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• Province to split $500 million between Calgary and Edmonton in first year of new funding model

  29-11-2018 22:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is overhauling the infrastructure funding model with Calgary and Edmonton, linking each city’s annual payout to provincial revenues and the carbon tax.
  “We are riding the prosperity of Alberta,” said Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson at a Thursday news conference. “If things are going the other direction, we’ll take a corresponding haircut.”
  Under new legislation, Alberta’s two largest cities will split $500 million in 2022-23, after the expiration of th
  
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• City budget: Police want cash for cannabis enforcement, call-volume increase

  29-11-2018 22:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are chasing an $87-million bump in annual funding over the next four years, hoping council signs off on spending for what the force predicts will be rising demands tied to cannabis legalization.
  The department was the first civic agency to make a presentation to city council when budget deliberations for the next four years kicked off Thursday. Budget talks may run for up to 10 days. The force is the city’s largest operating expense.
  If approved, taxpayers would be shouldering
  
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• Jason Kenney: It's time to mandate emergency cuts to oil production

  29-11-2018 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta is facing an economic emergency requiring immediate action.
  We have struggled through four difficult years. Over 180,000 Albertans are still out of work. Unemployment has climbed for six straight months. We have seen near-record bankruptcies and insolvencies. People have lost their homes, and in too many cases, their hope.
  But unless we act now, we could be on the verge of another major round of job losses. Many small- and medium-sized firms would quite likely cease to exist.
  That’
  
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• NHL's most lethal overtime threats? Edmonton Oilers' deadly duo of Draisaitl-McDavid top the list

  29-11-2018 21:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day #25: Kings at Oilers
  During the early days of the Ken Hitchcock Era, overtime hockey is back in vogue in Edmonton. Through 4 games Hitch’s Oilers have possted a 2-1-1 record, which is based on 0-1-3 in regulation hockey and 2-1-0 in overtime.
  Under Todd McLellan this season, the Oilers played 4 overtime affairs among their first 10 games, winning 3 of them. But in the second 10 the Oilers couldn’t get past 60 minutes, and their 7 regulation losses in that span opened the exi
  
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• Watch: FC Edmonton signs Zebie and Edwini-Bonsu

  29-11-2018 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ahead of the inaugural season in the Canadian Premier League, FC Edmonton announced the signing of its first two players.
  The club announced Wednesday that it had signed Randy Edwini-Bonsu and Allan Zebie.
  Randy Edwini-Bonsu speaks to the media after Edwini-Bonsu and Allan Zebie were announced as FC Edmonton’s first two player signings for the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League, in Edmonton Wednesday November 28, 2018. Photo by David Bloom
  Born in Ghana, before moving to Edmon
  
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• Driver dies after single-vehicle crash near Ponoka

  29-11-2018 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 22-year-old man died Thursday after the driver lost control and struck a guardrail on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway just south of Highway 53 near Ponoka.
  Mounties said the crash happened shortly after midnight.
  The lone occupant of the vehicle was transported by air ambulance to the hospital where he died.
  The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the RCMP.
  
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• FC Edmonton signs Zebie and Edwini-Bonsu

  29-11-2018 19:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ahead of the inaugural season in the Canadian Premier League, FC Edmonton announced the signing of its first two players.
  The club announced Wednesday that it had signed Randy Edwini-Bonsu and Allan Zebie.
  Randy Edwini-Bonsu speaks to the media after Edwini-Bonsu and Allan Zebie were announced as FC Edmonton’s first two player signings for the inaugural season of the Canadian Premier League, in Edmonton Wednesday November 28, 2018. Photo by David Bloom
  Born in Ghana, before moving to Edmon
  
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• Injured pedestrian killed after being struck by second vehicle, driver flees scene

  29-11-2018 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  An injured woman who died in a hit-and-run crash in north Edmonton Wednesday night was killed after being hit by a second vehicle whose driver fled the scene, say police.
  The collision happened around 7:30 p.m. when the 38-year-old victim was hit by a black Toyota Corolla while she was crossing 127 Street from 127 Avenue. The driver of the Corolla remained at the scene.
  “While the pedestrian remained injured on the road a second vehicle, a sedan, also struck the pedestrian but did not
  
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• Woman transported to hospital after morning house fire

  29-11-2018 17:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A woman was transported to hospital as a precautionary measure following a morning house fire in the Spruce Avenue neighbourhood Thursday.
  Fire crews arrived at the home at 11164 97 Street at 7:37 a.m. to find a blaze at the rear of a home on a verandah.
  Crews had the fire under control by 7:49 a.m. and it was declared completely out by 8:35 a.m., fire spokesperson Maya Filipovic said.
  Edmonton Police Service are investigating.
  
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• Mounties hunting for cat killer near Hinton

  29-11-2018 15:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mounties are hoping witnesses will come forward to help locate a person who shot and killed a cat with an arrow near Hinton.
  A resident in the Hillcrest Estate neighbourhood found the dead cat punctured with an arrow on their driveway at about 4 p.m. Wednesday.
  Witnesses have told police that the incident may have happened the previous night between 10:30 p.m. and midnight.
  Anyone with any information should call Hinton RCMP at 780-865-2455.
  
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• Edmonton weather: We now return to our regular scheduled programming

  29-11-2018 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -3.5 C with 7 km/h winds out of the south, southwest contributing to a -7 windchill.
  Well that’s all over. No more freezing rain to report, though some city sidewalks are still pretty darn slippery. And the weather forecast is back to its boring old self, with nothing too crazy to report over the seven-day forecast. There is a 40
  
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• Thursday's letters: Grateful for Grey Cup volunteers

  29-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “City workers were champions, too,” Letters, Nov. 27
  Mr. Mike Scott is correct that a large number of unionized workers did a good job. But let’s not forget, they are paid to do a good job.
  Edmontonians also should be very grateful to the hundreds of volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this Grey Cup a huge success. Some of these volunteers came from all across Canada, at their own expense, to volunteer for Grey Cup 106. They too are champions!
  B.R.N. Haswell, Edmonton
  
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• Opinion: Alberta Ballet is proof the arts must run as a business

  29-11-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three years ago, Alberta Ballet reached its 50th season, but with a confluence of troubles in tow: the anniversary coincided with a severe province-wide downturn, and the ballet was looking seriously towards bankruptcy protection. The company faced hard questions as to how it might continue amidst a difficult financial time.
  That same year, I was approached to return to the board as its chair. Having served previously on Alberta Ballet’s board, I knew full well that, although the ballet&rs
  
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• Vue-logy: the end of the printed alt weekly in Edmonton

  29-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  People keep ditching Facebook like wet rats, fairly pointing out it’s an all-access pass to pain — but to me it was really the algorithms that broke that machine. It was perfectly functional about five, six years ago. You’d see what your friends posted, be able to track events happening in real time, and there was a meaningful sense of person-to-person communication going on — with a lot of amazing randomness thrown in.
  It’s preposterous we couldn’t techn
  
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• Three to See on Friday: cracked Earth, Whipped Cream and Dust

  29-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Anthropocene: The Human Epoch: Guess what, fellow earthlings? We’re wrecking the only planet we live on! Whoopsie. Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky follow up Manufactured Landscapes and Watermark with a sobering meditation on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines and other examples of humanity’s massive re-engineering of the planet visible from space. Do we still have time to undo the damage? That’s a quest
  
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• Keith Gerein: No easy answers to Alberta's oil price emergency, but less partisanship will help

  29-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Crisis. Catastrophe. Five-alarm fire.
  Politicians around the legislature have been wearing out the thesaurus over the last couple of weeks in an effort to describe the severe price discount Alberta oil is now suffering on the world market.
  As the days have passed with little improvement, both terms and tones have become increasingly ominous.
  Those who know me will agree that I am often one of the first to scold the use of unnecessarily extreme language.
  But in this case, I’m forced to wond
  
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• Edmonton police not at fault in death of man who died of 'excited delirium syndrome': ASIRT

  29-11-2018 02:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police did nothing wrong when they restrained an intoxicated man attempting to climb onto a balcony who later died, Alberta’s police watchdog said Wednesday.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) released its findings on the Aug. 18, 2016, death of a 34-year-old man wanted on warrants after fleeing Alberta Hospital.
  Two Edmonton police officers responded after the man, who had a history of violence involving weapons, showed up at a family member’s apartment into
  
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• "It's a failure of epic proportions": TSN's Seravalli blasts Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli

  29-11-2018 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from TSN’s Frank Seravalli, his informative and provocative interview on The PDOcast, where he criticizes Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli on a number of fronts.
  I’ll report what Servalli, a well-informed and highly-opinionated TSN hockey insider, had to say and then give my own take.
  Related: McCurdy on Chiarelli’s record as GM
  Seravalli on Todd McLellan’s firing by Peter Chiarelli: “I see it as a self-preservation hiring and firing… I don’t care who
  
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• Calls for needles up, number of needles down; 'better data needed', says councillor

  29-11-2018 02:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of calls to pick up needles from city streets is on the rise, but the actual number of needles collected dropped off in 2018.
  The issue came to the fore Wednesday after a national newspaper columnist sparked an online debate after finding a needle on his property and suggested there may be a connection with nearby safe injection sites in the city’s core.
  “I find it defies logic to think that safe consumption sites are the cause of needle debris. Could there be a correlatio
  
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• Edmonton to officially expand boundaries on Jan. 1 after province approves annexation plan

  29-11-2018 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  People living in parts of Leduc County and Beaumont will officially become Edmontonians on Jan. 1 after the city won provincial approval to expand its boundaries this week.
  Edmonton will take in 8,267 hectares of land from Leduc County and the Town of Beaumount under the deal, approved by the province by order in council Tuesday.
  The area includes lands east and west of the Queen Elizabeth II Highway and a portion of 50 Street in Beaumont. It is roughly 20 times the size of Vancouver’s Sta
  
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• Police charge 28-year-old with aggravated sexual assault

  29-11-2018 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police released the name of a man Wednesday accused of aggravated sexual assault for failing to disclose his HIV status to a partner.
  Police say the move was needed to identify others who may have contracted HIV from the individual, who they said works in the sex trade. But a local group that works with people with HIV criticized the decision, saying that information could be found through the health care system.
  A news release Wednesday said that 28-year-old Anthony Lee Taylor has
  
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• Notley promises new rail cars to ship oil as Kenney calls for government-imposed production cuts

  29-11-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s political leaders are pushing different plans to combat the oil price differential clobbering energy producers, with Premier Rachel Notley opting for crude-by-rail and Opposition leader Jason Kenney championing mandatory industry cuts. 
  “We need the federal government at the table, treating it like the crisis it is,” said Notley Wednesday in a speech she delivered at the Canadian Club of Ottawa.
  She announced Alberta will buy trains to move an an additional
  
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• Funicular closed three weeks fix cold weather-related issues

  29-11-2018 01:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s river valley funicular will be closed until mid-December while city crews install a number of upgrades to allow it to operate more smoothly in cold temperatures.
  Between now and mid-December, crews will be putting a glass roof over the lower doors to “reduce issues during winter weather” and a “heating loop” in the door sill to prevent ice build-up on the lower doors.
  Also being installed are raised markers, handrails and signage on staircases to improve
  
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• Is Koskinen the Strong a keeper as the Edmonton Oilers keeper? Just maybe

  29-11-2018 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  The early returns are promising, but coach is sagely hedging his bets
  Yes, I’m a big fan of Mikko Koskinen right now, as are most Edmonton Oilers fans.
  Koskinen is huge, he’s agile, he’s got a decent glove, and his shoulders are at the crossbar when he’s down in the butterfly. He’s playing right now a modern day version of Ken Dryden.
  What’s not to like?
  Far from finding any kind of weakness to exploit, National Hockey League shooters appear to be somewhat spo
  
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