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• Infinity ponders constructs of time and love in Theatre Network's latest show

  18-04-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sarah Jean is f****ed about love. She tells us as much in the opening lines of the latest production from Theatre Network, Hannah Moscovitch’s Infinity, on stage at the Roxy on Gateway until May 6.
  Her college roommate told Sarah Jean that; she didn’t see it herself. Even as she picks through the litter of her relationships with men, Sarah Jean struggles to recognize a pattern.
  “I’ve had lots of good… I’m very normal,” she says, her voice trailing off.&
  
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• Elbows off, if you please, and other etiquette essentials for children and teens

  18-04-2018 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Local etiquette consultant Jeannie Vaage of VIP Protocol is hosting a manners course for children from seven to 12 years old on Sunday, April 29, and another session geared to teenagers on Sunday, May 6.
  Both classes are being held at Bistecca (2345 111 St.), and include a meal (three courses for the kids, and four for the teens). All the meals are prepared by executive chef Sunny Sung. Parents are invited to make reservations for dinner while the young people receive their dining etiquette inst
  
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• Cappies reviews: The Little Mermaid

  18-04-2018 23:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Katelyn Cabalo
  Blessed Oscar Romero High School
  One word. Four letters. Love! How can something so simple be so hard to express? This one small word can be said, sung, danced and felt, all of which the audience witnessed at Louis St. Laurent’s performance of The Little Mermaid, in a fairytale production that captivated the heart and soul.
  Disney’s 1989 animated film classic was brought to Broadway in 2008, with book by Doug Wright, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Glen Slater in
  
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• Watch Live: Slave Lake celebration of life for 21-year-old Humboldt bus crash victim

  18-04-2018 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A funeral service to celebrate the life of Humboldt Broncos player Connor Lukan is being held at The Gathering Place in his hometown of Slave Lake Wednesday afternoon.
  Lukan, 21, was one of the 16 victims killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in northern Saskatchewan. He’s being described as a great leader on the ice and an even greater guy off it.
  Lukan, who joined the Broncos this season after spending three seasons with the Spruce Grove Saints in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, wa
  
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• Football leaders push back against soccer plan for Clarke Stadium

  18-04-2018 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Frustrated football leaders pushed back Wednesday against a plan to give Clarke Stadium to professional soccer to support a new Canadian premier soccer league.
  “High school football still needs to be there,” Edmonton Huskies Football Club’s Curtis Craig told city councillors. Edmonton has four full-sized, video-capable fields capable of handling high school football games and they now have 28 teams, he said.
  That’s the same field count as when he played high school footba
  
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• Alberta Children’s Services worker charged after 'thousands' of child porn photos found

  18-04-2018 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort McMurray man employed with Alberta Children’s Services is facing child pornography charges after “thousands” of images were discovered on work computers, says the province’s joint police team. 
  A 60-year-old man employed with the department was charged after an April 11 arrest in Leduc by the Internet Child Exploitation unit, said the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) in a Wednesday news release.
  The offences relate to child pornography photos
  
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• St. Albert Centre Exchange to Temporarily Relocate to Muir Drive

  18-04-2018 18:24
  St. Albert Transit (StAT) is advising all patrons that the St. Albert Centre Exchange will be temporarily relocating to Muir... Read Post
  
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• Speed demons: RCMP nab speeders clocked at 190km/h on Anthony Henday

  18-04-2018 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hey Vin Diesel, this isn’t the Fast and The Furious.
  Over the past few weeks, Strathcona County RCMP members have been receiving several complaints regarding excessive speeding on Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216). So much so that this past weekend officers dedicated six hours of enforcement on the highway where police clocked more than 70 vehicles exceeding the 100 km/h speed limit, with a few drivers reaching over-the-top speeds.
  Police say two vehicles were recorded exceeding 190 km/h;
  
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• Police handing out capes to help homeless take cover

  18-04-2018 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rain, snow and drizzle can take its toll on those struggling to find shelter. 
  So Edmonton city police have created Project Cape, where members of the Community Action Team (CAT) hand our the bright red ponchos to anyone in need. 
  “Warmer weather with wet snow and freezing rain renders most blankets and winter clothing useless once it becomes saturated with moisture. Hypothermia can occur in temperatures as warm as eight degrees when it’s raining and windy. The homeless who
  
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• Council Briefs for April 16th

  18-04-2018 16:58
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Lawyer released on $50,000 bail after fatal Edmonton hit-and-run

  18-04-2018 16:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer charged in a crash that killed a 16-year-old pedestrian paid $50,000 to be released on bail Tuesday.
  Shane Stevenson, 47, is charged with impaired driving causing death, driving with a blood-alcohol level over 80 mg causing death, and hit-and-run causing death in relation to the death of Chloe Wiwchar.
  Wiwchar was hit by a vehicle around 11 p.m. Sunday at a crosswalk with lights activated at 113 Street and Kingsway, police said. 
  According to a news release Sund
  
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• Today's Top Three: Edmonton grieves with Humboldt; Southgate mall assault; Triple first-degree murder trial underway

  18-04-2018 15:14 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.
  #HugsforHumboldt
  Mourners filled the lower bowl and floor of Rogers Place for a 3-1/2-hour celebration of life Tuesday for four Edmonton-area Humboldt Broncos who died in an April 6 crash in Saskatchewan.
  The crowd heard private details about the young men — Joseph, the 20-year-old forward who had just told his girlfriend he
  
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• Edmonton weather: Is it warm outside? What kind of sorcery is this?

  18-04-2018 14:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -1.5 C with a 6 km/h wind coming from the southwest contributing to a -4 windchill. But things are finally starting to look up as temperatures are expected to hit double digits Thursday and Friday; a little bit of rain will dampen the weekend but sun and 15 C temperatures are on the horizon next week.
  Today: Mainly sunny. High 8 C. UV index 7 or high.
  Tonight:
  
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• Wednesday's letters: New sidewalks built to encourage flooding, icing

  18-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City Hall flooded with complaints about flooding,” April 16
  When I read this article it was as if it was talking to me also, as in my neighbourhood we have problems similar to the Westmount people.
  The new sidewalks are considerably lower than the old ones and below ground level because, for the new ones, the ground was not built up, and some of the old soil was also taken away. 
  We also had water gathering and freezing on the sidewalk, almost faster than we
  
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• Opinion: Remember who bubble zones are for

  18-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite what you may have heard, Bill 9 isn’t about Jason Kenney. It isn’t about the UCP’s refusal to stick around the legislature. It isn’t even about protestors. 
  How do we know? Because we regularly meet the Albertans that Bill 9: Protecting Choice for Women Accessing Health Care Act is meant for. Far from government chambers and social-media punditry, we hear about the very real struggles to access appropriate reproductive health.
  These Albertans are young and pr
  
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• Editorial: Drastic measure for desperate times

  18-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  By giving itself the power to restrict the export of oil and gas outside its borders, the Alberta government has already won a small victory of sorts in reminding British Columbia that it remains part of Confederation.
  Witness the sudden appreciation of the Constitution and the rule of law by B.C. Attorney-General David Eby: “If there is anything in this legislation that even suggests the possibility of discrimination against British Columbians we will take every step necessary to protect
  
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• As Alberta's private security industry surges, what happens when guards behave badly?

  18-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last September, Bert Skeete decided to visit West Edmonton Mall. 
  The Mississauga, Ont., resident was vacationing in Edmonton and planned to explore the famous shopping centre on one of his afternoons in the city.
  But instead of leaving with shopping bags, the 79-year-old was lifted up and carried from the property by two mall security guards whom he says misidentified him as a shoplifter. 
  Skeete, a former security guard himself, was so upset by how the guards treated him that he left
  
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• Fantastic first impression of Cooper Marody, the return on the Patrick Maroon trade

  18-04-2018 08:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  For what it’s worth, I had a fantastic first impression of Edmonton Oilers prospect Cooper Marody from his last game of the year in Bakersfield in the American Hockey League.
  Marody, 21, is the player Edmonton got from Philadelphia for a third round pick that the Oilers acquired in the Patrick Maroon trade.
  Marody was the 215th pick by 2015 draft. He played three years at the University of Michigan, coming into his own in his junior year when he put up 51 points in 40 games.
  I say “f
  
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• Triple first-degree murder trial for rural Edson killings gets underway

  18-04-2018 05:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prosecutors are alleging that a man was “hiding in the darkness” outside an Edson-area home before he carried out a plan to kill and rob the family inside in November 2015. 
  Mickell Clayton Bailey is on trial for three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his aunt by marriage Roxanne Berube, her boyfriend Daniel Miller and Berube’s 16-year-old daughter, Jazmine Lyon.
   A police photograph of the Yellowhead County home where Roxanne Berube, Daniel Miller and J
  
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• David Staples: The 20 worst things (and two great things) about winter in April

  18-04-2018 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  We’ve had the longest winter in Edmonton’s recorded history — 168 days with below-zero temperatures at some point every day. That streak finally came to an end on the weekend, but Monday’s snow makes me think the only sane response to our cruelest of so-called springs is primal scream therapy. It’s time to vent all the disappointment and despair.
  So here are the 20 worst things about winter in April:
  1) Citywide blues. Can an entire city come down with Seasonal Affe
  
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• Body discovered in northeast Edmonton identified as missing man

  18-04-2018 03:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives have identified a body discovered in the city’s northeast Monday as that of a man missing since last November, police said Tuesday.
  Chad Stevenson, 41, was reported missing by family members on Nov. 7, 2017, after he was last seen in the Cy Becker neighbourhood.
  Stevenson’s 2006 Pontiac Montana was recovered in the area of 51 Street and 162 Avenue on March 20.
  On Monday, his body was found outdoors by utility workers in a new residential area near McConachie
  
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• Incredible brothers, sons will be deeply missed by everyone, says Humboldt Broncos president

  18-04-2018 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Garinger, president of the Humboldt Broncos, has been the face of the junior hockey team franchise in the aftermath of a crash on Friday, April 6, that killed 10 of the team’s players, two coaches, a statistician, a radio announcer and the bus driver.
  Garinger, is the director of education and CEO of the Horizon School Division. He was also a billet parent to one of the players killed in the crash and one of his three sons was the best friend of one of the coaches who died.
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Cakes and apprenticeship awards

  18-04-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party house leader Jason Nixon admits he has a bit of a bias. 
  For black forest cake. 
  The Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre MLA spent a good chunk of Friday judging the Bentley 4H cake competition.
  In the end, he gave his vote to the aforementioned black forest cake. 
  “But those young ladies in Bentley that were part of that contest did a great job baking cakes,” he said Tuesday.
  “I hope they have me back again next year, let me tell you.&rd
  
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• Edmonton doctor convicted of sexual assaults allowed to practise again

  18-04-2018 02:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton family doctor who sexually assaulted a female patient and a nurse has been allowed to return to work under certain restrictions.
  Dr. Ismail Taher, 40, can practise medicine again as long as he has a chaperone when seeing female patients, participates in a monitoring program and works with other doctors who know his discipline history, according to a ruling from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
  “Dr. Taher’s proven conduct was very serious and repugnant fo
  
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• Families of four Edmonton-area Humboldt Broncos share grief with thousands at Rogers Place

  18-04-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Taylor Joseph has been running what-if scenarios through her head in the days since the fatal crash.
  What if the bus carrying her younger brother Jaxon and 28 other members of the Humboldt Broncos had left town 10 seconds later? What if it had broken down, or stopped to get gas? What if Jaxon had decided to pursue academics instead of hockey — as hard as that was to imagine?
  “So many what-ifs have been running through my mind so that the end scenario had Jaxon and the team arriv
  
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• Edmonton councillors debate secondary suites in duplexes, townhouses

  18-04-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Keith LaRoy and his wife love their home in the old neighbourhood of Eastwood near the Coliseum with its tree-lined streets. But if there was one thing that he could change about the home he’s owned for five years, it would be this: rent out his basement suite.
  At a lunch break during the urban committee meeting Tuesday, LaRoy told reporters that under the current zoning bylaw, he is not allowed to rent out his basement suite.
  “We haven’t rented it out even though our tax asses
  
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• Alberta says B.C. will lose court challenges to oil control legislation

  18-04-2018 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Any British Columbian attempts to take Alberta to court over this province’s oil control bill will ultimately fail, the government says.
  Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said Tuesday her government has had plenty of advice about the bill, and she is “absolutely confident” Alberta is on strong legal ground. 
  The legislation, tabled Monday, will give McCuaig-Boyd ultimate authority over crude oil, natural gas or refined fuels being shipped out of the provin
  
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• Use of force by Edmonton Transit peace officers should be monitored: justice minister

  18-04-2018 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A dramatic upswing in the use of force by Edmonton Transit peace officers concerns Alberta’s justice minister. 
  A Postmedia report revealed Tuesday that officers reported 523 use-of-force incidents in 2017 — nearly double 2015’s total and up 118 from 2016. The internal City of Edmonton stats were obtained through a freedom of information request. 
  Use of force among peace officers was highest in 2008, when officers reported 629 incidents.
  Justice Minister Kathlee
  
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• Questionable online fundraiser surfaces for sanctioned Sherwood Park teacher

  18-04-2018 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Someone impersonating a Sherwood Park high school principal has launched a fundraising campaign for a social studies teacher who admitted to making unprofessional comments to students and staff.
  Greg Plouffe, who teaches at Bev Facey Community High School, pleaded guilty Monday to seven charges of unprofessional conduct for using a racial slur in class, commenting to colleagues on a student’s breasts, body shaming two students and making other off-colour remarks during a five-year span.
  An
  
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• Overnight Edmonton seniors facility blaze sends one to hospital

  18-04-2018 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A blaze at a seniors facility in the Hillview neighbourhood in the city’s southeast Monday night left one person injured and a damage bill estimated at  $200,000.
  Fire crews received the call at 10:35 p.m. in the area of 58 Street and 34 Avenue and arrived within four minutes, officials said Tuesday. 
  Seventeen crews in total were called to the blaze, which was under control by 10:49 p.m.
  The fire was located in a first floor suite. An elderly male occupant was transported t
  
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• Bikers pack courtroom in West Edmonton Mall waterpark sexual assault case

  18-04-2018 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bikers crowded an Edmonton courtroom Tuesday in support of six teenaged victims in a sex-assault case at West Edmonton Mall’s water park. 
  Lawyers made closing arguments in the provincial court trial for Soleiman Hajj Soleiman, who is charged with six counts of sexual assault and six counts of sexual contact with a child.
  Soleiman was arrested in February 2017 after several teenagers reported being touched by a man in the wave pool.
  A verdict in the case is expecte
  
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• St. Albert creates committee, plans tribute for Humboldt players connected to city

  18-04-2018 00:14 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert asked former Mayor Nolan Crouse to head up a Humboldt Remembrance Committee which will honour the players killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash who have roots in the city.
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening injuries after theft turns violent at Southgate mall

  18-04-2018 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 61-year-old man is in critical condition after a violent attempted theft inside Southgate Shopping Centre Tuesday morning. 
  City police Insp. Erik Johnson said the victim, who works at a store in the mall, suffered grave injuries in the attack. The man tried to stop a suspect’s attempt to steal something from a nearby kiosk just after 10 a.m., he said.
  “Our shopkeeper, trying to be a good Samaritan, intervenes, and our suspect then, unfortunately, beat our shopkeeper quite sev
  
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