Carrying an envelope full of photos of her partner, Sylvie Brosseau’s voice cracked as she shuffled through the stack — revealing a photo of Normand Meunier in a golf cart with their grandchildren. “We were always outside,” she said of Meunier. “Despite him being quadriplegic, he had many projects … he had goals.” But when he…
Tage Thompson completed his hat trick with a power-play goal in overtime to give the United States a 6-5 win over Norway after the Americans squandered a four-goal lead at the hockey world championship on Wednesday in Herning, Denmark. Norway forced overtime when defenceman Stian Solberg scored with 1:27 left in regulation, as the Anaheim…
More people are riding Calgary Transit than before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the service is struggling to keep up with growth and is asking the city for more funding to get there. Officials from Calgary Transit were at city hall Wednesday to provide an update to the city’s Infrastructure and Planning Committee on RouteAhead, a…
After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called “performance pay” to managers when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday. Previously, some of the public broadcaster’s non-unionized employees — executives and managers — were entitled to bonuses if it met or exceeded certain metrics like revenue…
Sidney Crosby showed off some superstar skill and scored his first goal of the men’s world hockey championship as Canada beat France 5-0 Tuesday. Crosby put Canada up 3-0 on a power play late in the second period as he spun away from a defender, stickhandled to the net and fired a well-placed shot that…
An 89-year-old Winnipeg golfer is proving that age is no reason to slow down. Hank Plouffe, who will be turning 90 in July, hits up Bel Acres Golf & Country Club, just north of Winnipeg, five days a week, from Monday to Friday. “It’s the enjoyment of the friendship of the people that you play…
All five defence teams have finished cross-examining E.M., the complainant. Today saw a number of contentious exchanges as E.M. pushed back at suggestions that she misled police about her level of intoxication on the night of the alleged sexual assaults. Source link
Exactly a year ago Sunday, the Montreal Victoire battled over three overtime periods, only to come out on the wrong side of the game. The loss to the Boston Fleet put Montreal down 2-0 in the 2024 Walter Cup semifinal playoff series, a deficit the team couldn’t come back from. This time around, the result…
One vote turned out to be the difference-maker in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne. The riding underwent a lengthy process where the seat flipped between the Liberals and Bloc Québécois before the official recount results were announced over the weekend. On election night, the unofficial results showed that Liberal Tatiana Auguste had unseated Bloc incumbent Nathalie…
Catherine Dubois scored at 15:33 of the fourth overtime to lift the Montreal Victoire to a 3-2 playoff victory over the Ottawa Charge on Sunday afternoon at Place Bell. The game set a Canadian professional women’s hockey record for the longest hockey game ever, passing the Canadian Women’s Hockey League semifinal on March 18, 2018….
