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• Airport drug bust: Suitcase seizure at Edmonton International nets $100,000 worth of hash, pot and pills

  13-08-2018 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton International Airport RCMP seized $100,000 in hash, marijuana and pills — including fentanyl — after checking a suitcase bound for Newfoundland.
  Authorities checked the bag that was en route to St. John’s, seizing two kilograms of hashish, eight pounds of marijuana, and an assortment of pills including fentanyl, oxycodone, and morphine, said RCMP in a Monday news release.
  “This represents a significant seizure of illegal drugs and will ensure that these drugs won
  
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• Cyclists not at fault in Sherwood Park freeway collision, RCMP say, driver under investigation

  13-08-2018 23:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of cyclists struck by a pickup truck driver while riding along Sherwood Park Freeway Saturday morning were not at fault, RCMP say.
  Five members of the cycling group, organized by Edmonton bike shop and cycling club 9th Street Cycle-Logic, were hospitalized when a pickup truck ran into them just before Highway 216 at 17 Street.
  One was in critical condition while four were seriously injured, a Saturday post from the organization said.
  Const. Chantelle Kelly said the investigation is conti
  
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• Heritage Days allowed to keep barn after backlash, Iveson decries 'piñata session' in the press

  13-08-2018 20:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s premier multicultural festival will be allowed to keep its storage space in a city-owned barn after backlash over a decision to evict them.
  In a tweet Monday, the Edmonton Heritage Festival announced it was “keeping the barn” after a meeting with City of Edmonton officials late Friday afternoon.
  Executive director Jim Gibbon said the majority of the festival’s items are now stored in the barn. An eviction notice on the barn was then removed, and there was
  
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• Airport drug bust: Suitcase seizure at Edmonton International nets $100,000 worth

  13-08-2018 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton International Airport RCMP seized $100,000 in hash, marijuana and pills — including fentanyl — after checking a suitcase bound for Newfoundland.
  Authorities checked the bag that was en route to St. John’s, seizing two kilograms of hashish, eight pounds of marijuana, and an assortment of pills including fentanyl, oxycodine, and morphine, said RCMP in a Monday release.
  “This represents a significant seizure of illegal drugs and will ensure that these drugs won&rsqu
  
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• Police recover body of man who fell into Brazeau Reservoir

  13-08-2018 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The body of a man who fell off a guard rail into a central Alberta reservoir has been recovered, say police.
  In a news release Monday, Rocky Mountain House RCMP said they found the body of the 29-year-old who fell into the Brazeau Reservoir Aug. 3. Police believe the man fell over the edge after climbing the guard rail along the reservoir sometime before 4:30 a.m.
  Emergency responders launched a body recovery operation on the reservoir and the North Saskatchewan River the next day. A number
  
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• Lollipop headdress statue removed at West Edmonton Mall after complaints of racism

  13-08-2018 19:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A West Edmonton Mall candy shop has removed a statue of an Indigenous man wearing a headdress made of lollipops following complaints it was an inappropriate use of a sacred object.
  “It’s a native statue and there are lollipops for the feathers in his headdress,” Jacki Zahariuk, manager of Bubble and Gum, said Monday.
  “I have been told to move it and it’s no longer in front of my store … It (is) in a backroom.”
  The store opened June 27. The statue had be
  
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• Jack White at Rogers Place Nov. 2 — and no phones allowed!

  13-08-2018 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rock and roll revivalist and loveable weirdo Jack White is coming to Rogers Place, here kicking off the Canadian leg of his Boarding House Reach Tour Nov. 2.
  White, co-founder of the White Stripes and 12-time Grammy winner, is supporting this year’s biggest-selling vinyl album debuted at No. 1 in both the U.S. and Canada in March. The 43-year-old is best known as the voice and guitar behind such turn-of-the-century power crunchers as Seven Nation Army, Fell in Love with a Girl and We&rsquo
  
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• Lawsuit filed by family of man struck on highway, then fatally hit again by RCMP cruiser

  13-08-2018 18:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Family of a northern Alberta man struck down by a vehicle on a northern Alberta highway and then fatally run over by an RCMP cruiser has filed a lawsuit against the Mounties.
  Tracy Janvier’s parents and three children named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the officer charged with dangerous driving in Janvier’s death as defendants in the $909,000 statement of claim filed in Edmonton’s Court of Queen’s Bench on July 27.
  The statement of claim also names the federal go
  
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• Weather versus music: the struggle of 2018's Edmonton Folk Music Festival

  13-08-2018 18:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  No way to mini-donut sugar coat it, right? The weather was cruddy on the folk fest hill Sunday — but just think of how the local footwear economy gets a cash injection replacing all those mud-drowned sneakers!
  Actually, though, let’s hit reverse and say that although the drizzle and rain and wet-wool greyness of Sunday visibly took its toll both on the patchy quilt of hill tarps and faces of anyone kicking up baby geysers along the liquid paths, resilience does breed appreciatio
  
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• Edmonton weather: Who let the fog out?

  13-08-2018 14:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.0 C with a 6 km/h wind coming from the southwest. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s quite foggy out there this morning. If you’re driving, be sure to keep your headlights on and *SIGNAL* when changing lanes (though you could start doing this in fair weather, too, you know.)
  The fog is expected to dissipate later this morning giving way to some
  
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• 'A gift for the city': Indigenous art park just weeks away from September opening

  13-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Final touches are underway at the city’s first Indigenous art park, which will boast artworks including colourful mosaic turtles and towering Cree syllabics.
  “We’re so excited,” said David Turnbull, director of public art and conservation at the Edmonton Arts Council. “It’s a huge feat for us to be able to put in a permanent sculpture park … it’s a gift for the city.”
  The art park, located at the centre of Queen Elizabeth Park on the south b
  
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• 'People have a right to know': Lawyers baffled at city refusal to reveal land needed for Yellowhead Trail project

  13-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Want to know what businesses will be forced to relocate because of the Yellowhead Trail freeway conversion project? Good luck.
  Officials are keeping that information under wraps, arguing the City of Edmonton could be forced to pay more if landowners know too soon how city plans affect them.
  City of Edmonton officials cited that financial risk when they denied two requests made under freedom of information legislation for the list of properties the city will need to acquire for the 10-year, $1-bi
  
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• First time's the charm: Newbies savour the excitement and terror of a Fringe Festival

  13-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  First-time Fringer Jennie Emms has a recurring nightmare.
  It’s opening night, and Emms, the stage manager for a show called Rig Pig Fantasia, has forgotten to give actors their props. Or she’s at rehearsal, but has misplaced her script and computer with all the production’s information on light cues, and blocking.
  “Those are the worst, because then I can’t do anything,” said Emms, shuddering at the thought.
  Happily, on the flip side, Emms is in the midst of wh
  
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• Edmonton's safe injection sites look to add staff and capacity due to demand

  13-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s been five months since the first federally-approved safe injection site opened its doors in the Boyle-McCauley area. In that time, Streetworks staff say they’ve reversed 134 drug overdoses and helped nearly 660 people.
  The programs set up at Boyle Street Community Services and the George Spady Centre, which became the evening location when it opened at the end of April, have recorded more than 12,000 visits. The demand is so great that supervised consumption services director Er
  
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• Edmonton Oilers prospect Ostap Safin has outstanding size and skill but is that enough?

  13-08-2018 07:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects
  Ostap Safin #11th overall
  Previously : ranked 11th overall 2017
  I see Ostap Safin as something of a dividing line in The Cult of Hockey’s ranking of Edmonton Oilers prospects. Every player above him on our list, from the top pick to tenth overall, I see as a strong candidate to make the NHL.
  Every player below Safin on the list, I see as a long shot.I’d also put Safin himself in that long shot category.
  I say this partially based seeing the player in a
  
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• 'Edmontonians are pretty hardy': Folk Fest fans brave smoke and rain

  13-08-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Between a scorching, plus-10 air quality rating Friday and a constant drizzle of rain Sunday, Edmonton Folk Music Festival organizers weren’t surprised to see a full audience.
  Festival producer Terry Wickham found this year’s smoke and rain was outside of the norm — but it didn’t affect the local audience at Gallagher Park from Thursday to Sunday.
  “I’m amazed at the people cycling down and all the gear they had on them,” he said on Sunday. “Edmonto
  
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• Sherwood Park teacher off to rescue another chimpanzee

  13-08-2018 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Spencer Sekyer explained his latest mission to rescue a primate, he was on a layover in Casablanca en route to West Africa.
  It’s only his latest because two years ago, the Elk Island Public Schools teacher made headlines when he saved a chimpanzee in Iraq, an adventure soon to be chronicled in the book Saving Manno.
  Now he’s using the last weeks of his summer vacation to help the rescue effort of Simon, a caged chimp in need of rescue in the nation of Guinea-Bissau.
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