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• Press Gallery podcast #248: The Lubicon Lake's A-leaping edition

  26-10-2018 23:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week in Alberta politics saw an historic agreement between the government and Lubicon Lake First Nation, ending decades of legal wrangling and protests.Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with guests Elise Stolte, Keith Gerein and Dave Breaknridge to talk about that deal and what it means for the community.
  The team also takes on PACs (political action committees or, in the dry tone of Elections Alberta, third-party advertisers), a wrap over the knuckles from the Ethics Commissioner and thi
  
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• RCMP member injured in police pursuit of stolen vehicle near St. Paul

  26-10-2018 23:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of a stolen sedan crashed into two RCMP vehicles, injuring an officer near St. Paul earlier this week in an attempt to escape arrest, Mounties said Friday.
  Officers from the St. Paul detachment and members of the Eastern Alberta District Rural Crime Reduction Unit located the stolen vehicle from Edmonton at a rural property on Oct. 24.
  When they approached the sedan the male driver accelerated and crashed into the first police vehicle. After a short pursuit in rural St. Paul, the
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Heritage awards and an illegal campaign donation

  26-10-2018 23:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A ream of Albertans have been honoured for their work preserving the province’s heritage.
  The biennial Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Awards honour individuals, organizations, businesses, Indigenous communities and municipalities.
  Individual northern Alberta recipients this year include Smith resident Sheila Willis, Carl William Marquardt of Lacombe, and Beaver County’s Jordan Born.
  Building preservation awards went to Beljan Development Ltd. for the conservati
  
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• NDP to dig into AISH, health care, energy issues for policy book

  26-10-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Expanding medicare, increasing seniors and disability benefits, modernizing the curriculum, fighting racism and improving rural internet will all be visited by the NDP at its convention this weekend.
  Here’s a closer look at some of the 92 resolutions up for discussion when an expected 1,000 party faithful hit Edmonton and begin voting on items that might be in the NDP 2019 election platform.
  Health care
  Public health care is a staple for the NDP. One need only look at the first resolution
  
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• Alberta model Ashley Callingbull uses new digital poppy to honour Indigenous veterans

  26-10-2018 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Indigenous model Ashley Callingbull, from Enoch Cree Nation west of Edmonton, didn’t know much about her great-grandfather from Alberta involved in the Second World War.
  Through ancestry.ca, the 2015 Mrs. Universe winner recently discovered her great-grandfather Maxime Papin was a highly-decorated Indigenous soldier who fought overseas in the Canadian military. Papin received the 1939-1945 Star, the War Medal and the Italy Star for serving in the Italian Campaign during the final two years
  
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• Police find 'high-tech' hidden compartment in truck seized after drug investigation

  26-10-2018 22:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Six people are facing drug and weapons charges after an investigation by the city police drug and gang unit turned up a truck with a “sophisticated” hidden department.
  City police launched the investigation in July, police said Friday in a release.
  Police executed search warrants on four addresses in the Baranow, McConachie, Newton and Garneau neighbourhoods Oct. 19.
  The warrants netted 700 grams of cocaine hydrochloride with a street value of $70,000, around $14,000 grams of cr
  
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• Notley 'pumped' as NDP faithful descend on Edmonton for policy convention

  26-10-2018 22:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  When 1,000 NDP faithful gather in Edmonton Friday for the party’s three-day annual general meeting, it will mark the party’s unofficial campaign launch for the 2019 election.
  Premier Rachel Notley uses words like “pumped” and “excited” when she talks about this weekend’s convention; “optimistic” and “positive” get mentions too. She talks about a “celebratory” event. That doesn’t just mean balloons and streamers,
  
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• Elise Stolte: Edmonton needs to check its blind spot on self-driving technology

  26-10-2018 18:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you gone car shopping for the last time?
  Coun. Andrew Knack thinks he has. He owns a 2011 Kia Soul. Barring a collision, he’s is betting a fleet of self-driving cars will make private cars unnecessary before he needs a new one.
  Edmonton is testing an autonomous public shuttle this month, hoping to offer free rides outside the Old Strathcona Library all weekend.
  Knack and I sat in the test shuttle this week. It didn’t move.
  That didn’t help Knack’s argument.
  It turns
  
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• Scholarships honour ‘big, bright light’ and other Alberta Broncos players

  26-10-2018 17:34 via globalnews.ca
  The St. Albert-Humboldt Remembrance Committee is hosting a sold-out Jersey Gala in the Alberta community tonight.
  
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• Oilers in 60: Oilers WIN! Flames get SMOTHERED

  26-10-2018 16:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers came away with a 4-1 win over the Washington Capitals. Goals from Bouchard, Nugent-Hopkins, Chassion and McDavid.
  Hot takes on last nights game:
  Calling a face off violation is like yelling at your dog for flinching when you fake throw a tennis ball.
  — Rob Tychkowski (@Rob_Tychkowski) October 26, 2018Just drop the puck …. #Oilers #Capitals #NHL
  — Derek Van Diest (@DerekVanDiest) October 26, 2018Beauty. Oilers take their first penalty, a bogus crosschecking
  
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• Friday's letters: Narcotics officer complicit for pot busts?

  26-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is not my intention to create a new #MeToo movement, but 48 years ago I was a Canadian police narcotics officer. During the next seven or so years I was responsible for the arrest, charging, conviction and the life-lasting criminal records of a small but significant group of my neighbours, friends and citizens.
  I created hardships for those who created hardships for themselves; I was duty-bound.
  NDP justice critic Murray Rankin completely disagreed with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale&rs
  
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• Editorial: Justice for the Lubicon

  26-10-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Long before movements such as Idle No More, the Dakota pipeline protest and the Oka Crisis, a small northern Alberta Cree band came to symbolize the struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination.
  The Lubicon dispute has endured for 85 years — so long that many of the original members who started the land claim in 1933 died before seeing a landmark $121-million deal with the federal and provincial governments.
  The protracted, often bitter, dispute also outlasted other figures who pl
  
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• Principal loses teaching certificate after keeping school like a 'petting zoo,' having sexual encounter in a classroom

  26-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former Calgary principal who filled his elementary school with chickens, guinea pigs, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, fish and other animals has lost his Alberta teaching certificate and membership in the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA).
  At a hearing last year, staff who worked with the Calgary Board of Education at West Dover Elementary School said there were filthy cages and tanks in hallways and classrooms, feces on the school walls and floors and a stench that “hit you as soon as
  
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• Premier 'pumped' as unofficial election campaign starts at NDP convention

  26-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When 1,000 NDP faithful gather in Edmonton Friday for the party’s three-day annual general meeting, it will mark the party’s unofficial campaign launch for the 2019 election.
  Premier Rachel Notley uses words like “pumped” and “excited” when she talks about this weekend’s convention; “optimistic” and “positive” get mentions too. She talks about a “celebratory” event. That doesn’t just mean balloons and streamers,
  
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• Notley looking ahead to NDP convention

  26-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s governing New Democrat Party will meet this weekend in Edmonton to begin the work of ironing out its platform.
  But, this is more than just an annual general meeting for New Democrats, it’s an unofficial campaign kick-off for the 2019 provincial election expected to be called in the spring by Premier Rachel Notley.
  Party delegates are expected to debate hot-topic issues such as health care, education, economic diversification and jobs.
  
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• Elise Stolte: Don't let a broken shuttle fool you. Edmonton risks getting blind-sided by self-driving technology

  26-10-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you gone car shopping for the last time?
  Coun. Andrew Knack thinks he has. He owns a 2011 Kia Soul. Barring a collision, he’s is betting a fleet of self-driving cars will make private cars unnecessary before he needs a new one.
  Edmonton is testing an autonomous public shuttle this month, hoping to offer free rides outside the Old Strathcona Library all weekend.
  Knack and I sat in the test shuttle this week. It didn’t move.
  That didn’t help Knack’s argument.
  It turns
  
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• Player grades: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins leads the charge as Edmonton Oilers take down Stanley Cup champs

  26-10-2018 09:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Capitals 1, Oilers 4
  If the Edmonton Oilers were going to upend the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals on Thursday night they were going to need a complete team effort. And that’s exactly what they got.
  The hometown team scored once on the powerplay, once on the penalty kill, once at even strength, and once into the empty net. Better still, they held the potent Caps to just a single tally in all situations.
  The game turned on the one and only Caps powerplay midway through the second,
  
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• Jersey Day in St. Albert to remember four Humboldt Broncos players - CTV News

  26-10-2018 09:00 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Jersey Day in St. Albert to remember four Humboldt Broncos players  CTV NewsThe mayor of St. Albert has named Friday, October 26, 2018 Jersey Day in the city, to recognize the four local hockey players killed in the Humboldt Broncos ...
  
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• Edmonton Eskimos invite St. Albert family that received racist letter to football game - Globalnews.ca

  26-10-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Edmonton Eskimos invite St. Albert family that received racist letter to football game  Globalnews.caThe president of the Edmonton Eskimos has invited a St. Albert family that received a threatening letter earlier this month to be his personal guests at the Nov.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers vs Washington Capitals – Coach McLellan

  26-10-2018 06:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Back in the days before Wayne Gretzky and the gang started winning Stanley Cups, they played what they themselves identified as credibility games.
  They were games against either the New York Islanders or Montreal Canadiens, the Stanley Cup teams of that era, and came along every six weeks or so.
  This year, Connor McDavid and the new era Edmonton Oilers faced four consecutive credibility games at home to start the season, including visits by the Stanley Cup champions of the last three seasons.
  Wi
  
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• Get the lead out: City homes will be affected by new Health Canada regulations on lead in water

  26-10-2018 04:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Looming changes to Health Canada’s acceptable concentration levels of lead in drinking water could see a wash of city homes creep above the recommended level, Epcor warned city council’s utility committee Thursday.
  Presently, it’s considered safe to have up to 10 micrograms per litre in drinking water. But Epcor officials said Thursday that the federal health agency is signalling it will lower that level to five micrograms per litre, a change that will affect more than 30,000 E
  
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• Odour report: City utility committee hears latest proposal to deal with city stinky spots

  26-10-2018 02:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Awful. Rancid. Headache-inducing.
  That’s how west-end resident Fred Anderson describes the sewer odour that has plagued his home for 20 years.
  “We’ve done everything, from our perspective as a homeowner, to mitigate and address and deal with it,” Anderson said during an interview after speaking to city council’s utility committee on Thursday.
  Anderson pleaded with councillors to do something about the sewer line in front of his home, which he believes is the source
  
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• Autopsy confirms latest homicide victim died from gunshot wounds

  26-10-2018 02:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Autopsy results released Thursday confirm that the city’s latest homicide victim died from gunshot wounds.
  Ahmed Azmi Ahmed, 39, was shot inside the auto body repair shop he owned near 96 Street and 105A Avenue just before 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
  Police said it is not known whether the suspect fled the scene on foot or in a vehicle parked nearby.
  Hours after the shooting, police announced Ahmed died from his injuries in hospital.
  It is the city’s 25th homicide of the year.
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• City employees charged after three feral cats die in care

  26-10-2018 02:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three feral cats destined to find a new home at a city waste management facility as mousers died earlier this year, forcing the city to suspend its pilot project designed to find homes for wayward felines.
  Their deaths in May resulted in four city employees being charged by the Alberta SPCA with causing distress to animals under the Animal Protection Act, city spokesman David Aitken said Thursday.
  The charges are non-criminal in nature.
  Aitken, branch manager of community standards, told a news
  
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• One public school system should be an election issue, trustees say

  26-10-2018 02:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Escalating financial, social and educational costs should prompt Albertans to ask for one publicly funded school system, an association of public school trustees said Thursday.
  The duplication of services and administration in public and Catholic schools across the province is inefficient and divides communities, leaders of the Public School Boards Association of Alberta (PSBAA) said as they launched a campaign they hope sparks discussion.
  “If enough people say this is important, political
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Alberta Party looks to fall session and a new methane program

  26-10-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Party will present its first ever private member’s bill during the upcoming fall session, and house leader Greg Clark says his party is ready to “carry the load” of legislature business.
  Speaking with media Thursday, he said his caucus will push for better dementia care, more long-term care beds, and fiscal prudence.
  He also accused the New Democrats and United Conservatives of entering full-blown election mode.
  “Albertans expect their MLAs to get on
  
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• City faces charges in deaths of three cats

  26-10-2018 01:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three feral cats destined to find a new home at a city waste management facility as mousers died earlier this year forcing the city to suspend its  pilot project designed to find homes for wayward felines.
  Their deaths in May resulted in four city employees being charged by the Alberta SPCA with causing distress to animals under the Animal Protection Act, city spokesman David Aitken said Thursday.
  The charges are non-criminal in nature.
  Aitken, branch manager of community standards, told a
  
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