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• Man accused of killing estranged wife found guilty by jury

  27-01-2018 21:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of killing his estranged wife in 2014 was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury on Saturday. 
  Gilbert Robinson, 62, had been on trial for second-degree murder since early January in the death of Aileen (Gina) Robinson.
  The jury, which began its deliberations Thursday, heard that the 54-year-old victim died in hospital days after being found badly injured in the basement of her former marital home on April 21, 2014. 
  During closing arguments Wednesday, C
  
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• An icy Polar Plunge for locals raising cash for Special Olympics

  27-01-2018 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s going to be a particularly icy Polar Plunge for those taking part in the fundraising dip at Lake Summerside on Sunday.
  The mercury is to dip below -21 C Saturday night, with a high of only -16 C on Sunday when about 120 plungers will dive into Lake Summerside, 1720 88 St., SW, to raise funds for the Special Olympics. 
  “This daring action shows the strong support for our athletes with intellectual disabilities and makes a unified statement that we believe in inclusive commun
  
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• Court date set for Syncrude following bird deaths

  27-01-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Syncrude Canada will make formal statements regarding the deaths of 31 great blue herons at its Mildred Lake site more than two years ago.
  During a brief Wednesday morning appearance in a Fort McMurray provincial court, a judge scheduled a summary disposition to be heard between July 16 and 19. 
  Syncrude spokesperson Will Gibson said the company is continuing discussions with the federal and provincial government regarding the charges, but could not elaborate on the nature of those talks.
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• Saturday's letters: Tommy Banks will be missed

  27-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tommy Banks, my heart is deeply saddened this morning as I learn of your next gig.
  My dearest and fondest thoughts of you as I think back over time were the wonderful musical commercial creations you wrote for me over the years. My favourite one was the animated opening commercial for Kingsway Garden Mall in March 1976. The music and words to the main piece which you created in minutes ended with your magical musical mind creating the last line, “what would you do if the Garden grew, start
  
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• Opinion: Outlook is sunny for renewable energy in Alberta

  27-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The low prices seen by Alberta’s recent renewable electricity auction clearly shows renewable energy has arrived.
  The future is here for no-emission, small-scale solar power, thanks to Alberta’s abundant, world-class solar resource. Energy Efficiency Alberta is helping support the growing use of solar energy to generate new jobs, train professionals and earn revenue for Alberta-based solar providers and associated service companies.
  Energy Efficiency Alberta was created a little more
  
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• St. Albert ranked 31st in country for attracting millennials - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert ranked 31st in country for attracting millennials
  St. Albert Gazette
  According to a new report St. Albert ranks in the middle of the pack in Canada's largest cities for attracting millennials. A new study called Top Millennial Hot Spots in 2018 report released this week by Point2Homes, a Saskatoon based group that ...
  
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• Edmonton seeks comment on northwest LRT - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Edmonton seeks comment on northwest LRT
  St. Albert Gazette
  St. Albert could someday see an LRT line hopping over Campbell Road if Edmonton's transit plans are approved. The City of Edmonton held two open houses this week on its plans for the Metro Line northwest LRT. The plans are now online for comment for ...
  
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• Thoughts from behind the bedrail - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Thoughts from behind the bedrail
  St. Albert Gazette
  Prior to writing this column on health care I found myself in the emergency room on Christmas Eve being admitted for pneumonia. A bit of field research never hurts a columnist – well, maybe a little. Fortunately, I haven't spent much time in hospitals ...
  
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• MPs weighs in on NAFTA negotiations - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
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  MPs weighs in on NAFTA negotiations
  St. Albert Gazette
  One local MP is saying the fate of NAFTA will impact not only St. Albert, but also the country as a whole. St. Albert MP Michael Cooper says the Conservative party is standing behind the Liberals in order to put forward a united front in NAFTA ...and more »
  
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• Canadians spent $5.7 billion on marijuana in 2017 - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Canadians spent $5.7 billion on marijuana in 2017
  St. Albert Gazette
  A new Statistics Canada study shows that around five million Canadians used marijuana last year. The data released on Thursday in a report called Cannabis Economic Account 1961 to 2017, estimates that consumers of the drug spent an average of $1,200 ...
  The Daily — Cannabis Economic Account, 1961 to 2017 - Statistics CanadaStatistics Canadaall 135 news articles »
  
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• Access issues - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 08:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  Access issues
  St. Albert Gazette
  As a community newspaper, The Gazette has an obligation to our readers to get timely information to the residents of St. Albert. St. Albert City Council also has an obligation to keep taxpayers informed, but in recent weeks that has been more difficult ...and more »
  
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• Highway 43 traffic near Beaverlodge re-routed after serious three-vehicle crash

  27-01-2018 06:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was taken to hospital in critical condition and Beaverlodge RCMP officers were re-routing traffic on Highway 43 after a serious three-vehicle collision Friday night.
  The crash happened on Highway 43 at Township Road 722 around 7:10 p.m., three kilometres north of Beaverlodge, RCMP said in a news release Friday.
  A semi truck was turning southbound on Highway 43 when it was hit by a southbound passenger car, which went into the northbound lanes of Highway 43 and was hit by a n
  
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• Graham Thomson: #MeToo movement fallout could be huge for Canadian politics

  27-01-2018 05:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Where is this going to end, this parade of politicians forced to resign because of allegations of sexual harassment?
  The procession started Wednesday in Nova Scotia with the resignation of Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie, moved to Ontario with PC Leader Patrick Brown stepping down, and ended Thursday in Calgary with Liberal MP Kent Hehr quitting the federal cabinet.
  The parade also includes Hehr’s colleague, and the only other Liberal MP in Calgary, Darshan Kang, who quit the
  
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• Children's Services Minister Danielle Larivee 'cautiously optimistic' after emergency meeting in Ottawa

  27-01-2018 04:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A two-day emergency meeting on Indigenous child and youth welfare in Ottawa has the Alberta minister “cautiously optimistic.”
  While the federal Liberals have said Ottawa will make up the underfunding for Indigenous children across the country in the next budget, the province has said it too will step in to make up the shortfall.
  “Alberta won’t wait,” Alberta Children’s Services Minister Danielle Larivee said in a teleconference Friday afternoon after the meeti
  
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• Alberta should hold referendum on merging Catholic, public school systems, trustee says

  27-01-2018 04:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Public school board should advocate for one publicly funded school system in Alberta, says one of its trustees.
  Alberta should hold a referendum on the issue during the expected 2019 provincial election, Nathan Ip, who represents southwest Edmonton on the school board, said Friday.
  He’s contemplating bringing forward a motion in this vein for his board colleagues to vote on.
  “Our institutions are meant to evolve. What was acceptable 50 years ago would not be now,”
  
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• Social media watch: Feminism and (not so) fake news

  27-01-2018 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Each week, we give you a roundup of the Alberta politics outrage, the posturing and the downright weird unfolding on social media. 
  (Not) fake news
  When an email from abortion opponents Right Now surfaced on social media this week, United Conservative Party board members were quick to dismiss it as a fake. 
  The email encouraged Right Now members to apply for a UCP summer internship, to learn “essential skills” to advance “pro-life legislation provincially in Alberta b
  
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• Paula Simons: Draft child welfare recommendations miss the point

  27-01-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  After a year of meetings, after hearing from senior bureaucrats and academic experts, from front-line workers and Indigenous community groups, the all-party ministerial panel on child intervention came up with 26 draft recommendations to improve Alberta’s troubled child-welfare system. 
  The version I’ve seen features 26 nebulous exercises in self-important, politically fashionable rhetoric. They won’t save the life of one single child. 
  “I think we squandered a
  
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• Wine column: Map out a strategy when attending wine-tasting events

  27-01-2018 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  So, you have arrived at large wine tasting, how do you navigate your way around? Despite the increased popularity of wine in our market, there is still uncertainty when facing a wine tasting.
  Given the vast number of wines offered at these events, a survival strategy is key to maximizing the experience. My plan is to map out what I will taste before I get started. Step one is to locate a glass of dry bubbles and sit down with the list to mark the wines that look interesting. 
  The most commo
  
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• Summer driving lessons don't prep motorists to deal with Edmonton's icy roads: driving instructors

  27-01-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Low numbers of people who take driver training in the winter can inflate collision tolls during Edmonton’s cold snaps, local driving instructors say.
  It’s hard to properly teach students hands-on winter driving skills in a classroom setting, said Bruno Suplina, owner and senior instructor of Bruno Driving Academy.
  “There’s no way you can substitute real winter driver training with something in a classroom or summer training,” he said.
  Learning on ideal road conditio
  
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• Police seek help identifying suspect in random attack that left 28-year-old dead

  27-01-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police need the public’s help to find a robber who fatally stabbed a man in front of his brother while they waited at a bus stop.
  “This is a random attack on two innocent young men who were minding their own business, not bothering a soul. We need to find this guy before he hurts someone else,” homicide unit Staff Sgt. Bill Clark said Friday.
  Two 28-year-old brothers got off a bus and were waiting for another bus at a stop near 118 Avenue and 83 Street when a man appro
  
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• Fatality inquiry into prisoner's suicide says policies were followed

  27-01-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  There was little that staff at an Alberta correctional facility could have done differently to prevent the 2012 suicide of an inmate in an isolation cell, a public fatality inquiry has concluded.
  Brent Miro Matkowski, 47, hanged himself in a cell at the Peace River Correctional Centre on May 12, 2012. Alberta Justice and Solicitor General released provincial court Judge Claus K. Thietke’s report on Matkowski’s death Friday. 
  “Twenty-four-hour monitoring of every
  
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• RCMP facing unknowns with marijuana legalization - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 01:05 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Gazette
  RCMP facing unknowns with marijuana legalization
  St. Albert Gazette
  St. Albert RCMP is trying to prepare for the legalization of marijuana while many factors are still unknown. On Monday, RCMP Detachment Commander Insp. Pamela Robinson presented to city council's governance, priorities and finance committee. Robinson ...
  
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• Press Gallery #214: The Australia Day edition

  27-01-2018 01:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The title of this week’s Press Gallery has nothing to do with the content, but it falls on Jan. 26, Australia’s national holiday, and host Emma Graney couldn’t resist a very small nod to her other home. 
  Politically, the team takes on Kent Hehr’s resignation after an Edmonton women made allegations of sexual harassment during his time in the Alberta legislature, the most recent recommendations from the ministerial panel on child welfare, and the controversy around a
  
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• New website provides ecological information to companies, municipalities

  27-01-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A website launched this week could help attract green industries to Alberta by showing them where to find wood waste, agricultural products and other raw material they require.
  “They come knocking on the door and want to set up here, and the first question they ask is ‘Where is all the biomass?'” said Steve Price, executive director of bio-industrial services for Alberta Innovates, which spent about $1.5 million developing the new database.
  An increasing variety of businesses a
  
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• Groups wait more than two years to meet with government committee

  27-01-2018 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Advocacy groups aiming to discuss resource issues with Alberta legislators have been waiting more than two years to meet with a committee. 
  “It’s frustrating,” United Conservative Party MLA David Hanson said Thursday. “We haven’t met with a single stakeholder to my knowledge.”
  He raised the issue repeatedly at the legislature’s standing committee on resource stewardship, which put its regular mandate on hold when committee members were tasked with r
  
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• David Foster: 'The world has lost a great musician' with death of Tommy Banks

  27-01-2018 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  David Foster, renowned Hollywood producer and 16-time Grammy award winner, is grieving.
  That’s because he lost his most important mentor, Edmonton musician Tommy Banks, who died Thursday of leukemia after a short illness.
  “The world has lost a great musician,” said Foster in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “I know he was Edmonton’s favourite son, but I hope people realize he truly was world class. In my mind, you can say Oscar Peterson and Tommy Banks in the sam
  
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• Pfeifer super sub for Team Canada - St. Albert Gazette

  27-01-2018 00:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Gazette
  Pfeifer super sub for Team Canada
  St. Albert Gazette
  The smile was larger than an eight-ender for Scott Pfeifer while soaking up the good vibes as Sturgeon Heights School saluted St. Albert's Olympic curlers with a bon voyage bash before the PyeongChang Winter Games. “This reinforces that the whole ...and more »
  
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• Alberta RCMP charge man with threatening Trudeau, Notley

  27-01-2018 00:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta RCMP have charged a man with uttering threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Rachel Notley on Twitter. 
  Orion Rutley was arrested Jan. 19 and charged with two counts of uttering threats, RCMP said in a news release Friday afternoon. He is to appear in Leduc provincial court at 10 a.m. on Feb. 8.
  The news release did not describe the nature of the threats. A Twitter account bearing the accused’s name was suspended. 
  According to court records, Rutle
  
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