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• Steam train grinds to a halt as Fort Edmonton Park renovations get underway

  05-03-2018 22:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort Edmonton Park’s 99-year-old steam train will not be leaving the station this season as the park begins a $165-million transformation.
  The Baldwin steam engine will remain parked as the rail yard and shop undergo construction as part of a Fort Edmonton Park enhancement project, with a grand park reopening scheduled for May 2021.
  “We will continue with our regular programming for 2018 and in early August work will start on the Indigenous Peoples Experience,” said Sandra Gree
  
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• Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan tells Connor McDavid's hecklers: "Look in the mirror."

  05-03-2018 20:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 66: Oilers vs Coyotes
  In response to a group of twits that heckled Connor McDavid and his parents as they left a restaurant, then posted their actions online, Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan had the perfect response: “Look in the mirror.”
  Speaking to reporters today at his daily press conference, McLellan said he he had not seen this video, but said: “He would be the last one I would heckle if I was a fan. He gives the community everything he has. And I’
  
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• Duck eats rabbit: U of A researcher cracks optical illusion code

  05-03-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  About half of people initially can’t see both a duck and a rabbit in the optical illusion below. But, if you ask them to imagine a duck eating a rabbit, their brain focuses and they can see both images, new research from the University of Alberta found.
  “Your brain sort of zooms out and can see the big picture when the images are put into context with one another,” said Kyle Mathewson, a neuroscientist in the U of A psychology department who authored the study.
  Mathewson’
  
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• Alberta used to 'hide' from climate conferences, now hosts them: provincial minister

  05-03-2018 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  It wasn’t that long ago that Alberta and Canada used to “hide” from climate conferences, says Shannon Phillips, provincial minister of environment and parks. Now, Alberta hosts them.
  Phillips was speaking at a Monday news conference launching the three-day CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference.
  “We’re one of the only oil-producing jurisdictions in the world with a price on carbon — and the only one with a cap on emissions from its largest sou
  
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• Edmonton Oilers fans stand up for Connor McDavid after he's heckled in public

  05-03-2018 17:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Internet is on fire in Edmonton as Oilers fans react to the heckling of their hockey hero, Connor McDavid. 
  The video has little context, but under the title of “Had to press McDavid,” we see what looks to be Connor McDavid and his parents leaving a building, possibly a restaurant, on a snowy Edmonton night as a young man chirps at him: “You got to start winning games, man. You going to get traded. You need better players, man.”As the man chirps, another person c
  
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• Edmonton weather: An icy morning, but little wind and no snow

  05-03-2018 15:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Monday morning weather brought frigid temperatures to Edmonton, but the mercury is expected to rise significantly later in the day.
  A parking ban is in place.
  At 7:30 a.m. it was -20 C.
  Today: A high of -6 C, with a mix of sun and cloud.
  Tonight: A low of -17 C and partly cloudy.
  Tomorrow: A high of -7 C, with a mix of sun and cloud.
  Tomorrow night: A low of -15 C and clear.
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• One critical day for medical students to find out if they have a residency

  05-03-2018 15:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  For future physicians, one day can determine the course of their entire career.
  After at least eight years of studying, medical students found out last Thursday if and where they will do their residency in what the profession calls Match Day on March 1, as determined by the Canadian Resident Matching Services (CaRMS).
  But for an increasing number of medical students, being unmatched means they must scramble to figure out a new path, or face the fact they may never work in a clinical setting.
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• 'We’re getting warmer': City grapples with reality of climate change

  05-03-2018 14:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  The mercury might be struggling to rise right now but Edmonton is getting hotter.
  Over the last century, the temperature in the city rose on an average by 1.7 C, said Chandra Tomaras, senior environmental project manager at the City of Edmonton. But it is the rising temperatures in the last 50 years that have befuddled even the experts. 
  “If we were to warm at the rate that we are warming during the last 50 years, we’d be warming at the rate of 3.5 C per century,&rdquo
  
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• These cars are part of the family at World of Wheels

  05-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  JBs Power Centre World of Wheels, Western Canada’s biggest display of hot rods, customs and restored cars, trucks and motorcycles, is an auto enthusiasts’ dream.
  The annual trade show, presented by Carlson Body Shop Supply, not only features products, services and advice for do-it-yourself mechanic, it’s  a showcase of custom cars cared for with love by their owners like Gord Rempo, who showed off his 1958 Chevrolet Nomad wagon.
  And Eric Drinnan ta
  
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• Local governments can be producers or purchasers of green technology

  05-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As renewable and green technologies become the norm, local economies have the choice of being producers or purchasers, said Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto.
  He was speaking at a news conference at the Global Mayors Summit on Sunday ahead of an International Climate Change Science Conference being held in Edmonton March 5-7.
  Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, who had earlier echoed a similar sentiment, said gaps for innovators and entrepreneurs in green technology are being filled by peo
  
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• Aviation classes take off in Edmonton schools

  05-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first time Diljot Dhaliwal pulled back the steering wheel and took off, a cadre of classmates watched over his shoulder.
  As the horizon teetered at a steep angle on the screen and the flight simulator emitted angry beeps, J. Percy Page High School aviation teacher David Williams calmly told Dhaliwal to ignore them and find the flap lever.
  The demonstration was part of the high school course Aviation 35, which Edmonton Public Schools offered for the first time this winter. It serves as a
  
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• Criminal justice system in Alberta improving but not fast enough: report card

  05-03-2018 12:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it comes to criminal justice, Alberta ranks seventh in the country, worthy of a B grade, according to the 2017 criminal justice report card being released Monday by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
  The grade is an improvement from last year’s C+, but it has dropped in rankings to seventh from sixth.
  The province was given a failing grade of F for the most disproportionately-high level of Indigenous incarceration of any jurisdiction in Canada.
  The province has not reported th
  
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• Oil Spills: What's wrong with Milan Lucic?

  05-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With less than 20 games left in the current NHL season, the Edmonton Oilers are hoping to right their sinking ship before it completely goes under.
  Milan Lucic has been in a scoring slump for the past two months so No. 27 might have the biggest target on his back as the season winds down. Not only has he been left off the scoring sheet but as NHL writer Jim Matheson says, the current NHL is just too fast for Lucic. 
  “That’s a major problem for the Oilers, not just the general ma
  
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• Bob Nicholson did NOT say Ryan Nugent-Hopkins will be traded. So relax maybe?

  05-03-2018 07:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  But Nicholson’s interview did have me thinking about Todd McLellan’s future
  This weekend I was away coaching at a minor hockey tournament in the village of Warburg, home of Lindy Ruff, so I read about Hockey Night in Canada’s interview with Bob Nicholson on Twitter, and from that lens a great number of fans inferred from Nicholson’s remarks that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was on the block.
  Was that reading too much into Nicholson’s remarks? That’s how I see it. 
  
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• City declares parking ban effective one minute into Monday

  05-03-2018 05:39 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 went 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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• PHOTO GALLERY: Badminton Alberta Provincial Badminton Tournament

  05-03-2018 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Junior badminton players from Edmonton compete at the 2018 Yonex Alberta Junior Circuit provincial badminton tournament held March 2 to 4 at the GAO Badminton Tao facility in Calgary, Alberta. Approximately 250 competitors participated in the Badminton Alberta provincial tournament. 
   
  Alena Yu (right) and Jessie Hou (left) from Edmonton, Alberta in girls doubles U15 badminton game action at the 2018 Yonex Alberta Junior Circuit provincial badminton tournament held March 2 to 4 at the
  
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• Stony Plain-area teen dies in head-on highway collision

  05-03-2018 01:23 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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• Man shot by Strathcona RCMP officer; ASIRT investigating

  05-03-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating after a Strathcona County RCMP officer shot a man on Sunday morning.
  Emergency Medical Services called for help dealing with a man with stab wounds. While responding, Strathcona County RCMP officers “discharged their firearms,” RCMP said in a news release on Sunday.
  A 40-year-old man was taken to hospital where he is in stable condition. RCMP said there is no danger to the public.
  None of the emergency personnel were injured
  
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• Painting the city purple for International Women's Day

  05-03-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A local women’s group is looking to paint the town purple in honour of International Women’s Day.
  In 2017, Works for Women embarked on a plan to distribute wristbands for International Women’s Day, and they wound up distributing a total 5,000 purple wristbands. 
  “It was incredible right away and we recognized there was a lot of interest,” said Works for Women co-founder Chelsey McLeod.
  Since then the group has been doing a number of different things but pr
  
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