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• Lockdown protest continues: Some Edmonton remand inmates still refusing meals

  30-07-2018 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A handful of Edmonton Remand Centre inmates refused food Monday, a week after almost 200 of them launched a hunger strike in response to a lockdown at the jail earlier this month.
  Fourteen inmates refused meals Monday morning, an Alberta Justice and Solicitor General spokeswoman said in a written statement.Around 200 inmates at the facility last week refused breakfast Monday morning. The facility, the largest of its kind in Canada, can house over 1,900 inmates.
  “Medical protocols developed
  
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• Fort Saskatchewan truck driver killed in rollover crash

  30-07-2018 22:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of a semi-truck is dead after his vehicle crashed and rolled into a ditch in northern Alberta Sunday night.
  Mounties and emergency services were called to the single-vehicle rollover on Highway 88 near Township Road 802A about 140 kilometres northeast of High Prairie.
  The crash happened at 6:45 p.m.
  Investigators said the southbound semi “was observed weaving on the highway before entering the west ditch and rolling over onto its side.”
  The 55-year-old man from Fort Saskat
  
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• 'We want to become Alberta's fair': Crowds come close to last year's record-breaking number

  30-07-2018 21:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  As cleaning crews and trucks filled the Northlands site Monday morning after the K-Days dust settled, interim CEO Kevin Gunderman said there is no doubt that this is the prime location for the 10-day fair.
  “This is really the spot for it, we’ll find a way to make it work,” he said during a wrap-up media conference about the future of the site.
  The city took possession of the Expo Centre from Northlands at the beginning of the year. The new operating model ran smoothly, add
  
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• Province hits contractor with default notice for delays to $763-million hospital

  30-07-2018 21:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Calgary-based firm responsible for the $763-million Grande Prairie Regional Hospital project has defaulted on its schedule, says the province.
  The contractor, Graham Construction and Engineering, has 15 days to submit a plan to the government explaining how it will get the hospital project back on track, said a government news release Monday.
  Otherwise the firm could be fired from the project, the release added.
  “This is a very serious step and not something we are doing lightly,”
  
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• Edmonton student wins Beaverbrook Vimy prize to visit overseas war sites

  30-07-2018 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ghalia Aamer is underwhelmed by school Remembrance Day ceremonies.
  Every Nov. 11, it’s a similar half-hour event with the same rituals, the 16-year-old said on Friday.
  “I don’t think students really understand what’s going on, and what the importance is.”
  The Old Scona Academic student is in for a more immersive experience next month when she’ll walk through the trenches of Vimy Ridge, where nearly 3,600 Canadian soldiers died in a nation-defining battle durin
  
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• Cigarette blamed for $14 million apartment complex blaze

  30-07-2018 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  An unextinguished cigarette in potting soil is being blamed for a $14 million apartment complex blaze on the weekend that has rendered the 90-suite, four story building uninhabitable.
  More than 50 firefighters and over a dozen trucks responded to the call at 115 Street and 27 Avenue at around 2 a.m. Sunday. All residents from the Blue Quill apartment complex were evacuated.
  Extensive damage is seen at the scene of a fire in the Blue Quill neighbourhood in Edmonton on Sunday, July 29, 2
  
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• Opinion: Canada's resource sector under legislative assault

  30-07-2018 18:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Trudeau government has proposed well-intentioned policies to “rebuild public trust and advance Indigenous reconciliation” while advancing “good projects” to ensure energy resources “get to markets responsibly.”
  Regrettably, such high-sounding ideals have led to intense controversies over regulatory policies that initially centred on the National Energy Board (NEB) but which have spiralled into more significant issues, not the least of which is the acquisit
  
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• Former Enbridge Tower on Jasper Avenue begins conversion into extended-stay hotel

  30-07-2018 17:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Renovations are underway on the former Enbridge Tower with reservations not far behind as the 23-storey building begins development into a downtown hotel.
  The office building on the corner of Jasper Avenue and 102 Street, known for its peaked roof, was purchased by Edmonton-based Lighthouse Hospitality Inc. at the end of April.
  The redesign is expected to cost around $65 million to $70 million and take 18 months to complete, Lighthouse president Paul Aulakh said in an interview Friday morning.
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• Edmonton weather: Edmonton, so hot right now

  30-07-2018 15:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 15 C with an 8 km/h wind coming from the southwest.
  It’s Monday morning and we’ve kicked it off with a heat warning already. Today is expected to be pretty hot with a high of 31 C and hazy. The wind is expected to pick up later this afternoon to 40 km/h, the humidex is will be at 32 and the UV index at a 7. This evening is supposed to cool down with a
  
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• Redwater businessman frustrated with crime uses Facebook to track down stolen items

  30-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When thieves made off with around $15,000 worth of property from the Redwater Dodge two weeks ago, it was one break-and-enter too many for owner David Tingley.
  Frustrated at being the victim of theft for the third time in mere months, Tingley posted surveillance footage of hooded figures rolling tires off the lot on the dealership’s Facebook page.
  “We’re done calling the RCMP folks. Stay tuned …” read the caption on the video posted July 21.
  
  Three days lat
  
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• 'Part of this place': Edmonton courthouse remembers longtime volunteer Don Reid

  30-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a coffee in one hand and the day’s court docket in the other, Don Reid helped keep the Edmonton Law Courts moving.
  After 23 years as a courthouse fixture who knew his way around the building better than most lawyers, the sudden loss of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton’s longest serving volunteer makes it tough to imagine the place without him.
  Reid died after suffering a heart attack on July 17. He was 66.
  “He was like clockwork. He would get here before anyone else g
  
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• Hidden strength: These Edmonton shopkeepers are gems in the fight against homelessness

  30-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stadium Mini Mart has bars on the windows and a massive puddle on the sunken pavement outside. But walk inside and you’ll find a heart of gold.
  Owner Awet (Sammy) Tekie is an Eritrean immigrant who struggles with theft but still tries to put himself in the customers’ shoes.
  Can’t afford water? He’ll spot you a bottle. Need to use a phone? He’s got that, too. His staff rearranged the shop to create a seating area so anyone with no place to go or trouble at home
  
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• Building Edmonton school playgrounds no walk in the park

  30-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Joy Stevens volunteered for her school council’s playground committee last year, she pictured a few years worth of organizing fundraisers to raise the cash.
  Instead, the mother of three kids found herself and about 150 other volunteers pushing wheelbarrows and wielding shovels on Saturday, assembling a new playground for Clara Tyner School in Ottewell.
  “It’s been quite the ride,” said Stevens, who also works full time. “It’s felt like I’ve had anoth
  
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• Edmonton Oilers prospect Phil Kemp brings the grit but can he bring the wow?

  30-07-2018 07:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects#19 Phil Kemp
  Previously 32nd in 2017
  In a world where smaller puck-moving d-men are the new black of the NHL, Phil Kemp ain’t that. Hence Kemp falling to the seventh round of the 2017 NHL draft, where the Edmonton selected him 208th overall.
  Kemp is a long shot to make the NHL partly because the qualities he does possess — size, toughness, leadership — were all the rage from 2011 to 2016 but now the game is about speed and puck-moving, so much so
  
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• Woman critically injured in northern Alberta crash

  30-07-2018 04:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman was airlifted to hospital in critical condition after a Sunday afternoon collision in northwestern Alberta, RCMP said.
  Spirit River RCMP said a Dodge Avenger collided head on with a Nissan Pathfinder that was towing a trailer on Highway 2 between Rycroft and Dunvegan Provincial Park at around 1 p.m. Sunday. The Avenger had crossed the centre line, police said. They’re investigating the cause of the crash.
  The Avenger’s driver, a 30-year-old woman, was taken to hospital by STA
  
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• 'The mosque builds the community': Markaz Ul Islam opens doors to neighbours

  30-07-2018 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Burgers sizzled while newcomers toured Edmonton’s oldest South Asian mosque and talked religion at its open house Sunday.
  Built in 1984 at 7907 36 Ave. in the heart of Mill Woods, the Markaz Ul Islam mosque gathers anywhere from 100 people for early morning prayers to 2,000 Muslims for Friday evening prayers. With two libraries containing books in English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and more, it welcomes worshippers from a number of different backgrounds.
  Imam Mahomed Iqbal Subrathi has led praye
  
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• Free-falling with the SkyHawks, Canada's troops in the sky

  30-07-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Whitecourt Airport — The anticipation tangles one’s soul but stepping into a free fall from an altitude of 12,500 feet brings breathtaking clarity.
  Of course, I’m tethered to the captain of the SkyHawks, the Canadian Forces parachute team, and all I have to do is trust him. With my life.
  “Don’t look straight down, you’ll get vertigo,” are the last words I hear from Capt. John Hart Friday before we step in tandem off the jaw-like ramp of the rumbling C-13
  
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