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• RCMP asking for public's help in hunt for suspect in attempted murder

  09-04-2019 23:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  The RCMP Serious Crimes Branch North are searching for a man wanted in relation to an attempted murder.
  Tofield RCMP responded to a complaint of a male suffering from a gunshot wound near Highway 626 on March 13. The male victim was treated for his injuries.
  Police have located and charged two of the three suspects wanted in relation to the case, Tony Marie Boyd-Watt and Rylie David Jason Homeniuk have been arrested in relation to the event. Police are now asking for the public’s assistanc
  
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• 'Senior' lawyer agrees to represent accused in Edmonton attack

  09-04-2019 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A “senior” lawyer has been lined up to meet with the man accused in the Sept. 30, 2017, Edmonton attack, weeks after he parted ways with his previous legal counsel.
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif appeared in the prisoner dock of an Edmonton courtroom Tuesday. In 2017, he was charged with a series of offences including five counts of attempted murder following a series of vehicle attacks on a police officer and pedestrians.
  Last month, Sharif suddenly parted ways with his high-profile lawyer t
  
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• Pie in the sky: Edmonton's gondola proposal takes new twist

  09-04-2019 23:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The future of a gondola that would connect Old Strathcona and downtown Edmonton is up in the air after a city committee decided it would be best for city council to debate whether to move ahead with a feasibility study of the project.
  The urban planning committee met Tuesday to further discuss the logistics of the gondola project and move forward with Prairie Sky Gondola’s proposal to complete a simplified preliminary economic and technical assessment (PETA). But some committee members wer
  
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• Watch: City of Edmonton terminates Thales contract

  09-04-2019 21:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales said in a statement Tuesday that it received written notice of termination of its contract from the city on Thursday.
  “As a result, the city escorted Thales from the work site,” said the new release. “Thales regrets this decision and will vigorously pursue appropriate remedies with all means available to us.”
  Mayor Don Iveson said the company has “consistently let Edmontonians down” and said the city will now move on with a different signalling system.
  
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• Concordia handbell student makes a joyful noise in weekend concert

  09-04-2019 20:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  In terms of storage, hand bells are among your more awkward instruments. That very awkwardness is part of what makes Edmonton’s Isabel Ramos unique among musicians.
  The Concordia University student is graduating this spring as the first Bachelor of Arts student in Canada to major in handbells. That singular status is owing, in part, to the fact that handbell collections, and instructors, are uncommon; the $100,000 collection at Concordia University is the largest in Canada.
  The assortment
  
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• 'End of the line': City ends contract with Thales, escorts workers from LRT job site

  09-04-2019 20:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton has terminated its contract with Thales, the company working with city since 2011 on the Metro Line LRT, charging that the signalling system isn’t ready or reliable.
  Mayor Don Iveson said the company has “consistently let Edmontonians down” and said the city will now move on with a different signalling system.
  “This is the end of the line for Thales,” Iveson said in a Tuesday news release. “This was their last and final chance. It’s
  
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• Alberta election notebook: UCP candidate under fire for Facebook comment, #LayingPipe, and advance polls open

  09-04-2019 20:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  UCP candidate Martin Long (West Yellowhead) is under fire for a Facebook comment where he argued that a Christian shouldn’t vote for or defend a government that supports gay marriage, the minimum wage and abortion.
  “I would suggest that by virtue of voting for or even defending a government which: supports gay marriage although biblically marriage is between man and woman, endorses a minimum living wage although biblically a man who chooses not to work shall not eat, and says that if
  
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• Notley tells senate committee Bill C-48 belongs 'in the garbage'

  09-04-2019 20:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  NDP Leader Rachel Notley slammed Bill C-48 Tuesday, telling a senate committee that the legislation in its current form should be tossed in the trash.
  She argued the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, otherwise known as the oil-tanker ban, will kill jobs and prevent Alberta’s oil and gas industry from getting its resources to market.
  “Toss C-48 in the garbage. It’s where it belongs,” she told the Senate committee on transport and communications via video link in Calgary. The sena
  
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• Engage your brain, socialize: U of A study finds factors to keep Alzheimer's at bay

  09-04-2019 19:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  Engaging your brain and socializing more are key factors for avoiding memory decline in those over age 55, say University of Alberta neuroscientists.
  The new U of A research has implications for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease through targeted early intervention efforts as memory decline is one of the first signs of cognitive and neurodegenerative diseases.
  “We found different risk factors for stable memory and for rapidly declining memory,” said Peggy McFall, lead author
  
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• Susan Gilmour brings powerful presence to role in Mayfield's Sister Act

  09-04-2019 19:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  Internationally-renowned singer Susan Gilmour has belted out some of the best anthems in musical theatre — starting with the poignant I Dreamed a Dream, sung when she landed her breakout role as Fantine in both the Toronto and Broadway versions of Les Miserables.
  Now the Edmonton-born chanteuse plucks another classic character from the canon and brings it home to the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. Gilmour gives her vocal cords a workout with the fusion mixture (including gospel and disco-inspire
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: David Francey, Fun Home, and Alice in Chains

  09-04-2019 18:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  David Francey
  Juno Award-winning folk artist David Francey may have started late, but he’s certainly making up for lost time. A former carpenter and rail yard worker, Francey has become one of Canada’s most loved musical exports, though he’s been on something of a sabbatical over the past year due to issues with his voice. The Scottish-born singer-songwriter and painter, now based in Ontario, is up to album 11 with the release of 2018’s acclaimed The Broken Heart of Every
  
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• Just how much help can Edmonton reasonably expect from Bakersfield? Plenty

  09-04-2019 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  I tend to be a glass almost-full Edmonton Oilers fan, so I wanted a test to see if my excitement about the Bakersfield Condors is justified.
  The Condors, Edmonton’s AHL farm team, are one of the best teams in that league this year with the fourth best winning percentage and the third best goal differential, +54.
  Yes, the team is now on a four-game losing streak but they remain in first place in the Pacific Division and their playoff prospects look strong, especially now that veteran leader
  
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• Flamenco Festival's Spanish stars get to the roots of passionate tradition

  09-04-2019 17:59 via edmontonjournal.com
  Not a lot of festivals bring their own floor.
  When the Winspear Centre hosts the third annual Edmonton Flamenco Festival’s main event this Friday, the festival will install its own temporary floor to enhance the acoustic transmission of those hard, percussive steps that acclaimed dance star Sonia Olla makes as part of her expression.
  “There’s nothing worse for a dancer to perform and not be able to hear their feet,” explains the festival’s artistic director Jane Ogi
  
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• City ends contract with Thales, escorts workers from LRT job site

  09-04-2019 17:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Thales, the company working with the City of Edmonton since 2011 to deliver the Metro Line LRT signalling system has seen its contract terminated and its workers escorted off site last week, the company said in a Tuesday release.
  Thales said in the statement it received written notice of termination of its contract from the city on Thursday.
  “As a result, the city escorted Thales from the work site. Thales is extremely disappointed in the city’s commitment to the failure of this proj
  
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• Alberta Election Day 22: 'It's an Alberta ban': Notley makes case against Bill C-48 at Senate committee

  09-04-2019 17:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 22 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.
  Rachel Notley to speak with Senate committee
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley is scheduled
  
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• Edmonton weather: If a rain drop falls and no one is around to feel it, is it still rainfall?

  09-04-2019 14:45 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Tuesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 3.1 C with 6 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  It may rain. It may not. Flip a coin and you’ll be right at least half of the time. Forecasters are giving us a 30 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and an increased 60 per cent chance later this evening. So will it, or won’t it? Rain or no rain? So long as it isn’t sno
  
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• Tuesday's letters: Reduce fire risk in river valley now

  09-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “River valley’s forest grandeur also potential fuel for wildfire destruction,” April 8
  The city needs to be doing much more than simply “upgrading its approach to assessing fire risk in the expansive river valley.”
  In particular, ravines and creeks which are tributaries to the North Saskatchewan River are choked with deadfall and underbrush and therefore loaded with fuel.
  These ravines and creeks are in most cases not accessible to the river itself nor to other
  
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• Opinion: Voting in Alberta is no longer a spectator sport

  09-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  You join the queue to check out at your local grocery store, and you’re one of five Albertans in line. If history is our guide, here’s what’s likely to happen on April 16, the day of the provincial election: at least two of you won’t bother to vote; three of you might cast ballots in the election.
  And that’s the state of democracy in Alberta.
  Voter turnout has long been embarrassingly low in Alberta compared to other Canadian jurisdictions. Historically, only about
  
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• Jason Kenney: Are Albertans better off than four years ago?

  09-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This is the first in a series of guest columns submitted by leaders of Alberta’s political parties.
  Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
  For too many Albertans, the answer is “no.”
  That’s why the key issues in this campaign are jobs, the economy, pipelines, and getting a fair deal for Alberta.
  The NDP has made a bad situation much worse with higher taxes on employers, incomes, payrolls, property, and the biggest tax hike in our history: the carbon tax, w
  
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• Keith Gerein: Leaders' empty promises, extortion tactics offer false hope in Alberta's battle for pipelines

  09-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  For Albertans exhausted by the unrelenting barrage of toxicity this election has unleashed, I have some good news.
  There is just one week to go before the whole nasty thing is over.
  One week before the votes are counted and the leaders give their respective victory or concession speeches.
  (Unless we get a minority government, and don’t even get me started on the lunacy that scenario would bring.)
  The bad news is that there are still seven more days of embellished accusations, candidate sna
  
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• At the heart of the oilsands, issues that matter to Fort McMurray loom large throughout Alberta election

  09-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fort McMurray — This city is smaller, not lesser, since the 2016 wildfire. Its businesses and people are challenged, not beaten by the federal policies and global economic turmoil that have slowed the pace of its valuable oilsands being pulled from the ground.
  This region, the so-called economic engine of Canada, is idling rather than seized.
  “I believe that our community has seen more headwinds in the last five years than it has in the 34 years that I’ve lived here,” sai
  
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• Time to change approach on opioid crisis, says public health experts

  09-04-2019 05:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Change the approach on the opioid crisis in Alberta to treat it as a public health issue instead of a criminal justice issue.
  That was the message at the University of Alberta Chancellor’s Forum held by the School of Public Health Monday evening. The forum is an initiative that brings the public to campus to hear from experts on a timely topic, in this case the opioid crisis.
  “We are losing two Albertans every single day to this epidemic of overdose,” said Elaine Hyshka, assist
  
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• Treynor shut outs Council Bluffs St. Albert in rematch of last season 1-A sub-state final - Omaha World-Herald

  09-04-2019 04:58 via omaha.com
  Treynor shut outs Council Bluffs St. Albert in rematch of last season 1-A sub-state final  Omaha World-HeraldIf Council Bluffs St. Albert had any thoughts of avenging last season's 1-A sub-state final loss to Treynor, the Cardinals made sure it was going to be an uphill ...
  
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• Watch: NDP leader campaigns in Edmonton

  09-04-2019 04:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley said during a campaign stop in Edmonton on Monday she is confident the federal government will approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion by the end of May.
  “We expect an approval from the federal government by the end of next month. I believe quite strongly that it will get done,” Notley said at a Monday morning news conference at the Alberta Pipe Trades College in northeast Edmonton. “We are hearing … that the progress of the consul
  
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• Teachers, employers heading to binding arbitration on new two-year deal

  09-04-2019 01:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  An arbitrator will decide by September how much Alberta public, Catholic and francophone school teachers should be paid, an Alberta Teachers’ Association spokesman said.
  A majority of ATA members voted this week for a new two-year agreement with their employers, which includes accepting a mediator’s recommendation for binding arbitration on salary increases.
  Much to the chagrin of ATA leaders, the Teachers’ Employment Bargaining Association (TEBA), which bargains on behalf of t
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline expansion takes spotlight at NDP and UCP campaign events

  09-04-2019 01:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion took centre stage in Alberta politics Monday, with NDP Leader Rachel Notley telling voters that the beleaguered project is closer than ever to being built while UCP Leader Jason Kenney promised to bolster provincial power to choke off exports to British Columbia.
  Notley estimated the project will receive federal approval in May, and declared shovels will be in the ground this fall.
  “The fact of the matter is this — we’ve done our homework,
  
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• Alberta election notebook: Alberta Party promise, Kenney slams independent candidate, NDP candidates apologize for social media posts

  09-04-2019 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel pledged Monday to boost the province’s agriculture and agri-food industry by $1 billion and add 6,000 jobs through a plan that includes a new innovation institute.
  The centre would be focused on investing in export markets and modernizing the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation.
  Mandel promised that an Alberta Party government would establish a new fund, receiving $100 million annually, to support research and provide seed funding to industry-led
  
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