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• Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli had a 98% approval rating with fans a year ago. Today? Not so much

  22-04-2018 23:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  One year ago, the annual and most excellent fan survey done by the Edmonton Journal and its sports editor Craig Ellingson uncovered massive support for the team’s general manager Peter Chiarelli. 
  My evidence? After the 2016-17 regular season and playoffs ended, fans were asked to rate all Edmonton players and hockey bosses, with three possible answers: “keep him,” “let him go” or “give him a raise.”
  Edmonton Journal fan survey 2016-17
  In total, 3,2
  
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• Longest serving Edmonton city councillor Ron Hayter dies at 81

  22-04-2018 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s longest-serving city councillor Ron Hayter died Saturday at age 81, his family said Sunday.
  First elected in 1971, Hayter spent 33 years on council before retiring in 2010.   
  At the time of his retirement, the Ward 2 councillor was one of Canada’s longest-serving municipal politicians in office.
  “I believe the record demonstrates a longtime commitment to my city and, as a cowboy might say, I can hang ’em up with pride,” he said about his r
  
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• Patients hold rally for embattled Sherwood Park doctor

  22-04-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A suspended Sherwood Park doctor accused of professional misconduct and defrauding the government is actually a talented, caring physician who should be allowed to keep practising medicine, a group of his patients said Sunday.
  About 25 patients of Dr. Vincenzo Visconti staged a rally at the legislature Sunday morning to call for his reinstatement by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.
  “To end a career like this with a witch hunt, it’s heartbreaking,” said June Hu
  
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• Fallen soldiers remembered in Edmonton Anzac Day ceremony

  22-04-2018 23:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Laying of wreaths, national anthems, Ode to the Fallen, the Last Post, one minute of silence. 
  It was much like a traditional Canadian Remembrance Day service, but for Australian and New Zealand expats in Edmonton Sunday, it was a chance to mark Anzac Day. 
  Anzac Day is New Zealand’s and Australia’s most important national day of commemoration. It falls on April 25, marking the day members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (or Anzacs), landed and fought
  
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• Mall attack victim remembered as 'old-fashioned guy,' 'strong hero'

  22-04-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 61-year-old man who died after a brutal beating in Southgate Centre last week is being remembered as an “old-fashioned guy, like the strong hero in old Western.”
  Iain Armstrong was attacked around 10 a.m. Tuesday when he tried to stop a thief at a kiosk near the Bunches Flower Co. outlet where he worked.
  Armstrong had worked at the shopping centre for 26 years and was well known and well respected.
  He died at University Hospital Friday. 
  Provincewide warrants we
  
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• Sexual assault suspect arrested in city's north side

  22-04-2018 23:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man wanted after a Friday morning sexual assault was arrested in north Edmonton Sunday morning, say police.
  Officers responding to a 2:30 a.m. suspicious persons call near 160 Avenue and 90 Street arrested Adam Basque, 28, on outstanding warrants for sexual assault and unlawful confinement. 
  A 36-year-old woman was attacked at a business near 50 Street and 101 Avenue after an assailant walked in and locked the doors around 4:30 a.m. Friday. The man then fled on foot. 
  
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• Sexual assault suspect arrested in city's north

  22-04-2018 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man wanted after a Friday morning sexual assault was arrested in north Edmonton Sunday morning, say police.
  Officers responding to a 2:30 a.m. suspicious persons call near 160 Avenue and 90 Street arrested Adam Basque, 28, on outstanding warrants for sexual assault and unlawful confinement. 
  A 36-year-old woman was attacked at a business near 50 Street and 101 Avenue after an assailant walked in and locked the doors around 4:30 a.m. Friday. The man then fled on foot. 
  
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• Nick Lees: Edmonton's Cosmopolitan Chorus headed for Carnegie Hall

  22-04-2018 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sixty-three members of Edmonton’s Cosmopolitan Chorus will take to the biggest stage of New York’s Carnegie Hall May 19 to perform a world-popular composition.
  The historic stage in the 2,804-seat Stern Auditorium is where the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Maria Callas and Judy Collins have appeared.
  And if singing in the world’s most famous concert hall in Midtown Manhattan could have helped your resume, you could have been there.
  “What makes the performan
  
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• Hit machine Steve Miller flies like an eagle at Rogers Place

  22-04-2018 17:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  For more years than we can count he’s been a space cowboy.
  He’s also been a gangster of love and a midnight toker, but for all of his self-bestowed titles Steve Miller is really one of the world’s great hit machines.
  It took them a number of years to do it, but by the time the guitarist and his band found the blueprint for chart success in the mid ’70s they were charged up for a long run of amiable, hook-filled pop trifles that sustained them for a good decade.
  Even with
  
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• Looking for a Lyft? Rideshare company entering Alberta market

  22-04-2018 17:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the top rideshare companies in the world is coming to Alberta.
  Lyft is currently advertising for a local marketing manager for Edmonton and Calgary ahead of its eventual launch that will offer a rival service to Uber.
  The company’s senior communications manager Chelsea Harrison said in an email: “We want to bring Lyft’s affordable, reliable rides to Alberta and are beginning the process of building a team in anticipation of an eventual launch. While both Calgary and Edmo
  
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• Guide dog gets Sherwood Park man blinded in crash back on track

  22-04-2018 17:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Service dog Mario is a lifeline for Sherwood Park’s Jamey Wagner who was blinded in a car crash.
  “I am very grateful to have a guide dog. Mario definitely opens up my city to me,” said Wagner in a news release in advance of International Guide Dog Day, April 25.
  “I am not limited in distance I can travel, or feeling lost when crossing driveways. I do a lot more walking, and have a lot more independence.”
  Wagner was studying electrical engineering while wor
  
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• Breton fire crew touched by Edmontonian's heroism, pay it forward

  22-04-2018 17:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Volunteer firefighters are known for their big hearts — after all, they are giving up their spare time in case they need to save properties from fire — but a crew in the village of Breton southwest of Edmonton have gone above and beyond.
  Members of the Drayton Valley/Brazeau County Fire Station 2 on Monday will make a 200-kilometre round trip to Edmonton to deliver pizzas to students at Abbott School in the Beverly neighbourhood. 
  And they are challenging other volunteer firefig
  
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• Property developer perplexed after building hit with giant graffiti

  22-04-2018 17:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  This is certainly not the work of Banksy.
  While the world famous graffiti artist’s cutting assessment of modern culture through paint brush and spray can has intrigued millions, the vandal or vandals who took aim at Mickie Poon’s property in the Delton neighbourhood will be costly to clean up after.
  The property developer estimates it will take thousands of dollars to fix the property located on Yellowhead Trail and 95 Street.
  Poon, the chief executive officer of property developer f
  
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• Retired school bus drivers tethered to kids at Prince Charles school

  22-04-2018 17:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was the last day of school before the Christmas holidays, and school bus driver Hugh Derrick pulled over at 124 Street and 117 Avenue to pick up a little girl.
  “She got on the bus, and she was so upset. She had made me a present, and she forgot it at home,” Derrick recalled this week. “She wasn’t going to be on the bus that afternoon, because she was going home with her mum.”
  He never saw her again.
  That night, Nicole Calahaisen-Schmil, 9, and her mother, Rebecca
  
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• Edmonton Oilers need solid back-up goalie. Could it be KHL's Mikko Koskinen?

  22-04-2018 07:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from both Elliotte Friedman of Sportnset and Bob Stauffer of the Oilers, news linking the Edmonton Oilers to KHL free agent Mikko Koskinen. Friedman said on Hockey Night in Canada that Edmonton is the frontrunner to sign the veteran goalie.
  Stauffer then tweeted out: “Further to @FriedgeHNIC on Mikko Koskinen. My understanding is KHL UFA players contracts expire April 30th. Peter Chiarelli said Goaltending was “close or near the top of things to look at,” when I asked h
  
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• Students demonstrate their ingenuity at Invention Convention

  22-04-2018 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  About 200 young student inventors from schools across Edmonton gathered at St. Joseph High School in Edmonton on Friday, April 20, to showcase inventions that demonstrate their creativity and ingenuity.
  The challenge the inventors faced was to identify a problem in their own life, invent a solution, then investigate the feasibility of that solution in the marketplace.
  Invention Conventions take place in provinces across the country and are the culmination of the Learning Partnership’s 
  
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• Man wanted in connection with early morning sexual assault

  22-04-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man who allegedly assaulted a 36-year-old woman in the early hours of Friday morning is wanted on provincewide arrest warrants.
  The assault happened at about 4:30 a.m. Friday in the area of 50 Street and 101 Avenue, police said. 
  Police say the man approached the woman at a business and locked the doors. He allegedly grabbed from behind and tried to move her to an area at the back. A struggle took place and he reportedly sexually assaulted her before he fled on foot.
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• Man wanted for second-degree murder after attack at Southgate Centre

  22-04-2018 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Provincewide warrants have been issued for a man wanted for the killing of a 61-year-old who died in hospital after being attacked when he tried to stop a robbery at Southgate Centre.
  Police on Saturday released the name and photo of Jordan Martin Cushnie, 23, wanted for second-degree murder, robbery, mischief under $5,000 and possession of break and enter tools.
  Cushnie — about five-foot-nine, 135 pounds — is known to police and should not be approached, say investigators. Poli
  
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