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• St. Albert Celebrates June Is Recreation and Parks Month

  29-05-2018 23:36
  Get active in June! “June is Recreation and Parks Month”, is a nationwide celebration that educates people on the health... Read Post
  
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• Graham Thomson: Let's not unfurl 'mission accomplished' banner on Trans Mountain yet

  29-05-2018 23:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s NDP politicians were so over-the-moon thrilled with today’s pipeline announcement you’d think they had already won the 2019 election.
  Dozens of giddy MLAs and group-hugging cabinet ministers joined government staff workers gathered Tuesday morning to cheer Premier Rachel Notley as she arrived for a celebratory news conference.
  “The deal announced today puts people to work building this pipeline right away,” said Notley at the carefully choreographed outdoo
  
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• 'Always remain the City of Champions': Edmonton develops new goals for next 10-year plan

  29-05-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has narrowed what it wants to achieve in the next 10 years to four goals and one overarching principle: connectedness.
  The goals are to be a healthy city, focus on developing accessible urban places, enhance regional prosperity and ensure climate resilience. Council embraced these ideas Tuesday but decided to postpone a vote until it has a chance to debate a few word choices in two weeks.
  The commitment to connectedness, both physical and emotional, underlies everything else Edmonton do
  
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• Editorial: Getting a pipeline the hard way

  29-05-2018 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The federal government announced Tuesday it is buying the Trans Mountain pipeline, the expansion project to twin it, and all of Kinder Morgan’s core Canadian assets for $4.5 billion plus other costs.
  That’s one way to get a pipeline built.
  Nationalizing a major infrastructure project from Canada’s private sector is certainly not how the process is supposed to work, but little about the Trans Mountain expansion has gone the way it ought to according to either rule of law or conv
  
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• Chief Knecht describes 'caustic' relationship with police commission

  29-05-2018 22:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht said Tuesday afternoon he felt like he was in “purgatory” during failed negotiations to extend his contract.
  He said his relationship with the police commission had become “caustic” after deteriorating due to trust issues.
  Knecht told reporters at police headquarters that he is still looking for clarity around the decision and that he is not necessarily retiring from policing.
  Knecht, who has been Edmonton’s police chief since 2011,
  
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• Edmonton still mum on new deadline for Metro Line

  29-05-2018 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council again voted to keep any update on Edmonton’s troubled Metro LRT Line in private Tuesday, declining to release any new dates from Thales Canada.
  City of Edmonton officials still haven’t said whether they’ve accepted Thales’ last-chance proposal to fix the line, or whether they’ve even made a decision.
  Thales Canada had five business days to submit its new plan after Edmonton issued a notice of default May 1. The signalling contractor said that update inc
  
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• Alberta premier apologizes to Sixties Scoop survivors

  29-05-2018 21:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Indigenous Albertans who were snatched from their families as children reflected on their own resilience Monday as the Alberta government issued a long-awaited apology.
  “Every time we tell our stories, parts of our hearts, souls and spirits mend back together,” said Suzanne Wilkinson, 47.She was among dozens of survivors who looked down from the gallery in the legislative assembly Monday as Premier Rachel Notley repeated the poignant words “We are sorry” in several Indige
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline will have 'Crown immunity': Notley

  29-05-2018 21:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley calls the federal government to spend $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline and all of Kinder Morgan Canada’s core assets a major step forward for Albertans and all Canadians.
  “We said we would get the pipeline built and we are getting it built,” she said, flanked by her celebratory caucus at a news conference overlooking the Alberta Legislature.
  “We said we would meet the deadline. We met the deadline.”
  Alberta will
  
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• Edmonton still mum on new deadline for Edmonton Metro Line

  29-05-2018 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council again voted to keep any update on Edmonton’s trouble Metro LRT Line in private Tuesday, declining to release any new dates from Thales Canada.
  City of Edmonton officials still haven’t said whether they’ve accepted Thales’ last-chance proposal to fix the line, or whether they’ve even made a decision.
  Thales Canada had five business days to submit its new plan after Edmonton issued a notice of default May 1. The signalling contractor said that update incl
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline: Notley praises purchase plan, B.C. charges ahead with court case

  29-05-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Trans Mountain project has more certainty than ever, Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday as she lauded the federal government’s announcement it will buy the pipeline and all of Kinder Morgan’s core Canadian assets for $4.5 billion.
  “We said we would get the pipeline built and we are getting it built,” she said, flanked by her celebratory caucus at a news conference overlooking the Alberta Legislature.
  “We said we would meet the deadline. We met the dead
  
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• Outgoing police chief Rod Knecht will address failed contract talks

  29-05-2018 18:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht will speak to reporters Tuesday afternoon at police headquarters about why his contract was not renewed by the police commission.
  Knecht had planned to address the media Friday morning after news broke that he would not be staying on after his contract ends in October.
  However, Knecht rescheduled the media event after a family emergency and has not spoken publicly since.
  Knecht, who has been Edmonton’s police chief since 2011, had been discussing a contract
  
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• Paula Simons: Tongues wagging about possibility of royal honeymoon in Jasper

  29-05-2018 18:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Columnist Paula Simons hopes the rumours are true that royal newlyweds Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his new wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will honeymoon in Jasper at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.
  Sure, earlier stories said that the couple would be honeymooning in Namibia and/or Botswana.
  But Jasper? Why not? The park is gorgeous, the lodge is a gem and its Outlook Cabin has a regal pedigree. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have stayed there. In its previous incarnation — it
  
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• Notley praises $4.5 billion pipeline purchase plan as 'major step forward for all Canadians'

  29-05-2018 17:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Trans Mountain project has “more certainty than ever before,” Rachel Notley tweeted after the federal government announced it will buy the pipeline and all of Kinder Morgan’s core Canadian assets for $4.5 billion.
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau says that in return, Kinder Morgan will go ahead with its original plan to twin the pipeline this summer while the sale is finalized, which likely won’t happen until August.
  Notley will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. at the F
  
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• Council Briefs for May 28th

  29-05-2018 17:03
  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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• Photo Enforcement Sites - June 2018

  29-05-2018 16:47
  Site of the Day Locations for June 2018 The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of... Read Post
  
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• Oilers insider plays down idea of team trading away the 10th overall pick

  29-05-2018 16:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Bob Stauffer of the Oilers: “For those asking. I would be very surprised if the Oilers moved the #10 for some immediate help. IMO it would have to be a slam dunk deal to do so. There are no shortcuts. Draft and then develop. EDM should get a really good prospect at #10.”
  My takeAfter the season, it sounded as if Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli was open to moving Edmonton’s top pick, at least if the Oil didn’t win the lottery. “I would put that pick in play. I
  
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• Edmonton weather: Here comes the rain again

  29-05-2018 15:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperature is at 11 C to start your day with a mix of sun and clouds. Winds coming in from the north at about 12 km/h. We’ve had some sunny days so far this spring and we have a high today of 18 C but just like the Eurythmics said: “I want to walk in the open wind” which means rain is expected around midnight tonight.
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 bec
  
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• Man fighting for life after shots fired near downtown bus station

  29-05-2018 15:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man is fighting for life in hospital after a shooting near a bus station in downtown Edmonton.
  Police say that around 10:45 p.m. Monday night, beat officers downtown heard what sounded like gunshots near 104 Street and 100 Avenue.
  When they arrived at the scene, near the Red Arrow bus depot and a Holiday Inn, they found an injured 22-year-old man.
  Crews treated the man and rushed him to hospital with life-threatening injuries. There was no immediate update on his condition Tuesday morning.
  Pol
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Eskimos boss proud of police chief

  29-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Knecht served with distinction and deserved a much better farewell,” Paula Simons, May 26
  What a wonderful and deserving tribute for our police chief by Paula Simons.
  Chief Rod Knecht has shown great integrity and leadership during his term. My fondest memory will always be how he, his police force and first responders handled the crime incident outside our stadium last fall when Const. Mike Chernyk was attacked during one of our Edmonton Eskimo games.
  I got to know the pol
  
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• Tongues wagging about possibility of royal honeymoon in Jasper

  29-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Columnist Paula Simons hopes the rumours are true that royal newlyweds Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his new wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will honeymoon in Jasper at the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.
  Sure, earlier stories said that the couple would be honeymooning in Namibia and/or Botswana.
  But Jasper? Why not? The park is gorgeous, the lodge is a gem and its Outlook Cabin has a regal pedigree. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have stayed there. In its previous incarnation — it
  
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• Opinion: Edmonton police and LGBTQ community continue to build bridges

  29-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  We have come full circle with respect to uniformed police involvement in our Edmonton Pride Parade. Our fabulous GLBTQ community has been building bridges and working with the Edmonton Police Service for over two decades.
  The early years were very difficult. We challenged their authority and practices, while we fought for equality with our provincial and federal governments. Today, the politicians want to be in our parade, which is a privilege, not a right. Those of us involved know about that r
  
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• Editorial: Apology just the start

  29-05-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a prime minister who has become famous for saying sorry, it is easy to dismiss the Alberta government’s formal apology Monday for a shameful stain in the province’s past as mere virtue signalling.
  But Premier Rachel Notley rightly followed the lead of Manitoba two years ago in apologizing to Alberta’s Aboriginal people who were ripped from their homes between the 1950s and the 1980s to be raised by white families and foster parents in the Sixties Scoop. An estimated 20,000
  
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• Sticky fingers? Bike lockers, cages pitched for Edmonton LRT stations and other destinations

  29-05-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s about the worry.
  Ward 10 Coun. Michael Walters would love to bike halfway to work — leaving his ride at South Campus while he takes an air-conditioned LRT train to City Hall — but bike theft weighs on his mind.
  He worries about the bike all day and the risk just isn’t worth it.
  That’s part of the impetuous behind his motion heading to city council for debate Tuesday. There just isn’t enough bike parking, or secure parking, at many destinations in Edmonton
  
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• Alberta doctors who commit sexual abuse to face tougher sanctions

  29-05-2018 03:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta doctors who commit sexual violations will be met with harsher disciplinary action in the future, including increased efforts to have serious offenders permanently banned from practising medicine, the province’s regulator says.
  A new mandate to seek “stricter sanctions” was approved Friday by the council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, which said the move was necessary, in part, to reflect society’s hardening attitudes toward sexual misbehavio
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta's past mistreatment of Indigenous peoples has repercussions for all of us today

  29-05-2018 03:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was nice while it lasted.
  For about 45 minutes Monday, members of the Alberta legislative assembly stopped squabbling over the looming Trans Mountain pipeline extension deadline.
  Instead, they focused on one of the great historical injustices perpetrated by the Alberta government against its own citizens.
  “Above us today are survivors of the Sixties Scoop,” said Premier Rachel Notley as she motioned to the public galleries filled with victims of one of the darkest chapters in Albe
  
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• Sixties Scoop survivors shed tears, share sense of hope after apology by Rachel Notley

  29-05-2018 02:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Indigenous Albertans who were snatched from their families as children reflected on their own resilience Monday as the Alberta government issued a long-awaited apology.
  “Every time we tell our stories, parts of our hearts, souls and spirits mend back together,” said Suzanne Wilkinson, 47.
  She was among dozens of survivors who looked down from the gallery in the legislative assembly Monday as Premier Rachel Notley repeated the poignant words “We are sorry” in several Indig
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Abuse hotline opens, happy Tourism Week

  29-05-2018 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new centralized phone line to report abuse is up and running.
  The Alberta Supports abuse line, 1-855-4HELPAB (443-5722), also allows Albertans to receive support, information and referrals.
  The initiative runs alongside new staff training and protocols, including procedures to help ensure a coordinated provincial response to callers. All calls will be tracked to ensure people get the help they need.
  A coordinated reporting system to address situations of abuse or neglect was one of the recomme
  
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• Paula Simons: Nothing boring about the rumour that Harry and Meghan might honeymoon in Jasper

  29-05-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like most of you, I was not invited to the royal wedding.
  I had to make do with living vicariously through the mischievous Mulroney kids, who added a little bit of Canada to the bridal party. (I had to content myself with saying things to my husband like, “Oh my, Ivy looks just like her grandmother Mila!” and “Wow, the twins have their grandfather’s high hairline, don’t they?” He had to content himself with ignoring me completely.)
  Such is the weird magic of r
  
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• Photo Gallery: Province apologizes to Sixties Scoop survivors

  29-05-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sixties Scoop survivors Sharon Gladue-Paskimin, left, and Suzanne Wilkinson embrace on the steps of the Alberta legislature after Premier Rachel Notley apologized to survivors and families of the Sixties Scoop in Edmonton on Monday, May 28, 2018.
  The Grand Entry Procession makes its way into the Alberta legislature where Premier Rachel Notley apologized to survivors and families of the Sixties Scoop in Edmonton on Monday, May 28, 2018.
  The Grand Entry Procession makes its way into the Alberta le
  
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• NDP staffer John Heaney says he's in dark over privacy investigation

  29-05-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  An NDP staffer at the centre of a political storm says Alberta’s privacy commissioner has yet to contact him about an apparent investigation into his conduct.
  John Heaney is being investigated by commissioner Jill Clayton over what the opposition labels “political interference” in freedom of information requests.
  That investigation began in January, but Heaney recently told Postmedia he hasn’t heard a peep from Clayton.
  “I haven’t even heard the first thi
  
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• Edmonton's busy anti-auto theft unit has laid 457 charges so far this year

  29-05-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police could benefit from more than one team assigned to track down car thieves.
  Staff Sgt. Sid Kingma of the economic crimes section told a news conference Monday the current team — a sergeant and five constables — can’t get to every case.
  “A second team, I’m sure, we could keep busy.”
  The Edmonton Police Service’s tactical response to auto theft prevention (TRAP) team was launched in March 2017 when the EPS noticed a significant increase in re
  
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• Edmonton regional mayors show support for Trans Mountain expansion

  29-05-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayors from across the Edmonton region reiterated their backing Monday for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion days before the company’s deadline for deciding whether to proceed with the project.
  “It’s critical for all of Canada,” said Spruce Grove Mayor Stuart Houston, one of about 10 Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board members at a media event in favour of the development.
  “The country needs to know that we’re at a crossroads in this count
  
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• Capital Power innovation honoured by Canadian electricity centre of excellence

  29-05-2018 00:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton-based Capital Power is being honoured by the Canadian Electricity Association for its work cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the Genesee generating station.
  Capital Power began a five-year, $50-million program at Genesee on Wabumun Lake, 65 km west of Edmonton, in 2017 to improve the efficiency of the three power generating units by 11 per cent by 2021, according to an electricity association news release.
  The work will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about one million to
  
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