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• Former Edmonton Oilers player Iiro Pakarinen complains of lack of communication from coaches

  11-11-2018 23:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  What do we take from Pakarinen’s comments, especially in relation to Puljujarvi? Hmm
  This in from Ilari Savonen, a reporter for the biggest private TV network in Finland, his interview with Finnish forward Iiro Pakarinen, where the former Oilers forward criticizes the Oilers coaching staff and organization for a failure to communicate with players, especially when it comes to giving players reasons they’re not being played, something Pakarinen experienced quite often in his four year
  
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• 'Courage and sacrifice': Edmontonians gather at Butterdome for Remembrance Day ceremony

  11-11-2018 21:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jennifer Graham’s father never talked about his time in the Royal Canadian Navy.
  Second World War veteran Larry Powell served overseas as a radar operator, sleuthing out U-boats. It’s him she was thinking of Sunday as servicewomen and men of all stripes paraded around the University of Alberta’s Butterdome to mark Remembrance Day.
  She comes every year to give thanks for their service and her freedom, she says.
  Hundreds of spectators looked on Sunday morning as members of the ai
  
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• Police launch manhunt after death of man on Sunchild First Nation

  11-11-2018 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police launched a manhunt Saturday after the death of a man at a gas station on the Sunchild First Nation in central Alberta. 
  At around 4 p.m. Saturday, RCMP issued a press release saying an emergency response team was conducting an operation at the O’Chiese First Nation as a result of an investigation that began that morning. Police told people to avoid the area, and not to post the locations of police officers on social media.
  On Saturday night, police issued an update, saying
  
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• Law students come to defence of Edmonton homicide detective

  11-11-2018 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  A group of law students have come to the defence of a veteran homicide detective whose guest lecture in their class prompted an official complaint to Edmonton’s police chief.
  On Wednesday, second-year University of Alberta law student Caitlin Dick said Staff Sgt. Bill Clark — a senior officer in the city police homicide section — should be suspended over comments he made during a Nov. 1 class on policing law.
  Dick claimed that Clark used derogatory language to describe defence
  
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• Three to See on Monday, November 12

  11-11-2018 20:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Princess Mononoke
  One of the most beautiful films ever animated, something that makes Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 classic extra brilliant is how every conflicting party in the film has an absolutely justifiable position, simultaneous, contradictory truths of survival.
  Set in the late Muromachi period of Japan —approximately 1336 to 1573 — with jaw-dropping fantasy elements, the story follows the young Emishi prince Ashitaka’s involvement in a struggle between the gods of a fore
  
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• Nick Lees: Time is now to support $15-million campaign to build Edmonton hospice facility

  11-11-2018 19:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The number of Albertans dying each year will double over the next 10 to 20 years, says Dr. Donna A. Wilson, a University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing professor and researcher.
  And now, she says, is the critical time to make sure Pilgrims Hospice Society’s $15-million capital campaign to build a first for Edmonton, free-standing residential-style community hospice succeeds.
  “Currently in Alberta there are 25,000 deaths each year and 80 per cent of these people are elderly,” Wil
  
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• 'Several' people in police custody after emergency response team called to O'Chiese First Nation

  11-11-2018 17:55 via edmontonjournal.com
  Police are releasing little information about events that unfolded Saturday at a central Alberta First Nation where officers took “several people” into custody.
  At around 4 p.m. Saturday, RCMP issued a press release saying an emergency response team was conducting an operation at the O’Chiese First Nation as a result of an investigation that began that morning. Police told people to avoid the area, and not to post the locations of police officers on social media.
  On Saturday ni
  
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• Edmonton weather: Chance of flurries with a bit of windchill

  11-11-2018 17:44 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Sunday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure -7.9 C with 11 km/h winds out of the northeast contributing to a -13 windchill.
  It’s a bit chilly out there with the wind today so if you’re planning on heading out to any Remembrance Day ceremonies be sure to bundle up and stay warm.
  Weather forecast
  Today: Mainly cloudy with 30 per cent chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon.
  
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• 'It really hit Edmonton hard': First World War took a toll that took decades to recover

  11-11-2018 17:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Journal’s front page on Nov. 11, 1918 is a picture of triumph.
  “HUN SUBMITS” shouted the main headline, in two-inch type. Below a cartoon of a British lion smacks his lips after devouring a German general. “‘Nuff Sed,” reads the caption over the big cat. Details of the German surrender fill the eight dense columns.
  The armistice that ended what came to be known as the Great War was greeted with celebrations in allied countries around the world. Bu
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers Look to end a 3-losing losing skid, host the Avalanche at Rogers Place: 9 Things

  11-11-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have made a significant roster shuffle, on the tail of a 3-game losing streak. And one more is likely coming today.
  As The Cult of Hockey’s Bruce McCurdy explains here, big winger Jesse Puljujarvi and his more diminutive linemate Kailer Yamamoto have been sent to Bakersfield of the AHL. Both players had tremendous training camps and deserved to make the club out of camp on merit. But as the games have grown faster and the opposition more intense, their impact on games h
  
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• The Edmonton Oilers look to end a 3-game losing losing skid, host the Avalanche at Rogers Place: 9 Things

  11-11-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Oilers have made a significant roster shuffle, on the tail of a 3-game losing streak.
  As The Cult of Hockey’s Bruce McCurdy explains here, big winger Jesse Puljujarvi and his more diminutive linemate Kailer Yamamoto have been sent to Bakersfield of the AHL. Both players had tremendous training camps and deserved to make the club out of camp on merit. But as the games have grown faster and the opposition more intense, their impact on games has significantly diminished.
  Back up
  
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• Nod to diversity in new Alberta judge appointments

  11-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Cheryl Arcand-Kootenay’s plan to become an architect were foiled early on when she realized in Grade 10 she simply could not draw.
  She pursued her next choice — law — and last week became one of Alberta’s three new judicial appointments to the provincial court.
  Arcand-Kootenay laughs when asked if she’s disappointed her architectural dreams didn’t pan out.
  “No. I’ve totally loved and enjoyed my career and the colleagues and the friends I’ve m
  
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• City's latest homicide victim had brain injury, history of vicious assaults

  11-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man stabbed to death at his Edmonton home last weekend was put behind bars in 2010 for three separate attacks where he kicked and stomped his victims.
  Christopher Michael Antoniuk, 56, was found unresponsive in his Rundle Heights home near 109 Avenue and 31 Street around 6:40 p.m. last Friday, after police received a call about an assault.
  He was treated by emergency responders and transported to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
  No one has been charged in the case, Edmonton’s
  
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• Canada's largest indoor Christmas lights show to glow in Edmonton area over the holidays

  11-11-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A new winter festival is preparing to blast through the Edmonton area and shine a bright light on local artisans and food vendors.
  In its second year, the B.C.-based Christmas Glow festival will feature a light show containing over a million lights and a large Christmas market at The Enjoy Centre in St. Albert from Nov. 22 to Jan. 19. This is one of two new Christmas Glow festivals across the country, also making a stop in Barrie, Ont.
  “We love our festivals and I think especially in winte
  
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• Fleetwood Mac reschedules Edmonton concert after band member falls ill

  11-11-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  Fleetwood Mac has rescheduled a pair of Alberta shows into next year after a band member fell ill before their concert at Rogers Place.
  The band was set to play in Edmonton Saturday evening, but did not go on.
  Sandra Merz, a spokesperson for Live Nation, said in an email to Postmedia that “band member illness” had forced the group to reschedule its Alberta dates. She did not specify which musician was ill.
  The Edmonton show was rescheduled to Saturday, April 13, 2019, while the Calga
  
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• Edmonton Oilers make the right moves in (finally) sending out Puljujarvi, Yamomoto to AHL

  11-11-2018 01:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  Big news from Edmonton Oilers camp on Saturday afternoon. The club has reached a simultaneous decision point on two important young players:
  The #Oilers have assigned forwards Jesse Puljujarvi & Kailer Yamamoto to the Bakersfield @Condors. pic.twitter.com/94P6AtXR09
  — Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) November 10, 2018No word yet on replacements, but expect them soon given the Oilers are now down to 12 forwards and will want at least one extra one on hand by the time they host the Colo
  
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• PHOTOS: Former Edmonton Oiler "Cujo" Book Signing

  11-11-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Hundreds of fans lined up to meet former Edmonton Oiler goalie Curtis “Cujo” Joseph, who signed copies of his new book “Cujo: The Untold Story of My Life on and Off the Ice” at the south Edmonton Costco store on Saturday November 10, 2018.
  Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from Keswick, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized
  
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