Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez prevails in opener at Abu Dhabi Open
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Canada's Leylah Annie Fernandez won her opening match of the year as the women's tennis season began on Wednesday at the Abu Dhabi Open. The 88th-ranked Fernandez, fr...
Jan 06, 2021
Longtime Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes re-signs with CFL club
The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed Canadian kicker Rene Paredes. The undrafted free agent out of Montreal's Concordia University will enter his 10th season with the Stamps in 2021. The native of Pi...
Jan 06, 2021
LeBron, Marquette, Bucks react to ruling in Kenosha shooting
LeBron James called a prosecutor's decision not to file charges against a white police officer who shot a Black man in Wisconsin this summer a "blow to the heart and to the gut." Back in Wisconsin, th...
Jan 06, 2021
U.S beats previously undefeated Canada 2-0, wins world junior hockey championship
EDMONTON - Team Canada was the steamrolling, bullyboy juggernaut of the world junior hockey championship until they ran into a pugnacious U.S. team Tuesday that knocked them off 2-0 to win gold. The U...
Jan 05, 2021
CP NewsAlert: U.S. beats Canada to capture gold at world junior hockey championship
EDMONTON - The United States topped Canada 2-0 on Tuesday to win the world junior hockey championship. The Canadians were undefeated at the 2021 tournament and aiming to repeat as gold-medal winners, ...
Jan 05, 2021
Finland beats Russia 4-1, wins world junior bronze medal
EDMONTON - Captain Anton Lundell had a pair of goals, and Finland held on to beat Russia 4-1 and claim bronze at the world junior hockey championship on Tuesday.Mikko Petman and Juuso Parssinen also s...
Jan 05, 2021
Curling broadcast experience will likely mimic other sports, mic'ed athletes a plus
Cardboard fan cutouts. Artificial crowd noise. In-house big screens. The curling broadcast experience in the fan-free Calgary bubble may borrow some new features from other sports that have come back ...
Jan 05, 2021
Chemisty key as Canucks add new faces, take on new roles heading in unusual season
VANCOUVER - He may have been a finalist for the NHL's rookie of the year award last season, but Quinn Hughes is already planning to take another step this year. The Canucks lost several key players in...
Jan 05, 2021
World junior men's hockey championship in Edmonton achieved with few COVID-19 hiccups
The 2021 world junior men's hockey championship had a shaky start, but Hockey Canada, the International Ice Hockey Federation and Edmonton's organizing committee pulled it off in a global pandemic. Us...
Jan 05, 2021
Former NHL coach, GM John Muckler remembered as master strategist
EDMONTON - Long before the days of analytics and performance coaches, John Muckler brought a keen strategic mind to the free-wheeling Edmonton Oilers. The former NHL coach and general manager was reme...
Jan 05, 2021
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Sarah Mills: There are echoes of Brexit in the Albert separation issue
A referendum over whether Alberta should separate from Canada is looming closer, and Sarah Mills says there are similari...
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The Evan Bray Show - Tuesday, May 26
8:30 - Canada and the province of Alberta are at a bit of a crossroads. While talks of separatism remain just talks, doe...