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• Notley slams Kenney after white nationalist group visits UCP pub night

  09-10-2018 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley wants Opposition leader Jason Kenney to address exactly why racists and bigots are being drawn to the UCP, and to call them out.
  Notley spoke with media Tuesday morning following a weekend furor after UCP candidate hopefuls in Edmonton were photographed with members of Soldiers of Odin — a white nationalist, anti-immigration group — at a UCP pub night.
  “The question is, why are these folks showing up at these events and feeling as though they are welcome?
  
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• Lloydminster RCMP respond to four overdoses Thanksgiving long weekend — one deadly

  09-10-2018 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lloydminster RCMP are issuing a public warning after a string of overdoses in the eastern Alberta city over the Thanksgiving long weekend.
  Police responded to four overdoses — one of which was fatal — according to a Tuesday news release.
  Two other people were found unresponsive and taken to hospital, along with a fourth person found conscious in medical distress.
  Police believe the people overdosed on a mix of cocaine and fentanyl.
  Const. Patrick Lambert said RCMP are warning th
  
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• Best odds for an NHL coach to be fired? Todd McLellan of Edmonton Oilers, says Bovada.com

  09-10-2018 20:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The betting company Bovada.com has a nasty little bet you can make: “Who will be the first Head Coach Fired during the 2018-2019 NHL Season?”
  And the best odds to get the axe, according to Bovada? Todd McLellan of the Oilers, followed by Guy Boucher of Ottawa and Joel Quenneville of Chicago.My takeSomething of a cruel world we live in when folks are making bets on someone failing and getting fired, no? At the same time, the popularity of pro sports and the massive salaries of coaches
  
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• 'Gentle giants' up for adoption: Three St. Bernards need one big loving home

  09-10-2018 20:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three St. Bernard dogs up for adoption are in need of one large loving home, say Edmonton Humane Society staff.
  Goliath, Gunther and Gasket — who arrived in Edmonton from another animal welfare agency and are believed to be about two years old — are bonded to one another and must be adopted as a unit. If separated, the dogs are highly anxious and attempt to escape in order to find one another.
  “These three gentle giants have won over the hearts of staff and volunteers — e
  
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• Wildlife: 124 Street art shows, UP+DT reviewed and the Thirteenth Doctor

  09-10-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thursday is your last chance to visit Linus Woods’ latest exhibition, My Gramma Told Us Long Ago Dogs Used to Talk, But They Don’t No More Because They’d Tell Us Everything, one of the best show titles in a while around here.
  Woods, Dakota/Ojibway hailing from southern Manitoba, is one of my favourite painters, often of animals or groups of horseback humans, and his paintings get even more compelling when he strays into almost musical patterns up in his skies or on the skins of
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Major Love, The Mosquers, and Eek-Fest

  09-10-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Major Love
  It’s taken them some time to do it, but Major Love have finally gotten around to celebrating the release of their self-titled debut. Granted, they’re all involved in about a zillion separate projects that keep the various members (Colleen Brown, members of Scenic Route to Alaska, Jesse Northey of Jesse & the Dandelions, Elijah Abrams, and Aaron Goldstein) hopping across Canada, but the CBC has certainly embraced the band, especially the first two singles, So Good and T
  
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• Brit folk-rocker duo puts new spin on classic rock, country and jazz

  09-10-2018 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  When English-born multi-instrumentalists Sarah and Rob Skinner first recorded as the duo Red Dirt Skinners back around 2011 they were making music in a bluesy vein, a carry-over from previous band associations. But it didn’t work.
  “It just didn’t fit,” Sarah Skinner explains. “We were too happy. We got married while we were working on our second album and went in a completely different direction.”
  What better reason to shift directions — or countries, fo
  
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• To every thing there is a season: Trevor Schmidt on life at Northern Light Theatre

  09-10-2018 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Trevor Schmidt is a contrarian, although he might argue with you about that. But perhaps that position is only natural for the artistic director of a tough little theatre company that’s survived for more than 40 years despite a mandate to deliberately poke and provoke.
  If you’re not interested in shows about sluts, fat girls, or Nazis, don’t buy a ticket to a Northern Light Theatre production. But if you like to think, to cry, and don’t mind having your own choices questi
  
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• Chef Sally Vaughan-Johnston is back with fall cooking classes

  09-10-2018 19:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chef Sally Vaughan-Johnston, a popular recipe development expert and former house chef for the Best of Bridge series, has some cooking classes to help warm this chilly fall.
  The classes are through Metro Continuing Education, as well at the Ottewell Community League. To keep up on her activities, follow chef Sally on Instagram at chefsallyyeg.
  ONE PAN WONDERFUL: Sunday, November 25, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
  Using a single cooking vessel — a skillet, baking dish, sheet pan or saucepan — class
  
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• Permanent security, bus shields part of $20-million transit safety plan

  09-10-2018 19:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  City officials are asking council for more than $20 million in new transit safety measures that include stationing security officers at every troublesome transit centre and installing bus shields for drivers.
  The details came out in a city report released Tuesday morning that will be debated by council at 1:30 p.m.
  The new measures follow two serious incidents on Edmonton Transit last month — a random assault on a teen at the South Campus LRT station and an early morning assault on a bus d
  
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• Sharing stories: Residents launch public platform to stress value of city services, ahead of budget deliberations

  09-10-2018 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heading into a tight city budget, a new community initiative hopes to highlight the importance of investing in services and infrastructure to city council by providing a public platform.
  The online campaign Thrive YEG launching Tuesday morning allows Edmontonians to share how investing in city programs has made a difference in their lives and why it is important to continue to do so heading into budget deliberations.
  “It grew out of this idea of listening to all of the conversations around
  
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• Edmonton weather: Ya like snow? Good

  09-10-2018 16:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -5 C with 21 km/h winds out of the east contributing to a -12 windchill.
  Well, there’s a good chance it’s going to snow today, like a 60 per cent chance. When driving to work today I noticed that the roads were a tad slippery so drive safe out there. It doesn’t look like we’re going to see double-digit temperatures this week, so bundle up
  
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• Oilers prospects Berglund, Maksimov, McLeod and gang in Bakersfield all off to promising starts

  09-10-2018 15:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  There’s no easy way to precisely measure the play of players you rarely see or have not seen lately but you can do much worse than go by their basic scoring stats.
  In this light, Edmonton Oilers prospects Kirill Maksimov, Ryan McLeod, Filip Berglund and almost all of the promising gang down in Bakersfield (Caleb Jones, Tyler Benson, Cooper Marody, Cameron Hebig and Patrick Russell) are off to strong starts in 2018-19.
  Maksimov leads the way with six goals in six Ontario Hockey League games
  
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• Sharing stories: Public platform launched to stress value of city services, ahead of budget deliberations

  09-10-2018 15:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heading into a tight city budget, a new community initiative hopes to highlight the importance of investing in services and infrastructure to city council by providing a public platform.
  The online campaign Thrive YEG launching Tuesday morning allows Edmontonians to share how investing in city programs has made a difference in their lives and why it is important to continue to do so heading into budget deliberations.
  “It grew out of this idea of listening to all of the conversations around
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Alcohol causes plenty of harm

  09-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Council looks to loosen liquor store regulations in downtown core only,” Oct. 3
  What is council thinking? Alcohol poisoning, alcohol withdrawal, liver disease, chronic alcohol abuse and other conditions that are “100 per cent caused by the harmful consumption of alcohol” accounted for about 77,000 admissions, according to a report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
  In fact, the Public Health Agency of Canada 
  
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• Opinion: Community benefit agreements may not work for Albertans

  09-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced last month that the province will be “moving ahead with community benefit agreements to ensure public infrastructure investments benefit Alberta workers and local communities.”
  She appears to be following in B.C. Premier John Horgan’s footsteps with these agreements. Albertans should ask why.
  News flash: Following Premier Horgan’s lead is bad for business and Albertans.
  B.C.’s protectionist policy on Trans Mountain values spec
  
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• Too many towers? Council grapples with looming question of how much is too much

  09-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city council’s history of approving nearly every tower it sees is dangerous and unsustainable, two community leagues are warning as councillors sit down to review yet another request.
  In the past nine years, council has only said no to one tower rezoning request. And even that, Grandin’s The View, was recently approved on the second attempt. But does council understand how approving that 23-storey building for one two-lot site is going to affect land values and developer dem
  
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• Take it outside (of court): Alternative dispute resolution championed as alternative to civil trials

  09-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  So your neighbour lets their dog poop on your lawn.
  So an oil company wants to put gas wells up across the road from your farm.
  So your ex wants the kids at Christmas — every year.
  Professionals who deal in dispute resolution and mediation make a business of tackling conflict before it escalates to a legal battle.
  But as the province’s superior court looks to reduce civil trial wait times, encouraging parties to find ways to address conflict outside of court has become a joint intere
  
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• Enrolment growth underlines need for new Catholic schools, district says

  09-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An influx of students in Edmonton’s Catholic suburban schools and high schools has pushed several buildings beyond capacity, an assistant superintendent says.
  Although enrolment growth this fall was slightly less than expected, some suburban Edmonton Catholic schools are full just a couple of years after opening their doors, John Fiacco, assistant superintendent of educational planning, said last week.
  “That’s why when we look ahead, we’re in desperate need for new school
  
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• 'Cannabis 101': Province ramps up public education as legalization looms

  09-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A blunt public education campaign on cannabis consumption will target a broad swath of potential users during the first days of legalization, says the provincial cannabis program manager.
  “New users really need some very basic information,” said Lacey Hoyland of the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC). “Current users aren’t going to need Cannabis 101.
  “We’re really trying to make sure people have factual information that c
  
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• RCMP ask for tips after human remains surface near Slave Lake

  09-10-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP are asking for information from the public after a resident found human remains north of Slave Lake.
  RCMP spokesman Const. Patrick Lambert said Monday a passerby found a person’s remains on Saturday approximately 20 km north of the town. Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park is north of Slave Lake.
  Police do not know the identity of the dead person, or how long the body was there, Lambert said. He did not have information about the dead person’s gender or age.
  An autopsy is schedule
  
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• Volunteers serve 1,300 people at Millbourne Laundromat Thanksgiving dinner

  09-10-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Twenty years ago, Shahid Bhinder was washing clothes at the Millbourne Laundromat in southeast Edmonton when he noticed a sign for the businesses’ annual free Thanksgiving dinner. He thought it could be a good way to meet new people.
  Since then, he’s missed the annual autumn event only once, and tells his wife not to make any other plans that day.
  “It’s an escape from our everyday lives,” Bhinder said Monday after munching on the vegetarian and Halal options offered
  
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