Mayor Stephen Mandel professes to be baffled by what Oilers owner Daryl Katz wants in the ongoing agony that is the arena negotiations. “I can no longer define what Mr. Katz is asking for or what he’s not asking for,” a deeply frustrated mayor said on Tuesday, after Katz gobsmacked city council with a new […]
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The Edmonton arena project is having a hard time reaching its guaranteed cost of $450 million. Those of you who are surprised by this news, please raise your hand. OK, you, you, and you … I have a Nigerian prince who wants to speak to you. Something about an inheritance. Yesterday’s news that the arena […]
Hey, Nail Yakupov! Can I hang with you the next time you go to a bar in Edmonton? Preferably someplace on Whyte or Jasper Avenues. Seriously, dude. I’d just hang around in the back somewhere. You wouldn’t even know I was there. I just want to watch. Sorry, let me rephrase. I just want to […]
Memo to: The Katz Group From: An Edmonton taxpayer Subject: Screw you This memo is in response to your recent memo to Edmonton City Council regarding the progress, or lack thereof, in the negotiations towards the construction of a new arena. If I may be blunt, let me just express my profound frustrations with your […]
On a snowy December morning, today’s topic is hockey. This being Edmonton, hockey could be the topic on a snowy Sunday morning, or a blistering August night. It’s just more appropriate right now. The talk of the hockey world right now is Oiler Linus Omark, whose shoot-out goal Thursday night has, I assume, become a […]
Last week, word emerged that the Edmonton Oilers will become the first Canadian NHL team to have cheerleaders at their games. Now in Edmonton, where anything the Oilers do becomes front page news (“Dump was ‘epic’, Hall says. Oiler future star credits Mexican restaurant for bowel movement ‘for the ages’.”) and fodder for thousands of […]
