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• Man calls police to get keys from goose, but a moose on the loose diverts help

  27-04-2018 23:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a good thing Edmonton fire crews are unflappable. 
  In a classic case of man versus nature, Edmonton Fire and Rescue Services were called to the city’s southwest Friday morning to help a motorist retrieve their car keys … from a goose.
  Normally fish and wildlife officers would deal with such calls but they were unable to assist because they were in the midst of their own call dealing with an errant moose, an Edmonton Fire Rescue Services spokeswoman said.
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• New dessert bar Cacao 70 coming soon to Edmonton

  27-04-2018 23:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Montreal-based dessert shop Cacao 70 is coming to Edmonton.
  To be located in the base of the Edmonton Tower at 10111 104 Ave. in the Ice District, the new business is focused on chocolate, but also offers brunch and ice cream. Marketing manager Qishen Zhan, reached by phone in Montreal, says he expects the new concept to open some time in the next one to two months.
  “The Ice District has high potential to be a lifestyle centre. It will be the destination in the very near future,&r
  
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• Man calls police to get keys from goose, help delayed because of a moose on the loose

  27-04-2018 22:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a good thing Edmonton fire crews are unflappable. 
  In a classic case of man versus nature, Edmonton Fire and Rescue Services were called to the city’s southwest Friday morning to help a motorist retrieve their car keys … from a goose.
  Normally fisheries and wildlife officers would deal with such calls but they were unable to assist because they were in the midst of their own call dealing with an errant moose, an Edmonton Fire Rescue Services spokeswoman said.
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• It's official: Edmonton Oilers part company with four coaches, re-assign a fifth

  27-04-2018 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  As heavily rumoured here at the Cult of Hockey and elsewhere, Edmonton Oilers cleaned house on much of their coaching staff on Friday. The club announced the return of head man Todd McLellan but the structure of his staff will be vastly different:The only names not mentioned are goalie coach Dustin Schwartz and Bakersfield assistant J.F. Houle, which suggests that both will be back in their current roles. Houle’s name still is listed on the Condors’ website as the only assistant coac
  
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• U of A Poet Shortlisted for the Holy Grail of Canadian Poetry

  27-04-2018 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  University of Alberta PhD student Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut book, The Wound is a World, has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Canada’s most lucrative poetry award, the Griffin Poetry Prize awards $75,000 to the winner and $10,000 to each runners-up.
  Belcourt’s book explores his Indigenous and queer identities with poems that interrogate the politics of race relations in Canada. Track his sometimes-disorienting experiences as Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. And poems that
  
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• Paula Simons: University of Alberta's Billy-Ray Belcourt sets poetry world ablaze

  27-04-2018 20:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Griffin Poetry Prize is the Holy Grail of Canadian poetry.
  Each year, three Canadian writers are shortlisted for Canada’s most lucrative poetry award. The winner walks away with a total of $75,000. The two runners-up collect $10,000 each.
  So you could pardon Billy-Ray Belcourt, 23, for getting a little bit excited to find his debut book, The Wound is a World, on this year’s shortlist.
  “I found out the morning of April 10,” he said. “I woke up, turned on my
  
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• Council goes in private to debate the future of Edmonton's Metro LRT Line

  27-04-2018 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council has gone behind closed doors to debate the future of Edmonton’s Metro LRT Line as it stares down a self-imposed deadline. 
  Last December, council voted to give signalling contractor Thales Canada until April 30 to get the line running properly or face “serious consequences.” That’s just three days away. 
  Council started debating the issue late Wednesday afternoon. They went back in camera to debate it again at 11:30 Friday morning, expecting to continue
  
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• Man guilty in triple murder of Edson family

  27-04-2018 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has been found guilty of three counts of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a family in a rural residence near Edson in 2015.
  Mickell Bailey killed his aunt by marriage Roxanne Berube, her boyfriend, Daniel Miller, and Berube’s daughter, Jazmine Lyon.
  “The evidence showing Mr. Bailey shot these three people is overwhelming,” said Justice Sterling Sanderman. He said he accepts the evidence of the four people who testified Bailey confessed the killings
  
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• St. Albert's Paul Kane High School to be replaced by 2022 - Globalnews.ca

  27-04-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
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  St. Albert's Paul Kane High School to be replaced by 2022
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  The province has announced St. Albert's Paul Kane High School will be replaced with a new school in four years. In a news release, the provincial government said the decision has been made to meet the needs of a growing population and to provide ...
  
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• St. Albert’s Paul Kane High School to be replaced by 2022

  27-04-2018 20:21 via globalnews.ca
  The province has announced St. Albert's Paul Kane High School will being replaced with a new school in four years.
  
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• Pork recall expands again in wake of E. coli infections

  27-04-2018 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of people confirmed to have an E. coli infection connected to contaminated pork has risen to 37, while the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded a recall of products to include another brand of meat and two shops.
  The federal agency says pork from The Meat Shop at Pine Haven near Wetaskiwin is the source of the outbreak that has made people ill in the Edmonton area. E. coli is the likely cause of the death of one of those people and is responsible for 11 hospitalizations
  
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• Council wrestles with 'sobering' funding gap for infrastructure needs

  27-04-2018 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council received a “sobering” presentation on Edmonton’s 10-year funding challenge Friday, showing a $3.8-billion gap between money promised for construction projects and the estimated cost of the work. 
  Even in this next four-year capital budget cycle, there is not enough available cash for the city to cover  repairs and the new growth projects where partners have already promised to share costs.
  Funding for those projects, such as the Yellowhead Trail upgr
  
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• 'Tragic collision' claims life of three people near Maskwacis

  27-04-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three people were killed in a “tragic collision” near Maskwacis late Thursday night after a vehicle crashed into the scene of an earlier accident.
  Police said a pickup truck turning north onto Highway 611 from Highway 2A collided with a motorcycle headed south at around 10:30 p.m.
  The driver and the passenger of the pickup left their vehicle to offer medical assistance to two people on the motorcycle when an SUV travelling southbound crashed into the initial collision scene.&nbs
  
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• Council Notices of Motion: Utility Billing & Liquor Store Set Backs

  27-04-2018 19:37
  Announcing via media advisory, as no Council meeting within one week The City is undertaking a new procedure to inform... Read Post
  
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• Uttering threat charge laid following St. Albert school lockdown - Edmonton Journal

  27-04-2018 15:51 via edmontonjournal.com
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  Uttering threat charge laid following St. Albert school lockdown
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  An 18-year-old Edmonton female is facing charges of uttering threats and mischief in relation to a school lockdown earlier this month in St. Albert. Bellerose Composite High School went into lockdown on April 9 after students and staff became aware of ...
  
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• Uttering threat charge laid following St. Albert school lockdown

  27-04-2018 15:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 18-year-old Edmonton female is facing uttering threats and mischief charges in relation to a school lockdown earlier this month in St. Albert.
  Bellerose Composite High School went into lockdown on April 9 after students and staff became aware of a threat against the school, Mounties said Thursday.
  The suspect, who is not being named “to protect the victims and accused involved in the incident”, is also facing a public mischief charge.
  She is scheduled to appear in St. Albert
  
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• Staples: University of Alberta reveals blind spot in deciding to honour David Suzuki

  27-04-2018 15:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal columnist David Staple speaks about the University of Alberta’s blind spot he feels they overlooked when deciding to honour environmentalist David Suzuki. The move has generated controversy within the Faculty of Engineering and with conservative minded members of the public who spoke out on social media.
  
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• Pork recall affects other local businesses

  27-04-2018 15:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded a recall of pork-containing products in Alberta that are potentially contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
  The recalls may expand further, Dr. Jasmine Hasselback, medical officer of health for the Edmonton zone of Alberta Health Services (AHS), said Thursday. Dozens of Alberta businesses bought products from the suspected source of contaminated meat, the owner has said.
  As of Thursday, 36 people in Edmonton and surrounding areas had lab-confi
  
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• How will the Oilers fare in the NHL draft?

  27-04-2018 15:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers have the ninth best draft odds (five per cent) at moving to No. 1 from No. 9 for the April 28 lottery. Not great, but last year New Jersey went from No. 5 to No. 1 with only an 8.5 per cent chance and took centre Nico Hischier, who doesn’t look like a Swiss miss. So anything’s possible.
  
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• Edmonton Weather: If you're a fan of warmth then today is for you

  27-04-2018 15:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.1 C with a 9 km/h wind coming from the south-east. We’re looking at a sunny weekend for the capital city before heading into next week where the temps look to take a dip in the teens. But for right now things are looking like shorts and shades kinda weather so maybe you call in sick. 
  Today: Sunny. Wind becoming south 20 km/h gusting to 40 this
  
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• Friday's letters: Consult residents on speed limits

  27-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Speed limits are a serious issue that affects all Edmontonians in a profound way.
  Why aren’t our councillors polling their constituents to get the full picture on how this will affect them? Where are the public forums so that we, the tax-paying citizens can have a say on this? Why does it seem like this is getting rammed through without due process?
  I would like to have more thought and discussion on this matter than what is presently being done, after all this is supposed to be a democrac
  
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• Editorial: Police disclosure needs revamp

  27-04-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is horrifying enough that Raelyn Supernant’s life was taken at two months old; that the general public would likely never have known that she died a homicide victim, without a journalist’s sharp eye, only magnifies the tragedy.
  The baby was taken off life support and died in hospital in 2016 after Brandon James Calahoo, who was dating Raelyn’s mother, shook her and left her in her crib for several hours without medical attention. On Wednesday, Calahoo pleaded guilty to crimi
  
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• Social Seen: 38th Edmonton Consular Ball

  27-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie and follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie)
  38th Edmonton Consular Ball
  Where: Fairmont Hotel Macdonald
  When: April 21
  Featuring: Fine dining, drinks and themed entertainment. This year’s host country was Latvia. Proceeds
  
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• Glen Gulutzan & Trent Yawney expected to help coach Edmonton Oilers, Jay Woodcroft to Bakersfield

  27-04-2018 08:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet: “Not sure the overall impact and all moves, but hearing EDM assistant coach Jay Woodcroft will become head coach at AHL Bakersfield.”
  And this from TSN’s Bob McKenzie: “Phase One of EDM (assistant) coaching shuffle expected, perhaps as early as Friday. Multiple moves, including (as has previously been speculated) Jay Woodcroft to be new head coach in Bakersfield (AHL). No replacement hiring(s) just yet.”
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• $15-million lawsuit launched over E. coli contamination

  27-04-2018 06:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A $15-million lawsuit has been filed against a central Alberta meat shop linked to dozens of E. coli poisonings. 
  Law firm James H. Brown & Associates announced in a news release Thursday it had filed a class-action lawsuit against The Meat Shop at Pine Haven.
  The outbreak — believed to be responsible for at least 36 poisonings and one death in the Edmonton area — was traced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to pork products sold by the meat packing and retail oper
  
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• Rolled semi near Sexsmith spills diesel fuel: RCMP

  27-04-2018 05:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A semi-truck that rolled over Thursday evening near Sexsmith spilled an unknown quantity of diesel fuel. 
  Grande Prairie rural RCMP, hazmat crews and environmental services teams were at the scene of the crash near Highway 672 and Range Road 74, RCMP said in a news release. 
  The semi rolled over just after 6 p.m. The truck was hauling two tankers of diesel fuel which spilled or were leaking. Const. Melanie McIntosh with Grande Prairie RCMP said it was too early to say how much fue
  
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• VIDEO: How will the Oilers fare in the NHL draft?

  27-04-2018 02:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers have the ninth best draft odds (five per cent) at moving to No. 1 from No. 9 for the April 28 lottery. Not great, but last year New Jersey went from No. 5 to No. 1 with only an 8.5 per cent chance and took centre Nico Hischier, who doesn’t look like a Swiss miss. So anything’s possible.
  
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• Video: University of Alberta reveals blind spot in deciding to honour David Suzuki

  27-04-2018 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal columnist David Staple speaks about the University of Alberta’s blind spot he feels they overlooked when deciding to honour environmentalist David Suzuki. The move has generated controversy within the Faculty of Engineering and with conservative minded members of the public who spoke out on social media.
  
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• David Staples: University of Alberta reveals blind spot in deciding to honour David Suzuki

  27-04-2018 02:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Something has gone haywire at the University of Alberta with its decision to award an honorary degree to David Suzuki, a prominent science educator but also a controversial anti-oilsands crusader.
  The U of A’s misstep speaks to a blind spot. How could everyone in on this decision have failed to see the significance of Suzuki’s incendiary and unbalanced brand of anti-oilsands activism?
  It’s not like his views are a secret. Suzuki has savaged the oilsands for years. He&rsquo
  
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• Charges dropped against trucking company that faced up to $3 million in fines

  27-04-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Charges against an Edmonton trucking company facing up to $3 million in fines over allegations of overweight loads were withdrawn in provincial court Tuesday.
  Avtar Gill, owner of A B Gill Trucking, had originally faced 1,900 charges following a September 2015 police investigation that alleged the company was overloading its trucks while moving soil contaminated with diesel to a waste management facility near Yellowhead Trail and 170 Street.
  At the time charges were announced, police alleged tha
  
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• Rachel Notley warns of dire outcome if B.C. wins authority to regulate oil from Trans Mountain

  27-04-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s economy will “grind to a halt faster than you can say ‘free trade'” if B.C. gets the regulatory powers it’s seeking under a court reference filed Thursday, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says.
  British Columbia wants the courts to rule the province has the authority to regulate the flow of oil through the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  The government has sent draft legislation to the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether it has the right t
  
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• 'Random and unprovoked': Attempted murder charge laid against 19-year-old after cab driver attacked

  27-04-2018 01:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old man is facing an attempted murder charge after what Edmonton police call a “random and unprovoked” attack on a cab driver last week.
  Officers in the city’s northwest division responded to a report of an assault near 120 Street and 130 Avenue, in the city’s Calder neighbourhood, at about 8 p.m. April 19, police said Thursday. 
  Police had received a report that a male cab driver had picked up two passengers in the area of 161 Avenue and 124 Street at arou
  
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• Donor redirects gift to U of A Students' Union over decision to give degree to David Suzuki

  27-04-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta law firm will “absolutely, 110 per cent” never support the University of Alberta again if it grants an honorary degree to environmental activist David Suzuki, and instead plans to redirect funding to the university’s students’ union.
  “I think it’s a horrible thing they’ve done, but at the end of the day, we did not want to hurt students, so … we started looking for creative ways as to how we could redirect those dollars without it being
  
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• VIDEO: Pork recall affects other local businesses

  27-04-2018 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded a recall of pork-containing products in Alberta that are potentially contaminated with E. coli bacteria.
  The recalls may expand further, Dr. Jasmine Hasselback, medical officer of health for the Edmonton zone of Alberta Health Services (AHS), said Thursday. Dozens of Alberta businesses bought products from the suspected source of contaminated meat, the owner has said.
  As of Thursday, 36 people in Edmonton and surrounding areas had lab-confi
  
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• Charges laid after threats made to St. Albert high school - Globalnews.ca

  27-04-2018 00:56 via globalnews.ca
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  Charges laid after threats made to St. Albert high school
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  Charges have been laid against an 18-year-old woman after threats caused a St. Albert high school to go into lockdown earlier this month. On April 9, police responded to Bellerose High School at around noon after a threat was allegedly made. The ...
  Edmonton teen charged in connection with St. Albert high school lockdownCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Charges laid after threats made to St. Albert high school

  27-04-2018 00:50 via globalnews.ca
  On April 9, police responded to Bellerose High School at around noon a threat was made. The lockdown was lifted about three hours later. 
  
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• New study at U of A offers clues to how dinosaurs bit and what they ate

  27-04-2018 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new study completed at the University of Alberta takes a fresh bite out of the dinosaur mystery, revealing how and what they may have eaten.
  The study by paleontologists analyzed the biting patterns of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs, from large cousins of tyrannosaurus to small raptors, and found despite a huge variation in shape and size, they all bit in a similar way.
  “There was (an) initial plunging cut vertically into the food item, followed by an oblique cut at a 30- to 40-degree an
  
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• Spruce Grove father accused of sexually assaulting daughters

  27-04-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Spruce Grove father has been charged with repeatedly sexually assaulting his two toddler-aged daughters, as well as making and possessing child pornography, police said Thursday.
  A joint police investigation between the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams’ Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit and the RCMP’s National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre led to the April 6 arrest.
  The 32-year-old suspect — who is not being identified to protect the identity of the t
  
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• City of Edmonton grappling with 659 dangerous crosswalks, many with history of multiple injuries

  27-04-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials have identified 659 dangerous crosswalks where vehicles are moving quickly and pedestrians don’t have proper protection.
  But at Edmonton’s current rate of crosswalk investment — $2 million a year — it will take the city 29 years to deal with them all. 
  Many of these crosswalks have seen multiple people struck and injured and are on multi-lane roads, according to a new city report released Thursday. The issue heads to council’s community services
  
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• New transit service unveiled for Edmonton International Airport

  27-04-2018 00:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bus service at Edmonton International Airport (EIA) is being upgraded next week, mainly to serve the new outlet mall.
  Starting in May, Edmonton Transit route 747 between the airport and the Century Park LRT station will cut the one-way fare to $5 from $10 and add a stop at the Premium Outlet Collection EIA, which opens May 2, according to a Thursday news release.
  Leduc Transit will begin operating route 10 to the mall, and EIA will start a free shuttle from the main terminal to the mall, Rosenau
  
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