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• Three to See: Richard Inman, Life May Be and Rust Magic 2019 panel at AGA

  06-03-2019 23:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Winnipeg’s Richard Inman plays Empress Ale House Thursday night.
  Richard Inman with Nadine Kellman: According to the debonair Travis Salty over at the Empress: “Country balladeer Richard Inman returns to Edmonton to play the sweet, sad and slow ones at your favourite little spot. Number 1 nightingale Nadine Kellman starts the night off at 9:30 p.m, so c’mon down, listen some, and get your mind right.” Sounds just lovely — have a look at Inman on YouTube below for fu
  
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• Committee votes to tighten licensing rules for convicted taxi drivers, but says more needs to be done

  06-03-2019 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors voted to tighten the restrictions around issuing vehicle-for-hire licences to people convicted of a serious criminal offence — but also agreed that more provisions need to be adopted to ensure public safety.
  Taxi and other vehicle-for-hire drivers convicted of severe criminal offences within the last 10 years will no longer be able to appeal the refusal of a licence to a city committee, under the proposed bylaw amendments unanimously passed in a council vote.
  The discussio
  
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• Watch: Draisaitl makes his scoring chances count

  06-03-2019 23:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  Leon Draisaitl was one of the first players on the ice and one of the last off the ice at the Oilers practice at Rogers Place on Wednesday to work on his shot.
  “I try and bear down on my chances, I take big pride in that. When I get a chance I make it count, hopefully it keeps working that way for me,” said Draisaitl in the dressing room after practice.
  He has a career-high 41 goals this year, four behind Alex Ovechkin, but he refuses to answer questions about the magic 50 mark he is
  
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• Edmonton man, company sanctioned for breaching security laws

  06-03-2019 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has sanctioned an Edmonton man and his company for breaching the province’s securities laws.
  In a news release Wednesday, the ASC — which is responsible for administering the province’s securities laws — said Robert Carl Stewart and his company Tamarisk Energy Corp. admitted they illegally distributed Tamarisk shares and warrants.
  It was determined Stewart made prohibited representations to investors, telling them the company would
  
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• 'Get back on the job': Notley calls for Trudeau to act after China ban hits Alberta canola producers

  06-03-2019 23:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley is demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau take action after China blocked some Canadian canola imports, a move which could cost Albertans “hundreds of millions” and “3,000 jobs.”
  China’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it is blocking some imports of Canadian canola due to fears of insect infestation. Richardson International Ltd., one of Canada’s largest grain producers, said Tuesday that the country had revoked its permit to export
  
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• Former Edmonton Institution guard charged with sexual assault

  06-03-2019 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former correctional officer at Edmonton’s maximum security prison has been charged with sexual assault and assault with a weapon.
  In the fall of 2017, the Edmonton Police Service was alerted by Correctional Service Canada to allegations of criminal misconduct at the Edmonton Institution, said police in a news release Wednesday.
  On Tuesday, Edmonton police charged a 50-year-old former correctional officer in relation to incidents that took place before 2017 against a female employee of th
  
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• Stop work orders issued for company involved in Leduc workplace fatality

  06-03-2019 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two stop work orders have been issued for a property maintenance company involved in a workplace fatality in Leduc.
  On Monday, emergency services arrived at a workplace accident around 2:30 p.m. where it was confirmed a 45-year-old man died. Leduc RCMP attended the scene and handed the investigation over to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS).
  Alberta Labour spokesman Trent Bancarz said in an email Wednesday the worker died after falling from a fourth-floor balcony of an apartment building whic
  
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• A local video rental store commercial so good it's headed to South by Southwest

  06-03-2019 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Kevin Martin stars in The Video Store Commercial, which world-premieres at sxsw 2019 this weekend.
  A locally produced ad for an anachronistic movie rental shop on Whyte was so well done it’s officially world-premiering at South by Southwest in Austin on the weekend.
  The Video Store Commercial is a madcap and style-hopping short film filmed downstairs at Kevin Martin’s The Lobby DVD Shop (10815 82 Ave.), starring the long-haired, longtime business owner in a fictional narrative where
  
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• David Staples: Notley, Kenney reveal duelling visions for oil

  06-03-2019 16:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenney and Rachel Notely have major strategies to get Alberta’s oil economy on track, but Kenney plans a much more significant step than Notley when it comes to getting results.
  Kenney is proposing to cut corporate taxes from 12 per cent to 8 per cent, a move that repudiates Notley’s economic vision. The NDP raised corporate taxes from 10 per cent to 12 per cent in 2016.
  As for Notley, she spoke out at a Senate hearing in Ottawa against Bill C-69, the federal government’s
  
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• Alberta carbon tax: The province's most kicked political football

  06-03-2019 16:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s carbon tax is either “the most hated” NDP policy or a critical commitment to the environment for future generations, depending on who you talk to.
  If you listen to the NDP, you will hear that the fee, charged on fuel and heating bills, is part of a job creating Climate Leadership Plan that positions Alberta’s economy for decades. They call it a levy, not a tax.
  The UCP like to call it a job killer.
  As the province barrels toward an election, those polarized posi
  
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• Edmonton weather: OK March, you can start warming up anytime now

  06-03-2019 14:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -19 C with 6 km/h winds out of the east, northeast contributing to a -24 wind chill.
  I know I know, March is not technically or historically a nice-weather month. It’s not spring, even though the Spring Equinox is mere weeks away (March 20), but it’s not really meant to be winter either. Which is why waking up to a -24 wind chill is
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Future still bright for Alberta energy

  06-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Alberta must adapt to looming shift in global energy markets,” Opinion, March 1
  Thank you Gil McGowan for your conclusion that Alberta is going in the right direction based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration report for 2019.
  However, it would have been much more useful to state that your conclusion is based on the worst-case scenario for oil. The report holds six scenarios, out to 2050, four of which show an increase in oil production over the period.
  What is more int
  
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• Editorial: Explain value of the carbon tax

  06-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two years after it was introduced, the provincial carbon tax remains among Alberta’s most divisive political issues.
  It’s so polarizing that UCP Leader Jason Kenney promises that repealing the hot-button tax will be the first piece of legislation his government will pass should he become premier.
  But it doesn’t have to be this way; it’s worth asking, if the NDP government did a better job of showing where the revenue goes, would the carbon tax’s 6.73-cent per litre
  
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• When energy-efficient light bulbs got political in Alberta

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Energy-efficient light bulbs became something of a political hand grenade in Alberta in February 2017 when the government announced the lights would be part of a direct install program funded by the carbon tax.
  The official Opposition at the time was furious at what it deemed a government trying to buy Albertans with their own money.
  Not much has changed.
  The direct install program was operated by Energy Efficiency Alberta, an arm’s-length provincial agency whose projects are funded by the
  
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• Oil Spills: Oilers' Leon Draisaitl becoming an NHL force

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Forward Leon Draisaitl has been playing well lately for the Edmonton Oilers, scoring regularly as the team tries to claw its way back into the NHL wild-card playoff spot convseration as the regular season ticks down.
  
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• Indigenous communities clamour for climate dollars to improve life on reserve

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Winston Lapatak has a growing list of green ambitions.
  As director of economic development for the band 170 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, Lapatak is hoping for a second round of energy retrofitting funding once a $2.4-million overhaul to the band’s administration building and arena is completed this year. The first round of money came from Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan, which was introduced in 2015 and receives the majority of its funds from th
  
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• David Staples: Notley, Kenney reveal dueling visions for oil

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jason Kenney and Rachel Notely have major strategies to get Alberta’s oil economy on track, but Kenney plans a much more significant step than Notley when it comes to getting results.
  Kenney is proposing to cut corporate taxes from 12 per cent to 8 per cent, a move that repudiates Notley’s economic vision. The NDP raised corporate taxes from 10 per cent to 12 per cent in 2016.
  As for Notley, she spoke out at a Senate hearing in Ottawa against Bill C-69, the federal government’s
  
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• Campaigning on or against the carbon tax, Alberta's most kicked political football

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s carbon tax is either “the most hated” NDP policy or a critical commitment to the environment for future generations, depending on who you talk to.
  If you listen to the NDP, you will hear that the fee, charged on fuel and heating bills, is part of a job creating Climate Leadership Plan that positions Alberta’s economy for decades. They call it a levy, not a tax.
  The UCP like to call it a job killer.
  As the province barrels toward an election, those polarized posi
  
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• Bionic strength: U of A students designing upper-body exoskeleton to assist labourers

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of more than 40 undergraduate students from the University of Alberta are designing a powered suit to make heavy lifting in the workplace a little lighter.
  “We’re a new group trying to get people excited about the idea of using their skills for helping people clinically,” group president and co-founder Ben Hallworth said. “And I don’t think anyone dislikes Iron Man.”
  The U of A Biomedical Technologies Development Group (UAB) was formed last fall to giv
  
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• Alberta's path to a carbon tax: A timeline

  06-03-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  October 2002: The Progressive Conservative government released its first emissions reductions plan, Albertans and Climate Change: Taking Action. The plan set a goal of reducing carbon emissions 50 per cent by 2020, which would be 10 per cent below 1990 levels in the province.
  November 2003: The Climate Change and Emissions Management Act passed in the legislature, putting the emissions targets into law.
  July 1, 2007: Amended legislation and new regulations required facilities emitting more than
  
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• St. Albert Sports - Local sports news - St. Albert Today

  06-03-2019 10:53 via stalberttoday.ca
  St. Albert Sports - Local sports news  St. Albert TodaySt. Albert's latest sports news - updated daily at StAlbertToday.ca.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers getting great news with play of Andrej Sekera

  06-03-2019 08:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s still early.
  And Andrej Sekera is only playing 15 minutes and change a game, just third-pairing minutes.
  And he’s going to be 33 next year, old for an NHLer.
  And he’s coming off two major injuries.
  And he’s coming off a terrible 2017018 season.
  Yes, there’s still plenty of reason to doubt that Sekera will ever again be the player he was as recently as the 2016-17 season, a d-man good enough to help lead his team into the Divisional finals of the NHL playoffs. B
  
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• Man taken to hospital after stabbing near High Level Bridge

  06-03-2019 07:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries after emergency crews responded to reports of a stabbing near the High Level Bridge Tuesday evening.
  Edmonton Police and Edmonton Medical Services responded to reports of a stabbing victim at the Menchie frozen yogurt shop on 109 street shortly before 9:30 p.m.
  Detective Ross Magega said the incident occurred further north near the bridge and Saskatchewan Drive before the victim made his way into the store for help.
  
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• Edmonton police issue public warning after a series of violent carjackings

  06-03-2019 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are warning the public to aware of their surroundings after a series of carjackings in Southeast Edmonton.
  Police have responded to three reports of car thefts in the last two days, the department said in a news release on Tuesday.
  “Investigators believe that all three carjackings are linked and may involve the same suspects,” said EPS spokeswoman Carolin Maran in the release.
  On Monday evening police responded to a report of two men demanding a woman give them the ke
  
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• Edmonton takes 'Healthy City' proposal to national competition

  06-03-2019 02:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is planning to harness its open data system as a means to improve public health as it vies for $50 million in a national competition.
  The city is one of five finalists in its category for Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge — which encourages cities to find ways to solve big challenges through data and technology.
  Edmonton is in the running with a ‘Healthy City’ theme, and its proposal focuses on using data it has collected to work with other levels of
  
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• Neighbourhoods for Edmonton's separated waste pilot announced

  06-03-2019 02:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city unveiled the 13 neighbourhoods that will partake in a one-year pilot of asking citizens to separate their organics from other household waste.
  Letters were posted Tuesday to the participating 8,000 homes spread across the city in neighbourhoods old and new, and with different layouts and challenges for pick-up.
  The selected neighbourhoods include Baturyn, Beacon Heights, Brintnell, Cy Becker, Chambery, Delwood, Ellerslie, Forest Heights, Kensington, Kiniski Gardens, Miller, Satoo and Ta
  
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• Man charged with random assault of senior has previous assault charges

  06-03-2019 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who has been charged with assault after a senior was randomly attacked and left fighting for his life has had previous assault charges, according to court records.
  On Feb. 27, police responded to a call at around 3:30 p.m. near 48 Street and 22 Avenue in the neighbourhood of Pollard Meadows.
  There, they found a 65-year-old man on the ground in medical distress. He was treated and transported to hospital in life-threatening condition. Police said the man was “viciously and randomly&rd
  
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• Federal, provincial OHS bodies looking into two separate Alberta workplace deaths

  06-03-2019 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Federal and provincial Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) bodies are looking into two separate workplace deaths that occurred on Monday, one in Leduc and one south of Grande Prairie.
  Emergency services responded to a collision at a business on a rural property about 20 kilometres south of Grande Prairie, RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.
  Police said a vehicle was in reverse and struck a 37-year-old male pedestrian, causing fatal injuries.
  The RCMP investigation is ongoing. Alberta Labour sp
  
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• Committee dumps proposal to remove liquor store separation rules for downtown, Oliver

  06-03-2019 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A plan to ditch liquor store separation distances in two core neighbourhoods was tossed on the slush pile by city council’s executive committee on Tuesday.
  Administration began poking around the possibility of removing the bylaw stipulation that liquor stores must be 500 metres apart at the direction of city council in 2017, after the Katz Group’s request to open a liquor store was rejected because of another seller in the vicinity.
  A variance for separation distances in the Ice Dist
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Leon Draisaitl exceeds expectations for the Edmonton Oilers

  06-03-2019 00:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Forwards Leon Draisaitl and Zack Kassian have been playing well for the Edmonton Oilers of late, scoring regularly as the team tries to claw its way back into the NHL wild-card playoff spot convseration as the regular season ticks down. What have they done to elevate their games?
  Host Craig Ellingson talks to hockey beat writers Jim Matheson and Derek Van Diest about Draisaitl and Kassian, and about the effect Andrej Sekera has had on the Oilers defence since he made his season debut last month
  
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