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• All animals seized from pet store by Edmonton Humane Society find new homes in giant adoption event

  24-03-2018 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  All of the approximately 500 animals seized from a pet store last month have found new owners after a two-day Edmonton Humane Society adoption event.
  People lined up outside the building Friday in hopes of taking home one of the creatures, and when the society closed its doors at 3:30 p.m. Saturday all the stock was gone, even a scorpi0n, spokesperson Jaime Caza said.
  Earlier in the day, only the scorpion, a few rodents and a hermit crab were left, the society said.
  It encouraged anyone still lo
  
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• Need a job? Edmonton airport shopping centre wants you

  24-03-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Armed with stacks of resumes, more than 100 people showed up in the first hour Saturday at a job fair aimed at finding staff for companies in the new Premium Outlet Collection Edmonton International Airport.
  The event was intended to fill some of the mall’s expected 1,000 positions in stores and eating spots, as well as contract service providers for janitorial, security and guest services teams.
  The facility, which plans to eventually have about 100 retailers, opens May 2 at more than 75-
  
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• Man shot in west Edmonton clothing store

  24-03-2018 22:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man shot at an Edmonton clothing store Saturday is expected to recover from his injuries, police say.
  Officers were called at 11:23 a.m. to a confrontation at the Lucky Aces clothing store on Stony Plain Road near 156 Street, Staff Sgt. Barry Maron said.
  One man, who is approximately 40 years old, was shot in the left side with a small-calibre bullet, he said. The man went to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
  Investigators are having trouble determining what happened because the sto
  
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• Virtually all animals seized from pet store by Edmonton Humane Society find new homes in giant adoption event

  24-03-2018 20:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost all of the approximately 500 animals seized from a pet store last month have found new owners after a two-day Edmonton Humane Society adoption event.
  People lined up outside the building Friday in hopes of taking home one of the creatures, and by Saturday the society tweeted that virtually all the stock was gone.
  “We are pleased to announce that all animals have been adopted today with exception (of) one hermit crab, a few rodents, and a scorpion.” 
  The society encouraged
  
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• Mounties respond to area schools after a spate of threats, pranks

  24-03-2018 20:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  In one week, RCMP responded to four separate threats or weapons complaints at area schools.
  Bonnyville RCMP recently charged a student, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, carrying a concealed weapon, unauthorized possession of a restricted firearm, and possession of a restricted firearm without a licence.
  The student allegedly brought a firearm to Bonnyville Centralized High School on March 12 and it was reported a
  
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• Large crowd turns out at Edmonton Humane Society to adopt seized animals

  24-03-2018 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hopeful animal owners lined up outside the Edmonton Humane Society building for more than four hours when about 500 creatures seized from a pet store were put up for adoption.
  “We had an overwhelming response by the community, and hundreds of people came out to adopt the large numbers of animals we had for adoption yesterday,” society spokesman Evan Lawlor said Saturday.
  Last month, society staff seized guinea pigs, hamsters, lizards, crabs, fish, spiders, birds, frogs, and other ani
  
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• Top 18 questions about the Edmonton Oilers for the rest of 2017-18 season

  24-03-2018 18:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 75: Oilers vs Kings
  The top 18 questions about the Edmonton Oilers for the rest of the 2017-18 season? Will Connor McDavid win the scoring title? 
  Will Leon Draisaitl average a point per game? 
  Will Ryan Nugent-Hopkins play well enough on McDavid’s wing to persuade Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli that McDavid has found the right match on the top line so no major trade involving RNH needs to be made this summer?
  Will RNH play well enough on Connor McDavid’s wing to p
  
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• 'Frivolous' unlawful detention applications tying up province's courts, say Alberta justices

  24-03-2018 17:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  An already strained Alberta court system continues to be peppered with a “disturbingly large number” of “frivolous” and “meritless” habeas corpus applications which are tying up finite resources in the province’s legal system.
  Justice Donald Manderscheid said in a recent ruling that Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench is experiencing an “increase in meritless litigation that abuses the court’s processes, wastes badly strained judicia
  
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• Saturday's letters: $96B debt is unimaginable

  24-03-2018 16:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ninety-six billion dollars. Let that sink in. Ninety-six billion dollars in debt. That number is as unimaginable as it is incomprehensible.
  And that $96 billion is based on Kinder Morgan actually getting built — with increased protests in Burnaby, in Calgary on Friday and a prime minister too busy playing dress-up to deal with a constitutional crisis.
  The NDP still clings to this “social licence” lie? Whom exactly are they trying to convince? Albertans or themselves?
  And to add
  
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• Saturday's letters: $96M debt is unimaginable

  24-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ninety-six billion dollars. Let that sink in. Ninety-six billion dollars in debt. That number is as unimaginable as it is incomprehensible.
  And that $96 billion is based on Kinder Morgan actually getting built — with increased protests in Burnaby, in Calgary on Friday and a prime minister too busy playing dress-up to deal with a constitutional crisis.
  The NDP still clings to this “social licence” lie? Whom exactly are they trying to convince? Albertans or themselves?
  And to add
  
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• Opinion: Canada lagging in clean-energy investment

  24-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This weekend, people the world over will be turning off lights in homes and businesses during Earth Hour, as a means to raise awareness around emissions.
  Earth Hour is a chance to shine a light on environmental action, and Canada’s oil and natural gas industry is part of that action. We are doing our part for the earth – and we believe innovation and technology hold the key to positive action.
  Canadian oil and natural gas producers are keenly aware of the need to reduce emission
  
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• 'Magic in every performance' for creators of Come From Away

  24-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  David Hein and Irene Sankoff’s extended family is growing by leaps and bounds.
  Hein and Sankoff are the husband and wife team who created Come From Away, the award-winning musical inspired by events that occurred following the 9/11 attacks that saw 38 planes rerouted to the small town of Gander in Newfoundland and Labrador.
  Broadway Across Canada will be touring Come From Away to four Canadian cities in 2019. The Canadian leg of this North American tour will begin in Vancouver March 5-10 f
  
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• Alberta author harvested often heart-breaking stories of world's women farmers

  24-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Living and working in southwest Uganda, Trina Moyles heard a story that changed her life. A local woman had marched down to the local chairman, demanding her name be put on her husband’s land title. Word spread quickly, and for this gesture, the young woman’s betrothed hacked her into pieces.
  “That day, I remember feeling just devastated. I sat down in the little room I was living in and penned out this furious little essay. I think that’s where it started.”
  This gr
  
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• A look at recent local kids and YA books — and how to do them right

  24-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the latest wave of local-authored books for kids and young adults, an interesting fact emerges: the vast majority were written by women.
  Audreys Books’ general manager and children’s book buyer Kelly Dyer doesn’t subscribe to a quota — it just happened to turn out that way. “This year just happens to be their year,” she laughs. “That’s great!”
  Between Kate A. Boorman’s critically acclaimed, dystopian Winterkill trilogy — w
  
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• Council endorses west LRT plan, kills underpass at 149 Street

  24-03-2018 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council officially killed the “rat hole” plan for 149 Street Friday and voted to step forward on the west LRT.
  “Eyes wide open — there are going to be impacts to traffic,” said Mayor Don Iveson, after council voted 10-2 in favour of running both LRT and vehicle traffic at grade, rather than building a traffic underpass, at the 149 Street and Stony Plain Road intersection.
  “But it’s not worth $200 million to create all these issues just to gain back
  
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• Edmonton Humane Society holds Clear Our Shelter adoption event

  24-03-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Humane Society (EHS) was hoping to find homes for more than 500 animals during its “Clear Our Shelter” adoption event Friday and Saturday.
   The event was organized 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.
  A Water Dragon waits to be adopted during the Clear Our Shelter Adop
  
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• Traffic on Whitemud Drive back to normal after blown transformer slows motorists

  24-03-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Power for more than 500 customers was out and traffic on Whitemud Drive was snarled after a transformer blew on Friday afternoon.
  Traffic was back to normal around 6 p.m. on the Whitemud between 149 Street and 156 Street as Epcor crews dealt with a blown transformer along one of the busiest commuter roads.
  Epcor spokesman Tim LeRiche said the power line of concern was in the area of 156 Street on the south side of Whitemud Drive. 
  Crews managed to shore up the sagging power line that w
  
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• Coliseum on the cusp of demolition after city council vote

  24-03-2018 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Coliseum is officially closed, bringing it one step closer to demolition.
  Late Friday afternoon city council voted to terminate the agreement with the Katz Group, which had the city paying $2 million a year to the Oilers Entertainment Group.
  “In all likelihood the Coliseum will need to be removed from the site as part of the redevelopment of the site,” Mayor Don Iveson said. “Permanent closure always meant that it wasn’t going to be used in any way shape or form the w
  
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• All the young dudes: Police commission report examines the demographics behind Edmonton's high crime rates

  24-03-2018 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Why does Edmonton have some of the highest levels of crime in the country?
  Blame all the young dudes.
  While it didn’t borrow the line from David Bowie, a report to the Edmonton Police Commission Thursday suggested that the city continues to score highly on crime rankings in part because of its high concentration of men in their prime crime-committing years. 
  “Demographics explain a lot of what’s going on behind crime rates,” said Coun. Scott McKeen, a member of the p
  
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• More than 7,000 attend lunchtime Michelle Obama talk in Edmonton

  24-03-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A lunchtime crowd of more than 7,000 turned out to see former first lady Michelle Obama speak in Edmonton on Friday — a talk that revealed private moments from her time at the White House but largely steered clear of U.S. President Donald Trump.  
  Obama spoke for an hour in conversation with Canadian Olympian and Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Cassie Campbell-Pascall at Rogers Place, focusing on her early life on the south side of Chicago and her husband’s time in offic
  
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• Paula Simons: A castle of dreams, a tunnel to nowhere: The collapse of the Galleria leaves city taxpayers on the hook

  24-03-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Castles in the air are beautiful things.
  Building upon them, on a foundation of dreams and wishes, is a lot harder.
  The Galleria, a.k.a. the Edmonton Downtown Academic and Cultural Centre, was one of those airy fantasy castles.
  This week, it all came crashing down. The Galleria Foundation board announced late Wednesday that the project is “suspended” — and now, city taxpayers are left to pick up the pieces.
  The original $1-billion plan had called for a 40-storey office tower, a
  
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• Cherokee, Domtar to appeal Alberta government orders over old wood treatment site

  24-03-2018 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two companies in a dispute with the Alberta government over former industrial lands in northeast Edmonton say they plan to fight new demands to conduct extensive soil sampling and clean up any contamination on the site.
  Cherokee Canada Inc. and Domtar both confirmed to Postmedia on Friday that they are in the process of filing appeals to the Alberta Environment enforcement orders announced on March 16. 
  The lands in question, just north of Yellowhead Trail near 44 Street, served as a Domtar
  
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• Press Gallery #222: The Losing Our Balance edition

  24-03-2018 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you paid attention to Alberta politics at all this week, you’ll be well aware about the biggest event this week — Budget 2018. 
  Join Press Gallery podcast host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Paula Simons and Keith Gerein to talk numbers and debts and deficits and a disappointing lack of surprises. 
  The team also takes a look at the caribou range plan put on hold this week, and some, uh, interesting comments made by Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt. 
  
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• 'We got nothing': Edmonton Catholic school board shut out in provincial funding announcement

  24-03-2018 00:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Catholic schools were snubbed in the latest round of provincial funding, said board chairman Terry Harris. 
  “We got nothing, so we’re not happy about that,” he said Friday. “It comes as a shock and a disappointment.”
  Education Minister David Eggen announced 20 school infrastructure projects — including seven new schools — across Alberta. The move came on the heels of Budget 2018, which allocated $393 million to the projects.
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