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• Blankets handed out during Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Student Awards ceremony

  12-05-2018 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Treasure Yellow Old Woman bounced on the balls on her feet as she chatted excitedly with her family.
  The Grade 12 student was one of the 12 recipients of the Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Student Awards at Government House on Saturday.
  She, like the other students, was presented with and wrapped in a special blanket at a ceremony hosted by Lt. Gov. Lois E. Mitchell and the Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA). The Honouring Spirit: Indigenous Student Awards offer an opportunity to celebrate t
  
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• Police charge Edmonton woman with theft of local businesses, believe there may be more victims

  12-05-2018 22:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have charged a 49-year-old woman with theft and fraud from local organizations and believe she may have defrauded other local businesses.
  Police released Jodi Zemrau’s photo in a Friday news release to encourage additional victims to come forward. Police said Zemrau may have also operated under the alias Kristina Milke. 
  In March, officers responded to a report of an assault involving employees at a business in the area of 172 Street and 99 Avenue. While investigating
  
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• Variant Edition mobbed on social media for refusing to stock controversial comic author

  12-05-2018 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton comic book store was mobbed on social media after announcing it would not be stocking a title by a controversial author.
  Variant Edition posted on Twitter Thursday that Jawbreakers, to be published by Antarctic Press, will not be stocked because of creator Richard Meyer’s often combative behaviour on social media. The title “does not appeal to our demographic,” the Tweet added.
  “The creator (of Jawbreakers) has been sending targeted harassments to retailers an
  
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• Edmonton Oilers' hardrock defender Adam Larsson endured a tough season with dignity

  12-05-2018 20:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in review:Adam Larsson
  It was a rough season for the Edmonton Oilers, and Adam Larsson was certainly no exception. Indeed, the Swedish stalwart suffered the toughest blow of any Oilers player when his father, Robert, died suddenly during a mid-season trip to Edmonton. 
  It already was a less-than-great campaign for Larsson the Younger, who struggled through a back issue that put him on injured reserve for 8 games in early December, but which affected his play both bef
  
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• Edmonton police inspection pulls 103 commercial vehicles off the road

  12-05-2018 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A recent Edmonton Police Service inspection took 103 commercial vehicles off the streets that were deemed to be “out of service” for failing to meet various safety regulations.
  The EPS Commercial Vehicle Inspection Detail inspected 248 vehicles between May 8-10 as part of a three-day spring inspection and 42 per cent were removed from the road, EPS said in a news release Friday afternoon.
  Only 81 of the vehicles checked were found to have no defects at all, the release said, and 86 t
  
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• Organization wants city to take action on scourge of plastic bags

  12-05-2018 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  They can be seen everywhere, hanging from branches, rolling along on roads, sitting in lawns or floating on water.
  And one organization, Waste Free Edmonton, hopes to put an end on it.
  “We want the city to take significant measures to reduce the amount of (single use) plastic bags that are entering the system,” said Melissa Gorrie, spokeswoman for Waste Free Edmonton. “That could potentially be through a ban or it could be through a surcharge but the bottom line is we want some
  
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• Fitness: Diet and exercise to make your summer wardrobe a little less daunting

  12-05-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  With summer only a month away, we find ourselves confronted with the prospect of a less forgiving wardrobe.
  Common sense dictates that we maintain a healthy weight throughout the year but somewhere along the line this thinking escapes us. In fact, 33 per cent of overweight and obese North Americans report they are at a healthy weight. Something isn’t working. The western lifestyle is broken.
  Hopefully the Q & A below will shed a little light on making your summer wardrobe a little less
  
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• Edmonton weather: Why are we still inside? A sunny Saturday awaits

  12-05-2018 17:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Saturday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 17 C around 9:30 a.m. with a 15 kilometre per hour wind coming from the northwest. It’s going to be a sunny day in the city with the clouds expected to clear this morning and clear skies through the day and night. The expected high is 24 C with winds gusting to 40 km/h through the evening. If heading outdoors, be sure to pack sunscreen for the sunny days
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Not uncommon for mothers to be faking it until they make it

  12-05-2018 17:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Impostor Syndrome, I’ve learned, is a pretty common occurrence for professional women.
  Before I had a name for what I felt throughout my career, I always assumed I lucked into my jobs. That I was going to be found out. That I somehow wasn’t qualified, but charmed my way through all of the interviews.
  Sometime around 2012, when I had been working for about five years, I learned that Impostor Syndrome is a very real thing experienced by a lot of people.
  It’s a psychological pheno
  
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• Saturday's letters: It's not up to police to do journalists' jobs

  12-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. ” ‘Privacy-thinking’ can’t be allowed to trump civil liberties,” Paula Simons, May 10
  Paula Simons again beats the same old drum that the public has the right to know the victims of crimes and continues to criticize police for not providing the names.
  However, in her column the names are listed and credit is given to reporter Paige Parsons who had the initiative to actually go to the courthouse, and gather the now-public information. So, in my view, the goa
  
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• Social Seen: YEG Fitness Industry Night

  12-05-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie and follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie)
  YEG Fitness Industry Night
  Where: Central Social Hall (10909 Jasper Ave.)
  When: May 8
  What: A chance for Edmonton’s wellness community to socialize and network
  Featuring: Centra
  
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• Mom column: Not uncommon for mothers to be faking it until they make it

  12-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Impostor Syndrome, I’ve learned, is a pretty common occurrence for professional women.
  Before I had a name for what I felt throughout my career, I always assumed I lucked into my jobs. That I was going to be found out. That I somehow wasn’t qualified, but charmed my way through all of the interviews.
  Sometime around 2012, when I had been working for about five years, I learned that Impostor Syndrome is a very real thing experienced by a lot of people.
  It’s a psychological pheno
  
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• Man who battled drugstore hostage taker with shovel, other shoppers honoured with police commission awards

  12-05-2018 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stephen Lount doesn’t often strike people over the head with snow shovels. It’s even less often he gets an award for doing so. But Dec. 30, 2017, was not an average day. 
  Lount was a customer at the Stony Plain Road London Drugs that evening when a man in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis grabbed a clerk and used her as a shield between himself and imaginary attackers. 
  Then, with a cord around her neck, he began to stab the employee with a pair of scissors. 
  So L
  
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• Drug charges withdrawn against well-known Edmonton landlord

  12-05-2018 05:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Drug charges against a well-known inner city landlord have been withdrawn. 
  Paul Moreau, lawyer for Abdullah Shah, said the Crown withdrew drug-related charges against his client Friday. 
  The charges were in connection with a raid on a commercial warehouse connected to Shah that happened in March 2016. The charges included possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of proceeds of crime and breach of recognizance, Moreau said. All were withdrawn, including
  
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• Fitness column: Diet and exercise to make your summer wardrobe a little less daunting

  12-05-2018 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With summer only a month away, we find ourselves confronted with the prospect of a less forgiving wardrobe.
  Common sense dictates that we maintain a healthy weight throughout the year but somewhere along the line this thinking escapes us. In fact, 33 per cent of overweight and obese North Americans report they are at a healthy weight. Something isn’t working. The western lifestyle is broken.
  Hopefully the Q & A below will shed a little light on making your summer wardrobe a little less
  
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• Thales official breaks silence to say not all Metro Line LRT delay is on them

  12-05-2018 03:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales Canada had three major challenges on the Metro LRT Line but only two were technical, a senior official said Friday during one of the first times the company has talked publicly about its contract in Edmonton.
  There were issues with at-grade crossings and 40-year-old train upgrades. But there was also the human side, said Thales vice-president Dave Beckley. Helping city officials trust as safe a complex new technology caused yet more headaches.
  “A big challenge is education
  
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• Hingston and Hobbes: local author unpacks Watterson's comic masterpiece

  12-05-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A lonely little boy wandering around with his imaginary friend who happens to be a tiger: it wasn’t even the first time we’d seen this — think Christopher Robin and Tigger.
  But there was something about Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes that created a planetary shockwave of adoration when it first graced newspaper comic pages in 1985 that instantly turned the heads of even its mightiest peers.
  In a conversation I had with Garfield creator Jim Davis this week, the 72
  
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• Grande Cache animal lover 'devastated' after bear cub euthanized by provincial officials

  12-05-2018 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Grande Cache animal advocate is distraught after an abandoned grizzly bear cub she nursed back to health was destroyed by provincial wildlife officials. 
  “I was absolutely devastated,” said Brandy Gienger of the Grande Cache Animal Society. “I was heartbroken when I passed him over to the fish and game officers because I knew that he was going to be euthanized. 
  “I knew that (they) were just telling me what I wanted to hear so they didn’t have to cr
  
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• Paula Simons: Alert Ready isn't: No way to know if Alberta aced its emergency warning test

  12-05-2018 02:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Well, here’s my best news of the week.
  Come the zombie apocalypse, I’m getting a head start on a bunch of the rest of you.
  There’s a new kind of privilege to be had in Canada.
  Alert privilege.
  At 1:55 pm Wednesday, right on cue, my iPhone whined and shrieked like a Harry Potter howler, warning me of a non-specific test disaster in the offing. 
  Did you get the message, the way we were all supposed to?
  Mazel tov. You can join me in the safety of our deluxe zombie shelter.
  I&
  
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• Edmonton man charged with first-degree murder after body found in Strathcona County

  12-05-2018 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 33-year-old Edmonton man is charged with first-degree murder after the body of another Edmonton man turned up along a rural Strathcona County road, say RCMP.
  The body of 24-year-old Harpreet (Harry) Kang was discovered the night of April 9 near Township Road 515 and Range Road 234. RCMP and Edmonton city police were both called to the scene. 
  The RCMP major crimes unit quickly identified a suspect after officers connected a blue 2018 Acura TLX to the case. 
  On Thursday, police arrest
  
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• Paula Simons: Alert Ready isn't: No way to know if Alberta aced is emergency warning test

  12-05-2018 01:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Well, here’s my best news of the week.
  Come the zombie apocalypse, I’m getting a head-start on a bunch of the rest of you.
  There’s a new kind of privilege to be had in Canada.
  Alert privilege.
  At 1:55 pm Wednesday, right on cue, my iPhone whined and shrieked like a Harry Potter howler, warning me of a non-specific test disaster in the offing. 
  Did you get the message, the way we were all supposed to?
  Mazel tov. You can join me in the safety of our deluxe zombie shelter.
  I&
  
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• University of Alberta, government working to mend frosty relationship, says board chairman

  12-05-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The frosty relationship between the University of Alberta and the provincial government may be on the mend after Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt took aim at President David Turpin and the university’s board of governors in early March.
  In addressing the board of governors Friday, board chairman Michael Phair said he had a sense that the premier’s office was “very interested” in “moving forward (and) restoring the relationship between the university and th
  
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• 'Let's break our own record': Edmonton's Grey Cup organizers building excitement, volunteer base

  12-05-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hosting Edmonton’s Grey Cup party is going to take more than 1,000 volunteers, local organizers of the football festivities said Friday.
  The 2018 edition of the Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League’s ultimate team prize, will be played at Commonwealth Stadium on Nov. 25.
  A five-day festival will lead up to the big game, with a growing list of activities announced at a Friday news conference that includes a six-storey bungee jump set up downtown. 
  “There’s going to
  
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• Wine column: Pay homage to mothers with gifts from winemaking daughters

  12-05-2018 00:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are some dates never to be forgotten. Mother’s Day (for all mother figures, of course) is one of them. Why not celebrate with a beautiful bottle of wine that was made by women making their mark in the world of winemaking.
  More daughters of winemakers than ever before are at the helm of top cellars, setting the stage for future generations. This shift from the traditional practise of passing the estate to the eldest male in the family is becoming a way of the past. More women are taki
  
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