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• Alberta to develop guidelines to clean fentanyl contaminated sites

  24-08-2018 21:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is leading the charge in Canada to develop guidelines that will help protect those cleaning sites contaminated by fentanyl, health officials said Friday.
  The province has set aside up to $350,000 to develop a set of guidelines to safely clean homes that have been turned into drug labs
  The push for the document was one of several recommendations made by the Health Minister’s Opioid Emergency Response Commission that was released in July, Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer of H
  
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• Motorists warned of major weekend delays on Whitemud Drive

  24-08-2018 21:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you are driving around the city this weekend you might want to try and avoid Whitemud Drive.
  Deck paving on Rainbow Valley Bridge on Sunday will reduce westbound traffic flow to just a single lane from east of 122 Street to west of the bridge, the city said Friday.
  However, because of poor weather conditions, construction may be forced to take place on Saturday instead.
  Either way, the closure will take place between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
  
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• 'It's not in partnership with us at all': Mustard Seed unaffiliated with far-right groups' homeless outreach

  24-08-2018 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  A church in Edmonton’s inner-city says it has nothing to do with a plan by far-right groups to distribute food and water to homeless people near its premises.
  In social media posts, members of Soldiers of Odin, Onward Christian Soldiers and Northern Guard said they plan to serve food and water to the homeless on September 3.
  A poster says “all like-minded patriotic groups are welcome to join us,” and lists the location as the Mustard Seed Church at 96 Street and 106A Avenu
  
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• What's Happening: Front Yards in Bloom winners recognized

  24-08-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some of Edmonton’s finest front yards and public spaces were highlighted Wednesday night at the Edmonton in Bloom Awards, concluding the 2018 edition of Front Yards in Bloom program.
  First place in the General category went to 8124 167 Street in the Elmwood neighbourhood, located in west Edmonton. Judges recognized the yard for its excellent design, featuring multiple layers that created a variety of focal points. The yard demonstrated excellent design principles, with lush and healthy pla
  
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• Growing Things: Keep roses free of strangling tree roots

  24-08-2018 20:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: My inquiry has to do with a flowering rose plant that I received five years ago. It had been given to me in the early spring, and I kept it in the house for a few months. I then transplanted it outdoors, and it has done well at the front of the house, which has a southern exposure. The plant produced numerous flowers each year. Last year it bloomed twice, once in the late spring and then in late summer. Both times there were many branches and stems that produced lots of roses. I cut it back i
  
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• Motorcyclist clocked travelling at 197 km/h near Fort Saskatchewan: Mounties

  24-08-2018 18:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A motorcyclist clocked travelling 197 km/h on Highway 28a near Fort Saskatchewan will face court later next month, Mounties said Friday.
  The 25-year-old man from Edmonton was caught travelling at almost double the speed limit on his Ducati superbike on Monday during a traffic blitz by Fort Saskatchewan RCMP.
  On the same day, municipal enforcement officers clocked a Ford pick-up truck travelling at 131 km/h in a 70km/h zone on Highway 21 at 94 Street.
  The 22-year-old woman from Fort Saskatchewan
  
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• Clean your wine bottles: Wasps a problem for Edmonton waste collectors

  24-08-2018 18:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is asking Edmontonians to help keep waste collectors safe from wasp stings which have become a concern, especially for those with life-threatening allergies.
  In a release issued Friday, the city is asking residents to take several precautions against wasps when putting out garbage and recycling for pickup.
  •Clean empty wine, juice and pop containers and seal them in bags, as wasps are attracted to sugar and alcohol•Pick up and dispose of all apples and overripe fruit from lawn
  
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• Bob Layton: Will Edmonton keep marijuana rules as easy as St. Albert?

  24-08-2018 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton council asked for the public's marijuana opinions and now they're assessing them and preparing a report for Sept. 12.
  
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• Review: Alice Cooper brings the horror, metal and blood to the Jube

  24-08-2018 16:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  In an Alice Cooper paint-by-numbers, there’s bound to be a lot of black … and blood red.
  Thursday night at the practically sold-out Jube, though, there was a surprising amount of pink, though little of it stereotypically cute or tender — including on a giant, creepy toybox from which all manner of horrors emerged.
  One of these necrophile nightmares was a floppy, pink-haired stuffed Cold Ethyl doll the 70-year-old singer loved and abused in turn, either kissing or hurling
  
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• Three arrested as police surround northeast Edmonton home after shooting

  24-08-2018 15:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tactical police used a battering ram to break down the door of a home at the centre of a tense six-hour standoff in northeast Edmonton Thursday that began after a man was shot and ended with the arrest of three people.
  Officers arrived at the residence near 76 Street and 127 Avenue at 8 a.m. after receiving reports of a shooting in the Balwin neighbourhood. On arrival they found a victim suffering a serious gun-inflicted injury.
  After rushing the 40-year-old shooting victim to hospital, police s
  
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• Edmonton weather: Breathe in that sweet, sweet fresh air

  24-08-2018 14:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 10.1 C with 10 km/h winds out of the north.
  It’s amazing what a little rain can do. As temperatures plummeted Thursday night and the skies gave way to rainfall I instantly could feel myself breathing easier. The smoke that had filled the skies for the past two weeks had all but disappeared. In just three short hours, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Edmonton’s
  
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• Friday's letters: Display history to learn from the past

  24-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Removing statues of John A. fails reconciliation test,” Opinion, Aug. 22
  I could not agree more with the opinions expressed by Brian Lee Crowley in his opinion piece. Removing a statue does not change history — it is a Band-Aid solution.
  The way to approach the evidence that Sir John A. Macdonald may have been racist, or was implicated in the residential school movement is to use it as a learning experience, not to hide the evidence on the back of a flatbed truck, or in a
  
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• Editorial: New amenities promise better river access

  24-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For a city bisected by the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton seems peculiarly estranged from the waterway that runs through it.
  Aside from the participants of a handful of events such as RiverFest or the Sourdough Raft Race, few Edmontonians venture onto its waters. Boaters, canoeists, kayakers, anglers and swimmers on the river are relative rarities compared to the throngs who run, bike and stroll along its banks. As Coun. Scott McKeen once said, “Edmonton has a long relationship with it
  
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• The Edmonton Soccer Dome is up and the turf is going down

  24-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The crown of a just-inflated massive structure can be seen above the tree line like a submarine breaching the ocean as motorists head south on 101 Street toward the Edmonton Scottish Society grounds.
  The Edmonton Soccer Dome, the largest facility of its kind in Canada, is set to open in a month, altering the sports landscape in the region.
  The dome was inflated last Thursday and will be operational in mid-September. It encompasses 12,541 square metres (135,000 square feet), is 152.5 metres by 53
  
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• Largest indoor soccer facility in Canada set to open in Edmonton

  24-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The crown of a just-inflated massive structure can be seen above the tree line like a submarine breaching the ocean as motorists head south on 101 Street toward the Edmonton Scottish Society grounds.
  The Edmonton Soccer Dome, the largest facility of its kind in Canada, is set to open in a month, altering the sports landscape in the region.
  “I’m just proud. Every time I drive past it, I smile,” said Edmonton Soccer Dome general manager Antony Bent. “I’m not over it y
  
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• 'Friends, family and music' in open air at long weekend's Symphony Under the Sky

  24-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Symphony Under the Sky, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s traditional Labour Day weekend mini-festival, heralds fall with the first suggestion of autumn colours in the open-air Hawrelak Park venue and the wandering geese thinking about migration.
  Running from Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 2, it also has a symbolic place as the start of Edmonton’s classical music season, in all genres, after the hiatus of the hot summer months.
  But, coming hot on the heels of the end of the Fringe, i
  
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• David Staples: Are you ready for Don-TV? Not the best idea for taxpayers

  24-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Are you ready for Don-TV, a new internet show produced by City of Edmonton communications staff?
  I fear that Mayor Don Iveson and city council have something like this in mind when it comes to selling political messages.
  An overblown concern? Consider the recent debate on whether the city should proceed with a $2 million-plus advocacy campaign to “change attitudes” and “normalize” the idea of having social and affordable housing in every single Edmonton neighbourhood
  
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• City auditor releases stinging report on millions spent for failed eServices effort

  24-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A second stinging audit of Edmonton’s failed eServices effort released Thursday found the manager of the $11.6-million project hired business partners to do the work.
  Auditor David Wiun said he found the contractors hired had personal relationships with the project manager and received payments above the city’s normal rate, which put the city at risk of fraud.
  Half the money was paid to a small number of contractors, and the city’s human resources department was in the dark abo
  
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• Don't count out Caleb Jones as a top prospect for the Edmonton Oilers

  24-08-2018 07:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects#6: LD Caleb Jones
  Previously: #4 in 2016
  Caleb Jones’ path to the National Hockey League was going great guns ever since the Edmonton Oilers drafted him 117th overall in the 2015 draft, but things stalled somewhat in his first pro season last year.
  Jones is still a top prospect for the Oilers. Not one left shot d-man rated higher than him at sixth overall in our Cult of Hockey prospect series. But no one expects him to make the Oilers this year, and two right
  
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• PHOTOS: Alice Cooper Rocks Edmonton

  24-08-2018 05:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alice Cooper performs in concert at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on Thursday August 23, 2018. (PHOTOS BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Alice Cooper performs in concert at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on Thursday August 23, 2018. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Alice Cooper performs in concert at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on Thursday August 23, 2018. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Alice Cooper performs in concert at the Northern Alb
  
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• Police searching for man 'known to carry weapons'

  24-08-2018 04:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is asking the public for help in finding a man wanted on three counts of breach of recognizance.
  Jared Owen Soosay, 21, is described as five-foot-eight, 140 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, said a news release. Police consider him to be of high risk to offend violently. He has been “known to carry weapons,” said the release.
  He should not be approached if seen. Anyone with information about Soosay’s whereabouts is asked to contact police.
  
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• 'Violent offender' back in custody after escaping Edmonton Institution for Women

  24-08-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Less than 24 hours after a brazen escape from the Edmonton Institution for Women, an inmate was back in custody Thursday evening.
  Samantha Towedo, 34, climbed the fence of the prison at 111 Avenue and 178 Street around 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, said police in a news release. West division officers and the canine unit responded but could not locate her.
  Following a tip from the public, downtown officers found Towedo at a commercial complex near 118 Street and 104 Avenue and arrested her at approx
  
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• Save the river valley: Buy energy from a wind farm, say advocates to Epcor

  24-08-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Putting solar panels in Edmonton’s river valley instead of another local site will save Epcor roughly $19 million — but a wind farm would be cheaper still.
  Epcor promised to build a local renewable energy option in its last rate-setting deal with the city. It told council’s utility committee Thursday that putting the solar farm next to its water treatment facility in the North Saskatchewan River valley is $19 million cheaper than building on purchased land somewhere else in Edm
  
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• Elections Alberta to collect information on future voters over age 16

  24-08-2018 02:07 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 spokesman Drew Westwater on Thursday.
  “Our biggest demographic that does not currently vote is the 18- to 24-year-old age group, so we’re trying to get them early,” he said. “Historically it’s shown that if somebody do
  
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• Government roundtable focuses on integrating diversity into Alberta curriculum

  24-08-2018 02:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The K-12 curriculum overhaul will include feedback from various faiths and cultures in order to better reflect Alberta’s current makeup, says Education Minister David Eggen.
  “Some parts of our curriculum are over 30 years old so they’re due an update,” he told reporters Thursday, speaking at a roundtable that brought together more than 20 community representatives.
  “Alberta is a very fast-growing population, it’s the youngest population in Canada and people ar
  
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• Man peers through bedroom windows: Police search for suspect in McKernan voyeurism spree

  24-08-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  He peers through the window, wearing a tuque and holding a grey-coloured cellphone 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 women’s bedroom windows on seven different occasions since January 2017.
  Most happened between 9:30 p.m. and midnight. In a news release, police said each woma
  
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• A pot of boiling water and a smear of blood: 12 years later, fresh clues sought in Stephanie Stewart's disappearance

  24-08-2018 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Twelve years have passed since Stephanie Stewart went missing from a fire lookout near Hinton, leaving behind little more than a smear of blood on a stair and a pot of boiling water on a stovetop.
  But investigators are hoping a new search of the area can turn up clues in her disappearance.
  A team of around 100 people, including RCMP and search and rescue crews from around the province, are combing an area near the Athabasca Fire Lookout Tower where 70-year-old Stewart was last seen on Aug.
  
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• Eco-friendly homeowners should get a break on garbage bills: resident

  24-08-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The cost of Edmonton’s garbage pick up isn’t fair, a resident said at city hall Thursday.
  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 told councillors.
  He heads to Arizona for six months of the year and still has to pay the full bill, he said to city council’s utility committee, which is working to write a new 25-year plan for waste management.
  Fixed bills don’t encourage anyone to re
  
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• Strathcona County forces glass and most plastics out of recycling

  24-08-2018 01:00 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.
  
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