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• Saskatchewan drops ban on Alberta licence plates at job sites

  22-01-2018 23:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Saskatchewan government backed down Monday on its controversial ban on vehicles with Alberta licence plates at Saskatchewan job sites, ending an escalating trade war with Alberta.
  “They’ve done the right thing in the eleventh hour,” said Alberta Trade Minister Deron Bilous. 
  In December, Saskatchewan announced that Alberta-plated vehicles would be banned from government work sites.
  The move spurred Bilous to issue an ultimatum — seven days to take the policy
  
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• Trial begins for man accused in waterpark assault on teens

  22-01-2018 22:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A teenage girl testified Monday that she was groped by a man while she was swimming during a birthday party at West Edmonton Mall’s waterpark.
  The 15-year-old was the first witness at a provincial court trial of Soleiman Hajj Soleiman, who is charged with six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child.
  Soleiman, 40, was arrested and charged in February 2017 after several teenagers reported being touched by a man in the wave pool, police said. The other teens are
  
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• RCMP investigating three missing women cases as homicides

  22-01-2018 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stephanie Stewart’s coworkers realized something was wrong when she failed to call in her morning weather report. 
  Stewart, a physically fit 70-year-old who loved the outdoors, was living at the Athabasca fire lookout tower near Hinton where she worked for the provincial government. She had worked at the tower for 13 years during the summer fire season, and it was unusual for her to miss the morning weather update.
  On Aug. 26, 2006, an employee sent to check on her found her cabin emp
  
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• Saskatchewan drops ban on Alberta licence plates

  22-01-2018 21:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Saskatchewan government is rolling back a policy that banned Alberta licence plates on construction sites after the cross-border dispute continued to escalate.
  In December, Saskatchewan announced that Alberta-plated vehicles would be banned from government worksites.
  The move sparked Alberta Trade Minister Deron Bilous to issue an ultimatum — seven days to take the policy back, or the Alberta government take it go to court. 
  Saskatchewan ignored the midnight deadline, with Bilous
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to hold Edmonton town hall Feb. 1

  22-01-2018 21:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will take questions from the public at a town hall-style gathering in Edmonton on Feb. 1.  
  It will be the sixth stop on the prime minister’s mid-mandate town hall series, which began in Halifax in January. 
  The town halls are open to the public. People wishing to attend the event are encouraged to register beforehand, although it is not mandatory.
  A venue has yet to be to be announced.
  Trudeau has also held town halls in Hamilton, Ont., London,
  
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• Edmonton to unveil 14 public art projects along the Valley Line

  22-01-2018 20:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  City of Edmonton officials are set to unveil 14 public art projects that will accompany the Valley Line LRT tracks.
  The works are to include a trio of inflatable horses that will hang from the ceiling in the Churchill Square station as well as a homage to the famous peony gardens that once drew tourists to Bonnie Doon.
  The inflatable horses are by Toronto-based artist Max Streicher, originally from Olds, Alta. The other pieces are from local, Indigenous and international artists.
  It’s a ch
  
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• Social Seen: Bridal fashion show

  22-01-2018 20:45 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)
  Bridal fashion show
  Where: Anika Designs
  When: Jan. 14
  What: Unveiling of Anika Designs’ Spring/Summer Collection
  Featuring: Refresh
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Striking a balance with children's risky play

  22-01-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  When I first started living with my husband and my step-sons — then ages four and six — it took me a long time to get used to their physicality and all-around rambunctiousness. It’s not that I didn’t like it, but it worried me.
  We lived downtown at 104 Street and 104 Avenue, and going for walks and scooter rides, I often found my heart was in my throat: would they stop at every corner like they were supposed to? What if they veered into the street? At home, I couldn&rsquo
  
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• Fitness column: Workout smarter, not harder, if you're in the 50-plus club

  22-01-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The crazy workout stuff I used to do as a 20-year-old has definitely morphed over the years — run 10 km to the gym, lift weights for an hour, bike home. However, with age comes great wisdom (probably … hopefully … maybe).
  If you’re in the 50-plus club (or you’re peering in from the 40 side of the fence), training smart becomes a bigger part of your workout strategy. Competing demands, limited energy and longer recovery times all need to factor into the plan.
  Crest
  
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• Alberta to dial back spending as cabinet heads to Banff retreat

  22-01-2018 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta cabinet ministers will take three days in Banff this week to hash out the upcoming session and, more importantly, talk about the province’s fiscal picture. 
  Cabinet will spend Tuesday night through Friday in the mountains, discussing the budget, the economy, the premier’s recent pipeline tour and how to go about “compassionate belt-tightening.” 
  The retreat will be held at the Juniper Hotel, costing $37,000. 
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci said it’
  
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• Students focus on mental health with fitness, art, dancing and drumming

  22-01-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Good mental health involves song, movement, art and dance, according to teachers and students at Cardinal Leger Jr. High School in Edmonton.
  On  Jan. 18, 2018, hundreds of classmates gathered in classrooms across their school in groups during a mental health symposium organized with their teachers and administrators. Activities included a drum circle, a messy art station, dancing, an Aboriginal cultural class and a music and drum-stick exercise called Pound.
  Karen Germaine, assistant princi
  
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• New evidence found in study of black holes led by U of A researchers

  22-01-2018 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  An international team of researchers led by University of Alberta scientists published a study Monday containing new evidence regarding black holes.
  The research shows the first evidence of strong winds around black holes during bright outburst events. An outburst happens when gas stored around a black hole suddenly rushes inward, emitting large quantities of X-rays.
  The study shows how mass is transferred to black holes, and how black holes affect the environment around them.
  The team of five s
  
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• Opinion: The problem with Kung Fu and Apu

  22-01-2018 17:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal opinion editor Bill Mah reflects on the lack of diversity on television and in movies.
  There are not only a lack of Asians featured in popular culture, but the ones there are, are usually racist stereotypes like Long Duk Dong in 16 Candles and Apu from The Simpsons. 
  Popular culture plays a huge role in shaping not only how we see ourselves but in how others see us. It’s a really big deal for people of colour. If people who look like you are represented on TV and in t
  
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• Fire crews respond to early morning at Canora duplex

  22-01-2018 16:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire crews have been called to an early morning blaze at a duplex in west Edmonton Monday.
  The call came in at 6:38 a.m. at a residence in the Canora neighbourhood, 10537 154 St. NW. Five units arrived on scene at 6:42 a.m., said city spokesperson Suzzette Mellado, and the fire was deemed under control by 6:57 a.m.
  The house is across from Brightview school, 15425 106 Ave NW.
  There’s no word on cause or damages at this time.
  More to come …
  At the scene of a duplex fire in the Canora
  
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• Here's what the hum in Mill Woods sounds like. Is this what you're hearing?

  22-01-2018 16:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Mill Woods resident has recorded the sound of one of the generators powering temporary street lights along 66 Street that she says is causing a constant hum inside her home.
  Last week people in Mill Woods were complaining of a hum in the neighbourhood.
  The resident says the noise can be heard routinely after dark until about 7 a.m. the next day.
  She took this recording outside at 5:30 p.m. Saturday near 66 Street and 36a Avenue.
  What appears to be a separate hum was identified near Mill Woods
  
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• RCMP to update three cold case homicides Monday afternoon

  22-01-2018 16:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP will be giving an update on three cold case homicides Monday afternoon.
  The update will be given by Staff Sgt. Jason Zazulak from the historical homicide unit at 1:30 p.m. at RCMP K Division headquarters at 11140 109 Street in  Edmonton.
  More to come …
  
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• Aussie on Ice week two: Who stole the brakes off my skates?

  22-01-2018 15:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  You’re still reading this after week one? Wow, you deserve a medal. Clearly you are a glutton for punishment so here’s the second of 12 weekly updates in my attempt to learn how to play hockey and to go from never having skated to hopefully playing in a mixed non-contact game as part of the Discover Hockey program. If you are new to the series, you can click here to visit my previous ramblings. I’ve always had a problem with stopping. 
  Despite all of the knocks the ol
  
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• 'Lee Fogolin wasn’t available?' Oilers fans annoyed at Paul Coffey hiring

  22-01-2018 15:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have hired Paul Coffey to join their coaching staff. 
  The second highest-scoring NHL defenceman may be an Oilers legend, but he has no prior NHL coaching experience. He has been involved as a AAA bantam coach in Toronto.
  Coffey is only the latest Oiler from the 1980s dynasty to rejoin the organization in a coaching or executive role.
  Readers on our Facebook pages have been critical of the move, pointing to it as more evidence that the Oilers is run by an old boys club.On
  
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• Nick Lees: Running Room founder has ambitious plans for Edmonton marathon

  22-01-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  John Stanton, Canada’s Pied Piper of running, says the Servus Edmonton Marathon is gaining the same stirring allure as the Vancouver and Toronto events.
  “We had 3,500 runners here for our marathon weekend last year and our goal this year on Aug. 19 is to attract more than 5,000 runners,” says the founder and president of The Running Room.
  “We will continue to draw runners from around the world looking for a fast time on our scenic, fast course and we expect to attract 10,
  
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• Is winter ever coming back? Temperatures to hover around 0 C

  22-01-2018 14:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Happy Monday Edmonton. Today’s high is 1 C.
  It will be mainly cloudy, with a mix of sun and cloud this afternoon. 
  Tonight, it will be partly cloudy, with a low of -8 C.
  Tomorrow is forecast to be Sunny with a high of 0 C, and a low of -11 C. 
  Wednesday’s high is expected to be -4 C, with a mix of sun and cloud.
  There is a 40 per cent chance of snow on Thursday when the high is forecast to be -5 C.
  
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• Stiff recycling rules set by China could have $1-million impact on Edmonton

  22-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tougher standards set by China for waste paper could mean a $1-million hit to Edmonton’s recycling effort as the city scrambles to tighten its sorting process, city officials say.
  They’ve hired extra staff and slowed conveyor belts on the sorting lines, doing everything possible to get coffee cups, plastic knifes and cardboard out of the paper bundle.
  An inspector from China visited last Wednesday, spending the entire afternoon inspecting bale after bale loaded onto five trucks bound
  
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• Edmonton schools cope with explosion in number of students on autism spectrum

  22-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every new school year makes Amanda Drier nervous.
  A new classroom, a new teacher and, potentially, a new classroom aide means yet another group of people to educate about her seven-year-old daughter’s autism. It’s exhausting, emotionally draining and absolutely necessary.
  “Just the misunderstanding of autism in general, especially in the school system, is really challenging,” Drier, perched on her living room couch in west Edmonton, said last week. “A lot of ou
  
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• Alberta college of physicians preparing for high-tech advancements in health

  22-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta says it is taking steps to get a better handle on a number of emerging health technologies that could prove dangerous to patients if they aren’t properly regulated.
  Software that can analyze diagnostic scans, wearable medical devices that generate real-time data, and “precision medicine” that tailors specific treatments to an individual’s genetic makeup are among the innovations the college may need to address in the years
  
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• How failure of the Edmonton Oilers might push Connor McDavid to the next level

  22-01-2018 07:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Focused practice of veteran superstars like Crosby and Pavelski should be the new goal, says TSN’s Rishaug and Ferraro
  This in, a fascinating discussion on Jan. 10 between TSN’s Ryan Rishaug and TSN’s Ray Ferroro on the Pulp Hockey podcast with Steve Matthes about how Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers can rise out of this failure and reach the next level.
  The discussion started off with Matthes suggesting to Rishaug that maybe McDavid wasn’t quit
  
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• U of A students develop program to combat childhood obesity, mentor youth

  22-01-2018 04:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of University of Alberta students are hoping to put their studies into practice by leading a new physical activity program for Edmonton kids.
  About 30 volunteers from the student-run club Run for Support and Health (RuSH) are looking to use play-based physical activities to instil lifelong exercise and healthy-living habits in children as young as three.
  RuSH president Peter Anto Johnson came up with the idea of the program as a way to combine his interests — running and
  
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• Police asking public to avoid 118 Avenue and 35 Street

  22-01-2018 04:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are asking people to avoid 118 Avenue and 35 Street on Sunday evening due to an “ongoing police investigation,” said a news release from police sent around 5 p.m.
  
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• Man shot in southwest Edmonton, suspect at large

  22-01-2018 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old man was hit in a brazen daylight shooting in southwest Edmonton on Sunday.
  Several shots were fired at the man who was sitting in a white sedan that was parked near 120 Street and 22 Avenue SW, said a news release sent by police Sunday evening.
  The victim drove away from the scene and police officers pulled him over near Rabbit Hill Road and Anthony Henday Drive.
  Paramedics treated the man and took him to hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
  The parking lot
  
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• Reports of shots fired in southwest Edmonton

  22-01-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man was apparently hit in a brazen daylight shooting in southwest Edmonton on Sunday.
  The parking lot of an apartment building at 120 Street and 22 Avenue SW was blocked and multiple bullet casings could be seen on the ground behind yellow police tape.
  More to come
  
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• Alberta firefighters to help train emergency workers in Belize, Colombia

  22-01-2018 01:14 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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