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• Ankle deep water the future for City Hall pool

  13-02-2018 22:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Defenders of a knee-deep City Hall pool were overruled Tuesday as city council voted eight to four to endorse the design proposed by administration to lower water depth to ankle depth.
  That means the project goes to tender this month, with construction this coming summer and a plan to reopen the water feature and Churchill Square in 2019.
  Council heard the existing knee-deep pool — the only civic wading pool left in the city — is particularly popular with inner-city children, familie
  
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• Edmonton city police officer found guilty of trafficking steroids

  13-02-2018 21:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police officer accused of trafficking anabolic steroids between 2007 and 2013 has been found guilty on two charges.
  A former member of the Edmonton drug and gang enforcement unit, Det. Greg Lewis, faced three charges of trafficking in a controlled substance after he was arrested in March 2016 following a two-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT).
  On Tuesday, Justice Scott Brooker found Lewis guilty of two charges of trafficking in a controlled
  
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• Petition on pipelines: Alberta government releases website to fight B.C.

  13-02-2018 21:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government has launched a website for Albertans to drill home across Canada the importance of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. 
  It’s the latest in a series of steps Alberta is taking in the face of a pipeline battle with British Columbia. 
  The website, Keep Canada Working, was unveiled Tuesday.
  It features links to ways Canadians can take action — contact their MP or MLA, for example, or sign a petition demanding B.C. Premier John Horgan honour the rule
  
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• Alberta school superintendent pay 'out of line,' says education minister

  13-02-2018 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Education Minister David Eggen says the dramatic rise in the salaries of Alberta’s school board superintendents is “a problem,” and he’s working to bring their contracts into line. 
  The average base pay of publicly funded school superintendents rose 10 per cent in three years, while teacher wages stagnated and public sector CEO wages were frozen.
  “It’s out of line with … the public expectations and our attempts to have restraint for salaries in gen
  
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• A beginner's guide to selecting a hockey stick

  13-02-2018 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a dizzying array of hockey sticks on the market today, selecting the proper weapon can be overwhelming for a new player and even for some veterans of the game. 
  But breaking the stick down into individual parts, and finding the sweet spot at each step, will certainly guarantee a stick that can fit you stance and ability.
  Some basic things to keep in mind, are the shaft length, the flex rating of the shaft, and the curve and lie of the blade. 
  In this video, Kelly Hodgson of the sp
  
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• MacEwan University's discussion series to focus on Colten Boushie case

  13-02-2018 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  The killing of Colten Boushie and the court case where a jury found Saskatchewan farmer Gerald Stanley not guilty of second degree murder in his shooting death will be the focus of MacEwan University’s Interdisciplinary Dialogue Series on Tuesday night. 
  Titled “Canadian colonization and law: The case of Colten Boushie” the event will be held at the Robbins Health Learning Centre from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  Speakers will include Dwayne Donald, an associate professor
  
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• Hunting spears banned in Alberta

  13-02-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spears will no longer be permitted for hunting big game in Alberta. The provincial government’s list of approved weapons for the 2018 hunting season will be limited to rifles, shotguns and conventional archery gear.
  The new regulations also set a .24-calibre minimum for shotgun pellets when hunting big game.Other tools, including spears and spear-throwing tools such as atlatls, will not be allowed under new regulations introduced in early February.
  The change comes after an outcry ove
  
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• Reader launches naming debate as officials release transit Smart Card details

  13-02-2018 15:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fare capping? Daily rates? Edmonton transit officials are set to release details of a new payment scheme made possible by the high-tech Smart Fare cards on their way.
  Officials say the cards will be tap-and-go, which should make getting on a bus quicker, and able to be loaded by credit card. Fare capping would ensure no one struggling to make ends meet would ever pay more than the monthly rate, even if they pay day to day because they can’t afford to pay up front. 
  More details are pr
  
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• Verdict expected in Edmonton police steroid trafficking trial

  13-02-2018 15:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A verdict is expected Tuesday in the trial of an Edmonton police officer accused of trafficking anabolic steroids between 2007 and 2013.
  A former member of the Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement Unit, Det. Greg Lewis, faces three charges of trafficking in a controlled substance after he was arrested in March 2016 following a two-year investigation by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team.
  The 36-year-old was one of two officers charged as a result of the investigation.
  Darren French, 51, pl
  
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• Edmonton weather: Winter disappears again as temperatures to rise above 0 C

  13-02-2018 14:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton gets a break from winter weather today, as temperatures are expected to soar. The downside there is a chance it could rain.
  At around 6:30 a.m. it was -5 C.
  Today: High of 4 C. Mainly cloudy, with a 30 per cent chance of rain or snow and a risk of freezing rain this afternoon.
  Tonight. Mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of snow, low of -8 C.
  Tomorrow: Cloudy, with a 60 per cent chance of flurries, high of -8 C.
  Tomorrow night: Clear, low of -16 C.
  Morning commute
  Before you head ou
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Unanswered questions after Stanley trial

  13-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gerald Stanley’s not-guilty verdict by an all-white jury may become Canada’s Trevon Martin racist rant. The public was fed all the negative aspects of Trevon Martin’s murder. Similarly, we have been fed negative aspects of Gerald Stanley’s accidental killing of Colten Boushie. 
  All too often the media feeds us the emotional outcomes. Of course, we are very sorry a young life was wasted. But the “whys” override all reason.
  Why was this group of young peopl
  
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• Editorial: Amazon bid shortsightedly secret

  13-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As much as Edmontonians may love their city, most weren’t really discouraged, or even surprised, that Edmonton failed to make the shortlist for Amazon’s second headquarters.
  Frankly, the city was a long shot from the start. There’s no shame in that; the better part of the 238 applicants who vied for the honour were destined to be also-ran contenders due to size, geography, infrastructure, transportation connections and the makeup of their workforces.
  What does dismay, however,
  
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• School board superintendent salaries jumped 10 per cent in three years, Alberta report says

  13-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The average base pay of publicly funded school superintendents rose 10 per cent in three years while teacher wages stagnated and public sector CEO wages were frozen, says a new report.
  The analysis, prepared for the Alberta School Boards’ Association (ASBA) by Western Management Consultants, and obtained by Postmedia, said Alberta superintendents earn more than their colleagues in B.C., Saskatchewan and Ontario.
  In 2015-16, Alberta superintendents’ average base salaries were nearly $
  
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• Let there be light: Edmonton continues to switch street lamps to LEDs

  13-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The colour of Edmonton’s nighttime streetscapes is changing.
  The traditional yellowish-orange glow from street lights is gradually being replaced by the bluish-white light of LED fixtures.
  It’s a switch the city started in 2011, after a pilot project in 2010.
  To date, 44,800 of Edmonton’s 117,400 streetlights have been switched, Vlado Cicovski, Edmonton’s senior streetlight engineer, said Monday.
  The LEDs use 40 to 60 per cent less electricity than the old high-pressure s
  
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• Cult of Hockey game grades: Edmonton Oilers score lots, but give up even more, in sloppy 7-5 loss to Florida

  13-02-2018 09:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The same old culprits, goaltending and the PK, did in the Edmonton Oilers against the Florida Panthers. But there was a few bright spots, such as Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and Yohann Auvitu. Yes, Yohann Auvitu. David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey dig in.
  On a night when the City of Edmonton celebrated the 1984-85 Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers, voted the Greatest Team of All-Time, fans were treated (or should that be subjected) to an 80’s style fire-wagon affa
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey: The Edmonton Oilers score lots, but give up even more, in sloppy 7-5 loss to Florida

  13-02-2018 08:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  On a night when the City of Edmonton celebrated the 1984-85 Stanley Cup Champion Edmonton Oilers, voted the Greatest Team of All-Time, fans were treated (or should that be subjected) to an 80’s style fire-wagon affair.
  Only on Monday, the Oilers ended up on the wrong end of a 7-5 score. As much jump as the team sure had on the attack, they leaked in scoring chances at the other end, and Cam Talbot was a mere shadow of his former self.
  Your Groundhog Day game notes? The Oilers allowed the 1
  
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• New rule guarantees spots for apprentices on big public projects

  13-02-2018 03:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Apprentices in 11 construction trades will soon be guaranteed hands-on training on large public infrastructure projects.
  This month, new legislation in Alberta will compel public infrastructure projects worth more than $15 million or those expected to take more than two years to complete to train apprentices on site.
  “This will definitely help enable apprentices to learn, to be supported career-wise and to move forward,” Colette Dufour, an apprentice with Clark Builders, said in a ne
  
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• Thomson: Notley threatens to escalate trade war if no solution found

  13-02-2018 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  She called him a thief.
  A toolbox thief, to be exact.
  It was a tongue-in-cheek comment and Premier Rachel Notley delivered it Monday with a bit of a smile — but there is real frustration and simmering anger whenever Notley talks these days about the B.C. government, and her old friend, Premier John Horgan.
  During a news conference Monday, she pointed to his election promise last year to use “every tool in the toolbox” to stop the expansion of the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pip
  
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• Simons: Skepticism needed when wellness guru exploits son's death

  13-02-2018 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s almost exactly six years since toddler Ezekiel Stephan died of complications related to meningitis.
  It’s been two years since his parents, David and Collet, were convicted in a Lethbridge court of failing to provide the necessaries of life, after they refused to seek medical care for their dying child.
  Ezekiel, you see, was the grandson of Anthony Stephan, the founder of Truehope Nutritional Support in Raymond, Alta. For decades, Anthony Stephan has been successfully market
  
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• Cold Case Files: Dilbag Sandhu killed in 2005 convenience store robbery

  13-02-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s been almost 13 years since Mac’s convenience store clerk Dilbag Sandhu was gunned down during a robbery caught on video surveillance.
  Two men fled the Millwoods store with cash and cigarettes after one of them opened fire with a sawed-off shotgun, killing the 29-year-old clerk just before 1 a.m. on June 17, 2005.
  Homicide detectives at the time said the killing was the most disturbing they had seen that year as the gunman “thought nothing” of shooting Sandhu dea
  
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• Premier Rachel Notley gives B.C., Ottawa days to sort out pipeline spat, or more retaliation coming

  13-02-2018 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The British Columbia and federal governments have just days to figure out the Trans Mountain pipeline spat, or Alberta will ramp up retaliation against its western neighbour. 
  Premier Rachel Notley told reporters Monday in Edmonton that B.C. and Ottawa officials are currently in talks to resolve what she has branded that province’s illegal, unconstitutional actions.
  She’ll give the two governments space to talk, but they shouldn’t expect long. 
  “We’re not
  
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• Officers cleared after man stunned with Taser hits head on pavement

  13-02-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in a 2016 arrest where a man hit his head on the pavement after being stunned with a Taser.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) began investigating after officers near Jasper Avenue and 90 Street confronted a man believed to be armed with a knife and a machete around 6:45 a.m. on June 20.
  According to investigators, the man — with a knife in his hand — ran from police.
  After a short chase, officers told the
  
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• Constable pleads guilty to discreditable conduct in harassment case

  13-02-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former 911 dispatcher claims an Edmonton city police constable repeatedly humiliated her in the workplace to the point she dreaded going to work each day, a professional standards branch hearing was told Monday.
  Romaine Fleck-Brezinski testified at the police disciplinary hearing that Const. Fiona Moffat would routinely refer to her as “the b–ch” and even called her “the c—” to other co-workers in the communications branch.
  “I was completely shocked. I
  
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• Two arrested after man slain in Lloydminster

  13-02-2018 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two suspects were arrested after the Monday slaying of a 47-year-old man in Lloydminster, RCMP say.
  Shane Victor Lynas died of injuries shortly after Mounties responding to a call for assistance arrived at a home in the northern Alberta city just after midnight Monday.
  Lloydminster RCMP, along with the major crimes unit and forensic identification section were involved in the investigation, which led to the arrest of the two suspects, Mounties said in a Monday afternoon news release. 
  Polic
  
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• Shooting victim speaks out after gun pulled at event at community hall

  13-02-2018 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man shot in the thigh when someone opened fire at a community hall party last Sunday is still trying to piece together what led to the violence. 
  The man, who Postmedia agreed not to identify because he fears for his safety, said the gunman fired multiple shots inside the Queen Mary Park Community League Hall as people were leaving a party early Sunday, Feb. 4. 
  The victim said he was fleeing for the exit when he felt a sharp pain in his right thigh. When he felt his leg, there was b
  
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