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• One dead, two injured in shooting at Whyte Avenue lounge

  24-03-2019 21:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person was killed and two were injured after an early morning shooting at a Whyte Avenue hookah lounge.
  Investigators were on scene Sunday morning at Xhale Lounge, 8120 101 St. NW. Police had cordoned off the block around the lounge, which had what appeared to be three bullet holes in the front window. Medical examiners later removed a covered body from the lounge on a gurney.
  Police spokeswoman Cheryl Sheppard said police received a weapons complaint at the address around 1:30 a.m. Sunday m
  
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• Alberta Election Day 6: Notley delivers speech in Edmonton, Mandel pitches digital ID cards

  24-03-2019 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 6 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Alberta Election 2019: Here's what the parties have promised so far
  Notley in Edmonton
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley was in Edmonton Sunday afternoon giving a speech to hundreds of screaming supporters at the Polish Hall, 10960 104 St NW, Edmonton. It is the only event on her scheduled Sunday.
  Notley said the NDP inherited an economy that is “de
  
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• One person dead, Edmonton police investigate outside Whyte Avenue bar

  24-03-2019 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person is dead as Edmonton police investigate outside a Whyte Avenue hookah bar Sunday.
  Edmonton police spokesperson Cheryl Sheppard confirmed one person has died. No further details were given.
  Alberta Health Services (AHS) spokesperson Bruce Conway said multiple EMS units were called to the area of 101 Street and Whyte Avenue at 1:39 a.m. Sunday morning. One person was treated and assessed on scene but was not taken to hospital, he said.
  On Sunday morning, six Edmonton police cars could be
  
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• Nick Lees: Grande Prairie Rotarians to drive 100th emergency vehicle to Mazatlan

  24-03-2019 18:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Children around the Mexican city of Culiacan were dying from injuries and disease two years ago because there was no way of getting them to a hospital.
  “Parents couldn’t afford cars to get their youngsters to the respected Culiacan Children’s Hospital in this northwestern city,” says Allan Kuechle, a Grande Prairie Swan City Rotary Club member.
  “But our Rotarian Convoy to Mexico presented the hospital with an ambulance and today it is helping save many lives.”
  
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• Alberta Election Day 6: Alberta Party pitches digital ID cards, Notley to deliver speech in Edmonton

  24-03-2019 17:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 6 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related Alberta Election 2019: Here's what the parties have promised so far
  Notley in Edmonton
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley will be giving a speech in Edmonton today at 1:30 p.m. at the Polish Hall, 10960 104 St NW, Edmonton. It is the only event on her scheduled Sunday.
  Kenney in Slave Lake
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney will be in Slave Lake Sunday where he will
  
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• Edmonton weather: The fog has lifted but grey skies remain

  24-03-2019 16:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Sunday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 0.4 C with 14 km/h winds coming out of the south.
  Well that dense cloud of fog has gone and headed south towards Calgary, where Environment Canada has issued fog advisories. It’s all clear here in Edmonton unless you count the actual clouds that are here now and likely to stick around for the next few days.Today’s forecast
  Today: 
  
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• New RCMP commanding officer a familiar face in Alberta

  24-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta RCMP’s new commanding officer is a familiar face in the province’s policing community.
  Curtis Zablocki was sworn in as the deputy commissioner of RCMP in Alberta at a ceremony at the K Division headquarters in Edmonton last week.
  He is taking the post after spending two years as the commanding officer in Saskatchewan. Before that two-year stint Zablocki held a number of posts throughout rural Alberta, including officer in charge of the Wetaskiwin detachment and operations off
  
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• Edmonton has seven homicides through 2019's first three months: Here's how that compares

  24-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s total number of homicides through the first quarter of 2019 is similar to previous years.
  With one week left in March, Edmonton has recorded seven homicides, the most recent of which was the shooting death of 42-year-old Desmond Gordon in the city’s northeast.
  That number could rise to eight if investigators deem the suspicious death of a 35-year-old man in southeast Edmonton Friday night a homicide.
  The number of homicides a city records during a certain stretch doesn&rsq
  
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• Booze flow: Protectionist policies prevent Alberta liquor movement across country

  24-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  On paper, it would knock down a bureaucratic trade barrier that prevented Alberta from selling liquor to other provinces.
  But in practice, a federal government pledge to amend a law limiting the movement of booze to cross provincial borders is unlikely to solve cross-Canada standoffs about booze, Alberta industry experts say.
  “The federal government cannot interfere with provincial jurisdiction,” Ivonne Martinez, executive director of the Alberta Liquor Store Association, said Friday
  
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• With Saturday's 4-3 O/T loss to Ottawa, the Edmonton Oilers' focus has to swing to 2019-20: 9 Things

  24-03-2019 12:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Lets move on, shall we?
  When that shot bled in between Mikko Koskinen’s torso and glove hand and into the net during over-time Saturday afternoon against Ottawa, it for all intents and purposes ended the Edmonton Oilers playoff chances. All that’s left now is the math. This team has run out of road. Nothing short of miracle can help them now.
  And so, thoughts regretfully turn to next year and a lot of decisions that will need to be made now and in the not-too-distant future.
  9 Things
  
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• Two taken to hospital after police respond to gunshots in downtown Edmonton

  24-03-2019 03:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man and a woman were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after city police responded to reports of gunshots Saturday morning.
  Edmonton police went to a residence in the area of 95 Street and 106A Avenue shortly before 7 a.m., said watch commander Lance Parker.
  A neighbour told Postmedia they heard the gunshots followed by a vehicle speeding away from the area.
  Detectives with the EPS downtown division are investigating.
  Parker said police do not have anyone in custody.
  
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• Al-Hadi mosque opens its doors in the wake of New Zealand violence

  24-03-2019 03:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Al-Hadi mosque in central southeast Edmonton opened its doors this weekend to educate and show thanks to the community in the wake of an anti-Islamic mass shooting in New Zealand.
  March 23 is celebrated by the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect as the coming of the messiah Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. This year it came a week after a white supremacist terrorist opened fire during afternoon prayers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 people and wounding 50 more.
  In the wake of the violence, Edmont
  
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• Kenney's Red Deer stop focuses on fairness, Notley campaigns in home riding

  24-03-2019 03:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney spent Saturday in Red Deer adding to the list of fights a United Conservative government would pick with federal officials.
  In a speech billed by the Kenney campaign as a plan to get a “fair deal for Alberta,” he relied on a tack used repeatedly in the first week of the election, referring often to what he has labelled a “Trudeau-Notley alliance” to describe the relationship between the prime minister and NDP Leader Rachel Notley during her first t
  
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• Watch: Oilers Lose 4-3 in Overtime to Ottawa Senators

  24-03-2019 01:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers head coach Ken Hitchcock gives his post-game synopsis after his team was defeated 4-3 in overtime by the Ottawa Senators in Edmonton on Saturday March 23, 2019.
  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&
  
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• Flights delayed and cancelled by heavy fog at Edmonton airport

  24-03-2019 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Heavy fog in the Edmonton area ground air traffic to a screeching halt Saturday morning.
  “The fog is quite unusual and it has significant impacted our operations. We have had no arrivals or departures this morning,” said Traci Bednard, Edmonton International Airport (EIA) spokeswoman. “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.”
  Eight outbound flights were cancelled Saturday morni
  
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