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• 'We are champions now': Edmonton soccer fans cheer FIFA World Cup teams in final

  15-07-2018 21:21 via edmontonjournal.com
  As the final seconds of the World Cup final ticked over, the noise inside Cafe Bicyclette in Edmonton grew louder, French flags pulled tighter around shoulders.
  After five minutes of stoppage time, the final whistle blew.
  The room erupted.
  Joris Desares-Decaux hails from Normandy, France, and remembers the World Cup fever that gripped his home in 1998.
  Now in Edmonton, he ventured to the city’s francophone hotspot to watch the game with around 150 other France fans.
  The final whistle hadn&
  
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• PHOTOS: Ecstasy and agony for 2018 World Cup soccer fans in Edmonton

  15-07-2018 21:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  World Cup soccer fans in Edmonton, Canada watched France defeat Croatia by a score of 4-2 at the World Cup soccer final in Moscow, Russia on Sunday July 15, 2018. Fans of Team Croatia gathered at the Edmonton Croatia Football Club and fans of Team France watched the game at La Cite Francophone. (PHOTOS BY LARRY WONG/POSTMEDIA)
  Fans of Team France celebrate at La Cite Francophone in Edmonton on Sunday July 15, 2018. France defeated Croatia by a score of 4-2 at the 2018 soccer World Cup final in M
  
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• Nick Lees: Cardinal shines as Shakespeare's tortured prince

  15-07-2018 17:40 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shakespeare’s plays have been performed around the world for more than 400 years and Edmontonian Hunter Cardinal, I believe, must be one of the best actors ever to play Hamlet.
  Cardinal had audiences at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival performances in Hawrelak Park last week as jubilant at his performance in the title role as fans at some rock concerts.
  As Cardinal delivered a well-known Hamlet soliloquy Thursday night, my spine tingled the way it did decades ago when I first heard it as
  
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• From The Cult of Hockey, building a bridge for Edmonton Oilers RFA Darnell Nurse: 9 Things

  15-07-2018 15:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  There is one more substantial piece of business that the Edmonton Oilers must look after, before training camp starts in the Fall: Extend Darnell Nurse.
  The young D-man is a pending RFA who the club has already qualified. Now the decision has to be made whether to extend Nurse with a long-term deal or to merely bridge the player in a 2-3 year contract.
  Nurse did take a substantial step forward last winter. He was one of the only Oilers to do so during a season where so much else went wrong. I wo
  
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• Government removed memorial wreckage without informing families

  15-07-2018 04:34 via edmontonjournal.com
  On November 22, 1953, a small Cessna 180 crashed during a mercy flight from Grande Prairie to Edmonton.
  Its wreckage, located just north of Whitecourt, became part of the gravesite and memorial for pilot Gordon MacDonald, Dr. Donald Wilson, and polio patient Lloyd Williams, their ashes spread over the site and a plaque erected to commemorate the tragedy.
  Earlier this month, the families of those honoured learned from a local snowmobile club maintaining the site that the wreckage had been removed
  
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• 'Concrete jungle': City planning more downtown parks, greenery with online survey

  15-07-2018 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  People want more trees and more child-friendly spaces downtown — and city planners are rolling out a few proposals to make it happen.
  Dozens of tentative recommendations for downtown went up for the public to review at Michael Phair Park Saturday as part of the city’s long-term downtown public places plan. City planners are asking residents to tell them which projects are most wanted through an online survey until Aug. 19, and at public feedback sessions scheduled until the end of Ju
  
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• Cheers: City wants more input on liquor store distances

  15-07-2018 00:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  It’s a question that’s been troubling Edmonton councillors for years: How far apart should new liquor stores be from those already operating?
  In 2007, bylaw changes were made requiring new liquor stores to be at least 500 metres apart from existing ones. The changes came as a measure to help curb the proliferation of the businesses along commercial shopping corridors, including Jasper Avenue, Whyte Avenue, 107 Avenue, Stony Plain Road, 118 Avenue and 97 Street.
  In 2016, further chang
  
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• Dangerous offender who beat landlord into 'waking coma' denied parole

  15-07-2018 00:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  Convicted killer Leo Teskey was in denial when his parole officer told him officials wouldn’t support his application for conditional release.
  The 48-year-old, who is serving an indeterminate sentence as a dangerous offender for beating Edmonton landlord Dougald Miller into a waking coma, continued making plans to re-enter the community, even advising a relative he would be home by spring 2018.
  According to recently obtained documents from the Parole Board of Canada, when Teskey’s pa
  
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• 'Proud and humbled': Soldier from Spruce Grove earns top NATO award

  15-07-2018 00:36 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Canadian Forces soldier from Spruce Grove said he is “proud and humbled” to be one of four recipients of one of NATO’s top military awards.
  Sgt. Marc Hall, from 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, was given the Allied Command Operations Military Member of the Year Award at a special ceremony late last month at Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy.
  Hall was posted to Formation Europe in 2016 and is employed as the Military Assistant to
  
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