Let it be written that the Eskimos went out with the same class that led the league all these years
The team will be known as the EE Football Team and the Edmonton Football Team while a public engagement process is conducted for a new name.
ITK welcomed the announcement Tuesday, saying ongoing use of the team name is damaging to Inuit people and reconciliation. The club will pick a new name with the goal of allowing the “EE” logo and green-and-gold colour scheme to continue, Presson said. Aaron Paquette, Edmonton’s only Indigenous city councillor, said the team’s decision is a big step forward and he is hopeful the new name will honour the area’s Inuit community. The city’s naming committee is in the process of determining Indigenous names for the 12 new wards in the next election.
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