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• Late night collision in west Edmonton sends one to hospital

  18-08-2018 23:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A collision in west Edmonton late Friday night sent one person to hospital.
  By 11 p.m., police had closed the intersection of 156 Street and Stony Plain Road where a small car had slammed into a motorcycle earlier. The motorcyclist was taken to hospital but the extent of his injuries were unknown, Acting Sgt. Kevin Richards said at the scene.
  “We don’t know who’s right or wrong in this case,” he said. “We know one vehicle ran a red — the investigation will det
  
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• Fringe Review: Gossamer Obsessions

  18-08-2018 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gossamer Obsessions: The Morality Puns
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 18, Sugar Swing Ballroom, Main Floor
  Paul Blinov and Amy Shostak are back as the mysterious, tale-telling vicar and his ward in their newest production of Gossamer Obsessions: The Morality Puns.
  A sort of sub-Tales From the Crypt format allows Rapid Fire Theatre vets Blinov and Shostak to wade into increasingly ridiculous and hilarious sketch territory. The duo hit much more than they miss as they riff on various topics
  
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• ATB looking to upgrade video surveillance systems at more than 178 branches

  18-08-2018 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every ATB Financial branch in Alberta could soon see new video surveillance installed as part of a project that will overhaul security at more than 178 locations.
  If the surveillance solution is scalable, the province’s largest Alberta-based financial institution will consider making it available at another 143 agency locations.
  Currently ATB branches have closed circuit television surveillance cameras for tellers and ATM machines as well as intrusion alarms, but the financial firm is
  
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• Scammers selling fake gold for gas money in Alberta pull on heartstrings with tales of woe

  18-08-2018 23:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Swindlers offering to trade fake gold for gas money at the side of the road or at gas stations have again made their way into Strathcona County prompting a warning from RCMP.
  Const. Chantelle Kelly said the hustlers popped up on their radar about three weeks ago.
  “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” Kelly said.
  The scam itself is pretty simple: a crook offers to sell what they say is real gold at a dramatically reduced price. Of course it’s not gold and the
  
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• Two charged with homicide in Paul Band First Nation death

  18-08-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people have been arrested in connection with the Tuesday homicide of a Paul Band First Nation woman.
  Nora Flora Papin, 31, and Neil Benjamin Morin, 33, both of Paul Band First Nation, are each charged with second degree murder and were remanded into custody, according to an RCMP news release Saturday. They are due in Stony Plain Provincial Court on Aug. 22.
  Police named 31-year-old Ellie Mae House of Paul Band First Nation as the victim.
  Her body was found inside a Paul Band First Nation hom
  
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• Edmonton weather: Eskimos game will go as planned, 'air quality will be acceptable'

  18-08-2018 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  It would be another pleasantly warm day if not for the smoke.
  Environment Canada reminds us that above all that haze is a sun, beating down with a high of 20 C and overnight low of 10 C. A northwestern wind will hopefully aid the situation, blowing at 20 km/h and gusting to 40 until lightening up this evening.
  Sunday is expected to see a high of 21 C and overnight low of 10 C.
  Although Saturday began with an Air Quality Index of 11 and sits heavy at 10 late into the morning — recommen
  
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• Fringe review: Xanadu: the musical

  18-08-2018 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Xanadu: the musical
  • 5 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 25, Strathcona High School
  A flashy musical romp from beginning to end, this disco-dancing 1980s performance reaches heavenly proportions long before the extravagant roller skating finale.
  The critically-acclaimed musical premiered on Broadway in 2007, loosely based off the 1980 film of the same name.
  In this combined production by Scona Alumni Theatre Co. and Uniform Theatre, director and choreographer Linette J Smith take
  
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• Edmonton weather: Eskimos game will go as planned, 'air quality will be at acceptable'

  18-08-2018 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  It would be another pleasantly warm day if not for the smoke.
  Environment Canada reminds us that above all that haze is a sun, beating down with a high of 20 C and overnight low of 10 C. A northwestern wind will hopefully aid the situation, blowing at 20 km/h and gusting to 40 until lightening up this evening.
  Sunday is expected to see a high of 21 C and overnight low of 10 C.
  Although Saturday began with an Air Quality Index of 11 and sits heavy at 10 late into the morning — recommen
  
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• Fringe Fesitval: We are reviewing at least 120 plays

  18-08-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Fringe Festival is here.
  Our team of reviewers are going to at least 120 plays this year.
  Bookmark the page at this link. It is the essential guide to any successful Fringe adventure.
  Related
  Edmonton Fringe Festival 2018: Complete coverage
  
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• Fringe review: One Polaroid

  18-08-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  One Polaroid
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum
  Five minutes into this show, I had a sinking feeling — is this going to be one of those plays where two characters argue for an hour? Please, no.
  Fortunately, it gets better.
  It’s 1973 in small-town Alberta, and two sisters who couldn’t be more different are in the kitchen preparing for their nephew’s annual birthday visit.
  A decades-old family secret clouds the happy occasion, and sister Agnes Stan
  
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• Fringe Review: Jake's Gift

  18-08-2018 19:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jake’s Gift
  • 5 Stars out of 5
  • Stage 35, L’unithéatre at La Cité Francophone
  It is a feat to tackle multiple characters in a one-person show.
  It is something more to be able to fully inhabit all of those characters, physically and emotionally.
  Credit goes to Julia Mackey for jumping seamlessly from one character to the next — a precocious 10-year-old French girl, her grandmother, a school teacher, and Canadian Second World War veteran Jake — in J
  
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• Fringe review: Flute Loops

  18-08-2018 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Flute Loops
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 8, Prowse Chowne Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre
  At last, the theoretical physics musical you’ve been waiting for.
  Musician Devon More is the “merch girl” selling souvenirs before a Flute Loops concert, but when the hipster band members are inexplicably delayed she has to kill time.
  Turns out time is something about which she knows a lot. As she describes in a winning combination of awkwardness and earnestness, she’s
  
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• Graham Thomson: Labour peace as another tentative deal is struck with public sector workers

  18-08-2018 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The labour dominoes are falling in the right direction for the Alberta government.
  So far, three of the province’s six big groups of public sector workers have accepted what amounts to wage-freezing contracts with the government.
  And a fourth just signed a tentative agreement this week.
  About 23,000 government workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees will soon see details of the new deal so they can vote on it next week.
  Officials with the union and government are r
  
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• Fringe review: Death — A Romantic Comedy

  18-08-2018 18:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Death – A Romantic Comedy
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 5, Kick Point King Edward Elementary School
  Tom Murray
  Poet, comedian, and psychiatric nurse Rob Gee (Forget Me Not; Fruitcake) returns with yet another caustically funny, rhyming one-man show, this time involving petty thieves, a pacemaker, and a man handcuffed to a coffin.
  Gee brings to life a number of characters in this one hour performance, from a love struck funeral home assistant to a drug dealing low-life, angry vicar
  
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• Edmonton weather: Airshow takes flight despite smoky skies

  18-08-2018 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  It would be another pleasantly warm day if not for the smoke.
  Environment Canada reminds us that above all that haze is a sun, beating down with a high of 20 C and overnight low of 10 C. A northwestern wind will hopefully aid the situation, blowing at 20 km/h and gusting to 40 until lightening up this evening.
  Sunday is expected to see a high of 21 C and overnight low of 10 C.
  Although Saturday began with an Air Quality Index of 11 and sits heavy at 10 late into the morning — recommen
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Frustrated that Heritage Festival didn't have more family friendly accessibility options

  18-08-2018 17:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Of all the wonderful festivals in Edmonton, the Heritage Festival has to be my favourite. Sure, there’s the crowds and long lineups. But my heart is warmed by the confluence of Edmonton’s cultures. I love seeing people dressing in the traditional clothes of their country. I love seeing friends comparing notes on the cuisines of their respective homelands.
  Sometimes I get discouraged by the news of the day and the unwillingness of people to celebrate the differences of their neighbour
  
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• Edmonton weather: It would be nice out if the world wasn't on fire

  18-08-2018 17:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  It would be another pleasantly warm day if not for the smoke.
  Environment Canada reminds us that above all that haze is a sun, beating down with a high of 20 C and overnight low of 10 C. A northwestern wind will hopefully aid the situation, blowing at 20 km/h and gusting to 40 until lightening up this evening.
  Sunday is expected to see a high of 21 C and overnight low of 10 C.
  Although Saturday began with an Air Quality Index of 11 and sits heavy at 10 late into the morning — recommen
  
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• Fringe Review: Bountiful

  18-08-2018 17:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bountiful
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 35, L’unithéatre at La Cité Francophone
  Many know the story of Bountiful, the fundamentalist Latter Day Saints settlement in southern B.C., led by a man recently sentenced to six months in jail for practising polygamy.
  But what goes on in the lives of the women and girls who live in such a community?
  Playwright Rebecca Merkley, who grew up in Creston, B.C., explores that question in Bountiful, looking at the lives of four ‘
  
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• With honour: City hosts Treaty 6 Recognition Day, flag hoisted

  18-08-2018 17:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Treaty 6 flag is flying north of city hall for the next week in honour of historic signings in 1879 and 1877.
  On Friday, chiefs from the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, the City of Edmonton along with provincial and federal representatives gathered to mark Treaty 6 Recognition Day.
  The event — including the River Cree Drum Group — was held to mark the Aug. 23, 1879, signing of Treaty 6 between the Plains and Wood Cree and the Crown and to commemorate the Aug. 21, 1877, s
  
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• Looking for your 1940s Dodge? It's with RCMP in Two Hills

  18-08-2018 17:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s old, rusty and missing a headlight, but Mounties figure someone might like it back.
  RCMP are asking for the public’s help locating the owner of a 1940s-era Dodge car, which turned up abandoned on an oil lease site in Lamont County.
  They’ve had no luck locating the owner of the car — which they think is a 1940-49 Dodge Special Deluxe.
  A news release from RCMP described it as a “rare older vehicle.”
  “That’s why we’re trying to find ou
  
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• Fringe Review: 5-Step Guide to Being German 2.0

  18-08-2018 17:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  5-Step Guide to Being German 2.0
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 36, La Cité Auditorium
  There are three big takeaways from Berlin comedian Paco Erhard’s stand-up show about Germany’s place in the world.
  One — identity is nuanced and stereotypes based on nationality are overly simplistic.
  Two — that Germans are efficient and punctual.
  Three — this show contradicts itself.
  In an era of political polarization, xenophobia, and President Donald Trump, Erhard
  
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• Fringe Review: Caws and Effect

  18-08-2018 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Caws & Effect
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 35, L’unithéatre at La Cité Francophone
  Finally, someone found a good use for those overhead projectors we all remember from high school.
  I just didn’t think it would be a 60-minute puppet show about crows.
  As the program says: “Crows are re-dreaming the world.” But where will they wind up in the pecking order?
  The show, conceived and created by Chloe Ziner and Jessica Gabriel (they even wrote and record
  
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• Fringe review: 2 Queens and a Joker

  18-08-2018 17:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  2 Queens and a Joker
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 17, The Roxy on Gateway
  Contrary to the title, this inventive show has nothing to do with playing cards, but instead focuses on the games played by two monarchs in their feud.
  Elizabeth the First (Madelaine Knight) and Mary, Queen of Scots (Cheryl Jameson) are at the centre of this play by Edmonton-based Guys in Disguise in which the two powerful women battle for supremacy.
  The writing team of Nick Green, Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schm
  
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• Fringe Review: Tragedy, A Tragedy

  18-08-2018 16:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tragedy, A Tragedy
  • 4 stars out of 5, Stage 3
  • Walterdale Theatre
  Less of a tragedy and more of a smart satire, this is a timely show about fake news, but not the kind a certain president complains about.
  The four-person news team here isn’t set to deliver a true or false story about corrupt politicians. Instead it’s about the shell of melodrama that’s used to fill time when there may be nothing going on at all, more akin to the kind of disaster reporting that you m
  
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• Fringe review: A Brief History of Beer

  18-08-2018 16:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Brief History of Beer
  • 2 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 2, Big Rock Backstage Theatre 
  Beer meets The Magic School Bus in this two-person comedy that takes the audience through the history of the popular bubbly beverage.
  Now that combination does sound bizarre, especially since patrons are encouraged to buy a brew for the performance and no one in the theatre was under the age of 18.
  But actors Trish Parry and William Glenn, also the writers of the show, lead the lesson
  
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• Saturday's letters: Strathcona is hard done by

  18-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Evidence shows councillors hate Strathcona. They approve a high-rise smack in a residential neighbourhood with the spectre of more to come. The high-rises on Saskatchewan Drive already lower the quality of life in terms of the cost to repair wind damage to our homes and parking problems.
  Council is also changing access to homes east of 99 Street with restrictions from Saskatchewan Drive onto 99 Street. Let’s not even go to how residents get onto Saskatchewan Drive proceeding west.
  Council
  
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• Opinion: Can't cyclists and motorists all just get along?

  18-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I have been entrusted by cyclists everywhere to relay this message to Edmonton drivers:
  We come in peace! But we have heard many of you talk about us while shaking your fists in the air, saying cyclists this, and cyclists that.
  Something to note; we are not human-machine hybrids, or tentacled aliens from outer space (though I admit that would be pretty cool), and we’d like it if you quit talking about us as if we were a separate species.
  The truth is much less interesting: we’re just
  
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• Mom column: Frustrated that Heritage Festival didn't have more family friendly accessibility options

  18-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Of all the wonderful festivals in Edmonton, the Heritage Festival has to be my favourite. Sure, there’s the crowds and long lineups. But my heart is warmed by the confluence of Edmonton’s cultures. I love seeing people dressing in the traditional clothes of their country. I love seeing friends comparing notes on the cuisines of their respective homelands.
  Sometimes I get discouraged by the news of the day and the unwillingness of people to celebrate the differences of their neighbour
  
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• Fitness column: Learn to perform exercises properly to achieve best results

  18-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When working out, you want to ensure your efforts are producing great results. Going through the motions isn’t in anyone’s best interest.
  Often, how you initiate movement during exercise and maintain tension throughout can make or break overall effectiveness. The saying, “An object in motion stays in motion” is great for pushing a stalled vehicle or giant rocks but not so much when muscle development is your goal.
  Throwing steel around in the weight room may make you feel
  
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• Fringe review: Contractions

  18-08-2018 06:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Contractions
  • 3 stars out of 5
  • Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library
  Franz Kafka meets the modern surveillance society in this black satire about where our corporate culture could be heading.
  New employee Emma (Kristi Hansen) is called in for a series of cryptic interviews with her nameless manager (April Banigan), poster child for the phrase “the banality of evil.”
  The boss is concerned she might be dating a co-worker, which is forbidden under company policy, but as t
  
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• Cooper Marody's great skill should see him push for an Edmonton Oilers job soon

  18-08-2018 05:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospectsCooper Marody #9 overallThere’s group of older AHL/NHL tweeners trying to  make the Edmonton Oilers at forward, but coming up fast is a second group of forward prospects born in 1997 and after who have the talent and pedigree to make their mark in the National Hockey League.
  Cooper Mardoy is an honorary member of this younger group.
  He’s born in December 1996, so he’s closer in age to prospects like Cameron Hebig and Tyler Benson than he is to
  
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• Fringe Review: Eddie Poe

  18-08-2018 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eddie Poe
  • 4.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 37, Campus Saint-Jean Auditorium
  It’s a major hassle when someone exploits your insecurities to sabotage your every move. It’s worse when you do it to yourself.
  Enter Edgar Allan Poe — then known just as Edgar Allan — a stoic, lovestruck 16-year-old orphan vigilantly committed to dominating his studies at the University of Virginia in 1825.
  The show, presented by The Coldharts of Brooklyn, N.Y., mashes together Poe’s
  
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• Fringe review: Beers About Songs

  18-08-2018 04:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Beers About Songs4 stars out of 5
  Stage 21, El Cortez Mexican Kitchen and Tequila BarBeers About Songs is a great show by an amazing performer that suffers from an unfortunate name.First, the name. Yes, it’s a play on the word-slurring “I’m not as think as you drunk I am” that comes from over imbibing. It’s kind of silly and I suppose it works, but feels silly attached to an amazing show.Ryan Adam Wells spills his heart out for 60 minutes, weaving a tale of youthful
  
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• Fringe review: Red Bastard: Lie With Me

  18-08-2018 04:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Red Bastard: Lie With Me
  • 4 stars out of 5
  • Stage 11, Nordic Studio Theatre
  He’s a professional lover, a dilettante on the squeezebox, and most definitely a “dirty pony,” but Eric Davis is also something of a truthteller.
  He does this in the form of the leering and misshapen, red spandex clad clown Red Bastard, ruthlessly and amusingly interrogating audiences on the lies we tell each other, big and small, especially the ones to do with intimacy and relationships.
  In
  
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• Fringe review: Apricot Stones

  18-08-2018 04:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Apricot Stones3 stars out of 5
  Stage 11, Nordic Studio TheatreAfghanistan in the 1980s was a complicated place. The invasion by the Soviet Union, and the atrocities they committed, pushed the population to extreme measures.
  Caught in the middle are the regular families trying to make a living while maintaining their sense of normalcy.Into that milieu falls Adela, a woman with a strong moral compass who wants to fight back against the religious extremism taking over her country.  
  Adela&rsqu
  
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• Fringe review: Nightmare

  18-08-2018 03:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nightmare
  • 1.5 stars out of 5 
  • Stage 18, Sugar Swing Ballroom, Main Floor 
  Billed as a dance and a special effects performance art piece, this new work never finds the right footing before it awakes from its slumber.
  Nightmare, a Celtic-Raine Production, features a series of bellydancing numbers from Edmonton’s Bedouin Beats dance studio that should be the main focus of the show, but alas the dances are few and far between and don’t groove with the ov
  
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• Fringe Review: Don't Frown At The Gown

  18-08-2018 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Don’t Frown At The Gown
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 12, Varscona Theatre
  Guys in Disguise take us back to the 1960s for an often-funny look at that mother-daughter rite of passage, the purchase of a wedding dress.
  Darrin Hagen steals the show as Mrs. Janice Fowler, the domineering, over-the-top mother of Susan (Trevor Schmidt), who also turns in a fine performance as the hen-pecked daughter who isn’t sure what she wants on her big day.
  They’re accompanied to the brid
  
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• Police seek 26-year-old man in southeast pellet gun shooting

  18-08-2018 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have identified a suspect in the pellet gun shooting of a woman earlier this week.
  The victim, who was released from hospital after suffering non-life-threatening injuries, was shot in the area of Minchau School near 3615 Mill Woods Rd. around 11:20 a.m. Tuesday.
  Police issued warrants for Daniel Atienza, 26, Friday afternoon, an Edmonton Police Service news release said.
  He is wanted for use of a weapon causing bodily harm and possession of an imitation weapon for a purpose dangerous to
  
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• Fringe review: From The Balcony

  18-08-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  From The Balcony
  • 3.5 stars out of 5
  • Stage 34, The Balcony
  There have been Fringe shows in an auto body shop and walking through the Mill Creek Ravine, but From The Balcony is definitely a contender for Most Unusual Venue 2018 — the second-floor balcony of performer Heather D. Swain’s Old Strathcona house.
  Following an introductory trumpet blast a la the Stratford festival, Swain gives the audience standing in her front yard an unrelated series of scenes and meditations
  
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• Edmonton charged with handling weed killer illegally in residential areas

  18-08-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new set of environmental charges against the City of Edmonton allege it used a weed killer improperly near a residential area.
  Provincial officials said Friday they laid seven charges against the city under environmental protection and pesticide control legislation for an incident that occurred on May 11, 2016, including one for not reporting the incident as soon as city officials became aware of it.
  The first court appearance is set for Sept. 28 in Edmonton.
  In a written statement, city deput
  
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• Graham Thomson: Labour peace as another big tentative deal is struck with public sector workers

  18-08-2018 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  The labour dominoes are falling in the right direction for the Alberta government.
  So far, three of the province’s six big groups of public sector workers have accepted what amounts to wage-freezing contracts with the government.
  And a fourth just signed a tentative agreement this week.
  About 23,000 government workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees will soon see details of the new deal so they can vote on it next week.
  Officials with the union and government are r
  
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• 'This has become unbearable': Smoke from B.C. wildfires blackens sky in northern Alberta

  18-08-2018 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Smoke blowing from B.C. wildfires has darkened the sky in northern Alberta.
  Several people in the Grande Prairie area shared photos on Twitter depicting a dark, eerie orange sky Friday morning and afternoon.
  South of Grande Prairie near Pauls Cut Across, Shot at Noon Today. Photo Courtesy of Shawn Clarke. #gpab #countyofgp pic.twitter.com/G8ebFsE7Cu
  — William Vavrek (@williamvavrek) August 17, 2018Smoke in Grande Prairie. This has become unbearable! pic.twitter.com/oJKamVA9P0
  — Indra
  
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