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• Nick Lees: New service dog training company to help Alberta backlog

  14-10-2018 19:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maureen MacKay, after fostering two service dogs with partner and Edmonton Eskimo President and CEO Len Rhodes, has launched a service dog training company.
  “There is a tremendous backlog in Alberta of people looking for properly trained guide dogs,” says MacKay, who also runs an advertising company.
  “For instance, autistic children can wait up to four years for a dog. The Alberta government is working to make life better for Albertans with disabilities by increasing number of
  
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• Homicide detectives investigate Oliver neighbourhood death

  14-10-2018 19:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives have launched an investigation into the death of a person found in the Oliver neighbourhood Sunday morning.
  Downtown division officers responded at around 9:40 a.m. for a “check on welfare” call at a home in the area of 102 Avenue and 115 Street, police said.
  On arrival, members found one person who was dead and another who was injured. The injured person was taken to hospital with what police said appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.
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• Julia Lipscombe: Grateful to be an Albertan as new K-4 curriculum rolls out

  14-10-2018 18:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  I’m glad to be an Albertan this week. I’m glad to be an Albertan every week, of course, but this week, especially.
  The government released a draft of their new K-4 curriculum Wednesday. It will not be a perfect curriculum, but it will be newer than the old version currently being taught — parts of which are 30 years old. And I’m grateful for that.
  A 30-year-old curriculum is almost as old as I am. Certainly it’s the one I would have learned if I grew up here in Albe
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers get in the Win column and figure out a few things in the process: 9 Things

  14-10-2018 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  That flight home from New York would have felt a lot longer had the Edmonton Oilers not gleaned 2 points from their 2-1 win Saturday against the Rangers.
  And the trip would have been a picnic compared to the panic waiting for them at home.
  Instead, the wolves have been kept at bay a little while longer as Todd McLellan prepares his troops for a tough stretch ahead…the hardest NHL schedule that any team in the league will face this season. It starts in Winnipeg Tuesday. A damn good team, i
  
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• Incidents of racism prompt Edmonton community league to hold forum

  14-10-2018 17:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four racist incidents targeting Asians prompted the Twin Brooks Community League to provide a forum to discuss hate and racism.
  “We all have a responsibility to speak out loudly and clearly. Doing nothing is not an option,” panellist Abe Silverman, a Holocaust survivor and Alberta manager of public affairs for B’nai Brith, said at the Sunday meeting
  In one of the incidents, 13-year-old Yuqi Yang said she was chased by two white teen boys waving hockey sticks. In May, the teen w
  
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• Environmental activist and premier debate Trans Mountain expansion at teachers' conference

  14-10-2018 16:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  To invest in Alberta’s oil industry or back away slowly is the question at the crux of a rift between Alberta’s premier and environmentalist and policy adviser Tzeporah Berman.
  In back-to-back speeches to social studies, environmental studies and Indigenous studies teachers Saturday morning, Berman and Premier Rachel Notley made contrasting pitches for why oil pipeline projects like the Trans Mountain expansion to B.C. are either a white-knuckled grasp on an dying industry, or a nece
  
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• Up in smoke: Cash reward programs ending for medicinal weed

  14-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Canada’s Cannabis Act kicks in Wednesday, medical users will no longer be able to cash in reward program points for discounts on their marijuana prescriptions.
  The new act forbids reward programs from offering cash discounts on cannabis. As a result, anyone enrolled in a reward program has until 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 16 to redeem their points. 
  Medical cannabis reward programs operate much like those offered by supermarkets and other retailers, converting earned points into product
  
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• PHOTOS: Edmonton Eskimos Defeat Ottawa Redblacks 34-16

  14-10-2018 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Eskimos wide receiver D’haquille Williams (left) drops the ball as he is tackled by Ottawa Redblacks defensive back Jonathan Rose during CFL game action in Edmonton on Saturday October 13, 2018. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Ottawa Redblacks linebacker Jean-Philippe Bolduc loses his helmet as he tackles Edmonton Eskimos wide receiver Bryant Mitchell during CFL game action in Edmonton on Saturday October 13, 2018. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Edmonton Eskimos linebacker Corey
  
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• Tzeporah Berman, Rachel Notley face off at teachers' conference

  14-10-2018 01:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  To invest in Alberta’s oil industry, or back away slowly, was the question at the crux of a rift between Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and environmentalist and policy adviser Tzeporah Berman this weekend.
  In back-to-back speeches to social studies, environmental studies and Indigenous studies teachers Saturday morning, Berman and Notley made contrasting pitches for why oil pipeline projects like the Trans Mountain expansion to B.C. are either a white-knuckled grasp on an dying industry, or
  
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