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• Woman who killed Edmonton senior in 2003 to feed drug addiction denied day parole

  16-06-2018 23:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman serving a life sentence for murdering an Edmonton senior 15 years ago has been denied day parole.
  Darcy Penny Healey, 40, is serving a penitentiary sentence for fatally stabbing 70-year-old Genevieve Stokowski while the senior was in the detached garage of her northeast Edmonton home on Nov. 28, 2003.
  The Crown during the trial said Healey confronted Stokowski after the senior came home from visiting her then- 93-year-old mother, stabbed her, robbed her of her belongings includ
  
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• DNA could crack the 45-year-old cold case of Edmonton missing couple

  16-06-2018 18:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  If DNA evidence related to an Edmonton couple who seemingly vanished 45 years ago en route to eastern Canada is ever discovered, that may crack the case, say city police.
  Ron and Terry Yakimchuk disappeared 45 years ago this month. The popular couple set off from Edmonton in an old beat-up Volkswagon Beetle, planning to attend a wedding in Montreal before settling in the Maritimes.
  The last anyone reportedly heard from them was a postcard sent from Dryden, ON.
  Sgt. Kevin Harrison with the m
  
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• New pot law could be big boost for Alberta hemp industry

  16-06-2018 18:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  While pot smokers are cheering Canada’s looming legalization of recreational marijuana, the move is also poised to provide a big boost to the country’s growing hemp industry.
  Producers expect their revenues to soar because sections of the Cannabis Act will allow them to extract non-narcotic cannabidiol (CBDs) from hemp flowers, leaves and chaff that under current laws must be discarded.
  “It’s a game-changer for us,” says Diane Jang, chief executive of Hempco Food an
  
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• 19-year-old killed in rural Alberta rollover

  16-06-2018 17:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old driver died after his vehicle hit a light pole and rolled several times on a central Alberta highway on Friday.
  The man and a passenger were driving east on Highway 12 when the vehicle went off the road near Clive, Alta., Blackfalds RCMP said in a news release Saturday.
  The vehicle hit a light pole and then rolled several times in the ditch on the south side of the road.
  The driver was ejected during the crash. First Aid efforts were attempted when police and the Lacombe County Fir
  
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• Saturday's letters: Dairy a sacred cow for too long

  16-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If our federal government is to save NAFTA, then they are going to have to give on supply management.
  A small percentage of dairy farmers have had their own way for far too many years and have held Canadian consumers hostage to atrociously high prices. They apparently obtained memberships to narrowly vote in Andrew Scheer as Conservative leader over Maxime Bernier, who was planning to get rid of this flawed policy.
  It seems all politicians in every political party are protecting the dairy farmer
  
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• Opinion: Barring police from Pride parade pushes change

  16-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In response to Black Lives Matters’ request of Toronto Pride, many of us in our community wondered if Edmonton Pride would follow suit. It was fairly disappointing when they decided, apparently in consultation with members of the racialized Edmonton LGBTQ2S+, that it wasn’t a big enough issue within the Edmonton LGBTQ2S+ community.
  Earlier this year, some concerned racialized LGBTQ2S+ members sent a formal letter requesting that Edmonton Pride reconsider, because of the way that the
  
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• The Confusionaires front man muses about taking his own advice

  16-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Dave Johnston ponders his continuing career in music, he thinks about his daughter.
  “When you’re a realist, you tend to squash your own dreams about what is possible as a musician,” the Confusionaires front man muses. “But as a parent, you sort of want to live by example and show that nothing is unattainable, and there are times when I really think I should be taking my own advice.”
  He’s being hard on himself. The man known for decades as Fat Dave Johnsto
  
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• Preview: Solstice Summer Festival reaches out to wider audience

  16-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Summer Solstice Festival, presented by the Edmonton Chamber Music Society, is Edmonton’s major chamber music festival, and this year it is shaking things up a bit — not in its content, but in its presentation.
  For a start, there are none of the weekend concerts that are customary at such events. Instead, the festival starts on Monday, June 18, and runs through Friday, June 22, encompassing, of course, the summer solstice after which it is named.
  It has in the past held its main c
  
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• Libation inspiration for dad on Father's Day

  16-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pay tribute to dad this Father’s Day by either taking him out, or just spending time together with dinner at home and a gift just for him. If you are looking for libation inspiration, look no further — fire up the grill and pick up a beverage to pair with dad.
  If it’s the craft beer scene that he would enjoy most, head to one of our city’s microbreweries, such as Blind Enthusiasm, where you will be gob-smacked by chef Christine Sanford’s creative small plates at the
  
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• At The Cult of Hockey, The Edmonton Oilers and the 2018 NHL Amateur Draft: 9 Things

  16-06-2018 09:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have, sadly, been preparing for this draft for far too long.
  They could have, should have, been playing meaningful games in April, Stanley Cup Playoff Games.
  Alas, it was not meant to be.
  Instead, the organization has been tasked with sorting out just what went wrong in 2017-18 and where, and then reversing those fortunes PDQ. That process started with a re-set on the coaching staff, and with a re-tooling of talent at the AHL level.
  The re-signing of Drake Caggiula in recent
  
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• Wedding Tale: Couple finds 'mountain vibe' in Edmonton's river valley

  16-06-2018 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  MAKING CHOICES
  Wedding coordinator: MB&COMPANY (mbandcompany.ca)
  Wedding date: July 21, 2017
  Location: Old Timers Cabin (9430 Scone Rd. NW; oldtimerscabin.net)
  Photographer: Jessica Fern Facette Photography (jessicafernfacette.pixieset.com)Guests: About 150
  Designer: Cory Christopher Design (10525 111 St.; corychristopher.ca)
  First Dance: What are Words, by Chris Medina
  —
  When Nicolle and Geoff Shedden determined they wouldn’t have a mountain wedding, they settled on the next bes
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Should the Oilers trade Milan Lucic?

  16-06-2018 05:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oil Spills podcast roundtable of Postmedia Edmonton hockey writers Jim Matheson and Rob Tychkowski looks at whether the Edmonton Oilers should keep Milan Lucic or trade him.
  
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• The straight dope on testing cannabis

  16-06-2018 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Keystone Labs president Jodi McDonald talks about testing cannabis at the company’s Edmonton facility. The company is Health Canada-accredited.
  
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• Death of man found on Fort McMurray road was homicide, say RCMP

  16-06-2018 04:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The death of a man whose body was found on a Fort McMurray access road Wednesday has been ruled a homicide.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP on Friday identified the man as Fort McMurray resident John Bradley Healey, 36.
  Police found the body at about 5:40 a.m. Wednesday on an access road between Grayling Crescent and Abasand Drive, RCMP said in a news release Friday. An autopsy by the office of the chief medical examiner was completed Friday.
  Wood Buffalo RCMP and the RCMP’s major crime unit a
  
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• Nanotechnology breakthrough may allow cellphones to have breathalyzers

  16-06-2018 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cellphone breathalyzers may be on the horizon with the breakthrough by an Edmonton-based nanotechnology team.
  The special sensors, called nano-optomechanical systems, are normally studied in airtight conditions. But the research of nanotechnologist Wayne Hiebert, published in the journal Science on Friday, has found the sensors work better in the open air — making them candidates for everyday use. 
  Hiebert, a researcher at the Nanotechnology Research Centre at
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta trade minister gets more bad news

  16-06-2018 04:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  There must be days when Alberta Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous just wants to stay in bed with his head under the covers, the curtains drawn and his smartphone disconnected, says political affairs columnist Graham Thomson.
  
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• Edmonton can end chronic homelessness by 2020 despite setbacks, says Homeward Trust boss

  16-06-2018 03:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton built only 25 units of housing for the chronically homeless last year.
  Officials believe the city still needs 916 units and, on Friday, the community mourned 107 people whose lives were cut short in 2017 in part because of inadequate or no housing.
  Susan McGee, executive director of Homeward Trust, has been shepherding Edmonton’s plan to end homelessness for nearly 10 years. Reporter Elise Stolte sat down with her ahead of the memorial.
  Q: These are sobering statistics. Are you di
  
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• 'Two years is a statement': More than 100 homeless deaths in 2017 honoured at memorial

  16-06-2018 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lawrence Lathlin, better known as Muffin, was always willing to help his community.
  Boyle Street Community Services employee Chris Beausoleil remembers how on cold winter nights, Muffin would drag intoxicated people on a tarp from the daytime-only drop-in to local shelters to ensure their safety.
  “I’ve heard so many stories,” Theresa Lathlin said Friday. “I’m really, really proud of my son.”
  Muffin was one of the 107 people honoured at a service dedicated
  
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• Free legal options available for Edmonton sexual violence survivors

  16-06-2018 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six years ago, Elizabeth Halpin was on Whyte Avenue one evening when she became separated from her friends and ended up alone with an acquaintance.
  He took Halpin back to his apartment and sexually assaulted her several times. She wasn’t able to escape until the morning. During the attack, she was choked and beaten.
  Halpin shared her story Friday at Edmonton’s Elizabeth Fry Society where Alberta’s Status of Women Minister Stephanie McLean announced a $700,000 grant to the organ
  
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• New Brighton Block takes 1912 building to new heights

  16-06-2018 02:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Ernest Brown Block opened for business in 1912, the elegant Edwardian headquarters of Edmonton’s leading photographer, Ernest Brown. For years, the three-storey red brick and limestone building, later known as the Brighton Block, was one of the most iconic commercial buildings on Jasper Avenue, a symbol of Edmonton’s first great building boom.
  In 2003, the Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta bought the Brighton Block, along with the Lodge Hotel next door, with plans
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #234: The Beer And Byelections edition

  16-06-2018 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trade panel ruling about beer, a possible beer battle brewing, and changes to liquor laws thanks to the FIFA World Cup — this week in Alberta politics was all about beer.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Clare Clancy, Paula Simons and Graham Thomson to talk about the implications of all that happened on the booze file.
  The team also takes a look at who’s running in the byelections called this week for Fort McMurray-Conklin and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, and the ever-grow
  
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• Woman's death at Edmonton Remand Centre third such case in two months

  16-06-2018 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton Remand Centre inmate found unresponsive in her cell Friday is the third death being investigated at the jail in less than two months.
  Alberta Justice spokeswoman Louise McEachern confirmed by email that correctional staff administered CPR to the woman and that police and emergency responders were called, but the inmate was declared dead Friday afternoon.
  “The cause of death is unknown at this time, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is investigating,” McEac
  
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• Graham Thomson: Alberta's trade minister dealing with more bad news by the day

  16-06-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  There must be days when Alberta’s trade minister just wants to stay in bed with his head under the covers, the curtains drawn and his smartphone disconnected.
  Friday, for example.
  Albertans woke up to news Japan has stopped importing Canadian wheat.
  Canada sells $600 million worth of wheat every year to Japan — $200 million of that comes from Alberta.
  This bad news came at the end of a week that saw U.S. President Donald Trump ramp up his trade-war rhetoric with Canada while Alberta
  
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• Back from the dead? Coliseum pitches to get one final review

  16-06-2018 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Expect at least one more debate over the future of Edmonton’s Coliseum.
  Council voted in March to permanently close the facility without waiting for ideas for repurposing from the public.
  But architects and developers submitted ideas anyway, saying it would create a sense of place in a new residential development or provide a once-in-a-lifetime chance for Edmonton to create a mega-conference facility.
  Those ideas are heading to council’s urban planning committee Tuesday.
  It means the
  
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• Paula Simons: Edmonton city council will need flexibility to save historic Brighton Block

  16-06-2018 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Ernest Brown Block opened for business in 1912, the elegant Edwardian headquarters of Edmonton’s leading photographer, Ernest Brown. For years, the three-storey red brick and limestone building, later known as the Brighton Block, was one of the most iconic commercial buildings on Jasper Avenue, a symbol of Edmonton’s first great building boom.
  But the block fell on hard times. It became a rooming house. Then it became a run-down rooming house.
  The Ernest Brown Block — now k
  
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• Social Seen: Moet Chandon Grand Day

  16-06-2018 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie and follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie)
  Moet & Chandon Grand Day
  Where: Crawford Block Annex Building rooftop patio
  When: June 9
  What: Rooftop patio party celebrating 275 years of Moet & Chandon champagne
  Featuring:
  
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• Edmonton biker shot steroid dealer in face to impress Hells Angels

  16-06-2018 00:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A patched Tribal motorcycle gang member shot his steroid supplier in the face as a way to ingratiate himself to the Hells Angels after the dealer got on the bad side of the notorious outlaw biker gang, a judge ruled Friday.
  Jason Neilson, 45, was found guilty of attempted murder and several firearms charges after Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Douglas Mah rejected his argument that it was self-defence when he shot Adam Abumeita on Aug. 19, 2016.
  During the trial, Abumeita, 24, testified he
  
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• 'No Doritos in the lab': Keystone Labs expects continued growth as Alberta's biggest cannabis testing company

  16-06-2018 00:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite all the jokes about stoners and snack food, there aren’t any empty pizza boxes lying around Alberta’s largest commercial marijuana testing company.
  Instead, the workspace at Edmonton’s Keystone Labs looks like any other scientific facility, except for the tub holding 10 grams of dried cannabis flowers waiting to have their potency checked, and the occasional whiff of weed.
  “There are some days you can smell the cannabis throughout. The delivery guys come in and sa
  
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• Support for survivors of sexual violence

  16-06-2018 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Status of Women Minister Stephanie McLean announced a new pilot program Friday to support survivors of sexual violence.
  She was joined by Elizabeth Halpin, a survivor of sexual violence; Heather Sweet (Edmonton-Manning MLA) and Toni Sinclair (executive director, Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton). The announcement was held at the Elizabeth Fry Society in Edmonton on June 15, 2018.
  
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