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• City Welcomes Mosaiculture Sculpture

  09-11-2018 23:33
  Legacy of Canada 150 Celebration The City of St. Albert has welcomed its latest sculpture – a living one at... Read Post
  
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• Ousted NDP MLA demands high-stakes, independent investigation into bullying claims

  09-11-2018 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ousted New Democrat MLA Robyn Luff wants an independent investigation into her allegations of bullying and message control by party brass.
  If a single NDP MLA corroborates her claims, she wants Premier Rachel Notley to resign. If any United Conservative MLAs recount similar experiences, she wants party leader Jason Kenney out, too.
  But if no NDP MLAs report a culture of fear and intimidation, she says, then she’ll resign.
  “Let’s all three of us agree to this in the spirit of tr
  
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• Lest we forget: Performance art delivers eternal lessons of war

  09-11-2018 23:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Every Remembrance Day, the ranks of those who sit at war memorials, blankets tucked around their legs in wheelchairs, grow ever more thin.
  There are no veterans of the First World War left. Of the more than one million Canadians who served full-time in the Second World War, less than 50,000 remain.
  So much has changed since those mighty battles. Modern folk can barely imagine life without cellphones, never mind appreciate the experience of a young soldier forced to run messages between
  
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• Guns, ammo, drugs seized in Grande Prairie bust

  09-11-2018 21:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties arrested three people and seized guns, ammunition and drugs in Grande Prairie last weekend from a home that was the target of RCMP’s attention earlier this year.
  During the search of the Southwynd Estates home in the city’s southeast on Nov. 3, officers found four firearms, ammunition, Canadian currency, along with a quantity of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroine and magic mushrooms.
  A search warrant was also executed at the home in May.
  The three arrested — two me
  
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• Three to See on Saturday, November 10

  09-11-2018 20:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  F&M: This lovely local duo-plus recently treated us to an our town cabaret at Aviary (you can read about here), and have decided to switch things up a little by doing an afternoon show of covers. Being as clever as they are, it’s not just all music from Will Oldham’s Palace Songs, but specifically from the band’s rather literary 1994 EP Hope, which includes the lovely Agnes, Queen of Sorrow. It’s an interesting concept, and the vocal power of Rebecca Anderson and soft
  
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• Edmonton weather: Freezing rain warning ends

  09-11-2018 20:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -5.9 C with 10 km/h winds out of the south contributing to a -10 windchill.
  UPDATE at 12:13 p.m.: The freezing rain warnings have ended for the City of Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Morinville, Mayerthorpe, Grande Prairie and Edson.
  It is still in effect for areas south and east of Edmonton, including Camrose, Leduc, Beaumont, Ne
  
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• Teenage girl struck by vehicle while crossing 118 Avenue dies in hospital

  09-11-2018 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 16-year-old girl is dead after she was hit by a vehicle while crossing at a northeast Edmonton intersection Thursday afternoon.
  The teenager was crossing at a traffic light controlled crosswalk around 1 p.m. from the south side to the north side of 118 Avenue at 78 street when she was struck by a 2013 Ford Fusion travelling westbound on 118 Avenue, Edmonton police said in a news release Friday morning. Police said it was reported the traffic lights were green for west and eastbound traffic on
  
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• RCMP make arrests after 40 guns stolen from Kinuso hardware store

  09-11-2018 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP believe they’ve recovered some of the dozens of guns stolen from a hardware store in Kinuso this week.
  Police said four suspects, two men and two women, pulled up to the Kinuso Mercantile in a truck at around 5 a.m. on Nov. 6 and smashed through the glass doors.Once they gained entry, the suspects around stole approximately 40 firearms including shotguns and rifles, Faust RCMP said in a Wednesday news release.
  The suspects, all wearing gloves and masks, were in and out of the store in
  
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• Edmontonians warned to wash hands after outbreak of stomach bug

  09-11-2018 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health officials are urging Edmontonians to take precautions such as washing their hands more often to curb a spike in the number of people falling ill to a stomach bug.
  Since Sept. 1, there have been 47 gastrointestinal outbreaks reported in the Edmonton zone, Alberta Health Services said on Friday. During the same time last year, there were 18 similar cases.
  Gastrointestinal illness is common year-round but is more likely to occur in the fall and winter. It can be spread through contact with i
  
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• Why does The Fourth Period keep trying to trade away Cam Talbot?

  09-11-2018 19:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from The Fourth Period, more of that site’s speculation about the Edmonton Oilers wanting to trade away goalie Cam Talbot: “The Edmonton Oilers are believed to be scouring the League in hopes of finding a new No.1 goaltender, TFP has learned, and current starter Cam Talbot’s days with the club may be coming to an end. Talbot was made available last season (despite having a no-movement clause), along with defenceman Oscar Klefbom, as TFP had first reported at the time, a
  
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• U.S. judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline, orders environmental review

  09-11-2018 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  WASHINGTON — In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal judge has blocked a permit for construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada and ordered officials to complete an environmental review.
  Environmentalists and tribal groups cheered the ruling by a U.S. district judge in Montana, while President Donald Trump called it “a political decision” and “a disgrace.”
  The 1,184-mile (1,900 kilometre) pipeline would begin in Alberta and shuttle as much
  
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• Oilers in 60: Last-place Panthers pummel Oilers

  09-11-2018 16:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers went into Sunrise, Florida Thursday to take on the last-place Florida Panthers and they really laid an egg in this one.
  Things didn’t start off so bad for the Oilers who were all over the Panthers in the opening 10 minutes of the first period. By all accounts, the Oilers could have been up by two goals in the opening frame were it not for the stellar goaltending of Roberto Luongo.
  Robbed by @strombone1. pic.twitter.com/X3l6Sn6t4H
  — NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) November 9,
  
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• Edmonton weather: Freezing rain warning in effect

  09-11-2018 14:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -5.9 C with 10 km/h winds out of the south contributing to a -10 windchill.
  A freezing rain warning is in effect for the City of Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Drayton Valley, Devon, Grande Prairie, Leduc, Camrose, Spruce Grove, Morinville, and Edson.
  A band of freezing rain is developing early this morning in the Grande Prairie and Whitecourt regions and w
  
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• Opinion: Tuition freeze won't leave institutions in the cold

  09-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Tuition cap has a price,” Editorial, Nov. 7
  A recent Edmonton Journal editorial was right when it said the Alberta NDP is committed to students.
  By freezing tuition and indexing future increases to the consumer price index, we hope to take the guesswork out of the biggest investment of their lives.
  It’s wrong, however, to suggest we are knee-capping universities in the process.
  Just before our government came into power, Alberta was heading off a fiscal cliff and into the
  
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• Friday's letters: Three costly public-sector gaffes

  09-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not an uplifting Journal read Tuesday. Three articles in particular stand out.
  Our retired governors general, and one in particular, believe they are fully entitled to their entitlements through a cloaked accounting/budgetary process regardless of the negative optics perceived by the rest of taxpaying Canadians.
  Our RCMP determine through their budgetary analysis that purchasing 631 new vehicles for a G7 summit for a week would be financially more affordable than leasing, however final results o
  
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• Three to See on Friday, Nov. 9

  09-11-2018 13:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Russell Peters: Funnyman Russell Peters’ Deported World Tour arrives at Rogers Place tonight, and guests are urged to leave their sensitivities on the sidewalk next to the Wayne Gretzky statue to fully enjoy his particular brand of irreverence. The Toronto-born stand-up is known for tackling race-related topics with a balanced approach, meaning everyone in the audience will likely find their ethnic group addressed by his sharp wit and wry observations about multiculturalism and how la
  
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• Watch: Fun night out ended in tears for Edmonton woman

  09-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Allyson MacIvor was enjoying one of her favourite bands at Rogers Place on Friday night and, when Jack White began to play Seven Nation Army, she leaned over and kissed her girlfriend.
  She was immediately told by a Rogers Place employee that this was not allowed. The young woman usher then told MacIvor that if she disagreed she could take it up with a manager.
  MacIvor decided that she needed to talk to the manager at the end of the concert. When the employee took MacIvor and her girlfriend to me
  
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• Elise Stolte: 'We need more hope.' Touching response after woman reprimanded for kissing girlfriend at Rogers Place

  09-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rage simmered on Allyson MacIvor’s Facebook feed as friends, family and strangers demanded a young Rogers Place employee be fired.
  MacIvor kissed a girlfriend at Rogers Place, was reprimanded for it by an usher and lodged a complaint.
  But she didn’t want revenge.
  “That’s not the right way,” she told me this week as the story was picked up across North America. The BBC called Thursday.
  When the assistant general manager at Rogers Place called, MacIvor accepted the ap
  
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• David Staples: Did the Earth move for you? Irene Cheng's team can measure it from space

  09-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The breathtaking change in computer science can be seen in the shifting focus of University of Alberta computer scientist Irene Cheng over her career.
  Cheng started her work in computing science in the early 1990s, before the days of Google or even AltaVista and WebCrawler. Her then-cutting-edge research was to develop a search engine and algorithm that could take a databank of digitized images and find the image that best matched an individual search.
  These days Cheng is involved in a new kind
  
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• Alberta education minister will track teachers hired with class-size money through new required reports

  09-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Publicly funded schools across Alberta will now be required to report how many teachers they hired with class-size dollars from the provincial government.
  Education Minister David Eggen sent a letter to school boards and charter schools across the province Thursday saying each school must report this winter how it spent money from the provincial class-size initiative, including which grades the new teachers will instruct.
  Eggen is following through on a recommendation from Alberta’s audito
  
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• St. Albert transit suspended due to freezing rain | CTV News Edmonton - CTV News

  09-11-2018 09:00 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  St. Albert transit suspended due to freezing rain | CTV News Edmonton  CTV NewsHours after RCMP said Highway 43 was impassable due to slick conditions, police said lanes had reopened, but motorists were still advised to drive cautiously.
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers' tanks empty as rested Panthers pounce

  09-11-2018 07:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 1, Panthers 4
  [With apologies to readers for weird formatting issues, we are trying to work around a vexing problem]Glass half full: given the viciousness of the opening 16 games of their 2018-19 season, Edmonton Oilers did well to come away with 8 wins and give themselves a fighting chance the rest of the way.
  Glass half empty: after surging to an 8-4-1 start, the Oilers were decisively outplayed and outscored for the third straight game on the east coast to fritter away a hard-won early
  
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• Lifetime ban on the books for Alberta doctors convicted of sexual assault

  09-11-2018 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health care professionals found guilty of sexual assault will face a lifetime ban on practising in Alberta under changes to a new government bill.
  Under the first iteration of Bill 21, doctors and other health-care professionals found guilty of sexually abusing patients would have been forced to turn in their licences for a minimum of five years.
  The bill had already made it to third reading before the government executed a backflip Thursday morning and sent it back to the floor for more debate.
  
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• RCMP identify suspect in Sherwood Park explosions as Kane Kosolowsky

  09-11-2018 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Out of character.”
  Those were the words a grieving family used Thursday to describe the actions of Kane Kosolowsky, the suspect linked to a pair of explosions in a Sherwood Park parkade earlier this week.
  Even the family says it has no idea what drove the 21-year-old to do what he did Tuesday night in the multi-level parking area of the Strathcona County Community Centre.
  At this stage, nor do the RCMP.
  “We … are shocked and devastated by the unfortunate incident,&rdquo
  
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• Sexual misconduct allegations levelled against two NDP MLAs since 2015, says premier's office

  09-11-2018 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two sitting NDP MLAs have been accused of sexual misconduct since 2015, says the premier’s office.
  The complaints did not come from people in caucus, said Cheryl Oates, the premier’s spokeswoman.“In both circumstances, the alleged behaviour took place outside the workplace,” Oates said in a statement Thursday.“In order to respect the privacy of the complainants, further details will remain confidential.”
  She said third-party investigations were undertaken
  
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• AISH and seniors benefits will increase with cost of living under NDP bill

  09-11-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is boosting rates for Alberta’s Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program in an effort to reflect the rising cost of living, said Premier Rachel Notley.
  Legislation tabled Thursday ties AISH, income support and seniors benefits to the consumer price index, matching a policy in Quebec, Yukon and Manitoba. AISH is among the province’s largest social assistance programs and supports adult Albertans who have a permanent disability that curtails their abil
  
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• UCP MLAs gagged during abortion bubblezone bill: Former UCP MLA Prab Gill

  09-11-2018 02:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative MLAs were forbidden from speaking about a government bill that established protest-free zones around abortion clinics, says a former UCP MLA.
  Prab Gill, Independent member for Calgary-Greenway, says he was whipped into toeing the party line during Bill 9 debate.
  “I was not free to speak out about it or even vote to represent my constituents on the bill. Independent thought was not welcome,” he said in question period Thursday.
  Gill spoke up in the wake of accusati
  
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• Permanent security to roll out at 25 Edmonton transit stations starting Monday as part of new safety plan

  09-11-2018 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Transit users can expect to see a beefed-up security presence at stations throughout the city in the coming weeks in response to two assaults on Edmonton transit in September.
  The new safety plan will see 24-7 patrols starting Monday by rotating security guards at 25 transit centres and stations that have had at least one major incident reported within the last five years, the city said in a news release Thursday afternoon.
  A third-party contractor will roll out the increased security over two w
  
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• Visceral production of What a Young Wife Ought to Know debuts at The Roxy on Gateway

  09-11-2018 01:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The creative impulse can strike in odd places. For Hannah Moscovitch, the inspiration for What a Young Wife Ought to Know, opening Thursday at the Roxy on Gateway, came from a garage sale.
  That’s where she found, for 75 cents, a book of letters sent to the pioneering British birth-control advocate, Dr. Marie Stopes. The letters, written at the beginning of the 20th century, were from women and men begging Dr. Stopes for birth control at a time when using it was illegal.
  “As I read th
  
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• Halt west Valley Line LRT expansion, Edmonton councillor says

  09-11-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A southwest Edmonton councillor is arguing that the city should 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 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.
  “It’s bugged
  
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• Edmonton releases climate change adaptation plan

  09-11-2018 01:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A city plan for adapting to climate change was released Thursday, but there may not be any funds to move it forward in the upcoming four-year budget cycle.
  The city’s climate change adaptation and action plan will be presented to council’s executive committee on Tuesday.
  The plan identifies 18 “actions” to tackle adapting to climate change, which were identified in part by a survey that found 73 per cent of Edmontonians are concerned and want to see action on cl
  
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• No LRT: Service Edmonton-wide to be shuttered Saturday for Thales signal testing

  09-11-2018 01:24 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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• Watch: 'Silly' for Oilers' Milan Lucic to have NHL hearing over hit

  09-11-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  NHL beat writer Jim Matheson talks from Sunrise, Fla., about the hearing the National Hockey League held for Edmonton Oilers forward Milan Lucic, who jumped on the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Mathieu Joseph during their game Nov. 6, 2018, in retaliation for a hit on Oilers defenceman Kris Russell.
  The NHL gave Lucic a $10,000 fine — the maximum allowed under the collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players association — for roughing Joseph. Referees gave Lucic m
  
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