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• Police and firefighters face off for the Heart and Stroke Foundation

  03-03-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the first time, cops and smoke eaters are facing off at Rogers Place in a charity exhibition game.
  The game, featuring members of the Edmonton Police Association and the Edmonton Fire Fighters’ Union, will take place ahead of the March 11 WHL game of the Edmonton Oil Kings versus the Kootenay Ice. The game starts at 12:30 p.m. and tickets to the game are $23 with $5 from each ticket going to the Heart and Stroke Foundation and $5 going towards the Edmonton Firefighters’
  
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• Women's Day march draws attention to ongoing inequality

  03-03-2018 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Braving the fat flakes of snow that fell heavy and fast Saturday afternoon, about 100 women marched in Edmonton, demanding more than just ceremonial rights for women.
  “It’s a broken system,” said Merryn Edwards, a spokeswoman for the march organized by Women 4 Rights and Empowerment. 
  Participants marched from Corbett Hall at the University of Alberta, along Whyte Avenue to the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre at 8426 Gateway Blvd. The march marks Internatio
  
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• Bahamas taps into his grooving adolescent influences

  03-03-2018 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a long way from his summer cabin in rural Ontario to the stage of the Jimmy Kimmel show in January, but the singer dubbed Bahamas seems to be weathering the journey well.
  The Toronto songwriter-guitarist, also known as Afie Jurvanen, is enjoying some unexpected irony along the way. Take the tune Opening Act, from Bahamas’ new fourth album Earthtones, a song that jokes about the pros and cons of opening concerts for somebody more famous. With the release of Earthtones in January,
  
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• Wine column: It's a craft and a passion for natural wine producers and restaurants that serve them

  03-03-2018 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Natural wine” is currently a hot topic in the media and in wine shops, which parallels an increased due-diligence by consumers in reading food labels as people try to buy healthier food products.
  Perhaps it’s the attraction of transparency that’s appealing. But wine is the only consumable product I can think of that doesn’t require an ingredient listing on the label. Organic, even biodynamic designations, have rules to adhere to, but natural wines are a grey area.
  
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• Social Seen: Anthropocene book launch

  03-03-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Welcome to the Anthropocene book launch
  Where: University of Alberta Observatory
  When: March 1
  Who: Alice Major
  What: Alice Major’s
  
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• The Romeo Initiative combines intrigue with classic relationship dysfu

  03-03-2018 20:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Though it was definitely not part of the script, I could hear my mother’s words echo in the theatre throughout The Romeo Initiative.
  “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.”
  And yet. True romantics (and also cynics, to be honest) cannot part with the notion that a deep and abiding love may walk into the cafe at any moment, or be lingering in the aisle at the bookstore when you least expect it. When it happens (and it does), it’s a powerful experience. But how is
  
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• Collisions piling up on Edmonton streets after overnight snowfall

  03-03-2018 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  City streets are a mess.
  Edmonton police recorded 26 collisions Saturday morning between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. Police recorded one collision with injuries; three hit and runs; and 22 property damage collisions.
  “Environment Canada has issued an ongoing snowfall warning for the next eight hours with winds blowing out of the east between 30 to 50 kilometres per hour,” said Scott Pattison, spokesperson for the Edmonton Police Service, in a news release. “This can resul
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #65: Ethan Bear's story is a unique circumstance in Edmonton Oilers history. Or is it?

  03-03-2018 19:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Ethan Bear played his very first shift as a member of the Edmonton Oilers, Thursday night against the Nashville Predators, he became an important part of the club’s history.
  Over the long and winding past of the Edmonton Oilers, Bear is the only player raised on a First Nations Reserve to play an NHL game with the franchise. Ethan was technically born in Regina, but was raised on the Ochapowace First Nation, near Whitewood, Saskatchewan.
  The accomplishment itself is both significant a
  
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• Pothole season starts early: City crews plug almost 5,000 potholes

  03-03-2018 19:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you think you are seeing road maintenance crews out earlier this year plugging potholes across the city, you’re on track.
  Thanks to warmer than normal winter temperatures, crews have been filling potholes on Edmonton’s streets since the first week of January, director of infrastructure maintenance Eduardo Sosa said this week.
  In an average year, the city fills around 480,000 potholes of varying sizes and depths. About $70 million is budgeted annually for pavement re
  
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• New river valley funicular troubled by Edmonton winters

  03-03-2018 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Extreme cold and blowing snow have proven to be the bane of Edmonton’s new river valley funicular.
  City officials are working with the manufacturer to address the issue after blowing snow in the door tracks set off alarms several times this winter.
  They also found temperatures below -25 C can cause the doors to malfunction, said Paul Specht, the city’s director of facilities maintenance. The doors become unsynchronized, which triggers a shutdown.
  Fortunately, “the automatic def
  
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• Notley delivers campaign-style speech to supporters in Edmonton

  03-03-2018 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley delivered a campaign-style speech to a group of cheering supporters at NDP Provincial Council in Edmonton on Saturday morning.
  The NDP leader spoke about the B.C. wine ban and the Trans Mountain pipeline, and took time to take shots at United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney.
  She also addressed Alberta’s economic recovery, days after Finance Minister Joe Ceci provided a fiscal update forecasting lower unemployment, economic growth and a $1.4-billion drop
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snowfall warning remains in place

  03-03-2018 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The weather outside is frightful and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight — at least not anytime soon.
  An Environment Canada snowfall warning remains in effect for the City of Edmonton and surrounding area, including much of south and central Alberta. The national weather watchdog is expecting another 5 cm of snow to fall Saturday to go with the 5-10 cm of snow that fell overnight. The snow is expected to taper off this evening as it moves into Saskatchewan.
  As of 9 a.m. the temp
  
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• Saturday's letters: Edmontonians had no say on Coliseum's fate

  03-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re.  “City votes to close Coliseum for good,” Feb. 28
  This headline is misleading because it implies the “city” voted for this. This is not true; the mayor and council voted for this. Edmontonians did not have a say. Why not try to advertise this landmark building over a broader scope to attract investors who might have some innovative ideas that would preserve it?
  My prediction is that the Coliseum will be demolished because Daryl Katz does not want any competition
  
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• Opinion: Releasing open data on road collisions could save lives

  03-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I dream of building a province-wide map of collisions on our streets and roads because it could save lives. Are specific intersections or stretches of highway more prone to collisions? What type of collisions occur there, and when? Are there road design flaws we need to fix? I want to know.
  But to answer these questions I need open data, and that’s the problem. Alberta’s Ministry of Transportation releases collision data in ways that prevent me and others from working with it. I comm
  
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• Communicating expectations key to harmonious household

  03-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “The key to happiness is low expectations.”
  You’ve heard the quote, right? Or something similar?
  It’s true. Because if you don’t expect anything from anyone, then you can’t be disappointed.
  But it’s damned depressing, isn’t it?
  And as it applies to families, it doesn’t really work. I do expect a lot from my husband and my family.
  My husband and I fight from time to time. Most couples do.
  And couples who never fight — couples who don&rsq
  
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• Brantley Gilbert focused on getting tough on the inside ahead of Rogers Place show

  03-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brantley Gilbert might be one of the biggest stars in country music today, but at the moment, he’s being put on dad duty.
  “My three-month-old son is sick as a dog, and my wife had to go to the grocery store, so that’s what I’m doing,” he chuckles over the phone from Maysville, Ga., the small town where he and his wife of nearly three years live when he’s not out on the road. “We’ve taken him out on the road a few times with us; it’ll be an in
  
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• Be specific, stay the course and don’t become sidetracked

  03-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A number of years ago while living in Ontario, we helped sponsor a young man from Sierra Leone.
  He was fascinated by many everyday things we take for granted. I’m not talking the typical Canadian traditions such as hockey, coffee and doughnuts. It was the mundane stuff that sparked his interest. (He stared intently at a hamburger for 10 minutes before asking what to do with it.)
  Of course, he was intrigued by snow and wanted to know how we coped in the winter. It was his impression that sn
  
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• Alberta Ballet vows 'maelstrom of … enchanting magic' in 2018-19 season

  03-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Ballet will celebrate poets, legends and dream weavers in its upcoming season.
  Its packed schedule will include two world premieres and 10 Alberta premieres, and opens and closes with works honouring Canadian musical legends. The opening production has Alberta Ballet hosting Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal in Dance Me, an homage to Leonard Cohen. The season finale is Alberta Ballet in Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum.
  One of the highlights will be The Sleeping Beauty, cons
  
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• Woman, 30, dies in hospital after Tuesday house fire

  03-03-2018 06:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman rescued from a house fire Tuesday perished in hospital later that day, say police.
  Firefighters pulled the woman from the burning home near 58 Avenue and 109 Street about 7:30 a.m. She was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition.
  The 30-year-old woman died in hospital hours later, city police spokesman Scott Pattison said Friday.
  Two men who were also in the home escaped. A large dog from the home died at the scene. 
  While the probe into the cause of the fire continues, inve
  
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• ASIRT investigates after man shot with cop's gun in Athabasca

  03-03-2018 06:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  An investigation of Athabasca RCMP is underway after a man was shot by a police officer’s gun Friday.
  Mounties were called to reports of a disturbance in an apartment building in Athabasca at 10:17 a.m. Friday, RCMP said in a news release.
  Officers approached the suspect and a “confrontation occurred,” RCMP said.
  The man, who is in his 40s, was airlifted to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, where he was listed in stable condition.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Respons
  
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• Golden Bears draw first blood against Huskies in Canada West hockey final

  03-03-2018 06:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Taran Kozun, welcome to the bitter rivalry between the University of Alberta Golden Bears and Saskatchewan Huskies.
  The defending Canada West champions made Kozun’s first-ever appearance against the Bears a forgettable one.
  Alberta’s special teams were on fire, scoring three times in a 5-2 victory on Friday night at Clare Drake Arena.
  Trevor Cox and Tyson Baillie scored twice, while Brandon Magee also scored to give Alberta a 1-0 series lead in the best-of-three Canada West final ser
  
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• Robertson's growth on blue line a big benefit for Oil Kings

  03-03-2018 05:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oil Kings are playing for next season, and judging by what they are seeing at the tail end of this year, there is reason to be optimistic.
  The Oil Kings’ strength in upcoming years is expected to be on their blue line, and young defencemen like Matthew Robertson, 16, are gaining valuable experience in what has been a difficult 2017-18 season.
  On Friday, the Oil Kings turned a 3-0 deficit into a 4-3 overtime win over the Calgary Hitmen at Rogers Place, with Colton Kehler scorin
  
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• Former Edmontonian David Poile returns home to claim most all-time wins as an NHL general manager

  03-03-2018 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maybe it was written in the stars that David Poile would become the most-winning general manager in NHL history in the very city where he grew up.
  After all, the Nashville Predators GM spent 10 years in the Edmonton neighbourhoods of Strathearn and Capilano back when his Hockey Hall-of-Fame dad, Bud, was coach and GM of the Detroit Red Wings’ top farm team, the Edmonton Flyers.
  It’s also the city where former Edmonton Oilers GM Glen Sather started out. He’s the guy Poile passed
  
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• Just Mamadou It: Golden Bears basketball veteran finding different ways to get the job done

  03-03-2018 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Mamadou Gueye was recruited out of Quebec to the University of Alberta Golden Bears basketball program, one of the reasons why he was so highly sought after was because he is a pure scorer.
  What coach wouldn’t want to add that to their program?
  But as Gueye gets set to play his final home game with the Bears on Saturday against the University of Calgary Dinos in the Canada West Conference championship at the Saville Community Sports Centre (7:30 p.m.) , he can look back on his univers
  
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• Former Edmonton Sears worker concerned about looming pension shortfall

  03-03-2018 02:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A retired Sears Canada worker says cuts expected to the insolvent retailer’s pension payments have his former Edmonton colleagues concerned about their future.
  The defunct chain’s defined benefit pension plan is underfunded by an estimated $270 million, which likely means cheques to more than 16,000 members will drop by about 20 per cent, although details are still being worked out.
  “It’s going to affect me. It takes a few bucks out of my pension, and I don’t have a
  
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• Cities need to set goals based in science to mitigate climate change: expert

  03-03-2018 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton will have to set goals grounded in scientific fact if it wants to do its part to slow climate change.
  “We have to have science-based standards because (climate change) is a threat to human civilization,” said Mark Watts, executive director of C40 cities, a climate leadership group. “Let’s not play it down.”
  Watts was speaking after a special city council session held Friday ahead of an International Climate Change Science Conference, which is being hosted b
  
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• Oilers need to handle defenceman Bear's development carefully

  03-03-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  It wasn’t exactly Mario Lemieux scoring a goal on the first shot of his first NHL shift.
  It never is for 20-year-old defencemen.
  Their first time a prospect D-man makes the highlights is usually at the other end of the ice, fishing the puck out of his own net after the first of many hard lessons he’ll learn on his way to earning a full-time job.
  That’s how it was for Ethan Bear on Thursday night, when he made his NHL debut against one of the best and deepest teams in the league
  
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• An unrequited love affair between the NDP and MLA Richard Starke

  03-03-2018 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here’s a peek behind the scenes into the weird and wonderful machinations of backroom Alberta politics.
  NDP cabinet ministers have been trying to woo Progressive Conservative MLA Richard Starke over to their side of the legislative assembly. Starke, however, has politely declined their governmental flowers and chocolates.
  It’s actually a bit of a giggle when you hear Starke tell the story.
  “I’ve been approached by two cabinet ministers asking me to consider joining the ND
  
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• Edmonton Oilers need to handle defenceman Bear's development carefully

  03-03-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  It wasn’t exactly Mario Lemieux scoring a goal on the first shot of his first NHL shift.
  It never is for 20-year-old defencemen.
  Their first time a prospect D-man makes the highlights is usually at the other end of the ice, fishing the puck out of his own net after the first of many hard lessons he’ll learn on his way to earning a full-time job.
  That’s how it was for Ethan Bear on Thursday night, when he made his NHL debut against one of the best and deepest teams in the league
  
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• Edmonton weather: Winter storm warning downgraded to snowfall alert

  03-03-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Up to 10 centimetres of snow is still expected to fall in Edmonton and the surrounding area this weekend, but Environment Canada lifted its winter storm warming Friday afternoon. 
  The new snowfall warning issued at about 3:30 p.m. said the heavy snow had stalled over southern Alberta, but was expected to continue heading slowly toward the Edmonton region Friday night. 
  At 4 p.m. it was -8 C and windy, said Environment Canada.
  The warning stated that travellers should be prepared f
  
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• Police looking for sexually violent, high-risk offender

  03-03-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were looking for a high-risk, violent and sexually violent offender who breached his conditions.
  Leon Halkett, 32, is wanted on four counts of breach of a peace bond. He was described as being six-foot-one and 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
  Police consider him violent and said he has preyed on both random women and women with whom he has relationships.
  He should not be approached and anyone who knows of his whereabouts is asked to call 780-423-4567.
  
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• Social media watch: Budget-conscious repartee and economic fact checks

  03-03-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Each week, we’ll give you a roundup of the outrage, the posturing and the downright weird unfolding on social media.
  Old school winking emoji
  Independent MLA Derek Fildebrandt tweeted out plans to release a shadow budget before the NDP tables its provincial budget in a few weeks. 
  “Albertans deserve a real plan to return to balanced budgets,” he tweeted Wednesday. 
  But the Alberta Party — which recently elected Stephen Mandel as leader — responded with the
  
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• St. Albert and Sturgeon County Hold Joint Intermunicipal Affairs Committee Meeting

  03-03-2018 00:11
  Meeting held February 28, 2018 The City of St. Albert and Sturgeon County’s joint Intermunicipal Affairs Committee (IAC), consisting of... Read Post
  
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