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• Council endorses 'community hub' plan for new Heritage Valley high school

  10-07-2018 21:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council approved a $5.5 million grant Tuesday to include community meeting space, an extra gym and track in the proposed new Dr. Anne Anderson High School.
  The facilities would be shared space, open to the community for booking when the new high school isn’t using it. That means scouts groups, community leagues, dance clubs or arts groups could have a space to meet since there are no community league buildings south of the Anthony Henday, said Coun. Tim Cartmell.
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• Cigarette smoking ban for parks, Whyte Avenue on table as council debates cannabis

  10-07-2018 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new, widespread ban on cigarette smoking in parks is now on the floor as a by-product of council’s debate on cannabis.
  Coun. Michael Walters put a motion on the floor to align the rules around cannabis and cigarette smoking, and to simplify them by preventing smoking anywhere in a park that has facilities that attract children. That means cigarette smoking would also be banned anywhere in Hawrelak Park, Terwillegar Park or most school yards.
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• Edmonton city council debating cannabis smoking on public sidewalks, near children

  10-07-2018 19:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Council is set to debate cannabis smoking rules for public sidewalks and parks Tuesday and may tighten the rules endorsed by its committee.
  Health experts have called the proposed regulations the most liberal in the world, comparing Edmonton to other jurisdictions with fully legalized pot use. But even councillors who first supported that original proposal are wondering if it strikes the right balance.
  Coun. Ben Henderson said he wants to ensure children don’t see people smoking, which nor
  
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• Wildlife: enormous golden Amitaba Buddha on its way to live in rural Alberta

  10-07-2018 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  An enormous Buddha — the tallest human-based figure in Western Canada — is on its way to rural Alberta.
  The bronze Amitaba Buddha — “Infinite Light” in Sanskrit — is due to arrive in pieces this fall, where the spiritual artwork will live at Westlock Meditation Centre on RR 270 north of Busby, 73 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
  The Amitaba Buddha under construction in China. The giant statue will live at Westlock Meditation Centre northwe
  
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• I'm OK with Peter Chiarelli's biggest gamble for 2018-19. Are you?

  10-07-2018 17:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers are strong and deep at a number of positions heading into the 2018-19, but there’s no denying GM Peter Chiarelli is taking one big gamble.
  At right wing, Chiarelli is betting that a couple young veterans or rookies are going to step up and seize the day playing on lines with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
  I’m OK with that bet, partly because there’s little else that Chiarelli could do to improve the team because of its salary cap constraints and without
  
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• Fort McMurray bans public cannabis consumption

  10-07-2018 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Consuming or producing cannabis publicly in Wood Buffalo will not be allowed, after council unanimously passed three bylaws regarding marijuana regulation at a special council meeting Monday.
  Council also determined passed bylaws keeping cannabis retailers in urban areas at least 150 metres away from schools and provincial health care facilities, childcare centres and rehabilitation centres.
  In rural areas, this barrier would be at a minimum of 100 metres.
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• Edmonton weather: Rain in the forecast — you've been warned

  10-07-2018 14:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 17.8 C with a 9 km/h wind coming from the southwest. We’re supposed to get rain throughout the day, and there’s a risk of a thunderstorm this afternoon and overnight. Don’t forget your umbrella today!
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. Becoming cloudy this morning with 30 per cent chance of showers late this morning and early this afternoon. A few
  
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• Senior struck and killed by train at Camrose rail crossing: police

  10-07-2018 14:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 71-year-old man was killed Sunday when a mobility device he was driving was struck by a train at a rail crossing in Camrose.
  According to Camrose Police Service, the senior was struck by an eastbound Canadian Pacific train at a crossing in the city at about 8:45 p.m.
  Police received several 911 calls about the collision, responding along with fire crews, paramedics and rail police.
  “Witnesses confirm that the signal crossing lights were flashing, the audible bell was sounding and the tra
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Canadians priced out of parks

  10-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Over the last two weeks we had friends visiting from France. I had booked hotels in early March in Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. We stayed in Canmore as I couldn’t find any place in Banff that wasn’t outrageously expensive and also fully booked through September.
  These are our national parks, which we pay taxes to support and should be able to enjoy. These hotels are not affordable to most Canadians. The fact they drastically increase rates over the summer is also not right.
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• Opinion: People must take dangers of FASD seriously

  10-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  At first glance, Travis doesn’t seem like someone who was born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Towering well past six feet, Travis appears to be a standard young adult —charming, personable, and handsome. But looks can be deceiving, and the effects the mental illness has had on Travis’ life are anything but mild. On top of having FASD, Travis has prefrontal cortex damage in his brain, exacerbated by years of abuse and neglect. Prolonged time spent with Travis revea
  
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• Opinion: Harper was right to speak out on Iran

  10-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The criticism levelled at former prime minister Stephen Harper for speaking to a “Free Iran” rally near Paris June 30 is unfair. At that rally, Harper thanked the tens of thousands of participants for their “long battle for a free and democratic Iran,” without endorsing any political party.
  Harper wasn’t alone at the rally. Canada’s delegation at the event included the former prime minister, Liberal MP Judy Sgro, former Conservative foreign minister John
  
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• Edmonton real estate stalls: Highest inventory in 10 years, says Royal LePage

  10-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s housing market inventory has reached a 10-year high, according to Royal LePage.
  The real estate company’s survey of housing statistics in the city shows that overall prices decreased in the second quarter of 2018, with the aggregate home price dropping 1.4 per cent year-over-year to $377,218.
  Two-storey homes reserved the most value, falling just 0.7 per cent year-over-year to $436,722, while bungalow prices went down 1.5 per cent year-over-year to $369,100. Condo pri
  
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• Taking a deep dive in search of Edmonton Oilers' depth wingers

  10-07-2018 12:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects:Depth wingers
  It’s that time of year again, folks. We begin our eighth annual Cult of Hockey Edmonton Oilers prospects series a month earlier than we did one summer ago, as there were none of those pesky playoff games to divert our attention this spring.
  As was the case last summer, in 2018 we have identified 38 players on the Oilers’ extended roster who meet our single criterion — eligibility for the Calder Trophy. In one sense not much has
  
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• Smiles, guffaws and giggles at Gazebo Park with street performers

  10-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton International Street Performers Festival is back for more fun, laughter and deft-defying acts from July 10-15. This year due to light rail transit construction blocking off its traditional home in Churchill Square, the festival will take over the streets and byways around Dr. Wilbert McIntyre Park, also known as Gazebo Park, in Old Strathcona.
  The festival, now in its 35th year, sees performers from across the world come to Edmonton to share their skills in front of live audiences.
  
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• People Project: Gold panner Robin Rosborough

  10-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  World Gold Panning Championship competitor Robin Rosborough has been panning for gold across Western Canada for more than 30 years.
  Canoeing along the North Saskatchewan River one day, Rosborough and a friend came along a prospector working a sluice box on the bank. Since that day, he’s been a teacher of gold panning methods as well as a competitor in gold panning sports.
  Robin Rosborough, a gold panner with the Alberta Gold Prospectors Association and competitor at the World Gold Panning
  
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• 'Not all smooth sailing': City council set to vote on city manager contract after rough first term

  10-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council is gearing up to vote on whether or not to renew city manager Linda Cochrane’s contract after a term marked by upheaval and negative news.
  During Cochrane’s nearly three years at the top, councillors wrestled with reports of widespread workplace bullying, several damaging audits and still haven’t found a solution for problems with the Metro LRT Line. They’ve been through numerous re-organizational charts as Cochrane broke up and restructured departments.
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• St. Albert charity tournament commemorates Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims - Edmonton Journal

  10-07-2018 09:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  St. Albert charity tournament commemorates Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims  Edmonton JournalA charity hockey tournament in St. Albert to commemorate 16 people killed and 13 injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash kicked off Friday with a puck drop ...
  
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• Police locate missing 14-year-old boy diagnosed with autism safe and unharmed

  10-07-2018 07:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 14-year-old boy police were searching for has been located safe and unharmed.
  Police had asked the public to help locate him after he was last seen in the Bonnie Doon area at about 1 p.m. on Sunday.
  The boy has autism and several other diagnoses, police said in a news release Monday. He also requires medication and functions at the level of a seven-year-old.
   
  
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• RavenQuest Cannabis BioMed unveils new facility in Edmonton

  10-07-2018 03:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cannabis company unveiled what it described as state-of-the-art cannabis production technology.
  RavenQuest BioMed Inc. unveiled its “Orbital Garden technology — OG 2.0,” a design where hollow drum-like equipment is stacked three high and two wide, thereby allowing for 500 square feet of growing space inside a 64-square-foot footprint. The technology was unveiled Monday at the 4,500-square-foot facility, which is still being completed at 164 Street and 132 Avenue.
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• Council endorses 25-storey tower, new vision for Holyrood Gardens

  10-07-2018 03:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Regency Developments’ pitch to redevelop Holyrood Gardens won support from city council Monday after an intensive six-month redesign.
  The proposal now has a narrow 25-storey tower at the southwest corner of the site and a variety of four- to 12-storey apartments.
  “This is a substantially improved design,” said Ward 8 Coun. Ben Henderson as council voted unanimously for the design.
  During negotiations with the community, the developer also agreed to include 120 family-sized unit
  
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• 'It's concerning': City reacts to Greyhound bus service cancellations across Western Canada

  10-07-2018 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A major hub in Western Canada, Mayor Don Iveson says the cancellation of Greyhound bus service will have “huge implications” on Edmonton.
  “As the northernmost major Canadian city and a hub for an awful lot of important things that happen in Western Canada, it’s concerning,” Iveson told reporters just after hearing the news. “It is going to have implications for labour mobility for people, for people getting home to their families in different communities that
  
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• Police seek public help in finding missing 14-year-old boy diagnosed with autism

  10-07-2018 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are asking for the public to help locate a missing 14-year-old boy.
  Cory Brgan was last seen in the Bonnie Doon area at about 1 p.m. on Sunday, and police are concerned he may try to leave the city or province.
  Brgan has autism and several other diagnoses, police said in a news release Monday. He requires medication and functions at the level of a seven-year-old.
  He has a fascination with airplanes, trains and buses. In the past he has travelled by transit and was found at the airport, th
  
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• Graham Thomson: Premier Notley reassures Albertans — again — that Trans Mountain project is no pipe dream

  10-07-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Trans Mountain is starting to put the “pipe” in pipeline.
  Not only will workers begin this summer to survey the route, flag the right-of-way and relocate rare plants, the company is beginning to stock up on steel pipe.
  That word comes from Premier Rachel Notley, who invited the news media to listen to her opening remarks at Monday’s cabinet meeting during the Calgary Stampede.
  “Shipments of pipe are arriving pretty much as we speak in Alberta located at stockpile yards in
  
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• Paula Simons: Risk and rewards at revolutionary Borden Park Natural Pool

  10-07-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The first thing you notice when you plunge into the new Borden Park Natural Pool isn’t the cold.
  (OK. Actually it is the cold. Because the pool doesn’t use any chlorine or salt, the water is only heated to a maximum of 23 C. When it hits that temperature, they turn off the heating system and rely on the sun to maintain or raise the temperature. The morning when I jumped in, the water was still a brisk 22.7 C.)
  On Wednesday, July 11, 2018 the city will officially open the new “n
  
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• GALLERY: New location for Edmonton Street Performers Festival

  10-07-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton International Street Performers Festival returns for its 34th year on Tuesday, July 10, but this time in a new location.
  Due to construction in Churchill Square, the festival has moved to Dr. Wilbert McIntyre Park, also known as Gazebo Park (8303 104 St., between Gateway Boulevard and Calgary Trail in Old Strathcona.) As always, performers are paid through donations and it’s recommended you bring a pocketful of loonies and toonies.
  The Edmonton International Street Performers
  
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• Share Your Thoughts About Grosvenor Outdoor Pool

  10-07-2018 00:03
  Online and in-person survey available from July 2 to August 31 The City of St. Albert wants to know your... Read Post
  
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