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• Federal government gives first $53.7 million from disaster fund to Edmonton for flood mitigation efforts

  11-03-2019 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson recalls trying to drive through the Parkallen neighbourhood in July 2004 to check on his childhood home after torrential rain flooded city streets.
  “I drove here as best as I could through the flooded streets and was able to get close enough to come in and see the neighbourhood on the day of that terrible storm and remember people, on the one hand, frolicking in their canoes and on the other hand, seeing cars floating down 113 Street,” Iveson said at Ellingson Park,
  
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• Watch: Ottawa announces funding for Edmonton LRT line

  11-03-2019 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Infrastructure and Communities Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced more than $1 billion in federal funding for Valley Line West and Metro Line Northwest projects at Lewis Farm Transit Centre Monday in Edmonton. The Government of Alberta is contributing about $1.17 billion through the climate leadership plan, and the City of Edmonton is providing about $706 million of taxpayers’ money.
  
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• Notes from the Dome: A new provincial park, cheaper crop insurance and political fines

  11-03-2019 22:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 166,000 hectares of boreal forest in northern Alberta has been officially designated a wildland provincial park. It will be called Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland.
  The move stems from an agreement between Indigenous communities, energy companies and the federal government and follows one month of public consultations.
  The idea was first proposed by Mikisew Cree First Nation.
  It received strong support from Athabasca Chipewyan Cree First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation, Fort Chi
  
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• Former councillor Bryan Anderson honoured by renaming portion of Terwillegar Heights District Park

  11-03-2019 22:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A portion of the Terwillegar Heights District Park will be renamed to honour the work and dedication of former city councillor, sports coach and recreation advocate Bryan Anderson.
  The portion of the park, located in the southwest neighbourhood of Leger, will be renamed to the Bryan Anderson Athletic Grounds, the city’s naming committee announced Monday in a news release.
  Anderson served 19 years as a councillor and, as an educator and a coach, created opportunities that supported student
  
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• 'NDP waste': UCP would kill $590-million 'Superlab'

  11-03-2019 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A planned $590-million Edmonton Laboratory Clinical Hub — dubbed the ‘Superlab’ — would be nixed under a UCP government, party leader Jason Kenney said Monday.
  The UCP would also reverse a planned $50-million purchase of Dynalife labs, an Edmonton-based company with about 1,200 workers.
  In May 2016, Health Minister Sarah Hoffman announced her government’s intention to consolidate lab testing for northern Alberta in one central facility. It would replace Dynalife&rsq
  
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• Man dead in third workplace fatality in Alberta in one week

  11-03-2019 22:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  A third workplace fatality in one week has occurred in Alberta, the second to happen south of Grande Prairie.
  On Sunday, at approximately 10:30 p.m., Grande Prairie RCMP along with emergency services responded to a call at a work site approximately 60 kilometres south of Grande Prairie near Wapati Road, police said in a news release Monday.
  A 31-year-old man was struck by heavy machinery during work site operations, causing fatal injuries to the man.
  RCMP said they are unable to release the man&
  
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• Social workers and psychologists to be on hand at Edmonton school after kindergartner dies in Ethiopia Airlines crash

  11-03-2019 22:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A young girl from Edmonton who died in a Sunday plane crash in Ethiopia was a kindergarten student at Lorelei School in north Edmonton.
  Edmonton Public Schools spokeswoman Carrie Rosa said in a Monday statement district staff are “deeply saddened” to learn one of their students had died.
  “Our condolences go out to the family and all those affected by this tragedy,” Rosa said.
  On Sunday, Mohamed Hassan Ali of Toronto said his 33-year-old sister, Amina Odowa, and her five-y
  
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• Two face charges after hockey fight in Lloydminster

  11-03-2019 22:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two men have been charged by Lloydminster RCMP after an altercation between parents and referees after a Junior B hockey game.
  RCMP responded to reports of a fight at a hockey arena in the eastern Alberta community on Feb. 18. Officers were told two referees were assaulted in the change room by a player’s family members, RCMP said in a Monday news release.
  “This type of behaviour has no place in our hockey community,” said RCMP spokesman Const. Michael Hagel in the release. &ld
  
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• Residents Encouraged to Provide Input on Smoking Bylaw

  11-03-2019 20:12
  Survey runs from March 11 to April 1, 2019 The City of St. Albert is encouraging residents and other interested... Read Post
  
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• St. Albert police looking for drivers after man run over twice

  11-03-2019 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  Police are looking for two drivers after a St. Albert man was run over twice at the end of February.
  
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• RCMP seek two hit-and-run drivers who ran over St. Albert man - CBC.ca

  11-03-2019 20:01 via cbc.ca
  RCMP seek two hit-and-run drivers who ran over St. Albert man  CBC.caA St. Albert man is recovering in hospital after he was run over twice after falling in the street, and police now are looking for the drivers who hit him.
  
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• Two taken to hospital after garage fire in north Edmonton

  11-03-2019 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were taken to hospital with undisclosed injuries after a garage fire broke out in the city’s north end.
  Fire crews were called to the scene near 128 Street and 160 Avenue Sunday night, said Edmonton fire services spokeswoman Maya Filipovic.
  The blaze was caused by an unknown electrical or mechanical malfunction.
  Filipovic said the fire resulted in $75,000 worth of structural damage to the home and $25,000 worth of damage to the home’s contents.
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• Valley Line West, Metro Line Northwest LRT expansions get $1-billion federal cash injection

  11-03-2019 18:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than $1 billion in federal cash to help fund Edmonton’s Valley Line West and Metro Line Northwest LRT expansions was announced Monday.
  “Edmonton is one of Canada’s fastest growing cities, and we are planning and building our city with this growth in mind. We are undertaking the most ambitious expansion of our LRT network in our history so we can grow smart and sustainably, and keep more than a million people moving,” said Mayor Iveson in a Monday statement after at L
  
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• Liquor licences for special events made easier: Province

  11-03-2019 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  It will be easier to pick up a liquor licence for a special event thanks to changes announced by the province on Monday.
  The overhaul streamlines the application process, and simplifies food and security requirements.
  The arm’s-length agency has removed sub-categories that limited applicants from obtaining a licence to sell liquor to the public, but requires at least one ProServe-certified server per 100 patrons.
  Alain Maisonneuve, Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) president and
  
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• St Albert RCMP Seeking Information about Armed Robbery - MorinvilleNews.com

  11-03-2019 18:06 via morinvillenews.com
  St Albert RCMP Seeking Information about Armed Robbery  MorinvilleNews.comsubmitted by St. Albert RCMP. St Albert, Alta – St. Albert RCMP are seeking information about an armed robbery that occurred on Saturday evening, March 9, ...
  
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• 'Kitty!': Athabasca RCMP reconnect missing stuffed animal with 18-month-old toddler

  11-03-2019 18:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  This is a story about a girl and her missing stuffed animal, and the dogged determination of Alberta RCMP officers who were desperate to see the two reunited.
  It all started on March 4, when police were conducting a child seat check operation in Athabasca. It was a routine event for officers who were pulling over vehicles where child seats were present to ensure they were installed properly and safely.
  After the operation wrapped up, two officers discovered a brightly-coloured stuffed animal in
  
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• Edmonton weather: Let the great melt commence

  11-03-2019 13:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -6.7 C with 6 km/h winds out of the southwest contributing to a -10 wind chill.
  Looks like it’s almost time to trade in those heavy, clunky winter boots for some rubber boots as above-zero temperatures all week will surely help melt some of all that extra snow we just got. It’ll most likely be a bit of a slow burn, however, as forecast
  
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• Elise Stolte: How lowly Central McDougall is propping up the city budget

  11-03-2019 13:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Anyone ticked at Edmonton’s rising property taxes should take a walk through Central McDougall with Michael Brown.
  Brown is a local resident, young father and urban planner. He’s also a data nerd; he and a friend just mapped Edmonton’s entire residential and commercial land assessments to figure out which neighbourhoods are paying the most to keep this city running.
  The answer is surprising. His north central neighbourhood of Central McDougall, a place more likely to be feature
  
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• 'Sharks are circling': On the streets with Edmonton’s human trafficking and exploitation unit

  11-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  She’s wearing track pants and a bedazzled pink hoodie on a fall afternoon. She looks young. When she walks, she staggers slightly, twirling her blond hair and at times, pulling at the long strands and sticking them in the corner of her mouth, sucking on them.
  Most of the usual crowd on 97 Street in the Alberta Avenue area barely acknowledge the woman on the corner.
  But there are a few.
  A voice comes over the secure police tactical channel: “The sharks are circling heavy.”
  The s
  
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• 'Not like Pretty Woman': On the frontline of Edmonton's fight to break the chains of sexual exploitation, link by link

  11-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 24 men gathered in a downtown office boardroom are deathly quiet.
  Each was arrested weeks or months earlier for soliciting sex on Edmonton streets or in hotels. They’ve been there all day, unhappy students in the Sex Trade Offender Program (STOP), a class better known simply as “john school.”
  A woman stands up in front of them, a survivor of sexual exploitation. The mood in the room goes from quiet to that of a funeral procession.
  “Do you honestly think that a woman w
  
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• St. Albert police looking for drivers after man run over twice - Globalnews.ca

  11-03-2019 08:00 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert police looking for drivers after man run over twice  Globalnews.caPolice are looking for two drivers after a St. Albert man was run over twice at the end of February.
  
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• St. Albert police looking for drivers after man run over twice - Global News

  11-03-2019 08:00 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert police looking for drivers after man run over twice  Global NewsPolice are looking for two drivers after a St. Albert man was run over twice at the end of February.
  
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• RCMP seek two hit-and-run drivers who ran over St. Albert man - Yahoo News Canada

  11-03-2019 08:00 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  RCMP seek two hit-and-run drivers who ran over St. Albert man  Yahoo News CanadaA St. Albert man is recovering in hospital after he was run over twice after falling in the street. The 52-year-old man was crossing Akins Drive near a 7-Eleven ...
  
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• Man run over twice in St. Albert in Feb., police looking for drivers - CTV News

  11-03-2019 08:00 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Man run over twice in St. Albert in Feb., police looking for drivers  CTV NewsPolice are looking for two drivers who ran over a man in St. Albert on Feb. 26.
  
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• Biggest sign of Edmonton Oilers incompetence? The numerous puck-moving d-men they've let slip away

  11-03-2019 07:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers essentially gave away top NHL puckmovers like Gustafsson, Petry and Schultz
  It’s hard to pinpoint the single largest organizational flaw of the Edmonton Oilers  during the Decade of Darkness-plus, but surely high on the list has been the team’s propensity to give up on puck-moving d-men when they still have plenty of miles left in their careers.
  Year after year after year, the Oilers trade away or fail to bring back puckmovers, from elite ones to bottom-pairing ones.
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• Would-be Meadows UCP candidate disappointed by Rhodes appointment

  11-03-2019 05:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  A prospective UCP candidate says the appointment of Len Rhodes as the party’s candidate in the Edmonton-Meadows riding was a surprise.
  Arundeep Singh Sandhu said he was told about the appointment the night before the public announcement.
  “We were campaigning hard. All of our supporters were ready for the nomination vote, so there’s a lot of disappointment in the community and a lot of disappointment for me and my family,” Sandhu said.
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