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• Social media and Scripture: Turning to tech to help grow Edmonton's Catholic flock

  08-05-2018 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The relationship between faith and modernity has probably never been more relevant to organized religion than in the digital age.
  For instance, how do you make Scripture relevant to a generation that has grown up with the internet and social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter?
  The answer is fairly simple for Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith. 
  In trying to explain the necessity to keep the Catholic church relevant, Smith turns to Scripture and
  
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• New Edmonton Public School Names

  08-05-2018 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Michelle Draper (Chairwoman, Edmonton Public Schools) revealed the names of three new schools in Edmonton on Tuesday May 8, 2018. The new schools will be named Soraya Hefez School (grades K-6) in the McConachie neighbourhood, Thelma Chalifoux School (grades 7-9) in the Larkspur neighbourhood, and Dr. Anne Anderson School (grades 10-12) in the Heritage Valley neighbourhood. (VIDEO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  
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• Ponoka man charged with arson

  08-05-2018 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 60-year-old man is facing two arson charges relating to fires in the Ponoka area.
  RCMP and Ponoka County Fire Department investigators deemed a May 2 grass fire in town as suspicious and arrested the suspect.
  During their investigation, officials obtained information that linked the man to another suspicious fire back in October 2017 that destroyed a garage in the same area.
  “We’re very fortunate there was no one injured in either of these fires,” Ponoka RCMP Sgt. Chris Smile
  
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• Breakfast with Catholic Archbishop of Edmonton

  08-05-2018 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Archbishop Richard Smith (Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton) talked about today’s issues at the 9th Annual Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton Media Breakfast held on Tuesday May 8, 2018 at St. Joseph Seminary in Edmonton. (VIDEO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  
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• NDP to ban parties pooling money to get around election spending cap

  08-05-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The provincial government is revisiting election finance rules once again, this time making a change aimed squarely at political parties hoping to work with one another. 
  The rule rejig under Bill 16, tabled Tuesday, will prevent parties from pooling their funds to break the $2-million spending limit during elections and byelections. 
  It also increases fines for parties who exceed the limits — to $100,000 from $10,000 — and doubles the penalty for candidates, nomination con
  
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• New Edmonton school names honour women, cultural education

  08-05-2018 22:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three of Edmonton’s newest schools will be named after women, two of whom have strong ties to Indigenous education. 
  The new high school in Heritage Valley will be named after Anne Anderson, a teacher who worked to preserve Cree language in Alberta. Anderson lived from 1906 to 1997.
  Retired senator Thelma Chalifoux is the namesake of a new junior high in Larkspur in southeast Edmonton. She was a champion of Metis history and language.
  Chalifoux was the First Metis woman appointed to t
  
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• Province posts job ad for disability advocate one year after passing legislation

  08-05-2018 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is recruiting a disability advocate nearly a year after passing legislation to create the position. 
  The legislature voted unanimously in May 2017 to establish the role to promote the rights and interests of people with disabilities. 
  “It was the first time in the history of the province that we were setting up an office,” said Community and Social Services Minister Irfan Sabir in an interview Tuesday. “What we have heard fro
  
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• New pitch aims to save the Coliseum with seniors housing, hotel

  08-05-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new team of local designers wants to put housing for seniors, students and visitors into the old Northlands Coliseum to save the historic landmark and root a new neighbourhood development. 
  The group calling themselves Team Agora Borealis released images to the media after a City of Edmonton request for expressions of interest closed. 
  The creative reuse of the building would celebrate the site’s history as the “heart of the City of Champions” and has historic prece
  
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• Woman dies after domestic attack in city's southeast

  08-05-2018 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A domestic call turned deadly Monday afternoon when a 33-year-old woman was attacked at a southeast Edmonton home before her estranged partner was arrested, say police. 
  Officers found the woman dead after responding to a weapons call at an apartment suite in the Strathearn Heights complex near 96 Avenue and 87 Street about 3:40 p.m. 
  A 41-year-old man was arrested.
  Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation and are now “investigating the death as a domestic violence i
  
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• Some Edmonton Oilers fans just love to hate him, but last year Kris Russell was among the very least of the club's problems.

  08-05-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in Review:Kris RussellThe Edmonton Oilers only had two defencemen who met or exceeded expectations in 2017-18, Darnell Nurse and Kris Russell.
  So the fact that some are still railing against the player is somewhat mystifying to me. If they don’t like Russell purely because of the $4m cap hit, I do have some time for that (although I don’t happen to agree). Otherwise, I can see no reason why it’s helpful to denigrate the performance of a legit 2nd pairing
  
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• Speed up, slow down: Council votes for more study before any changes on Edmonton playground zones

  08-05-2018 19:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council dug into the playground zone question one more time Tuesday morning, re-examining the locations and hours of the more than 400 new zones across the city.
  But council members stopped shy of making any changes – voting instead to study each of a series of actions Coun. Tim Cartmell put on the floor.
  This August 14, council will hold a non-statutory public hearing to allow residents to weigh in before council votes on removing any low speed zones currently beside playgrounds in indust
  
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• Health Canada seizes unauthorized herbal products from two Edmonton stores

  08-05-2018 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health Canada has seized items from two Edmonton stores it says contain a dangerous herbal product.
  Sāj brand kratom powder and capsules were taken last week from Sāj in Sherbrooke Plaza, 11839 St. Albert Tr., and Jupiter, 12841 97 St., according to a Health Canada news release.
  Kratom, made from the leaves of a southeast Asian tree, is used for such purposes as treating chronic pain and opioid withdrawal symptoms.
  But Health Canada hasn’t authorized the sale of anythin
  
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• Edmonton's new multi-family housing market looks good despite recent drop, report says

  08-05-2018 19:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sales of new Edmonton condominiums and townhouses dropped 28 per cent in the first quarter of 2018 from the previous three months, but the future looks positive, a new report says.
  Major factors in the decline included bad weather and tighter mortgage rules, according to figures released Tuesday by research firm Urban Analytics.
  However, sales were up 16 per cent from the same period last year, a sign of increased confidence in the housing market and Edmonton’s economy, the company said.
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• Eats on 118th arrives just in time for summer

  08-05-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the third season, Eats on 118 is back on Alberta Avenue with two dates for food tours — June 13 and August 29, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
  A popular summer outing organized by Wild Heart Collective and Alberta Avenue Business Association, the tour sees a guide leading culinary enthusiasts along Alberta Avenue, digging into a variety of dishes from a range of restaurants.
  The June tour visits Paraiso Tropical, Battista’s Calzone Co. and Handy Bakery. Participating eateries for the Augus
  
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• Live: Council debates seasonal hours for new playground speed zones

  08-05-2018 18:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council dug into the playground zone question one more time Tuesday morning, re-examining the locations and hours of the more than 400 new zones across the city. 
  Coun. Tim Cartmell is recommending a new location-specific approach, using fences instead of lower speed zones in some locations. The 30 km/h speed zones should be used only where a prudent driver can’t keep track of the larger numbers of children likely to be in an areas.
  He’s also recommending summer and winter hours
  
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• Overnight blaze razes Sherwood Park home

  08-05-2018 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Monday night house fire in Sherwood Park levelled the home but its two occupants escaped without injury.  
  The blaze broke out at the home on Appleton Way, off Clover Bar Road, around 11:30 p.m. Monday.
  The fire burned the house right down to the basement. The occupants made it out of the house before fire crews arrived. 
  “It was intense,” said Dani Desjardines, an area resident who witnessed the fire. “The whole house was engulfed — the fence, the backya
  
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• Edmonton weather: Nothing better than the smell of fresh rain in the morning

  08-05-2018 14:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 12.6 C with calm winds. Forecasters are calling for rain over the next four days heading into the weekend. But things are expected to clear up just in time for Saturday as temperatures are expected to reach 21 C with sunshine. Sunday might be a repeat of last weekend with a predicted high of 27 C and sunshine.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. 30 per cent chan
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Make Edmonton friendly for all ages

  08-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. Esslinger leads charge for a child-friendly city,” May 5
  I do not take exception to the city promoting the business community’s awareness about child-friendly practices. But I would, however, encourage the city to take advantage of the already established designation as an Age Friendly City (awarded in 2010 by the World Health Organization).
  Efforts in this endeavour continue to evolve with an inclusive mindset that considers people’s needs throughout the life course, to fa
  
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• Opinion: Pipeline obstructionism costs Canada billions

  08-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The recent decision by Kinder Morgan, one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in North America, to halt all “non-essential spending” on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — which would run from Alberta, through British Columbia, to the coast — made headlines across the country.
  Stories have focused on inter-provincial rivalries and trade wars. But an often-ignored or misunderstood aspect of the pipeline debate is how much Canadians lose by not having suffici
  
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• Editorial: UCP on course to repeat the past

  08-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, Albertans should prepare to watch some reruns when it comes to the political theatre playing out in their province.
  The United Conservative Party may be a reborn entity boasting a fresh name and leader, but that hasn’t stopped the majority of its members heading down the same socially conservative path that has led to past failures.
  There was such a feeling of deja vu at the party’s inaugural policy convention last weekend in Red
  
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• Students use family history to paint school teepee

  08-05-2018 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rio Terrace School students, with help from elder Phillip Campiou, painted a teepee inside their school on Monday, May 7, 2018.
  Students researched their family history, then created designs for the teepee that were symbolic of each of their families.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers at the Worlds: Nuge, McDavid, Larsson all play prominent roles as Canada, Sweden dominate

  08-05-2018 03:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five full-time members of the Edmonton Oilers hit the ice on Monday in a series of games that had little suspense but plenty of action. It was a series of Whales vs. Minnows mismatches, with the big guys rolling to victory by a combined score of 20-1.
  For the second day in a row Canada scored more goals than any other team in the tournament. Fresh off Sunday’s a 10-0 thumping of South Korea, the red maple leaf  kept right on scoring in dispatching host Denmark 7-1. 
  Top billing h
  
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• Washrooms, cultural passes, welcome mat pitched as inner city solution

  08-05-2018 03:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton doesn’t need another plan for the inner city. It needs action. 
  That’s what community leaders and government officials decided early on in their new effort to help five core neighbourhoods in Edmonton recover from the impacts of concentrated poverty and homelessness.
  Rather than writing a new strategy for council, the group launched a series of prototype experiments — public washrooms, activating empty storefronts, giving vulnerable groups access to cultural facil
  
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• Notes from the Dome: MLA shares cancer diagnosis, youth council ends and call for parent/child rights charter

  08-05-2018 02:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stony Plain NDP MLA Erin Babcock has been diagnosed with uterine cancer, the legislature was told Monday.
  Best wishes poured in from all sides of the political divide when Babcock shared the news on Twitter Monday afternoon as she began treatment at the Cross Cancer Institute.
  “I can’t say what the coming weeks will be like. However, after discussing this with my family, colleagues and team, I will continue doing the job I’m passionate about and hope to continue doing
  
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• Public will have 60 days to file complaint to city's new integrity commissioner

  08-05-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents will have just 60 days to make a complaint to a new integrity commissioner if they feel city councillors have engaged in deceit, a conflict of interest or other unethical behaviour. 
  Any more than that and council risks “weaponizing” the new position, several council members worried Monday. Political opponents could store up grievances and upload them before an election. 
  “This could be used as a political tool,” said Coun. Aaron Paquette, bef
  
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• Graham Thomson: Oddly enough, the NDP is as happy with the UCP's founding convention as the UCP

  08-05-2018 02:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party’s founding convention was supposed to make UCP members happy, not gladden the hearts of New Democrats.
  But NDP MLAs seem almost as pleased as UCP members with how the weekend event turned out.
  The United Conservatives are thrilled with the attendance (an impressive 2,500 registered delegates and observers), leader Jason Kenney’s pugnacious speech Saturday night, and a list of policy resolutions that call for limited government, fiscal responsibility, bal
  
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• Judge awards Rebel Media staffer $3,500 in civil suit against man who hit camera at Women's March

  08-05-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A provincial court judge has awarded $3,500 in damages to a Rebel Media staffer after a man struck her camera at a rally early last year, injuring her face. 
  Sheila Gunn Reid, Alberta bureau chief for the Rebel Media, brought a civil suit against Dion Bews, an attendee at a Women’s March held Jan. 21, 2017, on the grounds of the Alberta legislature.
  Gunn Reid had attended the event as a “media person” for the Rebel, Assistant Chief Judge G.W. Sharek said in his decision Mo
  
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• Paula Simons: Lurid threats against Alberta Premier Rachel Notley put social discourse in danger

  08-05-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  It sounds like something right out of the Twilight Zone.
  On Jan. 31, 2017, Premier Rachel Notley’s office was contacted by an insurance company that specializes in pre-planned funerals. 
  According to a news report by CBC Radio, the insurers, Purple Shield, informed the premier’s staff that a funeral home had received an application completed in Notley’s name, ostensibly for her own funeral at a southern Alberta funeral home.
  As death threats go, you have to give that one m
  
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• Weapons complaint draws heavy police presence to southeast neighbourhood

  08-05-2018 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are combing a Strathern neighbourhood after a Monday afternoon weapons complaint.
  Officers converged on the neighbourhood near 87 Street and 96 Avenue about 3:40 p.m. in response to the complaint, said police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout.
  A reporter is at the scene. 
  More to come. 
  
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• UCP leader peddles anti-carbon tax message in Ottawa on heels of founding convention

  08-05-2018 00:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Opposition leader Jason Kenney took his anti-carbon tax message to Ottawa Monday, fresh off the United Conservative Party founding convention in Red Deer where members voted to repeal the tax. 
  “This Trudeau tax at $50 a tonne is just a warm up for much higher prices at the pump, higher home heating costs,” Kenney told reporters in Ottawa, ahead of presenting to the federal finance committee as part of its budget bill review.
  Alberta’s carbon price is currently p
  
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• University of Alberta honours outreach and engagement with Community Connections Awards

  08-05-2018 00:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The team behind Alberta’s first satellite launched into space was one of three parties honoured for its community outreach at the University of Alberta Community Connections Awards Monday.
  AlbertaSat received the Community Leader Award for its work on the ground through an educational outreach program to inspire young students to reach for the stars.
  “The secret is that the educational outreach work with students in schools is really rewarding for us,” AlbertaSat project manage
  
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• Alberta health union launches campaign against 'threats' posed by UCP

  08-05-2018 00:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the province’s largest health care unions is wading into the political arena by launching a media campaign to counter “threats” to public health care posed by the potential election of the United Conservative Party next year.
  “There is no way I can allow right wing politicians to take a stand at slashing our health care system without responding to it,” Mike Parker, president of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, told reporters Monday while unveiling
  
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