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• Better late than never: McDrai lives up to its billing as NHL's top line against Habs

  14-11-2018 22:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thirteen months ago in October 2017, TSN’s Frank Seravalli surveyed all of the National Hockey League’s scoring lines and proclaimed the unit of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Patrick Maroon to be at the top of the mountain.
  “For Todd McLellan, pairing the $168-million duo of McDavid and Draisaitl together is like kryptonite. McLellan did his best to separate them through training camp, slotting Ryan Strome, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Kailer Yamamoto to the right of No. 97, but
  
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• Breast cancer patients seeing reduced wait time for treatment: AHS

  14-11-2018 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The amount of time breast cancer patients have to wait for a referral to a program after the discovery of a highly suspicious cancer has dropped by more than 60 per cent in Calgary and over 30 per cent in Edmonton in two years, AHS said Wednesday.
  Those numbers, as well as the fact the same-day mastectomies in the province has risen from 22 per cent to 41 per cent in the same period, is being attributed to the health service’s breast health initiative and same-day mastectomy pathways.
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• Watch: Oilers coach 'really happy' with defensive effort against Canadiens

  14-11-2018 20:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three goals from the Edmonton Oilers defence helped the team end their four-game losing streak with a 6-2 win over the Montreal Canadians.
  Matt Benning scored three minutes into the first period, while Darnell Nurse and Kris Russell each put the puck past Canadiens goalie Antti Niemi in the third.
  “You know what? We only needed three,” said head coach Todd McLellan following the team’s high offensive output against Montreal. “The NHL is a game to three on most nights. It
  
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• Neil Gaiman remembers Smilin' Stan Lee fondly in Edmonton

  14-11-2018 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth,” Neil Gaiman was saying to more than 1,500 captivated fans in Edmonton, also noting, “Books are the way that the dead communicate with us.”
  It was a generous, captivating session of connection at Shaw Conference Centre Tuesday night. The 58-year-old English-American author was supposed to speak for an hour and a half; he gave us more than two.
  Standing alone on stage in black, Gaiman read entire chapters of Norse Mythology; his sh
  
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• Twenty-eight private schools defying GSA law risk public funding, says David Eggen

  14-11-2018 19:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province will follow through on a plan to cut funding to 28 private schools if they fail to publicly post policies affirming the rights of LGBTQ students, says Education Minister David Eggen.
  “I have been clear. Following this law is not optional,” he said at a Wednesday news conference at the legislature, adding there are about 4,000 students in the non-compliant schools.
  Eggen warned in August that schools failing to comply with new rules would lose public funding by the end of
  
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• Step into weekend of contemporary and classic dance options

  14-11-2018 18:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Have you ever felt as if you were being manipulated through your sense of fear?
  Dancer-choreographer Ainsley Hillyard explores fear as a method of control in The Signal, her first full-length multi-media work to mark the 10th season of Good Women Dance Collective.
  “It’s a really gross feeling to see people being manipulated by fear, politically or socially,” she offers. “As someone living in the world today, it’s very topical. I see it happening all the time to othe
  
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• The Press Gallery interview: Richard Starke warns of hyper-partisanship in Alberta

  14-11-2018 18:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  We highly recommend our fifth edition of the Press Gallery interview, in which legislature columnist Keith Gerein talks with the MLA from Vermilion-Lloydminster — Richard Starke.
  Starke has seen the legislature from virtually all sides. He was both a backbencher and cabinet minister in the former Progressive Conservative government, was part of an opposition caucus, and now sits as an independent MLA after deciding not to join the United Conservative Party.From those vantage points, Starke
  
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• Watch: Post game interview following Oilers 6-2 win over Habs

  14-11-2018 18:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three goals from the Edmonton Oilers’ blue line helped the team end their four-game losing streak, with a 6-2 win over the Montreal Canadians.
  Matt Benning scored three minutes into the first period, on a lucky bounce off the end boards, and Darnell Nurse and Kris Russell each lifted one past Montreal’s Antti Niemi in the third.
  “You know what? We only needed three,” said Head Coach Todd McLellan following the team’s high offensive output against Montreal. “Th
  
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• Oilers in 60: Oilers turn the Habs into the Hab nots

  14-11-2018 16:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a four-game losing streak, the Edmonton Oilers really wanted a win and boy oh boy did they get one. With the Montreal Canadians in town at Rogers Place, the Oilers came away with 6-2 win over the Habs.
  Nice finish by Draisaitl. Not many goalies stop that and Antti Niemi is sure not going to. #Oilers #Habs #NHL
  — Derek Van Diest (@DerekVanDiest) November 14, 2018Very important win on a lot of levels for the Oilers. It’s only one in a row but it stops the bleeding.
  — Rob Tyc
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Journalist's job is to ask tough questions

  14-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “White House reporter in the wrong,” Letters, Nov. 10
  The time has come for a refresher course on what the job of a news reporter is. Jim Acosta was not at the White House to do a vanity piece on Trump: he was there to ask relevant questions and hopefully, get answers to them.
  The job of the fourth and fifth estates is to shed light and hold governments accountable to the people. Acosta is not employed by Trump — who is a rude, egotistical ignoramus with a perpetual habit o
  
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• Watch: Vivian Krause crusading against landlocking Alberta oil

  14-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Vivian Krause is raising the alarm to an American movement to keep Alberta oil from international markets.
  Michael Marx of Corporate Ethics has been running a 10-year campaign to stifle Alberta oilsands production, relying on social media, mass media, political campaigns and activism.
  But Krause, an investigator and blogger with Fair Questions, says by ‘land-locking’ Alberta oil, the cost to the Canadian economy has been about $100 billion per year.
  Western Canadian Select Oil is fet
  
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• David Staples: Krause leads fight against Americans who have landlocked the oil sands

  14-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s not often that powerful American interests are completely open about their success at thwarting a foreign economy, but that’s what happened a year ago when Michael Marx talked up his achievements.
  In a post on his CorpEthics.org website, Marx trumpeted the success of the 10-year campaign to throttle Alberta oilsands production, saying: “From the very beginning, the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so their crude could not reach the international market wher
  
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• Player grades: McDavid-Draisaitl combo back in business as Edmonton Oilers dominate Habs, 6-2

  14-11-2018 10:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadiens 2, Oilers 6
  Edmonton Oilers exploded out of their four-game losing streak in impressive fashion Tuesday, laying an old-fashioned thumping on the visiting Montreal Canadiens to win going away, 6-2.
  It was a night where embattled head coach Todd McLellan’s decisions came up roses. The reunited pair of Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid combined three times to create even-strength goals and could have had a bunch more. New second-line centre Ryan Nugent Hopkins scored his first goal
  
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• Edmonton trucking company defrauded of $1.4 million: police

  14-11-2018 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 68-year-old woman is facing charges in connection with a $1.4-million fraud of an Edmonton trucking company between 2007 and 2014.
  The former payroll administrator created false payroll deposits for more than 500 employees and then changed the banking information for those people over a seven-year period, police alleged Tuesday.
  Those falsified pay cheques were then deposited into one of five accounts registered in her name.
  Staffing reports revealing former company employees were receivi
  
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• No bus service on Groat Road until construction ends in mid-2020

  14-11-2018 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  City buses will be steering away from Groat Road for the next year and a half until bridge construction is complete.
  Four ETS routes will detour around the busy commuter road starting Dec. 2 and redirect users to LRT stations to connect to the south side of the city and the University of Alberta, city transit spokesman Rowan Anderson said in a new release Tuesday.
  Bus routes 128, 130 and university service routes 725 and 757 will reroute to the Government Centre Transit Centre connecting transit
  
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• Strathcona County hall, community centre deemed 'structurally sound' following explosions

  14-11-2018 03:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  An assessment of Strathcona County’s town hall and community centre has determined them to be both “structurally sound” following twin explosions in Sherwood Park last week, however no timeline has been set on when they will re-open.
  The parkade, which was the epicentre of the blasts on Nov. 6, suffered damage caused by fire and smoke in the immediate area of the initial explosion, the county said Tuesday night.
  An environmental assessment on county hall is complete and cl
  
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• Confess to your sins: Family pleads with killer to come forward in Edmonton cold case

  14-11-2018 02:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The family of a Colombian national beaten to death in downtown Edmonton two years ago is again pleading for people to come forward with any information to help bring the man’s killer to justice.
  Leonardo Duran-Ibanez, 42, and his brother-in-law Elias Malkum were savagely attacked in the area of 97 Street and 119 Avenue in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2016, while on their way home from a Latin club.
  Duran-Ibanez was struck and fell to the ground where he was repeatedly kicked in the head in
  
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• Edmonton police to renew US$4.3M maintenance contract with helicopter engine manufacturer

  14-11-2018 02:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Police Service is set to renew a maintenance support contract with a helicopter engine manufacturer worth US$4.3 million over 10 years.
  Under the agreement, the service’s Flight Operations Unit will pay an hourly rate for each hour flown — the unit flies seven nights and three days per week — as opposed to a lump-sum payment when the engine overhauls for the two helicopters are due.
  The theory is that because the number of hours flown each year is generally fairly
  
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• 'It's time to do this': 'Columbia Avenue' plaza debate ongoing as plans roll into the budget debate

  14-11-2018 02:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Transformational plans for a downtown section of 105 Avenue that have churned in city hall for over a decade may finally come to life, pending looming budget discussions.
  But a feature of the design, which would see a plaza installed and the avenue closed to traffic between 112 Street and 113 Street, remains a bone of contention with the area’s business association that is otherwise keen to see the street get some attention.
  City council’s urban planning committee heard an update Tue
  
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• Christmas Bureau, Edmonton's Food Bank launch holiday campaigns as needs grow

  14-11-2018 01:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two of the city’s biggest help agencies kicked off their annual holiday campaigns Tuesday, one focused on feeding people year-round and the other dedicated to sharing the Christmas spirit.
  The Christmas Bureau enters its 78th campaign with the goal of helping more than 65,000 Edmontonians. The program gets a festive dinner into the hands of people going through a rough patch financially, including families, seniors on fixed incomes, the working poor and newcomers. It serves people of
  
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• Watch: Lubicon Cree land claim deal complete

  14-11-2018 00:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lubicon Chief Billy Joe Laboucan, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and federal Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett signed the official documents Tuesday before a packed school gym in Little Buffalo.
  The $121-million deal includes a trust fund to fund future economic development for the population of 650, negotiating fees and rights to a 246-square-kilometre reserve. Ottawa has promised new community infrastructure — 144 houses, a new school, sewer lagoon, recreation centre wit
  
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• Man who died in Sunchild First Nation gas station melee was new dad, says grieving mother

  14-11-2018 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man fatally wounded when violence broke out at a gas station on the Sunchild First Nation Friday night was working to turn his life around for his month-old son, says his grieving mother.
  Arley Lagrelle, 23, died in hospital later that evening after suffering injuries during an altercation at the Sunchild gas station about 235 kilometres southwest of Edmonton, RCMP said.
  The major crimes unit has taken over the investigation and several suspects were arrested Saturday on the nearby O’Chi
  
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• Elise Stolte: Amazing what hope can do. Lubicon Lake persistence ends a dark chapter for Canada

  14-11-2018 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s true — the Lubicon Cree really have rallied behind a new chief to end Alberta’s most contentious land claim.
  There are still skeptics and tough times ahead.
  But even the former chief’s son-in-law is now working with the new chief and council to secure good oil and gas jobs for their community. Construction manager Jordie Sawan won’t talk politics, but his eyes shine when he talks about the first oil-hauling contract he won for the band this spring.
  It’s o
  
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