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• Edmonton's own Nathan Fillion starts over again in new cop drama The Rookie

  16-10-2018 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  With 25 years in the television business and another TV series launching tonight on CTV, Nathan Fillion knows all about the art of reinvention.
  In The Rookie, Fillion explores aging through the eyes of John Nolan, a character starting afresh as a recruit with the Los Angeles police department. Newly divorced, Nolan faces discrimination by his superiors and fellow police officers, who see him as a mid-life crisis on legs, and a threat to everyone’s safety.
  Fillion, a graduate of Holy T
  
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• Preparing for pot: Residents, government ministers react to cannabis legalization

  16-10-2018 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the eve of weed legalization, Postmedia hit the streets to get Edmontonians’ take on a legal toke.
  During the lunch rush in the downtown core Tuesday afternoon, many residents said they are interested to see how the new rules play out, but will be staying away from the drug themselves.
  Shawn Gerrie said he is against the landmark legislation from the federal government, because it is unclear how the legalization will impact municipalities.
  “I think that we really don’t know
  
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• Live: Aga Khan officially opens Islamic garden

  16-10-2018 22:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Aga Khan is at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden to officially open the Aga Khan Garden Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
  The $25-million garden was a gift to the U of A, and to Alberta, from His Royal Highness the Aga Khan, the hereditary Imam of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslims.
  It’s part of a network of 11 traditional Islamic gardens the Aga Khan has built or restored around the globe. This is the most northerly Islamic garden in the world, and the largest in North America.More from
  
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• Police waiting for toxicology results in 69-year-old woman's death

  16-10-2018 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police say they’re waiting for toxicology results in the suspicious death of a 69-year-old woman found dead in an apartment with her injured husband Sunday morning.
  Police found the woman and her 70-year-old man in a suite at the Parkside Manor building at 10220 115 St. in Oliver Sunday morning.
  The man, who the building owner identified as the woman’s husband, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, where he remained Tuesday. Police did not elabo
  
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• Review: Vox Luminis buoys spirits in exemplary song

  16-10-2018 22:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  One might imagine that a whole concert of funeral music would make for a fairly dull and sobering evening. But not when the performers are the Belgian vocal group, Vox Luminis, and the music is by masters of the Baroque.
  The ensemble specializes in late Renaissance and Baroque vocal music, and was formed in 2004 by its director Lionel Meunier. It tours and records extensively, and has won almost all the European recording awards (including a coveted Gramophone Recording of the Year).
  Its concert
  
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• Secondary scoring an absolute must if Edmonton Oilers are to compete, let alone contend

  16-10-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 4: Oilers at Jets
  The Edmonton Oilers returned home on Saturday night, two weeks and 17,579 kilometres after their departure on a convoluted trip from Edmonton to Cologne to Gothenberg to Boston to New York and home again, one that also saw them transition from preseason to regular season.
  They stayed home for exactly one practice, before immediately turning around and heading back east for a one-game roadie to Winnipeg.
  Gee, thanks, NHL!
  By the time the club finally does play its home
  
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• Nearly half of Edmonton Food Bank users jobless for three years: Survey

  16-10-2018 20:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Close to half of Edmonton Food Bank users have been unemployed for more than three years, shows a new survey.
  Those in need of food bank hampers jumped from 13,869 in July 2015 alone to 20,892 in July 2018, the latest client survey says.
  “What is new to us from the 2018 survey and quite troubling is the data surrounding employment and income. In the three years between surveys there is a nearly 20 per cent increase in the number of people whose income is less than $25,000,” said exec
  
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• Going to live concerts: Is hell other people?

  16-10-2018 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  One of the great aches of modern living is the existence of other people — or so it seems as the letters pour in like clockwork in response to any major concert review this paper posts.
  While one woman at the Paul McCartney show at Rogers Place recently expressed legitimate concerns about the distorted sound and “stifling heat” up in the $200 “cheap” seats (her quotes) — a great number of e-mail grenades were lobbed this way regarding the personal space crimes
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Edmonton Oilers desperately seeking beast-mode Leon Draisaitl

  16-10-2018 19:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leon Draisaitl, the Edmonton Oilers’ second-line centre, has failed to muster offence with even-strength linemates Milan Lucic and Kailer Yamamoto as the 2018-19 National Hockey League season begins.
  So it comes as little surprise the idea of once again moving Draisaitl onto Connor McDavid’s wing — something the Oilers have done in the past to generate goals — has come up again in the media as something head coach Todd McLellan should consider.
  McLellan has summarily dism
  
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• Alberta Party dumps Edmonton-Ellerslie candidate

  16-10-2018 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Party has disqualified its Edmonton-Ellerslie candidate Yash Sharma for “discriminatory views.”
  The decision came after Sharma attended and supported a weekend event critical of an Indian Supreme Court decision that allows women to attend an ancient temple.
  The party’s provincial board, including Leader Stephen Mandel, voted unanimously to disqualify Sharma Monday night.
  Mandel said in a statement that Sharma “no longer has the confidence or support
  
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• Fly the scary skies with passengers and crew of Dead Centre of Town

  16-10-2018 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Horrific fall weather notwithstanding, it’s hard to think of Edmonton as a scary place. But after considering the 11th annual Dead Centre of Town horror show, the more sinister aspects of the city suddenly seem frighteningly real, and close.
  This year the immersive theatre experience, to be held at the Blatchford Field Air Hangar at Fort Edmonton Park from Friday until Oct. 31, focuses on everyone’s worst nightmares involving air travel. There are mysterious vanishings, mid-air colli
  
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• Dive bars and blue collars: Bamford's Honkytonks tour rolls into Cook County

  16-10-2018 18:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s early October, and Gord Bamford is watching surfers try to catch waves in Australia.
  The pride of Lacombe, Alberta, isn’t mentioning this fact in his interview to rub it in, but it’s a nice bonus to his two-week tour down under, far from the snow and chill in his home province.
  “I’ve actually got citizenship here,” says Bamford, who was born in Australia and lived there for the first few years of his life before being brought back to Canada. “It&rsq
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: DEDfest, Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and Foo Fighters

  16-10-2018 18:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blood: A Scientific Romance
  The bond between twins is examined both literally and figuratively in The Maggie Tree’s production of Blood: A Scientific Romance. Meg Braem’s Governor General Award-nominated 2013 play focuses on Poubelle and Angelique, twin sisters orphaned after a car accident. Discovered and brought home by Dr. Glass, the two are poked and prodded and subjected to various questionable experiments relating to their deep bond, until a younger doctor enters their lives. D
  
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• United by song: Edmonton Opera's La Traviata inspires collaboration

  16-10-2018 18:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  When conductor Judith Yan was sitting down to dinner in an Italian restaurant earlier this year, surrounded by a dozen or so of her partner’s Italian friends, she mentioned that she was about to conduct Verdi’s celebrated opera La Traviata.
  There and then, all her partners’ friends, both men and women, burst spontaneously into song, singing one of the most celebrated arias from the opera.
  Such is the power of Verdi’s music, and such is the fame of the opera, which Yan wil
  
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• Musicians have folk-roots tuned to nature, jazz roots tuned to 1920s

  16-10-2018 18:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pharis and Jason Romero are enjoying an idyllic rural existence, making music and musical instruments, set in nature just outside Horsefly, British Columbia. And they’re happy to say so.
  “I feel like we’re living a parody of the old bluegrass songs,” laughs Pharis, “about people living off the woods and building banjos in the middle of nowhere and coming out to play folk music.”
  It’s good that life is unfolding well for Horsefly native Pharis (vocals, gu
  
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• Edmonton Oilers need Connor McDavid, Leon Drasaitl to centre their own lines

  16-10-2018 18:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leon Draisaitl, the centre of the Edmonton Oilers’ second forward line that includes wingers Milan Lucic and Kailer Yamamoto, has failed to muster offence with his even-strength linemates to start the 2018-19 National Hockey League season.
  So it comes as little surprise the idea of once again moving Draisaitl onto Connor McDavid’s wing — something the Oilers have done in the past to generate offence — has come up again in the media as an option for head coach Todd McLella
  
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• City of St. Albert Hosts Halloween Haunt 2018

  16-10-2018 17:57
  October 19, 2018 | 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. From the cute and cuddly to the creepy and crawly, there’s something... Read Post
  
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• City Looking for Input on Design of St. Albert Trail North

  16-10-2018 17:04
  Open House to show conceptual designs for St. Albert Trail north of Boudreau to City limits The City is encouraging... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton weather: Nothing says summer quite like October

  16-10-2018 14:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 1.5 C with 2 km/h winds out of the southwest.
  We kick off two straight days of gorgeous weather today, with things culminating tomorrow when temperatures are expected to hit 20 C. The rest of the week will still be sunny and warm but the mercury will drop to more seasonal temperatures hovering around the 10-degree mark. Still, you can put your gloves and toques
  
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• Tuesday's letters: RAM critique was lazy whining

  16-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Tristin Hopper: The staggering mediocrity of the new $375.5M Royal Alberta Museum,” Oct. 12
  It’s a sign of the times when a trite and whiny blog post is printed in a national newspaper.
  Tristin Hopper’s tantrum is a blur of lazy bloviating. There are potshots at the cost of the museum; comparisons of museum displays with those at other museums (which have completely different collection mandates); a bizarre fanboy’s plea for holograms; a stray reference to the
  
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• Opinion: Aga Khan Garden offers more than meets the eye

  16-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As is characteristic of many of His Highness the Aga Khan’s initiatives, there is more to the newly opened Aga Khan Garden, Alberta than meets the eye.
  The Aga Khan Garden, a hidden gem located at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden, is a very special cultural asset that will benefit Edmontonians and all Canadians for generations to come. We owe a world of gratitude to His Highness the Aga Khan, the Imam (spiritual leader) of the world’s 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims.
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• Edmonton home prices down a smidge: Royal LePage survey

  16-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton home prices dropped ever so slightly while the average cost in Calgary rose 3.4 per cent, shows a third-quarter Royal LePage survey.
  Edmonton prices stayed relatively flat, dropping 0.9 per cent year-over-year, but higher oil prices, energy activity and exports pressed Calgary’s average up, shows the Royal LePage House Price Survey being released Tuesday.
  The average price of a home in Canada, according to the report, rose 2.2 per cent year-over-year to $625,499 this quarter.
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• Keith Gerein: Alberta needs to give itself a shot in the arm this flu season

  16-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Imagine if restaurants were allowed to pass just 30 per cent of their health inspections.
  Or if doctors succeeded on just 30 per cent of their surgeries.
  Or if we gave driver’s licences to people who scored 30 per cent on their road test.
  “Sure, Jimmy, you blew through six stop signs and almost ran down a senior in a crosswalk, but you park like a champion, so here’s your permit.”
  It’s a ludicrous thought.
  And yet 30 per cent is the province’s hope this year f
  
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• Edmonton tech startups asking city to back off on services, expand financial support

  16-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton entrepreneurs are calling for the city to distance itself from startup tech companies and restructure the way it provides support.
  Residents from local businesses stressed they don’t have the right financial backing and aren’t being taken seriously by the city and the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC), in response to a series of reports presented Monday morning.
  “I don’t think the government has a major role in the support of innovation because inn
  
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• Edmonton Oilers getting swarmed to death in o-zone on power play

  16-10-2018 09:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  To make the playoffs, the Edmonton Oilers are going to need to manufacture plenty of goals on the power play.
  That won’t happen if the top power play unit allows itself to be swarmed to death.
  What do I mean by being swarmed to death? Here’s one picture to illustrate what typically goes wrong when the Oilers set up in the offensive zone with their five left-shot top power play unit of Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Milan Lucic, Oscar Klefbom and Leon Draisaitl.
  In this screensh
  
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• Wildlife: Exploring the rusty edges, DEDfest opens with local horror Extremity

  16-10-2018 06:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Want to see something really scary?
  The eleventh annual DEDfest International Genre Film Festival is rolling out its buckets of blood this weekend at Metro Cinema, amid wider-ranging edginess. Its 10 films include locally filmed psychological horror, Extremity — shot in a defunct section of Alberta Hospital in northeast Edmonton.
  The film opens the festival, 7 p.m. Friday.
  Most of Extremity’s crew and actors are from around here, too — including Nikki Rae Hallow and the ve
  
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• Kitchen by Brad hosts wine suppers at 105 Street studio

  16-10-2018 06:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Thursday, chefs Brad Smoliak and Tracy Zizek of Kitchen by Brad are preparing a Portuguese meal featuring port and wine by Oscar Quevedo of Quevedo Port and Wine. Tickets are $125, plus GST, and cover all the food and drink for the evening. You can buy tickets online at kitchenbybrad.ca.
  Then, on Oct. 23, there is a Tuscan Winemakers Dinner featuring Brunello-style wines. Tickets for this event are $75 for an evening of wine, chat about wine, and nibbles from delicious small plates
  
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• Edmonton chapter of far-right Soldiers of Odin group disbands

  16-10-2018 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A far-right group whose appearance at a recent United Conservative Party (UCP) event led to a candidate’s disqualification has disbanded.
  In a Facebook post Sunday, the Soldiers of Odin Edmonton said they are “resigning our Edmonton post.” The group takes its name from an anti-immigrant organization founded in Finland in 2015.
  Another post on the group’s page said it is rebranding as “Canadian Infidels.”
  Tyson Hunt, who said he is the Edmonton chapter’s
  
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• Walk this way: City sets up designated smoking areas on Jasper, Whyte ahead of legalization

  16-10-2018 02:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  As cannabis legalization looms, city staff are setting up designated smoking areas along Edmonton’s two most popular streets.
  On Monday, representatives from the city and other local agencies were at a newly minted smoking zone at the intersection of Whyte Avenue and Gateway Boulevard to answer questions about plans for enforcing bylaws and laws when cannabis becomes legal Wednesday.
  Smoking zones
  Kevin Tomalty, co-ordinator of the community standards peace officers section, said Monday th
  
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• Man accused of shooting at three different people in rural crime spree

  16-10-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spirit River RCMP are describing a series of shootouts in northwest Alberta Friday that ended with a 30-year-old man facing a host of charges.
  The chain of events started at about 3 p.m. Friday when property owners south of the town of Spirit River confronted a man they believed was trespassing on a neighbour’s property. The man fled in a vehicle, but the neighbour followed in his own vehicle and called 911.
  The shooting started a short time later, said an RCMP news release issued Monday.
  
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• Edmonton police Const. Mike Chernyk receives silver medal for bravery

  16-10-2018 02:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police Const. Mike Chernyk received a silver medal for bravery by the Royal Canadian Humane Association during a ceremony at Edmonton police headquarters Monday.
  Chernyk fought off an attacker who struck him with a car and attacked him with a knife outside a football game on Sept. 30, 2017. The association said Chernyk bravely protected his gun, preventing the attack from turning deadly.
  Also honoured were Thomas O’Leary, who jumped in to help when a combative man wandering in tra
  
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• City sets up designated smoking areas on Jasper, Whyte ahead of legalization

  16-10-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  As cannabis legalization looms, city staff are setting up designated smoking areas along Edmonton’s two most popular streets.
  On Monday, representatives from the city and other local agencies were at a newly minted smoking zone at the intersection of Whyte Avenue and Gateway Boulevard to answer questions about plans for enforcing bylaws and laws when cannabis becomes legal Wednesday.
  Kevin Tomalty, co-ordinator of the community standards peace officers section, said Monday that the plan is
  
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• City looks to further invest in paratransit service to combat increasing demand

  16-10-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city will make strides to improve the DATS paratransit service by looking to invest in the upcoming budget following emotional pleas Monday afternoon from users on lack of capacity and poor service.
  Council’s executive committee heard from 19 people concerned with the growing demand of the service and increasing wait times that has caused missed appointments, classes and difficulty booking the service.
  Heading into budget deliberations, city administration will work to prepare a s
  
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• Environment minister challenges UCP leader on policy

  16-10-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips is challenging United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney to spell out exactly what regulations and labour laws he’d kill if his party forms government in 2019.
  Like the NDP, the UCP has no policy platform for next year’s election. Kenney has released bits and pieces of his party’s plans over many months, usually during speeches for various organizations.
  Postmedia rounded a chunk of them up into one place Monday, which drew the
  
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• Alberta man injured in Las Vegas mass shooting among those honoured for bravery

  16-10-2018 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta man injured last year during one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history was honoured for his bravery during a ceremony in Edmonton Monday.
  Stephen Arruda, who was shot in the leg during the Oct. 1, 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, was given a silver medal for bravery by the Royal Canadian Humane Association during a ceremony at Edmonton police headquarters.
  The shooting left 58 people dead and nearly 900 injured.
  During the chaos, Arruda hoisted a number of panicked concert goer
  
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• Alberta to give $11.2 million to municipalities for legalized pot costs; Iveson 'furious'

  16-10-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta will be providing $11.2 million over two years to help municipalities with policing and regulation after recreational cannabis becomes legal on Wednesday.
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Monday the funding will go to municipalities that pay for policing costs and have more than 5,000 residents.
  “We know much of the impacts of cannabis legalization will be felt locally,” Ceci said in a Monday news conference in Calgary.
  However, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson said he is “furio
  
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• Buying pot online comes with new rules, age checks

  16-10-2018 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Planning to buy pot online in Alberta? You’ll have to produce identification twice to show you’re 18 or older.
  Equipped on Monday with a countdown clock ticking down the seconds until Albertans can buy cannabis, an Alberta Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis (AGLC) online dispensary website says it’s offering several ways for consumers to prove their age and keep marijuana out of the hands of children.
  • Shoppers can provide their name, date of birth and address to the AGLC online
  
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• Kitchen by Brad hosts wine suppers at 105th St. studio

  16-10-2018 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  On Oct. 17, chefs Brad Smoliak and Tracy Zizek of Kitchen by Brad are preparing a Portuguese meal featuring port and wine by Oscar Quevedo of Quevedo Port and Wine. Tickets are $125, plus GST, and cover all the food and drink for the evening. You can buy tickets online at kitchenbybrad.ca.
  Then, on Oct. 23, there is a Tuscan Winemakers Dinner featuring Brunello-style wines. Tickets for this event are $75 for an evening of wine, chat about wine, and nibbles from delicious small plates d
  
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