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• Edmonton schools feeling prepared for legalized marijuana

  26-05-2018 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta schools need not fear legalized marijuana — those in charge just need to think of it like booze, says a lawyer helping school boards prepare for the change.
  With the federal government expected to legalize marijuana in Canada this summer, Edmonton employment and labour lawyer Colin Fetter said school trustees and district leaders have questions: will students be able to saunter out of school doors at recess and light up a spliff? Could their teacher come out and join them for a tok
  
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• Edmonton police arrest 34-year-old man after eight-hour standoff

  26-05-2018 22:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old man was arrested Saturday morning after an eight-hour standoff with police in the McDougall neighbourhood.
  Officers went to the house at 106 Avenue and 106 Street around 7:30 p.m. Friday to execute a search warrant, police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said Saturday.
  Four people were inside the house, and they prevented police from entering, she said. By 1 a.m. Saturday, three people had surrendered to police. Officers were still negotiating with one man who stayed inside.
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• Can Manny Viveiros bring his "fast hockey" philosophy to the Edmonton Oilers?

  26-05-2018 19:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cult of Hockey podcastThe Oilers have made a number of changes to the coaching staff, bringing in Glen Gulutzan, Trent Yawney and Manny Viveiros. Will these changes improve the staff? And what other moves can the Oilers make to improve the roster and the team? David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of The Cult of Hockey dig in.
  Edmonton Oilers fans rightly appear to be satisfied with the team’s new roster of assistant coach. I’m going to suggest this is especially so with the hiring of Eman
  
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• Family pleads for tips two years after 63-year-old slain while on walk

  26-05-2018 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  On May 27, 2016, Gherezghiher Yemane, 63, was shot to death while out on his daily evening stroll. Two years later, no charges have been laid in relation to a killing police say was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
  “We’re calling to all who have any information, please come forward,” daughter Winta Berhane, 24, pleaded Friday, mere steps from where her father was killed in his northeast Edmonton neighbourhood. “Please just tell someone something.”
  Berhane said he
  
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• Edmonton police arrest 34-year-old man after overnight standoff

  26-05-2018 17:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police say charges are pending against a 34-year-old man who barricaded himself inside a house Friday night in the McDougall neighbourhood.
  Officers went to a house at 106 Avenue and 106 Street at around 7:30 p.m. Friday to execute a search warrant, police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said in a Saturday morning email.
  Four people were inside the house, and they prevented police from entering, she said. By 1 a.m. Saturday, three people had surrendered to police. Police were still negot
  
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• Saturday's letters: Camp for ex-foster kids a recipe for disaster

  26-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I grew up next to Boysdale Camp and I remember being chased by the boys and shot at with slingshots.
  Even when this camp was for children 14 and under, there were community issues. I was surprised then to learn of the proposal to re-open this long-vacant summer camp to house ex-foster kids in 52 trailers for 22-day rotations, including theatre therapy and a Hawaiian holiday, with no after-care plans.
  Any time there is the opportunity for a rehabilitation centre or shelter, there are issues for n
  
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• Opinion: School boards group needs to be more accountable

  26-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is the Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) planning on using your tax dollars to host another $912 staff Easter egg hunt?
  Who knows? The organization doesn’t seem interested in publishing its draft five-million-dollar budget online. That needs to change; the ASBA needs to be much more transparent and accountable with the public.
  If you aren’t familiar with the ASBA, it’s an umbrella group for school boards across the province and it is funded with millions of tax dollars e
  
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• Francey draws from the same well to write songs and paint pictures

  26-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  What happens when you’re a singer-songwriter who can’t sing for a while?
  That’s the fate David Francey was faced with about one year ago.
  “I was scoped by the best (doctors) in Canada, three times actually,” Francey laughs.
  That’s when doctors told the award-winning artist he had to take a rest. He hadn’t lost his voice but the muscles in his throat had become steadily worn down from 20 years of performing. He would loose his ability to project if he did
  
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• Another tour of Stewart Lemoine's brain kicks off with upcoming season at Teatro La Quindacina

  26-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Think about what you would put in the world, if it was yours to create.
  Judging by the more than 70 plays he has written, Stewart Lemoine’s world would include, variously, a vile governess, a potential tussle with a savage, and a Victrola.
  People who live there are eloquent, if illusive. Issues may be few in Lemoine’s world, but that isn’t to say nothing matters. Much of what goes on is marked by a deep sense of longing, or if not, a zeppelin. There may be love. There will cert
  
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• PHOTOS: 2018 St. Albert Rainmaker Rodeo

  26-05-2018 07:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 54th Annual St. Albert Kinsmen Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition is on at the Kinsmen Fairgrounds in St. Albert, Alberta from May 25 to May 27, 2018. In addition to the the cowboy and cowgirl rodeo competition, there will be entertainment for all ages including music concerts, midway rides, a parade, lumberjack skills exhibition, dog show, petting zoo, pancake breakfast and outdoor marketplace.
  A sudden rain storm sent all but a few dedicated rodeo fans scrambling for cover at the 2018 Rainmake
  
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• PHOTOS: 2018 St. Albert Rainmaker Rodeo - Edmonton Journal

  26-05-2018 07:03
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  PHOTOS: 2018 St. Albert Rainmaker Rodeo
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  Evan Spady competes in the Steer Wrestling event at the 2018 Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition held in St. Albert on Friday May 25, 2018. The rodeo, exhibition and music festival is held May 25 to 27, 2018 at the Kinsmen Fairgrounds in St. Albert, Alberta.
  
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• Wine column: Story told of 20 years of trial and error to produce full-bodied complex Yalumba

  26-05-2018 06:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When a family-owned winery exports beyond their cellar gate, they must appoint a marketing representative to travel abroad and convey the unique personality of the winery.
  It’s the farmers, the winemakers, family members and friends leading events, dinners and tastings where they share stories and pour wine.
  You will be hard-pressed to find a more entertaining storyteller than the legendary and passionate “wine communicator” Jane Ferrari, Yalumba’s global ambassador for m
  
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• Mom column: Data scandal sours social media's ability to connect family members

  26-05-2018 05:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My stepsons are growing up. They’re 10 and eight years old and completely different humans from the tiny boys I met at Kinsmen Park back in 2014.
  Ten and eight feels old to me. But it’s all relative, I guess. They haven’t even been alive as long as Facebook has existed.
  While I lived several adult years before I had a phone with a screen or a social media account, they’ve grown up with it.
  More accurately, they’ve grown up on it.
  From my husband’s early Facebo
  
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• Fitness column: Internal time clock also regulates things such as weight gain

  26-05-2018 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Your first cup of coffee early in the morning or that late night bowl of cereal before bed may be killing your diet.
  For people trying to lose weight, when you eat may be just as important as what you eat.
  Dr. Satchin Panda of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has conducted some fascinating research on circadian rhythms and how they affect many aspects of life, including weight management.
  According to Panda, the light sensors in our eyes set the internal clock that keeps us on track. Wh
  
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• Saskatchewan man pleads guilty for crash that killed three Edmonton women

  26-05-2018 03:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  BATTLEFORD, Sask. — A Saskatchewan man has pleaded guilty to three counts of criminal negligence causing death for a crash that killed three Edmonton women.
  Brandon Stucka of Lloydminster also pleaded guilty to one count of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for injuring another woman in the September 2017 crash.
  Stucka, 27, entered the pleas Friday in Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench.
  He also pleaded guilty to flight from a peace officer, failure to stop at the scene of accide
  
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• Farmers ecstatic after province calls off northeast bridge project

  26-05-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The potatoes are safe and the farmers are ecstatic.
  Alberta officially backed away Friday from a contentious river bridge project that threatened to take out either a popular northeast market garden or many of their neighbours.
  That had Janelle Herbert of Riverbend Gardens shocked and relieved. “That’s crazy. I feel like it’s surreal,” said Herbert, who’s been fighting this bridge project since the public learned about it in about 2011.
  “Now we can invest with
  
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• Puppy patios: They're open at El Cortez and Have Mercy

  26-05-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Old Strathcona restaurants are letting their patrons’ furry friends onto their patios this summer.
  El Cortez and Have Mercy — at 8232 Gateway Blvd. and 8230 Gateway Blvd. — have allowed dogs to join their owners outdoors since Wednesday, said co-owner Michael Maxxis. A dog owner himself, Maxxis wanted to bring dog-friendly regulations to his restaurants to create a more relaxed atmosphere.
  “If we can have a dog on the patio, why not? Dogs are amazing. Why can’t
  
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• Latest homicide victim shot while sitting in taxi, say police

  26-05-2018 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city’s latest homicide victim was shot while sitting in the rear seat of a taxi cab in the early hours of Thursday in southwest Edmonton, police said Friday.
  Harry Gillis, 25, died in hospital early Thursday morning after being shot near 111 Street and 23 Avenue at around 1 a.m.
  Police said the taxi driver, who was not involved in the shooting, contacted the company’s dispatcher about the shooting before transporting Gillis to hospital.
  An autopsy Friday confirmed that Gilli
  
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• Police offer $40,000 reward in two-year-old murder

  26-05-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service homicide section continues to investigate the murder of Gherezghiher (Gary) Yemane, 63, who was shot to death on May 27, 2016, while out for an evening walk through his northeast Edmonton neighbourhood.
  City police are offering a reward of up to $40,000 for information that leads to an arrest in this homicide.
  
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• School boards association sets aside $2 million for self-destruction fund

  26-05-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta School Boards Association wants to set aside a $2-million “wind down” fund in the event elected school boards are eliminated in the province.
  An internal document obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation said the school boards association needs $2 million to meet its legal obligations, such as leases and severing its 19 staff “in the event that the association ceases to be a going concern.”
  The document says the association faces “a number of signif
  
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• City councillor wants to help save Minchau blacksmith shop

  26-05-2018 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen wants to save a historic building from the wrecking ball.
  He said the “city’s ability to preserve this one is probably nearly nil” because the “compensation the city would have to give to the landowner would be really significant.”
  McKeen said Thursday he plans to introduce a motion at a city council meeting on Tuesday asking for help from the provincial government.
  “I’ll make a motion asking council to direct the mayor to
  
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• Alert! City's emergency radio system in the red, requires capital budget tweak

  26-05-2018 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Completing Edmonton’s new emergency radio system will require an extra $3.2 million after bids on the project came in higher than expected.
  Council earlier approved $9.5 million for the project, but will be asked to set aside more money Tuesday. It’s part of a capital budget adjustment that would increase Edmonton’s four-year budget shortfall.
  “It’s definitely a surprise,” said Ward 12 Coun. Moe Banga, a former police detective. “We’ve got to take
  
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• Oilers hire trio of assistant coaches

  26-05-2018 01:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Postmedia regional sports editor Craig Ellingson and reporter Derek Van Diest chat about the Edmonton Oilers announcement the team has hired assistant coaches Glen Gulutzan, Trent Yawney and Manny Viveiros.
  Gulutzan, 46, was the head coach of the NHL’s Calgary Flames for the past two seasons.
  Yawney, 52, has been an assistant coach with the Anaheim Ducks for the past five seasons.
  Viveiros, 52, led the Swift Current Broncos to a WHL championship this season, defeating the WHL’s two c
  
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• Paula Simons: Police Chief Rod Knecht deserved better than clumsy dismissal

  26-05-2018 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a peculiar and messy ending for a police chief whose years in office were largely devoid of peculiar mess.
  On Wednesday night, the news broke that Rod Knecht, who’s been chief of the Edmonton Police Service since 2011, would not have his contract renewed by the Edmonton police commission.
  That was a surprise, given that Knecht had suggested to a number of journalists he was interested in a contract extension.
  Friday morning, the situation got weirder. Knecht issued a written stateme
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Call for ethics probe, Alberta under fire bans

  26-05-2018 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The official Opposition wants an ethics investigation into the government’s re-hire of John Heaney, the premier’s former chief of staff.
  United Conservative Party accountability and democracy critic Nathan Cooper wrote to the ethics commissioner Friday, raising concerns that Heaney, who is bound by an Alberta government code of conduct, is also a registered lobbyist in British Columbia.
  The code says government employees can’t engage in “any business or undertaking o
  
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