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• Child's play: Edmonton AM makes pit stop in St. Albert - CBC.ca

  01-06-2018 21:02
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  Child's play: Edmonton AM makes pit stop in St. Albert
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  Plate-spinning, juggling and African dancing are all in a day's work for CBC morning show host Mark Connolly. Connolly and the morning crew were live on location at St. Albert Place Friday morning, in celebration of the city's International Children's ...
  
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• Tetanus vaccine delivered in Leduc potentially ineffective: AHS

  01-06-2018 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Close to 300 patients who received a tetanus vaccine recently at the Leduc Community Hospital are being encouraged to go back for another shot because the first one may have been ineffective, Alberta Health Services said Friday.
  A routine audit conducted May 7 found the temperature of the vaccine fridge in the hospital emergency’s department was not being recorded properly.
  The 298 patients affected were being treated for possible tetanus prone wounds, AHS said. To update their immuni
  
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• Going green: 2018 Eco-Solar Home Tour showcases energy efficiency

  01-06-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One couple loved Edmonton’s annual Eco-Solar Home Tour so much that they decided to build their own eco-friendly home.
  And this weekend, as part of the tour’s 2018 edition, the Kosowan family is opening the doors to their energy-efficient dream home so others can possibly follow in their footsteps.
  “My wife and I have been on the tour multiple times and we’ve been thinking of this for quite a while,” said James Kosowan, in regards to building a self-sufficient home.
  
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• Garden Hits & Myths: Cacti offer hardy, low-maintenance gardening

  01-06-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A description of a perfect plant would go something like this: never needs to be watered, tolerant of the coldest winters, not bothered by pests, produces gorgeous flowers. Such a plant sounds to good to be true, but it does exist, and it’s even native to Canada. The plant, of course, is the cactus.
  Now, I know that many gardeners would never consider growing cacti in their yards. They are a bit of an acquired taste, but I think these fascinating plants deserve a second look.
  A bit of scie
  
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• AHS declares end to E. coli outbreak linked to pork products

  01-06-2018 19:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  An E. coli outbreak linked to pork products that made 42 people sick is now officially over, Alberta Health Services declared Friday.
  The outbreak was first announced in late March, and was initially associated with Mama Nita’s Binalot restaurant in south Edmonton.
  However, additional cases came to light over the next several weeks that were not connected to the establishment, forcing public health investigators to widen their search for the source.
  In late April, the cause of the outbreak
  
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• Province cuts school superintendent pay by 10 per cent

  01-06-2018 18:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  New rules for school superintendent salaries will amount to $1.5 million in cuts after a provincial review found benefits ranging from gym memberships to post-secondary tuition payments included in contracts.
  “Clear limits for superintendent pay will help ensure public funds continue to be put where they can to do the most good for Alberta’s students,” Education Minister David Eggen said in a Friday news release.
  In March, he signalled salaries would be reined in and launched a
  
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• St. Albert paramedic helps deliver 2 babies in 2 weeks - CBC.ca

  01-06-2018 17:04
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  St. Albert paramedic helps deliver 2 babies in 2 weeks
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  As a father and veteran medic, Jay Howells knows that newborns follow no clock. The St. Albert firefighter-paramedic estimates he has helped deliver nearly a dozen babies during his 20-year career. But he hit a new record this month. In less than a two ...
  
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• The biggest question surrounding Drake Caggiula this off-season is whether he has already hit his ceiling

  01-06-2018 15:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here’s the thing about U.S. college players.
  On one hand, they often arrive NHL-ready. They are typically older, a little bit wiser, traditionally better coached technically and almost certainly more fully developed physically.
  As such, these players can often step right off the campus and into an NHL lineup. Both Drake Caggiula and Matt Benning are perfect examples of that. Their CHL counterparts, for example, more frequently require AHL time in order to arrive at the same place on their
  
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• Taylor Swift fans angels, while Metallica fans raised hell at Edmonton concerts

  01-06-2018 15:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s no bad blood between Taylor Swift fans and Edmonton security guards, according to a recent report.
  A community and public services committee report regarding raves in Edmonton turned up some interesting numbers on several big-ticket concert events.
  Taylor Swift fans were by far the most behaved. According to the report, T-Swift’s last concert in Edmonton back on Aug. 4, 2015 saw a mere two people ejected from Rexall Place. That’s a very well-behaved audience of 14,000 p
  
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• Edmonton weather: One more day of grey

  01-06-2018 14:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 8.7 C with a 6 km/h wind coming from the east. It’s been three straight days of grey clouds and rainfall (which has done wonders for my lawn, thank you) but forecasters are calling for an end to it all this weekend with sunshine and temperatures reaching 18 C on Saturday and 23 C on Sunday.
  Today: A few showers ending this afternoon then mainly cloudy.
  
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• Opinion: It's the Site C dam, not Trans Mountain, that should worry B.C.

  01-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As all eyes focus on the Kinder Morgan pipeline fracas, a resource project with far larger financial and environmental consequences for British Columbians is unfolding largely out of sight and out of mind: the Site C dam on the Peace River.
  According to more than 200 of Canada’s leading scholars, Site C will have more significant adverse environmental effects than any project ever examined in the history of Canada’s environmental assessment act.
  Large dams have irreversible ecologica
  
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• Friday's letters: Pipeline foes use double standard

  01-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I cannot believe the hypocrisy of people such as Premier John Horgan and former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre regarding their positions with respect to pipelines.
  They say they are the defenders of the environment and yet Horgan permits Victoria to dump its sewage into the Pacific Ocean and Coderre permitted Montreal to dump its sewage into the St. Lawrence River. Neither of them have done anything to stop this practice.
  Then there was Barack Obama who stopped the Keystone XL pipeline supposedly
  
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• Tickets go on sale Friday for the 106th Grey Cup in Edmonton

  01-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Today’s the day.
  After months of waiting, Edmonton Eskimos fans, and Canadian Football League (CFL) fans of all stripes, will have the opportunity Friday to get their hands on the hottest tickets in town to the 106th Grey Cup at Commonwealth Stadium on Nov. 25.
  Tickets go on sale at 2 p.m. at Ticketmaster.ca. Ticket prices range from $99 to more than $325. In 2010, tickets to the Grey Cup in Edmonton sold out in six days, a CFL record.
  Season ticket holders can skip the line and secure the
  
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• Pilot project on new doctor pay model failing to get buy-in

  01-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An NDP government plan to entice family doctors to spend more time with their patients by adopting a new payment model has so far proved to be failure.
  To date, a clinic in Sylvan Lake is the only physician group in Alberta to have signed up to test the new compensation system.
  The government had previously vowed to have five pilot projects up and running around the province by February 2017, followed by another 10 this spring.
  “Definitely we were hoping for more. We had five clinics initi
  
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• David Staples: Massive dam near Edmonton would end major flood risk

  01-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s only way to prevent a massive one-in-100-year flood from hitting Edmonton’s river valley flats one day and that’s to build a massive new dam about 30 km west of the city.
  This is a key finding in a study from late 2015 which looked at flood mitigation in the North Saskatchewan River basin. The report for Alberta Environment by Calgary consultants Amec Foster Wheeler was done in the wake of the 2013 Calgary flood that caused $5 billion in damage.
  The reports presents a n
  
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• Video: Man rescued from tree by Edmonton police and firefighters

  01-06-2018 05:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A distraught man was was rescued without the use of force by Edmonton Police Service tactical officers and an Edmonton Fire Rescue Services firefighter from a tree near the intersection of Groat Road and 111 Avenue in Edmonton, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Police and firefighters blocked part of 111 Avenue as they responded to a call of a man running in traffic.
  A distraught man is loaded into an ambulance after being rescued from a tree near the intersection of Groat Road and 111 Avenue in E
  
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• Roads closed as firefighters rescue man from tree

  01-06-2018 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a classic story — firefighters are called to perform a rescue from a tree.
  Only in this case police and emergency medical services were also called. And instead of a feline, a fully-grown man was in distress.
  First responders arrived at the intersection of Groat Road and 111 Avenue around 6 p.m. Thursday to find a man approximately 12 metres up an evergreen tree.
  Police were responding to earlier calls of a man jumping on vehicles along Groat Road.
  “In most cases, we&rsquo
  
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• City looks at imposing moratorium on raves

  01-06-2018 04:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city councillors are looking at placing a moratorium on raves in established venues because of the burden patrons create on emergency medical services.
  A community and public services committee report recommends an immediate moratorium on the electronic music dance parties because of wide use of drugs that has seen dozens of people rushed to hospital in past years.
  The recommendation comes at the suggestion of the police, said Ward 6 Coun. Scott McKeen.
  “It’s the number
  
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• Accused in jewelry heist committed to be extradited on U.S. terrorism-related charges

  01-06-2018 02:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge has committed a Canadian man to be extradited to the United States to face allegations of providing support to Islamic State foreign fighters.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice John Little ruled Thursday that Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 33, will be committed into custody to await surrender to the United States to stand trial on charges of providing material support for terrorists and conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists.
  Abdullahi has 30 days to appeal. Meanw
  
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• Don’t bring your pot to the zoo: Edmonton mulls strict ‘no toke’ zones

  01-06-2018 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Churchill Square, the Edmonton Valley Zoo, cemeteries, skate parks and even outdoor festival venues are on a long list of proposed “no toke” zones being considered for Edmonton once cannabis becomes legal.
  The details of where, when and how city residents can smoke cannabis in public will be up for debate next Wednesday at city hall. But the options proposed by city staff in a report released Thursday are stricter than the minimum provincial standards.
  Under options proposed by Edmon
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Legion tax exemption proposed and seniors can celebrate free admission

  01-06-2018 00:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is mulling over a property tax exemption for Royal Canadian Legions.
  West Yellowhead NDP MLA Eric Rosendahl, a member of the Hinton legion, on Thursday introduced Bill 207, the Municipal Government (Legion Tax Exemption) Amendment Act.
  Rosendahl told Postmedia the idea is to help ensure legions stay viable so they can support veterans and remain as hubs in small communities.
  “A lot of members are disappearing over time, so it will certainly help,” he said Thursday.
  Rosendahl
  
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• Come face-to-teeth with dinosaurs at Telus World of Science

  01-06-2018 00:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Teresa White, inventory special content manager with Dinosaurs Unearthed, talks about the world-debut of the exhibition at Telus World of Science. The exhibit brings a new look to the Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the newly discovered group of dinosaurs called Dromeosaurs, considered to be the dinosaurs most closely resembling birds.
  Visitors to the exhibition will be immersed in a prehistoric setting, surrounded by towering life sized animatronics, skeletons and fossils, in addition to interact
  
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• Alberta gas station legislation

  01-06-2018 00:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The government of Alberta has legislated new Occupational Health and Safety rules in the province that come into effect June 1, 2018 to protect workers at gas stations and convenience stores. A news media conference was held at the Brookview Husky gas station and convenience store in Edmonton on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Gas station owner Ki Yun Jo was killed in Thorsby on Oct. 6, 2017 in a gas-and-dash incident. There have been 377 gas-and-dash incidents in Alberta since the beginning of this yea
  
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• Alberta man ordered extradited to U.S. on charges of supporting Islamic State

  01-06-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge ordered the extradition of a Canadian man to the United States to face charges of providing support to Islamic State foreign fighters.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice John Little ruled Thursday that Abdullahi Ahmed Abdullahi, 33, will be sent to the United States to stand trial on charges of providing material support for terrorists and conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists.
  In order to rule in favour of an extradition request, a judge must find that the of
  
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• Federal government could turn profit from purchase of Trans Mountain pipeline, analyst says

  01-06-2018 00:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The federal government is likely to recover the $4.5-billion purchase price of the Trans Mountain pipeline and could even make a profit, an American analyst says.
  “The project will be attractive to investors when it’s built,” Robert Johnston, chief executive of Washington, D.C.-based risk analysis firm Eurasia Group, said Thursday.
  “The investor appetite for long-term, income-generating assets like pipelines is pretty high. The risk is in the construction stage. Once they
  
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