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• Photos: The Fire and Ice of the Silver Skate Festival

  19-02-2018 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flow performer Geoff Brockelsby juggles fire inside the Hawrelak Park Ice Castle during the Silver Skate Festival in Edmonton Sunday Feb. 18, 2018.
  A wolf snow sculpture appears to watch visitors to the Silver Skate Festival in Hawrelak Park in Edmonton Sunday Feb. 18, 2018.
  A magical wolf prowls the Silver Skate Festival in Hawrelak Park in Edmonton Sunday Feb. 18, 2018.
  A young girl screams as she makes her way down an ice slide in the Hawrelak Park Ice Castle during the Silver Skate Festival
  
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• Alberta says it will 'vigorously' defend wine boycott after B.C. launches formal challenge

  19-02-2018 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Vancouver — The British Columbia government has launched a formal challenge against Alberta’s ban on its wines.
  B.C. said Monday it notified Alberta that it is formally requesting consultations under the Canadian free trade agreement’s dispute settlement process.
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced the ban on B.C. wine earlier this month as part of an ongoing spat between the provinces over the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Alberta’s actions thr
  
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• World’s Longest Hockey Game propelled by hope

  19-02-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brent Saik is hoping he and 39 other skaters will keep the record for the world’s longest hockey game.
  Saik started the World’s Longest Hockey Game in support of the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Cross Cancer Institute in 2003.
  Just a few months after he held the first event in memory of his father, Terry Saik, who died of cancer in 1994, Saik’s wife, Susan, died from cancer in June 2003.
  It’s their images on the wall that inspire him to keep going, keep skating and k
  
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• Oil Spills: Edmonton Oilers Letestu and Maroon top targets as NHL trade deadline looms

  19-02-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Monday, Feb. 26 is the NHL trade deadline and Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are perhaps the only two Edmonton Oilers players who won’t be in play.
  The team’s encouraging performance in last year’s playoffs raised hopes of another post-season appearance this year. But a devastatingly disappointing season so far has the Oilers out of playoff contention and struggling for answers as the team sits out a chance to play for the Stanley Cup for the 11th time in the last 12 ye
  
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• Cold Case Files: Perry Kit Wong and Eloise Fendelet found slain in 2011

  19-02-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The slain bodies of Edmonton seniors Perry Kit Wong and Eloise Fendelet were discovered in a snow-covered field in April 2011, four months after the pair vanished.
  The remains of the couple were discovered by a man four-wheeling on the property near 215 Street and Webber Green Drive.
  Wong, 72, was last seen meeting with friends in a west Edmonton neighbourhood the day he went missing, Dec. 27, 2010. Friends contacted police when the pair failed to return to work on Jan.
  
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• Paula Simons: Underpass plan a wrong turn for Stony Plain Road renewal

  19-02-2018 09:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The plan for a massive interchange at 149 Street and Stony Plain Road is one of those trial balloons that needs to be popped immediately. Preferably with a rocket launcher.
  The proposed underpass — which has an estimated cost of $100 million to $200 million — is supposed to reduce traffic congestion when the city builds the west leg of the Valley LRT line. 
  The plan would drop four lanes of north-south traffic along 149 Street below grade to run underneath Stony Plain Road.
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• Player grades: McDavid hatty, Strome snipe turn the tide as Edmonton Oilers break losing slide in style

  19-02-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 4, Avalanche 2
  Don’t ever accuse the Edmonton Oilers of being fast learners. Riding a six-game losing streak that had seen them allow the first goal each time — obscenely early in most cases — the Oil got lit up after just 4 minutes in Denver on Sunday, and spent most of the first 50 minutes chasing a one-goal deficit. Finally, though, after scoring just 2 goals in the first 8½ periods of their southwestern road trip, the Oilers finally started finding the back of
  
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• Photos: Lunar New Year celebrated in Edmonton

  19-02-2018 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians celebrated the Year of the Dog with a parade in Chinatown on Feb. 17.
  Chinese New Year: Year of the Dog was celebrated in Chinatown on 97 St. with the Lion and dragons firecracker parade in Edmonton, February 17, 2018. Ed Kaiser/Postmedia
  Chinese New Year: Year of the Dog being celebrated in Chinatown on 97 St. with the Lion and dragons firecracker parade in Edmonton, February 17, 2018. Ed Kaiser/Postmedia
  Chinese New Year: Year of the Dog was celebrated in Chinatown on 97 St. with
  
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