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• Hundreds line up to purchase Edmonton folk fest tickets

  02-06-2018 21:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of eager fans lined up Saturday morning to be among the first to get their hands on tickets to this year’s Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
  Sales began at 9 a.m. at the Festival Office, 10115 – 97a Ave, and people began lining up outside the office at 7:30 a.m. Online tickets began selling on ticketmaster.ca at 10 a.m.
  The ticket office is closed Sunday but reopens Monday at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are priced variably, including $65 Friday, $75 Saturday and Sunday daily tickets, $189
  
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• Milan Lucic can still help the Edmonton Oilers win. But will new role be good enough for him & his critics?

  02-06-2018 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  I have some good news and bad news to share about Milan Lucic, a player who is much on the minds of Edmonton Oilers fans.
  If the Oilers had a goal for every time an Oilers fan had recently fantasized about trading away Lucic, the team would have won the Stanley Cup by a billion goals.
  Lucic still has some diehard supporters, but a much larger faction of fans have turned on him, some of them in pretty nasty fashion, as will happen in this hockey obsessed city.
  Me? I was hot-and-cold on the signin
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The secret good thing about Milan Lucic

  02-06-2018 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Milan Lucic, was born on June, 7, 1988, in Vancouver, B.C., and was an unrestricted free agent in 2016. On July 1 that year, the opening day of free agency, he agreed to a seven-year, $42 million contract with the Oilers.
  The Oilers are the third NHL team Lucic has joined. On June 26, 2015, after playing for the Boston Bruins for eight years, Lucic was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for goaltender Martin Jones, Colin Miller and the 13th overall pick (Jakub Zboril) in
  
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• Review: ESO gives final concert of their Friday Masters season

  02-06-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are few things more gratifying to a symphony orchestra than seeing sold out signs on the doors of the hall.
  That’s what happened on Friday night (June 1) at the Winspear, when the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra gave their final concert of their Friday Masters season. The experience is being repeated on Saturday evening, for not only are the ESO playing the music again, but that concert is also sold out.
  The occasion was one of classical music’s blockbusters: Beethoven’s Chor
  
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• Homicide victim remembered as 'intelligent, insightful, funny'

  02-06-2018 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former teacher of a 23-year-old homicide victim says he became a better educator and an advocate for at-risk children in a large part because of their relationship.
  Abraham Zoker, who police refer to as Ibrahim, was shot on a west Edmonton school ground in the Callingwood neighbourhood in the late hours of May 16. He later died in hospital.
  No arrests have been made in what was ruled the city’s 12th homicide of the year.
  ‘Mind of a poet’
  Dallas Thompson, who spoke a
  
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• Trio arrested on firearm charges known to police, court documents show

  02-06-2018 19:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three men recently charged with a laundry list of firearm-related offences are well known to police with charges in one instance dating back as far as 2011, court documents show.
  Twin brothers Alexander Kurkut and Ryan Kurkut, both 27, were arrested on May 18 after an Alberta Law Enforcement Teams (ALERT) investigation recovered a host of firearms from a home in southwest Edmonton and a storage facility on Calgary Trail.
  The brothers, who are subject to lifetime firearm bans, are now collec
  
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• Mill Woods Rec Centre evacuated as hazmat crews cap chlorine leak

  02-06-2018 18:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Visitors to the Mill Woods Recreation Centre were evacuated Saturday morning as fire service hazmat crews work to cap a chlorine leak.
  Staff at the centre, 7207 28 Ave., were changing a chlorine bottle in the pool’s chlorine room when a valve failed to seal, fire spokeswoman Maya Filipovic said.
  Six fire crews including the hazmat unit were called to the scene and arrived at 10:10 a.m. The facility’s chlorine leak detector also alerted the fire service.
  The entire facility was evacua
  
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• Edmonton weather: Get out there and enjoy it

  02-06-2018 17:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Saturday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 13.8 C with a 11 km/h wind coming from the northwest. After a week of rain, the sun is ready to come back out and shine all weekend. Sunday is shaping up to be the warmest at 23 C. It’s no heat wave but we’ll take it!
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon. Hi
  
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• Saturday's letters: Private vehicles getting a free ride

  02-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Transit Advisers Pitch Gondola as Safe and Green Option for City,” May 31
  According to the Edmonton Transit System Advisory Board, public transport in Edmonton “is heavily subsidized” compared to gondola systems. If that’s the case, then private-vehicle transportation is off-the-chart subsidized.
  What we pay for gas and oil does not cover the cost of the roads we use when we drive. Nor does what we pay for parking cover all the costs associated with parking our
  
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• Opinion: City leaders must hear marginalized voices

  02-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The May 29 council meeting opened with the introduction of our new youth poet laureate, Grayson Thate. Grayson shared a poem that let council see the world through his eyes; as a LGBTQ+ young person living, studying and creating in Edmonton. In those three pages he illuminated the fears he has, the compromises, decisions and considerations he makes to navigate our city every day. It was a perspective that we and our council colleagues might have never considered.
  His words were particularly rele
  
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• Major renovation underway at well-known 107 Avenue commercial building

  02-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A well-known commercial building bookending a stretch of 107 Avenue is getting an overhaul.
  The Ventures Building — a three-storey, 60s-era commercial building whose many tenants have included a hair salon, pizza parlour, barber shop, staffing agency, night club and accounting business — is getting a new facade as part of a major renovation.
  The mid-century modern building currently features floating exterior staircases and brick, glass and stone facades. It has occupied a prominent
  
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• APTN's Queen of the Oil Patch celebrates two-spirit life in the macho north

  02-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A compelling new documentary series tells the story of one man with two spirits — Massey Whiteknife and Iceis Rain.
  Whiteknife — a member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation and a Fort McKay resident — is a successful CEO and philanthropist with an occupational health and safety firm in northern Alberta. Outside the serious job, he’s separately known as Iceis Rain: drag queen, pop singer and anti-bullying advocate.
  Now, in the new, eight-part series Queen of the Oi
  
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• Impact women, Rangers and SAWSL coverage - St. Albert Gazette

  02-06-2018 09:00
  Impact women, Rangers and SAWSL coverage  St. Albert GazetteImpact 1 women Jazmyne Mauthe's fourth goal of the season stood the test of time in the fourth victory in a row for the St. Albert Impact 1 (Spaidal)
  
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• Edmonton welcomes 30 new firefighters as Class 148 recruits graduate

  02-06-2018 04:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire Chief Ken Block and city Coun. Scott McKeen reviewed Edmonton Fire Rescue Services Class 148 fire recruits during a graduation ceremony at City Hall in Edmonton on Friday, June 1, 2018. The class, comprised of a group of men from diverse backgrounds, totals 30. Recruits grew moustaches in the spirit of teamwork and raised $19,000 for charity.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue Services Class 148, and dispatcher Jamie Smith, centre, graduates during a ceremony at City Hall in Edmonton on Friday, June 1, 2
  
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• Thirty fire recruits graduate to staff south-side Edmonton units

  02-06-2018 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thirty freshly minted Edmonton firefighters will staff fire rescue services on Edmonton’s south side as early as Sunday.
  Members with the fire service’s recruit class 148 — all dressed in red and nearly all sporting moustaches — graduated in a ceremony at City Hall on Friday afternoon. They trained together between February and June.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue Services Chief Ken Block said the class is the first of two the service will take in this year. They start work on Sund
  
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• Law society finds city attorney guilty in conduct hearing for remarks about judge

  02-06-2018 03:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer who wrote a letter criticizing the appointment of a judge has been found guilty of breaching professional conduct rules by the Law Society of Alberta.
  Defence attorney Naeem Rauf was found to have broken four rules by making statements in a letter that a disciplinary committee found were “contemptuous and intended to ridicule.”
  According to an agreed statement of facts entered during a hearing held over several days in late 2017 and early 2018, Rauf wrote a letter
  
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• Paula Simons: B.C.'s new speculation tax leaves Albertans feeling the squeeze

  02-06-2018 03:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  “I am not a speculator,” says Michelle Kralt.
  Eleven years ago, Kralt inherited a two-bedroom bungalow in Sidney, B.C., a suburb of Victoria. Kralt was taking a master’s degree in nursing. Her husband was a medical student. They had a new baby. They’d had to leave British Columbia to pursue their degrees. The house meant the couple could regularly to visit their parents, who lived in Victoria.
  Two years ago, her husband died, leaving her a widow with three small chil
  
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• Death in Parkdale apartment fire declared 14th homicide this year

  02-06-2018 03:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a man in a northeast apartment Wednesday was a homicide, police said Friday.
  The body of Evan Wilfred Moonias, 28, was found after an apartment fire at 117 Avenue and 80 Street, Edmonton Police Service said in a news release Friday.The medical examiner didn’t release the cause of death “for investigative reasons,” police added.
  Investigators deemed the fire an arson Friday.
  Detectives were looking for information about where Moonias was Tuesday, May 29, and We
  
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• Royal Alberta Museum houses historic original Minchau blacksmith door

  02-06-2018 03:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of two heavy wooden doors that opened into the A. Minchau blacksmith shop is now housed in a Royal Alberta Museum off-site storage area.
  While the door is protected, the building itself? Not so much.
  The Minchau shop, which is slated for demolition, earned a spot on the 2018 list of top 10 endangered places compiled by the National Trust of Canada last month.
  The door gives a peek into the past.
  Various brands are visible burned into the front door of the 1928 Minchau Blacksmith Shop in Edmo
  
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• Graham Thomson: Indigenous investment in Trans Mountain would provide moral victory

  02-06-2018 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  They might just prove to be the public relations saviours of the Trans Mountain expansion project.
  A group of Indigenous leaders in the Fort McMurray area are interested in investing in the project now that the federal government is about to buy Trans Mountain from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion.
  They are so keen on becoming partners that they raised the idea with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a meeting last month and on Thursday committed to their proposal in a letter to federal Finance Mini
  
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• Man who admitted role in casino shooting expresses remorse

  02-06-2018 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who admitted to handing over a sawed-off rifle used in a fatal shooting outside a downtown Edmonton casino will serve 40 months in prison.
  Vaughn Emmanuel Bull, 27, was given a 5-1/2-year sentence Friday after pleading guilty to manslaughter for his role in the Feb. 21, 2016, shooting death of Darren Sinner.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Peter Michalyshyn accepted a joint submission on sentencing, granting Bull credit for time served in pre-trial custody.
  According to an agreed stat
  
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• More than 47,000 tickets sold to 106th Grey Cup

  02-06-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  After months of waiting, Edmonton Eskimos fans and Canadian Football League fans of all stripes were finally able to grab seats for the 106th Grey Cup on Friday.
  More than 47,000 tickets were sold on the first day tickets were made available. Commonwealth Stadium has a seating capacity of 55, 819. Tickets sold faster Friday than the first day ticket sales began in 2010 when Edmonton sold out the game in just six days during the last time the city hosted the Grey Cup, said a news release from the
  
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• Alberta Paramedic Association out to show that 'No One Walks Alone' in support of first responders

  02-06-2018 01:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  “When you can’t walk, we will carry you, help you and look after you.”
  Dale Bayliss, an Alberta paramedic for more than 30 years, said this sentiment rings true for all emergency medical services (EMS) members who are on the front lines every day to take care of the injured and suffering.
  But after seeing many paramedics struggle with compassion fatigue and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because of the difficult situations they face, Bayliss decided to bring the same men
  
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• 'Caustic?' Inside Chief Rod Knecht's surprising contract spat with the Edmonton Police Commission

  02-06-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht emerged from his office on the fourth floor of police headquarters Tuesday, striding to a black office chair at the end of a conference table.
  Flanking the chief were two embroidered Edmonton Police Service (EPS) crests — giant versions of the patches the city’s 1,700-plus police officers wear on their shoulders. In front of him sat a group of reporters, beyond them a bank of TV cameras.
  Knecht occasionally held such “coffee with the chief&rdquo
  
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• Police searching for cyclist suspect in homicide

  02-06-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police were searching for a cyclist they consider a suspect in the shooting death of Ibrahim Zoker in the Callingwood area.
  According to a news release Friday, a man was seen cycling in the vicinity of the shooting around 10:50 p.m. on May 16. He had a full-sized bike and was wearing a light-coloured top. The suspect may have had a bag or a headlamp at the time.
  Police said the suspect could be armed and dangerous and said he should not be approached.Police have released security footage of a cy
  
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• Alberta cuts school superintendent pay by 10 per cent

  02-06-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  New rules for school superintendent salaries will amount to $1.5 million in cuts and eliminate perks ranging from gym memberships to post-secondary tuition payments.
  “There wasn’t really any control or regulation at all,” Education Minister David Eggen told a Friday news conference. “We are establishing clear guidelines that match other public sector organizations … so that superintendents receive fair but not extravagant compensation.”
  In March, he signalled
  
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• City of St. Albert Launches All Access Summer Pass

  02-06-2018 01:05
  Servus Credit Union Place | Fountain Park Recreation Centre | Grosvenor Outdoor Pool Enjoy a summer of unlimited indoor and... Read Post
  
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• History seared into front door of blacksmith shop

  02-06-2018 01:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The front door of the Minchau Blacksmith Shop is branded with history.
  The shop’s front door now resides in a Royal Alberta Museum storage warehouse facility. Built in 1928 many brands of ranchers past can still be seen seared into the wood.
  The front door of the 1928 Minchau Blacksmith Shop, in Edmonton Friday June 1, 2018. The door is currently in one of the Royal Alberta Museum’s storage warehouses for oversized objects.
  Royal Alberta Museum curator of western Canadian history Jul
  
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• Press Gallery #232: The Kinder Surprise edition

  02-06-2018 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the federal government buying up the Kinder Morgan pipeline this week, we just couldn’t help but use a Kinder Surprise pun in this week’s Press Gallery episode. We’re only human.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Keith Gerein, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson to discuss that giant development on the pipeline file this week.
  The team also takes a look at the deal the province signed with doctors this week and the long-awaited apology offered by Premier Rachel N
  
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• The Finest of Strangers delivers vintage Lemoine in new Varscona play

  02-06-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Playwright Stewart Lemoine has a knack for the balance of sadness and silly. In his best work, award-winners such as Pith or Witness to a Conga, he is able to move the audience on a tide of energy created through rapid-fire dialogue and pace, arcane characters, and the audience’s giddy acceptance of the ride. When we are nearly out of breath, Lemoine deposits us somewhere solemn for a bit of a think about life’s common difficulties.
  Lemoine brings that successful and popular techniqu
  
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