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• Edmonton's ribbon of trails gets 16 kilometres longer

  05-10-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton has officially unfurled another 16 kilometres of river valley trails.
  On Friday, Coun. Aaron Paquette and Brent Collingwood, River Valley Alliance (RVA) executive director, opened the completed East End Trails Project in Edmonton’s northeast.
  The $8.5-million asphalt and gravel trails were funded in partnership with the City of Edmonton, River Valley Alliance, the Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada.
  “On behalf of city council and Edmontonians, we thank our fu
  
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• Fitness column: Weight training key to greater gains

  05-10-2018 23:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The cold autumn winds are upon us, which means if you left your exercise progress on a summer patio somewhere it’s time to recommit.
  This may surprise some in the treadmill crowd, but cardio may not be the magic cure-all they think it is. In fact, some forms of cardio may be aversely affecting your gains.
  Sure, exercise like walking and running is affordable and accessible, but it simply may not be the right ingredient if your focus is weight loss, strength or shape. (In fact, if your goal
  
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• Suspicious death: Missing woman's body found in river near St. Paul

  05-10-2018 21:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The case of a woman missing since late September has been deemed suspicious after her body was recovered from the North Saskatchewan River southwest of St. Paul, say RCMP.
  Twenty-five-year-old Lindsay Marie Jackson’s body was found in the North Saskatchewan River near Duvernay, about 53 kilometres southwest of St. Paul, on Wednesday, said police in a Friday release. The RCMP major crimes unit has taken over the investigation.
  Jackson, from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, was last seen at a h
  
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• Tour bus driver struck and killed by own bus in Columbia Icefield parking lot

  05-10-2018 21:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  A driver of a tour bus was struck and killed be her own vehicle in the Columbia Icefield parking lot near Jasper on Thursday.
  Emergency services were called to the parking lot crash about 1:15 p.m. after the 52-year-old woman was hit, police said Friday.
  STARS Air Ambulance was dispatched but she died at the scene.
  Witnesses told Mounties that the bus also struck four parked vehicles before it came to rest.
  No other people were injured and the investigation is continuing.
  
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• 'That's the wound': Reports detailing offenders’ Indigenous backgrounds are surging in Alberta’s courts

  05-10-2018 18:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  He was there when they attacked the boy in a north Edmonton parking lot.
  He participated, he admits, in causing 17-year-old Ashton Cardinal’s death.
  “I wish I can take back that night and not be there,” Terence Christopher Lewis told the writer assigned to prepare a Gladue report on his Indigenous background that would be submitted to a judge who would decide his fate.
  The 31-year-old man from Onion Lake First Nation was handed a six-year sentence on Aug. 30 after he plead
  
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• Cam Talbot moving up to where he needs to be in Edmonton Oilers power rankings

  05-10-2018 16:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  How simple is the Oilers season? On Dec. 1, if Connor McDavid is leading the league in scoring and Cam Talbot has a save percentage higher than .920, I suspect all Oilers fans will be smiling.
  That .920+ save percentage would indicate not just a return to form for Talbot, but also an indication that the Oilers’ defence is in better shape.For three seasons now I’ve done power rankings of the Oilers players. Talbot slipped from second overall on a strong team in 2016-17 to seventh over
  
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• Edmonton police bust vehicle VIN cloning scam, recover $500,000 in property

  05-10-2018 15:54 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 of hi
  
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• Single-vehicle rollover kills eastern Alberta man

  05-10-2018 15:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man from the eastern Alberta town of Willingdon was killed in a single vehicle rollover on Wednesday.
  Mounties said the crash happened at around 4 p.m. on Range Road 152 just south of the small hamlet located about 100 km east of Edmonton.
  Investigators believe the 36-year-old driver of the SUV was heading north when it rolled into the ditch.
  Two Hills RCMP continue to investigate.
  
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• Man exposes genitals to woman walking alone near St. Albert school

  05-10-2018 15:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who exposed his genitals to a woman near a school in St. Albert late last week is being sought by Mounties.
  At about 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 the woman was walking south on Cunningham Road towards Leo Nickerson School when a man coming from the direction of a nearby playground and exposed himself, Mounties said Thursday.
  The woman left the area and reported it to police.
  The man is about five-foot-five and was wearing dark clothing at the time.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Chilly, windy, but sunny and no snow. So we'll take it.

  05-10-2018 14:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -0.3 C with 10 km/h winds out of the northwest contributing to a -4 windchill.
  What happened? I looked at the weekend forecast yesterday and it was nothing but sunshine — 10 C Saturday and 11 C Sunday — but 24 hours later the darn thing has flipped its lid with forecasters calling for a mix of sun and cloud and 10 C Saturday (not so bad) and 8 C and c
  
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• Opinion: Numbers show this edition of Oilers a vastly different team

  05-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers season starts today, finally.
  The past seven years I’ve watched 500 Oilers games, studied hockey analytics, and written opinions in the Edmonton Journal. Along the way, I’ve raised questions: What are the best, most meaningful analytics? What accounts for last year’s disappointing season? Why did some star players struggle? How should players be graded and evaluated? How should they practise and develop? And, what matters most: athletic ability or opportunit
  
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• Friday's letters: Canada gains thoughtful Senator

  05-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Congratulations to Paula Simons on her appointment to Canada’s Senate.
  Edmonton Journal readers will be quite familiar with her columns, and while we may not always have agreed with her, her arguments were always thoughtful and well-reasoned.
  Thoughtfulness and an ability for good reasoning are good attributes for somebody representing Alberta and Edmonton in our chamber of sober second thought.
  Well done, Paula Simons. The Edmonton Journal’s and its readers’ loss is Canada&rsq
  
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• Editorial: Heal our hospitals

  05-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  That Alberta hospitals spend large amounts of money comes as little surprise given the high cost of health care.
  But the devil is in the details and it took the digging of Edmonton Journal reporter Keith Gerein in an in-depth investigation and a follow-up piece to reveal that it’s not just a case of hospitals being expensive facilities to operate by nature of their mission to heal the sick.
  It’s worse; Alberta’s hospitals are set up to overspend, then to reset and repeat. They&
  
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• 'That's the wound': Reports detailing offenders’ Indigenous backgrounds are surging in Alberta’s courts. Reporter Paige Parsons explains what’s behind the trend and who is doing the work.

  05-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  He was there when they attacked the boy in a north Edmonton parking lot.
  He participated, he admits, in causing 17-year-old Ashton Cardinal’s death.
  “I wish I can take back that night and not be there,” Terence Christopher Lewis told the writer assigned to prepare a Gladue report on his Indigenous background that would be submitted to a judge who would decide his fate.
  The 31-year-old man from Onion Lake First Nation was handed a six-year sentence on Aug. 30 after he plead
  
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• New Metro Line LRT signalling system ready to go today: Thales Canada

  05-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales Canada officials say they’re ready today to flip the switch on a new signalling system that would restore Edmonton’s LRT network to proper frequency.
  There’s just one problem. The city isn’t convinced.
  Thales vice-president Dave Beckley sat down with Postmedia Thursday to share details on testing that’s been ongoing all summer. He said his company believes the signalling system is robust and the city’s motormen and inspectors are ready. It’s
  
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• David Staples: Amarjeet Sohi faces hard questions about failing pipelines

  05-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I have no end of questions about why it’s now impossible for private business to build a pipeline in Canada so I caught up with Amarjeet Sohi for some answers.
  Sohi, the former Edmonton city councillor, current MP for Edmonton Mill Woods and federal minister of natural resources, takes my call from B.C., where he’s back meeting with Indigenous groups about the sickly Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which is on its tenth or eleventh life.
  Albertans, meanwhile, are boil
  
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• Man exposes genitals to woman walking alone near St. Albert school - Edmonton Journal

  05-10-2018 09:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Man exposes genitals to woman walking alone near St. Albert school  Edmonton JournalA man who exposed his genitals to a woman near a school in St. Albert late last week is being sought by Mounties.
  
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• African-Canadian business owners meet to express frustration with police, city after shisha bar shut down

  05-10-2018 05:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  African-Canadian business owners who feel they’ve been treated unfairly by police and city inspectors met Thursday at a bar and shisha lounge embroiled in a fight with city hall.
  Around 30 people attended the community meeting at Nyala Lounge — a week after the city announced it was revoking the establishment’s business licence over public safety concerns.
  Owner Mulugeta Tesfay says his business is being discriminated against. The city has since reinstated Nyala’s busines
  
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• African-Canadian business owners meet to discuss concerns

  05-10-2018 04:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mulugeta Tesfay, owner of Nyala Lounge and Bar, a shisha establishment in downtown Edmonton, met with other African business owners on Thursday to talk about troubles they have had with police and the City of Edmonton.
  Over the past few years, Nyala Lounge and Bar has been ticketed 31 times, 11 tickets have been withdrawn and nine tickets dropped in court.
  Tesfay has plead guilty to one ticket for overcrowding of 10 additional people in the establishment. His crowding limits have been reduced b
  
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• Inner-city Thanksgiving: Early holiday meal at Bissell Centre's new space

  05-10-2018 03:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bissell Centre patrons gathered for an early Thanksgiving meal in the agency’s new community space Thursday.
  The early holiday dinner — served up at the 10530 96 St. location — for up to 500 people aims to help those in the inner-city community cope with loneliness and the colder temperatures this time of year.
  “Thanksgiving is a time where many of us gather with our families and friends to share a meal and celebrate the many good things in our lives,” says Gary St.
  
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• RCMP search for suspect who allegedly exposed himself near St. Albert school

  05-10-2018 03:36 via globalnews.ca
  Police 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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• Notes from the Dome: Magazine funding boost and a sculpture for teachers

  05-10-2018 03:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A sculpture representing the relationships between teachers, students and their communities will be unveiled at the Alberta legislature grounds Friday.
  The artistic dedication coincides with World Teachers’ Day and marks the official end of the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s 100th anniversary celebration.
  The steel and bronze work, called The Garden, is a collaboration between sculptor Richard Tosczak, artist Jacob Dutton and actor/writer Rollie Pemberton. It was ins
  
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• Edmonton police bust vehicle VIN cloning scam

  05-10-2018 02:40 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 of high-le
  
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• Spirit names: Mayor, city manager, branch manager honoured as part of reconciliation

  05-10-2018 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Day Star — that’s the Cree spirit name given to Mayor Don Iveson Thursday as part of a ceremony to celebrate a new understanding of Indigenous people at the City of Edmonton.
  More than 8,000 City of Edmonton employees have completed an education course on the impacts of Canada’s residential schools, a key recommendation of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. To thank the city for that effort, a group of Indigenous employees and the elders council gave Cree spiri
  
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• Developer admits to condo scam attached to failed 'Cougar Rock' resort

  05-10-2018 02:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A developer of what was supposed to be a $700-million luxury golf resort just outside Jasper National Park admitted Thursday to defrauding a number of people who invested in condominiums tied to the project.
  Marie Laframboise, 61, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of defrauding 24 people of money that exceeds $5,000.
  Laframboise took money from people who thought they were putting down deposits on condos to be built on what was supposed to be a development near Hinton, according to an agreed
  
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• Ex-Oilers captain Andrew Ference helps launch Free Hockey program for 300 elementary students

  05-10-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former Edmonton Oilers captain Andrew Ference stood in awe inside Lauderdale Elementary School as 15 energetic Grades 3-6 students impressively taped their brand-new hockey sticks for the first time.
  These 15 new hockey players are a few of the 300 students from 10 Edmonton elementary schools who were greeted with sticks and jerseys Thursday morning to launch Free Hockey.
  Grade 5 students, from right, Bilan Ismail, Teanna Tronson and Hayley Johnson get a taping lesson from former Edmonton Oilers
  
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• Edmonton area dominates licensed cannabis shops ahead of legalization

  05-10-2018 01:22 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 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 and Medici
  
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