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• New Westmount Village putting seniors' housing in a strip mall

  25-06-2018 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A highrise tower for seniors being built at a Westmount strip mall was touted Monday as one way to redevelop mature Edmonton communities and provide new housing options.
  “As every city ages, we need to have more diversity in our housing supply,” Mayor Don Iveson said Monday following a topping-off ceremony for the 14-storey structure.
  “This project will add to an existing town centre in Westmount, leverage the transit, leverage the mall, leverage the parks and give people more
  
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• Review Opera Nuova: Sci-fi echoes and random jokes in farcical The Arctic Flute quite entertaining

  25-06-2018 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you had heard that The Arctic Flute, director Michael Cavanagh’s ‘re-invention’ of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, was going to use the Far North as a setting for the opera, drawing parallels with the environmental challenges of today, and celebrating the magic of those polar regions, forget it all.
  Yes, Opera Nuova’s production, which opened at Sherwood Park’s Festival Place on Saturday, and which runs until June 30, used Mozart’s music. And, yes, one coul
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: The Works, Wedding Bells and Feats Festival of Dance

  25-06-2018 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Indigenous People’s Festival 
  First Nation, Inuit, and Metis peoples and cultures are being celebrated at this years Indigenous Peoples Festival over at Victoria Park on Thursday. The one-day festival features live concerts, bannock making, displays and interactive activities, as well as a pow-wow and artisan marketplace. There’s a park and ride service from Telus Field as well as shuttle service from Coliseum Transit Centre during festival hours; check the website for more deta
  
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• Steep Canyon Rangers pair bluegrass traditionalism with comic collaboration

  25-06-2018 22:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s more to the Steep Canyon Rangers than their role in aiding and abetting Steve Martin in his musical pursuits.
  The six-piece bluegrass band from Asheville, North Carolina, have certainly benefitted from their long association with the comedian and banjo player, but they’ve got their own career to work on as well. Which means that the band will be performing at the same venue in Edmonton twice in the space of a few months, this Saturday by themselves, and then in August with th
  
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• Savour Strathcona announces seventh edition of summer food festival

  25-06-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fans of the local food scene have lots to celebrate on Sunday, July 9 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. when Savour Strathcona County arrives in Sherwood Park.
  The event, held at the Strathcona County Community Centre Agora, located at 401 Festival Lane, boasts a host of local, independent restaurants and food trucks that will showcase the best of their delicious dishes to visitors. Musicians and other artists will also be on site to promote their offerings.
  New restaurants on site include Polos Social
  
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• Le Vins Bonhomme produces stellar selection of all-season wines

  25-06-2018 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is a story in every bottle, and the best part of my job is sharing those tales with customers.
  With smaller production wines, there is often a farmer, a winemaker — a real person that works hard to get their wines to market. Nathalie Bonhomme has a remarkable story. A rock star winemaker, Bonhomme produces fun, value-driven wines of exceptional quality with a recognizable label/brand that she created.
  Bonhomme is Canadian, born and raised in Quebec. She left to travel the world 27 ye
  
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• Social Seen: Stylin' 9-5

  25-06-2018 20:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stylin’ 9-5
  Where: The Helm Clothing
  When: June 13, 2018
  What: An evening focused on providing styling tips on how to build a versatile work wardrobe and how to get the most out of everyday work attire
  Featuring: Refreshments and eats, a presentation by owner Chad Helm and early access to sale items
  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 t
  
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• "He's going to be back": All the right things being said from Milan Lucic camp

  25-06-2018 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from the Milan Lucic camp, his agent Gerry Johnasson answering on whether a trade request was made to Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli: “I have not had that conversation with Peter. I can tell you this, it’s funny, cause I do hear this a lot when a player has a tough year, which Milan did, and when teams have a tough year, which obviously Edmonton did, you hear all sorts of crazy stuff that goes on. Obviously there’s a lot of frustration on everybody’s part — becau
  
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• Jury deliberates fate of elderly man accused of stabbing son-in-law to death

  25-06-2018 19:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A jury is deliberating whether an elderly Edmonton man intended to kill his son-in-law when he attacked him with two knives and a pellet gun.
  Jurors received final instructions Monday morning following a second-degree murder trial for 75-year-old Roberto Robles, accused in the 2016 death of Armando (Mandy) Aspillaga.
  Robles has conceded he committed manslaughter, and the jury heard Monday that they must now weigh whether or not the death was murder.
  “The distinction between manslaughter an
  
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• 'Like a bomb going off': Fire engulfs southeast Edmonton duplex

  25-06-2018 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A duplex in southeast Edmonton was severely damaged by a fire late Sunday night.
  Fire rescue responded to a fully engulfed building at 6 Avenue and 62 Street in the Charlesworth neighbourhood around 10:45 p.m. No flames were visible by approximately 11:15 p.m. and no residents were injured.
  Neighbours said they heard a loud “boom” sound.
  “(It was) like a bomb going off,” said Gary Crowe, who lives two doors down. He said the fire appeared to have started in a garage.
  Ther
  
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• Edmonton weather: Getting cloudy and windy, enjoy Monday

  25-06-2018 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning and we’re already at 21 C at Edmonton Blatchford, the temperature is expecting to hit a high of 26 C today which is nice. There are expected thundershowers this afternoon and the wind doesn’t seem to want to make up its mind with gusts expected to go as high as 80 km/h. Full forecast below.
  Today: Increasing cloudiness. A few showers with thunderstorms this afternoon. Wind becoming southeast 30 km/h g
  
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• 'It's offensive to Ukrainians': Russian vodka brand pulled from Alberta liquor stores

  25-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Russian vodka called Hammer + Sickle will no longer be imported into Alberta after the Ukrainian Canadian Congress raised concerns about its logo.
  The rectangular, white bottle features a red hammer and sickle symbol at the top. The label on the back proudly proclaims the drink as a premium Russian vodka.
  Its name and logo raised red flags for the congress and two NDP MLAs with Ukrainian heritage —Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview MLA Deron Bilous and Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville MLA Jessica Li
  
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• In-custody deaths spike at Edmonton Remand Centre, seven inmates died this year in provincial jails

  25-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More inmates died in Alberta jails in the first half of 2018 than in all of 2017, according to the province.
  Statistics provided by Alberta Justice show that the three recent deaths at the Edmonton Remand Centre bring the total number of people who have died in provincial jails so far this year to seven.
  Internal reviews of each of the seven deaths are being conducted, and two have been completed, Alberta Justice spokesman Dan Laville said in an emailed statement.
  But the findings of the reviews
  
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• City to end free parking for disabled: Councillor wants more accessible stalls

  25-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Changes to the city’s parking enforcement system is ending free parking for disabled drivers in any on-street spot, but one councillor says it is the low number of accessible stalls in the city overall that needs to be urgently addressed.
  There are 98 on-street accessible parking spots through Edmonton’s EPark system, but more than 30,000 residents with disabled parking needs, city operations spokesman Rohit Sandhu said in an email Thursday.Ward 1 Coun. Andrew Knack said it is clear
  
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• City threatens to pull revitalization funding from fragile Alberta Avenue

  25-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Staff and volunteers behind what’s likely Edmonton’s most successful revitalization effort in recent history have been left scrambling after city officials threatened to pull funding.
  The Arts of the Avenue initiative used festivals, music and art to draw neighbours together and changed perceptions of a long-term hotspot for prostitution and drug-related crime. It started in 2005 and its success won praise at home and around the world, including from former governor general Mich
  
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• Hundreds of pets unleashed in park for humane society fundraiser

  25-06-2018 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Duke and Dyson met for the first time at Hawrelak Park on Sunday. Almost immediately the fluff balls were best friends.
  It was the first Pets at the Park for three-month-old Duke, a St. Bernard, and four-month-old Dyson, an Australian Shepherd-Great Pyrenees mix, who had people oohing and aahing at them.
  The pups seemed both excited and a bit surprised at the attention but wagged their tails in appreciation.
  Dyson, 4 months old, makes a friend with three month old Duke at Hawrelak Park during Pe
  
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• Nick Lees: Grizzly bear spooks fellow cyclist on CASA ride to Jasper from B.C.

  25-06-2018 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cyclist Teresa Debevc-Cantalini had no idea she’d try to outrun a grizzly last week when at breakfast in Radium we heard danger lurked ahead.
  Our party was pedalling 820 kilometres from Kaslo, B.C., to Jasper and was in high spirits knowing we would raise some $150,000 to help youngsters and their parents with mental health issues.
  “Two kilometres from the summit of the very steep Sinclair Pass en route to Lake Louise we met this huge bear,” said Debevc-Cantalini, chairwoman of
  
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