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• Quidditch comes to Muggle Edmonton

  05-05-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like two bludgers, Chris Radojewski and James Neuman zipped around the little green patch of grass in a corner at Kinsmen Park Friday evening.
  Their feet a blur, they raced around with a “broom” between their legs, dodging each other, whilst Radojewski tried to score a goal with the quaffle, Neuman guarded the hoops. Radojewski broke through Neuman’s defense and scored. They high-fived.
  Quidditch has flown off the pages of Harry Potter and is increasingly becoming a popular spo
  
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• Edmonton firefighters battling blaze in city's southeast

  05-05-2018 23:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton firefighters are on the scene of a major fire that has consumed a commercial garage in the city’s southeast.
  Emergency crews responded to a report of an explosion just after 1:30 p.m. in the area of Wagner Road and 83 Street, just across the street from W.P. Wagner high school.
  Firefighters arrived five minutes later to find a garage on fire. Within a short time the blaze was producing large amounts of smoke and large flames. The structure collapsed just after 2:30 p.m. 
  The
  
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• Conservative stalwarts Rona Ambrose, Brad Wall headline Saturday UCP convention

  05-05-2018 17:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — United Conservative Party members from across Alberta are gathering Saturday for the first full day of the party’s weekend convention. 
  It marks the UCP’s first major effort to formalize policy, as well as iron out details related to governance.
  That basic party business is Saturday’s focus. Speeches from conservatives with national cachet, such as former Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall and former federal cabinet minister Rona Ambrose, are also on the agend
  
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• Saturday's letters: B.C. ignores its own environmental disasters

  05-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I find it highly hypocritical and one-sided that the British Columbia government fights so hard against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion but does not clean up its own backyard.
  I urge your readers to look at the satellite images of the Sparwood and Elkford areas of southeastern B.C. They will see the devastation caused by open-pit coal mining in this area is equal to, if not greater than, that caused by the oilsands.
  The remediation efforts there are much less active and effective than
  
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• Opinion: Trump is biggest unknown in looming North Korea summit

  05-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heartwarming pictures of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un being greeted at the border by South Korean President Moon Jae-In dominated news last week. While the summit, the first time a North Korean leader had ever stepped into the democratic South, was flawlessly executed in terms of optics, it was decidedly less effective in providing steps for “denuclearizing” the peninsula.
  Last week’s South-North Summit, the third between leaders of the two countries, re-affirmed previously
  
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• In a year of negatives for the Edmonton Oilers, Darnell Nurse was one of the very few exceptions

  05-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in Review:Darnell Nurse
  The Edmonton Oilers of 2017-18 could have taught Murphy a thing or two about Law.
  “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”, in fact, could have been the theme for the Copper & Blue in what was a trying season, to say the least.
  But a few bright lights did manage to shine through the smoke of this particular tire-fire. And one of them was named Darnell Nurse. In fact, if you were to name a Defenceman of the Year on last year’
  
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• Last Chance Leduc: Local playwright looks at roots of boom, bust in romantic tale

  05-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Many people under 50 may consider the oil industry (despite its cycle of boom and bust) to be a glamorous source of all-terrain vehicles and boozy expense accounts.
  But before the oil industry here exploded in 1947 with the Leduc discovery, rig workers and their families often endured a hard-scrabble existence. Wives and children lived in shacks near the drill site, rarely seeing their exhausted, oil-streaked husbands and fathers.
  That’s the backdrop for Last Chance Leduc, an award-winning
  
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• Alberta suicide survivor sets up unique support group

  05-05-2018 06:37 via globalnews.ca
  After trying to take his own life, Wesley Jones struggled to obtain mental health supports. Based on his own experience, he's trying to start a suicide survivors support group to ensure others don't fall through the gaps.
  
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• Alberta's UCP gathers to carve out party's pre-election identity

  05-05-2018 04:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — Conservatives from the provincial and federal political scenes have converged on Red Deer this weekend for the United Conservative Party’s founding convention. 
  It’s the first time party members have come together since voting former Calgary Conservative MP Jason Kenney leader in October. 
  Kenney wants the gathering to hot-wire conservative energy throughout Canada. Policies approved over the weekend will “inform like-minded free-enterprise parti
  
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• Journal columnist wins award; photographer, cartoonist recognized at National Newspaper Awards

  05-05-2018 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Journal columnist Paula Simons won a National Newspaper Award on Friday for her tenacious reporting and unflinching commentary on the life and death of four-year-old Serenity.
  Simons’ initial investigation in 2016 into the Indigenous girl’s story, and the disturbing circumstances of her death, pushed the Alberta government to review its child intervention system. In 2017, Simons continued to dig into the case, focusing on the efforts of Serenity’s mother to hold the police and
  
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• $75-million fund that paid for hundreds of school staff will continue, NDP says

  05-05-2018 04:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s deputy minister of education is asking school boards to hang on to extra staff hired last fall as part of a one-year, $75-million boost for classrooms.
  Negotiated as part of the current collective agreement with teachers, the classroom improvement fund created at least 225 teaching jobs and 175 support staff positions across Alberta, according to the education ministry.
  Last week, Education Minister David Eggen told school boards and superintendents the fund will continue while b
  
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• Graham Thomson: Jam-packed UCP founding convention opens in Red Deer

  05-05-2018 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — They’re calling it “the largest political convention in the history of Alberta” and it sure as heck seems like it.
  An estimated 2,600 people — most of them delegates with a couple of hundred observers tossed in — are registered to attend the founding convention of the United Conservative Party this weekend in Red Deer.
  There are so many delegates signed up that organizers couldn’t fit them all in the main convention hall at the Sheraton H
  
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• Photo Gallery: 2018 Edmonton Pinball and Arcade Expo draws a crowd

  05-05-2018 03:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Luke Brennan, 6, plays a pinball game during the 2018 Edmonton Pinball and Arcade Expo at the Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton on Friday, May 4, 2018.
  Edmonton plays host to the 2018 Edmonton Pinball and Arcade Expo at the Alberta Aviation Museum this weekend, May 4-6, 2018.
  The expo boasts 110 pinball games and 50 classic arcade games. Organizers expect more than 1,000 people to attend the three-day event.
  As well as approximately 100 free-play arcade and pinball games, the expo will also ho
  
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• Edmonton Oilers at the Worlds: McDavid watching shootout from sin bin encapsulates a mixed bag on Day One

  05-05-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Weeeeee’re back. After a one-year hiatus for a trial run of an entirely different concept, “Oilers in the Actual Playoffs”, our annual feature “Oilers at the Worlds” returns. Yes, folks, it’s that time of year where the only Edmonton Oilers playing meaningful hockey are those wearing their national colours over in Europe.
  Quite a few of them this year, no fewer than seven six members of the NHL squad, along with minor leaguer Patrick Russell who, deceptive nam
  
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• Wine column: Wine survival strategy need as camping season approaches

  05-05-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  This is it. Spring has officially opened the door for May long weekend, kicking off camping season. Let’s have a look at how some local food and wine professionals pack their beverages.
  Justin Benson, from the awesome Mayday Dogs, has a great last-resort tip in the unlikely event you are completely unprepared and find yourself limited to the choices available at a small-town liquor retailer (you know, the gas station variety). Benson suggests making a kalimotxo, a.k.a. calimocho, cocktail
  
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• The Hip songs inspire ballet on a post-apocalypse planet Earth

  05-05-2018 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who knew that ballet could survive the bomb?
  The Tragically Hip get a whole new spin on their name when Alberta Ballet co-opts the band’s songs to portray that ultimate tragedy, post-apocalypse Earth after the nukes, in its latest pop portrait ballet All Of Us.
  At least on paper it’s an ingenious idea, another brainchild of the company’s artistic director Jean Grand-Maitre. He’s the same guy who has brought you five previous “portrait ballets” since 2007, adap
  
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• Police capture man wanted for second-degree murder in death of young woman

  05-05-2018 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of breaking into a north Edmonton home and killing a young woman last month was arrested Thursday night in the city’s south side.
  Kenneth Richards, 35, was wanted on charges including second-degree murder in connection with the death of Brittany Vande Lagemaat, 25.
  Police arrested Richards in the area of 24 Avenue and 107 Street and charged him with housebreaking with intent, possessing a prohibited loaded/restricted firearm, possessing a prohibited firearm, unauthorized poss
  
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• Missing woman's remains found near Saddle Lake

  05-05-2018 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The remains of a 22-year-old woman missing north of Edmonton since 2016 have been discovered, RCMP said Friday.
  Christine Cardinal was reported missing after last being seen in the early hours of Oct. 13 north of the Bison Auto gas station in Saddle Lake, about 170 km northeast of Edmonton. 
  The remains were discovered Tuesday and an autopsy was conducted two days later.
  The exact cause of the death has yet to be determined; however, foul play is not suspected at this time, Mounties said.&n
  
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• Press Gallery 228: The Walking Away From Bill 9 edition

  05-05-2018 00:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Journal’s Press Gallery podcast team — consisting of political affairs reporter Emma Graney, legislative reporter Clare Clancy, managing editor Dave Breakenridge and political affairs columnist Graham Thomson — discuss Bill 9 and the United Conservative Party’s walkout of debate and voting regarding the bill, which creates bubble zones around abortion clinics in Alberta.
  
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• Edmonton looks to crowdsource research on its tricky parking question

  05-05-2018 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton planners are using an old strategy with a new twist in their effort to avoid allegations of bias in a new parking study.
  They’re crowdsourcing the data.
  “It will make a huge difference to our work,” said senior planner Anne Stevenson Friday after launching a call for parking lot counters. She’s hoping passionate people will sign up to monitor a residential or commercial parking lot, then submit vehicle counts for specific times of the week. 
  They’ll ha
  
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