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• Mixmasters ablaze as The Great Canadian Baking Show launches second season

  13-09-2018 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Whose batter is better will once again be hotly debated as CBC television’s popular baking series returns next Wednesday at 8 p.m.
  Yes, the comical duo, Daniel Levy and Julia Chan, host the second season of the contest, which will introduce 10 amateur bakers from across Canada to the salivating hordes. Watch the shows live on television, or view them on the CBC TV streaming app at cbc.ca/watch.
  The bakers come from diverse backgrounds, but they are united in their search for the perfe
  
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• Royal Alberta Museum adds 8,000 free online tickets for opening days

  13-09-2018 23:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Royal Alberta Museum’s plans for six days of free admission proved to be such a hot ticket that an extra 8,000 passes will be made available online.
  Officials announced Wednesday that the long-awaited, $375.5-million museum will open downtown on Oct. 3. Within six hours of the news conference, people snapped up all 21,500 of the free tickets available online for the six-day grand opening.
  The additional 8,000 online tickets will be available starting Saturday at 10 a.m. via the mus
  
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• Provincial university tuition and fee guidelines coming this fall

  13-09-2018 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Legislation governing Alberta post-secondary tuition will be tabled this fall, following a review launched close to two years ago.
  Premier Rachel Notley said Thursday the legislation would provide a “clear path forward” on guidelines for student tuition.
  But legislation may well take in more than that, stemming as it does from a top-to-bottom review of everything post-secondary, from mandatory non-instructional fees and student aid to international student tuition.
  The review drew mo
  
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• 'Absolutely abysmal': Alberta farmers lament early arrival of snow in harvest season

  13-09-2018 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  No one is lamenting the September snowfall more than Alberta wheat and barley farmers.
  Humphrey Banack with the Alberta Federation of Agriculture says farmers in southern Alberta have done “exceptionally well” with their harvest but farmers in the Edmonton area, and into northern Alberta, still have plenty of crop out on the fields and the early arrival of winter conditions does not bode well for harvest season.
  “This snow has the possibility of pushing the crops to the ground,
  
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• City pitches alternative signal system to run Metro Line LRT, gives final Thales deadline

  13-09-2018 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  City of Edmonton officials say they have figured out a new way to run Edmonton’s Metro Line LRT if Thales Canada doesn’t meet its new Dec. 4 deadline.
  In a report released Thursday afternoon, city officials said Thales Canada proposed that date as its last chance to have the line to NAIT running as designed, restoring full frequency to the original Capital Line. If it makes the deadline, Edmonton officials would then start testing the line, which could last into the new year.
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• Darnell Nurse heads out of town opening up opportunity for Evan Bouchard, Jakub Jerabek and Caleb Jones

  13-09-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Darnell Nurse of Edmonton flew back to Toronto on Wednesday night, reports Sportsnet’s John Shannon, missing the opening of the Oilers training camp today.
  Bob Stauffer of the Edmonton Oilers radio network said on Oilers Now that he still expects Nurse to sign before the regular season starts for the Oilers in Europe. “It’s my expectation that when the team flies to Germany, Darnell Nurse will be on the plane.”
  But Nurse and the Oilers have yet to come to terms
  
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• Plan for towering new LRT bridge over Yellowhead Trail unveiled

  13-09-2018 22:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A large cable-stayed bridge across Yellowhead Trail would reshape Edmonton’s northern skyline based on concept designs released Thursday by city officials.
  Long spans will be required to get the LRT across the Yellowhead Trail and CN Rail Yards, which means 75-metre-tall towers to support the weight. The designs for the proposed northwest leg of Edmonton’s LRT are being shared with the community at an open house Thursday evening.
  The open house also will share city officials’ r
  
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• Stolen Volkswagen Golf clocked at 177km/h near St. Paul, say Mounties

  13-09-2018 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four teenagers were arrested after a stolen Volkswagen Golf was clocked at nearly 180km/h in northern Alberta, RCMP said Thursday.
  Police conducting routine traffic enforcement spotted the car on Highway 29 near Range Road 101 just west of the town of St. Paul about 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 10.
  Because of the speed of the vehicle and concern for public safety, Mounties did not initiate a pursuit after the driver failed to respond to a traffic stop.
  Officers however tracked the vehicle to a dead-e
  
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• Darnell Nurse heads out of town opening up opportunity for Evan Bouchard, Jakub Jerebek and Caleb Jones

  13-09-2018 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Darnell Nurse of Edmonton flew back to Toronto on Wednesday night, reports Sportsnet’s John Shannon, missing the opening of the Oilers training camp today.
  Bob Stauffer of the Edmonton Oilers radio network said on Oilers Now that he still expects Nurse to sign before the regular season starts for the Oilers in Europe. “It’s my expectation that when the team flies to Germany, Darnell Nurse will be on the plane.”
  But Nurse and the Oilers have yet to come to terms
  
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• Don Iveson pledges support for Toronto city council as Ontario premier cuts seats

  13-09-2018 18:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson used his Big City Mayors’ chair Thursday to pledge full support for Toronto’s beleaguered city council.
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford used the Canadian constitution’s notwithstanding clause to introduce legislation changing the size of Toronto’s city council in the middle of an election campaign, a move Iveson called unprecedented. The bill passed first reading Wednesday during a chaotic session of the Ontario legislature.
  “Canadians are now stuck in a
  
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• Fort McMurray SPCA worker charged with animal abuse

  13-09-2018 18:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort McMurray SPCA employee has been charged with animal abuse, say Wood Buffalo RCMP.
  Police received a complaint from a witness regarding the abuse of a dog at the shelter on Aug. 18, around 5:15 p.m.
  The employee has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation, the SPCA’s executive director Arianna Johnson said in a statement.
  The shelter contacted police when it learned a witness had posted a description of the alleged crime on social media.
  “When these allegations
  
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• Search continues for teenager missing from Gregoire Lake

  13-09-2018 17:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Specialized aquatic and canine teams have joined the search for a 16-year-old boy who went missing in a lake near Fort McMurray earlier this month.
  The boy was reported missing on Sept. 1, after a boater spotted him falling off a small boat in Gregoire Lake. His empty boat later washed up on shore. 
  On Thursday, RCMP said members of the Gregoire Lake Reserve of the Fort McMurray First Nation have reached out to Red Deer-based Compass Geomatics, a surveying and mapping co
  
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• Concert review: Sam Smith delivers sensitive elegance with salty side at Rogers Place

  13-09-2018 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  “I’m very aware that my songs are a little depressing,” acknowledged Sam Smith early on at his Rogers concert last night.
  This is true to some degree. A sensitive lover man with a tendency towards emotive plaints and gospel, the English singer-songwriter tipped his hand on the atmospheric opening number, Burning, seated on a wooden chair in the middle of the stage, recalling a devastated Sinatra in the wee small hours. Except that Sinatra never featured a keytar on any of his s
  
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• Evan Bouchard, Caleb Jones arrows up, Kailer Yamamoto, Kirill Maksimov arrows down based on Edmonton Oilers rookies games

  13-09-2018 16:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers Top Ten prospects: some made waves, others did not
  How much do we make of what we saw from top Edmonton Oilers rookies in their recent games?
  Not much, but not nothing either.
  The games — two losses to the Calgary Flames rookies and one stomping of an overwhelmed combined NAIT-Grant MacEwan University team — represented one more chance to impress or to fail to impress for these young players, who are forever on try-out.
  I recently heard something from educator David Didau abou
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snow falls, a city laments, the world turns

  13-09-2018 14:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -1.6 C with 11 km/h winds out of the north, northwest and a -6 wind chill.
  Well this sucks. I know this is Edmonton and its to be expected. I know. I’ve lived here my entire life. I know. I get it. But it still sucks. Don’t tell me to suck it up, as if enduring this freezing nonsense is some sort of right of passage — it still sucks. It just d
  
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• Thursday's letters: City must take action on rogue bike trails

  13-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Unapproved mountain bike trails spark concerns,” Sept. 10
  I was pleased to read this article drawing attention to a significant threat to the integrity of the river valley system: the extent and proliferation of unauthorized trails.
  Almost all steep slopes and undulating terrain of the ravines and river valley have them. They cause erosion, compaction of soil, loss of vegetation and habitat for wildlife.
  My observation is they are created by young, thrill-seeking males who enjoy
  
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• Opinion: It's time to end oilsands shaming

  13-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Enough with the guilt trip. I’m proud to represent people who work in the oilsands. They’re proud of the jobs they do. And they should be.
  As a union leader, I represent thousands of oilsands workers. These people are extremely skilled at keeping our oil plants and refineries operating. And guess what? They care just as much about the environment and global warming as the people who want to shut the industry down.
  It might not be popular to say so, but the people who work in our oils
  
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• Edmonton Oilers rookies come all the way back from an early 3-0 deficit, only to slide 6-3 to Calgary

  13-09-2018 07:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers rookies dropped a decision Wednesday night in Red Deer that was reminiscent of how the 2017-18 season all too often went.
  Calgary endured a spirited Oilers push early to grab a 1-0 lead 12 minutes into the game. The Flames extended that lead to 3-0, before a late Edmonton goal sent the game into the 1st Intermission 3-1. The Oilers looked as if they found their range in the 2nd, drawing even at 3 apiece. But it was all Calgary in the final frame, out-shooting the Oilers 14-5
  
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• ATM thieves strike west Edmonton business

  13-09-2018 03:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are hoping that someone recognizes a white pickup truck used in the theft of an ATM in the city’s west end early Wednesday morning.
  At about 5:15 a.m., two thieves drove the truck to the front doors of a business in the area of 93 Avenue and 215 Street and proceeded to rip it from its foundations from inside the building, police said.
  The suspects fled the parking lot in a mid-2000s white Chevrolet Silverado heading southbound toward Suder Greens Drive.
  Police said this tr
  
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• Albertans have highest consumer debt, worry less about interest: survey

  13-09-2018 03:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans fuss more over debt than the interest on it, a new poll shows.
  But as they age, interest becomes more of a concern, says the debt awareness survey, a Leger poll of 1,517 Canadians sponsored by Credit Canada.
  Half of Albertans polled said debt principal is more worrisome than the interest.
  Albertans continue to carry the highest average consumer debt in the country — excluding mortgage debt — at $28,155, the survey found.
  Other highlights from Alberta res
  
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• 'Very helpless position': Police LRT squad aims to head off crime where residents are most vulnerable

  13-09-2018 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  People riding the LRT alone late at night are trapped — that’s why a spike in addiction-related cellphone, laptop and headphone snatching is especially terrifying, city council was told Wednesday.
  “People are in a very helpless position,” said Edmonton police Insp. Derek McIntyre, who supervises a new LRT-dedicated beat patrol. “You’re in a train car underground and there is very little opportunity for you to flee. Really … it is a very vulnerable posit
  
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• Police investigate a pair of early morning shootings

  13-09-2018 02:27 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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• Early snowfall hits Edmonton emergency relief organization hard

  13-09-2018 02:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  An emergency relief organization has been left scrambling for warm winter clothes thanks to Wednesday’s early snowfall and chilly weather.
  Edmonton Emergency Relief Service Society’s Dalia Abdellatif said they received close to two dozen referrals on Tuesday from other agencies looking for blankets, boots, gloves, coats and toques for the city’s homeless and most vulnerable.
  It essentially depleted much of their stockpile of clothes, she said.
  “Winter came reall
  
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• New Edmonton wastewater facility turns wastewater into fertilizer

  13-09-2018 02:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A wastewater treatment technology that had its first test in Edmonton more than 10 years ago has returned home to convert phosphorus and other nutrients into three tonnes of fertilizer daily for farm use across Canada.
  The $18-million recovery facility at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre is one of the largest in the world and operated by Epcor and B.C.-based Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies.
  “We’re demonstrating to the world what can be done,” Ostara chief technology o
  
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• From wastewater to farms: Edmonton nutrient recovery plant turns phosphorus into fertilizer

  13-09-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A wastewater treatment technology that had its first test in Edmonton more than 10 years ago has returned home to convert phosphorus and other nutrients into three tonnes of fertilizer daily for farmers across the country.
  The $18-million recovery facility at the Edmonton Waste Management Centre is one of the largest in the world and operated by Epcor and B.C.-based Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies.
  “We’re demonstrating to the world what can be done,” Ostara chief technolo
  
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• First-degree murder charges laid against four men in August homicide

  13-09-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives have charged four men each with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an Edmonton man in the city’s northeast last month.
  Abdi Ladif Hirsi, 27, was found dead inside a vehicle shortly before 11 p.m. on Aug. 19 in a parking lot outside an apartment building at 162 Avenue and 51 Street.
  An autopsy two days later revealed that he died from multiple gunshot wounds.
  At the time, police said they believed the shooting was a targeted attack.
  “There’s no doub
  
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• Whyte Avenue businesses call for pause on 10-metre smoking ban

  13-09-2018 00:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rather than clearing the air, Edmonton’s proposed 10-metre smoking ban could create “giant clouds of smoke” on Whyte Avenue by forcing people into a just few zones where they can light up, businesses warned Wednesday.
  Those are the kind of unintended consequences likely if city council quickly approves proposed changes to its smoking bylaw, Cherie Klassen told council’s community services committee Wednesday.
  The executive director of the Old Strathcona Business Associati
  
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• Prairie Grid takes inspiration from nature for signature fall supper

  13-09-2018 00:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton chef Steve Brochu and Meuwly’s artisan food market are creating locally-inspired dishes in an homage to the Prairies at a pop-up supper designed to inspire both the palate and the imagination.
  The event, titled Prairie Grid, takes place on Saturday, Sept. 29 at the CKUA Performance Hall (9804 Jasper Ave.). It’s part of a four-stop series featuring chefs from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, plus the work of local artists and artisans, all in an effort to reflect the
  
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