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• Reports of harassment more than double at University of Alberta

  02-04-2018 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cultural shift and a new online reporting tool could be at the heart of the number of harassment allegations reported to the University of Alberta’s Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights more than doubling in two years. 
  The overall number of harassment disclosures climbed to 134 in 2016/17 from 62 in 2015/16 with the largest increase coming in the sexual harassment subcategory which saw reports jump to 27 from six.
  Overall disclosures that cover everything from breac
  
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• Reports of harassment climb at University of Alberta

  02-04-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cultural shift and a new online reporting tool could be at the heart of the number of harassment allegations reported to the University of Alberta’s Office of Safe Disclosure and Human Rights more than doubling in two years. 
  The overall number of harassment disclosures climbed to 134 in 2016/17 from 62 in 2015/16 with the largest increase coming in the sexual harassment subcategory which saw reports jump to 27 from six.
  Overall disclosures that cover everything from breac
  
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• Fans should be wary about buying "stay the course" narrative from Edmonton Oilers

  02-04-2018 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 80: Oilers vs Wild
  This in from Bob Stauffer of the Oilers on Twitter: “The Edmonton Oilers chose a path a few years ago…to get bigger and heavier to match the California teams in the Pacific…something the majority of the media and fans in Edmonton were completely on board with at that time……The NHL has moved in a completely different direction to a speed and skill based game. In the future the Oilers will need to focus on those type of players to compl
  
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• Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Claude Giroux, Evgeni Malkin rank highest for individual achievement in NHL this year

  02-04-2018 16:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s no easy matter to determine which player deserves to be the National Hockey League’s Hart Trophy winner, the award given to the player deemed to be most valuable to his team in the regular season each year.
  To help clarify things, let’s look at seven individual stats and see where the players most often mentioned by NHL hockey writers as MVP candidates rank against one another.
  Here are the seven categories and my explanation for including them:Total points. Usually the mo
  
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• Today's Top Three: Flu deaths hit 86; Alberta teens guzzle sugary drinks; council mulls public pot

  02-04-2018 15:00 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.
  Alberta flu deaths hit 86 for the season
  This has been one of the deadliest Alberta flu seasons in the last two decades as 86 patients who contracted the virus have died over the last five months.Alberta Health Services statistics show more than 2,800 Albertans have been hospitalized with the bug, well above the 1,653 hospitalizations t
  
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• Edmonton weather: Winter temperatures are here to stay

  02-04-2018 14:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Things have not gotten any warmer this morning as Monday temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -17.1 C with a 3 km/h wind contributing to a -19 wind chill. The long-range forecast doesn’t look any better, either, with below zero temperatures all week and calls for flurries Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
  Today: Sunny. High -3 C. UV index 3 or moderate.
  Tonight: Clear. Low -15 C.
  Tomorrow: A mix of sun and c
  
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• Smoking pot in public coming to a head at Edmonton city council

  02-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city begins the laborious process of regulating cannabis use on Tuesday, when council’s urban planning committee examines new proposals by administration to deal with the drug’s pending legalization, including whether to allow pot to be smoked in public.
  While many legalization details are the responsibility of the provincial and federal governments, municipal authorities have a role in the cannabis retail sector, including land use zoning and business licence regulation.
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• Six months after three church members killed in crash, Edmonton pastor helps congregation search for new normal

  02-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Glory Blamo wakes before dawn on weekdays to get his kids off to school.
  He bundles seven-year-old Caleb on board the first bus at 7:42 a.m. Fifteen minutes later, the bus arrives for his girls, 11-year-old Dorcas and Gracious, 10. By 8 a.m., Caleb’s twin brother Joshua is out the door and off to school.
  Blamo spends much of his day at Solid Rock International Ministries, the northeast Edmonton church where he is pastor. At around three, he returns home to be with his kids after schoo
  
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• Province 'negligent' in containing cervid disease, says MLA

  02-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The spread of a fatal neurological illness affecting elk, moose and deer in eastern Alberta is reminiscent of the onset of Canada’s mad cow disease crisis, says an Alberta legislator. 
  Liberal MLA David Swann warned that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a prion disease in the same family as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapies and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which affect cattle, sheep and humans respectively — needs to be contained before irreparably&n
  
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• Connor McDavid, Claude Giroux, Nathan MacKinnon rank highest for individual achievement in NHL this year

  02-04-2018 10:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s no easy matter to determine which player deserves to be the National Hockey League’s Hart Trophy winner, the award given to the player deemed to be most valuable to his team in the regular season each year.
  To help clarify things, let’s look at seven individual stats and see where the players most often mentioned as MVP candidates rank against one another.
  Here are the seven categories and my explanation for including them:Total points. Usually the most important factor in
  
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• Nick Lees: NASA technology inspires 'middle ager' to keep pedalling after injury

  02-04-2018 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  I am 75 years old, and after chatting to a couple of old friends this week I realized I have reached the northern end of middle age.
  My first conversation was with former Birmingham, U.K., pub owner Clive Burke, 68, who recently placed first in a race up five Edmonton towers to support prostate cancer research at the University of Alberta.
  “I climbed some 340 flights of stairs, or about 1,220 metres, in 47 minutes,” Burke said. “I finished ahead of the 12 teams taking part &hel
  
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• Man dies after being found in truck in ditch near Redwater, major crimes unit investigating

  02-04-2018 04:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP major crimes unit is investigating after a 25-year-old man from the Redwater area died after being found in a truck in the ditch.
  A passerby found a truck in a ditch just before 6:15 a.m. on Saturday on Range Road 234, north of Township Road 580, RCMP said in a news release Saturday.
  The man appeared seriously injured and the person who found him tried to resuscitate the man.
  Emergency Medical Services declared the man dead on scene.
  Redwater RCMP called the major crimes unit, forensic
  
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• Alberta still on track for 2,000 new long-term care beds, NDP says

  02-04-2018 02:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP government says it is on track to fulfil one of its key election promises to create 2,000 long-term care and dementia beds, even as a long-awaited new strategy for building seniors care projects remains in limbo.
  In a set of emailed responses to Postmedia News last week, Alberta Health officials said more than 1,600 of the 2,000 beds are being developed through the expiring Alberta Supportive Living Initiative (ASLI) that relies heavily on private and non-profit organizations.
  Under that
  
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• Man airlifted to hospital after fire near Fort Saskatchewan

  02-04-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man was airlifted to hospital with burns to his airway and burns to his head and hands after a fire tore through a shop near Fort Saskatchewan on Sunday.
  Sturgeon County Fire Chief Pat Mahoney said crews were called to the garage fire near Lamoureux around 1:38 p.m. where they found the structure and a shed behind it fully involved in flames.
  “The gentleman who suffered injuries was in the garage working on a snowmobile,” Mahoney said.
  Seven units with 21 firefighters from Bon Acco
  
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