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• Three injured after stolen car crashes into another vehicle

  03-05-2018 22:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three people were taken to hospital after a stolen car crashed into another vehicle in the Newton neighbourhood of Edmonton Thursday.
  Police said witnesses who saw the suspect allegedly steal a white Grand Prix followed the vehicle until it crashed with a Ford Ranger just before 11 a.m.
  When the suspect fled on foot following the crash, witnesses made a citizen arrest and held the suspect until police arrived.
  The driver and passenger in the Ford sustained serious injuries. The suspect also suff
  
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• First-degree murder charge laid in 2015 homicide where trucker fatally stabbed

  03-05-2018 21:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man arrested in Vancouver last month has been charged with first-degree murder after a 2015 slaying where a truck driver was fatally stabbed outside a west Edmonton motel. 
  Edmonton homicide detectives, with help from Vancouver police, arrested Richard William Rockey in the B.C. city April 27.
  Police said Thursday the 46-year-old has since been transported back to remand in Edmonton.
  Randy Evans, 54, was stabbed in the chest during what police described as an attempted robbery a
  
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• More products added to meat recall in wake of E. coli outbreak

  03-05-2018 21:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  More pork products have been added to a meat recall because of possible E. coli contamination, health authorities said Thursday.
  To date, 37 people have been confirmed to have an E. coli infection connected to contaminated pork. E. coli is the likely cause of the death of one of those people and is responsible for 11 hospitalizations, Alberta Health Services has said.
  The food recall warning has now been updated to include:Certain raw and ready-to-eat pork products sold and distributed by The Me
  
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• Six-year-old complaint against city police officers who arrested airsoft gun-toting teens concluded

  03-05-2018 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A six-year-old complaint against two city police officers who arrested a group of teenagers playing with airsoft guns was finally concluded Thursday. 
  Sgt. Jessie Poonian and Const. Timothy Connell were accused of behaving improperly when they arrested three teenagers playing with the replica firearms in a field in south Edmonton in 2012. 
  In a police disciplinary hearing Thursday, the officers agreed by joint submission to plead guilty to two offences each under the Police Act. A numb
  
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• Edmonton homeowners encouraged to protect themselves against flood risk

  03-05-2018 21:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  An interactive map is showing Edmontonians the flood risk within their neighbourhood as part of Canada’s Emergency Preparedness Week.
  The map, presented by the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), is touring around Alberta, B.C. and Ontario from May 3 to July 30 to raise consumer awareness on just how at risk they are of flooding.
  “We’re seeing potential flood hazard virtually everywhere across the country,” said Rob de Pruis, IBC director of consumer and industry relations
  
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• UCP walks out of vote on abortion clinic bubble zone bill

  03-05-2018 21:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party stayed true to its word Thursday, refusing to debate or vote on a bill that will create protest-free bubble zones around Alberta abortion clinics. 
  The number of MLAs on the official Opposition side of the legislature see-sawed between four and eight over the course of the morning’s debate, but was completely empty when it came time to vote on an amendment proposed by Independent MLA Derek Fildebrandt. 
  The member for Strathmore-Brooks voiced his dis
  
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• Man serving nine-year sentence when charged with January slaying

  03-05-2018 20:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A second man charged with a fatal January stabbing death at a west Edmonton home is already behind bars serving a nine-year sentence, show court documents.
  Police said this week that Jonathan Sidney Burd, 48, was charged Friday, April 20, with second-degree murder, possession of a knife dangerous to the public, and two counts of breaching probation orders in the wake of the January killing of Jarvis Katz.
  Katz was transported to hospital with stab wounds Jan. 15 after police were
  
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• Search for missing teen on Athabasca River turns into recovery mission

  03-05-2018 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Emergency crews on Thursday suspended their search for a missing teenager who fell from the Highway 2 bridge into the Athabasca River near Slave Lake.
  Reports that the 17-year-old had fallen into the river about 50km southeast of Slave Lake were reported to Mounties at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday prompting an extensive search using boats, helicopters, drones and teams of searchers on foot along the banks of the river.
  Mounties said that “due to high and fast flowing current, cold tem
  
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• UCP denied chance to march in Edmonton Pride parade

  03-05-2018 19:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Pride Festival Society has rejected the United Conservative Party’s application to participate in this year’s parade.
  The pride society said in the UCP’s application the party “did not speak to any direct action they take or will take to support the inclusion of all segments of the LGBTQ2S+ community.” 
  “The UCP will not be marching in the Edmonton Pride Parade this year, but are welcome to attend as observers and have been invited to re-appl
  
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• Report: Anton Slepyshev to leave Edmonton Oilers and return to KHL

  03-05-2018 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Saddened but not surprised to learn that Edmonton Oilers winger Anton Slepyshev is headed back to the Kontinental Hockey League, as per this report from a KHL insider.“Expected to sign” doesn’t mean “signed” of course, but the fact that a top KHL team traded for his rights certainly supports the notion that something is in the works.
  Slepyshev, who turns 24 next week, spent three years in North America, splitting his time between Edmonton and Bakersfield. He played
  
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• Peter Adler: Sorry state of what Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers rivalry has become

  03-05-2018 16:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Peter Adler
  By PETER ADLER
  OK, so Bill Peters is all of 53 years old, his NHL coaching record stretches over four years, all with the Carolina Hurricanes, and reads like this: 137-138-53. In percentages: .498.
  No NHL playoff experience. A useful acquaintance from the 2016 world championship coaching gig, though:Peters led Team Canada to gold in Russia, and one of his general managers was Brad Treliving.
  A few hundred kilometres up the road, we have Todd McLellan. Younger by three years, wit
  
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• Flippin' good time: Edmonton expo to host pinball wizards

  03-05-2018 16:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Arcades have vanished from the streets of Edmonton, but pinball enthusiasts are still getting their fix.
  This weekend, the third annual YEGPIN – Edmonton Pinball and Arcade Expo is taking place at the Alberta Aviation Museum. Derek Thomson, event organizer and president of Edmonton’s Die Hard Pinball League, is expecting all walks of life to partake in a shared love of the game.
  “All ages are welcome, but we target the 40 to 60 year olds who lived and breathed arcade when they
  
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• Edmonton weather: The weather outside is weather

  03-05-2018 14:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.8 C with a 10 km/h wind. We’ll get a bit of everything today: sunshine, clouds, wind, locusts — maybe. Looks like the weekend is still shaping up to be a good one with Saturday temperatures expected to reach 21 C, and 24 C on Sunday. Not too shabby.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 early this mornin
  
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• Thursday's letters: How about Vision Zero for taxes, project delays?

  03-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  While Edmonton’s administration’s Vision Zero mission has a laudable objective, the methods proposed to achieve it seem suspiciously consistent with their apparent abhorrence of private vehicles.
  A nice side effect for its proponents is that anyone questioning the methods can be cast as being indifferent to pedestrian deaths and injuries. 
  The contortions used in the public survey they tout cast doubt on the actual level of support for their plan, but I believe most Edmontonians
  
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• Wildlife: Edmonton Jewish Film Festival, No Problem's creepy new vid

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A buffet of ideas, mediation and celebration, the 22nd annual Edmonton Jewish Film Festival opens Friday at Landmark City Centre.
  Ten films are on deck this year — Fanny’s Journey being the first at 3 p.m. Friday. Susan Schiffman, director of development for the Jewish Federation of Edmonton and coordinator of the fest, calls it “sweet and heartwarming, based on a true story of French Jewish children who escape pretty much on their own from the Nazis. The adults gave them instr
  
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• Sistine Chapel concert kicks off 2018 Early Music Festival

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For a couple of centuries, the only place where you could hear the Misere, that extraordinarily beautiful choral work written in the 1630s by Gregorio Allegri, was in the famed Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.
  So beautiful was it that performances anywhere else, let alone any printing of the music, were banned. Then along came a 14-year old boy who heard the work in the Chapel, walked out, and wrote it down from memory. The Holy See could monopolize the work no longer.
  That boy was Mozart, an
  
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• Saskatoon singers work current issues to re-invent vocal trio

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’re old enough to remember the Second World War, you might recall Rosie the Riveter, a fictional character invented by the U.S. government to represent millions of women who were called upon to help the war effort, replacing men in factory and armaments jobs. Later the subject of a song and movie, Rosie enjoyed a certain irony. What began as exploitation turned to empowerment, when this symbol of women in industry inspired even more women to enter the workforce after the war.
  Enter R
  
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• Nana Mouskouri happy to discuss musical greats ahead of Edmonton show

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nana Mouskouri enjoys speaking of the musical greats.
  The iconic 83-year-old Greek singer has a long list of favourites, from Leonard Cohen to Charles Aznavour, Billie Holiday to … AC/DC?
  “Oh yes,” she says with evident delight over the phone from Paris, where the bespectacled singer is doing advance press before the Forever Young tour that brings her to Edmonton on Monday night. “AC/DC is very good, I enjoy them very much and they have always been very complimentary to
  
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• 'It looks like a slum': Holyrood neighbours disappointed at project's new design

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s contentious Holyrood Gardens project remains just that. Contentious.
  On a pleasant Wednesday evening, frustrated residents milled around the gym at Holyrood Elementary School questioning the latest designs.
  “It’s back with three more towers, 250 more units, and we’re not sure how we got to this point, to be honest,” said Dave Sutherland, spokesman for the Holyrood development committee.
  In November last year, city council voted 8-5 on a referral
  
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• Excellent Kusama and Basquiat docs make you want to shut up and do art

  03-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Born in 1929 Imperial Japan and trained in the contemplative Nihonga style, you might not expect polka-dot queen Yayoi Kusama and haunted Manhattan street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat to share multiple common threads.
  Yet both inhabited mental institutions, were outsider artists relentlessly assertive of their own worth, and ultimately created two unique visual languages almost unparalleled in 20th-century art.
  At 89, Instagram star Kusama still paints every day — and her art shows sel
  
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• Mother, two daughters attend NAIT together, after setting some 'boundaries'

  03-05-2018 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Attending school with your mom may sound like a nightmare to a lot of people, but according to Christina Russell and her two daughters, it was amazing.
  At 47, Christina Russell, is set to cross the stage Thursday with a degree in interior design technology after attending NAIT with her two daughters, Harley Russell, 23, and Maggie Russell, 20.
  When her daughters started exploring post-secondary options a few years ago, Christina Russell was suddenly inspired to do the same.
  “I thought it w
  
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• Site identified for new Edmonton drug production centre, province says

  03-05-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP government says it knows where a high-tech, $36-million pharmaceutical centre is likely to be built in Edmonton, but it won’t reveal the location because it is still negotiating to buy the land.
  When completed sometime in the next four years, the Central Drug Production and Distribution Centre will take over responsibility for mixing and packaging medications required by the region’s health facilities.
  Provincial and Alberta Health Services officials indicated to Postmedia on
  
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• Graham Thomson: Controversial former chief electoral officer returns to new, and controversial, job

  03-05-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Call it political irony.
  When Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government effectively fired the province’s chief electoral officer in 2009, they hoped they’d never see Lorne Gibson again.
  Almost a decade later, the PCs are gone — and Gibson is on his way back.
  Not as chief electoral officer, but as Alberta’s first election commissioner.
  The new position, created by the NDP government’s affably named Act to Strengthen and Protect Democracy in Alberta, is desi
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Homebuyer protections, UCP spurns tax credits

  03-05-2018 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is urging prospective homeowners to use a new online registry to search for reputable builders before forking out cash for a new home.
  The registry follows the creation of mandatory licensing for residential builders, which took effect Dec. 1. More than 1,900 licences have been approved. 
  “Now that we have both builder licensing and new home warranty rules in place, homebuyers will be better protected when they make the biggest purchase of their lives,” Mu
  
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• Mental health still a priority two years after Fort McMurray wildfire

  03-05-2018 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — Two years after a wildfire forced tens of thousands of people to flee Fort McMurray, residents are still coping with emotional and mental fallout.
  It is something health experts anticipated, Dr. Sandra Corbett, Alberta Health Services’ north zone medical director, said in advance of the disaster’s second anniversary Thursday.
  “We certainly know from previous work that people would continue to have mental health problems for a number of years,” Corbet
  
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• Jason Kenney complaints about lack of legislature decorum 'disingenuous': NDP

  03-05-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Question period debates sometimes get heated, but this week they switched to discussions about just how nasty each party is in the legislative assembly. 
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney said in the house Wednesday that QP has devolved into “a ping-pong match of insults and partisan attacks.”
  NDP house leader Brian Mason dismissed that suggestion, saying Kenney’s assertions were a “disingenuous” ploy. 
  “In terms of the partisan attacks t
  
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• Little Warriors Be Brave Ranch continues to expand through 'miracle' donations

  03-05-2018 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Dustin Cook
  Celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, Little Warriors will be welcoming a furry, four-legged addition to the Be Brave Ranch.
  Rugby, a 21-month-old Labrador retriever, will be the first service dog at the facility starting in September, which was announced at Wednesday’s Be Brave Luncheon.
  Dogs with Wings Assistance Dog Society has been training Rugby and will work with him over the next three months to become the ranch’s facility dog, executive director Doreen
  
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• Paula Simons: Eighty years ago, the Edmonton Journal won a Pulitzer Prize. Let's remember why

  03-05-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  March 1938 was an eventful time. 
  Hitler annexed Austria. 
  Stalin concluded the Trial of the 21, one of his more infamous show trials.
  Franco’s forces seized Catalonia and bombed Barcelona.
  The Sino-Japanese War raged.
  And Mussolini broadcast a speech, announcing, “Italy’s land, sea and air forces are tuned for rapid and implacable war.”
  That same month, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Alberta’s Accurate News and Information Act unconstitutional.
  The Pre
  
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• Walking in Edmonton could get easier after council puts 'beg buttons' on trial

  03-05-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A major irritant for people walking, cycling and taking transit through Edmonton is finally getting a critical second look from city officials.
  People call them beg buttons — the traffic signals that force people on foot to wait minutes at a time and won’t grant permission to cross without a person hitting the button.
  “I’m cautiously optimistic,” said Coun. Andrew Knack, after council’s community service committee approved a plan Wednesday to write new procedu
  
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