Edmonton Journal - Local (24 minutes ago)
OK, GM Stan Bowman's work is done. While it's far from a sexy trade, the Edmonton Oilers did find a team that would take Andrew Mangiapane's troublesome contract off their hands Wednesday night which allowed them to pick up rental centre Jason Dickinson from Chicago in concert with Kirby Dach's baby brother Colton, still trying […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (2 hours ago)
Amélie Collin - a fifth-year guard for the University of Calgary Dinos - has been named the U SPORTS Women’s Basketball Defensive Player of the Year. The announcement was made Wednesday night at the All-Canadian Gala in Quebec City, host of the 2026 Sunlife U SPORTS Women’s Basketball Final 8 Presented by Michelob and Hilton […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (3 hours ago)
OK, GM Stan Bowman's work is done. While it's far from a sexy trade, the Edmonton Oilers did find a team that would take Andrew Mangiapane's troublesome contract off their hands Wednesday night which allowed them to pick up rental centre Jason Dickinson from Chicago in concert with Kirby Dach's baby brother Colton, still trying […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 hours ago)
A pedestrian was rushed to hospital Wednesday night after being struck by a vehicle in southeast Calgary. Emergency crews were called to Southland Drive just east of Bonavenutre Drive SE around 6 p.m. for reports of a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian. Officers say the victim was transported to hospital, though no details […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (7 hours ago)
This in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the NHL’s top insider, news that the Edmonton Oilers are talking trade for a veteran centre with the Chicago Blackhawks: “Edmonton and Chicago are discussing another move. This one would send Jason Dickinson to the Oilers. We will see how it turns out.” Update: More details have Chicago taking...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (8 hours ago)
This in from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the NHL’s top insider, news that the Edmonton Oilers are talking trade for a veteran centre with the Chicago Blackhawks. “Edmonton and Chicago are discussing another move. This one would send Jason Dickinson to the Oilers. We will see how it turns out.” And The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta...
ReadEdmonton Sun - Local (8 hours ago)
Should there be more inner-city street parking? Vote in our daily poll! Lorne Gunter correctly points out that is many over 60 years old that are still supporting a Liberal government. These are people who lived in good times, and have good things. Most with comfortable pensions that will last the rest of their lives. […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (8 hours ago)
The Calgary Flames’ push to get younger continues. The team is closing in on a deal to send veteran defenceman MacKenzie Weegar to the Utah Mammoth, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports. Weegar has a no-trade clause but he has agreed to waive it to complete the trade, Sportsnet’s Eric Francis reports. The full return in the […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (8 hours ago)
Calgary city council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to address a large jump in the provincial Education Property Tax, a move expected to add nearly $350 to the average homeowner's annual bill. Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas said he called the special meeting to make public information that had previously been shared only in a […]
ReadCBC - Calgary (8 hours ago)
Newly publicized financial disclosures for the 2025 municipal election show The Calgary Party far outspent other parties, despite electing just one candidate to council, while Sonya Sharp was the highest spender in a mayoral race where she finished second.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (9 hours ago)
Adam Henrique has not scored since Oct. 23, more than four months now, when he deftly tipped a Jake Walman shot through the legs of Habs' goalie Sam Montembault midway through the second period of an Edmonton Oilers late 6-5 rally. Eight days before he played his 1,000th NHL game in Ottawa. A little later, […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (10 hours ago)
This just in, Edmonton Oilers centre Curtis Lazar is out for a month, reports NHL.com’s Derek Van Diest.f “Oilers forward Curtis Lazar will be out up to four weeks with an undisclosed injury. He appeared to have been hurt following a collision with Senators forward Nick Cousins late in the first period.” And the Journal’s […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (11 hours ago)
WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Hot Topics, Postmedia's Rob Wong chats with Postmedia Calgary Flames writer Danny Austin about the possibility that the Flames are not as busy at the NHL trade deadline than previously anticipated, the potential for Calgary and Edmonton to host games for the 2028 World Cup of Hockey and […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (14 hours ago)
It's time to do something shocking, that is, something surprising, potentially distressing, and emotionally intense. It's heresy to say it, but it's time to trade Evan Bouchard. When I watch the Oilers, I look at key analytics — analytics that relate to winning and losing NHL games. I call these analytic metrics "the Great Eight:” […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (15 hours ago)
The University of Alberta's decision to remove explicit equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) language from its hiring policy has sparked swift concern. Supporters frame the move as a necessary recalibration. Critics describe it as an ideological retreat. In a political climate where equity debates often become symbolic flashpoints, much of the...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (16 hours ago)
Defenceman Connor Murphy had just finished a spa day in chilly Winnipeg Monday with his Chicago Blackhawks teammates, taking a road trip breather to enjoy the thermal baths and massages when told he was going to the Edmonton Oilers. Certainly some added wellness in the standings going from a lottery team to a team with […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (17 hours ago)
This in, speculative insider talk about the Edmonton Oilers trading away d-man Darnell Nurse, notable because it’s the first time such talk has ever been so loud and prominent. On Oilers Now, host Bob Stauffer asked guest Brian Lawton, a former NHL player, GM and player agent, if Nurse was open to a trade — […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (20 hours ago)
Political analysts and organizers used to be obsessed with the "gender gap” between male and female voters. If a candidate or party did noticeably better among men, that was seen as a bad thing. There is, of course, often still a gender gap. In the 2024 U.S. presidential election then-candidate Donald Trump did so much […]
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (20 hours ago)
Faced with an erratic U.S. president who demonstrates a fondness for coercive and protectionist trade policies, Prime Minister Mark Carney is determined to lessen Canada's heavy dependence on the huge American economy. To that end, the prime minister has set goals to double Canada's non-U.S. exports by 2035 and forge stronger commercial and...
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (20 hours ago)
Gold Standard B.C. is going full-time daylight time. Saskatchewan is full-time standard time. Which is better? Consider that on Jan. 3 in Red Deer the sun rises at 8:44 MST. With full-time MDT the sun would rise at 9:44, which would mean every kid in Red Deer would be going to school in the dark, […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (20 hours ago)
"A rising tide lifts all boats.” Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy's quote wasn't about municipal budgets, but it serves as a useful test for a city at a crossroads: growth must lift everyone, not just a few. Ambition that dazzles is easy; ambition that leaves no one behind is harder. Calgary is growing. New […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (20 hours ago)
Outstanding health care requires many things. A research-focused medical school leading in discovery science, innovation and teaching excellence is essential. We are fortunate in Calgary to have the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM), which in less than 50 years has become a leading Canadian faculty in a top five research-intensive university. Named...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (20 hours ago)
The Calgary I first came to know, when I arrived in the city near the end of 1989, was a resilient, can-do, entrepreneurial place; a place still recovering from the economic downturn of the 1980s with determination, optimism, compassion and a population hovering around 700,000 – less than half of what it is today. I […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (21 hours ago)
Premier Danielle Smith is right to reconsider Alberta's twice-yearly clock change, but we must choose permanent standard time over daylight time. Our biology relies on circadian rhythms — internal clocks synchronized by morning light. Standard time aligns closest with solar noon (when the sun is at its highest point), keeping our social schedules...
ReadCBC - Edmonton (23 hours ago)
Relatives of a prominent Alberta separatist who met with U.S. officials are upset that he has failed to pay back more than $1.3 million that he owes from a court order issued almost a year ago. A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled in March 2025 that Dennis Modry, a co-founder of the Alberta Prosperity Project, misappropriated the money from the joint...
ReadCBC - Edmonton (23 hours ago)
British Columbia's move to permanent daylight time has reignited conversations across the country about scrapping biannual time changes. After B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday that most of the province will change its clocks for the last time this weekend, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said it's time to consider following suit. Other...
ReadCBC - Edmonton (23 hours ago)
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the man responsible for the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash, could be deported to India within weeks, leaving behind a wife and two children who are pleading with Canada to let him stay. At the same time, some families of the victims say Sidhu should have been removed from Canada years ago.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
The Edmonton Oilers edged to within just two points out of the Pacific Division lead Tuesday after a 5-4, come-from-behind OT win over the Ottawa Senators. The Oilers traded a pair of goals with the Sens in the first. Then, Edmonton's defensive struggled continues with two goals on broken plays in the second, to make […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
It's not how they drew it up in practice. And it's not the kind of game they've been promising to play for weeks. But on another one of those nights when the Edmonton Oilers fell back on their own habits and dug themselves a precarious hole, they dug in and outscored their mistakes 5-4 in […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
Defenceman Connor Murphy had just finished a spa day in chilly Winnipeg Monday with his Chicago Blackhawks teammates, taking a road trip breather to enjoy the thermal baths and massages when told he was going to the Edmonton Oilers. Certainly some added wellness in the standings going from a lottery team to a team with […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
This just in from Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman, news that the Edmonton Oilers are in on Jordan Binnington trade talks. On Oilers Now, Friedman and host Bob Stauffer discussed the Oilers’ long-time issues in net, Stauffer noting that some would say Edmonton still needs a goalie, even after trading for Connor Ingram and Tristan Jarry […]
ReadEdmonton Sun - Local (A day ago)
Should Alberta end the semi-annual time change? Vote in our daily poll! I cannot believe how much time is spent on this subject every year.Wasting time and money every year.The total time in question is 2 HOURS TWICE A YEAR. Can anyone tell me they have stayed up late partying and have to go to […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
Alberta's teachers are expected back in court this week for their constitutional challenge of the provincial government's back-to-work legislation. The Alberta Teachers' Association says it will appear in court Wednesday and Thursday morning. The union is trying to get a judge to take immediate action on a provincial law ordering them back to work....
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A day ago)
Fans hoping to learn where the 2028 World Cup of Hockey will take place will have to exercise a bit of patience. In a press conference from Calgary on Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters that a decision on a host location will be made “in the not too distant future,” but that the […]
ReadCBC - Calgary (A day ago)
The Alberta government is introducing a six-month cap on recipients of income support benefits who aren't meeting expectations. While the change is expected to save the province a significant sum over the next few years, some community organizations are concerned.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
So, Andrew Mangiapane played the first shift for Bakersfield in their Tuesday morning game with the Colorado Eagles, and not another one. That legitimizes him being an American Leaguer, playing a game, doesn't matter how many minutes or seconds. There are no more paper transactions allowed. To be eligible for a recall to the Edmonton […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
This in from Edmonton Oilers prospect expert Bruce Curlock, news that forward Andrew Mangiapane played just one shift for the Bakersfield Condors in their morning game today. Said Curlock: “For those hoping to watch Andrew Mangiapane in Bakersfield. He played the first shift of the game and none since. I'll go out on a limb […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (A day ago)
Alberta Hospitals Minister Matt Jones says he doesn't blame doctors for the delay in a core initiative to address extreme pressures in the province's emergency departments. Jones said Tuesday he's hopeful the government and doctors can still find a way to hire the emergency department triage liaison physicians he previously promised for February.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
This in from Edmonton Oilers prospect expert Bruce Curlock, news that forward Andrew Mangiapane played just one shift for the Bakersfield Condors in their morning game today. Said Curlock: “For those hoping to watch Andrew Mangiapane in Bakersfield. He played the first shift of the game and none since. I'll go out on a limb […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A day ago)
A rollout has stalled more than a month after Alberta pledged to reinstate the triage liaison physician role to six of the largest emergency departments in the province amid a growing standoff between the province and frontline doctors. Dr. Warren Thirsk, the head of emergency medicine for the Alberta Medical Association (AMA), said he has […]
ReadCBC - Calgary (A day ago)
Dutch speed skater Jorrit Bergsma became a quick fan favourite in February's Winter Olympics, sporting his mullet style "cowboy cut." Though the athlete is Dutch, the haircut is Canadian. Bergsma came to Calgary two years ago to have his legendary cut created and continues to visit his favourite Calgary barbershop to this day.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (2 days ago)
Look, I get it. I’ve served as a cabinet minister here in Alberta, worked with rural communities across North America, and spent years watching pipelines get blocked, while equalization payments and investment flows elsewhere. It’s tempting to think we’d be better off on our own. But every day this separatist conversation continues, Alberta...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (2 days ago)
Ever-evolving, this year's women-celebrating SkirtsAfire leads large with its theatrical productions — no fewer than four plays featured on the festival program's front cover. Staying true to the 14-year-old multidisciplinary fest's theatrical roots, part of this is agile resource allocation in funding tough times — deploying more...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (2 days ago)
It is as much the characters as it is the story that Nick Green has created that make watching his play, Casey and Diana, so rewarding and memorable. Green has used the historic 1991 visit of Princess Diana to Casey House, Toronto’s first AIDS hospice, as the catalyst for his comic-drama about embracing life in […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (2 days ago)
Kyle Hudgeon is annoyed and worried after vandals targeted the 2004 Ford truck parked outside his home — six times, in less than a month. Hudgeon is one of several vehicle owners in the northern Alberta city to have a recent run-in with thieves or vandals.
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