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• St. Albert park and ride gets $30-million cash injection

  26-03-2018 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley is touring Budget 2018 around the province this week, but she won’t characterize that as selling the fiscal plan to Albertans.
  “I’m just going around the province talking to folks and hearing what they have to say, and talking about what the budget means for Albertans,” Notley said Monday. 
  The first stop was in St. Albert, where the Campbell Road park and ride facility is getting a $30-million cash injection as part of the provincial gover
  
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• Good news: Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon in two-man race for NHL MVP, NHL insider reports

  26-03-2018 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Toronto sports commentator Damien Cox @DamoSpin: “Fans are embracing McDavid. We all see his brillance. Special player, special kid. But none of that has anything to do with the Hart.”
  And the counterargument from TSN’s Frank Seravalli: “What was shaping up to be the most wide-open Hart Trophy race in decades has seemingly morphed into a two-man battle to the finish: Nathan MacKinnon versus Connor McDavid. Call it the McHart Trophy race. Grant
  
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• Burnaby mayor 'irresponsible' on pipeline protests: Premier Rachel Notley

  26-03-2018 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the Burnaby mayor is heading down a “slippery slope” by declaring his city won’t pay for policing at Trans Mountain pipeline protests. 
  Mayor Derek Corrigan, who is against the expansion, told the Globe and Mail Burnaby won’t pay for overtime and other RCMP costs around the protests.
  “We’re not paying for the additional policing costs that are being accumulated as a result of the protests at the Trans Mountain project,&r
  
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• Homicide probe after man found dead in basement of Alberta Avenue home

  26-03-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  City homicide detectives remained on scene in northeast Edmonton Monday after a man was found dead Sunday night in a basement suite. 
  Police tape on Monday morning surrounded the house near 117 Avenue and 91 Street while two cruisers flanked the ramshackle white lattice fence. A third cruiser was parked in the alley to cordon off the scene. 
  City police Insp. Joel Whittaker said a woman from the basement suite ran to a nearby convenience store to call for help after finding a man in me
  
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• First look: Valley Line train completed in Kingston, Ont.

  26-03-2018 21:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians got a sneak peak Monday at what the new Valley Line light rail vehicles (LRV) will look like.
  The Valley Line LRT Twitter account unveiled a photo of the brand new low-floor Bombardier LRV, which will feature top-of-the-line heating, cooling and electronic displays that provide travel information.
  Big news! Here's the first Valley Line LRV completed in Kingston! @BombardierRail It will arrive in Edmonton this summer! pic.twitter.com/X331pM1AJp
  — Valley Line LRT (@yegvalle
  
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• Consumer inflation on the rise in Edmonton thanks to gas, electricity prices

  26-03-2018 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Changes in gasoline and electricity costs are behind a rise in consumer inflation numbers in Edmonton.
  The annual inflation rate for the Edmonton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) rose to 2.3 per cent in February from 1.5 per cent in January, according to a monthly economic indicators report released Friday. To go with the year-over-year change in electricity and gasoline costs, which rose almost 15 per cent year-over-year, a modest rise in housing-related costs is also behind the increase.
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• Social Seen: Night of Artists opening gala

  26-03-2018 20:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  Night of Artists opening gala
  Where: Enjoy Centre
  When: March 16
  What: Opening gala for the Night of Artists Festival of Art and Music, wh
  
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• 800-stall park-and-ride lot to be built in St. Albert

  26-03-2018 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  The lot will serve as St. Albert's transit hub, and is the planned future terminus of Edmonton's Metro LRT line.
  
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• 800 stall park-and-ride lot to be built in St. Albert

  26-03-2018 20:05 via globalnews.ca
  The lot will serve as St. Albert's transit hub, and is the planned future terminus of Edmonton's Metro LRT line.
  
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• Fraudsters can include family, warns daughter who busted mom's business scam

  26-03-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shannon Baxter busted her own mother. 
  The young woman was helping her mom at the family’s Yellowhead Storage operation while taking part-time business classes at NAIT when she came across several invoices that just didn’t sit right. 
  She eventually determined that both invoices were fake. Her mom later admitted to her dad that she set up a shell company, ‘selling’ the containers between April 2013 and February 2014. 
  In January of this year, her mom w
  
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• Wine column: If Veuve Clicquot Champagne isn’t in the budget, wait for Yelloweek when it's served by the glass

  26-03-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Champagne conjures up images of extravagance and cork-popping celebrities. The Veuve Clicquot brand is easily the most recognizable on the market and this week I had the pleasure of meeting with winemaker/oenologist from the House of Clicquot, the charming Bertrand Varoquier.
  The winery has a remarkable tale that began in 1772 with Philippe, the founder of the winery, who then passed the reins to his son Francois. After his untimely death in 1805, his wife, Madame Clicquot, at the age of 27, too
  
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• People of all ages take part in Hair Massacure 2018

  26-03-2018 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Now in its 16th year, the Hair Massacure at West Edmonton Mall’s Ice Palace on Friday March 23, 2018, attracted people of all ages, many with pink hair, who shaved the hair off their heads in a fundraiser to support the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada and the Alberta Cancer Foundation.
  Tammy MacDonald, co-founder of the event, started hair massacure in 2003 as a way for her family to give back after her youngest child, Kali, survived leukemia at age two.
  The event encourages pe
  
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• Edmonton weather: We've had one winter but what about second winter?

  26-03-2018 14:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather forecast by Environment Canada.
  Things are a little chilly this morning with temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measuring -8.6 C with a 6km/h wind. Things are really going to get cold starting Wednesday and heading into the weekend, with daytime highs well below freezing and overnight lows expecting to plunge to -16 C Thursday and -15 C Friday.
  Forecast
  Today: Increasing cloudiness early this morning. Wind southwest 20 km/h becoming light nea
  
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• Tackle race, history head on to improve student achievement, critics say

  26-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Year after year, school boards receive reports echoing what many before them have concluded — that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students don’t achieve as highly, or graduate as often as the average Alberta student.
  Educators often call it the “achievement gap” — a large, measurable difference in how Indigenous students fare in school compared to students overall. 
  While leaders say the achievement gap is a problem they want to resolve, some obser
  
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• Former Alberta inmate carried stillborn baby for weeks after seeking help from staff

  26-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stephanie Albert knew something was wrong when the baby inside her stopped moving. 
  Albert, 30, is no stranger to high-risk pregnancies. She has a healthy son and two healthy daughters, but those pregnancies were difficult.
  She knew a prolonged drop in fetal movement was a sign to visit the doctor — fast. But in this case, she couldn’t. She was in jail.
  Albert filed requests to be seen by medical staff at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre for weeks before she was fi
  
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• Edmonton volunteers hope to claw back city's feral cat population

  26-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The brown-and-white cat with a clipped left ear looked out cautiously from its shelter in a south Edmonton storage yard, a tray of food on the roof set out by volunteer Elaine St Laurent.
  For six years, St Laurent and other volunteers have been caring for feral cats through Edmonton’s harsh winters and hot summers, putting out food and water for them every day.
  With pieces of wood or donated Styrofoam boxes, the informal group has made shelters stuffed with straw and lined with tarps to ke
  
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• Edmonton issues first tickets for excessive idling in a neighbourhood

  26-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has issued its first tickets for excessive idling in a residential neighbourhood and is gearing up to defend them in court.
  Neighbours allege a man near 66 Street and 20 Avenue backs up his diesel truck to the sidewalk so the exhaust flows around their fence, then lets the truck run for up to 20 minutes at a time. It fills their home and vehicles with carcinogens.
  They appealed to city council for help last fall.
  Now enforcement officers have issued two violations, with $250 fines attac
  
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• Player grades: Oilers come close but can't hold off Duck puck luck

  26-03-2018 12:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ducks 5, Oilers 4 (OT)
  Four periods, four different games as the Edmonton Oilers came from ahead to drop a 5-4 overtime decsiion to Anaheim Ducks on Sunday.In the first there was a lot of sloppy hockey but no goals, in part due to the utter incomptence of Edmonton’s powerplay which failed to generate a shot, make a pass, win a battle or get out of its own way for four excruciating minutes.
  In the second the Oilers woke up, carried the play, fixed the powerplay (!!), outshot the Ducks 14-4,
  
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• Oil Spills: Oilers star McDavid chases NHL scoring title

  26-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Hall of Fame writer Jim Matheson talks to sports editor Craig Ellingson about the one race involving the Edmonton Oilers that is worth watching this season: Connor McDavid chasing the National Hockey League scoring title.
  McDavid won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s scoring champion last year with 100 points as he led the Oilers into the playoffs for the first time in a decade. This year, the Oilers are not heading to the post-season, but McDavid is in the thick of the race anyway a
  
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• Edmonton volunteers help city's feral cat population

  26-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For six years, Elaine St Laurent and other volunteers have been caring for feral cats through Edmonton’s harsh winters and hot summers, putting out food and water for them every day.
  With pieces of wood or donated Styrofoam boxes, the informal group has made shelters stuffed with straw and lined with tarps to keep out water and wind.
  When she started, St Laurent said the colonies she and other volunteers helped look after in the south side of the city had hundreds of feral cats. But the 15
  
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• Man found dead in basement of Alberta Avenue home; homicide unit investigating

  26-03-2018 08:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a man found in a basement on Sunday night is being investigated by city homicide detectives.
  Insp. Joel Whittaker with the Edmonton Police Service said a woman from the basement suite of the home near 117 Avenue and 91 Street ran to a nearby convenience store to call for help after finding a man in medical distress.
  When emergency medical services arrived around 10:35 p.m., it was “very obvious” the man was dead, Whittaker said on Sunday night at the scene.
  “H
  
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• Edmonton entrepreneur takes break from fulfilling bucket list to raise money for Alzheimer's research

  26-03-2018 05:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  John Radostits has run with the bulls in Pamplona, backflipped on skis, cage dived with sharks and parachuted over the artificial Palm Islands off the coast of Dubai.
  “None of us are fully in control of our health, our fate and our circumstance,” says Radostits. “Being active with a bucket list is important to me. Things can change quickly and get in the way of living to the fullest.”
  But Radostits will take a break from his bucket-list challenges and businesses next mont
  
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• Alberta’s stance on caribou a ’national test case’ of Species at Risk Act

  26-03-2018 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A caribou researcher says Alberta’s decision to suspend portions of its draft plan to help the threatened animals recover is the first major test of the federal Species at Risk Act.
  The province has sent Ottawa a letter that raises concerns about the socio-economic impacts of the recovery plan.
  “It’s a bit surprising and dramatic but it’s actually not, really,” said University of Montana biologist Mark Hebblewhite, who is part of a science advisory group on boreal c
  
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• Q and A: Finance education advocate Gary Rabbior on putting money management in curriculum

  26-03-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Financial literacy should be a mandatory component of the school curriculum, says an advocate for talking to kids about money.
  Gary Rabbior, who has been president of the non-profit Canadian Foundation for Economic Education for more than 30 years, recently met with Alberta’s curriculum director to discuss the future of finance lessons in the province’s classrooms.
  Alberta is currently in the throes of a rewrite of the K-12 curriculum, the first time all grades have been developed si
  
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• Councillor wants review of crime prevention at LRT stations

  26-03-2018 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coun. Michael Walters wants to take action after hundreds of charges were laid last week against 34 teens accused of using Edmonton’s LRT system to carry out crimes.
  The Ward 10 councillor plans to introduce a motion at the April 10 city council meeting requesting data and information on crime in and around LRT stations.
  He’s looking for a review of any potential safety improvements that could be made and details about public safety programs in stations and Crime Prevention Thro
  
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• Q and A: Finance education advocate Gary Rabbior on putting money management in the curriculum

  26-03-2018 00:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Financial literacy should be a mandatory component of the school curriculum, says an advocate for talking to kids about money.
  Gary Rabbior, who has been president of the non-profit Canadian Foundation for Economic Education for more than 30 years, recently met with Alberta’s curriculum director to discuss the future of finance lessons in the province’s classrooms.
  Alberta is currently in the throes of a re-write of the K-12 curriculum, the first time all grades have been developed s
  
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