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• Food Matters: Annual celebration of food books a LitFest highlight

  26-09-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ever since I’ve been a food writer for the Edmonton Journal, I have looked forward to the LitFest Food Matters event — that annual look at the best of non-fiction books about food, food production and, yes, eating that is consistently sold-out at LitFest.
  It’s like a giant book club with great guests and conversation, and yummy nibbles (plus wine). One year, we all made pies!
  This year, we are not baking. But three fabulous women writers are on a panel for the event, which is a
  
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• Games up, grooves down for local hybrid bands on new albums

  26-09-2018 23:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two local bands with hybrid musical roots release long-overdue full-length albums this week.
  It’s all a game for Experience Points, who came together one-and-a-half years ago to exercise their enthusiasm for video game music. Their new album Try Blowing On The Cartridge offers 11 pieces taken from different game soundtracks, newly arranged by the members.
  Because keyboardist Stephanie Urquhart, guitarist Brian Raine, bassist Aretha Tillotson and drummer Ryan Pliska are in their mid-to-late
  
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• Hometown hero: Governor General award winner Vern Thiessen enjoys a little love as two storied works mounted at home

  26-09-2018 23:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Playwright Vern Thiessen’s stories have been produced around the world. More than 100 outings of the Governor General award-winning Shakespeare’s Will have been seen from New Zealand to New York since the show was written in 2005.
  But seeing it in Edmonton, where it runs until Sept. 30 at the Historic 1886 Edmonton Cemetery, 11820 107 Ave., in an innovative production by Thou Art Here, is special for Thiessen, artistic director of Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre since 2014 a
  
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• Les Ballets Jazz dances in the tower of song

  26-09-2018 23:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  By the time he died in 2016 at age 82, poet, singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen was widely worshiped in many quarters around the globe. And despite a move to warmer climes in his later years, Montreal was very much at the centre of his art… inspirations, places, girlfriends.
  It was only natural then that Montreal found a way to pay tribute to the man, marked last year as part of that city’s 375th anniversary celebrations. And what better organization to mount that tribute than Les
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Skirts on Fire, Black Joe Lewis, and Fred Penner

  26-09-2018 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Skirts on Fire
  It’s been a very good year for Teatro La Quindicina, but it’s time for the acclaimed theatre company to wind down their 2018 season with a classic Stewart Lemoine production. To that end, they’ve assembled an all-star cast in Ron Pederson, Louise Lambert, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, Paul Humby, Kendra Connor, and Andrea House for a remounting of Lemoine’s Skirts on Fire. Lemoine himself is taking the reins for the show, a screwball comedy set in the world of &r
  
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• Nyala Lounge business licence reinstated by city because of improper review process

  26-09-2018 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city has reversed its decision earlier this week to cancel the licence of a downtown shisha bar because the owner wasn’t properly notified and left without a chance to respond.
  Nyala Lounge at 10875 98 St. had its business licence revoked last Wednesday by the city’s public safety compliance team (PSCT) citing 75 complaints and 22 reports of violence they’ve responded to since May 2015.
  But on Wednesday, the city said the cancellation has been rescinded and a new licence re
  
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• Whyte Avenue bar fined for overcrowding during 2017 Oilers playoff

  26-09-2018 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers playoff run in 2017 was a boon for the hospitality industry with local bars and pubs jam packed with eager hockey fans.
  But for one venue, the chance to watch the Oilers lock up a 2-0 win against the San Jose Sharks in Game 2 of their Western Conference first round series at Rogers Place proved to be a little bit too popular.
  The O2 Taphouse just off Whyte Avenue was fined $4,000 for overcrowding during the April 14 playoff, the city said Wednesday.
  The management of the venu
  
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• Thousands of opioid pills disguised as Xanax seized by Edmonton police

  26-09-2018 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  About 3,700 opioid pills disguised to look like a brand-name anti-anxiety drug have been taken off the street after an Edmonton police investigation.
  Police laid 23 charges, including possession for the purpose of trafficking, against four men.
  The investigation into an Edmonton man believed to be trafficking drugs began in March, police said in a Wednesday news release. During the investigation, police identified three other suspects and four properties believed to be part of the trafficking op
  
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• Mayor Iveson acknowledges public safety concerns on public transit

  26-09-2018 20:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton transit bus driver is in hospital suffering from multiple stab wounds, and a 15-year-old boy is in police custody, after an early morning assault at the Mill Woods Transit Centre Wednesday.
  The 65-year-old driver was treated on scene by paramedics before he was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
  Mark Tetterington, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569 which represents bus drivers, said he had been told by the transit branch manager that the
  
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• Police conducting ‘routine’ search of North Saskatchewan River for human remains.

  26-09-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police will comb the North Saskatchewan River Wednesday and Thursday in search of “potential” human remains.
  A city police news release issued Wednesday said members of the public might notice an increased presence along the river as police, RCMP and fire crews sweep the shoreline.
  Spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard said the search is routine.
  “We do these types of sweeps a number of times throughout the year,” she said. She did not specify how many river searches polic
  
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• Grande Cache votes to dissolve town and become a hamlet

  26-09-2018 19:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The community of Grande Cache overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to dissolve the town and become a hamlet.
  Just over 97 per cent of 1,100 voters gave the thumbs up to dissolution and becoming part of the Municipal District of Greenview No. 16.
  The decision to dissolve the tiny northeast Alberta town on the edge of the Rocky Mountains was not an easy one, mayor Herb Castle said in a statement, but “the community has come together and spoken loud and clear.”
  Dale Gervais, MD of Greenview R
  
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• Edmonton Oilers continue to roll through the pre-season with trouncing of Canucks

  26-09-2018 18:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Too bad pre-season doesn’t matter.
  The Edmonton Oilers continue to roll through the exhibition schedule, improving to 4-1 Tuesday with a 6-0 trouncing of the visiting Vancouver Canucks.
  More important than the score and the win, which don’t mean a thing until opening night on Oct. 6, are the performances they received from some of the players they are counting heavily on this year.
  A team that came into training camp with major question marks on right wing got five goals from right w
  
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• Full-size Nuit Blanche finally returns Saturday, aiming for Greatness

  26-09-2018 17:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the long history of Edmonton culture, we are now and then smacked with a game changer. In 1988, it was a terrible loss: Wayne Gretzky was leaving us (or so it seemed) forever. Our fragile municipal self-estimation was shattered as the man many still believe was the most important Edmontonian ever left an irreparable hole.
  But in 2015, along came a tremendous gain: Nuit Blanche — a one-night, interactive art happening like never before seen in this city, drawing 53,000 people of all desc
  
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• Photo Enforcement Sites - October 2018

  26-09-2018 17:29
  The City of St. Albert is sharing its photo enforcement Site of the Day locations for October 2018. Enforcement is... Read Post
  
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• Kenney says UCP will 'keep an open mind' if NDP tables bill to ban gay conversion therapy

  26-09-2018 16:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney says he’s heard from NDP cabinet ministers that legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy isn’t necessary, but would consider supporting a bill if it’s brought forward.
  “To date, I’ve just heard statements from the minister of health and other ministers of the NDP government saying that they do not see a need for this legislation, and that the medical profession self-regulates in this respect,” he said at a T
  
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• 'He was stabbed 13 times': Bus driver hospitalized after early morning stabbing in Mill Woods

  26-09-2018 16:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) bus driver is in hospital and is expected to recover after he was stabbed multiple times at the Mill Woods Transit Centre early Wednesday morning.
  Police said they responded to a report of an assault at around 3:40 a.m. at the transit hub on Hewes Way in southeast Edmonton. Upon arrival, officers discovered an ETS bus driver suffering from “multiple injuries from an assault”
  The driver was treated on scene by EMS paramedics and transported to hospita
  
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• Edmonton weather: Rain, rain go away. Seriously. No one likes you.

  26-09-2018 14:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 10.7 C with 14 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  What a gorgeous morning, eh? It’s actually quite warm out there right now, which has not been the case here recently. Yesterday was truly special, with the daytime temperature reaching a high of 17 C by 4 p.m. (the normal for this time of year is 14 C), but things kind of come back to Earth this morni
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Payette growing the role of Governor General

  26-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Inside Julie Payette’s fraught year at Rideau Hall,” Sept. 22
  I read with no small sense of wryness this article regarding astronaut Julie Payette’s performance in her first year as Governor General.
  It seems the same attributes of logic, “fierce independence” and high accomplishment that made Payette a most singular fit to be the Queen’s representative in Canada are both unpopular and improper as the perfect Governor General, at least according to
  
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• Opinion: Preserving the Bighorn protects recreation opportunities

  26-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s public lands provide the opportunity for Albertans to participate in an array of recreation activities from bird watching to dirt biking, in addition to affording industry the ability to extract resources. Every Albertan benefits from our public lands.
  However, because of the amount or type of human use, some portions of our public lands are subject to human impact that is destructive to ecosystems and incompatible with maintaining sensitive species of native fish and wildlife.
  H
  
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• Editorial: Foxes guard the henhouse

  26-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s good reason why Canadians cast secret ballots inside private booths on election day.
  Democracy depends on privacy to encourage freedom of political affiliation and participation. Without the cloak of anonymity, voters or supporters of a party or candidate can find themselves on the receiving end of intimidation, manipulation or discrimination from others, including friends, family, strangers on social media, employers or political parties.
  But recent data breaches involving Faceboo
  
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• Stantec Tower: Tallest building in Canada … west of Toronto

  26-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Stantec Tower is an impressive edifice that can be seen 40 kilometres away, but to the business leaders who erected Canada’s tallest tower outside of Toronto, it symbolizes a greater vision.
  The skyscraper is a monument to promises made and kept, to battles lost and won, and a signifier of things to come. It also represents an exclamation mark on the two most fractious and divisive political debates in recent local history.
  In simplest terms, the skyscraper represents Edmonton&rsqu
  
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• David Staples: New skyscraper represents promises kept to Edmonton, business leaders say

  26-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Stantec Tower is an impressive edifice that can be seen 40 kilometres away, but to the business leaders who built Canada’s tallest tower outside of Toronto, it’s a monument to a greater vision. For them, the skyscraper speaks of promises made and kept, to battles lost and won, and a signifier of things to come. It represents an exclamation mark on the two most fractious and divisive political debates in recent local history.
  In simplest terms, for the first time ever Edmonton
  
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• Player reviews: Sunshine, lollipops, hat tricks & shutouts as Oilers demolish Canucks 6-0

  26-09-2018 09:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canucks 0, Oilers 6
  I suppose that was fun and all, but it seemed like the Edmonton Oilers used up two or three games worth of good bounces in Tuesday night’s 6-0 beatdown of the Vancouver Canucks. Oh well, as Jonathan Clements famously said, the dice have no memory,  so let’s just enjoy it, Oilers fans, before quickly moving on.
  The process was a bit shaky — for example, an Oilers powerplay unit that looked flat-out disjointed, mustering just 3 shots and allowing 3, but s
  
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• Six things I liked as the Edmonton Oilers stomp the Vancouver Canucks 6-0

  26-09-2018 06:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dear grumps:
  Don’t tell us that it’s just preseason.
  Don’t tell us that it’s just a small sample size.
  Don’t tell us that this was just the lowly Canucks.
  WE KNOW ALREADY!
  We just want to be happy tonight.
  Yours truly, Oilers fans.And here are six things I like in Edmonton’s 6-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks.Zack Kassian got things going with some heavy duty hits and puck protection. That is the Kassian we missed last year, the Baba Yaga of a winfer who did
  
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• Elm Cafe folks launch Kickstarter campaign for Highlands trifecta

  26-09-2018 05:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  You may be familiar with Black Box Hospitality, the Nate Box organization that owns four restaurants in Edmonton — Elm Cafe, Little Brick, Salz and District.
  Now, chef Box is pushing outwards again, and has signed on to 8,000 square feet of restaurant/retail space in the Gibbard Block, located at 64 Street and 112 Avenue in the Highlands neighbourhood.
  “That’s about three times the size of District, which was our biggest venture to date,” said Box. “The project in i
  
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• Busing tussle continues between public, Catholic school boards

  26-09-2018 04:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton public school trustees are frustrated with the pace of progress in sharing school buses with Edmonton Catholic Schools.
  The public board heard Tuesday it will save $600,000 this year by sharing 25 yellow bus routes with Catholic schools. The buses do double runs, and public and Catholic students are never on the bus at the same time.
  Four public schools moved their starting bells by five or fewer minutes to make the bus routes work.
  The savings are less than the $2.5 million the bo
  
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• Stairway to river valley: City unveils two designs for better access to trails from Lansdowne

  26-09-2018 04:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lansdowne residents were thrilled to get their first look at two potential staircase designs to improve access to the river valley, but some say they are not completely satisfied and hoping for more.
  The two concepts offering a staircase and trail from Lansdowne Drive to the shared use path along Whitemud Drive were unveiled to the public at the Lansdowne Community Hall, 4915 124 St., Tuesday evening.
  Both staircase options contain the same amount of steps with the key difference being the
  
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• Recognition ceremony for Mother Bears Pray For Earth Healing sculpture

  26-09-2018 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A recognition ceremony was held for artist Stewart Steinhauer and his family at his granite sculpture Mother Bears Pray For Earth Healing at the University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018.
  The artist and his family donated half the value of the sculptures Spirit Bear and Mother Bears Pray For Earth Healing to the university.
  
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• Prosecutors seek hefty prison sentence in fentanyl case

  26-09-2018 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prosecutors argued Tuesday that a man who admitted to possession of fentanyl and other drugs for the purpose of trafficking should be sent to prison for 14 years.
  Cameron O’Lynn Parranto pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing fentanyl and several other substances for the purpose of trafficking, as well as admitted to illegally possessing weapons that police seized during two raids in 2016.
  One of the raids turned up enough fentanyl to produce about 500,000 individual doses, according to an a
  
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• Edmonton public school board asks parties to reveal education funding plans

  26-09-2018 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calling the effects of hypothetical education funding cuts “frightening” and “grim,” Edmonton public school trustees will ask all provincial political parties to reveal their intentions within six weeks.
  “It’s frightening to imagine even what a funding freeze would mean,” trustee Shelagh Dunn said at a Tuesday school board meeting.
  A hiring freeze, no enrolment growth funding or cuts to government funding could lead to hundreds of fewer teachers and scho
  
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• NDP accuses UCP of conflict of interest during visit to India refinery

  26-09-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP is calling on Alberta’s ethics commissioner to investigate a recent visit by United Conservative Party MLAs to a refinery in India, arguing there was a conflict of interest due to one of the MLA’s ties to the site.
  It’s the latest criticism the NDP has levelled at UCP Leader Jason Kenney concerning a six-day trip to India last week with MLAs Prasad Panda and Devin Dreeshen.
  In a letter to ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler, the NDP voiced concern over the
  
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• Owner believes missing Clydesdale horse was stolen from home near Entwistle

  26-09-2018 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A hardworking six-year-old mare is on the loose in what her owner believes was a theft from a rural property overnight.
  The bay-coloured Clydesdale draft horse named Molly was last seen Saturday evening in her pen on an Entwistle-area farm west of Edmonton, owner Cindy Thomas said Tuesday.
  This six-year-old Clydesdale mare named Molly was last seen at her home near Entwistle Saturday evening, Sept. 22, 2018.
  The gates to the pen were unlocked Sunday morning, Thomas said, and Molly was the only h
  
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• Driver caught speeding 182 km/h on Highway 831 near Boyle during night-time patrol

  26-09-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 25-year-old driver is facing an automatic court date after being clocked speeding at 182 km/h on Highway 831 near Boyle.
  The driver was stopped Sunday evening just before 10 p.m. near the Boyle Fish Pond during traffic patrol by a local highway officer, Boyle RCMP said in a Tuesday news release.
  The speed limit at the location is 100 km/h.
  The driver, whose name was not released, is scheduled to appear in provincial court Nov. 27.
  Charges of speeding for more than 50 km/h over the limit result
  
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