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• Two motorcyclists killed in highway crash in central Alberta

  06-05-2018 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man and a woman were killed Saturday afternoon when their motorcycle collided with a truck on a central Alberta highway.
  RCMP said the crash occurred east of the town of Innisfail around 3:50 p.m. on Highway 590.
  Investigators believe the eastbound truck was attempting to turn north onto Rural Road 260, when it struck the motorcycle travelling westbound.
  The 35-year-old man driving the motorcycle and a 34-year-old women riding behind him were both pronounced dead at the scene, police said.&nbs
  
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• Updated: Firefighters douse townhouse fire in northeast Edmonton

  06-05-2018 22:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fire believed to have been sparked by a cigarette caused significant damage Sunday morning to a townhouse in northeast Edmonton.
  The blaze was reported to Edmonton Fire Rescue just before 10 a.m. and crews arrived three minutes later to Red Willow housing complex at 126 Avenue and 47 Street, in the community of Homesteader.
  One of the middle units in a set of seven townhouses was largely destroyed, but firefighters managed to prevent flames from spreading to other units, district fire chief Ed
  
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• UCP passes controversial motion to re-instate parental choice in education

  06-05-2018 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — The United Conservative Party has passed a motion to reinstate opt-in parental consent for any subjects of a religious or sexual nature in Alberta schools. 
  It was the closest vote of the morning, passing with 57 per cent approval. 
  The motion — number 30 in the party’s lengthy policy booklet — was controversial among party members, who opted to carve it out of a larger body of education topics to vote on it separately. 
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• Firefighters douse townhouse fire in northeast Edmonton

  06-05-2018 19:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A townhouse in northeast Edmonton suffered significant damage Sunday morning due to a fire.
  The blaze started around 9:30 a.m. in the Red Willow housing complex at 126 Avenue and 47 Street, in the community of Homesteader.
  One of the middle units in a set of seven townhouses was largely destroyed, but crews from Edmonton Fire Rescue managed to prevent flames from spreading to other units, district fire chief Ed Ernst said.
  He said the most likely cause was an improperly extinguished cigarette bu
  
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• Massive fire destroys building in city's southeast

  06-05-2018 17:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Over 100 firefighters battled a major blaze that destroyed a commercial building in the city’s southeast Saturday. 
  Edmonton Fire Rescue district Chief Kim Grummett said three firefighters were hospitalized for observation after battling the blaze at an industrial complex at Wagner Road and 83 Street, near W.P. Wagner high school.
  Grummett said that to his knowledge no one was inside the building when the fire started.
  “It was like a bomb went off,” said Grant Stewart, who
  
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• Edmonton to test new lamppost ashtrays, aiming to reduce the ick factor

  06-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is changing the design of its lamppost ashtrays to stop them from turning into a veritable stew of cigarette butts swimming in a concoction of water, tea, coffee or any other liquid.
  About 67 million butts find their way each year into the ashtrays mounted along city thoroughfares but the current design is a nightmare for the people who need to clean them. 
  The older ashtrays tacked to poles have a hole on the top, which allows rain and snow to get in and take up the space meant fo
  
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• April was horror month for homicides in Edmonton

  06-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  April has been a deadly month in Edmonton with half of this year’s 10 homicides occurring in the last month alone. All but one of the victims are men. 
  Police have refused to name four of the 10 victims so far this year. Here is a breakdown of the cases in April:
  April 8: Abdiqani Hussen, 23
  Reports of a rowdy community hall party preceded the shooting death of Hussen outside Evansdale Community League Hall, 9111 150 Ave., at around 3:30 a.m. April 8.
  When police arrived they lea
  
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• Is Matt Benning's glass half empty or half full? Depends how patient you're willing to be

  06-05-2018 13:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in review:Matt Benning
  All Matt Benning has done since being signed by the Edmonton Oilers two summers ago is outperform reasonable expectations. It’s the unreasonable ones that have proven tougher to realize.
  It’s the latter category where I would bin the suggestion that Benning was ready to move up to top-four duty in 2017-18, just his second professional season. He had done well enough as a raw rookie the year previous that many pundits saw him as the
  
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• Suspect on the run after Parkallen collision: police

  06-05-2018 06:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are searching for a suspect that took off on foot following a three-vehicle collision in the Parkallen neighbourhood on Saturday evening.
  Three people were transported to hospital following the crash shortly after 6 p.m. in the area of 72 Avenue and 111 Street, Edmonton police Staff Sgt. Paul Shafer said, speaking over the telephone.
  A driver of one of the vehicles fled on foot, and police were still searching for him hours after the crash, Shafer said.
  Two women and one man were tra
  
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• Graham Thomson: Jason Kenney offers combative, campaign-style speech to excited UCP convention

  06-05-2018 05:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  He did everything but fire a starter’s pistol to begin his party’s election campaign.
  Jason Kenney’s address to more than 2,500 United Conservative Party members Saturday evening was passionate, highly partisan and exceptionally pugnacious.
  It was such an election-style speech you expected balloons to drop from the ceiling while Kenney, the party leader, kissed babies on the way to a campaign bus.
  And the crowd of course loved it.
  “We are exactly three years since the ele
  
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• Kenney, Wall deliver rousing speeches to UCP faithful at convention

  06-05-2018 05:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — Conservatives will be back in power soon, was the message Saturday night at the UCP’s founding convention in Red Deer. 
  In a quirk of timing, Saturday also marked three years since the NDP won power in Alberta.
  Rallying the troops in a speech tailored to party faithful, UCP Leader Jason Kenney was blunt as he spoke about the 2015 election: The Progressive Conservative party had become arrogant, he said, and Wildrose was too undisciplined to rule.
  If he ruffled some fe
  
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• Attack ads infiltrate UCP convention

  06-05-2018 02:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — The executive director of the United Conservative Party is playing down the appearance of attack-style advertising targeted at a female candidate at the party’s convention this weekend.
  Janice Harrington told Postmedia on Saturday that no party rules were broken by those who distributed cards criticizing Natalie Pon, who is pursuing the Edmonton director post. 
  “Sometimes things can get a little heated, and sometimes people can do things to express a point of vi
  
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• Cultural brokers program forges connections between newcomers and mainstream

  06-05-2018 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cultural brokers are a lifeline for new Canadians. But an Edmonton educator says more training and support for those workers is necessary to make sure newcomers get the sexual health and sexual violence information they need.
  Lily Tsui said a pilot program, currently in process at the Multicultural Family Resource Centre (MFRS), is a step toward improving the system.
  Speaking to a crowd of sexual health professionals, teachers and nurses attending a conference at Corbett Hall by the Alberta
  
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• Updated: Edmonton firefighters take on blaze in city's southeast

  06-05-2018 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton firefighters spent several hours Saturday afternoon on the scene of a major fire that destroyed a commercial building 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.
  “We were just driving down the road and saw the smoke billowing in the sky,” said Echo Peters, one of the first witnesses to the scene. 
  Firefighters arriv
  
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• Traffic changes set to begin for Groat Road Bridge work

  06-05-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Beginning Sunday at 7 a.m., the first changes in traffic near the Groat Road Bridge will take effect.
  Well, at least it’s not on Monday.
  For traffic
  A City of Edmonton news release Friday said two-way traffic on the bridge will shift to the west side. Both northbound and southbound traffic will run there.
  Northbound traffic will be diverted across the median at the north and south ends of the bridge.
  People should be aware that the lane is narrower than usual, the release said.
  Traffic on
  
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• Fans zoom, dash and swoosh to local shops for Free Comic Book Day

  06-05-2018 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fans gathered at independent comic books stores May 5, 2018 to celebrate all that is great in the world of comic books. Happy Harbor Comics in Edmonton held a large celebration, as fans of comics new and established lined up to pick out their favourite stories of fantastical superheroes and nefarious villains.
  Fans dressed as Klingons head to get free comics during Free Comic Book Day at Happy Harbor Comics in Edmonton, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Photo by Ian Kucerak/Postmedia
  Taking place on the
  
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• Twitter "a sewer for women" Rona Ambrose tells attendants at UCP convention

  06-05-2018 00:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Deer — Women should not be appointed to positions simply because of their gender, former politicians Rona Ambrose and Heather Forsyth told the UCP founding convention Saturday afternoon. 
  Structural issues that hold women back from entering politics is “socialist crap,” Forsyth, a former Alberta Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, told the lunchtime crowd. 
  Speaking about her political hero Margaret Thatcher, Forsyth called feminism “The F-Word&r
  
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