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• Resident 'horrified' city passed up chance to stop development in Mill Creek Ravine

  11-02-2018 22:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residents and environmental groups are scrambling to try to stop construction of a three-storey dream home in the middle of Mill Creek Ravine park.
  But they’re now learning city officials were offered the chance to buy the land at the last sale price and refused. 
  “I’m just horrified by what’s happening. I don’t understand,” said Peigi Rockwell, civics director for the Strathcona Community League. 
  “What does that say about how we’re look
  
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• Nick Lees: Former Victoria School principal now leading huge Rotary district

  11-02-2018 20:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Ingrid Neitsch says her plan is to make a colourful tapestry of her life’s experiences and next year especially will give her a chance to add some golden hues.
  She has been appointed 2018-2019 governor of huge Rotary International District 5370, and friends say her life’s path to date has shown she will be a great catalyst for change.
  “I believe Rotarians have been too modest,” says Neitsch, the mother of two, a son who is the president of an Edmonton mac
  
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• Researcher investigates graphic design elements of caribou coats

  11-02-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Instead of nearing its end, an Edmonton academic’s five-year odyssey to document and photograph traditional pre- and post-colonization Indigenous caribou-hide coats has become a starting point for another research project.
  Carole Charette has studied about 70 coats at some of the most revered museums in France, England and Germany. as well as Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, the world’s largest museum and research complex. 
  
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• Alberta inmates say they suffered when jail doctors changed their meds

  11-02-2018 19:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former inmate at the Edmonton Remand Centre claims he suffered severe pain and mental distress after a doctor at the jail switched him off medications previously prescribed by a community doctor. 
  His lawyer said such claims show a pattern of provincial jails putting security concerns over the health-care needs of inmates.
  But a former prison physician says there are few easy answers when it comes to deciding how to medicate inmates. 
  Robert Harper, 48, filed a formal complaint about
  
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• Nick Kypreos couldn't be more wrong and Elliotte Friedman more right about trading Leon Draisaitl

  11-02-2018 18:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from the Hockey Night in Canada panel, some trade speculation around Edmonton Oilers centre Leon Draisaitl from commentator Nick Kypreos, with his colleague Elliotte Friedman providing the counterpoint:
  Kypreos: “There’s one untouchable (on the Oilers) we know and that is in Connor (McDavid) but after that I’d be open to start conversations about Leon Draisaitl.”
  Kelly Hrudey agreed: “Everybody.”
  Elliott Friedman: “You know what? I wouldn’t
  
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• Alberta liquor regulator staffing up as cannabis legalization looms

  11-02-2018 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The government agency that will oversee the distribution of recreational cannabis in Alberta has ramped up its recruitment of new employees for the budding industry. 
  In January, the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) started posting jobs related to cannabis licensing, spokeswoman Michelle Haynes-Dawson says.
  “A lot of our people that work in that area have some sort of law enforcement or police studies background,” she said Thursday, adding the agency is looking f
  
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• Game grades: Leon Draisaitl comes up huge, Al Montoya not so much

  11-02-2018 09:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers’ Season from Hell continues. Edmonton dropped a 6-4 game to San Jose on Saturday night in a game where the major culprits were a failing power play and some iffy play from goalie Al Montoya. On the bright side, Leon Draisaitl was flying. David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey dig in.The Edmonton Oilers lost a close one to the San Jose Sharks in a game that had some great Oilers moments and a handful of true stinkers from Edmonton players.
  Edmonton outcha
  
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• Report calls on province to update child witness laws

  11-02-2018 02:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A legal institute is calling on the province to change what it says are outdated laws for determining the competency of child witnesses.
  The recommendations, made in a report published in January by the Alberta Law Reform Institute, would update sections of the Alberta Evidence Act that have been in place for over a century, report writer and counsel for the institute Laura Buckingham said in an interview earlier this month. 
  “The sections we’re looking at here are more than 100
  
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• Might this be the night Edmonton Oilers buck the trend & actually show up for work on time?

  11-02-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 54: Oilers at Sharks
  Two thirds of the way into any hockey season one might expect to see early “outlier” trends regressing hard towards the mean, but that doesn’t apply to your 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers. Todd McLellan’s club has developed a number of exasperating habits including two almost-dysfunctional special teams. None, however, has been more frustrating to this observer than the club’s persistent propensity for being slow out of the gate.
  How slow? Wel
  
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• Favourable conditions draw around 1,000 to annual Birkebeiner

  11-02-2018 01:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jacob Wouters was distinct in his leaf-green jacket and black trousers against the iridescent white snow. His aluminum chair gleamed in the sun.
  The national anthem was sung. The moose horn sounded. And like an arrow from a bow, Wouters was off Saturday 50 kilometres east of Edmonton in the Canadian Birkebeiner at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village.
  This was Wouters’ third year as a sit-skier, in the more than a decade that he’s been participating in the Birkebeiner.
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