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• Connor McDavid harming Oilers chances of winning with massive new contract, critics say

  02-07-2017 23:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  NHL insider: “The McDavid team needs to think one more time before coming to terms.”
  This in from various writers, the notion that the Edmonton Oilers certainly and Connor McDavid possibly would be better off if McDavid took a lesser cap hit than the reported $13.25 million per year for eight years he’s reportedly signing for. 
  Let’s start with long-time NHL writer Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun:  “Connor McDavid will sign a contract soon that will
  
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• Man found dead after shooting in downtown Edmonton

  02-07-2017 22:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  One man has been found dead following a downtown Edmonton shooting early Sunday morning.
  Police say the man, as well as one woman, were shot around 1:00 a.m. in the area of 116 Street and Jasper Avenue before leaving the scene in a black SUV.
  The injured man was found dead on the road by emergency personnel working in the area of 109 Street and 104 Avenue. Police say the man was ejected from the vehicle as it was traveling at a high speed.
  Another victim who was shot was treated in hospital with
  
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• BBQ truck recovered hours after theft, food stolen

  02-07-2017 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  The owner of an Edmonton barbecue joint has been reunited with a food truck that was stolen early Sunday morning — but not before the thief made off with the food inside.     
  Terry Sept, owner of Smokehouse BBQ, said the truck was recovered just before 1 p.m., hours after it went missing from the restaurant parking lot.  
  The truck was found behind a motel at 150th Street and 111th Avenue around four kilometres away. Police were on scene. 
  While he was happy to fi
  
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• Richard Fyfe, biologist whose breeding program saved peregrine falcon from extinction, dies at 85

  02-07-2017 20:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Richard Fyfe, the Canadian Wildlife Service biologist who helped save the peregrine falcon from extinction, died on June 17 after multiple battles with pneumonia. He was 85 and lived in Fort Saskatchewan.
  Preserving peregrine’s future
  By the 1960s, scientists were linking sharp declines of peregrine falcon populations in North America with the use of pesticides, particularly DDT. Due to bioaccumulation, the toxic substance built up in the falcons’ bodies over time, causing fertility
  
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• Edmonton Police Service ask for $1M upgrade to gun range training facilities

  02-07-2017 18:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Police can’t keep up with new firearms training requirements if they are stuck with old facilities.
  That’s the plea to be made before the Edmonton community and public services committee on July 6, following updated federal and provincial standards.
  The Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police will require all police members to receive annual firearms training.
  For city police, that means the number of patrol members trained annually will grow to 1,800 from 600.
  But police say there&r
  
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• Edmonton-area cancer survivor attempting 30 half-ironman races in 30 days

  02-07-2017 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Imagine swimming flat out for two kilometres, followed by a 90-kilometre bike ride and then running a half-marathon of 21 kilometres.
  Imagine doing it every day for a month.
  Even the fittest of athletes would likely shake their heads at such a challenge.
  Malcolm Stinson is attempting to do it at age 57 while on chemotherapy for cancer.
  “I’m not really trying to prove something to myself,” said the Edmonton-area construction company owner. “I’m trying to show that yo
  
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• Goals still hard to come by for FC Edmonton

  02-07-2017 06:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  FC Edmonton may never score another goal again.
  At least that’s the way it seems as the local North American Soccer League club dropped their fourth consecutive 1-0 contest, this time falling on the road to the Jacksonville Armada on Saturday.
  And once again, it wasn’t due to lack of scoring opportunities.
  Edmonton created enough chances to win the game handily, but the ball is not bouncing their way.
  “The players I didn’t think deserved to get beat here tonight, they gav
  
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• Edmonton celebrates Canada's 150 birthday from dawn to dusk

  02-07-2017 04:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Canadians draped in red and white were out in full force Saturday to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday in Edmonton.
  The sesquicentennial celebrations were marked by a full day of events across the city including at Edmonton City Hall and the Alberta legislature grounds.
  Festivities at the legislature started bright and early at 7 a.m. with a Canada Day Road Race around the legislature grounds and ends with a bang — a fireworks show in the River Valley.
  The morning pancake breakf
  
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• Mother nature provides fireworks on Canada Day; tornado touches down near Sangudo

  02-07-2017 03:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Lightning struck Alberta’s capital region on Saturday and a tornado toucheddown near Sangudo.
  Severe thunderstorm watches and warnings were issued by Environment Canada for much of the province.
  Andy Yun, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said lightning strikes are the most deadly weather phenomenon in Canada, killing on average 10 people per year and injuring 100 to 150.
  “A lot of people think they’ll seek shelter under a tree – that’s not a good thing,&rdqu
  
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• Oilers stay out of the free agent frenzy

  02-07-2017 02:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  After rocking Edmonton and the free agent market last summer with the blockbuster signing of Milan Lucic, Peter Chiarelli delivered a much quieter Canada Day this year.
  The Oilers general manager distanced himself from the frenzy Saturday, keeping the chequebook in his holster and his sights set on a pair of more important targets much closer to home.
  Chiarelli nibbled around the edges of the NHL’s free agent market, bolstering the AHL Bakersfield Condors with a handful of as he put it &ld
  
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• Crowds indulge in Canada Day parties: vignettes

  02-07-2017 02:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Canadians draped in red and white were out in full force Saturday to celebrate the country’s 150th birthday in Edmonton.
  The sesquicentennial celebrations were marked by a full day of events across the city including at Edmonton City Hall and the Alberta legislature grounds.
  Festivities at the legislature started bright and early at 7 a.m. with a Canada Day Road Race around the legislature grounds and ends with a bang — a fireworks show in the River Valley.
  The morning pancake breakf
  
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• Social Seen: The Works Summer Solstice Gala

  02-07-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist.
  Email your event suggestions to [email protected] or tweet Codie at @fotocodie. Follow Codie on Instagram (@fotocodie) and Facebook (facebook.com/fotocodie)
  The Works Summer Solstice Gala
  Where: Hotel Macdonald
  When: June 23
  Who: The Works
  What: Gala launching The Works’ 32nd year
  Featuri
  
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• Cult of Hockey: The Nine Greatest Canadian Edmonton Oilers Eh!-ver

  02-07-2017 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  For years (for decades, really) the NHL ranks had been dominated by Canadian-born players.  
  It was only since the mid-70’s that Europeans, and even Americans, started making real inroads, first in the WHA, and then increasingly in the NHL.  Over the course of time, our Edmonton franchise has been blessed to have some of the very best Canadian-born stars ever, in Oilers silks.  But who were the very best Canadians, to ever don Oilers gear?  
  First, some ground round rul
  
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• Oilers prospects pack up for Jasper development camp

  02-07-2017 01:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  When the latest batch of Edmonton Oilers prospects get together in Jasper on Sunday it will be more like summer camp than training camp.
  And that’s how the organization wants it.
  Yes, there will be intense workouts and practice sessions under the watchful eyes of Oilers’ management, even the odd scrimmage game thrown in, but the four-day excursion is anything but a fight for jobs.
  “That’s the message, nobody makes the team or doesn’t make the team from this camp,&rd
  
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• Two-year reprieve for Guatemalan family facing deportation

  02-07-2017 00:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  A family that faced deportation after learning they’d been lied to by the person preparing their immigration paperwork has been granted a reprieve.
  An advocate for the family of seven, originally from Guatemala, learned the news from Yolanda Duarte Martinez, the mother of the family. 
  “Yolanda called me to tell me they were allowed to stay for two years,” said Ingrid Flores of the Latin American Community Engagement Network, an Edmonton non-profit that’s been helping
  
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• Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli makes it clear on McDavid & Draisaitl" "We're going to sign them."

  02-07-2017 00:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Chia happy with current team, wants to give young players a chance, but might bring in two more players
  In the wake of the July 1 free agent frenzy, Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli again brushed off any talk of another team succeeding with an offer sheet to restricted free agent Leon Draisaitl.
  Indeed, Chiarelli rejected the idea that an offer sheet would ever be made to Draisaitl. 
  “I don’t think it’s a concern,” he told the media in a press conference. “Of
  
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• Oh Canada! Thousands pack city hall and legislature grounds to celebrate 150 years

  02-07-2017 00:09 via edmontonjournal.com
  
  Serena Hemraj flips pancakes at the Canada Day breakfast at the Alberta Legislature grounds on July 1, 2017. Approximately 36,000 pancakes were served to 12,000 people at the breakfast, which was put on by the Ismaili Council for Edmonton. 
  Thomas Dang (right/MLA, Edmonton-South West) serves up some pancakes on Canada Day on the grounds of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on July 1, 2017. 
  John Vaananen, 7, and his dog “Oreo” meet Alberta Premier Rachel Notley after a ci
  
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