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• A meal is a story: Local documentary focuses on Sudanese food

  04-03-2018 21:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rose Wani scooped out two teaspoons of cardamom pods and dropped them into the teakettle filled with water. She took out three white, porcelain cups and dropped Rose brand black tea bags. She added sugar.
  “We are tea drinkers,” she said, as kettle began to whistle.
  Wani, now a health care aide by profession, fled her home in South Sudan after war broke out. In 2001 she landed in Newfoundland and a few months later moved to Edmonton. She is the subject of a locally produced documentar
  
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• Lees: Family overjoyed after late daughter's stolen bike returned

  04-03-2018 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Architect Allan Partridge and his wife Barbara were “devastated beyond words” when their late daughter Martine’s bike was stolen from their garage in late-January.
  “Her bike was priceless to us and was one of the few remaining things that connected us with her,” Partridge said Saturday.
   
  Martine had had a mountain bike, but she didn’t like it and rode it only twice. She and her husband Paul Lumsden went shopping and when Martine saw the pale-green Linus
  
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• City declares parking ban effective midnight Monday

  04-03-2018 19:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  After city streets got walloped with snow Saturday, the City of Edmonton has responded by declaring a parking ban to help clean up the mess.
  The parking ban goes into full effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday morning.
  “The minute it’s Monday, please have your car off the designated roads,” said Janet Tecklenborg, the city’s director of infrastructure operations, in a Sunday news release. “We know that Edmontonians have places to go, and we rely on their co-operation to keep
  
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• Oilers drop a 3-2 decision to the Rangers

  04-03-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers couldn’t pick on young Bulgarian-born, Russian-trained rookie goalie Alexandar Georgiev, who earned his first NHL victory in his third start, in a 3-2 win for the visiting New York Rangers Saturday night.
  Mika Zibanejad had a goal and an assist to Chris Kreider 54 seconds into the game and Paul Carey got the winner on a deflection on Cam Talbot in the middle period.For the 13th time, the Oilers gave up a goal on the first shot in the game’s first minute, and Talbo
  
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• Edmonton weather: A great day to break out the snow shovel

  04-03-2018 17:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The worst of it is over.
  Environment Canada has lifted its snowfall warning for the City of Edmonton as the snow is expected to end later this afternoon.
  Meanwhile, it looks as though our neighbours to the east will feel Mother Nature’s wrath Sunday as much of the province of Saskatchewan is under a snowfall warning with some areas expecting 20-25 centimetres of snow. 
  Today: Periods of light snow ending this afternoon then a mix of sun and cloud with 60 percent chance of flurries. Hi
  
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• Stony Plain area teen dies in head-on highway collision

  04-03-2018 17:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 17-year-old girl from the Stony Plain area is dead after a head-on collision near Fort Saskatchewan Saturday evening.
  RCMP officers were called to the scene of a head-on crash between a truck and an SUV at 7:43 p.m.on Highway 15, north of the North Saskatchewan River bridge, said a police news release Sunday.
  Upon arrival, emergency paramedics declared the 17-year-old driver of the SUV dead on scene.
  Police said a 48-year-old man who was driving the truck was taken to a local hospital to be tr
  
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• Our House repair bill estimated at close to $400,000

  04-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A not-for-profit drug and alcohol rehabilitation service on the outskirts of Edmonton established to help others in crisis now faces a crisis of its own.
  Our House Addiction Recovery Centre, a year-long, live-in service targeted at men, is facing a hefty renovation bill after discovering black mould in the kitchen area as well as multiple issues with its heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, executive director Laurie de Grace said this week.
  The repair bill has yet to be finalized b
  
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• Here are the drugs Edmonton's drug & gang unit seized last year

  04-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police’s drug and gang unit seized tens of thousands of fentanyl pills last year, up from just a few hundred the year before, as law enforcement continues to turn its attention to the deadly opioid. 
  Statistics presented in a recent police commission report show how much of each type of drug the Edmonton Drug and Gang Enforcement Section (EDGE) seized in each of the last five years.
  Fentanyl seizures by the unit showed a dramatic rise — to 65,907 pills and 8.2 kg of fen
  
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• Cult of Hockey Games Grades: Edmonton loses 3-2 to the Rangers, as a Too-Many-Men call blows a chance for the Oilers to tie it up late.

  04-03-2018 08:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers showed up late in their own rink, Saturday night, and then a sloppy penalty late killed their best chance to make up for it.
  This game’s results were a cold soup pot full of all the things that have frustrated fans all season long: Surrendered the game’s 1st goal on the game’s 1st shot, lost to a back-up goaltender in his 3rd NHL game, out-worked in the final 2 minutes against a team that was playing its second of back-to-back road games, and for the grande
  
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• Fort Saskatchewan RCMP investigating serious head-on collision

  04-03-2018 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort Saskatchewan RCMP officers are on the scene of a head-on crash that has shut down a portion of Highway 15 as of 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.
  Mounties were called to the crash on Highway 15 north of the North Saskatchewan River bridge around 7:43 p.m. on Saturday, according to a news release sent Saturday night.
  Traffic on the bridge is closed in both directions and is being re-routed and will be for several hours.
  An RCMP collision analyst is on scene investigating the cause of the crash.
  The dri
  
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• Woman killed in house fire remembered as loving mother

  04-03-2018 04:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The family of the woman killed in a house fire has identified her as 30-year-old Ilyssa Kanerva.
  In a statement to Postmedia, Kanerva’s family called her a vibrant woman and loving mother to her eight-year-old son.
  “Those who knew her describe her as being bright and shiny, the way a child would draw the sun,” the statement said. “She was a loving mom to her beautiful son, Keaton. He was her “best guy.” Ilyssa was charismatic in the most genuine and sincere wa
  
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• HealthHack competition bringing out best ideas at Open Data Day

  04-03-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prize money is up for grabs for whoever can make a proposal to make Edmonton a healthy city.
  The HealthHack competition at Open Data Day celebrations was held on Saturday as part of the national Smart Cities Challenge.
  Competitors will have until March 9 to submit a one-page proposal to an evaluation committee. The best five will be moving on to the prototype stage on March 16. The finalists will present in early April to compete for prizes.
  First place is $5,000, second place is $2,500 and thir
  
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• Local team looks to help women veterans in need as part of national campaign

  04-03-2018 00:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  All across the nation, 15 volunteer teams from VETS Canada (Veteran Emergency Transition Services) took part in the second annual In Her Boots campaign Saturday. 
  This boots-on-the-ground campaign is focused on women veterans in need and coincides with International Women’s Day, with the teams walking the streets and visiting shelters to find if any veterans were in need.  
  “Our purpose is to see if there are any veterans who have fallen through the cracks and to
  
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