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My latest longread: Jeff Kent is a serial conman who bilks women out of their money. He’s the first fraudster in Canadian history to be deemed a dangerous offender and locked up indefinitely.
He’s also someone who used to regularly call me from jail
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New from me: a man who committed a mass shooting at an Edmonton nightclub left a trail of clothing as he fled police, including ditching his distinctive boots.
He managed to evade police almost 2 years, but the discarded garments proved his undoing. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
On our op-ed page: researchers make the argument that Edmonton might be the frostbite capital of the world, largely due to street homelessness. edmontonjournal.com/opinion/…
The owner of the old BMO site in downtown Edmonton, which has sat empty (or, perhaps more accurately, strewn with rubble) since the old bank was demolished in 2018, is upset that the city has branded it a problem property. edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
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NEWS: An Edmonton police officer has been charged for allegedly entering a woman's home while on duty and sexually assaulting her. He and the service are also facing a $1.5 million lawsuit. edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
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Breaking: Alberta's police watchdog has cleared two RCMP officers who shot and killed a 15-year-old Indigenous boy in Wetaskiwin last year. ASIRT says Hoss Lightning was pointing a backpack at the officers, which they believed to contain a gun. It did not. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
New from me: Alberta’s superior court has ordered an Edmonton man who punched, kicked and painfully restrained his dog to report to jail after rejecting his bid to serve his sentence in the community. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
New from me: Federal oil and gas agency faces potential class action from Indigenous employees alleging toxic workplace edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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New from me: a man who sold an assault rifle to an undercover police officer investigating his ties to an Edmonton-area right wing extremist group has been sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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Latest from @jonnywakefield — Alberta man linked to right-wing extremist group gets 4-1/2 years for selling automatic rifle
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New from me: a man who sold an assault rifle to an undercover police officer investigating his ties to an Edmonton-area right wing extremist group has been sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
Edmonton is in the midst of a rash of apparent arson fires targeting infill properties, not long after police dismantled an international conspiracy to extort money from homebuilders in the city's South Asian community. Scary stuff.
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NEW: a 20-year-old “middle manager” in a series of extortion arsons targeting Edmonton’s south Asian community has been sentenced to 7 years
Plus more details on the involvement of Harpreet Uppal, the gangster murdered alongside his 11 y/o son 2 years ago edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
New from me: An Edmonton woman is shaken and looking for answers after a gun was fired through the shared wall of her townhome. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
Yikes: 290 animals rescued from "two properties operating as an animal rescue. The animals were living in extremely poor conditions and needed urgent help." aarcs.ca/media/northern-resc…
Vague but distressing news from Valleyview, Alta.: RCMP and animal welfare groups "have taken in hundreds of surrendered animals, including cats, dogs, horses and other livestock, in varying states of distress. Charges are currently pending approval."
The ADM in charge of the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, the same person EPS sent the letter to criticizing the alleged plea deal in the child homicide case edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…
To increase capacity in the Alberta Court of Justice, Alberta's government is appointing Kimberley Goddard, KC, as a court justice.
Learn more: alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=9…
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NEWS: an Edmonton Remand Centre inmate has pleaded guilty to killing his sex offender cellmate, admitting that he was furious after reading a newspaper report about a high-profile Alberta sex abuse case. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…