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• Man gets 10-year weapons ban, time served for possessing drugs and firearms

  07-01-2019 23:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to time served and handed a 10-year weapons ban after a 2016 RCMP raid found him in possession of multiple firearms and drugs.
  In court on Monday, Clayton Fortin, 48, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm without a licence, possession of a prohibited/restricted weapon and possession of a controlled substance.
  Court heard Fortin during a 2016 RCMP raid was found to be in possession of a 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger 10/22 rifle, a Savage-Axis 30-06 rifle
  
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• O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, here's how you'll be collected

  07-01-2019 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  With Christmas over for another year, collectors will again take to the streets to pick up natural Christmas trees for compost, but not necessarily on scheduled waste collection days.
  The city is asking residents in all single-family homes to have their trees out for collection by 7 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9; the trees will be collected before the end of January.
  Residents are reminded to remove all objects including ornaments, tinsel, garlands, nails and tree stands so the trees are acceptabl
  
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• 10-year weapons ban, time served for local man found with stash of firearms

  07-01-2019 21:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to time served and handed a 10-year weapons ban after a 2016 RCMP raid found him in possession of multiple firearms and drugs.
  In court on Monday, Clayton Fortin, 48, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm without a licence, possession of a prohibited/restricted weapon and possession of a controlled substance.
  Court heard Fortin during a 2016 RCMP raid was found to be in possession of a 12-gauge shotgun, a Ruger 10/22 rifle, a Savage-Axis 30-06 rifle
  
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• Watch: Remembering former MLA Gene Zwozdesky

  07-01-2019 20:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The former Speaker in Alberta’s legislative assembly and a six-term MLA, Gene Zwozdesky, has died of cancer.
  A teacher, musician, dancer, entrepreneur and avid volunteer, Zwozdesky was first elected to the legislature in 1993 as a Liberal representing the Edmonton-Avonmore riding in southeast Edmonton. After re-election as a Liberal in 1997, he crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in 1998.
  Tributes flooded social media Sunday, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying Zwozdes
  
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• LRT testing to shut down line Sunday morning

  07-01-2019 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  A city-wide LRT service shutdown on Sunday morning will be the first in a series of planned outages to test the signalling system installed by Thales Canada.
  Service on both the Metro and Capital lines will be suspended from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Jan. 13 to accommodate the due diligence testing on the system. Edmontonians can expect to see trains running on the tracks during the outage, but they won’t be able to climb aboard.
  Replacement bus service will be available along the line, with st
  
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• Second person charged after three dead horses found west of city

  07-01-2019 19:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A second person has been charged after RCMP discovered three dead horses on a Parkland County property.
  Evansburg RCMP launched an animal cruelty investigation on Dec. 12 after a member of the public reported seeing starving horses on the rural property.
  Ross Andrew Atkinson, 50, is facing three counts of permitting and/or causing unnecessary pain, suffering, or injury to animals.
  On Friday, RCMP charged Patricia Lynn Moore, 48, with three counts of permitting and/or causing unnec
  
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• NHL with public relations fiasco over non-call on latest ambush of Connor McDavid

  07-01-2019 17:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in, a barrage of fierce criticism of National Hockey League referee Kyle Rehman for his non-call on Hampus Lindholm of the Anaheim Ducks after Lindholm crosschecked Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid into the boards from behind.Radio announcer Bob Stauffer of the Oilers organization: “This is embarrassing for the National Hockey League and reinforces yet again why the NHL is viewed as 2nd rate in the U.S. where they protect the stars in the NBA and QB’s in the NFL!”
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• Oilers in 60: A tale of two teams

  07-01-2019 17:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Oilers played the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday and fans couldn’t be angrier.
  But then the Oilers played the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday and now they couldn’t be happier.
  The Oilers gave up three goals in the first period against the Kings…three goals!
  But then the Oilers scored three goals in the first period against the Ducks…three goals!
  The Oilers couldn’t even score a single goal on Kings netminder Jonathan Quick, who earned the 4-0 shutout.
  The Ducks couldn&
  
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• Security concerns prompted cancellation of Bighorn consultations, minister said

  07-01-2019 16:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five separate instances of harassment and consultation with RCMP and security officials prompted Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to cancel public consultation sessions about a proposed new Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park, she said on Sunday.
  “We can’t necessarily guarantee the safety of the public given the content that has been shared with us,” Phillips said.
  The minister, who has previously been the subject of threats about the carbon tax, also said it w
  
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• Edmonton weather: Wish the wind would just chill

  07-01-2019 15:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -12 C with 14 km/h winds out of the west, northwest making it feel more like -19 C.
  This whole week looks to be kinda chilly for us Edmontonians. With a high today of -10 C and a 30 per cent chance of snow this morning. The wind is expected to pick up to 20 km/h and gust to 40 km/h out of the northwest contributing a wind chill of -22. So bun
  
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• Watch: City design competition to explore medium density housing

  07-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spruce Avenue Community League members Josh Culling and Jonathan Hlewka talk about their neighborhood in north Edmonton.
  The City of Edmonton is launching a design competition to explore what medium density housing could look like in Edmonton. The competition is specifically focused on five Spruce Avenue city-owned lots.
  
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• Restorative justice in Alberta 'far tougher than spending time in jail'

  07-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s hard to imagine a more senseless act.
  On June 1, 2002, 75-year-old Robert Stanley was killed when a basketball-sized boulder crashed through the windshield of the charter bus he was driving. The rock had been dumped over the side of a Whitemud Drive pedestrian bridge as a prank by two teenagers. It would be years before police tracked them down and charged them with manslaughter.
  When Caroline Gosling sat in on a community conference that was sentencing one of the teens, somethin
  
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• 'It really made me calm and relaxed': Occupational therapists build focus tool for youngest students in school

  07-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Students in Madelaine Valens’ kindergarten class at Our Lady of Peace School gathered atop colourful dots on a deep blue rug.
  It was three months into the school year. Valens held up a green card with a picture of a little boy crouching, then jumping. The tots then jumped up and down like frogs. A minute later, Valens held up another card, and the children quickly sat on the carpet, holding their bodies in the shapes of boats.
  Then it was time to breathe. Valens grabbed a colourful ball an
  
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• Elise Stolte: Beyond single-family. New design competition to bring creativity to Edmonton

  07-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  My dream house would share a front courtyard with a senior who enjoys the laughter of children and at least one other young family who is keen on snow forts.
  How about you?
  We have streets and streets of single-family homes — one box per family — and that’s good, but maybe there are other options. Just like families, maybe one size doesn’t fit all.
  That’s why I’m excited about Edmonton’s new Missing Middle infill design competition launched over the
  
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• Cult of Hockey Game Grades: The Edmonton Oilers put an awful LA performance behind them to blank the Ducks 4-0

  07-01-2019 06:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  What a difference a day makes.
  With a poor performance tonight in Anaheim the Edmonton Oilers could have sewered their season. Lose and they’re 6 points back and moored in a horrible slump. Instead, the Oilers may have rescued the year with a tremendous bounce-back 4-0 effort…especially considering Saturday’s embarrassment in L.A.
  The club had never in its history lost the front end of back-to-back road games then won the back-end game, both by shut-out. Before tonight. They p
  
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• Police advice prompted cancellation of Bighorn consultations, minister said

  07-01-2019 04:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five separate instances of harassment and the advice of RCMP prompted Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to cancel public consultation sessions about a proposed new Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park, she said on Sunday.
  “We can’t necessarily guarantee the safety of the public given the content that has been shared with us,” Phillips said.
  The minister, who has previously been the subject of threats about the carbon tax, also said it would not be a “pruden
  
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• Nick Lees: Kids Kottage needs stable funding to keep helping thousands of Edmonton families in crisis

  07-01-2019 03:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The five-year old boy’s eyes widened when he was told at Kids Kottage he would receive snacks between meals and one before bed time.
  “Do you mean we get more than one a day,” he said.
  Janine Fraser. executive director of Kids Kottage, said: “Sadly, we hear many such heartbreaking stories. This boy’s food for the day was to be a bag of potato chips.”
  Since the 24-hour shelter for families facing a crisis opened its doors in 1995, it has helped some 33,000 Edmon
  
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• Former Speaker of the Alberta legislature Gene Zwozdesky dead at age 70

  07-01-2019 03:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gene Zwozdesky, a well-respected and admired former Speaker in Alberta’s legislative assembly and a six-term MLA, died Sunday.
  “From his service to our province, the Ukrainian community and Alberta music, Speaker Gene Zwozdesky accomplished so much, helped so many and has been taken too soon,” Premier Rachel Notley tweeted Sunday afternoon.
  Zwozdesky died of cancer on Sunday morning. He was 70.
  Born in Nipawin, Sask., Zwozdesky moved to Alberta as a toddler and lived in several
  
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• Bought for a buck, now priceless: Indigenous Alberta media archive being digitized

  07-01-2019 02:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  He bought them for a dollar.
  Now, “boxes and boxes and boxes” of old audiotape and film that Bert Crowfoot has safeguarded for decades are turning out to be a priceless trove of Indigenous stories, culture and language.
  “This is a continuation of our oral traditions,” said Crowfoot, who’s helping direct a project to turn a roomful of old interviews, talk, music and movies from a defunct Indigenous media organization into a searchable digital archive.
  In the early 19
  
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• Orthodox Christians practice Christmas traditions with family

  07-01-2019 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Jereniuk family’s preparations for Sviata Vecherya began more than one month ago.
  That’s the Ukrainian term for the Orthodox Christmas feast of 12 meatless dishes Paul Jereniuk and Kelsey Jereniuk will serve the more than 35 people invited to their north Edmonton home on Sunday.
  It’s been more than 70 years since Paul Jereniuk’s grandparents immigrated to Canada from Ukraine via holding camps in Germany, and the family is working hard to keep traditions alive.
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• Former Speaker of the Alberta legislature Gene Zwozdesky has died

  07-01-2019 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Gene Zwozdesky, the 12th Speaker of Alberta’s legislative assembly and a six-term MLA has died, according to Alberta’s premier.
  “From his service to our province, the Ukrainian community and Alberta music, Speaker Gene Zwozdesky accomplished so much, helped so many and has been taken too soon,” Premier Rachel Notley tweeted Sunday afternoon.
  Zwozdesky was 70.
  “I will never forget his enthusiastic guidance in our first days of gov’t. My deepest condolences to h
  
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