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• Careless driving charge laid in fatal pedestrian collision

  28-09-2018 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 73-year-old man has been charged with careless driving following a pedestrian collision that left a young woman dead last week, police said Friday.
  Police said the 23-year-old pedestrian was struck near a gas station on 66 Street and 137 Avenue and died on the scene at around 8:45 a.m. on Sept. 18.
  Investigators believe the truck driver was pulling out of the gas station attempting to turn south onto the street, when the woman — who was heading north on the sidewalk — was struck do
  
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• Purple-coloured fentanyl seized in drug trafficking investigation

  28-09-2018 23:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A seven-month investigation by Edmonton police’s drug and gang unit into suspected drug trafficking between Edmonton, Calgary and British Columbia has resulted in the arrest of seven people who are now facing three dozen charges.
  Caught up in the seizure at two homes in Griesbach and Hollick-Kenyon areas was 394 grams of fentanyl with an estimated street value of $98,000 as well as 146 grams of cocaine base with an estimated street value of $5,000.
  A small quantity of metham
  
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• 'Once' upon a time tale takes audience on a journey of the heart at the Citadel

  28-09-2018 23:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The essence of a compelling story is the not-knowing. Gifted playwrights such as the acclaimed Irish dramatist Enda Walsh are able to hook our hearts with hope, lead us along an uncertain path and deposit us at the end feeling satisfied, if weepy.
  Walsh’s sharp and compact script in Once, combined with lush music and lyrics by the talented team of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, certainly has every element required to deliver a memorable night for patrons at the Citadel&rsq
  
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• Tiramisu celebrates seventh anniversary with a Thanksgiving party

  28-09-2018 23:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The owner of Tiramisu Bistro, Seble Isaac, is happy to celebrate the restaurant’s seventh anniversary with a special Thanksgiving dinner for marginalized women and their families.
  It’s on Monday Oct. 8 and Isaac has already lined up guests from agencies including the Salvation Army and the Hope Mission. But she’s hoping for a little help from the community to make the night even more special for women who are trying to improve their lives, and those of their children.
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• Edmonton Police Service member arrested as part of ASIRT investigation

  28-09-2018 23:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton Police Service member has been arrested in connection with an ongoing Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) investigation, police said in a statement Friday.
  No charges have been laid at this time however the “officer has been relieved from duty without pay, pending confirmation from the Edmonton Police Commission.”
  “The member has been provided support and assistance from Employee and Family Assistance Section,” the statement said.
  No more detai
  
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• Oilers head coach sees improvement in backup goalie Mikko Koskinen's performance

  28-09-2018 22:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan talks about the improved play of backup goalie Mikko Koskinen and the overall performance of the team in an exhibition overtime win over the visiting Arizona Coyotes.
  Koskinen made 27 saves as the Oilers beat the Coyotes 3-2 in overtime on a goal by captain Connor McDavid, who notched two in the pre-season Pacific Division clash.The latest Oil Spills podcast: Yamamoto making Oilers’ forward decisions tough again
  Host Craig Ellingson talks to hockey
  
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• City vows to improve transit safety after driver, passenger stabbed

  28-09-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are moving ahead with plans to improve safety on the transit system, but say there’s no need to overreact in response to two violent attacks at stations in the past two weeks.
  The early morning stabbing of a city bus driver Wednesday — one week after a 19-year-old man was stabbed while waiting for a train at the South Campus LRT platform — has renewed debate about safety on Edmonton’s transit system.
  Mark Tetterington, president of Amalgamated Transit Union
  
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• Poor air quality prompts Misericordia hospital to warn 473 patients of infection risk

  28-09-2018 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The discovery of sub-standard air quality at the Misericordia Community Hospital has prompted Covenant Health to notify 473 patients who may have been affected during a surgery or obstetrical procedure earlier this year.
  “We understand that this information may be concerning to patients who underwent surgical procedures during this time frame,” Dr. Robert Black, associate chief medical officer and medical director at the Misericordia, said in a news release Friday.
  “But it&rsqu
  
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• Edmonton Oilers put Al Montoya on waivers, which means exactly what?

  28-09-2018 17:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from the Edmonton Oilers, news they have put Al Montoya on waivers to send him to Bakersfield and have also called up Shane Starrett to be their emergency back up in Europe.
  The #Oilers have placed goaltender Al Montoya on waivers for the purpose of assignment to the @Condors. Shane Starrett will serve as our emergency netminder in Germany & Sweden.
  — Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) September 28, 2018My takeKoskinen has looked good in the nets in the last two games. He’
  
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• Patients notified of air quality issue at the Misericordia Community Hospital

  28-09-2018 17:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Covenant Health is notifying a number of patients of an air quality issue at the Misericordia Community Hospital.
  According to a Friday morning news release, Dr. Robert Black, associate chief medical officer and medical Ddirector for the Misericordia is expected to speak to media at a press conference at 10:30 a.m. Friday in regards to the air quality concern and patient disclosure.
  The 49-year-old hospital, located in the city’s west end at 16940-87 Ave NW, reopened its emergency departme
  
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• Edmonton weather: Like a bag of kettle chips, that air is crisp

  28-09-2018 14:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 0.5 C with 2 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  There might not be any snow on the ground but winter is definitely in the air. Over the next seven days, forecasters are calling for single digit highs and sub zero lows, with the chance of snow flurries early next week. According to Environment Canada, the normal high for this time of year is 15 C but it doesn&
  
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• Friday's letters: Scramble crossings have proven their worth

  28-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City tries scramble crossings,” Sept. 22
  When reading the article “City tries scramble crossings,” it would seem that this is some revolutionary development that has never been thought about before.
  However, as Bill Beauregarde says in the article, “he has seen them in other cities” and they have proved their safety aspect in such cities as Auckland since the 1950s, as I can verify when I worked in New Zealand then.
  They have been in existence succes
  
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• Editorial: Get on board with shared busing

  28-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The good news is that Edmonton Public Schools will save $600,000 this year by sharing 25 yellow bus routes with Edmonton Catholic Schools.
  Instead of each district running half-empty buses to public and Catholic schools, often just metres apart, the public board is able to divert this money into the classroom from its transportation budget, set at $46.5 million last school year. Presumably, proportionate savings can be expected on the Catholic side, which set its transportation budget at $20.3 m
  
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• Everything we know about the man charged in Edmonton's truck attack from the woman who knows him best

  28-09-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “You can ask (her) anything about me, and she will tell you.”
  Those handful of words are the first Abdulahi Hasan Sharif has spoken to media since Sept. 30, 2017 — the day a city police constable was run down by a car and stabbed outside an Edmonton Eskimos game and four pedestrians were later struck by a swerving U-Haul truck pursued by police.
  When a TV cameraman’s lens caught the image of an Islamic State-group flag inside the car that night, the events becam
  
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• Edmonton Oilers Defeat the Arizona Coyotes in Overtime

  28-09-2018 08:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  So what else is new?
  Connor McDavid wins the game in overtime for the Edmonton Oilers.
  The Oilers captain lifted one over Antti Raanta for his second of the night for a 3-2 victory Thursday over the Arizona Coyotes as the Oilers raised their exhibition record to 5-1.
  Nobody can defend McDavid, but the jury’s still out on Oiler goalie Mikko Koskinen after his third pre-season start. He made some excellent stops including one on Richard Panik in the dying stages of the third but gave up one
  
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• Connor McDavid wins it in O/T, as the Edmonton Oilers edge Arizona in pre-season action 3-2

  28-09-2018 07:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers best player scored early and then again about as late as you can as Connor McDavid paced the Oilers to a 3-2 overtime win over Phoenix.
  The Oilers did not look like the dynamic offensive club that we have seen the last few games. It is worth considering that at this point in the pre-season the competition is much stiffer. And while they were far from overpowering with the puck (they were actually out-shot 27-21 in regulation) in the end the Oilers were just good enough.
  Perha
  
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• McDavid scores pair in Oilers' win over Coyotes

  28-09-2018 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  You wonder if, sometime about early November when he has to do it, if Todd McLellan’s hand is going to shake when he writes in the name of Mikko Koskinen as his starting goaltender.
  The $2.5 million backup has shown nothing in the pre-season to show that he’s going to be the solution as backup goaltender to Cam Talbot.
  Koskinen had given up eight goals on 40 shots in his first two starts and Thursday night mostly survived a very shaky start to collect an overtime win.
  The Finnish goa
  
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• Jury remains out on backup goaltender Koskinen for Oilers' brass

  28-09-2018 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  You wonder if, sometime about early November when he has to do it, if Todd McLellan’s hand is going to shake when he writes in the name of Mikko Koskinen as his starting goaltender.
  The $2.5 million backup has shown nothing in the pre-season to show that he’s going to be the solution as backup goaltender to Cam Talbot.
  Koskinen had given up eight goals on 40 shots in his first two starts and Thursday night mostly survived a very shaky start to collect an overtime win.
  The Finnish goa
  
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• Alberta's first clinical-education facility

  28-09-2018 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  MacEwan University has just become home to a new community health-care clinic that will help both students and patients in what is being touted as the first clinical-education facility of its kind in the province.
  The MacEwan University Health Centre is a collaborative project between the downtown university and the department of family medicine in the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta which will feature mental health consultation rooms, a family consultation room an
  
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• Perfecting the 'art': City aims to cut back on all salt used on winter roads

  28-09-2018 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are promising to cut back their use of both traditional salt and calcium chloride this winter to prevent damage to vehicles, bridges and other infrastructure.
  They’re hoping new “pre-wetting” techniques will help a small sprinkle of granular salt stick to the pavement better, said Janet Tecklenborg, the city’s director of infrastructure operations. She said they’ll also be more judicious in deciding when to spray the liquid calcium chloride
  
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• Released convicted sexual offender at risk of re-offending

  28-09-2018 03:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A convicted violent sexual offender living in the Edmonton area could commit another offence now that he has been released, police warned Thursday.
  Michael Jawn Rhoads, 51, who will be monitored by the behavioural assessment unit of the Edmonton Police Service, has a history of violence towards intimate partners and strangers he has encountered on the street or in bars.
  Police said the five-foot-eight, 208-pound man’s “risk for violence increases significantly when under th
  
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• Woman absent when judge finds her guilty of manslaughter

  28-09-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman wasn’t present in court when she was convicted of manslaughter on Thursday.
  Joelle Reich, 50, was found guilty of having contributed to the death of her boyfriend, Warren McLeod, who died in hospital of complications related to blunt force injuries to his head.
  Reich attended the trial every day, on time, with the exception of being late one day due to traffic. But on Thursday, after waiting 30 minutes for her to arrive, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman decid
  
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• Future family doctors, nurses to benefit from new high tech teaching clinic

  28-09-2018 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A primary care clinic focused on training future doctors and medical staff has a shiny new home in downtown Edmonton.
  MacEwan University officially unveiled a $4 million clinical-education facility Thursday that is now home to physicians who previously worked out of the Royal Alexandra Family Medicine Centre.
  Featuring 21 exam rooms, mental health consultation rooms, a family consultation room as well as a minor procedure room and lab collection station, the 13,000-square-foot facility at 105 St
  
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• David Staples: Ice District could supplant West Edmonton Mall in public imagination

  28-09-2018 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not since I first visited West Edmonton Mall — with its immense, gaudy and expectation-blowing amenities and retail capacity — have I experienced anything close to what’s been built in the $3-billion Ice District project.
  The momentum and the commerce that flowed out of Edmonton downtown starting in the 1980s to WEM, and then to the gargantuan suburban power centre South Edmonton Commons, now faces its first serious challenge in the Ice District.
  Ice District doesn’t have
  
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• Ice District project nearing completion

  28-09-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The $3 billion Ice District project is nearing the finish line with the Plaza and the JW Marriott expected to be completed in time for the NHL playoffs.
  The condos in the Hotel tower are 90 per cent sold out and the amenities in the Ice District will keep the new residents in the core of the city.
  Ice District already has a casino, a grocery store is coming, and it will house huge dining halls, food courts, wrapped around an outdoor public plaza and in the shadow of the downtown arena, designed
  
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• Attempted murder charge laid against 15-year-old accused of stabbing bus driver

  28-09-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 15-year-old boy is facing attempted murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with a stabbing attack on a city bus driver earlier this week, police said Thursday.
  The 65-year-old victim was at the Mill Woods Transit Centre on Hewes Way in southeast Edmonton when the attack happened at around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
  The man, who was stabbed up to 13 times, was treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to hospital suffering serious, but non-life threaten
  
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• City aims for bare pavement this winter

  28-09-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are promising to cut back their use of both traditional salt and calcium chloride this winter to prevent damage to vehicles, bridges and other infrastructure.
  They’re hoping new “pre-wetting” techniques will help a small sprinkle of salt stick to the pavement better, said Janet Tecklenborg, the city’s director of infrastructure operations. She said they’ll also be more judicious deciding when to spray the liquid calcium chloride before a sto
  
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• Rachel Notley's hunting joke hypocritical, says MLA Derek Fildebrandt

  28-09-2018 00:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A wisecrack by Premier Rachel Notley during a speech in Red Deer Thursday has Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt questioning the premier’s taste.
  The joke referenced two hunting charges laid against the Freedom Conservative Party MLA last year and the epic beard belonging to Municipal Affairs Minister Shaye Anderson.
  “Jokes about Shaye’s beard are getting a little old, a little tired, so I’m going to do everything I can to resist the temptation, but I will say that i
  
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