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• Man crashes truck into liquor store after being shot in Grande Prairie

  29-09-2018 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 24-year-old man is in hospital after driving his truck into a Grande Prairie liquor store after being shot.
  The man was shot near 92 Street and 100 Avenue just before 6 p.m. Thursday, RCMP said Saturday in a news release.
  Investigators found the man had been in an altercation with two other men. Shortly after, the injured man drove off in his truck, only to crash into the side of a nearby Liquor Depot, Const. Melanie McIntosh said.
  The suspects fled in a different vehicle. McIntosh said t
  
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• No free admission day at Fort Edmonton Park this year: Better options include zoo, rec centres, Muttart

  29-09-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s annual free admission day runs all day Sunday, but the city wants residents to know that Fort Edmonton Park is not on the list.
  The historical attraction often brings in large crowds on free admission day, but this year the park is closed for utility upgrades.
  The John Janzen Nature Centre, which shares the same parking lot, is expected to be open.
  Other free sites include the Edmonton Valley Zoo, the Muttart Conservatory, five city arenas, four city recreation centres, four YMC
  
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• Months to weeks: Easier recruitment expected to boost Edmonton's reservist ranks

  29-09-2018 21:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Canadian Army is looking to add more than 1,000 new recruits to its reserves over the next few years, largely by slashing the amount of time it takes to join.
  It’s a potential boon for one of Alberta’s major reserve forces — 41 Canadian Brigade Group — which held an open house in Edmonton on Saturday in a bid to bring on more members.
  “We’re a very flexible employer, and we offer some pretty interesting training,” said Sgt. Dan Pagnutti, a reser
  
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• Review: ESO magnificent with Bruckner's Symphony No. 9

  29-09-2018 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Austrian composer Anton Bruckner was the cathedral builder of the symphony, creating vast edifices that speak of the glory of God and of humankind. He is also the most spiritual of symphonists: while encompassing human emotions in so much of their variety, his vision opens up vistas that are beyond the human.
  Then came his Symphony No. 9, which was given by Alexander Prior and the Edmonton Symphony orchestra in the Winspear on Friday, Sept. 28.
  It was left uncompleted at his death, which hasn&rs
  
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• This just in from Greg Wyshynski: "The Oilers make the playoffs."

  29-09-2018 18:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  This just in from ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski, his prediction for 2018-19: “The Oilers make the playoffs.
  “Best-case scenario: Cam Talbot and Mikko Koskinen both play superbly in their contract years, bolstering an Oilers defense that was 25th in the NHL last season.
  “Worst-case scenario: Connor McDavid says he wants to score even more this season, and guess what, he does. And the Oilers still stink. It turns out last season wasn’t an aberration — in fact, it was th
  
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• A sound to emulate: Local musicians reflect on Paul McCartney's influential career

  29-09-2018 15:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are few musicians who can claim the kind of rollercoaster career that Paul McCartney has had.
  He’s been lauded as a genius for his work with The Beatles, dismissed as a lightweight during portions of his Wings phase and solo career, and in a 60-odd year career has released some of the most durable and tuneful pop music ever recorded. McCartney has turned his hand to experimental music, electronica, and classical, and continues to influence other musicians well into his mid-70s, inclu
  
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• Saturday's letters: More important things than size

  29-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Skyscraper a ‘fulfilment of promises,’ ” David Staples, Sept. 26
  “In simplest terms,” I don’t give a damn that Edmonton has a skyscraper taller than anything in Calgary, Montreal or Vancouver.
  I was born in, and have lived in Edmonton 90-plus years. A front-page article for which I would comment “hot diggity dog” would state that my city was tops in the care and protection of its citizens. Too simple, I suppose.
  Edna Lerl, Edmonton
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• Opinion: Orange Shirt Day brings truth of residential schools to light

  29-09-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are those who are still questioning the well-established truth. This open questioning is negatively impacting reconciliation between First Nations peoples and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada.
  I am referring to the recent public displays and publications that attempt to re-write the facts on Canada’s Indian Residential School system.
  Last week in Alberta, an approved questionnaire for high school students featured a question that asked the student to name a “positive effect&rdq
  
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• RCMP's new commanding officer returning home to Alberta

  29-09-2018 06:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s new RCMP commanding officer is no stranger to Wild Rose Country.
  Assistant Commissioner Curtis Zablocki, who was named Friday as the province’s new RCMP top cop, has spent most of his almost three decades of service in Alberta, including as deputy criminal operations officer at K Division.
  Zablocki has spent the past two years in Saskatchewan.
  “Assistant Commissioner Zablocki knows our province well and has a depth of experience that he will bring to this important ro
  
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• Police and city address safety concerns on Edmonton transit

  29-09-2018 04:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Insp. Derek McIntyre of the Edmonton Police Service and Gord Cebryk, deputy city manager of city operations at the City of Edmonton, talk about transit safety at city hall on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, two days after a knife attack on a city bus driver who was stabbed 13 times.
  Two days earlier an Edmonton Transit System bus driver was viciously assaulted and stabbed at least 13 times with a knife in southeast Edmonton.
  A week before that, a 19-year-old man was stabbed while waiting for a train at
  
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• Fentanyl seized in drug trafficking investigation

  29-09-2018 04:18 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 metha
  
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• Mounties identify man found dead in rural Strathcona County

  29-09-2018 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties have finally been able to identify a man who was found dead in an industrial area in rural Strathcona County earlier this month.
  The body of Aldane Mesquita, 33, was found at 5 a.m. on Sept. 13 but there was a mystery around who he was.
  RCMP Major Crimes North issued a release four days after Mesquita’s body was found calling for people to come forward who might recognize composite sketches of the man.
  The cause of death has yet to be determined by the office of the chief med
  
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• Dump the booze rule: City recommends eliminating 500-metre liquor store separation distance

  29-09-2018 03:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The long-debated zoning bylaw restricting liquor stores to a 500-metre separation distance from one another may be on its way down the drain, according to a city report.
  City administration is recommending eliminating the required separation distance, in a report heading to the urban planning committee, citing the bylaw hasn’t reduced proliferation or improved business practices since it was implemented in 2007.
  “Administration could not identify a relationship between the locations
  
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• Judge hands fentanyl 'middleman' 11-year sentence

  29-09-2018 03:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A judge ruled Friday that the culpability of a “middle man in wholesale fentanyl trafficking,” who had the equivalent of a half-million doses of the deadly opiate seized from him, was in the “mid-range.”
  “You should not be and you will not be sentenced for causing any death in Alberta that is related to fentanyl,” Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Vital Ouellette said as he handed Cameron O’Lynn Parranto an 11-year sentence for eight offences rel
  
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• Orange Shirt Day at Edmonton city hall

  29-09-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of people attended an Orange Shirt Day celebration at Edmonton city hall on Friday.
  Indigenous, community and government leaders, and students all across Alberta, wore orange shirts.
  This day provides the opportunity to discuss all aspects of residential schools and to help continue the work of reconciliation. The day was inspired by the story of young Phyllis Webstad, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day at the St. Joseph Mission Residential School in Williams Lake, B
  
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• 'We can't just get over it': Orange Shirt Day a call for equality for Indigenous people

  29-09-2018 02:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  No, Marlene Poitras will not “get over it.”
  She won’t get over the harms of residential schools until thousands of children seized by social workers are returned to their communities with enough resources and staff to care for them.
  She won’t get over it until First Nations people have equal education opportunities, access to health care and an equivalent quality of life.
  Poitras, Alberta regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, won’t get over it until Indi
  
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• Paula Simons: Great Expectations: After a 13-year saga, the Royal Alberta Museum prepares to open its doors

  29-09-2018 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the grand entrance hall of the Royal Alberta Museum, a large digital clock counts down the days and minutes until it will finally open to the public next Wednesday.
  Construction crews are still at work on the finishing touches. A blue tarp is draped over what appears to be a large woolly mammoth. Meantime, a partially disassembled Albertosaurus skeleton sits like a half-finished jig-saw puzzle.
  Executive director Chris Robinson looks strangely serene.
  “There’s no pressure with the
  
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• Press Gallery podcast #244: The Controlling The Message edition

  29-09-2018 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Between a press secretary shuffle and Premier Rachel Notley signing up to a teachers conference to counter an anti-pipeline message, Alberta politics this week was all about message control.
  If that wasn’t enough messaging for you, provincial cabinet ministers will head to Ottawa to speak to senators ahead of Bill C-69 and UCP Leader Jason Kenney was unimpressed with messages about his party’s fiscal plans when it comes to education.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Pa
  
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• Mikko Koskinen has No Movement Clause, but could agree to go to minors, Chiarelli tells Gregor

  29-09-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sounds like both Chiasson and Garrison will get contracts with Oilers organization
  This in from Jason Gregor of TSN 1260, his interview with Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli and the fact Mikko Koskinen has a no-movement clause and what that means.
  Chiarelli agreed with Gregor’s assertion that goalie Koskinen would have had to agree to go to the minors, but indicated that might not be an issue: “I’ve done a lot of business with the agent, that if it (his play) was a problem th
  
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