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• Coyote death investigated by Grande Prairie RCMP after online video surfaces

  19-11-2018 21:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Grande Prairie RCMP became aware Sunday of an online video that shows “the inhumane death of a wild animal.”
  RCMP along with Grande Prairie Fish and Wildlife are investigating and a government spokesperson confirmed that the animal in the video is a coyote.
  Anyone with information regarding the case can contact the Grande Prairie RCMP at 780-830-5700. Should you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1.800.222.8477 (TIPS) or by Internet at http://ww
  
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• 'Real and present danger': Notley appoints three envoys to help address oil price differential

  19-11-2018 21:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley has appointed three envoys to work on short-term solutions to close a widening oil price differential burdening Alberta’s energy industry.
  “This price gap is a real and present danger to the Canadian economy,” Notley said at a Monday news conference. “Everything that we do short of building new pipelines and getting more value from our resources is not a long-term fix.”
  The envoys include University of Calgary School of Public Policy executive
  
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• Three to See on Tuesday: Bergman, SNAP sale and a little history

  19-11-2018 20:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Through a Glass Darkly: Ingmar Bergman’s 45 films span seven decades, diving unflinchingly into difficult questions facing us humans — he’s one of the great cinematic portrait painters, especially of those under internal stress. To celebrate the centenary of this singular artist’s birth, Metro Cinema is playing a number of the Swede’s great, yet perhaps lesser-known works (outside of, for example, The Seventh Seal and Persona). In Through a Glass Darkly, a meme
  
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• Photos: U of A Pandas down Lethbridge Pronghorns 1-0

  19-11-2018 19:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  University of Alberta Pandas’ Alex Poznikoff (16) beats the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns’ Alicia Anderson (1) for the game winning goal during a shoot out at Clare Drake Arena, in Edmonton November 16, 2018. During the game the Pandas out shot Lethbridge 47 to 13. Photo by David Bloom
  University of Alberta Pandas’ Alex Poznikoff (16) celebrates her game winning shoot out goal against the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns at Clare Drake Arena, in Edmonton November 16, 2
  
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• Driver, 19, suffers life-threatening injuries after crashing van into light pole at Yellowhead Trail on-ramp

  19-11-2018 19:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 19-year-old man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after crashing into a light pole at a Yellowhead Trail on-ramp Monday morning.
  Emergency crews were called to the scene around 7:20 a.m. at the Yellowhead Trail eastbound on-ramp and Victoria Trail, Edmonton police said in a news release.
  Police said it was reported the teen driving the 2002 Dodge Caravan lost control before slamming into the pole and speed may have been the cause. The investigation into the cause is in its early st
  
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• Time for a new coach of the Edmonton Oilers? Yes

  19-11-2018 19:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers now have nine wins and 11 losses.
  Worse, in their last seven games, they have just one win and six losses. They have let in 29 goals and scored 17 goals, six of them in one game against Montreal.
  They are trending in the wrong direction.
  At best, it’s unclear that head coach Todd McLellan has the answers to reverse this trend.
  At worst — and this is where I’m at — we’ve now seen McLellan’s work for 3.25, we’ve had plenty of time to ju
  
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• Finding space rocks faster: 'Fireball network' to detect meteorites includes local camera installs

  19-11-2018 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Western Canada is getting a faster way to track fireballs.
  A “fireball network” of all-sky cameras is being put in place to allow for automated detection of meteorite-dropping fireballs, said University of Alberta scientist Chris Herd, curator of one of the world’s top facilities for preserving and studying the space rocks.
  The new system will help scientists detect fireballs as they streak across the sky; it will then then triangulate the landing location of any meteorites tha
  
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• Edmonton weather: Winter is over. It's spring again.

  19-11-2018 14:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -3.9 C with 6 km/h winds out of the west, southwest contributing to a -7 windchill.
  It never just stays winter anymore does it? No, we’ve always got to have these wild swings in temperatures — going from -20 windchills and snow last week to plus-degree weather and sunshine all week this week. Freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw. Just be wint
  
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• Monitoring bracelets and tax credits: Conservative task force report suggests sweeping changes to address rural crime

  19-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP contract policing in Alberta should be reviewed to see if it is sufficient or should be replaced by an expanded regional policing model or a “fully empowered provincial police service,” a new task force report released by Alberta members of the federal Conservative Party says.
  Furthermore, the report says, RCMP contract policing positions should be examined “to ensure they are not being used to fulfil other RCMP mandate positions.”
  Those were just two of the num
  
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• Maps show homeless camps sprawled across city of Edmonton

  19-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s increasingly common for people experiencing homelessness to camp in isolated areas of city suburbs and even beyond municipal limits, according to an outreach worker who offers resources to people living rough.
  Maps provided to Postmedia by the city show that between January and October of this year, city crews cleaned up 1,800 camps, with sites being found in all 12 wards.
  “The people that we’ve run into that are living further outside are just really trying to find a safe
  
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• Crowded rooms: Class sizes surged in Alberta schools as spending remained untracked, new data shows

  19-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Alberta taxpayers poured hundreds of millions of dollars every year into a program to curtail large class sizes, more and more classes across the province failed to meet government guidelines in the last 14 years.
  A Postmedia analysis of a trove of data published online by Alberta Education shows that larger-than-recommended class sizes initially dropped during the first few years of targeted investments through its high-profile class size initiative.
  In 2009, the trend reversed, and the numb
  
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• Watch: Edmonton Oilers lose 6-3 to Vegas Golden Knights

  19-11-2018 06:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan gives a post-game summary after his team was defeated 6-3 by the Vegas Golden Knights in Edmonton on Sunday.
  The Oilers lost for the sixth time in their last seven games, following up their 4-2 defeat in Calgary. For the second night in a row the Oilers staked themselves an early lead and then wilted when the other side dug in and fought back. The lack of finish on the Oilers is becoming a glaring problem. They went 0-for-3 on breakaways when the game was
  
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• Cult of Hockey Player Grades: The Edmonton Oilers falter 6-3 to the Vegas Golden Knights, now mired in 6-loss in 7-game slide

  19-11-2018 06:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the 2nd consecutive game the Edmonton Oilers started well against a Pacific Division rival, only to watch a well-earned lead evaporate…and then some.
  Sunday it was an absolutely brutal 2 minute 12 second sequence in the 2nd Period. The Oilers were on the power play and looking to take a 3-1 stranglehold in the game. The 1st unit had threatened several times but couldn’t cash. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in particular had an open net but couldn’t find twine. Then the 2nd unit came
  
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• NAIT hopes to bring highly popular gaming tournaments to campus

  19-11-2018 03:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is investigating the possibility of hosting highly popular and extremely lucrative eSports events as early as next fall.
  While still in its preliminary stages, Curtis Dell, NAIT’s campus recreation services student recreation co-ordinator, said he has been having discussions on campus for the past year about what it would take to host everything from small scale drop-in events to larger tournaments.
  Gaming tournaments have ex
  
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• Grey Cup: Women shelters want this to be the safest Grey Cup ever

  19-11-2018 01:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Four women shelter groups have teamed up to raise their voices and stand together in the face of domestic violence.
  The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS), the YWCA, Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton (SACE) and WIN House want everyone to have a good time at the Grey Cup and the festivities surrounding the event, but they also want everybody to be safe.
  “We want to support the Grey Cup committee’s initiative making this the greatest Grey Cup ever, and in order to do
  
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• It's Grey Cup week: Here are the best ways to get the family in the spirit

  19-11-2018 01:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Eskimos may not be in the Grey Cup this year but the Grey Cup is in Edmonton and the city has a fever for football.
  The Grey Cup festival is being held downtown along Jasper Avenue from 96 Street to 99 Street. It begins Wednesday and goes until game day next Sunday.
  A kickoff party gets the festivities started from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, free for all ages on Jasper Avenue.
  Ever wanted to ski or snowboard on Jasper Avenue?
  What about slide down a 45-metre (150-foot) slope in an inflat
  
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• Edmonton city staff candlelight vigil marks one year confronting workplace harassment, discrimination

  19-11-2018 01:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  One year after it emerged that at least one in five city employees said they have experienced harassment, one employee says more still needs to be done to fix what many have described as a toxic work environment.
  At a candlelight vigil held at Churchill Square Saturday evening that she helped organize, Cecily Poohkay said the anniversary was the perfect time to reflect on what has been learned and what still needs to happen.
  “There is a lot more work to be done but I think we get there by
  
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• Give me land, lots of land: Annexations in Alberta and why you should care

  19-11-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Reporter Juris Graney chatted with urban planning expert Sandeep Agrawal, director of the University of Alberta’s new School of Urban and Regional Planning, about the importance of land annexations and municipal boundary adjustments and why you should care about them.What are the options when it comes to municipal boundary adjustments?
  Essentially there are five main options — the first is that you can form a completely new municipality. Another way is when a municipality is complete
  
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