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• Beaumont's Chartier hosts April events to simply make spring happen

  13-04-2018 23:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The only thing that makes me feel better when winter hangs around too long is to plan nice treats for myself. If you are the same way, think hard about a couple of events at Chartier in Beaumont this month.
  On April 23, co-owners Sylvia and Darren Cheverie are hosting their first long table Brewmaster’s dinner for 2018 with their friends at Bench Creek Brewing. Chef Steve Brochu will pair five great brews with five delicious courses, carefully reflecting the properties of the beer in each
  
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• Latest homicide victim had history with police

  13-04-2018 22:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s latest homicide victim — fatally shot outside a northside community hall party — has a history with authorities that includes being unlawfully at large and obstructing a peace officer, court documents show. 
  Abdiqani Hussen, 23, was shot outside Evansdale Community League Hall, 9111 150 Ave., around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, April 8.
  Police were called to the shooting scene but Hussen had already been rushed to hospital by family members. 
  Neighbours later rep
  
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• St. Albert cab driver charged with child sex offences - CBC.ca

  13-04-2018 21:50 via cbc.ca
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  A St. Albert cab driver is facing child exploitation charges for allegedly offering rides and gifts to a teenage girl in an attempt to have sex with her. Imam Buksh, 68, faces several charges including luring a child for a sexual purpose, attempt to ...
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• St. Albert taxi driver charged with attempting to lure teens for sex

  13-04-2018 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert RCMP are asking the public for information after charging a cab driver with attempting to lure minors for sex.
  On Friday, police announced they had charged 68-year-old Imam Buksh of St. Albert with transmitting child pornography, luring a child for a sexual purpose, making an arrangement to commit a sexual offence against a child, attempting to sexually assault a child, and talking about attempting sexual interference.
  RCMP allege the driver gave teen girls rides, gifts, and contacted
  
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• St. Albert cab driver facing child exploitation charges

  13-04-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert RCMP alleged a man would allegedly provide rides, gifts and contact teenage girls via his cell phone in an attempt to form a sexual relationship. 
  
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• Sherwood Park doctor suspended from practice indefinitely

  13-04-2018 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s College of Physicians and Surgeons has indefinitely suspended the medical licence of a Sherwood Park doctor.
  The college announced Friday that the licence of Dr. Vincenzo Visconti is suspended as of April 27 “pending the outcome of discipline proceedings related to a variety of ongoing concerns with his practice.”
  Visconti, a family doctor, is being a given a two-week period by the college to help patients transition to other physicians. He will be allowed to see
  
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• Fore! Driving ranges opening in Edmonton amidst snowy spring

  13-04-2018 20:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  It might be cold, it might be snowy, but that’s not stopping a few die-hard golfers from dusting off the clubs.
  On Friday, Edmonton-owned Victoria Golf Course opened its driving range to much fan fare. 
  Highlands Golf Club members Rob Turner and Barry Shymanski were among the first people to buy a bucket of balls and smack them into the snowy downtown field Friday. The driving range opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 8 p.m.
  Mill Woods golf course, in southeast Edmonton, announced they too
  
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• Edmonton gets jolt of cash for 40 electric buses

  13-04-2018 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The wheels on the electric bus will be going round and round permanently in Edmonton starting next year.
  A $43 million joint-funding announcement held Friday in the city’s southwest heralded the impending inclusion of electric buses to the transit fleet starting in 2019. 
  At first it will be just five buses added to the city’s fleet of about 1,000 vehicles but later that same year and sometime in 2020 the city will receive the remaining 35 vehicles, mayor Don Iveson said.
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• It's official: Edmonton has had 167 consecutive days at or below zero

  13-04-2018 20:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winters in Edmonton are known to drag on for a long time, but this is getting ridiculous.
  It was October 29, 2017 when mercury levels last reached a minimum of zero degrees — 0.0 C to be exact — and since then Alberta’s capital has descended into a frozen wasteland.
  OK that might be a tad melodramatic, but according to historical data gathered by amateur meteorologist Rolf Campbell, Edmonton has had 167 consecutive days of minimum temperatures at or below zero degrees, making i
  
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• Two charged with homicide on Samson Cree Nation

  13-04-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people have been charged with second degree murder after a man was killed inside a home on the Samson Cree Nation Wednesday.
  A seriously injured Jonathan Wallace Nepoose, 34, was found inside the residence at 2:15 a.m. by Mounties. He was pronounced dead by paramedics at 2:50 a.m..
  Five adults were initially detained at the residence without incident.
  Jayson Griffith Soosay, 26, and Percy Levon Soosay, 25, both of Maskwacis, each face a second degree murder charge. 
  Madison Rochell
  
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• 'A city built for cars': Survey reveals deep divide over speed limits on residential roads

  13-04-2018 19:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents are deeply divided over whether to reduce speed limits in local neighbourhoods, a touchy topic heading to council’s community services committee Wednesday. 
  A survey found 72 per cent of the 676 people stopped and questioned at malls, libraries and transit centres want speed limits dropped to 30 or 40 kilometers per hour, especially after they learn what that means to a person’s chance of surviving a crash.
  But the report released Friday has a warning for coun
  
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• Food in the Nūd boasts natural and healthy offerings in Ritchie

  13-04-2018 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Charming, tiny and tasty. Those are just three ways to describe Chrysta Morkeberg’s new business, a healthy bakery that’s just opened up in the burgeoning food hub of Ritchie.
  Called Food in the Nūd, the bakery began its life two years ago as a farmers market booth. But Morkeberg’s inspiration for providing a range of healthy and delicious foods for people with special dietary needs, food allergies and sensitivities goes back another three years.
  That’s when her son
  
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• How Edmonton's CHED radio station kept comics alive in 1973

  13-04-2018 18:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the waning summer days of 1973 if you wanted to catch up on the latest exploits of Charlie Brown you wouldn’t pick up a copy of the Edmonton Journal, you’d turn on the radio.
  Due to a newsprint shortage, the Journal discontinued several features, including its comic pages. It was no laughing matter for CHED radio station announcer Bob McCord, who was quoted saying, “With all the world’s troubles, it’s no time to be without the funnies.”
  Not wanting the resi
  
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• Palace intrigue at Oilers HQ grows over future of Todd McLellan and others

  13-04-2018 17:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Dean Millard of TSN1260: “Received a DM from a former NHL executive today who told me McLellan has already made his choice and the guy who runs the PK is the sacrificial lamb, so that would be Jim Johnson. We’ll have to wait and see.”
  My takeIt looks like the Oilers will go down one of two roads, either getting rid of one or more assistant coaches, or getting rid of Todd McLellan and all the asst. coaches presumably.
  In a post, Sportsnet’s Mark Spector report
  
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• Today's Top Three: Hundreds rally for pipeline; Eddies seek soccer stadium; 8 coyotes found dead

  13-04-2018 14:58 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.
  Rally to support Trans Mountain pipeline
  Hundreds of people gathered Thursday at the Alberta legislature for a pro-pipeline rally came on the heels of a similar action outside Calgary’s McDougall Centre on Tuesday.
  Protesters chanted rounds of “Build that pipe” emboldened by signs with messages such as &
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's snowing again. Here's a picture of a dog.

  13-04-2018 14:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -2.4 C with a 14 km/h wind contributing to a -7 windchill. Oh, and it’s snowing. Again.
  Today: Periods of light snow ending this morning then clearing. Wind becoming southeast 20 km/h late this afternoon. High 5 C. UV index 6 or high.
  Tonight: Clear. Becoming partly cloudy overnight. Wind southeast 20 km/h becoming light late this evening. Low -1 C.
  To
  
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• Friday's letters: Bike lanes are used more and more

  13-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Can bike lanes and mass transit appeal to the suburban driver,” David Staples, April 11
  Thanks to David Staples for his article on the visit by New York’s former transportation commissioner. However, I disagree with his echo of other letter writers’ comments that the bike lanes aren’t used. That’s simply not true.
  I drive, and sometimes bike, to work. This winter, while driving to work at 6:30 a.m., I saw a cyclist almost every day on 142 Street, and thes
  
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• Edmonton Talk Back: Architect of Times Square revolution turns sights on Edmonton

  13-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One day there were cars; the next day there were people.
  The change was that dramatic when New York City’s transportation commissioner hauled in lawn chairs and blocked off lanes to take back Times Square.
  Janette Sadik-Khan was the architect of that change, as well as miles of new bike lanes, bus priority areas and pedestrian plazas that soon transformed that famous city. 
  She’s in Edmonton on Friday to help inspire local officials to see streets in a new way and will join Post
  
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• Editorial: City loses trust

  13-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In what has become an all-too familiar scenario, Edmonton councillors fumed Wednesday when they learned, belatedly, of a major case of mismanagement at city hall.
  In this latest instance, city auditor David Wiun revealed that officials had been treating the city’s current planning reserve like a slush fund. In simple terms, tens of millions of dollars paid by developers and homeowners for the costs of processing their permits was instead diverted to inappropriate uses without proper docume
  
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• From zero to $37,000: School trustee campaign spending revealed as rule changes considered

  13-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The spectre of rules being changed on campaign donations for Alberta school trustees could significantly alter how some candidates finance their bids for office, they say.
  Edmonton public school trustee candidates relied on thousands of dollars donated by unions and businesses in the 2017 municipal election, their disclosure statements released publicly last week show.
  The provincial government plans to introduce legislation this fall that will reform municipal election campaign financing in Alb
  
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• Edmonton players, families skate to honour Humboldt bus crash victims

  13-04-2018 05:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The nation’s hockey family was left grieving when a bus carrying players and staff from the Humboldt Broncos collided with a semi-trailer last Friday in Saskatchewan.
  Thursday evening in Edmonton, the Canadian Athletic Club opened its doors for prayer and skating by hockey players and anyone affected by the crash, which killed 16 and injured 13. Players from clubs across Edmonton — normally rivals on the ice — came together at the club’s arena at 14645 142 St.
  Mark Doram,
  
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• Edmontonians can chart future rise in temperatures with new Atlas tool

  13-04-2018 03:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new tool combines the old-world power of storytelling techniques with science to help people understand what the future might look like.
  The Climate Atlas of Canada allows users to explore how their cities will look in the decades ahead as global warming tightens its grip on the planet.
  “We took the climate data model that was available and started to map it in this interactive way so that the communities could really start to see their own backyards,” said Ian Mauro, an envir
  
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• Judge can rely on convicted killer's testimony, 'shopping cart' murder trial told

  13-04-2018 03:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two women played different but contributing roles in the death of a woman who was strangled, dropped from a third-storey window and placed in a shopping cart that was abandoned in an alley, prosecutors argued at the close of a murder trial Thursday.
  Sophie Frenchman, 51, and Carrie Jones, 37, are each charged with second-degree murder in the 2015 death of Andrea Marie Berg.
  Much of the Crown’s case relies on the evidence of two people already convicted in the death: Lana Pelletier, who ple
  
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• Edmonton home-based business fees highest in the region: city report

  13-04-2018 03:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Run a small business from your home in Edmonton and you’ll pay the highest fees in the region.
  Look farther afield — they’re double what Toronto or Vancouver charges.
  Even if the business has no impact on neighbours and minimal to no increased traffic or parking, Edmonton residents opening a home-based business are charged up to $235 for a licence, plus $53 because the home now has a commercial use, and $125 for a development permit, even when no physical changes to the house a
  
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• Hundreds rally at legislature as Alberta premier prepares for another trip on Trans Mountain pipeline

  13-04-2018 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A few hours before a few hundred people gathered at the legislature for a pro-pipeline rally, Premier Rachel Notley said she’s heading back to Ottawa for more meetings about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  “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. Notley just returned from Toronto, where she met with the federal finance minister.
  
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• Attempted abduction of elementary student prompts search for suspect

  13-04-2018 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police released surveillance footage Thursday after an attempted abduction of an elementary student during recess.
  A group of four Grade 6 girls at Florence Hallock School, 16437 87 St., were walking on school grounds around noon Tuesday when a man in a parked truck waved at them, the Edmonton Police Service said in a news release Thursday.
  The man left his vehicle, grabbing one of the girls by the hand.
  She managed to break free and the man drove off.
  Students told a staff member and
  
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• Funding shortfall causes surgery wait times to increase: Alberta health minister

  13-04-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Increased wait times for knee and hip replacements in Alberta can be explained quite simply, says the health minister — a lack of money.
  “The funding in this area hasn’t kept pace with the increased demand,” Health Minister Sarah Hoffman said Thursday.
  “That’s the full truth, and that’s one of the reasons we added $40 million (in the budget) this year — to address that backlog.” 
  Albertans needing a hip or knee replacement were, on avera
  
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• David Staples: Students should understand the oil industry, not just demonize it

  13-04-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you wonder why Alberta is struggling to win the public relations war over pipelines, Exhibit A is a recent children’s play performed at Escuela Mill Creek School in Edmonton.
  It’s a bit of a muddle as to who was responsible for the play’s message, but parent Samuel Kemble was so disturbed by what he saw as its strong anti-oil industry stance that he walked out. He’s now taking his complaint to the Edmonton Public School Board.
  Kemble, who works as an industrial consult
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Norwood project moving along and a Bill 9 oops

  13-04-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The CapitalCare Norwood redevelopment project in Edmonton is ticking along, with the government requesting tenders for a construction manager for the continuing care facility.
  The $364-million project will increase the number of beds to 350 from 205 and improve patient-centred care by providing programs and services at a central location.
  The redevelopment includes construction of a new 40,000-square-metre main facility, demolition of the North Pavilion building and the
  
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• Survivors supported at Holocaust Remembrance Day in Edmonton

  13-04-2018 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Survivors, family members and supporters gathered at a commemorative service for Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Ha Shoah, at the Federal Building at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton, on Thursday, April 12, 2018.
  Holocaust Remembrance Day is held across the world and is always on April 12, which was an arbitrary date to remember six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
  Henry Cynamon and Abe Goldstein light a memorial candle during the Holocaust Education Committee o
  
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• String of charges laid after deadly impaired driving crash last summer

  13-04-2018 00:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman who was in critical condition after a single-vehicle rollover near Wetaskiwin last year is now facing several charges, including impaired driving causing death.
  Wetaskiwin RCMP were called to a single-vehicle rollover with several occupants ejected from the vehicle on June 8, 2017, RCMP said in a news release Thursday.
  A man and a woman were in critical condition and another man was not injured, but all were taken to hospital. One man died in hospital due to his injuries.
  Charges we
  
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• Eight dead coyotes found in ditch east of Edmonton

  13-04-2018 00:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A rural resident east of Edmonton is sounding the alarm after making a gruesome find in a roadside ditch. 
  Dwight Richardson, a resident of Strathcona County, said he was shaken after finding eight dead coyotes dumped along a rural road near his home. 
  Early Wednesday morning, a friend pulled onto Richardson’s rural acreage after returning from work and said she’d seen the carcasses just a block away. 
  “I walked over with my camera and sure enough there’s e
  
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• Edmonton expected to see warmer temperatures in the future, according to data

  13-04-2018 00:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new tool combines the old-world power of storytelling techniques with science to help people understand what the future might look like.
  The Climate Atlas of Canada allows users to explore how their cities will look in the decades ahead as global warming tightens its grip on the planet.
  “We took the climate data model that was available and started to map it in this interactive way so that the communities could really start to see their own backyards,” said Ian Mauro, an envir
  
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• NDP nixes upfront costs with new home energy upgrade program

  13-04-2018 00:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Regular cash-strapped Albertans — that’s the target audience for the new home energy upgrade program provincial officials announced Thursday.
  Previous rebate programs saw homeowners invest thousands of dollars upfront, then get a portion of the cash back.
  This one lets them start saving from Day 1, with no upfront costs, paying back the investment slowly through low-interest financing.
  “My sense is there’s a huge pent-up demand for this,” said Edmonton Mayor Don Ive
  
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