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• Volunteers fan out across Edmonton for 2018 homeless count

  12-04-2018 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of volunteers are wrapping up a count of the city’s homeless population. 
  The initiative, which started on Wednesday at 7 p.m., is a 24-hour effort coordinated by Homeward Trust, an agency that works to address issues related to housing and homelessness.
  This is the 13th time Homeward Trust has counted its census of Edmonton’s homeless, work the organization’s CEO Susan McGee said provides vital data. “There are many faces of homelessness in our city, a
  
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• 'There's only one outcome,' says Alberta premier on Trans Mountain pipeline ahead of rally

  12-04-2018 23:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley confirmed she’s heading back to Ontario just days after returning from Toronto where she met with the federal finance minister amid the Trans Mountain pipeline standoff. 
  “I don’t really go into it with any particular expectations,” Notley said Thursday, ahead of a Sunday meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. 
  “There’s only one outcome for Alberta and that is that the pipeline gets bu
  
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• Cannabis injuries in Alberta expected to spike following legalization

  12-04-2018 22:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans can expect a rise in cannabis-related injuries once legalization is implemented this summer, says a recently released report by The Injury Prevention Centre (IPC).
  The Alberta Health funded organization, which is housed at the University of Alberta, is calling on the province to help mitigate the risk of preventable injuries, including traffic fatalities, child poisoning, burns, and other general injuries due to cannabis-impairment.
  The report primarily cites injury rates in the s
  
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• Dig In Festival celebrates five years of food and fun

  12-04-2018 21:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Culinary tours and celebrity chefs are on the agenda as the city of St. Albert and Hole’s Greenhouses hosts the fifth annual Dig In Horticulinary Festival. Celebrating the food and horticulture of the St. Albert region and sponsored by Averton, the festival runs from May 1 to 6 at the Enjoy Centre (101 Riel Drive).
  Culinary tours by bike or foot will explore tree-lined streets and the path along the mighty Sturgeon, where you will learn about the area’s rich horticultural history whi
  
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• Why I am OK with Peter Chiarelli returning as Edmonton Oilers GM

  12-04-2018 21:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers chief executive officer and vice chair Bob Nicholson says the team is in an evaluation process, but GM Peter Chiarelli is going nowhere.
  In his opening statement at his press conference today, Nicholson said: “I am here today to tell you the president and general manager of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Chiarelli, will be the general manager next year… Peter, when I look at that, I really believe in his plan. Over the last number of  months we’ve been meeting
  
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• Tribute to Humboldt that will break your heart

  12-04-2018 18:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  There have been no shortage of heartfelt and thoughtful words about our collective reverence for hockey and sorrow about the Humboldt Broncos. But this private action by this one boy is the most profound eulogy and testimony I’ve seen. 
  My family left a hockey stick on our porch for the humboldt broncos, and our ring doorbell caught this video of my little brother looking at the stick when he came home from school. Watch until the end, heartbreaking. #humboldtstrong pic.twitter.com/6I
  
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• Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli sees the problems, but can he fix them?

  12-04-2018 16:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli criticized his players and hinted there will be coaching changes in his year-end press conference. So which coaches will survive here? Which players? And will Chiarelli himself? Which ones should? Which shouldn’t? David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey dig in.
  Most fans say keep McLellan, fire Chiarelli, so I’m in the minority here
  In Cult of Hockey polls this week, 77 per cent of 3,881 fans voted that Peter Chiarelli should be fired
  
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• Today's Top Three: UCP spurns abortion debate; Chiarelli on the hot seat; 'shopping cart' killing trial

  12-04-2018 14:59 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.
  UCP spurns abortion clinic bill debate
  The United Conservative Party knows women and workers at abortion clinics face harassment and intimidation, but they’re not going to vote for a bill to create demonstration-free zones around clinics. 
  The UCP brands the bill a distraction and a cheap political tactic by the NDP to draw t
  
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• Edmonton weather: Grey, grey, grey is the colour of the day

  12-04-2018 14:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -2.9 C with a slight 5 km/h wind.
  Today:  Mainly cloudy. Fog patches in outlying areas early this morning. Wind becoming southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 this afternoon. High 1 C. UV index 5 or moderate.
  Tonight: Mainly cloudy. A few flurries beginning overnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low -4 C.
  Tomorrow: Clou
  
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• Rogers Place to host event honouring the lives of local Humboldt Broncos players

  12-04-2018 14:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rogers Place is honouring the lives of Edmonton-area Humboldt Broncos players next week.
  On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, the lives of Jaxon Joseph, Logan Hunter, Parker Tobin and Stephen Wack will be celebrated during an afternoon event in the downtown arena. The public is invited to attend the event, with free tickets available via Ticketmaster beginning Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 10 a.m. There is a limit of four tickets per person. Floor seating will be reserved for family and invited guests
  
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• Thursday's letters: Too soon after tragedy for tough questions

  12-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Humboldt deserves answers,” Christie Blatchford, April 11 
  At this time, the Humboldt bus accident is a tragedy beyond understanding.   As a parent of two boys in minor hockey, the grief of families who have lost sons in the accident is unimaginable.
  Like many Canadians, and people internationally, I have closely followed media coverage of the tragedy. Overall, reporting and commentary has been compassionate, informed and balanced. However, Christie Blatchford&rsq
  
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• Opinion: The science behind the Oilers' awful season

  12-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  TSN senior writer Frank Seravalli says the Oilers’ failed season is layered and complex. I agree.
  There are multi-layered personnel issues, like managers, coaches, and players. There are also complex interconnected parts, like line combinations, defence pairings and special teams. It’s a razor-thin line between team success and failure, with “team” being key. Teams win games. Teams lose games, not individual players, coaches, or managers.
  Pioneering broadcast journalist E
  
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• Editorial: Abortion safe zones the right step

  12-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some opponents of the Alberta government bill to create protest-free zones around abortion clinics argue that it impinges on freedom of speech.
  The sanctity of open expression in a democratic society is not the issue at stake. Under the proposed legislation, protesters — both pro-choice and anti-abortion — still have the right to voice their opinions on this most divisive topic.
  Bill 9, the Protecting Choice for Women Accessing Health Care Act, places reasonable limits on anti-aborti
  
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• Wildlife: Traditional hide-tanning arts take step into future

  12-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The spirit of some of Alberta’s oldest art will be on display at the Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery starting April 14 in a dual show by Ruby Sweetman and Amy Malbeuf.
  The Art of Hide Tanning: Tradition Inspiring the Present and Future will showcase various work by the two Indigenous women, both graduates of the Native Arts and Culture program at Portage College in Lac La Biche.
  Sweetman’s bio notes she’s “of mixed Cree ancestry and has been a professional artist and an i
  
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• New program at Hallway Cafe gives youth kitchen — and life — skills at City Hall

  12-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rolling a tortilla into a wrap is tougher than it looks. So says budding chef and restaurant worker Kris Smith, one of 10 youth taking part in a new program at City Hall.
  There’s creating the stuffing, folding the skinny pancake on either side, then rolling it so the whole thing doesn’t explode, insides out, on the patron’s lap. 
  “It’s been surprisingly hard for me,” says Smith, 16, with a slow, dimpled smile. “It’s taken a couple of tries, bu
  
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• Jazz pianists tap the whole musical spectrum

  12-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Over more than a century of jazz, the piano has inspired some wide extremes of music making. You might even question whether you’re listening to the same instrument, depending upon individual styles and the repertoire involved.
  German-American pianist Benny Lackner plays and improvises over a vast repertoire of music from Brahms and Chopin to David Bowie’s Space Oddity and Radiohead’s Creep, plus his own original tunes. You’re likely to hear all that and more when he make
  
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• Edmonton Opera takes bull by the horns in Don Giovanni

  12-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is a knock on the door. You open it. There in front of you, bang on time, is the stone statue you had half-jokingly invited to dinner. Not just any old statue, but one of a ghost. Not just any old ghost, but the ghost of the man you have recently killed after trying to seduce his unwilling daughter.
  Most us would dive under the dining table, but what does Don Giovanni do in Mozart’s opera, which opens in Edmonton Opera’s new production at the Jubilee on Saturday, April 14?
  As c
  
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• Air Supply not yet All Out of Love with talk of new album

  12-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Russell Hitchcock never wants to hear the words “soft rock” in conjunction with his band Air Supply ever again.
  The Australian-born singer won’t blow a fuse the moment those words are uttered in reference to the band he formed with guitarist and singer-songwriter Graham Russell back in 1975, but the gently chiding tone is very evident.
  “I really don’t like seeing it in print,” says Hitchcock, on a short break before an Air Supply concert in Minneapolis. &ldquo
  
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• Albertans face longer wait times for knee and hip replacements: report

  12-04-2018 06:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans needing a hip or knee replacement tended to wait at least one month longer to receive their surgeries last year, according to new national statistics that also showed declining performances for cataract and bypass procedures.
  The findings come from an annual Canadian Institute of Health Information study, released late Wednesday, that compares wait times across the country for several common medical procedures.
  While Alberta ranked fairly well in a handful of categories in 2017, the nu
  
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• Spruce Grove athletic club retires jerseys during memorial for Humboldt Broncos players

  12-04-2018 06:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spruce Grove — Friends, former teammates and the public gathered Wednesday at the Grant Fuhr Arena in Spruce Grove to remember Conner Lukan and Parker Tobin, two of the Humboldt Broncos players killed when the team’s bus collided with a semi on the way to a game in Saskatchewan.
  Hundreds lined up wearing jerseys, or the Broncos green and yellow colours, beside bows on trees. Friends bringing flowers hugged each other and shared stories.
  Wade Borynec said his sons played with both Tob
  
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• Jasper RCMP break vehicle's window to arrest driver who locked himself in

  12-04-2018 04:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A routine RCMP traffic stop ended in broken glass and criminal charges on Tuesday.
  At about 7 p.m., Jasper RCMP officers pulled over a vehicle for speeding on Connaught Drive, police said Wednesday.
  The driver refused to identity himself and was being arrested for obstructing a peace officer. The 38-year-old man then locked himself inside his vehicle and refused to get out or unlock the doors. The Mounties were forced to break the vehicle’s window to pull the driver out and arrest him, pol
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey: Edmonton Oilers G.M. Peter Chiarelli identifies a need, on defence. Who might his targets be?

  12-04-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The General Manager of the Edmonton Oilers met the media Wednesday, to address the shortcomings of what was a really disappointing 2017-18 season.
  One of the areas where he clearly identified a need for the roster, going forward, was on Defence.  In particular, a right-shot D-man who could run a Power Play.  Peter Chiarelli’s specific comment was “I love the righty-lefty paradigm”.
  To be fair, he did not entirely rule out solving a problem with a left-handed man, eith
  
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• The 42nd Edmonton Motorshow rolls into the Edmonton Expo Centre

  12-04-2018 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2018 motorshow, in its 42nd year, features more than 600 vehicles from all major auto companies.
  Two vehicles had their official Canadian unveilings at the event — the Lexus UX Compact Crossover and the 2019 Toyota RAV4.
  The motorshow runs April 12-15 at the Edmonton Expo Centre.
  Storm Troopers are visible in the side mirror of a 2018 Nissan Micra at the 2018 Edmonton Motorshow, in Edmonton Wednesday April 11, 2018. The 42 edition of the motorshow runs April 12-15 at the Edmonton Expo
  
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• Defence disputes two causes of death in 'shopping cart' killing

  12-04-2018 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman whose body was stuffed into a shopping cart and abandoned in an alley had two causes of death, according to a medical examiner who completed an autopsy report in the case. 
  But defence lawyers for two women on trial for second-degree murder in the death of Andrea Marie Berg, 42, tried to argue Wednesday that only one cause — blunt trauma to Berg’s head — actually ended her life. 
  In a failed directed-verdict application, lawyers for Sophie Frenchman, 51,
  
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• Paula Simons: Jason Kenney and United Conservative Party run but cannot hide from abortion bubble zone debate

  12-04-2018 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  I remember the bad old days.
  The days when people who staffed abortion clinics risked their safety, day in and day out, to help women in crisis. The days when doctors were shot and stabbed for caring for their patients. The days when those who claimed to value “life” above all had no qualms about using violence, sometimes deadly violence, to advance their cause.
  I remember how proud I was of my husband’s sister, who volunteered to escort terrified Edmonton patients through the
  
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• Revived Ford Ranger likely to get outsize attention at Edmonton Motorshow

  12-04-2018 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s far from the flashiest vehicle on the showroom floor — a small, orange-ish brown pickup tucked behind a guardrail at one end of a hall at the Edmonton Expo Centre.
  But in a province known for its big trucks, the revived Ford Ranger is likely to draw outsize attention at this year’s Edmonton Motorshow.
  Ten years after Ford ended production of the light pickup, the Ranger is making a return — including a stop at the Edmonton show, which runs April 12-15. 
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• Notes from the Dome: Pro-pipeline rally planned and volunteerism takes centre stage

  12-04-2018 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pro-pipeline rally
  Protesters who want to see the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion break ground are expected to descend on the Alberta legislature Thursday. 
  The $7.4-billion expansion to bring Alberta oil to tidewater has been cast into doubt after Kinder Morgan Inc. announced it had stopped non-essential spending. 
  Premier Rachel Notley met with federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Wednesday in Ottawa to discuss the project, which was approved in 2016. 
  The planned rally fo
  
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• Wetaskiwin-area couple win $12.5-million in lottery

  12-04-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A rural Wetaskiwin-area couple have scooped up a $12.5-million Lotto 6/49 win.
  Stella Sacrey and Edward Philpott won the jackpot on the Feb. 28 draw after Sacrey bought a $7 ticket at Pigeon Lake Petro Canada, said a Wednesday Western Canada Lottery Corp. news release. 
  The morning after the draw, Sacrey checked the ticket from the bottom up, hoping she had won $100,000 on the add-on game, Extra.
  “We won $2 on Extra, but it wasn’t really what I was hoping for,” said Sacrey
  
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• Teach religion in public schools to combat discrimination and violence, say panellists

  12-04-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dodging lessons about religion in public schools does a disservice to students, leading to “religious illiteracy,” said scholars who gathered for a discussion on the subject Wednesday.
  “This is a necessary component of a well-rounded education,” said Salima Versi, a University of Alberta instructor and PhD candidate in religious studies. “It’s astounding to me how much information (university students) are missing.”
  Many young adults training to become t
  
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• 'The clock is ticking' on pipeline expansion, Alberta premier says in Ottawa

  12-04-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley said a meeting with the federal finance minister Wednesday was productive, but she wasn’t absolutely satisfied with Ottawa’s response. 
  “They too understand it is too big to fail,” she said during a teleconference from Toronto. “I did leave the meeting feeling a little bit more convinced we’ll see something specific from them.”
  Notley met with Finance Minister Bill Morneau to discuss the $7.4-billion project that has been
  
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• Police identify victim in Edmonton community hall shooting

  12-04-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have released the name of a man who died after being shot outside a late-night party at a north Edmonton community league hall Sunday. 
  The slaying of 23-year-old Abdiqani Hussen was ruled a homicide Wednesday after an autopsy by Edmonton’s chief medical examiner.
  The shooting happened outside the Evansdale Community League Hall, 9111 150 Ave., where neighbours said a rowdy party with loud music and people shouting was taking place.  
  Police said Wednesday t
  
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• United Conservative Party spurns abortion clinic bill debate

  12-04-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party knows women and workers at abortion clinics face harassment and intimidation, but they’re not going to vote for a bill to create demonstration-free zones around clinics. 
  Airdrie MLA and justice critic Angela Pitt will be the only UCP MLA to offer any comment on Bill 9.
  The rest will stay quiet, Leader Jason Kenney confirmed Tuesday. 
  The UCP brands the bill a distraction and a cheap political tactic by the NDP to draw the official Opposition into de
  
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• No employees fired for poorly-managed 'slush fund' at City Hall: officials

  12-04-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton used developer dollars like a “slush fund” to cover losses elsewhere in the city budget — jeopardizing the city’s ability to serve the industry and keep new housing prices down, say frustrated city councillors.
  Council’s audit committee heard Wednesday the city’s current planning reserve fund was built up from the fees industry and homeowners paid for permits. It was supposed to be cost-recovery, where industry covered all costs to the city for gettin
  
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• Woman dead after rollover near Wainwright

  12-04-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 29-year-old woman is dead after the truck she was driving rolled Tuesday on Highway 14 west of Wainwright.
  The woman was the only occupant of the westbound truck when it hit the ditch around 11:30 p.m., RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.
  She was pronounced dead on scene.
  The road and the weather was clear, RCMP said.
  The name of the deceased will not be released and no further updates will be provided, police said.
  
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• Wetaskiwin area couple win $12.5-million lotto

  12-04-2018 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A rural Wetaskiwin couple have scooped a $12.5-million Lotto 6/49 win.
  Stella Sacrey and Edward Philpott won the jackpot on the Feb. 28 draw after Sacrey bought a $7 ticket at Pigeon Lake Petro Canada, said a Wednesday Western Canada Lottery Corp. news release. 
  The morning after the draw, Sacrey checked the ticket from the bottom up, hoping she had won $100,000 on the add-on game, Extra.
  “We won $2 on Extra, but it wasn’t really what I was hoping for,” said Sacrey in the
  
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• Police seek armed suspect allegedly involved in shooting at west Edmonton store

  12-04-2018 00:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 32-year-old man who allegedly shot another person at a clothing store on Stony Plain Road last month. 
  The shooting happened March 24 at Lucky Aces clothing store near 156 Street, an Edmonton police staff sergeant said at the time. Police were called at 11:23 a.m. after someone reported a confrontation at the store, which resulted in a 36-year-old man being shot in his side with a small-calibre bullet. 
  Investigators init
  
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• Strathcona County homicide victim named; Mounties look for suspect vehicle

  12-04-2018 00:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a man found in a rural area of Strathcona County has been ruled a homicide and Mounties have released a photo similar to the suspect vehicle in hopes of catching the killer.
  Following an autopsy, the RCMP confirmed the death of Harpreet (Harry) Kang, 24, of Edmonton is a homicide, but the cause of death is being withheld for investigational purposes, Cpl. Laurel Scott said Wednesday.
  Strathcona County RCMP were called around 9:20 p.m. Monday to Township Road 515 and Range Road 234 w
  
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