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• If Edmonton Oilers again fail to make playoffs it is "a crime against hockey humanity" says TSN's Bob McKenzie

  10-09-2018 23:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  TSN’s original hockey insider Bob McKenzie ramped up the heat on Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, coach Todd McLellan and owner Daryl Katz, essentially calling out the organization for failing to make the playoffs last year and saying it’s seen in NHL circles as unacceptable if the Oilers fail to do so this year.
  McKenzie also suggested the Darnell Nurse contract negotiations aren’t going so well.
  Here are the highlights of McKenzie’s commentary, which you can listen t
  
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• Man dead after being hit on highway following domestic dispute in vehicle

  10-09-2018 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 22-year-old Edmonton man was fatally struck by a car Friday night after he walked into oncoming traffic on Highway 16 following a domestic dispute in his vehicle.
  Police responded to a domestic dispute complaint occurring in a vehicle on Highway 16 near Range Road 24 around 10:20 p.m., RCMP said in a news release Monday afternoon.
  The man left his vehicle and entered the lane of traffic when he was struck, RCMP said. The man was pronounced dead on the scene and police said his name won’t
  
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• Edmonton Oilers insider says Evan Bouchard will get "long look," but please let that not be Plan A

  10-09-2018 22:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from team insider Bob Stauffer of the Oilers radio network, a suggestion that Evan Bouchard might have a future in Edmonton sooner rather than later: “Evan Bouchard is poised and skilled with the puck. He has already played 3 full seasons of Junior for a pro-style franchise in London. Turns 19 in October. If he plays sheltered 5v5 minutes and PP time I could see him getting a long look.”
  Evan Bouchard is poised and skilled with the puck.
  He has already played 3 full seasons o
  
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• Man guilty of sexual assault, keeping woman in closet for days

  10-09-2018 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man was found guilty Monday of kidnapping, repeatedly assaulting and keeping a woman locked in a closet.
  Ryan Raymond Dechambre, 30, was convicted of a series of charges related to the abduction and weeklong captivity of a woman in July 2016.
  The woman, whose identity is protected under a court-ordered publication ban, testified about her ordeal during a trial that began earlier this month.
  “She feared for her life,” Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Belzil said, before con
  
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• Minimum wage jump to $15 per hour will provide job stability, says Alberta labour minister

  10-09-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s phased-in minimum wage hike will hit $15 per hour next month, spurring Alberta’s Labour Minister to shop the change around local businesses Monday.
  “We know what this policy does,” said Minister Christina Gray at a news conference held at a board game cafe. “Increasing the minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of families, women (and) working people who are trying to survive in our province.”
  The minimum wage was $10.20 an hour in 2015. Si
  
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• Former camp counsellor charged with possessing and distributing child pornography

  10-09-2018 22:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old man who worked as a counsellor at a camp operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton has been charged with distribution and possession of child pornography.
  The Sherwood Park man was arrested at his home Sept. 6 after a nine-month RCMP and ALERT investigation, Strathcona County RCMP said in a news release Monday afternoon.
  The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children first provided information to the RCMP about the man in January 2018, the release said.
  The man previ
  
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• Province fires contractor for Grande Prairie hospital project following notice of default

  10-09-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province has fired the Calgary-based firm tasked with building the $763-million Grande Prairie Regional Hospital following a heated dispute over schedule delays.
  Alberta Infrastructure terminated the services of Graham Construction and Engineering, said a Monday news release, adding construction is suspended until a new firm is hired by late October.
  Infrastructure Minister Sandra Jansen issued a notice of default on July 30, spelling out an Aug. 22 deadline for Graham Construction to s
  
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• Elections Alberta servers crash as enumerators register voters

  10-09-2018 21:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Elections Alberta servers crashed over the weekend as enumerators faced their first day of knocking on doors to register voters for the 2019 provincial election.
  The crash was thanks to a kink in a new system employed by the independent body.
  It allows workers to see information in real time so they know if someone has already registered online or via phone. However, the app they use to access that info slowed to a virtual standstill as they hit up 100,000 homes.
  “Even though we
  
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• Neighbourhood businesses call for $2 million more in renovation help

  10-09-2018 21:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s matching-grant program for renovations to corner stores and main streets is in such high demand it ran dry by March this year.
  That’s how many small business owners are stepping up to renovate their facades when the city gives them roughly 20 per cent of the money back.
  Now the business improvement areas are asking council to expand this suite of programs, adding $1.2 million a year for the grants and $750,000 a year for related city projects to upgrade the sidewalks, plaz
  
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• Pipeline uncertainty clouds Suncor grand opening of Fort Hills oilsands site

  10-09-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley vowed to continue the pipeline fight as Suncor cut the ribbon on its new Fort Hills oilsands extraction site, north of Fort McMurray.
  Fort Hills will produce close to 194,000 barrels per day through a process that lowers the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions compared with traditional oilsands extraction.
  It is also the largest business investment to date by a First Nations entity in Canada, with local nations owning 48 per cent of the site’s east tank farm.
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• New building for Ben Calf Robe School to include cultural space for Indigenous students

  10-09-2018 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Catholic school in Edmonton’s northeast will be replaced with a much larger facility that will include a cultural space for Indigenous students, Education Minister David Eggen announced Monday morning.
  A replacement building for Ben Calf Robe School, located at 11833 64 St. in the Highlands neighbourhood, will hold 700 students, up from an existing 480.
  Around 90 per cent of the school’s students identify as Indigenous, Eggen said.
  The new school will be built next to the exis
  
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• Learn How Cannabis Legalization Will Affect St. Albert

  10-09-2018 17:24
  Information Session: September 25, from 6 to 8 p.m., Progress Hall The City is encouraging residents to attend its upcoming... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton weather: I will not say the "S" word

  10-09-2018 15:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 6 C with 8 km/h winds out of the east, southeast.
  It’s going to be cloudy all day with periods of rain and a high of 10 C. Rain accumulation is expected to be anywhere between 5-10 mm. Rain is expected to end this evening.
  Weather forecast
  Today: Cloudy. Periods of rain beginning early this morning. Amount 5 to 10 mm. High 10. UV index 1 or low.
  Tonight: Pe
  
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• Will pot push out tobacco? Edmonton divided on proposed smoking ban

  10-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s new tobacco and cannabis smoking rules are heading back to a city council committee Wednesday with public opinion clearly divided.
  While a majority business owners would embrace a decision to effectively ban public smoking on large parts of Whyte Avenue and 124 Street, others said that’s simply not fair. The rules would ban the smoking of tobacco, cannabis or any substance within 10 metres of a door, window or bus stop.
  “It seems that the cigarette smokers are now su
  
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• Unresolved local issues could lead to Alberta teacher job action, teachers' association says

  10-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some Alberta teachers could soon be in a position to pare back services or walk off the job for the first time in a decade.
  More than two years after their last contracts expired, teachers working at 16 Alberta school districts have yet to reach agreements on local issues with their school boards.
  Although mediators are now working to settle many of these differences, Alberta Teachers’ Association teacher welfare co-ordinator Sandra Johnston said discussions are headed for an impasse in so
  
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• Online resource for schools aims to counter fishy internet sources, fake news

  10-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You saw it on the internet, so it must be true.
  Although that notion might be laughable in the sinister era of fake news and anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, one Edmonton librarian is curating a tidy corner of the tangled web for teachers, K-12 students and their parents.
  With dedicated school librarians now a rare sighting, Online Reference Centre (ORC) co-ordinator Bethany Arsenault is on a mission to gently divert teachers away from Google and Wikipedia into online encyclopedias and data
  
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• NDP fall legislation will aim to better protect patients from health-care provider sexual abuse

  10-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province will introduce legislation this fall to better protect patients from sexual abuse by health-care providers, but the council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta is cautioning that the rules shouldn’t be too broad and lump offences together in terms of severity.
  The bill follows legislation in Ontario, which increased the list of sexual abuses that led to the mandatory revocation of a health professional’s licence last year.
  “These sort of thing
  
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• Edmonton apprentice wants to represent Canada in Russia skills competition

  10-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Muhammad Afzal still looks at the first car he fixed up and sees all the little imperfections he’d avoid if he was doing it again.
  A few months from completing his certification, the NAIT auto mechanics apprentice knows so much more than he did as a teenager tinkering on his 2008 Honda Civic.
  The 20-year-old Edmontonian hopes to show those skills to the world next year as he competes to represent Canada at WorldSkills Kazan in Russia in 2019.
  “I’m walking in pretty confident,&r
  
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• Tyler Benson's coming out party in Edmonton Oilers camp worth the wait

  10-09-2018 09:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tyler Benson has waited a long time to play his first pre-season game at the professional level, as have Edmonton Oilers fans.
  But it was worth the wait.
  Benson was the best Oilers forward on the ice as the Oilers rookies lost 7-3 to the Calgary Flames rookies in a game where the scoring chances for both teams was close, but the puck luck and goaltending was not.
  Of course, the score matters little in a pre-season game between rookie squads. What matters is how various prospects look, and while
  
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• Oilers rookies drubbed 7-3 by Flames. In a game of mixed impressions, Caleb Jones stands out

  10-09-2018 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The big scoreboard hanging over centre ice in the Saddledome told a glum tale — OILERS 3, FLAMES 7 — but not the whole story.
  It was, after all, a “rookie” game, the ultimate of pre-preseason games. It’s more about the action than it is about results, and I saw plenty of positive signs from the New Oilers. Alas, goaltending was not one of those things, and on a day that Memorial Cup and World Junior champ Tyler Parsons was extremely sharp at the far end the combined
  
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• World-class Edmonton track cyclist Stefan Ritter in intensive care after crash in Mexico

  10-09-2018 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton world champion track cyclist Stefan Ritter is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital after hitting his head in a crash at an international event in Mexico last week.
  Ritter, 20, a member of the Cycling Canada national team, was competing at the Pan American Track Championship in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and crashed while taking part in the Keirin event on Aug. 30.
  “The Keirin race is a sprint event with six athletes on the track at the same t
  
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• Legal Aid to expand counsel at bail hearings province-wide

  10-09-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  All people arrested in Alberta making first-appearance bail applications will have access to defence counsel by late September, according to Legal Aid Alberta.
  Presently, most people who are arrested don’t have a lawyer when they go before a Justice of the Peace and try to argue they should be released.
  “If you are in jail, looking for bail and you’re facing a trained Crown prosecutor, your chances aren’t great,” said Legal Aid Alberta president and CEO John Pa
  
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• Bridge of Life: Suicide prevention vigil to cross High Level Bridge Monday

  10-09-2018 00:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Survivors and people who have lost loved ones to suicide will cross the High Level Bridge Monday during an event that offers a safe space to have conversations about mental health.
  The third annual Bridge of Life event will once again offer an opportunity to memorialize people who have died by suicide, as well as raise awareness about the issue.
  “It’s not just a memorial. It’s a night for us to get together in support of each other, to bring awareness to those hard topics, like
  
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