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• 7 thoughts on the woeful Edmonton Oilers and their iffy new line combos

  24-01-2018 23:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Enough is enough with the Oilers penalty killThis in, the new Oilers line combos at today’s practice following a humiliating 5-0 loss to the Buffalo Sabres:
  From Reid Wilkins @ReidWilkinsOilers shuffle up:Caggiula-McDavid-SlepyshevMaroon-Strome-KassianKhaira-Letestu-PuljujarviCammalleri/Lucic-Draisaitl-PakarinenOrder of lines purely subjective.
  My takeThese lines? I guess after a loss that bad the coaching staff is willing to try anything. Because these lines qualify as “anything.&rd
  
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• Hazmat crews respond to nitric acid explosion at U of A lab

  24-01-2018 22:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hazmat crews responded to an explosion at a University of Alberta lab Wednesday afternoon. 
  Edmonton fire crews were called to the university’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Research building around 1:40 p.m. for an alarms ringing call. When they arrived, they learned there had been a nitric acid explosion and called in the hazardous material crew, spokeswoman Maya Filipovic said. 
  Five crews were on scene. There were no reports of injuries. 
  Nitric acid is a highly co
  
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• Police to provide update on child abuse case, women charged with attempted murder

  24-01-2018 22:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is expected to provide an update this afternoon on a child abuse case involving five children.
  Officers responded to a check on welfare call at a north Edmonton residence on Dec. 16, 2017, police said in a Wednesday news release.
  Officers found five children at the residence and started an investigation. The children have since received medical attention and are all safe, police said.
  Two women who reside in the home have been charged.
  A 23-year-old woman was charged
  
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• Tetanus vaccine delivered in Stony Plain may have been ineffective: AHS

  24-01-2018 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A total of 131 patients who received a tetanus vaccine recently at the WestView Health Centre in Stony Plain are being encouraged to go back for another shot as the first one may have been ineffective, Alberta Health Services said Wednesday.
  A routine audit conducted on Dec. 29 found that the temperature of the vaccine fridge in the hospital emergency’s department was not being recorded properly.
  If the fridge was either too hot or too cold, it may have compromised the quality of the vacci
  
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• Police to provide update on child abuse investigation

  24-01-2018 21:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is expected to provide an update this afternoon on a child abuse case involving five children.
  The abuse was initially reported in December 2017.
  EPS Child Protection Det. Aubrey Zalaski is set to speak to media at 2 p.m. at police headquarters.
  
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• Where will musical curiousity take McDade next?

  24-01-2018 20:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lots of fine musicians find what they do best and stick with that. Then there’s Jeremiah McDade, who seems to swing so easily between different instruments, styles and genres of music, you might start wondering if the guy has split personality syndrome.
  “Sometimes I’m able to crossover and mix things up,” he explains, “maybe more with The McDades. But often the style is very specific. It depends on what the particular project involves.”
  An upcoming concert wit
  
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• Paula Simons: Should Princess Eugenie's engagement engage us?

  24-01-2018 20:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons isn’t exactly expecting an invitation to Princess Eugenie’s wedding. Up until Monday, all she knew about Princess Eugenie was that she had red hair and a fondness for wacky hats. 
  How, then, to account for her fascination with this latest royal engagement? Why should we care that Prince Andrew’s daughter is getting married to a tequila brand ambassador?  In this video essay, Simons explores her own illogical affection for the Ho
  
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• Suspects accused of ramming police vehicles in Frog Lake

  24-01-2018 19:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people are in custody after police said a pair of RCMP cruisers were rammed by a stolen truck fleeing a Frog Lake, Alta. gas station last week.   
  Officers with Elk Point RCMP found a suspicious car and a truck parked at a gas station while on patrol in the community at around 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 15. Both vehicles were previously reported stolen. 
  The officers, behind the wheels of two separate police cruisers, turned on their emergency lights as they approached the vehicles. T
  
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• Alberta Party leadership race debates kick off in Edmonton

  24-01-2018 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The three hopefuls vying for the Alberta Party’s top job will take the stage Wednesday night in the first debate of the leadership race. 
  The sold-out event at the Lister Conference Centre will include a dozen questions, the topics of which were sent in advance to candidates Rick Fraser, Kara Levis and Stephen Mandel. 
  The leadership race was triggered when former leader Greg Clark stepped down in November. 
  The party has been steadily pulling in members and donations since
  
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• Strathcona County RCMP drug unit makes record seizure

  24-01-2018 18:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Drugs, weapons and a record amount of cash has been seized by the Strathcona County RCMP drug unit.
  The items were seized as part of an investigation that led to the execution of a search warrant at a home in Sherwood Park and northeast Leduc County. 
  Staff Sgt. Andy Kyle, in charge of the Strathcona County RCMP general investigative section, is to unveil more details Wednesday afternoon. 
  More to come…
  
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• No scalpel required: U of A research allows medical images to be displayed on patient’s body

  24-01-2018 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Doctors can put down scalpels and peek under patients’ skin with new University of Alberta technology that displays internal anatomy right on the body.
  ProjectDR allows medical images like CT scans and MRI data to be displayed on the patient, researchers say in a Wednesday news release. The technology includes a motion-tracking system using infrared cameras and markers on the body, as well as a projector to display the images.“We wanted to create a system that would show clinici
  
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• Guilty plea in prison attack that left victims with 250 stab wounds

  24-01-2018 17:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man serving a life sentence for double murder was sentenced Tuesday for his role in a brutal gang-related attack inside Edmonton Institution against two fellow inmates.
  Kody Paul Bear, 27, was handed 10-year sentences for each of two aggravated assault charges from the April 1, 2017, attacks, which left two men with more than 250 stab wounds between them.
  His most current punishment is to run concurrently with his life sentence and is on top of a four-year concurrent sentence he received last
  
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• Oilers home jerseys are the same colour as Tide pods, Twitter is delighted to learn

  24-01-2018 17:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers home jerseys are the same colour as Tide pods, those colourful but poisonous detergent packs that people have been eating (really? this isn’t a hoax?) for some reason.
  The Oilers were terrible last night, losing 5-0 to the Buffalo Sabres.
  Amidst all the awfulness one of our hockey writers, Rob Tychkowski, pointed out on Twitter just how much the Oilers home jersey resembles a Tide pod. His tweet has been retweeted 835 times and liked 1,899 times as of about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
  
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• New interactive video series: Councillor Aaron Paquette puts sustainable food on council menu

  24-01-2018 16:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Encouraging food security, making sure the north side gets attention, kick-starting growth at the Energy and Technology Park — those are three big items on Aaron Paquette’s plate as the fledgling Ward 4 councillor finds his way about City Hall. 
  Postmedia is launching a new interactive video series today, hosting a Facebook Live chat and inviting one councillor each time to better understand his or her priorities.
  Paquette is up first.
  At City Hall, most councillors lead specifi
  
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• Hidden Spaces: Inside the natural history storage room at the former Royal Alberta Museum

  24-01-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  At first glance, there is little visible to suggest that this room houses one of Alberta’s largest collections of natural history.
  Row upon row of hulking grey cabinets greet you as you enter the bird and mammal research collection at the former Royal Alberta Museum in west-end Edmonton. The room, which is only one part of the museum’s natural history collection, could easily be mistaken for the computer server room of some large institution, but inside each cabinet is a meticulously
  
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• Catholic trustees demand ‘respect’ ahead of shared bus deal with public board

  24-01-2018 14:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A shared busing agreement between Edmonton’s public and Catholic school boards that could shorten ride times and save parents money hangs in the balance over tension between the boards.
  Edmonton Public trustees unanimously approved a motion Tuesday to create a joint Edmonton Student Transportation Authority — a separate corporate entity that would run buses for both boards. The motion also requested Edmonton Catholic trustees make a decision about the deal by March 15 to be ready for
  
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• Oilers penalty killing 'horrendous' against Sabres, Todd McLellan says

  24-01-2018 14:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan discusses the team’s dismal penalty kill and the role it played in their 5-0 loss to the Buffalo Sabres at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Jan. 23, 2018.
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Competition only when it suits

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “The spirit of the law?” Jan. 19
  Your editorial claims that Edmonton’s “liquor bylaw goes against the spirit of Alberta’s free-market liquor retailing system.”
  But wasn’t it Daryl Katz who outlawed any competition by the Coliseum with his (oops, our) downtown arena? He challenges a city bylaw that prevents his opening a liquor store only 30 metres from an existing liquor outlet in the Ice District. How his perspective changes when he’s the one
  
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• Opinion: Liquor store limits help keep Edmontonians safe

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “The spirit of the law?” Editorial, Jan. 19
  The Edmonton Journal believes Edmonton’s liquor store proximity bylaw is “arbitrary” and “overreaching.” It declared so in a Jan. 19 editorial, in which it also called for city council to scrap the bylaw, which stipulates no liquor store can operate within a 500-metre radius of another.
  Let’s start with what is patently untrue. The 500-metre limit is not “arbitrary.”
  The Alberta Liquor Sto
  
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• Inmate serving life-sentence pleads guilty to aggravated assault

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man serving a life sentence for double murder was sentenced Tuesday for his role in a brutal gang-related attack inside Edmonton Institution against two fellow inmates.
  Kody Paul Bear, 27, was handed 10-year sentences for each of two aggravated assault charges from the April 1, 2017, attacks, which left two men with more than 250 stab wounds between them.
  His most current punishment is to run concurrently with his life sentence and is on top of a four-year concurrent sentence he received last
  
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• Former student says he routinely had sex with teacher in her van, school office

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Calgary music teacher had frequent sexual encounters with a ninth-grade boy in her school band office and her vehicles, the former student testified at a hearing Tuesday in Edmonton.
  The teacher smoked marijuana with the teen and his friends, bought him clothes, jewelry, a bong and other gifts, and regularly supplied him and a friend with alcohol and cigarettes, the former student, who is now an adult, testified Tuesday.
  The then-14-year-old was drinking so much alcohol, he’d sometimes w
  
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• Editorial: Silly trade war is no joke

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who knew Brad Wall possessed such a wicked sense of humour? The conservative-minded Saskatchewan premier celebrated the end days of his political career by mischievously pranking the left-leaning province next door with the interprovincial-trade equivalent of a practical joke. 
  That this far-fetched explanation appears as plausible as any other offered up says all anyone needs to know about the licence-plate war that will go down as one of Wall’s final, and least celebrated, expl
  
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• Child intervention panel to deliberate on recommendations

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The all-party panel tasked with improving Alberta’s child intervention system is slated to develop its final recommendations Wednesday. 
  The ministerial panel — mandated to identify systemic problems in child intervention — drafted its first set of recommendations in April. Those included increasing the authority of Alberta’s child and youth advocate, timely completion of reviews and better information sharing. 
  After a summer hiatus, the panel returned to
  
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• Cancer drugs could protect brains of children suffering malaria: U of A research

  24-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Children in developing nations stricken with cerebral malaria could be treated with repurposed drugs designed to assist in cancer treatment, a University of Alberta researcher says. 
  On top of an already high mortality rate, cerebral malaria is considered one of the most severe complications of the mosquito-borne infectious disease in children because it can have lasting impacts on survivors, said U of A department of pediatrics assistant professor Michael Hawkes.
  “It t
  
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• Beethoven, Mozart & Schubert - St. Albert Gazette

  24-01-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Beethoven, Mozart & Schubert  St. Albert GazetteEdmonton Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Bernhard Gueller and Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano. Mozart's mature concerto anticipates the coming ...
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers soil home sheet with wretched performance in 5-0 beatdown by lowly Sabres

  24-01-2018 08:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sabres 5, Oilers 0
  Got to give those Edmonton Oilers credit, they sure do save their worst performances for their home ice. Faced with not so much a “must win” as a “must streak” situation, the gracious hosts torpedoed a three-game winning streak with an horrendous performance before their long-suffering fans, who suffered through another 60 minutes of awful hockey that gave them virtually no reason to cheer at any point. This time it was the league’s second-worst t
  
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• Passenger dead after truck crashes into back of vehicle on Highway 897

  24-01-2018 05:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kitscoty RCMP are investigating after a pickup truck passing two cars on Highway 897 struck the rear of a third vehicle, killing a passenger in the truck.
  On Tuesday around 6:15 p.m. Kitscoty RCMP raced to the scene on Highway 897 just north of Highway 16.
  Investigators believe a pickup truck travelling north overtook two vehicles, striking the back of a third. The truck lost control and veered into a ditch on the east side of the road.
  A passenger in the pickup truck was found dead at the scene
  
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• Man gets 30-month sentence after RCMP seize $80,000 worth of drugs

  24-01-2018 05:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has pleaded guilty to a drug charge and will serve 30 months in prison after Jasper RCMP seized $80,000 worth of drugs in a 2016 bust.
  Jasper RCMP searched a residence on Bonhomme Street in Jasper, seizing $18,000 in cash and a significant quantity of illegal drugs, including marijuana, cannabis resin, ecstasy, magic mushrooms and cocaine, on Aug. 18, 2016.
  At the time, investigators estimated the drugs could have been worth as much as $80,000 if they had been sold on the street.
  After ple
  
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• United Conservative Party internships focus for national anti-abortion group

  24-01-2018 05:20 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 post-secondary students and recent graduates. The program is run by c
  
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• Claresholm town councillor says she was attacked in home invasion, plans to resign

  24-01-2018 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Claresholm — RCMP were investigating after a town councillor says she was beaten during a home invasion.
  Donna Courage said she was attacked in her home Saturday night and suffered a black eye, bruises and cuts.
  She said a man forced his way into her home, pinned her against a wall and told her to be quiet and leave town.
  Courage was elected last October and campaigned for increased transparency and accountability on council.
  She said she had previously urged council to consider other pote
  
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• Shared school bus deal that could save parents money hangs in balance

  24-01-2018 03:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A shared busing agreement between Edmonton’s public and Catholic school boards that could shorten ride times and save parents money hangs in the balance over tension between the boards.
  Edmonton Public trustees unanimously approved a motion Tuesday to create a joint Edmonton Student Transportation Authority — a separate corporate entity that would run buses for both boards. The motion also requested Edmonton Catholic trustees make a decision about the deal by March 15 to be ready for
  
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• Edmonton Catholic superintendent Joan Carr revisits 'hasty decision' to retire

  24-01-2018 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Catholic Schools’ superintendent Joan Carr has changed her mind about retirement.
  Carr announced in December she wouldn’t seek to renew her contract with the district. 
  But she revisited that “hasty decision” over the Christmas break, gathering input from family and colleagues before deciding her work with trustees, some of whom were newly elected in October, is not yet done.
  “We need to keep moving forward, so I’m thrilled to be given this oppor
  
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• Professional wrestling exempt from combative sports ban

  24-01-2018 01:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Professional wrestling will not be subject to a year-long combative sports ban, Edmonton city council decided Tuesday morning.
  “Wrestling got caught up in the much more complicated issues of fighter safety of mixed martial arts and boxing, and that was never our intent,” said Edmonton mayor Don Iveson. “And we are continuing to work through as quickly as possible the issues around mixed martial arts and boxing, but wrestling we were able to put back in business because they are
  
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• Frustrated pedestrians use citizen science to put 'beg buttons' back up for debate

  24-01-2018 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Darcy Reynard hates “beg buttons” so much, he created an online map and recruited Twitter users to use a stop-watch on pedestrian crossing signals across the city.
  The map was soon reporting waits of more than three minutes as pedestrians or cyclists shivered in the cold, missed their bus or gave up and jaywalked. 
  It’s a piece of citizen science, and one reason Coun. Andrew Knack put the issue on the council agenda Tuesday. 
  He asked traffic engineers to re
  
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• David Staples: Looks like full speed ahead for LRT to West Edmonton Mall

  24-01-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council has voted unanimously to dig into the cost of building bus rapid transit (BRT) to West Edmonton Mall and beyond, and to see how it compares to the cost of light rail transit (LRT).
  But that doesn’t mean council is going to reverse direction and build BRT to the west end.
  Not a chance. 
  Mayor Don Iveson and a majority of councillors have made it abundantly clear they’re going with LRT to the west end, and based on deputy city manager Adam Laughlin’s new BR
  
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• Edmonton wants to join North America's FIFA World Cup bid

  24-01-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton will put its name forward to join a joint bid by several North American cities to host the FIFA World Cup in 2026, councillors decided Tuesday.
  The games have the potential to bring in an estimated US$170 million in economic impact, according to a report to a committee meeting last week. The estimated cost for a host city ranges from $35 million to $55 million, according to Canada Soccer.
  “There are a few more details to be worked out before everything is finalized,
  
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• RCMP hunt for suspect after hitchhiker pulls gun on driver in Morley

  24-01-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cochrane RCMP were warning the public to be on the lookout after an attempted robbery and carjacking in Morley, Alta.
  According to police, a man was filling his vehicle with gas at the Cochrane Fas Gas when another man approached him looking for a ride to Morley.
  After driving him to Morley, the hitchhiker pulled a gun and demanded the driver hand over the vehicle and his personal effects.
  The driver pulled the keys out of the ignition and ran, hearing what he believed to be gunshots ring out be
  
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• Man facing charges after woman struck by pickup truck in crosswalk

  24-01-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man faces charges after a woman was struck and killed while crossing the street in an unmarked crosswalk.
  The 29-year-old woman was hit by a pickup near James Mowatt Trail SW and Allard Boulevard about 6:30 a.m. Dec. 12.
  She was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, where she died later that morning.
  Jason Roberts-Kowalchuk, 43, of Beaumont has been charged with careless driving and failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk under the Traffic Safety Act, police said Tuesday.
  
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