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• Live: Housing team makes last-ditch effort to save Northlands Coliseum

  19-06-2018 22:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A development team keen on using the Coliseum for the centrepiece of a new mixed-use housing project will get one chance to see the idea to city council Tuesday.
  The group Agora Borealis says putting housing into the memory-filled old arena will give the new development a sense of place. Since the bones of the building are still strong, the apartment units could line the outside and a wide, open atrium inside.
  An update on the city’s exhibition lands redevelopment plan work is heading to c
  
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• 'The way of the future': Edmonton to embrace artificial intelligence for new traffic signals

  19-06-2018 21:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sitting at a red light in an empty intersection? This could soon be a thing of the past as Edmonton adopts new smart technology for its traffic signals.
  On Tuesday, city officials committed to buying only smart signal-compliant infrastructure from here on in, and they’ll pitch several corridors to test the technology as a connected system in September.
  The signals adapt to traffic conditions in real time and, when deployed on a longer corridor, send messages to other connected signals to a
  
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• Matt Benning re-ups with Edmonton Oilers on a two-year deal

  19-06-2018 21:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers took care of another piece of off-season business on Tuesday with the announcement that Matt Benning has signed a two year extension with the NHL club.As usual the club was circumstepct about announcing the terms, but we didn’t have to wait long for the key details:That averages out to a $1.9 million cap hit for the next two years. No doubt that figure will cause paroxysms of anguish in certain corners of Oil Country, but it’s not bad value for an emerging right-shot
  
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• Edmonton's 1900-era homes at risk: Glenora residents call for freeze on demolitions

  19-06-2018 20:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Glenora residents on Tuesday called for a freeze on the demolition of the area’s heritage homes, worried accelerating pace of development will destroy a gem in Canada before any protection can be put in place.
  “It’s one of the best preserved garden city suburbs in Canada,” said Lynn Odynski, a resident and member of the Old Glenora Conservation Association, describing the history of one of Edmonton’s first suburbs which dates back to the early 1900s.
  The neighbourho
  
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• Blue-green algae found in parts of Isle Lake

  19-06-2018 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s summer in Alberta.
  The proof? Blue-green algae are in full bloom.
  Alberta Health Services issued an advisory Tuesday morning that a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom has been identified in areas of Isle Lake.
  People living by Isle Lake shores, as well as visitors are asked to avoid all contact with the algae, not swim or wade, not allow pets to swim or wade in areas with algae and not feed fish or fish trimmings from this lake to pets.
  AHS also asked people to not drink or cook w
  
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• Housing team makes last-ditch effort to save Northlands Coliseum

  19-06-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A development team keen on using the Coliseum for the centrepiece of a new mixed-use housing project will get one chance to see the idea to city council Tuesday.
  The group Agora Borealis says putting housing into the memory-filled old arena will give the new development a sense of place. Since the bones of the building are still strong, the apartment units could line the outside and a wide, open atrium inside.
  An update on the city’s exhibition lands redevelopment plan work is heading to c
  
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• More than 85% of K-3 classes in Alberta's big city school districts fail to meet size targets

  19-06-2018 16:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the booming south Edmonton neighbourhood of Rutherford, library shelves have been pushed into the atrium and hallways of Monsignor Fee Otterson Catholic School to make room for its youngest students.
  When the school ran out of classrooms, principal Marie Whelan’s fix was to gather about 40 kindergartners in one large space with plenty of supervision — two teachers and an educational assistant.
  “Everybody would appreciate a smaller class size; I think that’s just human
  
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• Toddler struck by a vehicle in southwest Edmonton parking lot

  19-06-2018 15:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  A toddler was struck by a vehicle Monday evening in a southwest neighbourhood parking lot.
  Around 8:30 p.m., a child was hit in the vicinity of 115 St. and 41 Ave. The victim was taken to hospital with “significant but non-life-threatening” injuries, police said.
  No charges have been laid, but the Edmonton Police Service Major Collisions Unit is investigating as of late Monday night.
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's 'burn-your-feet-on-the-deck' hot out there

  19-06-2018 14:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 13.9 C with a 5 km/h wind coming from the southwest.
  A heat warning remains in effect for the city of Edmonton, and much of northern Alberta. “A prolonged period with maximum daily temperatures reaching near 29 C or above and minimum overnight temperatures near 14 C or above is expected to begin Monday and continue through the week,” reads the warnin
  
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• Tuesday's letters: GST and carbon tax much alike

  19-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenny and the Conservative clan from the entire country are out there bashing the carbon tax.
  They say that it will kill jobs, hurt the economy and will make life for families more difficult. After all, the Conservatives are champions of lower taxes. But wait a minute. Kenny and his crew must remember the year his Conservative cousins in Ottawa implemented the nasty tax called the GST.
  The year was 1991 and Canadians have been paying into the GST ever since. It cost the country millions up
  
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• Opinion: Let's study impact of mortgage stress tests on home ownership

  19-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Despite espousing to be great champions of the middle class, the Ottawa Liberals don’t seem too concerned with one of the most significant cost-of-living issues currently facing Canadian families —their mortgages.
  In fact, that is the exact message the Liberals sent to Canadians when they voted down, on two separate occasions, motions before Parliament’s finance committee that would have studied the effects of the most recent, and drastic, changes to federal mortgage rules know
  
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• Paula Simons: Confronting Alberta's class-size crunch demands CSI detective work

  19-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  CSI.
  In other jurisdictions, those letters stand for Crime Scene Investigation, the sort of forensic detective work beloved by TV viewers.
  In Alberta, CSI stands for Class Size Initiative. And it needs forensic investigation, too.
  In 2004, the province established its CSI fund to reduce class sizes in Alberta’s public schools. Since then, the province has given more than $2.7 billion to Alberta school districts to help school boards meet provincial class-size targets.
  But the class size in
  
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• Infographic: Where class sizes are failing to meet targets in Alberta's largest cities

  19-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In January, Postmedia filed freedom of information requests to the public and Catholic school districts in Calgary, Edmonton and Red Deer — Alberta’s three biggest cities.
  For the 2017-18 school year, we asked each district for:
  • The number and proportion of classes in K-3, Grades 4-6, junior high and high school that exceeded the target class sizes set by the Alberta Commission on Learning.
  • The number and proportion of junior high and high school classes that had 35 or
  
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• Alberta class sizes: Here's where the province's largest cities are overflowing with students

  19-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Picture this.
  An Edmonton Grade 10 math class filled with 45 kids.
  A Calgary school with 46 students crammed into a Grade 11 science class.
  Junior high schools in Red Deer so crowded some Grade 7 and 8 students are now hosted by elementary schools.
  Classes with 40 or more students were no anomaly in Alberta’s three biggest cities this school year — numbers far exceeding average class-size targets set 15 years ago by the province.
  Freedom of information requests filed by Postmedi
  
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• Consider this about prospect Ty Smith: when it comes to points scoring he's super elite

  19-06-2018 08:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bob Stauffer of the Edmonton Oilers has constantly mentioned Ty Smith of Lloydminster as a player interest for the 10th overall spot in the draft.
  This has led to some consternation in Oil Country, as some fans worry this is the Oilers again over-valuing another Western Hockey League player, just as the team has done repeatedly in the last decade.
  In 2007, Edmonton drafted Alex Plante of Calgary 16th overall. In 2010, Curtis Hamilton was taken 48th. In 2011, David Musil was drafted 31st and Trav
  
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• World Cup Roundtable: England avoids disappointment with late goal

  19-06-2018 07:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Expectations are high for England at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and they began the tournament with a 2-1 win against Tunisia on Monday.For a long time in the contest, it appeared England were going to be held to a draw by Tunisia, but Harry Kane scored his second goal of the game in stoppage time to rescue the win.Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun Sports Reporter Derek Van Diest brought together a group of soccer enthusiast to discuss the first few days of the tournament.
  Joining Van Diest, who is
  
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• Glenora residents angry with west LRT design

  19-06-2018 05:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents have been “duped” into accepting an LRT system that is far different than the urban-style train sold to city council, say angry Glenora residents.
  Concept designs show a train running down tracks in the middle of a tree-lined street with heritage homes.
  In reality, that urban-style LRT didn’t fit, several Glenora residents told council’s executive committee Monday.
  Instead, LRT planners have designated 1,120 trees for destruction, including all the matu
  
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• Covenant Health walks ethical tightrope between Canadian, canon law on assisted death

  19-06-2018 03:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  In policy and in public, Covenant Health maintains a hard line against medical aid in dying, two years after a new Canadian law on assisted suicide came into force.
  Alberta’s Catholic health provider requires patients to leave its hospitals, nursing homes and hospice beds to receive the service, or even be assessed for eligibility.
  Yet behind the scenes, internal communications obtained by Postmedia show a health organization that has wrestled with dissension, doubt and sensitivity to
  
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• Graham Thomson: Rachel Notley constructing a cabinet with political greenwood

  19-06-2018 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a shuffle in every sense of the word. Not a giant leap forward or even an inventive little two-step. This was a shuffle, moving without lifting your legs, as if your feet are shackled together.
  Not that we expected much more from Monday’s cabinet shuffle.
  Premier Rachel Notley took a pair of tweezers to her cabinet, plucking out two ministers who had already announced they would not run in the next election: Brandy Payne, the associate minister of health, and Stephanie McLean, the m
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in crash near Grande Prairie

  19-06-2018 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A motorcyclist was killed late Saturday in northern Alberta after a pickup turned in front of the bike near Beaverlodge.
  The pickup was travelling north on Highway 724 when it turned left on Township Road 722 in front of the southbound motorbike at around 10 p.m., Mounties said Monday.
  A 43-year-old man from Grande Prairie died at the scene. The male driver of the pickup was not injured.
  Next of kin has been notified and the identity of the deceased will not be released, police said.
  The collisi
  
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• Province launches Indigenous training program for 27,000 public servants

  19-06-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government launched a training program Monday aimed at educating more than 27,000 public servants about Indigenous history.
  “It’s an interactive session throughout the day infused with knowledge and exercises,” said Indigenous Relations Minister Richard Feehan at a news conference, noting the training will include a ceremony with Indigenous elders.
  The budget, with a cost of about $100 per person, is pegged at more than $2.7 million over the next three years.
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• Alberta Premier Notley condemns weekend arson at Edson mosque

  19-06-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  An arson attack on a mosque in Edson over the weekend is an “affront to all Albertans,” Premier Rachel Notley said Monday.
  The blaze started at about 11 p.m. Saturday near the south entrance of the mosque and burned for about 15 minutes before being extinguished by the local fire department.
  Mounties deemed the fire suspicious and were investigating. No one was injured.
  “Albertans stand with you in condemning this act in the strongest of possible terms,” Notley told
  
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• Man suffers life-threatening injuries after gunshots reported at 118 Avenue apartment

  19-06-2018 00:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man in his 30s was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries Monday morning as police responded to reports of gunshots outside an apartment building along 118 Avenue.
  Police questioned a crowd of onlookers outside the Skyview Apartment building, 12948 118 Ave., just after 11 a.m.
  An ambulance — with lights and sirens activated, along with a police escort — then left the area in the Sherbrooke neighbourhood, heading down 118 Avenue.
  Residents said they heard gunshots and saw
  
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• Edmonton screen industries seek $4 million in city cash

  19-06-2018 00:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton film, television and gaming industry leaders are hoping a new $4-million taxpayer-backed venture capital fund can reboot the industry.
  That would create new jobs and stem the flow of young adults trained in the film industry, who now get a couple jobs here and then move to Vancouver, Montreal and elsewhere.
  “We have to staunch the bleeding of people,” said Josh Miller, executive director of the one-year-old Edmonton Screen Industries Office.
  He pitched the new fund to city c
  
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