CBC - Calgary (6 days ago)
Alberta has stopped offering provincial health coverage to some people on working holiday and young professional visas, a change that came into effect earlier this year without a public announcement. The shift is raising concerns in the Bow Valley, where tourism businesses rely heavily on international workers.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (6 days ago)
Edmonton is growing and that should be a point of pride. As a lifelong Edmontonian and committed city builder who has spent decades helping create great places where people live, work, and connect across Edmonton and the region, I was disappointed and frankly concerned to hear some members of Edmonton’s city council recently frame population...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (6 days ago)
This in for former NHL coach Bruce Boudreau and former NHL player Nick Kypreos, some criticism for Leon Draisaitl speaking out in public about how everyone on the Edmonton Oilers, from the coaches to the players, needs to be better. On TSN, Boudreau said he agreed with Draisaitl that the team isn’t anywhere as good […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (6 days ago)
Calgary police met with members of the city's South Asian community Thursday night, aiming to quell fears about a growing number of increasingly violent extortion cases targeting the ethnic group. About 70 people gathered for the town hall meeting at Dashmesh Centre in the northeast, to hear from the Calgary Police Service and RCMP about […]
ReadCBC - Calgary (6 days ago)
Canadian Olympic Committee CEO David Shoemaker says the desire to bring the Olympic Games back to Canada remains strong, suggesting the country could consider throwing its hat in the ring for the 2038 Games if Switzerland's plan to bid falls through.
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
A familiar voice will be missing when the 2026 Toronto Blue Jays season begins. Legendary announcer Buck Martinez announced his retirement from the booth on Friday after a career spanning over four decades. “After the World Series, my wife Arlene and I had plenty of time to think about the past and look forward to the future. […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
Italy’s Winter Games could have been Canada’s. The International Olympic Committee was more than willing eight years ago to give the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Calgary and Canmore, Alta. The IOC even put 2030 forth as an option, too. The 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary and Canmore still make money via interest […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (6 days ago)
Will the potential rehabilitation of Venezuela's oil industry threaten output from Canada and the U.S.? No, it won't, and here's why. Despite a regime change and the prodding of global players to invest tens of billions in the country's long-neglected energy sector, there is a well-founded hesitancy to pump capital into the country. Venezuela...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (6 days ago)
Silver Skate Festival: Taking "stay sharp” to a super literal but fun level, Edmonton's longest-running winter festival hits the ice with snowball-perfect weather Friday, including fire sculpture burns, competitive snow sculpting, food trucks and of course some bring-your-own-skates ice time. Dogs are allowed, performers will roam and there's...
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (6 days ago)
Boomer wisdom Millennials seem to think we boomers have had everything served to us on a silver platter. The truth is we really didn't. They think because we have made, for the most part, good lives for ourselves, we are entitled people. They don't seem to realize, when we were starting out back in the […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (6 days ago)
OK, at least there's still ice. Thanks to this incredible warm streak, the snow is pretty much gone. From the high vantage point offered by my little drone, I could see a few patches of snow on Gladys Ridge and, of course, the mountains. Canola stubble held the most snow for some reason. But the […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (6 days ago)
Clearly, Premier Danielle Smith believes that if only Alberta (by which she means the governing UCP party) could count on the support of superior court judges they helped appoint, government would be spared the embarrassment of invoking the notwithstanding clause (four times last fall!) to shield legislation it knows violates the Canadian Charter...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
A federal Crown lawyer says a Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants connected to an alleged Canadian drug kingpin is a “loyal soldier” and a flight risk if granted bail. Allistair Chapman, 33, and nine others were arrested last year in an FBI investigation into the international drug trafficking organization allegedly run by Ryan...
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (6 days ago)
It sounds like change is coming in the coaching staff of the Edmonton Oilers. I don’t necessarily expect anybody to get fired, and certainly not head coach Kris Knoblauch, who has taken the team to two straight Stanley Cup Finals. But if you read the tea leaves — as mainly presented by the ultimate Oilers […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
A driver was sent to hospital following a crash between a school bus and a car on Deerfoot Trail on Thursday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to the southbound lanes of Deerfoot Trail near Anderson Road SE around 4:10 p.m. for reports of a two-vehicle collision. Students were on the bus at the time of […]
ReadEdmonton Sun - Local (6 days ago)
What change do the Oilers need most? Vote in our daily poll! It is common sense that if the city prioritizes building roads for cars, then more people will drive cars. If the city prioritizes building bike lanes, then more people will ride bikes. This is a well-known concept in civic development called ‘induced demand’. […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
As billions tune in to watch the Winter Olympics kick off in Italy, some Calgarians are feeling a different kind of emotion, nostalgia for a "real” Canadian winter that seems to be slipping away. With temperatures soaring into the mid‑teens and barely a trace of snow on the ground, Calgary's February looks more like early […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
Calgarians are being warned to brace for another steep jump in the education portion of their property taxes, the second straight year of double‑digit increases, and something city officials say hasn't been seen in decades. City Hall says the provincial education property tax is expected to rise 11.9 per cent this year, following last year's...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (6 days ago)
Seven Toronto police officers and a retired officer have been charged in an investigation into police corruption and organized crime that includes conspiracy to commit murder, shootings, extortion and drug trafficking. York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween said the seven-month-long investigation found officers unlawfully accessed information,...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (A week ago)
It’s at the end of a Zoom interview with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol when the two start bickering about whether or not Johnson accidentally kicked McCarrol in the foot. The two are in downtown Toronto doing publicity for the time-travel mockumentary Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, a film that has them playing […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
Each week, we check in with our readers on social media and e-mail to see what’s on top of their mind, explore the hot topics of conversation and answer hard-hitting questions about the Edmonton Oilers. Here are some of the talking points from the past week: We all need a break from the Edmonton Oilers. […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
For the last few years, the world doesn't quite feel the same way it once did: predictable, following a settled path. On Jan. 20, the prime minister spoke in Davos, Switzerland, where he stated, "the rules-based order is fading.” While his speech concerned the necessity for local and global economic restructuring, his words have resonated […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A week ago)
Public discourse on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased in recent weeks following the fatal shootings of two citizens in Minnesota during an immigration crackdown pushed by the Trump administration. Canadians have stood beside their American counterparts in calling for justice for Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the overall...
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (A week ago)
On Feb. 1, Fab Morvan stood on the red carpet outside the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles as an official Grammy nominee. Thirty-six years after he was last seen at the Grammys, his arrival was captured by photographers. He is 59 now, but still sports that heavily styled hair that became part of the cultivated […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
Edmonton ex-pat Joel Stewart has a deep pedigree making music videos and specials for Canadian stars like Blue Rodeo, Corb Lund and Ron Sexsmith – never mind Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and Tom Cochrane. But with the national theatrical release this week of Dallas Smith-starring Soul's Road, he's breached the world of directing narrative features...
ReadCBC - Calgary (A week ago)
Nadine Harris says its been a stressful few weeks filled with sleepless nights since she caught someone trying to steal her vehicle from outside her home in northwest Calgary. That's because she's come to believe she was scouted, stalked, and repeatedly targeted by the same group of car thieves.
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (A week ago)
I moved to Canada in 2004, during the post-9/11 era and George W. Bush's first term. It was a time when the Republican party was beginning to remake itself into the populist movement we see with MAGA today. Two decades later, I see dangerous parallels emerging in Alberta. The Republicans weren't always MAGA. Before the […]
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (A week ago)
For years, both Garrett Martin and Nate Wry had dreams of owning their own restaurant. After making names for themselves in some of Calgary's biggest restaurants — both were instrumental in the opening of Major Tom with the Concorde Group back in 2021 — the chef (Martin) and bartender (Wry) yearned to branch off on […]
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (A week ago)
Missed the mark A rebuttal is required to Laurie Tobias’s letter on unproductive seniors. ('Entitled pensioners,' Sun, Letters to the Editor, Feb. 4) What a horrible letter on her part. Many seniors worked for 50 years for companies that had few benefits or company-sponsored pension plans. Many did not make enough to contribute to RRSPs […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
It was not surprising to read about the premier's threat to withhold funding for federally appointed judges if the federal judicial appointment process is not reformed. It is only days since she publicly mused about her desire to “direct” judges in Alberta. While I accept the example she points to regarding the process undertaken in […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
Premier Danielle Smith has asked for nothing outrageous or unconstitutional in demanding from Ottawa a provincial place at the table in selecting federal judges in Alberta. I was going to say Smith "requested” of Prime Minister Mark Carney that Alberta be given meaningful consultation in the appointment of judges to the province's two federal...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A week ago)
TORONTO — An update is expected today in the case of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach, whose sexual assault trial in Toronto is facing some delays. The trial was scheduled to begin earlier this week but Stronach’s legal team asked for more time to prepare after receiving what it described as a large volume of new […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
Leon Draisaitl let it rip after the Edmonton Oilers lost 4-3 to the Calgary Flames, criticizing everyone in the Oilers organization from the coaches to the players. Here is a full transcript of what was said and my own take. After Draisaitl spoke out, the hockey world was in an uproar on social medial. Here […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
This in from Leon Draisaitl, a transcript of his raw and honest post-game interview after Edmonton’s 4-3 loss to the Calgary Flames, where he ripped everyone from the coaches to the players on the Edmonton Oilers, saying they all must be better. The Oilers are now below real .500, with 28 wins and 30 losses […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
The Edmonton Oilers lost a game they needed to win. In many ways they played well enough to win. But it was the same old story, with their iffy defence and iffy goaltending doing enough to fail to make up for their great attacking play. In the end, the Calgary Flames beat the Oilers 4-3 […]
ReadCBC - Edmonton (A week ago)
In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province will withhold funding for new judicial appointments unless it gets a say in the selections. Political analyst Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean says the letter is part of Smith's push for Alberta autonomy amid calls for separatism.
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (A week ago)
This in from Tony Brar of Oilers TV, news that the Edmonton Oilers have again healthy scratched veteran winger Trent Frederic, bringing back Curtis Lazar to the line-up. Podkolzin - McDavid - Hyman Savoie - Draisaitl - Kapanen Mangiapane - RNH - Roslovic Janmark - Samanski - Lazar Ekholm - Bouchard Nurse - Walman Stastney […]
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A week ago)
Dry, windy, and unusually warm conditions have prompted Alberta Wildfire to issue a series of fire advisories and restrictions across southern Alberta, including the Calgary Forest Area west of the city. Officials say the elevated fire risk means anyone planning burning projects should delay them until conditions improve. All existing fire permits...
ReadCityNews - Calgary (A week ago)
Calgary is falling behind the rest of the country when it comes to flexible work arrangements, according to new national data that highlights a sharp shift back to in‑person jobs. As many employers, including the Alberta government, push for full-time, on‑site work, a survey of more than 153,000 Canadian job seekers by JobLeads shows Calgary...
ReadEdmonton Sun - Local (A week ago)
Should the Oilers bring back Paul Coffey? Vote in our daily poll! Re: ‘Need action right away’: NDP criticizes UCP for health-care system crisis (February 2). One line in this news story stands out: "The province also reiterated its commitment last month to add more than 1,000 hospital beds in Edmonton and Calgary.” This is […]
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