Edmonton Eskimos Beat Ottawa Redblacks to Win 14th GreyCup

After a ten year drought, Edmonton Eskimos won their fourteenth Grey Cup. Thanks to an aggressive coach they have in person of Chris Jones. Jordan Lynch scored a one-yard touchdown on third down with 3:22 left, sending the Edmonton Eskimos to a 26-20 victory over the Ottawa REDBLACKS in the 103rd Grey Cup presented by Shaw.

Mike Reilly who was named MVP threw touchdown passes to Adarius Bowman and Akeem Shavers while completing 21 of 25 passes for 269 yards, while Edmonton’s defence allowed only four second-half points to guide the Eskimos to their first Grey Cup since 2005.

Al Shabaab Threatens to Attack Malls in the Canada, US & UK

Somalia-based terrorist group Al Shabaab, has threatened to attack malls in the Canada, United States, and United Kingdom.

The group made the threats via a video released over the weekend, NBC News reports.

In the video, the group’s lethal 2013 attack of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya in which 60 people died, was referenced. The terrorists reportedly stated that the purported impending attacks would be similar to that of Westgate.

The group is said to have specifically listed Minnesota’s Mall of America, which is reportedly America’s biggest mall, as a target.They also threatened to attack the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada. A specific UK target was not stated.

The management personnel from both of the aforementioned malls have announced heightened security measures.

Wounded Police Officer David Wynn Dies From His Injuries In Hospital

RCMP Const. David Wynn has died in hospital after being shot while attending a call in St. Alberta, Alta

The Canadian Press
RCMP say an officer who died Wednesday was being proactive in a stolen truck investigation when he and another officer were shot inside a casino.

Const. David Matthew Wynn should be remembered as a great police officer and citizen, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand told reporters after it was announced that the 42-year-old had died in hospital.

Degrand said Wynn was taking the initiative during the slow early morning hours last Saturday, checking out vehicle licence plates in the parking lot of the Apex Casino in St. Albert, a bedroom community north of Edmonton.

Three ISIS recruits from Edmonton believed killed

Yahoo Canada News - Mahad Hirsi and Hamsa Kariye are two of three Edmonton men believed killed last fall while fighting for ISIS.CBC 

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Three Edmonton cousins have died while fighting overseas for ISIS, says the father of one of the men.

Ahmed Hirsi says his 20-year-old son Mahad was killed last fall along with cousins Hamsa and Hersi Kariye.

A third cousin from Minnesota, Hanad Abdullahi Mohallim, was also killed, he said.

Other family members deny the men died while fighting for ISIS, but Hirsi insists it's true.

He said his son and two nephews left Edmonton without telling him in October 2013.

Pavel Datsyuk scores last minute as Red Wings defeat Oilers

Shane Jones, The Canadian Press

The last thing the Edmonton Oilers can afford to do with the way their season has gone is to gift wrap a game.

Edmonton's Benoit Pouliot took a four-minute spearing penalty in the late stages of a 2-2 game to allow the Detroit Red Wings to score a pair of power-play goals and emerge with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday.

Pouliot wasn't mincing words following a game that he knew cost his team.

"Pretty stupid," he said. "Mostly I just feel bad for the guys because we played hard, we battled back and then I go do something so stupid like that. It's unacceptable.

"It's a 2-2 game, Detroit in town, then I go do that, with three minutes left. It's just stupid.

Top Ten Coldest Canadian Cities in Winter

Liz Osborn CurrentResults.com

Winnipeg, Manitoba has the coldest winter weather of any major Canadian city. It ranks first for the lowest average temperatures. Winnipeg also is Canada's city that most often drops to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) or below and it is least likely to have a day above freezing during winter.

Other Prairie cities along with several in Ontario and Quebec round out the lists of Canada's coldest in winter.

The tables below list the major Canadian cities that rank for the lowest maximum and minimum temperature averages, the fewest freezing days and the most days of really cold weather.

The cities included in these rankings are Canada's largest metropolitan areas. These are the 33 urban regions that had over 100,000 people according to the 2011 census by Statistics Canada. The temperature data are averages of weather measurements made from 1981 to 2010.

Police identify 8 victims of Edmonton mass murder by enraged killer

Flowers and stuffed animals lay on the sidewalk as police continue to investigate the scene where multiple shooting deaths occurred in a north Edmonton home, in Edmonton, Alta., on Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Police have identified the eight people who were gunned down in Edmonton earlier this week by a man who then killed himself. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franso

Chris Purdy The Canadian PressWhat was it that made Phu Lam so angry that he killed eight people?

The Edmonton maintenance man had been accused two years ago of abusing his wife and lashing out when he realized their eight-year-old son wasn’t his biological offspring. He shot them both Sunday, along with other members of his wife’s family, including a three-year-old niece. Yet he spared two other children who had also been in the north-side home — his toddler daughter and an infant nephew.

Lam dropped the two kids off at a relative’s home the next day, then visited with other family before driving to another house to kill one final target. When that person wasn’t home, he shot dead an innocent woman who happened to be there.

Wish list for the seven NHL Canadian teams

The Montreal Canadiens are currently sitting atop the Atlantic Division standings with 46 points, thanks in large part to goaltender Carey Price. (Richard Wolowicz/Getty Image

Paul McGaughey, CBC 
Montreal Canadiens
It might be tough to say that a team is in need of something when they are sitting at the top of the division standings -- which is currently the case for the Canadiens.

However, the Tampa Bay Lightning have equalled Montreal's 46 points and the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs are also in striking distance with 45 and 43 points respectively.

For the Canadiens to separate themselves from the pack in the Atlantic, it may come down to a simple equation: they don't allow a lot of goals, ranking sixth at 2.37 per game, but they also aren't exactly an offensive juggernaut, ranking 19th in the NHL at 2.60 goals-for per game.

On the surface at least, that doesn't seem to leave much wiggle room for error.

Edmonton | Four foreign workers die in car crash

The Canadian Press

Four temporary foreign workers have been killed in a car crash south of Edmonton.

RCMP said the workers were riding in a car that hit a patch of ice and slid into the path of a semi truck on Highway 21 near Leduc on Saturday.

The four died on impact, and the driver of the truck was not hurt.

Cpl. Sharon Franks said the names of the four are not being released until their families can be notified.

Pastor Ron Yabut with the Edmonton Filipino Seventh Day Adventist Church said all four were from the Philippines.

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Edmonton Man gets ten-month sentence for killing, cooking friend’s cat

 

Derek North, 19, holds a picture of his cat Pudge outside the Law Courts on Oct. 7, 2014. The cat was killed and cooked by family friend Zachary Allen McKinnon.

Photograph by: Ryan Cormier , Edmonton Journal

A 19-year-old Edmonton man who kidnapped, dismembered and cooked the cat of a friend he mistakenly believed had stolen his iPad was given 10 months in jail Tuesday.

Zachary Allen McKinnon cut the cat into pieces and placed them in a skillet over an open fire in the Mill Creek Ravine on Feb. 13, court heard.

“This was a brutal and senseless killing of an innocent and defenceless animal,” provincial court Judge Donna Groves said. “These activities are so egregious, they fall into the category of unspeakable.”

Sixteen years ago, the North family brought the cat ­­— named Pudge — into their home as a kitten to be a companion to their infant son Derek. Now 19, Derek North can barely talk about his longtime pet.

“He was like my brother,” he said as he held up a photo of the cat. “I lost a brother.”