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• Alberta flu deaths hit 86 for the season

  31-03-2018 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta has recorded one of its deadliest flu seasons in the last two decades, as 86 patients who contracted the virus have died over the last five months.
  That’s the worst total since Alberta reported 103 flu-related deaths in 2014-15, which stands as the highest number on record since reliable statistics started being collected about 20 years ago. Prior to that, the deadliest season was 1998-99 with 82 deaths.  
  This season’s tally includes 30 deaths linked to influenza in the
  
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• Caramunchies combine caramel with… just about anything and I'm in

  31-03-2018 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alysia Lok is a snacker. She likes to nosh between meals, and she looks for variety when opening her pantry to fill that gap.
  “Maybe it’s because I’m Asian, and when we eat dinner, we serve so many different things,” she says. “I’m not sure.”
  But whatever the root cause of her addiction to sweet and savoury nibbles, Lok has put the predilection to good use. As the proprietor of Caramunchies, Lok has launched a new line of treats sure to appeal to others
  
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• Pro Coro choir delivers with unusual take on Brahms classic for Good Friday

  31-03-2018 22:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the pleasures of a concert by Pro Coro, Edmonton’s finest choir, is that under their conductor Michael Zaugg they are always prepared to offer something unusual or less well known to Edmonton audiences.
  That typically appears in the form of new contemporary choral music, and indeed their now traditional Good Friday concert at the Winspear on March 30 opened with a work by the 45-year-old Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos that few will have heard before.
  However, the central feature o
  
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• Internationally acclaimed Betroffenheit hits the Citadel in new co-production with Brian Webb

  31-03-2018 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Betroffenheit is a contemporary, avant-garde, discoverist’s journey into the compelling mind and soul of an artist, an addict, and a survivor of unimaginable trauma. The show, on the Citadel’s Shoctor stage at 8 p.m. tonight and also for two shows Sunday, runs the gamut of emotional turmoil, physical pain, and the beauty of life. It brings the audience along for an unimaginable trip through its symphony of choreography strewn with jarring comedy and sheer rawness.
  The performance, wh
  
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• Social Seen: Please Touch industry reception

  31-03-2018 20:00 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)
  Please Touch industry reception
  Where: FAB Gallery
  When: March 28
  What: Industry reception night for Please Touch, a showcase of works cre
  
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• Saturday's letters: New bridge needs a new name

  31-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Dazzling Walterdale Bridge well worth the wait,” David Staples, March 28
  I just finished reading the article from David Staples about the Walterdale Bridge. As I sit here in my hotel room at the Banff Park Lodge, sipping my morning coffee, looking up at the majestic beauty of Rundle Mountain and ponder Mr. Staples’s article, it is so clear that the new bridge deserves a new feminine name.
  Majestic Rundle Mountain is a defining characteristic of Banff, and likewise this new
  
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• Opinion: Those who care for loved ones with dementia need support themselves

  31-03-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Each year, the first Tuesday in April is National Caregivers Day. This day of recognition is designed to raise awareness among all Canadians about the exceptional contribution of informal caregivers.
  Informal caregivers, sometimes called family caregivers, are people who take on an unpaid caring role to support another person who needs help. Dementia caregivers are particularly noteworthy as they care for people with a long-term condition that often becomes severely debilitating, both physically
  
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• Seniors often shocked by gains they make with regular exercise

  31-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re older than 50, its time to seriously start thinking about exercise.
  Why toil through a lifetime of hard work to find you can’t move at 60? Retirement should be about enjoying the fruits of your labour, not sitting it out.
  Never exercised before? No worries. Research strongly suggests fitness neophytes have everything to gain and nothing to lose by lifting weights and performing cardio. In fact, those following the right formula can recover decades of lost health.
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• Ministry just doing its job by making enemies with anti-Trump album

  31-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s all fun and games until a giant inflatable chicken falls on you.
  So says guitarist Sin Quirin, a man who has admitted to having a few inflatable chickens fall on him in his time as a member of Industrial metal veterans Ministry. These aren’t just any giant inflatable chickens, mind you; they’re giant inflatable Trump chickens, and they’ve become an essential part of the stage show for the tour surrounding the band’s latest effort, AmeriKKKant. Their 14th s
  
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• End of homework a chance for more family time

  31-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is it time to get rid of homework?
  I can’t remember when I started getting homework at school. But I think it was around Grade 3. I definitely remember working on an endangered species report about manatees in a red Duo-Tang at my kitchen table in Grade 4.
  Did I benefit from homework at a young age? I’m not sure. I was an excellent student throughout school. But my study habits were never great and I remain, to this day, the ultimate procrastinator and deadline-pusher.
  An e
  
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• Combined voices carry message of community as local choirs welcome spring

  31-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Human beings, says choir master Laurier Fagnan, simply need to sing.
  “I think there is a part of us that just wants to give voice,” says the longtime director of the Chorale Saint-Jean, a 60-person collective operating through the University of Alberta’s French campus for more than 80 years.
  That deep-seeded desire to both sing, and to sing with others, has given rise to a vibrant choral community in Edmonton, one that’s coming together in an impressive spring concert tha
  
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• A great menu deserves to be paired with a great wine list

  31-03-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Time for a shout-out to recognize a great Edmonton wine list that parallels an awesome food menu, accompanied by great service. Criteria for the complete package is what food lovers worldwide search for.  
  A notable example is Cafe Linnea on 119 Street, a French- and Scandinavian-inspired restaurant that features locally sourced ingredients. It was recently named a Top 10 restaurant by EnRoute magazine.
  The wine list is a collaboration between Garner Beggs (co-owner) and Chuc
  
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• Craig Button blasts Edmonton Oilers for failure to properly develop Jesse Puljujarvi

  31-03-2018 05:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 79: Oilers vs Flames
  But maybe we all need to take a chill pill about Puljujarvi, who is developing nice and steady
  This in from Craig Button, talking to Jason Gregor of TSN1260 radio about the Edmonton Oilers handling — or mishandling — of Jesse Puljujarvi. 
  Button said that Puljujarvi is from the far north of Finland, so it’s going to take him some to acclimate to an entirely different culture. “Those are situations you can’t speed up. I call them th
  
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• Photos: Vinyl fans flock to mega record sale

  31-03-2018 04:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of vinyl fans search through the 50,000 records on display during the Dead Vinyl Society’s Super Mega Records Garage Sale at Kenilworth Community Hall, 7104 87 Ave., in Edmonton on Friday, March 30, 2018.
  Hundreds of vinyl fans search through the 50,000 records on display during the Dead Vinyl Society’s Super Mega Records Garage Sale at Kenilworth Community Hall, 7104 87 Ave., in Edmonton on Friday, March 30, 2018. The sale continues March 31 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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• Man killed in head-on crash with semi-truck near Grande Prairie

  31-03-2018 01:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A northern Alberta man is dead after a head-on crash between a pickup truck and a semi-truck on Thursday.
  RCMP were called to the location of the crash around 5 p.m. on Forestry Truck Road near Debolt, about 61 km east of Grande Prairie, police said Friday.
  A 22-year-old man from Grande Prairie was a passenger in the pickup truck and is dead.
  The driver of the pickup truck, a 39-year-old man, also from Grande Prairie, was taken to hospital via STARS Air Ambulance with un
  
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• Edmonton police used force 2,448 times last year, but such incidents remain relatively rare

  31-03-2018 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police used force 2,448 times last year but cases where officers hit, grabbed or stunned people remain relatively rare. 
  Use of force incidents rose five per cent over the previous year in 2017 according to a recent report to the Edmonton Police Commission — up 25 per cent since 2011, the earliest year for which data was available. 
  The Edmonton Police Service is required to publicly report to the police commission twice a year how often its officers use force. 
  EPS
  
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• Faithful brave Edmonton cold on the Way of the Cross

  31-03-2018 00:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A large group of people gathered in the freezing temperatures of downtown Edmonton to participate in the 38th annual Way of the Cross Friday. 
  Starting at the Immigration Hall at 100 Street and 105 Avenue, a large wooden cross was carried and stood up next to a wooden riser where the first prayers were read. This year’s focus was titled Speaking Truth to Power. 
  “We invite people to gather who have a concern about social issues that are affecting people. We invite
  
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• Graham Thomson: NDP will spend $74 million to price-cap power bills for Albertans this year

  31-03-2018 00:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  I hate being the bearer of bad news.
  So, let me couch it with some good news.
  Your electricity rates will be going up — but not astronomically.
  This weekend TransAlta will be mothballing two of its coal-fired power plants at its Sundance facility west of Edmonton. According to a news release, it’s all part of the company’s “strategy to accelerate its transition to gas and renewables generation.”
  Electricity prices will rise.
  This shouldn’t come as a surprise t
  
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• Snow Valley closes ski hill on high note

  31-03-2018 00:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Snow Valley Ski Club is now closed and officials credit this year’s success with the ability to make snow in late October and having Mother Nature do her thing through the winter. 
  The 2017-18 season saw snowboard and ski lessons for 19,824 school students, lessons for 5,372 multi-week students and private lessons for more than 3,000 riders, said a news release on Thursday. 
  With the seemingly endless winter, Snow Valley was able to build terrain features like banks
  
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