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• Editorial: B.C.'s move obstructionist

  01-02-2018 23:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just as a spat with one next-door province fizzles, another considerably more serious dispute flares up on Alberta’s western front.
  While the recent tit-for-tat with Saskatchewan over licence plates and the price of beer bordered on the silly, the latest salvo fired at Alberta by British Columbia’s government is no laughing matter.
  Renewed tension with B.C. will exacerbate already strained relations between the two provinces and could trigger the start of a long interprovincial trade
  
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• Premier Rachel Notley expected to provide update on Trans Mountain pipeline project

  01-02-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley is expected to provide an update Thursday on the latest stumbling block to delay the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Notley held an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to plan potential trade actions against British Colombia. The B.C. government placed restrictions on bitumen shipment increases from Alberta, citing the need for more spill response studies.
  Notley called the move unconstitutional and illegal, suggesting B.C. is overreaching in order to delay the $7.4-bill
  
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• That's the dumps: Edmonton failing at diverting waste from landfill, audit finds

  01-02-2018 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s city auditor issued a scathing critique of the city’s waste management centre Thursday, a facility that’s been sold as best-in-class for years.
  The facility was created with the goal of eventually keeping 90 per cent of Edmonton’s residential waste out of the landfill. 
  But it’s far from its goals. 
  Auditing staff calculated the amount of waste diverted from the landfill over the last five years. The highest diversion rate was 49.5 per cent in 2
  
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• Opinion: EPS doing what's right by withholding names of homicide victims private

  01-02-2018 22:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “A very public crime; a very private investigation,” Paula Simons, Jan. 29
  Despite repeated attempts to provide Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons with the reasons governing our controlled release of information on homicide files, she continues to assert that the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is cloaking those releases in “… an aura of mystery” and “… keeping the truth about who’s dying (homicide victims) in the dark.”
  Nothing coul
  
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• Information overload at the centre of new production at Theatre Lab

  01-02-2018 21:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  There may be 10 million documents attached to WikiLeaks, but I’m not sure one of them will help you find your car keys.
  This, of course, is an utter simplification of Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the latest production by the theatre arts program at MacEwan University. But while not one character in the play says “Sweetie, I think they are on top of the dryer,” you cannot leave this evening at Theatre Lab without realizing that information is nothing without lov
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Flying Canoe, Black History Month, and Patty Zee

  01-02-2018 21:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flying Canoe
  Embrace the cold with a trip out to the annual Flying Canoe Volant, taking place in both indoor and outdoor venues around the French Quarter. Mill Creek Ravine will be filled with lighting installations, an indigenous base camp, trapper’s cabin, plus camp Metis, featuring jigs, reels, and dancing from a host of performers, including the Dave Cunningham Family Band. La Cite Francophone hosts bands and solo acts like Le Fuzz, Terry Morrison and John Gorham, and nêhiyawak,
  
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• Wildlife: Alberta and China film industries join camps; Puppy TV underway

  01-02-2018 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fred Kroetsch, producer of Puppy TV, is jetlagged on set as baby dogs adorably scramble around on their artificial beach.
  The multitasking filmmaker has just gotten back from China, where, thanks to his “ambient television” show Kitten TV, he’s known playfully among an overseas group of new friends and potential business partners as “Kitten Guy.”
  He describes his recent brush with the Chinese film industry, which worked for him and other Albertan filmmakers, as a li
  
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• What to make of Edmonton Oilers goalie Al Montoya's refusal to talk to media on game day

  01-02-2018 20:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from TSN’s Ryan Rishaug, his complaint that Edmonton Oilers goalie Al Montoya refuses to talk to the media at the morning skate on days where Montoya is starting: “Al Montoya doesn’t talk on game days. Needs to focus. Only Oiler who does this. Why should it be different for him? Only conclusion is that he’s more fragile in his preparation, or he’s ducking responsibility with this silly loophole. Neither are great qualities for a goalie.”
  In response, o
  
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• Teens face murder charges after 69-year-old man killed in Cadotte Lake

  01-02-2018 20:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two teens have been charged with second-degree murder after a 69-year-old man was found dead in northern Alberta.
  Early Monday morning, Peace Regional RCMP were called to reports of an assault in Cadotte Lake on the Woodland Cree First Nation, around 480 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
  When police arrived, they discovered the body of a man identified as William Raymond Merrier.
  An autopsy confirmed Merrier’s death was a homicide.
  Chadd Cardinal, 19, and another youth who cannot be identi
  
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• 'That pipeline is going to get built': Trudeau reaffirms support for Trans Mountain project

  01-02-2018 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday morning that the Trans Mountain pipeline is in the national interest and that the federal government will make sure the expanded pipeline to West Coast gets built.
  Trudeau made the comments in radio interviews on CBC’s Edmonton AM and 630 CHED’s Ryan Jespersen show ahead of his visit to Edmonton Thursday. The stop comes just two days after British Columbia’s provincial government made moves to stall the $7.4-billion project and restri
  
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• The science behind the beauty of freezing soap bubbles

  01-02-2018 16:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  To create our frozen ice bubbles we experimented with different versions of a recipe we found on the Twitter account of Chris Ratzlaff (@ratzlaff).
   
  200 mL of water
  35 mL corn syrup or glycerine
  35 mL dish soap
  2 tbsp of sugar
   
   We discovered that it was easier to make larger, more stable bubbles, on cold flat surfaces. In the above video we used a frost-covered picnic table. We found it easier to produce the bubbles if we also had some of the soap solution in the drinking straw
  
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• Edmonton Transit increases price of tickets, passes

  01-02-2018 15:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some Edmonton Transit Service pass and ticket users saw the price for their ride jump Thursday.
  While regular cash fares remain unchanged, riders will now pay more for monthly passes, day passes and ticket packs.
  The cost of a day pass has increased by 50 cents to $9.75 and ETS ticket 10-packs increased by $1.50 from $24.75 to $26.25.
  Adult and DATS monthly passes increased by $2.75 to $97, senior monthly passes increased by 50 cents to $15.50, post-secondary monthly passes now cost $2.50 m
  
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• Edmonton weather: Bundle up, it's gonna be a chilly one

  01-02-2018 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first day of February will bring weather reminiscent of late-January: teeth-chattering cold and cheek-biting winds.
  Environment Canada is calling for a daytime high of -18 C Thursday with a 60 per cent chance of snow flurries. Winds are expected to hit 15 km/h contributing to a -27 C wind chill. Tonight will be much of the same, with temperatures dropping to a low of -23 C and a -28 C windchill.
  Snow remains in the forecast for the next couple of days. Forecasters are calling for 2-4 centime
  
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• Thursday's letters: Balanced approach is real Alberta Advantage

  01-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the new Conservative leader, Jason Kenney promises to “restore the Alberta Advantage,” It is a good time to clarify this popular concept.
  It is a mistake to think of Alberta’s Advantage as deriving simply from lower or flatter Tory taxes —after all, those tax rates in the past came at the expense of both social spending and the Heritage Trust Fund. It is more accurate to say that the Alberta Advantage derives from oil revenues, and that the political issue is how
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to speak in Edmonton

  01-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will speak in Edmonton Thursday night, marking the sixth stop on a cross-country tour. 
  His trip comes amid escalating tension between Alberta and British Columbia over the latest setback to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. 
  Premier Rachel Notley held an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to discuss next steps after the B.C. government proposed a restriction on bitumen shipment increases. 
  Trudeau is also in Alberta on the heels of Libe
  
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• Pipeline shortages, not carbon tax, main reason Alberta oil wells less competitive: study

  01-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The main government policy hurting the competitiveness of Western Canada’s conventional oil producers is insufficient export pipelines, not carbon taxes, an upcoming C.D. Howe Institute report shows.
  The lack of pipelines to take oil to market reduces the profitability of the average new well by an estimated $600,000, cutting revenue by about $5 a barrel and making some investments uneconomical, according a study being released Thursday.
  “Construction has yet to start, however, on an
  
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• Edmonton Oilers desperate for the Andrej Sekera of old. But will he ever be that player again?

  01-02-2018 07:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 50, Oilers vs. AvsAndrej Sekera wasn’t just the Edmonton Oilers best d-man last year, he was the team’s best d-man by a long shot.
  While Oscar Klefbom had major struggles for much of the year in his own zone only to come on strong both on the power play and as a two-way player as the year and playoffs went on, Sekera did a credible job in the No. 1 d-man role all season. Teamed up with stalwart Kris Russell most often against the best competition opposing teams could ice, th
  
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• Paula Simons: School named for Jan Reimer a long-overdue honour

  01-02-2018 05:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  I found a photograph the other day, buried deep in the dusty Journal library.
  It was taken the day in 1989 that Jan Reimer launched her campaign to became Edmonton’s first female mayor. It was a year when everything was big. Reimer is wearing an electric blue suit with shoulder pads that would make Joan Crawford envious. Her glasses are equally oversized. She is surrounded by women, some young, some older — campaign volunteers who are clearly pumped up and excited at the audacity of
  
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• Council told naloxone kits not enough to reverse Edmonton opioid epidemic

  01-02-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is giving more naloxone kits to those who need them, but much more work is required on the underlying drivers of the fentanyl and opioid crisis.
  That was the message left with city council after their quarterly update Wednesday.
  Dr. Chris Sikora, Alberta Health Services’ medical officer of health, Edmonton zone, said childhood trauma and social factors such as poverty and a lack of housing leave people susceptible to addiction. With fentanyl, those addictions are taking an even mo
  
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• Homicide detectives release photos of suspect's clothing, possible witness

  01-02-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A camouflage-patterned hoverboard bag and a baseball cap are clues homicide detectives think may lead to their suspect in a random stabbing death.
  Police released a photo of a witness, and two photos of the suspect’s clothing, after a street robbery turned deadly at a transit stop west of 82 Street and 118 Avenue shortly after 11 p.m. Jan. 24, police said in a news release Wednesday.
  Homicide detectives have released a photo of a possible witness to the stabbing death of a 28-year-old man
  
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• Forensic psychologist calls into question reliability of memories

  01-02-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A forensic psychologist delved into the fallible nature of how memories are made, calling into question whether an officer charged with deceit under the Police Act could honestly believe his version of how an assault unfolded despite video evidence making his story impossible.
  “You can have a firmly held memory that’s wrong,” forensic psychologist Patrick Baillie said Wednesday, giving expert testimony during the final day of a disciplinary hearing for Const. Sean Briegel, 33,
  
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• Graham Thomson: Premier Rachel Notley wants Trudeau to intervene in potential trade war with B.C.

  01-02-2018 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta and British Columbia are on the cusp of a trade war.
  Not the silly kind of skirmish we saw recently between Alberta and Saskatchewan over contractors’ licence plates.
  But a very real, very serious trade war that could test the strength of Confederation — and determine the fate of Alberta’s NDP government.
  Probably the only one who can defuse the impending conflict is Prime Minister Trudeau, who happens to be visiting Edmonton on Thursday for a town hall event.
  The B.C.
  
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• Rachel Notley: B.C. pipeline play 'an attack' on Confederation

  01-02-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  British Columbia has threatened the very foundations of Confederation and will face the consequences, says Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. 
  Notley called an emergency cabinet meeting Wednesday to plan potential legal and trade actions against B.C. 
  Addressing ministers and reporters, she said the B.C. government has taken direct aim at Alberta with its latest attempt to stall progress on the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from Alberta to the West Coast.
  “The govern
  
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• Oilers will host Colorado for their first game back after the All-Star break

  01-02-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers goalie Cam Talbot is ill and questionable for Thursday’s game against the Colorado Avalanche.
  Backup keeper Al Montoya is ready to fill in. 
  “He’s been a good fit for our team,” said head coach Todd McLellan. “In a backup role he’s been tremendous. He fits the team’s personality. He’s a lively guy on the bench. He practises hard.”
  Montoya came to the Oilers from Montreal in early January after playing 159 games in nine pr
  
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• Oilers help launch Hockey Helps Kids Charity Cup voting period

  01-02-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Patrick Maroon knows he and his team are up against some stiff competition if they want to win this year’s annual Charity Cup Challenge, and he’s willing to pull out all the stops to make sure they do.
  After all, there are bragging rights on the line and a cool $25,000.   
  His team in this instance is not the Edmonton Oilers, but students from Dr. Donald Massey Junior High School, one of five schools vying for the third annual Hockey Helps Kids contest, a program created to
  
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