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• Woman charged after fatal hit-and-run in northeast Edmonton

  25-08-2018 23:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A female motorist is facing charges after a 78-year-old pedestrian died from injuries he sustained during a hit-and-run.
  Edmonton Police Service charged Pritshma Singh, 23, with failing to remain at a collision causing death and careless driving.
  The charges stem from an Aug. 4 collision on Fort Road just south of 129 Avenue in the city’s northeast, police said in a Saturday news release.
  Singh was allegedly driving a white 2014 Mazda that struck the man around 12:30 a.m., police said. She
  
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• Ryan McLeod brings a tantalizing mix of size, speed, & skill to Edmonton Oilers' prospect pool

  25-08-2018 20:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects#5 Ryan McLeod
  Previously: Unrated, drafted #40 overall in 2018
  What do the Edmonton Oilers have in Ryan McLeod?
  The Oilers drafted the centre/winger at #40 overall in the most recent NHL Draft, a bit of a steal based on the rankings heading in. As colleague David Staples pointed out right on draft day:
  “He was ranked 22nd overall by TSN’s Bob McKenzie, 29th overall by McKeen’s hockey, 30th by Chris Peters of ESPN, 23rd by Ryan Slawson of THW, 29th
  
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• Two people arrested in northeast Edmonton standoff charged in Paul Band First Nation homicide

  25-08-2018 19:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two more people have been charged with second-degree murder in relation to the killing of a 31-year-old woman from the Paul Band First Nation.
  Genie Elizabeth Bull, 25, and Lyle Kashten Buck, 23, were arrested by Edmonton police Thursday after a six-hour standoff at a northeast Edmonton house, the RCMP said Saturday.
  Police initially responded to reports of a shooting in the Balwin neighbourhood, where a 40-year-old man was found with a serious gunshot wound. The man has since been released from
  
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• Saturday's letters: 109 Street bike lane is impractical

  25-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Adding a dedicated bicycle lane to 109 Street does not seem like a practical idea.
  The street is already congested as it is, so to reduce the traffic lanes won’t help anyone. Increased bicycle traffic is not going to reduce vehicle traffic enough to make a substantial difference in the amount of car and truck traffic on that artery. The city is growing and it means more car/truck traffic.
  As for the frequently cited Envision 109 survey results that indicated 57 per cent of respondents
  
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• Opinion: Why farmers are leaving the Edmonton region

  25-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On July 18, my husband and I attended a round-table forum, with Strathcona County Mayor Rod Frank, Jerry Bouma of Toma and Bouma Management Consultants as well as a cross-section of county residents.
  The mayor proudly pointed out that 85 people showed up because of their interest in the subject at hand. However, only half a dozen of those present were farmers while the vast majority were urban and acreage residents. The topic at hand: preservation of farmland in Strathcona County.
  Our family ope
  
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• Dining Out: Cacao 70 offers chocolatey goodness for brunch

  25-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The merits of rutabagas are hotly debated, opinions vary widely on whether liver is edible (for the record, it isn’t) and many people are oddly averse to the wonders of oatmeal, but there is one food fact that’s virtually undisputed: chocolate is good.
  This wisdom seems to have inspired the founders of Cacao 70, a restaurant chain started at a Montreal chocolate drinking bar in 2011 on the premise that “chocolate has the power to take you places.”
  The company has grown to
  
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• Self-heated oily paper towels cause of Parkview garage fires

  25-08-2018 06:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A fire causing more than $200,000 in damages this week was caused by a box of paper towels used to wipe down a hot surface, investigators say.
  The fire, which had spread from a garage to a neighbouring garage at 145 Street and 88 Avenue just after 11 p.m. Monday, started on the wooden deck to the rear of the home. Fire crews extinguished the blaze by 1:45 a.m. Tuesday.
  On Friday, investigators determined the cause was a box of oily paper towels that self-heated after they were used to clean
  
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• City administration recommends removing westbound left turn on 104 Avenue to 109 Street

  25-08-2018 06:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A report heading to city council’s executive committee Monday recommends eliminating the westbound left-turning lane from 104 Avenue onto 109 Street as the city seeks the ideal design to the Valley Line west LRT.
  In March, city council passed a motion for administration to report back negotiations with MacEwan University on its concerns regarding impacts of the west LRT line, which under the current concept plan will require a strip of land from the university along 104 Avenue between 107
  
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• Graham Thomson: Disgruntled and desperate conservative politicians hoping to benefit from inflammatory rhetoric

  25-08-2018 03:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  If misery loves company, provincial United Conservative outcast MLA Derek Fildebrandt must be a happy man.
  He now has the company of federal Conservative outcast Maxime Bernier.
  Both are political pariahs trying to build their own Conservative parties; Fildebrandt in Alberta, Bernier across Canada.
  Both are making it sound like they are principled politicians who were simply fed up with a broken system.
  “I am no longer a Conservative,” declared Bernier Thursday as he poked a stick in
  
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• Funeral held for man shot dead by police in northeast Edmonton

  25-08-2018 03:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Family of a man shot and killed by police week remembered him as a “good man” on the day of his funeral.
  Sterling Ross Cardinal, 30, has been identified by family as the man who died after a “confrontation” with police last Saturday near 66 Street and 123 Avenue. His funeral was held in Calling Lake Friday.
  In a statement sent to Postmedia Friday, Kass Cardinal, who identified herself in a Facebook post as the man’s sister, said she is always going to miss her broth
  
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• Would-be builders of first Blatchford homes have until end of August to pitch city

  25-08-2018 03:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Builders of the first homes at the new Blatchford neighbourhood are being asked to submit proposals by the end of the month with construction set to begin before next year.
  The city put the first six parcels of land on the former City Centre Airport site for sale on July 9. Each parcel will have seven to 10 townhouses that will be separately owned on lots, which are about six to seven metres wide and 35 metres deep.
  “We’re quite eager to see some buildings going up,” said Tom L
  
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• When can you shoot someone to protect your property? UCP rural crime plan says rural landowners want 'clarity' on that question

  25-08-2018 02:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mike Ellis is one of the last people to tell someone to take matters into their own hands.
  A former sergeant with the Calgary Police Service, his first advice to anyone in danger is to call the police. He knows the ways that someone using force to defend themselves or their property can end badly.
  But when he started attending town hall meetings on crime in rural Alberta as an MLA, he started to see the issue another way.
  “The stories that we were hearing at our town halls (weren’t)
  
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• Social Seen: WILDMasque

  25-08-2018 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  WILDMasque
  Where: Edmonton Riverboat
  When: August 17
  What: Second annual masquerade party in support of WILDNorth, a centre for compassionate care of injured and orphaned wildlife
  Featuring: Drinks and hors d’oeuvres, an escape show by Tianna the Traveller, music by Sam Spades and a silent auction
  Photojournalist Codie McLachlan hits some of Edmonton’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. Email your event suggestions to arts@edmontonjourna
  
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• 'Unusually high number' of wasps overrun Edmonton, thriving in hot and dry summer

  25-08-2018 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s pest control division has responded to hundreds of complaints related to wasps on city property in the last three weeks, thanks to hot and dry weather.
  Operations crews have been taking 10-12 calls a day, prompting the city to ask Edmontonians to take precautions against wasps when putting out garbage and recycling for pick up so waste collectors do not get stung.
  “We’ll have to add them all up at the end of the season, but it’s certainly an unusually high numb
  
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