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• Planning for Blatchford: City eyes options to pay $93 million for green development's utility

  22-03-2019 22:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is weighing options to find $93 million to get the green Blatchford development’s utility up and running.
  The non-refundable cash infusion will be sunk into the new utility for the sustainable community being built on the former downtown airport lands.
  “We made a commitment to the people of Edmonton when we closed the airport that we would not dumb down this project, that we would do something that hit the kind of targets we are going to. I don’t want to betray that ei
  
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• Offender captured hours after escape from healing centre

  22-03-2019 22:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  An offender serving time for manslaughter was captured hours after his escape from a central Edmonton healing centre.
  The inmate, Jesse Leppanen, 27, escaped from Stan Daniels Healing Centre, a facility managed by Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) at approximately 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
  Leppanen was later captured by Edmonton police at about 10 p.m. that day, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) said in a news release Friday.
  CSC and NCSA are conducting an investigation into Leppanen&rsqu
  
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• Alberta election notebook: UCP social media kerfuffles, smaller parties make strides

  22-03-2019 21:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP candidate for Edmonton-South West Tunde Obasan said a meme he shared in 2017 was “clearly a joke” after he was criticized by NDP staff on social media.
  The meme he shared on Faceook says, “Dear Wife, If you want to bring out the best in your husband, give him these 2 things: Respect and Sex (in that order) (sic).”
  "Dear Wife,
  If you want to bring out the best in your husband, give him these 2 things:
  Respect and Sex (in that order)"@Tunde_Obasan, you seem to have dele
  
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• Alberta Election Day 4: Kenney targets foreign anti-oil interests, Notley unveils flood mitigation plan

  22-03-2019 20:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 4 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Jason Kenney in Edmonton
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney is in Edmonton Friday where he visited the Trans Mountain pipeline Edmonton terminal to detail his party’s plan to “fight back” against foreign anti-oil special interests.
  Kenney said there is “undeniable proof” of a long-term foreign campaign against Alberta oil development.
  Kenney s
  
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• Alberta Election Day 4: Kenney in Edmonton to 'fight back' against anti-oil special interests

  22-03-2019 16:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 4 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Jason Kenney in Edmonton
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney will be in Edmonton Friday at noon visiting the Trans Mountain pipeline Edmonton terminal where he will detail his party’s plan to “fight back” against foreign anti-oil special interests.
  On Thursday night, the UCP nominated Leila Houle as the party’s candidate in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
  
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• Setting the bar: Edmonton's best builders honoured at CHBA-ER Awards of Excellence in Housing

  22-03-2019 16:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  For one night, Edmonton’s home builders put a difficult housing market behind them.
  With an event theme of spring in Paris, it was about an industry being in full bloom, not doom or gloom, as last weekend’s Canadian Home Builders’ Association – Edmonton Region (CHBA-ER) Awards of Excellence in Housing Gala gave industry members something to rejoice in despite a somewhat rocky economy and mitigating factors relating to mortgages and stress tests.
  A Paris theme greeted atte
  
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• Make It craft fair showcases homegrown, hand-sewn creativity

  22-03-2019 16:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blame the Booty Beltz.
  Entering its 11th year, this weekend’s edition of the Make It craft fair, being held at the Edmonton Expo Centre, owes its success to an unlikely homegrown consumer product: the Booty Beltz, a scarf-like belt that would lead former Edmontonian Jenna Herbut on a whole new career trajectory.
  The hand-sewn scarf belts would end up in stores on Whyte Avenue and would eventually reach boutique shelves in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, the United States and Japan.
  
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• Growing Things: Spiders are garden friends, not foes

  22-03-2019 16:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate your advice to readers’ questions about gardening. The question I want to broach with you is not about plants so much as about critters in and on plants. Last summer was a terrible year in our yard because there were many, many spiders on our plants — in the Iris patch, along the drainage ditch next to the lawn, in the carrot patch, on my strawberry plants of all things! They were just everywhere, and in case you haven’t guessed, I am not a
  
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• Keith Gerein: Time to brace for grey wave; any party wanting to govern needs a long-term plan

  22-03-2019 15:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  A demographic volcano is quietly building within Alberta’s population, poised to begin exploding sometime in the next decade or so.
  When it finally happens, the eruption won’t be quick.
  It will instead discharge over years, unstoppable, laying waste to the provincial treasury, health care system and economy.
  That is, unless our political leaders start the work to alleviate it now.
  I’m talking of Alberta’s seniors population, which is on the verge of unprecedented growth.
  
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• Oilers in 60: It's all Tobias Rieder's fault #BlameToby

  22-03-2019 15:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers were solid in a commanding 4-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets Thursday night at Rogers Place.
  But none of that matters because, according to Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson, it’s all Tobias Rieder’s fault. Everything. All of it. Look no further than Toby Rieder. Why? Don’t ask questions. Just #BlameToby
  Sure, they scored four goals, but they could have scored five if it wasn’t for Rieder. #BlameToby
  Mikko Koskinen was solid in the win
  
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• Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Awards Recipients - 2019

  22-03-2019 15:21
  Awards presented at 10th anniversary event on March 21 The City of St. Albert is pleased to announce the recipients... Read Post
  
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• Edmonton police charge suspect in series of violent carjackings

  22-03-2019 15:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 31-year-old man has been charged in connection with a series of violent carjackings in southeast Edmonton that occurred over the last two months.
  Between February and March, several violent carjacking robberies and assaults took place involving two male suspects, police said in a news release Thursday.
  The first reported carjacking occurred on March 4, around 7:30 p.m. where officers responded to the parking lot of a business in the area of 23 Avenue and 24 Street.
  Then on March 5, police agai
  
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• Edmonton weather: We now resume our regularly scheduled forecasting

  22-03-2019 13:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -2.4 C with 4 km/h winds coming out of the west.
  That’s it. Party’s over. Pack it up. We’re done here. Friday might just be the final day in this beautiful run of warm weather we’ve been receiving — right in time for the weekend, as per usual. After today, we’re looking at single-digit temperatures closer to zer
  
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• Opinion: Anti-Islamic militia group belongs on federal terror watch list

  22-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I had almost finished rocking my newborn to sleep when my phone began to buzz. It was something we all felt that Thursday evening, as our phones began to light up with the horrific news about the Christchurch shootings in New Zealand, where over 50 people were murdered by a white supremacist.
  I don’t want to repeat this man’s name, or rehash his twisted ideology of hate and evil. But today, as we call for the federal government to list the Three Percenters as a group on the designate
  
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• Friday's letters: Police red-light policy astounding

  22-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. ‘A life was potentially in danger’: Police union unhappy with disciplinary decision, March 18
  We were astounded to read that an Edmonton police constable was disciplined for driving through a red light on the way to a call of a woman held at knifepoint.
  This should not be a policy of any police force. We expect a quick response that has measures of safety built in. Stopping at red lights is not one of them.
  And having an RCMP officer in charge of the hearing is just plain stupid.
  
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• Player grades: McDavid, Draisaitl spark third period eruption as Edmonton Oilers smother Jackets 4-1

  22-03-2019 10:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Blue Jackets 1, Oilers 4
  For a long, long time it was a sleepy hockey game.  Sleepy not lazy, as the players on both sides were working hard enough, mostly to nullify each other’s chances. Halfway through the second period, the scoreboard was completely blank — no goals, no penalties — and the shot clock stood at single digits on both sides of the aisle, 9 shots for the visitors, just 5 by the home side — only 1 of those by a forward. When the Blue Jackets finally br
  
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• Keith Gerein: Alberta parties must do better than short-term tweaks to solve looming seniors care crisis

  22-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A demographic volcano is quietly building within Alberta’s population, poised to begin exploding sometime in the next decade or so.
  When it finally happens, the eruption won’t be quick.
  It will instead discharge over years, unstoppable, laying waste to the provincial treasury, health care system and economy.
  That is, unless our political leaders start the work to alleviate it now.
  I’m talking of Alberta’s seniors population, which is on the verge of unprecedented growth.
  
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• Elise Stolte: Bighorn dilemma a microcosm of conservation issues confronting Alberta in election

  22-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here’s a trick question. What does Alberta need more: grassroots support for local conservation or a top-down legal framework to enforce the rules?
  Stupid question, actually. Alberta needs both. Yet that’s the type of frustrating either/or rhetoric we’re starting to encounter on the campaign trail.
  I can’t be the only voter who would like to mix and match campaign platforms.
  While pundits say this election will be fought on ethics and the economy, it also offers a chance
  
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• Accused in Edmonton vehicle attacks parts ways with lawyers weeks into pretrial hearing

  22-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of attacking a police officer and running down four pedestrians in downtown Edmonton is parting ways with his lawyers weeks into a pretrial proceeding.
  Tom Engel, one of two lawyers representing Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, confirmed Thursday that he advised the court the day before that Sharif had terminated their retainer agreement.
  Engel said he and his colleague Samantha Labahn were granted leave to withdraw from the case and have done so. Sharif is now self-represented but told the
  
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• 50th birthday bash for beloved legislature burger

  22-03-2019 03:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of burger-loving Albertans stood in the Edmonton Federal Building foyer Thursday night, wearing party hats as they sang Happy Birthday to a hamburger.
  To understand why, we must back up 50 years.
  On March 27, 1969, as interim supply debate raged inside the Alberta legislature, one MLA stopped discussion in its tracks with a theatrical flourish — he reached into his drawer, pulled out a hamburger, and plonked it on his desk.
  That MLA was Clarence Copithorne, independent member for B
  
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• Watch: New children's galley to open at TWOS

  22-03-2019 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  CuriousCITY is aimed at children under the age of eight featuring icons of of Edmonton — including the river valley, the Muttart Conservatory and the High Level Bridge — turning it into an easily explorable space for pint-sized curious minds.
  “If they head up to the airport tower, they have the opportunity to communicate with the pilot in the airplane and talk about wind speed and figure out if it’s safe for take-off and landing. They’ll be able to control the wind
  
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• New city police bureau will aim to divert vulnerable from criminal justice system

  22-03-2019 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Dale McFee was selected as Edmonton’s 23rd police chief, he vowed to change how police deal with vulnerable populations.
  In particular, he said police need to work more closely with the social service and health-care sectors to give people “off ramps” before they become involved with the criminal justice system.
  At a police commission meeting Thursday, he gave a sense of how he plans to make that happen.
  McFee said the service is looking to set up a “community safety
  
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• Edmonton police roll out new gun strategy after surge in firearms-related crime

  22-03-2019 00:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton city police plan to bring in a new strategy to combat a steady increase in crimes involving guns.
  In its 2019 annual policing plan, unveiled at an Edmonton Police Commission meeting Thursday, police officials outlined ways they plan to combat a “proliferation of firearm-related activity” in the city.
  According to the report, firearms seizures grew 39 per cent between 2012 and 2017 — a period that also saw a 78-per-cent increase in victim injuries related to firearms.
  &
  
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• Double number of educational assistants: Alberta Party Leader Mandel

  22-03-2019 00:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government should double the number of educational assistants in Alberta schools and increase funding for inclusive education by 50 per cent, Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel said.
  At an Edmonton campaign announcement Thursday at Al-Mustafa Academy, Mandel pledged to increase to $690 million a year the funding for school boards to aid students with disabilities and challenges.
  “Complexity in classrooms has changed dramatically over the last couple of years. And teachers need
  
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