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• Officially eliminated? Never mind that, Edmonton Oilers will continue to play their #1 goalie into the ice

  02-04-2019 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 80: Oilers at Avalanche
  OK Ken Hitchcock, I’ve been following the plot as best I can throughout another icy, dicey winter in Edmonton. But this time you’ve lost me.
  Brodziak & Khaira injured and won’t play.Koskinen starts at Colorado.One game-time decision on defence, with Gravel perhaps drawing into lineup.
  — Jack Michaels (@EdmontonJack) April 2, 2019“Koskinen starts at Colorado” — what is up with that?
  Some thought Anthony Stolarz, a
  
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• Crosswalk to be installed near bus crash site

  02-04-2019 22:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  A marked crosswalk will be installed this week near the site where two 13-year-olds were struck by a school bus in early March.
  City spokesman Gary Dyck confirmed Tuesday that a crosswalk will be painted on Hemingway Road, but the exact intersection wasn’t immediately available. He said a flashing beacon will also be installed at the crossing, likely in June.
  On Monday, Edmonton police laid a careless driving charge against the driver of the school bus that hit the two teenage girls at abo
  
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• Opinion: Diversifying Alberta's economy must further boost film, TV and interactive

  02-04-2019 22:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  When Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel announced his party would provide the best tax incentives for film and television productions in Canada last week, heads turned not only in the industry, but in the arts in general.
  Wait — had a would-be Alberta premier just led with boldly standing up for the arts first thing in the morning, risking coffee sputtered from Lethbridge to High Level? Does he even know where we live?
  And yet surrounded by lights and cameras at Calgary’s Palliser h
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Coyote Comedy, Martha Masters, and the Orchid Fair

  02-04-2019 20:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Coyote Comedy, Thursday nights at the Grindstone Theatre.
  Coyote Comedy
  Lately we’ve been hammering at the delights to be found at the Grindstone Theatre, and for good reason. They’ve jammed almost every evening with shows that really need checking out, including Thursdays, when Coyote Comedy takes the stage for 50 minutes worth of loose-limbed, hilarious improv. Featuring such veteran local talents as Neil Grahn, Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, and Peter Brown.
  When: Thursday, Ap
  
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• Edmonton couple charged with stealing $774,450 worth of chemical from oil company

  02-04-2019 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton couple is facing fraud and theft charges after more than 6,000 pounds of an “oil and gas conversion chemical” valued at $774,400 was allegedly stolen from a local business, say police.
  An area oil and gas company reported a suspected theft of the chemical in November 2017 after an internal audit found a discrepancy in inventory, Edmonton police spokeswoman Carolin Maran said in a news release Tuesday morning.
  The business estimates more than 6,000 pounds of the chemical h
  
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• Watch: Cannabis connoisseur paid to smoke pot

  02-04-2019 19:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton resident Amanda Bladon is one of eight Canadians, selected out of 25,000 applicants, to be a paid cannabis connoisseur hired to evaluate different strains of cannabis for variety packs.
  “I’m kind of in dream job land right now,” Amanda Bladon said Monday, her first day of a yearlong contract as a cannabis connoisseur. “I just thought the opportunity sounded a little bit too good to be true and I’m a bit of a risk-taker so I figured why not throw my name in
  
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• "Have a laugh and be entertained": Edmonton Opera presents Rossini's Count Ory

  02-04-2019 19:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  For many opera lovers, the name Rossini is synonymous with his comic opera The Barber of Seville. Some will also know such comedies as the Italian Girl in Algiers, and a couple of years ago Edmonton Opera gave us a scintillating production of his sparkling Cinderella opera, La Cenerentola.
  Few, though, will be familiar with Rossini’s last comedy, Count Ory, which Edmonton Opera are presenting on Saturday, April 6, with further performances the following Tuesday and Friday. Indeed, this wil
  
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• Man dies in evening house fire near Fairview, officials investigating cause

  02-04-2019 19:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man is dead after a house fire in the northern Alberta hamlet of Bluesky Saturday evening.
  Fairview RCMP responded around 7 p.m. to the blaze at 915 3 Ave. in the community about 560 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
  Fairview Fire and Rescue crews found the man dead inside the home as they were fighting the fire, said police in a Tuesday news release. The man has yet to be identified.
  The cause of the fire is still under investigation, with assistance from the provincial fire commissioner&rs
  
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• Skinnamarink sing-along: Sharon & Bram share child-friendly favourites on farewell tour

  02-04-2019 18:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  You knew it was coming, but it’s perhaps a bad year for Sharon & Bram to retire from the road.
  Since forming in 1978 the revered children’s entertainers (known as Sharon, Lois & Bram until third member Lois Lilienstein opted out in 2000, passing away in 2015) have left their mark on successive generations with songs like Peanut Butter, I Am Slowly Going Crazy, One Elephant, and the wildly popular Skinnamarink.
  More importantly, along with fellow performers like Raffi and Fred
  
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• Harsh or humorous, The LYNNeS aren't afraid to tell it like it is

  02-04-2019 18:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Who knew heartbreak could be so much fun?
  That would be the Ottawa duo The LYNNeS, Lynn Miles and Lynne Hanson, whose debut disc Heartbreak Song For The Radio garnered five Canadian Folk Music Award nominations.
  With acclaimed solo careers on both sides, the collaboration developed gradually after they met in 2005, with Miles sitting in as a backing singer, then an album producer, and finally a co-writer on several of Hanson’s projects. Performing together just over a year now, they co-wro
  
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• Alberta Election Day 15: Notley dismisses 'Trudeau alliance' as cheap pandering, unproductive

  02-04-2019 18:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 15 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 and UCP platforms highlight how parties will tackle major portfolios
  Rachel Notley in Calgary
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary today where she spoke at The Grand theat
  
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• Zombies and Slayers and Mansons, oh my! CHOAS AB fest hits Kinsmen Park July 26-27

  02-04-2019 18:28 via edmontonjournal.com
  Now here’s a festival that understands what Edmonton’s hardcore headbangers are thirsty for: blood. As in “raining blood.” As in Slayer’s last Alberta show ever.
  Live Nation Tuesday morning announced its brand-new festival, CHAOS AB, taking place in Kinsmen Park on Friday July 28 and Saturday July 27.
  Headliners include Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed and of course 38-year-old Slayer, screaming this is the end. Other acts include Headstones and GWAR —&nb
  
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• They're not just different, they're miles apart. Here's how the NDP and UCP platforms compare.

  02-04-2019 17:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The platforms of Alberta’s two major political parties are poles apart, with the NDP branding itself as the choice for continued investment in public services while the UCP hammers down on its promise of new jobs.
  Over the weekend, both NDP Leader Rachel Notley and UCP Leader Jason Kenney released their plans for the province. Even physically, the documents veered in opposite directions.
  In Calgary, Kenney released a 117-page tome dubbed “Getting Alberta back to work,” broken u
  
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• Opinion: A reality check on Alberta's job numbers

  02-04-2019 17:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the run-up to Alberta’s election on April 16, there has been a renewed interest in openly evaluating the labour-market performance of the current government. Each political party has recently provided a very different assessment. A week ago, the NDP had claimed that it created roughly 80,000 jobs, while the UCP had claimed that the NDP lost roughly 48,000 jobs.
  What is meant by jobs being created or lost?
  Basically, these numbers reflect changes to the employment level of the province a
  
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• Deacon Vernon Dobelmann named executive director of St. Albert Catholic Schools - The Daily Nonpareil

  02-04-2019 17:20 via nonpareilonline.com
  Deacon Vernon Dobelmann named executive director of St. Albert Catholic Schools  The Daily NonpareilDeacon Vernon Dobelmann has been named the executive director of a newly established leadership model at St. Albert Catholic Schools, effective June 23.
  
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• Alberta Election Day 15: Alberta Party pitches railway, pipeline corridor between Alberta and Alaska

  02-04-2019 15:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 15 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
  Rachel Notley in Calgary
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is in Calgary today where he is expected to make an announcement at 10 a.m. at The Grand theatre, 608 1 St SW.
  The announcement
  
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• Edmonton weather: It's a Tuesday in April, so don't get too excited

  02-04-2019 14:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -0.1 C with 9 km/h winds of the west, northwest contributing to a -3 wind chill.
  So we’re kind of all over the place this week. Each day on the calendar seemingly brings with it a different forecast. From a chance of snow this morning, to sunshine and 11 C Wednesday and then back down to single digits Thursday, to cloudy Friday and a chance
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Crack down on election signs

  02-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Are the candidates and volunteers of political parties participating in the upcoming election aware of bylaws governing the placement of election signs?
  They must be three metres from curbs, can’t be placed on centre medians, and can’t be placed on pork-chop islands. If you pull up your vehicle onto boulevards in March or April, your tires will leaves ruts so deep that repairs will be necessary.
  Why doesn’t the City of Edmonton enforce their bylaws and remove illegally placed s
  
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• Editorial: Act fast on canola

  02-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  China’s decision to ban canola imports from Canada is such a dire threat to Western Canada’s economy that even the federal government, still embroiled in the SNC-Lavalin affair, has taken notice.
  It’s not hyperbole to suggest that even without a scandal to preoccupy Ottawa, the region’s economic concerns usually take a back seat to issues that matter to vote-rich Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. But this Western Canadian crisis is too big to ignore.
  The canola-growin
  
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• First baseman Albert Pujols: Third greatest St Louis Cardinal - Belleville News-Democrat

  02-04-2019 12:04 via bnd.com
  First baseman Albert Pujols: Third greatest St Louis Cardinal  Belleville News-DemocratAlbert Pujols, an all star, MVP and future hall of fame MLB baseball player is the third greatest in STL Cardinals team history. He won two World Series before ...
  
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• Oil Spills: Whither Oilers hockey ops?

  02-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Hall of Fame writer Jim Matheson talks to host Craig Ellingson about the Edmonton Oilers’ search for a new general manager and maybe even a new president of hockey operations, too.
  
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• NDP and UCP platforms highlight how parties will tackle major portfolios

  02-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The platforms of Alberta’s two major political parties are poles apart, with the NDP branding itself as the choice for continued investment in public services while the UCP hammers down on its promise of new jobs.
  Over the weekend, both NDP Leader Rachel Notley and UCP Leader Jason Kenney released their plans for the province. Even physically, the documents veered in opposite directions.
  In Calgary, Kenney released a 117-page tome dubbed “Getting Alberta back to work,” broken u
  
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• Keith Gerein: Avoid getting caught in numbers game when evaluating NDP, UCP platforms

  02-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The UCP’s election platform book is 117 pages long, while the NDP’s election platform book is 44 pages long.
  These are important numbers, not because they indicate anything about the quality of the respective platforms, but because they can be easily counted and classified as verified, irrefutable facts.
  As for most other numbers printed in the policy books — and there are an awful lot of them — it’s much more difficult for Albertans to distinguish fact from conject
  
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• Player grades: McDavid frustrated as Oilers lose, lose, lose: "It sucks obviously."

  02-04-2019 08:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers were crippled by horrendous signings and trades this year, but nonetheless made it somewhat interesting, hanging in the playoff race until Monday night, April 1, 2019.
  But it’s all over now.
  The Oilers were officially eliminated when Colorado went into overtime and earned a loser point against St. Louis on Monday evening.
  Captain Connor McDavid told reporters after the Oilers’ own game his frustration was “really, really high” at being eliminated and a
  
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• Watch: UCP Leader Jason Kenney on the federal carbon tax

  02-04-2019 05:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney responded to the federal carbon tax, which came into effect today in four provinces, during a news conference at a west Edmonton gas station.
  The UCP has said it would immediately repeal the Alberta carbon tax if elected, then join Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba in a legal challenge of the federal tax. Kenney repeated that promise Monday.
  
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• Cass Romyn to represent Green Party in Morinville-St. Albert - FortSaskOnline.com

  02-04-2019 04:47 via fortsaskonline.com
  Cass Romyn to represent Green Party in Morinville-St. Albert  FortSaskOnline.comCass Romyn, Morinville-St. Albert's Green Party candidate for the 2019 Alberta election, has high hopes for the region she now calls home. "There are many ...
  
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• Watch: Century Mile Racetrack and Casino opens to the public

  02-04-2019 03:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Century Mile Racetrack and Casino, the only one-mile horse racing track west of Woodbine in Toronto, opened to great fanfare on Monday, April 1, 2019 near Edmonton International Airport. The track, which replaces the now shuttered Northlands Park’s 5/8 mile race track, will provide better racing and safety for the horse athletes that’ll compete along with their jockeys or drivers for many years to come, says Kent Verlik, chief executive officer of Horse Racing Alberta.
  “What it
  
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• Special delivery: Waste bin distribution begins to 8,000 homes selected for separation trial

  02-04-2019 02:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  The motley assortment of garbage cans that typically line Edmonton’s streets on trash day started to be replaced Monday with black and green bins in 13 communities as the city officially launched its waste separation pilot project.
  Crews from two trucks started assembling and distributing the waist-high bins block by block to 8,000 homes in the test area, starting in the southeast neighbourhood of Ellerslie. The carts will require homeowners to separate waste, with green bins designated fo
  
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• Paid to smoke pot: Edmontonian selected as one of eight cannabis connoisseurs out of 25,000 applicants

  02-04-2019 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Since weed was legalized last fall, many Canadians may fancy themselves as cannabis connoisseurs. As of Monday, Edmonton’s Amanda Bladon can put the title on a business card.
  Bladon was one of eight Canadians hired by Toronto-based company AHLOT to sample and evaluate different strains of cannabis and get paid to do so.
  “I’m kind of in dream-job land right now,” Bladon said Monday, her first day of a year-long contract as a cannabis connoisseur. “I just thought the
  
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• Council approves Inglewood 49-unit apartment despite community pushback

  02-04-2019 02:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  City council approved a rezoning application Monday for an apartment building that the developer says will bring density and diversity, but that neighbours worry will stick out like a sore thumb.
  City council voted 9-4 in favour of Beljan Development’s application to rezone three lots in the southeast corner of Inglewood for a new four-storey development.
  The parcel faces 123 Street and is separated from 111 Avenue by a single house to the south. When finished, the building will have 49 un
  
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• UCP promise of banked overtime pay cut draws criticism from labour experts

  02-04-2019 02:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Labour experts dispute the claim by UCP Leader Jason Kenney that his party’s promise to stop workers being paid time-and-a-half for their banked overtime doesn’t amount to a cut in overtime pay.
  Further, Kenney’s repeated insistence Monday that the change would simply align Alberta with overtime laws in “in every other province” is not true.
  In every province and territory where workers can bank overtime, employers are required to pay out those hours at 1.5 times th
  
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• Alberta election notebook: Alberta Party tax plan, leaders debate, a prank and a former UCP candidate resurfaces

  02-04-2019 02:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Party announced a plan Monday that it says would put an immediate halt to Albertans’ tax dollars winding up in Ottawa’s control.
  The party vowed it would terminate Alberta’s Tax Collection Agreement with the federal government. The agreement sees income tax dollars collected by Ottawa remitted back to the province.
  Alberta would instead collect income taxes itself, under the proposal by Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel, keeping about $11 billion in income taxes i
  
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• Two Edmontonians charged after international opium importation investigation

  02-04-2019 01:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  Two Edmontonians have been charged following an international opium importation investigation involving RCMP and Dubai police.
  On March 21, K Division RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Crime North Unit along with the Dubai police anti-narcotics unit and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) completed an investigation into opium importation that originated in Iraq, said police in a news release Monday.
  Police said they seized 4.75 kilograms of opium that was destined for Edmonton and
  
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• Greatest Cardinals No. 3: 1B Albert Pujols - Belleville News-Democrat

  02-04-2019 00:44 via bnd.com
  Greatest Cardinals No. 3: 1B Albert Pujols  Belleville News-DemocratSTL Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols is the 3rd best player in the MLB baseball team's history. Pujols was a 3-time National League MVP, 2-time World ...
  
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• Charges laid in March school bus crash that injured two 13-year-old girls

  02-04-2019 00:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police have charged the driver of a school bus after it hit two teenage girls in early March, leaving one suffering a brain injury.
  Police responded about 4 p.m. on March 8 to a call for a collision involving a school bus and two pedestrians near 206 Street and Hemingway Road, said police in a news release Monday.
  The two 13-year-old girls were crossing Hemingway Road at 206 Street in The Hamptons neighbourhood when they were struck by a bus travelling westbound.
  Emergency services resp
  
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• RCMP hunt for suspects in death of man in Red Deer

  02-04-2019 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP have issued arrest warrants for two individuals after a man was found dead in Red Deer last week.
  Red Deer Mounties visited a residence in the Mountview neighbourhood on Friday where Joseph Junior Alfred Gallant, 45, was found with serious injuries and transported to hospital where he later died.
  Quentin Lee Strawberry, 37, and Jennifer Lee Caswell, 37, have both been charged with second-degree murder and assault causing bodily harm said a news release Monday.
  Police believe both individual
  
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