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• Manor Bistro owners opening new wine bar in High Street

  24-04-2018 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians appetite for cozy wine bars featuring savoury nibbles seems to know no bounds. To meet the demand, another tiny bôite, called Partake, is set to open in the 124 Street area, care of chef Cyrille Koppert and his business partner, Lisa Dungale.
  The two restaurateurs, who own Urban Diner (12427 102 Ave.) and The Manor Bistro (10109 125 St.), shared the news Monday at an open house at The Manor, designed to celebrate the restaurant’s 25 years in the business. It was the firs
  
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• 'We're charging too much': Edmonton council votes to cut fees for minor-home businesses

  24-04-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council voted to cut fees for photographers, accountants and other minor home-based business operators Tuesday and launch a review to re-examine what it charges all other businesses.
  These small businesses — which have less than one visit a day from a client and no visual impact to the neighbourhood — were being charged the highest start-up costs in the region.
  “I saw an urgent need to reduce those fees,” said Mayor Don Iveson, who campaigned on reducing or eliminating fe
  
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• Woman's head hit repeatedly against vehicle in random parking lot attack

  24-04-2018 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are searching for a male suspect after a woman was randomly attacked as she was leaving her vehicle in the Clareview Transit Centre parking lot on April 11.
  About 6 a.m., the woman, 41, was grabbed from behind while searching inside her vehicle, police allege. The suspect then grabbed the woman’s hair and repeatedly hit her head on the vehicle. The woman was kicked several times after she fell to the ground.
  A female witness was pushed to the ground by the attacker after attempting
  
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• Thieves nab $210k worth of silver bars from Edmonton-area acreage

  24-04-2018 20:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are searching for suspects after thieves made off with more than $210,000 in silver bars from an acreage north of Edmonton.
  About 5:45 p.m. on April 11, police were called to the acreage of an Edmonton retiree after a complaint about a break and enter.
  Police were told the thieves cut the lock off a vehicle gate in the driveway before breaking into the residence. Inside, the thieves made off with $20,000 worth of registered firearms and a large amount of ammunition.
  Police said the thieve
  
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• David Turpin: Suzuki controversy shows U of A champions freedom of thought

  24-04-2018 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  David Suzuki is controversial figure. A Companion of the Order of Canada, his promotion of science literacy and education has been an inspiration to many across the world and a force for major societal change.
  He has also attracted strong criticism for the positions he advocates. Since the University of Alberta announced we will confer an honorary degree on Suzuki at our spring convocation, that controversy has flared.
  Suzuki is a vocal critic of Alberta’s energy industry. I have heard fro
  
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• Homicide files mount in April, detectives now probing Monday suspicious death

  24-04-2018 19:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a 25-year-old woman found by police after a weapons call in north Edmonton on Monday will be the ninth homicide of the year if confirmed.
  The death follows three April homicides and two in March. There were no homicides in February. The city recorded three killings in January.
  At this time last year, on April 24, Edmonton had at total of 15 homicides. 
  Officers found the woman suffering injuries after they were called to the Kildare home near 78 Street and 143 Avenue around 1:5
  
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• Live: Council debates lowering local-road speed limit to 30 km/h

  24-04-2018 18:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council could vote Tuesday on a push for speed limits as low as 30 kilometres per hour on the local roads that run past peoples’ homes.
  But some councillors are hesitant to move too fast on a change like that, even if it doesn’t affect the larger collector and arterial roads. Councillors Tim Cartmell and Andrew Knack have both said they’d like further research and consultation to make sure all the speed limits are appropriate. 
  The debate has been made time specific f
  
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• Live: Business friendly? Council debates home-based business fees

  24-04-2018 16:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A simple debate on home-based business fees set for council Tuesday threatens to get much bigger. 
  Already, council has heard Edmonton’s fees are the highest in the region. But when that news broke two weeks ago, many other business owners piped up on social media, frustrated Edmonton charges what it does to anyone. 
  That annual $235 fee in addition to property tax is just irritating, said small business owner Dana DiTomaso. “I get taxes. I’m not against paying money
  
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• Edmonton weather: No more work. Must find patio.

  24-04-2018 14:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 1.9 C with a 9 km/h wind coming from the southwest. We’re expected to hit 21 C today, which seems insane considering where we were just a week ago (See: I am slowly going crazy). With the exception of Wednesday, which we’ve established no one likes anyway, this week is shaping up to be a gorgeous one with a forecast temperature of 20 C on Thursday, 2
  
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• Homicide detectives investigating suspicious death in north Edmonton

  24-04-2018 14:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating a suspicious death after heavily armed police converged on a north Edmonton townhouse complex after a weapons call at a nearby home Monday afternoon. 
  According to a Tuesday news release, police were called about a weapons complaint at 1:50 p.m. in the area of 78 Street and 143 Avenue. Upon arrival police found an injured 25-year-old woman. Police said she was treated at the scene and taken to hospital where she later died.
  Homicide detectives have taken over the in
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Ban plastic drinking straws

  24-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I want the government of Canada, and the provincial and territorial governments, to develop anti-plastic policies, ban single-use plastics of all varieties, and plastic straws.
  Brad Jones, Edmonton
  Anti-pipeline B.C. allows mine waste into lake
  I wish to alert people to an ongoing crisis in B.C. The B.C. Ministry of Environment has quietly granted Mount Polley Mining Corporation permission to drain mining waste directly into Quesnel Lake, B.C.’s deepest fjord lake.
  This lake was the only s
  
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• Opinion: Rushed consultation compromises decisions on public land use

  24-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The month-long public consultation process regarding the draft Livingstone-Porcupine Hills Footprint and Recreation Plans will soon wrap up.
  Online surveys are available to Albertans as a means of providing feedback on those plans. Anyone who completed the surveys, or attempted to, can attest to the fact that it was a time-consuming and onerous process. From a public consultation perspective, that raises a red flag. One might ask if the process was undertaken more for optics than true consultat
  
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• Editorial: A true champion

  24-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Don’t try to ride two horses at once. I’ve always been straight up. And I’ve never backed down from a fight. If you believe in something, you fight for it.”
  Those were a few parting words from Ron Hayter in 2010 when he announced that he was retiring after a record-breaking 33 years on council.
  Leave it to perhaps the best orator ever at city hall to sum up concisely the qualities that made him the hard-nosed champion for Edmonton that he was.
  In an era when politi
  
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• New details unveiled on Metro Line LRT signals as contract deadline looms

  24-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales Canada on Tuesday has just seven days left to get the Metro LRT Line running properly or face “serious consequences” city council threatened in December.
  That’s up to and including legal action and finding a new contractor, even if that means reverting to “flagmen,” said Mayor Don Iveson last December after council voted unanimously for the deadline.
  But are flagmen really an option? Can Edmonton fire Thales?
  City officials are working on a plan, but ind
  
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• Why is it taking so long for the Edmonton Oilers to review coaching staff?

  24-04-2018 08:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Iiro Pakarinen is reportedly leaving the Oilers for the KHL, while goalie Mikko Koskinen is reportedly coming to the Oilers from the KHL. David Staples and Bruce McCurdy dig into both moves, and whether or not Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli is finally making the right move to solve the Oil’s back-up goalie woes.
  Patience required to get it right with coaching staff
  The Calgary Flames have fired their old coach and hired a new one. The New York Rangers fired Alain Vigneault. The Chicago Blackha
  
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• Neighbour reports hearing loud bang as police converge on townhouse complex

  24-04-2018 06:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavily armed police converged on a north Edmonton townhouse complex after a weapons call at a nearby home Monday. 
  A tactical team was called out to the scene near 144 Avenue and 82 Street in the Kildare neighbourhood about 2 p.m. 
  Earlier, police had taped off two single-family homes near 143 Avenue and 79 Street. A detective could be seen going door-to-door speaking with residents Monday afternoon. 
  Dianna Mottershead, who lives nearby, said she heard a loud bang earlier in the
  
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• Roxy Theatre rebuilding effort receives $2.5 million pledge from the Alberta government

  24-04-2018 03:44 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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• Neighbour reports hearing loud bang as police converge on apartment building

  24-04-2018 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavily armed police converged on a north Edmonton apartment building after a weapons call at a nearby home Monday. 
  A tactical team was called out to the scene near 144 Avenue and 82 Street in the Kildare neighbourhood about 2 p.m. 
  Earlier, police had taped off two single-family homes near 143 Avenue and 79 Street. A detective could be seen going door-to-door speaking with residents Monday afternoon. 
  Dianna Mottershead, who lives nearby, said she heard a loud bang earlier in th
  
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• Graham Thomson: Trans Mountain project good for Canada's economy, say Canadians

  24-04-2018 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Perhaps Premier Rachel Notley should go to war with British Columbia more often.
  According to new information from a public opinion poll by Angus Reid, Notley’s battle with B.C. has focused national attention on the dispute over the expansion plans for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline.
  Not only that, now that Canadians are giving the proposed project some thought, a clear majority believe the $7.4-billion enterprise will help the national economy.
  When Angus Reid conducted its
  
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• Alberta doctors reach 'common sense' compensation deal with province

  24-04-2018 02:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The organization that represents the province’s 10,000-plus doctors announced Monday it has reached terms on a tentative compensation deal with Alberta Health, ending five months of negotiations.
  Details of the pact, including length, cost and the fate of various physician support programs, were being kept under wraps until the agreement is ratified by members of the Alberta Medical Association.
  “The tentative agreement addresses budgetary concerns of the province while recognizing t
  
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• Deadline for Metro Line LRT fast approaching

  24-04-2018 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales Canada has until the end of April to get the Metro LRT Line running properly or face “serious consequences,” city council threatened back in December.
  That’s up to and including legal action and finding a new contractor, even if that means reverting to “flagmen,” said Mayor Don Iveson last December after council voted unanimously for the deadline.
  
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• Councillor wants city to explore transit service to Enoch Cree Nation

  24-04-2018 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton city councillor is exploring establishment of transit service between the Enoch Cree Nation and the city.
  Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen said Monday he will introduce a motion to explore transit options at a city council meeting Tuesday.
  “There’s people in Enoch who would benefit by transit access to things like groceries, hospitals, health care,“ McKeen said. “And if the City of Edmonton can partner with Enoch on a route that would be successful for everyone, that
  
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• Roxy Theatre to rise from ashes with new design at funding announcement

  24-04-2018 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The curtain is up on the first look at the future Roxy Theatre.
  The contemporary design includes a nod to the old theatre in the form of a neon yellow sign reading “Roxy” in bold black letters.
  “It will be a fully modern, 21st-century version of the former home that we once lived in,” Paul Manuel, board president of Theatre Network, told a news conference Monday.
  The beloved 124 Street theatre burned down in 2015, leaving Theatre Network homeless.
  Since then, the company
  
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• U of A honorary doctorate for David Suzuki angers dean of engineering, donors

  24-04-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The dean of the University of Alberta engineering faculty has posted a scathing letter on his own school’s website criticizing the decision to grant an honorary doctorate to environmentalist David Suzuki.
  “It truly saddens me to know that many of you are, as am I, left feeling that one of Alberta’s most favoured children, the University of Alberta, has betrayed you by choosing to confer this honorary degree,” says the Monday post attributed to Fraser Forbes, which doesn&r
  
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• Furor erupts over U of A granting honorary doctorate to environmentalist David Suzuki

  24-04-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The dean of the University of Alberta engineering faculty has posted a scathing letter on his own school’s website criticizing the decision to grant an honorary doctorate to environmentalist David Suzuki.
  “It truly saddens me to know that many of you are, as am I, left feeling that one of Alberta’s most favoured children, the University of Alberta, has betrayed you by choosing to confer this honorary degree,” says the Monday post, which doesn’t mention Suzuki by nam
  
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• Edmonton composter to reopen just for summer months

  24-04-2018 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s beleaguered composter will reopen for the summer months despite a sagging roof that no longer allows rain or snow to drain properly. 
  That means at least part of Edmonton’s waste can be composted rather than sent to a landfill in Ryley, Alta. As well, a new high-tech composter is just starting up and should be running at full capacity by fall, city officials told council’s utility committee Monday. 
  The new $40-million composter can handle roughly half of t
  
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