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The Arctic Winter Games are a family affair for siblings Brooklyn and Jordan Wills of Team Alberta North. Mother Ashleigh is a mission staff member for the team and father Cory previously competed and coached at the Games. Two of the teens’ aunts were also competitors and their grandmother is …
Read More »‘Beyond the game’: University of Manitoba Bisons ready to take on Ukrainian men’s national team – Winnipeg
Monday night’s matchup between the University of Manitoba Bisons and the Ukrainian men’s national team in Winnipeg is about more than just hockey, according to the Bisons’ head coach. While Mike Sirant acknowledges the 7 p.m. game — the last of four stops for the Ukrainian squad’s Hockey Can’t Stop …
Read More »Carruthers curling team splits with third Jason Gunnlaugson – Winnipeg
Reid Carruthers’ curling team and vice-skip Jason Gunnlaugson have split up. The Manitoba team called the separation “a mutual parting of the ways” and said a search was underway for a replacement in a Twitter post Monday. Carruthers, Gunnalugson and front-end players Derek Samagalski and Connor Njegovan formed a team …
Read More »Team Canada World Cup success helping fuel soccer collectibles boom in Calgary
Demand for Panini World Cup 2022 stickers in Calgary is soaring ahead of Canada’s opening game against Belgium in Qatar on Wednesday. The packs of collectible paper stickers are a World Cup tradition in many countries around the world and Canada is catching on to the phenomenon. The stickers feature every player and club …
Read More »Volunteer underwater recovery team stretched to limit amid funding crunch
As Alberta remains one of two provinces in Canada without a RCMP underwater recovery team, a volunteer civilian group fears it won’t be able to continue its work in this province because of financial roadblocks. “I fear for the future and I fear for Albertans’ safety,” Luke Jevne, president of the Underwater …
Read More »Roller derby athletes from Calgary and Lethbridge earn lead roles on Canada’s junior team
As a teenager, Jenna McLean read a lot of Harley Quinn graphic novels, where she’d see the DC Comics character whizzing around a roller derby track. The sport intrigued her, and she started doing some research to see how she could get involved, even watching footage of high level players …
Read More »Enough seats for survivors at Pope’s mass in Quebec, says papal visit planning team
There will be enough seats for all First Nations survivors who want to attend Pope Francis’s big reconciliation mass in Quebec after all, the planning committee for the papal visit has confirmed. “We will be able to respond to the request of every single survivor of residential schools who would …
Read More »Joint venture: Manitoba cannabis producers team up to package, distribute their own products
Jesse Lavoie wanted to sell Manitoba-grown cannabis in his home province, but first he had to ship it away. Working with seven local companies to produce not-for-profit joints to help fund a legal challenge to the province’s pot laws, he soon found the process to be needlessly complex and expensive, taking a …
Read More »How a Canadian team solved a century-old mystery to lay WW I soldier to rest
A young soldier from Newfoundland killed during the First World War has finally been laid to rest by the Canadian military after a century-long mystery into his death. Archeologists unearthed the remains of Pte. John Lambert in a Belgian farmer’s wheat field in 2016, almost 100 years after he died. But it wasn’t …
Read More »Teen sensation McIntosh, Canadian women’s relay team win silvers on opening day of aquatics worlds
Summer McIntosh began the FINA world aquatics championships in the best way possible – with a medal around her neck. The 15-year-old from Toronto swam to the silver medal in the women’s 400-metre freestyle at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary on Saturday. McIntosh swam the face in three minutes, 59.39 …
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