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• 'An immeasurable sense of loss': Thorhild school grieving death of teen in bus crash

  08-03-2018 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thorhild Central School students have been offered additional counselling supports following the death of a teenage girl in a school bus collision Wednesday.
  In a statement posted to the Aspen View Public Schools website Thursday, principal Kim Carson pledged to “continue to provide supports to all our students and staff in the days and weeks ahead.”
  “Thorhild Central School is a close-knit family and this tragedy fills us all with an immeasurable sense of loss,” Carson s
  
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• Notes from the dome: Eye-contact issues, trade mission to Texas and Liberal priorities

  08-03-2018 21:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  #NoGirlzAloud
  Calgary North-West NDP MLA Sandra Jansen threw shade at United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney on Twitter Tuesday. 
  Jansen was formerly a member of the Progressive Conservatives, which merged with the Wildrose party to become the UCP. She crossed the floor in November 2016.  
  On Tuesday, Kenney tweeted out a news article with the headline “Alberta’s opposition threatens to stop oil to B.C., put toll on gas.” Kenney’s accompanying tweet
  
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• Has Ryan Strome shown enough to be part of Edmonton Oilers' future plans?

  08-03-2018 20:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 67: Islanders at Oilers
  An interesting game tonight for Edmonton Oilers’ fans, especially those of us with memories long and short. The Oilers will host the New York Islanders, their opponents in their first two Stanley Cup Finals three and a half decades ago. Both have fallen on hard times since those halcyon days, but occasionally have made news as trading partners. That association has been renewed in recent years as Peter Chiarelli and Garth Snow have hooked up no fewer than t
  
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• Brantley Gilbert salutes daisy dukes, pick up trucks at Rogers Place

  08-03-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Everything you’ve heard about Brantley Gilbert is true.
  He’s an amiable redneck with a back tattoo quoting the second amendment, a fervent believer in country pride, small town values, the American flag, his country’s servicemen and women.
  What he’s really into, however, is having a good time. The Georgia-born country superstar is no different than his fan base in that regard, sticking to a musical philosophy summed up by his My Kinda Party, a hit for Jason Aldean at the
  
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• Edmonton weather: Fog patches this morning give way to windy afternoon

  08-03-2018 14:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians can expect a hodgepodge of weather conditions Thursday with forecasters predicting a mix of sun, cloud, fog, wind and maybe even some snow.
  Temperatures this morning at Environment Canada’s Edmonton Blatchford station measured -15 C with a -18 windchill. Mercury levels are expected to reach -4 C this afternoon.
  Today: Sunny. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Fog patches this morning. Wind becoming southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High -4 C.
  Tonight: Mainl
  
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• Thursday's letters: Flying to climate-change forum makes no sense

  08-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The hypocrisy of global representatives from academia, research organizations, the United Nations, and cities when it comes to climate change always gives me a chuckle.
  While pretending to be preoccupied with stopping climate change and advocating that people bike to work, compartmentalize their garbage, and drive hybrid cars, research has shown that air travel is the single largest contributor to North America’s and Europe’s carbon footprint.
  One round-trip flight from Europe to New
  
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• Opinion: South Koreans doing the heavy lifting in calming North Korea crisis

  08-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Monday, South Korean envoys returning from meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un reported that the North is now willing to discuss possible “denuclearization” in direct talks with the United States.
  In response, U.S. President Trump expressed rare optimism for a peaceful resolution of the crisis. The U.S. had said it was not willing to talk until elimination of North Korean nuclear weapons was on the agenda.
  Since last year, world peace has been threatened by spectacular advance
  
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• Opinion: Equity, diversity and inclusion strengthens higher education, and Canada

  08-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last week, Finance Minister Bill Morneau introduced Budget 2018, saying Canada’s future success rests on ensuring every Canadian has an opportunity to work, “and that includes Canada’s talented, ambitious, and hard-working women.” 
  We see these hard-working women getting first degrees, upgrading credentials, and discovering their potential in lecture halls and laboratories on university campuses across Canada. They’ve been there in increasing numbers since Grac
  
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• Throne speech kicks off spring session Thursday

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s MLAs head back to the legislature Thursday, starting with the throne speech at 3 p.m.
  That speech is likely to be heavy on pipelines and legislation as an election expected in 2019 nears.
  After the throne speech, the first order of business will come Monday when Premier Rachel Notley is expected to bring forward a motion to debate the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from Alberta to the West Coast. 
  The motion will ask legislators to support the government
  
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• Talk Back: Jon Dziadyk bets true fans would play soccer at midnight

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jon Dziadyk is betting on a 36-hour soccer game to bring out fans and celebrate Edmonton’s long summer days. 
  It’s just a baby idea today, but the Ward 3 councillor will be on Edmonton Talk Back Thursday at noon to pitch his vision and build excitement.
  The game would be hosted in north Edmonton – at the Evansdale Community League – during the World Cup in June. They’ll have the World Cup games playing all night in the hall and play soccer outside from 8 a.m. S
  
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• String collectives follow their natural evolution

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Whether you prefer them bowed or strummed, made of nylon or steel, plugged in or not, strings are the stars when two different genre-crossing bands make their return to Festival Place this weekend.
  Sultans of String had their start as a duo nearly 15 years ago when violinist Chris McKhool met up with guitarist Kevin Laliberté on the Toronto music scene. Today, they still play a few duo gigs, and as a trio, quartet, quintet or sextet, and even with the backings of symphony orchestras as th
  
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• Powerful experience promised as Children of God makes its musical debu

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The two musicals on stage at the Citadel this month could not be more different. Mamma Mia! (in the Maclab until March 18) is a frothy tickle, whereas the Shoctor’s Children of God takes a visceral approach to a tragic topic.
  Written and directed by Vancouver’s Corey Payette, Children of God is set at a residential school in northern Ontario. The musical, which has been seen in Vancouver and Ottawa, tells the tale of Tommy and Julia, Indigenous siblings torn from their families and p
  
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• Hidden Spaces: Inside the cupola at the Alberta legislature

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Holy cow there are a lot of stairs,” responds Alberta legislature facilities manager Donald Sieffert, when asked about people’s reactions to making it to the top of the Alberta legislature.
  At the very top of the legislature is the cupola, a turret that sits atop the building’s domed roof. It is only accessible by navigating an ever-narrowing expanse of locked staircases. The tiny cupola houses a light that signals when the legislature is in session, a speaker syste
  
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• Electric jazz trio re-unites to find it's zen intent

  08-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sandro Dominelli Trio
  Here And Now
  (Independent)
  The electricity of contemporary guitar-bass-drums jazz trios doesn’t get much better than this.
  Following their initial 2010 release, The Alvo Sessions, and a spot of touring, Here And Now is the second recording for Edmonton drummer Sandro Dominelli, New Jersey bassist Chris Tarry and New York guitarist Rez Abbasi, and the meeting is often riveting.
  From the opening title track, you can hear how a few years has added to their musical friend
  
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• Scrabble, Cribbage and More - St. Albert Gazette

  08-03-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Scrabble, Cribbage and More  St. Albert GazetteDrop-in, socialize and challenge your mind playing Scrabble or Cribbage. Are there other games you are interested in playing? Bring a game, bring a friend and ...
  
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• Call for urgent action will follow climate change conference in Canada's 'far-flung wastelands'

  08-03-2018 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Among the many outcomes of the three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton will be a declaration.
  Speaking to Postmedia on Wednesday, the final day of the conference, Mayor Don Iveson said the declaration will come out later in the 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&r
  
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• Postmedia's Larry Wong nominated for national award

  08-03-2018 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A heartbreaking image of grieving congregation members at a church service taken by Postmedia photojournalist Larry Wong has been nominated for a national award.
  Wong snapped the powerful image at the Solid Rock Church International in Edmonton on Sept. 24, 2017, during a service to remember three women from the church that were killed after a stolen truck crashed into their minivan on Highway 16 east of Edmonton.
  The 30-year Edmonton Journal veteran said he discretely positioned himself at the
  
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• Graham Thomson: New legislative session opens — let the games begin

  08-03-2018 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  It promises to be a political three-ring circus.
  The new session of the Alberta legislature will open Thursday afternoon with so much hype, you’d expect to see a carnival barker outside the main door with a megaphone.
  Step right up, folks, and witness the lion pit that will be daily question period. Watch official Opposition leader Jason Kenney and Premier Rachel Notley go head-to-head in a life-and-death struggle at 1:30 p.m. every Monday to Thursday.
  As far as Alberta politics is concern
  
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• Brain-damaged youth who attacked caregiver to serve three more months

  08-03-2018 02:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge described a teenaged boy who brutally assaulted a caregiver as “manipulative and deceitful” as he sentenced the youth Wednesday.
  The 16-year-old, whose identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was earlier convicted of aggravated assault for the February 2017 beating of Heather Vanderzee, a staff member at Elk Island Child and Youth Ranch near Strathcona County where the youth was staying.
  He was also convicted of stealing a motor vehicle, rob
  
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• 'I'm frustrated': Federal funding for Indigenous child welfare doesn't go far enough, says advocate

  08-03-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than a week after the federal budget, there are few details on what a $1.4-billion federal funding promise to help Indigenous children in care means for Alberta, with no word on how much of that money will be spent here over the next five years. 
  Around 70 per cent of children in Alberta’s welfare system are Indigenous, making up a disproportionate number of the more than 10,000 children receiving services. 
  “I bang my head against the wall; what’s going on?&rdqu
  
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• Fort McMurray world-renowned boxer Danny Lindstrom dies at 57

  08-03-2018 02:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — One of Fort McMurray’s first athletes to gain international fame, boxer Danny Lindstrom, has died following complications from a stroke and dementia. He was 57.
  Born May 4, 1960, Lindstrom was one of the best amateur and professional boxers in Canadian history.
  The highlight of Lindstrom’s career was when he fought World Boxing Organization (WBO) light heavyweight Michael Moorer (21-0 at the time) on Dec. 15, 1990 at Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena.
  Lindstrom wou
  
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• Alberta signs letter to U.S. President Donald Trump opposing steel tariffs

  08-03-2018 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of 10 U.S. states and Canadian provinces, including Alberta, has sent a letter to Donald Trump decrying the U.S. president’s proposed tariff on steel and asking Canada be exempted. 
  The Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) sent the letter Wednesday to Trump, saying Canada deserves an exemption from any such tariff due to shared economic ties, supply chain integration and our mutual defence partnership. 
  The proposed 25 per cent tariff on steel and 10 per cent on
  
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• Edmonton Ski Club secures future with $1.1 million in grants

  08-03-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s central ski hill celebrated securing $1.1 million in capital grants Wednesday, saying it will ensure the longest running ski hill in Canada can survive.
  The municipal and provincial funding will allow the club to bring in a magic carpet for the bunny hill, refurbish the T-bar and redevelop the club house. Those elements will help support fat bike races, tubing, even downhill canoe races if the Flying Canoe Volant festival wants to get involved again, said club president Mon
  
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• Declaration will call for urgent action following Edmonton climate change conference

  08-03-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Among the many outcomes of the three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton will be a declaration.
  Speaking to Postmedia on Wednesday, the final day of the conference, Mayor Don Iveson said the declaration will come out later in the 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&r
  
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• NDP to kick off spring session debate with motion on Trans Mountain project

  08-03-2018 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first item on the NDP’s spring legislative agenda is to debate the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, says the government house leader. 
  “We want to send a clear message we stand united,” Brian Mason told a Wednesday news conference as MLAs return for the new sitting, which begins Thursday. “The premier is doing a lot of heavy lifting on this file.” 
  Premier Rachel Notley will bring forward a motion Monday to debate the Kinder Morgan proje
  
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