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Southland Transportation says no school buses running on Monday in Medicine Hat
School buses are cancelled but schools remain open.The extreme cold temperatures over the weekend has resulted in Southland Transportation cancelling school bus routes for Monday, Jan. 15.In an email ...
Jan 14, 2024
'Returned to normal market conditions': Alberta grid alert ends
Alberta's electric operator AESO said the province's power grid "returned to normal market conditions" after issuing an alert earlier Sunday.We have returned to normal market conditions. Thank you for...
Jan 14, 2024
Numerous more cold records broken in Alberta on Jan. 13
Environment and Climate Change Canada is confirming another smorgasbord of cold records set on Saturday, Jan. 13, after 38 were set the day prior. According to the ongoing Extreme Cold Warning, temper...
Jan 14, 2024
Winnipeg's Bowness, Vancouver's Tocchet to coach at NHL all-star game
NEW YORK - Rick Bowness of the Winnipeg Jets and Rick Tocchet of the Vancouver Canucks will join Boston's Jim Montgomery and Peter Laviolette of the New York Rangers as head coaches at the NHL all-sta...
Jan 14, 2024
Quebec's common front unionized workers to begin voting on new deal with province
MONTREAL - About 420,000 unionized public sector workers will begin voting Monday on an agreement in principle reached with the Quebec government over a new collective deal. The workers, who are part ...
Jan 14, 2024
Lara Gut-Behrami wins a super-G for 20th career World Cup win in favored event for Olympic champion
ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria (AP) - The standout super-G skier of her generation, Lara Gut-Behrami raced to a 20th career World Cup win Sunday in her favored event that overall standings leader Mika...
Jan 14, 2024
Standout slalom skier Manuel Feller denies Norway racers emotional World Cup win after Kilde crash
WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) - World Cup slalom leader Manuel Feller denied the Norwegian men an emotional win Sunday, one day after their team leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde crashed in downhill and was a...
Jan 14, 2024
Canadian men's field hockey team puts jobs aside in bid to qualify for Paris Olympics
Once again, Gordon Johnston has put his career as a civil engineer on hold to wear Canadian colours. So have many others on the Canadian men's field hockey team, with occupations ranging from student ...
Jan 14, 2024
Canadian women bounce back to beat Malaysia 3-0 at Olympic field hockey qualifier
VALENCIA, Spain - The Canadian women's field hockey team blanked Malaysia 3-0 on Sunday, bouncing back from an opening 2-0 loss to Britain at an FIH Olympic Qualifier. Sara McManus scored twice and Th...
Jan 14, 2024
Montreal police confirm first homicide of 2024 after man found dead in vehicle
Montreal police say a man found dead in a parked truck on Saturday morning is the city's first homicide victim of the year. Const. Vronique Dubuc says investigators are confirming a 30-year-old man su...
Jan 14, 2024