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Chris Milo has a tattoo on his left wrist that reads: “Everything Happens for a Reason.”

And if he ever needs a reminder why things happen, why he was released by the Saskatchewan Roughriders one game into the 2015 season after kicking for the team for four years, why he got a call from the Ottawa RedBlacks last July a week into a job working at a Honda dealership … well, there’s this thing called destiny.

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And the 29-year-old, who earlier this year signed a contract extension that will take him through the 2017 season in Ottawa, believes in it.

“I’m meant to be here in Ottawa,” said Milo on Thursday. “This is a whole new journey for me. One-hundred per cent, I believe that things happen for a reason.”

Milo doesn’t know why the Roughriders, who he won a Grey Cup with in 2013, ditched him; he said the coaches would have to answer that.

“I thought I had a great off-season working with (kicking consultant) Coach (Don) Sweet. I had the best camp I’d probably had as a pro — I missed four field goals all of training camp, two of them in one day. I wasn’t part of their plan anymore … and I’m very grateful I wasn’t.