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• Support workers reach deal with Edmonton Public Schools

  20-03-2019 23:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  After nearly 19 months without a contract, about 3,000 school support workers have ratified a new deal with the Edmonton public school board.
  Educational assistants, library and science technicians, administrative assistants and other workers voted in favour of a three-year contract on March 8. The school board approved the deal at a Tuesday meeting.
  The agreement, which runs from Sept. 1, 2017 to Aug. 31, 2020, grants Canadian Union of Public Employees local 3550 workers a retroactive 0.5 per c
  
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• Watch: Police stop stolen car after three vehicle crash on Yellowhead

  20-03-2019 22:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Police Service officers investigate after a crash involving two vehicles and a stolen Hyundai Tucson in the westbound lanes of Yellowhead Trail east of 66 Street in Edmonton, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. One of the men in the Tucson were taken to hospital with minor injuries. The other two were arrested by police. The drivers of the other two vehicles were uninjured.
  The highway was closed westbound for more than an hour as police investigated using an aerial drone, cameras and other e
  
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• Watch: Alberta NDP promise increased funding for petrochemical jobs

  20-03-2019 22:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley announced her party would double incentives for petrochemical and upgrading projects from $3.6 billion to $7 billion over the next 10 years during a press conference at a Cessco Fabrication and Engineering Ltd. shop in Edmonton, on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
  The promise is part of the party’s 2019 provincial election platform. The election is set for April 16.
  
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• Alberta Election Day 2: Notley, Kenney, Mandel, Khan hit the trail running

  20-03-2019 20:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 2 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Notley pledges to double incentives for petrochemical and upgrading projects
  2 p.m. — David Khan in Calgary
  Alberta Liberal leader David Khan is set to make an announcement on the party’s plan to improve education outcomes in Calgary today at 2:00 pm.
  According to a Wednesday afternoon news release, Khan said the Liberals would work to reduce
  
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• Collision involving stolen vehicle shuts down lane of Yellowhead Trail

  20-03-2019 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two people were arrested and another sent to hospital after a stolen vehicle crashed into two others on Yellowhead Trail Wednesday morning.
  Just before 10 a.m., Edmonton police came upon a stolen Hydundai Tucson with three men inside driving on Yellowhead Trail, said police spokesperson Cheryl Voordenhout in an emailed statement.
  The Tucson hit two other vehicles and when it came to a stop, began smoking. Edmonton Fire Rescue Services and emergency medical services attended the scene.
  One of the
  
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• Steadman files appeal of first-degree murder conviction

  20-03-2019 17:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man convicted of murdering an Edmonton limo driver after a sprawling, six-week trial is appealing his conviction and sentence, claiming the judge and jury made errors in finding him guilty.
  Jason Steadman filed notice with the Court of Appeal of Alberta Tuesday that he intends to appeal his first-degree murder conviction.
  On Feb. 21, a jury found Steadman guilty of murdering Edmonton limo driver Dwayne Demkiw in 2015. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 year
  
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• Cappies review: Newsies

  20-03-2019 16:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Haley Kuchar
  St. Albert Catholic High School
  Can an Edmonton high school do justice to one of the most well known and iconic musicals on Broadway? The cast and crew of J. Percy Page answered this question with a tremendous ‘yes!’ recently with their performance of Newsies.With music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and book by Harvey Fierstein, Newsies grew from the 1992 musical film of the same title, which was originally inspired by the true story of the Newsboy’s S
  
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• Notley pledges to double incentives for petrochemical and upgrading projects

  20-03-2019 16:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  NDP Leader Rachel Notley kicked off the second day on the campaign trail Wednesday announcing that a re-elected government would double incentives for petrochemical and upgrading projects from $3.6 billion to $7 billion over the next ten years.
  “We will supercharge this made-in-Alberta approach,” Notley said during a media event at a Cessco fabrication and engineering shop in Edmonton.
  According to a Wednesday news release, the NDP estimate the move will unlock $75 billion in global
  
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• Cappies review: A Midsummer Night's Dream

  20-03-2019 16:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Michael De Marco
  McNally High School
  Spellbound for chaos, the already-complex love lives of four Athenian youth grow dramatically more conflicted when the mystical dream world awakens to their inclinations. W.P. Wagner’s surreal and enchanting rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream conveyed the gauzy and at-times elusive nature of love through enticing jest and impassioned soliloquies, leaving the audience in blissful reverie.The comedy, first penned in 1595, demonstrates a depar
  
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• Cappies review: Alice in Wonderland

  20-03-2019 16:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Daphne Charrois
  Morinville Community High School
  In a fantastic world of tardy rabbits, curious nonsense, and personified playing cards, Sturgeon Composite High School’s production of Alice in Wonderland supplied a little madness and a whole lot of heart that brought the beloved timeless classic to life.First written in 1865 under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, and later presented as a play by Charlotte Chorpenning, Alice in Wonderland has become a household name with hundreds of adapt
  
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• Why Edmonton Oilers so bad? Most nights they play McD, Drai, RNH and a bunch of fourth liners

  20-03-2019 16:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Why are the Edmonton Oilers so bad? Most nights, they ice a team where eight out of their 12 forwards are of fourth-line caliber, at least if you by their points scoring rates at even strength.
  Edmonton has two of the best attackers in the game with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
  Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is a decent second line attacker.
  But almost everyone else on the Oilers forward roster qualifies as a fourth-liner, a player who just isn’t able to generate much on offence. He might bump,
  
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• Cappies review: Murder Inn

  20-03-2019 16:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Jenna Sampson
  Mother Margaret Mary Catholic High School
  Full of sharp knives and even sharper wit, St. Joseph High School’s production of Murder Inn is guaranteed to have you dying with laughter!It’s the classic setup: an out-of-the-way guesthouse, a group of total strangers and the confines of a storm. When their group makes an unexpected stop due to unrelenting rain, these tourists find themselves in the midst of a deadly game of Clue. With a nearsighted poltergeist on the loose
  
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• RCMP lay charges in bust netting over $600,000 worth of drugs

  20-03-2019 16:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A B.C. man is facing multiple charges after a search warrant lead to Grande Prairie RCMP seizing over $600,000 worth of drugs, currency and guns.
  On Sunday, the Grande Prairie RCMP Municipal Drug Section along with RCMP police dogs, ALERT and Grande Prairie General Duty members executed two search warrants at homes in Grande Prairie and the Town of Wembley, police said in a release Wednesday.
  RCMP found approximately $615,000 worth of drugs including approximately 4.2 kilograms of cocaine, 250 g
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's June in March, temperatures to soar to 17 C

  20-03-2019 13:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -0.8 C with calm winds.
  What I initially dubbed as The Great Melt has since taken on a life of its own and evolved into something completely unexpected: actual warm, if not, hot sunshine. We’re not just melting snow here, we’re boiling water. If I didn’t know any better I’d start putting the patio furniture back on the d
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Expand $25-a-day child care

  20-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The child poverty rate was reduced by half in Alberta between 2016 and 2018, a much-needed reversal of fortune for the children in this province after previously worsening poverty rates that steadily affected more children between 2006 and 2016.
  The other half of the affected children still need assistance, however, and a way to encourage the alleviation of child poverty is to broaden access to subsidized daycare. The Intercultural Child and Family Centre in Edmonton added 20 new spaces with the
  
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• Opinion: Universities must evolve beyond degree factories

  20-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s 2019, and we’re still stuck bickering about how another pipeline is crucial for Canada’s future prosperity. Talk about tunnel vision.
  Regardless of what happens with the Trans Mountain pipeline, we need to recognize that the global energy economy is changing so much that it is transforming the world order. Alberta needs to rapidly reduce its economic reliance on the oil and gas sector.
  I don’t pretend to have a silver-bullet solution to diversification, but I do know
  
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• Editorial: Get informed, then vote

  20-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As of Tuesday, March 19, Albertans have a new and vitally important job — a calling that lasts until Tuesday, April 16, when voters (hopefully) all cast their ballots for the just-announced provincial election to decide who will form the next government.
  But while getting out to the polling booth is an obvious and much-ballyhooed duty on election day, so too is the rather less-heralded spadework that all Albertan voters should be doing during the 27 days leading up to April 16.
  While the l
  
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• Oil Spills: Edmonton Oilers and NHL playoff math

  20-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers’ NHL playoff hopes for 2018-19 are all but dead — but there’s still a chance, though it’s a long-shot.
  Host Craig Ellingson and hockey beat writer Derek Van Diest talk about the Oilers’ ever-slimmer hopes, not mathematically gone as the NHL’s Western Conference has a lot of mediocre teams this season — the Oilers among them.
  
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• Elise Stolte: Time to raise the bar and ban patronage in city councillors' offices

  20-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You can imagine eyebrows would raise if the city manager or the head of Edmonton Transit hired their son or daughter to manage the office.
  Yet that’s exactly what’s been happening in city hall’s council wing for years.
  It’s one of those ethical issues that has slipped under the radar. It was even common for a while. But it means a councillor’s family member is directly benefiting from the councillor’s election win.
  Today, Coun. Tony Caterina is the only counci
  
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• David Staples: UCP and NDP immunizing themselves against politics of fear

  20-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2019 provincial election in Alberta will be an exercise in fear management. Both leading parties, Rachel Notley’s NDP and Jason Kenney’s UCP, have taken steps — and sometimes gigantic leaps — to immunize themselves from being painted as irresponsible economic extremists.
  There are indeed stark differences between the economic plans of the NDP and the UCP, but both parties have moved to the middle in order to calm voters.
  Of course, the NDP will shout out that the UCP
  
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• 10 ridings to watch as Alberta plunges into election season

  20-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  After months of speculation about when the call would come, Alberta’s 30th general election officially kicked off Tuesday. In front of a crowd of supporters in Calgary, NDP Leader Rachel Notley announced Albertans will go to the polls April 16.
  Each of the province’s 87 ridings elects a member to the legislature. But some races will garner more attention than others, either because of who’s running, the riding’s history or its demographics.
  Here are ten races worth watchi
  
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• Player grades: Edmonton Oilers formally throw in towel on 2018-19 with pathetic showing in St. Loo

  20-03-2019 07:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers 2, Blues 7
  The odds have been stacked for some time now against Edmonton Oilers making the playoffs. For a while there the team refused to accept those odds, played some determined hockey, and at least hung around on the outer periphery of the playoff conversation.
  But their weak performance in St. Louis tonight on the heels of a poor showing in Las Vegas on Sunday suggests the team has recognized the inevitable. Edmonton was never in this one, getting bombed 44-17 on the shot clock and 7
  
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• UCP leadership donor fined by Alberta election commissioner

  20-03-2019 05:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Office of the Election Commissioner has fined a United Conservative Party donor and reprimanded two others for donating money that wasn’t theirs in the wake of the kamikaze candidate scandal.
  The election commissioner’s website shows political contributor Darcy McAllister was fined $4,000 on Tuesday for contributing $4,000 to the Jeff Callaway campaign with funds given or furnished by another person. McAllister was also fined $4,000 for providing $4,000 to another individual for
  
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• Top school picks: School boards approve their top school construction wishes

  20-03-2019 03:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Faced with crammed suburban schools, a fleet of aging buildings and a tsunami of teenagers on the horizon, Edmonton’s public and Catholic school boards topped their new construction wish lists with high schools across the city and new K-9 schools in the southwest.
  “High schools are a critical need for us,” Edmonton Catholic school board chairwoman Laura Thibert said Tuesday.
  Both school boards approved new priority lists Tuesday, which they send to the provincial government, th
  
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• Affordable housing, infrastructure funds: How will Edmontonians be affected by the federal budget

  20-03-2019 02:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton community leaders shared mixed reactions to the different funding and program incentives announced with the tabling of the 2019 federal budget Tuesday.
  Edmonton Mill Woods MP Amarjeet Sohi said the budget, titled Investing in the Middle Class, will help to ease the middle class’ anxieties with the introduction of a 10 per cent mortgage loan for first-time homebuyers making less than $120,000 a year.
  An ATB Financial report in March showed a record number of new homes sit vacant in
  
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• Four candidates to run in Morinville-St. Albert - MorinvilleNews.com

  20-03-2019 02:24 via morinvillenews.com
  Four candidates to run in Morinville-St. Albert  MorinvilleNews.comby Morinville News Staff. Premier Rachel Notley has dropped the writ for the 2019 provincial election, officially setting off the campaigns of four candidates ...
  
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• How Alberta's legislative assembly has changed since the 2015 election

  20-03-2019 00:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  When the writ dropped, the makeup of Alberta’s legislature had changed significantly since the NDP swept to a majority victory in May 2015.
  At dissolution Tuesday, the NDP held 52 of 87 seats, compared to 25 for the UCP. The Alberta Party held three seats, and three MLAs sat as independents. The Liberal, Progressive Conservatives and Freedom Conservatives each had one MLA. There was also one vacant seat in Calgary-Varsity after NDP MLA Stephanie McLean resigned in January.
  When Albertans c
  
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• The politics of division: Election kickoff highlights possible campaign tone

  20-03-2019 00:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  The tone of the election campaign from the NDP and UCP camps could be boiled down to two statements Tuesday morning — Jason Kenney can’t be trusted to tell the truth and Rachel Notley can’t be trusted with the future of Alberta.
  For months, the NDP has sought to highlight the differences between Kenney and Notley, and it seems that trend will continue until voters head to the polls April 16.
  It took Notley mere minutes to tear into Kenney as she announced the election in Calgar
  
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