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• City to give height-bonus for family-sized condo units

  28-01-2018 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials are now proposing two extra floors to any developer willing to build at least eight three-bedroom units into a new tower.
  The rule will only apply to new construction under the standard high-rise zoning, but it’s a first for a city that wants to give more options for families hoping to stay in the core.
  The rules go to council’s urban planning committee next week for debate.
  “If you’re building something that supports local schools, businesses and famil
  
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• Nick Lees: Mrdjenovich's title defence campaign hit with moratorium haymaker

  28-01-2018 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jelena Mrdjenovich, the eight time world super featherweight boxing champion, has been told she must defend her title by July 1 and says she has a mountain to climb to become fight-fit.
  “I was exhausted and working as hard as I could to get my own gym open when Mayor Don Iveson last month announced a one-year moratorium on combative sports in Edmonton,” she says.
  “I was creating and marketing my Champs Boxing Studio, organizing training classes and conducting interview after in
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey: The Edmonton Oilers need to take full advantage of a bad break for both the team and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

  28-01-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  First, let me be 100% clear.
  The injury to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was bad. Bad for the player. Bad for the team. Bad all around. There is no “win” in it. At all.
  Especially for a club battling game to game for it’s very post-season lives, subtracting the player who probably has been your most consistent two-way performer all season long was (please pardon the pun) a terrible break.
  But what’s done is done. Now, out of this misfortune, Peter Chiarelli and Todd McLellan must t
  
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• Rural crime has communities taking matters into their own hands

  28-01-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The days of waiting for the RCMP to be guardians and saviours are over in rural Alberta.
  In Smoky Lake, Trevor Tychkowsky, president of the Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch Association, said more and more farmers are installing security systems and locking their doors.
  “The days of having our places kept open and keys in vehicles, those days are done,” said Tychkowsky. “Criminals have come to figure that stuff out.”
  As theft has steadily increased in Alberta, more and
  
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• Justin Trudeau town hall to be held Feb. 1 at MacEwan University

  28-01-2018 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s town hall in Edmonton is confirmed for Feb. 1 at MacEwan University.
  Trudeau’s Edmonton stop will be held at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m.
  Wristbands will be given out in the Robbins Health Learning Centre second floor atrium at 10910 104 Avenue and the event itself will be held in the David Atkinson Gymnasium.
  While there is an option to RSVP online through the website of Edmonton Liberal MPs Randy Boissonnault or Amarjeet Sohi, admission will
  
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• Edmonton woman faces death threats after alleging sexual harassment by Kent Hehr

  28-01-2018 03:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kristin Raworth was afraid to go home Saturday night. 
  The Edmonton woman came forward with sexual harassment allegations against former federal cabinet minister Kent Hehr this week. 
  Now she wishes she had never said a word. 
  Raworth was greeted with broad support when she tweeted out allegations about Hehr Wednesday night. 
  That has since turned to death threats on social media and email, threatening voicemails left on her work line, and 3 a.m. calls to people close to her,
  
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• Islamic Relief Canada's campaign brings warmth to Edmonton homeless

  28-01-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the windchill hovering around -20 C Saturday afternoon, mitts were the most in-demand item for Boyle Street clients as volunteers handed out toasty clothing and hygiene products. 
  Toques and scarves, hot-pockets and deodorant, feminine hygiene products and toothpaste filled bulging clear garbage bags, carted to the downtown drop-in centre as part of a national movement to bring relief from the cold. 
  Volunteer Mohamed Rahall was one of the dozen or so members of Edmonton’s M
  
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• Family of woman killed in domestic murder pleased with guilty verdict

  28-01-2018 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tears streamed down Michelle Chimko’s face as she spoke about her sister outside the Edmonton courthouse Saturday afternoon.
  “We’re feeling really good,” said Chimko, surrounded by dozens of men and women dressed in purple in honour of Aileen (Gina) Robinson. “We’ve been waiting almost four years for justice for my sister, for Gina, and today it happened.”
  On Saturday, Robinson’s estranged husband was convicted of second-degree murder in her brutal
  
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