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• Teenager joins grandmother for CASA bike trip through the mountains

  29-04-2018 22:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Twelve-year-old West Bradley-Taubner is joining our CASA bike trip back from Kaslo, B.C. in June to pedal with his 72-year-old grandmother Nancy Taubner.
  “My grandma is really athletic and is always optimistic,” says the Grade 7 Grandview Heights school student.
  “I have never made any long distance bike trips before. But I am also optimistic that it will go well.”
  His grandmother is the only rider who took part in our group’s first bike ride 14 years ago and has com
  
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• Section of northern Alberta hamlet under mandatory evacuation from flooding

  29-04-2018 21:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  About 100 people in Fort Vermilion were ordered to evacuate their homes Sunday as water levels continued to rise in the Peace River.
  Approximately 30 residents of the Buttertown district on the north side of the river from the hamlet and 70 people in the main part of the community were told to leave their homes because of the flood threat, Mackenzie County public information officer Byron Peters said.
  “It’s an unusually high spring flow. There was unusually strong ice formed on the r
  
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• St. Albert Slash wins 2018 Esso Cup over Saskatoon Stars - Globalnews.ca

  29-04-2018 21:11
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  St. Albert Slash wins 2018 Esso Cup over Saskatoon Stars
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  Tyra Meropoulis scored in the first period and Madison Willan netted the game-winning goal in the second to help the team claim the national midget championship. Dennis Pajot / Hockey Canada Images. X. - A A +. Listen. The Saskatoon Stars lost to the ...
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• Flooding continues to cause trouble in northern Alberta

  29-04-2018 18:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flooding continued to pose problems in northern Alberta Sunday as emergency officials warned people to evacuate sections of Woodlands County.
  There are ice jams on the Athabasca River, which has risen rapidly in Pride Valley east of Fort Assiniboine, about 160 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, according to a critical alert warning of imminent life-threatening danger from Alberta Emergency Alert.
  People living in the lower Pride Valley are being asked to evacuate as a precaution because several r
  
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• Beaver Lake Cree Nation files costs application in attempt to expedite potential landmark case

  29-04-2018 17:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A northern Alberta First Nation is seeking to have the provincial and federal governments ordered to pay its legal costs as it attempts to forge ahead on a lengthy court battle over treaty rights.
  Beaver Lake Cree Nation first filed a statement of claim against the government in 2008, alleging that the Crown had authorized so much non-Aboriginal usage for development of industries such as oil and gas, agriculture and forestry that the cumulative effect has significantly impeded the way of life f
  
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• Residents along Highway 628 consider it a death trap

  29-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Concerned residents south of Spruce Grove are continuing their push to have a completely paved secondary highway running between Edmonton and Stony Plain, but for Kirsten MacNeil, this is a deeply personal quest.
  Her 21-year-old son, Luke, was killed when the vehicle he was driving skidded off Highway 628 just before Century Road last year, rolled and crashed into a tree.
  It was 6:30 p.m. on July 6 and the third-year plumbing apprentice was on his way to his parent’s rural property fr
  
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• Concern raised about proposed Edmonton licence fees for pot shops

  29-04-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s proposed licence and permit fees for marijuana stores could make it harder for small operators to get started, an executive with a cannabis retailer says.
  City staff have recommended charging pot shops $2,500 for business licences for shops, cultivation and processing facilities, and a further $5,600 for development permits, or about 15 times higher than the $512 total levied on similar establishments.
  While a city report estimates the actual cost of providing these services, in
  
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• Draft lottery day in Edmonton ain't what it used to be, say fans

  29-04-2018 04:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brothers Steven and Kyle Duckering remember the excitement of draft lottery days past. 
  On the day of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft lottery, which secured Russian winger Nail Yakupov for the Edmonton Oilers, it was hard to find space in a bar to watch.  
  Three years later, when the Oilers landed the first overall pick in the Conner McDavid draft, there was live TV footage from bars around the city packed with Oilers fans.
  In other words, a far cry from Saturday. 
  “We th
  
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• St. Albert Slash wins back-to-back Esso Cups with 2-1 triumph over Saskatoon - National Post

  29-04-2018 03:02
  St. Albert Slash wins back-to-back Esso Cups with 2-1 triumph over Saskatoon
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  BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — Madison Willan scored the eventual winner as the St. Albert Slash held on for a 2-1 victory over the Saskatoon Stars in the gold-medal game of the Esso Cup on Saturday. St. Albert, Alta., has now won back-to-back Canadian women's ...and more »
  
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• Iain Armstrong, business owner who died stopping thief, remembered by family and friends at celebration of life

  29-04-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost every Thursday morning, Iain Armstrong would meet for coffee and doughnuts with a group of men at Laurier Heights Baptist Church. 
  It wasn’t a prayer group, though often prayer was involved. It wasn’t necessarily a Bible study group, either, though they often would discuss passages from the Bible.  Mostly they just laughed, and talked — about sports, their jobs, their families, new gadgets, cars and travel. Borrowing a line from the old Flintstones cartoon
  
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• 'He was pure. He was innocent': Memorial honours toddler found dead one year ago

  29-04-2018 02:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Anthony Joseph Raine wasn’t always a neglected child. Pictures show the baby smiling and laughing, his eyes shining, and his mother’s eyes shining, First Nations elder Taz Bouchier said at a memorial for the slain toddler.
  “We can’t forget Baby Anthony,” Bouchier told people gathered at the Good Shepherd Anglican Church Saturday afternoon. “We just can’t.”
  On April 21, 2017, a passerby made a horrific discovery in the parking lot of Good Shepherd c
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey: The Edmonton Oilers losing season continues, drawing #10 at the annual NHL Draft Lottery

  29-04-2018 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers entered Saturday’s NHL Draft Lottery with just a 5% chance of picking at #3, #2 or at Number 1.
  So, it is no real surprise that with those odds, the Oilers did not “win”, instead ending up sliding one place, from #9 to #10. You may recall the year 2015, when the club won the draft and (in essence) Connor McDavid. They had an 11.5% chance, then. The writing this Spring was for the most part already on the wall.
  #10 it is.  Now what?
  Well, the team had a
  
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• West Edmonton Mall's newest ride sparks nerves and grins

  29-04-2018 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jittery thrill seekers welcomed Galaxyland’s newest attraction Saturday with cheers and then screams as they whizzed upside down 15 metres above ground.
  West Edmonton Mall’s latest ride is called Havoc. On Saturday morning, people who brought a donation for the Edmonton Food Bank could ride the attraction for free.
  “I thought it was awesome. It was exciting. It was thrilling. It was just spinny,” said Karin Potter, who had brought her daughter and a friend to the mall thi
  
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