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• Terry Jones: Eskimos could be in for roller coaster season

  25-06-2017 23:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  If the opener was a sample of the season ahead, construction crews should be attaching seat belts to the green and gold seats in Commonwealth Stadium this week.
  And instead of kids in free for the first home game Friday against the Montreal Alouettes, they should be setting up ‘You Must Be This Tall’ midway signs for kids to get in to ride this roller coaster.
  Watching the Edmonton Eskimos 30-27 last-play walk-off field-goal win over the B.C. Lions Saturday night in Vancouver, the th
  
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• Lees: Group of 45 cyclists return after rugged 900 km ride between Vancouver and Jasper

  25-06-2017 21:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Two businessmen, who began cycling last month, stormed home Saturday with a 45-strong group of Edmonton riders after a rugged 900-km ride between Japser and Vancouver, and said they would be the $25,000 presenting sponsors of next year’s CASA ride.
  “We had time to think about the children, adolescents and their families who need help with mental health issues,” said Chad Stewart, 41.
  The cycling adventure began in February when CASA Foundation chairman Arash Vahdaty called his
  
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• Eid Mubarak 2017: Edmonton Muslim communities celebrate end of Ramadan

  25-06-2017 19:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Edmonton’s Muslim communities are celebrating the end of Ramadan Sunday after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. 
  Eid al-Fitr, meaning the festival of breaking the fast, is celebrated for up to three days depending on the country, with feasts, charity and gift-giving. 
  In Edmonton, Al-Hadi Mosque will be the site of a festive celebration Sunday for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
  “Although this happy occasion comes at a time when global peace is being threaten
  
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• 'Something isn't healthy': Corrections investigator slams Edmonton Institution in wake of report

  25-06-2017 17:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Canada’s correctional investigator says a rise in inmate complaints is more evidence of a “toxic” workplace culture at Edmonton’s maximum security prison.
  “There’s clearly ongoing problems at Edmonton Institution, and certainly significant workplace dysfunction,” says Ivan Zinger, Canada’s correctional investigator. “From a variety of sources, you know that something is going on that isn’t healthy.”
  An internal report of the
  
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• Can Edmonton Oilers cash in on NHL's small man trend with Kailer Yamamoto?

  25-06-2017 09:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  No attacker had more points per game in major junior last year than Kailer Yamamoto
  The question about 5-feet, 8-inch, 153-pound Kailer Yamamoto isn’t why the Edmonton Oilers used a first round pick on such a small player. The question should be how did such a prolific major junior scorer fall to the Oilers at 22 overall? 
  Why didn’t some team in need of scoring scoop up the small but lethal attacker earlier on? 
  It’s not like smallish attackers haven’t had succ
  
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• Eskimos sidelines: Sherritt hurt … Coin captains … In the corner

  25-06-2017 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  VANCOUVER – As if their linebacking corps didn’t get beaten up enough in training camp, the Edmonton Eskimos could now be without defensive captain J.C. Sherritt for an extended period.
  During the second quarter of Saturday’s season opener against the B.C. Lions, the seven-year veteran at the middle linebacker position was carted to the locker-room midway through the second quarter with a towel over his head and a suspected Achilles injury to his left leg.
  The 29-year-old Easte
  
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• FC Edmonton shooting blanks in loss to San Francisco

  25-06-2017 05:49 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  At the moment, FC Edmonton couldn’t hit water if they fell out of a boat.
  The local North American Soccer League club squandered chance after chance in a 1-0 loss to the San Francisco Deltas in front of a packed house of just under 4,000 at Clarke Stadium on Saturday.
  The game was a microcosm of Edmonton’s season to date, unable to convert quality opportunities an left wanting in the end.
  It was Edmonton’s second-consecutive loss to San Francisco, falling to the Delta 1-0 last
  
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• Man hospitalized following collision on Gateway Boulevard

  25-06-2017 04:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Belongings were strewn across the road and traffic on Gateway Boulevard was down to one lane near 38 Avenue on Saturday evening following a collision.
  Sonya Lambert said a man was standing up pedaling his bicycle when his tires got stuck on the curb.
  A man was driving in front of her when his car hit the man, who was jaywalking.
  “Next thing I know, bottles are flying, I saw brake lights, and the gentleman was bleeding in the back of his head,” Lambert said.
  She called 911, while anot
  
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• Oilers 2017 NHL Draft recap

  25-06-2017 03:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Seven players joined the Edmonton Oilers organization via the NHL Draft Friday and Saturday, June 23-24, 2017 in Chicago. 
  The first round — held Friday at the United Center, home of the Blackhawks — produced right-winger Kailer Yamamoto, who the Oilers selected with the 22nd overall pick.
  The second round of the draft saw the team take six more players. Just before the Oilers were slated to pick in the third round, they traded the Nos. 82 and 126 picks to the Arizona Coyotes fo
  
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• Fans sound off on Oilers off-season moves

  25-06-2017 01:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The locker room sale was not the only thing on the minds of Edmonton Oilers fans Saturday following a busy week for general manager Peter Chiarelli and the team in the midst of preparing for next season.
  The Oilers traded seven-year veteran Jordan Eberle to the New York Islanders for 23-year-old Ryan Strome Thursday and re-signed Kris Russell to a four-year, $16-million deal the following day.
  The Eberle trade cleared up cap space to re-sign Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid. But fan Kevin Chamb
  
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• Edmonton city councillors struggle through transit skills contest

  25-06-2017 00:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Ward 12 Coun. Moe Banga might consider sticking to legislating transit in the city, leaving the bus driving to the professionals like his brother.
  The Edmonton Transit Service held it’s annual skills competition Saturday morning at its bus garage on Ellerslie Road in the city’s southwest corner. Contestants, including a handful of city councillors, media personalities and transit workers, navigate a 12-metre city bus through a series of corners, cones and challenges.
  Branch manager o
  
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• Oilers span the globe on second day of NHL Draft

  25-06-2017 00:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  CHICAGO — The Oilers were all over the map Saturday in the second round of the NHL entry draft, taking two Russians, a Czech, two American-born players and a kid from Edmonton.
  On a day when the game plan was to attack specific needs, the Oilers looked at skill and position long before they got around to passports – taking a goalie, two defencemen, two right wingers and a centre.
  “That’s just the way it works out,” said Director of Player Personnel Bob Green. &ldquo
  
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