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• The ITU World Triathlon Edmonton starts Friday. Here's what you need to know

  26-07-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s so much happening at the ITU World Triathlon Edmonton in Hawrelak Park this week it’s easy to get lost in the flurry of action.
  Here’s a go-to guide for everything going on over the next two days.
  The races
  Things officially kick off Friday with the ITU World Paratriathlon Series starting at 1:45 p.m. Paratriathlon made its Olympic debut last August in Rio de Janeiro where Canadian and No. 7 world ranked Stefan Daniel won the silver medal. Daniel will be competing in Ed
  
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• Grande Prairie vice-principal charged with sexual assault of students

  26-07-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Grande Prairie vice-principal is facing sexual assault charges after three girls at his school alleged he touched them inappropriately.
  RCMP said in a news release Thursday that a 55-year-old vice-principal with the Grande Prairie Public School district was charged with sexual assault after three female students came forward.
  Police said the case is tied to reports from the latter part of the 2018 school year at an unspecified school in the district. The vice-principal was arrested on June 27
  
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• Tort the tortoise going home — hopefully — after Edmonton walkabout

  26-07-2018 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Only Tort the tortoise knows what exactly he got up to between escaping from his home and being discovered wandering in Edmonton’s inner city.
  Tort — if that is in fact his real name — spent an unknown amount of time on the lam before a citizen found him walking along the road near the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
  When Edmonton animal care and control posted on social media Thursday morning that they would like to return the 11-kilogram reptile to his rightful home, Tort beca
  
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• West Edmonton Mall demolishes footbridge; replacement uncertain

  26-07-2018 20:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Officials at West Edmonton Mall demolished a well-used footbridge over 170 Street this month after repairs proved cost prohibitive.
  But now the area’s councillor says the mall is fighting a city requirement to replace it.
  It means a long detour through busy intersections for the many seniors and other residents in the area, said Ward 1 Coun. Andrew Knack, who’s worried the fight will mean direct access won’t be restored until at least next year.
  There’s a seniors apartmen
  
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• Three arrested for trafficking meth and opioids - St. Albert Gazette

  26-07-2018 20:46 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Three arrested for trafficking meth and opioids
  St. Albert Gazette
  St. Albert RCMP said one man and two women have been arrested after a search warrant was executed in Forest Lawn. Police seized meth, opioid-based drugs, a large quantity of Canadian currency, a Taser, pepper spray, psilocybin and marijuana. Matthew ...
  
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• Edmonton car dealership fined by AMVIC

  26-07-2018 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton car dealership will have to pay a $10,000 penalty over a series of breaches around advertising, mechanical fitness assessments and records maintenance.
  City Ford originally faced a $15,000 fine in November, following a number of random inspections by the Alberta Motor Vehicle Industry Council (AMVIC) dating back to July 2015. But that fine was later reduced after an appeal.
  But City Ford’s general manager Mike Vida disagrees with many of the findings from AMVIC, which regulates
  
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• Cross-border asylum seekers trickle into Edmonton

  26-07-2018 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shuaieb Abara, his wife, Malak Tantush, 26, and their sons, Bashir, 3, and Adam, 2, live in Edmonton. They’re among the thousands of refugee claimants who’ve walked across the American border and sought asylum in Canada since the election of Trump as U.S. president.
  Between January 2017 and December 2017, RCMP apprehended 20,593 asylum seekers who’d crossed the border “irregularly” into Canada. (It’s not actually illegal to cross the border and file a refugee
  
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• All New Video Centre: Watch all of the Edmonton Journal videos in one place

  26-07-2018 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Meet the newest digital feature where you can find and watch all the video stories we tell in one convenient location.
  It’s a great place to catch up on videos you may have missed or rewatch and share your favourites.
  Click here to check out the new Video Centre.And don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel!
  
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• Photo Enforcement Sites - August 2018

  26-07-2018 17:53
  The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of the Day locations for August 2018. Enforcement is... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton weather: It might rain. It might even thunderstorm.

  26-07-2018 14:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 12.8 C with a 6 km/h wind coming from the east, southeast. There’s lots of talk of showers and possible thunderstorms in the forecast today, so an umbrella might be something to have on hand.
  Weather forecast
  Today: Sunny this morning and early this afternoon then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon. Risk of a thunderst
  
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• Thursday's letters: UCP 'ground zero' metaphor at least candid

  26-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Edmonton ‘ground zero’ for Kenney,” Graham Thomson, July 24
  Jason Kenney says that for him, “Edmonton is ground zero for the next election.” Huh? “Ground Zero” refers to the point directly under a nuclear explosion. Not the best metaphor for the campaign trail, you’d think, although as one for what we can expect a UCP government to do to the rights of LGBTQ people and others in the province, it’s at least candid.
  David Dear
  Edmonto
  
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• Opinion: Under-appreciated asphalt useful, but may pose cancer risk

  26-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s summer and the smell of asphalt is in the air. Road crews are out filling potholes, repaving roads and, of course, breathing the fumes. Pretty foul smelling stuff. Surely can’t be great for the lungs. As it turns out, it isn’t. Polycyclic aromatic compounds, or PAHs, are the problem and there’s no asphalt without these.
  So, what is asphalt and where does it come from? The source is petroleum, that dark viscous liquid found deep within the Earth, the product of once-l
  
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• Royal Alberta Museum blamed for jump in province's greenhouse gas emissions

  26-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The yet-to-be opened Royal Alberta Museum was largely responsible for the province missing its targets last year for greenhouse gases produced by government owned buildings, Alberta Infrastructure says.
  “Museums have higher energy consumptions than other government buildings because many exhibits, artifacts and storage require 24/7 controls to ensure appropriate temperature, humidity and air quality levels,” the ministry said in an emailed response Wednesday.
  Statistics publishe
  
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• Paula Simons: As more cross-border asylum seekers arrive in Edmonton, refugee agencies struggle to keep up

  26-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shuaieb Abara always admired Donald Trump.
  When Abara ran his own successful business as a travel consultant in Libya, arranging trips for corporate clients such as oil and gas companies and security firms, he followed Trump’s career closely.
  “I loved to hear his story. I loved business, so I wanted to hear what he was doing.”
  Abara, 37, never guessed what impact Trump’s doings would have on his own life.
  Today, Abara, his wife, Malak Tantush, 26, and their sons, Bashir,
  
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• Family member identifies man shot dead after standoff with RCMP on eastern Alberta First Nation

  26-07-2018 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A family member has identified a man killed last week during a standoff with police on an eastern Alberta First Nation.
  James Crane said Wednesday the man who died July 19 was his nephew, 41-year-old Lyle Crane.
  Police and the provincial law enforcement watchdog did not release Crane’s name, but James Crane said family “want people to know.”
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) said in a news release last week that RCMP were searching for a man wanted in relation
  
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• SuperDogs love swimming in latest K-Days show

  26-07-2018 04:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  For Sherwood Park resident Meaghan O’Neill, SuperDogs is a family legacy. Her mother was once a trainer for the canine carnival show and, for the last 20 years, she has been too.
  On Wednesday afternoon, O’Neill’s border collies were but two of the dozen dogs racing, diving, and dancing as part of the Water Bark show at K-Days. The three-times-daily theatrical performance pits the titular canines against three acrobats from Milord Entertainment in a lighthearted competition
  
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• Graham Thomson: Hysteria gripping Alberta politics as we march towards the 2019 election

  26-07-2018 04:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Can’t we all just take a breath and calm down — and take a moment to remember we live in a pretty great province?
  Alberta is not about to become a mini-Soviet Union should the NDP win re-election and it won’t be the playground of a new generation of robber barons should the United Conservative Party become government.
  But our politicians are breathlessly ramping up the rhetoric as we head toward the 2019 provincial election.
  The usual political puffery is morphing into politica
  
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• Autonomous ATV newest addition to Edmonton International Airport fleet

  26-07-2018 03:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A driverless ATV equipped with GPS and cameras trained to recognize animals is soon to join the security fleet at the Edmonton International Airport (EIA).
  Equipped with five cameras, light detection and ranging sensors and speakerphones, the ATV is set to begin testing at EIA in August. This is the only known autonomous ATV to be used for airport security, said EIA vice-president of operations and infrastructure Steve Maybee.
  The EIA plans for the unarmed, gas-powered ATV to monitor its 20-kilo
  
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• AHS falls victim to phishing scam, but avoids losing any money

  26-07-2018 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Services is overhauling its information security systems after staff member accounts were “compromised” in a phishing scam.
  AHS said in a news release Wednesday that 20 staff accounts used by employees to access email and electronic pay records appeared to have been affected.
  “It appears that this phishing scam targeted randomly generated staff members, and asked them to change personal details within their AHS account,” the news release states.
  AHS caught
  
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• "We still have a diamond in the rough": Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan boosts Jesse Puljujarvi:

  26-07-2018 02:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from CHED’s Reid Wilkins, a tape of Wednesday afternoon’s scrum with Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan, where he talked about numerous issues around the team including his ongoing faith that top pick Jesse Puljujarvi will turn out.
  McLellan acknowledged the then 19-year-old Finnish winger had a tough finish to 2017-18. “That he did. It’s still a sign of a young player. We want to hurry him. We’ve wanted to hurry him from the beginning. We thought he was re
  
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• Graham Thomson: NDP sounding hysterical as it attacks Kenney and the UCP

  26-07-2018 02:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Can’t we all just take a breath and calm down — and take a moment to remember we live in a pretty great province?
  Alberta is not about to become a mini-Soviet Union should the NDP win re-election and it won’t be the playground of a new generation of robber barons should the United Conservative Party become government.
  But our politicians are breathlessly ramping up the rhetoric as we head toward the 2019 provincial election.
  The usual political puffery is morphing into politica
  
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• RCMP surveillance plane helps bust four people for area thefts

  26-07-2018 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  An RCMP surveillance plane played an important role in busting an alleged break-and-enter ring that targeted homes and businesses in and around Edmonton, police say.
  Four people are facing a total of 38 charges following the RCMP and Edmonton Police Service investigation.
  Police allege the people charged were involved in 18 break-ins in Edmonton, Leduc, Strathcona County and Fort Saskatchewan, making off with $125,000 in cash and goods including a signed Ryan Nugent-Hopkins jersey.
  Fort Saskatch
  
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• Priest facing slew of historic sexual assault charges in hospital with cancer

  26-07-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Anglican priest accused of historical sexual assaults against teenage boys in an Edmonton youth jail is hospitalized and undergoing cancer treatment, court heard Wednesday.
  Gordon William Dominey was not present at a provincial court appearance on some of his more recent charges. A law student attending on behalf of his defence lawyer, Kent Teskey, told court that the 65-year-old is undergoing treatment for cancer.
  The initial charges Dominey faces date back to the 1980s when investigato
  
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• Political fundraising now OK for Alberta public servants

  26-07-2018 01:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s public servants can no longer be fired if they solicit donations for political parties or candidates.
  The change comes thanks to an amendment to Alberta’s public servant code of ethics, signed off in an order in council this week.
  Only senior officials and executive managers in the public service remain barred from such political activity.
  Alberta Public Service Commission spokesperson Laura Lowe said the change brings Alberta’s rules into line with Canada’s Cha
  
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• Sorry about Trump: U.S. senators apologize to Alberta for crippling tariffs

  26-07-2018 00:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The words were whispered quietly by senators and legislators to Alberta’s trade minister this week at a summit in Washington — “Sorry,” they said, about trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
  They often went on to tell Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous that Trump’s tirades against Canada don’t reflect how Americans view their neighbours to the north.
  “I have not met a single legislator or senator who is happy about the tari
  
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