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• Premier not 'big fan' of Suzuki's honorary degree, but respects choice

  25-04-2018 21:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley weighed in on the University of Alberta’s decision to grant environmentalist David Suzuki an honorary doctorate, saying that while she wouldn’t have picked him to receive the honour, it’s ultimately the university’s call. 
  “Speaking personally as an alumni, I’m not a big fan of this decision,” Notley told reporters Wednesday. 
  But she stressed it’s up to the university who gets an honorary degree.
  “It
  
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• Deputy city manager job posting paints a rosy picture of Edmonton

  25-04-2018 21:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton is searching for a person to head up the city’s communications department.
  The job posting points to the positives of the city and  praise for our river valley, our public school system, our festivals, our bike lanes, our entrepreneurial culture, our affordable housing prices.
  But there is also a line in the post that puts the city on a pedestal that is just plain false. 
  “We are … a safe inclusive city that’s free from racism. No one lives
  
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• Simons: Fantastical city job posting should embarrass Edmontonians

  25-04-2018 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Welcome to Edmonton.
  The world’s most perfect city. 
  Don’t believe me? Well, golly gosh, you cynic. You clearly didn’t read the latest job posting for a new deputy city manager. 
  Yes. The City of Edmonton has launched a “world wide” executive search for a person to head up the city’s communications department. And let’s just say, someone really wanted to sell the city to applicants who might not know about Edmonton.
  The job posting invites peop
  
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• E. coli outbreak linked to pork from meat shop south of Edmonton

  25-04-2018 20:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  An E. coli outbreak in Edmonton has been linked to a meat shop south of the city, an Alberta Health Services investigation has concluded.
  The source of the outbreak is pork products distributed by The Meat Shop at Pine Haven in Westaskiwin County.
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a food recall warning for certain pork products sold by the shop between February 19 and April 24.
  The number of lab-confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 has increased to 36, including 11 patients who have n
  
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• Alberta NDP boosts number of $25-a-day childcare spots

  25-04-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley announced 100 new childcare centres across Alberta at a cost of $25 per day for parents.
  The move expands an existing $10-million pilot project that saw the creation of 22 centres in 2017.
  Notley announced 82 locations Wednesday — the rest will be made public later. She said most centres will be operational in June and it adds 6,000 new spaces. 
  “It is a number one priority for us as our finances increase to be able to invest in this,” she told report
  
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• Edmonton soccer fields to open Friday

  25-04-2018 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The games are on. 
  Beginning Friday, the city’s rectangular sports fields will be open for use. 
  The city maintains about 1,200 fields, including soccer pitches, baseball diamonds and football venues. Shale diamond baseball fields will take longer to open, and the city will release more information about that on Monday. Grass baseball fields will be open sooner. 
  “The majority of the city fields will be open this Friday and line marking will occur starting next we
  
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• City's new names for West LRT stations are … logical

  25-04-2018 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials announced the new names for stations along the west extension of the Valley Line LRT Wednesday morning and they’re as straightforward as you could wish for.
  The Alex Decoteau stop will be located near Alex Decoteau Park at 105 Street and 102 Avenue in downtown Edmonton. The Norquest Stop is near Norquest and the MacEwan Arts/112 St. Stop is exactly where you would expect.
  The fanciest name might be “The Yards,” but even that stop is given the full name: The Yards
  
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• Suspicious death in Kildare neighbourhood

  25-04-2018 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Neighbours of a Kildare bungalow where city homicide detectives were investigating the suspicious death of a 25-year-old woman say police have visited the home in the past.
  Officers found the injured woman when called to the home near 78 Street and 143 Avenue while responding to a weapons complaint about 1:50 p.m. Monday. The woman was pronounced dead in hospital. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
  Residents living near the bungalow said people often came and went from the home.
  
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• Fleetwood Mac coming back Nov. 10 to Rogers Place

  25-04-2018 16:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Yesterday’s gone, but guess who’s returning to town Nov. 10 anyway, daddy?
  That’s right — Grammy-winning Fleetwood Mac is back, Rogers Place being their 17th stop on a 50-plus date North American tour.
  The lineup will include veteran members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie along with “newcomers” Mike Campbell (longtime Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lead guitar) and Neil Finn of Crowded House and Split Enz replacing Lindsey
  
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• Edmonton weather: Welcome to not-so-warm Wednesday

  25-04-2018 14:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.6 C with a 15 km/h wind coming from the northwest. After hitting a high of 21.7 C Tuesday things are cooling down today because Wednesday hates us. Thursday is still shaping up to be nice with sunshine and 18 C but things are really looking bright for Friday and Saturday as temperatures for both days are expected to reach 23 C with plenty of sun and a possib
  
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• Wednesday's letters: U of A right to represent diverse views

  25-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “U of A doctorate for Suzuki meets with opposition,” April 24
  The dean of engineering at the University of Alberta declares that honouring Suzuki is a betrayal of “fundamental values.”
  There is a betrayal here, but it is not the award to Suzuki. Rather, it is the betrayal by the dean to question the university’s responsibility to promote open expression of knowledge and recognize achievements of people like Suzuki.
  The dean is vehement in his opposition to
  
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• Opinion: How 30 km/h prevents deaths and preserves lives

  25-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  James can’t remember the accident. A year after leaving the intensive care unit and struggling through his rehabilitation at the Glenrose Hospital, relearning how to speak and walk and trying to step back into the life he left behind on the that fateful September morning, James still can’t remember being hit by the car.
  The paramedics found him face-down in a residential road, his face covered in blood. His body had been flung 10 metres from the skid marks. He had been in the crosswa
  
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• Will Edmonton Oilers retain Todd McLellan as coach? It's not a sure thing after the meltdown of 2017-18

  25-04-2018 11:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in review:Head coach Todd McLellan
  Is Todd McLellan a bad coach, or is he a good coach who had a bad year? 
  Not sure there’s a viable third theory that somehow absolves the veteran bench boss from the abject failure of his 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers. My own choice is Door #2, and I will proffer the more-nuanced take that sometimes people have a bad year due to circumstances both within their control and beyond it.   
  What was beyond McLellan’s cont
  
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• Edmonton Talk Back: Coun. Mike Nickel explains his push to use tools of business at City Hall

  25-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hang around City Hall long and you’re sure to hear Coun. Mike Nickel push the city on its “metrics, targets and outcomes.”
  That constant refrain has had council colleagues rolling their eyes. But after several recent audits questioned how accountable some parts of the organization have been, it feels particularly relevant.
  Now his push is starting to get results. Now every report includes a section where city officials are prompted to include their targets and how they measure
  
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• Edmonton public school board wants more cash for mental health therapists in schools

  25-04-2018 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Schools should all have mental health therapists available on site for students grappling with anxiety, depression and trauma, Edmonton public school trustees decided Tuesday.
  The board unanimously supported a motion from trustee Shelagh Dunn to request the province set aside funding to tackle mental health problems in schools, and for government ministries to better work together to station more mental health workers in school buildings.
  “I think for a really long time in our province, th
  
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• Edmonton could be leader in developing uses for artificial intelligence, expert says

  25-04-2018 03:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton could become a major centre for developing ways to use the artificial intelligence (AI) that will probably drive the world’s next industrial revolution, a top scientists in the field says.
  “AI could be well thought of as the leading edge in the second industrial revolution; Edmonton is a leader in the science,” University of Alberta computer science professor Richard Sutton said Tuesday.
  “Why can’t we be a player in AI applications?”
  Sutton, who moved
  
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• Fast-moo'ving cattle lead firefighters, police on lengthy river chase

  25-04-2018 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pair of young cattle kept first responders hoofing it Monday night after they hopped a fence and went on the lam along the icy North Saskatchewan River.
  The hours-long chase involved multiple fire crews, two ranchers on horseback and even a police helicopter, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services spokeswoman Maya Filipovic said Tuesday. 
  Two women who farm in the Rabbit Hill area to the southwest of the city had recently purchased a pair of one-year-old calves, which jumped a five-foot-high fence
  
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• Council backs away from 30 km/h speed limits on local roads, postpones vote to 2019

  25-04-2018 02:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council backed away from a vote Tuesday to reduce speed limits on local, side roads to 30 km/h, opting instead to do more study and debate it again in March 2019. 
  The option several councillors were pushing was to reduce speeds just on the local or residential roads, possibly just in mature neighbourhoods, doing further study on what an appropriate speed for the collector roads or bus routes would be.
  But others on council were hesitant to move too fast on such a change, even if it doesn&r
  
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• Anti-Semitism on the rise in Alberta: B'nai Brith audit

  25-04-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fires set outside a Jewish school, stolen Israeli flags and hate mail sent to synagogues were among 22 cases of anti-Semitism reported in Edmonton last year, according to B’nai Brith Canada.
  The cases contributed to what the Jewish human rights advocacy organization said was a rise in anti-Semitism across the country in 2017.
  The group’s annual audit reported 1,752 hate-related complaints nationwide, a 1.4 per cent increase from 2016.
  Alberta accounted for 206 of those cases.
  In Edmo
  
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• David Staples: City officials relying on flawed data in push for 30 km/h speed limit

  25-04-2018 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  If city council is going to make sound decisions, it needs solid information from city administration. It’s not yet getting that in the debate on whether to lower residential neighbourhood speed limits.
  City officials have made exaggerated claims about the unreasonable stubbornness of those who oppose lowering the speed limit and about the overall carnage caused by speeding. Our residential streets have been made out to be much more deadly than they actually are. It’s also being sugg
  
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• Death of man who vanished in 2017 deemed a homicide

  25-04-2018 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a man who disappeared last year has been deemed a homicide, police said Tuesday.
  Chad Stevenson, 41, was last seen in the Cy Becker neighbourhood on Nov. 7, 2017. 
  His vehicle, a 2006 Pontiac Montana, was found March 20 near 51 Street and 162 Avenue. Police erected a large white tent nearby.
  Utility workers then discovered Stevenson’s body April 16 in a new residential development north of McConachie Drive and 57 Street. 
   
  Stevenson died as a res
  
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• Roads washed out, homes at risk of flooding east of Edmonton

  25-04-2018 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than a dozen Alberta communities remained on alert Tuesday as melting snow and high water levels washed out rural roads and threatened some properties.
  To the east of Edmonton, a few farm houses in the northern portion of Strathcona County near Astotin Creek were at risk of flooding.
  Water levels were high in the Astotin and Ross Creek areas, said David Churchill, Strathcona County’s director transportation and agriculture services.
  “The creeks have spilled their banks,” h
  
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• WATCH: Suspicious death in Kildare neighbourhood

  25-04-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Neighbours of a Kildare bungalow where city homicide detectives were investigating the suspicious death of a 25-year-old woman say police have visited the home in the past.
  Officers found the injured woman when called to the home near 78 Street and 143 Avenue while responding to a weapons complaint about 1:50 p.m. Monday. The woman was pronounced dead in hospital. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
  Residents living near the bungalow said people often came and went from the home.
  
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• Alberta premier calls on public to boost support for Trans Mountain pipeline

  25-04-2018 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sherwood Park — Premier Rachel Notley reiterated her pro-pipeline message Tuesday in the province’s industrial heartland, where she called on Albertans to shore up support for the Trans Mountain project. “Not far from here is where the Trans Mountain pipeline originates, and where it has operated safely for decades,” she said in a speech to the Sherwood Park and District Chamber of Commerce. 
  “I need you to get on the phone and to get online &hel
  
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• St. Albert Dinner Theatre ends season with double bill - St. Albert Gazette

  25-04-2018 00:44
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  St. Albert Dinner Theatre ends season with double bill
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  PREVIEW When God Comes for Breakfast, You Don't Burn the Toast and A Mad Breakfast St. Albert Dinner Theatre April 26 to 28, May 3 to 5 and 10 to 12. Kinsmen Banquet Hall 47 Riel Dr. Tickets: Regular $55, students/seniors $50 Call 780-222-0102 or visit ...
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Pine beetles attack, job program funding, revisiting fur trade

  25-04-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Beetle battle
  The Alberta government is waging war against the mountain pine beetle, which threatens six million hectares of forest in the province, said a government news release Monday. 
  Yellowhead County, east of Jasper National Park, received $150,000 in government funding to eradicate the pine beetle on municipal and private lands. 
  The move is part of a grant funding program to help communities combat pine beetle infestations. 
  In 2017, more than 92,000 trees were cut and bu
  
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• Council Briefs for April 23rd

  25-04-2018 00:20
  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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• Homicide files mount in April, detectives probe woman's suspicious death

  25-04-2018 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Neighbours of a Kildare bungalow where city homicide detectives were investigating the suspicious death of a 25-year-old woman say police have visited the home in the past.
  Officers found the injured woman when called to the home near 78 Street and 143 Avenue while responding to a weapons complaint about 1:50 p.m. Monday. The woman was pronounced dead in hospital. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday.
  Residents living near the bungalow said many people came and went from the home.
  Tom and
  
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