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Only 3 unbeaten teams remain at Canadian Mixed Curling Championship
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. - Only three teams remain unbeaten after Monday's second day of action at the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship in Swift Current. Scott McDonald's Ontario team leads the seven-t...
Nov 6, 2023
Jarnkrok scores in OT as Maple Leafs pick up wild 6-5 win over Lightning
TORONTO - Calle Jarnkrok scored his second goal of the game 46 seconds into overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs picked up a wild 6-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday. Mitch Marner had a ...
Nov 6, 2023
Family, friends and teammates gather to remember fallen hockey player Adam Johnson
HIBBING, Minn. (AP) - Adam Johnson was humble, kind and smart, and most of all an athlete. Thousands gathered Monday to remember the 29-year-old American hockey player who died after his neck was cut ...
Nov 6, 2023
Middleweight title on the line as UFC returns to Toronto with January card
TORONTO - American Sean (Tarzan) Strickland will make his first middleweight title defence against South Africa's Dricus (Stillknocks) du Plessis at UFC 297 in Toronto on Jan. 20. The matchup of two h...
Nov 6, 2023
Crown and defence say driver should serve 3 years after killing two UBC students
RICHMOND, B.C. - The man who killed two University of British Columbia students in a high-speed crash sobbed in court as the mother of one of his victims described her grief as "woven into my DNA." Ti...
Nov 6, 2023
Captain found guilty of 'seaman's manslaughter' in boat fire that killed 34 off California coast
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury on Monday found a scuba dive boat captain was criminally negligent in the deaths of 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019, the deadliest maritime disas...
Nov 6, 2023
Connect Care launched at more AHS sites, including Chinook Regional Hospital
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Connect Care system from Alberta Health Services (AHS) has been launched in additional healthcare facilities.It is AHS' seventh launch of Connect Care, which provides a central ac...
Nov 6, 2023
Champions declared at Red Deer’s last Canadian Finals Rodeo
At Red Deer's last Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR), the Peavey Mart Centrium erupted on Sunday when Big Valley superstar bronc rider Zeke Thurston clinched his record fourth consecutive saddle bronc ridin...
Nov 6, 2023
Alberta unlocks $10M to tackle food security, applications open this month
EDMONTON, AB - The Alberta government is injecting $10 million into the effort to tackle food security in the face of high grocery prices, a round of fresh funding set aside for food banks and communi...
Nov 6, 2023
Farmfair International starts this week
A lot of people involved in agriculture in the Peace will be headed to Edmonton for Farmfair International.The event that calls itself Alberta's largest beef cattle show will run from November 8 to 11...
Nov 6, 2023