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Optimism and excitement felt as Tories meet in Quebec City
QUEBEC CITY - Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP Glen Motz says there's a sense of excitement in Quebec City, as delegates gather for the first in-person convention for the Conservative party in five yea...
Sep 08, 2023

Medicine Hat curlers on their quest to return to the ice
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Usually around this time of year, ice would be getting pebbled and brooms taken out of the closet for curlers to kick off their season. However, as the lack of curling in Medicine H...
Sep 08, 2023

Canadian forward Deanne Rose signs two-year deal with England's Leicester City
LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Canadian international forward Deanne Rose has joined England's Leicester City. The 24-year-old from Alliston, Ont., arrives on a free transfer from Reading, which was rele...
Sep 08, 2023

Elks look to avenge last minute collapse against Stampeders in rematch
EDMONTON - Selfish plays. Too many players getting caught out of position. Bad penalties. The Edmonton Elks' (2-10) defensive players are still seething about Monday's 35-31 loss to the Calgary Stampe...
Sep 08, 2023

Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault looks for third straight UFC win
Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre (Power Bar) Barriault will look to extend his UFC win streak to three when he takes on Brazil's Michel (Demolidor) Pereira on a UFC Fight Night card next month in Las ...
Sep 08, 2023

Alberta lead employment growth in Canada in August
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Government of Alberta its touting the latest jobs report from Statistics Canada.Released on Friday, September 8, 2023, the agency said the national unemployment rate was flat at 5...
Sep 08, 2023

Hockey Canada summit puts elite men's hockey under the microscope
CALGARY - The closed door of the locker room and violence presented as toughness were among the themes kicking off Hockey Canada's Beyond The Boards Summit. The two-day summit in Calgary tackles toxic...
Sep 08, 2023

Ottawa school bus routes cancelled for thousands of students due to driver shortage
OTTAWA - Thousands of Ottawa parents are still scrambling to find a way to get their kids to school after their buses were suddenly cancelled because of a driver shortage. About 7,500 students are aff...
Sep 08, 2023

Is hurricane Lee headed for Canada? The 'spaghetti models' can be misleading: expert
HALIFAX - For residents of Canada's East Coast, some of the latest images showing the potential path northward for a rapidly intensifying hurricane Lee are disturbing. By combining multiple computer-g...
Sep 08, 2023

B.C.'s Cantonese speakers fight to preserve language amid uncertainty in Hong Kong
You wouldn't know that Cantonese is under threat, judging from the food court of the Parker Place shopping mall in Richmond, B.C., the most ethnically Chinese city in the world outside Asia. All aroun...
Sep 08, 2023