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• Veteran affairs minister speaks on expanding transitional supports during trip to Edmonton

  13-03-2019 23:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s newest veterans affairs minister is looking to increase supports for military members as they transition into civilian life.
  Minister Lawrence MacAulay was in Edmonton this week for his first trip out of Ottawa since taking over the portfolio earlier this month. He spent Tuesday touring Valour Place and CFB Edmonton.
  After his meetings he said he is looking at increasing the supports offered to those transitioning out of service.
  “What we want to do is make sure veterans aff
  
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• Press Gallery Interview: Oneil Carlier talks farm safety and canola

  13-03-2019 22:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  With farms across the country marking Canadian Agricultural Safety Week this week, the Press Gallery Interview has a chat with Alberta’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier.
  Join host Emma Graney as Carlier talks farm safety, the canola conundrum with China and his thoughts on the UCP proposal to scrap Bill 6. You’ll also discover how the minister lost some teeth in a farming accident many moons ago. 
  
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• Three flights cancelled at EIA as feds ground Boeing 737 Max aircraft

  13-03-2019 22:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Three flights scheduled to travel through Edmonton International Airport were cancelled Wednesday as the federal government barred Boeing 737 Max 8 planes from Canadian airways.
  Three flights scheduled to fly between Edmonton and Toronto were cancelled due to the announcement. Traci Bednard, an Edmonton airport spokeswoman said the airport had a total of 255 scheduled flights on Wednesday.
  “On any given day a 737 Max represents between one and two per cent of overall flights,” said B
  
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• Province works on bill to protect public health care ahead of throne speech

  13-03-2019 22:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says she’s developing legislation aimed at protecting public health care ahead of MLAs return to the legislature next week.
  “It could very well be Bill 1,” she told reporters Wednesday. “There’s a lot to do in public health care, especially under threats of privatization.”
  Premier Rachel Notley has scheduled a throne speech Monday, spurring speculation that she will drop the writ shortly after. She is expected to launch a 28-day c
  
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• Library announces February 2020 opening date for revamped Stanley Milner

  13-03-2019 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  The revamped Stanley A. Milner Library grand opening date is set for Feb. 14, 2020.
  Edmonton Public Libraries made the announcement Wednesday, on the institution’s 106th birthday.
  The city’s downtown library branch, built in 1967, closed for renovations in December 2016. A temporary branch has been operating several blocks away in Enterprise Square.
  The projected budget for the work back in 2017 was $69 million, but the discovery of structural issues during renovations meant the cost
  
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• NDP ups the ante, unveils two more anti-Kenney websites

  13-03-2019 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two more anti-Jason Kenney websites have hit the internet courtesy of the Alberta NDP.
  Not content with its first site attacking the United Conservative leader — thetruthaboutjasonkenney.ca, unveiled by retiring NDP MLA Brian Mason last month — it has added meetjasonkenney.ca and backwardmachine.ca to its pre-election arsenal.
  Meet Jason Kenney purports to introduce the official opposition leader to Albertans, saying, “Let’s get to know Jason Kenney a little better.&rdquo
  
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• Big-hearted Canadian musical Come From Away powerfully explores resiliency in the wake of tragedy

  13-03-2019 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canadian pride soared through the rafters of the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Tuesday evening as an inspired audience member waved a Newfoundland flag from the mezzanine during the standing ovation opening night curtain call of Come From Away.
  The big-hearted Canadian musical that took Broadway by storm in 2017 recounts the turbulent days following the September 11 attacks through the eyes of a small Canadian town, where 38 jumbo jet planes were diverted when the U.S. airspace was shut do
  
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• Edmonton Oilers might approach Ken Holland and like Keith Gretzky's "openness," Friedman reports

  13-03-2019 19:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, who reports that Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson is casting a wide net in his search for GM and is being told that taking his time is a good idea. Friedman then drops two tidbits: “Several executives from other teams advised him to take as much time as possible, that there’s no such thing as taking too long to get it right. It also gives the Oilers more time to see what shakes loose. For example, depending on what happens
  
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• Review: Lynyrd Skynyrd bids bittersweet farewell at Rogers Place

  13-03-2019 19:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Guitarists Mark Matejka (left) and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at Rogers Place on Tuesday, March 12.
  It’s hard to mention the words “farewell tour” without sending someone’s eyes rolling, and for good reason.
  KISS has been bidding fans farewell since the turn of the century. Their End of the Road World Tour (billed as the band’s final tour ever) arrives in Detroit tonight. Cher’s Living Proof Farewell Tour criss-crossed the globe from 2002 to 200
  
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• Edmonton man behind multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme sentenced to six years

  13-03-2019 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Greed was the one factor motivating a man who defrauded nearly two dozen people out of a total of $5 million dollars during a multi-year Ponzi scheme, a judge said Wednesday.
  Timothy Ray Carruthers was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a mortgage loan scam that emptied retirement plans and drained children’s education funds — all to pay for a lavish lifestyle that included luxury cars, international travel and expensive jewellery.
  Court of Queen’s Bench Justice L
  
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• Elise Stolte: Time to look at slowly easing laws on drinking in public places

  13-03-2019 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you fancy a glass of wine while enjoying the sunset over the North Saskatchewan River, that option might come sooner than you think.
  But would the loosening of Alberta’s prohibition-era drinking laws bring a new era of hooligans, making the whole city look like Commonwealth Stadium during a football game? Or will Edmonton parks and patios look more like the Citadel Theatre, a few adults calmly enjoying a drink like it’s no big deal?
  No one really knows.
  Over the last term, the NDP
  
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• St. Albert to consider expanding smoking ban to all city property - CBC.ca

  13-03-2019 14:00 via cbc.ca
  St. Albert to consider expanding smoking ban to all city property  CBC.caThe city of St. Albert has started a public survey to see just how strict residents want the updated smoking bylaw to be. They have proposed banning tobacco and ...
  
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• Edmonton weather: Melt, baby, melt

  13-03-2019 13:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured – 2.7 C with 12 km/h winds out of the west, northwest contributing to a -7 wind chill.
  I’m not sure if I should believe it. I don’t know if I even want to get my hopes up only to have them ripped away from me. But forecasters are putting their necks out there and calling for a high of — get this — 15 C on Tuesday n
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Rigours of daylight time exaggerated

  13-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Stop this fraudulent nonsense about daylight saving time making people sick and killing them.
  It’s just one hour ahead. Go to bed an hour earlier Saturday night. Problem solved. If a change of one hour is that disastrous, then leaving Alberta eastbound between March to November is not to be undertaken.
  The extra hour of summer daylight in the evenings, instead of at 4:00 a.m., makes the change totally worth it. And come November, that extra hour of sleep on a Sunday morning is heaven-sent.
  
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• Heather Klimchuk: In politics, perception can become reality

  13-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Is perception our enemy or friend? Our conversations and perceptions of everything we encounter change daily and are based on emotion. I suspect these next few months in Alberta could be full of contempt, innuendo, distractions, and a little bit of fear-mongering.
  Or, they could be full of meaningful conversations about creative solutions to our fiscal situation, economic strategies, education, and social issues like poverty.
  The good news is you have the power to lead and continue those convers
  
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• Three to See Thursday: Cat Empire, Joy Ride 2019 and the trippy Climax

  13-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Cat Empire boys play Winspear Thursday night.
  The Cat Empire: On their Stolen Diamonds tour, the Australian rock band brings their brand of feel good, high-energy, smile-inducing, euphoric roots pop to Edmonton. Bound together by a love of music since their teens, the band crafts infectious, genre-embracing anthems, releasing them on chart-topping, multi-platinum selling albums, playing hundreds of shows each year. They also dress a bit like the survivors of the Mad Max apocalypse in their v
  
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• Elise Stolte: Time to look at easing laws on drinking in public places

  13-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you fancy a glass of wine while enjoying the sunset over the North Saskatchewan River, that option might come sooner than you think.
  But would the loosening of Alberta’s prohibition-era drinking laws bring a new era of hooligans, making the whole city look like Commonwealth Stadium during a football game? Or will Edmonton parks and patios look more like the Citadel Theatre, a few adults calmly enjoying a drink like it’s no big deal?
  No one really knows.
  Over the last term, the NDP
  
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• David Staples: Why PCL, Canada's biggest construction company, avoids corrupt countries

  13-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Canada’s largest construction company, PCL Construction of Edmonton, refuses to do business in corrupt countries.
  Why not bid on projects in such places?
  “There’s a reasonably good story playing out in the media at the moment that puts a pretty fine point on some of the outcomes,” says PCL president and CEO Dave Filipchuk, referring to the bribery and political interference scandal around Montreal construction and engineering company SNC-Lavalin.
  “It’s a perfe
  
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• Matt Benning fighting for the playoffs and for his future with Edmonton Oilers

  13-03-2019 08:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  At the NHL trade deadline, there were plenty of rumours that Matt Benning might be heading out of town, perhaps to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  But Benning, who will be 25 next year and is now into his prime years as an NHLer, is still in Edmonton, still fighting to help the Oilers make the playoffs and still fighting for his future on the team.
  What should the Oilers do with the player?
  One argument about Benning is that he’s a keeper because he’s got the best official NHL plus-minus on
  
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• St. Albert to consider expanding smoking ban to all city property - Yahoo News Canada

  13-03-2019 08:00 via ca.news.yahoo.com
  St. Albert to consider expanding smoking ban to all city property  Yahoo News CanadaSt. Albert could become a national leader in the anti-smoking movement as its council considers a complete overhaul of the smoking bylaw. Changes could ban ...
  
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• Watch: RCMP provide 'dream experience' for Kids with Cancer Society

  13-03-2019 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Five kids alongside their parents and siblings spent the day at the RCMP K Division headquarters as part of a dream experience for the Kids with Cancer Society.
  The kids toured different areas of the detachment before taking a ride in a police helicopter.
  Sayber Skeels, 9, was one of the five children on the tour. After spending the day checking out police cars and spending time with the bomb squad and canine unit, she donned a mini-Mountie outfit and said she could see herself becoming an offic
  
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• Alberta school boards intervene in Catholic school funding rights case

  13-03-2019 00:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Saskatchewan court ruling that created uncertainty about future public funding of Catholic schools failed to properly include the evidence of theologians, a lawyer for the Alberta Catholic School Trustees’ Association said.
  Simon Elzen-Hoskyn, who represents Alberta Catholic school trustees in a case before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, said Tuesday the courts must be cautious when ruling on issues that define who belongs to a particular faith. He questioned whether courts and govern
  
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• Kids with Cancer spend the day with Edmonton RCMP

  13-03-2019 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some of Edmonton’s bravest spent the day with Edmonton’s finest as the Kids with Cancer Society spent the day at a local RCMP detachment Tuesday.
  Five kids alongside their parents and siblings spent the day at the RCMP K Division headquarters in Edmonton. The kids toured different areas of the detachment before taking a ride in a police helicopter.
  Sayber Skeels, 9, was one of the five children on the tour. After spending the day checking out police cars and spending time with the bo
  
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