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• Gun salute for Victoria Day to temporarily close eastside access lanes to High Level Bridge

  19-05-2018 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The east access lanes to the High Level Bridge will be closed for 45 minutes Monday as part of a Victoria Day ceremony.
  The road will be closed from 11:45 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. for a 15-gun ceremonial salute at the legislature, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces say in a news release.
  Motorists will still be able to access the bridge from the west lanes that run beside Ezio Farone Park.
  The Edmonton Transit Service bus stop on 109 Street south of 97 Avenue will also
  
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• Edmonton police shoot hoops with junior high students to strengthen ties with community

  19-05-2018 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police and junior high school students took to the basketball court Wednesday to build community relationships and shoot around public safety tips.
  As part of Edmonton’s Crime Prevention Week, two teams of officers from the northeast division played six youth teams from John D. Bracco junior high school and the Working Warriors youth program at Clareview Community Recreation Centre.
  Const. Rikan Farhat, a community crime management officer, said to encourage public safety they wan
  
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• Local photographers team up with artist to beautify the Valley Line LRT

  19-05-2018 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Members of the Holyrood community came together Saturday to gather textures of their neighbourhood as part of a project to beautify their local stop on the Valley Line LRT. 
  Their representations of the community will be added to an art piece called Holyrood Lanterns by artist Adad Hannah which will be incorporated into the Holyrood station.
  Neighbourhood photographers met in the Idylwylde Library for a workshop hosted by Hannah to look at photos and other art pieces.
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• Police respond to sudden death at Edmonton Remand Centre

  19-05-2018 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are investigating a sudden death at the Edmonton Remand Centre.
  Officers were called to the jail to respond to a death late Saturday morning, Staff Sgt. Angela Kemp said.
  She said the situation is still being investigated, and no further information is currently available. 
  The Edmonton Remand Centre at 18415 127 St. houses both male and female inmates. 
  On May 5, a woman who was an inmate in the facility was found unresponsive in her cell and declared dead by emergenc
  
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• Knocks against both Leon Draisaitl's contract and noggin overshadow what would have been a solid season for most anyone else

  19-05-2018 19:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in Review:Leon DraisaitlLets be honest.
  It was going to be all but impossible for Leon Draisaitl to live up to the ample contract signed back in the Summer of 2017.
  And in terms of pure progression for the team that he is such a big part of, and in the specific example of his statistics, he did indeed fall short.
  But context is everything isn’t it? When one looks at the Draisaitl season through a lens of “would you like to have this on your team? Surely the re
  
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• New comedy venue opens in Edmonton

  19-05-2018 19:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Long an underground improv favourite, The Grindstone has surfaced with a freshly renovated, 75-seat theatre, located on the city’s south side in the up-and-coming neighbourhood of Ritchie.
  Since the new venue (10019 81 Ave.) opened in April, Girl Brain is just one of many local sketch, improv and stand-up acts now making the move from their basements into public view. Tickets to all Grindstone shows are a mere $10, and the venue programs 14 comedy shows, six night a week.
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• Junior high students shoot hoops with Edmonton police to break down community disconnect

  19-05-2018 19:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police and junior high school students took to the basketball court Wednesday to build community relationships and shoot around public safety tips.
  As part of Edmonton’s Crime Prevention Week, two teams of officers from the northeast division played six youth teams from John D. Bracco junior high school and the Working Warriors youth program at Clareview Community Recreation Centre.
  Const. Rikan Farhat, a community crime management officer, said to encourage public safety they wan
  
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• Edmonton royal wedding watchers up early to see nuptials live

  19-05-2018 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of people in Edmonton were out early Saturday morning to see Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say their “I dos.” 
  Shelley Hoke had a restless night Friday worried that she’d sleep in and miss the royal wedding event at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, which one staffer said attracted around 130 people. 
  “I got here just on time,” Hoke said.
  There were two rooms to watch the wedding as well as a breakfast buffet in the hallway. 
  “I’ve a
  
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• Saturday's letters: McDavid the new Capt. Canada? Please, no

  19-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I suffer from a recurring nightmare: that Connor McDavid will soon be known as Captain Canada.
  I beseech you, Peter Chiarelli; allay my fears. Tell me emphatically that that title will not be attached to another Oiler. Tell me that my nightmares are unnecessary.
  Bryan Scully, Edmonton
  Kenney calls them as he sees them
  Re. “Kenney draws fire for quips about PM,” May 17
  Jason Kenney hit the nail right on the head with his description of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. There’s prob
  
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• Opinion: Edmonton's retail pot permit system favours speculators

  19-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is about to make an important decision on how recreational cannabis will be sold in the city.
  Get it right and it will build on the good work already done to ensure that entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes can take part in the market. Get it wrong and it risks undercutting that market before it even begins and allowing speculators and possibly even criminal elements into the process.
  The decision involves a simple issue: the process for determining who will get a permit from the ci
  
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• Knocks against both Leon Draisaitl's contract and noggin overshadow what would been a solid season for most anyone else

  19-05-2018 11:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in Review:Leon DraisaitlLets be honest.
  It was going to be all but impossible for Leon Draisaitl to live up to the ample contract signed back in the Summer of 2017.
  And in terms of pure progression for the team that he is such a big part of, and in the specific example of his statistics, he did indeed fall short.
  But context is everything isn’t it? When one looks at the Draisaitl season through a lens of “would you like to have this on your team? Surely the re
  
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• Not your average string quartet

  19-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Fretless chose to take on the instrumental format of a classical string quartet — violins, a viola and cello — and their warm, wooden harmonies are to be celebrated, but that’s where the obvious expectations end.
  From their start some six years ago, the multiple award-winning group has focused on traditional and new original tunes in a folk vein, and they’re still evolving. In festival performance, you might see most of them standing up as you would a bluegrass band,
  
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• Hellfire Heroes profiles Alberta firefighters in blazing new reality series

  19-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When you live in a rural area, the local firefighter is both the first, and the last, line of defence.
  That stark reality is what motivated producers of a new reality series to follow two Alberta firefighting crews through four months of calls to come up with the new TV series Hellfire Heroes, an up-close look at the rigours of working as a small firefighting crew in a big wilderness.
  Debuting Tuesday, May 22, at 8 p.m. MST on Discovery Canada, Hellfire Heroes is an eight-part series t
  
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• Crashes, fatalities up in 2017, but fewer pedestrian, bike, motorcycle collisions: city report

  19-05-2018 04:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A city report released Friday says 2017 was a mixed bag for Edmonton motorists. While collisions involving pedestrians, bikes and motorcycles fell, total collisions and those causing fatalities actually rose compared to the previous year.
  Pedestrian collisions decreased 7.5 per cent while those involving bikes fell 16.4 per cent and collisions involving motorcycles fell 19.4 per cent. Meanwhile, total collisions rose 3.3 per cent to 23,906 last year from 23,139 in 2016.
  Fatal collisions als
  
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• Man stabbed in downtown Edmonton

  19-05-2018 04:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police, security guards and peace officers cordoned off a section of Jasper Avenue outside Commerce Place around 7 p.m. Friday after one person was stabbed.
  According to one witness, a man was stabbed in the neck outside the Tim Hortons at 10150 Jasper Ave. It is unknown if the assailant has been apprehended.
  The victim was taken to hospital. The injury is believed to be not life-threatening, police said.
  More to follow.
  
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• Two sheriffs hurt after relative of homicide victim tries to attack accused in court

  19-05-2018 03:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two sheriffs were injured in an Edmonton youth courtroom Thursday while intervening in an attempted assault on an accused by a victim’s family member.
  Alberta Justice said Friday that tensions rose during bail proceedings in a homicide case as people in the public gallery became “increasingly vocal.”
  Concerned about escalation, sheriffs inside the courtroom called for additional backup to wait outside, Alberta Justice spokesman Jason van Rassel said in an emailed statement.
  How
  
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• Photos: April 2018 in Edmonton

  19-05-2018 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here is a selection of photos shot by our staff photographers, and a couple by freelancer Codie McLachlan, in April 2018.
  
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• Two sheriffs hurt after relative of homicide victim attacks accused in courtroom

  19-05-2018 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two sheriffs were injured in an Edmonton youth courtroom Thursday while intervening in an alleged attempted assault on an accused by a victim’s family member.
  Alberta Justice said Friday that tensions rose during bail proceedings in a homicide case as people in the public gallery became “increasingly vocal.”
  Concerned about escalation, sheriffs inside the courtroom called for additional backup to wait outside, Alberta Justice spokesman Jason van Rassel said in an emailed statem
  
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• City committee rejects reworked plan for Holyrood Gardens development

  19-05-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Design Committee has rejected new plans for the Holyrood Gardens redevelopment, saying they require a “fundamental redesign.”
  Regency Developments had proposed building three towers 18 to 22 storeys high and four six-storey mid-rises as part of a 1,200-unit project northeast of the Bonnie Doon traffic circle at 85 Street and 93 Avenue.
  City council voted last November to send the scheme, located beside the future Holyrood LRT stop, back for more work.
  Changes outlined at
  
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• Video: Graham Thomson speaks about Jason Kenney's new strategy to attack Justin Trudeau and praise Rachel Notley

  19-05-2018 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Journal political affairs columnist Graham Thomson speaks about Jason Kenney’s new strategy to attack Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and praise Alberta Premier Rachel Notley in an opinion video from the Alberta legislature on Friday, May 18, 2018.
  
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• Stanley A. Milner Library revitalization gets $4-million boost

  19-05-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The federal and provincial governments each gave a $2-million boost Friday to the revitalization of the Stanley A. Milner Library. 
  The renovation at the downtown public library includes tripling the size of the children’s library, adding space to meeting and reading areas, and creating an interactive simulation wall for multimedia presentations. The $4 million is earmarked for construction on the library’s lower level and sixth floor.
  The project’s budget is now $84.
  
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• Milner Library closes in on funding target

  19-05-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Stanley A. Milner Library fundraising campaign received a $4 million boost Friday afternoon from a joint federal-provincial funding announcement.
  The $84.5 million library revitalization project will transform the library in its appearance but also in its function as the hub for downtown learning, reading, gathering and research.
  The refurbished building will open in 2020 with a much larger children’s library, theatre, non-profit daycare, cafe, and culinary learning space.   
  
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• Graham Thomson: Jason Kenney's new strategy: pillory Justin Trudeau, praise Rachel Notley

  19-05-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  At least he didn’t call the prime minister a complete and utter a–hole.
  For those upset with United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney’s personal attack this week against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as an “empty trust-fund millionaire,” keep in mind it could have been worse.
  Kenney could have resorted to the kind of language he has used against political foes in the past.
  In 2012, for example, Kenney, then federal immigration minister, wrote an email where he
  
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• Grindstone Theatre opens new laugh-a-minute space in Ritchie

  19-05-2018 00:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  It has never been easier to discover what’s in a Girl Brain. That’s because the three female talents behind the local sketch comedy group will reveal all Saturday, when Grindstone Theatre presents the troupe’s show at the latest comedy venue to open in Edmonton.
  Long an underground improv favourite, The Grindstone has surfaced with a freshly renovated, 75-seat theatre, located on the city’s south side in the up-and-coming neighbourhood of Ritchie. Since the new venue (100
  
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• 'This is the start of everything': Cree-based education focus of landmark Maskwacis agreement

  19-05-2018 00:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maskwacis — Four central Alberta First Nations celebrated a landmark education agreement with the federal government to create a new education authority that will be grounded in Cree culture.
  “This is the start of everything,” said Ermineskin Cree Nation Chief Craig Makinaw at a Friday ceremony in Maskwacis. “This process has taken quite a few years.”
  About 200 people gathered at Bear Park to witness the official transfer of authority to the Maskwacis Education
  
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