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• Trial begins for man accused of threatening to kill his lawyer

  15-04-2019 22:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man accused of threatening to kill his lawyer appeared in court Monday for the first day of his trial.
  Amos Edwin McKechnie pleaded not guilty to a single count of uttering threats before Court of Queen’s Bench Justice William deWit. McKechnie is accused of leaving a threatening message on the voicemail of his lawyer, Kate Engel.
  In a recording of the brief message played for the court, the caller, who identified himself as McKechnie, says he is in Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, where som
  
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• CADTH conference brings 800 health-care professionals to Edmonton this week

  15-04-2019 22:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  The hope and hype of advancing medical systems will be the focus point this week as the annual Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) symposium descends on the Edmonton Convention Centre.
  The annual conference will bring 800 health-care professional to Alberta’s capital to discuss how a booming pipeline of changing drugs and health systems are offering patients with incurable diseases hope for a cure.
  “There’s a lot of hope that this new innovation, this new
  
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• Riding profile: Camrose

  15-04-2019 21:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 44,082
  Eligible voters: 30,437
  The candidates
  Morgan Bamford, NDP candidate for Camrose in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Morgan Bamford, NDP
  Age: 31
  Occupation: Municipal-Indigenous relations consultant
  Reason for Running: “I am running because it’s important to keep moving Alberta forward, looking to tomorrow rather than trying to return to yesterday. I want to honour our present, but I want Alberta to embrace the opportunities of the future — not miss out. When we ta
  
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• Telus connecting St. Albert to its PureFibre network - Cartt.ca

  15-04-2019 21:10 via cartt.ca
  Telus connecting St. Albert to its PureFibre network  Cartt.caST. ALBERT, AB - Telus will invest $100 million to connect more than 90% of homes and businesses in the City of St. Albert, including the neighbouring ...
  
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• Watch: Learning belly dancing

  15-04-2019 20:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Janice Moon and Anne Vimtrup preparing for their belly dance recital performance after completing their dance classes at the Old Strathcona Performing Arts in Edmonton.
  
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• Riding profile: Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock

  15-04-2019 20:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 46,920
  Eligible Voters: 32,066
  The candidates
  Brad Giroux, an independent candidate for Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Brad Giroux, Independent
  Age: 52
  Occupation: Area leader maintenance training
  Reason for running: “I am running because there has to be a better way. Our current politics of division is leading us down the path to paralysis. The whole concept of ‘I’m right and you are wrong’ defeats any chance of collaboration. The l
  
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• Industrial real estate boom on city's edges: Colliers report

  15-04-2019 19:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  Available land, tax savings and accessibility are spurring an industrial real estate boom on the edges of Edmonton, with the Leduc/Nisku area leading the push, shows the latest industrial development report from Colliers International.
  As of March 2019, there was 2.7 million square feet of space under construction in the Edmonton area, with nearly two thirds outside city boundaries, 38 per cent of it in Leduc/Nisku, says the report released Monday by the global real estate and investment managem
  
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• Riding profile: West Yellowhead

  15-04-2019 19:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 50,604
  Eligible voters: 32,503
  The candidates
  Paula Cackett, NDP candidate for West Yellowhead in the 2019 Alberta election
  Paula Cackett, NDP
  Age: 29
  Occupation: Nurse
  Reason for running: “I share Rachel Notley’s strong values and was inspired by several women in the NDP government, including fellow nurse and cabinet minister Danielle Larivee. I come from a union-strong household in Jasper where I was born and raised. We have always been politically aware and active.&rdq
  
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• Alberta Election Day 28: Notley confirms she will stay on as MLA should NDP lose election

  15-04-2019 19:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 28 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. About 696,000 early-voting Albertans set advance polls record
  Jason Kenney in Edmonton, St
  
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• Alberta Election Day 28: Party leaders campaign on eve of the big day

  15-04-2019 15:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s Day 28 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. About 696,000 early-voting Albertans set advance polls record
  Jason Kenney in Edmonton, St
  
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• Edmonton weather: Rain, rain clean the streets

  15-04-2019 14:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Monday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured 2.3 C with 11 km/h winds out of the west, northwest.
  What we need right now is a solid day of rain — buckets and buckets of it. It would really help to freshen things up out there and if anything it would really help to get rid of the mounds of sand and rocks left on city streets from the winter. I feel like I’m in Fast and the Furious
  
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• Leader profile: UCP's Jason Kenney uses strong work ethic to find success

  15-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney is ready for the election to be over.
  Last week, the calendar flicked closer to three years since he landed back in Alberta and took to the road to begin unifying conservatives.
  After his successful bid to unite the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties came his battle to win the PC leadership, then the UCP leadership.
  He steamrolled through them all, and now he’s vying for premier.
  “I’m acutely aware of my flaws and weaknes
  
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• Leader profile: NDP Leader Rachel Notley says Alberta elections tend to yield surprise results

  15-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she’s used to being labeled the underdog.
  “And that’s just fine with me,” she said during the first week of the election campaign. “We keep making history, and I know we will again.”
  That narrative, which she raised in front of 1,000 supporters gathered at Polish Hall on March 24, fits with the NDP’s remarkable sweep to victory in 2015.
  Under Notley, Alberta’s 44 years of conservative rule ended. Now she’s a
  
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• Keith Gerein: Foul campaign filled with fear and fury finally coming to an end

  15-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  At the start of this campaign, I suggested the provincial election was shaping up to be a tug of war between Albertans’ fury over the economy and their fears about unscrupulous leadership.
  In many ways, I was hoping to be proven wrong.
  While fear and anger are powerful motivators, they are hardly ideal emotions on which to cast a ballot. Naively, I hoped a thread of inspiration would come along that could change the narrative.
  Instead, Albertans are back where we started, facing
  
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• 'Everyone has a lot of work to do': Parties tout diverse candidate rosters, but need to focus on culture shift, says political strategist

  15-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s political leaders have all trumpeted their roster of candidates, homing in on the theme of diversity and putting visible minority, Indigenous, women and LGBTQ candidates front and centre at campaign events.
  The NDP sent out a news release in March heralding the fact that 53 per cent of its candidates are women. With NDP Leader Rachel Notley at the helm, the party also highlights its record in government, including appointing the first openly gay cabinet minister in Alberta histor
  
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• Elise Stolte: It's not apathy. Our system is set up to drive voters away

  15-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the last provincial election, more than four in 10 Albertans chose to not vote and an additional 2,034 waited in line at the polling station, then declined their ballot.
  Looking at total votes, more Albertans didn’t vote than voted for the NDP, which eventually formed government.
  That’s not just apathy.
  Think about it. Why are we voting on a busy weekday? Why do we force people to stand in line at one assigned location, sometimes for hours, when online voting has been successfully
  
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• Bakersfield Condors wrap up top spot in AHL West but may have lost a key player to injury

  15-04-2019 06:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Condors 3, Heat 2
  It was a familiar scene on my computer screen on Sunday night as the farm teams of the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames met in the American  Hockey League season finale. As was the case in Calgary eight days ago, one team was tuning up for the playoffs, the other preparing for golf season. This time, though, the roles were reversed, with the visiting team in white, blue and orange being the squad in the ascendant.
  The road team managed to win this game as well, twice eli
  
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• Edmonton researcher discovers site of adorned, sacrificial Guinea pigs in Peru

  15-04-2019 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton researcher has uncovered a significant site in South America that sheds further light on Inca religious traditions.
  Inside buildings at the Inca site of Tambo Viejo, along the south coast of Peru, MacEwan University anthropology professor Lidio Valdez and his team discovered hundreds of sacrificial Guinea pigs adorned with earrings made of orange, red, purple and brown strings.
  The findings are significant, said Valdez, because they help confirm early Spaniard accounts that the Inca
  
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• Rachel Notley rallies in Edmonton during final days of campaign

  15-04-2019 03:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  After spending multiple days courting conservative voters in Calgary and southern Alberta, NDP Leader Rachel Notley made her way to Edmonton for one of the last campaign rallies before the election comes to a head Tuesday.
  Standing amongst a sea of orange and blue at the Polish Hall in central Edmonton, Notley spoke to a crowd of about 1,200 people with jobs and the economy at the forefront of her speech.
  The NDP leader again promised to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built while dive
  
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• Charges laid in slew of vehicle arsons off Whyte Avenue

  15-04-2019 02:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 22-year-old man who allegedly set fire to 13 cars on Whyte Avenue Friday evening is facing multiple charges.
  At approximately 8:40 p.m., Friday, Edmonton police responded to a call of multiple vehicles on fire in the area of 104 Street and 83 Avenue, police said in a news release Sunday.
  A man on foot was pouring fuel on vehicles and setting them on fire.
  Multiple videos circulating on social media showed the man carrying a jerry can and setting the fluid on fire after it was poured on multipl
  
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• CADTH conference brings 6,000 health-care professionals to Edmonton this week

  15-04-2019 01:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The hope and hype of advancing medical systems will be the focus point this week as the annual Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) symposium descends on the Edmonton Convention Centre.
  The annual conference will bring 6,000 health-care professional to Alberta’s capital to discuss how a booming pipeline of changing drugs and health systems are offering patients with incurable diseases hope for a cure.
  “There’s a lot of hope that this new innovation, this n
  
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• Riding profile: Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland

  15-04-2019 00:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 46,546
  Eligible voters: 29,992
  The candidates
  Oneil Carlier, NDP candidate for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Oneil Carlier, NDP
  Age: 56
  Occupation: Incumbent MLA, formerly Agriculture Canada geotechnical technician
  Reason for running: “I’m running because we need to fight for quality health care and education in rural Alberta so people can work and raise families in our communities. Jason Kenney is promising tax cuts for corporations and you can bet
  
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• Riding profile: Spruce Grove-Stony Plain

  15-04-2019 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Population: 51,267
  Riding profile: 33,909
  The candidates
  Erin Babcock, NDP candidate for Spruce Grove-Stony Plain in the 2019 Alberta election.
  Erin Babcock, NDP
  Age: 37
  Occupation: Incumbent MLA, formerly a licensed practical nurse
  Reason for running: “I’m proud to be on Rachel Notley’s team and part of a government that protected public health care and education. We’ve heard from those who want to cut services and fire teachers and nurses. I’m running to ensure th
  
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