set to play a key role in a newly launched national study that will compare the effectiveness of two treatments for patients who misuse prescription opioid medications.
  The project by the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse will involve patients from seven sites around the country, including the opioid dependency clinics in downtown Edmonton and the Sheldon M. Chumir Health Centre in Calgary.
  The group is hoping to recruit 276 patients, including 70 in Albert
  
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• Edmonton home prices saw moderate increase last year, report shows

  10-01-2018 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The average prices of an Edmonton home rose by 2.3 per cent last year to $386,532, according to a report released Wednesday by Royal LePage.
  The company’s survey of housing prices in the fourth quarter of 2017 showed the median price of a two-storey home was up two per cent to $443,553 compared to the same period a year earlier, while bungalows increased by 2.4 per cent to $374,412.
  At the same time, the median price of a condominium increased by 3.5 per cent to $245,804.
  “We ar
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers can't buy a break, or a call; drop 2-1 decision in Nashville

  10-01-2018 09:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 1, Predators 2
  “Un******believable!”
  It didn’t take an expert lip-reader to translate Todd McLellan’s remark to the men in striped shirts late in the third period on Tuesday night. It was a word that described much of Tuesday night’s game in Nashville, in which Edmonton was the better team for much of the contest but never could force their way back from an early deficit, ultimately falling 2-1 in regulation to Pekka Rinne and the Predators.
  In a way, the Oil
  
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• St. Albert housing market finishes year strong - St. Albert Gazette

  10-01-2018 08:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert housing market finishes year strong
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  A shortage of row houses and duplexes in St. Albert may be why overall housing sales dropped in the city in 2017. St. Albert wrapped up a strong year in housing sales, although it missed out on a significant market trend in the 2017 year, according to ...
  
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• Chronos Vocal Ensemble performs FRESH at St. Albert Catholic Parish - St. Albert Gazette

  10-01-2018 08:01 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Chronos Vocal Ensemble performs FRESH at St. Albert Catholic Parish
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  As the concert season extends into the new year, Chronos Vocal Ensemble keeps the choral pipeline flowing with a pristine slate of new faces, works and composers. The 32 choristers, including St. Albert alto Guylaine Lefevbre-Maunder and Morinville ...
  
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• Collision on Calgary Trail sends two people to hospital in critical condition

  10-01-2018 07:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating a collision on Calgary Trail just under the Ellerslie Road overpass that sent two people to hospital in critical condition.
  On Tuesday, around 8 p.m., a vehicle with two occupants – a man and a woman – lost control and struck a median, said Edmonton police spokeswoman Patrycia Thenu, in a statement.
  “Both people were treated and rushed to hospital in critical condition,” she said. 
  The major collision investigation unit continu
  
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• Inmates allege use of excessive force at Edmonton Remand Centre

  10-01-2018 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Allegations of excessive force against inmates by staff at the Edmonton Remand Centre will be investigated, officials say.
  The complaints were made by inmates, Dan Laville, spokesman for Alberta Justice and Solicitor General, said in a statement Tuesday. He did not say how many complaints were received, or when.
  About 19 inmates continued Tuesday to refuse to eat their provided meals to protest limited time allowed in common areas outside their cells.
  On Sunday, about 55 inmates refused to
  
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• Corporal fined in Cold Lake military court

  10-01-2018 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Kelly-Anne Riess
  Cold Lake — A Canadian Forces corporal in Cold Lake pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from making a false insurance claim.
  The financial pressure of having a $55,000 debt and raising two children on a corporal’s salary in the northern city, 294 kilometres north of Edmonton, likely led Cpl. Gregory Newton to his actions, said Military Judge Commander Sandra Sukstorf, who urged the 31-year-old to get financial counselling.According to an agreed statement o
  
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• Police watchdog clears Red Deer RCMP in 2015 death where fleeing suspect's body found in creek

  10-01-2018 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s police watchdog has cleared Red Deer RCMP officers in the 2015 death of a 45-year-old man.
  Officers used a spike belt to stop a stolen Honda Civic on Oct. 6, 2015. The driver fled on foot, and officers lost him in a wooded area when he ran toward Waskasoo Creek. 
  After the man’s family filed a missing person’s report, police found the man’s body submerged in the creek Nov. 11.
  An autopsy determined his death was non-criminal.
  The conduct of the officer
  
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• Outgoing EEDC president warns Edmonton faces tough global economic competition

  10-01-2018 01:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Intense international competition will test whether Edmonton becomes a world leader or returns to complacency in the next oil boom, the head of the city’s economic development agency says.
  “If you think we can just walk into the next five years thinking the world’s your oyster, thinking we can just sit back and enjoy the ride, you will be gravely disappointed,” Brad Ferguson, outgoing president of the Edmonton Economic Development Corp. (EEDC), said in a speech at the Sha
  
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• David Staples: Don Iveson's old-school civic boosterism is a good look for mayor

  10-01-2018 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson has always spoken like a progressive politician, but for the first time Tuesday, he sounded most like an old-school civic booster, banging the drum for Edmonton and the local economy.
  In a short speech to a packed crowd of movers and shakers at the Edmonton Economic Development Corp. (EEDC) luncheon at the Shaw Conference Centre, Iveson assured everyone that the new city council was a “constructive team of city builders” who would help deal with a difficult economy.
  
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• Weather: Snowfall warning ends in Edmonton

  10-01-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A snowfall warning issued for Edmonton and area has ended, though parts of central Alberta may still see snow Tuesday night as the winter storm system makes its way to Saskatchewan.
  While Edmonton saw a dusting of snow Tuesday, up to 15 cm of the white stuff was expected to fall just north of the city.
  On Tuesday afternoon, roads were covered in snow, but crews had applied an “anti-icer” and plows and sanders were out working, said Catherine Kuehne with the city. “Major an
  
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• St. Albert duo propose cannabis facility in county - St. Albert Gazette

  10-01-2018 00:29 via stalbertgazette.com
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  St. Albert duo propose cannabis facility in county
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  Two St. Albert entrepreneurs are hoping Sturgeon County will support their bid to build what's likely the county's first commercial distribution facility for medicinal cannabis. Reid Smith and Brandon McBride spoke to county council Tuesday about their ...
  
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• Four people charged after gunfire at Edmonton hotel

  10-01-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two men and two women are facing multiple weapons-related charges after a Saturday gun call near a southwest Edmonton hotel.
  Officers responded to a weapons complaint in the parking lot of a hotel near the Whitemud Freeway and Gateway Boulevard about 4:25 p.m. Saturday, said police in a Tuesday news release.
  It was reported to police that a male occupant of a black Ford Escape approached two occupants of a white Suzuki Grand Vitara, smashing the passenger-side window with a firearm, before shoot
  
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