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ALSO: Edmonton police officer who kept service rifle in bedroom closet loses appeal View this email in your browser EDMONTON JOURNAL LA e e FacebookTwitterInstagram Happy Wednesday Rounduppers! The dust has started to settle following the provincial election on Monday. Thirteen new MLAs have been elected to Edmonton and area.  Also, Edmonton Police Service Const. Hunter Robinz has lost his appeal after being convicted last August of careless storage of a firearm after a trial that included domestic assault allegations from a former romantic partner. If you have any feedback on the day's newsletter please feel free to send an email to [email protected]. Edmonton police seek 'violent offender' wanted on multiple warrants Police are looking for Jalal Arnaout, 26, who is wanted on numerous warrants stemming from domestic violence incidents involving his partner in April and May, said a Tuesday news release. According to police Arnaout is facing charges, including aggravated assault, two counts of sexual assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of possession of a weapons and uttering threats. Officers believe Arnaout is armed and dangerous and may be driving a light grey Acura MDX SUV, adding that people are not encouraged to engage with the suspect. Appeal court cuts five years from sentence of man who beat, choked mother outside Edmonton daycare A man who brutally attacked a mother outside her children’s daycare will serve four years in prison instead of nine years after Alberta’s top court found a judge failed to properly assess how the accused’s Indigenous background affected his level of culpability. In a decision released Tuesday, the Alberta Court of Appeal more than halved the sentence being served by Rockie Ryan Rabbit, whose random attack on a woman outside Seven Stones Daycare two years ago shocked Edmontonians.  Edmonton police officer who kept service rifle in bedroom closet loses appeal Edmonton Police Service Const. Hunter Robinz was convicted last August of careless storage of a firearm after a trial that included domestic assault allegations from a former romantic partner. Provincial court Judge Peter Ayotte acquitted Robinz of the assault charge but fined him $1,000 for the weapons offence, concluding it was unreasonable for Robinz to store an unlocked carbine in his bedroom closet with two clips of ammunition. Robinz — who is currently suspended without pay pending an internal investigation — had been on desk duty due to another disciplinary probe and had been ordered to surrender his service weapon. Alberta RCMP investigate after 14-year-old boy killed in off-road vehicle collision Kitscoty RCMP were called to the scene of a collision involving two off road vehicles at around 8:10 p.m. on Tuesday, police said in a news release. When officers arrived they found that a dirt bike and a side-by-side off-road vehicle had collided on Range Road 21, north of Township Road 503 A. The driver or the dirt bike, a 14-year-old boy, was declared dead at the scene. Officers said their preliminary investigation showed that the side-by-side was heading northbound on Range Road 21 and the dirt bike was heading southbound, when they collided at a turn in the road. Click here for more local news stories T 4 N . , L TR SCS l"f""". o,V YV r"lilm I Under The Dome: Smith sweeps rural Alberta but can she convince the cities? Danielle Smith and the UCP have been sent back to the Alberta Legislature with another majority government. In the latest episode of Under The Dome, host Dave Breakenridge is joined by Edmonton Sun columnist Lorne Gunter and Edmonton Journal columnist David Staples to discuss what this all means for Danielle Smith going forward, and what is Rachel Notley’s future considering she and the NDP failed to knock off the UCP in Monday night’s election. You can watch all episodes of Under the Dome at edmontonjournal.com/underthedome or . Tabulation change led to delay in voting results: Elections Alberta The cameras were rolling Monday night and thousands of Albertans were tuned to their favourite TV anchors, waiting for news of who would form the next provincial government. “You generally have a window in your mind of when you will have a complete enough picture to project a government,” said the CBC’s Rob Brown. “That went out the window pretty early.” Brown was one of the anchors for whom the election show had to go on, with results or without them. An Elections Alberta official said a change in how advance “vote anywhere” ballots are counted contributed to the delay in getting the numbers out.  The untold story of the 2023 Alberta provincial election? UCP leader Danielle Smith’s dramatic personal and policy shift to the centre. It’s almost as if Smith’s New Year’s Resolution for 2023 was: “I will be the most compassionate conservative that Alberta has ever seen.” Smith now appears to have pulled off this about-face in large part due to her considerable skills as a communicator and the UCP’s underrated policy book. Keith Gerein: Alberta's election results are about the worst-case scenario for Edmonton  Convention dictates that in the wake of an election, the right thing to do is congratulate the winners, because doing so shows respect for the will of the voting public. And a lot of Albertans voted in this provincial election, which was awesome to see. So in that spirit, kudos are rightly given on Monday night to the UCP and Leader Danielle Smith for a hard-fought victory. The people have spoken, democracy wins and all that. At the same time, I have to admit those words are a bit harder to say than usual. Alberta Premier Smith to consult losing UCP candidates after Edmonton shut out As expected, Monday’s election saw the UCP dominate rural Alberta, the NDP sweep Edmonton, and both parties almost split battleground Calgary, with at least two ridings so close they will need recounts. That means there won’t be an elected official from Edmonton in the provincial government, and Smith’s caucus will be flush with rural MLAs. Thirteen new MLAs elected to Edmonton and area  As the majority of Alberta turned United Conservatives blue on election night, Edmonton became a solid island of orange. For the first time since 1993, Edmonton is left without a local representative in the governing party when the Progressive Conservatives were shut out of Edmonton by the Liberals. But an orange sweep of the city this time around did not come as a surprise when the dust finally settled early Tuesday morning, following a slow rollout of the polls. Here are the new faces of the Edmonton and area MLAs coming to the Alberta legislature. Click here for more Alberta politics stories LN Elks kicker Dean Faithfull taking the opposite journey as Ted Lasso The 36-year-old Edmonton Elks rookie kicker — more on that in a moment — has blazed a trail in reverse of the one taken by the ever-likeable titular character of the popular Apple TV series, played by Jason Sudeikis, who went from being an NCAA Division 2 football coach, to going overseas to work for a Premier League team based out of South London. “Obviously, soccer started my career,” said the six-foot-two 207-pound native of Hampshire County, U.K., on the coast of the English Channel. “I visited an old coach in Florida who was, like, ‘You’d be a good kicker.’ And Florida Tech needed a kicker. I was supposed to go there. Click here for more Sports stories AL June sees a rainbow of colourful events as Edmonton celebrates Pride Edmonton Pride month has arrived with offerings for all ages and tastes throughout the city. Beyond the typical Pride party fare is “strike a pin, strike a pose” drag bowling at Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes, a Pride church service at McDougall United Church this Sunday and two different walking tours. The Edmonton Queer History Project has self-guided and scheduled walking tours, each with a different theme, while Fruit Loop’s augmented reality Pride tour of downtown is self-led using an online map. Click here for more Arts & Life stories This space is dedicated to the great and interesting photos taken by Postmedia photographers while they’re out and about town. Scroll through our archived Eye On Edmonton photo galleries. Follow Postmedia photographers on Twitter. Consumers use the outdoor consumption lounge on the final day at the Grow up convention at the Edmonton Convention Centre on May 30, 2023. The convention brought together cannabis culture and industry. Photo by Shaughn Butts /Postmedia Helen Zhang practices her serve at the Forest Heights tennis courts on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 in Edmonton. Photo by Greg Southam /Postmedia KR Letters To The Editor welcome We invite you to write letters to the editor. A maximum of 150 words is preferred. Letters must carry a first and last name, or two initials and a last name, and include an address and daytime telephone number. All letters are subject to editing. We don’t publish letters addressed to others or sent to other publications. Email: [email protected] Wednesday's letters: Smith will soon revert to form Imagine the whiplash that UPC Leader Danielle Smith must have experienced during the election campaign when she abruptly pivoted from fanatic right-wing ideologue to moderate conservative. Now imagine the additional injury that she will suffer when, like an over-stretched elastic band, she inevitably snaps back to her long-held views as leader of Alberta’s new government. How long will she have to wait to get medical treatment for her injuries? Will she need to pay for those treatments? We will find out shortly. Harlan James, Edmonton Malcolm Mayes editorial cartoon of the day Edmonton's orange teams, Oilers and NDP, fall short. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes) Click here for more Opinion stories TLE Edmonton weather: Foggy start and chance of thunderstorm at the finish When I sat down to get to work this morning you could barely see to the street across the park. The world was blanketed in a thick fog. There was a decent thunderstorm in the evening yesterday and with it came some much needed precipitation. We might get some more with a 30 per cent chance of showers throughout the day today and risk of a thunderstorm this evening and after midnight. The chance of rain continues into Thursday, as temperatures cool down a little and the winds start to pick up. Thankfully, it looks like the forecast turns around for the weekend. [email protected] bt 23C 0% Chance of showers Tonight @ 12C Showers Thu 1Jun 3 18C 0% Chance of showers Night 9C Clear A mix of sun and cloud Night .I 13C 30% Chance of showers. Sat 3 Jun aa 23C Cloudy Night @ 13C Gloudy periods VA 2 See the latest Obituaries, Memorial Notices and Other Sympathy announcements at edmontonjournal.remembering.ca © 2023 Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. 365 Bloor St East, Toronto, ON, M4W 3L4 You received this email because you are subscribed to Edmonton Journal's Noon News Roundup Newsletter, registered as [email protected] • • • Contact us • Digital Ad Registry © 2023 Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved.
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