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• Train cars derail near 101 Street and Ellerslie Road

  16-02-2018 23:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ellerslie Road is closed in both directions between Parsons Road and Gateway Boulevard as Edmonton fire crews respond to a derailed train.
  Eight cars had reportedly “overturned,” Edmonton Fire Rescue (EFR) spokeswoman Maya Filipovic said Friday. Hazmat crews were called to the scene but found no dangerous goods leaking and were called off. 
  She said initial reports were the train was carrying dry bulk goods, most likely grain.
  The derailment happened near 101 Street and Ellersli
  
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• Gastrointestinal illness forces closure of St. Albert junior high school ... - CBC.ca

  16-02-2018 23:26 via cbc.ca
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  Gastrointestinal illness forces closure of St. Albert junior high school ...
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  A St. Albert junior high school was closed Friday after 37 students and three staff members fell ill from a gastrointestinal illness Wednesday.
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• Four men charged with first degree murder in Sturgeon County homicide

  16-02-2018 22:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four men have been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of Kevin Dean Yellowbird, whose body was found in a ditch on a rural road in Sturgeon County last October, Mounties said Friday.
  All four men were arrested Thursday without incident.
  Investigators say that the 27-year-old’s death is not related to the death of two other people whose bodies were located in rural areas near Morinville and St. Albert in October and November last year.
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• People are still calling Edmonton firefighters over building steam

  16-02-2018 21:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  On a chilly Monday evening earlier this month, firefighters rushed to a highrise at the corner of 109 Street and Saskatchewan Drive, ready to battle smoke and fire. 
  Instead, they found steam. 
  Something about the roof of the Strathcona House condo building at 10883 Saskatchewan Dr. has, for years, made it look like it’s on fire — especially on cold nights when exhaust steam settles on the roof and shrouds the aircraft warning light. Firefighters were called to the building
  
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• Committee to consider pros, cons and risks of Coliseum site redevelopment

  16-02-2018 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Should the city decide to sell the Northlands Coliseum building to a third party, it cannot encourage the purchaser to renovate or rebuild a sports or entertainment facility in its place and nor can it offer financial support or advocate for such an initiative, a new report says. 
  Because of a master agreement between the city and the Edmonton Arena Corporation, an affiliate of the Oilers Entertainment Group, if future zoning of the land or the area development plan requires a sports or ent
  
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• United Nurses of Alberta delegates ratify three-year deal with AHS

  16-02-2018 21:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Members of the United Nurses of Alberta have ratified a three-year contract with Alberta Health Services with no wage increases for the next two years.
  The ratification vote by approximately 28,000 registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses was held Thursday at the union’s work sites across the province. According to a news release, close to 90 per cent of eligible UNA members indicated they were in favour of ratifying the agreement, and 98 per cent of the 600 delegates from each
  
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• Unprofessional conduct charges against dentist proven, tribunal finds

  16-02-2018 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A bulk of unprofessional conduct charges levelled at an Edmonton dentist whose practise was involved in an incident that left a young girl with brain damage after being sedated have been proven by an Alberta Dental Association and College hearing tribunal.
  William Mather faced a dozen charges over the events in September 2016 that sent Amber Athwal, who was four at the time, into medical distress following a dental surgery under general anesthetic. 
  The tribunal heard that during the recove
  
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• Avenged Sevenfold flex their metal chops at Rogers Place

  16-02-2018 16:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was about halfway through the set Thursday night that vocalist M. Shadows finally got around to welcoming everyone at Rogers Place to the family.
  The Avenged Sevenfold family, that is, a musically inclusive unit that doesn’t make a whole lot of distinctions when it comes to hard rock and metal. Based out of California, the five-piece have forged and reforged a sound out of the shards of metal past and present, almost to the point of homage. Add to that a new predilection for prog-rock a
  
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• Edmonton weather: Windy with a chance of snow

  16-02-2018 15:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Friday weather will be mild and full of wind, and maybe some snow. At least its not dark and full of terrors.
  At 7:00 a.m. it was -5 C.
  Today: Cloudy, with a 30 per cent of snow this morning. Then, snow expected around noon but ending this afternoon. Wind blowing in from the northwest at 30 kilometres per hour and gusting to 50. High of -5 C.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low of -15 C.
  Tomorrow: A mix of sun and cloud, high of -12 C. Low of -18 C.
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• Hybrid mountain pine beetle poised to take out more Jasper National Park forest: U of A research

  16-02-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A hybrid mountain pine beetle is poised to wreak more havoc in the forests of Jasper National Park, warn University of Alberta researchers. 
  Researchers Jasmine Janes and Stephen Trevoy uncovered the hybrid population as they traced the origin of the beetles in the park.
  “What we discovered is an eye of the storm where we see a sort of mixture of two genetic populations coming together in Jasper National Park,” Janes said in a news release.
  “The Jasper beetles have a diffe
  
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• Opinion: B.C. steps up where National Energy Board failed

  16-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The shrill cries of condemnation emanating from the Alberta and Canadian federal governments in response to new restrictions on the transport of diluted bitumen announced by the province of British Columbia are deafening. 
  The burgeoning conflict began when B.C. announced the province would limit shipments of diluted bitumen transported from Alberta via the Trans Mountain pipeline pending an assessment of the possible impacts of a spill by an independent scientific advisory panel.
  The B.C.
  
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• Friday's letters: Council sees cost instead of value of City Hall pool

  16-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  So once again our city politicians have decided to save the taxpayers of Edmonton some money. Only four councillors could see the $425,000 being spent on the pool in front of City Hall would be used by more Edmontoinians than the $24 million spent on the funicular or the millions spent on bike lanes for the 100 that use them in the summer and the three that use them in the winter.
  Anthony Quinn, Edmonton
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• Editorial: Fix problems exposed by Stanley trial

  16-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Few recent court cases in Canada have divided a nation as much as when a jury acquitted Gerald Stanley in the fatal shooting of Colten Boushie.
  It unleashed an outcry of anger and anguish from Indigenous communities across the country that a Saskatchewan farmer could walk free after fatally shooting a 22-year-old intruder on his property.
  From the other edge of the widening chasm split open first by the deadly encounter in August 2016 and then the verdict last Friday, some Canadians said justice
  
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• Player grades: Crapping out in Vegas, Edmonton Oilers' edition

  16-02-2018 11:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 1, Golden Knights 4
  More more more of the same for Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night, this time in Las Vegas where the visiting Oil fell meekly to the Golden Knights, 4-1. 
  Consider:It was the fifth consecutive loss for the Oilers, all of them in regulation.
  It was the 14th time in 18 games the Oil gave up the first goal of the game.
  It was the 13th time in those same 18 games the Oil gave up the first two goals of the game.
  The Oilers were shorthanded just twice, but the penalty kil
  
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• David Staples: A river valley solar farm for water plant? Maybe not such a terrible idea

  16-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When I first heard about Epcor’s plan to convert 23 hectares of river valley parkland into industrial use, it struck me as a terrible idea.
  But having attended a public meeting on the plan Tuesday, I now lean to supporting Epcor’s vision of a massive solar farm to power its E.L. Smith water treatment plant in the city’s southwest corner.
  I say this knowing river valley parkland is to be cherished and protected, and that too often we’ve failed at that. We’v
  
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• Shots fired! Ex-Oilers tough guy Georges Laraque says Oilers players need "heart transplants."

  16-02-2018 08:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from former Oilers tough guy Georges Laraque, who was interviewed by host Gene Principe between periods on Sportsnet, with Edmonton down 3-0 to the Vegas Golden Knights. Principe suggested that Milan Lucic was a good protector of Connor McDavid, but Laraque wasn’t buying it: “If I was playing today I think there is many things I’d be doing in the room to get a heart transplant. Because look at the Golden Knights tonight, on paper the Oilers have a way better team, but t
  
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• Lack of funding shutters Tour of Alberta

  16-02-2018 05:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Tour of Alberta has reached a dead end.
  After five years hosting the international cycling event, the Alberta Peleton Association will cease operations, according to a news release Thursday.
  “This decision did not come easily; however, with the current economic conditions and decreases in traditional funding sources, we had no other option,” board chair Jeffrey Hansen-Carlson said in the release.
  The tour began in 2013 and throughout its tenure, the event was showcased through 29
  
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• Paging Edmonton Oilers' secondary scorers. White courtesy telephone please.

  16-02-2018 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 56: Oilers at Golden Knights
  As the clock ticked down to the second Zamboni of the Edmonton Oilers’ most recent game, the locals passed over a small milestone when they reached the 2/3 mark of their current campaign of despair.
  The NHL season nicely subdivides into equal halves, an unavoidable result of teams playing an equal number of home vs. away games. But with the number of home dates (41) being, inconveniently, a prime number, further subdivision into thirds or quarters alwa
  
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• Peter Chiarelli's shopping list: winger for Connor McDavid, goalie to challenge Cam Talbot, puckmoving D

  16-02-2018 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who will be moved at the trading deadline? Patrick Maroon? Mark Letestu? Mike Cammalleri? Oscar Klefbom? Zack Kassian? Ryan Strome? And what is Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl’s long-term future with the team? David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey discuss.
  This in from TSN’s Darren Dreger, his take on Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli’s shopping list at trade deadline and this summer: “Chiarelli could be busy, certainly between now and the start of ne
  
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• Rural crime watch groups will be 'eyes and ears' for Alberta RCMP under formal agreement

  16-02-2018 02:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties and community crime watch groups inked a formal agreement to have residents be the “eyes and ears” for police.
  RCMP Deputy Commissioner Todd Shean, commanding officer of the Alberta RCMP, and Trevor Tychkowsky, president of the Alberta Provincial Rural Crime Watch Association, signed the memorandum to define roles for the two organizations Thursday at K Division headquarters in Edmonton.
  Anyone hoping to get involved with a rural crime watch association can contact an RCMP d
  
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• 'It's not worth it': Edmonton's mixed recycling is garbage, entrepreneurs say

  16-02-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s habit of dumping all recyclables in the same truck and squishing it together makes valuable cardboard and plastics unusable for many entrepreneurs.
  “If it’s mixed, it stays mixed. It’s not worth it,” said Ken Scott, who sources clean newspapers for a local insulation company.
  The company collects used newspaper, grinds it up and adds fire retardant, then uses it to fill attics and walls across Edmonton. But the company can’t use what gets thrown int
  
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• Veterans rally highlights 'abhorrent' treatment, inequalities

  16-02-2018 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former master corporal Chance Burles stood outside the Alberta legislature building Thursday, talking with buddies as they warmed their hands against the -20 C chill with cups of coffee. 
  Leaning on a cane, a Canadian flag propped in his backpack, the Afghanistan veteran shrugged as he listed his physical ailments from years in the Armed Forces — a herniated disc in his back courtesy of his vehicle being blown up by an IED in 2008, knee and shoulder problems, hearing damage, tinnitus,
  
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• Dozens of students, 3 staff members fall ill at St. Albert junior high school - CTV News

  16-02-2018 00:19 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
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  Dozens of students, 3 staff members fall ill at St. Albert junior high school
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  Officials at a junior high school in St. Albert said preventative measures had been taken and the school would be closed on Friday, after dozens of students and a few staff members fell ill on Wednesday. The superintendent of Greater St. Albert ...
  
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• Epcor net income down, but dividend to city rising

  16-02-2018 00:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Epcor’s profits dropped last year, but the dividend it pays the city is going up, the company said Thursday.
  It will boost its annual dividend to $166 million in 2018 from $153 million last year and $141 million in 2016.
  Its 2017 net income was $256 million, compared to $309 million for the previous year when it sold Capital Power shares from which it also earned dividend income, according to the city-owned firm’s annual financial results.
  The lower earnings were in line with ex
  
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