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• 2018 FIFA World Cup: Germany unlikely to be challenged in Group F

  15-06-2018 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Germany are defending FIFA World Cup Champion edging Argentina 1-0 in Brazil four years ago, and becoming the first European country to win the tournament in South America.The Germans are back as strong as ever and are looking to become the only country to win back-to-back tiles since Brazil won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.Germany heads Group F with Mexico, Sweden, and South Korea. It is difficult to imagine any of those teams giving the defending champs any trouble, but second place in the gro
  
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• Remaking the Coliseum site: City asks public, not architects, for more input

  15-06-2018 22:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Housing or event space? City of Edmonton officials are looking to get public feedback on more than 100 ideas they received for redeveloping the former Northlands exhibition lands.
  But don’t go expecting to see a competition of ideas from Edmonton’s best architects and developers.
  City spokeswoman Jodi Tauber said planners took those ideas and consolidated common elements — bikes, housing, event space and others — and are seeking public reflections on that before developin
  
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• Chefs collaborate with local restaurateur in fundraiser for Crawford Block mural

  15-06-2018 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Michael Maxxis, co-owner of The Holy Roller, Have Mercy and El Cortez, has a dramatic dream. He’s hoping to commission a six-storey mural in Old Strathcona by the renowned Spanish artist, Okuda San Miguel, whose work can be seen on the streets and in the galleries of world-class international cities such as Hong Kong and Munich.
  This costs quite a bit. So Maxxis has initiated a series of events to help raise money for public art, including the Okuda mural, and other art projects in th
  
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• Building a new Northlands: City asks public, not architects, for more input

  15-06-2018 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Housing or event space? City of Edmonton officials are looking to get public feedback on more than 100 ideas they received for redeveloping the former Northlands exhibition lands.
  But don’t go expecting to see a competition of ideas from Edmonton’s best architects and developers.
  City spokeswoman Jodi Tauber said planners took those ideas and consolidated common elements — bikes, housing, event space and others — and are seeking public reflections on that before developin
  
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• Farmers worried after Japan blocks imports of Canadian wheat over GMO patch found in Alberta

  15-06-2018 20:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta farmers are concerned after Japan announced Friday it’s blocking imports of Canadian wheat following the discovery of an unauthorized clump of genetically modified wheat in southern Alberta.
  The Asian country is one of Canada’s biggest customers for the grain and bought $203 million worth of wheat last year from Alberta alone, making it the second-highest purchaser after the United States, provincial agriculture statistics show.
  “We just heard they’re temporarily
  
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• Edmonton weather: Maybe rain, could be clouds, be prepared

  15-06-2018 19:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday is looking to have a high of 22 C today but there could be clouds and rain this afternoon. If you’re out and about keep in mind that the UV index is a 6 or high.Today: Becoming cloudy this afternoon with a few showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon. High 22. UV index 6 or high.
  Tonight: A few showers ending this evening then partly cloudy. Risk of a thunderstorm early this evening. Low 11.
  Tomorrow: A
  
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• Todd McLellan should have been fired and 9 other unpopular opinions about the Edmonton Oilers

  15-06-2018 19:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Almost any fan who closely follows the Edmonton Oilers and talks about the team on Twitter, or even just with friends, will quickly realize that their personal view of the players and the team doesn’t not fully align with the views of other passionate fans.
  In fact, there are all kinds of areas of massive and fierce disagreement.
  I’m used to voicing my own opinion and defending it in public, but that doesn’t mean I’m not hesitant to say some things I believe to be true ab
  
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• Garfield's Jim Davis talks lasagna, Bill Murray and 40 years of Earth's most famous cat

  15-06-2018 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  In elementary school, I carried around a leather typewriter case full of Garfield books, stickers and toys. The other kids made understandable, vicious fun of me, and so running home crying, I threw it all out in an alley.
  But that night, I snuck out and carefully gathered everything up. From inside the case, that goofy, fuzzy face looked up and assured me choosing what I loved over those predictable kids was the right thing.
  To this day, I curl up with one of those bowling-ball-sized stuffed Ga
  
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• Dining Out: Reviewers left questioning concept of the Captain's Boil

  15-06-2018 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  It has to be one of the great unintentional one-liners in chain restaurant history.
  The Captain’s Boil?
  Say, what about the Pirate’s Pimple? Or maybe the Commodore’s Canker? Does the Governor’s Growth speak toothsome delicacies to you, dear diner? Mariner’s Measles? Diver’s Dermatitis? We could go on …
  Well, one thing, anyway. At least we know this yuks-laden moniker didn’t emanate from a Fortune 500 ad agency or, in this case, a series of GTA foc
  
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• Farmers worried after Japan halts sale of Canadian wheat over GMO patch found in Alberta

  15-06-2018 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta farmers are concerned after Japan announced Friday it’s suspending shipments of Canadian wheat following the discovery of an unauthorized clump of genetically modified wheat in southern Alberta.
  The Asian country is one of Canada’s biggest customers for the grain, buying up to $500 million worth of wheat annually from Alberta alone, Alberta Wheat Commission chair Kevin Bender said.
  “We just heard they’re temporarily suspending shipments, just to find out more info
  
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• Japan halts sale of Canadian wheat after Roundup-resistant patch found in southern Alberta

  15-06-2018 17:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Japan is halting its tender and sale of wheat from Canada after federal officials determined a rogue clump of Roundup-resistant wheat was found in southern Alberta.
  Japanese farm ministry made the decision after it was revealed Thursday that grain containing a genetically modified trait was discovered last summer in Canada’s Alberta province, according to a Friday morning Reuters story.
  A contractor reported last summer that a few stalks of weed wheat beside an oil access road survive
  
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• Friday's letters: Macedonians want progress, not a new name

  15-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It seems that a small country by the name of Macedonia is in the news again. This time, because the government has agreed on a name change to appease Greece.
  Regardless, the people of Macedonia have not voted or agreed on this so-called “celebratory” name change. Since 1991, Macedonia has struggled to gain international recognition as a sovereign state under its constitutional name and to survive internally as a democratic and pluralist state.
  Macedonia’s inability to prosper i
  
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• Editorial: World Cup is Edmonton's goal

  15-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hooray for Canada, Mexico and the United States which were together awarded the 2026 men’s World Cup on Wednesday.
  Holding the world’s most beloved sporting event for the first time in Canada is truly a big deal for this country in so many ways. As co-host, the Canadian national team is expected to gain an automatic berth in the tournament. That’s huge.
  Canada’s only other entry was in 1986 in Mexico where the team was shut out in all three games it played. But soccer in
  
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• Provincial assessment means reprieve for Minchau blacksmith shop

  15-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The stop button has been hit on the wrecking ball aimed at the A. Minchau Blacksmith Shop in Old Strathcona. At least for now.
  Heritage Forward, an organization focused on the city’s heritage, posted on social media Thursday that the province had ordered a historical resource impact assessment for the shop, which means that the building can’t be demolished at this time.
  A demolition application for the building was scheduled for a hearing June 20.
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• 'Meetings are broken' and Edmonton startup hopes artificial intelligence will fix them

  15-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An award-winning Edmonton-based startup, Testfire Labs, was founded on a simple premise: “Meetings are broken.”
  Company CEO Dave Damer said many meetings cost time and money to run, and many of them are unnecessary.
  Damer’s solution is his company’s artificial intelligent “assistant,” Hendrix.ai. Currently in its beta phase, it takes a meeting’s minutes, noting questions, answers and action items by listening via microphone. Its meeting summaries leave o
  
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• Freewill Shakespeare Festival celebrates 30th anniversary with old scripts and new tricks

  15-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As winds reaching 90 km/h whipped through her verdant theatre at Hawrelak Park, the artistic director of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival paid respects, as usual, to Mother Nature.
  “The park was closed, a lots of trees were falling, and we had some damage in the amphitheatre and we were indoors for a bit,” says Marianne Copithorne, commenting on the week leading up to the launch of the festival June 19.
  “What are you going to do? It’s an outdoor festival and you can&rsqu
  
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• David Staples: Sherwood Park Dairy Queen operator wins award for inclusive hiring

  15-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The path to businessman Mike Liber’s success in hiring people with mental disabilities started with his realization that your average teenager is woefully mediocre when it comes to cleaning up restaurant tables.
  Libe, 54, runs two Dairy Queen restaurants in Sherwood Park. He employs 100 workers, about 40 of them high school teens.
  The teens often do excellent work when they’re given a task such as cooking or taking orders, but give them the equally important job of cleaning tables an
  
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• Sherwood Park Dairy Queen operator wins award for inclusive hiring

  15-06-2018 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The path to businessman Mike Liber’s success in hiring people with mental disabilities started with his realization that your average teenager is woefully mediocre when it comes to cleaning restaurant tables. Liber, 54, runs two Dairy Queens in Sherwood Park. He employs 100 workers, about 40 of them are high school students.
  
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• Help improve the Edmonton Journal web experience by taking this brief survey

  15-06-2018 04:00 via edmontonjournal.com
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• Family, friends gather at tribute to legendary Golden Bears coach Clare Drake

  15-06-2018 03:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Family and friends, many from across the hockey world, gathered June 14 under the bright lights of the University of Alberta’s Butterdome to remember a hockey coach, father, friend and great-grandfather that achieved so much on and off the ice, Clare Drake. Over 700 people were invited to the event, from his former players to hockey greats.
  Each speaker told stories of a fair-minded, kind and competitive coach who pushed players to be better on the ice and off. Drake’s ethos was to s
  
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• Man charged in Edmonton's 15th homicide of the year

  15-06-2018 03:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police charged a man with second-degree murder Thursday, the same day they announced the killing was Edmonton’s latest homicide.
  Nathan Joshua Piche, 26, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon near Gibbons, Edmonton city police said in a news release.
  Officers responding to a disturbance call at the building near 115 Avenue and 124 Street around 11 p.m. Sunday found a man suffering “significant injuries,” police said.
  Though the officers attempted first aid, the man, 36, was
  
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• Illegal online drug dispensary shut down

  15-06-2018 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  An illegal online drug dispensary that was allegedly operating in Edmonton has been shut down. ALERT seized more than $600,000 worth of cannabis products, cocaine and psilocybin mushrooms. ALERT Edmonton’s organized crime team shut down the operation after a west Edmonton home was searched June 4, 2018. Investigators arrested three people who were allegedly operating a mail-order drug distribution network out of the home.
  The total value of the drugs seized was estimated at $618,000, and i
  
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• Worker rescued from trench collapse after four hours

  15-06-2018 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who was buried up to his shoulders in dirt for four hours Thursday was rescued by construction workers and firefighters.
  Acting district chief Todd Weiss said the man was buried while working on a sewer repair in the alley between 104A Avenue and 104 Avenue, and 45 and 42 streets in the Gold Bar neighbourhood. Fire rescue crews worked for four hours to dig him out after they were called to the scene after 2 p.m.
  The man was responsive and alert as he was brought up from the hole, said
  
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• Man who killed woman by mistake instead of estranged girlfriend convicted

  15-06-2018 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nicole Leanne Cooney was out for a walk with a friend when she was fatally shot by Lenny Lavallee, a judge ruled Thursday.
  Lavallee was convicted of second-degree murder by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Eldon Simpson, who found the prosecution’s case built on circumstantial evidence proved Lavallee shot Cooney while intending to kill Theresa Butler, her friend and his girlfriend.
  Lavallee had faced a first-degree murder charge, but Simpson found that while the evidence raised a &ldq
  
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• Roundup-resistant mystery wheat found in southern Alberta

  15-06-2018 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canadian grain export system has avoided an international black eye after federal officials determined a rogue clump of Roundup-resistant wheat found in southern Alberta was an isolated incident.
  A contractor reported last summer that a few stalks of weed wheat beside an oil access road survived treatment with the herbicide, and tests showed the plants were genetically modified, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) said Thursday.
  It was the first time unauthorized genetically modified
  
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• Supreme Court move highlights muddy rules for employers, workers ahead of cannabis legalization

  15-06-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Supreme Court move related to random drug testing signals blurred rules for employers and workers ahead of marijuana legalization.
  “We hear from supervisors, they ask ‘How much marijuana can I consume on Saturday and go to work safely on Monday?'” said Scott Boyer, chief executive of CannAmm Occupational Testing Services. “It’s a totally fair, legitimate question.
  “Employers right now are telling their staff ‘Zero is the safest.'”
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The secret good thing about Drake Caggiula

  15-06-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Drake Caggiula is originally from Pickering, Ont., and was born June 20, 1994.He played in the NCAA with the University of North Dakota, and in 2016, in his senior season, they won the national championship. He was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.On May 7, 2016, Caggiula agreed to a two-year entry-level deal with the Edmonton Oilers.
  Cult of Hockey writers David Staples and Bruce McCurdy discuss the secret good thing about Edmonton Oilers forward Drake Caggiula.
  
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• Strip mall security guard found guilty in stomping manslaughter, robbery

  15-06-2018 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The mother of a security guard found guilty of manslaughter Thursday approached the daughter of her son’s victim in court to offer a tearful apology.
  Court of Queen Justice Paul Belzil convicted Sheldon Russell Bentley, 37, in connection to the death of Donald Doucette, 51, finding that Bentley stomped on the sleeping man’s stomach, causing severe internal bleeding that caused his death.
  He also found Bentley stole $20 from the man, who was lying in a vulnerable position when Bentley
  
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• 'I call it justice,' says man, 75, accused of killing son-in-law

  15-06-2018 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sitting in a red chair in a tiny interview room at Edmonton’s downtown police headquarters, Roberto Robles patted away tears with the corner of a blanket draped around his shoulders.
  After some general chit-chat with homicide Det. Darrin Gordon that appeared to calm the then-73-year-old, he began to talk about his son-in-law, Armando (Mandy) Aspillaga, whom he is accused of killing.
  Robles told Gordon what happened to Aspillaga was not murder, it was “justice.”
  During a po
  
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• Manslaughter conviction in security guard stomping case

  15-06-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Court of Queen Justice Paul Belzil convicted Sheldon Russell Bentley in connection with the death of Donald Doucette, 51, finding that Bentley stomped on the sleeping man’s stomach, causing severe internal bleeding that caused his death.
  He also found that Bentley stole $20 from the man, who was lying in a vulnerable position when Bentley and another security guard encountered him in an alley behind a Lucky 97 store in a strip mall on July 31, 2015.
  
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• Habitat for Humanity Edmonton gets pair of new homes from local companies

  15-06-2018 01:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Edmonton families will be receiving keys to a new home and a fresh start thanks to donations from local homebuilders to Habitat for Humanity Edmonton.
  On Thursday’s Habitat Day in the Capital Region, new partner Coventry Homes and longtime donor Sterling Homes, in partnership with Qualico, announced they would be building and donating new homes to the initiative. Through the eight-year Habitat Day campaign in the city, 31 homes have been gifted to the organization.
  The price tag and lo
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Pride video Twitter battle, protection of historic Smoky Lake hall

  15-06-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP and United Conservative Party were in a Pride video Twitter battle Wednesday, trumpeting their respective leaders’ different rainbow celebrations.
  The UCP tweeted out a video of Opposition leader Jason Kenney flipping pancakes and speaking at a party Pride breakfast, along with the message: “Thank you to everyone who joined us last weekend for the UCP Pride Breakfast. It was a beautiful morning to support tolerance and inclusion.”
  The NDP responded with video 
  
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• 'Some magic': Working Warriors police-led program turns former young offenders around

  15-06-2018 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nine teens and young adults are in their seats in the basement of Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society by 9 a.m. Monday, ready for class to begin.
  Outside the front door is a warning that it will close promptly when the clock hits nine and if locked out, any tardy student will miss out.
  But Edmonton Police Service community and youth services manager Michelle Fillion says students showing up late hasn’t been a problem because this program is unique.
  “It’s unexplainable, but t
  
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• City of St. Albert Supports Pride Crosswalk

  15-06-2018 00:48
  Volunteers using donated paint creating temporary crosswalk this weekend The City of St. Albert is pleased to support the creation... Read Post
  
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• Millennium Park Open House – Concept Reveal

  15-06-2018 00:18
  Come out to witness the reveal of the final Millennium Park concept! The City of St. Albert will be hosting... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton Oilers invest two more years into utility winger Drake Caggiula

  15-06-2018 00:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers took care of the first of four Restricted Free Agents on Thursday when they announced a two-year contract extension for utility forward Drake Caggiula.The devil is in the details, specifically that pertaining to cap hit. To this point no terms have been made public beyond the two-year duration of the deal. (Why the clubs don’t routinely announce this critically important fact in the cap era escapes me entirely, but no doubt word will seep out eventually..) Until the cap hit
  
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