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• Residents wake to shirtless man scaling balconies on Saskatchewan Drive apartment building

  17-06-2018 22:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  At first it was just a pair of legs dangling from the balcony above.
  But soon, an entire man materialized on Emily Thomson and Cayman Alexander’s fourth-floor apartment balcony.
  The appearance of a shirtless, agitated man about 8:30 a.m. Sunday provided a startling wake-up call for the young couple who live in a north-facing apartment building on Saskatchewan Drive.
  “We just woke up to shadows and noises outside our balcony,” Alexander said, speaking outside the building as pol
  
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• Shirtless man arrested after scaling Edmonton apartment building

  17-06-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A shirtless man was arrested by Edmonton Police Service officers after he was caught scaling an Edmonton apartment building at 10711 Capital Boulevard in Edmonton on June 17, 2018. Resident Cayman Alexander recalls seeing the man climbing down past their fourth floor apartment, using a metal pipe attached to the building. He awoke to seeing the man climb down from above. Police took the climber into custody on the ground near Saskatchewan Drive shortly before 9am.
  A resident heard a man scaling
  
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• The good, the bad, & the unsustainable of Edmonton Oilers' winger Ty Rattie

  17-06-2018 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in reviewTy Rattie
  “Small sample size.” Let’s get those words out there right up front in case I forget to mention it later. It applies in spades to the case of Ty Rattie and his abbreviated time as a member of the Edmonton Oilers.
  Rattie was one of a group of small bets GM Peter Chiarelli made last July of free-agent “tweeners”, guys that been around North American pro ranks for a few years without ever finding a foothold in the NHL. The iss
  
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• St. Albert RCMP commander's strategy aims at building 'trust in the police' - Edmonton Journal

  17-06-2018 11:01
  Edmonton Journal
  St. Albert RCMP commander's strategy aims at building 'trust in the police'
  Edmonton Journal
  St. Albert RCMP detachment commander Insp. Pamela Robinson has policed pockets of Alberta for 18 years and is acutely aware that crime stats alone never tell the whole story. “Statistics are double-edged,” said Robinson, who has held positions in ...
  
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• St. Albert RCMP commander's strategy aims at building 'trust in the police'

  17-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert RCMP detachment commander Insp. Pamela Robinson has policed pockets of Alberta for 18 years and is acutely aware that crime stats alone never tell the whole story.
  “Statistics are double-edged,” said Robinson, who has held positions in serious crime, crime reduction and organized crime units over the years.
  Take for instance an increase in the numbers of sexual assaults in the community in the first quarter of 2018.
  Between January and March, 12 people reported being sexua
  
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• Laughable trade speculation around Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Cam Talbot

  17-06-2018 06:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s the silly season of nonsense and rampant boosterism in the National Hockey League where trade speculators in Toronto and New York outdo one another in devaluing Edmonton Oilers hockey players and proposing oddball trade scenarios.
  Exhibit A is Larry Brooks of the New York Post, who has been around hockey a long time, who writes: “(New York Rangers GM Jeff) Gorton is believed to have talked with Edmonton, and might be willing to accept Milan Lucic and his five-year, $30 million
  
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• World Cup fans cheer with beer during early morning games

  17-06-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rowdy, howling soccer fans with drinks in hand were on their feet in pubs across the city at sunrise Saturday morning, cheering World Cup soccer.
  Albertans are 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. Liquor can be served as soon as the early games kick off — on Saturday, that meant 4 a.m. for fans willing to get out of bed when Australia and France faced off.
  Some of the fans ga
  
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