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• Wine column: Amarone's quality stems from Italian heritage

  08-11-2018 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Production of Amarone is labour-intensive and expensive, relying on methods that date back centuries to preserve the wine's quality and history
  
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• Julia Lipscombe: Parental pursuit of perfection requires judgment-free community support

  08-11-2018 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Women with young children are constantly being bombarded with impossibly high standards they’re expected to uphold. “What’s best for our kid” governs our day-to-day life. As it should — but to a degree.
  
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• Law student calls for veteran homicide detective's ouster after class lecture

  08-11-2018 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A University of Alberta law student is calling for the suspension of Edmonton’s best-known homicide detective — a city cop of more than 30 years — over comments she claims he made as a guest lecturer.
  Caitlin Dick, a second-year law student, alleges city police Staff Sgt. Bill Clark made derogatory comments about defence lawyers, referred to a homicide victim’s race and called criminals maggots during a presentation to her class on Nov. 1.
  Tom Engel, a defence lawyer and
  
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• 'No foundation': Rachel Notley rejects bullying allegations within NDP levied by MLA Robyn Luff

  08-11-2018 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bullying allegations levied against the NDP by a former caucus member are groundless and the party has processes in place to address concerns, says Premier Rachel Notley.
  Calgary-East MLA Robyn Luff, who decided to boycott the legislature after accusing NDP leadership of supporting a culture of bullying, was kicked out of the caucus Monday.
  Hours earlier, she had publicly slammed her party for issues such as being told to vote with the leader at all times and being restricted in what she co
  
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• No LRT: Service citywide to be shuttered Saturday for Thales signal testing

  08-11-2018 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fleetwood Mac fans planning to take the LRT to Saturday’s concert at Rogers Place will have to go their own way.
  Citizens will see trains running up and down the tracks on Saturday, but they won’t be able to ride them because Thales Canada, the company contracted to complete a signalling system for the Metro Line, is doing testing.
  Replacement bus service will be running, and motorists and pedestrians might experience longer wait times at train crossings, Craig McKeown, the director
  
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• Dunn inhabits her characters for fulfilling career in song

  08-11-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maria Dunn has good reason to reflect on the life of a singer-songwriter. It has been 20 years now since this musical treasure released her first of six independent recordings, From Where I Stand, a fact that she celebrates in concert Thursday at Festival Place.
  Dunn was just back home in Edmonton after a 12-day tour of Ontario (shared in part with Chicago’s Jo Jencks) when I tracked her down for some insights on creative pursuits, universal themes, and the joy of folk.
  She left her last n
  
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• Lasting light: Richard Eaton Singers to celebrate Remembrance Day centenary at Winspear

  08-11-2018 20:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is the sense of the end of an era in this year’s Remembrance celebrations. It’s not just that it will be 100 years to the day since the end of the First World War: somehow, the centenary changes our collective historical memory.
  Something disappears in the immediacy of the event: psychologically, things that happened over 100 years ago have a lot less resonance than those that happened under 100 years ago.
  All too soon, there will be no one still alive who was alive then. Never
  
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• Edmonton Oilers will need to jump on hiring Joel Quenneville fast, says NHL commentator

  08-11-2018 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 16, Oilers vs Panthers
  This in from Michael Traikos, national hockey writer for Postmedia, his notion that the Edmonton Oilers should strongly consider replacing head coach Todd McLellan with fired Chicago coach Joel Quenneville: “If you’re Peter Chiarelli, the question is do you make a coaching change right away or wait a few more days until the Edmonton Oilers fall out of a playoff spot? After all, Joel Quenneville is not going to be out of work for long. Fired from the Ch
  
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• Sherwood Park explosion suspect has no apparent ties to 'any group or ideology,' RCMP say

  08-11-2018 20:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are no apparent ties between the dead suspect in a pair of explosions in a Sherwood Park parkade Tuesday and any “group or ideology,” RCMP say.
  Police continue to investigate the events, which were initially reported as a fire in the parkade of the Strathcona County Community Centre. Police evacuated buildings in the area and cordoned off much of the hamlet’s core Tuesday evening.
  Officers found a seriously injured 21-year-old man identified as the sole suspect in the exp
  
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• Halt west Valley Line LRT expansion, councillor says

  08-11-2018 18:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  A southwest Edmonton councillor is arguing the city ought to put the brakes on plans to build a west LRT expansion, despite a funding promise from the province announced last week.
  Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell published a blog post Wednesday arguing the city should cancel plans to build the Valley Line LRT expansion to west Edmonton until after the provincial election in the spring, and “preferably” until after the southeast expansion of the LRT is completed.
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• Edmonton Oilers will need to jump on Joel Quenneville hiring fast, says NHL commentator

  08-11-2018 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 16, Oilers vs Panthers
  This in from Michael Traikos, national hockey writer for Postmedia, his notion that the Edmonton Oilers should strongly consider replacing head coach Todd McLellan with fired Chicago coach Joel Quenneville: “If you’re Peter Chiarelli, the question is do you make a coaching change right away or wait a few more days until the Edmonton Oilers fall out of a playoff spot? After all, Joel Quenneville is not going to be out of work for long. Fired from the Ch
  
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• Michael Bublé slated to serenade Rogers Place April 15

  08-11-2018 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Michael Bublé brings his stylish song and dance back to Rogers Place on Monday, April 15.
  The Edmonton stop is the second of 11 dates on the Vancouver-based crooner’s cross-country tour, which opens in his home town April 12 and wraps up in Quebec City August 3. The tour will deliver hits from from his extensive catalogue — the singer has won four Grammys to date and sold more than 60 million records — as well as new tunes from his forthcoming album, the succinctly title
  
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• Edmonton weather: The wind. It hurts. Why does the wind hurt?

  08-11-2018 14:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -11.5 C with 14 km/h winds out of the north, northwest contributing to a -14 windchill.
  Bundle up this morning because the wind sure is making things cold out there, with forecasters warning of -22 windchill in and around Edmonton this morning. The wind is going to carry on throughout the day and into tomorrow but oddly enough as the night goes on temperatures
  
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• Three to See on Thursday, Nov. 8

  08-11-2018 14:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mac Sabbath: What if GWAR was just slightly tastier? Well, keep your eyes on your fries, gang, because in the grand tradition of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s odd food obsession and GWAR’s terrifying outfits, Mac Sabbath is coming to town to fill you up with McDonald’s-themed heavy metal. Yep, that’s really a thing: Ronald Osbourne, Slayer MacCheeze, Grimlace and the Catburglar — nice KISS reference — are taking the stage with such songs as Pair-
  
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• Thursday's letters: Time for a coaching change

  08-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Eskimos need a coaching change. Jason Maas was a marginal quarterback during his time, but he is not the coach needed by the Eskimos.
  Mike Reilly tried to carry the team on his shoulders, but Maas continually proved to be inadequate. Sending in plays far too late. Exploding on the sidelines, destroying his headset, swearing during his tantrums are just a few of his shortcomings.
  Keep the best quarterback in the league and get rid of Maas.
  Noel Deagle, St. Albert
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• Opinion: Political intervention undermines our universities

  08-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the past two years, we have seen the government of Alberta, in effect, create unions out of the province’s post-secondary faculty associations (without votes of their members), and prescribe limits upon the compensation of post-secondary leaders.
  Now, with Bill 19, the province will extend its already prescriptive approach to tuition even further. In themselves, these developments are troubling. As disturbing, is the fact that they have occurred in the absence of public debate and comme
  
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• The Journal's exclusive interview with Neil Gaiman, full transcript

  08-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here’s the Journal’s extended interview with Neil Gaiman, who’s speaking at the Shaw Conference Centre Tuesday with the Edmonton Public Library’s Forward Thinking Speaker series. The event, which supports the Stanley A. Milner Library revitalization, is sold out.
  Q: Happy birthday in advance!
  A: Thank you so much!
  Q: As I understand it you’re in London working on Good Omens …
  A: I am, I’ve been show-running Good Omens for the last — however long i
  
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• Neil Gaiman talks Good Omens, Sandman and how to trick oneself into writing

  08-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In his polite and almost subtle way, author Neil Gaiman has had nearly as much impact on western culture as any living human.
  His 75-issue run of The Sandman — starring Dream, alluring Death and their magnificent family of eternals far above mere gods — is a literary masterpiece that elevated basic expectations of the power of graphic fiction, full stop. Smartly, DC Comics just relaunched four titles set in Dream’s domain, with Gaiman, an Englishman now living in L.A., in a ben
  
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• Life and Times: U of A scholar Jim Lightbody remembered for sharp political commentary

  08-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jim Lightbody didn’t pull any punches.
  That’s how friends and colleagues remember the University of Alberta professor who taught political science for 47 years and helped shape the province’s public discourse.
  His witticisms were pervasive in local media, said close friend and colleague Ian Urquhart.
  “He told reporters exactly what he thought. And, in doing so, he delivered a wealth of memorable quotes over the years,” said Urquhart, a U of A political science profe
  
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• Keith Gerein: NDP child welfare bill a promising start, but province must stay the course

  08-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The fall sitting of the Alberta legislature is now well into its second week and the NDP government has already introduced seven new bills of various shapes and sizes.
  There’s been legislation to change the rules around post-secondary tuition, legislation to increase punishments for health professionals who sexually abuse patients, and legislation to remove corporate and union donations from municipal elections.
  But if there is one that can be said to be the government’s signature pi
  
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• Committee to investigate impact of new U.S. trade deal on Alberta agriculture

  08-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A legislative committee is investigating the possible hit to Alberta’s agriculture sector under the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
  The economic futures committee wants to know how USMCA could impact Alberta’s supply-managed producers and their suppliers, particularly around increased Canadian market access for U.S.-originating dairy, poultry and eggs.
  The investigation was originally proposed by Trevor Horne, New Democrat MLA for Spruce Grove-St. Albert, at
  
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• Cause of two Sherwood Park explosions unknown, 21-year-old man dead

  08-11-2018 06:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A day after a pair of explosions less than two hours apart rocked a parkade at Strathcona County Community Centre, the heart of Sherwood Park remained on lockdown.
  Crime tape, haphazardly strung between trees and street signs along Sherwood Drive near the county hall, along with city barricades and a heavy police presence, barred anyone but RCMP investigators and bomb disposal experts.
  Nearby business owners and residents were asking the same question: Just what happened inside the parkade Tuesd
  
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• Notes from the Dome: New ATB chair, ethics commissioner extended, labour federation wants answers

  08-11-2018 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Joan Hertz has been appointed as the new chairwoman of the board at ATB Financial.
  Hertz has 20 years of financial and governance experience under her belt. A lawyer with a background in financial services and corporate governance, she was first appointed to the ATB Financial board in 2008.
  Hertz will provide leadership to the board, facilitate the work and development of the board, and set the tone for management of the board and overall corporate governance. She will report to Financ
  
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• Thirteen arrested in child luring stings by Alberta crime team

  08-11-2018 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thirteen people — all but one from the Edmonton area — have been arrested for child luring and related offences as a result of a series of investigations by Alberta’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit.
  The arrests follow an eight-month effort by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams’ (ALERT) ICE unit into capturing people online trying to make arrangements for sex with children.
  A total of 69 charges have been laid, with the first arrests taking place from Febru
  
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• Average Edmonton homeowners feeling the squeeze despite economic recovery: city economist

  08-11-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city’s economist says Edmonton can afford the tax increases proposed in its next budget, but said council should tread cautiously as residents are starting to “feel the pinch.”
  City council heard Wednesday that although the city is entering a period of moderate growth, the broader economic improvements aren’t extending to its middle-class residents.
  Economist John Rose told council that the proposed $79 tax increase for the average homeowner in 2019 by itself won
  
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• Education minister tweaks curriculum writing timeline

  08-11-2018 01:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new school curriculum for Grade 9 will be written and introduced to classrooms earlier than initially planned, the Alberta government announced Wednesday.
  In its unprecedented six-year, $64-million effort to rewrite curriculum for all subjects in both English and French, the ministry of education had at first said it would write new expectations for Grade 9 and 10 students at the same time.
  With drafts of the new K-4 curriculum released last month, eight working groups had recently begun pieci
  
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• Watch: Mounties investigating the source of two explosions in a Sherwood Park parkade

  08-11-2018 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are investigating the source of two explosions that rocked a Sherwood Park parkade Tuesday night and the death of suspect believed to be connected with the explosions.
  Officers responded to a fire call at the Strathcona County Community Centre at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and located a 21-year-old male suspect in a vehicle in the parkade.
  The man was transported to hospital where he later died.
  The surrounding buildings were evacuated as a precautionary measure.
  The major crimes unit has
  
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• Princess Anne honours 25 Alberta youth with prestigious Duke of Edinburgh's award

  08-11-2018 01:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Numerous achievements of 25 young Albertans were celebrated with the royal treatment Wednesday morning, prompting Princess Anne to question how the young adults found the time to complete all their leadership initiatives.
  A ceremony was held at Government House with the 25 young adults receiving gold level recognition for their completion of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, a leadership and self-development program for youth aged 14-24 established by Prince Philip in 1956.
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• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical a rare treat for theatre fans

  08-11-2018 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was a night to remember what I never actually knew.
  Coming of age in the 1970s, all I knew about Carole King was her Grammy hit LP, Tapestry. The album cover, featuring a moody photo shot in her Laurel Canyon home, was my only reference for the curly-haired singer/songwriter, who penned and recorded classic songs of love and friendship that became anthems for millions of fans.
  Released in 1971 and produced by Lou Adler, Tapestry remains one of the best sellers of all time. It made King the fi
  
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