Justice reporter @edmontonjournal. Courts, crime, policing & corrections. International curling correspondent emeritus. Tips: [email protected]
Edmonton, Alberta
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Last fall, Edmonton police threatened to wage a PR war against prosecutors if they didn’t renege on a plea deal for the woman charged with killing Nina Napope Dumais, 8. Here’s my long attempt at piecing together what happened to Nina, and the fallout.
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For anyone still caring at this point, 3 of the 4 constitutional questions in the AB referendum have now tipped over to the "No" side. (Justices, opting out of federal programs, giving provinces priority over federal laws). Abolishing the Senate is still a barely a "yes." #abpoli
New from me: A doctor testifying at an inquiry into the death of a man in an Edmonton emergency room says stories like Prashant Sreekumar’s are more common than the public is aware of amid a rolling “disaster” in emergency medicine. edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
News: Alberta referendum question 6, in which the province asked for a mandate to seek more judicial appointment powers, has just recently flipped from yes to no. Looks like the other constitutional questions are inching that direction as well.
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“Forcing one group of people to pay out-of-pocket for health care is the first step to making us all pay out-of-pocket for health care." #ableg #abpoli
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Jason Stephan, the only UCP MLA that I can think of who openly voted for Option 2 in tonight's referendum, throws in the towel. He won't run for re-election in the 2027 provincial election.
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Updated: Progress Report, Kinney’s former publication, says he “always maintained his innocence in this matter and we trusted him; today’s news was an unpleasant surprise for us.” edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
Story has been updated with more back story and the surveillance stills captured at the scene.
Also, for the record, Progress Report and Press Progress are not the same thing.
STORY, updates to come: Edmonton former journalist Duncan Kinney has admitted to spray painting a bust of Ukrainian World War II leader Roman Shukhevych with the words "actual Nazi," then writing about it, claiming he didn't know who did it. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
STORY, updates to come: Edmonton former journalist Duncan Kinney has admitted to spray painting a bust of Ukrainian World War II leader Roman Shukhevych with the words "actual Nazi," then writing about it, claiming he didn't know who did it. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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BREAKING: Duncan Kinney has pleaded guilty to a count of mischief, admitting he spray painted a bust of Roman Shukevych with the words "Actual Nazi" at an Edmonton Ukrainian centre in 2021. He admits he then wrote an article about it, pretending someone else was responsible
NEWS: trial is supposed to begin this morning for Duncan Kinney, the former Edmonton journalist charged with tagging two local Ukrainian monuments with anti-Nazi graffiti. He later wrote about it, claiming he had been sent the photos anonymously edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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Saskatchewan mother identifies son as one of four soldiers confirmed dead at CFB Wainwright
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In curling, Team Brad Jacobs played Sweden’s Oskar Eriksson for the first time since the Olympics double touch controversy, and absolutely disassembled them sportsnet.ca/curling/article…
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Update on the Wainwright explosion: Some hospitals in Edmonton are currently under code orange which is activated during a mass casualty event. Confirmed Royal Alexandra Hospital is one.
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Something really awful sounding has happened at CFB Wainwright. Officials are saying there was a fire and that there are “fatalities,” but not much else. edmontonjournal.com/news/cfb…
Crazy photo, from well into the first. Oilers have got to be worried.
“I had Oilers season tickets for about four years, the price increases were crazy each season. You couldn’t sell most games, if you couldn’t go, without taking a loss. I didn’t even want to make a profit, just get my money back." #LetsGoOilers
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