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• Police provide update in arrest of LRT stabbing suspect

  18-09-2018 23:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A crime spree in south and west Edmonton that began with a random stabbing at an LRT station Tuesday morning ended with an arrest about 90 minutes later.
  Police responded to the South Campus LRT station just before 8 a.m. for a report of a stabbing. As that scene was unfolding a robbery call came in for a nearby convenience store.
  A store clerk was assaulted and a car was stolen from a woman in the parking lot, police said.
  The man then took off in the stolen car southbound on 111 Street. Emerge
  
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• Council approves $6.3 million for new steam train barn at Fort Edmonton Park

  18-09-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council grilled administration on its $6.3-million train barn for Fort Edmonton Park but ultimately approved the work.
  That means the old steam train will be able to carry passengers again when Fort Edmonton Park celebrates its grand reopening in 2021.
  The old barn was build by volunteers 40 years ago with wooden poles and metal sheeting. The wooden poles are now rotting away, leaving it at risk of collapse and the train cannot run without a place for it to be maintained. But some on c
  
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• Pedestrian, 23, dies after being struck by pickup truck Tuesday morning

  18-09-2018 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 23-year-old woman died on scene after being struck by a pickup truck as the driver attempted to merge with traffic out of a north Edmonton gas station, say police.
  Officers called to the 8:45 a.m. collision near 66 Street and 137 Avenue found the woman unresponsive after she was hit by a Dodge Ram driven by a 73-year-old man.
  Emergency medical services workers tried to save the woman but she died at the scene.
  Investigators believe the truck driver was pulling out of the gas station on the wes
  
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• Nine months a millionaire, but who knew?: Whitecourt man discovers win after desk cleaning

  18-09-2018 20:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cornelius Naujoks had the winning ticket — but the $1-million LOTTO MAX win sat in his desk for nine months before he finally checked it.
  The Whitecourt man set the ticket aside after purchasing it at Shefield & Sons at Northgate Centre in Edmonton.
  “I was organizing my desk a few weeks ago and found a big stack of lottery tickets,” he said.
  “I took them to the store — I couldn’t believe it when I scanned this ticket and all of the zeroes came up on the sc
  
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• Savour sausages at upcoming Oktoberfest Swine and Dine at Salz

  18-09-2018 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you haven’t been to the sausage restaurant, Salz, a great opportunity to rectify that sad situation is about to take pace.
  Swine and Dine (sponsored by Alberta Pork) will be held at Salz on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The menu looks yummy, and the price is right. Plus, the sausages are prepared by wiener devotee, chef Allan Suddaby, who co-owns the restaurant with chef Nate Box. So you know the quality is obsessively high. Here’s a story I wrote about Salz when the restaurant opened a year a
  
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• 'Our land got scorched': Landowners react after teen charged with barley field fire in Strathcona County

  18-09-2018 19:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old Edmontonian has been charged with mischief over $5,000 after a driver plowed through a barley field, setting it on fire in rural Strathcona County, say RCMP.
  Strathcona County Emergency Services (SCES) and RCMP responded to a vehicle and field fire near Highway 21 and Township Road 532 around 1:40 a.m. on Friday.
  When crews arrived, they found a GMC Envoy engulfed in flames on the service road adjacent to the burning field. A man was arrested at the scene.
  “It was determined
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Sizing up the Oilers defence

  18-09-2018 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Darnell Nurse has finally signed a new contract with the Edmonton Oilers.
  It’ll be a big boost for the NHL team’s blue-line as Nurse played some important minutes for the club last season.
  He’ll slot into the team’s top four and take some pressure off prospects such as Ethan Bear, Caleb Jones and recent first-round draft pick Evan Bouchard.
  Host Craig Ellingson talks to hockey writers Jim Matheson and Derek Van Diest all about the Oilers’ defence and the challenges
  
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• Oilers insiders on Todd McLellan: "Todd definitely is the guy who is going to be on the hot seat."

  18-09-2018 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Preseason Game Day #2: Oilers vs Canucks
  Tonight the Edmonton Oilers played the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver, a game that will have a good number of actual National Hockey League players in it, as opposed to Monday night’s preseason tilt in Calgary, which is essentially a game between American Hockey League squads. ‘
  As information comes in on line-ups, I’ll add to this post, but first this in from Drew Remenda, his new interview with Teal Town USA with Remenda’s i
  
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• City officials promise headway with old signals on the Metro LRT Line

  18-09-2018 18:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s a new mystery at City Hall.
  How will the City of Edmonton succeed at getting the Metro Line LRT to run properly if high-tech signalling contractor Thales Canada can’t?
  The contractor has until Dec. 4 to convince city officials the line is safe to run as intended — with just two and a half minute headway in the downtown tunnel — or council says it will end the contract and modify its old technology to run the trains on time.
  At council Tuesday, Edmonton’s hea
  
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• 'Plunged a knife a couple times': Witnesses treat stabbing victim at South Campus LRT station platform

  18-09-2018 18:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bystanders quickly moved in to help save a young man stabbed in the chest at the south Campus LRT station Tuesday morning before police launched a manhunt for the assailant.
  Trains at the station were halted and buses were brought in to transport commuters as officers converged on the area, tracking the assailant after the attack just before 8 a.m.
  A jacket and backpack sat in a pool of blood behind police tape at the crime scene, on the east side of the LRT platform.
  Police have yet to confirm
  
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• Stabbing at South Campus LRT station platform draws police presence

  18-09-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A stabbing at the south Campus LRT station triggered a massive police presence and delayed commuters Tuesday morning.
  Trains at the station were halted and buses were brought in to transport commuters as officers converged on the area, tracking the assailant after the attack just before 8 a.m.
  A jacket and backpack sat in a pool of blood behind police tape at the crime scene, on the east side of the LRT platform.
  Swarms of commuters were briefly held on the busy transit platform.
  In lieu of LRT
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's not ideal but at least it's not snow

  18-09-2018 14:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 1.3 C with 5 km/h winds out of the southwest.
  It’s hard to get excited looking at the seven-day forecast but there are a few bright spots, specifically tomorrow when things are expected to hit double digits (a whopping 12 C!) with ‘mainly sunny’ skies. Otherwise, the forecast is dominated by grey clouds, a chance of snow and rain showers Friday
  
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• Live: City officials make their pitch on fixing the Metro Line LRT

  18-09-2018 14:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s a new mystery at City Hall.
  How will the City of Edmonton succeed at getting the Metro Line LRT to run properly if high-tech signalling contractor Thales Canada can’t?
  The contractor has until Dec. 4 to convince city officials the line is safe to run as intended — with just 2.5 minute headway in the downtown tunnel — or council says it will end the contract and modify its old technology to run the trains on time.
  But no one has publicly said how that will be achie
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Suburban sprawl isn't sustainable

  18-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I applaud the mayor’s proposal to increase the costs to develop suburban communities.
  I worked for several years with the Sierra Club’s smart growth campaign as a volunteer. We found it can take up to 25 years to recoup the costs of large suburban development.
  The city also commissioned a study to identify the many natural areas in danger of disappearing due to the rapid approval of urban expansion as well as the loss of Class 1 farmland.
  Every development application was approved an
  
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• Opinion: Minimum wage hike a success despite gloomy predictions

  18-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s minimum wage was tied for Canada’s lowest when Rachel Notley became premier in May 2015. On Oct. 1 it will rise to $15 an hour — a 47-per-cent hike over three years.
  In 2015, the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) claimed that Alberta’s increase would cost the province “between 53,500 and 195,000 jobs.”
  In other words, the CFIB believed that as many as two-thirds of the 300,000 Alberta workers making less than $15 an hour could lose
  
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• Prosecutor argues man choked, repeatedly stabbed cousin in effort to kill

  18-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man’s confession that he choked his teenage cousin after stabbing her to ensure she died proves he was trying to kill her, the prosecution argued on the final day of a murder trial Monday.
  Court heard closing arguments in the trial of Joseph Ryan Sinclair, 23, who is charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of his 17-year-old cousin Leona Neapetung-Stevens.
  During a lengthy interview with a detective, Sinclair told police that Neapetung-Stevens was his best friend, bu
  
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• Finding their niche: Edmonton entrepreneurs who have roamed off the beaten path

  18-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton may be best known for industries like energy and government, but the city also boasts an entrepreneurial class that is burgeoning even as other sectors fluctuate.
  The city’s business community taps into a number of industries and economic drivers, giving it strength, said Edmonton Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Janet Riopel. And owners of those businesses are “very attuned to what’s going on,” she said.
  “You see the support local campaigns, and the E
  
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• Kailer Yamamoto leads the way as youthful Oilers win going away in Calgary

  18-09-2018 08:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 7, Flames 4
  It was an NHL-sanctioned game at NHL prices, but Monday night’s Battle of Alberta that officially opened the 2018-19 preseason looked a lot like the two Edmonton-Calgary rookie games that preceded it, with youngsters from both teams taking the leading role.
  This one had a different outcome, however, as the Oilers finally took it to the Flames, taking command of the contest in the third period to win going away, 7-4. This despite a hat trick from impressive Calgary youngs
  
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• Grandin-area tower The View goes to next step after public hearing

  18-09-2018 06:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A proposed Grandin-area tower moved one step closer to becoming a reality after city council voted to change several bylaws associated with a proposal at a public hearing Monday night.
  In a meeting that dragged on well past 10 p.m., speakers for and against the project made their feelings known and councillors debated what the project and its design would not only do to the area but to the city’s approach to similar developments.
  As it stands, the 23-storey tower called The View, whic
  
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• Photo Gallery: Oilers battle the Flames in NHL pre-season hockey

  18-09-2018 05:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers’ Pontus Aberg, left, and Calgary Flames’ Kerby Rychel tangle during preseason NHL hockey action in Calgary on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
  Evan Polei of the Edmonton Oilers, left, and Calgary Flames Scott Sabourin fight during NHL pre-season hockey at the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
  Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen and teammate Logan Day sandwich Calgary Flames’ Andrew Mangiapane during preseason NHL hockey action in Calgary on Mo
  
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• Matthew Good, the Trews and Crystal — Cirque du Soleil on ice — coming soon

  18-09-2018 03:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  With just his acoustic guitar and a deep catalogue of thoughtful Can-con classics, Matthew Good will be at Starlite Room March 20 next year, part of a 35-date cross-country tour.
  The last time he came through in this pared down version (at the same venue, actually), was 2007 and it was a hell of a show in support of Hospital Music — sort of his version of Alice Cooper’s From the Inside — full of pathos and intensity. Few can stretch a note over a backyard party like this g
  
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• Hundreds vie for 24 spots on Alberta anti-racism council

  18-09-2018 03:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The opportunity to be part of an advisory council tasked with tackling racism in Alberta has proven to be a popular drawing card.
  Close to 300 Albertans applied to be on the government’s first anti-racism advisory council, being formed at the behest of Education Minister David Eggen.
  The council is part of a strategy to quash racism in the province in the face of a growing number of hate crimes being reported to Alberta police.
  Premier Rachel Notley last year asked Eggen to consult wi
  
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• Exhibition lands: City trots out four proposed plans

  18-09-2018 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton residents will get their first chance to view four possible land use options for the 220-plus acre exhibition lands at a special public workshop hosted by the city Tuesday.
  Exhibition lands initiative manager Lyall Brenneis said the event will feature concept plans, hourly presentations and the opportunity for attendees to have their say on their preferred option for the Northlands site.
  Brenneis said the open house will enable his team to “see what really resonates with the commu
  
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• Amber Alert for missing girl showed Alberta wireless emergency alert system worked

  18-09-2018 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A wireless emergency alert about a missing girl that startled some Albertans on Sunday evening appeared seamlessly among cellphones, radio, television stations, apps and social media, said the Alberta government.
  About five hours after someone stole a running vehicle from a North Battleford, Sask., strip mall with six-year-old Emma O’Keeffe in the back seat, RCMP decided to expand an Amber Alert to Alberta and Saskatchewan.
  Phones across central and northeastern Alberta within range of a 4
  
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• Quad rollover kills northern Alberta man

  18-09-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 52-year-old man is dead following a quad rollover in northern Alberta late last week, Mounties said Monday.
  The crash happened at about 12 p.m. on Sept. 14 in the hamlet of Desmarais.
  Investigators said the lone driver from Wabasca was on a gravel road and attempted to turn into a driveway when the machine rolled.
  Desmarais is located about 335 km north of Edmonton.
  
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