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• Watch: Is the ‘Superman Quick-Change’ inside a phone booth really possible?

  25-04-2019 23:47 via edmontonjournal.com
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• What's love got to do with it? Todd Babiak's The Empress of Idaho explores obsession, and a criminal act

  25-04-2019 22:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Many of us would rather forget adolescence — the pain, the confusion, the inevitable masturbation. But still, it beckons as a subject for fiction for Edmonton author Todd Babiak, who finds adolescence intense, mysterious, even dangerous. Read More
  
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• Dyscorpia brilliantly weaves the vanishing boundaries between humans and technology

  25-04-2019 21:19 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the boundaries between humanity and technology blur at an unprecedented whirl, it seems with each new change we only notice the costs speeding toward us in the rear-view mirror … once they’ve already passed us. Read More
  
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• Social Seen: Every Body's Beautiful

  25-04-2019 21:04 via edmontonjournal.com
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• Growing Things: Protect and prune grapefruit tree to encourage fruit production

  25-04-2019 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: About two years ago I found a sprouting seed inside a red grapefruit. I had never seen that before so, just for fun, I planted it. It was slow getting started, but now I have a grapefruit tree of over three feet, and growing so vigorously it’s scary. It spends summers on the deck, and winters inside in a south-facing window, which is when it gets its new growth, for some reason. Anyway, I’m full of questions. How big will this tree get? Sooner or later I’ll have to trim it b
  
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• Diversity on display as folk clubs announce season schedules

  25-04-2019 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
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• Chinatown walking tour: Hot pots, egg tarts and crab make up full meal deal

  25-04-2019 20:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  I love to be surprised when it comes to food. I reminded myself of that fact at Liuyishou Hotpot, while on a food tour of Chinatown. Read More
  
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• Fitness column: Progress depends on lifestyle adjustments and perseverance

  25-04-2019 20:03 via edmontonjournal.com
  Breaking News: A KR Personal Training client recently lost 16 pounds in a little over a month working out twice a week. With the help of protocols formulated over the past 30 years she reached and exceeded her goals ahead of schedule. Read More
  
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• Police officer who agreed to bail for man who killed Const. Wynn testifies at inquiry

  25-04-2019 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  A police officer who agreed to bail for a career-criminal who later killed an Alberta Mountie says he believes he made the right decision based on information he had at the time.
  
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• ‘He was failed. We are failed’: Widow of Const. Wynn speaks to shooter’s mother at inquiry

  25-04-2019 19:58 via globalnews.ca
  The widow of an Alberta RCMP officer killed while trying to make an arrest spoke at a fatality inquiry Thursday to the mother of the man who pulled the trigger.
  
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• Alberta's election commissioner levies $10,500 in new fines linked to Callaway campaign

  25-04-2019 19:54 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta's election commissioner handed out $10,500 in new fines Thursday related to the Jeff Callaway campaign. Read More
  
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• Game Summaries | 2019 Esso Cup - 2019 Esso Cup - St. Albert Slash - Stoney Creek Sabres - Hockey Canada

  25-04-2019 18:00 via hockeycanada.ca
  Game Summaries | 2019 Esso Cup - 2019 Esso Cup - St. Albert Slash - Stoney Creek Sabres  Hockey CanadaSABRES IMPROVE PLAYOFF POSITIONING BY BLANKING SLASH QUINTON AMUNDSON SUDBURY, Ont. – Megan Warrener made 28 saves, and Marisa ...
  
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• 125 years of cooperation and cheddar in St-Albert - The Review Newspaper

  25-04-2019 17:23 via thereview.ca
  125 years of cooperation and cheddar in St-Albert  The Review NewspaperLike the famous cheddar it produces, the St-Albert Cheese Cooperative has aged well. The cooperative is celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2019. St-Albert ...
  
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• A new way to comment on the Edmonton Journal

  25-04-2019 17:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Starting today, readers will notice a new experience in our comment sections on the Edmonton Journal. We are partnering with Viafoura, a smart moderation platform, which will help us build a better space for civil discussions on our sites. Read More
  
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• Edmonton weather: Do us all a favour, wind, and blow away

  25-04-2019 14:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Thursday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measured -0.3 C with 9 km/h winds out of the west contributing to a -3 wind chill.
  Why, wind? Why? Why must you ruin everything? Why must you turn an otherwise delightful day into an all-out s–tstorm? Did someone do something to you, wind? Were you not hugged enough as a child? Were you hugged too much as a child? At what point in your life did you
  
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• Timeline: The tragic death of St. Albert Const. David Wynn - CBC News

  25-04-2019 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Timeline: The tragic death of St. Albert Const. David Wynn  CBC NewsConst. David Wynn, 42, was shot and killed at a St. Albert casino in the winter of 2015. Here's what happened.
  
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• Thursday's letters: Kenney equipped to fix economy

  25-04-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “Minister Kenney did nothing for Alberta,” Letters, April 20
  To say Mr. Kenny is not from Alberta is correct but he is not the only premier to not be born in the province. Most Albertans were not born here which does not diminish their contributions to our prosperity.
  To say that Mr. Kenny just needs a job infers he has no intentions of improving this province’s dismal economic performance over the past 10 years. His past experience with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation an
  
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• Building a better surgeon: Simulation lab could literally put rookies in best hands, say U of A researchers

  25-04-2019 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The most skilled surgeons may one day literally guide the hands of rookies thanks to research at the University of Alberta.
  “I would say over 90 per cent of resources in a health-care system are used to study diseases and patients. But our lab is looking at issues related to the operator. We take a unique approach to health care by having surgeons as our subjects in our lab,” said Bin Zheng, an associate professor of surgery at the U of A who leads the Surgical Simulation Research La
  
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• Public school district wants suggestions to improve access to alternative programs

  25-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s the time of year when some Edmonton parents nervously await news of whether their children were accepted to alternative school programs.
  Be it French immersion, a Christian alternative or arts enriched, programs with a specialized focus can be in high demand.
  In suburban southwest Edmonton, Edmonton public school trustee Nathan Ip said Wednesday the population of children has grown so fast, little room remains to offer alternative programs at school buildings close to home.
  “It
  
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• Oil Spills: Lost opportunity for Edmonton Oilers?

  25-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hockey Hall of Fame writer Jim Matheson talks to host Craig Ellingson about the playoff picture in the NHL’s Western Conference, which has seen three of the top four seeds eliminated and about ‘what could’ve beens’ if the Edmonton Oilers had somehow, someway made the post-season.
  
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• Here are newly elected Edmonton and region MLAs

  25-04-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Rookie MLAs from across Alberta convened at the legislature Wednesday to launch the next phase of their political careers. While they learn the ropes, Albertans are learning more about the new crop of UCP and NDP representatives.
  Here’s a short introduction to the new MLAs from the Edmonton region elected on April 16.
  They include four new MLAs from Edmonton, including three NDP candidates and one UCP candidate. There are eight new UCP representatives from within the nine constituenci
  
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• Will some team reach in the 2019 draft, allowing Edmonton Oilers to "pull a Bouchard"?

  25-04-2019 07:31 via edmontonjournal.com
  The question is not whether the Edmonton Oilers will get a top young forward prospect in the 2019 draft, it’s which one will fall to them. Will they luck out and get a player they greatly covet, as happened last year when Evan Bouchard fell to the Oilers in the 10th overall spot?
  Will one or two teams draft for need in 2019, as a few teams did last season, meaning a player the Oilers rank near the top of the draft will fall to them in the 8th overall spot?
  It’s certainly possible. Ev
  
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• Police, business association say Whyte Avenue public bathrooms aren't safe

  25-04-2019 03:57 via edmontonjournal.com
  The public washroom on Whyte Avenue often isn’t being used as a washroom.
  Const. Dan Tallack and other Edmonton police officers on the Whyte Avenue beat team check on the public washrooms at the northeast corner of Whyte Avenue and Gateway Boulevard a few times a day, Tallack told council members during a community and public service committee meeting on Wednesday.
  During nearly every visit they come across someone using the facility for something other than as a bathroom — whether a
  
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• 'The future of transportation': Ottawa investing $430 million in zero-emission vehicles

  25-04-2019 02:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  To reach the target of only zero-emission vehicles being sold across Canada by 2040, the federal government announced $430 million of investments in the 2019 budget to entice residents to make the switch.
  Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi, Edmonton Mill Woods MP, released the details of the financial and accessibility incentives for Canadians at an electric car charging station outside the Londonderry Mall Simons in Edmonton Wednesday.
  “Our solution is zero-emission vehicles. It is
  
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• Proposal for slower speed limits in city core piques interest on council

  25-04-2019 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A citizen-led proposal for a slow speed zone in the city core turned some heads on city council Wednesday.
  “I think you may have struck upon a way to get past this impasse,” Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell said after more than one dozen people showed up at a committee meeting to voice support for introducing 30 km/h speed limits and accompanying traffic calming measures for residential roads in the so-called “core zone”.
  The “impasse” — a debate over just how
  
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• Fire crews battling blaze in Edmonton river valley

  25-04-2019 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Fire Rescue Services is battling a grass fire in the river valley in the city’s west end.
  Crews received a call about the fire at 4:25 p.m. Wednesday about a fire close to the North Saskatchewan River near the Edmonton Country Club.
  Fire rescue spokeswoman Claire Graff said motorists passing by on Whitemud Drive reported the fire.
  Five units arrived on scene minutes later and are working to keep the fire under control.
  Graff added due to limited access to hydrants in the valley, s
  
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• 'You have to co-operate': Judge gives accused in U-haul truck attack one more chance to choose lawyer

  25-04-2019 01:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  The man accused of attacking a police officer with a knife and mowing down pedestrians along Jasper Avenue in a truck has been given one more week to find legal representation or have counsel appointed heading into a four-month jury trial.
  Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, refused to retain the assistance of senior lawyer Greg Lazin, who flew in from Victoria, B.C., for the proceedings Wednesday afternoon in Edmonton. Lazin attempted to meet with Sharif twice at the Edmonton Remand Centre last week to
  
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• U of A scientists help unearth 'utterly bizarre' chimera crab fossil

  25-04-2019 01:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Scientists from the University of Alberta have recovered more than 70 specimens of the chimera crab from the Andes Mountains in Colombia, along with hundreds of other crustaceans like shrimps and lobsters.
  The chimera crab, as it is called, is a new branch on the crab dichotomy, said Javier Luque, lead author and postdoctoral paleontologist in the department of biological sciences at the University of Alberta and Yale University.
  “It’s completely unlike anything else … it woul
  
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• Edmonton man charged after bomb threat at Sherwood Park bank

  25-04-2019 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 68-year-old Edmonton man has been charged after police responded to a bomb threat at a bank in Sherwood Park last Thursday.
  Shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Strathcona County RCMP receieved to a complaint about a distressed man inside a bank on Baseline Road stating he had an explosive device.
  Police evacuated the bank and arrested the man. The RCMP explosive disposal unit at the scene determined there were no explosives inside the man’s briefcase or car, said RCMP in a news release Wed
  
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• Three to See Thursday: Conscientious fashion, painted poetry and cats on film

  25-04-2019 00:04 via edmontonjournal.com
  Elevate: A Pursuit of Fair Fashion: It’s Fashion Revolution Week through Sunday, and there are lots of ways to get involved, from signing a nation-wide pledge, to attending one of the many local events. This particular panel explores the idea that everyone can enjoy their love of fashion while minimizing the destruction of the planet, both on a human and environmental level. Panellists include Jennifer McConaghy of Life Preloved; Claire Theaker-Brown of Unbelts; Kyla Kazeil of Bamboo Ballr
  
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