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• Woman slain, man not, say police of pair found in southwest Edmonton

  14-07-2018 23:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman found dead in a southwest Edmonton home Thursday was slain but the death of a man found in the house with her has been deemed non-criminal, say police.
  An autopsy has determined the 38-year-old woman discovered in the Blue Quill home around 3:30 p.m. Thursday is the city’s 18th homicide victim of the year, said police in a Saturday statement. Her cause of death is yet to be determined.
  The death of the 35-year-old man found with her in the home on the quiet tree-lined street n
  
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• Calgary MLA Prab Gill leaves UCP caucus following ballot-stuffing allegations

  14-07-2018 23:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary United Conservative MLA Prab Gill has left the United Conservative Party caucus following an internal party ballot-stuffing probe.
  He will not seek a UCP nomination for the 2019 election.
  Gill, member for Calgary-Greenway, this week stepped down as deputy UCP caucus whip after he was alleged to be involved in voting irregularities during a recent constituency meeting.
  Allegations of ballot stuffing and improper handling of votes at the founding annual general meeting of the UCP’s C
  
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• Kids become Edmonton Eskimos for a day

  14-07-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Eskimos wide receiver Bryant Mitchell was in middle school when the San Diego Chargers came to his school to teach the kids about football.
  “They gave back to us, so it’s been something I’ve always wanted to do and always loved to do,” he said Saturday as a group of around 20 children rushed his spot on Commonwealth Stadium, ready for a new set of drills.
  “It’s a blessing to be able to do this for kids.”
  Those kids were some of the 64 winne
  
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• Seven military memorial plaques stolen from city cemetery

  14-07-2018 17:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is investigating the theft of seven memorial military plaques from a cemetery in the city’s northwest.
  The funeral plaques were stolen from the military memorial section of the Northern Lights Cemetery on Campbell Road sometime between July 3 and 6.
  Many of the plaques date back to the 1980s. Police are working with the cemetery to identify the families impacted by the theft.
  “It is very disheartening that someone would go to the effort of removing th
  
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• Saturday letters: Coverage of centenary of Alberta airmail commended

  14-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Journal is to be commended for its two-page illustrated recognition July 9 of Katherine Stinson and her lasting contribution to Canadian aviation and Alberta history.
  In 1918, Stinson flew at six Alberta cities — Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Camrose, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Her July 9, 1918 flight from Calgary to Edmonton was the first non-stop flight between two major Western Canadian cities and the first air mail flight in Western Canada.
  A re-enactment flight on the 100th anniv
  
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• Opinion: Publishing criminal record of man crushed to death "deplorable"

  14-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When the news broke a week ago that the Edmonton Police Service was investigating after a body was found at the Capital Paper Recycling facility, like many Indigenous readers I hoped that the individual who lost his life in such a horrific fashion was not Indigenous. However, knowing that nearly half of all homeless people in Edmonton are of Indigenous descent, I did not hold out hope for long.
  The stark reality is that among those struggling to survive, and ultimately losing their liv
  
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• Edmonton Oilers have amassed impressive depth in goaltending, defence prospects

  14-07-2018 11:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospectsDepth defencemen & goalie
  One last group of depth players to cover in the preliminaries of the Cult of Hockey‘s eight annual summer prospect rankings before we begin the countdown of the Top 25 Edmonton Oilers’ prospects, and we’ve saved the best for last. One goaltender and four defencemen remain, all of them “tall pine trees” as Harry Neale used to say.
  Worth noting that even with the below players outside the main list, the Oiler
  
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• Edmonton weather: Severe thunderstorm watch lifted for city, central Alberta

  14-07-2018 07:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton can relax now that a severe thunderstorm watch that hovered over the city during the day Friday has been lifted.
  Environment Canada ended a severe thunderstorm watch for the city of Edmonton and much of central Alberta at 9:28 p.m. Friday.
  Earlier Friday, the national weather watchdog said in a statement that conditions are favourable for dangerous thunderstorms that may produce damaging wind gusts, damaging hail and heavy rain.
  “Conditions through central Alberta are most likely
  
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• Medical examiner studying 'ancient' human bones discovered at Edmonton work site

  14-07-2018 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s medical examiner is working to find out more about a set of “ancient” human bones discovered at an Edmonton work site.
  The skeletal remains were discovered June 28 at a construction site in northeast Edmonton’s Schonsee neighbourhood. Homicide detectives were called but determined there was nothing suspicious.
  The office of the chief medical examiner (OCME) in Edmonton estimates the bones had been there for between 75 and 100 years, which it classifies as
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #238: The Byelections, Buses and Beer edition

  14-07-2018 05:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta was lucky enough to have two byelections this week — there’s nothing voters like more in the height of summer, after all — and both were won by United Conservative Party candidates.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Graham Thomson, Paula Simons and Clare Clancy to talk about the UCP victories in Fort McMurray-Conklin and Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, and what it means for Alberta politics.
  The team also touches on a UCP investigation into ballot box stuffing and
  
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• African culture comes to MacEwan University for weekend

  14-07-2018 05:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The work of last year’s Canadian Spoken Word Champion was on stage Friday night, opening an African cultural festival held this weekend at MacEwan University.
  Spoken word champ Ifrah Hussein performed at Africanival 2018’s Orality, a spoken word night hosted by Edmonton’s poet laureate, Ahmed Knowmadic.
  Beyond Friday night’s events, the festival will run Saturday and Sunday featuring a fashion show, food vendors, film screenings and more.
  Orality also hosted band Mel
  
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• Spanish artist coming to complete six-storey mural in Old Strathcona

  14-07-2018 05:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six storeys of colourful, geometric shapes designed by a world-renowned street artist will begin to shine over 83 Avenue this weekend.
  Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel will work on the mural behind the restaurants El Cortez and Have Mercy from Saturday to Wednesday. The mural, costing around $100,000, was paid for by a fundraising campaign led by Edmonton restaurant owner and filmmaker Michael Maxxis.
  San Miguel’s work is on display in India, the United States, Japan, Brazil, South Africa,
  
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• Paula Simons: Strathcona Hotel sold to a developer

  14-07-2018 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  For 127 years — apart from a decade-long dry period in the Prohibition Era when it was a Presbyterian girls’ college — Edmontonians have been rolling into the Strathcona Hotel for a glass of beer.
  The hotel opened in 1891, as a stopping house for new arrivals, straight off the train via the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, the first rail line to connect this place with the wider world.
  Over the years, the hotel and bar have played host to generations of visitors, from railway work
  
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• Alberta pushing ahead with $125-million emergency response hub

  14-07-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP government says it is making good progress on a new $125-million Provincial Operations Centre that will serve as main hub for managing emergencies like the Fort McMurray wildfire.
  The facility is to be built at the Edmonton Research Park in the city’s south side, replacing the current operations centre that is housed in an aging, undersized building in a northwest industrial area.
  “Even though we have one of the best emergency response systems in the country, there is always
  
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• Paula Simons: Hipster makeover planned for historic Strathcona Hotel

  14-07-2018 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  For 127 years — apart from a decade-long dry period in the Prohibition era when it was a Presbyterian ladies college — Edmontonians have been rolling into the Strathcona Hotel for a glass of beer.
  The hotel opened in 1891 as a stopping house for new arrivals straight off the train via the Calgary and Edmonton Railway, the first rail line to connect this place with the wider world.
  The Strathcona Hotel, circa 1892
  Over the years, the hotel and tavern have played host to generations of
  
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• Nexen given $750,000 in fines for 2015 pipeline spill near Fort McMurray

  14-07-2018 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s energy watchdog ordered Calgary-based oil company Nexen to pay a hefty fine following a 2015 pipeline spill near Fort McMurray.
  The subsidiary of China’s state-owned oil company CNOOC Ltd. was fined $460,000 after pleading guilty in provincial court to one count under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. It was also levied a federal fine of $290,000.
  The spill was one of the largest in Alberta’s history, said Jim Ellis, president and CEO of the Alberta En
  
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• Graham Thomson: Byelections, buses and the UCP’s blanket blame on carbon tax

  14-07-2018 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Well, that went pretty much as expected.
  UCP: 2
  NDP: 0
  The United Conservative Party handily won Thursday’s byelections in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake and Fort McMurray-Conklin. Neither were close races.
  The NDP candidate in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake was so far behind we’re still waiting for her to finish.
  So, what does it say about Alberta politics when the UCP gets 82 per cent support (8,000 votes) in Innisfail-Sylvan Lake to the NDP’s nine per cent (900 votes)?
  Or when the UCP gets 66
  
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• Exposure to skilled trades: NAIT welding camp hopes to inspire Indigenous youth

  14-07-2018 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gwen Arcand was introduced to welding at a summer camp for Indigenous youth in 2017. Only a week-long event, Arcand had a goal in sight she wasn’t able to accomplish, so she insisted to be a part of the camp again in 2018 – and this time she not only cemented her goal, but found a new career quest.
  Arcand, 14, was one of 10 students in the NAIT Mind over Metal summer welding camp that concluded Friday co-ordinated by the Canadian Welding Bureau with the goal of inspiring youth to a c
  
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• Chartier restaurant steps out for summer fun and flavour

  14-07-2018 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Quick. It’s summer. Get out and about while the going is good. Chartier, in Beaumont, is hosting a number of delicious food and beverage events in and outside of their restaurant that should inspire your participation in the next month or so.
  On Monday, July 30, Chartier owners Sylvia Cheverie and Darren Cheverie will partner with Beaumont’s first naturopathic doctor, Dr. Sheldon Jordan, and certified herbalist, Lauren Mary, to do an “au naturel” tasting menu at the Old R
  
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• Teatro La Quindicina delights with The Importance of Being Earnest

  14-07-2018 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounting a production of The Importance of Being Earnest has distinct challenges.
  As one of the most quoted plays in the English canon (right up there with Hamlet), the Oscar Wilde classic, first performed in 1895, resonates strongly with the audience. We are inclined to like it and to laugh at all the clever lines (who doesn’t giggle at the mere thought of leaving a baby in a handbag, or the carelessness implied in losing not one, but two parents).
  But at the same time, The Importance of
  
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