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• Review: Remembrance Day concerts offer fitting tributes

  12-11-2018 23:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War was powerfully commemorated by two concerts on Remembrance Day (Sunday, Nov. 11), both of which included a cross-section of war poetry as well as music.
  The first was in the Winspear Centre in the afternoon, where the Richard Eaton Singers under their conductor Leonard Ratzlaff gave the Alberta premiere of a major work by Allan Bevan, Last Light Above the World. This was a moving oratorio combining narrated texts on war with music for choru
  
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• WATCH: Edmonton Oilers lose 4-1 to Colorado Avalanche

  12-11-2018 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan gives a summary of his team’s 4-1 loss against the Colorado Avalanche in Edmonton on Sunday November 11, 2018. The Oilers extended their three-game losing streak to four against the Avalanche, who were on a five-game losing streak. The Oilers have now been outscored 17-6 in their last four games.
  “You can summarize the game in that first twenty five seconds,” said Oilers head coach Todd McLellan. “We didn’t establish a direc
  
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• Alberta increases rebate rates for installing solar panels

  12-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province is boosting solar power rebate rates for homeowners and doubling the cap on returns for businesses that install solar panels.
  The industry has grown by 500 per cent since 2015, said a government news release Monday.
  Energy Efficiency Alberta has pegged rebate rates for homeowners at $0.90 per watt, marking a 15 per cent increase, with a cap of $10,000. Non-profits will receive $1 per watt, totalling a 25 per cent increase, and businesses maintain a rate of $0.75 per watt.
  But the ca
  
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• Think-tank calls for increased private school enrolment in Alberta

  12-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta should gradually double or triple the number of students enrolled in independent schools to foster innovation and reduce the “monopoly” of teachers’ associations, says a new position paper from a faith-based think-tank.
  With 4.4 per cent of Alberta students enrolled in Alberta private schools in the 2014-15 school year, the province could create incentives to increase that enrolment without disrupting the public school system, said Cardus president and CEO Michael Van P
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers get thoroughly dominated by the Colorado Avalanche in a sobering 4-1 defeat

  12-11-2018 07:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers played their worst game of the season Sunday evening, falling 4-1 to the Colorado Avalanche.
  It was a game the host squad was never really in. The set-back drops the Oilers W-L record back down to .500 (8-8-1), the team itself out of a playoff spot, and extends the Oilers losing streak to 4. Speaking of 4…this was also the fourth consecutive game that the club spotted their opposition a deuce and were forced to try and come all of the way back. That’s obviously g
  
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• Fire rescue blocked roads at downtown Edmonton tower

  12-11-2018 04:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police and fire crews worked to rescue a person who climbed a crane in downtown Edmonton Sunday night.
  Fire spokesperson Maya Filipovic said crews were called to an under-construction residential tower at 103 Street and 103 Avenue around 6 p.m.
  Responders closed roads and shined a spotlight on the crane as they prepared to undertake the rescue.
  Five fire units responded including a technical rescue unit.
  Just before 7:30 p.m., Filipovic said crews had searched the building and couldn’
  
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• Semi driver escapes injury after straw bale slams into windshield

  12-11-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The driver of a semi truck walked away unscathed after a straw bale flew off a trailer and slammed through his windshield.
  The collision happened around 5:30 p.m. Saturday along Highway 21 south of New Sarepta, a rural hamlet outside Camrose.
  An RCMP news release said the bale fell off the back of a southbound flatbed truck and hit the northbound semi.
  The bale caved-in the truck’s windshield, blinding the driver.
  The collision happened five km south of New Sarepta on Nov. 10, 2018.
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• 'Courage and sacrifice': Edmontonians gather for Remembrance Day ceremonies

  12-11-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  It was 2 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 when the newswire message arrived in the office of the Edmonton Bulletin: “Armistice signed.”
  Soon, car horns were blaring, firefighters sounded sirens and joyful people streamed into the streets, lighting a bonfire at Jasper Avenue and 101 Street downtown.
  On Sunday afternoon, volunteers and performers at Armistice 100: A Tribute held a Remembrance Day event to mark a century since the First World War ended. Part memorial tribute, part historical re-en
  
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• Edmonton man plays role in major peace deal between Ethiopia, Somali group

  12-11-2018 01:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ahmed Abdulkadir figured one of two things could happen when his plane touched down in Ethiopia.
  Things might go according to plan: he would be greeted by supporters of the armed liberation movement who’d asked for his help negotiating peace with the Ethiopian government, and they would get to work.
  Or, he might be thrown in jail.
  “I was scared to death … going there,” said Abdulkadir, an Edmonton community organizer. “I did not know what to expect. I was expecting
  
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