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• Alberta government gives $1-billion boost to petrochemicals industry

  12-03-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government will spend $1 billion over the next four years on the petrochemical industry to try to diversify Alberta’s energy sector.  
  The cash will come from two streams — the second round of the petrochemicals diversification program, for which 16 companies applied last time, and a new feedstock infrastructure program.  
  Each will see around $500 million in funding. The diversification program will come in the form of royalty credits spread o
  
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• City of St. Albert Recreation Spring Activity Guide 2018

  12-03-2018 23:34
  Put a Spring in Your Step! The City of St. Albert invites residents to enjoy a healthier and more vibrant... Read Post
  
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• Committee urged to improve access for disabled to Edmonton river valley trails

  12-03-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials hope to have the Rossdale trail east of the Walterdale Bridge open sometime this year, once work is completed.
  “They didn’t have a firm timeline on it, but the goal is to get that done during this construction season,” Mayor Don Iveson told a news conference Monday after an executive committee meeting where universal access to trails (for those who are disabled) was discussed.
  The Rossdale trail connection from the Walterdale Bridge to 94 Avenue has been closed s
  
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• Air Canada says computer issues have been resolved

  12-03-2018 22:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Air Canada customers are being advised to check their flight status before going to Edmonton International Airport after a computer-telecommunications issue disrupted operations early Monday. 
  “The computer and telecommunications issues affecting our operations have been resolved and we apologize for any inconvenience this situation has caused. We appreciate our customers’ patience and we have arranged additional staffing to get our customers on their way as soon as possibl
  
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• Alice Cooper, Bon Iver playing the Jube — separately

  12-03-2018 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not together — although that sure would be an amazing sight — Alice Cooper and Bon Iver are both playing the Jubilee Auditorium in coming months.
  The 70-year-old Detroit born son of an evangelist has been active in music since the mid-’60s, becoming one of the most recognizable faces in rock and roll — then heavy metal — with his gothic-horror glam persona who is often beheaded onstage and has a long history with snakes. Cooper’s hits include Only Women B
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death near Whyte Avenue

  12-03-2018 20:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a 39-year-old man whose body was discovered in an apartment building near Whyte Avenue Sunday.
  Officers responded to an address near 107 Street and 83 Avenue at around 5:10 p.m. after receiving a call from a concerned family member. Upon arrival, officers found the body of a man in one of the suites, police said in a news release Monday.
  The man has been identified as Marlon Jair Nunez, 39, of Edmonton.
  An autopsy is scheduled for 9 a
  
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• Charges laid in one of two slayings discovered at northwest Edmonton home

  12-03-2018 20:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man arrested in Saskatoon is charged with second-degree murder after a killing discovered inside a northwest Edmonton house Sept. 18, days after another man was shot dead at the same basement suite. 
  Edward Piche, 29, was arrested by Saskatoon police March 5 before he was transported back to Edmonton and charged with the killing of Blayne Joseph Burnstick, 25, whose body was discovered Sept. 18 in the rooming house near 111 Avenue and 94 Street, said Edmonton police in a Monday release.
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• Sherwood Park man charged with distributing child porn

  12-03-2018 20:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP have charged a 21-year-old man from Sherwood Park with possession and distribution of child pornography.
  Now, Strathcona County RCMP are asking anyone with information about 21-year-old Aljon Pasuquin to call them or contact cybertip.ca.
  Police began their investigation last August when the RCMP’s National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children passed along information about a person using a social media account to upload and distribute child pornography, RCMP said in a news releas
  
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• Alberta government gives $1-billion boost to petrochemicals cash

  12-03-2018 20:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government will spend $1 billion over the next four years on the petrochemical industry to try to diversify Alberta’s energy sector.  
  The cash will come from two streams — the second round of the petrochemicals diversification program, for which 16 companies applied last time, and a new feedstock infrastructure program.  
  Each will see around $500 million in funding. The diversification program will come in the form of royalty credits spread o
  
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• School superintendent pay and benefits under review to ensure fairness: minister

  12-03-2018 19:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education minister is reviewing school superintendent contracts to ensure their pay and benefits are not too rich.
  Education Minister David Eggen said Monday that the endeavour is further to the pay review of Alberta agencies, boards and commissions.
  School board chairs are to provide him with the contracts so he can ensure Albertans are getting a “fair deal.”
  There needs to be a system-wide comparison of superintendent compensation across the province, Eggen said, be
  
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• Oil Spills: Will Connor McDavid win the Hart Trophy?

  12-03-2018 18:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Should Connor McDavid get some consideration to be the league MVP this year and win the Hart Trophy for a second year in a row.
  According to NHL writer Robert Tychkowski, it’s “a hard no.”
  “If you’re going to give it to a player whose team isn’t in the playoffs then I think that player has to be blowing the doors off the league.”
  If Hart Trophy judging was not based on the player judged most valuable to his team, but instead based on being the best play
  
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• Red Deer RCMP search for driver after pedestrian killed in hit and run

  12-03-2018 17:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 38-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run incident Sunday night in Red Deer when he was struck by a pickup truck as he stood on the side of the road.
  RCMP say they are now on the hunt for the driver, who did not stop following the collision.
  The incident happened around 8:45 p.m. on 76 Street near 52 Avenue.
  Police said the victim was standing near a parked car on the street, but was not in the traffic lane, when he was hit.
  Emergency medical crews transported him to hospital, where he was p
  
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• RCMP search for gun thief

  12-03-2018 17:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are on the look-out for a thief who made off with a rifle after cutting the lock off a gun cabinet at a Sherwood Park Canadian Tire store last week.
  Strathcona RCMP say the brazen theft took place around 8 a.m. March 7 at the Canadian Tire on Ordze Road in Sherwood Park when a man cut the firearm cabinet lock and took a brown Chiappa 12mm rifle. He then concealed the rifle and left the store without paying, police said in a news release Monday.
  The man is described as about five foot 10 a
  
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• Deadline for filing formal property assessment complaints Monday

  12-03-2018 15:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Monday is the deadline for Edmonton residents to file formal property assessment complaints with the city.
  Formal complaints can be filed with the Assessment Review Board at the Churchill building, 10019-103 Avenue.
  Tax notices, which can’t be appealed and include a levy for provincial education funding, will be sent out May 22.
  The typical detached Edmonton home was worth $399,500 on the annual assessment day last July 1, up from about $360,000 a decade ago, but down from the record $408,
  
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• Edmonton weather: Nothing but sunshine

  12-03-2018 13:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather forecast by Environment Canada.
  Today: Sunny. Fog patches this morning. High 4 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear. Low -10 C.
  Tomorrow: Sunny. High 2 C. Clear during the evening. Low -6 C.
  Traffic updates
  Before you head out the door, see our live traffic map for updates.
  
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• Aussie on Ice week eight: Get pucks deep, get pucks on the net

  12-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s week nine of the Discover Hockey program and reporter Juris Graney hits the ice to play his first ever game of hockey. That’s right, folks, that tubby 41-year-old total hockey noob who couldn’t strap on skates eight weeks ago is a hockey player now, although he has redefined what it means to “play” hockey. If you’ve missed any previous stories in the series, you can check them out here.As pre-game preparations go, Thursday’s first foray into ho
  
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• Star Wars a vehicle for engaging students in religion class, chaplain says

  12-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A school chaplain’s penchant for pop culture has become a mainstay in his religion lessons to Catholic students near Edmonton.
  Mike Landry, a Spruce Grove-based chaplain in Evergreen Catholic Schools, turns to the Jedi, the First Order and the Resistance to teach about the Bible and talk to students about their problems.
  “When you’re sitting in a religion class, you’ve got people from all these backgrounds who come from all these different perspectives, and you’re t
  
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• MLAs expected to debate Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

  12-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The government will once again bring pipelines to the forefront Monday when Premier Rachel Notley introduces a motion for legislative debate.
  Government house leader Brian Mason said the move will give MLAs a chance to stand united on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  “The premier is doing a lot of heavy lifting on this file,” he said at a Wednesday news conference, a day before the legislature’s spring session kicked off. 
  The motion asks MLAs to support the governme
  
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• First defence: New Epcor ranking scheme may wake up neighbourhoods to flood risk

  12-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Live near a hospital or substation? You’re in luck.
  Epcor officials are busy prioritizing neighbourhood pockets across the city based on how likely they are to flood and what critical infrastructure is nearby.
  At-risk homes beside a hospital, a school, electrical substation or the LRT will see the biggest investments first as Edmonton prepares for more extreme and frequent flash floods in neighbourhoods far from the river. 
  Anyone who lives farther from that critical infrastructure sh
  
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• Edmonton pedestrian fatalities remained stubbornly high last year, stats show

  12-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ten pedestrians died after being struck by vehicles in Edmonton last year, a stubbornly high total as the city pushes to reduce the number of people injured and killed on city streets. 
  Police statistics show 10 pedestrians were killed in the city in 2017, the same number as the year prior. Another 57 suffered major injuries, while another 197 were treated on scene by paramedics and released without needing hospital care.   
  The youngest person killed was four years old, the oldes
  
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• Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan "on the hot seat," says NHL insider

  12-03-2018 05:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Still hard to say if McLellan should stay or go
  This in from USA Today hockey writer Kevin Allen, a long-time NHL insider, his list of six vulnerable NHL coaches on the hot seat: Alain Vigneault, Jeff Blashill, Joel Quenneville, Barry Trotz, Bill Peters and Edmonton’s own Todd McLellan.
  On McLellan, Allen writes: “McLellan likely will pay a price for the Oilers’ disappointing season. GM Peter Chiarelli also seems vulnerable because he put this flawed roster together. McLe
  
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• Nick Lees: Sampled some of everything on offer at Downtown Dining Week media tasting

  12-03-2018 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not being a foodie unless asked for my professional Scot’s opinion on how to prepare a just-trapped haggis, I was out of my depth last week when invited to the Downtown Dining Week media launch
  Organized for 15 years by the Downtown Business Association (DBA) to shine a light on the wide variety of culinary expertise in the downtown area, the event being held March 9-18 has attracted a record 37 restaurants.
  Surrounded by chefs and young would-be journalists busy tweeting, I wondered the b
  
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• Review of northeast seniors clinic has retiring doctor up in arms

  12-03-2018 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A local doctor placed an advertisement in a newspaper criticizing what he calls the closure of a seniors’ health clinic that Alberta Health Services says isn’t actually closing. 
  Dr. Douglas Duke, a physician who runs the seniors’ clinic at Northeast Community Health Centre, placed a notice in the Edmonton Journal on Friday that said the clinic will “cease operations” as of March 29, after he goes into retirement.
  “The decision is poorly informed and is c
  
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• Court denies appeal of police chief's refusal to order disciplinary hearing

  12-03-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta judge has rejected an appeal by the family of a man who died shortly after an Edmonton police officer dropped him off near a city shelter in 2014.
  Don and Lena Szybunka, the parents of Klayten Szybunka, sought a court ruling that would have forced Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht to order a disciplinary hearing for the officer who took their 37-year-old son into custody, issued him a public intoxication ticket and then left him near Hope Mission at 9908 106 Ave. on June 28, 2014. He w
  
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• Daylight time plays role in saving Riverbend strip mall from fire

  12-03-2018 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Daylight time is being credited for helping firefighters save businesses from a blaze at a Riverbend strip mall because someone was around to call 911 Sunday. 
  At 9:30 a.m. on the morning clocks moved ahead an hour, a Goodwill Donation Centre employee reported the fire. The centre opens daily at 9 a.m.
  Acting District Chief Todd Weiss said crews found a small fire in a pillar in front of the Goodwill store located in the Riverbend Square Shopping Centre. There was no fire damage to any of t
  
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