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• 'Cut your salary': Protesters target U of A president over student fee hikes

  28-03-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  University of Alberta President David Turpin was greeted by a raucous student protest while attempting to deliver an update on the university’s finances Wednesday.
  The hour-long town hall ended with protesters following Turpin across campus to his office, where they banged on the walls and chanted, “U of A — not OK,” and, “Cut your salary” for more than an hour.
  Lecture hall is pretty full. There are still more people waiting to come in. #abpse pic.twitter.com
  
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• Fort McMurray investigation nets fentanyl that may have been sold as heroin; seek to arrest alleged dealer

  28-03-2018 23:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s integrated drug and gang unit seized over 18 grams of fentanyl that may have been sold as heroin in a Fort McMurray drug investigation that began in December. 
  The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) announced charges against two people Wednesday, and are searching for another Edmonton man accused of trafficking fentanyl. 
  The unit’s Fort McMurray organized crime and gang team made the seizures and arrested two people at an apartment in the northern Alb
  
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• Thank goodness for Louie DeBrusk, who knows how to read instructions on MVP voting

  28-03-2018 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Where does it say that a player’s team must make playoffs for him to win NHL MVP?
  A number of NHL hockey writers say they will downgrade or eliminate Connor McDavid from contention to win the Hart Trophy for the league’s most valuable player because his Edmonton Oilers will fail to make the playoffs. 
  These writers will vote based on an unwritten rule or bias, not anything that’s mentioned in the criteria set out by the NHL.
  The criteria for the award is put succinctly on
  
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• Two people sent to hospital in head-on collision on 17 Street

  28-03-2018 20:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A portion of 17 Street near Whitemud Drive has been closed in both directions Wednesday afternoon as police investigate a head-on collision that sent two people to hospital.
  The collision occurred at around 11 a.m., police said in a news release. Police said access to the Maple Ridge neighbourhood can still be approached from the north via Sherwood Park Freeway.
  Two people have been taken to hospital, one with non-life threatening injuries and another with undetermined injuries.
  More to come.
  
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• Toxicology tests underway after man found dead Saturday in rural Strathcona County

  28-03-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Toxicology tests are underway after an autopsy on the body of a male found in rural Strathcona County this weekend failed to immediately determine the cause and manner of death, say RCMP.
  The body was found about 9 a.m. Saturday near Highway 16, east of Sherwood Park. Officers cordoned off Range Road 213 south of the highway as they investigated. 
  The autopsy was conducted Tuesday at the medical examiner’s office but the death and manner of death are still undetermined, pending t
  
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• Man fighting for his life, five in custody after crime spree

  28-03-2018 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five people are in custody and one man is fighting for his life in hospital after an crime spree in northeast Edmonton Tuesday night, say police. 
  In a brief Wednesday morning, police spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard said officers are investigating a number of overnight crimes including a home invasion, robbery, kidnapping and a shooting.
  The events happened near Manning Drive and 18 Street in northeast Edmonton. 
  “For the time being, I can tell you that we currently have five individ
  
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• Man fighting for his life, five in custody after alleged crime spree

  28-03-2018 19:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five people are in custody and one man is fighting for his life in hospital after an alleged crime spree in northeast Edmonton Tuesday night. 
  In a brief news release Wednesday morning, police spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard said officers are investigating a number of overnight incidents including a home invasion, robbery, kidnapping and a shooting.
  The events happened near Manning Drive and 18 Street in northeast Edmonton. 
  “For the time being, I can tell you that we currently have
  
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• New draft bus network sends priority routes to some, not all corners of the city

  28-03-2018 18:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  High-frequency routes throughout the core are in the works but not rapid bus lines through Terwillegar-Riverbend.
  City of Edmonton officials quietly posted a new draft plan for the bus network online late last week and it’s spreading through social media.
  The map outlines where Edmonton Transit officials think the new high-frequency routes, the cross-town routes and even the local neighbourhood routes should go.
  The local routes are simplified, compared to what exists now. They stick to th
  
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• Today's Top Three: Matthew Good collapses; pot impaired driving laws; lynx love battle

  28-03-2018 14:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Today’s Top Three is a daily online feature highlighting a few of the most interesting and newsworthy stories you can expect to see on edmontonjournal.com.
  Matthew Good collapses at Jubilee
  Canadian musician Matthew Good collapsed during his set at the Jubilee Auditorium on Tuesday night. 
  Good was performing on the second night of a co-headlining gig with Our Lady Peace. 
  In a video posted to Facebook, Our Lady Peace lead singer Raine Maida addressed the crowd confirming Good ha
  
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• Edmonton weather: Is it third winter now? We've lost count

  28-03-2018 14:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  More snow is in the forecast as Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -6.9 C with a 4 km/h wind contributing to a -9 wind chill.
  Today: Cloudy with 60 per cent chance of flurries. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. High 1 C.
  Tonight: Snow. Amount 2 cm. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low -12 C.
  Tomorrow: Light snow ending in the morning then
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Security and safety lacking on the LRT

  28-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “34 Youths, young men face 460 charges in assaults, robberies,” March 22
  This story is an indictment of the inadequate security and policing provided on LRT trains and at LRT stations.
  It would be much better for potential victims that criminal activity on the LRT be prevented rather than investigated.
  Edmonton city council, the police commission and EPS should make security and policing on the LRT a priority as have other jurisdictions.
  Mitch Lavoie, Edmonton
  Bike thief breaks t
  
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• Editorial: B.C. must play by rules

  28-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  What is going on in British Columbia?
  It appears that respecting the rules —whether it’s obeying a court order, following established trade practices, fulfilling governmental obligations or even observing the constitutionally enshrined distribution of powers between governments — doesn’t amount to much these days on the West Coast.
  To start, more than 150 people have been arrested protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, most for violating a court-ordered injunct
  
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• United Conservative Party to target Edmonton region in 2019 election

  28-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s capital is firmly in the sights of the United Conservative Party for the 2019 election. 
  In an interview Tuesday, party leader Jason Kenney pointed to recent polls indicating solid UCP support in every part of the province except for Edmonton, where his party is in a close race with the governing NDP.
  As such, he said, the party will focus its energies and resources on the capital. 
  The entire Edmonton region, running up into the province’s northwest, is a solid N
  
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• David Staples: Dazzling, delicate new Walterdale Bridge worth the wait

  28-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Too much money, too fancy, too complicated, too slow to build, not enough lanes, a white elephant in the making.
  Yes, there’s been no shortage of doubts, criticism and invective about the new $155-million Walterdale Bridge. 
  But we’re about to fall in love with this dazzling and delicate structure, I strongly suspect.
  It took two years longer than expected due to steel supply chain issues and the difficulty of the build, one that was compared to assembling a puzzle out of 125-to
  
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• Councillor pushes for fix on Metro LRT's 'greatest pinch point'

  28-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City buses, ambulances and private vehicles are still getting tied up at Edmonton’s worst Metro Line LRT crossing, and one councillor is pushing Edmonton to again look for a fix.
  “I just think we want to keep on it,” said Ward 2 Coun. Bev Esslinger, who won council’s support to take another look late last week. City officials are due back in three months with costs and options for tearing up track to raise or tunnel the line where it crosses 111 Avenue.
  “That’
  
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• City to conduct survey of urban wildlife

  28-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city has a thriving nightlife and city officials want to record it.
  Oh, we’re not talking bars and pubs. City officials are interested in what other creatures — apart from humans — share the space.
  Beginning in May, urban wildlife officials, with help from researchers from the University of Alberta, will set up wildlife cameras and audio traps in different parts of the city. Of special interest to officials and researchers are areas that animals might not like to spend time
  
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• Player grades: McDavid strikes early & often before Oilers come apart at the seams

  28-03-2018 10:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blue Jackets 7, Oilers 3
  “Fan Appreciation Night”, they called it. So tell me, Oilers fans, how appreciated — and appreciative — do you feel after your team laid down an absolute stinker of a hockey game on Tuesday night?
  Some of the shine went off the game right off the hop, when an unfortunate accident four minutes in which led to a 10-minute delay while linesman Steve Barton received medical treatment, then got carted off on a stretcher. The Oilers had survived an ugly
  
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• Matthew Good collapses during concert at Jubilee Auditorium

  28-03-2018 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadian musician Matthew Good collapsed during his set at the Jubilee Auditorium on Tuesday night. 
  Larry MacDonald was at the concert and said Good fell midway through his third song.
  “(I) noticed there was no singing for a short bit, other players then stopped and went to Matt on the floor,” said MacDonald.
  “He was taken off stage and 20 minutes later it was announced he was fighting pneumonia.”
  Good was performing on the second night of a co-headlining gig with O
  
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• Halt 'reckless' layoffs, non-academic staff association tells University of Alberta

  28-03-2018 04:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pressure is mounting against University of Alberta administration to put a stop to four per cent budget cuts at the province’s largest university in the next academic year.
  The Non-Academic Staff Association, which represents more than 6,000 non-academic support staff at the university, called on administration Tuesday to reconsider the across-the-board cuts first announced in October last year and approved by the board of governors last week. 
  Those cuts come at the same time the the
  
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• Drainage project hits 'tougher clay,' shutting down part of 105 Street to December

  28-03-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A downtown drainage project on 105 Street expected to be completed by May could finish as much as seven months behind schedule after the borer struck “tougher clay” than anticipated, Epcor said Tuesday.
  Problems surfaced at the construction site several weeks ago when ground conditions changed to ones the borer was not equipped to deal with, Epcor spokesman Tim LeRiche said.
  The borer is currently located underneath 105 Street about 40 metres south of Jasper Avenue as part of the Dow
  
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• Province strives for 'fair deal for Albertans' in superintendent salary review

  28-03-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley says her government will continue school board superintendent salary reviews to make sure Albertans’ cash is being spent appropriately.
  Education Minister David Eggen has had superintendent contracts on his desk for six business days as of Tuesday. 
  He announced in mid-March he was undertaking a full review of all superintendent contracts. 
  At a Camrose school announcement Tuesday, Notley said the principles driving the superintendent pay assessment are
  
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• Cappies reviews: The Canterville Ghost

  28-03-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Joshua Thiel
  Percy Page High School
  Lillian Osborne’s production of Tim Kelly’s The Canterville Ghost was a spectacular thrill ride helmed by two of Lillian Osborne’s own. Students Dana Barnstable and Anala Mathura co-directed the full length production, without teacher assistance. The duo engineered a thoroughly entertaining production that managed to both frighten the audience, and fill them with bountiful laughs.
  The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde first pub
  
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• Homicide detectives continue to investigate Alberta Avenue death, missing person

  28-03-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives continued to investigate Tuesday a death at a home near Alberta Avenue, as well as a van connected to a missing persons investigation. 
  Investigators have not drawn any link between the two cases. 
  Police were called to a scene near 162 Avenue and 51 Street in northeast Edmonton last Tuesday after locating a vehicle linked to an undisclosed missing persons investigation. 
  Police said evidence found in the vehicle “led investigators to determine there were
  
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• Wood plant reopens in northern Alberta

  28-03-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tolko Industries Ltd. has reopened a long-dormant structural wood panelling plant in northern Alberta that’s eventually expected to provide 175 jobs, Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous said Tuesday.
  The company indefinitely shuttered its High Prairie oriented strand board (OSB) mill in 2008 because of a weak housing market, but helped by municipal support and a $4-million provincial investment tax credit, it resumed operations several months ago, Bilous said.
  “It’s sign
  
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• American firm chosen to run Alberta online pot sales

  28-03-2018 00:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Legal pot in Alberta took another step closer to reality Tuesday when an American company was chosen to run the province’s online marijuana sales operation.
  With Canada expected to legalize recreational pot this summer, OnX Enterprise Solutions received an initial three-year, $4.6-million contract to develop the provincial website and manage the system, an Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission (AGLC) spokesperson said.
  OnX, a subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell Inc., was one of six companies that
  
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• Province announces rollout of updated impaired driving laws ahead of pot legalization

  28-03-2018 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Changes to Alberta’s impaired driving laws that will later roll in drug limits once cannabis is legalized will take effect April 9, the province announced Tuesday.
  The updates to the Traffic Safety Act — including a change that responds to a ruling that the practice of indefinite roadside licence suspensions is a Charter of Rights violation — were first proposed in November.
  Under current law, impaired drivers with a blood alcohol level measuring over .08 face an indefinite sus
  
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• Homicide detectives continue to investigate Alberta Avenue slaying, missing person

  28-03-2018 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives continued to investigate Tuesday a slaying at a home near Alberta Avenue, as well as a van connected to a missing persons investigation. 
  Investigators have not drawn any link between the two cases. 
  Police were called to a scene near 162 Avenue and 51 Street in northeast Edmonton last Tuesday after locating a vehicle linked to an undisclosed missing persons investigation. 
  Police said evidence found in the vehicle “led investigators to determine there we
  
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