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• Three to See: Emerging poets, social media influencers and This is That redux

  13-11-2018 23:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic: In the midst of its 18th season, the Olive Reading Series features emerging and established poets, local to international, sharing their work and stories the second Tuesday of every month. Rayanne Haines runs the Edmonton Poetry Festival, a featured artist for Capital City Press and the Edmonton Public Library, and has a new poetry podcast called Let’s Get Lit, co-founded by Stepanic. He, meanwhile, is editor of Glass Buffalo, poetry editor of Eighteen
  
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• Witnesses sought to identify missing man last seen on High Level Bridge

  13-11-2018 23:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are trying to identify a man who was witnessed jumping from the High Level Bridge into the North Saskatchewan River late last month.
  Witnesses told police they saw the unknown male climbing the barriers of the west side of the bridge at its northern end at around 4 p.m. on Oct. 21.
  A search of the river, including by air, failed to locate the man who is believed to be in his early 20s, police said Tuesday.
  The man is described as five-foot-seven and 140 pounds with light brown hair and no
  
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• Is Cam Talbot relinquishing his grip as Edmonton Oilers' #1 stopper?

  13-11-2018 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 18: Canadiens at Oilers
  Plenty of headaches in Edmonton Oilers’ camp as the club struggles through what currently stands as a four-game losing streak, all in regulation, all by multiple goals. 4-2 … 5-2 … 4-1 … 4-1. The Oilers have given up the first 2 goals in each of those games, and have never scored consecutive goals themselves at any point. That’s a certain recipe for failure.
  Said failure has been happening at both ends of the ice. 6 goals in 4 gam
  
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• Two NDP MLAs accused of sexual misconduct kept confidential to protect complainants: Premier

  13-11-2018 21:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP hasn’t released the names of two MLAs accused of sexual misconduct in order to respect the privacy of the complainants, says Premier Rachel Notley.
  “If you are going to respect the confidentiality of the complainant then … we can’t start parsing which details come out and don’t come out,” she told reporters Tuesday north of Edmonton in Little Buffalo, where she was holding a news event. “(The complaints) needed to be addressed and taken ver
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Edmonton Oilers backslide a throwback to last season's disappointing performance

  13-11-2018 20:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have come crashing back to earth after a good showing in October, when they posted a 6-4-1 record while beating strong teams such as the Winnipeg Jets, the Nashville Predators and the Washington Capitals, the defending Stanley Cup champions no less, along the way.
  Heading into their Nov. 13 home game against the Montreal Canadiens, the Oilers had lost four games in a row in rather convincing fashion, harkening back to memories of last season’s adrift squad.
  Host Craig E
  
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• Turkey for Americans (and their Canadian friends) at Highlevel Diner

  13-11-2018 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  As is their way, the folks at the Highlevel Diner (10912 88 Ave.) are decorating the restaurant with American flags in preparation for their annual American Thanksgiving celebration. This year, it’s on Thursday, Nov. 22. Reservations can be made for any size of group that evening at 780-433-0993.
  The meals is $27.95 and includes all the trimmings such as mashed sweet potatoes and peach ginger cranberries, and pumpkin pie for dessert. The turkey is locally raised, free range and free of hor
  
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• Party founded by former Wildrose members officially registered with Elections Alberta

  13-11-2018 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province’s newest political party launched by former Wildrose members is officially registered with Elections Alberta.
  The Alberta Advantage Party (AAP) was founded in 2017 by about 50 former Wildrose members who were against merging with the Progressive Conservatives to become the UCP.
  The AAP was officially registered last week after about 8,600 signatures were reviewed by Elections Alberta, said a Monday news release from the party.
  Marilyn Burns, a former president of the Wildrose&
  
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• Grey Cup Festival brings Jasper Avenue road closures starting Wednesday

  13-11-2018 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  A zip line, bungee jump and tube slide will be taking over the downtown as Grey Cup festivities hit Edmonton, forcing road closures along Jasper Avenue beginning Wednesday.
  A chunk of Jasper Avenue will be fully closed between 96 Street and 99 Street from Wednesday night until Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. to make way for the Grey Cup street festival set to run from Nov. 21 to Nov. 24. In addition, 97 Street north of Jasper Avenue will also be closed to 101A Avenue.
  City bus service is also being affected b
  
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• The Marc restaurant hosts a Sunday Supper Club Nov. 18

  13-11-2018 19:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Patrick and Doris Saurette of The Marc are making Sundays special with a Sunday Supper Club.
  The next iteration of the event is on Sunday, Nov. 18, beginning with a Rosé reception at 5 p.m. The cost is $125 per person and includes thoughtful beverage pairings, GST and tip.
  The first course includes tuna tartare and crab cakes with tomato jam. Next up is salmon gravlax blini with crème fraiche caviar. Then, get your mouth set for seared scallop with chanterelle and potato, followed
  
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• Swine, Dine and Sweep with Drift Food Truck for pork pop-up

  13-11-2018 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fans of Drift Food Truck will be interested to know that Nevin and Kara Fenske move their business indoors during the winter season, where you can find them on the south side at the Shamrock Curling Club (9330 – 80 Ave.)
  But things get extra exciting on Thursday, Nov. 29 when Alberta Pork combines forces with Drift to host a Swine and Dine event. Nevin and Kara will share a four-course menu featuring Alberta pork from appetizer to dessert.
  There are only 32 seats available, and two le
  
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• Three to See for Wednesday, November 14

  13-11-2018 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic: In the midst of its 18th season, the Olive Reading Series features emerging and established poets, local to international, sharing their work and stories the second Tuesday of every month. Rayanne Haines runs the Edmonton Poetry Festival, a featured artist for Capital City Press and the Edmonton Public Library, and has a new poetry podcast called Let’s Get Lit, co-founded by Stepanic. He, meanwhile, is editor of Glass Buffalo, poetry editor of Eighteen
  
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• Stretching out recess: One Alberta school doubled its breaks and is finding more focused kids

  13-11-2018 19:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ask any elementary school kid how school could be better, and they’ll likely ask for more recess or time in the gym.
  One rural Alberta elementary school principal wondered, would it be so crazy if he granted their wish?
  This fall, Bruderheim School, which is about 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has doubled the number of recesses for its 130 students, ensuring they never spend more than an hour at a time sitting at their desks.
  “When they’re kids, they’re not necessa
  
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• Blue-green algae blooms ease but toxic lake goo here to stay: U of A researcher

  13-11-2018 19:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blue-green algae mucking up area lakes waned this year — but don’t let your guard down, the toxic goo is here to stay, warns a University of Alberta researcher.
  “The occurrence of blue-green algal blooms on lakes in Alberta this summer was the least since 2012,” says biologist Rolf Vinebrooke, a department of biological sciences professor who has been studying the problem for the last six years.
  “Blooms were less severe when they occurred at all, and they also tende
  
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• Opinion: Sherwood Park blast shows online hate is selective

  13-11-2018 18:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the last few days, I have been thinking about an old folk tale from the 13th century Turkish satirical mullah Nasruddin, about the apocryphal “wise fool,” Hodja.
  Hodja gives his son a jug to fetch water, but before he gives it to him, Hodja slaps him. As his son starts to cry, a bystander asks, “why did you feel the need to hit him?”
  “In case he drops the vase,” Hodja responds.
  It has become a cliched observation that a news story is “headline-wo
  
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• Watch: More recess equals better students at Bruderheim School

  13-11-2018 18:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Students at Bruderheim School are enjoying an innovative take on recess. Throughout the day, students have four, 15-minute recess breaks and no more than an hour of instructional time in between.The change is based on a Finnish style of learning with the intent of maximizing student focus in the classroom.
  “The whole goal of the entire project is that we want to increase academics,” says Bruderheim School Principal Paul McKay. “We want to be able  to increase student&
  
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• Captain Tractor raises a jug to 25 years of Celtic pop party punk

  13-11-2018 16:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Say the name Captain Tractor and you can almost smell the pitchers of draft vibrating off slick tabletops at pure-party stompers back in the ’90s.
  Whether it was at the haunted Horseshoe, Edmonton’s rule-loving Sidetrack or within some random college quad’s embrace of plastic perimeters and too much advertising, this was, especially live, the ultimate no-brainer good-times act: kindly-natured Celtic-infused sorta-punk, draped in local-jersey-style lyrics about familiar places a
  
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• Edmonton weather: It could rain while we sleep tonight

  13-11-2018 15:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 0 C with 9 km/h winds out of the southwest contributing to a -3 windchill.
  Looks like it’s going to be a nice day today which is good since it’s November. Looks like it will get cold by Friday but then it looks like it will get warmer after that so… ya.
  Weather forecast
  Today: A mix of sun and cloud. High 10. UV index 1 or low.
  Tonight:&n
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Doctors commended for their service

  13-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Congratulations and thank you to two physicians for their service to patients, the medical profession, and the province.
  Dr. Gerry Predy retired in August after 40 years as medical officer of health (MOH) for Edmonton, Capital Health, and most recently the whole province as senior MOH for Alberta Health Services.
  Dr. Trevor Theman, former registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, was just named board chair for the Health Quality Council of Alberta.
  Gerry is the consummate public-healt
  
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• Opinion: Ban on abusive doctors would help survivors trust again

  13-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  When a person is ill or injured, their primary concern should be healing. They shouldn’t have to worry about whether they’ll be sexually abused by their health provider while they’re receiving care.
  Sadly, the mere thought of going to a hospital or clinic is enough to cause incredible distress for some sexual-assault survivors who have experienced this type of violence.
  We’ve all heard of Larry Nassar, the former American national gymnastics team doctor who was convicted
  
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• Installing shields for bus drivers to cost upward of $11 million as transit safety concerns swell

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shields to protect drivers on city buses could be installed as early as January, according to the Edmonton transit operators’ union, if council approves the $11.7 million it will cost to purchase the shields and retrofit buses.
  A proposal will go before city council’s executive committee on Tuesday to spend $6.95 million on shields through a single-source contract with Vapor Bus International. If the spending is approved during upcoming budget deliberations, the company has said it c
  
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• How a brand new house in Edmonton suburbs became a drug lab

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nothing about the prospective tenants struck Jennifer Schwitzer as out of the ordinary.
  Both were 25 years old, well-dressed and looking for a home to rent. The two were engaged, and said they ran their own online marketing company. The man offered six months of bank statements as proof of income. To Schwitzer, he looked like pop star Justin Bieber.
  “These are people I’d be friends with,” Schwitzer said. “They dressed well, they presented themselves well, they h
  
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• Doubling recess: Alternative schedule gives Bruderheim students more wiggle time

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ask any elementary school kid how school could be better, and they’ll likely ask for more recess or time in the gym.
  One rural Alberta elementary school principal wondered, would it be so crazy if he granted their wish?
  This fall, Bruderheim School, which is about 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has doubled the number of recesses for its 130 students, ensuring they never spend more than an hour at a time sitting at their desks.
  “When they’re kids, they’re not necessa
  
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• Cop cars rammed and near misses: Brazen criminals putting Mounties' lives at risk

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A recent spate of ram attacks against RCMP vehicles and near misses against Mounties and fellow law enforcement officers shows the lengths some criminals will go to try and avoid capture.
  Since the end of September the RCMP across the province have reported at least nine instances of police vehicles being damaged by fleeing suspects.
  Mounties in St. Paul narrowly avoided injury on Sept. 20 after trying to arrest two suspects that were wanted in connection to a multi-province crime spree. The men
  
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• City mulling removal of professional wrestling from combative sports commission

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A report heading to city council’s community and public services committee Wednesday recommends removing professional wrestling from the definition of combative sports after local wrestling promoters got caught up in a citywide moratorium on combative sporting events last December.
  The city initially placed a moratorium on combative sporting events in reaction to the shocking death of local fighter Tim Hague. Just weeks after it was implemented, professional wrestling was exempt from
  
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• Best-selling author, Joan Jett documentary and cool jam session top Tuesday events

  13-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Neil Gaiman: A self-described “feral child who was raised in libraries,” Neil Gaiman describes his craft as: “I make things up and write them down.” The sixth speaker in the 2018 Forward Thinking Speaker Series, the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books is known for works such as the TV-series-spawning novel American Gods (and its mutant twin, Anansi Boys), the beautiful book and animated film Coraline, and all-ages novel The Graveyard Book —
  
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• Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli sounds like he's nowhere near the panic button

  13-11-2018 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli: he isn’t too worried.
  The Oilers are on a four game losing streak. Indeed, they have not been close to winning in any of those games, losing by a cumulative score of 17 to six.
  Ouch.
  But in two new interviews, first with the media scrum on Sunday then with Bob Stauffer of Oilers Now on Monday, Chiarelli didn’t sound like he was anywhere close to a major move to fix the team, such as making a big trade or replacing the heach coach.
  The
  
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