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• Demand for high-quality apartment buildings in downtown Edmonton helps fuel record investment quarter

  14-09-2018 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Investment in Edmonton’s multi-family residential rental and industrial market helped fuel a record-breaking quarter in 2018 as the province continues to claw its way out of recession.
  According to data released by CBRE Limited, Edmonton had its best quarter ever in Q2 this year, recording $1.49 billion in commercial real estate investments, representing a 51 per cent increase from the previous quarterly record of $994 million set in the fourth quarter of 2016. This brings Edmonton’s
  
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• Woman dead after crash near Athabasca; witnesses said stolen truck driving was 'erratic'

  14-09-2018 23:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 20-year-old woman is dead after the stolen truck she was driving hit a ditch earlier this week.
  At around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, RCMP were alerted to a vehicle travelling quickly down Highway 2 toward Athabasca.
  A witness described the truck’s driving as “erratic,” a Friday news release from RCMP said.
  An Alberta Sheriff in the area located the truck, which the sheriff opted not to pursue.
  A short time later, first responders found the truck crashed in a ditch. The driver, a 2
  
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• Woman riding scooter killed in head-on Mill Woods crash

  14-09-2018 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 58-year-old woman is dead after an SUV driver crossed the centre line on a straight stretch of road in Mill Woods Friday morning, say police.
  Millwoods Road was closed in both directions for several hours between 38 Avenue and 85 Street as city police major collisions officers investigated the crash involving two SUVs and the two-wheel vehicle the woman was riding.
  It was reported to police that the woman driving the Suzuki motorcycle was riding south on Millwoods Road when she was hit by
  
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• Man charged after downtown apartment shooting

  14-09-2018 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 29-year-old man is facing attempted murder charges after a shooting at a downtown Edmonton apartment earlier this week.
  RCMP arrested the man around 1 p.m. Thursday on the Onion Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, around 300 km east of Edmonton.
  Police say the shooting happened around 3:45 a.m. Wednesday in a suite at the Rossdale House apartment, 9825 103 St. The victim was transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
  Mustafe Rashid is charged with attempted murder,
  
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• Preschool teacher interrupts burglar before suspicious Highlands church fire

  14-09-2018 22:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dismayed members of a northeast Edmonton congregation gathered on the sidewalk outside their church Friday following a fire that police are calling “suspicious.”
  The trouble started shortly after a preschool teacher arrived early Friday in a room that the school rents in the lower level of the Highlands United Church at 11305 64 St.
  “She heard someone stomping around upstairs,” the church’s board chairman, Wayne Youngward, said Friday.
  The teacher went to investigat
  
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• Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli cursed when San Jose got Erik Karlsson

  14-09-2018 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chiarelli on Karlsson: “He wasn’t come here.”
  This in from Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli’s press conference, his gut reaction to Erik Karlsson getting traded to San Jose: “I won’t lie. When he came to our division there was a little bit of an expletive coming out of my mouth. But, you know, he’d be nice to have here. We weren’t on his list. It was really a non-starter from the beginning. But they got one puck over there, they got a lot of good
  
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• Woman riding scooter killed in head-on Mill Woods crash: police

  14-09-2018 22:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 58-year-old woman is dead after an SUV driver crossed the centre line on a straight stretch of road in Mill Woods Friday morning, say police.
  Millwoods Road was closed in both directions for several hours between 38 Avenue and 85 Street as city police major collisions officers investigated the crash involving two SUVs and the two-wheel vehicle the woman was riding.
  It was reported to police that the woman driving the Suzuki motorcycle was riding south on Millwoods Road when she was hit by
  
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• Has Peter Chiarelli done enough to address Edmonton Oilers' lack of experience on the wings?

  14-09-2018 20:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s an old saying that “youth must be served”, but how much youth is too much? Such was the question facing Edmonton Oilers General Manager Peter Chiarelli this past off-season with respect to his wingers. Three times in three years did Chiarelli trade off the top producing winger on his club — first Taylor Hall, then Jordan Eberle, finally Patrick Maroon — then he decided to cut ties with veteran Michael Cammalleri when his contract expired last June.
  By way of
  
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• Ice District JW Marriott teams up with Oilers on room names

  14-09-2018 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ten gathering spaces at the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District hotel have been named after Edmonton Oilers legends.
  The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, is recognized in the ballroom, while the additional nine meeting spaces have been named to honour coach Glen Sather, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glenn Anderson, Kevin Lowe, Grant Fuhr, Al Hamilton, Jari Kurri, and sports broadcaster Rod Phillips.
  When it opens in 2019, the JW Marriott Edmonton ICE District will feature more than 22,000 square f
  
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• Police investigate traffic death in Mill Woods

  14-09-2018 19:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating after a Friday morning traffic fatality in Mill Woods.
  Millwoods Road is expected to be closed in both directions between 38 Avenue and 85 Street for several hours while the city police major collisions investigation section combs the scene.
  Motorists are advised to avoid the area.
  Police expect to provide more details Friday afternoon.
  
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• Free ticket snags Edmonton couple $1-million lotto win

  14-09-2018 18:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton couple scored a $1-million Lotto 6/49 jackpot thanks to a free play on a previous lottery draw.
  Jeff Wood was in disbelief when he checked his numbers on the Aug. 4 guaranteed prize draw. He checked the numbers again and then tried to convince his partner, Nicole Hetu, of their new wealth.
  “I was like, ‘Okay. Yeah right, liar,’” recalls Hetu. “He gave me the ticket when he got home, and I checked the numbers over and over again. I probably checked t
  
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• Edmonton weather: *looks at the weekend forecast* This is just cruel.

  14-09-2018 14:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 0.4 C with 15 km/h winds out of the south, southeast.
  So much for this being a 24-hour event. After the early onslaught of snow we just received things aren’t expected to improve over the weekend, if anything they just get slightly more annoying as the days roll on. Rain, periods of rain, rain showers, snow, flurries, wind, with an average daily high of jus
  
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• Friday's letters: Editorial cartoonist hits the mark

  14-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I have said this to family and friends many times, so I might as well say it publicly — Edmonton Journal cartoonist Malcolm Mayes is a genius.
  Homer Simpson would love last Friday’s cartoon and be likewise proud of Malcolm’s work. Malcolm truly exemplifies that a picture is worth a thousand words, and he does it repeatedly.
  The Journal is truly fortunate to have the talents of Malcolm Mayes on the editorial page. We readers are the beneficiaries of his brilliance, insight edito
  
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• Editorial: Mayor's budget plan flawed

  14-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson is right to focus on fiscal restraint in the coming city budget which he warns will be the toughest in a decade.
  Unfortunately, some parts of his five-point plan unveiled this week to rein in tax increases don’t make sense for Edmonton.
  The first plank in his budget platform calls for rolling back the subsidy on suburban growth. Iveson wants homeowners moving into Edmonton’s newest suburbs to pay more for infrastructure such as fire halls, traffic interchanges and re
  
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• David Staples: Doing his bit to save the world on Twitter, but mainly in real life

  14-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Daniel Huber embodies much of what is good about Edmonton’s volunteer community, but he’s best known locally as @theBurlyChef, a local wit, sage and curmudgeon on political and social issues on Twitter.
  Here are a few of Huber’s recent Twitticisms: “Nothing feels as 39 yr old as sitting in a teenage-packed food court by yourself with an air filter in the seat beside you that you just bought from Home Depot.”
  And: “People who get offended on behalf of Gods
  
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• Amber Tuccaro homicide: Family's complaint against RCMP complete, details expected next week

  14-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The brother of a woman who police believe was murdered near Edmonton eight years ago says a formal complaint launched over the RCMP’s handling of the case is complete.
  Paul Tuccaro, Amber Tuccaro’s brother, said Thursday that family members now have a copy of a 120-page report on their complaint, which was filed with the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP in 2014.
  Family, friends and advocates will announce details about the report during a news conference at Edmonton&
  
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• Alberta to revisit guidelines on secluding children at school

  14-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education minister said he’s convening a working group of teachers, parents and advocates by next week to write a new set of guidelines for schools to use when isolating students with behavioural issues.
  “The minister has been clear that he believes seclusion rooms should only be used as a last resort and with the safety of children as the priority,” Education Minister David Eggen’s press secretary, Lindsay Harvey, said in an email Thursday.
  His statement
  
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• Oilers Roundtable: Looking ahead at the Oilers season

  14-09-2018 05:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  As training camp opens for the the Edmonton Oilers, sports writers Terry Jones, Jim Matheson, and Robert Tychkowski sit down to discuss the upcoming season.
  Connor McDavid speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oiler’s training camp at Rogers Place, Thursday Sept. 13, 2018. Photos by David Bloom
  Head Coach Todd McLellan speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oiler’s training camp at Rogers Place, Thursday Sept. 13, 2018.
  Milan Lucic speaks to t
  
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• First Nations backed proposal for $8.5-billion refinery revived by Chinese investment

  14-09-2018 04:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed bitumen refinery that was kiboshed by the provincial government in 2012 has been revived after a consortium of Alberta First Nations inked a deal with Chinese investors.
  “It’s a project that’s much needed for many reasons,” said Ken Horn, president of Teedrum Inc., the company pushing the project forward.
  “There’s a lot of money left on the table when our resources are shipped out … this creates a lot of economic development not only for Edmo
  
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• Todd McLellan challenges Edmonton Oilers to solve their identity crises

  14-09-2018 04:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  One unanswered question was top of mind with Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan as gave his first press conference of the new 2018-19 hockey season: Can his team solve its identify crises?
  Essentially, are these Oilers the fast, skilled, tough and tight group that came within one game of the Conference finals in the 2017 playoffs?
  Or are they ineffective, discombobulated, sour bunch that limped through the 2017-18 season season?
  At his first team meeting, McLellan said he planned to raise this
  
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• McLellan and Lucic discuss Day One of Oilers training camp

  14-09-2018 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Head coach Todd McLellan and forward Milan Lucic look ahead to the new NHL season as Edmonton Oilers training camp begins.
  Head coach Todd McLellan speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oilers training camp at Rogers Place on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.
  Leon Draisaitl speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oilers training camp at Rogers Place on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.
  
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• McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins on Day One of Oilers training camp

  14-09-2018 03:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins look ahead to the new NHL season as Edmonton Oilers training camp begins.
  Ryan Nugent-Hopkins speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oilers training camp at Rogers Place on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.
  Connor McDavid speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oilers training camp at Rogers Place on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.
  Ryan Nugent-Hopkins speaks to the media during the opening day of the Edmonton Oilers training camp at
  
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• City pitches alternative signal system to run Metro Line LRT, accepts Thales final deadline

  14-09-2018 02:31 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.
  Thales
  
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• First Nations backed proposal for $8.5-billion refinery revived by Chinese investment after provincial funding pulled

  14-09-2018 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed bitumen refinery that was kiboshed by the provincial government in 2012 has been revived after a consortium of Alberta First Nations inked a deal with Chinese investors.
  “It’s a project that’s much needed for many reasons,” said Ken Horn, president of Teedrum Inc., the company pushing the project forward.
  “There’s a lot of money left on the table when our resources are shipped out … this creates a lot of economic development not only for Edmo
  
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• Premier Notley talks Pipeline and Tuition

  14-09-2018 02:17 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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• Canadian mayors pledge legal support to Toronto city council: Don Iveson

  14-09-2018 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson used his Big City Mayors’ chairmanship Thursday to pledge full support for Toronto’s beleaguered city council, saying the Canadian mayors’ organization will seek intervener status to create a legal precedent against further interference.
  He’s also calling on all orders of government to seek consensus on the role of cities in Canada, a now highly urbanized country.
  “The economic success, the social success, environmental success of our country depend
  
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• Stolen Volkswagen Golf clocked at 177 km/h near St. Paul, say Mounties

  14-09-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four teenagers were arrested after a stolen Volkswagen Golf was clocked at nearly 180 km/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 an attempted traffic stop.
  Officers however tracked the vehicle
  
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