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• RCMP investigate slaying of 25-year-old Peerless Lake man

  27-06-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old man in a small northern Alberta community was killed Monday, and police are looking for information.
  Red Earth Creek RCMP responded to a call about an injured man at a residence at Peerless Lake around 4:15 a.m. Monday, said an RCMP news release Wednesday.
  The man was pronounced dead on scene by emergency medical services.
  An autopsy by the chief medical examiner in Edmonton Tuesday deemed the death a homicide.
  The investigation is ongoing. RCMP Major Crimes South is asking for any
  
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• Meuwly's Artisan Food Market newest hip addition to 124 Street

  27-06-2018 21:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A long-anticipated business has arrived on 124 Street, and it’s a valuable contribution to the area’s already hopping food scene.
  Meuwly’s has opened its doors at 10706 124 St. It’s a food market brought to you by Will Kotowicz, Peter Keith and Glendon Tan — a creative collection of meat lovers, chefs and business types with a concept sure to resonate with the local food community.
  At a hip launch complete with D.J., the trio showed off their new digs, located in th
  
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• Farm workers allowed to relieve themselves in fields, drive without seatbelts under new rules

  27-06-2018 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  New Alberta farm health and safety rules released Wednesday mean agricultural workers will be able to go to the bathroom in fields and drive equipment without wearing a seatbelt.
  The technical regulations, which take effect Dec. 1, are among more than a dozen measures aimed at increasing protection for farm workers being introduced under the recently updated OHS Act.
  They were devised after almost two years of consultations with agricultural groups following an outpouring of rural anger at Bill
  
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• Edmonton restaurants offer fun in the sun pushing their patio scene

  27-06-2018 20:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  From a tiny table or two perched outside an elegant emporium like Duchess Bake Shop on 124 Street to the roiling mass of humanity wearing flip flops that is Julio’s Barrio on Whyte Avenue — the patio in Edmonton assumes a multitude of forms between now and snowfall.
  Everyone has their idea of what works best when it comes to eating au plein at a restaurant. Some people like a broad-based scene well suited to people watching. Others prefer something intimate. There are your sun-seeker
  
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• Evan Bouchard & rest of Oilers 2018 draft picks get high marks from top scout

  27-06-2018 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from independent scout Mark Seidel of NA Central Scouting, his high grade for the work of the Edmonton Oilers on draft day: “EDM – Grade A-: The Oilers got 3 good ones & a long term project with the 4th. Bouchard is a lock to patrol that blueline for years while McLeod will push the pace when he gets there. Rodrique gave them the best goaltender in the draft & Kesselring might be worth waiting for.”Seidel is a long-time and respected scout. Bouchard and Ryan McL
  
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• Getting on track: First Valley Line LRT train car sets out on month-long trip to Edmonton

  27-06-2018 19:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bombardier on Wednesday met a major milestone for the Valley Line LRT project, shipping the first light rail car to Edmonton.
  The car left the factory in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday morning and TransEd officials say it will be in Edmonton by the end of July.
  When it arrives, the rail car will first be set up in the Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre parking lot — “so that everyone can get a feel for its size and impressive branding,” said Sue Heuman, spokeswoman for TransEd, the
  
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• Council Briefs for June 25th

  27-06-2018 18:29
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• NDP to create provincial hate-crimes unit as part of plan to fight racism

  27-06-2018 18:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is creating a provincial hate-crimes unit with police as part of broad plan to combat racism in the province, Education Minister David Eggen announced Wednesday morning.
  The province is also establishing an anti-racism advisory council and a grants program for community groups fighting racism in the province.
  The programs are part of a long-promised report on racism in Alberta.
  Indigenous and other ethnic groups will comprise the advisory council, and g
  
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• Order up: Misericordia Hospital offers bedside menu selection

  27-06-2018 18:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Patients at Misericordia Hospital can now have breakfast all day or Asian chicken stir fry for lunch and dinner — if they so desire.
  The hospital’s new made-to-order meal service, available for about a month, has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and health outcomes, Carol Lajoie, corporate director environmental supports at Covenant Health, said on Wednesday.
  The new meal plan is expected to improve nutritional intake and cut food waste, she added.
  The menus, of which there
  
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• Off-duty Mountie bitten, punched attempting to stop shoplifter: woman arrested

  27-06-2018 17:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman has been charged after an off-duty RCMP officer was punched and bitten while trying to stop a shoplifter at a Wetaskiwin grocery store.
  The off-duty officer was attempting to arrest a woman for shoplifting at a Wetaskiwin Safeway on Monday when a second woman attacked him, biting and punching him, before the pair fled in a minivan with a male passenger, said police in a Wednesday news release.
  Mounties eventually caught up to a vehicle, which had been stolen in Calgary, in a rural part o
  
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• Helicopters rescue 160 people trapped on Whistlers Mountain in Jasper

  27-06-2018 17:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of tram riders were stranded overnight at the summit of Jasper’s Whistlers Mountain after a power surge Monday, giving them a rare view of the summer night sky.
  The Jasper SkyTram stopped working Monday afternoon because of a power surge, stranding 160 passengers and staff at the summit of the mountain — an elevation of 2,500 metres — around 4 p.m. Two helicopters evacuated about 110 people Monday evening before the sunset. The remaining 50 spent the night at the tram&r
  
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• Edmonton weather: Some sun, some clouds, whatever Wednesdays

  27-06-2018 15:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  It’s Wednesday morning and we’re sitting at a nice 14 C observed at Edmonton Blatchford, that’s 58 F if you were wondering. We get a high today of 22 C and a low of 11 C. Winds could pick up this morning and evening gusting up to 50 km/h. Tomorrow looks more of the same so here’s a song from Enya.Today: Cloudy. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud this morning. Wind becoming west 30 km/h gusting to 50 this morning
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Gondola will devalue river's character

  27-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “No public cash for gondola,” Editorial, June 7
  The North Saskatchewan River is not a Thames, a Rhine or a Seine. It is a mountain, parkland and prairie river, its treed banks deep green in summer, golden in the fall, a perfect setting for a backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Edmonton. It does not need more infrastructure clutter — cable cars whizzing overhead all hours of the day — to detract from its essentially pastoral aspect as a natural corridor.
  The Edmonton T
  
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• Opinion: Time for a new 'Kananaskis' southwest of Edmonton

  27-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Located southwest of Edmonton, along the scenic David Thompson Highway, the Bighorn Backcountry is a vast area of mountains and foothills adjacent to Banff and Jasper National Parks.
  It represents the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River that flows downstream through Edmonton. Currently not formally protected as a recreation and conservation area, the region has flown under the radar and receives limited resources for management.
  Land-use planning for the North Saskatchewan region, includi
  
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• From The Cult of Hockey: The big-game hunting Edmonton Oilers have turned in their rifles

  27-06-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  At one point, this Spring, the verbal on the Edmonton Oilers was that Peter Chiarelli would go “big game hunting” in the off-season.
  Stung by a result that fell well short of its promise, the General Manager would seek out the one ingredient that could make it all better. In defence of the reporter who uttered that phrase (which hasn’t aged well), even Bob Nicholson mused during a radio interview one day how the club needed “that #1 D-man”.
  Then, all of a sudden, th
  
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• Inflammation can improve rehab for chronic spinal cord injuries, U of A researchers find

  27-06-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Receiving a mild inflammation well after a spinal cord injury could help nerves reconnect in the rehabilitation process, U of A researchers found in a recent study.
  Using rats with chronic spinal cord injuries, the team administered the rodents with a drug to cause a mild inflammation and then began a high-intensity training program to find there was a gradual improvement in performance.
  “For traumatic injuries, you can’t do much in the acute phase,” U of A professor Karim Foua
  
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• Oilers development camp: Day 2

  27-06-2018 06:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The second day of the Edmonton Oilers development camp at the downtown community arena in Rogers Place was a long and hard effort for the 24 players wearing the blue, white and orange.
  The group of four goalies, eight defencemen and 12 forwards endured a 90-minute session starting with a skill session and ending with a scrimmage.
   
   
   
  
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• Group of Jasper SkyTram riders stranded overnight on Whistlers Mountain

  27-06-2018 04:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of tram riders were stranded overnight at the summit of Jasper’s Whistlers Mountain after a power surge Monday, giving them a rare view of the summer night sky.
  The Jasper SkyTram stopped working Monday afternoon because of a power surge, stranding 160 passengers and staff at the summit of the mountain — an elevation of 2,500 metres — around 4 p.m. Two helicopters evacuated about 110 people Monday evening before the sunset. The remaining 50 spent the night at the tram&r
  
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• Education minister responds to opioid deaths among youth

  27-06-2018 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Education Minister David Eggen spoke at the Alberta legislature on Tuesday to a report by the Alberta child and youth advocate on 12 young people who died of opioid poisoning.
  Advocate Del Graff said the support available for youth with addiction issues is inadequate, and that staff in schools, hospitals, and other public service roles missed critical opportunities to intervene as the teens’ lives spiralled out of control.
  Graff said the Alberta government should create a youth-specific st
  
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• David Staples: Pity the Edmonton taxpayer and give it a rest on property tax increases

  27-06-2018 03:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s time to take pity on the poor taxpayer. City council should give it a rest when it comes to property tax increases.
  In its new statement of principles for government spending, council has pledged itself to equity, the notion that it will take special care to look out for the needs of the downtrodden and the oppressed.
  When applied to the coming city budget, equity should mean one thing: that the city stop its relentless increase in property taxes on homeowners, many of whom are on fix
  
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• Edmonton Oilers Summer Development Camp, Day Two: Glimpses of possible futures

  27-06-2018 02:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Day Two of Oilers Summer Camp was a lot more interesting than Day One, with actual pucks in play during an interesting series of scrimmages.
  Due to other commitments I missed the “skills” portion of Tuesday’s session, so this report is limited in its scope. I arrived in time to catch an extended series of full-ice shifts that started with 3 skaters vs. 3, then was cut down to 2 on 2, then cut down again to 1 on 1 which included a shift for each skater. Brought back memories of
  
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• Twelve teen deaths spur opioid addiction strategy by Alberta child advocate

  27-06-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government should create a youth-specific strategy by the end of 2019 to respond to an epidemic of deadly drug use, Alberta’s child and youth advocate said.
  In a review of the deaths of 12 young people who died from opioid poisoning in two years, advocate Del Graff said the support available for youth with addiction issues is inadequate, and that staff in schools, hospitals, and other public service roles missed critical opportunities to intervene as the teens’ lives spir
  
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• City council predicts coming budget debate will be about cuts, not big dreams

  27-06-2018 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a tax freeze on the table and a tighter budget than many councillors have seen yet, this city budget won’t be about new initiatives.
  It will be about how deep to cut.
  A new business advocacy group, Prosperity Edmonton, is calling on city council to freeze taxes, saying increases are driving business from the city and can’t be sustained while the economy continues to sputter.
  Coun. Mike Nickel said he supports that call, while Mayor Don Iveson said he wants to hold the increase t
  
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• Council orders city to take next step on Alberta Avenue revitalization

  27-06-2018 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials will start working on a new revitalization plan for Alberta Avenue immediately and hold off a planned funding cut.
  City council voted Tuesday to consider new funding for that effort in this fall’s budget debate, stressing that no one wants to see this fragile neighbourhood slide backward.
  “If we get it wrong, then we lose 10 years of work,” warned Coun. Ben Henderson, asking city officials to look at how long other cities support damaged neighbourhoods when t
  
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• Road users reminded of the rules of the bike lanes

  27-06-2018 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton bike education street team and Edmonton Police Service spoke with motorists, cyclists and pedestrians along the downtown bike network on Tuesday June 26, 2018, reminding all road users of the rules when travelling along the protected bike lanes.Motorists are reminded that right turns on red lights are no longer permitted at certain intersections. An infraction carries a fine of $233.
  
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• Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools recognizes staff, determines borders - MorinvilleNews.com

  27-06-2018 02:05 via morinvillenews.com
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  Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools recognizes staff, determines borders
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  Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools held their last Board of Trustees 2017-2018 Regular meeting on Monday night. The meeting included the recognition of staff members for their academic achievements during the year. Four were recognized for completion ...
  
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• Edson mosque youth to visit as Eskimos commemorate Broncos tragedy

  27-06-2018 01:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Youth members of a mosque lit on fire in Edson recently are getting free tickets to watch an Edmonton Eskimos game.
  The Eskimos, who play the B.C. Lions at Commonwealth Stadium on Canadian Armed Forces Appreciation Night Friday, are bringing 25 youths and their chaperones from the Edson mosque, which was lit on fire in an arson attack two weekends ago.
  Rose Mary Phillip, Edmonton Eskimos vice-president of communications and marketing, said the team made the move because it’s a chance to sh
  
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• Bike lane street team hits road in effort to educate commuters

  27-06-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  With only 29 per cent of non-cyclists feeling confident around the rules of protected bike lanes, the city’s bike education street team and police officers are hoping to educate motorists to keep everyone safe — and also spare them a $233 fine.
  Three members of the bike education street team joined Edmonton police members on 109 Street and 100 Avenue during morning rush hour Tuesday to talk to all road users about safety around the protected bike lanes on the downtown bike network, j
  
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• Edmonton apologizes, keeps free parking for disability placard holders

  27-06-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  On-street parking will continue to be free for Edmonton residents with mobility challenges after city officials issued a public apology Tuesday.
  The city planned to cancel a long-standing program that gave people with accessibility placards free on-street parking. It told residents who use those placards last week that it is moving to a new EPark system with automated enforcement and cameras that would not recognize the placards.
  But the community was outraged. Disabled residents said they need
  
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• Alberta towns and cities call for marijuana money

  27-06-2018 00:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) complained Tuesday its members still need money to deal with the Oct. 17 legalization of recreational marijuana.
  They want 70 per cent of the federal cannabis excise tax the provincial government receives and a $30-million fund to help with the move to a new legislative and regulatory framework, said an AUMA news release Tuesday.
  The organization representing Alberta cities, towns and villages says legal recreational pot will increase costs for
  
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