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• Woman's arms broken with crowbar: Trial begins for man accused in road rage attack

  08-04-2019 23:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of attacking a woman with a crowbar in a fit of road rage more than two years ago pleaded not guilty on the opening day of his trial Monday.
  Jared Eliasson entered not guilty pleas to attempted murder, aggravated assault, possessing a weapon and damage to property charges in an Edmonton courtroom.
  He is accused of attacking Chelsey Schendzielorz with a crowbar outside her south Edmonton home on March 7, 2017. Eliasson was 29 at the time.
  During opening statements, Crown prosecutor
  
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• Firearm, drugs seized during Fort Saskatchewan traffic stop

  08-04-2019 22:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort Saskatchewan RCMP seized a variety of weapons and drugs during a downtown traffic stop.
  Police seized a 9mm handgun alongside bear mace, brass knuckles and suspected methamphetamine and oxycontin after a traffic stop was conducted during “proactive patrols in the downtown area” on April 7, an RCMP news release said Monday.
  Brandon Voisey, 25, of Sherwood Park is facing 22 criminal charges including possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
  
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• Notley campaigns on pipelines, estimates Trans Mountain expansion will be approved in May

  08-04-2019 22:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  NDP Leader Rachel Notley heralded progress on the beleaguered Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, telling Alberta voters Monday that it’s closer than ever to being built.
  She estimated the project will receive federal approval in May, and shovels will be in the ground this fall.
  “The fact of the matter is this. We’ve done our homework. We’ve been pushing,” Notley told reporters at the Alberta Pipe Trades College. “I feel confident that it’s going to happe
  
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• Watch: Nicholson, Gretzky address Edmonton Oilers' lost season

  08-04-2019 22:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers Entertainment Group chief executive officer and vice-chairman Bob Nicholson and Edmonton Oilers interim general manager Keith Gretzky sat together and calmly answered questions from the media about a season the team is ready to leave in the past.
  Nicholson spoke of the need to find a new general manager and head coach, to look towards the draft and how to build a winning National Hockey League team.
  Speaking during a media conference at Rogers Place on April 8, 2019, Nicholson said that a
  
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• One dead after collision outside Cold Lake Saturday

  08-04-2019 22:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  One person is dead after a van and tanker truck collided on Saturday northeast of Edmonton.
  At approximately 11:30 a.m., Cold Lake RCMP and emergency services responded to a collision at the intersection of Highway 28 and Range Road 424, police said Monday in a news release.
  The driver of a grey van travelling eastbound along Highway 28 collided with a tanker truck heading westbound. The driver of the van was pronounced dead at the scene while the driver of the tanker was not injured.
  Police con
  
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• Strathcona Library damaged by explosion re-opening May 8

  08-04-2019 21:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Sherwood Park’s central library will re-open May 8, six months after explosions and fire displaced the county’s collection.
  In a Monday press release, the Strathcona County Library encouraged people to “check out plenty of books” from a temporary library to ease the burden on workers moving thousands of books and other items back into the county’s community centre.
  ”Many people have said to me how much they miss their library at the Community Centre, and can&r
  
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• City responsible for death of three feral cats, will restart rehoming program

  08-04-2019 21:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton will restart its feral cat rehoming program after pleading guilty to a charge under the Animal Protection Act (APA) related to the death of three feral cats in 2018.
  On Monday, the city pleaded guilty to the charge of “causing an animal to be in distress” under the APA while all charges against four city employees were withdrawn, said the city in a news release. The charges were non-criminal in nature.
  On May 18, 2018, feral cats were transported from the city&rs
  
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• Alberta Election Day 21: Kenney pledges to 'turn off the taps' to B.C., Notley expects pipeline approval by 'end of next month'

  08-04-2019 21:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 21 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 They're not just different, they're miles apart. Here's how the NDP and UCP platforms compare. Notley campaigns on pipelines, estimates Trans Mountain expansion will be approved in May
  
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• Alberta Election Day 21: Notley expects Trans Mountain approval by 'end of next month', Kenney pledges to 'turn off the taps' to B.C..

  08-04-2019 20:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 21 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 They're not just different, they're miles apart. Here's how the NDP and UCP platforms compare.
  Notley in Edmonton, Calgary
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she is confident the fed
  
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• Edmonton Oilers interim hockey boss Keith Gretzky: "I do want to be the GM. There's lots of candidates."

  08-04-2019 20:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Oilers Entertainment Group CEO Bob Nicholson and interim Oilers hockey boss Keith Gretzky faced the media this morning, with Nicholson making it clear agreed with Connor McDavid’s comments about everyone in the organization, including McDavid himself, being frustrated with losing.
  “Connor’s comment goes right through the organization,” Nicholson said. “Everyone is frustrated and everyone is disappointed and now we’re turning the new page over.
  “It’
  
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• Chef Jan Trittenbach joins forces with Almanac team for spring pop-up

  08-04-2019 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Food is a tough business, as Edmonton chef Jan Trittenbach knows all too well.
  The talented and award-winning chef, and his business partner, Jon Elson, spent four years busting their butts at Solstice Seasonal Cuisine on 124 St., only to close the business in February, because it wasn’t financially viable.
  Now the pair has moved over to The Almanac on Whyte (10351 82 Ave.) in order to concentrate their efforts on a different business model — one with food at the core, but which also
  
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• Launch of Payhonin Reconcilation St. Albert

  08-04-2019 19:30
  Formal start of engagement on reconciliation on April 17 The City of St. Albert is pleased to announce the official... Read Post
  
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• Fleetwood Mac postpones April 13 makeup show at Rogers Place

  08-04-2019 19:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Some unfortunate second-canned news: Fleetwood Mac is postponing its April 13 makeup show in Edmonton, having first postponed the show at Rogers Place on November 10, 90 minutes before the show’s start time.
  Stevie Nicks is getting over the flu, according to promoters, and the concert will be rescheduled shortly, but refunds are available at point of purchase.
  “We are having more fun than ever on this current tour,” said Mick Fleetwood, “but as we all know, touring life c
  
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• What went wrong with the Edmonton Oilers this year? Cam Talbot tops the list

  08-04-2019 15:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  Post-mortem of another lost Oilers season
  The Edmonton Oilers have had a handful of OK-to-great players who have performed consistently OK-to-great in recent years, but one key player fell off a cliff: Cam Talbot.
  For the past four years, I’ve been ranking the Oilers players on a power or performance chart each month, with a large part of their ranking come from their ability to create scoring chances for and defend against scoring chances against, something that we have measured at the Cu
  
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• Alberta Election Day 21: Alberta Liberal party to unveil full policy platform Monday

  08-04-2019 15:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 21 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 They're not just different, they're miles apart. Here's how the NDP and UCP platforms compare.
  Kenney holds rallies in Medicine Hat, Sylvan Lake
  UCP Leader Jason Kenney is in Medicine H
  
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• Edmonton weather: The windy, windiness of the windiest of winds

  08-04-2019 14:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 5.1 C with 13 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  Darn wind ruining everything. Temperature-wise, it’s going to be a gorgeous day. I’m just saying, if you’re wearing a hat be sure to keep one hand free in case a sudden gust of wind launches it off your dome and sends it floating into a puddle. Hats aren’t cheap, wind. Wh
  
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• 'Wonderfully combustible surface': City foresters, fire crews assess risk of river valley wildfires

  08-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The city is upgrading its approach to assessing fire risk in the expansive river valley.
  The 2,000 continuous hectares of river valley land that allow Edmonton to claim the title of world’s largest urban park is widely regarded as the city’s finest feature.
  But having swaths of forest in the middle of the city also raises questions about the risk of forest fire, particularly in the wake of the destructive wildfire that ripped through the city of Fort McMurray in 2016, destroying thou
  
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• Facebook fights misinformation ahead of provincial, federal elections

  08-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Facebook is taking multiple steps to fight cyber threats and misinformation during Alberta’s election campaign and as a lead up to the federal election.
  Speaking to reporters during a teleconference Friday, Kevin Chan, head of public policy for Facebook Canada said the company has launched several initiatives to help “protect election integrity.”
  Chan said they started their work in 2017, leading up to the upcoming federal election and have based the work off a report released
  
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• Elise Stolte: UCP's homophobic, racist scandals appear unlikely to shift many votes in rural ridings

  08-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Drayton Valley — A sales woman at a Drayton Valley auction says she’ll vote UCP because she always voted conservative. An oil services manager calls the UCP the lesser of two evils. Two women at the bakery lower their voices, glance around and say they actually agree with the comments local candidate Mark Smith made about homosexuality.
  Scandal after scandal has plagued the UCP campaign but has it been enough to shake leader Jason Kenney’s base in the rural heartland?
  Thirty-fi
  
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• What went wrong with the Edmonton Oilers this year? Cam Talbot went wrong

  08-04-2019 09:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have had a handful of OK-to-great players who have performed consistently OK-to-great in recent years, but one key player fell off a cliff: Cam Talbot.
  For the past four years, I’ve been ranking the Oilers players on a power or performance chart each month, with a large part of their ranking come from their ability to create scoring chances for and defend against scoring chances against, something that we have measured at the Cult of Hockey since the 2010-11 season.
  Con
  
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• Injury claims on farms rise again in 2018

  08-04-2019 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s Workers’ Compensation Board accepted 917 farm injury claims in 2018, nearly 100 more than the year before.
  Of those claims, 367 received temporary disability payments, averaging 44 days of lost time and $4,580 of payouts. In comparison, 2017 saw 793 claims accepted in 2017.
  Mandatory WCB coverage for paid agriculture workers came into effect on Jan. 1, 2016, under the NDP’s Bill 6, the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act. Employers were not previously r
  
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• Controversial Edmonton landlord's police trespassing complaint to be reinvestigated

  08-04-2019 01:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s police chief is being told to reinvestigate a complaint from a high-profile inner city landlord who says officers trespassed on a property he manages.
  Abdullah Shah, also known as Carmen Pervez, filed a complaint last year claiming he and his associates were being harassed by police after officers went to a central Edmonton property Shah manages.
  While the officers were on the property, Shah alleges police entered the garage without a warrant on the mistaken suspicion that an en
  
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