Edmonton Sun
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When Beaver Hills House and Michael Phair parks reopened in Downtown Edmonton in March (about six moths behind schedule), the city boasted the new dual space was for the enjoyment of “those who live, work and play in Edmonton’s Downtown core.” I...
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WELCOME BACK
Four Canadians who were among the passengers aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship were on a plane en route to Canada on Sunday. Wearing protective gear, the Canadians boarded a plane bound for the Saguenay-Bagotville Airport, just north of Quebec...
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JASPER REBUILDING
More than 21 months after a wildfire scorched the town, the rebuilding efforts in Jasper are showing signs of progress but also continue to face rising costs, underinsurance of businesses, and continued housing and labour issues. The federal...
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COPS GET DATA-DRIVEN
So far this year, police have been engaged in 530 calls at Churchill Square and the LRT station located below. In March, the Edmonton Police Service conducted 50 “proactive” enforcement activities at Southgate LRT station. Arrests are up 25 per cent...
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TIME RUNNING OUT
EDMONTON — Wait ’til next year. Normally, that’s the battle cry of the loser, a default slogan with little substance, something you say when this season ends poorly and there is nowhere to go but up. But for the Edmonton Oilers, it might be the most...
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BOOK BATTLE
Most Edmonton city councillors are not happy with how the United Conservative Party is taking aim at what it says is pornographic material available to youth on public library shelves and are cautioning city ratepayers will end up footing the bill for...
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SHARE THE WEALTH
It’s becoming more and more obvious that the Edmonton Oilers’ greatest strength might also be their tragic flaw. That’s right. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. Not the players themselves, they are two of the best and most effective producers in the...
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HELL OR HIGH WATER
Talk about two different worlds colliding. On Monday, in one part of Edmonton, supporters of Alberta independence are enjoying the moment. They are doing a victory lap. It appears they have cleared the first hurdle in what promises to be a long,...
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‘CRUCIAL TIME’
YEREVAN — Prime Minister Mark Carney met Sunday with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in his nation’s capital ahead of the European Political Community summit, a gathering touching on strategic co-operation in politics, security and...
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‘A STEP BACK’
With the freshly-eliminated Edmonton Oilers stepping up to the podium for their final interviews before heading into an unexpectedly long summer, the recurring theme Saturday was the direction of the franchise. When you are run out of the first round...
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THE END
It appears the Edmonton Oilers chose the wrong guy when they hired the architect of the three-time Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup champion dynasty of the last decade. They picked general manager Stan Bowman when they should have taken the engineer,...
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LIST OF ELECTORS LEAKED
A judge has granted an interim injunction ordering a separatist group to remove the list of electors or any portion of the list from its public website, which contains personal information of Albertans who are registered and are eligible to vote in...
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GOTTA GET ’EM
The Edmonton Oilers are trailing 3-2 in the series and facing elimination on the road against a team that’s beaten them three times in the last four games and has yet to lose on home ice. So, why does it feel like momentum just changed uniforms? Why...
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PM’s ‘NEW WORLD ORDER’
OTTAWA — A stronger, more resilient Canada. That was what the government promised Tuesday as the Carney Liberals tabled their spring economic update in the House of Commons, describing the intra-budget statement as a “clear update” on their plans to...
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‘IN A HOLE’
Nobody likes listening to athletes talk about their glory days. Tales of victory in the face of improbable odds, impressive as they might be, get old in a hurry, especially when you’ve heard them all before. But it might be a different story with the...
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‘GENIUS’ SHOOTER?
A day after a man opened fire outside the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, D.C., Saturday night, more information is being uncovered about the accused gunman. A Secret Service officer was wounded after shots were fired...
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MAYHEM IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was reported uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to...
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ICY REMINDER
A bad snowstorm in the Wood Buffalo region caused several drivers and their vehicles to become stranded south of Fort McMurray on Friday. RCMP escorted several tow trucks southbound in the northbound lanes of Highway 63 to reach vehicles blocking the...
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OFF BALANCE
Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid was at Rogers Place Thursday morning before the flight to Anaheim, presumably taking some treatment on his right ankle that he says “just got rolled over a bit” in the Game 2 loss to the Ducks. But while coach...
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LINE DRAWN
CALGARY — Naheed Nenshi, Alberta NDP leader and former Calgary mayor, figures he’s got most folks in the province on his side. Nenshi has been hammering Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP over the drawing of boundaries for each of the Alberta ridings...
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DEPTH GAUGE
If the CSI crew, without knowing the final score, scoured the evidence from Game 1 between the Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks, they would have needed about five minutes to identify the victim. Edmonton’s power play could barely enter the zone and...
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TIME TO GO
Alberta is going to daylight time all year round. Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government have made the decision. It will go to the Alberta legislature for debate this week. Come the fall, the clocks will not fall back. Come next spring, the...
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P.M.: U.S. TIES A ‘WEAKNESS’
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’ll be keeping Canadians regularly updated on his government’s economic plan, while calling Canada’s close ties with the U.S. a “weakness” in a speech posted on YouTube on Sunday. “I promise you, I will never...
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TABLES TURNED
Call it The Circle of Life Series. When the Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks meet Monday at Rogers Place, they will be rewinding the tape to that epic series from 2017, only with Edmonton playing the role of Anaheim and Anaheim playing the role of...
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DUCK SEASON
In the end, it turns out the Edmonton Oilers played it perfectly. It’s like they knew what they were doing the whole time. For all of the hand-wringing, anxiety and doubt that enveloped their entire regular season, they ended up in an almost perfect...
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HATS OFF
Not in anyone’s wildest imagination did anyone expect the Edmonton Oilers to be in a mustwin game on the last night of the regular schedule against the worst franchise in hockey. But, there they were, needing to beat the last-place Vancouver Canucks...
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CALL FOR ACTION
The Downtown Revitalization Coalition feels that efforts to make the core of the city safer and more vibrant are at risk of stalling. So, this week, the DRC unveiled its plan to help give the Downtown revitalization effort a shot in the arm. The DRC...
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As Oilers fans prepare to flood Downtown during postseason, pubs and eateries look for playoff bottom-line boost
It’s Monday night; the Oilers have just lost in a shootout to the Colorado Avalanche. A few minutes after the game, Kelly’s Pub on 104 Street, a couple of blocks south of Rogers Place, isn’t busy. Four tables are occupied. But within about 15 minutes,...
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RUNNING THE RISK
Drivers along a high-traffic northsouth stretch in south Edmonton accounted for nearly one in five of all red light camera tickets issued across the city in 2025, according to yearend traffic enforcement data. The figures show sites along Gateway...
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THE TRUMP EFFECT
By the time Mark Carney turns off the light and heads to bed Monday night, he will know for certain that he is presiding over a majority government. Carney and his Liberals currently have 171 seats in the House of Commons; the three byelections taking...
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PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
It’s not you, it’s me. The old breakup line made famous by people who really mean YOU are the reason they don’t want to stay together was kind of the theme Saturday night in Los Angeles. The Kings scored on their second shot of the game and then...
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FLYING ),567˨&/$
OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s first year as prime minister saw over half a million dollars spent on in-flight catering aboard CANFORCE ONE. And one trip from Ottawa to Washington, taking the PM to a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, saw the prime...
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BLOWING IN THE WINDROW
With road crews hoping to trade their snow plows for street sweepers, at least one city councillor is calling for a more wholistic approach to neighbourhood renewal after a city official admitted windrow removal was “missed” on the new 132 Avenue...
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‘GRATEFUL’
It’s a solitary life, not an easy life, being a hockey goalie, living life in a bubble. It’s the toughest job in hockey and last fall in Utah, Connor Ingram suddenly didn’t even have that job, hard as it is. His employers didn’t want him to come to...
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TAKE THE WHEEL
CALGARY — It is music to my ears when I hear Devin Dreeshen, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s mince-no-words main man on all things transportation, say he was willing to try to tackle the epidemic of bad driving. That was my last column. This is the...
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Trump issues another deadline to reopen Strait of Hormuz, threatens to annihilate Iran’s bridges and power plants
OTTAWA — Militarily, this was one of America’s better Easters. Speaking to reporters early Monday afternoon from the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a successful end to what he described as one of the largest, most complex and...
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PUSH BACK
Protesters gathered at the Alberta Legislature on Saturday morning to speak out against recently introduced legislation that, if passed, would make sweeping changes to education. The demonstration was led by student activists from schools in Edmonton...
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A CITY TO SELL
Mayor Andrew Knack is on the road again, this time taking an 11-day excursion to China and Japan to promote Edmonton’s manufacturing and clean energy industries. Knack will be joined by a lone office staffer, city manager Eddie Robar, a representative...
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‘TRUE VICTIMS’
It took two minutes to go from two vehicles driving 120 km/h down Queen Elizabeth II Highway to a stranger’s hair-trigger impulse with a deadly weapon. Now two men are charged with second-degree murder. A second and final suspect has been arrested in...
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BACK 4 MORE
Strange as it sounds, a four-game winning streak was uncharted water for this year’s Edmonton Oilers, and as any good sailor will tell you, the last thing you want to see in uncharted waters is a Kraken. As it turned out, the tentacles of defeat were...
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FIGHTING THE FEDS
The Alberta government is seeking a constitutional amendment to gain control of the appointments of superior court judges in the province. Premier Danielle Smith said her government will introduce a motion in the provincial legislature on Wednesday...
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THE BIG DIPPER
Can Avi Lewis’ brand of leftwing populism win over Canadian voters? It’s what he and the NDP are hoping will happen, but as Lewis takes the reins of his party, he’s already causing division. He’s fighting with two of the provincial wings of his party...
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‘CLOSURE’
A 47-year-old man is charged with murder after Edmonton police travelled to Prince Edward Island to crack the case of a 29-year-old city woman reported missing in September. Marika ‘Mika’ Sutton, last reported seen in the Richfield neighbourhood of...
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PAIN AT THE PUMP!
Hold your horses. Wait until Canada Day. Wait until July 1. At the earliest. We have to follow the rules. Rules are rules. Yes, this is one time where Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is not going to agree with the folks at the Canadian Taxpayers...
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LEG UP ON CRIME
Alberta is augmenting its ankle monitoring program to include a mobile app that will notify victims when an offender approaches a court-ordered restricted area, including a home or workplace. The program launched in January of last year with Alberta...
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COME RIGHT IN!
Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the past decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world and supported at home, and they trashed it. Support for immigration is falling across Canada, and...
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‘I MESSED UP’
It began with an airport fire truck’s request to cross an active runway and ended with the death of two Air Canada pilots. Investigators and officials spent Monday morning piecing together what went wrong at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday...
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PAIN REMAINS
For Davis Schneider, there was only one way to escape the ache, a bruising so deep he couldn’t stand being in Toronto a minute longer. The wound from that harrowing loss in the seventh and deciding game of the 121st World Series was so acute, the...
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TURNING A BLIND EYE?
What in heaven’s name is going on in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government with regard to the threat posed to Canada’s national security by India? It’s as if the Liberals have learned nothing from the foreign interference inquiry in which Justice...
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NOT ENOUGH JUICE
What about Thursday’s rematch of the Stanley Cup final each of the past two years leaves anyone thinking the third time will finally be a charm for the Edmonton Oilers? Lifeless. Listless. Pushovers. If that’s all the two-time Cup runners-up can...
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BLANKED
This wasn’t the most painful defeat the Edmonton Oilers have ever suffered at the hands of the Florida Panthers — not when you factor in the eight losses in the last two Stanley Cup Finals. But this had to be No. 9. Man, does this hurt. The bitter...
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PAGE 3 ELEVATED COST
Edmonton city council has approved a yet-to-be-disclosed increase in debt to finish the Lewis Farms Community Recreation Centre and Library. Despite finding $90 million in efficiencies, multiple audits and significantly rolling back expectations, the...
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TIME FOR PLAN ‘B’
With Leon Draisaitl out for the rest of the regular season — knee, hip, guess away, although with a month timeline that sounds like a knee — the Edmonton Oilers have lost their absolute juggernaut one-two centre punch with Connor McDavid. Nobody else...
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‘ALBERTA’S TIME TO SHINE’
Eternal rivals Edmonton and Calgary are putting the gloves aside to host the 2028 World Cup of Hockey, with the semi-final and final games being played at Rogers Place. News was dropped by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association early Monday that...
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GOLDEN OLDIES
He is 41 going on 20, it seems, which is why Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer has a kinship with Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin, who is a youthful 40 and still going strong in the NHL. Great respects great and the two hyper-successful...
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FEE FOR THE FLUFFY STUFF
Municipalities and private contractors may soon have to pay to dump snow at Edmonton facilities — a service the city has long provided for free. The idea surfaced Friday as Edmonton’s parks and roads service department briefed councillors during a...
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UP AND DOWN
If you could boil the Edmonton Oilers’ entire season down to four games, it would be this road trip. Their week-long trek through Vegas, Denver, Dallas and St. Louis had it all — rousing wins, crushing defeats, bewildering mood swings and at the end...
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BEAT DOWN
It took less than a period and a half for all of the optimism generated by an upset win over Colorado to swirl down the bowl Thursday night in Dallas. Twenty-seven minutes, exactly. That’s how long it took the Stars to pistol-whip the Edmonton Oilers...
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BUMPY SEASON
As a winter of frequent freezethaw starts to wind down, the city is getting ready for a summer of filling potholes, although data shows the season is off to a milder start than last year. Compared to the same time in 2025, the city has received half...
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DEAF ’N’ DUMB
The CBC allegedly has a toxic culture rife with intimidation that management is aware of, but ignores. That was some of the Tuesday testimony from former CBC prime-time TV host Travis Dhanraj before the House of Commons heritage committee. Dhanraj’s...
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WAR OVER ‘SOON’?
As the conflict in Iran enters a second week, U.S. President Donald Trump says the military operation is “ahead of our initial timeline by a lot.” Meanwhile, Iran launched more attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf countries, just hours after Ayatollah...
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AYATOLLAH JR.
Late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba was named Sunday as his successor, while the war in the Middle East spread to the region’s vital infrastructure as Israeli airstrikes hit oil storage facilities in Tehran...
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OFF KILTER
In a season that got off on the wrong foot and has been there ever since, Friday’s 6-3 loss to the infinitely better Carolina Hurricanes might have been the worst gut punch of all. This was supposed to be the Oilers coming out party. They had three...
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ON A WING AND A PRAYER
It’s not a busy night at Pub 1905. A few people have come in from Jasper Avenue to play pool. Only a few tables are occupied. It’s slow enough that the bar manager doubles as the server, and he’s called into action to sweep up some broken glass after...
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‘LOTS TO FIGURE OUT’
The Edmonton Oilers needed to address three key elements that dragged them into the depths of mediocrity this season: team defence, urgency and goaltending. They couldn’t fix them all, but two out of three ain’t bad. With the addition of Connor...
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ARE THEY THERE YET?
It doesn’t matter what Stan Bowman does at the trade deadline, it’s not going to save the season. He could swap Andrew Mangiapane for Nazem Kadri and get the Flames to eat half of Kadri’s salary and it wouldn’t make them contenders. If the players...
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OT THRILLER
It’s not how they drew it up in practice. And it’s not the kind of game they’ve been promising to play for weeks. But on another one of those nights when the Edmonton Oilers fell back on their own habits and dug themselves a precarious hole, they dug...
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FIRE POWER
Matt Savoie’s recent trip to Bakersfield, Calif., was short. But he didn’t need much time down on the farm to gain a whole lot of perspective. And by the time he got back up north, the rookie Edmonton Oilers forward was certain he won’t be needing...
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WAR DRUMS
PARIS — Three close allies of the United States said Sunday they are ready to join forces to defend their interests in the Middle East and stop Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...
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END OF A TYRANT
Telling the Iranian people to “shelter” in their homes as “bombs will be dropping everywhere,” U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced the declaration of war on Iran’s long-running tyrannical regime. Dubbed Operation Epic Fury, the early stages of...
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ARE THEY THERE?
The Edmonton Oilers breaking out of their season-long malaise and transitioning into a playoff contender again is a little like an obese guy trying to live up to his New Year’s resolution: It’s not what he weighs today, it’s what he weighs...
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BUDGET DAY
The Alberta government has delivered its second straight multi-billion dollar deficit, one that is poised to flout its own fiscal framework rules and put the province more than $9 billion into the red with no plan for recovery amid low oil...
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DUO MOURNED
As visitors walk towards the ice surface at the Jasper Activity Centre, they’ll be greeted by a memorial. Condolence books, photos and stuffed animals are set on a table in front of the trophy cabinet. The red Jasper U18 Bearcats jerseys of Danica...
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WILL HE? HE DID!
Will he or won’t he? The Edmonton Oilers aren’t saying whether Connor McDavid will be in the lineup Wednesday against the Anaheim Ducks, mostly because they aren’t really sure. They’d like to sit him, but if the captain wakes up Wednesday morning and...
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MAYHEM
Earlier this week, Donna Balzer chided her husband, Keith McCrae, for buying a large bag of nuts at a Mexican market. She wondered how the heck the two Canadian tourists could possibly get through that entire thing. Now, Balzer and McCrae, trapped in...
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