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...third time proved to be the charm for the Calgary, Alberta native, much to relief of Crimson coach Tim Murphy, who recruited the wide receiver while he was in high school...
Plokhii, 49, is currently a professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and associate director of the university’s Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research. In both 2003 and 2005, Plokhii served as a visiting professor at Harvard...
Plokhii left the Soviet Union to teach full-time in Alberta in 1991, just after witnessing the attempted August Coup in Moscow against then-premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an event that marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...
...opportunity to be a key guy for us.” Although conventional wisdom would point to Tobe—a senior with the most experience—as the favorite, he will be challenged by freshman Kyle Richter, of Calgary, Alb. Richter played in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, where he set a record for minutes played in a season and also competed on the league All-Star Team. Both coach and teammates are already singing Richter’s praises. “Kyle has a chance to be a big-time goaltender and has a chance...