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• Edmonton man wanted on drug importation charges turned himself into police

  04-04-2019 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton man wanted by RCMP on drug importation charges has turned himself into police.
  The Federal Serious and Organized Crime North unit alongside the Dubai Police Anti-Narcotics Unit seized 4.75 kilograms of opium on March 21.
  A warrant was issued for the arrest of Shahriyar Dolat Khah Bachchek, 39, of Edmonton after he was charged with importation of opium and possession for the purpose of trafficking. He has since turned himself into police, an RCMP news release said Thursday.
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• The Party pairs politics and puns in new Citadel farce

  04-04-2019 23:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  I, for one, can’t get enough of slapstick humour, improbable situations, and overall buffoonery. Well-tooled, these elements of farce combine to create pants-peeing evenings at the theatre. Prime examples are brilliant works by Michael Frayn (Noises Off) and Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors).
  The Party, which opened Wednesday at The Citadel, presents itself as an excellent vehicle for just these sort of shenanigans. Commissioned by The Citadel’s Daryl Cloran (who co-directs) and wr
  
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• 'We’ve heard concerns': UCP pauses plan to make high school diploma exams worth 50 per cent

  04-04-2019 22:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  The United Conservative Party is reconsidering two of its education platform planks calling for an increased emphasis on standardized testing after voters voiced concerns.
  UCP spokesman Mat Solberg said Thursday afternoon the party has paused its promise to make high school diploma exams worth 50 per cent of a student’s final mark in academic Grade 12 classes.
  “We’ve heard concerns on this, and so we’re putting that on hold,” Solberg said. “We will gather more
  
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• More nonsense out of Toronto on Connor McDavid wanting out of Edmonton

  04-04-2019 21:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here we go again. This in from Justin Bourne, senior hockey columnist with of The Athletic, speaking on Sportsnet 590 The Fan in Toronto, his hope that Connor McDavid will ask out of Edmonton.
  Asked if Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid might privately ask for a trade this summer, Bourne said, “You know he wants to. If it wasn’t Connor McDavid and it was any other player it would be totally understandable and justified and all the rest of things. I do get the sense that he wants
  
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• Old Man Mikula’s Controversial Opinions: Hawkeyes Too offers a feast for the senses

  04-04-2019 19:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  It is the goal of every reviewer to write a piece so glowing, so unabashedly one-sided, that the establishment itself is irreparably damaged. That it will be doomed to cater to every gawking foodie and trendhead clutching the review in their clammy hands, ready to surrender themselves to gastric nirvana. They tip 10 per cent and push out the locals, leaving a husk of wistful memories.
  A really great review is not unlike the edamame-sized spiders that crawl into your ears and deposit eggs at the
  
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• Wine column: Great wines begin with responsible farming

  04-04-2019 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  I love gardening. It’s therapeutic for me — digging in the dirt, taking in the smell and feel of healthy soil. And I come by this love of the land honestly, my parents and grandparents were gardeners as well, producing what they could eat fresh with the excess produce carefully preserved to feed the families.
  My grandfather, Frank, who was a grain farmer, was ahead of his time — using crop rotation and fallow in the 1920s to preserve and enrich the earth while others planted cr
  
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• Renowned chef David Hawksworth passes along tricks of the culinary trade

  04-04-2019 19:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Vancouver’s David Hawksworth learned to cook in a crucible.
  “I worked for the guy who made Gordon Ramsay cry,” says the 49-year-old celebrity chef, who honed his chops in several Michelin-starred restaurants in Britain and across Europe. “It’s nothing to be proud of, making someone cry… you just have to be there to experience how difficult it was.”
  Hawksworth, owner of several Vancouver restaurants including the signature Hawksworth in the Rosewood Hote
  
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• Garden Hits & Myths: Bolster soil to help plants reach full potential

  04-04-2019 19:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the last patches of winter snow finally melt away from our gardens, the soil that we’ve had the luxury of ignoring for the past six months is, once again, revealed.
  For those who have great garden soil, it can be a celebratory event. But for those gardeners who have hard, clay-rich soils the disappearing snow is just a reminder of the problem that they didn’t address last year.
  But if your garden soil is plagued with clay, don’t put the problem off for another year. Clay is
  
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• Social Seen: Artists For Life

  04-04-2019 19:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Artists For Life
  Where: Winspear Centre
  When: March 30
  What: 10th annual Artists For Life event in support of HIV Edmonton.
  Featuring: Emcees Stacey Brotzel and Vanity Fair, performances by WiL, DJ Queerbait, Audrey Ochoa and many more, silent auction and raffle.
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at&nbs
  
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• Ozzy Osbourne postpones July 9 Edmonton show until early 2020

  04-04-2019 19:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ozzy Osbourne is postponing all his 2019 tour dates, including his Rogers Place show in Edmonton July 9.
  “The shows will be rescheduled beginning in February 2020 and concert-goers are being asked to hold onto their original tickets, as they will be honoured for the rescheduled dates,” said a Live Nation press release Thursday morning, with Osbourne himself noting, “I can’t believe I have to reschedule more tour dates. Words cannot express how frustrated, angry and depres
  
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• Hozier, Blue Rodeo, Ani DiFranco bring new and old to folk fest 2019

  04-04-2019 18:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Again leaning young, woke, and in YouTube’s hundreds of millions of clicks, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival’s top-billed early announcement is Hozier — best-known for his viral song Take Me to the Church, its video a response to violence against gay people in Russia and worldwide.
  Raised a Protestant Quaker, the handsome Irish-born singer will headline Thursday night, his gospel-ish, singalong folk pop a perfect fit for the reverent, candle-lit atmosphere on former mayor and m
  
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• Suite Judy Blue Eyes still has a zest for song

  04-04-2019 17:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the years go by there are fewer and fewer musical legends around who came of age professionally during that brilliant bloom of counter-culture, the 1960s. Judy Collins seems to have survived it pretty well, however. She’s even happy to reminisce about it, as she did at length over her return visit to St. Albert’s Arden Theatre Wednesday.
  You could argue Collins has earned that “legend” distinction as much by interpreting and inspiring songs as she has by writing or sin
  
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• Watch: Weed seeds hit the Alberta market

  04-04-2019 16:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fire and Flower has begun selling seeds to plant cannabis plants. Meaning it’s as good a time as ever to look at what people need to know to grow their own cannabis.
  
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• Watch: Local powerlifter Teresa Parsons

  04-04-2019 15:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Teresa Parsons is a local powerlifter and in June is heading to the World Powerlifting Championships in Sweden, aiming for a podium finish there as she works out at the Evolve Strength North gym in Edmonton.
  She started out doing crossfit and then a friend encouraged her to signup for a powerlifting meet just for fun. Parsons had a lot of fun and really enjoyed herself, so she signed up for a sanctioned meet to try it out, and she ended up qualifying for provincials.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Thought the snow was done with you? Hard NO!

  04-04-2019 15:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -2 C with 17 km/h winds out of the north northeast contributing to a -7 wind chill.
  Sorry not sorry, I’m putting on my tantrum pants here and rolling around on the floor like a child that’s demanding his parents buy him the toy he wants. But instead of a toy this boy just wants the snow to stop now. The backyards were almost mush fre
  
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• Thursday's letters: Liberals falling in line

  04-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Trudeau bobbleheads are circling the wagons in another attempt to shut down the SNC-Lavalin fiasco.
  This week, the Liberal brain trust decided to boot MPs Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal caucus, and while doing so, exposed themselves as the shallow, sensitive politicos they are.
  I watched several of them on the television news, expressing their feigned shock and horror that Wilson-Raybould dared to record a telephone conversation she knew might describe the end of her
  
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• St. Albert, Lourdes families target cancer - The Record

  04-04-2019 11:13 via therecordnewspaper.org
  St. Albert, Lourdes families target cancer  The RecordA hairdresser shaves a student's head during the 17th Annual St. Baldrick event at St. Albert the Great School on March 16. On March 16, St. Albert the Great ...
  
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• Keith Gerein: Alberta Party struggling to move the dial in an election of scandal, ugliness

  04-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Tonight is the leader’s debate in the Alberta election, a moment that has the potential to provoke a turning point in the campaign.
  And this campaign desperately needs a turning point, because the race to date has been nothing less than an ugly, hugely divisive morass that has done nothing to invalidate other Canadians’ worst stereotypes of us.
  If you’ve been struggling to keep up with all the mayhem, here’s a quick update.
  Since the campaign began, the opposition party w
  
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• For Alberta Liberals, the 2019 election is an all-out fight for survival

  04-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fifty-one Alberta Liberal Party candidates are pounding the pavement across Alberta, campaigning on the razor’s edge of extinction.
  Leader David Khan is door-knocking for votes in Calgary-Mountain View, a riding previously held by his mentor, veteran politician David Swann. As the sole Liberal MLA in the last legislature, Swann’s retirement risks returning the party to the obscurity that hounded it decades ago.
  “It’s going to be a tough fight,” said Mount Royal Univ
  
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• Edmonton city police, RCMP, military likely banned from this year's Pride parade

  04-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police and military groups likely won’t be marching in June’s Edmonton Pride parade since a ban on their participation — demanded in protest during last year’s event — remains in place.
  Since last June’s event, there has been little movement on planned community consultations to find terms to help all participants feel safe in a police presence.
  Initial timelines for the engagement process had a final report being delivered in March, ahead of the parade applic
  
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• Recipe for Edmonton Oilers' success might mean moving Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Craig Simpson says

  04-04-2019 05:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Night in Canada analyst Craig Simpson, a former Oilers ace, was on Oilers Now and set out his formula for  an Oilers turn-around in 2019-20, including his notion that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins might have to be moved to get a top player in return.
  Simpson’s take?A solid veteran Top 4 d-man. “I think first and foremost you need some stability on the back end. You’re not going to be able to, I don’t think, bring in a Top 2 d-pairing.” Simpson suggested a Ron Hain
  
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• One man in hospital as Red Deer RCMP investigate shooting report

  04-04-2019 02:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man is in hospital with serious injuries after Red Deer RCMP responded to reports of a shooting Tuesday night.
  Police responded to a call of a possible shooting on Lawford Avenue at 9:45 p.m.
  “A preliminary report revealed that a male was injured as a result of a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to hospital, where he remains with serious injuries,” said Cpl. Karyn Kay in a news release Wednesday.
  The release said police searched the area extensively but did not locate a
  
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• Man missing after tractor falls through ice on Peace River

  04-04-2019 02:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 64-year-old man is missing after his tractor fell through the ice on the Peace River on Tuesday.
  High Level RCMP, La Crete Fire and Rescue and Manning Fire Department responded to a report of a man who had gone through the ice on the Peace River near Carcajou, said police in a news release Wednesday.
  Police said the man had been on a small tractor with family members following behind him driving pickup trucks. The tractor made it three-quarters of the way across the river when it disappeared i
  
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• Three to See Thursday: Ben Caplan, BDes Grad show, Lost and Found

  04-04-2019 01:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Ben Caplan: “I don’t make dance music, but it’s music that you’ll want to move to,” says huge-bearded Halifax folk evangelist Ben Caplan, who started writing music at age 13. “I don’t know exactly what it is that I’m trying to do, I just do it. The instrumentation is very different from song to song.” That’s an understatement: his music leaps like a daring circus dog on fire through folk, klezmer, Romanian, jazz, blues and soul —
  
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• Edmonton cannabis stores stocking seeds as first legal growing season approaches

  04-04-2019 01:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cannabis shops have started selling marijuana seeds as the coming summer brings the first legal growing season for pot smokers looking for a home-grown high.
  The legalization of cannabis last October included the option for private citizens to grow plants at home, but seeds weren’t available from distributors in Alberta until last month. Seeds are now available through Fire and Flower Cannabis online and at their location in Sherwood Park as well as at Nova Cannabis in Edmonton.
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• Edmonton home sales and selling prices suffer five-year March lows, first quarter real estate statistics show

  04-04-2019 01:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  With warmer months ahead, Edmonton’s housing market is expected to heat up after a slow winter in the first quarter of 2019.
  Residential sales in March hit a five-year low for all types of housing in the city’s Census Metropolitan Area, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Realtors Association of Edmonton. But compared to the prior frigid February, sales rose significantly and the market is picking up. There were 1,200 total homes sold in March compared to 986 in the mon
  
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• Players grades, Games 71-80: Edmonton Oilers play out the string on yet another losing season

  04-04-2019 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hard to find many positives in another Edmonton Oilers season that will see the club finish among the dregs of the Western Conference. Make it 9 years in 10 that the Oil will finish 12th or below in the 14- or 15-team conference, 10+ points out of the playoffs in each of those seasons (final margins pending in 2018-19).
  The club put up a decent run in the closing stages of the current campaign but was unable to string wins together in the final 10-game segment before finally pulling the chute in
  
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• Alberta election notebook: Liberal policy, overtime pay plan, and a new poll

  04-04-2019 01:35 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan announced Wednesday that he’d create an $80-million fund to help get struggling Albertans back to work.
  Under his plan, the province would give $2,500 per person annually to 32,000 unemployed workers across the province in order to allow them to train for new job opportunities.
  The party would also look to increase the number of science, technology, engineering and math graduates in Alberta by 25 per cent.
  NDP criticize UCP overtime pay proposal
  The NDP sa
  
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• Edmonton remains truck country as manfacturers unveil heavy duty models for weekend motorshow

  04-04-2019 01:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is truck country.
  That’s the message from manufacturers leading up to the 2019 Edmonton Motorshow this weekend at the Edmonton Expo Centre.
  “We know that customers who buy heavy duty trucks buy them for one reason, to tow things, big things, heavy things.” said Mark Alger, GMC’s national marketing manager.
  Alger was speaking during the unveiling of the 2020 GMC Sierra AT4, the first of three consecutive heavy-duty model reveals during a media availability on Wedn
  
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