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• Wildlife: Corb Lund and Ian Tyson make beautiful music together at the Jube

  16-01-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just so this doesn’t sit un-carved into the physical wall of local history, last Saturday’s Corb Lund/Ian Tyson concert at the stately Northern Jubilee Auditorium was more than a little legendary.
  “Old age sucks,” 84-year-old Tyson noted about the creaks in his joints and needing Lund to remind him in what key to play certain songs. And, yes, as Tyson says himself, his voice has suffered considerably over the years — but he’s done a pretty remarkable job of ci
  
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• Shaping Sound returns with more narrative show

  16-01-2018 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The wildly popular dance phenomenon Shaping Sound returns to Edmonton after only two short years away.
  The So You Think You Can Dance troupe which transitioned from the TV sensation to the stage will perform with choreographer Travis Wall and dancers Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and the incredibly delightful, versatile Lex Ishimoto.
  Back this time with less glitz and glam and more of a textured, narrative substance, Wall’s new vehicle After the Curtain is a different s
  
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• Board game cafe concept proves popular

  16-01-2018 21:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of Edmonton’s first board game cafe and his partners envision as many as 75 franchise stores operating under his brand across Canada one day.
  Brian Flowers, who opened the first Table Top Cafe in 2013, has partnered with British Columbia-based franchisor the Define Group to recruit and assist potential owners.
  “The goal is to grow Table Top as big as we can, and I feel like the easiest way to do that is to franchise it all over the place,” Flowers said recently.
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• Citadel refuses to host book launch for controversial author Jordan Pe

  16-01-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Citadel Theatre has refused to accept a Penguin Books request to host a book launch for one of the publisher’s controversial clients, University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson, originally from Faireview, Alta.
  Peterson found himself on the public radar in 2016 after saying he would refuse to use some transgender students’ proper pronouns. He is currently on tour with his new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.
  In a statement, The Citadel notes it recei
  
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• Dining with Friends goes with comfort food dumplings Jan. 25

  16-01-2018 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dining with Friends is a dinner series organized for the last five years through the Friends of the Royal Alberta Museum Society (FRAMS). On Thursday, Jan. 25, the group visits the Wheat Garden Noodle and Dumpling Bazaar (10703 103 St.) for a cozy evening of hand-made jiaozi (dumplings), including assorted meat-stuffed bundles of dough and vegetarian dumplings, too.
  There will also be a variety of small dishes, plus noodle dishes and other specialties including shrimp friend rice. The evening st
  
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• Edmonton liquor store distances may evaporate

  16-01-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Distances between liquor stores in the city are being eyed again after council’s urban planning committee on Tuesday crafted a motion to review the bylaw.
  The committee came up with new wording that reads: “That administration explore options for managing impacts of major and minor alcohol sales including but not limited to amending separation distances of major and minor alcohol sales.”
  Current rules ban any new liquor store from opening within 500 meters of an existing store.
  
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• Company's collapse leaves Alberta highway contracts in question

  16-01-2018 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Transportation says it is reviewing contingency plans for maintaining the province’s highways after learning one of the firms contracted to do the job may be affected by the bankruptcy of its parent company.
  United Kingdom-based Carillion PLC went in compulsory liquidation Monday amid a crushing debt load and failure to obtain short term financing from creditors.
  Its Canadian subsidiary Carillion Canada employs 6,000 people and generates about $1 billion annually through various co
  
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• NorQuest College gifted $2 million, largest in 77-year history of civic employees charitable fund

  16-01-2018 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $2-million donation to NorQuest College is the largest gift from the Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund in its 77-year history.
  The donation — which represents the efforts of over 11,000 members, from nine different unions and associations — was unveiled Tuesday at NorQuest’s downtown campus.
  In recognition of the gift, the college’s Heritage Tower is to be renamed the Civic Employees Legacy Tower.
  “On behalf of all of our members, we wo
  
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• Crafting a magical ice castle to create a Narnia-like winter wonderland

  16-01-2018 19:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Created with over 10,000 hand-crafted icicles, the Edmonton Ice Castle has returned to Hawrelak Park for the third winter in a row.
  The ice gleams a glacial blue colour in the daylight, but the ice is embedded with LED lights and the castle comes alive with colour after dark. 
  This year’s version of the attraction, built by Utah-based Ice Castles, is smaller and more intimate, featuring numerous archways and caverns to explore. The ice castle will stay open until March, as long as the
  
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• Federal government announces grant for upgrades to Citadel Theatre

  16-01-2018 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The old curtains come down, once and for all, now that the Citadel has money to buy new ones for the stages of the Maclab and Shoctor theatres.
  The money, announced Tuesday, comes care of the federal government, which is giving the city’s biggest theatre $504,262 from its Canada Cultural Spaces Fund.
  The dollars will be spent not only on new curtains with up-to-date features such as working fire retardant, but also on specialized theatrical equipment for the building’s five performan
  
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• Council Briefs for January 15th

  16-01-2018 16:39
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Board game cafes

  16-01-2018 16:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of Edmonton’s first board game cafe and his partners envision as many as 75 franchise stores operating under his brand across Canada one day.
  Brian Flowers, who opened the first Table Top Cafe in 2013, has partnered with British Columbia-based franchisor the Define Group to recruit and assist potential owners.
  “The goal is to grow Table Top as big as we can, and I feel like the easiest way to do that is to franchise it all over the place,” Flowers said recently.
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• Guns, drugs seized in Peace River police bust

  16-01-2018 16:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people are facing more than two dozen drug and firearms charges after police seized what they believe to be cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and oxycodone from a Peace River apartment building. 
  Mounties and Grande Prairie Alberta Law Enforcement Teams members made the arrests on Sunday at 9805 77 Avenue. 
  Also seized in the bust was a “large quantity of unknown powders and evidence of drug trafficking” along with a loaded firearm, ammunition and cash. 
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• Witnesses sought after truck driver killed near Fort McKay

  16-01-2018 15:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are trying piece together the events leading up to the death of a man whose truck collided with a wide load transport truck near Fort McKay earlier this month. 
  Just after 5 p.m. on Jan.2, a white Ford F150 pick up truck heading southbound on Highway 63 about three kilometres north of the township collided with a northbound trailer.
  Information previously released by RCMP said the transport truck had pilot vehicles travelling northbound in front and behind the wide load.
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• Ice Castle at night in Hawrelak Park

  16-01-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Created with over 10,000 hand-crafted icicles, the Edmonton Ice Castle has returned to Hawrelak Park for the third winter in a row.
  The ice gleams a glacial blue colour in the daylight, but the ice is embedded with LED lights and the castle comes alive with colour after dark. 
  This year’s version of the attraction, built by Utah-based Ice Castles, is smaller and more intimate, featuring numerous archways and caverns to explore. The ice castle will stay open until March, as long as the
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Ugly Oilers fans wear out welcome in Vegas

  16-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Las Vegas is a Hockey Town! Our team has exceeded our expectations. As a city, we are embracing our new team and all that comes with hockey tourism.
  To date, we have enjoyed several games and fans from visiting teams (Here’s to you Winnipeg — we had a blast) and win or lose the atmosphere has been good hockey fun.
  That changed on Saturday, Jan. 13.
  Imagine our surprise when we arrived to our season-ticket seats to find them occupied by Oilers fans from Edmonton who refused to leave o
  
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• Trial underway for police officer accused of trafficking steroids

  16-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first witnesses is expected to be called Tuesday morning at a trial for an Edmonton city police officer accused of trafficking steroids between 2007 and 2013.
  Det. Greg Lewis, 36, is facing three charges of trafficking in a controlled substance after being arrested in March 2016 following a three-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT).
  On Monday, Crown prosecutors Joshua Cramer and Anita Chan indicated they had a slate of 10 witnesses they wished to call in
  
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• Teenage violinist to play 'the Olympics' of music competitions

  16-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like many toddlers, Jacques Forestier would make a fuss when his musician parents toted him along to concerts.
  Unlike many toddlers, his unhappiness stemmed from being left out of the fun — he wanted to play instruments, too, his mother theorized.
  She handed her two-year-old a violin. Jacques hasn’t put it down since.
  Now 13, Jacques is the only Canadian to qualify for the prestigious 2018 Menuhin Violin Competition, to be held in Geneva come April.
  “I’m thrilled to be go
  
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• Opinion: NDP government's pullout from vet partnership hurting Albertans

  16-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last October, the government of Alberta pulled its $8 million in annual funding for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), abandoning a partnership that has delivered consistent value for money to Albertans for over 50 years.
  In deciding to go it alone, the government of Alberta is not only hurting Albertans, but the veterinary profession and animal health across Western Canada. WCVM’s strength depends on stable funding from all four western provinces; losing Alberta is like cu
  
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• Editorial: Still a market for short-term loans

  16-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The demise of some longtime business models often inspires wistful nostalgia — department stores, the milkman and movie-rental places. But few tears are being shed for another industry that appears to be on the decline — the payday lender which sells short-term loans at high cost mostly to lower-income borrowers.
  Payday loan licences in Alberta have fallen by more than one-quarter, to 165 from 230, and industry officials predict even more payday loan stores will be shuttering their d
  
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• Alberta business investment set to lead the country, Business Development Bank says

  16-01-2018 13:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owners of small and medium-sized businesses in Alberta expect to invest more in their companies than entrepreneurs anywhere else in the country, a new survey shows.
  Alberta executives say they anticipate average capital spending will reach $330,000 in 2018, up 12 per cent from last year and far above the national average of $280,000, said a report released Tuesday by the Business Development Bank of Canada.
  “Business people are seeing the growth in Alberta right now. Last year was a be
  
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• Man in hospital after assault in north Edmonton

  16-01-2018 06:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police were investigating an assault that put a man in hospital Monday evening. 
  Police responded to a report of a stabbing at a house in the 11700 block of 80 Street at around 8:30 p.m. 
  The house is in the Parkdale neighbourhood, a block south of Alberta Avenue and west of Northlands Coliseum.  
  Investigators had cordoned off the home, 11723 80 St., and adjacent residences with crime scene tape.  
  Staff Sgt. Kellie Morgan with the Edmonton Police Ser
  
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• Edmonton-based soldiers thanked for service in Ukraine

  16-01-2018 04:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Ukrainian-Canadian community took to the kitchen Monday night to thank local troops who returned from deployment in the war-torn European country last fall.
  Dozens of local soldiers returned in September and October from Operation Unifier, a Canadian Forces mission to train the Ukrainian military as it battles Russian-backed separatists in the eastern part of the country.  
  Since then, members of Edmonton’s Ukrainian community have been working with the Cana
  
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• Paula Simons: New novel takes readers to Edmonton of the 1960s

  16-01-2018 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  My bookshelves are filled with novels set in London and New York and Hong Kong and Mumbai and Toronto and Montreal.
  Novels set in Edmonton are harder to come by. Oh, we have fine exceptions. Henry Kreisel first put downtown Edmonton on the map, literally, back in the 1960s. More recently, Ian McGillis captured the truth of growing up in the northeast suburbs in A Tourist’s Guide to Glengarry. Todd Babiak deployed an Edmonton setting for The Garneau Block. And Marty Chan and Lauralyn Chow h
  
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• NDP 'heavy lifting' done as legislature eyes March 8 return

  16-01-2018 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans can expect a shorter spring session than usual, if predictions by NDP house leader Brian Mason are anything to go by. 
  The 2018 legislature calendar appeared online Monday, indicating a March 8 start for the sitting. 
  That’s a week later than last year, but Mason said Monday the timing is fairly standard.
  Legislation says spring session can begin as early as the second Tuesday in February. The government works out when to kick it off by weighing its legislative agenda,
  
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• Developers warn council they're counting on west LRT as rapid bus gets lifeline

  16-01-2018 03:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Beaverbrook partners warned council Monday they’ve already invested $100 million to create a high-density, mixed-use village on the future west LRT line.
  Change rails to fancy buses on this route and it will break faith with the development community, councillors heard. 
  “That significantly changes our investment and that’s a concern to us,” said Salima Kherij, a developer who made a presentation to city council’s executive committee Monday. The west leg is
  
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• Jay Procktor chases his dad's ghost dressed as a sad clown in photo show

  16-01-2018 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shortly before Jay Procktor’s dad Larry Procktor died of cancer, his son made a proposition. The two were terrific friends and the son asked his father to pose for a formal portrait in a Burger Baron they loved, dressed as a sad clown.
  That may seem strange and random, but when Procktor was young, his dad used to play saxophone in a clown marching band for corporate and family events. “This clown band would march in with their cymbals and their drums, and I would just jump under the
  
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• 'Perfect day to ride a motorcycle': Survivor testifies at fatal hit-and-run trial

  16-01-2018 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man injured in a motorcycle crash that killed his girlfriend testified Monday at a trial for the driver facing hit-and-run charges in the case.
  Christina Shi-Jin Goh, 26, died, and her boyfriend, Michael Liu, was badly injured when their motorcycle crashed as they traveled southbound on 122 Street on May 11, 2015.
  At the time, police said the bike was struck by a silver Infiniti turning left at an intersection.
  Following witness reports, David Gershon Bookhalter, 63, was charged with
  
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• Diary of an Edmonton Oilers fan in Las Vegas

  16-01-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  I’m home.
  My stomach has recovered from the visit to Guy Fieri’s eatery. My wallet from the Mirage slots machines. My liver from the O’Shea’s beer pong tables.
  But I’ve still got a buzz-on.
  My family and I were among 6,000 loyal Oilers fans that trekked to Sin City Saturday night, to cheer our team on to victory. And that we did, as the Cult of Hockey’s Bruce McCurdy recounts here. I won’t spend much time on the actual details of the 3-2 O/T win. As alw
  
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• Sturgeon hospital in St. Albert to receive neonatal intensive care unit

  16-01-2018 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert — St. Albert newborns requiring a higher level of care will soon be able to receive that treatment at the local Sturgeon Community Hospital, where a new, six-unit neonatal intensive care unit is expected to open in 2019.
  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman announced the $2.3-million project Monday, characterizing the new NICU as necessary for the hospital’s increasingly busy maternity ward, which set to surpass 3,000 deliveries per year.
  The hospital currently does not have
  
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• Bail hearing date set for two women charged in Edmonton child-abuse case

  16-01-2018 01:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pair of women facing charges in a child-abuse case — including attempted murder — will have a bail hearing in February.
  The identities of the two women, ages 24 and 23, are protected by a court-ordered publication ban, as are the identities of the five children they are alleged to have abused. 
  The case first appeared in Edmonton provincial court in December.
  According to court records, the alleged offences against the children took place between July 1 and Dec. 16, 2017.
  The
  
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• High Prairie RCMP investigating woman's sudden death

  16-01-2018 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  High Prairie RCMP were investigating the sudden death of a woman whose body was discovered near a road Monday morning. 
  Mounties were called to an area “adjacent to a roadway” on the east side of town about 9 a.m.
  An autopsy was scheduled for later this week in Edmonton. 
  Police were not providing any more information Monday. A news release did not say whether the death is considered suspicious. 
  High Prairie is about 370 km northwest of Edmonton
  
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• Sturgeon hospital in St. Albert to receive neonatal intensive care unit - Edmonton Journal

  16-01-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Sturgeon hospital in St. Albert to receive neonatal intensive care unit
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  St. Albert — St. Albert newborns requiring a higher level of care will soon be able to receive that treatment at the local Sturgeon Community Hospital, where a new, six-unit neonatal intensive care unit is expected to open in 2019. Health Minister ...
  Alberta announces $2.3M for NICU in St. AlbertGlobalnews.ca
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• Meet in Medicine Hat? Alberta-Saskatchewan licence plate war continues

  16-01-2018 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta companies are already losing out under the licence plate spat with Saskatchewan, Trade Minister Deron Bilous said Monday as the conflict bubbles over into its second month. 
  The brouhaha began in December when Saskatchewan Transportation Minister Dave Marit declared all Alberta contractors working on government highway and building projects in his province will have to get a local licence plate. 
  The new rule applies only to Albertans, Marit told reporters at the time, bec
  
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