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• 'Sad to see them go': Downtown 104 Street market on the move

  12-03-2019 23:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The downtown market on 104 Street that has been a summer Saturday staple since 2004 is on the move.
  The City of Edmonton confirmed Tuesday it is in talks with City Market Downtown to find a new home.
  “As the city market is a major attraction downtown, we’ve been working closely with them to secure a unique and exciting new space, one that will meet their needs, now and well into the future,” city spokeswoman Amber Medynski said in an email. “The city continues to support
  
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• Edmonton Somali community gathering to aid relatives of Ethiopian plane crash victims

  12-03-2019 23:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A steady stream of members of the city’s Somali community are bringing food, household help and emotional support to the family of a mother and daughter who died in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash.
  Aden Mohamed, chairman of the Ogaden Somali Community of Alberta Residents (OSCAR), said 33-year-old mother Amina Odowa attended many of the organization’s events with her three daughters before her sudden death on Sunday.
  “She was the connection point of the family,” Mohamed
  
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• Police lay charges in February Whitemud Drive collision where woman seriously injured

  12-03-2019 23:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 49-year-old man has been charged after a collision on Whitemud Drive in February sent a woman to hospital in serious condition.
  At around 8:15 a.m. on Feb. 16, officers responded to a call for a two-vehicle collision in the area of Whitemud Drive and Fox Drive, police said in a news release Tuesday.
  Police said a blue Lexus RX 350 travelling westbound on Whitemud Drive near the Fox Drive exit lost control, striking the centre barrier. The female driver of the Lexus left her vehicle and was spe
  
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• Firefighters extinguish flames at Dwayne's Home in downtown Edmonton

  12-03-2019 23:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Firefighters worked quickly to extinguish flames that erupted from the third floor of Dwayne’s Home in downtown Edmonton Tuesday.
  The fire broke out at around 6:30 a.m. and fire crews arrived four minutes later to find smoke coming from the first and third floors of the building, located at 10209 100 Ave. Flames could also be seen shooting from the third storey of the building.
  By 6:50 a.m. firefighters were able to contain the fire to one suite and brought the blaze under control. The fir
  
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• Council approves $800,000 plan for animal protection enforcement to expand resources

  12-03-2019 23:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton is planning to expand its resources for animal protection through a new plan costing $800,000 annually — $600,000 more than the previous model — after the humane society decided to step away from its enforcement role at the end of January.
  The proposed plan, passed by city council Tuesday morning without debate, would provide enforcement of the Animal Protection Act seven days a week through four animal control peace officers.
  Staffing numbers and the $800,000 pr
  
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• UCP pledges to kill farm safety Bill 6 if elected

  12-03-2019 21:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The UCP has unveiled a host of promises to the agriculture sector ahead of the spring election, including killing the farm safety Bill 6 and “streamlining” the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation.
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney announced his party’s platform Tuesday morning at a farm outside Rimbey.
  Kenney said if his party is elected, Bill 6 — legislation that spurred protests when introduced by the NDP government in 2015 — would be repealed and replaced by a Farm
  
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• Former councillor Bryan Anderson honoured by renaming Terwillegar Heights District Park

  12-03-2019 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  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 park, 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 athletes as they pursued personal and at
  
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• Police lay charges against B.C. man after Edmonton bank robberies involving explosives

  12-03-2019 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police have charged a man after a pair of bank robberies last year where explosives were detonated and investigators believe he was planning further attacks.
  On Tuesday, police announced that a 38-year-old man from Salmon Arm, B.C., is facing multiple charges related to “a pair of violent robberies and explosions” at two Edmonton financial institutions in September and December 2018.
  Armed tactical officers arrested the accused at Edmonton International Airport on March
  
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• Flourish: Growing to 100K

  12-03-2019 20:41
  The City of St. Albert is encouraging residents and business owners to get involved and provide input on the options... Read Post
  
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• Zero-emissions trucks, more money for methane: Emission-reduction projects see cash injection

  12-03-2019 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  A company developing a zero-emission truck is one of 16 new clean technology projects sharing in $100 million through Emissions Reduction Alberta’s largest research challenge yet.
  Called the Biotechnology, Electricity and Sustainable Transportation (BEST) challenge, the projects have a combined value of $600 million.
  According to the government, they also have the potential to reduce 2.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — the equivalent of taking around 530,700
  
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• Downtown 104 Street market on the move, city confirms

  12-03-2019 19:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The downtown market on 104 Street that has been a summer Saturday staple since 2004 is on the move.
  The City of Edmonton confirmed Tuesday it is in talks with City Market Downtown to find a new home.
  “As the City Market is a major attraction downtown, we’ve been working closely with them to secure a unique and exciting new space, one that will meet their needs, now and well into the future,” city spokeswoman Amber Medynski said in an email. “The city continues to support
  
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• Police release surveillance photos of suspect in Albert St. shooting in Columbus - WTVM

  12-03-2019 18:43 via wtvm.com
  Police release surveillance photos of suspect in Albert St. shooting in Columbus  WTVMColumbus police are releasing surveillance photos of a man holding a gun. They say this man is a suspect in a shooting that took place on Albert St. on Mar. 7.
  
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• Alcohol believed to be a factor after truck veers off Anthony Henday overpass

  12-03-2019 18:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police say alcohol may have been a factor in an early morning collision on Parsons Road in south Edmonton after a truck went off the Anthony Henday overpass.
  Officers first responded to reports of a single-vehicle collision at around 4 a.m. Tuesday morning, police said in a news release. It was reported that the driver of a Ford F-150 truck was travelling westbound on the Anthony Henday when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with several guard rails along the median before lau
  
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• Police lay charges after bank robberies involving explosives

  12-03-2019 17:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have charged a man after a pair of violent robberies last year where explosives were detonated.
  On Tuesday, police announced that a 38-year-old man from Salmon Arm, B.C., is facing multiple charges related to “a pair of violent robberies and explosions at two Edmonton financial institutions” in September and December 2018.
  Police did not identify the man in their initial release Tuesday. A staff sergeant with the police robbery section is to give an update 1 p.m. at p
  
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• Star Trek Discovery finally melds its past and present perfectly

  12-03-2019 17:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The creepy Talosians are back — and this time there’s a dude under the makeup.
  And then it happened: Star Trek Discovery didn’t just broadcast the best episode of its own series — If Memory Serves is also up there with the best episodes of Star Trek … period.
  (New Eden, earlier this year, is terrific too, as close to feeling like classic Trek as the frenetic, sometimes-uneven new cosmic soap opera had come.)
  [SPOILERS AHEAD]
  But from the first few seconds of t
  
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• UCP complaint over deleted government emails 'unsubstantiated': Privacy commissioner

  12-03-2019 17:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Government and political staffers did nothing wrong when they deleted more than 800,000 emails across several ministries, Alberta’s privacy commissioner Jill Clayton has found.
  However, she also found flaws in email practices, including a lack of consistency around the storage of official records.
  Clayton’s report, released Tuesday, stems from a complaint made by the official opposition in 2017.
  Back when the Wildrose Party was official opposition, it asked for numbers of managerial
  
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• ‘It’s fun to watch my kid light up with excitement’: Edmonton Motorshow has something for car-lovers of all ages

  12-03-2019 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  This April, come see what’s made the Edmonton Motorshow the premiere automotive event in Alberta for the last 43 years. Read More
  
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• Firefighters extinguish flames from Dwayne's Home in downtown Edmonton

  12-03-2019 16:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Firefighters worked quickly to extinguish flames that erupted from the third floor of Dwayne’s Home in downtown Edmonton Tuesday.
  The fire broke out at around 6:30 a.m. and fire crews arrived four minutes later to find smoke coming from the first and third floors of the building, located at 10209 100 Ave. Flames could also be seen shooting from the third storey of the building.
  By 6:50 a.m. firefighters were able to contain the fire to one suite and brought the blaze under control. The fir
  
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• Edmonton's first tiny home village would serve homeless military veterans

  12-03-2019 15:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s first village of tiny homes could be ready with a year to give military veterans experiencing homeless a place to rebuild their lives.
  The Homes for Heroes Foundation secured a lease for a small wedge of vacant public land in Edmonton’s Evansdale neighbourhood this week. The proposed village would have roughly 20 tiny homes, as well as a community garden and park at 94A Street and 153 Avenue.
  City council’s executive committee approved a lease rate of $1 dollar a yea
  
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• St. Albert's Tarbox set to play at MIssouri Western - KMAland

  12-03-2019 15:00 via kmaland.com
  St. Albert's Tarbox set to play at MIssouri Western  KMAland(Council Bluffs) -- Another St. Albert soccer standout has made an early college decision. Junior Ellerie Tarbox recently announced her commitment to continue ...
  
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• Edmonton weather: Splish, splash everything is melting

  12-03-2019 14:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -1.6 C with 12 km/h winds out of the west, southwest contributing to a -6 wind chill.
  With all this nice, warm weather comes the inevitable Great Melt and ensuing splash party. Roads and sidewalks are in danger of being swallowed by massive puddles this week as temperatures continue to remain above zero all week and may even reach as high as 12 C
  
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• Traffic update: Parsons Road at Anthony Henday closed as police investigate collision

  12-03-2019 14:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Morning commuters are being asked to avoid Parsons Road near the Anthony Henday in south Edmonton as police investigate a collision in the area.
  Police have closed off Parsons Road between 13 Avenue and Ellerslie Road. Anthony Henday Drive westbound is also also reduced to two lanes at Gateway Blvd.
  More to come.
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Domtar site not only worrisome brownfield

  12-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Cancer rates near industrial site lead to study,” March 8
  If only we could get the same kind of attention to the toxic Osmose site up in Faust, right next to the Lesser Slave Lake.  Residents have been concerned about the health risks from this site for decades.
  The site is owned by the province of Alberta, and although a partial remediation was done in the 1990s, dioxin levels remain high, about four times higher than the dioxin levels at the Domtar site in Edmonton, and t
  
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• Opinion: Tax hikes putting Western provinces at disadvantage

  12-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  We’re now in budget season, and with the federal budget less than a week away, we’ll soon know if Canada’s deteriorating tax competitiveness is dealt with in any meaningful way.
  The federal Liberal government legislated income tax hikes that took effect in 2016, which — in conjunction with tax hikes at the provincial level across the country — significantly eroded Canada’s competitiveness compared to its economic peers. Unless governments reverse this trend, o
  
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• Editorial: How did Domtar mess happen?

  12-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  With new confirmation that soil around a former wood-treatment plant in northeast Edmonton contains hazards to health, it’s fitting that the first priority of authorities is to investigate that risk.
  To that end, the province will work with federal officials on an epidemiological study around the site to explain the higher-than-expected levels of three types of cancer.
  But while the well-being of residents is the most pressing consideration, there are plenty of other questions arising from
  
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• Keith Gerein: Kenney offers disingenuous rationale for cancelling Edmonton's medical lab

  12-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Just as a boxer can endure only so many uppercuts and body blows before wilting to the mat, so it is with government services that are continually pummelled by reorganizations and revamps.
  In Alberta, the contest for most abused political punching bag is really no contest at all.
  For more than a decade, ever since Alberta Health Services was conceived, the health system has been subjected to a sadistic spree of commitments and cancellations, reversals and other upheaval — much of it depend
  
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• Fallout from short-lived Edmonton police web series The Squad continues with court decision

  12-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In 2013, Edmonton police launched an online video series following a group of officers as they patrolled city streets. The hope was that the weekly show, called The Squad, would attract recruits and give Edmontonians an idea of what it’s like to be a cop in the city.
  Nearly six years later, they’re still dealing with the legal fallout.
  A man whose arrest was filmed for the short-lived YouTube series was granted permission last month to appeal his complaint against seven officers to t
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton superstars best Rangers, Oilers move within 5 points of playoff spot

  12-03-2019 07:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl go Full Gretzky-to-Kurri to win a huge game
  At this point, with just a dozen games left in the season, every game is a must-win for the Edmonton Oilers. But their superstars did what they must do against the New York Rangers, helping to manufacture all three goals as the Edmonton won 3-2 in overtime.
  A brilliant Leon Draisaitl kill shot off of an equally brilliant Connor McDavid killer feed in overtime was the exclamation mark in a dominant effort from the two O
  
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• Watch: Edmonton Oilers take out New York Rangers in overtime

  12-03-2019 06:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock argues that after the Oilers beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in overtime it shows they are still in the hunt for a playoff spot. Coaching staff were looking at their iPads as the players pushed through to overtime, checking the standings of division rivals. Leon Draisaitl then scored the game winner 35 seconds into overtime putting the team a bit closer to the goal of making the playoffs.
  Coming into the game, the Oilers dropped a four game win streak on Sa
  
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• Watch: Edmonton receives flood mitigation money from federal government

  12-03-2019 03:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton will receive funding for several flood mitigation projects in Edmonton. Federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Francois-Philippe Champagne and Mayor Don Iveson made the announcement in Edmonton on Monday. Work includes building new dry ponds in Edmonton to reduce storm water overflows on city streets in times of heavy rainfall. The federal government is contributing $53,766,000 to the project through the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund.
  “Taking conc
  
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• Former Edmontonian identified as victim in Ethiopian Airlines crash

  12-03-2019 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  A former Edmontonian has been identified as among the 18 Canadians killed in a Sunday plane crash in Ethiopia.
  Darcy Belanger, a former Edmonton resident who worked for Edmonton-based PCL Construction, was one of 157 people killed after an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after takeoff south of Addis Ababa.
  “The entire PCL family of companies across Canada and the United States are deeply shocked and saddened about the untimely passing of one of our own, Darcy Belanger, di
  
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• City councillors disapprove of proposed 'sweeping' lobbyist registry, cite restrictions on residents' rights

  12-03-2019 00:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  City councillors struck down a proposed plan for a sweeping lobbyist registry Monday, arguing it could be too restrictive on the rights of constituents to voice their concerns.
  The recommended registry brought forward by city officials would require that anyone communicating with a councillor or their staff for the purposes of influencing decision-making must complete a registration form ahead of time. This registration would need to be completed for each instance of communication, including non
  
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• Fundraising campaign looks to open collaborative space for writers and wine drinkers

  12-03-2019 00:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  A pair of Edmontonians are halfway to their fundraising goal for a new reading and wine bar to promote queer writers and other less-frequently heard voices.
  Glass Bookshop would be part bookshop, part wine bar and all communal space if it opens later this year in downtown Edmonton.
  “We found that trying to find spaces to come together for a reading or lecture, they’re harder and harder to find,” said Jason Purcell, one of the store’s co-founders. “Particularly acces
  
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