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• Cult of Hockey Player Grades: The Ottawa Senators all but veto the Edmonton Oilers playoff chances with 4-3 overtime road victory

  23-03-2019 23:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  They’re done.
  The Edmonton Oilers post-season playoff hopes, that is.
  The Oilers were generally (if narrowly) out-played by the worst road team in the NHL Saturday afternoon at Rogers Place. And even though they ultimately lost 4-3 in Overtime to Ottawa and did gain a single point the Oilers needed both points…desperately. That’s because the O/T loss combined with a Colorado win left the Oilers 6 points back of the final wildcard spot in the West. And with just 7 games le
  
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• Alberta Election Day 5: Protester with megaphone delays Notley photo op in Edmonton

  23-03-2019 22:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 5 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Alberta election notebook: UCP social media kerfuffles, smaller parties make strides Mandel announces party's plans for fluoride, dental checkups for children UCP promises $30-million oil 'war room,' environmental group funding cut Notley pledges $1 billion for Bow River flood plan Alberta Election 2019: Here's what the parties have promised so far
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• Edmonton police investigating stabbing death in city's southeast

  23-03-2019 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are treating the stabbing death of a 35-year-old man in the city’s southeast as suspicious.
  In a Saturday news release, police said they were called to a home in the Lakewood Village neighbourhood at around 8:25 p.m. Friday evening and found an injured 35-year-old man.
  Emergency crews rushed the man to hospital, where he died a short time later. Homicide detectives have since taken over the investigation. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday morning. The victim was not identi
  
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• Michelle Obama delivers honest, hopeful message on Edmonton book tour stop

  23-03-2019 20:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  “I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need,” Michelle Obama writes in her memoir, Becoming.
  “I understood that when I showed up somewhere, it appeared dramatic from the outside—a sudden and swift-descending storm kicked up by the motorcade, the agents, the aides, and the media, with me at the center. We were there and then gone. I didn’t like what this did to my int
  
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• Alberta Election Day 5: NDP slam Calgary UCP candidate for 'promoting' conversion therapy

  23-03-2019 20:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 5 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Alberta election notebook: UCP social media kerfuffles, smaller parties make strides Mandel announces party's plans for fluoride, dental checkups for children UCP promises $30-million oil 'war room,' environmental group funding cut Notley pledges $1 billion for Bow River flood plan Alberta Election 2019: Here's what the parties have promised so far
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• Edmonton Oilers' over-reliance on top guns a huge factor in 2018-19 tribulations

  23-03-2019 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 75: Senators at Oilers
  As clumsily as Edmonton Oilers CEO Bob Nicholson chose his words, and his target, in Thursday morning’s comments to season ticket holders about Tobias Rieder, there was more than a kernel of truth in them. If he had made the more general point that the Oilers badly lacked secondary scoring without singling any one culprit out, he would have been right on point. Other than connecting that general observation to “The Plan” which was what the origin
  
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• Flights now departing Edmonton airport after heavy fog causes delays, cancellations

  23-03-2019 19:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavy fog in the Edmonton area ground air traffic to a screeching halt Saturday morning.
  “The fog is quite unusual sand it has significant impacted our operations. We have had no arrivals or departures this morning,” said Traci Bednard, Edmonton International Airport (EIA) spokesperson. “It’s not unusual to have weather impacts or fog impacts, but it is unusual for fog to be this settled and stay as long as it has.”
  A total of eight outbound flights were cancelled S
  
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• Heavy fog 'significantly impacting' flights at Edmonton International Airport

  23-03-2019 18:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavy fog in the Edmonton area has ground air traffic to a screeching halt.
  “The fog is quite unusual sand it has significant impacted our operations. We have had no arrivals or departures this morning,” said Traci Bednard, Edmonton International Airport spokesperson. “It’s not unusual to have weather impacts or fog impacts, but it is unusual for fog to be this settled and stay as long as it has.”
  So far, eight outbound flights have been cancelled, 12 aircraft have
  
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• Alberta Election Day 5: Kenney holds rally in Red Deer, Notley photo op in Edmonton

  23-03-2019 18:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 5 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Alberta election notebook: UCP social media kerfuffles, smaller parties make strides Mandel announces party's plans for fluoride, dental checkups for children UCP promises $30-million oil 'war room,' environmental group funding cut Notley pledges $1 billion for Bow River flood plan Alberta Election 2019: Here's what the parties have promised so far
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• Edmonton weather: Advisory issued as dense fog envelops region

  23-03-2019 16:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton and surrounding areas are under a weather advisory as a blanket of fog envelops the region.
  Environment Canada said anyone travelling in the region should expect “near-zero” visibility in areas.
  The weather statement was issued just after 5:30 a.m. Environment Canada expected the areas of dense fog to stick around until later Saturday morning.
  The alert covered Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, as well as other parts of central Alberta.
  The following areas were under fog
  
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• Saturday's letters: Hit entitled speeders with enforcement, education

  23-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “We need more than a bunch of speed traps,” Elise Stolte, March 18
  Ms. Stolte’s column captured the essence of this city and this generation’s speeding entitlement. Changing speed limits will not stop the ignorance of those who feel limits do not apply to them.
  A two-pronged approach is required to resolve this issue. First, we need roving speed traps to (frequently) punish those who routinely break the law. Actions have consequences. An escalating set of penalties, c
  
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• Opinion: Re-opening Alberta for business should be priority this election

  23-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Built into the mindset of every successful entrepreneur is a belief that they control their own destiny, that they have the solutions and ideas the market needs.
  With that, there is no doubt that Alberta businesses want to grow. And we have no doubt that they will.
  The only question we have is, where will they grow?
  In years past the easy answer would have been Alberta, a place blessed with a long-term supply of natural resources, strong adherence to the rule of law and a quality of life second
  
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• Watch: Notley campaign stops in Edmonton-Meadows

  23-03-2019 05:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley began her day in Calgary Friday where she announced a plan to invest $1 billion from Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan to build a major new upstream reservoir on the Bow River.
  “Because climate change is real,” Notley said. “Calgary is too important to leave it’s safety to chance.”
  Later she headed to Edmonton for a Leader’s Speech at the Edmonton-Meadows campaign office, 5165 55 Ave NW.
  
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• Watch: Urban farm set to open at Edmonton Valley Zoo

  23-03-2019 03:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A bigger, modernized working farm, will open to the public Saturday at the Edmonton Valley Zoo after two years under construction and will offer a chance for Edmonton children to experience what life on a farm is like. The previous space dates back to the opening of the zoo in 1959 and was in need of significant upgrades.
  The farm includes indoor and outdoor spaces for the inhabitant sheep, cows, rabbits, ponies and other farm animals, including the staple farm cat. Goats will have a large two-s
  
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• Keith Gerein: Early election projections not adding up well for NDP

  23-03-2019 02:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Math is difficult.
  You may remember that ill-advised nugget of condescension then-Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice threw at the NDP’s Rachel Notley during the 2015 election debate.
  It was a turning point in the campaign, cementing the transformation of Notley’s crew from upstart underdogs to legitimate election force.
  Prentice never recovered from his gaffe. Math is difficult became a rallying point for the NDP, which went on to win its first majority government in Albert
  
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• Farming for city slickers: New interactive urban farm at Valley Zoo to open Saturday

  23-03-2019 02:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A brand new urban farm at the Edmonton Valley Zoo set to feature dozens of traditional farm animals is nothing like Old MacDonald’s.
  The larger, modernized working farm, opening to the public Saturday following a two-year construction period, will offer a chance for Edmonton children to experience what life on a farm is like. The previous space dates back to the opening of zoo in 1959 and was in need of significant upgrades.
  From visiting chickens Cluck Norris and Hennifer Lawrence and lea
  
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• U.S. wants Alberta man accused of smuggling handguns extradited

  23-03-2019 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  U.S. law enforcement officials are seeking to extradite an Alberta man they claim conspired to smuggle handguns with defaced serial numbers into Canada, including using the online black market Silk Road.
  Colby Stephan Skolseg was in court in Edmonton on Monday for the start of an extradition hearing. He faces four counts in the U.S. of attempting to conceal items for illegal export and one count of possessing firearms with serial numbers “obliterated.”
  Committal hearings like the one
  
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• Watch: UCP unveils strategy against foreign anti-oil special interests

  23-03-2019 01:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta UCP Leader Jason Kenney unveiled the UCP’s Fight Back Strategy against foreign anti-oil special interests at the TransMountain Edmonton Terminal on Friday, March 22, 2019.
  A UCP government would spend $30 million on a taxpayer-funded “war room” to fight attacks on Alberta’s energy industry, with public servants at the forefront of the battle, party leader Jason Kenney said Friday.
  Friday’s announcement expanded details about the government department which K
  
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• Press Gallery podcast 265: The Election Campaign Kickoff edition

  23-03-2019 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  A little thing happened in Alberta politics this week. It was called the writ drop — and that means voters head to the polls April 16.
  Join Press Gallery host Emma Graney with a table of over-excited political guests to talk about the first few days of the campaign trail.
  Graney, Keith Gerein, Sarah O’Donnell and Clare Clancy also examine the latest in leaked emails that detail the links between the UCP leadership campaigns of Jason Kenney and Jeff Callaway, and what that might mean
  
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