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• Notley urges Ottawa to intervene in trade dispute, as B.C. defends pipeline play

  07-02-2018 23:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  B.C.’s plans to restrict bitumen shipments to the west coast are constitutional, despite what Alberta premier Rachel Notley says, premier John Horgan said Wednesday afternoon.
  “I see no ground for the premier to stand on,” Horgan said when asked to comment on whether his government’s move was illegal.
  The comments came a day after Notley announced a blockade of B.C. wine in retaliation to the B.C. government’s decision last week to restrict increases in bi
  
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• Road closures for Red Bull Crashed Ice track construction begin Friday

  07-02-2018 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Track construction for the Red Bull Crashed Ice 2018 Ice Cross Downhill World Championship Finale will begin Friday.
  Construction activities will take place mainly between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. in Louise McKinney Riverfront Park and on 101 Avenue between Jasper Avenue and 96 Street, a news release from the city said on Wednesday.
  Road closures include: 101 Avenue between 96 Street and Jasper Avenue, full closure, from Feb. 9 at 7 a.m. to March 19 at 12 p.m.
  Grierson Hill, full closure, Feb. 10
  
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• Canada-wide warrant issued after Fort McMurray man's death determined to be homicide

  07-02-2018 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Investigators have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a man wanted for second-degree murder after a Fort McMurray man’s death was ruled a homicide.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP were first called for a disturbance at a home near 104 Loutit Road in Fort McMurray around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night.
  When police arrived, they found 38-year-old Ashley Chisholm dead.
  An autopsy completed in Edmonton Tuesday confirmed Chisholm’s death was a homicide, police said in a Wednesday news release.
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• Pulse tariffs top agenda as agriculture minister heads to India

  07-02-2018 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier knows he probably won’t be able to change the Indian government’s mind on pulse tariffs when he heads to the country on a trade mission later this week.
  But he hopes his visit will “start to turn the corner” on discussions. 
  Carlier is banking on his keynote address at the India Pulse Conclave 2018 to do some of the heavy lifting. The event is run by India’s top pulse and grain body and is expected to
  
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• B.C. plans to restrict Alberta oil exports is 'wrong,' Notley says

  07-02-2018 22:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Moves by the B.C. government to restrict increases of oil shipments from Alberta is “wrong'”and demands an “unequivocal” response, premier Rachel Notley said in a video released Wednesday, a day after announcing a blockade of B.C. wine in retaliation.
  “When Alberta’s economy is allowed to enjoy the benefits of the billions of dollars a year that a successful pipeline will bring that a successful pipeline will bring to our province, more people will be able to
  
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• Paula Simons: When you get high? I get low.

  07-02-2018 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  On July 1, the prohibition of marijuana will end in Canada. Cannabis will no longer be criminal, and that has big implications for our economy, our tax system, our health care system, our justice system, even the way we zone our cities. 
  There are lots of stories about pot legalization for journalists to tell. But in this video essay, Paula Simons tells a very personal one. Not about her experience with marijuana, but instead, about her perspective as the most square, sober, and boring pers
  
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• Police arrest suspect after Red Deer shooting

  07-02-2018 20:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old man has been arrested after a hail of bullets struck homes, vehicles and possibly a suspect in Red Deer last month.
  Red Deer RCMP were called to a report of shots fired at an apartment building in the Riverside Meadows neighbourhood near at 59 Street and 55 Avenue in Red Deer around 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 18.
  Bullets struck several nearby apartment units, homes and vehicles, said police in a news release.
  While no bystanders were harmed, investigators were searching for suspects includ
  
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• Proposed route for Whyte Avenue LRT would need new river bridge

  07-02-2018 19:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A leaked copy of a proposed new route for the Central LRT would see a low-floor train run down Whyte Avenue and across a new bridge to downtown. 
  The map was leaked on Reddit and Connect2Edmonton but city officials confirm it’s accurate. The proposed route is going to several open houses for public comment Feb. 15, 27 and 28.
  It’s unclear how much a new LRT bridge from top-of-bank to top-of-bank would cost.
  The map calls for the LRT to run from Bonnie Doon Mall west to 112 Stree
  
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• Winter storm warnings issued across central and south Alberta

  07-02-2018 19:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Batten down the hatches — a storm’s a brewin’.
  A heavy band of snow is expected to rock much of the province as snowfall accumulations are expected to reach 25 cm, and even as high as 50 cm in some areas.
  Environment Canada has issued winter storm warnings for communities in central and southern Alberta, including warnings in Calgary, Banff, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Cochran and Olds, Jasper National Park, and Rocky Mountain House.
  Environment Canada is calling for a
  
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• City of Edmonton to give update on neighbourhood blading

  07-02-2018 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  City staff will give an update on seasonal parking bans and the status of neighbourhood blading efforts following heavy snowfall over the last few weeks.
  A seasonal parking ban went into effect on Saturday and ended Tuesday.
  As of Tuesday, city crews had moved 13,000 cubic metres of snow. 
  “This is the equivalent of half of the volume of an Olympic swimming pool,” said Janet Tecklenborg, director of Infrastructure Operations with the City of Edmonton.
   
  “We thank our
  
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• Worker killed at Cenovus oil sands site in northern Alberta

  07-02-2018 16:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A worker at Cenovus Energy’s Christina Lake oilsands site in northern Alberta was killed Tuesday night.
  The incident at 10:20 p.m. involved a hauling truck and happened as a drilling rig was being moved at the site, the company said in a release.
  The name and the age of the worker is not being publicly released at this time. 
  The site is located about 350 kilometres northeast of Edmonton. 
  Cenovus has notified the appropriate authorities and is conducting a full investigation int
  
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• Heavy hockey is apparently dead and Edmonton Oilers are allegedly a prime culprit. Hmmm

  07-02-2018 16:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 52: Oilers vs Kings
  If, as TSN hockey writer Travis Yost recently proclaimed, “heavy hockey is dead” then I’m going to suggest someone forget to tell the Edmonton Oilers’ next two opponents, the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks.
  From what I’ve seen of them in recent years, both of them still play tough, aggressive, hard-hitting hockey with an emphasis on cycling the puck in the offensive end. The Ducks even do it with some amount of success, making i
  
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• More than 20 collisions between vehicles and snowplows prompts warning

  07-02-2018 16:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 20 collisions between vehicles and snowplows so far this winter has prompted the province’s highway maintenance contractors association to issue a warning for drivers to slow down. 
  In 2017 contractors reported more than 23 collisions with snowplows.
  “Drivers should be cautious when approaching a snowplow and not try to pass,” said Ron Glen, CEO of the Alberta Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association.
  “Our operators will pull over to allow vehicles
  
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• Wildlife: 12 Rules of Resistance party celebrates LGBTQ community

  07-02-2018 16:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are those who confuse kindness for weakness, while predictions of doom are hardly exclusive to any political breed.
  University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson — currently on tour with his postmodernism/Marxism-denouncing, Bible-citing self-help book, 12 Rules for Life — has, with some alarm, famously refused to use pronouns by which some non-gender binary people prefer to be referred.
  Perhaps that gesture may not seem like a big deal to you, but it exists in an e
  
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• Edmonton weather: Just another day in winter paradise

  07-02-2018 16:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s weather forecast Wednesday is exactly what you would expect for a February day — cloudy, snowy, windy, cold.
  Environment Canada is calling for periods of light snow to end this morning with a 30 per cent chance of flurries for the rest of the day. The wind will be at its worst during the morning too, with a 15km/h wind contributing to a -25 windchill.
  Temperatures are expected to reach -13 C for the daytime high before dipping back to -19 C tonight with a -26 windchill ove
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Lively LRT livery would be lovely

  07-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I had a chance to view the new low-floor light rail vehicle for the Valley Line on display at Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre.
  It was very modern looking as well as sleek and futuristic. However, what really caught my eye was the striking green colour. It was nice to see such a lively colour on a dull, snowy day in Edmonton. I was wondering if the city has ever considered changing the current blue transit colour, which I’ve always found to be cold and industrial-looking, to a new colour such a
  
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• Editorial: Partnerships worth pursuing

  07-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If there’s a sense of urgency emanating from the proposal to dovetail a new public high school and city recreation centre in far southwest Edmonton, it’s because the demand for both school space and recreational services is getting close to critical.
  In just seven years, Edmonton’s public school district predicts it will have 6,000 more teenagers than spaces currently available in high schools. The board says it needs work to get underway within the next three years on two new
  
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• 'We’re complete laggards': Alberta recycling council criticizes government for lack of action

  07-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government has ignored calls to improve recycling in the province, buttressing Alberta’s poor record on waste management, says a recycling advocacy group. 
  “Our overall frustration is … we are the most wasteful province in the country and there is no excuse for that,” Christina Seidel, executive director of the Recycling Council of Alberta, said recently. “We’re complete laggards.”
  The province generates the largest amount of waste per
  
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• David Staples: Ambitious plans would transform Bonnie Doon mall

  07-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Which major transformative project planned for Edmonton is most likely to succeed?
  The downtown arena district is the early leader. It will be hard to beat. But there’s a major new contender on the south side, a new vision for a residential and commercial development where Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre now sits.
  This project has a number of things going for it. At the top of list is a single private owner with a clear, community-oriented and economically feasible vision.
  The concept inc
  
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• Alberta bans spears for hunting big game

  07-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spears will no longer be permitted for hunting big game in Alberta. 
  The provincial government has instead formulated a list of approved weapons: rifles, shotguns and conventional archery gear.
  The change comes after an outcry over a 2016 video posted on YouTube, in which American hunter Josh Bowmar speared a black bear in northern Alberta.
  Many viewers at the time — including hunters — denounced the kill as “barbaric” and “unnecessary.”
  The res
  
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• Edmonton at risk from climate change, Mayor Don Iveson warns ahead of international conference

  07-02-2018 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residents won’t be left out of the conversation when hundreds of scientists and politicians arrive in Edmonton next month to discuss how cities should be adapting to climate change. 
  “A city can’t do the work of climate adaptation and climate resiliency alone,” Mayor Don Iveson said Tuesday at the Shaw Conference Centre. “We need the participation of business, civil society, researchers, artists and students … and it’s going to take a whole village
  
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• Alberta tells B.C. to stick a cork in it as trade war escalates

  07-02-2018 03:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is fermenting an all-out trade war with British Columbia.
  And in some ways, Premier Rachel Notley couldn’t be happier.
  On Tuesday afternoon, Notley announced she is banning the importation of all B.C. wine into Alberta.
  Yes, she can do that.
  All alcohol imported into Alberta goes through the government-run liquor commission. And Notley declared she has turned off the tap: “I am announcing that the (Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission) will put an immediate halt to the i
  
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• Shared high school space, new maintenance workers contract OK'd by public school board

  07-02-2018 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Joint planning between a new public high school and civic recreation centre in Edmonton’s far south received a unanimous thumbs-up from public school board trustees Tuesday.
  Southwest Edmonton public school trustee Nathan Ip and Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell are prodding the district and city administrators to work together to design a potentially shared facility for the new Heritage Valley high school and proposed rec centre.
  “I certainly hope that this can be the first of many of this
  
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• ‘Go elsewhere’: Epcor's 23-hectare river valley solar farm plan faces stiff opposition

  07-02-2018 03:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Opposition is growing to a 23-hectare solar farm proposed for the Edmonton river valley, next to the west-end water treatment facility. 
  Epcor officials want to use land the company already owns to build a solar farm beside the E.L. Smith facility. But environmental organizations and many residents say it makes more sense to put it on less valuable land or even rooftops throughout the city. 
  “Go elsewhere. We realize it’s highly convenient, but there are alternatives,&rdquo
  
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• One of four accused in 2014 home invasion torture case sentenced

  07-02-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of four men accused of a violent home invasion in 2014 in which a woman was allegedly tortured was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday.
  Gorjok Gorjok, 25, earlier pleaded guilty to break and enter with intent to commit an indictable offence. His sentence is accounted for with time served.
  As part of his two-year probation, Gorjok must not have contact with witnesses, victims and his co-accused in the case (Daquin Lee, David Nguyen and Sean Jennings). He has also been given a
  
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• Yellowhead Trail eastbound lanes reopen after slippery day with dozens of crashes

  07-02-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The eastbound lanes of Yellowhead Trail have reopened after a slippery day that saw more than one hundred collisions across the city.
  The Yellowhead Trail lanes were closed west of Fort Road and 66 Street after multiple collisions Tuesday morning. They reopened to traffic around 4 p.m., Edmonton Police Service officials said.
  There were 141 collisions in Edmonton between 6 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., police said. Nine of those collisions caused injuries. Eleven collisions were hit and runs and 121
  
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• Psychologist testifies at Blanchard dangerous offender hearing

  07-02-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A psychologist who held numerous “emotion management counselling” sessions with a violent sex offender detailed those interactions at a dangerous offender hearing Tuesday.
  Robert McIntyre was the second of eight Crown witnesses to offer insights into the history of Lance David Blanchard, 60, who has spent a large chunk of his adult life incarcerated. He was first imprisoned in 1975, receiving three years for raping a mentally challenged girl. 
  Blanchard was found guilty in
  
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• Talk back: Sarah Hamilton sets her eye on urban design

  07-02-2018 01:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  “No more crap.” Former mayor Stephen Mandel made headlines with his demand for more inspired architecture 13 years ago.
  Today, his neighbour and protege Sarah Hamilton is on council.
  The new Ward 5 councillor aims to take that same demand for excellence and apply it to all design in Edmonton, not just the buildings.
  Her new council initiative on city design aims to shine a light on good design, making sure the millions already spent on public projects aren’t wasted in cold, unw
  
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• Fort McMurray named Alberta's most romantic city by Amazon

  07-02-2018 00:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — According to the largest shopping retailer on the Internet, Fort McMurray is the most romantic city in Alberta and fifth in Canada.
  Amazon Canada released its list of the 20 most romantic cities in Canada Monday, with the oilsands city reaching the list for the first time since the website started releasing its rankings in 2009.
  The data was compiled by reviewing sales of romance novels (both printed and Kindle editions), romantic comedies, relationship books, jewellery and
  
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• City ends latest seasonal parking ban

  07-02-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Motorists will again be able to park curbside on certain routes after the city’s latest seasonal parking ban was set to end Tuesday night. 
  The parking ban, which was implemented Feb. 3, was to end 11 p.m. Feb. 6. 
  “As of today, we’ve removed over 13,000 cubic metres of snow from city streets. This is the equivalent of half of the volume of an Olympic swimming pool,” Janet Tecklenborg, city director of infrastructure operations, said in a written statement.
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