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• Big budgeting: Edmonton rolls out proposed four-year, $4.3-billion capital budget

  18-10-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  City administrators are pitching $4.3 billion in spending over the next four years, according to the proposed 2019-2022 capital budget released Thursday morning.
  About 45 per cent of capital investment will go into renewing existing infrastructure, while 55 per cent is earmarked for planning and building new projects. The renewal money works out to $488 million per year, less than the city’s model projected is needed to restore assets to ideal condition.
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• Local etiquette expert leads class on classy for young people

  18-10-2018 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jeannie Vaage of VIP Protocol is hosting an etiquette class for teens and pre-teens that covers everything from making the right first impression to good cell phone manners. And it comes with dinner!
  The course is on Sunday, Oct. 28 from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Bistecca restaurant (2345 111 St.) on the south side. The cost is $85 (with tax and tip) and that includes a three-course meal.
  These classes by Vaage have proven popular at Bistecca. May have something to do with the combinatoin of Vaa
  
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• Man sought after chop shop bust, SUV driven at Mountie in northern Alberta

  18-10-2018 22:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who tried to run down an RCMP officer during a northern Alberta chop shop bust is being sought by police.
  Two firearms along with two trucks stolen from Bonnyville, a truck and motorcycle stolen from Lac La Biche, and a motorcycle stolen from Fort Saskatchewan were recovered by RCMP after officers executed a search warrant Oct. 16 on a Beaver Lake property, said police in a Thursday release. Beaver Lake is about 170 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
  A 60-year-old Beaver Lake man was arrest
  
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• City Asking Residents to Help Plan St. Albert’s Future

  18-10-2018 21:39
  The City of St. Albert is embarking on an exciting new initiative that will shape how the City grows and... Read Post
  
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• What to do with Oilers super iffy third-pairing? Kevin Gravel anyone?

  18-10-2018 21:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Gravel is no world-beater on the blueline. He’s unlikely to have a lengthy NHL career. But with the bottom-pairing of the Oilers something of a smoking ruin, surely it’s wise to think hard about recalling Gravel, 26, from Bakersfield of the AHL and see if he can be the answer that Jason Garrison and Matt Benning have failed to be.
  Garrison and Benning struggled mightily against the Winnipeg Jets, and while Oilers coach Todd McLellan can give Benning a break by inserting rookie
  
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• Connor McDavid, Evan Bouchard in the spotlight as Edmonton Oilers finally play their home opener

  18-10-2018 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 5: Bruins at Oilers
  Hockey Night in Edmonton. It has a nice ring to it after a 18-day, 20,000-km odyssey from Edmonton to Cologne to Gothenburg to Boston to New York to Edmonton (!) to Winnipeg to Edmonton, but here we finally are. Home game #1.
  Ever on the move during their three-week, four-country, five-game junket, the Oilers also frequently found themselves “chasing the game”. Leaving aside the one exhibition game in Cologne, the Oil have found themselves in the followin
  
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• Big budgeting: Edmonton rolls out proposed four-year, $4.3-billion budget

  18-10-2018 20:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  City administrators are pitching $4.3 billion in spending over the next four years, according to the proposed 2019-2022 capital budget released Thursday morning.
  About 45 per cent of capital investment will go into renewing existing infrastructure, while 55 per cent is earmarked for planning and building new projects. The renewal money works out to $488 million per year, less than the city’s model projected is needed to restore assets to ideal condition.
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• Slobbery giants find home: Three bonded St. Bernard dogs adopted out by Edmonton Humane Society

  18-10-2018 20:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gasket, Gunther and Goliath — three St. Bernard dogs seeking a single loving home — have been adopted by a Calgary family, says the Edmonton Humane Society.
  The three giants taken in Sept. 22 by EHS as a result of a northern Alberta transfer were adopted Wednesday after an Oct. 9 call-out for one forever home.
  “The couple are devoted proponents of adoption, having previously adopted numerous pets as well as one of their two children, who are ages 10 and 16,” said EHS
  
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• Government, Edmonton school districts release 2017-18 test scores

  18-10-2018 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Newly released provincial exam scores show gaps in math success between Alberta students of differing ages.
  On Thursday morning, Alberta Education released summaries of Grade 6 and 9 provincial achievement test (PAT) results and Diploma exam marks from the 2017-18 school year.
  Although a government press release touted students’ improvements in mathematics exams, Grade 9 students were left out of that upward trend.
  Just 66.7 per cent of students who wrote the Math 9 PAT last spring passed
  
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• Canada's north comes alive in music and poetry with cellist's suite

  18-10-2018 19:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s cultural ties to Scotland and Ireland have benefited many musicians, coming and going.
  Since it became a fixture in school English classes, Robert Service’s epic poem The Cremation of Sam McGee has contributed hugely to visions of the far north. Christine Hanson knew it from school, but back then the Edmonton-based cellist-composer never guessed it would inspire her career opportunities, or that her adaptation of the work would take her so close to the poet’s Scottish
  
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• Sabrina Butterfly emerges with fresh style in new Montrose digs

  18-10-2018 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Wandering through Sabrina Butterfly’s colourful new studio and shop in the Montrose area, it’s tempting to think that a marriage of whimsy and business is effortlessly achieved.
  After all, the bright new space bubbles with imagination, and yet it’s spotlessly precise. There are rich panels of wallpaper, and original, local art on the walls. Stunning glass baubles gleam in the freshly scrubbed front window. Racks are hung with garments constructed right on site, many trimmed wit
  
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• Fitness column: Retrain your brain to develop better exercise habits

  18-10-2018 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Take a look at your favourite chair. Now, check out your gym bag. Which of the two leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy? If you’re like most Canadians (and you haven’t repurposed your gym bag for transporting baked goods), you will choose the chair.
  According to a new study, evolution has conditioned us to loaf.
  In his research, Matthieu Boisgontier from the University of British Columbia found that our brains are wired for sedentary behaviours. Subjects in the study avoided objects typ
  
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• Dining Out: Mama Asha Cafe offers comforting Somali cuisine

  18-10-2018 19:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s always a pleasure to seek out food from another part of the world and, in the process, find a hidden gem in a sometimes forgotten part of your own city.
  Mama Asha Cafe is just such a place, in the most international of Edmonton neighbourhoods, just off 118th Avenue on 95th Street. The food is east African — from Somalia to be exact — and if you’ve never had it, it’s definitely worth trying.
  The unassuming little café is bright and sparkling cle
  
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• 'Go back where Indians belong': St. Albert mother frightened by racist letter from neighbour - CBC.ca

  18-10-2018 19:52 via cbc.ca
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  'Go back where Indians belong': St. Albert mother frightened by racist letter from neighbour
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  After receiving a threatening, racist letter from neighbours earlier this week, a St. Albert mother says she fears for her children's safety and will move out of her rented condo. Katrina Anderson said her 12-year-old daughter found the letter in the ...
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• RGE RD's Davina Moraiko clinches first place at Canada's Great Kitchen Party

  18-10-2018 19:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chef Davina Moraiko of RGE RD topped the podium as the first Canada’s Great Kitchen Party launched at the Shaw Conference Centre Wednesday night, becoming the first female chef in Edmonton to win the top honour.
  The 10-chef competition, rising from the ashes of the Gold Medal Plates, which ran for more than a decade and raised $15 million for Canada’s Olympic team, was held before a sold-out house. It featured four competitors who had appeared at Gold Medal Plates in the past, and si
  
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• RGE RD's Davina Moraiko clinches first at Canada's Great Kitchen Party

  18-10-2018 18:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Chef Davina Moraiko of RGE RD topped the podium as the first Canada’s Great Kitchen Party launched at the Shaw Conference Centre Wednesday night, becoming the first female chef in Edmonton to win the top honour.
  The 10-chef competition, rising from the ashes of the Gold Medal Plates, which ran for more than a decade and raised $15 million for Canada’s Olympic team, was held before a sold-out house. It featured four competitors who had appeared at Gold Medal Plates in the past, and si
  
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• k.d. lang one of eight recipients of Alberta Order of Excellence awards

  18-10-2018 16:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eight Albertans — including multiple award-winning songwriter k.d. lang — will receive an Alberta Order of Excellence award from the province Thursday.
  Appearing alongside lang at this year’s ceremony, and joining the 165 other Albertans who have received the award since it was first created in 1979, will be some of Alberta’s most respected labour leaders, philanthropists, educators and lawyers.
  Today’s ceremony starts at 4 p.m. at Government House and will be
  
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• Calmar senior dies in single vehicle crash near Devon

  18-10-2018 16:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 73-year-old man is dead after the car he was driving crashed into a guard rail and rolled just west of Devon.
  Mounties said the accident Tuesday happened at around 4 p.m. when the vehicle lost control travelling down the hill on Range Road 270 near Township Road 504.
  The man from Calmar, whose name is not being released by RCMP, died at the scene.
   
  
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• Suspicion surrounds disappearance of Indigenous woman in northern Alberta

  18-10-2018 16:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The disappearance of an Indigenous woman in northern Alberta in April is now being considered suspicious by RCMP.
  Betty Ann Deltess was reported missing on April 19 by her family after she disappeared seven days earlier from the town of Janvier, located about 120 kilometres south of Fort McMurray.
  Mounties have pieced together her last movements saying that the 46-year-old visited a local store in the afternoon of April 11 before heading to a friend’s home later that evening where she
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's no record-setter like yesterday but it'll do nicely

  18-10-2018 14:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 8.5 C with 10 km/h winds out of the northwest.
  Well it’s no record-setter but today is shaping up to be quite nice by October standards. Just to show how anomalous yesterday was, the average temperature for this time of year is 10 C, and yesterday reached a maximum high of 24.7 C! According to local weather guru Josh Classen, yesterday smashed a 115 year-
  
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• Thursday's letters: Watch for cougar at dog park

  18-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Please let people be aware there is a cougar at the Terwillegar dog park.
  I know this is not particularly unusual as they do inhabit the river valley, but it crossed my path about 20 metres away on Friday at 8 a.m. This was on the multi-use bike path not five minutes from the parking lot.
  I did let Fish and Wildlife know but never heard back from them.
  I thank my lucky stars that I just happened to have my dog on leash that morning due to the rain as he would have tried to go after it and my dog
  
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• Opinion: Community benefit agreements can work for Albertans

  18-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Alberta can’t afford B.C.-style protectionism,” Opinion, Oct. 9
  In an Oct. 9 Edmonton Journal opinion piece, Ken Kobly, president of the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, warns that “Community benefit agreements may not work for Albertans.”
  Kobly’s warning follows Premier Rachel Notley’s announcement at the Building Trades of Alberta 2018 conference that the Alberta government is going to proceed with a pilot community benefit agreement as a test case.
  
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• Keith Gerein: Jason Kenney's vow to avoid postelection consultation assumes too much

  18-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My experience in political circles may not be as extensive as some, but I can say that my years covering the legislature’s shenanigans have taught me a few things — including the lesson that Albertans almost never feel consulted enough.
  And just because an election has happened doesn’t mean they are done talking.
  The need to engage those wagging tongues is a messy, irritating, headache of leadership that often drives politicians crazy, especially those who’d rather act fi
  
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• How Edmonton, the busiest big city in the bud business, handled move to legal weed sales

  18-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The biggest pot parties in Edmonton Wednesday hit a high in the 10 seconds before 10 a.m. — when six shops threw open their doors to the first batch of cannabis customers.
  A DJ playing hip hop led a new year’s-like countdown outside the north side Nova Cannabis at Namao Centre, where roughly 100 eager customers winding around the plaza joined in the shouting. Applauding pot retailers welcomed the first 10 customers about to become among the first to obtain legal cannabis in Albe
  
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• Edmonton ushers in legalized pot with mellow attitude

  18-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton entered the new Canadian reality of legalized marijuana Wednesday with a quiet buzz and plenty of pot talk.
  From a small gathering that marked the stroke of midnight near Whyte Avenue with out-in-the-open tokes, to well-ordered lines at the six cannabis shops approved to open in city limits, the end of nearly a century of pot prohibition passed with less fuss than an Oilers playoff game.
  “I am ecstatic,” said Wanda Keith who, along with her aunt Patti Kootenay, was the first
  
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• St. Albert community shows support for family that received racist letter - Globalnews.ca

  18-10-2018 09:28 via globalnews.ca
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  After a family in the St. Albert community of Grandin received a racist, threatening letter in the mail, community members took steps to support them. COMMENTARY: Charles Adler calls on the cowards of St. Albert to turn themselves in. more.
  
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• Support for St. Albert family that received racist letter - CTV News

  18-10-2018 09:00 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Support for St. Albert family that received racist letter  CTV NewsHours after news a St. Albert family had received a racist letter, dozens of residents showed their support for the family with an impromptu gathering.
  
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• St. Albert community shows support for family that received racist letter | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  18-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert community shows support for family that received racist letter | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caAfter a family in the St. Albert community of Grandin received a racist, threatening letter in the mail, community members took steps to support them.
  
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• Huge adoption interest in puppy found in stolen SUV in St. Albert - Global News Edmonton

  18-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Huge adoption interest in puppy found in stolen SUV in St. Albert  Global News EdmontonIt's been one week since St. Albert RCMP found a puppy in a vehicle that was reported stolen and no owners have come forward to claim him.
  
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• Community rallies behind St. Albert family after hateful letter | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  18-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Community rallies behind St. Albert family after hateful letter | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caThe St. Albert family who received a racist letter in their mailbox last week was surprised last night by an outpouring of support. Sarah Kraus has more.
  
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• What do do with Oilers super iffy third-pairing? Kevin Gravel anyone?

  18-10-2018 07:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Gravel is no world-beater on the blueline. He’s unlikely to have a lengthy NHL career. But with the bottom-pairing of the Oilers something of a smoking ruin, surely it’s wise to think hard about recalling Gravel, 26, from Bakersfield of the AHL and see if he can be the answer that Jason Garrison and Matt Benning have failed to be.
  Garrison and Benning struggled mightily against the Winnipeg Jets, and while Oilers coach Todd McLellan can give Benning a break by inserting rookie
  
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• 20,000 people tune in to curriculum town hall

  18-10-2018 02:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The implications of Wednesday’s federal legalization of cannabis is a perfect example of why Alberta’s curriculum needs modernization, Alberta Education Minister David Eggen said Wednesday.
  A week after releasing the latest drafts of a proposed new kindergarten to Grade 4 curriculum, Eggen is holding two telephone town hall meetings this week in which viewers can ask questions on the phone or submit questions online.
  On Tuesday evening, more than 20,000 people listened to Eggen and t
  
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• Former employee snooped on health records of more than 1,400 people

  18-10-2018 02:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta may need new ways of preventing information in electronic health records from falling into the wrong hands, the province’s privacy commissioner says in a new report.
  On Wednesday, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner released a report concluding Alberta Health Services (AHS) failed to ensure privacy training and proper oversight of a former typist and medical secretary at a psychiatric hospital who improperly looked at the medical records of 1,418 patients over 12
  
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• Weed Wednesday: Quiet buzz around Edmonton on first day of legal pot

  18-10-2018 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nearly three years after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a majority government, Canada woke up to the enactment of one of the prime minister’s most notable campaign promises.
  Weed is now legal in Canada.
  While toking folks in Newfoundland and Labrador got a taste of buying legal marijuana in stores and online at 12:01 a.m. NT Wednesday, before many Canadians had even gone to bed Tuesday (it would have been 8:31 p.m. Edmonton time), retail operations in the rest of Canada later Wednesda
  
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• Police training exercise held around Commonwealth, Northlands

  18-10-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmontonians noticed a heavy police presence Wednesday morning around Commonwealth Stadium and the Northlands Park area, all part of a training exercise, Edmonton police said in a news release issued ahead of the scheduled event.
  “Citizens should not be alarmed, as this is a co-ordinated training exercise involving a number of partnering agencies,” an Edmonton Police Service news release said Tuesday.
  The drill started around 6:30 a.m. and wrapped up around 2 p.m. Wednesday.
  Police s
  
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• Indigenous culture missing from city's proposed 10-year arts plan

  18-10-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Creators of a proposed 10-year city arts and heritage plan say the omission of specific actions relating to Indigenous culture is out of respect for that community’s autonomy, but committee heard Wednesday from a critic who is troubled by what’s missing.
  The community and public services committee passed a motion that will send the plan, titled Connections and exchanges: A 10-year plan to transform arts and heritage in Edmonton, to council for approval next Tuesday.
  If approved, Edmo
  
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• Oilers practice ahead of their home opener against Boston

  18-10-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Less than 24 hours after a dramatic come-from-behind victory in Winnipeg, the Edmonton Oilers were at Rogers Place preparing for their home-opener.
  Although the NHL 2019 season is into its third week, the road-weary Oilers have yet to play a regular season game in front of their hometown fans.
  The 2-2 Oilers will begin their drive to return to the Stanley Cup playoffs against Boston on Thursday night at Rogers Place.
   
  
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• Threatening letter that says ‘this isn’t a reserve’ prompts Alberta family to move

  18-10-2018 01:13 via globalnews.ca
  A wife and mother of three pre-teen children says her family is moving from their St. Albert, Alta., condo because they don't feel safe after receiving a racist and threatening letter.
  
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• Last few days of Kickstarter campaign for the Gibbard Block

  18-10-2018 00:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nate Box, the owner of Black Box Hospitality (with four restaurants in YEG), is 82 per cent of the way toward his goal of raising $100,000 to open three new food shops in Highlands.
  Yes, in addition to running Elm Cafe, Little Brick, Salz and District, Box has signed on to 8,000 square feet of restaurant/retail space in the historic Gibbard Block, located on 112 Avenue at 64 Street.
  Owned by Sparrow Capital, the Gibbard Block will soon house Fox Burger, a 40-seat casual eatery featuring cra
  
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• Nova Cannabis opens in Edmonton

  18-10-2018 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nova Cannabis, a retail cannabis business in Edmonton, opened Wednesday, the first day that cannabis products became legal in Canada. 
  Retail sales in Alberta stores began at 10 a.m. with about a dozen stores in the Edmonton area ready to welcome buyers while the province’s online marijuana hub went live at 12:01 a.m.
  
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