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• UCP board member and former MLA quits party citing 'dictatorship'-like control

  13-01-2019 23:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Former conservative MLA and UCP board member Ian Donovan has resigned, citing backroom deals, the party’s “dictatorship”-like control by leader Jason Kenney and party brass, and questions swirling around multiple nominations.
  A supporter of the united conservative movement since its inception, Donovan wrote in an email to his colleagues on the Cardston-Siksika UCP board he “cannot be part of a party that has lost its way.”
  “It has become obvious to me tha
  
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• Nick Lees: Edmonton friends swap Super Bowl for the snowy slopes

  13-01-2019 18:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of Edmonton buddies will miss this year’s Super Bowl for the 50th straight year to schuss down the slopes of Jasper’s Marmot Basin ski resort.
  Ivan Radostits, the man heading the trip, is so bossy his friends call him The Ayatollah.
  “There’s no doubt he’s an Alpha male,” says Jasper’s Emil Jabs, 68, who on the Feb. 2-3 Super Bowl weekend, will organize accommodation, meals and a ski race on the hill for 25.
  “Ivan will wander the room after
  
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• Review: 'Garrulous showman' Ric Flair rocks the Jube with professional wrestling tales

  13-01-2019 18:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  It all started well before Ric Flair hit the Jubilee Auditorium stage on Saturday night.
  The wooo-ing, that is, Flair’s signature nonsensical phrase and now something that can be heard at practically every wrestling event in the world, or even beyond into the public consciousness.
  Fans of the 69-year-old legend burst out with it all through the lobby while buying drinks, greeting friends, or maybe just in unabashed joy at the prospect of seeing their hero in the flesh.
  These were serious a
  
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• Trapped pollution over Edmonton prompts Environment Canada special air quality warning

  13-01-2019 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Pollution trapped under an atmospheric inversion around Edmonton could cause poor air quality up until Monday afternoon and aggravate symptoms of people with breathing troubles, Environment Canada warned Sunday.
  The weather bureau issued a special air quality statement for Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Fort Saskatchewan, Vegreville, Redwater and Smoky Lake.
  “Individuals may experience symptoms such as increased coughing, throat irritation, headaches or shortness of breath,” En
  
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• A Sunday morning reflection on the Edmonton Oilers after a Saturday night of could-have's and should-have's: 9 Things

  13-01-2019 17:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers missed a golden opportunity last night to move to within a point of a Western Conference wild card spot.
  I mean no disrespect to the hard-working Arizona Coyotes when I say that you need to beat teams below you in the standings. Especially one decimated with injuries like Arizona, who out-worked the Oilers. And Montreal had done Edmonton a huge favor by blanking Colorado 3-0. Eventually, one of the Avalanche, Minnesota Wild or Anaheim Ducks will wake the hell up. And if the O
  
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• Mounting tensions: Alberta big game hunter sues taxidermist for damages to exotic hides

  13-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Alberta big game hunter has won more than $25,000 in damages against an Edmonton taxidermist who he claimed improperly handled 17 animal hides that he collected on hunts from around the world, including Australia, New Caledonia (an island nation near Fiji in the South Pacific), Mexico and Takijistan.
  The allegations made during the trial date back as far as late 2006, when Raymond Moher had a series of animal hides transported to the facilities of Clarence Kriaski and his company Wildlife Ori
  
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• Cavern construction: Sand, cement fill Allendale Road underground cavity

  13-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Construction work continues to repair the cavern — likely created by a broken water pipe — discovered underneath Allendale Road last year.
  The underground cavity, found in August during an inspection of a manhole near Allendale Road and Calgary Trail, measures seven metres wide, with an estimated size of 700 cubic metres.
  “We believe that there was an underground pipe failure that occurred which created a pathway for water, which eventually would have eroded the ground around t
  
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• Alberta police watchdog ASIRT at 'critical mass' after busy year of investigations

  13-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s police watchdog is at “critical mass” when it comes to the number of investigations it can handle thanks in part to the increased complexity of sensitive investigations and a jump in police-involved shootings in 2018.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed to probe 71 cases last year ranging from fatal motor vehicle accidents involving police to physical altercations to the review of other police files from out of province.
  Last year
  
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• Air quality poor in St. Albert area - St. Albert Gazette

  13-01-2019 10:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Air quality poor in St. Albert area  St. Albert GazetteAir pollution in the St. Albert area prompted a warning from Environment Canada late Saturday night due to atmospheric conditions. Environment Canada said.
  
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• Player Grades: Edmonton Oilers get out-worked 3-2 by the dogged Arizona Coyotes

  13-01-2019 09:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Arizona Coyotes 3 Edmonton Oilers 2
  You make your own luck.
  It is true that the Edmonton Oilers were victimized by 2 lucky Arizona goals Saturday night at Rogers Place. But the fact of the matter is the Coyotes were ultimately rewarded for their superior work ethic with a 3-2 victory.
  I also thought the Oilers bench committed a tactical error by reviewing the play on the 1-1 goal. I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t tell from any angle I saw whether that was off-side or not. It wa
  
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• Winter Tales: Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival - St. Albert Gazette

  13-01-2019 09:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Winter Tales: Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival  St. Albert GazetteA free family event uniting Ukrainian, Franco-Albertan, Franco-African, First Nations, Chinese and Acadian/East Coast communities to taste, share and ...
  
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• Cult of Hockey Player Grades: The Edmonton Oilers get out-worked 3-2 by the dogged Arizona Coyotes

  13-01-2019 08:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Arizona Coyotes 3 Edmonton Oilers 2
  You make your own luck.
  It is true that the Edmonton Oilers were victimized by 2 lucky Arizona goals Saturday night at Rogers Place. But the fact of the matter is the Coyotes were ultimately rewarded for their superior work ethic with a 3-2 victory.
  I also thought the Oilers bench committed a tactical error by reviewing the play on the 1-1 goal. I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t tell from any angle I saw whether that was off-side or not. It wa
  
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• Old museum building occupied until 2020; all plans on the table for its next life

  13-01-2019 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The new Royal Alberta Museum opened downtown to great fanfare in October, but plans for the old museum remain more elusive.
  The old museum opposite Government House in Glenora is expected to be occupied until 2020 while staff from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism continue to transfer artifacts to the new RAM.
  Government spokesperson Kate Toogood said in an email the province is continuing to look at all options regarding its future use, and no decision has been made.
  She encouraged Alber
  
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• Alberta table tennis team wants a win at winter games

  13-01-2019 01:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  For the first time in over 20 years, Alberta is hosting the Canadian Winter Games and the table tennis team for Alberta doesn’t want to lose on their home turf.
  On Saturday during the Lunar New Year Extravaganza at the West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace, two members of team Alberta were on hand demonstrating their abilities.
  The crowd walked around the fenced-off area among the booths watching the two team Alberta players, Daniel Jian and Judy Pan, rally back and forth.
  “We’re
  
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• Six-year-old dies in snowplow collision near Edson

  13-01-2019 00:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A six-year-old child is dead after the truck in which they were a passenger crashed into a snowplow east of Edson Friday afternoon.
  According to the RCMP, a GMC truck was travelling east on Highway 16 just after 4 p.m. when it hit the plow, which was stopped on the shoulder.
  The man driving truck was taken to hospital with minor injuries but the child was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the plow did not sustain any injuries.
  The collision closed the eastbound lanes of Highway 16
  
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