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• 'Typical' Edmonton homeowner faces $79 tax hike in proposed 2019 budget

  01-11-2018 22:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  A typical homeowner could see a $79 increase in property taxes in 2019, if a proposed city budget for day-to-day operations is approved.
  The plan released online Thursday outlines a four-year spending plan that would see tax increases of 3.3 per cent in 2019, 2.7 per cent in 2020, and a two per cent hike in both 2021 and 2022.
  That means a homeowner who paid $2,461 in 2018, would pay $2,720 in 2022.
  The tax hikes for 2019 break down into a 0.7 per cent increase for general services, 0.6 per cent
  
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• City cops seize crack cocaine, meth, cash in 'stash pad' raid

  01-11-2018 21:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police who busted a southeast Edmonton “stash pad” used to convert cocaine into crack later seized $127,000 of cocaine and more than $9,000 in cash.
  The investigation by the Edmonton drug and gang enforcement (EDGE) unit was launched in the spring of 2018 and culminated Thursday in the arrest of a man and woman connected to the property located near Edwards Drive and 91 Street.
  Just over one kilogram of methamphetamine, about 400 grams of crack cocaine and buffing agent were also sei
  
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• PHOTOS: Ballet Edmonton

  01-11-2018 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Eight svelte dancers in their twenties move to the swells of a string quartet track, expressing a depth of sadness and solace, tension and release, expertly stretching in synchronous orbits for an effect that’s simply breathtaking. As they dance, their director looks on with quiet satisfaction.
  It’s a recent morning rehearsal for Ballet Edmonton and a suite called Last Words, one of two widely contrasting pieces that will kick off the company’s season Friday, both by
  
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• Kilos of heroin seized in bust by Alberta RCMP federal serious and organized crime unit

  01-11-2018 20:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Close to six kilograms of heroin has been seized after the Alberta RCMP federal serious and organized crime unit executed a drug search warrant at an Edmonton home.
  The crime team — with help from the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team, Strathcona RCMP, Edmonton city police, Canadian Boarder Services Agency, and Canada Post — seized the 5.59 kilograms of heroin along with documents and electronic devices on Oct. 30.
  A 24-year-old Edmonton man was arrested.
  Owen Beau Singleton is c
  
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• Making beautiful pictures with foam turns local barista into a champion

  01-11-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Second Cup Coffee Co. barista So Young Min of Edmonton has been crowned the winner of the company’s first-ever national latte art championship.
  Top baristas from Second Cup cafés across Canada faced-off at the competition, which was hosted in October in Toronto by designer and TV personality Steven Sabados.
  According to a news release, Min immigrated to Canada in 2006 from Seoul, South Korea. She has extensive experience and training as a barista, both in her native country and in Ca
  
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• Fitness column: Lasting success requires an all-in commitment

  01-11-2018 19:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A little less than half of the world’s population is overweight and working on dropping pounds.
  So, with forks down and trainers laced, what are your odds of lasting weight loss?
  Success can be affected by many variables but the determining factor is all in your head. Anything below a commitment rating of nine (out of 10) gives you an out. Frankly, the number for success is closer to 10 but I don’t want to be a downer.
  Technically, a rating scale of 10 points is misleading because th
  
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• Dining Out: Halley's Club provides fun night out in supper club setting

  01-11-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  West Edmonton Mall has never been my idea of top entertainment, and casinos in general — even without the Vegas haze of cigarette smoke — leave me cold, so a restaurant at a casino in the mall seems like a poor choice for a night out with my pals.
  Yet despite my misgivings, our foursome had a pretty fun time at Halley’s Club at the Starlight casino last weekend, with its kitschy mix of dinner, dance and dazzle.
  If you’re looking for fine dining, I would suggest looking el
  
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• Beautiful music to fill the Jubilee with Carole King story

  01-11-2018 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Beautiful music from a beautiful woman is the promise of the Tony Award-winning show Beautiful — The Carole King Musical that plays at the Jubilee Auditorium from Nov. 6 to Nov. 11.
  Singer-songwriter Carole King was just 16 in 1958 when she wrote and sang her first song, It Might As Well Rain Until September. Between 1958 and 1999, King would write or co-write 118 pop songs that made it to Billboard’s Top 100, making her the most successful female songwriter of the second half of the
  
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• Brooks & Dunn will reunite to headline 2019 Big Valley Jamboree

  01-11-2018 18:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Together again, country legends Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn will reunite to close out the show at the 2019 Big Valley Jamboree.
  Mainstage acts for the Aug. 1 to Aug. 4 Camrose camp-out also include Charlie Major, country-rockers Brothers Osborne, The Prairie States, Old Dominion, Kane Brown, Lindsay Ell, James Barker Band, Grey Cup-bound national anthem singer Brett Kissel, and Billy Ray Cyrus, who returns to the Big Valley stage after being forced to cancel last year’s scheduled appearance
  
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• Alberta commits $1.04-billion to Edmonton's west Valley Line LRT expansion

  01-11-2018 18:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced Thursday the province will contribute $1.04-billion to Edmonton’s west Valley Line LRT expansion.
  Notley also said the province will contribute a further $131 million towards Metro Line LRT expansion.
  The revenue comes from the province’s climate leadership plan. The provincial commitment is about 40 per cent of the $2.6-billion Valley Line LRT.
  “There are some folks out there who want us to cancel our climate leadership plan,” Notl
  
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• City of St. Albert Takes Home Two Awards in Fall 2018

  01-11-2018 18:12
  City recognized for sustainability practices and parks excellence The City of St. Albert recently received awards from the Alberta Urban... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton million-dollar lotto winner so excited, leaves ticket in store

  01-11-2018 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Joselito Tremocha raced off to tell his wife when he learned from a store clerk that he’d just won a $1-million Lotto Max jackpot.
  But he was so excited, he left the ticket behind.
  “When the store clerk told me I won a million dollars it made me jump,” he said in a Thursday statement. “I was so shocked and really wanted to get home to tell my wife, so I just left the store. I was already driving down the street when realized I left a million-dollar ticket at the store.&rd
  
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• Five women attacked: Man wanted for Edmonton sexual assaults arrested in Ardrossan

  01-11-2018 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man wanted for sexually assaulting five women in Edmonton between May and October has been arrested by city police, who warn there could be more victims.
  The first attacks took place in the Newton neighbourhood, with two women assaulted in separate cases May 16 and another on July 15 in the Beverly area. Then, on Oct. 12, two more women were assaulted in the Kensington neighbourhood, police said Thursday.
  In one of the attacks, a man tackled a woman and held her down while in each of the other
  
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• Climate change and the Arctic: University of Alberta to host French reps at roundtable focusing on polar regions

  01-11-2018 15:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Understanding the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean and the earth’s polar regions will be the focus of a Franco-Canadian roundtable discussion at the University of Alberta next week.
  Co-hosted by the Consulate of France in Vancouver and UAlberta North, the panel will include a variety of scientists, representatives of NGOs and institutions from France and Canada.
  “Our concerns about oceans and climate are similar worldwide,” said Paul Myers, professor in th
  
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• Edmonton weather: No sign of snow today. Friday on the other hand…

  01-11-2018 13:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 2.5 C with 14 km/h winds out of the north, northwest.
  They say it’s coming. Oh it’s coming. While it didn’t snow last night, as expected, forecasters seem pretty confident we’re going to see a healthy dose of winter come Friday, with 2-4 cm of snow expected to fall that day. Luckily, temperatures will rebound Saturday and Sunday so there
  
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• Thursday's letters: Pot users need to know medical risks

  01-11-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My doctor recently referred me to a medicinal-cannabis clinic to see if there was any product that could alleviate my chronic osteoarthritis pain in my knees and shoulders.
  As I am on a daily dose of a prescribed blood thinner to treat a heart condition, I cannot take any ibuprofen products for pain due to the risk of them incurring a gastric bleed as a result of my blood thinner. When I outlined my arthritic-pain situation to the doctor at the medicinal-cannabis clinic, he asked for my medicati
  
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• Keith Gerein: Covenant Health's indignity muddies provincial approach to medical aid in dying

  01-11-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Imagine having your body invaded by a degenerative, incurable disease that robs you of nearly every joy in life, from the taste of food to the ability to carry on a conversation with loved ones.
  A disease so debilitating that death is preferable to enduring more days or weeks of suffering.
  Canada’s law granting access to a medically assisted death, which came into effect more than two years ago, was designed specifically to offer such relief.
  But then imagine that in the midst of making th
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Day #12: A roster move is imminent as the Edmonton Oilers mix up the lineup versus Chicago

  01-11-2018 07:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers will be making a roster move today ahead of tonight’s tilt at Rogers Place versus the Chicago Black Hawks.
  Ty Rattie has recovered from an oblique issue and is both 100% healthy and ready to return to the lineup. That transaction will trigger a domino effect in Todd McLellan’s lineup as Rattie will immediately reclaim his spot alongside Connor McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Rattie is the one player on that line that has worked. He may not be a world-beater. But
  
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• Three to See on Thursday, Nov. 1

  01-11-2018 07:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mark Elliot Muz Art Show: If you’re about done wrestling that Halloween hangover, let us introduce you to Mark Elliot Muz, resident bartender/handyman/co-owner of The Aviary — a familiar smiling face in Edmonton’s indie music scene. Featuring an accompanying concert by Edmonton experimental jazz band Holy Drone Travellers, Muz is having an exhibition of his animal-headed paintings and silkscreens, including an owl-man brandishing a tough-looking pistol in a pose of which either
  
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• PHOTOS: Halloween in Edmonton

  01-11-2018 04:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Halloween images captured by photographer Larry Wong in Edmonton … Happy Halloween!
  Vince Sinclair and his family got into the Halloween spirit by decorating the front yard of their home at 3 Addison Crescent in St. Albert. (PHOTO BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  It was a dark and scary Halloween evening in southwest Edmonton on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018.
  Glenn Gallop, left, and his brother Garrett, two months old, prepare for an evening of trick-or-treating in Edmonton on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018
  
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• Councillors seek to step up funding for crosswalk improvements

  01-11-2018 01:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Upgrades to hundreds of dangerous crosswalks across the city could happen sooner than anticipated if a plan to redirect photo radar revenue is found to be feasible, following a motion at city council’s community and public services committee on Wednesday.
  “Do more of them faster, quite simply,” said Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell, who made a motion asking city staff to explore the possibility of migrating more money from photo radar revenue into crosswalk upgrades.
  Cartmell said the
  
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• Bill 22 overhauls the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act

  01-11-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  First Nations ties and the need to keep kids safe are the cornerstone of changes to Alberta’s child intervention system announced by the provincial government Wednesday.
  The overhaul includes formal notification of an Indigenous child’s band following an application for private guardianship, mandatory home inspections and cultural connection plans, strict new public reporting requirements around deaths and injuries, and funding for supports being tied to a child, rather than their gu
  
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• New bus companies aim to fill Greyhound void

  01-11-2018 00:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Greyhound buses are making their final trips on Prairie routes Wednesday as the company officially winds down operations that previously served 100 Alberta communities.
  The biggest question in the four months since the company’s July 9 announcement has been whether other private companies will step in to fill the transportation void created by Greyhound’s exit, particularly in remote and rural communities that relied on its passenger and shipping services.
  As of W
  
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• The last Greyhound rolls out of Edmonton

  01-11-2018 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Last call for passengers.” 
  Crackling from the loud speakers at Edmonton’s Greyhound bus terminal in the city’s north side, Terry Smith’s words drifted over an almost empty parking lot.
  For the past six years, Smith had said those same words many times to many passengers. But at exactly 1:57 p.m., she uttered the words for the very last time for her and a bus company she had grown to love.
  Customer service representative Terry Smith hugs Greyhound bus dri
  
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• City opioid crisis still looms large, committee told

  01-11-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than half of the people who died of fentanyl poisoning in the province in early 2018 sought health and support services in the month before their death, according to the province’s health authority.
  “We’re still seeing a large number of accidental deaths related to consumption of opiates, related to fentanyl and other opiates as well,” said Dr. Christopher Sikora, Edmonton’s chief medical officer of health Wednesday following an update on the opioid crisis to t
  
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