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• Driver in hospital after fiery semi crash on QEII

  17-01-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man is in hospital after the semi truck he was driving slammed into a concrete overpass support and burst into flames on the QEII Highway Wednesday, say Leduc RCMP.
  The driver was southbound on the highway when the semi went off the road, hitting the support structure for the Highway 616 overpass and exploding into flames around 10:45 a.m. 
  The driver was transported by ground ambulance to hospital in Edmonton with undetermined injuries, said Leduc RCMP in a Wednesday news release.
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• Parents charged with child endangerment after fentanyl bust

  17-01-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parents of a baby and toddler are facing a string of charges including causing a child to be in need of intervention and exposing a child to risk after fentanyl, marijuana and illegal firearms were seized from a southwest Edmonton home.
  Following a fourth-month investigation, search warrants were expedited when police learned that an infant and a toddler lived in the target home. A man and woman were arrested and charged Jan. 12. 
  Officers seized 109 fentanyl pills, marijuana in various for
  
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• Pedestrian in hospital after being struck by school bus

  17-01-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A female pedestrian was transported to hospital Wednesday morning after being hit by a school bus, say police.
  Officers shut down 82 Avenue in both directions from 83 Street to 86 Street after the crash at 85 Street around 11 a.m., said police in a Wednesday news release. 
  The pedestrian was treated and transported to hospital.
  Police reopened the road at 12:30 p.m., and said on social media that the pedestrian did not suffer serious injuries.
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• Paula Simons: One set of Charter rights can't erase others

  17-01-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I’m a pro-choice feminist. But I find myself deeply disturbed by a new federal rule that says any small business or not-for-profit group applying for a Canada Summer Jobs grant must first “attest” to their support for legal access to abortion.
  Where does that leave groups like Catholic Social Services or the Mennonite Centre for Newcomers or other faith-based social service agencies that do vital work in our communities? 
  And where does that leave respect for the Charter i
  
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• Driving appetites: Food delivery apps making inroads in Edmonton

  17-01-2018 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  At 33, Katie Robertson is perhaps the prototypical millennial. She’s self-employed, an enormous food lover and is happy cocooning in her sweats and hoodie. She’s embraced food delivery services as her go-to for meals that she feels are tasty, convenient and even reasonable on the wallet.
  “Being a busy entrepreneur, and I sometimes don’t have the time to go and eat, or even grocery shop for that matter,” says Robertson, a communications consultant and creator of The
  
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• Officers cleared after woman breaks elbow in Whyte Avenue tussle

  17-01-2018 18:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s police watchdog has cleared officers of wrongdoing after a 22-year-old woman suffered a broken elbow while interfering in the arrest of her mother on Whyte Avenue in September 2016.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) in a Wednesday release said that early in the morning on Sept. 17, 2016, two uniformed Edmonton city police officers approached a group of eight people on Whyte Avenue near 103 Street, all of whom were intoxicated to varying degrees.
  After seeing
  
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• AMA drivers urge caution after collisions with tow trucks on Alberta roads

  17-01-2018 17:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tow truck drivers are appealing to the public to drive carefully after a number of collisions and close calls on Alberta roadways.
  “We do everything we can to alert the public to our presence at roadside, and are highly trained at clearing scenes quickly. But we need drivers to slow down, and move over if possible, to help keep everyone safe,” said Brandon Klassen, spokesperson for the Alberta Motor Association (AMA).
  According to the AMA, in late December as a tow truck was pulling
  
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• Roads and sidewalks remain slippery as freezing rain warning lifted

  17-01-2018 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Environment Canada has lifted a freezing rain warning for Edmonton, though sidewalks and roads were slippery this morning.
  It was 3 C around 6 a.m. Wednesday, with a high of 4 C expected later in the day. Tonight’s low is forecast to be O C.
  The City of Edmonton Tweeted a reminder that sand for sidewalks is available at community leagues and city roadway yards.
  Stay safe, #yeg! Sand for your sidewalks is available from community leagues and City roadway yards. Locations at https://t.co/gNN
  
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• 'Anything for Katz': Readers scoff at city council revisiting liquor store distance rules

  17-01-2018 16:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Readers are scoffing at the city’s plans to review rules that ban new liquor stores from opening within 500 metres of an existing store. 
  Readers on our Facebook page and website are taking issue with the fact that the distance rule is being revisited after the Katz Group asked for a special exemption to open a liquor store in the Ice District about 30 metres from an existing store near the corner of 102 Street and 103 Avenue. 
  Supporters of the 500-metre rule argu
  
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• Witnesses to testify in Edmonton police steroid trafficking-trial

  17-01-2018 16:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four witnesses are expected to testify Wednesday in the trial for a 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 two-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT).
  On Tuesday, two Edmonton Police Service officers gave testimony detailing the purchase of anabolic steroid Winstrol, nicknamed Winny, fro
  
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• Hidden Spaces: Inside Canada's largest concert pipe organ

  17-01-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Davis Concert Pipe Organ, inside the Francis Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton, is Canada’s largest pipe organ. In the 15 years since its creation, less than 30 people have been allowed to venture inside the organ.
  The organ was made possible through a gift from a single donor — Stewart Davis, a retired University of Alberta chemistry professor and longtime symphony subscriber, who donated $2 million in honour of his late wife, Winona Davis.
  The donation was made in Nortel sh
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Have BRT backers ever ridden a bus?

  17-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I am convinced that David Staples, Mike Nickel, and all BRT supporters have not ridden a bus, or at least do so very rarely. 
  I have been a transit user for over 20 years and will take a train over a bus any day. The LRT is bright, spacious, clean, quiet and fast. BRT only promises the latter. I’m not a fan. 
  I would appreciate if anyone commenting on the issue would reveal their bona fides on bus use. 
  Tom Long, Edmonton
  Low-wage workers painfully vulnerable
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• Edmonton officials want at least six months to overhaul protections for fighters

  17-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials say it will take at least six months to improve how the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission protects fighters.
  The information, in a report to be discussed Wednesday at council’s community and public services committee, comes nearly a month after the city put a one-year moratorium on new licences and event permits for combative sports.
  The moratorium followed a stark independent review of fight regulations in Edmonton, commissioned after the death of fighter Tim Hague.
  
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• Freezing rain warnings issued for Edmonton, surrounding areas

  17-01-2018 05:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Environment Canada has issued freezing rain warnings for a swath of west-central Alberta, including Edmonton. 
  The agency said a “pacific disturbance” was expected to spread rain and “patchy” sections of freezing rain Tuesday evening.
  Rain is expected to make up most of the precipitation, though “the impact of rain falling on cold ground surfaces such as roadways and sidewalks is still expected to be significant,” the warning states. 
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• Alberta Health Services to reimburse some clients of Royal Alex fertility clinic

  17-01-2018 03:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Services says it will partially reimburse clients of the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s fertility clinic who must soon go elsewhere for in-vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination and other uninsured services.
  The province’s only publicly run fertility centre will stop offering such services in February, forcing patients to use more expensive private clinics.
  A statement from AHS on its website said that prior to its decision to end the services, the clinic was
  
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• Fort McMurray girl's messages in bottles found in England

  17-01-2018 03:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray – Jacquie Chmilar started 2018 by getting an email she had been hoping for, but was unsure would ever come.
  On New Year’s Day, a woman had emailed the 10-year-old Fort McMurray girl that her nine-year-old daughter had found her message in a bottle, which she had thrown into the ocean six months prior during a visit to Newfoundland.
  It had washed onto Widemouth Beach in Cornwall, U.K. when it was found by a nine-year-old girl on the other side of the Atlantic.
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• Company's collapse leaves contracts for 33,000 km of Alberta highway in question

  17-01-2018 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Transportation is assembling contingency plans for maintaining nearly half of the province’s highways as bankruptcy looms for the parent company of a major contractor.
  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 contracts around the country, including
  
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• Councillors to take another look at distances between liquor stores

  17-01-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The minimum distance between liquor stores in Edmonton is up for debate again.
  City council’s urban planning committee Tuesday crafted a motion to review the bylaw. Current rules ban any new liquor store from opening within 500 metres of an existing store. 
  The issue arose after the Katz Group asked for a special exemption to open a liquor store in the Ice District about 30 metres from an existing store near the corner of 102 Street and 103 Avenue. 
  Supporters of the 500-met
  
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• Parkdale stabbing victim still in hospital, police say

  17-01-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The victim in a Monday night stabbing in north Edmonton remained in hospital Tuesday, city police said. 
  Officers were called to a report of a stabbing at 8:30 p.m. at a two-storey house at 11723 80 St. A man was rushed to hospital with undisclosed injuries. 
  Edmonton police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said the victim was still in hospital as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.
  “Police are looking for suspects, and do not believe there is any threat to public safety,” she wrote in a
  
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• $1.3M election commission budget OK'd during fiery meeting

  17-01-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Accusations of misusing taxpayer dollars, a testy point of order and complaints of a rushed process didn’t stop a legislative committee giving thumbs up to a $1.3-million budget for Alberta’s new election commission Tuesday. 
  The two-hour meeting also saw United Conservative Party MLA Angela Pitt question whether the NDP was flying through the selection process because it’s eyeing an early election, or has already decided on a person to fill the roll.
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• Man given 10 years in prison for baseball bat killing

  17-01-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who beat another man in the head with a baseball bat and left him dying in a ditch was handed a 10-year sentence Tuesday.
  Austin Southworth, 27, earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter after initially being charged with second-degree murder in the death of Brad MacDonald of Nova Scotia.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Doreen Sulyma said she found Southworth was “truly remorseful” for his role in MacDonald’s death, and granted him enhanced credit for tim
  
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• Canada's first Bubba Gump shrimp restaurant set to open at West Edmonton Mall

  17-01-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. is apparently opening its first Canadian outlet this year at West Edmonton Mall.
  A hoarding across the front of the former Eddie Bauer store on the mall’s second level indicates it will be the site of a Bubba Gump restaurant, which a mall guest services employee indicated should open in March.
  Representatives of the mall and Houston-based Landry’s Inc., owner of the chain, couldn’t be reached for comment.
  The Bubba Gump website shows 43 locations in En
  
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• Walk with Me, the library way - St. Albert Gazette

  17-01-2018 00:35 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Walk with Me, the library way
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  In addition to all of the books on shelves, libraries have long established themselves as community gathering spots: centres for greater conversations and education about the world that we live in. They have gallery spaces now too, and one such public ...
  
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• City building permits grow seven per cent - St. Albert Gazette

  17-01-2018 00:22 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City building permits grow seven per cent
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  A new seven-storey hotel, a movie theatre, a storage facility and phase two of a luxury condo complex were among the notable multi-million projects approved for St. Albert last year. The city registered strong residential and commercial growth ...
  
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