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• Edmonton is better than Calgary when it comes to traffic congestion: report

  06-02-2018 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it comes to traffic congestion around the world, Edmonton is unremarkably average.
  A recently released traffic scorecard for 2017 ranked Edmonton 10th out of 22 Canadian cities, beating Calgary by two spots. 
  Alberta’s capital took 114th place out of 319 North American cities. Its global ranking was 696th out of 1,360 cities worldwide. That’s a marked improvement from a global ranking of 447 in 2016.
  The rankings came from the 2017 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, which rank
  
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• Rachel Notley announces boycott of B.C. wine in wake of Trans Mountain pipeline spat

  06-02-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  In response to an ongoing spat over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Premier Rachel Notely announced a British Columbia wine boycott on Tuesday.
  The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission will halt the import of B.C. wine to Alberta. The AGLC will also focus on direct-to-consumer sales, said Notley at an afternoon press conference at the Alberta Legislature.
  Direct-to-consumer sales will also be a thing AGLC will focus on. Notley encourages consumers to buy Alberta craft beer instead of BC w
  
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• Edmonton Oilers labelled as "hot garbage," by Vice Sports. Hmmmm

  06-02-2018 22:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Disappointing? Yes. Weird? Yes. But Oilers are not “hot garbage.”
  This in from Toronto-based writer Kyle Cantlon of Vice Sports, under the headline of: “The Edmonton Oilers are hot garbage, but that hasn’t stopped McDavid from following up his MVP season with another dynamic year.” Writes Cantlon: “To put it lightly, Edmonton has been an absolute dumpster fire this season after breaking a 10-year playoff drought in 2016-17 on the back of McDavid’s MVP ca
  
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• ‘Go elsewhere’: Epcor's 24-hectare river valley solar farm plan faces stiff opposition

  06-02-2018 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents are invited to have their say next week on a proposed solar farm Epcor is hoping to build in the river valley.
  An open house is now scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Good Shepherd Elementary School gym, 18111 57 Avenue.
  The solar farm would be beside the E.L. Smith water treatment plant near the west boundary of the city, at about 35 Avenue and 168 Street near the neighbourhood of Cameron Heights. The land is currently zoned for parkland.
  Last June, E
  
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• Council Briefs for February 5th

  06-02-2018 20:42
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton new condo sales soaring

  06-02-2018 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The skyrocketing popularity of the Ice District’s Sky Residences helped Edmonton new multi-family home sales more than double during last year, a new report shows.
  Sales of new condominiums and town houses rose to 766 in the last three months of 2017 from 323 in the same period of 2016, according to information released Tuesday by research firm Urban Analytics.
  Much of that increase was fuelled by the 242 condos sold in the Sky Residences being built on the upper half of the 66-storey Stan
  
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• What is the Maillard reaction, and why does it make food taste so good?

  06-02-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you ever wondered why foods that are browned, roasted or baked taste so yummy?
  It’s because of the Maillard reaction, discovered by French chemist Louis-Camille Maillard, who described it in 1912.
  The Maillard reaction creates the deep, complex flavours that make toast so comforting, oatmeal cookies so sweetly robust and charred meat so rich with umami. Some people mix it up with caramelization, but they are two completely different food science concepts.
  Videographer Shaughn Butts re
  
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• Alberta keeps eye on U.S. stock market implications

  06-02-2018 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci is keeping his eye on the stock market wobble south of the border. 
  He’s hoping it’s just a blip on the radar. 
  The Dow Jones industrial had tumbled more than 1,500 points at one point Monday, closing around 2,200 points lower than Jan. 26. That’s about a 10 per cent decline, which analysts are calling more of a correction than a crash. 
  Ceci said Tuesday morning he’s watching the figures closely and he’ll b
  
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• City to hold open house on 24-hectare solar farm in river valley

  06-02-2018 19:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents are invited to have their say next week on a proposed solar farm Epcor is hoping to build in the river valley.
  An open house is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the Good Shepherd Elementary School gym, 18111 57 Avenue.
  The solar farm would be beside the E.L. Smith water treatment plan near the west boundary of the city, at about 35 Avenue and 168 Street near the neighbourhood of Cameron Heights. The land is currently zoned for parkland.
  Last June, Epcor officials said they w
  
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• Yellowhead Trail eastbound lanes closed between west of Fort Road and 66 Street

  06-02-2018 19:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The eastbound lanes of Yellowhead Trail are closed west of Fort Road and 66 Street over multiple collisions Tuesday Monday.
  Police are investigating and are advising drivers to seek alternate routes.
  
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• Australian convicted of internet luring of 13-year-old girl to be deported

  06-02-2018 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Australian man will be deported and placed on Canada’s national sexual offenders registry for the next 20 years after being sentenced on a child luring charge, an Edmonton court heard.
  Jiashu Weng, 22, had travelled to Edmonton in February last year with the intention of having sex with a girl aged 13 he had met online.
  Police investigators said Weng met the girl over a gaming platform in October 2016 and regularly exchanged sexually explicit chats and photos.
  The victim&
  
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• Edmonton feeling it still after weirdos Portugal. The Man perform at Winspear

  06-02-2018 16:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Let’s give Portugal. The Man one thing.
  They sure know how to dispense with that most awkward of concert features, the inane stage banter that likely disgusts musicians as much as fans. Rather than trot out the usual banal platitudes between every two or three songs, the Portland-based six-piece simply flashed a message on the screen behind them explaining that they weren’t very good at it.
  They then used the same screen to load up on trippy, psychedelic visuals straight out of the M
  
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• Edmonton weather: Surprise! It is cold and windy, with snow coming tonight

  06-02-2018 15:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tuesday’s weather continues the trend of frigid temperatures combined with an icy wind. 
  Today: Mainly sunny, with a 20 kilometre per hour wind gusting to 40. High is -15C, with a wind child of -28. 
  Tonight: Periods of light snow beginning overnight. Low of -19 C.
  Tomorrow: About 2 centimetres of snow expected throughout the day. High of -15 C, with a wind child of -26.
  Tomorrow night: Cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of snow. Low of -21 C.
  Morning commute
  As of around 7:30 a.m.
  
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• Hidden Spaces: What lives under the stairs at the Telus World of Science?

  06-02-2018 15:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Once used used to house exhibits on the exploits of the soviet space agency, a new group of tenants now call the Staircase Room at the Telus World of Science home.
  “This is one of our behind the scenes areas. So this is not an area guests get to visit and it’s an area some staff have never been to either,” says Jennifer Bawden, Science Director at the Telus World of Science. “But today we’ve pulled back the curtain and you get a sneak peak inside.”
  The Stairca
  
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• What is Roller Derby?

  06-02-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada claimed the Bronze medal at the 2018 Roller Derby World Cup in Manchester, England held Feb. 1-4. With teams from 38 countries attending, Canada beat the host England team 173 – 147 to take the bronze.
  Roller derby is a full-contact sport. Hits are hard, and they’re real. But there are more rules than skates at play during a game, and players have to abide by legal contact zones when throwing a hit. Kicking, punching and grabbing opposing skaters is not allowed, and an illegal
  
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• Tuesday's letters: B.C. has right to oppose pipeline

  06-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I write regarding the threats made by your premier towards the B.C. government.
  Section 92 (5) and (8) and 92A(1)(b) of the Constitution Act, 1867, give a province exclusive jurisdiction to manage public lands under their jurisdiction and municipal affairs, and Section 95 gives a province joint jurisdiction with the federal government over agriculture.
  The B.C. government has the right and responsibility to protect the income and jobs of our commercial fishermen and those who work in the tourism
  
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• Opinion: Chief Wahoo's removal a blow against cultural appropriation

  06-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cleveland Indians have finally heeded calls to end cultural appropriation. Removing Chief Wahoo from the playing field should be a clarion call to the yahoos who insist on misappropriating Indigenous cultures: no more.
  Sports mascots, Pocahontas costumes, or feathered headdresses at music festivals may seem like benign acts, perhaps even well-intentioned symbolic expressions of appreciation for First Nations cultural heritage. But such things are, in fact, examples of cultural appropriation.
  
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• Paula Simons: Classic dioramas brought to life at new Royal Alberta Museum

  06-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Terry Chase was in the fifth grade in Jefferson, Indiana, he made a diorama for his school science fair. This was no boring shoebox. It was an intricate depiction of a prehistoric sea. The diorama won first prize. It was so impressive, the local bank asked if they could display it in the window. 
  Chase was thrilled. But when he arrived at the bank to see his art on display, he was horrified. The diorama had been carefully crafted from modelling clay. And it hadn’t enjoyed the hot
  
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• Councillor, trustee pursue joint Heritage Valley public high school and rec centre

  06-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new public high school and city recreation centre in the far southwest should be planned together and possibly connected, the area’s councillor and its school trustee say.
  Faced with an urgent need to build new high schools, southwest Edmonton public trustee Nathan Ip wants the school district and city administrators talking, pronto, about whether the two buildings in Heritage Valley should be designed to be complementary.
  Collaborating could potentially save the city and the school boar
  
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• Player grades: White-hot Connor McDavid strikes four times as Edmonton Oilers bolt past Lightning

  06-02-2018 10:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lightning 2, Oilers 6
  League’s top team visiting? Check. League leading scorer? Check. League’s top goalie? One of ’em, for sure.
  By all rights this should have been a blowout for the Tampa Bay Lightning, riding high atop the NHL’s overall standings, with the best goal differential and best road record as further proof of their dominance. On the other side of the ice, the Edmonton Oilers, struggling way down near the other end of the standings, their powerplay and penalty
  
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• Connor McDavid leads the Oilers with a five-point game

  06-02-2018 06:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid scored four times and assisted on another to lead his team to a 6-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
  
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• First Edmonton safe consumption site now slated to open by end of February

  06-02-2018 02:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first of four safe consumption sites in Edmonton should open by the end of February, about two months behind the original target.
  “That was a soft deadline,” Ian Mathieson, director of operation of Boyle Street Community Services, said Monday. “We’re breaking new ground with this, so it’s often hard to tell when something will be ready.”
  The group Access to Medically Supervised Injection Services Edmonton is coordinating three community sites, at
  
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• Who will take next step in B.C.-Alberta-Ottawa pipeline dispute?

  06-02-2018 02:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  OK, now what?
  Now that the Alberta government has threatened to escalate its trade war with British Columbia while simultaneously demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau end the trade war, what’s next?
  That all depends …
  If Premier Rachel Notley ramps up the fight by, as she has suggested, helping Albertans boycott B.C. products, this fight will increasingly look like merely a dispute between two provinces — and Notley doesn’t want that.
  She wants the country to see this
  
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• Citadel Theatre combines contemporary with classic for next season

  06-02-2018 02:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two feel-good Broadway musicals and two plays designed to completely immerse the audience in the theatre experience are part of an innovative line-up at the Citadel Theatre for 2018-19.
  The season kicks off in September with Once, a deeply charming musical that traces the budding relationship between two musicians. The 2012 Tony winner for best musical features 12 cast members who must all sing, dance and play instruments. 
  “It’s a really smart love story and a perfect choice to
  
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• Cannabis credit: Alberta marijuana facility gets government boost

  06-02-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Aurora Cannabis admits getting a government tax credit just a few years ago would have been “astonishing.” 
  But with the marijuana industry booming as Canada prepares for legalization July 1, “it make sense,” said Cam Battley, Aurora’s chief corporate officer.
  Aurora is one of 35 Alberta companies granted a Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC), a two-year provincial government program heading now into its third round.
  The program provides a non-refund
  
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• Lengthy dangerous offender hearing underway for Lance Blanchard

  06-02-2018 01:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first of eight Crown witnesses to testify in a dangerous offender hearing for a man convicted of a violent sexual assault against an Indigenous woman appeared in an Edmonton court Monday.
  Lance David Blanchard, 60, who was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, possession of a weapon and making a death threat in the 2014 attack, could receive an indeterminate prison sentence if designated a dangerous offender.
  The
  
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• Businesses on 102 Avenue feeling pinch from LRT construction closure

  06-02-2018 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some businesses along 102 Avenue say they’re feeling the impact after the road was shut last month to prepare for construction of the Valley Line LRT.
  “The beginning of the new year, we were OK, but when they closed the street, we have seen lesser traffic coming in,” Stephanie Paras, a partner at the Maka Eatery in the Don Wheaton YMCA, said Monday.
  “We’re not necessarily angry, but we have to find our own way to get more customers. It’s not like we can stop t
  
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• Program for homeless pregnant women accepts first clients

  06-02-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A program to help homeless pregnant women has taken on its first clients ahead of opening a building to provide stable housing.
  “There were women coming into emergency rooms in labour often having not accessed adequate prenatal care,” said Wendy Bouwman Oake, program manager of Pregnancy Pathways.
  The three-year pilot project aims to address that gap and recently accepted its first two clients. 
  “They’re meeting with our team on a regular basis to dete
  
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• Man found dead in Fort McMurray home

  06-02-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  An autopsy has been scheduled later this week for a man found dead at a home in Fort McMurray on Sunday night.
  Mounties responded to a disturbance call at a residence on Loutit Road at around 8:40 p.m. to find the man already dead. 
  The RCMP’s major crimes unit and forensic identification section were assisting Wood Buffalo RCMP detachment in their investigation. 
  
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• Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre officially resigns from politics

  06-02-2018 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre resigned from politics Monday.
  His resignation came on the heels of his sudden departure from the United Conservative Party caucus Friday.
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney issued a one-sentence release on the resignation Friday. 
  MacIntyre sent out a tweet Friday, saying he wanted to “focus on our family.”
  The Speaker’s Office confirmed Monday that MacIntyre had resigned from the legislative assembly.
  Premier Rachel Notley has six months to c
  
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• Police officer charged with assault in 2017 incident

  06-02-2018 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police constable has been charged with assault in connection with an incident at the Boyle Street Community Centre last year.
  On March 25, 2017, an officer attempted to remove a person from the community centre at 10116 105 Ave., the police service said in a Monday news release.
  Police charged Const. Jason Bouwmeester on Monday after an “in-depth” internal investigation, police said.
  Bouwmeester, who was hired by the service in 2013, remains on active duty in a “non
  
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• Driver found not guilty in 2015 fatal Edmonton hit-and-run

  06-02-2018 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man involved in a fatal Edmonton hit-and-run that left a female motorcycle passenger dead and the driver of the bike with serious injuries was found not guilty Monday.
  David Gershon Bookhalter, 63, was charged with failure to stop at the scene of an accident knowing bodily harm was caused and failure to stop at the scene of an accident knowing death was caused in connection to a collision with a motorcycle on May 11, 2015. 
  The trial heard Bookhalter was driving his silver four-door Infin
  
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