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• Edmonton to put in FIFA World Cup bid

  23-01-2018 22:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton will officially put in a joint bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026, councillors decided on Tuesday.
  The games have the potential to bring in an estimated US$170 million in economic impact, according to a report that was discussed at a community and public services committee meeting Jan. 17.
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• Alberta’s Matthew Savoie drawing lofty hockey comparisons at the age of 14

  23-01-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  He's only 14 but already Matthew Savoie is drawing comparisons to the likes of Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon.
  
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• United Conservative Party internships focus for national pro-life group

  23-01-2018 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Ottawa-based anti-abortion group is encouraging its members to pursue United Conservative Party internships and learn how to “advance pro-life legislation provincially in Alberta.”
  “We have two paid political internship opportunities for young pro-lifers and three for those from Alberta!” RightNow wrote in an email to members Monday. 
  The UCP is offering internships this summer to current post-secondary students and recent graduates. The program is
  
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• Popular Cadotte Lake teacher killed in car crash

  23-01-2018 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A popular teacher at the Cadotte Lake First Nation who helped her students publish a book of their stories has died in a car crash.
  Sana Ghani, 29, was driving to visit her family in Edmonton last Thursday when her car lost control in freezing rain on Highway 2, about 25 kilometres southeast of Slave Lake. She was struck by two other vehicles and died in hospital a few hours later, police said in a news release Jan. 19.
  In an interview with Postmedia last July, Ghani described the connectio
  
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• Northern Alberta police ask for help identifying vandals who tried to steal a school bus

  23-01-2018 19:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Desmarais RCMP are looking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects they believe vandalized a school and vehicles on the Bigstone Cree Nation.
  Two people, who were caught in surveillance images, caused damage at Oski Pasikoniwew Kamik School and the surrounding property on Jan. 18 around 4 a.m., police said in a Tuesday news release.
  Police believe the pair broke rear windows at the school, set a storage shed on fire and vandalized several vehicles in the community befor
  
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• Public Participation Opportunity on Proposed Housing Diversity Amendments

  23-01-2018 19:29
  Land-Use Bylaw Residential District Public Hearing scheduled for Feb.5, 2018 The City is encouraging residents and interested parties to provide... Read Post
  
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• Andrew Knack puts 'beg buttons' up for debate — major irritant for pedestrians

  23-01-2018 19:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coun. Andrew Knack put the issue of “beg buttons” on council’s agenda Tuesday, drawing attention to a major irritant for Edmonton pedestrians shivering at intersections in the cold or racing to catch a bus.
  A beg button is a traffic signal that pedestrians have to push if they want to trigger a “walk” signal to safely cross a street. They can force people to wait several minutes for a walk sign, even if the light is green for cars, something that goes against s
  
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• Professional wrestling will be exempt from combative sports ban

  23-01-2018 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Professional wrestling will not be subject to a year-long combative sports ban, Edmonton city council decided Tuesday morning.
  A World Wrestling Entertainment event had been booked for Feb. 9, but after the ban was put in place, the venue was changed to Saskatoon.
  The moratorium on combative sporting events in the city was imposed last month following a report on boxer Tim Hague, who died two days after being knocked out in a heavyweight boxing match in June against Adam Braidwood. The ban was t
  
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• Chorus group becomes first official tenant of city's Orange Hub

  23-01-2018 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Orange Hub has hit all the right notes for its first tenants, an a cappella choir group from Edmonton.  
  Gateway Chorus, a non-profit group known for its barbershop harmonies, announced Tuesday it’s the first group to sign a lease at the city’s cultural hub — the former MacEwan University Jasper Place campus building, distinctively orange in colour — in the west end.
  The city bought the university’s former cultural epicentre for $36 mill
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #48: Edmonton Oilers to-do list will depend heavily on results, over the next few nights

  23-01-2018 18:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the ice, tonight, the only thing that matters for the Edmonton Oilers is to take 2 points from the slumping Buffalo Sabres.
  The playoff window remains open but a crack. The margin of error is so narrow, losses to teams the Oilers “should” beat is not an option. The night starts with the home team 12 points out of a wild card spot (Colorado) in the West. The situation in the Pacific is but a glimmer more encouraging: 11 back of Calgary.
  If the Oilers can not take advantage of a sch
  
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• Alberta consumer spending increase lags behind national rise

  23-01-2018 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spending by Alberta consumers rose 1.3 per cent last year, well below the national 4.1 per cent increase, figures released Tuesday by the Moneris Solutions payment services company show.
  The amount spent in the province during the final three months of 2017 was up two per cent from the same period one year earlier, boosted primarily by outlays for hotels (up 7.7 per cent) and alcohol (up 2.5 per cent).
  “Stability and consistency defined 2017 when it came to spending in Canada,” 
  
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• Police searching for suspects after man shot in northeast Edmonton

  23-01-2018 15:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are searching for suspects after a 21-year-old man was shot in northeast Edmonton, early Tuesday morning.
  Police believe the man was shot while sitting in a vehicle in the McLeod neighbourhood, Acting Staff Sgt. Barry Fairhurst said Tuesday morning.
  Officers were searching with the canine unit.
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• Driving a dream Zamboni on one of the most picturesque ovals in North America

  23-01-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Jules Chabot comes to work his volunteer job at “one of the most picturesque ovals in North America” he also gets to drive his “dream Zamboni” for a couple of hours.
  Chabot, the former president of the Edmonton Speed Skating Association, is one of the lucky members who is able to drive the club’s Zamboni, which became famous during the Vancouver Olympics when it had to quickly be shipped from Calgary to take over ice-surfacing duties. The machine has been able
  
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• A sunny day ahead as winter keeps hiding — for now

  23-01-2018 14:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The mild weather continues in Edmonton, but snow returns Thursday.
  Today is forecast to be mainly sunny with a high of 0 C.
  Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of -8 C.
  Tomorrow is forecast to be cloudy with a high of -4 C. 
  Thursday, there is a 70 per cent chance of snow, but with only a high of -5 C.
  
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• The paddle game of Pickleball sees more players than ever

  23-01-2018 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pickleball has exploded in growth across Canada. Seniors, as well as younger players, have embraced the game as it brings the excitement of racquet sports with lower impact and lighter equipment. 
  Players use a paddle to hit a perforated polymer ball over a net, strung at a tennis-like height.
  Players serve underhand and score points on the serve. The ball must bounce twice before a player can strike it. The game goes to 11 points with winner needing to have a two point lead.
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• Tuesday's letters: Oh, for dry streets again

  23-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Do you yearn for dry streets again? Thanks to the city’s use of calcium chloride, it’s impossible to keep my car clean, even in the coldest weather.
  Washing once a week hasn’t prevented the caustic solution from eating away at the chrome trim either. And have you tried driving down Calgary Trail on a sunny day against the blinding glare from the constantly wet road?
  Enough with soaking our streets. A little sand is all we need.
  Grant Lovig, Edmonton
  Faith-based groups welcome t
  
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• Tracks in trenches: City takes new north LRT design to the public

  23-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tracks for the north LRT extension could run in trenches to cross under as many as five key intersections.
  The decision would significantly increase the cost of the $1.8-billion line, but would reduce the impact on traffic where the track crosses 137 Avenue, 127 Street, 142 Street, Campbell Road and the intersection of 153 Avenue with 113A Street.
  The designs will be on display at several open houses Tuesday and Thursday, and online after, including one design where trenches are dug to carry the
  
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• Opinion: Restoring Alberta's tax advantage is challenging but vital

  23-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Until recently, Alberta was known for having the lowest personal and corporate income tax rates in Canada. In fact, as of 2014 Alberta had the lowest combined federal/provincial top personal and corporate income taxes of any jurisdiction in Canada or the United States. This competitive edge was an important part of Alberta’s tax advantage.
  Times, however, have changed. The combination of provincial and federal tax increases, and the significant recent reduction in U.S. federal corporate an
  
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• Hospital-to-home care approach for COPD sufferers proving successful

  23-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An initiative to reduce emergency department visits and hospital readmissions by sufferers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Edmonton might be expanding to cover other chronic conditions, health officials said Monday.
  Initially launched in 2015 as a collaborative project between Canadian Foundation for Healthcare and 10 provincial health systems, including Alberta Health Services, the Inspired initiative takes a hospital-to-home care approach to patients with the late-stage lung diseas
  
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• Could University of Alberta athlete dine with The Rock?

  23-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A local student-athlete’s wish to have dinner with Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson may just come true.
  Ashley Whiteman, a student at the University of Edmonton, was recently featured in a U Sports article.
  Between questions and answers celebrating her success on the university’s track and field team — including being named Pandas Outstanding Rookie of the Year 2016, Canada West’s Track Athlete of the Year 2017 and First Team All-Canadian three times over — White
  
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• What to make of the Edmonton Oilers hiring of Paul Coffey?

  23-01-2018 07:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s been no shortage of discussion about the Edmonton Oilers hiring Hall-of-Fame player Paul Coffey as a skills coach. Before I give you my own take, here’s some of what has said been said and reported, starting with Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli’s explanation for the move:
  Oilers GM Peter ChiarelliChiarelli said he’d been thinking of hiring a skills coach for some time and had been thinking of Coffey for a long-time, mainly because the organization has a lot of young def
  
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• Calgary teacher accused of sex with student, buying teens alcohol, cigarettes

  23-01-2018 05:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Calgary music teacher is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student, an Alberta Teachers’ Association conduct committee heard Monday.
  The teacher, who taught Grade 1, music and band at a public Calgary K-9 school, is charged with five counts of unprofessional conduct under the Teaching Profession Act, including smoking marijuana in the presence of a student, and allowing students to use illegal drugs in her presence.
  She pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate s
  
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• Trial begins of man accused of murder in Edmonton nightclub shooting

  23-01-2018 04:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The defence lawyer in a murder trial over a Whyte Avenue-area nightclub shooting wants to prevent prosecutors from asking witnesses questions that may lead to the identification of his client.
  What is expected to be a lengthy first-degree murder trial began Monday of Arman Dhillon, who is charged in the shooting death of Amin Mohammed Abdullahi.
  A Facebook photo of Amin Mohammed Abdullahi.
  Abdullahi, 30, was fatally shot outside of the Tribute Lounge at 8111 105 St. around 2:40 a.m. on
  
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• Edmonton Ski Club to reopen with help from province and city

  23-01-2018 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a little help from the province, and a little boost from the city, the Edmonton Ski Club will open the slopes starting Feb. 1.
  According to a Facebook post, the club will be open from Feb. 1 to March 31 on Thursdays and Fridays from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  “I have to give huge credit to the province,” Coun. Ben Henderson said Monday. “They were the ones who stepped in and added their resources to ours to help make this happen. The provin
  
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• Paula Simons: Chinatown Dining Week heats up the Edmonton winter

  23-01-2018 02:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a turning point for Edmonton’s Chinatown.
  Construction of the Valley Line LRT may be good news in the long term if it brings more people to the area. But in the short term, it’s split the community, dividing the original south Chinatown from the newer Chinatown further north.
  The downtown arena has also shaken things up. To be sure, it’s brought new business to some restaurants. But during hockey games and major concerts, parking is hard to come by for people who jus
  
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• Saskatchewan skulks from battlefield in licence plate war with Alberta

  23-01-2018 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  What just might be the silliest trade war in history has ended not with a whimper but with a bang — the sound of Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall shooting himself in the foot.
  Wall’s government has tucked its tail between its legs and fled a battlefield it created in December when it banned vehicles with Alberta licence plates from Saskatchewan government work sites.
  On Monday morning, Wall’s minister responsible for trade, Steven Bonk, sent a letter to Alberta’s trade mini
  
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• Council questions use of neurotoxin in fight against mosquitoes

  23-01-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials stopped using the neurotoxin Dursban to fight mosquitoes two years ago, but failed to clearly tell the public they were still using a pesticide with the same active ingredient.
  That’s left people unsure what risks they face, and city pest-control experts are making public health decisions on their own, without being transparent, anti-pesticide advocates told city council’s audit committee Monday.
  “The existing policy is really just ‘Trust us to do the r
  
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• Edmonton Chamber of Commerce president optimistic NAFTA will be saved

  23-01-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chambers of commerce across the continent have vowed to keep up the pressure to save the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Edmonton chamber president Janet Riopel said.
  She was among the representatives from 25 major chambers and boards of trade in Canada, the United States and Mexico who met Monday in Montreal to discuss the importance of NAFTA and how to preserve a deal U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap.
  “The U.S. (chambers) definitely recognize this is polit
  
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• Edmonton unveils 14 public art projects for Valley Line LRT stations

  23-01-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Images of sunrises and sunsets, where water meets the sky and the sky meets the undulating Edmonton landscape, are being captured in a 47-metre tapestry of artwork that will adorn the Davies Ramp on the Valley Line LRT.
  “I was inspired by the Edmonton river valley and the sky and the land,” Erin Pankratz, a city artist and creator of the mosaic motif, said Monday. “I love colour gradations, and so I’m inspired to layer the colours and intersect different aspects.”
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• Generator-powered street light being replaced to stop hum in Mill Woods

  23-01-2018 00:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A generator-powered street light in Mill Woods is being replaced following reports of a constant hum in the area, the group building the Valley Line LRT said Monday.
  For the past week or so, the noise has irritated Tracey Gomez, 47, and her family, who says it has been keeping them up at night.
  “It’s just a constant background humming sound (inside the house) that you can’t turn off,” she said.  
  Although the street light at 66 Street and 36A Avenue is solar pow
  
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