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• Notes from the Dome: People gather for March for Life and beaver has birthday

  10-05-2018 23:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Holding signs reading “Life is the only choice” and “Choose life,” protesters gathered at the Alberta legislature Thursday for the annual March For Life.
  Several hundred people stood in front of the legislature steps to listen to speakers who said access to abortion is not a women’s right, and that media should publish more information about fetal development. 
  About 10 counter protesters, many dressed as handmaids from the dystopian novel A Handmaid’s Ta
  
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• Premier Rachel Notley unveils pro-Trans Mountain ads, project means money for roads and hospitals

  10-05-2018 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley unveiled the details of a $1.2-million campaign to garner support for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion ahead of a looming deadline Kinder Morgan Inc. handed down to restore shareholder confidence.
  The company threw the $7.4-billion project into doubt last month when it stopped non-essential spending on the expansion and spelled out a May 31 deadline to restore investor certainty. 
  Notley said Thursday that Ottawa is in “serious and determined discussions&rdq
  
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• Senegalese community rallies around children left without mother

  10-05-2018 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s Senegalese community from as far away as Quebec and Ontario is offering its support to the two small children of a woman who police say was killed by her estranged partner in a “domestic violence incident” in Edmonton earlier this week.
  Bigué Ndao was found dead in an apartment suite in the Strathearn Heights complex near 96 Avenue and 87 Street when police arrived at about 3:40 p.m. Monday.
  An autopsy Wednesday revealed the 33-year-old died from stab wounds.
  Po
  
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• Budding food writers, take note: A contest with cash

  10-05-2018 21:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eat North, an online Canadian food publication, has created a new scholarship, with a cash prize, for emerging Canadian food writers. The contest is open to all Grade 12 students and full-time, post-secondary students of any age who are pursuing degrees or have a minor in a writing-related field.
  There are three categories. The first two — food service and culinary fictional short story — are sponsored by Joey Restaurants and the third — agricultural production — is
  
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• 'More money for roads, schools and hospitals': Rachel Notley unveils pro-Trans Mountain ads

  10-05-2018 21:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley unveiled the details of a $1.2-million campaign to garner support for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion ahead of a looming deadline Kinder Morgan Inc. handed down to restore shareholder confidence.
  The company threw the $7.4-billion expansion into doubt last month when it stopped non-essential spending on the project and spelled out a May 31 deadline to restore certainty. 
  Notley said Thursday that Ottawa is in “serious and determined discussions” with
  
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• Edmonton economy looks OK as long as province avoids big spending cuts

  10-05-2018 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s economy should continue growing as long as oil prices don’t tank and the province avoids deep spending cuts, city chief economist John Rose said Thursday.
  In a speech to the Edmonton Real Estate Forum and a later interview, he said the local gross domestic product should increase by at least 2.3-2.4 per cent this year, slightly above the provincial rate and around the national average.
  “Right now I’m leaning a little bit to the upside. I’m being a little
  
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• Life and Times: Sports psychologist always positive while getting into an athlete's head

  10-05-2018 19:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  After he was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2006, educator, coach and sports psychologist Murray Smith said the voters had kindly overlooked that “I was mediocre as an athlete.”
  Smith’s self-deprecating analysis forgets the fact he was a wide receiver on the 1947 University of Alberta Golden Bears football team with another kid named Peter Lougheed, who was a running back and would one day carry the ball as premier of the province.
  If Smith, who passed away on
  
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• After decades in the music business Wild T follows his own passion

  10-05-2018 17:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Today Tony Springer is one of the most respected veterans of Canada’s blues-rock guitar scene, nursing a passion for blues, reggae, jazz and rock that comes through in the original inventions of his power trio, known as Wild T & The Spirit.
  But in a recent conversation the frontman couldn’t help snickering over how he had to pay his dues early on, first back home in Trinidad, and then again in Toronto, his home base since the mid-1970s. Springer’s stroll down memory lane ca
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: All of Us, Mother's Day, and The Eagles

  10-05-2018 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  All of Us
  Gord Downie may be gone, but the art that he made with his band lives on. In a post-apocalyptic world, two warring clans struggle for control of the planet. One represents hate, greed, and fear, while the other values tolerance and peace. That’s the storyline for All of Us, the new Tragically Hip-inspired ballet created for Alberta Ballet, with 20 Hip songs selected for the production. 
  When: Thursday, May 10 to Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m., with added 2 p.m. matinee on Sat
  
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• Homes: A Refugee Story details a Syrian childhood of peril, flight and hope

  10-05-2018 17:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just after his 13th birthday in Homs, Syria, Abu Bakr al Rabeeah found a human jaw in his yard.
  Now 17 and living in Edmonton, he explains, “It was a normal Friday afternoon, friends got together outside and said Salaam-Alaikum to each other. The car bomb happened behind my house — we never imagined it would be that close. Around 50 people got killed.
  “The second day we got back, cleaned the street — did what we had to do. While I was cleaning I found this human part. I h
  
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• Review: Shania Twain's best-ever Edmonton show delightfully in the Now

  10-05-2018 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shania Twain’s latest album and tour are called Now, a name that couldn’t be more appropriate.
  Mixing hypnotic with erotic and palatably patriotic, her cast of accompanying dancers and backup singers was as lively and international as David Byrne’s current touring ensemble. The spectacular moving-parts stage show was so state-of-the-art and mesmerizing it’s hard to even fathom this genre-leaping onetime Ontarian was technically ground zero of the planet-spanning thing we
  
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• Edmonton weather: This is why you don't turn the furnace off in May

  10-05-2018 14:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 4.2 C with a 22 km/h wind coming from the southeast. It’s not a nice day out there. But the rain will help bring out the green so it’s not entirely all bad. Might want to pack an umbrella, though, just in case. The weekend, however, is still shaping up to be hot, hot, hot. Forecasters are calling for 24 C on Saturday and 23 C Sunday, but temperature
  
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• Thursday's letters: Media too focused on one UCP resolution

  10-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I’m very disappointed with the media and the reporting — or lack of reporting — of the first annual general meeting of the United Conservative Party in Red Deer this past weekend.
  There were 2,600 attendees and the largest-ever gathering of this type but not one commentary or article on the wonderful resolutions made, except to focus on the issue of students in LGBTQ. There was no mention of the content of the other resolutions, just one out-of-context statement.
  Journalism has
  
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• Opinion: Checking in with your mentally ill friend or relative can be critical

  10-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In any given year, 20 per cent of the Canadian population experiences mental illness. These people are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and colleagues.
  Even the most experienced caretakers know that dealing with individuals with mental illness can be tricky. Their emotional fragility often culminates into outbursts and can sever their closest relationships if the illness is severe or prolonged. In such cases, isolation perpetuates the problem.
  Well-meaning mental health professionals can’
  
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• Thousands of dead fish turn up in central Alberta lake

  10-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thousands of dead fish washed up on the shores of a central Alberta lake after an abnormally long winter.  
  “Crimson Lake has a history of ‘winter kill’ as a result of the shallow depth of the lake,” said Matt Dykstra, spokesman for Alberta Environment and Parks.
  The natural phenomenon occurs due to low oxygen levels in frozen lakes and ponds.
  A long winter combined with the shallow water meant “the oxygen in the lake was depleted before the stores could s
  
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• 'This is our religion, this is our pride': Sikh motorcyclists now exempt from helmets in Alberta

  10-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Bhupinder Singh passed the test to get his Class 6 motorcycle licence at the start of the month, he was one of the first Sikhs in Alberta to qualify under a newly created helmet exemption. 
  Whether he was the first or not is of little consequence to the 42-year-old. More important is that his fellow Sikhs are now allowed to express their religion while riding motorcycles in Alberta. 
  On April 12 a ministerial order amending the Traffic Safety Act took effect, exempting b
  
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• Food entrepreneurs have high hopes as outdoor markets kick off for the summer season

  10-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Farmers markets are great spots for buying fresh, local food. But they are also a source of inspiration. That’s because markets are not only in the business of selling cakes, condiments and kombucha, they are also hopping with creativity, entrepreneurial spirt and sheer do-it-yourself ingenuity. 
  Market vendor and improv artist Lee Paul Boyes of Leegion Eats is brimming with just that sort of market spirit. A self-described DIY addict, Boyes launches his new line of hot sauces at the
  
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• City wants to use health data to improve services to citizens

  10-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials want to pursue a case for a healthy city with or without help from the federal government.
  Earlier this week, the city’s proposal in the $50-million Smart Cities Challenge was officially accepted by Infrastructure Canada. But that is just the first step. The federal government then shortlists the proposals and then awards a prize.
  The proposal calls for sharing of health data to improve citizen services.
  “Through this proposal we’ll be able to validate whether th
  
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• Photo gallery: Shania Twain's Now tour rolls into Rogers Place

  10-05-2018 06:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shania Twain performs at Rogers Place during a stop on her Now tour, in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
  Shania Twain performs at Rogers Place on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
  Shania Twain performs at Rogers Place during a stop on her Now tour, in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
  Shania Twain in concert at Rogers Place on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
  Shania Twain performs at Rogers Place during a stop on her Now tour in Edmonton on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
  Shania Twain performs at Rogers Place during
  
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• Alberta father pleads guilty to sex offences against teenage daughter

  10-05-2018 06:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl turned to stars and birthday candles in an attempt to wish away memories of being sexually abused by her father, court heard Tuesday.
  The 15-year-old victim saw her father sentenced to eight years in prison for offences against her that took place in 2015.
  In a victim impact statement before sentencing, the youth wrote about wishing she could be a normal teenager instead of living in fear and experiencing flashbacks that make her physically ill.
  “I have no choice but to ride o
  
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• Man charged with assaulting RCMP officers after fight outside Jasper hotel

  10-05-2018 06:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 28-year-old man has been charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police office after a fight outside a Jasper hotel.
  Jasper RCMP officers responded to the incident near the Athabasca Hotel at around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Police said in a news release that officers arrested a local man who had allegedly been involved in the fight who was “still highly agitated and disruptive of the public peace.” 
  The man was taken into custody but continued to resist on the way to the l
  
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• Edmonton, Strathcona County fire crews fighting grass fire near railway

  10-05-2018 05:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton fire crews are assisting their counterparts in Strathcona County with a grass fire near a railway Wednesday evening. 
  Katie Stewart, a spokeswoman with Edmonton Fire Rescue Services, said crews were dealing with a grass fire in the area of 17 Street and Yellowhead Highway.
  The fire was close to a railway.
  Strathcona County was doing the bulk of the firefighting, Stewart said, but one Edmonton district chief was on scene along with two other units in case the county needed assistanc
  
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• Many questions remain on cannabis legalization in Alberta communities

  10-05-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Changing societal attitudes toward drug-impaired driving will be a considerable task for  Alberta as the province gears up for legalization later this year, said Ethan Bayne, executive director strategy and planning for the Alberta Cannabis Secretariat, on Wednesday.
  “The number of people who admit in surveys to having driven under the influence of cannabis is, like I said, disturbingly high,” Bayne said to a hall of about 250 people.
  Alberta’s cannabis framework was the t
  
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• Canadian Utilities not ruling out lawsuit over compensation for shutting coal-fired power plants

  10-05-2018 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadian Utilities officials could become the second Alberta electricity company to take legal action over what it sees as inadequate provincial compensation for shutting coal-fired power plants.
  “The value we see in our assets we feel should be recognized at fair value,” chief executive Nancy Southern said Wednesday during the utility’s annual general meeting at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald.
  “I don’t know whether that will actually mean court proceedings, but we wi
  
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• Alberta father pleads guilty in incest case

  10-05-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl turned to stars and birthday candles in an attempt to wish away memories of being sexually abused by her father, court heard Tuesday.
  The 15-year-old victim was in court to see her father sentenced for offences against her that took place in 2015.
  In a victim impact statement, the youth wrote about wishing she could be a normal teenager instead of living in fear and experiencing flashbacks that make her physically ill.
  “I have no choice but to ride out the memory – a ter
  
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• Paula Simons: 'Privacy run amok' at the Edmonton Police Service

  10-05-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Monday afternoon, dozens of police officers scrambled to chase down and apprehend a suspect after a woman was stabbed to death in Strathearn.
  On Wednesday, police announced they’d tracked down and arrested a suspect in a hit-and-run accident that left a 15-year-old girl in hospital with serious injuries. 
  This is the kind of solid policing that gives our community a sense of security, a feeling the police are keeping us safe, and holding alleged wrongdoers to account.
  Too bad the E
  
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• Youth charged in killing of 18-year-old Joshua Barnes

  10-05-2018 01:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly a year after a passerby found Joshua Gilbert Barnes and another man wounded in a north Edmonton parking lot, police have charged a teenager with second-degree murder in Barnes’ killing.
  A 17-year-old boy turned himself in on Tuesday, Edmonton police said in a news release Wednesday afternoon.
  Police have also charged the teen with robbery, four firearms offences, and wearing a disguise with an intent to commit an indictable offence.
  Just after midnight on June 18, 2017, a passerby f
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Rainbow protest doughnuts and Red Deer College adds degree

  10-05-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rainbow treats
  A Medicine Hat bakery sent UCP MLA Drew Barnes two dozen doughnuts with rainbow sprinkles and the message “it’s OK to be gay.”
  McBride’s Bakery sent the delectable delivery to the member for Cypress-Medicine Hat on Tuesday, just days after the UCP came under fire for passing a controversial resolution at the party’s founding convention. 
  Members voted to reinstate opt-in parental consent for any subjects of a religious or sexual nature in Al
  
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• Metro Line LRT work demands 'co-operation' from the city: Thales Canada

  10-05-2018 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s signalling contractor Thales Canada issued a statement Wednesday criticizing recent city actions and saying a fix for the Metro Line LRT will demand ongoing co-operation from city officials.
  “Thales was disappointed to receive the city’s notice and by the comments made by the city at their press conference last week,” said Cara Salci, spokeswoman for the company in a statement issued by email Wednesday morning.
  Salci said the company has issued a new roadmap an
  
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