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• UCP announces conservation plans including annual fee for off-highway vehicles

  14-03-2019 23:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A UCP government would introduce legislation to protect trails and institute a $30 annual fee for off-highway vehicles and people using camping trailers in the backcountry, says party leader Jason Kenney.
  “We don’t believe that preservation of the natural environment, enjoying it for recreation and responsible economic usage are opposed to one another,” he said at a Thursday news conference in Canmore, where he rolled out a 13-point plan on environmental stewardship.
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• Edmonton police lay charges in 2013 assault

  14-03-2019 23:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police have laid charges in a 2013 New Year’s Day assault in north Edmonton that sent one person to hospital with “life-altering” injuries.
  On Jan. 1, 2013 at around 2:40 a.m., a grey Pontiac Grand Am with three males inside was waiting in a McDonald’s drive-thru located at 15333 Castledowns Rd., police said in a news release Thursday.
  An unknown male suspect approached the vehicle and an altercation ensued where police said a knife was used by the suspect. Witnesses inte
  
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• Cappies reviews: The Mousetrap

  14-03-2019 23:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Elise Leske
  Strathcona High School
  Hook, line, and sinker. With red herrings galore, Mother Margaret Mary ensnared all in its mastermind production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap.
  Premiering in 1952, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play in theatre history. It is produced annually in London with a constantly rotating cast. In the production, a group of unfortunate travellers decide to spend a night at Monkswell Manor. Unbeknown to (most of) them, the inn has been targete
  
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• Edmonton-Meadows UCP board members want 'fair' nomination after Kenney appoints candidate Len Rhodes

  14-03-2019 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton-Meadows UCP board members say they are frustrated after Leader Jason Kenney appointed former Edmonton Eskimos president Len Rhodes as a candidate without consulting them.
  “The board did not endorse it, we did not know,” said board member Shannon Berry in an interview Thursday. “It’s just not democratic.”
  Kenney said Monday that he was told by constituency association president Dave Purewal that a majority of the board supported his decision to appoint Rhode
  
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• Cappies reviews: Failure: A Love Story

  14-03-2019 23:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Faven Gerima
  Blessed Oscar Romero High School
  Featuring talking animals, shadow puppets, and thought-provoking themes about the inevitability of fate, Holy Trinity High School’s performance of Failure: A Love Story was fraught with a prevailing sense of wonder despite its heavy subject matter.
  This dark comedy is set in the 1920s, right before the stock market crash and the Great Depression. Created by Philip Dawkins, Failure: A Love Story’s narrative style of storytelling combine
  
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• 'In fear and pain': Mother of teen girl hit by bus calls on mayor, safety head to extend school zone

  14-03-2019 23:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  The family of a young girl run over by a school bus last Friday is calling on the city to improve crosswalks and lower speed limits at the site of the crash.
  Last week Devony Kasawski, 13, suffered a brain injury, a skull fracture, a broken sinus cavity, a broken jaw, a bruised lung, and a shattered pelvis after her and her friend were run over by a school bus on Hemingway Road in the city’s west end.
  Kasawski’s friend has been released from hospital after being treated with undisclo
  
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• Cappies reviews: The Importance of Being Earnest

  14-03-2019 22:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Daphne Charrois
  Morinville Community High School
  Marriage — what’s in a name? Easily swayed by syllables, love can be measured in how it rolls off the tongue. St. Albert Catholic High School’s brilliant rendition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest presented a show full of wit, charming accents, and undeniably fantastic comedy.
  The Importance of Being Earnest made its debut on Valentine’s Day in the late 19th Century, at the St. James Theatre in Lond
  
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• Review: Albert Hammond charms on 'Hey St. Patrick,' to tour the US (Includes first-hand account) - Digital Journal

  14-03-2019 22:13 via digitaljournal.com
  Review: Albert Hammond charms on 'Hey St. Patrick,' to tour the US (Includes first-hand account)  Digital JournalIconic singer-songwriter Albert Hammond has released his new single "Hey St. Patrick," just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
  
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• Unpopular opinion: Edmonton Oilers need Bakersfield airlift, should call up Cooper Marody and Tyler Benson

  14-03-2019 20:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here’s my unpopular opinion of the moment: the Edmonton Oilers need an airlift of talent from Bakersfield and should immediately recall Cooper Marody and Tyler Benson.
  Why is this unpopular? I posted the notion on Twitter and got all kinds of  pushback:
  🇭🇷Garett @g_dika: I just wouldn’t do it. The Oilers are grasping currently. No point in ruining what is going on in the Bake right now. Those players aren’t going to put you over the top to win 10 of the las
  
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• Juno-nominated Nuela Charles ready to relish the experience

  14-03-2019 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Nuela Charles has made a promise to herself to actually have fun at the Juno Awards this year.
  Not that Charles didn’t have a good time at last year’s award show. The Edmonton-based singer-songwriter, who is nominated for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for the second year in a row, definitely enjoyed the ride in 2018 for her album The Grand Hustle. She just intends to take her dad’s advice and not push herself so hard that she forgets to relish the experience.
  “Last
  
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• Ballet master's vision translates Shakespeare's "Dream" into dance

  14-03-2019 20:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Popular perceptions of the play and ballet suggest A Midsummer Night’s Dream is mostly about fun and frolic in the forest, mischievous fairies playing tricks on unwitting mortals, mistaken identities and love potions, kind of an after-six o’clock comic-romantic masquerade.
  But look a little deeper and there is a timeless relevance as choreographer Bruce Wells sees the tale that he has translated into Alberta Ballet’s latest production.
  “It’s a story about jealousy a
  
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• Fitness column: Resistance training trumps cardio for body-shaping gains

  14-03-2019 20:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The other day a regular treadmill user whose weight loss efforts had derailed asked me the best way to kickstart her toning aspirations. I told her resistance training and diet. She said ‘oh’ and headed back for more treadmill.
  Hey, if me saying more cardio makes you happy then knock yourself out. Just don’t expect big changes.
  When traveling south, prepping for an upcoming event or slimming down for the summer, make sure you’re getting the biggest bang for your shaping b
  
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• Edmonton Symphony Orchestra keeps evolving with 2019/2020 season lineup

  14-03-2019 20:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s 2019/2020 season looks to be an inventive and exciting one, with a variety that should only enhance the orchestra’s reputation. There is a sensible balance between major popular works of the repertoire, alluring works from the 20th century, a healthy selection of newer Canadian music, and in particular a wide and welcome representation of women composers.
  The ESO have given a theme to the season, calling it ‘Indistinguishable’. That, of c
  
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• Social Seen: SkirtsAfire Festival opening ceremony

  14-03-2019 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  SkirtsAfire Festival opening ceremony
  Where: Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
  When: March 7
  What: Opening ceremonies for the SkirtsAfire Festival, which runs March 7-17
  Featuring: Official skirt cutting ceremony, refreshments catered by Otto Food and Drink, live entertainment by the Cindy Paul Trio and Wendy Gregson & Renee McLachlan
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. E
  
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• Convicted fraudster facing new charges after reports of bogus business deals

  14-03-2019 19:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police have arrested a man sent to prison a decade ago for defrauding more than $1.1 million from investors.
  Police received reports on March 4 that two men had been asked to invest $70,000 in a steel fabrication business that investigators say does not exist.
  “The complainants became concerned the opportunity may not be real and they immediately contacted police,” said city police spokeswoman Carolin Maran in a news release Thursday.
  Investigators believe the man has b
  
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• Who the candidates are in my riding: A guide to Alberta's 2019 provincial election

  14-03-2019 18:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is a mountain of information for voters to consider in a campaign. But on election day, it all comes down to the names on the ballot.
  Voters in 87 ridings this spring pick who they want to represent them in the Alberta legislature for the next four years. Our politics team is compiling a list of candidates competing in each constituency, adding names as they are approved by Elections Alberta.
  We will update the list as names are added.
  
  Some constituency names and boundaries have c
  
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• One man dead after motorcycle collides with SUV on Anthony Henday

  14-03-2019 18:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man is dead after a motorcycle crashed into the back of a SUV on Anthony Henday Drive Wednesday night.
  Police responded to reports of a two vehicle collision near Anthony Henday Drive and 62 Avenue at approximately 5:40 p.m.. The 31-year-old driver of the motorcycle was taken to hospital where he later died of his injuries.
  “A Dodge Journey was travelling southbound on Anthony Henday Drive past 62 Avenue in the right lane when it suddenly slowed down. The Journey was reportedly straddl
  
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• Independent report says St. Paul, AB school principal stymied students' attempts to start a GSA

  14-03-2019 17:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Francophone Catholic school principal in St. Paul was put on paid leave for nine months for discouraging students from starting a gay-straight alliance, according to documents obtained by Postmedia.
  In 2017, students at École du Sommet in St. Paul asked their principal at least twice to form a gay-straight alliance (GSA) after hearing homophobic comments from their classmates, said an independent report prepared in French by Ottawa lawyer Diane Aubé Lazenby and obtained by Postme
  
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• Watch: New Jersey Devils scorch Edmonton Oilers

  14-03-2019 17:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  The New Jersey Devils knocked the Edmonton Oilers back on their heels with a 6-3 win at Rogers Place in Edmonton on March 13, 2019. The loss comes at a time in the regular season were the Oilers are vying with rivals in the Pacific Division for the wild card spot.
  Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock said the loss was the NHL team’s “red flag game”.
  “The minute you take your foot off the gas, or the minute you take a breath, you get burned,” he told reporters. “We
  
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• Environment minister reverses original protection orders on Domtar site, issues new guidelines

  14-03-2019 16:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The minister of environment and parks has accepted an appeals board recommendation to reverse all enforcement orders previously imposed on a northeast Edmonton site that housed a former wood treatment plant.
  In her decision, Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips agreed with the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) findings to reverse a number of environmental protection orders against companies connected to the former Domtar site.
  The Domtar plant, which operated from 1924 to 1987 nort
  
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• Shannon Phillips reverses Domtar site environment protection orders

  14-03-2019 16:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The minister of environment and parks has accepted an appeals board recommendation to reverse all enforcement orders previously imposed on a northeast Edmonton site that housed a former wood treatment plant.
  In her decision, Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips agreed with the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) findings to reverse a number of environmental protection orders against companies connected to the former Domtar site.
  The Domtar plant, which operated from 1924 to 1987 nort
  
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• Oilers in 60: Be afraid, Oilers fans. Be very afraid

  14-03-2019 15:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers dropped an absolute stinker Wednesday night at Rogers Place in a 6-3 loss to the lowly New Jersey Devils.
  If you ask Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock what went wrong — besides everything — he would tell you the Oilers just weren’t “afraid “enough.
  Wait? What? No that makes sense.
  Last night’s game was considered to be a gimme. One the Oilers had to win and should have won.
  But the fear just wasn’t there. You must give in to the fear.
  I
  
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• Edmonton weather: The Great Melt receives a boost in sunshine, heat

  14-03-2019 13:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -7.9 C with 2 km/h winds out of the west, southwest contributing to a -9 wind chill.
  My car, my poor car. The Great Melt leaves behind many casualties on its warpath to rid us of all the several feet of snow accumulated over the past five months but none suffers more than the family car. Once a shiny bastion of commerce now has turned into a mud
  
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• Thursday's letters: Killing Superlab will sow chaos

  14-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re: “Kenney’s disingenuous stance on health care,” Keith Gerein, March 12
  Laboratory services are a vital part of health care despite Jason Kenney’s claim that they have nothing to do with healing. They have everything to do with diagnosis and, therefore, treatment.Without lab employees, doctors are just guessing. Anyone on the front lines of health care will tell you that throwing the system into another round of chaos will do immense damage. Patients will pay the price.
  
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• Proposed redesign of Confederation Lounge in Hotel Macdonald sparks public uproar online

  14-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The proposed redesign for the historic Confederation Lounge in the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald has created a stir online from those attached to the old-school elegance.
  Hundreds of residents took to social media voicing their concerns about the loss of architectural heritage for a more modern look after renderings were released online by the popular downtown hotel Tuesday morning.
  Rendering of the proposed new bar design for the historic Confederation Lounge in the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, initial
  
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• Independent report says St. Paul school principal stymied students' attempts to start a GSA

  14-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Francophone Catholic school principal in St. Paul was put on paid leave for nine months for discouraging students from starting a gay-straight alliance, according to documents obtained by Postmedia.
  In 2017, students at École du Sommet in St. Paul asked their principal at least twice to form a gay-straight alliance (GSA) after hearing homophobic comments from their classmates, said an independent report prepared in French by Ottawa lawyer Diane Aubé Lazenby and obtained by Postme
  
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• Edmonton bus driver injured in attack has no ill will toward teen who stabbed him

  14-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton bus driver who fought for his life against a knife-wielding teenager says he doesn’t hold any ill will toward the young man who pleaded guilty to attacking him.
  Mike Kostelny attended a hearing Monday for the 15-year-old boy who earlier this year admitted to aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon in connection with the attack at the Mill Woods Transit Centre last September.
  The youth also pleaded guilty to failing to comply with conditions of a recognizance.
  The 15-
  
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• 'A heck of an election': Regional leaders weigh in on key issues ahead of writ drop

  14-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As Alberta heads toward a spring election, Edmonton’s mayor says he hopes to maintain the gains the city has made in commitments from the province, while leaders in surrounding communities say they’re looking to catch up.
  Premier Rachel Notley has yet to call a provincial election, but could have dropped the writ as early as Feb. 1 launching a 28-day campaign period. An election is expected before May 31.
  As the politicking gets underway, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson said the city will
  
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• Player grades: Oilers gas another one on home ice, leave 2 points on the table vs. short-staffed Devils

  14-03-2019 08:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Devils 6, Oilers 3
  Never mind that New Jersey Devils came to town on a seven-game losing streak. Never mind that the Devils were missing seven regulars including last year’s Hart Trophy winner Taylor Hall and first overall draft pick Nico Hischier. Never mind that the Devils were on the second half of a back to back after being pounded 9-4 in Calgary just one night previous. Never mind that the Devils had TEN players in their line-up with under 40 NHL games.
  And never mind that the Edmonto
  
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• 'Stark choice': Alberta Federation of Labour rolls out pro-NDP election priorities

  14-03-2019 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Federation of Labour launched a pro-NDP campaign Wednesday, laying out priorities ranging from economic diversification to creating a universal prescription drug plan.
  The campaign, dubbed Next Alberta, outlined 12 priorities for the organization, which is registered as a third-party advertiser with Elections Alberta.
  “Albertans are anxious about the economy, and they should be,” said AFL President Gil McGowan, referencing future declines in global oil demand. “This
  
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