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• Edmonton to offer declaration for need of urgent action following Climate Change Conference

  07-03-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Among the many outcomes of the three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference will be an Edmonton declaration.
  Speaking to Postmedia on Wednesday, the final day of the conference, Mayor Don Iveson said the declaration will come out later this week.
  “It will be an invitation to other cities to join in solidarity in reaffirming the urgency that the science clearly states, but also to work with the science community to answer the pressing questions that cities have – if we&rsquo
  
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• 'It's the truth': Edmonton chamber of commerce CEO paints bleak economic outlook picture

  07-03-2018 23:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re looking for a rosy outlook on Alberta’s economic recovery, don’t ask Janet Riopel.
  The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce president and CEO painted a bleak picture to a small room of people at a Conference Board of Canada seminar dubbed “Is the Recovery Real?” at the Sutton Hotel in downtown Edmonton on Wednesday.
  “Some might say the tide has turned … that we’re on our way back to prosperity, but has it? Are the difficult times truly behind us
  
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• 'Politics is full of bulls–t': Derek Fildebrandt gears up for session as Independent

  07-03-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Embattled MLA Derek Fildebrandt is back at work after licking his wounds and says he wants to be a constructive non-partisan voice during legislative debate. 
  “Politics is full of bulls–t,” he said at a news conference Wednesday, where he announced plans to introduce a private member’s bill to cut MLA salaries by five per cent. “Politics is not fair, there’s no justice in it, it’s not balanced.”
  The MLA for Strathmore-Brooks said he was devast
  
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• Teen girl dead after school bus rear-ended in fog by dump truck northeast of Edmonton

  07-03-2018 21:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thorhild County — A teen girl is dead after a dump truck slammed into the back of a school bus on a foggy rural road in Thorhild County Wednesday morning, say RCMP. 
  Emergency responders declared the girl dead on the scene after being called to the 8 a.m. crash near Range Road 223 and Township Road 593 in Thorhild County, said authorities.
  “Preliminary investigation has determined the school bus had turned southbound on Opal Road from Township Road 594 when it was rear
  
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• NDP to kick off spring session debate with motion on Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

  07-03-2018 20:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP plans to introduce around 15 bills this spring, ranging from cannabis regulations to urban agriculture rules. 
  “We hope the back-and-forth will be civilized and productive,” said government house leader Brian Mason at a Wednesday news conference. 
  The legislature’s spring session kicks off Thursday with a throne speech read by Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell. 
  Mason said Premier Rachel Notley will bring forward a motion Monday to debate the Trans Mountain pipeline
  
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• Diamonds stolen from mine lead to charges against Yellowknife man

  07-03-2018 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has been charged after diamonds were stolen from a remote Northwest Territories mine, say Yellowknife RCMP.
  The man was charged after an internal theft in February at Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife.
  The diamonds have since been recovered, said Mounties. 
  Yellowknife RCMP General Investigative Section (GIS) with help from the Northwest Territories RCMP Federal Investigations Unit (FIU) made the arrest.
  “It is important to recognize the quick acti
  
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• Edmonton Ski Club secures future with $1.1 million grant

  07-03-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s downtown ski hill celebrated $1.1 million in capital grants Wednesday morning, saying it will ensure the longest running ski hill in Canada can survive.
  The federal and provincial funding will allow the club to bring in a magic carpet for the bunny hill, refurbish the t-bar and redevelop the clubhouse.
  The hill is located beside the Muttart Conservatory in the river valley just north of Connor’s Hill.
  Alberta Culture has committed $600,000 to rebuilt the facility over thre
  
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• Teen girl dead after school bus, semi-truck collide near Redwater

  07-03-2018 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A teen girl is dead after a school bus and semi-tractor crashed on a rural road near Redwater Wednesday morning. 
  The girl was declared dead on scene after emergency  crews were called to the 8 a.m. collision near Range Road 223 and Township Road 593 in Thorhild County, said authorities, Alberta Health Services spokesman Kerry Williamson. 
  A total of 14 patients were assessed by emergency crews but none of them had to be transported to hospital, added Williamson. 
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• 'Politics is full of bulls***': Derek Fildebrandt gears up for session as independent

  07-03-2018 18:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Embattled MLA Derek Fildebrandt says he doesn’t have firm plans ahead of the next provincial election expected in 2019. 
  He said he was devastated when he learned he wouldn’t be allowed to return to the United Conservative Party, led by Jason Kenney. 
  “Politics is full of bulls***,” he said at a news conference Wednesday.
  The MLA for Strathmore-Brooks is sitting as an independent in the next legislative session starting Thursday. 
  He reiterated that he&rsqu
  
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• Rumour has it Oscar Klefbom is being showcased. Is that a good plan?

  07-03-2018 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, speaking about Oscar Klefbom’s trade status on Hockey Central: “It’s pretty clear that he’s been playing hurt. And players who have played against him say that he has been really protective of his shoulder, the way he turns, the way he goes into the boards. Like, he has played pretty hard this year considering he has really been hurting. And the fact that they haven’t shut him down, I think that’s leading
  
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• Province earmarks $8.1 million for sexual violence supports

  07-03-2018 18:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sexual assault survivors will have access to more counselling and crisis assistance, with an $8.1 million boost for the Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services. 
  The cash, announced Wednesday, will also help increase police and court assistance, in the hope that more survivors feel they can come forward. 
  Sexual assault centres and law enforcement have reported a surge in demand for counselling services, with a 53 per cent increase in new clients and unprecedented waitlists.
  Deb
  
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• Editorial: Brian Jean, the most popular premier who never was

  07-03-2018 15:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  When politicians depart public life by announcing they want to spend more time with family, the platitude often rings false — a facile pretense hiding a less-honourable truth behind a hasty retreat from politics.
  Not so much with Brian Jean.
  When he resigned Monday as MLA for Fort McMurray-Conklin, citing a desire to spend time with his loved ones and rebuild his home, he left the sense that that is exactly where he will be found in the months to come.
  Perhaps it’s the personal adver
  
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• Gyrfalcons, hawks, bald eagles; Don Delaney has shot them all

  07-03-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Don Delaney has loved watching birds ever since his mother, an avid birder, introduced him to birding through books and field trips as a young child.
  Recently he has started photographing birds and one of his favourite unique places to visit from November to March, is a grain terminal in the city of Edmonton.
  It is a treasure trove of birds of prey hunting the pigeons that hang around the terminal eating grain. He has photographed at least four raptor species and sometimes all at the same time,
  
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• Edmonton weather: Chilly way to start the day

  07-03-2018 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you haven’t left the house yet it might be wise to bundle up before you do.
  Old Man Winter is back, at least for this morning, as 6 a.m. temperatures at Environment Canada’s Edmonton Blatchford station measured -18 C with a -23 windchill. Things are expected to warm up, however, with temperatures expected to reach -2 C this afternoon.
  Today: Increasing cloudiness this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High -2 C.
  Tonight: Clearing this evening. Low -15 C.
  Tomorrow: Sun
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Playground zones should be seasonal

  07-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  While driving in a playground zone yesterday evening, dark and in sub-zero temperatures with fields full of snow, I thought isn’t it ridiculous? Why couldn’t our councillors use some common sense and make the rule effective from March 1 to Nov. 30 instead of 365 days a year?
  There’s certainly no playing baseball, football or soccer out there at this time of year.
  Patricia Dunnill, Edmonton
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  Re. “Ottawa failing country on resource lea
  
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• Opinion: Make mental wellness a bigger part of health care

  07-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young woman left to care for her mother with little support from a health-care system that promises to provide every Canadian the best access to health-care services, Rachael Longridge was an influential and close friend of mine during our journey to becoming registered nurses. Her death shook the foundations in a system we should trust.
  Once details began to surface regarding the circumstances that led to the death of my friend, I began to question how. How could a system that Rachael was so
  
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• Public school board to push for solar panel cash

  07-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton public school trustees hope the province takes a shining to their request for about $50 million to put solar panels on top of a quarter of district schools.
  The board voted unanimously Tuesday to request an audience with the ministers of education, infrastructure and the environment to ask them to fund a plan projected to save about $4 million a year in electricity costs.
  Vice-chairwoman Bridget Stirling said the board should seize the chance to teach a younger generation about renewabl
  
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• Paula Simons: The Trump Show distracts from real NAFTA threats

  07-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “There is no chaos,” says Donald Trump. “Only great energy.”
  But then, Trump is the chaos president, running a White House so campy it would make RuPaul swoon.
  In this video essay, Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons reviews The Trump Show, the wildest and most worrisome reality TV show the world has ever seen. But if we let ourselves be too distracted by the antics of Trump’s courtiers, she argues, we take our eyes off the issues that really matter to Canada, i
  
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• Climate change can affect mental health, expert tells Edmonton conference

  07-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Climate change can impact mental health in a variety of ways, an American expert told an international conference Tuesday in Edmonton.
  People get stressed when confronted with a problem of the magnitude of climate change, said Patrick Kinney, urban health professor at Boston University. He spoke to Postmedia at the Cities and Climate Change Science Conference at the Shaw Conference Centre.
  The big issue in Canada is wildfires, he said.
  “Climate change is making wildfires more prominen
  
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• David Staples: Edmonton Project shows genius of building on our weaknesses

  07-03-2018 07:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  One way to a better Edmonton is to build on our strengths, but a competing notion is take a negative aspect of our city and turn it into a positive.
  On Tuesday during the competition for The Edmonton Project, we saw both approaches at work.
  This new competition worked to identify and will now work to build a popular new attraction for Edmonton. Five corporate partners (EllisDon, BDO, ATB, Kasian Architecture and zag creative), will partner with the winning entry, Gary and Amber Poliquin’s
  
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• Gondola over North Saskatchewan named winning idea of The Edmonton Project

  07-03-2018 05:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A gondola over the North Saskatchewan River could be in Edmonton’s future.
  The idea, pitched by Gary and Amber Poliquin, was one of nine presented to a panel of judges Tuesday night as part of The Edmonton Project, a crowdsourcing competition of ideas for a permanent attraction in the city.
  The Poliquin’s proposal would see a gondola connecting downtown with Old Strathcona, with three stations located at the Shaw Conference Centre, one near Re/Max Field and another at the parking lot
  
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• Indigenous communities see effects of climate change up close, conference told

  07-03-2018 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Members of Indigenous communities are seeing aberrations in wildlife sightings, a climate change conference was told Tuesday in Edmonton.
  “The warmer climates are bringing on different animals,” said Vickie Wetchie, economic development director of Montana First Nations. “There are pelicans where pelicans were not seen before.”
  Wetchie was a panelist on a Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous People session at the Cities and Climate Change Science Conference at the Shaw Co
  
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• University of Alberta study looks to improve nasal surgery with engineered cartilage

  07-03-2018 03:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Medical researchers at the University of Alberta are pioneering a new process for growing high-quality human cartilage in the lab that could soon improve how surgeons perform nasal reconstructions.
  Cancer patients requiring a new nose would be subjected to less pain and fewer complications, along with more consistent esthetic results, say the project’s authors, whose work is published in Nature’s Scientific Reports.
  “The idea is … what if we could give you pre-fabricated
  
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• Ruling against city offers lesson for west LRT expropriation: lawyer

  07-03-2018 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new ruling should give a heads-up to anyone facing expropriation along the future west LRT line, a lawyer says.
  The Alberta Land Compensation Board this month found in favour of Can-West Corporate Air Charters, a company forced to move from the City Centre Airport when the city expropriated leases there to develop a residential neighbourhood. 
  Can-West received the city’s formal intention to expropriate, then found a new location at Edmonton International Airport and moved befo
  
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• Threat of U.S. steel tariffs worries Edmonton company

  07-03-2018 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rumours of a United States steel and aluminum tariff swirled around the manufacturing sector for months, but for one Edmonton company, current policy direction is worse than it thought. 
  AltaSteel has sat at its 34 Street location since 1955, though president Jon Hobbs laughs it’s an oft-forgotten fact that Alberta’s capital even has a steel industry. 
  The company’s 350 employees produce 300,000 tonnes of steel each year, 20 per cent of which goes to the U.S. 
  Pr
  
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• City's $100,000 fine to fund prosthetic arm for injured worker

  07-03-2018 01:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A provincial court judge has ordered the bulk of a $100,000 fine against the City of Edmonton go towards a proper prosthetic for a woman who lost her arm when it was crushed on the job.  
  Garbage truck driver Vickie Galet lost her left arm when it was caught between her truck and a front-end loader in a city waste management facility on June 6, 2015.
  Judge D’Arcy DePoe finalized the unusual order Tuesday after hearing earlier about the physical, mental and emotional suffering Galet ex
  
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• Expect major construction along Groat Road this summer, officials warn

  07-03-2018 00:54 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.
  “Everything has a shelf life,” Sam El Mohtar, director of transportation infrastructure delivery for the City of Edmonton, said Tuesday.
  The $48-million project involves completely demolishing the deck of the Groat Road Bridge over the North Saskatchewan River — one side at a time — to rebuild on the existing piers and extend the li
  
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• Edmonton man pleads guilty to U.S. terror charges

  07-03-2018 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  New York — An Edmonton man pleaded guilty Tuesday to U.S. charges that he sent money and provided long-distance support to Tunisian jihadists believed responsible for a 2009 suicide attack in Iraq that killed five American soldiers.
  Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa entered the plea in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., for a murder conspiracy charge that carried a maximum life sentence.
  He instead faces a 26-year prison term followed by deportation as part of the deal, which a judge still mu
  
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• Edmonton parking ban lifted

  07-03-2018 00:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A parking put in place after the weekend’s dump of snow was lifted at 3 p.m. Tuesday. 
  The parking ban went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Monday. 
  The city received more than 10 cm of snow. The ban prohibited 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.
  On Saturday, Edmonton police recorded 130 collisions between 6 a.m. and 10 p.
  
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