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• Man wanted in Southgate Centre attack arrested

  23-04-2018 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have arrested 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 last week.
  Jordan Martin Cushnie, 23, was arrested by Lac La Biche RCMP on Sunday evening after a tip from the public around 4:30 p.m. that he was in a home in the Deer Meadows neighbourhood. He was wanted for second-degree murder, robbery, mischief under $5,000 and possession of break and enter tools.
  Cushnie has been taken back to
  
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• Edmonton defence lawyers watch Legal Aid funding talks, no plans for job action

  23-04-2018 23:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Defence lawyers in Edmonton who take on Legal Aid cases won’t follow the lead of their Calgary counterparts in halting free work they do in an attempt to force the province to increase funding. 
  Criminal Trial Lawyers Association president Dan Chivers said while his membership has the same frustrations with a system in “shambles” as the Calgary-based Criminal Defence Lawyers Association, his group is waiting on the outcome of Legal Aid funding negotiations expected to
  
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• Police converge on northside apartment building

  23-04-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have converged on a north Edmonton apartment building after an area weapons call. 
  The tactical team was called out to the scene near 143 Avenue and 82 Street about 2 p.m. 
  More to come.
  
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• How much more development can Edmonton Oilers expect from Tyler Benson?

  23-04-2018 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you want to know which major junior forwards are going to score points in the NHL, look at which ones are scoring points in major junior. That’s the firm conclusion that amateur draft analyst Brad McPherson reached in a study of the NHL draft. 
  McPherson found that there was a much stronger link to which players would score points in the NHL if you look at who scored points in major junior as opposed to looking at where these players were taken in the draft. 
  All this got me t
  
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• Lac La Biche RCMP arrest man wanted in attack at Southgate Centre

  23-04-2018 22:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have arrested 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 last week.
  Jordan Martin Cushnie, 23, was arrested by Lac La Biche RCMP Sunday evening after a tip from the public around 4:30 p.m. that he was in a home in the Deer Meadows neighbourhood. He was wanted for second-degree murder, robbery, mischief under $5,000 and possession of break and enter tools.
  Cushnie has been transported back
  
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• Police probe into barrels of fentanyl ingredient from China nets guilty plea

  23-04-2018 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tracking devices on barrels of a fentanyl pre-cursor imported from China led police to arrest an Edmonton-area man on drug-related charges, court heard Monday.
  Dean Clayton Abbott, 43, pleaded guilty in Court of Queen’s Bench to one count of possession of  triflouoromethylphenylpiperazine – known as TFMPP, which can be combined with another drug to create a substance similar to ecstasy – as well as one count related to the Firearms Act and another for possession of several
  
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• Edmonton defence lawyers eyeing Legal Aid funding talks, no plans for job action

  23-04-2018 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Defence lawyers in Edmonton who take on Legal Aid cases won’t follow the lead of their Calgary counterparts in halting free work they do in an attempt to force the province to increase funding. 
  Criminal Trial Lawyers Association president Dan Chivers said that while his membership is experiencing the same frustrations as the Calgary-based Criminal Defence Lawyers Association with a system that is in “shambles,” the Edmonton-based association is waiting on the outcome
  
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• Overland flood warnings issued for numerous municipalities

  23-04-2018 21:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Water flooding the streets of a northern Alberta village has prompted the province to issue an emergency alert.
  Rycroft, a small community north of Grande Prairie, is experiencing overland flooding, according to an Alberta Emergency Alert notice issued Sunday night.
  “There is a large amount of water travelling across land,” the warning states.
  Water is flowing down several roads and streets, and flooding is occurring in low-lying areas. Drainage ditches are flowing at capacity, accor
  
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• Jewelry chain opening first Edmonton store

  23-04-2018 20:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Regina-based jewelry company Hillberg & Berk is holding the grand opening Saturday of its Edmonton flagship location at Southgate Centre.
  The 80-square-metre store will feature the firm’s Sparkle Collection, and includes space to host special events and do one-on-one styling, the company said in a news release.
  Saskatchewan Lt.-Gov. Vaughn Solomon Schofield gave the Queen a tourmaline, diamond and freshwater pearl brooch from Hillberg & Berk in 2013, while then Governor General Dav
  
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• Roxy Theatre razed by fire in 2015 poised to rebuild with latest funding boost

  23-04-2018 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The show will go on after the province announced Monday it’s funding the rebuild of the burned-down Roxy Theatre to the tune of $2.5 million.
  The iconic theatre on 124 Street was razed by fire in 2015, leaving the Theatre Network homeless.
  Since then, the company has been occupying various Edmonton locations while working on a plan to rebuild, with the total cost pegged at $12.5 million. 
  At Monday’s press conference, the Theatre Network also unveiled initial design plans for th
  
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• Insurance industry set to release new neighbourhood-level flood maps

  23-04-2018 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents who need overland flood insurance the most either don’t know they need it or can’t afford what’s offered, an insurance expert warned council Monday.
  It’s a national problem, said Bill Adams, western vice-president for the Insurance Bureau of Canada told council’s utility committee. When the industry polls citizens, “those Canadians who are highest at risk of flood are completely oblivious.”
  “They just don’t believ
  
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• Four-year Oiler Iiro Pakarinen reported heading for KHL

  23-04-2018 19:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  More changes around the margins of the Edmonton Oilers are in the offing this morning, with word from hockey writer Pekka Jalonen of the Finnish sports website Iltalehti that veteran depth forward Iiro Pakarinen is leaving the Edmonton Oilers for the KHL.Pakarinen spent four seasons in the Edmonton organization, splitting each of them between the NHL and AHL. Over those years he played exactly 200 regular season games in North America, two-thirds (134) of them in the NHL. He suffered a coup
  
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• Saturday's letters: Slanted poll, loaded query in speed debate

  23-04-2018 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Speed limit debate calls for middle-of-the-road solution,” David Staples, April 20
  Forty km/h in residential areas seems reasonable, but the aim here is deeper speed cuts in more areas. What concerns me is members of council crusading to drop speeds in Edmonton are basing their arguments on what David Staples rightly calls a “slanted” survey. This seems lost on people.
  We’re being duped, and the architects of the survey surely know this, as must the traffic off
  
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• Community orchestra, Orchestra Borealis, dazzles in Sunday performance

  23-04-2018 18:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  If anyone worried whether orchestral music is alive and well in Edmonton – or thought orchestral music simply meant the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – then the three orchestral concerts on Sunday should have dispelled such doubts.
  For in the evening there was the inaugural concert of the new Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton, studded with ESO players. Earlier, two orchestras composed largely of amateur community musicians vied for the afternoon spot, with a rather unfortunate clash of the
  
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• Spruce Up St. Albert Kick-Off for Spring 2018

  23-04-2018 18:25
  Spruce Up St. Albert program starts with a garbage can painting competition With spring finally arriving, the annual Spruce Up... Read Post
  
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• Torrance Gibson looking forward to playing with Edmonton Eskimos

  23-04-2018 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  His athleticism might be off the charts.
  But uncharted is probably the best way to describe Torrance Gibson’s path to professional football.
  The six-foot-five, 225-pound wide receiver took part in his first pro football setting as the Edmonton Eskimos opened mini-camp in Las Vegas on Sunday.
  “This is my first one, so a little jitters but it was fun,” said the 22-year-old native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “I was flying around having fun, talking a little smack.”
  His is
  
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• Police arrest man wanted in attack at Southgate Centre

  23-04-2018 17:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have arrested 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 last week.
  According to a Monday news release, Jordan Martin Cushnie, 23, was arrested by Lac La Biche RCMP Sunday evening. He was wanted for second-degree murder, robbery, mischief under $5,000 and possession of break and enter tools.
  Cushnie has been transported back to Edmonton and remains in police custody.
  Homicide detectives c
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos in Las Vegas for a mini-camp

  23-04-2018 17:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Postmedia Edmonton sports reporter Gerry Moddejonge talks to Edmonton Eskimos vice president and general manager Brock Sunderland in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 21, 2018 where the team is holding a training camp.
  
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• Overland flooding warning issued for Village of Rycroft

  23-04-2018 15:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Water flooding the streets of a northern Alberta village has prompted the province to issue an emergency alert.
  Rycroft, a small community north of Grande Prairie is experiencing overland flooding, according to Alberta Emergency Alert in a notice issued Sunday night.
  “There is a large amount of water travelling across land,” the warning states.
  Water is flowing down several roads and streets, and flooding is occurring in low-lying areas. Drainage ditches are flowing at capacity, acco
  
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• Edmonton weather: This week is going to be absolutely … GLORIOUS

  23-04-2018 14:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 0.2 C with a 3 km/h wind. This week will FINALLY start to feel like spring with temperatures reaching above, or near, 20 C all week — except  for Wednesday, but no one likes Wednesday anyway. Temperatures on Friday on expected to reach 23 C accompanied by 22 C Saturday.
  Today: Sunny. Wind becoming west 20 km/h this afternoon. High 14 C. UV index 6 or h
  
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• Trans Mountain standoff highlights need for proposed Alberta-Alaska rail link

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Proponents of a bold plan to build an electric railway line from Fort McMurray, Alta., to Alaska are wondering why, as the Trans Mountain expansion dispute balloons to saga-like proportions, governments aren’t jumping aboard.
  “It’s frustrating,” says G7G CEO Matt Vickers, whose company has been working on the project for eight years. 
  “It shocks me why politicians aren’t all over this.” 
  The rail line would be purpose-built to carry oil, potash
  
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• Parent councils back more frequent criminal record checks, nix mandatory school nutrition guidelines

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parents who serve on school councils across Alberta rejected the notion of mandatory nutrition guidelines for schools, and want more frequent staff criminal record checks and better accommodations for students with disabilities.
  The majority of about 300 parents gathered at an Edmonton hotel this past weekend also voted to keep a resource for teachers to support LGBTQ students out of the curriculum.
  They also said government should change its funding cap on high school credits to 150 credits for
  
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• Hotline for vulnerable Albertans coming in a matter of weeks

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A crisis line to report concerns about vulnerable Albertans and help them get the supports they need will be up and running in a matter of weeks. 
  The new program stems from the public inquiry into the heartbreaking death of Betty Ann Gangon, a handicapped woman who was locked in a cage by her family at a Sherwood Park home. 
  The 48-year-old had also been confined in a basement, a dog run and a converted school bus with no heat, running water or electricity. She died on Nov. 20, 2
  
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• Grade 6 math whiz aces the abacus for speedy mental calculations

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 23 seconds, Megha Jani rattles off 10 three-digit numbers for her son to add and subtract: ” 849 minus 437 plus 172 …”
  Param Vyas, her 11-year-old, watches her intently before answering, without hesitation, “3,273.”
  He’s right, of course.
  After more than three years of ritual practice, the sixth-grade mental math maven was provincial and national champion in his class last year, and came third in a December international competition.
  At those contests, tho
  
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• City to consider $450-million plan to rid neighbourhoods of sewage odour

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A plan to mitigate the foul odour of Edmonton’s sewers that wafts through several neighbourhoods, particularly in the war summer months, will be presented to a city hall committee on Monday. 
  But the efforts by Epcor, which recently took over responsibility for drainage, and the city could cost taxpayers $450 million.
  The report being presented to the utility committee outlines a comprehensive strategy that includes collection and analysis of odour-related reports from customers,
  
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• City issues nearly 2,500 tickets for not clearing snow off sidewalks

  23-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Remember our winter this year? It started earlier and lasted longer.
  And one of the consequences of that long, cold nightmare: a spike in tickets handed out to property owners for leaving icy, snowy sidewalks.  
  Between Oct. 1, 2017, and April 18, the city issued 2,428 tickets for failing to remove snow and ice from sidewalks after a snowfall. That compares to 1,817 tickets in the same time frame last year.
  Previously, bylaw officers issued 1,422 tickets in 2015-16 and 1,665 ticke
  
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• Longest serving Edmonton city councillor, Ron Hayter, dead at 81

  23-04-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s longest-serving city councillor, Ron Hayter, was remembered by his family as someone who was tough and demanding, but also quick to hug, quick to laugh, and quick to forgive.
  He died Saturday at age 81 in a St. Albert nursing home. 
  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.
  Remembering a coll
  
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• Reading to schoolchildren a rich reward for retired school bus driver

  23-04-2018 02:02 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 young 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 last week. “She wasn’t going to be on the bus that afternoon, because she was going home with her mom.”
  He never saw her again.
  That night, Nicole Calahaisen-Schmil, 9, and her mother, Rebecca
  
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• Thefts of catalytic converters and copper wire spike, warn St. Albert RCMP

  23-04-2018 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pile of copper wire and catalytic converter thefts in St. Albert since December have RCMP warning drivers to take precautions. 
  RCMP say they see thefts of copper wire and catalytic converters — which contain platinum, rhodium and palladium — rise along with commodity prices for precious metals. 
  The cost to replace a catalytic converter is roughly $2,000.
  Trucks and SUVs that sit high off the ground are more at risk of such thefts, say RCMP, because it’s easie
  
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• Former Edmonton city councillor Ron Hayter passes away

  23-04-2018 00:11 via globalnews.ca
  The longest serving city councillor in Edmonton's history, Ron Hayter, has passed away.
  
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