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• 'Perfect recipe for ice': City shares strategy for tackling winter roads

  21-11-2018 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Figuring out best way to tackle snow and ice buildup on Edmonton streets is a little more complex than looking out the window or checking the forecast.
  The game plan changes depending on temperature, if snow is forecast or already falling, and whether or not rain is also in the mix, the city’s general supervisor of infrastructure operations, Andrew Grant, explained Wednesday.
  “Last week was a perfect recipe for ice formation,” Grant said, describing precipitation that started w
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Mike Nickel loses UCP nomination, UCP says workplace complaint has no merit

  21-11-2018 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Coun. Mike Nickel lost the UCP nomination for Edmonton-South Tuesday night to Tunde Obasan, a candidate criticized by the NDP for garnering support from an anti-abortion group.
  In a congratulatory statement, the UCP said more than 800 people voted in the “hotly contested” nomination race.
  “Like many Albertans, Tunde and his family came to Canada seeking opportunity and prosperity,” said Kenney in a statement.
  Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman slammed the nominati
  
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• New legislation aims to clear up property division rules for common-law splits

  21-11-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Unmarried couples in the process of splitting up will have clear-cut property division rules under new legislation tabled Wednesday.
  Currently no such rules exist, and partners in common-law relationships face time-consuming litigation to divide property after a breakup, said the province.
  The bill applies to unmarried couples who qualify as “adult interdependent partners,” referring to people who live together for at least three years, or have a child, or have entered into a partner
  
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• WATCH: "We've got our hands full." Coaches face media ahead of Grey Cup

  21-11-2018 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ottawa RedBlacks head coach Rick Campbell and Calgary Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson addressed the media in Edmonton on Wednesday.
  The two teams will face off in the 106th CFL Grey Cup Championship game on Sunday, Nov. 25 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.
  DAVE DICKENSON: “We know we’ve got our hands full. It’s huge challenge because they have multiple weapons. I think honestly, well, all their coaches will have a wrinkle for us, so it’s up to us to try to ma
  
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• Kenney plans Peace River Country Crown land sell-off as UCP transition team ramps up

  21-11-2018 21:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  A United Conservative Party transition team is behind the scenes preparing for victory in next year’s election, looking at who to appoint to senior political staffer roles and agencies, boards and commissions.
  Once the party’s election platform is finalized this winter, UCP leader Jason Kenney will ask chief of staff Jamie Huckabay and his team to develop a plan ready to implement “100 Days of Change” should his party win.
  One policy Kenney is considering is selling
  
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• Thanks to Hitchcock, Edmonton Oilers finally get it right with Milan Lucic

  21-11-2018 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A number of great things came out of Edmonton’s 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night, but near the top of that list was new coach Ken Hitchcock’s usage of and verbiage around Milan Lucic.
  Instead of playing him with skill players — as former coach Todd McLellan had done even as Lucic scored just 2 goals in his last 69 NHL games — Hitchcock played Lucic where he long belonged, on a grind line.
  At this stage of his career, Lucic is a super grinder, a deluxe ver
  
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• AHS buys land in northwest Edmonton for $36-million pharmaceutical centre

  21-11-2018 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Health Services has earmarked land in the city’s northwest for a $36-million pharmaceutical centre.
  It’s part of a larger $66-million project to centralize medication preparation and distribution for hospitals, said Wednesday news release.
  The construction of the 3,700-square-metre facility will be accompanied by the expansion of a production facility in Calgary and the redevelopment of five regional hubs.
  In May, the province had issued a request for bids before the site for
  
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• AGLC hits pause on retail cannabis licences as nation sees pot shortage

  21-11-2018 19:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) has indefinitely stopped approving new cannabis licences for retail stores due to a national supply shortage.
  In a Wednesday news release, AGLC president and CEO Alain Maisonneuve said despite ordering enough cannabis to supply 250 retail stores across Alberta, the commission has received just 20 per cent of what it requested.
  Although some of the AGLC’s 15 licensed producers have fulfilled their obligations, others have not, the re
  
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• Three to See on Friday: Dreamy pop, chipper jazz and swapping stuff

  21-11-2018 19:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Calvin Love: For something a little less likely to remind you of people ALL CAPS yelling at each other about politics on Facebook, Calvin Love brings his sensual and synth-driven sci-fi pop to Old Strathcona in this show that’s sure to delight and dazzle. Love, described in his promotional material as “menacing as he is magnetic, like sex and murder wrapped together in a trench coat,” sings of dreaming, loving a robot and other quasi-psychedelic concerns. Katie and the Wildfire
  
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• Editorial: Grey Cup: A week to celebrate

  21-11-2018 19:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Welcome to the 106th Grey Cup, Edmonton’s turn to host Canada’s quintessential national block party.
  The game, and the multi-day celebration that precedes it could not have come at a better time to divert us from a winter of discontent — of oil-price differentials, polarized politics, Oilers losses and icy roads.
  If there’s one thing that Edmonton knows how to do, it’s throwing a party and the Grey Cup is renowned as Canada’s biggest annual celebration.
  Even i
  
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• Stolte: 'Miserably fails the test,' Eastglen pool fiasco highlights Edmonton blind spot on public consultation

  21-11-2018 16:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton claimed the global title this year for organization of the year, best in public engagement.
  It didn’t deserve it.
  Individual staff do a fantastic job. But if Edmonton, at the leadership level, really has a commitment to making decisions that affect residents, with those residents, how on Earth did it create this fiasco around the Eastglen Leisure Centre?
  After two years of public engagement around the pool and countless hours of staff and volunteer time, committee members were bli
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Energy envoys need business acumen

  21-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  While reading the front-page story about Rachel Notley appointing energy envoys, I couldn’t help but notice the irony of the situation.
  At least two of the three were certainly along with her at the policy helm as we were being led into this mess to begin with. They must somehow have developed a newfound sense of business acumen, although that would be unlikely from a team of bureaucrats.
  With no leadership involvement from the business sector, where some practical solutions might actually
  
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• Opinion: Technology can help reinvigorate Indigenous culture

  21-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The effects of Canadian residential schools and government-sanctioned assimilation still threaten Cree culture today. We can help defy these residual consequences by preserving one of their most significant cultural cornerstones: the Cree language.
  Right now, it is in decline.
  Only 24.1 per cent of Indigenous peoples speak in their native language on a regular basis, and 82.2 per cent of them mostly speak it at home.
  However, Aboriginal groups can use technology to help buck this trend by writin
  
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• Player grades: McDavid-Draisaitl duo takes command as Hitchcock wins Edmonton Oilers' debut

  21-11-2018 12:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 4, Sharks 3 (OT)
  Edmonton Oilers turned the page on Todd McLellan on Tuesday, then ushered in the Ken Hitchcock era in style.
  The Oilers fought back from three one-goal deficits in the toughest barn in the Pacific, then unleashed their not-so-secret weapon(s) in overtime. Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid played keepaway for 30 seconds before McDavid’s centring pass glanced into the net off of Draisaitl’s skate to give the visitors the 4-3 win in a game they never led. It was
  
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• Watch: Local business creates new credit service for cannabis purchasers

  21-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton start-up GreenGreen has created a new app that will help users purchase cannabis on credit.
  “Basically we are an app-based credit card,” says GreenGreen founder and CEO Kam Nehmen. “We let you buy things you want in store and then pay for it at the end of the month, just like Amex, Visa, MasterCard. And In this specific industry we’re targeting cannabis. So we let you put cannabis on a tab and pay (for) it at the end of the month instead of paying Visa or Ma
  
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• Elise Stolte: 'Miserably fails the test,' Eastglen pool fiasco highlights Edmonton blind spot on public consultation

  21-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton claimed the global title this year for organization of the year, best in public engagement.
  It didn’t deserve it.
  Individual staff do a fantastic job. But if Edmonton, at the leadership level, really has a commitment to making decisions that affect residents, with those residents, how on Earth did it create this fiasco around the Eastglen Leisure Centre?
  After two years of public engagement around the pool and countless hours of staff and volunteer time, committee members were bli
  
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• David Staples: Cashing in on Trump and social conservative disdain for legalized weed

  21-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton entrepreneur Kam Nemec is hoping to make his fortune based on U.S. president Donald Trump and the social conservative wing of the Republican Party’s dislike of legalized pot.
  Nemec’s boutique credit company GreenGreen will launch this December in Colorado cannabis shops, a place where pot has a strange legal status, perfectly OK at the state level but illegal at the federal level.
  This murkiness combines with the belief of many social conservatives that weed brings on reefer
  
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• Watch:Grey Cup lands in Edmonton

  21-11-2018 04:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Grey Cup trophy arrived via military helicopter transport in Edmonton Tuesday morning, where it was shown off to 200 troops at CFB Edmonton.
  CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie and Edmonton Eskimos legend Henry “Gizmo” Williams brought the cup to members of the 3rd Division of the Canadian Armed Forces to officially kick off Grey Cup Week.
   
  
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• Justice minister criticizes Conservative report suggesting review of RCMP contract policing

  21-11-2018 04:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley defended her government’s approach to combating rural crime Tuesday and criticized a report by provincial and federal Conservatives suggesting sweeping changes to rural law enforcement — including reviews of whether the RCMP is the right police force for rural Alberta.
  During a speech in front of hundreds of delegates at the Rural Municipalities of Alberta fall convention, Ganley said rural property crime is down 11 per cent over last year.
  Th
  
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• Man clinging to life after jumping in front of LRT train at Churchill Station

  21-11-2018 03:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire, police and ambulance crews were on scene Tuesday afternoon after a person was “trapped” by an LRT train at Churchill Station.
  In a tweet, the Edmonton Transit Service said there is a “major” LRT disruption “due to an incident at track level” at the downtown Edmonton transit hub. Bus replacement service was being arranged to run between Central and Stadium LRT stations.
  Police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said a young man was struck by a train and that
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Ken Hitchcock in as Edmonton Oilers head coach

  21-11-2018 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Todd McLellan is out, Ken Hitchcock is in as the head coach of the Edmonton Oilers.
  The move comes after the team lost six of its last seven games heading into a road trip to California, sitting a game below .500 and sitting outside the NHL playoff picture.
  Host Craig Ellingson talks to hockey beat writers Jim Matheson and Derek Van Diest about the coaching change, why it happens now and what we might expect from Hitchcock, an Edmonton native and one of the winningest head coaches in NHL history
  
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• Three to See on Thursday: Fallen Angels premieres; a doc on homelessness; and dreamy pop

  21-11-2018 01:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fallen Angels premieres: Noel Coward’s 1924 comedy Fallen Angels is a frothy and fun confection about Roaring Twenties Desperate Housewives, featuring a cast of Edmonton’s most hilarious provocateurs lead with giddy aplomb by Belinda Cornish and Vanessa Sabourin, plus John Ullyatt, Nathan Cuckow, Rachel Silver Bowron and mighty Mark Meer. Directed by Marianne Copithorne, stage managed by Rachel Rudd, the Varscona Theatre Ensemble play runs through Dec. 1.
  Details: 7:30 p.m. at Varsco
  
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• Watch: Province proposes new pension plan governance

  21-11-2018 01:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  New legislation announced Tuesday aims to move control of provincial pensions to employees and employers.
  The legislation tabled by Finance Minister Joe Ceci gives employers and employees ultimate control over the benefits, design and financial health of their pensions through new “sponsor boards.”
  “The legislation we introduced today takes the politics out of pensions,” Ceci said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
  “By making this change, pension decisions aren
  
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• Man clinging to life after being struck by LRT train at Churchill Station

  21-11-2018 01:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire, police and ambulance crews were on scene Tuesday afternoon after a person was “trapped” by an LRT train at Churchill Station.
  In a tweet, the Edmonton Transit Service said there is a “major” LRT disruption “due to an incident at track level” at the downtown Edmonton transit hub. Bus replacement service was being arranged to run between Central and Stadium LRT stations.
  Police spokeswoman Cheryl Voordenhout said a young man was struck by a train and that
  
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• Watch: Ken Hitchcock in as Edmonton Oilers head coach

  21-11-2018 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hoping for a chance to salvage the current NHL season, Ken Hitchcock replaced Todd McLellan as head coach of the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday in San Jose.
  Hitchcock becomes the eighth coach of the Oilers in the last decade after a dismal weekend where the team lost two games after holding a lead against Calgary and Las Vegas.
  The Edmonton native sits third in career National Hockey League coaching wins with 823 behind only Scotty Bowman (1,244) and Joel Quenneville (890).
  Hitchcock won a Stanley C
  
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• Notes from the Dome: Transgender Day and an impaired driving reminder

  21-11-2018 01:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government raised the transgender pride flag Tuesday to commemorate victims of violence attacked for identifying as transgender.
  Flags are raised around the world on Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20 to memorialize people who have been assaulted or killed because of transgender hatred or prejudice.
  Culture and Tourism Minister Ricardo Miranda said his government stands with all victims of violence.
  “We join the millions of Albertans who believe in communities that are d
  
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• LRT delayed after person 'trapped' by train at Churchill Station

  21-11-2018 00:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire, police and ambulance crews are on scene after a person was “trapped” by an LRT train at Churchill Station Tuesday afternoon.
  In a tweet, the Edmonton Transit Service said there is a “major” LRT disruption “due to an incident at track level” at the downtown Edmonton transit hub. Bus replacement service was being arranged to run between Central and Stadium LRT stations.
  Edmonton fire spokeswoman Suzzette Mellado said six fire rescue crews were on scene aft
  
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