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• 'We just ran out of time': Alberta municipalities came close to sealing funding deal with province

  28-03-2019 23:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta municipalities were close to signing an infrastructure funding deal similar to what Edmonton and Calgary got from the province, but ran out of time before the election.
  St. Albert Mayor Cathy Heron said Thursday that urban and rural municipalities were “close but not across the finish line” in getting a new revenue sharing plan sorted out with the province before the writ dropped. The municipalities want $500-million, equal to what the province’s two largest cities are
  
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• UCP offering assistance to RCMP on 2017 leadership allegations, says Kenney

  28-03-2019 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney says he doesn’t know what questions the RCMP is asking his party about allegations related to the 2017 leadership race and that he hasn’t been contacted personally.
  “I don’t have detailed information on that,” he told reporters Thursday. “I directed our party legal representative to reach out when we heard about a complaint to the RCMP and he offered on behalf of the party any assistance or cooperation.
  “I understand they’ve
  
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• Groat Road closed as police probe crash

  28-03-2019 21:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Groat Road has been closed to northbound traffic at 114 Avenue as police investigate a collision.
  Police are asking drivers to avoid the area Thursday afternoon until further notice.
  More to come…
  
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• Homicide police investigating after woman found fatally stabbed outside city shelters

  28-03-2019 21:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Staff and patrons of an inner city shelter are reeling after homicide police were called to the area Thursday morning for the fatal stabbing of a 48-year-old woman well known in the community.
  The woman — Rose Cutknife — has been identified by staff and patrons at Boyle Street Community Services, 10116 105 Ave., across the street from where she was found suffering fatal stab wounds.
  City police were called to the scene outside The George Spady Centre, 10015 105A Ave., a detox shelter
  
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• Alberta Election Day 10: 'Too many managers managing managers': Kenney seeks to reduce healthcare admin costs

  28-03-2019 21:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 10 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 NDP, UCP and other parties have promised so far Who are the candidates in my riding: A guide to Alberta's 2019 provincial election NDP promises 70 new and modernized schools, 1,000 new teachers and staff
  Jason Kenney in Calgary
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney is in Calgary Thursday where he is making an announcement regard
  
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• Alberta Election Day 10: Notley promises $1.3 billion to build, upgrade 70 schools

  28-03-2019 19:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 10 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 NDP, UCP and other parties have promised so far Who are the candidates in my riding: A guide to Alberta's 2019 provincial election NDP promises 70 new and modernized schools, 1,000 new teachers and staff
  Rachel Notley in Calgary
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary Thursday where she announced a plan to i
  
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• Social Seen: Glass Buffalo launch party

  28-03-2019 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  Glass Buffalo launch party
  Where: Yellowhead Brewery
  When: March 27
  What: Launch party for the Winter 2019 issue of Glass Buffalo.
  Featuring: Readings from contributors to the new edition of the magazine.
  Mackenzie Wiebe reads her piece during the Glass Buffalo Winter 2019 launch at Yellowhead Brewery on Wednesday, March 27.
  Mackenzie Wiebe reads her piece during the Glass Buffalo Winter 2019 launch at Yellowhead Brewery on Wednesday, March 27.
  Evan Skutle, left, with Karyn Wisselink during the
  
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• Joe Fafard raised iconic beasts with loads of heart in Edmonton's public art ecosystem

  28-03-2019 18:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  There are so many ways to measure an artist’s impact on a city, and in Joe Fafard’s case, you could easily do it in terms of scale, in actual tonnes.
  But in his trio of public artworks standing along some of Edmonton’s most-travelled paths, Fafard’s bison, horse and bull sculptures are monuments to creatures fundamental to our survival going back millennia — and it’s thus their out-of-place, winking presence in a now-paved urban environment that’s as imp
  
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• Fitness column: Retired or not, it's never too late for healthy habits

  28-03-2019 18:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  The other day a retired acquaintance asked our opinion on managing her sore shoulder. She visited a doctor who, due to her persistence, took X-rays. She contacted us because the doctor hadn’t miraculously fixed a problem that had accumulated due to sedentary living. (There had been no specific incident or acute trauma.)
  Supporting her doctor’s advice, I suggested rest, a visit to the physiotherapist and regular exercise.
  What, no drugs? Acupuncture? Massage? Manipulation? Surgery? Ma
  
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• NDP promises 70 new and modernized schools, 1,000 new teachers and staff

  28-03-2019 18:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The NDP would spend $1.3 billion constructing and modernizing 70 more schools during the next five years if returned to government, leader Rachel Notley pledged.
  The party also committed Thursday to fully funding growing student enrolment each year at an estimated cost of $72 million. It would add an estimated 600 new teaching and support staff positions for the 15,000 more students expected to arrive in Alberta schools by the fall.
  “Notley’s plan for the next four years invests in e
  
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• Judge tells man accused in Edmonton attack to find a new lawyer

  28-03-2019 17:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton judge on Thursday ordered the man accused in a Sept. 30, 2017, attack on a city police officer and pedestrians to get new legal counsel.
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, was in court just over a week after parting ways with his two lawyers.
  Sharif, accused of running down and stabbing a police officer and striking pedestrians in downtown Edmonton with a U-Haul truck, is facing a string of charges including five counts of attempted murder.
  He is scheduled to go to trial on the charges this
  
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• Edmonton K-Division RCMP sergeant charged with assault, uttering threats

  28-03-2019 17:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  An RCMP sergeant based at Edmonton’s K-Division has been charged with two counts of assault and one count of uttering threats.
  Sgt. Michael Bennett of the “operational support system,” is facing the charges which occurred off-duty in Sherwood Park between March 2015 and March 2019, said RCMP in a Thursday news release.
  Bennett is to appear in Sherwood Park provincial court on April 3.
  Until then, he is ordered not to have any contact with the complainant, not to consume intoxic
  
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• Police investigating suspicious death in downtown Edmonton

  28-03-2019 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  City police are investigating a suspicious death of a woman in downtown Edmonton.
  The death happened near 100 Street and 105A Avenue, police said in a news release Thursday morning.
  The homicide section is investigating.
  Police have taped off the entire parking lot attached to the George Spady Centre, 10015 105A Ave NW. Investigators can be seen taking photos in the parking lot Thursday morning.
  I am on scene outside the George Spady Centre where police are investigating the suspicious death of
  
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• Opinion: White supremacy has no place in Alberta

  28-03-2019 16:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  I am a first-generation Albertan. My parents weren’t born here. But, they built their lives in Alberta and have been proud to call this province their home for over 40 years.
  Many are calling this Alberta election the most divisive in history. Candidates are not only being questioned on their policies, but where they stand on issues such as abortion, acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, and the place of racial minorities in this province.
  I don’t consider these questions divisive. Rather, th
  
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• 'We’re not advocating for vigilantism': Kenney puts self-defence laws on the table

  28-03-2019 14:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  If a rural property owner shoots someone on their farm, prosecutors should have to consider the shooter’s proximity to police and whether they thought the intruder was on drugs before charging them, UCP Leader Jason Kenney said Wednesday.
  “We’re not advocating for vigilantism here. People should not take the law into their own hands, but they have every right to use reasonable force in self-defence, especially when they’re in a remote area and feeling vulnerable,” h
  
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• Alberta Election Day 10: Alberta Party seeks to expand QEII Highway for self-driving cars

  28-03-2019 14:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 10 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 NDP, UCP and other parties have promised so far Who are the candidates in my riding: A guide to Alberta's 2019 provincial election
  Jason Kenney in Calgary
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney is in Calgary Thursday where he will provide details of the party’s plan to tackle to opioid crises, and to “make health care
  
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• High-tech hopes: When a 'big bet' goes belly up, how Edmonton can spark the tech innovation it desperately wants

  28-03-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In a room of tech startup rookies and veterans, it took only a moment of prodding to convince Karan Nagpal to stand up and share his news.
  Nagpal, a University of Alberta business student, needed just a beat before launching into a description of ServerTab, his new company seeking to use artificial intelligence to improve digital sales tools at restaurants — think updates to ordering on touchscreens. He’s beta testing his product in a sit-down sushi restaurant and a fast-service pizz
  
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• Edmonton weather: The countdown to second winter begins

  28-03-2019 13:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -2.2 C with 6 winds of the southwest contributing to a -5 wind chill.
  I hate to be the one to say this but, second winter is coming. Slowly but surely, like an army of white walkers, it’s coming. It might take a few days, or at least eight seasons of television, but it’s coming. It seems temperatures take a bit of a dip Monday as the
  
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• Thursday's letters: School-zone tragedies can be prevented

  28-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  If you have never been in the position to experience hearing the screams of a child in pain just from being lifted off her bed to a sitting position, I hope you are spared.
  If you have never experienced the horror of watching the violent mood swings of brain injury in a child, I hope you are spared. If you have never had to listen to the hopeless and anguished statement of a teen saying, “I don’t want to be here,” I hope you are spared.
  If you have never experienced the heart-w
  
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• Opinion: Newcomers have every right to claim Alberta as their own

  28-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  I am a first-generation Albertan. My parents weren’t born here. But, they built their lives in Alberta and have been proud to call this province their home for over 40 years.
  Many are calling this Alberta election the most divisive in history. Candidates are not only being questioned on their policies, but where they stand on issues such as abortion, acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, and the place of racial minorities in this province.
  I don’t consider these questions divisive. Rather, th
  
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• Editorial: Backsliding on kids' rights

  28-03-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For a party looking to lead Albertans into the future, the United Conservatives took the unusual step of reaching back into the past and purloining their education platform from a previous regime — one that voters turfed in the last election.
  If elected to government, UCP Leader Jason Kenney vowed this week to replace Alberta’s recently minted School Act by proclaiming the Education Act of 2012, which was the handiwork of the Progressive Conservatives on the last legs of a dying dyna
  
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• Watch: Zack Kassian has found a home on the Edmonton Oilers' top line

  28-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Zack Kassian set a career high with his 15th goal in the 8-4 win over LA, on Tuesday night at Rogers Place playing on the high octane first line.
  He’s found a home on the right side with Connor McDavid and Draisaitl and has seven goals in his past 13 games.
  He had two goals up until Jan. 1, playing on a fourth line, killing penalties and banging bodies but while people can say he’s feeding off  McDavid and Draisaitl, he’s proven he can play with them and also still drop th
  
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• High-tech hopes: When a 'big bet' goes belly up, how can Edmonton spark the tech innovation it desperately wants

  28-03-2019 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In a room of tech startup rookies and veterans, it took only a moment of prodding to convince Karan Nagpal to stand up and share his news.
  Nagpal, a University of Alberta business student, needed just a beat before launching into a description of ServerTab, his new company seeking to use artificial intelligence to improve digital sales tools at restaurants — think updates to ordering on touchscreens. He’s beta testing his product in a sit-down sushi restaurant and a fast-service pizz
  
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• Edmonton Oilers prospect Ethan Bear reaching new heights as a Condor

  28-03-2019 07:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Bakersfield moves puck around with skill, arrogance even
  At this time last year Ethan Bear was in the National Hockey League, playing regularly for the Edmonton Oilers.
  You might think that was the height of his career, but that’s not how I see it. His 14 games in the NHL exposed some major flaws in his defensive game, both the need for him to move faster and read the game better in his own end. Sure he could zing a sharp pass but sound fundamental defensive play is a must for any NHL d-ma
  
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• Robb College to take on St Albert's in round one - The Northern Daily Leader

  28-03-2019 05:30 via northerndailyleader.com.au
  Robb College to take on St Albert's in round one  The Northern Daily Leader"The other clubs have been training hard, Albies are playing for a lot this weekend and I expect it will be a really tough game."
  
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• Hundreds join march at legislature in support of GSA regulations

  28-03-2019 05:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Supporters of the LGBTQ community marched to the UCP’s Edmonton headquarters from the provincial legislative grounds Wednesday evening to oppose proposed changes to laws surrounding gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in Alberta schools.
  Close to 500 people waving pride and transgender flags joined the march after UCP Leader Jason Kenney said this week that a UCP government would replace Alberta’s School Act with the former Progressive Conservative Government’s Education Act .
  The ro
  
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• Watch: GSA Rally and March

  28-03-2019 03:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The LGBTQ community and supporters, close to 500 people waving pride and transgender flags, rallied in front of the Alberta Legislature, then marched to Jason Kenney’s UCP headquarters to show their support for GSAs after Kenney said a UCP government would replace Alberta’s School Act (Bill 24) with the former Progressive Conservative Government’s Education Act (Bill 10).
  
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• Watch: Jason Kenney announces UCP rural crime strategy

  28-03-2019 03:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney announced the party’s rural crime initiatives on Ken Lewis’ farm outside of Sangudo on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. He spoke of the challenges that rural residents have when crimes happen and the police are many minutes away from responding.
  Some of the main points of the plan the UCP leader unveiled are creating a provincial police response system, forcing police to produce quarterly reports on every single incoming call and the response p
  
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• 'We’re not advocating for vigilantism': Kenney puts self-defense laws on the table

  28-03-2019 01:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  If a rural property owner shoots someone on their farm, prosecutors should have to consider the shooter’s proximity to police and whether they thought the intruder was on drugs before charging them, UCP Leader Jason Kenney said Wednesday.
  “We’re not advocating for vigilantism here. People should not take the law into their own hands, but they have every right to use reasonable force in self-defence, especially when they’re in a remote area and feeling vulnerable,” h
  
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• Watch: Interstellar Rodeo unveils 2019 lineup

  28-03-2019 01:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  “I always look for greatness, and sometimes that’s challenging, sometimes that’s not mainstream, sometimes that doesn’t sell tickets,” says Interstellar Rodeo producer Shauna de Cartier. “But I think that this crowd, in Edmonton especially, is so open-minded and have an appetite for something different. I feel like I can take the chances here. That those risks will pay off.”
  De Cartier noted during the announcement for this year’s lineup, that this
  
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• Watch: Finance Minister pitches new Federal budget in Edmonton

  28-03-2019 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  “We are in the position where we purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline and the expansion because we recognized that the interaction between Alberta and British Columbia was very difficult for a private sector actor to deal with. So now we need to figure out how to get it done the right way,” Federal Finance Bill Morneau told reporters following a face-to-face luncheon with the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce Wednesday.
  While speaking to the room of business leaders, Morneau said the bud
  
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• EXPLAINER: What the School Act and the Education Act say about LGBTQ student and employee rights

  28-03-2019 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party’s education platform came Monday with an unexpected twist — party leader Jason Kenney wants to replace the main piece of legislation governing Alberta schools.
  By replacing the 1988 School Act with the Education Act, which has sat, unproclaimed, for seven years, the UCP are pledging to roll back protections for LGBTQ students and school employees to correct an “overreach” by the NDP’s former education minister, Kenney said at a Tuesday
  
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• 'We continue to suffer': Edmonton businesses rebuke federal budget in conversation with finance minister

  28-03-2019 00:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The main priorities of the Alberta business community to improve competitiveness weren’t addressed in the 2019 federal budget and Edmonton Chamber of Commerce members let the federal finance minister hear their concerns face-to-face.
  The province’s chamber network called for the federal government’s budget to include opportunities for attracting investment during tough economic times, but told Finance Minister Bill Morneau Wednesday afternoon he missed the mark in the budget re
  
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