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• Elderly woman run over outside KFC last July has died, police say charges not being upgraded

  12-04-2019 23:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 86-year-old woman who was mowed down by an SUV outside a west-end KFC last July has died.
  An obituary posted on Dignity Memorial said Catherine Marie Triplett died April 2, about eight months after the crash where Triplett suffered life-threatening injuries.
  Edmonton police spokesman Scott Pattison confirmed Triplett’s death in an email Friday afternoon, but said attempted murder charges against Triplett’s 60-year-old daughter Donna Colleen Elder haven’t been upgraded and th
  
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• Athabasca RCMP used reasonable force during arrest that caused serious injury: ASIRT

  12-04-2019 23:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  RCMP officers in Athabasca used reasonable force after shooting an armed suspect while responding to a domestic call, ruled the provincial police watchdog.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was directed to investigate a March 2 arrest that left one suspect in hospital with a non life-threatening gunshot wound in the abdomen. They determined that officer’s use of a firearm during the arrest was lawful.
  “The officer was lawfully entitled to act in defence of herself an
  
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• Watch: Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel speaks about K-12 education funding in Edmonton

  12-04-2019 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Party is looking to raise the province’s grades in education should it be elected as government. Leader Stephen Mandel announced at a press conference overlooking the North Saskatchewan River that they would open up 60,000 new spots for students over four years, taking money from other areas to fund the enrolment jump.
  “There’s absolutely efficiencies we can find. We need to press school boards to find ways in which they can diminish what their costs are,” Man
  
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• Should Edmonton Oilers bring back Ralph Krueger as President of Hockey Operations? Coach?

  12-04-2019 22:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Southamption football club in the Premier League, their news that former Edmonton Oilers coach Ralph Krueger is moving on as team chairman:
  #SaintsFC can confirm that Chairman Ralph Krueger has departed the club.
  Read the full statement: https://t.co/qkY3BuTofC
  — Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) April 12, 2019Southampton’s Chinese ownership, Gao Jisheng and his family, also fired vice chairman Les Reed and technical director Martin Hunter in November. Reed, in particular,
  
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• TransEd to shutdown 95 Avenue to complete delayed Valley Line LRT work

  12-04-2019 22:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  TransEd is shutting down 95 Avenue until the end of the 2019 construction season in order to speed up work on the delayed $1.8-billion southeast leg of the Valley Line LRT.
  The decision will close the avenue between Connors Road and 85 Street starting April 28; it’s slated to re-open to traffic in November. The closure of the avenue will allow for work on roads, sidewalks and rail tracks to be completed by the end of the year, a full year faster at this location than the original plan, the
  
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• Alberta Party leader would build hospitals, shorten wait times, improve service

  12-04-2019 21:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  EDMONTON — Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel says a government led by him would build hospitals, shorten wait times and provide predictable funding for public health care.
  Mandel says his government would go ahead with new facilities in Edmonton and Grande Prairie, an expansion at the Red Deer Hospital and finish construction of the new Calgary Cancer Centre.
  More non-acute care beds outside hospitals, improved home care options and new care clinics to take the load off emergency rooms w
  
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• St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington addresses teenage tweets - paNOW

  12-04-2019 20:47 via panow.com
  St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington addresses teenage tweets  paNOWWINNIPEG - St. Louis Blues rookie goalie Jordan Binnington says he has grown up since teenage tweets about wom...
  
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• 'Courtesy tow': Street sweeping across the city to roll Monday, weather permitting

  12-04-2019 20:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Motorists who don’t move vehicles to make way for Edmonton street sweeping efforts may get a “courtesy tow” to a nearby road but they won’t be ticketed, says the city.
  “We’re reminding Edmontonians to check our website or watch for signage in their neighbourhoods to know when our crews will be on their streets,” said Andrew Grant, general supervisor for infrastructure field operations, in a Friday news release.
  “Residents can help do their part by
  
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• Alberta Election Day 25: Notley campaigns in Calgary area, Kenney makes stops in Edmonton and Red Deer

  12-04-2019 19:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 25 of the 2019 Alberta election campaign trail. Here’s what the province’s political parties are doing today.
  Related 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 Stolte: UCP plan to kill superlab ignores dangers of the status quo Staples: Alberta needs Notley's wisdom and Kenney's fight to win oilsands campaign
  Notley in Calgary, Canmore
  NDP Leader Rachel Notley is spending
  
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• The 2019 Edmonton Music Award nominees are in!

  12-04-2019 18:01 via edmontonjournal.com
  Like clockwork, we get a shot of our beautiful, energized and truly eclectic music ecosystem: the ninth annual Edmonton Music Awards nominees have just been announced.
  Past the dinosaur age of gender-splitting nominees, the big category to watch — and get to know, song by song — is Album of the Year, this year a genre-hopping art race between Six Shooter Records’ singer-songwriter Joe Nolan, multiple award-winning soul singer Nuela Charles, hard rock outfit Royal Tusk
  
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• Edmonton Oilers fans hunger for a major purge of Bob Nicholson and front office

  12-04-2019 17:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  The results of the Edmonton Journal and Sun survey of Oilers fan are in and let’s just say it’s not good news for Bob Nicholson and the remaining members of the Oilers management team.All told, 9,250 fans took our survey, which is an utterly massive sample size. It gives us a real sense of what the hardcore are thinking.
  The bad news for Edmonton’s hockey bosses?51 per cent of fans think all of the Oilers executives should be fired. Another 38 per cent think some of them should
  
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• Belly dancing bares bodies, and souls, through exercise and community

  12-04-2019 17:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s not easy to find a fun and affordable hobby that appeals to men and women from 12 to 70. But the stage of the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre was replete with representatives of that very demographic on a recent Sunday.
  All of them were belly dancing as part of a rehearsal for an end-of-term performance hosted by Bedouin Beats, a belly dance studio north of downtown near Alberta Ave.
  If you thought belly dancing had gone out of style along with Mediterranean restaurants and plat
  
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• Edmonton weather: There's something in the fog…it's other drivers

  12-04-2019 15:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 1 C with out of the southwest at 8 km/h.
  Well, it’s Friday and we have a fog advisory for you, for Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park. Near zero visibility in fog is expected so environment Canada reminds you to drive to the conditions. The fog is expected to dissipate later this morning but until then drive safe out there. Today we&rsqu
  
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• Rachel Notley: Let's keep building economy and supporting Albertans

  12-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In advance of the April 16 provincial election, Postmedia has asked the major party leaders to tell us why they should become premier of Alberta. In the last of our series, we present Rachel Notley, leader of the Alberta NDP.
  This election is about who will be premier, about who will lead in today’s Alberta.
  My main opponent, Mr. Jason Kenney, believes that Alberta can return to an imagined past. He promises to roll back action on diversification and climate, shout at Canada about pipeline
  
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• Opinion: Diversifying Alberta's economy needs innovation, not ideology

  12-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta election on April 16 will be won or lost on the basis of how Albertans view its economy. A pivotal part of that is the health of the province’s associated innovation ecosystem.
  In March, the Alberta Council of Technologies Society (ABCtech) and the Economic Developers Alberta (EDA) together surveyed more than 500 business and community leaders and academics about Alberta’s economy. The findings were troubling.
  Members told us that Alberta’s economy is not diversifie
  
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• Friday's letters: Thales taking the blame for LRT fiasco

  12-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Mayor Don Iveson should be right in saying Thales is not being made a scapegoat, but in appearance it is. Every bit of blame for the Metro LRT mess and the endless negative aspects of other LRT lines falls squarely on the shoulders of Iveson and city councillors.
  Why was it decided that a program Thales said had never been used before was the one the city elected to use? Why did the city make changes? What made council so confident that they ignored the warnings from Thales?
  If Thales had such a
  
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• What inmates think candidates should know about life inside Alberta's jails

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As work neared completion on the new Edmonton Remand Centre, the Progressive Conservative government faced a decision.
  The centre, which opened in 2013, had been wired so that each cell would have a television. The jail’s management was in favour, and several judges have argued allowing inmates to watch TV in their cell would make for a more humane facility, especially for inmates in segregation.
  But when it came down to it, both the Progressive Conservatives and their NDP successors balke
  
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• Oil Spills podcast: Oilers need a hockey executive overhaul, Part 2

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Hall of Fame writer Jim Matheson defends his recent column in which he says the Edmonton Oilers should simply lift the ‘interim’ general manager tag from Keith Gretzky — brother of the Great One, Wayne, who is also an Oilers executive — arguing he knows the players in the organization better than anyone and has developed a solid reputation scouting and plucking talent from the amateur ranks.Matheson’s stance swims against popular opinion, as evidenced by our
  
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• Oil Spills: Matheson says Keith Gretzky should be Oilers GM

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Hall of Fame writer Jim Matheson defends his recent column in which he says the Edmonton Oilers should simply lift the ‘interim’ general manager tag from Keith Gretzky — brother of the Great One, Wayne, who is also an Oilers executive.
  Matheson argues Keith knows the players in the organization better than anyone and has developed a solid reputation scouting and plucking talent from the amateur ranks.
  His stance swims against popular opinion, as evidenced by our ann
  
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• Elise Stolte: UCP plan to kill Edmonton superlab ignores dangers of the status quo

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Expert reports on the state of medical lab services in Edmonton make for grim reading.
  Seventy per cent of major health decisions are based on a lab result, but Edmonton’s facilities are aging and outdated.
  It’s not just the private DynaLife headquarters, which are crowded, stuck in a downtown office tower never designed to host a state-of-the-art lab. Equipment in Edmonton’s public labs is obsolete. More than three-quarters of the lab equipment owned by Alberta Health Services
  
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• David Staples: Alberta needs Notley's wisdom and Kenney's fight to win oilsands campaign

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The public relations campaign to thwart the Alberta oil industry is winning, the latest evidence being a new National Geographic hit piece. It goes so far as to allege that the harm inflicted by the oilsands on Alberta’s First Nations is the equivalent of the U.S. slaughter of buffalo herds in the 1870s to starve out the Plains tribes.
  “It’s the buffalo kill all over again. Starve us to weaken us,” the magazine quoted Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a member of the Athabasca Ch
  
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• Alberta Election 2019: With Brian Mason gone, can the NDP hold one of its most reliable seats in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood?

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 43,550
  Eligilble voters: 29,782
  The riding of Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood has been about as reliable an NDP seat as any in the province.
  The question this election: does that continue after Brian Mason?
  Last year, the longtime NDP MLA and former party leader announced he would not run again. Former premier Ralph Klein famously said Mason was so popular in the riding that “you’re going to need an atomic bomb to get him out of there.” In 2015, Mason won again with near
  
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• Alberta Election 2019: Edmonton-Gold Bar voters are looking at a rematch

  12-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 45,446
  Eligible voters: 34,236
  In elections past, this central-east Edmonton riding has swung from Progressive Conservative to Liberal and, most recently, to the NDP.
  On April 16, the riding will see a familiar face-off as NDP incumbent Marlin Schmidt is challenged by UCP counterpart David Dorward, who served as the area’s MLA from 2012 to 2015.
  This is the third time in three elections Schmidt and Dorward are running against each other. Schmidt is hoping his experience over fo
  
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• Key battlegrounds: St. Albert - CTV News

  12-04-2019 05:06 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  Key battlegrounds: St. Albert  CTV NewsThe New Democrats and United Conservatives are locked in a close race in St. Albert—a riding the NDP needs to be reelected.
  
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• Watch: Flamenco Festival attracts top Spanish performers

  12-04-2019 02:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  The third annual Edmonton Flamenco Festival Showcases is set for this weekend at the Winspear Centre.
  The headliners have created a buzz of excitement in the Flamenco community and enthusiasts from across Canada will converge on Edmonton from April 10-14.
  Directly from Spain, five well-known Flamenco artists will perform on Saturday night for the public and lead workshops on Sunday.
  Sonia Olla, a world renowned Flamenco dancer, choreographer and artist is will join her husband and singer Ismael
  
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• Alberta Party pledges funding for schools, classroom support in education platform

  12-04-2019 02:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta Party is pledging to bump up funding for school building and classroom supports if elected.
  Leader Stephen Mandel shared highlights from the party’s education platform Thursday during a news conference in west Edmonton.
  Mandel said if elected his party would create 60,000 new spots for students over four years, and that they will reallocate funds from elsewhere to get it done.
  “There’s absolutely efficiencies we can find. We need to press school boards to find ways
  
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• What's next for Edmonton Pride after impasse leads to festival cancellation

  12-04-2019 01:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Pride festival will return to Edmonton when organizers can restructure it to be more inclusive, a board member and spokesperson says.
  Kay Donaldson, an Edmonton Pride Festival Society board member and community engagement chairperson, urged frustrated revellers Thursday not to lash out at people who raised concerns about Edmonton’s Pride festival, leading the board to cancel this year’s events set for June.
  A handful of other events appeared on Facebook Thursday from other groups
  
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• Riding profile: Edmonton-Mill Woods

  12-04-2019 01:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 50,265
  Eligible voters:  31,431
  The candidates
  Christina Gray, NDP candidate for Edmonton-Mill Woods in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Christina Gray, NDP
  Age: 40
  Occupation: Minister of labour and democratic renewal
  Reason for running: “I love my home community of Mill Woods and I want to keep fighting to improve the lives of families in our neighbourhoods. As part of Rachel Notley’s team I have been able to bring about real change; things like a $15 an hour minimu
  
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• Riding profile: Edmonton-Meadows

  12-04-2019 01:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 51,776
  Eligible voters: 29,915
  The candidates
  Phil Batt, Alberta Independence Party candidate for Edmonton Meadows in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Phil Batt, Alberta Independence Party
  Age: 64
  Occupation: Small business owner
  Reason for running: “In my heart-of-hearts, I now believe that confederation will never work for Albertans. If Canada didn’t help Alberta over the last five years as our economy crumbled, I cannot imagine a scenario where it would. Whatever party
  
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• Riding profile: Edmonton-Manning

  12-04-2019 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 48,376
  Eligible voters: 30,980
  Harry Grewal, UCP candidate for Edmonton-Manning in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Harry Grewal, UCP
  Age: 57
  Occupation: Sergeant with the Edmonton Police Service
  Reason for running: “After 30 years with the Edmonton Police Service, I have witnessed some practices and efficiencies with the justice system and the Government of Alberta that could be improved.”
  Priorities: Innovations, improvements, and red tape reduced for our justice system. I wa
  
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• Riding profile: Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview

  12-04-2019 01:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 46,496
  Eligible voters: 30,260
  The candidates
  Deron Bilous, NDP candidate for Edmonton-Manning in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Deron Bilous, NDP
  Age: 43
  Occupation: High-school teacher
  Reason for running: “Alberta has incredible opportunities, and I want to make sure everyone has the same access to those opportunities. We can do that by continuing to build on our economic strengths. The people of Beverly-Clareview deserve to have a strong representative, and I have been fighting
  
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