St. Albert news

• L'Unithéâtre reveals culture of humanity through universal language of story

  04-10-2018 23:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  L’Unithéâtre, Alberta’s largest French language theatre, launches its latest season next week with a new artistic director.
  Billy, The Days of Howling, opens on Oct. 12 under the careful curation of Joëlle Préfontaine, 34, a Legal native who came to appreciate her mother tongue through theatre.
  The child of Francophone parents, Préfontaine was raised speaking French, and went to a French language school until the eighth grade. But as a teenager determi
  
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• Edmonton police bust vehicle VIN cloning scam, recover $400,000 in property

  04-10-2018 23:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who scrimped and saved $20,000 to buy himself a new truck is now making payments on a vehicle he no longer owns after it was caught up in a vehicle cloning operation busted by city police.
  Members of the city police auto theft unit seized the truck Wednesday after a five-week probe into a sophisticated organized crime ring that resulted in three arrests, 16 charges, and the seizure of close to $500,000 in stolen property and drugs.
  “We are talking about an organized group o
  
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• New memoir Food Was Her Country launches Friday at Audreys

  04-10-2018 23:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  I read Marusya Bociurkiw’s LGBTQ food memoir, Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl, a few years back and really enjoyed it. Now, Bociurkiw (who spent her formative years in Edmonton) is releasing a another look at life and food called Food Was Her Country: Memoir of a Queer Daughter (Caitlin Press).
  The Edmonton book launch is at 7 p.m. on Friday at Audreys (10702 Jasper Ave.).
  The new work traces the tempestuous culinary relationship of Bociurkiw and her mother, a God-fe
  
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• Edmonton-area retailers dominate cannabis licensees ahead of legalization

  04-10-2018 23:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton area will be best place in Alberta to shop around for weed on the first day that cannabis is legalized on Oct. 17.
  Seventeen retailers in Alberta have been issued with interim cannabis licences, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) said Thursday. A dozen of those are in the Edmonton area, including six in the city, two in Fort Saskatchewan and single stores in St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Devon and Stony Plain.
  Calgary, by contrast, has two approved locations
  
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• 'The most horrible and wonderful thing to love': Jezebel, at the Still Point, examines canine mortality and love

  04-10-2018 17:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Most performers flinch at the thought of being on stage with a dog, because the dog gets all the love.
  But that’s exactly what theatre and movement artist Ainsley Hillyard hopes will happen when she and her French bulldog, Jezebel, appear at the Roxy on Gateway starting Oct. 11.
  “She’s the star element of the show, and I just move through the space around her,” said Hillyard, 34, whose show — Jezebel, at the Still Point — is part of the Roxy Performance Series
  
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• Edmonton police bust alleged VIN cloning operation, recover $400,000 in property

  04-10-2018 16:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have busted an alleged vehicle identification number (VIN) cloning operation in the city as well as seizing drugs, cash and $400,000 in recovered stolen property in the process.
  Three people are now facing a raft of charges relating to the operation that centered on a residence in the Hamptons area and a business in the area of 121A Street and 121 Avenue.
  A search of the business uncovered an active vehicle cloning operation and resulted in the recovery of a stolen 2008
  
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• Notley disappointed feds won't appeal Trans Mountain ruling

  04-10-2018 15:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Although Premier Rachel Notley doesn’t agree with Ottawa’s decision to not appeal a court ruling that halted the Trans Mountain pipeline, she says that Alberta needs to let the federal process play out.
  Ottawa has appointed former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci to oversee  consultations with Indigenous communities, following the Federal Court of Appeal decision in August.
  The court said that while the government did spend several months in 2016 meeting with
  
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• Edmonton weather: Warming up as we head into the weekend

  04-10-2018 14:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -0.4 C with 9 km/h winds out of the southeast contributing to a -4 windchill.
  What’s the old cliche? If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes. Nowadays it’s more like: if you don’t like the weather, drive an hour south. On Tuesday, heavy snowfalls pounded much of southern Alberta and the Rockies, but stopped short of reaching anythi
  
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• Thursday's letters: Cowtown grateful for snow plows?

  04-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thank you to Edmonton for sending us snow plows to help out with the most snow we have ever had on one day in October.
  We will definitely return the favour at some point. If the Eskimos should happen to make the Western Final here, we will be sure to be ready to send snow plows to Edmonton if needed.
  Eskimo fans will need to get to their favourite bar to drown their sorrows and we want to make sure they can get there.
  Dan Petryk, Calgary
  Users should pay for public transit
  A councillor says to c
  
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• Editorial: No free transit rides

  04-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Free public transit is a concept with undeniable intrigue. The idea, raised this week by Coun. Aaron Paquette, is to eliminate fares on city buses and LRT.
  The theory goes that bargain-seeking Edmontonians will ditch their private vehicles and hop aboard a train or bus if tempted with a free ride, much like the crowds which descend on municipal or provincial attractions every no-charge admission day.
  Paquette raised the suggestion Monday and tabled a motion for administration to examine the pros
  
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• Sympathy for the crack house: Drug houses serve important role, advocates tell Edmonton drug policy conference

  04-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Montreal harm reduction advocates drew a crowd at an Edmonton drug policy conference Wednesday with a talk arguing that “crack houses” do more good than harm.
  Martin Pagé and Sandra Wesley delivered their provocatively titled talk titled The ‘Crack House’: A Pillar of Our Communities during Stimulus, a drug policy and harm reduction conference co-organized by Edmonton’s Street Works.
  The conference runs through Friday at the Shaw Conference Centre.
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• RCMP search for suspect who allegedly exposed himself near St. Albert school - Global News Edmonton

  04-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP search for suspect who allegedly exposed himself near St. Albert school  Global News EdmontonPolice are asking the public for help as they try to track down a man who allegedly exposed his genitals to a woman near a St. Albert elementary school.
  
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• Major worries that Edmonton Oilers will have more Defencemen of Darkness this year

  04-10-2018 08:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are a few worries heading into the year for the Edmonton Oilers, but a new worry is now top of the charts.
  In training camp, Cam Talbot looked sharp and Mikko Koskinen looked passable so fears about the goalie position dropped off somewhat. Ty Rattie, Jesse Puljujarvi, Kailer Yamamoto and Tobias Rieder all had some good to exceptional moments at right wing so for now those fears have also died down.
  Shooting up to number one with a bullet is the fear the Edmonton Oilers just don’t ha
  
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• Journal columnist Paula Simons one of three named to Canada's Senate

  04-10-2018 04:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Longtime Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons was appointed to the Senate of Canada as an independent senator by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.
  Simons was one of three new senators appointed to the Red Chamber along with Indigenous rights advocate Patti Laboucane-Benson of Spruce Grove and Peter Boehm of Ontario.
  “These three new independent senators bring a wealth of experience with them to the Red Chamber,” said Trudeau in a news release. “Whether working as a
  
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• City council leery about expanding Edmonton's road salt and calcium chloride pilot

  04-10-2018 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors echoed concerns from the development industry Wednesday and expressed serious reservations about city plans to expand its calcium chloride and road salting pilot project this winter.
  City officials want to add nearly 300 kilometres of roads to the treatment program, tweak applications to reduce how much salt is used and include a series of field tests on corrosion.
  But several councillors expressed concern at council’s community services committee meeting. Councillors Tony
  
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• 'Who we are as Albertans': Royal Alberta Museum celebrates grand opening

  04-10-2018 03:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The long-anticipated Royal Alberta Museum opened Wednesday to fanfare and celebration, including the unveiling of a mammoth statue that will greet visitors in the lobby for years to come.
  Yoshiya Kim was among the eager Albertans who lined up for more than an hour to be the first through the doors at noon.
  “I love the new building, the architecture. We’re really excited to see what the museum has to offer,” said Kim, who drove to Edmonton from Wetaskiwin with his 13-year-old da
  
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• Suspected hydrofluoric acid released near Wetaskiwin

  04-10-2018 03:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  As much as 50 litres of what officials believe is hydrofluoric acid was released from an overturned barrel in a county shop yard near Wetaskiwin Tuesday.
  County employees had earlier recovered two metal drums containing plastic barrels from a ditch and transported them to the facility.
  One of the drums was leaking and appeared to be producing hydrogen gas as it reacted with the metal barrel on a gravel pad, a government statement said.
  Alberta Environment and Parks officials worked wit
  
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• Cleanup operation underway after 88,000 litres of crude oil, water releases from northern Alberta pipeline

  04-10-2018 03:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cleanup operation is underway in northern Alberta after 88,000 litres of crude oil and produced water was released from a pipeline.
  The province’s Alberta Energy Regulator said the spill of 44,000 litres of crude oil and 44,000 litres of salt and produced water happened near Red Earth Creek, located about 400 km north of Edmonton.
  In a statement Wednesday, the company said they had notified the regulator and other area stakeholders that the emulsion release was about 98 per cent pro
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Service to seniors and a controversial Alberta Party meeting

  04-10-2018 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Seven Albertans and two organizations were honoured this week for their service to seniors.
  For more than 20 years, the Minister’s Seniors Service Awards have recognized volunteers and groups that improve the lives of Alberta’s older generation.
  Normally eight make the cut, but the government decided the quality of nominations this year warranted an additional award in the individual category.
  Awards went to Bill Chrapko, Bill Wulff, Della Robertson, Dolores Dercach,&n
  
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• Defence urges judge to avoid 'gratuitous cruelty' in tax fraud sentence

  04-10-2018 02:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The defence lawyer for a tax preparer found guilty of filing $2.9-million in false claims with the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) urged the judge in the case not to impose an “excessive” sentence.
  Prosecutors in the case argued that 60-year-old Chander Sharma should serve an eight-year to 10-year sentence, be ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution to 10 of his former clients, and pay a $300,000 fine.
  But defence lawyer Paul Moreau argued Wednesday that a decade in prison would be too
  
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• Deputy Chief Kevin Brezinski will serve as interim police chief after Knecht's departure: police commission

  04-10-2018 02:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A long-serving Edmonton police officer will take over as the police service’s interim chief nearly next month.
  The Edmonton Police Commission announced Wednesday that Kevin Brezinski, one of Edmonton’s three deputy chiefs, will serve as interim police chief starting Nov. 1, the day after Chief Rod Knecht leaves the job.
  Brezinski will serve as interim chief until Edmonton’s 23rd police chief is officially sworn in, a police commission news release said.
  Brezinski has been
  
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• Graffiti takes over The Aviary

  04-10-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three talented local graffiti artists are taking a confidant, collaborative leap this week — and by the time their experiment’s complete a Norwood indie music venue will have a much jazzier vibe.
  Last Tuesday, AJA Louden, Evan Brunt and Jordan Ernst began an ambitious wall-mural-painting project at The Aviary (9314 111 Ave.), hoping their rattling-aerosol line work marathon produces a thing of beauty in time for Smoke City Art Show at 7 p.m. Thursday, when the big reveal happens.
  The
  
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• Council backs off immediate hookah ban but warns owners that it's still coming

  04-10-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors backed away from an immediate hookah ban Wednesday, opting to pass the idea in principle but consult with lounge owners before it takes effect.
  That means it could be several years before hookah pipes and the smoking of shisha in public places is banned but that move is coming.
  “Please plan for a day when water pipes, with combustion at least, will be ruled out in Edmonton,” said Coun. Scott McKeen, chairing council’s community services committee. “Public
  
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• Paula Simons: 'What's going on?' Edmonton teen in shock after Governor-General's nomination for his Syrian refugee memoir

  04-10-2018 01:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  To be nominated for the Governor-General’s Award for literature at the age of 17 would be a remarkable accomplishment for anyone. No wonder Abu Bakr al Rabeeah isn’t quite over the shock of learning that his first book, Homes: A Refugee Story, was just shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction.
  “I actually just woke up and I saw lots of emails and messages and I was like, ‘What’s going on?”” he told me when I caught up with
  
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• Untreated child sex offender to live in Edmonton again, warn police

  04-10-2018 00:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  An untreated child sexual offender will be on Edmonton area streets again, say city police, who issued a warning about the same man in 2015.
  Cyle Larsen, 27, is a convicted sexual offender who police say targets those under the age of 16.
  Larsen will be monitored by the officers from the behavioural assessment unit but he is still considered a threat to the public, said police in a Wednesday release.
  The untreated child sex offender was recently released from the Calgary Correctional Centre and
  
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