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• Slave Lake woman, 20, Cold Lake man, 55, die in separate rollover crashes north of Edmonton

  04-06-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 20-year-old woman from Slave Lake and a 55-year-old man from Cold Lake are dead after separate Sunday vehicle rollovers north of Edmonton, say RCMP.
  The woman died after a Honda Civic rolled in the west ditch on Highway 2A near the community of Smith, about 184 km northwest of Edmonton, around 4 a.m. Sunday, said Slave Lake RCMP in a Monday news release.
  The car came to a stop in a wooded area where the victim was pronounced dead on scene.
  An 18-year-old female passenger, also from Slave Lake,
  
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• ‘I didn’t know how to stop him’: Woman testifies at sex assault court martial

  04-06-2018 23:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman described how she thought she was “going to die” while being sexually assaulted by a man in a Toronto hotel room in 2015, a military court martial heard Monday.
  Capt. Steven Nordstrom has pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual assault in relation to events on Feb. 19 and one charge of assault on March 14 of the same year.
  The victim, who cannot be named because of a publication ban but who is being referred to as J.L. at the Edmonton Garrison court martial, sobbed as
  
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• Dance party organizer hopes city changes tune on proposed rave ban

  04-06-2018 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the city’s biggest rave organizers says a city report eyeing a temporary moratorium on the events caught him off guard.
  Members the city’s community and public services committee will meet Wednesday to discuss a report that raises safety concerns for Edmonton area raves after 18 patients were treated on-site due to drug-related illnesses and 11 others were transported to hospital emergency rooms during a recent event. Police and emergency medical services were t
  
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• Local nutrition entrepreneur presents Your Canadian Food Story

  04-06-2018 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sharing recipes and food stories is a time-honoured tradition. Now, one local entrepreneur and holistic nutrition consultant, Loretta Friedrich, has published a book of food stories she has collected from cooks across Canada.
  The book, Your Canadian Food Story (available on Amazon and at The Italian Centre shops) is an offshoot of a website created by Friedrich called Your Food Story. The website brings people together to share their own food stories and recipes and to celebrate all kinds of foo
  
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• Fatality inquiry probing disabled man's in-custody death

  04-06-2018 19:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The in-custody death of 32-year-old disabled man is being examined during a fatality inquiry that began Monday.
  During opening statements in an Edmonton provincial courtroom, the inquiry heard that on Nov. 12, 2014, Trevor Proudman was at a foot clinic in the city when he became agitated.
  Staff called police, who attended and placed Proudman under arrest. He was handcuffed and placed in the back of a van. When officers checked on Proudman 23 minutes later, he was found facedown and unresponsive,
  
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• Edmonton housing prices flat in May, sales down from previous spring

  04-06-2018 19:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The average price of homes in the Edmonton region was virtually unchanged in May compared to May 2017, but sales dropped slightly, new figures show.
  The area saw 1,776 properties sold through the Multiple Listing Service last month, up 14.2 per cent from April but down 3.6 per cent from one year earlier, the Realtors Association of Edmonton reported Monday.
  The average sales price for all residential properties was $377,139, down 0.5 per cent from May 2017.
  This includes single-family houses ($4
  
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• Slave Lake woman, 20, dies in rollover crash northwest of Edmonton

  04-06-2018 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 20-year-old woman from Slave Lake is dead after losing control of her car northwest of Edmonton Sunday morning.
  The Honda Civic rolled in the west ditch on Highway 2A near the community of Smith, about 184 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, around 4 a.m. Sunday, said Slave Lake RCMP in a Monday news release.
  The car came to a stop in a wooded area where the victim was pronounced dead on scene.
  An 18-year-old female passenger, also from Slave Lake, was transported to hospital with non-life-threa
  
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• It's looking more like a top d-man prospect will fall to the Edmonton Oilers

  04-06-2018 16:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Craig Button of TSN, his take on whom the Oilers will be able to draft at the 10th overall spot.
  Right shot d-men Noah Dobson and Evan Bouchard will likely be gone by the time the Oilers draft, Button said. “You can look at Adam Boqvist, the dynamic Swedish defenceman, but if you don’t go that, I think that Oliver Wahlstrom is the best goal scorer in the draft and what that mean lining up on the right flank of Connor McDavid? You’re talking about a guy that could b
  
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• Edmonton weather: It might rain a little today

  04-06-2018 15:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning has some clouds in the sky and a temperature of 12 C and a breeze coming from the east at about 8 km/h. There is a chance of rain today and the wind is expected to pick up this afternoon.
  Today: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of showers early this morning then a mix of sun and cloud. Wind east 30 km/h gusting to 50 becoming west 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High 19. UV index 7 or high.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy wi
  
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• Rescue porcupine takes on new role as educator

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wild Rose nibbles on a fresh, crispy piece of lettuce.
  The 10-year-old porcupine settles in Carly Stenhouse’s lap in her enclosure — Porky Palace — at WILDNorth, Northern Alberta Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, on Wednesday, unperturbed by the pitter-patter from the rain around her. Stenhouse is an education manager at WILDNorth.
  The golden-and-grey-haired porcupine will begin a new life and career at the animal rescue centre after living nearly her entire life with a famil
  
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• ‘He’s there all alone’: Nova Scotia mom pleads for comatose son to be sent home after Alberta remand beating

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A distraught mother is pleading to have her son sent home to Nova Scotia after he was savagely beaten in an Alberta remand centre, an attack that has left him in a medically induced coma from which he may never awake.
  Dylan Gogan, 28, was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault on March 6 after a man was stabbed in Grande Prairie.
  Days later, while being held at Peace River Correctional Centre, three inmates left Gogan bloodied and unconscious after brutally beating and kicking
  
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• Edmonton relaunches effort to build local food culture

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Interest in both growing and eating local food flourished in Edmonton over the last decade, and city hall is relaunching an effort to support it.
  That means a regional effort to identify and preserve the best farmland, but also cutting zoning barriers to gardening and building community relationships around food. A new workplan heads to council for approval this month, after councillors Aaron Paquette and Michael Walters raised it to the level of a council initiative.
  Paquette said many resident
  
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• Edmonton pilot project opens city-owned vacant lots for gardening

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a vacant lot. Today, it has tomatoes, pumpkins and, more importantly, the smiles and friendly banter of students happy to be growing things again.
  “It’s just a safe spot for everyone,” said Alyssa McPhail, excited about the opportunity to grow vegetables on city land with adult students from Abbotsfield’s Learning Centre Literacy Association.
  Many of them live in apartments; some are rebuilding their lives after fleeing violence. Some had shovels in storage, just i
  
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• Edmonton heritage group proud owner of Cold War radar tower

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton civil defence history group has bought an important relic from Canada’s Cold War past — a radar tower that once scanned the sky for Soviet aerial attacks.
  The domed tower is one of the last survivors out of hundreds built across North America in the 1950s and 1960s to watch for enemy missiles or bombers, says Fred Armbruster, founder of the Canadian Civil Defence Museum and Archives.
  “It was the initial front lines of the Cold War system … It’s a v
  
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• Cheap, easy bike rental now possible for Edmonton with zero capital dollars

  04-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bike sharing has become so cheap, it could be rolled out downtown and around all of Edmonton’s suburban LRT stations at no cost to the city, say advocates.
  That would mean anyone with a cellphone could rent a bike for $1 an hour — increasing use of Edmonton’s new downtown bike lanes and giving people a new option to get to and from public transit.
  “Hundred per cent, that’s viable,” said Afraj Gill, co-founder of Toronto-based Dropbike, which is launching an 18
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers year would have gone a lot better if more players improved in the way that Jujhar Khaira did.

  04-06-2018 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in Review:Jujhar Khaira
  Only a handful of Edmonton Oilers had seasons one might consider a success, at least in personal terms. Certainly, there wasn’t much team success.
  But Jujhar Khaira was one that (ultimately) did.
  In fact, had more players enjoyed similar progression in their play, then perhaps the entire season would have gone much differently. Instead, we are left to ponder going forward whether J.J. can take yet another stride this year. There are signs tha
  
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• Police investigate two shootings in southeast Edmonton

  04-06-2018 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fight at a popular fast food restaurant led to gunfire Sunday evening in southeast Edmonton.
  An altercation began in the Popeye’s Chicken in the Tamarack neighbourhood just before 6:30 p.m. and carried outside, where shots were fired, said Edmonton police Insp. Erik Johnson.
  Police said there were no known injuries or property damage.
  When officers arrived, they were told a small, grey four-door car had fled the scene.
  Police have not identified any suspects, but have video and were inve
  
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• Alberta School Boards Association officials resign

  04-06-2018 03:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA) officials have resigned.
  ASBA president Mary Martin, vice-president Darcy Eddleston and CEO Suzanne Polkosnik have resigned, effective June 1, Rae Thygesen ASBA spokesperson, said Sunday.
  Recently, the ASBA wanted to set aside a $2-million “wind down” fund in the event that elected school boards are eliminated by the province.
  An internal document obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation showed that the association needed
  
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• Police investigate after man shot in his vehicle on 34 Street

  04-06-2018 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police officers combed a stretch of 34 Street for evidence Sunday afternoon after a man was shot in the leg in his vehicle.
  Staff Sgt. Tom Paton said a male sustained non-life threatening injuries after being shot once in southeast Edmonton.
  The man was treated at the Grey Nuns hospital just after 3 p.m.
  Police closed the street from about 76 Avenue near a truck yard and a cardlock gas station along to 68 Avenue. Four officers walked in a row down the street searching for evidence.
  Police were s
  
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• Brother promotes Terry Fox exhibit at Telus World of Science

  04-06-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Here, in the museum exhibit, Terry never gets old,” said Fred Fox, 61, as video of his younger brother played on repeat Sunday afternoon.
  The distinct rhythmic slap of Terry Fox’s foot, then his prosthetic hitting the highway pavement, echoes among the famous Canadian memorabilia: a Ford Super-Van, a jug of water from the Atlantic Ocean, and even well-worn prosthetic legs.
  The Terry Fox exhibit at the Telus World of Science is the last stop in Fred Fox’s latest two-week
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The secret good thing about Jesse Puljujärvi

  04-06-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jesse Puljujärvi was born on May 7, 1998, in Alvkarleby, Sweden and holds both Finnish and Swedish citizenship.
  He was was selected by the Edmonton Oilers fourth overall in the first round of the 2016 NHL entry draft.
  Cult of Hockey writers David Staples and Bruce McCurdy discuss the secret good thing about the Oilers young winger.
  
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• PHOTOS: Edmonton Eskimos Fan Day

  04-06-2018 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos Fan Day was held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on Sunday June 3, 2018. Football fans had the opportunity to get their photo taken with the CFL Grey Cup, meet and get autographs from Edmonton Eskimo players, watch a team practice and performances by the Eskimos Cheer Team and Esks Force Drumline and Hype Team. A charity barbecue was held and a beer garden helped quench thirsty football fans during the free fun-filled afternoon of entertainment. (PHOTOS BY LARRY WONG/POS
  
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