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• Social Seen: Blatchford Boogie Woogie

  14-04-2018 21:24 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 and follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie)
  Blatchford Boogie Woogie
  Where: Alberta Aviation Museum
  When: April 7
  What: A 1940s inspired big band dance organized by MacEwan Arts and Cultural Management students and the Alberta
  
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• FAVA Fest shows the best local films, past and present, April 17-21

  14-04-2018 18:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  While Edmonton is replete with film festivals along the stripes of format, genre and identity, none focuses better on the local cinematic ecosystem like FAVA Fest — which both showcases and rewards homegrown creative hustle.
  Running April 17-21, the seventh annual edition has moved its Saturday night gala to a hawk’s-eye view in the downtown core from Garneau Theatre, one of a couple dynamic changes this year. 
  “We’ve rented out the 16th floor of the Epcor
  
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• Dancer Barrull follows the song in intense flamenco show

  14-04-2018 17:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  One mark of a great dance show is that the dancers seem to become one with the music.
  You could argue that flamenco star Jairo Barrull takes it one step further (no pun intended). When his shoes land on the stage floor with a percussive knock of authority, it comes with an in-depth knowledge of a centuries-old tradition that’s part of his DNA. The dancer literally becomes the music. His sharp taps and struts are part of the melody and the rhythm.
  And yet, the Seville-born, London-based dan
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Affordable child-care funding announcement good news for working parents

  14-04-2018 17:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week, the federal and provincial governments announced they were committing more money to affordable child care.
  More specifically, on Thursday, federal cabinet minister and Edmonton-Mill Woods MP Amarjeet Sohi unveiled a three-year bilateral agreement that commits $136 million to early learning and child care in Alberta.
  I can think of few better causes for governments who claim to be both progressive and committed to families.
  A few weeks ago, I had to have those awkward conversations wit
  
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• Saturday's letters: Don't sideline amateur football for pro soccer

  14-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “FC Edmonton seeking city’s help with stadium,” April 13
  It is great news that FC Edmonton is bringing professional soccer back to this city, but at what cost?
  A survey of major cities in North America indicated Edmonton is the only city that does not allow amateur football to present league or playoff games in its major stadium, in our case, Commonwealth Stadium.
  Last year the High School Football League was allowed to present three playoff games in Commonwealth, a major b
  
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• Opinion: Charities must broaden their pool of donors

  14-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The generosity of Canadians is unquestionable. According to tax-filer data, Canadians annually give over $14 billion to charities. But our strong culture of giving, so essential to our quality of life, is increasingly at risk.
  The Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF), in partnership with Imagine Canada, has just released a landmark report, entitled 30 Years of Giving in Canada, examining charitable donations and giving patterns from 1985 to 2014. The study paints a highly nuanced picture of the future o
  
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• Tiny Portugal offers bounty of delicious, affordable wines

  14-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Portugal is a popular travel destination and, as a result, we are seeing an increase in demand for its wines. Don’t fear the difficult-to-pronounce regions and varietal names — just jump in and enjoy the flavours of Portugal. There’s a bounty of delicious and affordable wines to satisfy all wine lovers.
  It’s a small country, only about one-third larger than New Brunswick, but one of the largest wine producers in the world. A country that is best known for fortified wine,
  
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• Posh, foodie calories are still calories

  14-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With fork in hand I write this column while eradicating the remains of an Easter carrot cake that, by all accounts, was consumed unaccompanied. Typical hosting etiquette was shed like a Caribbean tan as I served myself first and often over the long weekend.
  Carrot cake is my crack cocaine. Left to my own devices, I would have eaten the whole thing in one sitting. Some claim I did. Frankly, I don’t recall — it’s all a bit of a blur.
  When the big three hit (turkey, reindeer and b
  
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• Big changes to Edmonton streets could take months, not years: NYC planner

  14-04-2018 04:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Big moves laid out in paint and planters allowed New York to transform its streets and even Times Square when transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was in charge. The same could happen here.
  “That’s one of the big lessons from New York. You can move quickly to change your streets and it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or money,” said Sadik-Khan, responding to a question about four big projects vying for funding in Edmonton’s next four-year capital budget
  
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• Big changes to Edmonton streets could takes months, not years: NYC planner

  14-04-2018 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Big moves laid out in paint and planters allowed New York to transform its streets and even Times Square when transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was in charge. The same could happen here.
  “That’s one of the big lessons from New York. You can move quickly to change your streets and it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or money,” said Sadik-Khan, responding to a question about four big projects vying for funding in Edmonton’s next four-year capital budget
  
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• Graham Thomson: United Conservative Party's stand on abortion-clinic bill might be morally spineless but it's politically shrewd

  14-04-2018 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  They didn’t exactly stampede for the exit.
  But when members of the United Conservative Party announced Tuesday evening they wanted nothing to do with the NDP government’s Bill 9, they vacated the legislative assembly at a gallop.
  The bill, with the weighty title of Protecting Choice for Women Accessing Health Care Act, is better known as the abortion-clinic “bubble zone bill.”
  If approved by the legislature, the new law will keep anti-abortion protesters 50 metres away fr
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey: Coaching changes are imminent behind the Edmonton Oilers bench

  14-04-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Change is coming to the Edmonton Oilers coaching staff.
  I strongly believe that Todd McLellan will be back behind the bench, to begin 2018-19, but that the men standing in suits around him will look very different.
  The first casualty is Assistant Coach Jim Johnson. I am told by once source that in fact he has already been released from his current position. What I know for a fact is that Johnson was relieved of his duties on the Oilers PK, probably sometime around late January, early February (t
  
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• Federal funds directed at training for Alberta Indigenous communities

  14-04-2018 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  George’s tail wagged like a flag in the wind.
  The six-year-old black Labrador mix looked up at his master, Ron Mistafa, excited. At Mistafa’s command, George dashed across the stage sniffing and searching. When he found the “benzene leak” George barked deeply, alerting his master.
  Mistafa and George were at a program Friday at the Singhmar Centre for Learning Atrium at NorQuest College to highlight the investments of almost $5.5 million for 11 projects directed at trainin
  
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• Notes from the dome: Jason Kenney takes heat on social media and premier heads to Ottawa

  14-04-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  ‘I have the vapours’
  Alberta Party MLA Karen McPherson took to Twitter Thursday over a video on United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney’s Facebook page with the caption “what’s the biggest issue facing women in Alberta today?”
  “I’ll tell you what I think the most important women’s issue is in Alberta,” Kenney said in the video. “Our economy.
  “I don’t care whether you’re a woman or a man, whether you’r
  
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• Judge acquits one woman, convicts another in 'shopping cart' murder

  14-04-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  After years of sitting through horrific courtroom details about the way Andrea Marie Berg died, her family said Friday they want people to know she was a kind, happy person who was loved. 
  “I do need people to know that Andrea could walk in a room and brighten it up and everybody would be smiling,” her mother Joanne Berg said, speaking outside the courthouse after a judge found Sophie Frenchman, 51, guilty of second-degree murder in Andrea Berg’s death, but acquitted
  
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• Paula Simons: 'Unacceptable': Latest city audit exposes a culture without accountability

  14-04-2018 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The road to hell is paved with the 20/20 hindsight of the best laid plans gone awry.
  Or something like that. 
  Which may explain how an innovative plan to help the City of Edmonton’s planning department weather the ups and downs of a boom economy ended up creating an unaccountable cash pot, one that city bureaucrats repeatedly starved and raided to cover off (and cover up) a wide range of inappropriate expenses.
  A damning report by city auditor David Wiun, presented to city council&rsq
  
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• Press Gallery: The turn off the taps to B.C. edition

  14-04-2018 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week we discuss the ongoing Trans Mountain pipeline saga, and how Jason Kenney and the rest the United Conservative Party won’t be voting on on Bill 9 which would create buffer zones around abortion clinics.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Graham Thomson and Paula Simons as they discuss the future of the federation, as Alberta and British Columbia continue fight over bringing bitumen to tidewater.
  Good stuff from the Gallery
  Paula’s pick: CBC I
  
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• Albertans continue to wrangle with unanswered questions ahead of cannabis legalization

  14-04-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans interested in buying a stake in the province’s fledgling cannabis industry are brimming with questions, from whether cannabis lounges will pop up on street corners to how a mom-and-pop retailer would fare in the market. 
  “There’s a whole next phase of policy questions, primarily around cafes, lounges and edible products that are still yet to come,” said Kim Capstick, executive director of engagement and outreach for the Alberta Cannabis Secretariat, in an i
  
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• Two charged with second-degree murder on Samson Cree Nation

  14-04-2018 00:43 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. Wednesday, police said Friday.
  Five adults were initially detained at the residence without incident, police said.
  Jayson Griffith Soosay, 26, and Percy Levon Soosay, 25, both of Maskwacis, each face a second-
  
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