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• Three to See on Friday: Cool book launch, comedy homecoming, hint of Supertramp

  15-11-2018 23:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Candas Jane Dorsey ICE book launch: A recent inductee into the Canadian Science Fiction Hall of Fame and one of our local bright stars, Candas Jane Dorsey was recently asked by Neil Gaiman himself if she’d sign her book for him backstage after his appearance in town. That book was ICE & Other Stories, which Dorsey is launching — on her birthday, no less — at Audreys Books tonight. Beginning with the iconic 1988 story (Learning About) Machine Sex and ending with a new t
  
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• Edmonton weather: Western Alberta under snowfall warning

  15-11-2018 21:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Areas in western Alberta could be in for a bucket load of snow with up to 20 centimetres expect to fall over the next 24 hours, Environment Canada said Thursday.
  Areas around Grande Prairie, Rocky Mountain House, Hinton, Whitecourt will be at the centre of the heavy snowfall and drivers are being warned to postpone any unnecessary highway travel.
  The province said Alberta Transportation and highway maintenance contractors are mobilizing resources to maintain highways in safe winter driving
  
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• 'Extremely disturbing': Edmonton man who sexually exploited five boys is hit with seven-year sentence

  15-11-2018 20:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old Edmonton man who lured his victims through playing board games has been sentenced to seven years for sexual misconduct and exploitation of five young boys.
  Court heard the “extremely disturbing” agreed statement of facts at the Thursday morning sentencing hearing for Justin Georges Stephen Coulombe.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Paul Belzil agreed to the joint submission for a total prison sentence of seven years, with Coulombe also being listed on the sex o
  
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• Edmonton's budget: 170 people signed up to weigh in on spending plan

  15-11-2018 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Old pools, new recreation centres, transit fares and business taxes are among the topics Edmonton city council is expected to get an earful on Thursday during a public hearing on the proposed 2019-22 budget.
  At least 170 people are registered to speak at the hearing, slated to run from 1:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The session could continue on Monday, Nov. 26 if there are still people from that crowd wanting to address council.
  A typical homeowner’s property taxes will jump $79 next year if a
  
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• Tobias Rieder out a month, Edmonton Oilers recall late blooming Patrick Russell

  15-11-2018 20:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from the Edmonton Oilers, their recall of forward Patrick Russell from Bakersfield of the AHL, him coming in to replace the injured Tobias Rieder. Coach Todd McLellan says Rieder will be out about a month with an upper body injury.
  The #Oilers have recalled forward Patrick Russell from the @Condors. The 25-year-old from Denmark has scored 4 goals & 5 assists in 11 games this season with Bakersfield. pic.twitter.com/bai94XeLwO
  — Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) November 15, 201
  
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• Three to See on Thursday: Maria Dunn, vivid paintings and electropop

  15-11-2018 20:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Maria Dunn: One of Edmonton’s most thoughtful and advocacy-based musicians is celebrating the milestone of 20 years making music — she left her last non-music job in 1999 and has since become a Edmonton Folk Music Festival regular. Born in Scotland, Dunn recently told the Journal’s Roger Levesque, “Something can be more emotionally potent if it’s sung from the first person, and learning so many traditional songs I saw no barrier in writing in first person even if it
  
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• City could save $1.4M closing trio of underused pools, community 'blindsided'

  15-11-2018 18:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trio of city pools identified for possible closure in the upcoming budget deliberations were selected because their “performance” differed dramatically from other facilities, city administration says.
  If city council elects to close Eastglen and Scona pools, and both the Oliver outdoor pool and single-sheet arena, officials believe it could save $1.4 million.
  The possible savings were identified during a review of all Edmonton-owned recreation facilities, which was conducted as par
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snow is coming but so is warmness

  15-11-2018 15:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 3 C with 10 km/h winds out of the west-northwest.
  The day starts with a little rain in the morning which will leave, but then it’s chilly cousin will most likely show up with around 5 cm of his friends later in the day. In the days to come things get a little warmer but be nice to your neighbours and shovel your sidewalk anyway. The high today is expected
  
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• Thursday's letters: No Stone Left Alone warms the heart

  15-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “No Stone Left Alone brings Remembrance alive for local students,” Nov. 6
  On visiting St. Anthony Cemetery, in Edmonton, a few days prior to Nov. 11, it was very emotional and heart-warming to find poppies and a small flag at my parents’ gravesite. My dad was a Second World War veteran. There were more poppies and flags placed throughout the cemetery.
  To the children, young people and teachers responsible — thank you for remembering.
  Patricia O’Connor,
  
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• Opinion: Forcing Church out of medicine will worsen palliative care

  15-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  “We are talking about a fundamental human right.” This is ethicist Arthur Schafer’s conclusion about Doreen Nowicki’s attempt to end her life with physician assistance at a facility operated by Covenant Health, Alberta’s Catholic health-care provider.
  In the three years since the Supreme Court’s Carter v. Canada decision, physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has gone from a criminal offence to a broadly-accepted practice — even a “fundamental human rig
  
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• Guitarist's layered one-man-band starts from zero in live performance

  15-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Increasingly, music is a world of hybrid sounds.
  Still, David Jay takes a pause before he answers the question, “what kind of music do you play?”
  “I always have a bit of a tough time answering that because it’s hard to explain quickly.”
  Imagine a guy using a nylon string guitar in the Spanish style, until he plugs his guitar pickup into a looping device and an effects pedal, when he starts exploring harder riffs, repeating patterns and the fast speeds you might expe
  
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• 'A non-event': Thales says things rolled smoothly during LRT signal testing

  15-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The company on a deadline to deliver a fully-functioning LRT signalling system to the city said its latest tests produced “rock-solid” service, but the city says it’s still waiting to see a finished product.
  On Saturday, LRT service across the city was shut down so Thales Canada could perform testing. In the morning, it ran trains through a typical rush-hour service on both the Metro and Capital lines, and in the afternoon it had trains going at ‘Plan A’ frequency,
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Astral Swans, Tracy Morgan and Erica Rhodes

  15-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you’ve got the time, there’s something to do in Edmonton. Here are a few suggestions for the next seven days.
  Astral Swans
  If you haven’t yet then it’s probably about time you got to know Calgary’s Astral Swans. The ever-evolving project helmed by singer-songwriter Matthew Swann has won over both critics and audiences with his mesmerizing lo-fi psych folk, first picking up attention for his 2015 debut, All My Favourite Singers are Willie Nelson. He’s making
  
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• 8 songs to freshen up your Christmas playlist - St. Albert Gazette

  15-11-2018 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  8 songs to freshen up your Christmas playlist  St. Albert GazetteI am going to write a very true line about Christmas music that my wife vehemently disagrees with. Are you ready for it? Most Christmas music is just.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers second power play unit is woeful. How to fix it?

  15-11-2018 08:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers power play is mediocre so far in 2018-19, 14th overall with a 19 per cent success rate. The top power play team, Winnipeg, has a 34 per cent success rate. That won’t last for Winnipeg, but the question is whether or not the Oilers power play will trend up or trend down. So far they’ve been trending down after a hot (lucky?) start to the year.
  Edmonton started out the year with five left shots on the top power play unit and five right shots on the second power play
  
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• Watch: Kenney speaks to Edmonton Chamber of Commerce

  15-11-2018 07:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  During a speech Wednesday at an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce lunch, UCP leader Jason Kenney told a large crowd that “the world needs ethically produced Canadian energy,” adding that Canada has been “too apologetic” for its energy resource industry on the global stage.
  When asked after his speech about remarks made by UCP member John Carpay, who compared the rainbow flag to flags bearing Nazi and communist symbols, Kenney told reporters that revoking a membership wasn&rsqu
  
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• Edmonton city admin explain case for possible pool closures; community says they were 'blindsided'

  15-11-2018 03:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A trio of city pools identified for possible closure in the upcoming budget deliberations were selected because their “performance” differed dramatically from other facilities, city administration says.
  If city council elects to close Eastglen and Scona pools, and both the Oliver outdoor pool and single-sheet arena, officials believe it could save $1.4 million.
  The possible savings were identified during a review of all Edmonton-owned recreation facilities, which was conducted as par
  
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• Twenty-eight private schools defying GSA law risk losing public funding, says David Eggen

  15-11-2018 02:23 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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• Watch: 98 per cent of Alberta students protected by GSA policies

  15-11-2018 02:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  About 4,000 students in 28 private schools in Alberta are not being protected by gay-straight alliance policy, according to Alberta Education Minister David Eggen.
  If those 28 schools continue to defy the policy, the province will follow through on a plan to cut funding to those schools if they fail to publicly post policies affirming the rights of LGBTQ students.
  “I have been clear. Following this law is not optional,” Eggen said at a Wednesday news conference at the legislature.
  
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• Watch: Keep Canada Working phase two

  15-11-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government is stepping up the pressure on Ottawa to get the Trans Mountain Pipeline built by launching phase two of their Keep Canada Working campaign.
  A digital counter will be placed in Ottawa in strategic locations illustrating how much money Canada is missing out on, by keeping Alberta energy resources from international markets.
  The government estimates $80 million a day is lost to pipeline delays and the running total since the Federal Court of Appeal shut down the Trans Mounta
  
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• Canadian Native Friendship Centre reaching out for support to fund new dream building in Edmonton

  15-11-2018 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Canadian Native Friendship Centre is hoping to build their dream space to accommodate larger gatherings for the growing community. But first, board member Terry Lusty said they need the funds and the land to make this dream a reality.
  Without their own building since 2010, the gathering place and referral service for Edmonton’s Indigenous community has been bouncing around to different locations, recently settling in a small space at 11728 95 Street.
  But the site is too sm
  
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• Woman sentenced to three years for manslaughter in death of unconscious boyfriend

  15-11-2018 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 50-year-old woman who kicked her unconscious boyfriend and didn’t alert authorities for 48 hours will serve a remaining 36-month manslaughter sentence in a federal prison following an emotional sentencing hearing Wednesday.
  Joelle Reich, in court Wednesday, was found guilty of contributing to the death of Warren McLeod by kicking him in the head after he was kicked repeatedly by two men in a downtown rooming house in March 2015.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman rul
  
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• Kenney says UCP member who made 'vile' remarks still in party

  15-11-2018 00:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The UCP member who took heat for comparing the rainbow flag and the flags bearing Nazi and communist symbols is still a card-carrying member of the party, says Leader Jason Kenney.
  “It’s our board that deals with expulsions,” Kenney told reporters Wednesday. “I condemned Mr. Carpay’s remarks as being vile and offensive. He does not in any way speak for the United Conservative Party.
  “He apologized for and retracted his offensive remarks.”
  John Carpay,&nb
  
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