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• 'Just come clean': NDP attack ad claims Kenney is hiding his true values

  20-06-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney is the focus of a new attack ad rolled out on social media Tuesday by the Alberta NDP.
  The animated ad shows Kenney in a locker room, clad in a jersey while a coach talks him through how to execute a $700-million tax cut. It even has its own website.
  “Ok Jason, you’re new here, that’s good for us. People don’t know the real you – let’s keep it that way,” the coach says.
  The ad harkens back to the same line th
  
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• Joe Ceci will talk equalization payments with Ottawa

  20-06-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Joe Ceci talked about his priorities, including equalization fairness, for the upcoming finance ministers’ meeting in Ottawa on June 26.
  In 2014, Alberta lost $6.5 billion in revenue from non-renewable resource royalties and received a meagre $251 million out of the federal Fiscal Stabilization Program, he said.
  “It just shows you how inadequate it was … Albertans have not seen the benefit of this program for decades while th
  
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• Servus Credit Union Place to close amenities in June for annual spruce up and floor resurfacing

  20-06-2018 22:36
  Fitness and track June 25-27 | Children’s playground floor replacement June 25-29 The Tailor Made Insurance Fitness & Wellness Centre... Read Post
  
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• Old Strathcona's streets could be rebuilt for 30 km/h driving

  20-06-2018 22:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Old Strathcona neighbourhood could pioneer a new mix of sidewalks and streets designed to slow vehicles to 30 kilometres per hour.
  The area is on the verge of an overhaul as part of the city’s neighbourhood renewal initiative to replace sidewalk and rebuild roads. But the replacements planned for Old Strathcona could look quite different from previous neighbourhood renewals.
  Just don’t expect 30 km/h signs at every entrance.
  This project will encourage lower speeds t
  
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• Borden Park natural swimming pool opening delayed again with filtration system leak

  20-06-2018 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents ready with their swimsuit and towel in hand for the long-awaited opening of the Borden Natural Swimming Pool will have to wait a little longer.
  Crews found a small leak in the filtration system while preparing for the opening of the $14.5-million natural swimming pool that was set to open Friday, said Jesse Banford, the city’s director of facility infrastructure delivery.
  The pool will be the first of its kind in Canada without the use of chlorine or salt to purify the w
  
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• NDP floats new cap on campaign donations for city elections

  20-06-2018 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  New limits on campaign donations suggested Wednesday could dramatically change how Edmonton city elections are funded, reducing the clout of the development industry.
  Alberta Municipal Affairs released its new online survey on municipal campaign financing Wednesday, asking citizens if they would prefer “per donor/per year” limits.
  That would mean one developer could not longer give up to $5,000 to his or her preferred candidate in each ward, as some seem to do now. He or she might be
  
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• Connor McDavid's remarkable season may have been Hart-less, but it sure wasn't pointless

  20-06-2018 21:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  2017-18 Edmonton Oilers in reviewConnor McDavid
  Tonight the 2017-18 National Hockey League season formally comes to a close when the league’s annual awards will be presented in Las Vegas. They will represent the last meaningful details on the season gone by, before the focus formally switches to the future two days hence with the NHL Draft in Dallas.
  We at the Cult of Hockey are also drawing the curtain on a severely disappointing 2017-18 season for the Edmonton Oilers with this, our final
  
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• Equalization 'has not worked': Joe Ceci slams program ahead of Ottawa meeting

  20-06-2018 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s finance minister slammed the federal equalization program Wednesday ahead of an Ottawa meeting where he said he’ll be calling for changes to balance the scales.
  “I’m going to be doing that as loudly as I can,” Minister Joe Ceci told reporters at the legislature. “The program has not worked for Alberta, even during the depths of our recession which started late 2014.”
  That year, Alberta lost $6.5 billion in revenue from non-renewable resource ro
  
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• Wednesday's letters: 'City hall knows best' on LRT plan

  20-06-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re.“Glenora community ‘duped’ on LRT impact, residents say,” June 19
  “We need to find places to empower … administration to do their work rather than second-guessing them.” Thus spake His Worship Mayor Iveson.
  Words to live by: Administration knows best. Our’s is not to reason why.
  Fred Mitchell, Edmonton
  Not too late to save trees from LRT
  In most cities, the planned destruction of over 1,100 mature trees would be a scandal. The planned route for
  
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• Brief Obit: Taras Ostashewsky

  20-06-2018 19:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fans of Edmonton’s culture scene were saddened by the death of Taras Ostashewsky on June 13, 2018. He was 64 years old.
  Those of a certain vintage will remember Ostashewsky as manager of S.U. Records in HUB Mall for over a decade, ending in the early 1990s. For several decades he put much of his energy into volunteering for the Edmonton Jazz Society, and then as public relations officer for the Jazz City International Music Festival for some 25 years. He was also a long-running radio host
  
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• RCMP looking for answers in sudden death of transgender woman

  20-06-2018 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Strathcona County RCMP are looking for answers in the sudden death of a 34-year-old transgender woman whose body was discovered in a rural area in March.
  Myrah Whitstone was last seen near 118 Avenue and 83 Street in Edmonton earlier this year. Her body was discovered along Highway 16 east of Sherwood Park on March 24.
  Police described Whitstone in a news release as “a trans woman who was connected to the transgender community in Edmonton.” A news release sent out when her body was d
  
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• 'Disgusting': 72% of Alberta inmates haven't been convicted of crimes — the highest proportion in Canada

  20-06-2018 17:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seven out of every 10 people behind bars in Alberta haven’t been convicted of their alleged crime, a statistic the head of a local prisoner advocacy group called “disgusting.”
  Data released Tuesday by Statistics Canada show Alberta has the largest proportion of remand inmates in the country, with 72 per cent  awaiting trial as opposed to serving a sentence.
  “That means that the majority of our people in jail, they’re actually not guilty,” said Chris Hay,
  
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• Justin Faulk? Tyson Barrie? Colton Parayko? Can Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli bolster the Oilers blueline?

  20-06-2018 16:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the end, Oilers’ fortunes likely rests not on a trade, but on Sekera’s comeback attempt
  My bet is that the Edmonton Oilers won’t be able to bring in another useful National Hockey League d-man this summer.
  I say that even as a number of defencemen are available or likely available on the trade market, including Carolina’s Justin Faulk and likely Colorado’s Tyson Barrie. This information comes from insider Bob Stauffer of the Oilers, who also has mentioned Co
  
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• Postmaster in tiny Perryvale accused of mail theft

  20-06-2018 16:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The postmaster in a rural hamlet north of Edmonton has been accused of mail theft.
  Athabasca RCMP said in a news release Tuesday that the female postmaster in Perryvale — located about 100 km north of Edmonton — was arrested for theft of mail following an investigation earlier this year.
  The arrest came after a joint RCMP-Canada Post investigation that began in March.
  On March 15 the postmaster was allegedly caught with mail delivery items with a tracking device and a
  
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• Edmonton weather: Look at me, I'm Chandler, could it be any hotter outside?

  20-06-2018 14:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday 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 central and northern Alberta. Heat warnings have also been extended to Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of Northwest Territories.
  “A prolonged period with maximum daily temperatures reaching near 29 C or above and minimum overnight
  
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• David Eggen: Province is tackling large class sizes with more teachers, new schools

  20-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Over the last three years, I’ve had the pleasure of opening dozens of schools and meeting with hundreds of teachers, parents and students in Alberta’s education system. One thing I’ve heard most clearly from all of them is that small class sizes mean more individual attention for students and better learning outcomes for kids.
  I couldn’t agree more.
  When oil prices dropped off a cliff, and government revenue with it, we were faced with a stark choice: We could cut and fir
  
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• Seven out of 10 Alberta prisoners haven't been found guilty of a crime — the highest proportion in Canada

  20-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seven out of every 10 people behind bars in Alberta haven’t been convicted of their alleged crime, a statistic the head of a local prisoner advocacy group called “disgusting.”
  Data released Tuesday by Statistics Canada show Alberta has the largest proportion of remand inmates in the country, with 72 per cent  awaiting trial as opposed to serving a sentence.
  “That means that the majority of our people in jail, they’re actually not guilty,” said Chris Hay,
  
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• NDP to release report tackling racism several months late

  20-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is gearing up to release a long-awaited report on combating racism in the province, several months after the initial deadline.
  “It took longer than I thought, but we wanted to make sure we got it right,” Education Minster David Eggen said last week.
  In July 2017, Premier Rachel Notley tasked Eggen with coming up with recommendations to promote inclusion and diversity in Alberta. The report, informed by conversations with 100 community organizations as
  
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• 'It's just a wall of noise': Teaching classes of 30, 40 kids demands creativity, sacrifices

  20-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  School can be a chaotic place for little William Fry.
  The five-year-old is in a kindergarten class of 33 at Tipaskan School in Mill Woods. He also has Down syndrome, and severe speech and fine motor skills delays, his mom Shannon Epler explained.
  There’s one teacher and two education assistants in the classroom. They do a great job, but they can get overrun by the sheer number of kids, Epler said.
  “You go into the class and it’s just a wall of noise,” she said.
  Parents an
  
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• Is it time Alberta replaced class-size targets with class-size caps?

  20-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Everything’s on the table” to better track and achieve class-size targets in Alberta, Education Minister David Eggen said.
  In the wake of a February auditor general’s report blasting the government’s lack of plan to achieve class-size goals, the education ministry’s summer priority is to study how to tackle the problem, Eggen said in a May interview.
  Eggen did not rule out class-size caps, as used by Ontario and B.C. to keep student groupings small.
  “We
  
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• Indigenous elders join U of A to share traditional knowledge

  20-06-2018 04:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  When a young Bert Auger made his way down from northern Alberta to study social work at what was then Grant MacEwan College, he felt what many Indigenous students still feel when they leave their communities — isolation.
  Being one of just two Indigenous students among 300, Auger would routinely want to leave the big city for the safety of his family and friends and sense of community he left on Whitefish Lake First Nation #459.
  Now, with more than three decades of social work behind him, t
  
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• Edmonton Catholic chooses new school board chair, name for Orchards school

  20-06-2018 04:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Laura Thibert is the new chairwoman of the Edmonton Catholic school board, trustees decided Tuesday.
  Thibert, who was also board chairwoman during the 2016-17 school year, replaces Terry Harris, who led the board after the October 2017 civic election.
  “Catholic education is a sacred gift and I am extremely proud to represent the board in this capacity,” Thibert said in a Tuesday news release.
  Thibert was first elected to the school board in 2010.
  Trustee Sandra Palazzo was also re-el
  
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• Flair Airlines moves headquarters to Edmonton from Kelowna

  20-06-2018 03:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flair Airlines will be calling Edmonton home, moving its headquarters from Kelowna, B.C., by the end of 2018.
  The low-fare airline announced Tuesday that its seven-plane fleet, which travels to 10 cities across Canada, will make its home base at the Edmonton International Airport.
  The airline already has 76 staff in the city, executive chairman David Tait said, and the relocation will bring about 75 jobs from Kelowna, with more than 300 jobs planned in the next few years.
  “This is really t
  
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• David Staples: It's best to dream small with former Coliseum site

  20-06-2018 03:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it comes to the redevelopment of the old Northlands Coliseum site, I think I’ve got a case of post-Blatchford stress disorder.
  At the much-delayed Blatchford redevelopment, the city is acting as the developer of the former downtown airport. The city hopes to build a net-zero greentopia, but one that will likely take hundreds of millions of dollars in government investment to be fully realized, if it ever is, and that’s far from a sure thing.
  I’ve sat through many years of
  
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• No new money for class-size reduction in Edmonton Public Schools' budget

  20-06-2018 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Public Schools will now explicitly track how it spends provincial money meant to keep class sizes manageable, its chief financial officer said Tuesday.
  However, a nearly $1.2-billion budget that public school trustees approved Tuesday contains no change in money directed to controlling class sizes.
  “It’s not a complaint that we’re getting,” board chairwoman Michelle Draper said in an interview.
  A Postmedia investigation into class sizes in Edmonton, Calgary and R
  
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• Free parking for people with disabilities to end with new automated enforcement system

  20-06-2018 02:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Residents who require disabled parking are worried the city’s new automated parking enforcement system will hurt their ability to get around.
  People with accessible parking placards can currently park at any EPark stall for free, but will be required to pay when the new system is implemented in July.
  Placard holders were notified of the change in a letter dated June 13 from deputy city manager Gord Cebryk.
  Mirella Sacco said she is still in shock after receiving the letter, and hasn’
  
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• ‘It’s about common sense’: Architect’s group vows to keep fighting for Edmonton’s Coliseum

  20-06-2018 01:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A team trying to save Edmonton’s Coliseum didn’t get far Tuesday at City Hall, but vowed to keep gathering public support for their vision and try again.
  “It’s not done as long as that building is still standing,” said architect Ben Gardner, promising to return when council debates demolition in the fall.
  He wants to save the bones of the 40-year-old former hockey arena, converting it into a sun-filled indoor atrium lined with housing for seniors and students. It wo
  
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• Indigenous elders join U of A to bridge culture gaps, share traditional knowledge

  20-06-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  When a young Bert Auger made his way down from northern Alberta to study social work at what was then Grant MacEwan College, he felt what many Indigenous students still feel when they leave their communities — isolation.
  Being one of just two Indigenous students among 300, Auger would routinely want to leave the big city for the safety of his family and friends and sense of community he left on Whitefish Lake First Nation #459.
  Every time he went to leave, the dean of social work and a &ld
  
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• LRT ridership increases, but overall Edmonton Transit use down slightly

  20-06-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of people using Edmonton Transit has dropped slightly between 2013 and 2017.
  Bus ridership dropped about seven per cent, and LRT ridership increased about 11 per cent, but overall ridership went down about three per cent.
  “I think our system is too inefficient,” Ward 1 Coun. Andrew Knack said last week. “The issue is the ability to access the service in all parts of the city, to be able to get from one point of the city to the other. I mean, unless you’re comin
  
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• 2018 FIFA World Cup Roundtable: England avoids disappointment with late goal

  20-06-2018 00:49 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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• 2018 FIFA World Cup Roundtable: North American to host 2026 tournament

  20-06-2018 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2026 FIFA World Cup is coming to Canada.Prior to the start of this year’s World Cup in Russia, FIFA delegates awarded the 2026 tournament to a join bid put in by Canada, the United States and Mexico.The united North American bid beat out Morocco for the right to host the tournament, which will be expanded to feature 48 teams and 80 games.Canada and Mexico are slated to each host 10 games, with Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal designated as possible host cities.Edmonton Journal and Edmont
  
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• Privacy commissioner issues guidelines in light of post election paper-shredding

  20-06-2018 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner wants to see more in-depth training for government workers who deal with freedom of information and privacy requests.
  The office also wants the government to close a loophole that allows some public bodies to avoid being subject to the Alberta government’s records management program.
  The recommendations are contained in two new reports, released Tuesday.
  Request tracking falls flat
  The first report, written by senior infor
  
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