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• Fatality inquiry makes opioid recommendations in wake of Edmonton soldier's suicide

  01-05-2018 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The family of an Edmonton solider who died by suicide in 2012 said they’re pleased with recommendations made by a judge following a public fatality inquiry into the young woman’s death. 
  “We went through five-and-a-half years of hell,” Lt. Shawna Rogers’ father Rick Rogers said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “We’re just glad it’s over.”
  The civilian inquiry was held at the behest of the Rogers family, who refused to participate in a C
  
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• 'This is our line in the sand': City gives Thales Canada notice of default on Metro Line contract

  01-05-2018 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales Canada has failed to meet the deadline to have the signal system for the Metro LRT running properly, and the company has been given a notice of default on the contract, Adam Laughlin, Edmonton’s head of infrastructure, said Tuesday.
  Thales will be given the chance to respond, and the process could end in termination of the contract. Laughlin would not give a timeline for the next deadline, but said it could be “months.”
  Thales has repeatedly let down Edmonton Mayor
  
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• Business licences for Edmonton pot shops should be $2,500, committee says

  01-05-2018 22:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton council’s urban planning committee recommended the retail business license fee for cannabis shops be set at $2,500 yearly, plus $5,600 for a development permit.
  Committee also recommended that the cannabis cultivation fee be $2,500. That includes growing cannabis plants and harvesting material, including seeds or seedlings, from cannabis plants. The business license fee for the processing, manufacturing, packaging, and labelling of cannabis products should be $2,500.
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• Alberta school curriculum to include sexual consent education

  01-05-2018 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s school curriculum from kindergarten to Grade 12 will soon include education about consent, Premier Rachel Notley announced Tuesday. 
  Notley said the change comes as a result of the ongoing curriculum review. 
  “We need everybody knowing what consent is and how fundamental it is to relationships between people, and we need to learn that from a young age and be comfortable talking about it,” Notley said.
  She didn’t want to go into details, but said the go
  
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• Live at 1:30: City to announce next steps on troubled Metro LRT Line

  01-05-2018 20:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents should finally have answers on the troubled Metro LRT Line after a news conference scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. 
  The deadline for Thales Canada to have the signal system on the new LRT line to NAIT running properly was April 30. That’s come and gone. Now Adam Laughlin, Edmonton’s head of infrastructure, is scheduled to give an update on the next steps and answer questions.
  It will be streamed live. 
  The Metro Line trains have been running full sp
  
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• Edmonton Oilers raise the stakes, sign veteran KHL stopper Mikko Koskinen to challenge Cam Talbot

  01-05-2018 20:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  The worst-kept secret in Edmonton was confirmed as a true fact on Tuesday morning when the Oilers announced the veteran KHL goaltender Mikko Koskinen has agreed to terms to a one-year deal.No word on the cap hit, but an important point that it’s a one-year deal, not the two-year pact widely reported. Koskinen has been connected to the Oilers for well over a week, though all parties had to wait until month end for his KHL contract to expire and formally make him a free agent. (In Russia, as
  
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• Hidden Spaces: Inside the Citadel Theatre's subterranean prop storage

  01-05-2018 19:50 via edmontonjournal.com
   Off a busy downtown street, behind a series of locked doors and gates, in what appears to be a forgotten ramp to an underground parkade, you will find ‘The Tunnel’ — the subterranean prop storage for the Citadel Theatre.
  “Besides designers and the props people who come down to show them what we have in stock — nobody comes down here,” says Cheryl Hoover, the Citadel Theatre’s director of production. “It’s really hard to find. You wouldn
  
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• St. Albert female hockey team wins back-to-back national titles at Esso Cup - CBC.ca

  01-05-2018 19:38
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  The St. Albert Slash midget AAA female hockey team is still on Cloud 9 after beating the Saskatoon Stars 2-1 in a nail–biter for the Esso Cup over the weekend. The gold medal win in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, makes the Slash the first team to repeat as ...and more »
  
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• Councillors debate what price Edmonton should put on licensing pot shops

  01-05-2018 18:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council’s urban planning committee is debating licensing fees for cannabis sales in Today.
  Recreational weed outlets should pay $5,600 for a development permit and $2,500 for a business licence, compared to a total of $512 assessed on comparable companies, according to a report to councillors released Friday.
  “(This) will provide for the recovery of direct costs incurred by the development services branch as it prepares for legalization,” the report says.
  “The costs
  
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• Private gondola dream gets buy-in from transit advisory board

  01-05-2018 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gondolas across the Americas and Europe are actually turning a profit and should be considered an option for crossing the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton’s panel of transit riders decided Monday.
  “It actually is a valid mass transit option,” said Vlad Slavov, member of the Edmonton Transit System Advisory Board and chairman of a subcommittee formed to study the gondola idea.
  The subcommittee arrived at the idea independently of a pair of Edmonton residents who won the Edmont
  
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• Edmonton weather: Wind. Why did it have to be wind?

  01-05-2018 14:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.5 C with a 19 km/h wind. That darn wind isn’t going to let up, either, with forecasters predicting wind gusts up to 50 km/h today. So if you like wind (said no one ever) today is your day! It might be too early to start looking forward to the weekend, but right now it’s shaping up to be a glorious one with sunny skies forecast and a high of 20 C Sa
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Are cyclists a higher priority than pedestrians?

  01-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Tally of ‘scary’ crosswalks hits 659,” April 27
  It’s both interesting and enlightening to think that there are 659 problematic crosswalks recognized across the city, with obviously so little being done. All you have to do is look at the stats:
  Pedestrian injuries fell only seven per cent while cyclist injuries fell 17 per cent. Its a no-brainer.
  There are consistently way more pedestrians who use crosswalks. With even more vehicles on our streets, why did the c
  
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• Edmonton delegation bound for San Francisco

  01-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 100 government, community and business officials will board a flight Wednesday bound for San Francisco on a fact-finding mission to better understand how Edmonton and Alberta can benefit from easier access to the world’s leading technology hub.
  The four-day trade mission into the heart of Silicon Valley comes a day after Air Canada began offering direct daily Edmonton-San Francisco flights.
  Air Canada announced late last year its intention to offer year-round flights between the
  
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• For a second time as an Edmonton Oiler, Cam Talbot enters his "contract year" with things to prove

  01-05-2018 11:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in review:Cam Talbot
  Hearken back to the summer of 2015, three short but oh-so-long years ago. Edmonton Oilers had a new management team and a fresh-faced franchise player in the bank, but familiar problems to fix elsewhere in the line-up. One of those was in goal, where the club had moved on from Nikolai Khabibulin and Devan Dubnyk, worked through a few retreads like Ilya Bryzgalov, Jason LaBarbera, and Richard Bachman and settled for a time on the duo of Ben Scrivens an
  
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• Plans for Bonnie Doon mall redevelopment going public at information session

  01-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The plans to transform Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre into an urban village with a mix of retail and residential are going public.
  Residents of the area received notice from the city this week detailing the proposal, including a date for a public meeting. While the property owners, Morguard Investments Ltd., have been talking about redeveloping the area, these plans lay them out in detail.
  A public information session is scheduled for May 16 from 5-8 p.m. at La Cite Francophone in Bonnie Doon.
  The
  
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• Edmonton's gondola dream gets buy-in from transit advisory board

  01-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gondolas across the Americas and Europe are actually turning a profit and should be considered an option for crossing the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton’s panel of transit riders decided Monday.
  “It actually is a valid mass transit option,” said Vlad Slavov, member of the Edmonton Transit System Advisory Board and chairman of a subcommittee formed to study the gondola idea.
  The subcommittee arrived at the idea independently of a pair of Edmonton residents who won the Edmont
  
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• Derek Fildebrandt's motion to cut MLA pay falls flat

  01-05-2018 05:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A motion proposing a five per cent pay cut for all MLAs failed to gain traction Monday in the Alberta legislature.
  When Independent Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt tabled the motion Monday, it was met with stony silence, with no MLA willing to speak to it.
  He later accused party whips of colluding to prevent debate about his motion.
  “I was disappointed today that the one thing all parties should have been able to agree on was met with silence,” he said in a news release Monda
  
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• Mounties display numerous weapons seized in Parkland County

  01-05-2018 03:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  An investigation by the Stony Plain/Spruce Grove/Enoch RCMP drug section led to a significant firearms seizure after an investigation that spanned three months.
  On April 21, 2018 police executed two search warrants, one for a residence in Val Quentin and the other was for a storage locker in the area of Parkland County.
  In the course of the search, RCMP seized firearms, suppressors, high-capacity magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, cocaine/meth/GHB, $10,000 cash and stolen vehicles.
  As
  
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• Bail denied for father accused of sex offences against three daughters

  01-05-2018 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A rural Alberta father accused of sexual offences against his daughters was denied bail Monday.
  The man, whose name is protected by a publication ban to protect his victim’s identities, is alleged to have committed a variety of offences against his three daughters in a rural compound west of Edmonton.
  After hearing arguments at a hearing April 20, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Peter Michalyshyn denied him bail Monday. 
  Evidence heard during the hearing, as well a
  
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• Paula Simons: Buzz kill: Will Sherwood Park be a legal cannabis desert?

  01-05-2018 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you heard of “Toronto the Good”?
  Well, meet “Sherwood Park the Prim.”
  Strathcona County doesn’t allow anyone to build a casino.
  No one is allowed to open an “adult entertainment” business within county borders, either.
  So perhaps it’s not shocking that, so far at least, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor, and Cannabis Commission has received just one application to open a recreational marijuana store in Strathcona County.
  However, it does make Sherwoo
  
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• French immersion kindergarten to proceed at Oliver School

  01-05-2018 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Parents pushing the public school board to launch a French immersion program in central Edmonton are getting their wish, as classes are set to begin this fall at Oliver School.
  Edmonton Public Schools confirmed Monday that an immersion program will begin for kindergarten students in September at the school at 10227 118 St.
  The plan is then to expand the program by one grade each year until it reaches Grade 6.
  The first attempt to drum up support for a French program at Oliver fell short in 2016&
  
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• Political scientist named head of Peter Lougheed Leadership College

  01-05-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Peter Lougheed Leadership College is about to get a new leader. Starting July 1, Lois Harder, current chairwoman of the University of Alberta’s department of political science, will take over the college’s top job from founding principal and former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell.
  The position is a three-year term. 
  The college, started at the U of A in 2015, focuses on developing leaders during a two-year certificate that includes mentorship programs and workshops
  
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• Long-awaited modernization of Wabasca school to proceed

  01-05-2018 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three-and-a-half years after it was announced by the previous government, a modernization and expansion of a Wabasca junior and senior high school is going ahead.
  Mistassiniy School will undergo a $25-million expansion and modernization, Premier Rachel Notley announced Friday. Wabasca is about 330 km north of Edmonton.
  When the project was first announced in October 2014, the government had planned to replace the school. However, a 2016 report recommended the school be modernized instead. The No
  
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• Exercise at mental-health conference got high school students talking

  01-05-2018 00:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton students say resources are in place, but more work needs to be done to address mental-health issues in high schools.
  Edmonton public schools’ student senate held its second Stepping Forward Together mental health conference Monday, bringing together students from across the district in Grade 9 and up.
  The three student trustees — Astrid Krueger, Farzeen Ather and Zachary Flynn, who represent the senate to the board of trustees throughout the year — all said their schoo
  
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• Attempted murder charges laid against four men after Maskwacis violence

  01-05-2018 00:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four men face attempted murder and aggravated assault charges after violence in Maskwacis on Saturday night sent two men to hospital.
  One of the victims was stabbed and suffered serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries. The other victim was shot in the back and airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
  Both men are in their 20s, Mounties said Monday. 
  A loaded, sawed-off .22-calibre rifle and a knife were seized from the scene on the Samson First Nation at around 9 p.m.
  Derek Cattlema
  
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• Non-profit pitched to 'bring back pride' to Edmonton's Chinatown

  01-05-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chinatown enthusiasts are gearing up for another summer of historic events and food tours as they try to “de-stigmatize” a unique but rundown part of downtown Edmonton. 
  “It starts with de-stigmatizing Chinatown to allow Edmonton to understand it,” said William Lau, a youth representative on the volunteer Chinatown Economic Task Force. 
  They toured 300 Edmonton residents through the area last summer with nine events, said Lau. This year, the task force secured a
  
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• 'These are not hunting rifles': Submachine-gun, carbines, ammo, drugs seized west of Edmonton

  01-05-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A weapons cache including a submachine-gun and carbines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, drugs including meth and cocaine and $7,000 in cash were seized Monday by RCMP following a three-month investigation west of Edmonton.
  Mounties from Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and Enoch executed a search warrant April 21 at a residence in the town of Val Quentin, and another search warrant for a storage locker in Parkland County, where they found a wide range of weapons and drugs.
  Two men were arrested
  
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• Tickets go on sale Tuesday for popular Indulgence event

  01-05-2018 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  I’m not sure you can call yourself a proper food lover in Edmonton if you’ve never been to Indulgence, which for more than 15 years has been curating a collection of the city’s top restaurants to serve delicious bites paired with the perfect local wine, beer or spirits.
  Happily, tickets for the annual event go on sale on Tuesday, May 1 at 9 a.m., for all those folks who have never been, and for those who love to go year after year.
  The date for the big party is Monday, June 11
  
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