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• Cult of Hockey Game Grades: Edmonton Oilers resilient in must-have, 5-2 win over Vancouver Canucks

  21-01-2018 09:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 5 Canucks 2
  The next time the Edmonton Oilers have a bye-week, maybe more players will just stay home and play pond hockey with the neighbor kids?
  It sure seemed to work for Jesse Puljujarvi.
  The 19-year old had the best game off his young NHL career, as the Oilers took a must-have 2-points from a Pacific-Division rival that they needed to beat, if they are to keep their faint playoff hopes alive.
  The Oilers has built up a 2-goal lead after one, but gave 2 back in the second period, befor
  
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• Alberta firefighters help train emergency workers in Belize, Colombia

  21-01-2018 02:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three volunteer firefighters from a small central Alberta town are travelling to South and Central America this year to share their expertise with emergency services personnel.
  Chris Layes, Rylen Trimble and Bryon Redknap of the Grande Cache Fire Department will deploy on two trips over January and February to help train firefighters and emergency service workers in Belize and Colombia.
  While members of the 35-person volunteer department have travelled to participate in firefighter stair climbs
  
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• Leduc RCMP make third major drug bust this month

  21-01-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties seized “large amounts” of methamphetamine and hashish in the third major drug bust in Leduc in the past month.
  After 11 people were taken into custody, five people were charged after RCMP officers found drugs, weapons, cash and other drug trade items in a house in Leduc on Wednesday following the execution of a search warrant, said a news release sent by RCMP on Friday.
  Breaking up drug trafficking operations has an impact on other crime in the community, said
  
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• 'I didn't want to screw up my kids': Olympian Silken Laumann to share her optimistic approach for trying times

  21-01-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first time she met her stepdaughter, Olympic rower Silken Laumann felt some trepidation as she approached the preteen, who was playing with toy dinosaurs on a cottage dock.
  She realizes now how little she understood about autism then.
  A decade later, the Olympian-turned-author and life coach worries about 21-year-old Kilee’s future. Who will she live with? Will she be happy? Who will protect her?
  “It’s a question that terrifies many families who have a child with this level
  
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• Edmonton police chief still mulling another term

  21-01-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht said he will reach a decision in the next month or two on whether to stand for another term.
  “I’m still mulling it over,” Knecht told reporters after an Edmonton Police Commission meeting Thursday. “I’m getting closer to a decision, so I expect to be making a decision probably in the next month to six weeks.”
  Knecht’s current contract ends in October. 
  He became Edmonton’s 22nd police chief on June 7, 2011, rep
  
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• U.S. Secret Service heading to Edmonton to help train city police

  21-01-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police will get a lesson in identifying threats from the United States Secret Service next month.
  Police Chief Rod Knecht said Thursday that the agency will be in Edmonton in late February to train Edmonton Police Service members in threat assessment techniques. 
  It is, to his knowledge, the first time a Canadian law enforcement agency has trained with the service. 
  “We do threat assessments here in a number of areas,” Knecht said.
  That can include threats against
  
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• 'Some battles take a lifetime': Edmonton rally advocates for women's rights, equality

  21-01-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of people of all ages and genders came out to the Alberta Legislature grounds Saturday to support women and their demand for equal rights.
  “Women’s rights are human rights,” said Alison Poste, co-organizer of the March On Edmonton rally, which was held to commemorate the first anniversary of the 2017 women’s march in Washington, D.C., Edmonton and communities around the globe.
  Since the first march there have been issues in the States with rights being dimin
  
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• City has cold message for extreme winter weather: 'We don't have a solution'

  21-01-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials need to be frank with the public when extreme cold and humid conditions turn Edmonton roads into skating rinks.
  That was one lesson learned from this month’s cold snap. As temperatures fell overnight, ice formed from water in the air, and the city’s new calcium chloride spray was powerless to melt it. Edmonton saw 191 collisions in nine hours.
  Traditionally, city staff respond to bad weather by appearing on morning radio shows to tell the public that crews are working
  
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