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• Gamers spent 25 hours in marathon to support Stollery Children's Hospital

  05-11-2017 23:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 200 gamers took over the 16th floor of the Epcor Tower to play PC, console and tabletop games in support of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in a 25-hour marathon event that started at 2 p.m. Saturday.
  This year’s Extra Life Edmonton event is the sixth in the city and has a goal of raising $94,500 toward the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. Most years the North American event, started in 2008 to support Children’s Miracle Network hospitals acro
  
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• Edmonton police investigating after cyclist killed in collision

  05-11-2017 21:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run collision early Sunday between a vehicle and a cyclist.
  Around 2 a.m. police went to a collision near 111 Avenue and 96 Street involving a vehicle and a cyclist, a police news release says. 
  A dark-coloured vehicle reportedly struck the cyclist in the intersection and then fled east on 111 Avenue.
  The 38-year-old male rider was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died. 
  This is Edmonton’s 26th 
  
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• Extra Life 25-hour gaming marathon in support of the Stollery Children's Hospital

  05-11-2017 19:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  More than 200 gamers are taking over the 16th floor of the Epcor Tower to play PC, console and tabletop games in support of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in a 25-hour marathon event.
  This year’s Extra Life Edmonton event is the sixth in the city and has a goal of raising $94,500 towards the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation. Most years the North American event, started in 2008 to support Children’s Miracle Network hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, t
  
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• Local festivals have different takes on pot legislation

  05-11-2017 17:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the province and city ponder their pot policies, how and if Edmontonians will be able to smoke marijuana at festivals is still up in the air.
  The province’s proposed framework treats the inhalation of cannabis in public much like tobacco products, with the added caveat that it can’t be used near schools and hospitals or in vehicles. The specifics on how pot will be consumed in public and on festival grounds will ultimately depend on how the different levels of government roll
  
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• Lest we forget: War time 'a chapter' in the life of 100-year-old veteran

  05-11-2017 16:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s Kipnes Centre for Veterans is bustling in anticipation for Remembrance Day. There are medals to polish, wheelchairs to clean, blazers to wash and berets to uncrumple for the upcoming ceremonies. But Jack Owen, a 100-year-old Second World War veteran, is focussed elsewhere.   
  “I’m going hunting this weekend,” he said earlier this week, grinning while sipping a warm beer in his Kipnes Centre room, 4470 McCra
  
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• Oscar Klefbom slumping? Not on the attack. He's having a career year so far

  05-11-2017 07:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 13, Oilers vs Red Wings
  Oscar Klefbom is mired in a defensive slump. He’s also got only three points in 12 games. It seemingly might be fair to conclude he’s not getting it done on the attack either. After all, Klefbom put up 38 points in 82 games last year. 
  But Klefbom is contributing to more Grade A scoring chances and more scoring chances int total than ever before. With a bit more puck luck — such as the kind he got when his knuckle puck slapper beat New Jers
  
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• IRON RAM sharpens the combat skills of troops at CFB Wainwright live-fire exercise

  05-11-2017 00:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  Far on the horizon where grey skies meet white earth, something moves very slowly. Almost at a crawl. At first it seems like it’s simply two trees swaying in the wind.
  As enemy soldiers’ eyes and attention turns towards the “trees”  — actually antennas attached to tanks silhouetted against the white background — an opposing armada pulls up behind them as softly as the falling snow and as deadly as black ice.
  Soldiers spill out of tanks camouflaged in whit
  
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