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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Symphony Under the Sky, Harvest Festival, and Tomato Extravaganza

  30-08-2018 23:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Symphony under the Sky
  Summer festival season is winding down, but not without one more kick at the can over at Hawrelak Park. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is setting up shop over at the Heritage Amphitheatre for four days of eclectic classical tuneage, ending with the traditional all-hands-on-deck, finale of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Robert Bernhardt is back for his yearly conducting duties, teaming up with singer Jim Witten and the ESO on Thursday, acclaimed pianist Ilya Yakushev o
  
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• Hannam's life changes inspire new songs, new approach to songwriting

  30-08-2018 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a natural thing for songwriters to start out by examining their own life, but one real mark of maturity comes when they’re able to move beyond self-therapy, to use personal experiences to find universal truths.
  After nearly two decades in music John Wort Hannam is one of Alberta’s most admired folksingers for the way he relates stories in song, a winner of several songwriting competitions and a Canadian Folk Music Award. But from his self-deprecating perspective he’s
  
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• Wildlife: New local documentary explores gender inequality among scientists

  30-08-2018 23:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  According to UNESCO, fewer than 30 per cent of the world’s researchers are women. The Canadian government is actively aiming for parity within our borders, but in the meantime, Edmonton filmmaker Brandy Yanchyk has made a new documentary, Ms. Scientist, asking female scientists what they think causes the imbalance. It airs at 7 p.m. Saturday on CBC.
  “It’s difficult for me being six months pregnant to slip into my dry suit,” says scientist and professor Anne Salomon in the
  
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• 'Albertans have a right to be angry': Federal Court of Appeal quashes approval of Trans Mountain pipeline

  30-08-2018 23:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The fate of the Trans Mountain pipeline is in flux after a bombshell decision handed down by a federal court Thursday quashed the project’s approval, marking a triumph for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the pipeline.
  On the heels of the ruling, Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. announced construction-related activities were being suspended.
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney said “Albertans have a right to be angry and frustrated.”
  He slammed Premier Rach
  
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• Editorial: Plenty of blame in Trans Mountain fiasco

  30-08-2018 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like a sports team riding an improbable winning streak, the Trans Mountain pipeline’s run of 16 straight legal victories ended in stunning fashion Thursday when the Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal government’s approval of the project.
  The court ruled Ottawa had not fulfilled its duty to consult with First Nations on the multi-billion dollar pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast. Justice Eleanor Dawson found that the National Energy Board’s review was s
  
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• 'Frustrating day': Federal Court of Appeal quashes approval of Trans Mountain pipeline

  30-08-2018 21:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  The fate of the Trans Mountain pipeline is in flux after a bombshell decision handed down by a federal court Thursday quashed the project’s approval, marking a triumph for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the pipeline.
  But Alberta businesses are discouraged by the latest ruling, said Ken Kobly, president of the Alberta Chambers of Commerce.
  “It’s a really frustrating day,” he said. “It’s probably a very frustrating day for a lot of
  
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• City promises to cut red tape for neighbourhood playgrounds, splash parks

  30-08-2018 21:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton officials promised to increase flexibility and cut red tape around funding for neighbourhood playgrounds, community gardens, tennis courts and other amenities.
  Auditor David Wiun dug into the issue Thursday, telling council’s audit committee half of the neighbourhood volunteers who tried to get something built locally were disappointed with the city process.
  Volunteers had to fill out so many repetitive forms, they ranked paperwork as an even bigger challenge than raising money &n
  
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• Man dies in fiery single-vehicle crash near Lac La Biche

  30-08-2018 19:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 27-year-old man is dead after a car hit a ditch and collided with a tree near Lac La Biche.
  RCMP responded to the fiery single-vehicle crash south of Heart Lake around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning.
  A preliminary investigation found the car was driving on Highway 881 when it went into a roadside ditch and hit a tree, RCMP said in a news release. Emergency crews arrived and extinguished a fire that had broken out on the car.
  A 27-year-old male was pronounced dead on scene. Two other occupants were t
  
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• Lacombe Lake Park Goldfish Treatment

  30-08-2018 19:31
  Fish removal program begins the week of September 4 An invasive Asian Goldfish species has been identified in St. Albert’s... Read Post
  
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• Graham Thomson: Trans Mountain pipeline ruling a disaster for NDP government

  30-08-2018 19:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  This might not be the end of the Alberta NDP government — but you can see it from here.
  Thursday’s court ruling against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion doesn’t kill the project once and for all. But it does seem to kill once and for all any hope Premier Rachel Notley had of surviving the 2019 provincial election.
  Notley had pinned the credibility of her government, its carbon tax and its climate leadership plan on getting the pipeline project under construction before the
  
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• RCMP break up rural Parkland County 'chop shop'

  30-08-2018 18:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP investigators turned up half a dozen stolen dirt bikes, a trailer and a quantity of drugs after raiding an alleged “chop shop” in a rural area west of Edmonton earlier this month.
  Police carried out a search warrant on the property in rural Parkland County on Aug. 24. A news release Thursday said they uncovered materials for painting the stolen vehicles and altering vehicle identification numbers (VINs).
  RCMP located six stolen dirt bikes that had been painted and given fak
  
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• Federal Court of Appeal quashes approval of Trans Mountain pipeline

  30-08-2018 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The fate of the Trans Mountain pipeline is in flux after a bombshell decision handed down by a federal court Thursday quashed the project’s approval, marking a major victory for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the pipeline.
  In a written decision, the Federal Court of Appeal said the energy board’s review was so flawed that the federal government could not rely on it as a basis for its decision to approve the expansion in 2016.
  The court also concluded that the fede
  
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• Cocaine distribution network linked to Hells Angel member busted by ALERT, RCMP

  30-08-2018 18:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A member of the outlaw motorcycle gang Hells Angels and two members of a support club are among 10 people arrested with links to an “extensive cocaine distribution network” across Alberta, police said Thursday.
  The year-long joint investigation between Alberta Law Enforcement Teams’ outlaw motorcycle gang enforcement unit and the RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime team culminated in the arrests in late July.
  Five kilograms of cocaine, half a kilogram of
  
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• Federal Court of Appeal quashes of approval of Trans Mountain

  30-08-2018 17:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Federal Court of Appeal has quashed the approval of the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  The decision means the National Energy Board will have to redo its review of Kinder Morgan Canada’s project.
  Trans Mountain project: FCA dismisses applications challenging NEB report recommending approval of expansion (report cannot be judicially reviewed) but allows applications challenging Order in Council approving expansion. Link to reasons for judgment to be posted shortly.
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• Edmonton weather: Cold, rainy, windy. A trifecta of weather misery.

  30-08-2018 14:29 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 12 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  So it’s still cold. And it’s still raining. And today things are going to get quite windy. We’ve essentially hit the miserable weather trifecta; like a needlessly brutal game of bingo no one wants to cash-in and win. But what can you do? Nothing. So I guess we should just enjoy it? Lord kno
  
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• Thursday's letters: Restaurants thriving since wages raised

  30-08-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Do you remember the howls of protest and public whining of restaurant owners and the UCP, that if Alberta raised the minimum wage, it would result in the closing of many restaurants and the layoff of thousands of workers?
  Well, according to Statistics Canada, Albertans set a new record for spending at bars and restaurants in June. Compared to last year, sales were 2.3 per cent higher. Over the last complete 12 months, total receipts are up nearly three per cent.
  The NDP farm safety bill has not
  
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• Fate of Trans Mountain pipeline awaits landmark federal court decision

  30-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Federal Court of Appeal is expected to hand down a decision Thursday morning that could determine the fate of the turbulent Trans Mountain pipeline project.
  The case combined nearly two dozen lawsuits calling for the National Energy Board’s review of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.’s project to be overturned.
  First Nations, including the Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish on British Columbia’s south coast, argued the federal government failed to adequately consult them before the energy
  
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• 61 Alberta private schools running afoul of gay-straight alliance law, minister says

  30-08-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta private schools that fail to publicly post policies within a month affirming the rights of LGBTQ students will lose their public funding by the end of the 2018-19 school year, Education Minister David Eggen said Wednesday.
  “If you’re receiving public money, then you must comply with the rules, just like everybody else,” Eggen said in an interview.
  As of April, all public, Catholic, francophone, charter and private schools in Alberta are bound by changes to the Scho
  
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• Ethan Bear likely needs another AHL year, but I've learned not to count him out

  30-08-2018 06:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects#4 Ethan Bear
  Previously:  5th overall in 2017 Cult of Hockey rankings
  Let’s start where it’s fitting to commence with 21-year-old Ethan Bear, with the entirely positive.
  In the three years since the Edmonton Oilers drafted Bear in the fifth round of 2015 draft, he’s gone from being an unheralded, low round pick to an NHL player.
  That’s an amazing accomplishment.Only 10 other d-men taken in the 2015 draft have played more than Bear&rsquo
  
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• Ethan Ethan Bear likely needs another AHL year, but I've learned not to count him out

  30-08-2018 05:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  2018 Edmonton Oilers prospects#4 Ethan Bear
  Previously:  5th overall in 2017 Cult of Hockey rankings
  Let’s start where it’s fitting to commence with 21-year-old Ethan Bear, with the entirely positive.
  In the three years since the Edmonton Oilers drafted Bear in the fifth round of 2015 draft, he’s gone from being an unheralded, low round pick to an NHL player.
  That’s an amazing accomplishment.Only 10 other d-men taken in the 2015 draft have played more than Bear&rsquo
  
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• Police identify 32-year-old victim in Rundle Heights shooting

  30-08-2018 03:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police continued to search for a suspect Wednesday in the shooting death of a 32-year-old man.
  Police identified the victim late Tuesday night as Clinton Roderick Roasting, saying that releasing his name serves “an investigative purpose.”
  Roasting died early Monday morning after he was shot outside a Rundle Heights housing complex near 32 Street and 116A Avenue. Emergency crews arrived shortly after 1:45 a.m. but he died despite attempts to revive him.
  A man who lives n
  
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• Man struck by overhead door in WCB building workplace death

  30-08-2018 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A janitorial worker in his 50s who died at the Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta building was hit by an overhead garage door, an Occupational Health and Safety spokesman said.
  “(Investigators) determined that the worker had been struck by an overhead garage door in the parking garage,” said Lloyd Wipf Wednesday. OHS could not comment on the cause of death but contributing factors are still part of an active investigation that could take up to two years.
  OHS investigat
  
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• 'Could be the tipping point': New food-arts-community hub planned for Alberta Avenue

  30-08-2018 03:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Avenue residents celebrated a new vision for the ArtsCommon 118 Wednesday, hoping this new food-arts-community hub will finally be what tips the scale for good in the troubled neighbourhood.
  It’s the first project for Edmonton’s new public developer, a community-focused development agency now operating at arm’s length from the city but with public land and $10 million in donated capital.
  They’re planning 78 live-work studio spaces for artists, a community coffee s
  
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• Paula Simons: A Yellowknife man called RCMP to report a rape. They arrested the victim

  30-08-2018 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was just after 9:30 p.m. on May 29, 2017 when Christopher Wood stepped out into the alley behind the Capitol Theatre in downtown Yellowknife. It wasn’t yet dark. Sunset on that northern summer night was still more than an hour away.
  But when Wood, the cinema’s manager, opened the rear door of his theatre, he got a shock. In the doorway alcove, he saw a man lying on top of a woman. Her pants and underwear had been partially pulled off.
  The woman, Wood later testified, “appear
  
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• Father of slain toddler seeks release on bail

  30-08-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A father accused in the murder of his 19-month-old son is seeking to be released on bail while he awaits trial.
  Joey Crier faces five charges, including second-degree murder and criminal negligence causing death, in connection to the discovery of his son Anthony Raine’s bruised body outside Edmonton’s Good Shepherd Anglican Church on April 21, 2017.
  Initially, police released photos of the toddler’s clothing in an effort to identify the body, as well as surveillance footage of
  
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• Edmonton officer guilty of harassment and lying must be fired, police chief's lawyer says

  30-08-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police constable found guilty of bullying a civilian co-worker and then lying about it during an internal investigation should be fired, a lawyer representing the city’s chief of police argued Wednesday.
  Const. Fiona Moffat was found guilty of seven offences under the Police Act earlier this year, related to her conduct toward a civilian co-worker in the police communications branch, where they worked answering 911 calls.
  Among other things, a police disciplinary hearing heard
  
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• Councillors cite cost, reject building permanent beaches in Edmonton's river valley

  30-08-2018 01:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors have rejected building “official” beaches in Edmonton’s river valley.
  After discussing a report that said the city would need to pay up to $4.8 million to find a site for a permanent beach, council’s community services committee voted Wednesday against conducting further research on beach-building.
  That means that Accidental Beach, which rose in popularity in late summer 2017 after it grew from an existing gravel bar near Cloverdale downstream from the LR
  
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• 'Cocaine distribution network' linked to Hells Angels member busted by ALERT, RCMP

  30-08-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta police say they have dismantled an “extensive cocaine distribution network” with links to a member of the outlaw motorcycle gang Hells Angels and support club members.
  Few details about the joint investigation between Alberta Law Enforcement Teams and RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime have been made available except to say the year-long investigation had links to Edmonton, Spruce Grove, Cold Lake, Whitecourt, and Grande Prairie.
  A news conference about the
  
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