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• Crowds line Jasper Avenue for K-Days parade to kick off 10-day festival

  20-07-2018 23:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eager and energetic crowds flooded the streets for Edmonton’s K-Days parade Friday despite a wet start to the morning.
  More than 100 entries of colourful floats, performers and dignitaries marched down Jasper Avenue — just as the sun snuck out after morning rainfall — to launch the festival.
  Canadian Olympic figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond was the lead marshal in her first K-Days parade.
  “K-Days for me is great memories,” she said ahead of the ride down Jasper Avenue.
  
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• Fall Back into a Healthy Lifestyle

  20-07-2018 23:29
  New aquatics, fitness and recreation programs open for registration! The City of St. Albert is encouraging residents to get active... Read Post
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #239: The You'll Never Take Our Freedom (Party) edition

  20-07-2018 23:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  You can take his United Conservative caucus seat, but you’ll never take Derek Fildebrandt’s Freedom (Conservative Party).
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney for another week of Alberta politics talk and analysis, including Fildebrandt’s new project, the Freedom Conservative Party, and the current political fallout of a provincial curriculum rewrite.
  Guests Janet French, Clare Clancy, Graham Thomson and Paula Simons also touch on the federal cabinet shuffle that landed Edmonton
  
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• Edmonton man charged in $5.5-million phoney mortgage scheme

  20-07-2018 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man arrested in a $5.5-million scheme involving fake bridge mortgage loans is facing multiple fraud charges, say police.
  The man — under the company name Wakina Consulting Inc. — is alleged to have facilitated 257 fraudulent bridge mortgage loans using homeowner documentation available to the public, said police in a Friday release.
  The homeowners were unaware of the fraudulent mortgage loans, stress investigators, adding investors were promised administration fees and mo
  
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• UCP may release more details of internal report, says Kenney

  20-07-2018 21:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Opposition Leader Jason Kenney reiterated Friday that an internal UCP report into alleged voting irregularities hasn’t been made public to protect whistleblowers, but he hinted the party may consider releasing a summary.
  “I’ll go back and talk to our party board about this,” he said Friday in Edmonton, speaking at a UCP pancake breakfast ahead of the K-Days parade. “This is not an unreasonable question.”
  UCP MLA Prab Gill, member for Calgary-Greenway, left the
  
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• RCMP shooting leaves man dead on Frog Lake First Nation

  20-07-2018 20:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s police watchdog is investigating the fatal RCMP shooting of a man on Frog Lake First Nation Thursday night.
  Elk Point Mounties were called to a rural home at 10 a.m. to arrest a man but their attempt sparked a standoff that lasted several hours “despite numerous attempts at establishing contact through an RCMP negotiator.”
  A confrontation occurred late in the evening “which resulted in members discharging firearms,” a Friday release said.
  “No of
  
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• Edmonton weather: Severe thunderstorm watch in effect

  20-07-2018 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 14.3 C with a 7 km/h wind coming from the east.
  Severe thunderstorm watch
  At 10:27 a.m. Friday, Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the city of Edmonton and surrounding area.
  “Persons in or near this area should be on the lookout for adverse weather conditions and take necessary safety precautions.”
  Similar watches are also in ef
  
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• Alright Edmonton, time to get your parade on

  20-07-2018 18:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s K-Days parade is rolling out with a thunderous start despite a wet Friday morning.
  More than 100 entries are filling Jasper Avenue for the 10 a.m. event. The route runs from 108 Street, east down Jasper to 101 Street, and then northbound to 103 Avenue.
  Marshals for the parade include Canadian Olympic figure skater Kaetlyn Osmond and members of Alberta Special Olympics.
  The parade kicks off the 10-day festival at Northlands that opens Friday at noon.
  The weekend rodeo also k
  
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• RCMP, Sheriffs involved in highway crash near Leduc

  20-07-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  An RCMP vehicle, two Sheriff vehicles and a Lexus SUV were involved in a crash on Highway 2 near Leduc Friday morning.
  Mounties said the crash happened just south of Highway 2A. All occupants have been transported to hospital.
  Motorists are being warned of delays as traffic is being reduced to one lane while RCMP collision experts analyze the scene.
  
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• Social Seen: Sounds of swing at Sugar Foot Stomp dance social

  20-07-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sugar Foot Stomp
  Where: Sugar Swing Ballroom
  When: July 14
  What: Weekly Saturday night swing dance social
  Featuring: An hour-long lesson for beginners (no partner required) and a fun environment filled with the sounds of swing
  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 to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow C
  
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• Edmonton weather: Risk of severe thunderstorms today

  20-07-2018 15:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 14.3 C with a 7 km/h wind coming from the east. There are rain warnings for areas north and west of Edmonton, including Grande Prairie, Hinton, Peace River, Slave Lake, and Whitecourt. According to Environment Canada, very heavy rain is likely in west-central Alberta today and will continue until Sunday morning.
  “Widespread rainfall totals of 70 to 90 mm ar
  
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• Opinion: Latimer pardon request stirs up nightmare for disabled

  20-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Last week, news outlets reported that Robert Latimer has submitted a letter to the federal minister of justice seeking a pardon or a new trial following his conviction for the murder of his daughter Tracy in 1993. When I heard these reports, I, like many Canadians with disabilities, felt a sickening sense of deja vu.
  For many Canadians with disabilities, including me, the murder of Tracy Latimer and the overwhelming media and public support for her father was a nightmarish wake-up call, alerting
  
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• Friday's letters: Celebrate our heritage of helping

  20-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My great-grandparents died during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.  My grandmother was orphaned. My grandfather and grandmother lived in the same tenement building. He helped her out. They fell in love and married. They took in a boy, my father’s friend, after he was orphaned. Throughout my grandparents’ lives they helped other people.
  My mother wrote musical comedies. She had an group called the Traveling Troubadours that performed her plays. The money collected went to charit
  
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• Yes, indeed, why on earth does Connor McDavid get used on the penalty kill?

  20-07-2018 08:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Interesting tweet in from Oilers insider Bob Stauffer of the organization’s radio network: “With the off-season FA signings of Kyle Brodziak and Tobias Rieder and the emergence of Ryan Strome and JJ Khaira on the PK late in the season…I would limit Connor McDavid’s PK time..and strongly consider running McDavid a full 2 mins on the PP.”My takeI don’t take Stauffer’s comment as him speaking as an insider and leaking some info he’s heard. I take it
  
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• Bigger, more 'dignified' emergency department set to rise at Misericordia hospital

  20-07-2018 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction is expected to begin later this year on a new $65-million emergency department for the Misericordia Community Hospital that will triple the size of the current unit and add 34 new treatment spaces.
  The “state-of-the art,” 5,000-square-metre facility will be built immediately west of Misericordia’s main patient tower over the next four years, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman told a news conference Thursday outside the west-end hospital.
  “This project is going to
  
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• Woman charged with aggravated assault after SUV rammed senior at KFC

  20-07-2018 02:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 60-year-old woman was charged with aggravated assault Thursday after she allegedly drove an SUV into an elderly woman at the Meadowlark Shopping Centre KFC Wednesday.
  It was alleged that Donna Elder intentionally drove a 2007 Toyota Rav SUV into an 85-year-old woman near 156 Street and 87 Avenue, said a Thursday news release from Edmonton police.
  The vehicle broke through the wall of the fast food restaurant and remained halfway inside as investigators gathered evidence at the scene.
  Police in
  
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• Education minister releases draft K-4 curriculum documents amid skirmish

  20-07-2018 01:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Education posted drafts of its proposed new kindergarten-to-Grade 4 curriculum on its website Thursday afternoon as observers debated the transparency of the process.
  Facing accusations from the opposition United Conservative Party that the curriculum is being developed “with a great deal of secrecy,” Education Minister David Eggen said Thursday morning the draft documents will go on the Alberta Education website in a less polished format than he wanted.
  “To sugges
  
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• New, larger Misericordia emergency department announced

  20-07-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman unveiled the location of the Misericordia Community Hospital’s new emergency department Thursday.
  The new building with be three times the size of the current emergency department and will be built on the west side of the hospital.
  The new emergency department will feature a range of improvements over the current one, including 5,000 square metres compared to 1,700 square metres, 66 treatment spaces, up from 32, and six ambulance bays, up from four, along with
  
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• Thursday evening commuters should avoid Bellamy Hill, Rossdale: Epcor

  20-07-2018 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Motorists on the way home from work Thursday are suggested to avoid travelling though Rossdale due to a water main break around 97 Avenue and 104 Street.
  Epcor responded to a report of a water main break at around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, said spokesman Tim Le Riche.
  The southbound right-turning lane at bottom of Bellamy Hill is closed while Epcor crews repair the break. Westbound traffic on 97 Avenue at Bellamy Hill Road is being diverted south onto 104 Street as well.
  “Everybody going h
  
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• Three days, eight remand overdoses: Inmates describe lockdown as staff search for drugs

  20-07-2018 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Remand Centre inmates spent the weekend locked in their cells around the clock as staff combed the facility following a rash of overdoses, say two of those incarcerated.
  Eight people were treated for apparent overdoses at the remand centre between Friday and Sunday — one of whom later died. Four people have died at the centre since May.
  Alberta Justice and Solicitor General said all eight were administered Narcan, a medication that blocks the effects of opioids. However, the minis
  
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• Union to appeal ruling on remand centre guard's termination

  20-07-2018 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The union representing the province’s correctional officers is appealing a recent ruling on the termination of an Edmonton Remand Centre guard.
  In a judicial review earlier this month, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Grant Dunlop overturned an arbitrator’s decision on the firing of correctional officer Todd Ross.
  Dunlop’s decision cost Ross an award of one year’s salary that he’d been granted following the arbitration. It also reinstated his termination. He was
  
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