February 9 In 2020, following consultations with Inuit leaders and people in the Northwest Territories, the CFL\u2019s Edmonton Eskimos made the decision to keep their team name. They later changed their minds, announcing on July 21st 2020 that the name would be discontinued, saying that views regarding the team name are \u201cshifting.\u2019\u2019 The names \u201cEdmonton Football Team\u2019\u2019 and \u201cEE Football Team\u2019\u2019 were adopted while the organization began the process of establishing a new name. (The team officially became the Edmonton Elks in June 2021.) In 2018, a jury in Battleford, Sask., found farmer Gerald Stanley not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, 22, a member of the Red Pheasant First Nation, who died on Stanley\u2019s farm near Biggar in August 2016. The verdict sparked rallies… <\/p>\n
February 9 In 2020, following consultations with Inuit leaders and people in the Northwest Territories, the CFL\u2019s Edmonton Eskimos made the decision to keep their team name. They later changed their minds, announcing on July 21st 2020 that the name would be discontinued, saying that views regarding the team name are \u201cshifting.\u2019\u2019 The names \u201cEdmonton Football Team\u2019\u2019 and \u201cEE Football Team\u2019\u2019 were adopted while the organization began the process of establishing a new name. (The team officially became the Edmonton Elks in June 2021.) In 2018, a jury in Battleford, Sask., found farmer Gerald Stanley not guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, 22, a member of the Red Pheasant First Nation, who died on Stanley\u2019s farm near Biggar in August 2016. The verdict sparked rallies... <\/p>\n