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• Final pitches for The Edmonton Project live tonight

  06-03-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The top 10 contenders for The Edmonton Project will get their chance Tuesday night to pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges who will decide which one will get built in the city.
  The Edmonton Project, which is “meant to showcase our pride in who we are and what this city means to us,” was launched back in August 2017 to try and crowdsource ideas for a permanent place of attraction in Edmonton.
  You can watch the event here live. Idea pitches are scheduled to run between 6 p.m. an
  
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• Feist, A Tribe Called Red and the Mavericks to play Interstellar Rodeo in July

  06-03-2018 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Home-grown indie roots festival Interstellar Rodeo has announced its lucky No. 7 lineup for 2018, with tickets on sale starting Wednesday.
  Its top draws range from the celebrated indigenous electronic hip hop of A Tribe Called Red, indie pop singer-songwriter Feist, the beautiful Orbison-inspired country harmonies of the Mavericks, and even the Fairfield Four — a cappella masters featured on the Coen Brothers’ record-breaking O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
  The festival —
  
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• Patrick O'Sullivan vs Edmonton

  06-03-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid led the way as Edmonton beat the Arizona Coyotes in overtime. The Cult’s David Staples and Bruce McCurdy dig into what is going right and wrong with Oilers, as well as discuss whether or not the coaching staff is going to be fired this summer.
  If, as he says, O’Sullivan was treated poorly in Edmonton, the reason is obvious …
  After superstar forward and Edmonton hockey hero Connor McDavid was heckled by a group of morons in Edmonton, former Oi
  
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• Alberta leads the country in auto thefts, police say

  06-03-2018 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Steve Sharpe strolled down a row of cars at Southgate Centre Tuesday morning, peering through the windows for something to steal.
  “Oh yeah,” he said, stopping at a dark Toyota SUV. “When I look inside this vehicle I can see probably about four or five dollars worth of loose change. There’s a bag over on the other side. I don’t know the brand name, but it’s a bag with a big zipper on it, so my curiosity is spiked.” 
  Sharpe, a staff sergeant with the
  
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• Cannabis retail applications open in Alberta

  06-03-2018 21:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission has yet to see a flood of retail cannabis applications after they opened Tuesday morning.
  There are a few in St. Albert and a handful in Calgary, with rural AGLC offices seeing virtually zero. 
  Still, that’s what the regulator forecast. Now it awaits the 250 or so applications it expects to get over the next 12 months. 
  Spokeswoman Michelle Hynes-Dawson said Tuesday it will likely take anywhere from two to four months for retaile
  
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• City fined more than $100,000 for injured worker, money diverted to fund prosthetic arm

  06-03-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A provincial court judge has ordered the bulk of a $100,000 fine against the City of Edmonton go towards funding a proper prosthetic for a woman who lost her arm when it was crushed on the the job.  
  Garbage bin truck driver Vickie Galet lost her left arm after it was crushed between her truck and a front end loader in a city waste management facility on June 6, 2015.
  On Monday, the city admitted to one count of failing to ensure vehicle traffic was controlled on a work site to protect
  
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• Edmonton Oilers sign Ostap Safin, one of team's five ace forward prospects

  06-03-2018 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid led the way as Edmonton beat the Arizona Coyotes in overtime. The Cult’s David Staples and Bruce McCurdy dig into what is going right and wrong with Oilers, as well as discuss whether or not the coaching staff is going to be fired this summer.
  There’s a shortage of quality National Hockey League wingers on the Edmonton Oilers roster, perhaps not surprising for a team that moved out Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Patrick Maroon in recent years. 
  
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• Aussie on Ice week seven: Maybe I've been Canadian all along

  06-03-2018 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  You know you have gone full Canadian when, up against the boards fighting for control of the puck, elbows and gloves flying about like an MMA bout, you start to apologize to the opposition players. 
  And before you accuse me of making this kind of stuff up, yes, I actually did that last Thursday in the final practice session of the Discover Hockey program. 
  Firstly, in my defence, I’ve grown to like the people I play hockey with. Secondly, apologizing is not out of character 
  
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• Expect major construction along Groat Road this summer, warn officials

  06-03-2018 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Expect major congestion along Groat Road starting this spring as city officials prepare to launch a multi-year, three-bridge renewal project.
  The project will include the Mayfair Bridge over Groat Road near Emily Murphy Park south of the river, the Groat Road bridge over the North Saskatchewan River, and the Victoria Park Road bridge over Groat Road.
  The entire road surface from 87 Avenue to north of the river is also being renewed but the road is not being realigned. A city spokesperson said th
  
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• Graham Thomson: Brian Jean could never serve in a Kenney-led party

  06-03-2018 18:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was always a matter of when, not if.
  Brian Jean’s days in politics were numbered the moment he lost the leadership of the United Conservative Party to Jason Kenney.
  You could see it in his face as he stood on the stage, a mixture of surprise and heartbreak trying to hide behind the thinnest veneer of a smile.
  Jean officially tendered his resignation from politics Monday afternoon when he quit as MLA for Fort McMurray-Conklin.
  But the political spark in his eye was extinguished Oct. 28.
  
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• Review: Dwight Yoakam turns it on, up and loose at the Jube

  06-03-2018 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Twenty-five hundred hungry country music fans came for a little twang and got a headbanging cowpunk show. Yep, Dwight Yoakam’s still got it.
  The 61-year-old singer-songwriter voice was in perfect pitch Monday at the Jube, the classic soft-seater packed to its wooden gills with generally the best sound in town, though through there was certainly a verbalization or three that it got way too loud. That’s good for the reputation if you want the turnstiles to keep moving through the incom
  
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• Edmonton parking ban lifts today at 3 p.m.

  06-03-2018 15:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A parking put in place after the weekend’s dump of snow will be lifted at 3 p.m. today. 
  The parking ban went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. 
  The city received more than 10 cm of snow, which is why a parking ban was put in place. The ban prohibits vehicles from parking on bus routes and other roads that have a seasonal parking sign.A ticket results in a $100 fine, while the fine for towing is $120 plus an $80 fee for storage of the vehicle. The parking ban will remain in effec
  
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• Edmonton weather: Oh no, there is a chance of snow. Will winter ever end?

  06-03-2018 15:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The winter weather never ends, it goes on and on my friend. Fingers crossed it doesn’t snow this morning.
  At 7:30 a.m., it was -11 C.
  A parking ban is in place, but will be lifted at 3 p.m. today.
  Today: Cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of snow this morning, Environment Canada forecasts. The sun should begin peaking out later in the day. High of -6 C.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy and a low of -15 C.
  Tomorrow: A high 30 per cent chance of snow in the afternoon. High of -3 C, low of -15 C.
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• Back to the Future with the DeLorean time machine exhibit

  06-03-2018 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seven DeLoreans were used throughout the filming of the Back to the Future trilogy, according to backtothefuture.com, and only three of them are believed to have survived and exist still today.
  If you are a fan of the time-travelling sports car, you can get up close to one at the POPnology exhibition at the Telus World of Science in Edmonton.
  In this video, Frank Florian, the centre’s director of planetarium and space sciences, shares his enthusiasm for the unique car.
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Stony Plain Road underpass needs more study

  06-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Time to put the brakes on costly Stony Plain Road underpass plan,” Paula Simons, Feb 20
  The underpass will not fundamentally change traffic going north and south on 149 Street at Stony Plain Road (SPR).
  There would still be only two lanes going north and two lanes going south. The only saving in time would be the light sequence when traffic is turning off of SPR onto 149 Street as the turning lanes would be above the 149 Street underpass. How much time is really b
  
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• Jason Kenney drug comments slammed by NDP MLA whose daughter overdosed

  06-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The last conversation Debbie Jabbour had with her daughter was about entering a drug treatment program. 
  A few days later, 33-year-old Amaya Benavides overdosed. She died on July 18, 2017. 
  Jabbour, NDP MLA for Peace River, is going public with her daughter’s story in the hope she can improve conversations around drug treatment. 
  “For me, it’s the best way I can honour her,” she said in an interview Monday. 
  Benavides struggled with depression for
  
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• Editorial: Different backlog, same inertia

  06-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Transportation bottlenecks are hindering the delivery of a key Alberta export. The complaint may sound numbingly familiar, but this time, the commodity is different.
  Just as a lack of pipeline capacity is choking off the export of bitumen at a cost to Alberta producers of hundreds of millions in revenue, a critical shortage of rail cars is backlogging millions of tonnes of grain across Western Canada. 
  The potential economic cost of leaving grain in bins and elevators instead of loading it
  
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• Player grades: Lucic, Klefbom break extended droughts as Edmonton Oilers spill Desert Dogs in overtime

  06-03-2018 12:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coyotes 3, Oilers 4 (OT)
  Sloppy but entertaining game at Rogers Palace on Monday evening, about what one might expect for two teams playing out the string. This one saw the 27th overall Edmonton Oilers stumble and bumble away yet another two-goal lead before recovering their equilibrium in 3-on-3 overtime to pull out the 4-3 overtime decision over the last-overall Arizona Coyotes. 
  Glass half full: The Oilers decisively won the special teams battle, outscoring the Desert Dogs 1-0 on the pow
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley continues to hold threat of another wine boycott over B.C.

  06-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even though Premier Rachel Notley dropped her boycott against B.C. wine 10 days ago, she is threatening to bring the embargo back if B.C. John Horgan constantly tries to delay the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
  On Monday, Notley held the second meeting of her “Market Access Task Force” which is better known as the “Retaliatory Task Force,” a group of people inside and outside of government dedicated to getting the pipeline project built.
  Notley says if Horgan pu
  
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• Climate changing more rapidly than many believe, says expert at Edmonton conference

  06-03-2018 06:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winters are warming faster than any other season and cold temperatures are more rare than in the last 50 or 60 years, said an American expert on climate change who made two presentations Monday at a conference in Edmonton.
  “We also expect there isn’t going to be a big change in rainfall during the growing season, but as it gets warmer, water evaporates more, and so if it gets warmer and there is no change in rainfall, it gets drier,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a Canadian and direct
  
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• Riverdale residents frustrated with homeless camp — vulnerable left with nowhere else to go

  06-03-2018 05:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Frustrated Riverdale residents who are locking their back gates and dodging dirty needles, garbage and human excrement as they walk through their neighbourhood say they feel trapped between a growing issue with homeless camps and a lack of government will to house vulnerable people.
  “It’s a nightmare,” said Carol McDonald, whose home backs onto Dawson Park, adding, “it would be nice if they were housed instead of living in our backyard.”
  Ray Vallee walked up a road
  
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• As a former leader Brian Jean could never serve in a Kenney-led party

  06-03-2018 04:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was always a matter of when, not if.
  Brian Jean’s days in politics were numbered the moment he lost the leadership of the United Conservative Party to Jason Kenney.
  You could see it in his face as he stood on the stage, a mixture of surprise and heartbreak trying to hide behind the thinnest veneer of a smile.
  Jean officially tendered his resignation from politics Monday afternoon when he quit as MLA for Fort McMurray-Conklin.
  But the political spark in his eye was extinguished Oct. 28.
  
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• Not-so-great glass elevator takes the fun out of the funicular

  06-03-2018 03:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  When I was a little kid, my dad loved to take us to Klondike Days. While my brother and I loved the rides, Dad loved to see all the new gadgets on sale in the SportEx. Every year, we left with some kind of new gizmo that had been sold to my dad on the promise that it would make our lives better. Every year, that thingamajig would end up in the basement, because either Dad couldn’t get it to work, or because it was more trouble than it was worth to use.
  Oh Edmonton, you are so like my Dad.
  
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• Photos: February 2018 in Edmonton

  06-03-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here is a selection of photos shot by our staff photographers, and a couple by freelancer Codie McLachlan, in February 2018.
  
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• City admits fault related to worker's death; fined $300,000

  06-03-2018 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton pleaded guilty Monday to an Occupational Health and Safety charge related to the death of an employee who was buried beneath a load of street sweepings. 
  Initially, the city had elected to go to trial on five charges related to the 2015 death of Stephen Penny, 35.
  But Monday, the city admitted to one count of failing to take all reasonable steps to ensure, where a worker may be injured if material is dislodged, moved or spilled, that the material was contained, restrain
  
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• Former UCP leadership contender Brian Jean quits as Fort McMurray MLA

  06-03-2018 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — Brian Jean has resigned as MLA for Fort McMurray-Conklin, citing a desire to spend time with his family and rebuild his home, which was destroyed in the May 2016 wildfire.
  Jean made the announcement during a Monday phone interview with Fort McMurray Today, after being dogged for months by rumours surrounding his future as a politician following his loss to Jason Kenney for United Conservative Party leadership in October.
  “My wife and my family have made a lot of sacri
  
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• Attempted murder charge laid against Edmonton woman

  06-03-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton woman is facing an attempted murder charge in connection to an attack in St. Albert late last month that sent a 27-year-old man to hospital with serious injuries, RCMP said Monday. 
  Mounties were called to a home in the Pineview neighbourhood around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday for a report of a disturbance. The victim and attacker were known to each other, police said. 
  No details about the types of injuries were released by investigators.
  Crystal Erickson, 27, has been charg
  
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• St. Albert ‘disturbance’ call leads to Edmonton woman being charged with attempted murder

  06-03-2018 01:46 via globalnews.ca
  A "disturbance" in St. Albert last week has led to a 27-year-old Edmonton woman being charged with attempted murder, the RCMP said on Monday.
  
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• Police-involved shootings under investigation

  06-03-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s police watchdog has been called in to investigate two non-fatal shootings by RCMP officers in unrelated incidents in Athabasca and Sherwood Park.
  In the first incident, Mounties were called to a residence in the town in northern Alberta at around 10:15 a.m. Friday for a report of a disturbance, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said in a news release Monday. 
  Officers encountered a man armed with a knife and who was suffering from a self-inflicted injury on their ar
  
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• Alberta officials heading to Ottawa over pipeline dispute

  06-03-2018 00:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta plans to align its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion legal efforts with those of the federal government, and provincial officials are heading to Ottawa this week to figure out how that can happen.
  The province’s market access task force held its second meeting Monday in Edmonton. 
  It talked about possible retaliatory measures against British Columbia, how to win the hearts and minds of Canadians on the pipeline issue, and Alberta’s legal strategy. 
  Premier Rachel No
  
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• Public school proponents push for cut in funding to Alberta private schools

  06-03-2018 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government should reduce its funding to independent schools and reinvest $30 million in public, Catholic and francophone schools, a group of 17 organizations proposed Monday.
  Public Interest Alberta executive director Joel French said government should allot some of Alberta’s private schools 50 per cent of the per-student funding public school students receive, instead of the current 70 per cent. The cut should not apply to private schools that educate students with disabilitie
  
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