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• Man charged — again — with hit-and-run killing of Aldergrove teen

  20-03-2018 23:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton homicide police have laid charges against a man in a hit-and-run that killed an 18-year-old last spring, months after they withdrew murder charges against the same man in the case. 
  Justin Handbury, 31, is charged with criminal negligence causing death, criminal negligence causing bodily harm, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.
  The charges stem from a May 22, 2017, hit-and -un near 85 Avenue and
  
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• Freeman on the Land accused of 'paper terrorism' has hostile exchange with judge

  20-03-2018 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman walked into an Edmonton courtroom Tuesday morning, everyone assembled stood up — except for the accused.
  It is customary for people in a courtroom to rise when a judge enters, and to only sit down once court is called to order.
  But Allen Nelson Boisjoli, a self-proclaimed Freeman on the Land facing an allegation he used “paper terrorism” as a way to intimidate the legal system, argues the province’s superior cou
  
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• Residents Encouraged to Provide Input on Cannabis Legalization for St. Albert

  20-03-2018 23:38
  Survey runs until April 4, 2018 The City is encouraging residents and stakeholders to provide input into the legalization of... Read Post
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Licence plate war still over and celebrating Alberta's francophones

  20-03-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Meeting in wake of licence plate kerfuffle cancelled
  A trade summit in the wake of an interprovincial spat over licence plates has been cancelled. 
  Saskatchewan officials cancelled the meeting Tuesday, said Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous. 
  On Jan. 22, Saskatchewan dropped a controversial ban on Alberta-plated vehicles at Saskatchewan job sites, ending weeks of escalating tensions. But Bilous noted there’s no longer a need to meet on that issue. 
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• Council backs off decision on grass clipping ban in the regular trash

  20-03-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council backed away from a decision to ban grass clippings from the regular trash pickup Tuesday.
  The vote heads back to a June utility committee instead, where council members will get more details on what residents can do with those grass clippings if they refuse to leave them on the lawn.
  “It’s taking people by surprise and they have questions about what they’re getting for their service,” said Coun. Tim Cartmell, one of several council members who pushed back against
  
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• Asbestos discovery delays West Jasper Place recreation centre rehab

  20-03-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton now has 14 projects running behind schedule, city officials told council in a wide-ranging capital update Tuesday. 
  The West Jasper Place recreation centre renovations were delayed after crews discovered more asbestos in the aging facility than anticipated.
  It’s in the wall cavities and in small dots of glue scattered across the entire concrete ceiling dome.
  All of it has to be chemically treated and removed by workers lying on their backs to scrape the ceiling, then double b
  
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• Nike, Forever 21 to anchor Edmonton International Airport outlet mall

  20-03-2018 20:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Nike Factory Store, Forever 21 and Marshalls are among the six anchor stores announced Tuesday for the new outlet mall opening May 2 next to Edmonton International Airport.
  The $215-million Premium Outlet Collection EIA will feature up to 100 retailers aimed at “value-seeking, fashion-conscious shoppers, travellers in transit and tourists visiting the province,” says a news release by owners Ivanhoe Cambridge and Simon Property Group.
  The other anchors are DSW Designer Shoe Warehou
  
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• Both Edmonton school boards to unveil construction priority lists

  20-03-2018 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Both Edmonton school boards will formally outline their lists of new schools and upgrades they hope the government to fund ahead of Thursday’s provincial budget.
  Both boards have meetings on Tuesday.
  Here’s is Edmonton Catholic School’s expected building priority list.A new high school in the Meadows is likely to be the Edmonton Public School Board’s No. 1 request.
  
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• New, shorter name for Alberta rural organization

  20-03-2018 19:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties has changed its name to the Rural Municipalities of Alberta.
  “Our renewed brand makes it easier for people to comprehend who we are and what we represent,” the organization said Tuesday in a news release.
  “It also gives us greater flexibility to market ourselves to a wider audience, to grow our advocacy, and expand our business for the benefit of all members.”
  The organization, formed in 1909 and now representing
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline key to balancing Alberta's books: Finance Minister

  20-03-2018 19:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci is relying on the Trans Mountain pipeline to bring Alberta’s books back to black.
  Budget 2018 will also contain a detailed path to balance in 2023, Ceci said Tuesday.
  That’s a departure from previous years, when Ceci came under fire from critics for having only pie in the sky plans to balance the books. 
  The plan also relies on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, currently at the heart of protests in British Columbia, but Ceci doesn’t thin
  
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• Edmonton Oilers finally getting right players out on penalty kill — with predictable results

  20-03-2018 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game day 72 Oilers vs Hurricanes
  Good news! The Edmonton Oilers are no longer the least efficient, most dreadful penalty killing team in the National Hockey League. 
  Due to a run of strong play on the penalty kill, the Oilers now rank 28th out of 31 NHL teams. Edmonton has a 75.3 per cent clearance rate. Teams with functional penalty kills achieve at least an 80 per cent clearance rate. 
  In the 11 games since Mark Letestu — who got more penalty kill playing time than any other Oi
  
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• NDP promises no cuts, stable funding for agricultural societies over three years

  20-03-2018 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Agricultural societies need not fear cutbacks and will have access to nearly $35 million in funding over the next three years, says Alberta’s municipal affairs minister. 
  “They keep our cultural fabric of our rich rural lives alive and they make a huge contribution to the quality of our lives,” said Minister Shaye Anderson in a Tuesday speech at the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC). “Some people don’t really know how much the
  
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• Postmedia columnist Terry Jones included in 2018 Edmonton Hall of Fame

  20-03-2018 18:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new crop of influential Edmontonians will join more than 400 other inductees in the Edmonton Hall of Fame.
  The city released the names of 11 recipients to the 2018 Edmonton Hall of Fame, which includes Postmedia sports columnist Terry Jones, captain of Canada’s Women’s Rugby Sevens team Jennifer Kish, and ATB Financial CEO Dave Mowat, to name a few.
  “These individuals have provided a lifetime of exemplary service and personal effort to strengthen our communities and the reput
  
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• Journal recognized with three National Newspaper Award nominations

  20-03-2018 18:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Journal’s reporting and commentary earned three National Newspaper Award nominations on Monday, recognizing outstanding work in 2017. 
  Columnist Paula Simons is a finalist in the columns category for three pieces that continued her relentless reporting on the life and death of Serenity, a four-year-old Indigenous child who died after sustaining fatal injuries following her placement in kinship care. 
  The columns tracked the ongoing investigation and focused on the courageous
  
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• Edmonton Humane Society hosts adoption event this weekend

  20-03-2018 14:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Humane Society (EHS) is hoping to find homes for more than 500 animals during its “Clear Our Shelter” adoption event Friday and Saturday.
  The event is being held in response to the February seizure of more than 500 animals, including small mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and spiders, from the My Pet store in West Edmonton Mall in one of the Edmonton Humane Society’s largest seizures to date.
  According to an EHS news release, the animals were initially placed on a ma
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snow, snow go away (it won't)

  20-03-2018 13:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather forecast by Environment Canada.
  Morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured at -4.1 C with a 4 km/h wind contributing to a -6 wind chill.
  Forecast
  Today: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning then a mix of sun and cloud. High of 6 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy. 30 per cent chance of rain showers this evening then 30 per cent chance of flurries late this evening and after midnight. Risk of freezing
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Stick with proven mass-transit systems like LRT

  20-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Recently, some city councillors have suggested that investments in new LRT lines should be slowed or halted because new transportation technologies like driverless buses or shared autonomous vehicles will make LRTs obsolete.
  However, these new technologies have yet to be implemented on a large scale in major cities; there are still many unknowns that need to be worked through. LRT and other rail-based mass transit systems have been successfully built and operated in hundreds of cities throughout
  
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• Opinion: Alberta sales tax is politically risky but it's good public policy

  20-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is the only Canadian province without a sales tax. That needs to change.
  With its own sales tax, Alberta could afford to make important new investments in social programs. For example, it could hire more teachers, improve staffing levels in long-term care facilities and build more affordable housing.
  Without such a tax, Albertans must settle for mediocrity. We must watch as low-income households struggle to pay for prescription medication. We must watch student debt loads grow. And we mu
  
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• Paula Simons: The Battle of Boyle Street: City, community league at odds over who should control hall

  20-03-2018 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Boyle Street Community League isn’t your typical Edmonton suburban community league.
  It serves a small, diverse, resilient, low-income neighbourhood in the heart of the inner city. 
  Once, the league had its own aging hall.
  Then, the city came up with a plan to revitalize the neighbourhood with new social housing. They called it the Boyle Renaissance. And they wanted to build part of the project right where the Boyle Street Community Hall stood. 
  The community league and the c
  
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• Meal kit delivery services can ease mealtime stress of time-strapped households

  20-03-2018 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wondering what to serve at dinnertime can be an added stress on any busy household and meal kit companies whose aim is to ease that pressure-filled time are jostling for a position at the table.
  Although Edmonton’s Leanne Bramm likes to cook, both she and her husband Colin Bramm work full-time and with two girls, age five and seven, their lives mirror the stressful juggling act playing out in households across the western world. Dinnertime was an ongoing source of anxiety.
  To ease some of
  
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• Battle in Boyle Street

  20-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As part of the revitalization taking part in the neighbourhood, the Boyle Street Community League and the City of Edmonton made a deal that the league would surrender its hall and in exchange the city would build a new hall as part of the Boyle Street Plaza, a space the community league would share with the YMCA.
  The league wouldn’t have to raise funds — but it would get a new building, with a full-sized gym, meeting rooms, a kitchen, even a small theatre, which the city would lease
  
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• Lawyer files complaint against Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley for comments over jailed sex-assault victim

  20-03-2018 04:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer has filed a complaint against Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley over what he claims were inappropriate comments on a case involving a jailed sexual assault victim. 
  Edmonton lawyer Scott Horne said Ganley was wrong to comment on the case, which involved a homeless sexual assault victim who was detained at the Edmonton Remand Centre to ensure she gave testimony against her attacker, Lance Blanchard.
  In his complaint to the Law Society of Alberta, Horne said the justice mini
  
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• 'Unmanicured ' Charlesworth tree stand earns respite from development

  20-03-2018 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A stand of trees won a battle Monday at City Hall.
  Councillors voted at a public hearing not to rezone the one-hectare property for the development of a fire station, or for commercial and medium density residential housing. The tree stand is designated a municipal reserve or natural area, and sits on city-owned land.
  In an ecological assessment in 2016, city officials said the trees had “health concerns” and appeared “dying and damaged,” and the tree stand was isolated,
  
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• Lendrum six-storey apartments approved after public hearing

  20-03-2018 03:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Lendrum housing project is a go.
  After a public hearing before city council on Monday, councillors gave approval to a mid-rise residential development at 11420 60 Ave.
  “The city is getting better at working with housing providers to try different kinds of public engagement earlier in the process and that isn’t eliminating opposition to social housing but it is certainly tempering it, and reducing procedural objections to conversations about how neighbourhoods change ove
  
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• Alberta doctors eye fall vote on contentious pay issue

  20-03-2018 02:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  The organization representing Alberta’s 10,000-plus doctors says it hopes to have its members vote this fall on a plan to achieve income fairness, which could potentially see lower-paid physicians receive additional compensation at the expense of higher-paid specialists.
  A meeting of Alberta Medical Association leaders on the weekend decided to carry on with the contentious “income equity” initiative, but declined to commit to specific dates to begin implementation.
  AMA preside
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Crown corporation boss announced, Jason Kenney doesn't recall comments on Delwin Vriend case

  20-03-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Agriculture Financial Services Corp. appoints CEO
  The Agriculture Financial Services Corp. announced its new chief executive officer Monday.
  Steve Blakely takes the top job effective May 1.
  His appointment officially plugs the power gap left at the Crown corporation when the entire board was sacked by the government in June 2016 over unnecessary travel on the taxpayer’s dime, and gifts of booze, theatre tickets and rounds of golf.
  Blakely brings in excess of 40 years of financial industry
  
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• Ammonia leaking from tankers closes Highway 63 south of Fort McMurray

  20-03-2018 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — Police have closed Highway 63 in both directions after a collision between a tanker truck and road grader Monday afternoon, causing two tankers of ammonia to leak.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP said the collision happened approximately 50 km south of Fort McMurray. Highway traffic moving north and south was being diverted onto Highway 881.
  Police spokesperson Cpl. Erika Laird told Postmedia she had no reports of injuries as of 4:45 p.m. Monday.
  
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• Drayton Valley man charged after infant left in car outside Calmar bar

  20-03-2018 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 33-year-old Drayton Valley man faces a string of charges including child abandonment after allegedly leaving a two-month-old infant in a car while he went to a Calmar bar. 
  Leduc RCMP were called at 10:30 p.m. March 16 about a possible impaired driver. The driver, who a witness said was intoxicated, pulled to the side of the road and went into the bar.
  The infant, who was not dressed for the weather, was left inside the vehicle, RCMP said in a news release Monday.   
  RCMP s
  
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• Oilers coaches have consistently failed to get out top performers on power play

  20-03-2018 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Top unit should go with skill, like it did in power play explosion against Tampa
  The Edmonton Oilers finally came alive on the power play against Tampa Bay, creating seven Grade A chances on one single third period power play. The team usually doesn’t produce that many high quality chances on an extended road trip.
  Not surprisingly, Edmonton’s five most skilled attackers, Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Strome, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Oscar Klefbom were all on the ice for that
  
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• Government undecided about future of former remand centre and old Royal Alberta Museum

  20-03-2018 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two former landmarks sitting empty in Edmonton aren’t poised for rejuvenation any time soon.
  The old remand centre — which shut its doors in April 2013 — is currently used on occasion for training purposes, said Jill Wheeler-Bryks, communications director for Alberta Infrastructure. 
  “No decisions have been made yet on its future,” she said in an email Monday. 
  The government is considering proposals from community groups, private businesses and gover
  
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