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• 'Gagnus' the corpse flower blooms at the Muttart Conservatory

  25-05-2018 23:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s here and it stinks.
  It didn’t take long for the Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower, to bloom at Edmonton’s Muttart Conservatory. On Tuesday, staff at the conservatory said the flower was expected to bloom “soon” but the eager flower couldn’t wait any longer and opened up at 7 p.m. Thursday night.
  The flowering plant — which has been given the name Gagnus — gives off a pungent smell of rotting flesh in order to attract insect
  
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• Video: Commission chairman responds to police Chief Rod Knecht’s contract non-renewal

  25-05-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police Commission chairman Tim O’Brien speaks about the non-renewal of Chief Rod Knecht’s contract during a news conference at the police commission’s office in Edmonton on May 25, 2018.
  Knecht became Edmonton’s 22nd police chief on June 7, 2011, replacing Mike Boyd. In 2013, his five-year contract was extended by the police commission until the end of October 2018. If a replacement isn’t found by then, an interim police chief will be installed while a sear
  
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• Edmonton weapons trafficker sentenced to eight years in prison

  25-05-2018 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man who pleaded guilty to trafficking firearms has been sentenced to eight years in prison and slapped with a lifetime firearms ban.
  Justin Scott Shipowich, 38, became the first person sentenced in Alberta for a so-called “straw purchasing” offence related to domestic weapons trafficking.
  Straw purchasing is when a person with a non-existent or minor criminal record buys weapons and then sells them to someone who wouldn’t legally be able to themselves, court he
  
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• Man wanted for hit and run that killed cyclist may be in China: city police

  25-05-2018 21:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man wanted for manslaughter and a string of related charges after a cyclist was killed in a November hit and run is believed to be living in China, say city police.
  The 38-year-old man on the bike was transported with life-threatening injuries to hospital from the scene near 111 Avenue and 96 Street around 2 a.m. on Nov. 5. He died in hospital soon after arrival.
  Witnesses reported a dark-coloured vehicle fled the scene after striking the man on the bike.
  Jiduo Luo, 23, of Xiamen, China,
  
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• Police chief says request for short-term contract extension was denied

  25-05-2018 21:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Outgoing city police Chief Rod Knecht says he asked the Edmonton Police Commission for a short-term contract extension in order to develop a series of initiatives, a request that was ultimately turned down.
  Knecht, whose contract ends on Oct. 31, asked to stay on until the end of June 2019 in order to set up a cyber crimes strategy and increase cyber crime investigative capacity for the service as well as ensure the successful launch of the operations and intelligence command centre in the secon
  
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• Man accused in U-Haul truck attack going to trial in October 2019

  25-05-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The man accused in a September attack on a police officer before a U-Haul truck was used to mow down several pedestrians will go to trial in October 2019.
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif is facing 11 charges, including five counts of attempted murder.
  Appearing Friday from the Edmonton Remand Centre’s maximum security pod wearing a bright orange jumpsuit, Sharif looked down for the most part. An interpreter translated the proceedings for him.
  Sharif waived his right to a preliminary hearin
  
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• Ohana Donuterie adds a generous helping of aloha to each delicious doughnut

  25-05-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ohana Donuterie is located in the Old Strathcona neighbourhood of Edmonton. Begun as a food truck in 2017, the company has opened a permanent location at 10347 80 Ave.
  The shop’s chefs prepare a wide range of doughnuts, featuring traditional to experimental flavours, using a 140-year-old double-raised yeast dough recipe. They serve Hawaiian-style malasada doughnuts, which are hand-rolled.
  As Portuguese people emigrated to Hawaii in the 19th century, they brought along their food, including
  
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• What the Truck?! launches summer food truck season on Capital Boulevard

  25-05-2018 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  What’s a doughnut without a hole? It’s a malasada, obviously, a Hawaii-inspired confection that puts whipped cream or custard where the hole would be, turning the Canadian standard into a sweet, new option for Edmontonians.
  The doughnut-without-a-hole is the specialty at Ohana Donuterie, a food truck that makes its debut at What The Truck?! on Saturday at the festival’s official kickoff for the 2018 food truck season.
  The event, a highlight of the Edmonton summer since 2011, wi
  
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• Is this it for The Plan? Just new asst. coaches for Edmonton Oilers? Or more to come?

  25-05-2018 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
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  This just in from the Oilers, final and official confirmation that the team has hired a new slate of asst. coaches: “TheOilers have hired Glen Gulutzan, Trent Yawney and Manny Viveiros as assistant coaches.”
  In a press release, Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli said: “We targeted these three individuals for their specific talents, experience and compatible personalities. We were happy to get these guys.”
  Paul Coffey will be a roving organizational skills/devel
  
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• Council Briefs for May 22nd

  25-05-2018 18:39
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• We've now seen The Plan. It means little change for the Edmonton Oilers. You OK with that?

  25-05-2018 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  This just in from the Oilers, news that the team has hired: “TheOilers have hired Glen Gulutzan, Trent Yawney and Manny Viveiros as assistant coaches.”
  My take
  If I’m not mistaken, we now know what The Plan is for the Edmonton Oilers: axe all the asst. coaches, keep the same coach, GM and almost all the same players and see how that turns out.
  In other words, The Plan is to bet the mediocre Edmonton Oilers of 2017-18 were a fluke, while the strong Oilers of 2016-17 were the rea
  
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• Stinky corpse flower blooms at Muttart Conservatory

  25-05-2018 18:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton is expecting one of its younger Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower, to bloom soon and if it’s anything like last year when Putrella the giant corpse flower blossomed, interest will be high to get a glimpse of the stinky plant.
  Be aware, if you go to see the flower once it blooms, the stench is so rancid that it can be smelled up to 30 metres away.
  
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• Homicide detectives investigate fatal shooting in southwest Edmonton

  25-05-2018 16:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old man has died after a shooting in southwest Edmonton Thursday morning.
  Police responded to reports of gunshots near 111 Street and 23 Avenue around 1 a.m. Thursday. Soon after, a man with gunshot wounds arrived at a nearby hospital. Police said the victim died in hospital at 6 a.m. Thursday.
  The man’s death has since been deemed a homicide. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday at 9 a.m.
  The death marks the city’s 13th homicide of 2018.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Could this weather get any more weathery?

  25-05-2018 14:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 13.3 C with a 12 km/h wind coming from the west. All heat warnings for the province have been lifted but forecasters are still calling for sunshine and temperatures in the mid-20s all weekend.
  Today: Mainly sunny. High 28 C. UV index 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers this evening and after midnight and risk of a t
  
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• Opinion: Best interests of students with diabetes lost in bureaucratic volley

  25-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On May 10, Marie Renaud, MLA for St. Albert, rose in the legislature to raise questions about lack of supports for children with diabetes at school. The minister for Education responded with vague assurances that he has heard parent concerns and said the ministry is working to support these kids. Alberta is one of the last provinces in Canada to adopt a standard of care for children with Type 1 diabetes at school.
  Type 1 diabetes is a condition where the function of the pancreas is unable to pro
  
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• Friday's letters: Accidental Beach's erosion of opposite bank ignored

  25-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Take advantage of this happy accident,” David Staples, May 23
  Among the large set of articles written about the Accidental Beach, to which David Staples recently added, I have yet to read anything but passing concern for the downstream, and across-stream, effects.
  The LRT bridge and beach have constricted the river on the south side, accelerated it, and deflected it northward. Consequently, the north bank along the Riverdale neighbourhood is eroding across, and downstream, from
  
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• Editorial: Behave ourselves or no beach for us

  25-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson has served notice that the Accidental Beach is on probation. Actually, it’s Edmontonians who are on notice and not the long, sandy oasis that appeared last year as an unintended consequence of upstream LRT bridge construction.
  Behave badly like we did last year and no more beach for us, Iveson scolded, sounding like an exasperated dad in the front seat of the family car, or as he self-described, the fun-hating preacher in the movie Footloose.
  “If this thing is still
  
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• Stinky corpse flower expected to bloom soon at Muttart Conservatory

  25-05-2018 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton is expecting one of its younger Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower, to bloom soon and if it’s anything like last year when Putrella the giant corpse flower blossomed, interest will be high to get a glimpse of the stinky plant.
  Be aware, if you go to see the flower once it blooms, the stench is so rancid that it can be smelled up to 30 metres away.
  
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• City committee wants trial on shields to protect transit bus drivers

  25-05-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shields up.
  The city’s community and public services committee on Thursday recommended to city council that 10 city buses be installed with $5,000 retractable shields in a one-year pilot project.
  “The proposal came from the transit union as a way to protect drivers from way-too-common assaults from customers,” said Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen. “The shields are an opportunity to protect drivers at certain times of day on certain routes that are a little more vulnerable. We h
  
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• Alberta credit rating unchanged as economy improves, says agency

  25-05-2018 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A low debt burden and improving economic outlook are being credited by DBRS as the reason it’s keeping its hands off Alberta’s credit rating.
  The global credit rating agency said Thursday that Alberta’s status remains AA.
  However, the trend of that rating remains negative.
  DBRS said that’s due to continued erosion of Alberta’s low-debt advantage through sustained deficit spending and a lack of meaningful action to address the fiscal imbalance.
  While DBRS g
  
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• Students make their own longboards in class

  25-05-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  During the school year teacher Daren Patterson offers a class where students can come and learn how to make their own longboards. 
  Patterson will also be offering the same instruction at a Metro Continuing Education summer camp.
  Daren Patterson, top right, helps Grade 9 students Andrea Katalyna Zapata, 14, and Sahib Chauhan, 15, build longboards during their construction class at Michael Strembitsky School, 4110 Savaryn Dr. SW, in Edmonton on Thursday, May 24, 2018. Patterson will be leadin
  
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• Violent offender released in Edmonton at high risk of reoffending, say police

  25-05-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police believe a man with an extensive history of extreme physical violence that includes random attacks against women and who now lives in Edmonton has a high risk of reoffending.
  While the release of Adam Donovan Adie comes with a long list of court-ordered conditions, police are concerned because of his long history of violence that is heightened by the consumption of alcohol and drugs.
  Adie will be monitored by the police’s behavioural assessment unit now that he is resi
  
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• Edmonton mayor announces partnership with the city and LinkedIn

  25-05-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  In his annual state of the city address on Thursday, May 24, 2018, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, speaking to a crowd of business leaders and other Edmontonians, said Edmonton needs more than the TransMountain pipeline to get oil to tidewater and he called on local investors to help build a new economy.
  
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• ATB Financial posts record numbers, says province's economy has improved

  25-05-2018 01:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A stronger provincial economy has in part helped ATB Financial to post record numbers in the past fiscal year, the company said Thursday.
  The company’s final balance sheet for the fiscal year ending March 31 showed a net income of $274.6 million, which was up more than 80 per cent over the previous year’s $150.8 million.
  As well as posting its highest ever operating net income, ATB Financial also recorded its highest operating revenue in a single quarter and highest operating revenue
  
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• David Staples: Mayor Don Iveson focuses on right topic, but wrong answers

  25-05-2018 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  In his annual state of the city address, Mayor Don Iveson focused like never before on the need for business to flourish. That was excellent.
  But both what Iveson said and what he failed to say should set off alarm bells.
  Iveson talked at length Thursday about himself and the city leading the way to build up business, including creating an investment fund to finance startup companies. He stressed the fund would be privately managed by business experts, not run by the city, but said taxpayer doll
  
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• Older Albertans rely more on driving than in other provinces, Canadian aging study finds

  25-05-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta has the highest percentage of people between the ages of 45-85 who are licensed drivers and with household incomes above $150,000, according to an initial report from an aging study conducted across Canada’s 10 provinces.
  The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) released its baseline data report Tuesday collected between 2010 and 2015 from 50,000 Canadian participants aged 45-85.
  The report found Albertans had the highest average income above $150,000 with 23 per cent of the
  
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• Mayor's state of the city address calls on local investors to help build new economy

  25-05-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s problem is a lack of private ambition or hustle, an unco-ordinated mentorship program and lack of financial backing for startups, Mayor Don Iveson said Thursday in his annual state of the city address.
  But this city also has great success stories and is ready to change, “ready to get off the bench and play at a global level,” Iveson told a conference hall packed with hundreds of community leaders and business executives, issuing a call to action to focus collect
  
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• City police officers reprimanded for arresting teenagers with replica Airsoft guns

  25-05-2018 00:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six years after the initial complaint, the disciplinary proceedings against Edmonton Police Service members Sgt. Jessie Poonian and Const. Timothy Connell ended in a five-minute penalty hearing Thursday.
  The two officers pleaded guilty to unlawful or unnecessary exercise of authority and neglect of duty earlier this month in relation to the arrest of three teenagers, two aged 14 and one 15, who were playing with replica firearms in a field in south Edmonton in 2012.
  The hearings&r
  
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• Will Edmonton's next police chief come from outside or within? A look at potential candidates

  25-05-2018 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the first time in over a decade, an insider could have a good shot at becoming Edmonton’s next police chief.
  Chief Rod Knecht told police service members Wednesday night that he would be leaving when his contract comes to an end Oct. 31, 2018. The police commission announced Thursday that it was beginning a “national search” for his replacement.
  Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen, who sits on the police commission, left the door open Thursday to potentially looking within the organi
  
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• Edmonton Meals on Wheels launches volunteer recruitment drive

  25-05-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Meals on Wheels has been delivering meals to vulnerable persons since it began almost 50 years ago.
  But in the summer months, the non-profit charity struggles because there are not as many volunteers available. Beginning last Tuesday, the organization launched its 30 in 30 recruitment drive, with the goal to recruit 30 new volunteers in 30 days from May 22 until June 20.
  Meals on Wheels is a service that prepares and delivers daytime and evening meals, often to perso
  
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