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• Police hunt first-degree murder suspect in Alberta Avenue slaying

  29-03-2018 23:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A provincewide arrest warrant has been issued for a man wanted for first-degree murder in connection with the slaying of a man in Edmonton Sunday.
  Autopsy results released Friday determined the 42-year-old victim died as a result of head trauma, police said.
  The case is Edmonton’s fifth homicide of 2018.
  Police are refusing to release the name of the victim as “it does not serve an investigative purpose, there is no risk to public safety and the EPS has a duty to protect the pri
  
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• It's worth it for Edmonton Oilers not to tank, but there's a high price attached

  29-03-2018 20:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 78: Oilers vs Canucks
  It’s worth it for this Edmonton Oilers team not to tank even if there’s a high price attached to rising higher in the NHL standings and dropping lower in the NHL draft.
  We’ve all seen that tanking isn’t a sure recipe for success in the NHL. The Oilers are poster child of this fact. It’s also the case that winning is the result of smart work and hard work in an organization.
  Both smart and hard work are the product of sound habits. Thos
  
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• 'Almost every route is new': Officials call for help on redesigned bus network

  29-03-2018 19:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bus routes that ran for decades will be scratched and completely rerouted in Edmonton’s massive bus system overhaul, say city officials.
  Officials appealed for residents’ help Thursday, saying they need in-depth local knowledge to ensure the draft plan in fact services neighbourhoods. 
  “Almost every route is new,” said Edmonton Transit director of planning Sarah Feldman, explaining the recently released draft plan. 
  “We know we won’t get this right o
  
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• Five people sick with E. coli after eating at Mill Woods restaurant

  29-03-2018 18:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five people have been sickened by E.coli after eating at Mama Nita’s Binalot restaurant in southeast Edmonton, Alberta Health Services said Thursday.
  While the health authority runs tests to confirm the source of the bug, officials are warning anyone who has eaten at the restaurant since March 15 to see a doctor right away if they have symptoms, and mention they may have been exposed to E. coli.
  Lab tests have confirmed five people were infected with E. coli O157:H7, which can cause diarrh
  
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• Today's Top Three: Protestors storm U of A; bus overhaul; five arrested in 'rampage'

  29-03-2018 15:03 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.
  ‘Cut your salary’
  Rising student residence fees and a hike to international student tuition prompted a noisy protest Wednesday at the University of Alberta.
  Students, staff and faculty filled a 300-seat lecture theatre to hear university president David Turpin deliver an update on the institution’s finances.
  The hour-l
  
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• Edmonton Weather: One day it will be sunny and warm, but not today

  29-03-2018 14:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Might want to break out the toque and gloves this morning as Thursday temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -11.6 C with a 18 km/h wind contributing to a -19 wind chill.
  Today: Periods of light snow ending early this afternoon then cloudy. Wind northeast 20 km/h becoming light this morning. Temperature falling to -10 C this morning then steady.
  Tonight: Cloudy. Periods of snow beginning late this evening. Amou
  
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• Thursday's letters: No place for feral cats in the city

  29-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Volunteers work to claw back city’s large feral cat population,” March 26
  To put it bluntly, feral cats should all be euthanized. Their presence contravenes municipal law regarding pets. They are predators and a menace to birds.
  Their being spayed or neutered and set free doesn’t solve the problem. They are still feral. Probably most of them have a disease of one kind or another making them a health risk.
  The Humane Society has enough of a problem in finding hom
  
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• Opinion: Mental health professionals in Alberta need regulation

  29-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As it stands, anyone can call themselves a counsellor in Alberta. There is no regulation and no higher board or college to regulate the profession.
  With an increased openness about mental illness and a decrease in stigma, more Albertans are using the services of therapists and counsellors. In fact, following the viral #MeToo movement, support centres such as the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton are seeing demand in counselling services up by 53 per cent compared to last year.
  In Calgary, an inc
  
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• Women, minorities focus of Alberta government 'gendered lens' policy

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Amidst the deficit, revenues and expenses of Budget 2018 is a new section guiding the government’s policy development to help women and vulnerable groups. 
  It’s called gender budgeting analysis, and this year’s budget is the first in Alberta to include such a measure.
  Gender budgeting is basically looking at policy, and figuring out who benefits and who gets left behind.
  It’s not just about gender, either. It also examines the outcomes for people of colour, different
  
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• Wildlife: Edmonton public art connections in L.A. and Santa Monica

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Los Angeles — “You guys are in a rough neighbourhood,” a homeless guy noted inside a grid of sidewalks down the diagonal of 7th Street. Welcome to post subprime reality at the edge of glittering downtown L.A.: block after block of dome-tent suburbs serving as unofficial housing northwest of the Greyhound station, clinging like hundreds of tarp-coloured barnacles against fenced lots and carcass warehouses.
  Into this eye-opening human territory, my cohorts and I had peeled o
  
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• Talk Back: Moe Banga invites questions on anti-racism and carding

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Running into walls, working harder to overcome them — that’s how Coun. Moe Banga talks about his time as one of Edmonton’s first East Indian police officers. 
  On the streets, people would say: “Why don’t you go back to your own country to police?”
  That’s what Edmonton can be like, said the Ward 12 councillor and former police detective, who agreed to appear on Edmonton Talk Back at noon Thursday to discuss his experience.
  He’s co-leading a cou
  
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• Semple's clarinet keeps him busy in military band and jazz combos

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It seems that Joe Semple’s reeds are always merrily bubbling away in some group or other. By day, and sometimes in the evening, he stays busy playing B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet or tenor sax in the Royal Canadian Artillery Band. In his off hours, he leads or co-leads projects of his own as he will Friday, heading up a jazz quartet at Cafe Blackbird.
  Like millions of other kids, Semple had piano lessons in childhood. When he hit junior high, his dad dusted off an old clarinet that was ly
  
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• Man attempts to smash Donkey Kong record at Telus World of Science

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new king of Kong could be crowned Thursday. 
  Jason Brittain will be playing the Donkey Kong arcade game at the Telus World of Science in an attempt to set a new high score in the classic game on Thursday afternoon.
  The arcade game, a pseudo-retro game, is part of the centre’s POPnology exhibit, says Kyle Temple, digital marketing specialist with Telus World of Science.
  “We posted (the Donkey Kong arcade machine) on Twitter and we were put in touch with Jason,” Temple say
  
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• Dance and theatre companies stage a new hybrid journey into the mind

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a unique hybrid of dance and theatre that takes off from a horrendous tragedy, but in a sense, the performance piece Betroffenheit is all about what’s going on in someone’s head.
  “We wanted to see if it was possible to stage a mind,” says Crystal Pite, “to figure out how to use the whole space of the stage to create an image of an injured mind. After that initial impulse, we tried to take a personal story of loss and trauma and make it universal, to zoom
  
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• Canadian police numbers decline for sixth year in a row; Edmonton ranks ninth in police officers per capita: StatsCan

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s overall number of police officers per capita fell for the sixth straight year in 2017, a trend that the head of a national police association said is troubling.   
  A Statistics Canada study released Wednesday reported 69,027 police officers in Canada last year, up 168 officers from the year prior.
  Canada’s rate of officers per capita fell, however, dropping one per cent from the previous year to 188 officers per 100,000 population. It was the sixth straight year of
  
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• Accordion-playing author Geoff Berner says it's time to pick your side

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prolific and radical via his moral duty, Geoff Berner has a simple message: you’re going to have to pick a side, and soon.
  The Vancouver accordion player has long been a ferocious entertainer, a demon-grinning indie folk-fest-circuit darling, frothing the seas of muddy hippies with his singalong sermons and punked-up klezmer at altered states like North Country Fair. But Berner seems better placed in the unknown-hour candlelit dark, like his upcoming reunions Saturday and Sunday night with
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Lights, Pro Coro, and Trailer Park Boys

  29-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  School for Scandal
  Modern day high school students sub in for the original cast of English aristocracy in Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s classic comedy of manners, School for Scandal. Lady Sneerwell sets things a-spinning in her group of friends by involving herself in the affairs of Sir Peter Teazle, spreading intrigue wherever she goes, until everyone is caught in a web of gossip. Mitchell Cushman directs this reimagining of the 18th century play, with Hillary Warden as Lady Sneerwell and E
  
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• Speeding driver data collection near Leduc to help manned enforcement

  29-03-2018 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Clocking speeding drivers near the City of Leduc and compiling that data over the next 12 months will help in the development and implementation of a manned enforcement schedule, the city said Wednesday.
  Emergency responders have attended nearly 320 incidents since 2012 on the stretch of Highway 2 within the city’s boundaries. During the same period, eight people were killed and 195 people were injured.
  “We’re seeing higher traffic volumes and that means we’re responding
  
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• Edibles, oils will be major legal cannabis growth market, pot company exec says

  29-03-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edible pot treats and vaporizable oils could become as popular as smoked marijuana once the drug becomes legal, a pot company executive told a business luncheon Wednesday. 
  “I would say the biggest thing on a product side is you will see, certainly over time, a shift from dried flower — the actual cannabis bud — over to concentrates predominately and also edible products,” said Nick Whitehead, vice-president of market development with Aurora Cannabis.
  
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• Paula Simons: No sound, no fury in child intervention panel report

  29-03-2018 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  No one can say the Ministerial Panel on Child Invention didn’t try.
  Its members met for 12 months. They held 35 meetings, heard more than 65 presentations, reviewed 339 public submissions. And they examined more than 300 recommendations from previous committees, fatality inquiries and child advocate reports.
  So much work. So many good intentions. 
  So little to show for it. 
  And I think the government knows it. 
  Last Friday afternoon, Children’s Services quietly, oh so
  
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• Graham Thomson: Every province going its own way on climate change: new report

  29-03-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  You don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
  Reading a newly released, first-of-its-kind report on climate change strategies across Canada leaves you feeling both optimistic and depressed.
  Optimistic because the majority of provinces recognize they must act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  Depressed because each province is acting on its own to astoundingly different degrees.
  There are provinces with governments that think of themselves as climate leaders (hello, Alberta) and provinces with
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Jason Kenney slams 'Trudeau carbon tax' while insisting there's no federal version

  29-03-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  When is a federal carbon tax not a federal carbon tax? When you’re United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. 
  Kenney has for months applauded other provinces for resisting what he’s repeatedly called a “Trudeau carbon tax” on Twitter. He even called it that in the legislature March 13. 
  But on Tuesday night, he insisted on Twitter: “There is no federal carbon tax,” adding, “That’s NDP spin.” 
  There is no *federal* car
  
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• Man pleads guilty to sexual assault on mentally disabled client

  29-03-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who worked with disabled people pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexually assaulting an adult client with the mental capacity of a small child.
  Eugene Francis Thompson, 65, admitted to the 2016 assault on a 37-year-old woman he’d worked with for years in his capacity as team lead at Elves Special Needs Society, an Edmonton organization that offers programming to individuals with severe disabilities and special needs.
  The woman has a brain injury, is non-verbal and has the mental capacity
  
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• Proposed bus overhaul sends priority routes to some, not all, corners of the city

  29-03-2018 00:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s new bus route plan appears to stiff southwest commuters with no new express or peak-hour service for that fast-growing area. 
  A crosstown route would cut down 23 Avenue and Riverbend Road, but even that’s problematic, worried Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell: “In peak hours, the northern half of that road is gridlock.”
  City officials quietly posted the new draft network plan online last week. By Wednesday, it was spreading through social media, with cheers a
  
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• Bite Size: Salz a “Bavarian sausage and beer hall on a micro scale”

  29-03-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even as the food scene in Edmonton gets bigger and more complex, some restaurant owners have decided to go small and simple. There’s a growing trend toward focussing on on a single dish or concept, seen in eateries devoted to menu items such as pretzels, sausages and schnitzel. Videographer David Bloom checks out Salz. 
  Owner Nate Box calls Salz, the latest addition to his stable of eateries, a “Bavarian sausage and beer hall on a micro scale.”
  The 600-square-feet restaura
  
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• 'We're trailblazers': Fort McKay Métis community celebrates $1.6-million land deal

  29-03-2018 00:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Métis community in northeast Alberta that purchased its land from the province is calling on people to “come home.”
  “We have members throughout Canada,” said Fort McKay Métis president Ron Quintal. “I feel on top of the world … It’s almost surreal.”
  In a $1.6-million deal brokered with the Alberta government, the community took ownership of the remaining 150 hectares of land it was leasing. That move followed the tra
  
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