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• Early-morning booze sales OK'd in Alberta for FIFA World Cup

  12-06-2018 23:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans will be able to grab a cold one while they watch the earliest FIFA World Cup matches thanks to a blanket liquor licence extension across the province.
  The extension means liquor can be served as soon as the early games kick off — this Saturday, that means 4 a.m. for fans willing to get out of bed when Australia and France face off.
  With the tournament being played in Russia, the majority of early games kick off at 6 a.m. After June 25, that switches to 8 a.m. In Alberta. Liq
  
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• Fraudster targeting seniors' homes wanted by city police

  12-06-2018 23:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A thief posing as a home care worker and who is targeting seniors’ residential complexes in Edmonton and Strathcona County is being sought by city police.
  Catherine McAlinden, 52, is being sought by police.
  Police say since March 29 of this year the woman — who also pretends to be a visitor of other residents — is suspected of at least 15 thefts.
  Using the intercom system to gain entry into buildings, the woman knocks on individual suite doors asking to use the phone
  
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• Southwest Anthony Henday will expand to six lanes

  12-06-2018 22:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Transportation Minister Brian Mason announced Tuesday, June 12, 2018, that the southwest portion of Anthony Henday Drive will expand from four lanes to six.
  The expansion project is expected to last three years and widen the freeway from 111 Street to Whitemud Drive.
  Currently the southwest leg of the Henday was designed for about 40,000 vehicles per day but the road currently handles about 80,000 vehicles per day.
  Design work is underway and construction is expected to begin in 2019.
  
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• Battling workplace harassment discussion moved to July 5

  12-06-2018 22:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council postponed an update on Edmonton’s broken workplace harassment complaint process Tuesday in order to give its unions and other citizens a chance to weigh in.
  Six councillors initially resisted that decision, arguing this was too important a topic to postpone.
  That meant council initially offered to break tradition to allow presentations from the public at council Tuesday, but union officials said they were not prepared. The debate will happen instead at a council committee meet
  
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• Superfan spreading soccer spirit ahead of 2018 FIFA World Cup

  12-06-2018 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  If chatting with Abdullahi Mohamed doesn’t get you excited about the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup, you probably won’t get a kick out of the beautiful game.
  Known to many by his stage name ‘Captain Abdul,’ the part-time DJ, soccer coach, tournament organizer, taxi driver and avid soccer fan is on a mission to get as many people as possible excited about the tournament.Wearing a bright yellow two-piece suit carrying a World Cup trophy, Mohamed spent Tuesday v
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The secret good thing about Oscar Klefbom – part 2

  12-06-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers need to get faster at forward, more skilled on the blueline, and better in net and Oscar Klefbom’s name has come up a lot when the topic of players the Oilers may trade to get a player to fill that need.
  Cult of Hockey writers David Staples and Bruce McCurdy discuss the secret good thing about the Edmonton Oilers defenceman.
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The secret good thing about Oscar Klefbom

  12-06-2018 22:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers defenceman Oscar Klefbom was picked 19th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the 2011 NHL entry draft.
  The Swedish born Klefbom, 24, who played his first game with the Oilers in September 2013, has five years remaining at $4.1 million per year before he’s a UFA. 
  Cult of Hockey writers David Staples and Bruce McCurdy discuss the secret good thing about the Edmonton Oilers defenceman.
  
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• Early Alberta booze sales okayed for FIFA World Cup

  12-06-2018 20:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans will be able to grab a cold one while they watch the earliest FIFA World Cup matches, thanks to a blanket liquor licence extension across the province.
  The extension means liquor can be served as soon as the early games kick off — this Saturday, that means 4 a.m. for fans willing to get out of bed when Australia and France face off.
  With the tournament being played in Russia, the majority of early games kick off at 6 a.m. After June 25, that switches to 8 a.m. In Alberta, li
  
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• 'The worst is behind us': Evacuation order issued as flood waters threaten Slave Lake

  12-06-2018 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Few people were concerned when the rain began in the Slave Lake area Sunday morning.
  But then it intensified, and then came the wind.
  Come Monday afternoon “things started getting a little sketchy,” said town mayor Tyler Warman.
  In a 48-hour period close to 106mm of rain fell and rivers rose.
  At 2 a.m. Tuesday, residents in the Eating Creek and Marten Beach were told to leave their properties within 30 minutes before egress roads in the area became undrivable because of deteriorating
  
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• Photo gallery: 2018 Cappies gala award winners

  12-06-2018 20:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cappies is a program established in 1999 to celebrate high school theatre. The Cappies of Greater Edmonton was formed in 2007, and since then thousands of local high school students have participated, learning the skills of acting, stagehands, stage managers, set design, critical writing and much more. The season runs from November through May, and this year 19 Cappies productions were assembled throughout the region.
  On May 12, Cappies critics who had reviewed a minimum of four shows met to
  
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• UP+DT fest's Oct. 5-7 lineup includes Tanya Tagaq, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, SUUNS

  12-06-2018 20:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Powerful Inuit spirit-summoner Tanya Taqaq, Jamaican dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry, art-rockers SUUNS and indie rock’s Destroyer lead the charge in a wicked-looking Up and Downtown Music Festival lineup, running Oct. 5-7 through ten downtown venues.
  The first-released 2018 batch of over UP+DT 100 performers includes Jonathan Richman, Brant Bjork, Antibalas, Earthless, Mauno, Thao, Zeal & Ardor, Radio Moscow, Michale Graves of the Misfits, Astronoid, Language Arts, Too Att
  
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• Southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive to be widened to six lanes

  12-06-2018 19:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 18-kilometre stretch of the southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive is to be widened from four to six lanes, Alberta Transportation officials announced Tuesday morning.
  The expansion will run between Whitemud Drive and 111 Street and will cost around $100 million to complete, including $6 million for design work.
  That stretch of Edmonton’s ring road was designed for a volume of 40,000 drivers per day but is now seeing about 80,000 per day.
  The upgrade will bring capacity to 120,000 daily
  
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• Million-dollar fraud nets charges for former Red Deer ATB loan officer

  12-06-2018 18:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former Red Deer bank employee is charged with fraud and money laundering in connection to a million-dollar fraud from ATB Financial.
  Mounties began investigating the 38-year-old load officer in August last year after a complaint from the bank that a female worker had forged a customer’s signature and obtained a loan in their name.
  Members of the Red Deer RCMP fraud unit and ATB Corporate Investigations unit then traced a series of fraudulent transactions that included numerous loans 
  
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• Three kids orphaned after father dies on same road as mom, eight months later

  12-06-2018 17:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of three children orphaned when their father died in a motorcycle crash Saturday is “happy to have two guardian angels,” says a family friend.
  Three children under the age of 10 were left orphans Saturday when Marc-Andre Helie, 36, was killed after hitting a deer on Anthony Henday Drive.
  Eight months earlier, his wife, Stephanie Stuetz, 28, died in a crash just one kilometre away on the same highway.
  Their children are staying positive — just like their parents would have,
  
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• Council Briefs for June 11th

  12-06-2018 17:28
  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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• Alberta CN rail infrastructure to get $320 million overhaul

  12-06-2018 17:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadian National Railway Co. will spend $320 million this year to build new railway lines in Alberta and upgrade existing infrastructure with significant work expected to take place around Edmonton, the company said Tuesday.
  The rail company is planning to build about 20 kilometres of double track west of Edmonton across Parkland County and install a new bypass track at Walker Yard in the city to help improve train movements through the yard.
  Money is earmarked for the construction of a new&nbs
  
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• Early morning evacuation order issued as flood waters threaten Slave Lake

  12-06-2018 15:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flood waters are beginning to recede near the town of Slave Lake after overland flooding prompted an early morning evacuation order and flooding shut Highway 2.
  Residents in the Eating Creek and Marten Beach were told at 2 a.m. Tuesday to leave their properties within 30 minutes before egress roads in the area became undrivable because of deteriorating conditions.
  An Alberta Emergency Alert said the level of the Marten River was rising “due to heavy rainfall and log jams and is causing loc
  
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• Edmonton weather: Wind broke my shed. Thanks wind.

  12-06-2018 14:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 11.2 C with a 38 km/h wind coming from the northwest.
  A wind warning remains in effect for the city and surrounding area. Wind gusts upwards of 90 km/h will continue this morning before they taper off later this afternoon.
  Wind warnings also remained in effect Monday evening for such communities as St. Paul, Bonnyville, Cold Lake, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, Camro
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Pride ban ignores LGBTQ police, military members

  12-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Protesters at Saturday’s Pride parade say our city police, RCMP and military have nothing to be proud of with respect to the LGBTQ+ community. I beg to differ.
  In my 34 years as an out lesbian in Edmonton I’ve known many brave men and women who have broken down barriers to serve their communities and country.
  Standing next to me, my friend, a retired RCMP officer, was saddened to be told serving members of the force are no longer welcome in the Pride parade. We were all sad, angry an
  
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• Opinion: Ottawa opens one door for Alberta oil but slams another

  12-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As virtually everyone knows by now, the Trudeau government decided to address Canada’s inability to get pipelines built — from Alberta to tidewater — the old-fashioned way. It nationalized the last viable pipeline project, the twinning of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, and paid $4.5 billion for the existing pipeline.
  With that purchase, we have been assured, at least some of Alberta’s oil will access markets in Asia where it might command higher prices. If tha
  
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• Hometown hero: Victoria Cross winner from Edmonton honoured a century later

  12-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the night of April 27, 1918, George Burdon McKean, a Canadian soldier from Edmonton on the front lines of the First World War decided to take matters into his own hands.
  A machine-gun nest along the Lys River in France was causing trouble for the Royal Montreal Regiment. McKean charged by himself into the German trench where he landed on a startled enemy soldier. A sniper by trade, he was able to hold several German soldiers back fighting solo, giving his regiment enough time to join him
  
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• Montreal hockey writer proposes nasty poison pill for Edmonton Oilers in Milan Lucic trade

  12-06-2018 08:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Mathias Brunet, hockey writer for La Presse in Montreal, (with the help of the Lexilogos translation page), Brunet’s take on the poison pill the Edmonton Oilers should swallow in order to trade Milan Lucic to the Habs: “(Montreal GM) Marc Bergevin would manage a masterstroke to convince Chiarelli to give up him his tenth choice overall in 2018, as well as Lucic, in return for choices in the second and third rounds, and maybe a prospect.”
  My takeI would not write ab
  
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• Alberta beer battle brews over trade panel ruling

  12-06-2018 06:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is reviewing its response to a recent trade panel ruling hinging on the province’s small brewer development grant.
  Alberta must revisit its small brewers development grant after an appeal panel ruled the program “provides a competitive advantage” to locally produced beer.
  The panel found the grant “distorts the playing field and, as such, results in ‘less favourable treatment’ of beer produced in other provinces.”
  
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• Graham Thomson: Canada's politicians pile into bed with prime minister

  12-06-2018 05:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Politics sometimes makes for strange bedfellows — but what we’re seeing in Canada this week is a veritable orgy.
  Everybody is jumping in bed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: New Democrats, Greens, even Conservatives.
  Heck, especially Conservatives.
  Jason Kenney, Doug Ford, Andrew Scheer, Stephen Harper.
  Name any prominent Canadian conservative, particularly those who despise Trudeau, and odds are you’ll find them snuggled under the sheets, politically speaking, with the prim
  
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• Edmonton weather: Wind gusts cause power outages, down trees

  12-06-2018 04:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 5,000 Epcor customers were affected by wind gusts downing trees and power lines Monday in Edmonton.
  About a dozen primary circuits experienced power outages, starting from 6:19 a.m. The utility saw “a high volume” of isolated incidents, such as branches falling onto cables, company spokesman Tim LeRiche said.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue spokesperson Claire Graff said the department received 20 calls for power lines being down, as well as “a handful of calls” for heavy
  
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• Three kids left orphans after father killed in motorcycle crash

  12-06-2018 04:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of three children orphaned when their father died in a motorcycle crash Saturday is “happy to have two guardian angels,” says a family friend.
  Three children under the age of 10 were left orphans Saturday when Marc-Andre Helie, 36, was killed after hitting a deer on Anthony Henday Drive.
  Eight months earlier, his wife, Stephanie Stuetz, 28, died in a crash just one kilometre away on the same highway.
  Their children are staying positive — just like their parents would have,
  
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• Multiple small-venue shows as Mother Mother relives O My Heart

  12-06-2018 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mother Mother started in small clubs, and for the band’s current tour it’s back to the clubs they go.
  The Vancouver-based five-piece long ago graduated to theatres and larger venues on the back of hit records like 2014’s Very Good Bad Thing and last year’s No Culture, but for the 10th anniversary of their second release, O My Heart, the indie-rockers have decided to return to their roots, playing a set dedicated to the album that initially broke them nationwide.
  “We
  
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• Paula Simons: Superlab parkade plan like kryptonite for city councillors

  12-06-2018 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  The land where the University of Alberta’s South Campus sits has long been an urban flash point.
  Part of the land is owned by the university. Part belongs to the province. All of it is immune from city zoning rules. Both the U of A and the provincial government have the power to build there without getting planning approvals from city council.
  That means city councillors often have concerns — to put it politely — about how the university and the province are developing such a v
  
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• Police closed in on suspects sought for killing Mac's clerks outside third store

  12-06-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Robbery suspects wanted in a pair of convenience store killings were parked outside a third store when police caught up with them, a jury heard Monday.
  Laylin Delorme is on trial for two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of robbery with a prohibited or restricted weapon in connection to the shooting deaths of Mac’s convenience store clerks Ricky Massain Cenabre and Karanpal Singh Bhangu on Dec. 18, 2015.
  Earlier in the trial, the jury watched disturbing surveillance videos from
  
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• Free Edmonton thrift centre for those in need hoping to fund permanent home

  12-06-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton non-profit organization created to provide emergency aid to struggling families is asking for some help to fund a new location for a free thrift store.
  The Helping Everyone Access Resources Through Supports Thrift Centre, HEARTS for short, was operating out of a temporary location until the end of May after a December start. The space was initially donated to the group, but an increase in rent and utilities starting in April forced the group to look for another permanent home, founde
  
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• Female Mountie charged with impaired driving days after being cleared in 2016 case

  12-06-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A northern Alberta RCMP corporal recently cleared in a 2016 impaired driving case has been charged with the offence again.
  High Prairie RCMP were called June 1 to a convenience store after someone reported confronting a customer about being impaired. The complainant tried to get the woman to turn over her vehicle keys, but she refused, said RCMP in a Monday news release.
  When officers got to the store, they charged a corporal from the McLennan RCMP detachment with impaired driving. McLennan is a
  
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• Edmonton police investigate sudden death following disturbance

  12-06-2018 00:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police were investigating a suspicious death discovered after they were called to a disturbance Sunday.
  Officers who went to the scene around 11 p.m. at a suite near 115 Avenue and 124 Street found a 36-year-old man with significant injuries, according to a Monday news release.
  They performed first aid on the man, but he was pronounced dead at the scene by Emergency Medical Services.
  Police haven’t made any arrests and continue to investigate. An autopsy has yet to be scheduled.
  
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