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• Man dead in Leduc County shooting

  18-03-2018 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man is dead and his father has been arrested after a reported shooting at a rural residence in Leduc County late last week, RCMP said Sunday.
  Mounties were called to the property Thursday at around 10:40 p.m. to find a man dead outside the home. The father of the victim was arrested and taken into custody.
  An autopsy has been scheduled for early this week in Edmonton. The RCMP’s major crimes unit and forensics are continuing their investigation.
  
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• What should be Edmonton's next steps on bike lanes? Cyclists weigh in

  18-03-2018 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  If Edmonton’s next bike lane push is about fixing the missing links in the infrastructure already on the ground today, Edmonton’s bike commuters are happy to pitch projects. 
  For example, theres’s a 15 kilometre-long shared-use path running from the south end of Summerside at Edmonton’s southern border all the way north along 91 Street to the Mill Creek Ravine and to downtown.
  The problem? It’s missing roughly 10 blocks near Mill Woods, and two blocks at the Co
  
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• Nick Lees: Jasper fire chief has a burning desire to raise money for charities

  18-03-2018 19:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jasper Fire Chief Greg Van Tighem, who has raised more than $400,000 for charities on gruelling bike rides in the past 10 years, left Sunday on another epic mission.
  “I plan to cycle 500 kilometres from Fort Smith, in the Northwest Territories down Alberta’s Winter Road to Fort McMurray,” says the fire chief.
  “The ice road is only open from mid-December and crosses some of the most breathtaking landscapes in Alberta, wending its way over frozen rivers and marshes. It disa
  
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• Maglev entrepreneur urges council not to be too quick with LRT spending

  18-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just hit pause on West LRT – that’s the message magnetic-levitation transit entrepreneur Dan Corns has for city council.
  The world is on the cusp of a revolution – on-demand shuttles that will make LRT look slow, overbuilt and onerous, said Corns. Build a $2.24-billion rail line to the west end and it might look obsolete before it opens.
  “When I started hearing those huge numbers, I started reaching out to the councillors to say, ‘Hey, there’s another option h
  
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• Songbird banded east of Edmonton turns up in South America

  18-03-2018 04:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Baltimore oriole banded east of Edmonton made its way last year to Colombia, near the Carribean Sea.
  The adult male, at least three years old, was banded by assistant biologist Sara Pearce Meijerink on May 26, 2017 at the Beaverhill Bird Observatory and found  5,850 kilometres away in Sevilano, Colombia on Oct. 22. Having a bird recaptured at a different banding station is less than a 0.1 per cent chance, Meijerink said.
  Unfortunately for the bird, he was recovered because he hit a w
  
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• Suspect arrested in connection with Edmonton homicide

  18-03-2018 03:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A murder suspect wanted on warrants has been arrested and charged in Edmonton.
  Edmonton Police Service took the suspect into custody on Saturday morning without incident after issuing an arrest warrant on Friday.
  The charges stem from the death of Marlon Jair Nunez, 39, of Edmonton. 
  Southwest division patrol officers were called by concerned family members to an apartment near 107 Street and 83 Avenue on March 11 around 5:10 p.m.
  Police found Nunez dead from what the medical examiner
  
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• Artists remember the Harbin Gate, Edmonton's Chinatown icon

  18-03-2018 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Artists and Chinatown residents created a community art project on Saturday remembering the Harbin Gate and sharing hopes for its future.
  The group created calligraphy and crocheted tributes to the Harbin Gate, and put the art on the construction fence where the gate once stood.
  For artist and co-organizer Grace Law, it was important for the community to feel emotions around the gate’s removal on Nov. 4, 2017 to make way for the Valley Line LRT.
  “We felt sad the gate is gone,”
  
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• Mounties looking for first-degree murder suspect; missing woman

  18-03-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties arrested a woman and have warrants to arrest her son on first-degree murder charges. Meanwhile, they are looking for a woman who went missing on the day they found the victim’s body and believe she may be with the suspect.
  The RCMP Major Crimes Unit North arrested Margaret Simon, 53, in Plamondon on March 15 and charged her with accessory to murder. She is scheduled to appear in Lac La Biche Provincial Court on Monday.
  Since Nov. 7, 2017, Lloyd Wesley Boudreau, 22, from Lac La Bic
  
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