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• Attempted murder, aggravated assault charges laid against LRT attacker

  19-09-2018 23:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Attempted murder and aggravated assault charges have been laid against a man accused of stabbing a 19-year-old commuter at the South Campus LRT station Tuesday morning.
  The 24-year-old suspect was captured by police in an industrial area after fleeing the area following the unprovoked attack but not before allegedly carjacking a woman and robbing a convenience store near 57 Avenue and 111 Street.
  Police said the suspect assaulted an employee at the store and stole merchandise before he
  
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• Edmonton ready to 'Bring the Heat': Grey Cup festival to host more than 50 events, 28 music acts

  19-09-2018 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kim Mitchell, Platinum Blonde and The Strumbellas are just a few of the 28 acts bound for Edmonton as part of the 2018 Grey Cup festival leading up to the big game in November.
  Tickets are now on sale for the more than 50 events running Nov. 21 to Nov. 25 that were announced during Wednesday’s festival kickoff at the Shaw Conference Centre.
  Scoring a ticket to the Nov. 25 football game was also top of mind for those in attendance. More than 53,000 tickets have been sold for the 106th Grey
  
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• Edmonton Oilers fans falling for another Kid Line: Ryan McLeod, Tyler Benson, Kailer Yamamoto

  19-09-2018 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ah, September in Edmonton.
  The mosquitoes are dead, the lawn needs more raking than it needs cutting, and Oilers fans are falling hard for another Kid Line, this one made up of centre Ryan McLeod, right winger Kailer Yamamoto and left wing Tyler Benson.In preseason games, the three have been blazing, making sweet passes, chewing up the ice, deking and juking, whipping assists and scoring goals.
  All three are likely destined for other hockey locations than Edmonton this year, with Yamamoto, who w
  
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• One of two suspects arrested in $250,000 fraud investigation

  19-09-2018 21:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 60-year-old man is facing fraud charges after two men purchased more than $250,000 worth of goods from businesses using stolen credit card information, city police said Wednesday.
  The pair of suspects targeted businesses that sold vehicle parts and electrical between November 2017 and April 2018.
  Peter Philip Cardinal, 60, was arrested Sept. 9 and charged with five counts of fraud over $5,000, two counts of fraud under $5,000 and uttering a forged document.
  The second man has yet to be arreste
  
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• Secret Alberta warehouse starts stockpiling cannabis ahead of legalization

  19-09-2018 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta warehouse in a secret location has started to stockpile cannabis ahead of legalization on Oct. 17.
  Alain Maisonneuve, president and CEO of recently renamed Alberta, Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis said Wednesday the government agency is “very ready” to supply consumers with online sales via its website AlbertaCannabis.org.
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci went one step further, declaring Alberta is “the most ready province in the entire country.”
  ‘There will be hurd
  
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• Bomb exploded at southwest bank overnight, robbery police investigating

  19-09-2018 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are investigating a bomb detonation inside a bank lobby at a south side bank early Wednesday morning.
  Emergency crews responded to a call for assistance from security guards at a RBC Royal Bank near 27 Avenue SW and 141 Street SW around 1:40 a.m.
  The guards had just arrived at the bank in the Chappelle Gardens neighbourhood for work when a loud bang rang out from inside a lobby, police said in a news release.
  Paramedics treated and transported the guards to hospital for precautionary reas
  
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• Alberta’s largest indoor bouldering-only gym opens Friday in south Edmonton

  19-09-2018 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who’s ready to get their climb on?
  Edmonton climbing enthusiasts will gather Friday for the opening of Alberta’s largest bouldering-only gym, called BLOCS.
  The 12,500 sq ft. location in south Edmonton, 8761 51 Ave NW, features a custom climbing wall which was fabricated in Bulgaria and installed by a team from Canada and Europe, a news release said Friday. The wall was so heavy that it made a hole in the parking lot it was unloaded, the release said.
  The gym will feature more than 20
  
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• Man, 18, killed in single-vehicle crash on highway near Rimbey

  19-09-2018 19:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 18-year-old man has died in a single vehicle rollover near Rimbey Wednesday morning.
  RCMP and emergency crews responded to the scene on Highway 53 near the intersection of Range Road 40 shortly after 5 a.m., Rimbey RCMP said in a news release Wednesday.
  The vehicle rolled off the roadway, RCMP said after investigation, and the 18-year-old was the sole occupant. The man was pronounced dead on scene and RCMP said his identity won’t be released.
  The highway was restricted to one lane for s
  
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• British video game startup opens first Canadian office in Edmonton's downtown

  19-09-2018 16:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A steady stream of top-class technology graduates and a tax credit aimed at the industry have led a British video game startup to establish its first Canadian office in Edmonton.
  The company, headquartered in London, is called Improbable.
  Founded in 2012 by a couple of recent Cambridge graduates, it now employs around 300 people to develop virtual and simulation technology for video game makers.
  With offices in San Francisco and Washington D.C., the company is now eyeing the Great White North.
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• Edmonton weather: Gonna soak up the sun like Sheryl Crow

  19-09-2018 14:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -0.6 C with 5 km/h winds out of the west, southwest.
  Now this is more like it. I know it seems like I’ve been whining a lot about the weather lately (because I have been) but it’s because it’s been such an awful end to the summer season only a crazy person could enjoy it. But today everything changes. Finally we have a day when temperatures a
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Turn Bighorn into Kananaskis North

  19-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Success of Kananaskis offers valuable model,” Opinion, Sept. 15
  Kudos to Joe Lougheed and Jay Cross for their excellent article suggesting that we adopt the Kananaskis model to ensure that the Bighorn region blends environmental benefits with economic development.
  Our family has spent many happy times in the region: it is spectacular!
  Let’s hope our provincial government is able to enlist both advocates in leadership roles to make this important change happen.
  Joan Laurie,
  
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• Opinion: Canada and U.S. should lead global fight against TB

  19-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease, killing over 1.7 million people every year. It is curable, but largely neglected and underfunded.
  Of the more than 10 million people who catch TB each year, 40 per cent are never diagnosed, continuing to suffer from and transmit the disease. To make matters worse, TB is becoming resistant to our best drugs.
  It is estimated that TB could claim a further 75 million lives by 2050, at a cost of US $16.7 trillion to the gl
  
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• David Staples: How Tony Franceschini and Stantec reached for the sky

  19-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  We’ve all got our eyes on the sky as the new Stantec skyscraper reaches ever-greater heights on its way to topping out at 69 storeys and 251 metres by the end of the year, making it Canada’s tallest building outside of Toronto.
  Tony Franceschini, a key player at Stantec for four decades, takes special pride in the new Stantec Tower. It represents a pinnacle for Edmonton and for Stantec, the remarkable Edmonton company founded in 1954 that has become a global leader in design and engi
  
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• Alberta’s largest liquor distribution centre opens in St. Albert - Global News Edmonton

  19-09-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta’s largest liquor distribution centre opens in St. Albert  Global News EdmontonA new 543000-square-foot liquor distribution centre has opened in St. Albert.
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers get good goaltending, timely scoring to down the Vancouver Canucks 4-2

  19-09-2018 08:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers skated out of Vancouver Tuesday evening with a victory over their Pacific Division rival Canucks 4-2.
  There are no 2 points at stake in pre-season. But the club did enjoy strong performances from a number of really important pieces of their roster. And we also saw the coaching staff give one young player in particular a strong push toward a roster spot.
  And it’s not a name you likely had penciled in to start the season.
  I’ll get to that in the middle of the game summa
  
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• Literacy kits help parents read to babies in neonatal intensive care

  19-09-2018 03:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  When little Julianna was born weeks too early, her mother Deanna Ganske was overwhelmed and puzzled by her role in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
  “You kind of get shaken up. A lot of your instincts go on the back burner,” said Deanna Ganske, who sits on an NICU parent advisory group. Her daughter is now five and just started kindergarten.
  If someone had handed her a book while she sat by her daughter’s side, she would have read it to Julianna, who was born by emergenc
  
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• Witnesses sought after downtown bar assault victim dies in hospital

  19-09-2018 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 74-year-old man has died from injuries sustained in a downtown bar assault earlier this month, police said Tuesday.
  Officers were called to the Central Social Hall on 109 Street and Jasper Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 8 for a report that a man, who police describe as being Asian, had been assaulted.
  The victim was transported to hospital with injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening at the time but on Sept. 15 he died as a result of those injuries, police said.
  An autopsy comp
  
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• Take two: Council votes a second time for 10-metre ban on smoking cannabis and tobacco

  19-09-2018 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton tobacco smokers will have to take five more giant steps back from the entrance to a bar or restaurant when recreational cannabis becomes legal next month.
  Council passed a set of changes to its public places bylaw Tuesday that restrict smoking of any substance within 10 metres of a door, window or bus stop, up from the current five metres. That effectively bans smoking from large areas of Whyte Avenue where doors are spaced closely together.
  “The cannabis smoke and the pungent nat
  
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• City unveils four options for future use of exhibition lands

  19-09-2018 02:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was hard to tell who was more enthusiastic — the two dozen or so Edmontonians inside the Bellevue Community League hall viewing giant, colourful posters on the wall or the project team unveiling its concept plans to the public for the first time.
  Tuesday served as the first public display of four proposed land use options for the 220-plus acre exhibition lands at Northlands in the city’s east end with residents flocking to the tiny hall.
  “This is a pretty exciting day for th
  
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• No alarms and no surprises as Edmonton Oilers make first deep cuts to training camp roster

  19-09-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  I was expecting to write this post on Wednesday morning after the Edmonton Oilers’ second preseason game tonight, but for anybody not on the plane to Vancouver I don’t suppose there was any reason to put off the inevitable. The club announced late this afternoon its first round of professional cuts as 15 players — fully a quarter of those in camp — have been formally reassigned to the Bakersfield Condors.
  RELATED: Oilers at Canucks game day post
  The list differs but littl
  
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• Oilers D-man Darnell Nurse Attends Training Camp

  19-09-2018 01:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers D-man Darnell Nurse practiced for the first time at training camp Tuesday after finalizing his contract yesterday.
  Edmonton Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse attends his first practice session during training camp at Rogers Place in Edmonton, September 18, 2018. Ed Kaiser/Postmedia
  It didn’t take long for Darnell Nurse to find his comparable.
  One day after Winnipeg Jets signed their 23-year-old defenceman Josh Morrissey to a two-year bridge deal for $6.3 million, the Edmonton Oilers h
  
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• Nine months a millionaire, but who knew?: Whitecourt man discovers win after cleaning desk

  19-09-2018 01:08 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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• Firefighter honoured at city hall for bravery during off-duty rescue

  19-09-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A firefighter who was off-duty when he pulled a man from a burning SUV in the midst of a snowstorm was honoured at city hall on Tuesday.
  Edmonton Fire Rescue firefighter Chris Scott was taking an unusual route to work on April 16 when he spotted a three-vehicle collision near Anthony Henday Drive and the Campbell Road exit. The car at the back of the pileup was engulfed in flames.
  He pulled over and went to check if everyone was OK. Occupants of two vehicles were accounted for, but no one was su
  
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• Council Briefs for September 17th

  19-09-2018 01:01
  Council Briefs are provided for the benefit of community members with the intent of giving a short, informal report on... Read Post
  
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• Jason Kenney's official capacity on trip to India questioned by NDP

  19-09-2018 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Transportation Minister Brian Mason has labelled a trip to India by United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney “very questionable.”
  Mason’s major problem is the clash between who’s paying for the trip and how it’s being represented.
  He has some experience travelling as an opposition leader, having gone to Alaska almost a decade ago to research the state’s oil royalties program. At the time, he sat down with then-governor Sarah Palin, state repr
  
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