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• Owner says 'political red tape' obstructing new Forest Heights deli, but parking worries neighbours

  23-08-2018 23:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of a Forest Heights pub fighting parking concerns that have stopped her from opening a new deli says she’s frustrated with the city’s handling of the case.
  “There’s a lot of campaigns around Make Something Edmonton, that Edmonton is a great place to take risks,” Katy Ingraham told a subdivision and development appeal board hearing Thursday.
  “It’s very, very difficult to take a risk in this city. I’m good at pouring beer and creating an ex
  
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• 'Peering through their bedroom window': Police search for suspect in McKernan voyeurism spree

  23-08-2018 23:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  He peers through the window, wearing a toque and holding a grey-coloured cell phone up to film. When spotted, he flees into the night.
  Police are looking for a suspect in a string of voyeurism incidents in Edmonton’s McKernan neighbourhood, just south of the University of Alberta.
  The same man has been spotted looking into womens’ bedroom windows on seven different occasions since January of last year.
  Most happened between 9:30 p.m. and midnight. In a news release, police said 
  
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• Kenney sides with 'principled' Andrew Scheer as Maxime Bernier leaves federal Tories to start new party

  23-08-2018 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney shored up support for his federal counterpart Thursday following a bombshell announcement from Quebec MP Maxime Bernier that he is quitting the Conservative Party to start his own political movement.
  Bernier, who narrowly lost the Tory leadership to rival Andrew Scheer, slammed the party as “too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed” and argued it had abandoned conservatives.
  “(The party) does not represent the
  
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• Eco-friendly home owners should get a break on garbage bills: resident

  23-08-2018 21:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The cost of Edmonton’s garbage pickup isn’t fair.
  You pay the same whether your trash is piled high every week, or if you’re a senior with just half a bag, resident John Twyman argued at city hall Thursday.
  He heads to Arizona for six months of the year and still has to pay the full bill, he told council’s utility committee, which is working to write a new 25-year plan for waste management.
  Fixed bills don’t encourage anyone to reduce or conserve, he said, arguing f
  
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• Man taken into custody as police surround northeast Edmonton home after shooting

  23-08-2018 21:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man has been taken into custody after city police surrounded a home in the Balwin neighbourhood in response to an early morning shooting Thursday.
  At around 8 a.m., police were called to a home near 76 Street and 127 Avenue where they found a 40-year-old man who had been shot.
  The man was rushed to hospital, where he was in serious but stable condition.
  Police surrounded the single-storey house where the shooting reportedly occurred, spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said in an email.
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• Water-damaged Misericordia ER to reopen Friday

  23-08-2018 21:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The flood-damaged emergency department at the Misericordia Community Hospital is set to partially reopen Friday morning, Alberta Health Services says.
  A full range of emergency services at the west-end facility will resume at 7:30 a.m., even though repairs are still ongoing in some sections of the unit, the health authority said in a news release Thursday.
  Covenant Health, which operates the Misericordia, plans to use the nearby day surgery area for emergency care while the repairs to the ER are
  
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• Northern Alberta Boston Pizza says its Twitter account compromised after rogue 'likes'

  23-08-2018 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Boston Pizza has apologized after a Twitter account for its northern Alberta locations favourited two contentious tweets about South Africa.
  Boston Pizza Northern Alberta said in a tweet Thursday that it had “locked down” its account “as we have been informed that someone has accessed our account and liked a tweet that our company does not stand for.”
  “We sincerely apologize for this, and we are taking steps to ensure it cannot happen again.”
  The tweets in que
  
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• Police surround northeast Edmonton home after shooting

  23-08-2018 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police have surrounded a home in the Balwin neighbourhood after a man was shot this morning.
  Police believe there are still people inside the home, which is also believed to contain guns.
  At around 8 a.m., police responded to a call near 76 Street and 127 Avenue, where they found a 40-year-old man who had been shot.
  The man was rushed to hospital, where he was in serious but stable condition.
  Police surrounded the single-storey house where the shooting reportedly occurred, spokeswoman Chery
  
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• Elections Alberta to collect information on future voters over 16

  23-08-2018 18:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Elections Alberta will collect voting information on 16 and 17 year olds for the first time this fall while registration ramps up ahead of the next provincial election.
  The move will simplify the process to register voters when they turn 18, said a Thursday news release.
  Albertans have two weeks to register with the provincial agency before door-to-door visits start on Sept. 8. More than 7,000 staff will conduct the visits until Sept. 30.
  Residents 18 and older, who are Canadian citizens, will m
  
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• Love food, hate waste: Edmonton struggles with the cost of edibles thrown in the trash

  23-08-2018 15:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wasted food costs Edmonton residents twice: they spend an estimated $1,700 per family of four buying food annually that ends up in the trash, and their garbage bills increase substantially to process it.
  Roughly six per cent of the trash Edmonton residents set out at the curb is avoidable food waste — something that was once fit to eat — according to a report heading to city council’s utility committee meeting Thursday.
  That’s expensive to compost. If it heads to the land
  
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• 'Violent offender' at large after escaping Edmonton Institution for Women

  23-08-2018 14:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are searching for an inmate who escaped the Edmonton Institution for Women in west Edmonton Wednesday evening.
  Samantha Towedo, 34, climbed over the fence of the prison at 111 Avenue and 178 Street around 7:50 p.m., according to a police news release. West Division officers and the Canine Unit responded but could not locate her.
  Towedo was last seen running eastbound towards 176 Street. She is described as five-foot-five and 140 pounds and was wearing black runners, black shorts and black
  
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• Edmonton weather: Air quality expected to reach 10+ (very high risk) today (oh joy!)

  23-08-2018 14:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 10.8 C with calm winds.
  Environment Canada issued an air quality advisory for the city of Edmonton at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday as smoke from the B.C. wildfires makes its way into the province. The advisory was extended Thursday morning as thick smoke continues to roll into southern and central Alberta.
  “Smoke will likely dissipate as far south as the Capital
  
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• Thursday's letters: No quick solutions to homelessness

  23-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homelessness is a problem in most urban centres and there are no “quick solutions.” Homeless people have issues in their lives and in order for them to deal with those issues, long-term, safe, clean and affordable housing is required.
  Stephen A. Crocker, Edmonton
  WCB president unmatched as CEO
  Re. “WCB president leaving $876,000-a-year post he assumed in 2002,” Aug. 16
  I have been a WCB board member for the past six years. I have participated in Guy Kerr’s compensat
  
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• Small Alberta town makes Elvis come alive with Blue Suede Shoes Music Festival

  23-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Elvis is everywhere.
  The spirit of Elvis, that is, and as the noted 20th century philosopher Mojo Nixon once said, there’s a little bit of The King in all of us. Over in Busby, Alta., where the Blue Suede Music Festival has been channelling the favourite son of Memphis for a decade now, the love of all things Presley rages on.
  Founder Trudy Taphorn answered later than some to the calling of The King, but she’s been making up for it by throwing herself headfirst into the world of Elvi
  
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• Opinion: Crazy Rich Asians may change Hollywood for the better

  23-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like many people, I was excited to see Crazy Rich Asians when it opened last weekend. I went to the packed theatre to see it on Friday night. I wasn’t at all disappointed by the film. It was a fun movie.
  I didn’t expect it to represent all of Asia and it didn’t. What I saw was a convincing story about an Asian couple, generational tension and conflicts between Asians across the diaspora. But it was so nice to see a variety of Asian characters on-screen. They weren’t just
  
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• Editorial: Public money means public scrutiny

  23-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the City of Edmonton refusing to release construction records for the Valley Line LRT, there’s a lesson to be learned from Ottawa.
  Inspectors there found an array of problems with concrete work at LRT sites, the Ottawa Citizen reported this week. They included concrete poured at unacceptable temperatures, deficient concrete and missed durability tests.
  Contractors have been forced to redo work or find workarounds. In one case, not enough concrete was poured and work was stopped after
  
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• Wildlife: Jack Black (but also Jack White) coming to Edmonton; Rock Fest rules

  23-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You ever experience that thing where someone says either Jack White or Jack Black and you think of the other one? The two really couldn’t be further apart as performers, but after the late, great Sonic Boom programmed them both as headliners a couple years in a row, the issue only compounded around here.
  Well, here they go again. After Jack White (formerly of the White Stripes) announced a Rogers Place show Nov. 2, what does Jack Black do one week later? Ironic or not, devil horns in the a
  
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• Graham Thomson: It's not all quiet on the labour front for Alberta's 46,000 teachers

  23-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One week ago, Joe Ceci issued a news release that had the finance minister sounding pretty pleased with himself.
  The government had reached a tentative agreement with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees representing 23,000 government workers.
  As Ceci pointed out, the government was on track to work out deals with all government-paid workers.
  “Of the six major provincial public sector contracts, in addition to the tentative agreement with the AUPE, three others — with the Albert
  
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• Glass and plastics being removed from recycling pick up in Strathcona County

  23-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Glass and most plastics are being forced out of blue bag collection in Strathcona County as a result of tightening international recycling markets, even though it means increasing the amount of waste ending up in landfills.
  As of Sept. 10, the county will no longer be accepting any glass items, styrofoam, to-go coffee cups and plastic materials — excluding hard plastic containers — in its weekly recycling collection.
  This is a response to tougher restrictions on reusable materials ac
  
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• Chamber of commerce calls for YMCA, private partners to run city recreation centres

  23-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s mega recreation centres are coming with a large and growing annual bill for property taxpayers, one that now has business leaders questioning city involvement.
  The Edmonton Chamber of Commerce is calling on city officials to consider having the YMCA and other private operators involved, similar to what the city did when money was tight in the 1990s.
  “Taxpayers are no longer on the hook for operations and maintenance,” said Chamber president Janet Riopel, whose team i
  
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• Love Food Hate Waste: Edmonton struggles with the cost of eatables thrown in the trash

  23-08-2018 04:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wasted food costs Edmonton residents twice: they spend an estimated $1,700 per family of four buying food annually that ends up in the trash, and their garbage bills increase substantially to process it.
  Roughly six per cent of the trash Edmonton residents set out at the curb is avoidable food waste — something that was once fit to eat — according to a report heading to city council’s utility committee meeting Thursday.
  That’s expensive to compost. If it heads to the land
  
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• Edmonton one of the best Canadian markets for buying a home

  23-08-2018 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  It isn’t such great news if you’re selling a home, but Edmonton is the fourth-best city in Canada to buy one, a report released Wednesday says.
  The city had a 48 per cent sales-to-listings ratio in July, calculated as the number of sales divided by the number of new listings, according to real estate website Zoocasa.
  The lower the percentage, the lower the number of homes sold out of those listed for sale, says the website, which used figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association
  
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• Passenger of man killed in police shooting charged with weapons, driving offences

  23-08-2018 04:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The passenger in a vehicle whose driver was shot dead by police Saturday has been charged with a string of offences.
  The 29-year-old man surrendered to police after a two-vehicle collision in northeast Edmonton near 66 Street and 123 Avenue. An officer shot and killed the 30-year-old driver with his pistol after a “confrontation” shortly after, a news release from the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) stated on Monday.
  The incident began around 9:40 p.m. Saturday wh
  
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• Eye Institute of Alberta looking good after $2.3-million upgrade

  23-08-2018 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Royal Alexandra Hospital has opened a newly renovated ophthalmology centre featuring an easier-to-navigate design and more welcoming environment for the 45,000 patients who visit the hub each year.
  The $2.3-million overhaul of the Eye Institute of Alberta includes substantial improvements to both the entrance and admission areas to make the spaces more open, along with new amenities for patients such as wall televisions and phone charging stations built into the furniture.
  Reception desks ha
  
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• Blues fest has been a real event for 20 years now

  23-08-2018 02:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  After helming a major festival for 20 years now, you would expect to see a little age showing on the face of Cam Hayden, co-founder and now sole producer of the Edmonton Blues Festival.
  At 62 he is sporting a few grey hairs and yet, he seems downright rejuvenated.
  “I’m still positive after 20 years so that must mean something in itself,” Hayden smiles. “It’s been a wild ride, a great ride too. The volunteers have been fantastic and the bands, with very, very few exc
  
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• VIDEO: Strathcona County recycling changes

  23-08-2018 02:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leah Seabrook, manager of waste management and community energy services utilities at Strathcona County, explains the new changes for waste pick up in Strathcona County at the Broadview Enviroservice Station in Sherwood Park on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Strathcona County will be changing its recycling pick-up program next month and most plastics, glass and styrofoam will no longer be recyclable.
   
  
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• Senior dead after being pinned beneath her vehicle during U-turn

  23-08-2018 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 74-year-old woman who police say was making a U-turn died early Wednesday morning after being pinned beneath her vehicle.
  Police received reports of an injured person in the area of 18 Street and 153 Avenue at approximately 12:45 a.m., said an Edmonton Police Service news release. They found a woman at the northeast Edmonton intersection with the lower half of her body pinned beneath a Ford Flex. Emergency responders took her to hospital where she died shortly afterwards.
  Investigators from th
  
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• Son of Stax strolls memory lane for Blues Fest Friday

  23-08-2018 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For one teenage keyboard ace in 1962, success started with the scent of Green Onions.
  That No. 1 hit introduced Booker T. & the MGs to an unsuspecting radio audience but its humble title only hinted at the impact composer-producer Booker T. Jones would have on the developing sounds of rhythm and blues and soul through the vehicle of a small label called Satellite Records, soon to be known as Stax Records.
  Memphis-born Jones’ was drafted to work for Stax from the 10th grade and with col
  
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• WestJet cutting back on Alberta flights in a bid to reverse first loss in 13 years

  23-08-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calgary — WestJet Airlines is cutting back on flights in Alberta and across Canada as it reduces capacity to meet consumer demand while also trying to reverse its first quarterly loss in 13 years.
  It will cut back on flights between Vancouver and Edmonton and Calgary, between Calgary and Denver, between Edmonton and Phoenix along with between Winnipeg and Palm Springs, Calif.
  The Calgary-based airline said it is cancelling service between Montreal and Quebec City effective Oct. 28, more th
  
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• Senior pinned, killed beneath her vehicle during U-turn

  23-08-2018 00:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 74-year-old woman who police say was making a U-turn died early Wednesday morning after being pinned beneath her vehicle.
  Police received reports of an injured person in the area of 18 Street and 153 Avenue at approximately 12:45 a.m., according to an Edmonton Police Service news release. They found a woman at the northeast Edmonton intersection with the lower half of her body pinned beneath a Ford Flex. Emergency responders took her to hospital where she died shortly afterwards.
  Investigators
  
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• Even with corporate support, Edmonton faces 'struggle' cutting carbon emissions

  23-08-2018 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city hopes a new program encouraging businesses to cut energy consumption will help Edmonton meet greenhouse-gas reduction targets, but city councillors caution reaching those goals won’t be easy.
  “They will require a real capital outlay, and that will be a struggle,” Coun. Ben Henderson said Wednesday following the kickoff of the Corporate Climate Leaders Program.
  “We have to have a road map there and stick to it … We can’t continue to pull our punches o
  
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• NHL insider expects Ty Rattie or Jessie Puljujarvi to have a break-out year. And why not?

  23-08-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from NHL.com analyst Mike Johnson, his take that either Jesse Puljujarvi or Ty Rattie are tied for sixth as the most likely NHLers to have break-out seasons in 2018-19.
  Johnson says this based not so much on the merit of either Pulujarvi or Rattie, but on one of them being a likely candidate to win the right wing job playing with Connor McDavid.
  “They both can’t be there, only one can, and I’m not sure which one it’s going to be but whoever gets it is in just by d
  
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