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• Crews battle north Edmonton house blaze

  27-12-2018 23:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire crews doused a house fire in the Delton neighbourhood in the city’s north side Thursday.
  The blaze near 90 Street and 124 Avenue was first reported at 1:45 p.m. with crews rolling up to the scene four minutes later, fire spokesperson Maya Filipovic said Thursday.
  The fire was under control an hour later.
  At its peak, seven fire units were on scene where one person was assessed for injuries but did not have to be transported to hospital, said Filipovic.
  There were no injuries.
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• Dylan Sparks Canadian Paraplegic Weightlifter

  27-12-2018 23:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dylan Sparks wanted to get faster and stronger at wheelchair basketball, so he started lifting weights in the gym. Soon, his success in para powerlifting – a weight-lifting sport that pushes the limits of upper body strength – convinced him to ditch basketball.
  Originally from Grande Prairie, the Edmonton-based athlete will represent Canada at the World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan in July, 2019. He also hopes to compete at the Parapan Am Games in Peru next year, and has start
  
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• Watch: Man killed in Nisku welding shop explosion

  27-12-2018 23:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person is dead and two others are injured after an explosion at a Nisku welding shop Thursday.
  Police responded to the explosion at Ja-Co Welding and Consulting around 8:15 a.m., said a Leduc RCMP news release.
  A man in his early 40s was found dead at the scene.
  Paramedics took two patients to hospital with serious injuries, said Alberta Health Services. One patient is in critical, life-threatening condition and the other is in stable condition.
  Police, fire crews and Alberta’s Occupat
  
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• 'It was like a bomb going off:' One dead, two injured in Nisku welding shop explosion

  27-12-2018 22:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person is dead and at least two others seriously injured after an explosion at a welding shop in Nisku Thursday morning.
  Firefighters arrived at a Ja-Co Welding and Consulting facility to find compressed gas tanks venting and fires still burning, said Leduc County Fire Chief Keven Lefebvre.
  “It was like a bomb going off,” said Dean Crith, an owner at R S Machine & Manufacturing Ltd. The blast was big enough to shake the building and its rafters across the street from Ja-Co, h
  
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• Fundraising films for 'Reels' - St. Albert Gazette

  27-12-2018 22:33 via stalbertgazette.com
  Fundraising films for 'Reels'  St. Albert GazetteThe library's best friends have another season of great films lined up for everybody's favourite cinematic showcase. Reel Mondays is the long-running.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers need McDavid, Draisaitl & Chiasson to excel on defence, not just attack

  27-12-2018 21:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game 37, Oilers vs Canucks
  This in from radio announcer Bob Stauffer of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team:
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  Khaira-suspendedCaggiula-sick
  Nurse-LarssonGravel-BenningJones-WidemanSekera-Russell
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  Koskinen-starts net
  My takeConnor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are killer on the attack, but they have struggled on defence. This is especially the case when they’ve lined up Alex Chiasson, the third wh
  
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• One dead, two injured in Nisku welding shop explosion

  27-12-2018 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person is dead and two others are injured after an explosion at a Nisku welding shop Thursday.
  Police responded to the explosion at Ja-Co Welding and Consulting around 8:15 a.m., said a Leduc RCMP news release.
  A man in his early 40s was found dead at the scene. RCMP said they won’t be releasing his name.
  One person is dead and two others are injured after an explosion at a Nisku welding shop Thursday dec. 27, 2018. Greg Southam/Postmedia
  Paramedics took two patients to hospital with s
  
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• 'Horrific incident': Deadly group home blaze ruled accidental

  27-12-2018 19:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A blaze at a west Edmonton group home early Christmas Eve that left one person dead was started accidentally, fire investigators said Thursday.
  The 16608 90 Ave. fire just before 1:44 a.m. injured three other people.
  On Thursday, Edmonton fire rescue spokesperson Maya Filipovic said investigators have ruled the case accidental but they may never figure out the exact cause.
  The fire resulted in $275,000 in structural damage and $25,000 damage to contents. Ambulance crews transported four peo
  
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• Man shot dead by Edmonton police; surveillance operation ends in fatal shooting

  27-12-2018 18:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old man is dead after he was shot by Edmonton police following a traffic stop that was part of a surveillance operation on Boxing Day.
  ASIRT, Alberta’s police watchdog, has since taken over the investigation outside a condo complex at 79 Avenue and 71 Street in the King Edward Park neighbourhood.
  We are investigating an @EdmontonPolice officer-involved shooting fatality that happened earlier today. More details to come.
  — ASIRT (@ASIRT_AB) December 26, 2018Police were monit
  
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• Edmonton weather: The more things stay the same

  27-12-2018 16:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -13 C with 3 km/h winds out of the southeast contributing to a -15 windchill.
  A slight chance of flurries is expected today and the wind is expected to kick up to 15 km/h and a high of -9 C so for us Edmontonians it’s you know, a Thursday in December. Tomorrow looks to be more of the same so if you’re on vacation we hope it&rsqu
  
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• By The Numbers: 2018 was another crazy year in Alberta politics, as these statistics show

  27-12-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Controversies over pipelines, cannabis, nomination contests and other issues gave Alberta’s political arena more than its fair share of ups and downs in 2018. Here’s a look back at some of those ebbs and flows, not in words, but in numbers.
  Pipelines and oil:
  90: Percentage of fuel for Vancouver and B.C.’s southern coast supplied by the existing Trans Mountain pipeline.
  $328: Estimated cost, per Canadian, for Ottawa to buy the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and build the expa
  
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• Year in review: Journal editors' favourite stories of 2018

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  That’s a wrap — editors chime in on their favourite reads from the 2018 annals by Edmonton Journal writers.
  The persistence that it takes for some of the best stories
  Time and persistence. That’s what it took for reporter Jonny Wakefield to build the most complete profile of a man initially accused of committing an “act of terror.”
  There are few incidents that shake a city like the night of Sept. 30, 2017, when police allege Abdulahi Hasan Sharif stabbed an officer
  
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• Year in Review: David Bloom's top photos of 2018

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More often than not, my job is to find the single moment from an assignment that encapsulates an entire story.
  Other times, my job is simply to go out into Edmonton and find a moment that says something about our community. The photo I chose as my ‘Photo of the Year’ is from one such moment. In journalism, photos such as these are usually referred to as enterprise or feature photos — an image that don’t belong to any particular story.
  I had wanted to photograph the Museum
  
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• 'We're just going to keep pushing': Notley talks pipelines, election in year-end interview

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley says her government will keep fighting for pipelines as Alberta creeps ever-closer to the 2019 provincial election.
  Sitting down for a year-end interview, Notley said the past four years has been an economically volatile time for the province.
  “We’ve gone through some real challenges in terms of the drop in the price of oil and job losses, but we’ve also been reminded about the resilience Albertans have,” she said.
  Turbulent Trans Mountain
  Despite th
  
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• Terry Jones: Edmonton race car driver goes electric in latest international competitions

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stefan Rzadzinski has been Edmonton’s professional race car driver for some time now.
  The trouble with being a professional race car driver, however, is that you need a race car to drive.
  Or as they say in the business, you need a ride.
  Unless you come from a filthy rich family, that means you have to find a car owner who wants to put you behind the wheel of a multimillion-dollar machine, convinced that you will win him races. And to this point, Roger Penske hasn’t called.
  But Rzadzi
  
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• Story of the Year #4: Edmonton Oilers and Eskimos a major disappointment

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is a sports town. There’s no getting around that.
  Large segments of the city’s population care deeply when the Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Eskimos are winning. When our teams are consistently beating opponents, there is a palpable, uplifting feeling in the city. Everywhere you look, people seem to have an extra bounce in their step.
  But when the Oilers or Eskimos are mired in a losing streak, struggling to beat the weakest of competitors, the feeling is the exact oppos
  
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• Ryan King makes it back-to-back Tom Pate Memorial awards for Edmonton Eskimos

  27-12-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For all the reasons the Edmonton Eskimos might have to hang their heads after missing the playoffs in a year when the Grey Cup was hosted in their hometown, Ryan King can carry his head high throughout the off-season.
  The long-time long-snapper, who has only played for his hometown club since joining the Canadian Football League in 2012, certainly doesn’t play the most glorious role on a team that boasted the likes of league-leading passer Mike Reilly or league-leading receiver Duke Willia
  
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• Watch: One man dead following police traffic stop and shooting

  27-12-2018 04:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old man is dead after he was shot by police following a traffic stop in east Edmonton.
  Police were conducting surveillance around 2 p.m. Wednesday on a vehicle carrying the 34-year-old man who had a number of outstanding warrants and who was believed to be armed and dangerous, police said in a news release Wednesday evening.
  Police said an incident took place between the suspect and responding officers which resulted in the officers shooting the man.
  ASIRT, Alberta’s police watch
  
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• Man, 34, dead after Edmonton police-involved fatal shooting in city's east end

  27-12-2018 04:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old man is dead after he was shot by police following a traffic stop in east Edmonton’s King Edward Park neighbourhood on Boxing Day.
  ASIRT, Alberta’s police watchdog, has since taken over the investigation outside a condo complex in the area of 79 Avenue and 71 Street, directly across the street from where two young girls were found dead earlier this month.
  We are investigating an @EdmontonPolice officer-involved shooting fatality that happened earlier today. More details
  
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• Man dead after Edmonton police-involved fatal shooting in city's east end

  27-12-2018 03:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 34-year-old man is dead after he was shot by police following a traffic stop in east Edmonton on Boxing Day.
  ASIRT, Alberta’s police watchdog, has since taken over the investigation outside an apartment complex in the area of 79 Avenue and 71 Street.
  Police were conducting surveillance around 2 p.m. Wednesday on a vehicle carrying the 34-year-old man who had a number of outstanding warrants and who was believed to be armed and dangerous, police said in a news release Wednesday evening.
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• Edmonton-based powerlifter sets sights on Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

  27-12-2018 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Dylan Sparks started weightlifting to become a better wheelchair basketball player.
  However, it was not long before success in para powerlifting convinced the Edmonton resident to ditch basketball altogether.
  Inspired by athletes at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, Sparks, 22, set his sights on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he aims to win gold for Canada.
  “Dylan has a really clear goal,” said Jessica Ferguson, athlete development co-ordinator at the University of Alberta’s Ste
  
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