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• Wildlife: ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞ Indigenous Art Park transforms the valley

  12-09-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  We don’t always get things right here, but the redevelopment of Edmonton’s parks like Borden and Paul Kane have been awe-inspiring. And now, nothing short of transformational with its animism, bright colours and tiered vantages, the brand-new ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞ Indigenous art park has become a space of dignity and contemplation in the river valley. It’s an amazing, meaningful setting.
  Six permanent sculptures practically sing along the
  
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• Mayfield's Two Good Knights sheds light on iconic U.K. musicians

  12-09-2018 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  The suspension of disbelief is a key tenet of theatre, and it’s often a challenge. But two local musicians playing larger-than-life musicians Sir Elton John and Sir Tom Jones have done a remarkable job of channelling not only the voices of those storied entertainers, but their signature styles.
  Two Good Knights, playing until Oct. 28 at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, is a roundly entertaining evening if you drew a breath from the 1960s on. Part of the Mayfield’s Icon series, the show d
  
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• Drugs, weapons, cash seized from alleged truck chop-shop

  12-09-2018 22:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brass knuckles, a stun gun, steroids and marijuana were all seized from a rural property in northern Alberta after Mounties received a tip about a stolen vehicle linked to an alleged chop shop.
  Bonnyville RCMP executed a warrant at the property on Sept. 4 to find the stolen vehicle in the process of being disassembled, said the RCMP in a release issued Wednesday.
  As well as the drugs and weapons, police seized close to $5,000 in cash.
  Mounties seized a bunch of weapons and drugs from a rural pro
  
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• Committee backs new sanctuary city policy for undocumented residents in Edmonton

  12-09-2018 22:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is poised to join the ranks of hundreds of cities across North America in welcoming those with precarious or undocumented immigration status.
  Council’s community services committee endorsed the new policy in a 3 – 1 vote Wednesday. It goes to council for a vote next week.
  The new Access Without Fear policy, similar to some sanctuary city policies in the United States, would commit city officials to only ask for the level of identification necessary. That would allow resident
  
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• Woman accused of abusing five children denied bail

  12-09-2018 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman facing a slew of charges related to allegations of violent child abuse rolled her eyes as the prosecutor in the case argued against her and her co-accused being released on bail.
  The two women–aged 23 and 25–cannot be named because of a court-ordered publication ban in place to protect the identities of the five children who were allegedly abused.
  The 25-year-old’s request to be released was denied Wednesday by provincial court Judge Steven Bilodeau, following a bail re
  
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• It's baaaack: Snowfall rocks northern Alberta as it makes its way to Edmonton

  12-09-2018 20:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
  But in the case of snow in September, it’s safe to say most Albertans would prefer some distance.
  Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for Edmonton Wednesday, warning that a cold front is coming down from the Northwest Territories and invading Alberta, bringing snow with the heaviest amounts expected over west central part of the province, particularly between Grande Prairie and Jasper.
  Snowfall warnings are in effect for
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Coheed and Cambria, Kaleido Fest, and The Good Fight

  12-09-2018 19:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coheed and Cambria
  Rush may be gone, but four new heroes have taken their place. Prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria are back in town this Friday with their decades-long sci-fi saga written by frontman Claudio Sanchez, called The Amory Wars. They’ve amassed seven albums in the series, which pivots around two characters that the band took their name from; last year’s The Color Before The Sun was their first album to not deal with the ever-expanding Amory Wars concept, which Sanchez has sp
  
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• Alberta Avenue's Kaleido Festival goes international this year

  12-09-2018 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For over a decade now Kaleido Family Arts Festival has encouraged artists in multiple media to entertain and interact with the public on Alberta Avenue, but this year its theme is even broader.
  “The beauty and the crazy of Kaleido is that it’s so artistically diverse,” says producer Christy Morin. “We’re all about creating a community feeling through the arts but this year our theme is international, Kaleido + the World = LOVE. In working with the artistic team our
  
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• New Royal Alberta Museum will open Oct. 3 with six free days of entry

  12-09-2018 18:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Royal Alberta Museum will open October 3, with six free day of entry.
  Ricardo Miranda, Minister of Culture and Tourism, unveiled the much-anticipated opening date Wednesday morning.
  External construction on the museum was completed two years ago but it stayed closed as collections were moved to the new location. The $375.5-million facility is expected to open this fall.
  The new museum measures nearly 38,000 gross square metres and is advertised as the largest in Western Canada.
  
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• Greening by Nature Ceremonial Tree Planting

  12-09-2018 18:31
  Community event made possible by CN Railway with support of Tree Canada The City of St. Albert invites you to... Read Post
  
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• City Releases Universal Access Plan

  12-09-2018 18:15
  Plan prioritizes actions for universal and barrier-free access in municipally-owned buildings The City of St. Albert has released its Universal... Read Post
  
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• Second-degree murder trial hears accused admitted to stabbing teenage cousin

  12-09-2018 18:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man on trial for the slaying of his teenage cousin told police he killed his “best friend” because he didn’t want her to be sad anymore.
  On Tuesday, a second-degree murder trial of Joseph Ryan Sinclair for the death of 17-year-old Leona Neapetung-Stevens heard evidence from police officers who responded to the Terra Losa townhouse where the teen was stabbed multiple times on Oct. 31, 2015.
  A video and accompanying transcript of Sinclair’s interview with a detective
  
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• Police respond to pair of early morning shootings

  12-09-2018 17:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 28-year-old man is in hospital after what police said was a shooting at an apartment party in downtown Edmonton — one of two shootings officers responded to during early morning hours Wednesday.
  In an email, police said the shooting happened at around 4 a.m. Wednesday at an apartment building near 103 Street and 98 Avenue.
  Police officers could be seen in the lobby of the Rossdale House apartment building, 9825 103 St., later Wednesday morning. The suspect was still at large at last
  
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• NDP bill would ban 'harmful and hateful' gay conversion therapy

  12-09-2018 16:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP will introduce a bill this fall to ban so-called gay conversion therapy.
  It is being developed by Edmonton-Castle Downs backbench MLA Nicole Goehring, who told Postmedia Tuesday that outlawing the controversial practice in Alberta will save lives.
  “At the end of the day,” she said, “that’s what it’s all about.”
  Goehring said the issue has been on her radar since it was raised during consultations on Bill 24 (which, in part, makes it illegal for a
  
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• 100 litres of crude oil spill in Boyle semi rollover

  12-09-2018 15:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A semi-truck rollover north of Edmonton resulted in a spill of about 100 litres of crude oil, RCMP said.
  The single-vehicle collision happened in the early morning hours Wednesday. Boyle RCMP said a semi-truck hauling crude oil lost control and rolled over on Highway 63 about two kilometres east of Grassland.
  The semi, which was travelling westbound, hit the north ditch and leaked about 100L of crude oil, a news release said. The 46-year-old man driving the truck was taken to an area hospital wi
  
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• Edmonton weather: September snow on the way, he said, weeping

  12-09-2018 14:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 7.9 C with 7 km/h winds out of the northeast.
  Not this again. We had -20 windchills in April, and now it’s barely September and we’ve got snow in the forecast and lows of -4 C. Did we do something wrong? Are we being punished? Is this because of the NDP? I read on the internet that everything is their fault so can we just blame them? (I joke, I jok
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Bike paths mean one less lane for cars

  12-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Every bike on road means one less car,” Letters, Sept. 6
  Scott Rollans’ assertion that “thousands” of bikes traverse the High Level Bridge each day is also quite dubious. Let’s say he is assuming at least 3,000. This works out to 125 bikes per hour per 24-hour day which is not likely.
  As for his “dawdling,” every dawdled trip by him along his dedicated bike lane or on the side of a road (hopefully he is not riding on the sidewalk or in th
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers organization can not afford to make any more petty mistakes like that one

  12-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stop.
  All of that analysis you are reading or already have read about Tuesday night’s 9-1 Oilers Rookie drubbing of the McEwan/NAIT All Stars? Any conclusions that you may be drawing from what you may have read or perhaps watched?
  Stop. Just take it all and toss it out. Because you know what?
  It’s worth next to nothing. All those nice things you are no doubt hearing about this new crop of Oilers young guns? When put into the proper context of the competition that they faced last
  
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• Opinion: Outdated copyright law hinders innovation and economic growth

  12-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Where might billion-dollar industries be found?
  As the summer recess ends, members of Parliament are returning to Ottawa to resume the business of the nation, including a review of the Copyright Act.
  Judging from transcripts of earlier meetings, tensions are running high among stakeholders. The general dispute is one of control versus legitimate unauthorized uses, with education being a particularly thorny issue.
  This is not new; from the 18th century on, educational allowances were deemed unfai
  
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• NDP bill looks to ban conversion therapy

  12-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP will introduce a bill this fall to ban so-called gay conversion therapy.
  It is being developed by Edmonton-Castle Downs backbench MLA Nicole Goehring, who told Postmedia Tuesday that outlawing the controversial practice in Alberta will save lives.
  “At the end of the day,” she said, “that’s what it’s all about.”
  Goehring said the issue has been on her radar since it was raised during consultations on Bill 24 (which, in part, makes it illegal for a
  
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• David Staples: Progress in Alberta math education threatened by new K-4 curriculum

  12-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Education Minister David Eggen has done some good work fixing math education for Alberta students but that progress is now threatened.
  A group of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) experts has identified a number of failings and outstanding issues in the draft curriculum for Kindergarten-to-Grade 4 math. The problems include possible backsliding on key matters that Eggen had previously addressed.
  The group, including math instructor Cornelia Bica of NAIT, math professor Vladimir Tr
  
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• Caleb Jones, Cooper Marody, Tyler Benson and other hot shots crush NAIT-MacEwan 9-1

  12-09-2018 07:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is little to say about Tuesday night’s preseason game between the Edmonton Oilers rookies and the NAIT-Grant MacEwan combined squad other than: Ouch!
  The Oilers outshot NAIT-Mac 68-to-16 and outscored them 9-1.
  It was like a minor hockey league games where one of the team has been badly mis-tiered and gets stomped. If nothing else, it’s great for the confidence of the winning team, but it hardly makes for an engrossing contest unless you’re keen to see the offensive talen
  
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• British musician plays to Boyle Street audience

  12-09-2018 05:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ahead of his Tuesday evening show at the Winspear Centre, British musician Frank Turner wanted to spread kindness and help Edmonton celebrate its first Be More Kind Day — inspired by Turner’s new album.
  It was a spur of the moment idea from Arcadia Bar owner Darren McGeown, a big fan of Turner, who asked him via social media to play at Boyle Street Community Services as part of a larger kindness initiative.
  Turner said the goal of his Be More Kind album released in May is to spread t
  
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• 'This isn't my city': Edmontonians condemn Soldiers of Odin rally

  12-09-2018 05:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A protest against a hate demonstration planned for Tuesday night was cancelled due to safety concerns, but a community organizer said a broader event against racism is in the works for late September.
  Community members originally intended a direct counter to an event publicized by the Edmonton Chapter of Soldiers of Odin, a hate group rooted in the far-right.
  The Soldiers announced a Sept. 11 “candlelight vigil” at the Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre via a Facebook even
  
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• PHOTOS: Edmonton Oilers Connor McDavid Supports Indigenous Program

  12-09-2018 05:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation are committing $85,000 over three years to the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program in support of the Ever Active Schools initiative which helps facilitate sport and physical activity in Indigenous communities. McDavid participated in the Jumpstart Games with 300 children at Commonwealth Stadium Recreation Centre on Tuesday September 11, 2018.Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers Community Fou
  
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• Court rejects appeal in historic sexual assault case

  12-09-2018 02:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton lawyer who was the victim of a childhood sexual assault is hopeful that a court’s unanimous rejection of his attacker’s appeal should give other victims the confidence to come forward.
  The Court of Appeal of Alberta rejected Bitupu Mufuta’s appeal of his convictions for offences against then-Grade 7 student Pierre Asselin in a unanimous decision Tuesday.
  “If it’s true, it’s true,” Asselin said in an interview Tuesday. “You can tell your
  
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• Notley applauds start of Nexen's $400-million Long Lake expansion

  12-09-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — A day after attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Fort Hills oilsands project, Premier Rachel Notley praised the start of a $400-million expansion at Nexen’s Long Lake project as another positive sign for the oilsands.
  At a media event held at the oilsands site south of Fort McMurray, Notley — along with Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd — said the Long Lake South West Project shows that Alberta’s energy industry could be developed responsibl
  
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• Connor McDavid supports Indigenous communities

  12-09-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation are committing $85,000 over three years to the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Program in support of the Ever Active Schools initiative which helps facilitate sport and physical activity in Indigenous communities.
  “This is a program for the Indigenous communities and, with the donation, it’s going to reach over 7,000 kids a year. That’s a remarkable number. Everyone deserves a chance to learn and to gr
  
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• Edmonton firefighters honour their own and those killed in the 911 attacks

  12-09-2018 01:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton firefighters who died within the past year were honoured at an annual memorial on the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — the single deadliest day for firefighters.
  Michele Keehn receives an Edmonton Fire Rescue Services flag in memory of her firefighter father Arnold Keehn during the Edmonton Firefighters Memorial Society’s annual remembrance ceremony at the Firefighters Memorial Plaza, 10322 83 Ave., in Edmonton on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018.
  Framed by Edmo
  
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• Mental health of students a top focus for public school board

  12-09-2018 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The rise of depression and anxiety interfering with children’s education is prompting Edmonton’s public school board to make mental health one of its top three priorities this year, the board chairwoman said.
  The school board on Tuesday created an ad hoc mental health committee to improve collaboration with other school boards and community groups, advocate for more mental health services in schools, and better understand how the health system approaches the issue.
  “Our mandate
  
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• Musician Frank Turner plays pop-up show at Boyle Street to encourage kindness

  12-09-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ahead of his Tuesday evening show at the Winspear Centre, British musician Frank Turner wanted to spread kindness and help Edmonton celebrate its first Be More Kind Day — inspired by Turner’s new album.
  It was a spur of the moment idea from Arcadia Bar owner Darren McGeown, a big fan of Turner, who asked him via social media to play at Boyle Street Community Services as part of a larger kindness initiative.
  “His newest album means a lot to me and to see someone backing up what
  
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• Edmonton Mac's operator forced to pay back $250,000 from lottery scam

  12-09-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  An operator of two Edmonton Mac’s stores who pleaded guilty to defrauding the convenience store chain of more than $250,000 through a lottery scam will be forced to pay back the entire sum he stole.
  Hassan Choudhry, 32, was also sentenced to one year in jail Tuesday in provincial court for defrauding the company of $257,779 over a four-month period in 2013.
  Crown prosecutor James Stewart said between May 13 and Sept. 18, Choudhry created false lottery win payouts and pocketed the cash.
  Mac
  
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• 'He deserved it': First responders testify about accused's statements at manslaughter scene

  12-09-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  As paramedics wheeled Warren Todd McLeod out of a cramped downtown apartment on a stretcher, the woman who would later be charged in his death told a police officer he “deserved it,” the officer testified Tuesday.
  Joelle Marie Reich, 50, is on trial for manslaughter, failing to provide the necessaries of life and criminal negligence causing her boyfriend’s death.
  McLeod, 47, was rushed to hospital after first responders arrived at Reich’s apartment at 10027 114 St. on Mar
  
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