Edmonton marathon organizer cautiously optimistic smoke will clear; Eskimos move practice indoors

Edmonton marathon organizers are nervously watching the air quality and making contingency plans after a blanket of wildfire smoke settled over the city Wednesday.
“(I was) very concerned, it looked like the apocalypse out there this morning,” John Stanton, marathon organizer and founder of the Running Room, said Wednesday morning. “At first I thought the sun had gone out or (was) certainly rising a little later … then at 7 o’clock it was still dark and I thought &