The WNBA finals start Friday, but it’s not the matchup between the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury that has basketball fans talking. It’s the matchup between Minnesota Lynx’s five-times All-Star Napheesa Collier and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after Collier ripped into the WNBA’s leadership in a post-season media conference Tuesday. Collier, a vice president with the WNBA players’ union and co-founder of…
Mosaic Books in downtown Kelowna, B.C., has seen its fair share of disruptions, many of them at the hands of repeat offenders. “Our business downtown has been plagued with this for so long, we’ve just kind of given up,” said Mosaic Books owner Michael Neill. Neill said shoplifting, loitering and property damage are among the…
A B.C. Conservative Party staffer who called the orange Survivors’ flag — which honours residential school survivors — a “disgrace” and a “fake flag” on social media has been fired. Lindsay Shepherd, who had worked as a communications officer for the B.C. Conservative caucus, faced widespread criticism after her posts on the social media platform X late last week….
Canada and the United States will square off in a women’s flag football exhibition this weekend. The two squads will meet at halftime of the Buffalo Bills’ home game Sunday versus the New England Patriots at Highmark Stadium. They’ll participate in an eight-minute contest. It will mark the first time that international women’s flag football teams…
At least 12 Starbucks locations were closed around B.C. over the weekend, leaving staff and customers shocked by some of the closures. Global News has confirmed at least 12 locations, from Victoria to Revelstoke, have shuttered since Saturday. Starbucks confirmed last Thursday that the company will be laying off around 900 non-retail employees in the…
The third of three sperm whales stranded off P.E.I.’s North Shore has died, a day after the first two massive creatures were confirmed to have perished, according to the executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society. “What was decided yesterday, in the sense of the best thing for the animal and obviously with human…
Planning a trip to New York next week in hopes of seeing the Blue Jays clinch a post-season series for the first time since 2016? Getting tickets might not be so easy. Canadian residents are barred from buying tickets to the Jays’ potential American League Division Series matchup next week at Yankee Stadium. The AL…
What’s usually a postcard-perfect mountain view in B.C.’s Southern Interior is now obscured by a thick haze, as smoke blankets the region. An air quality advisory remains in effect for much of the area, including the Central, South, and North Okanagan, as wildfire smoke continues to drift in. “We’re seeing some smoke out there —…
Electronic Arts $55 billion dollar acquisition could mark the biggest leveraged buyout in history and usher in a new phase of public companies being bought up by private equity — leading to more uncertainty for Canada’s gaming industry. Under the terms of a deal announced Monday, a group of three buyers will pay the company’s stockholders $210 per…
World No. 1 Rachel Homan and her Ottawa-based rink beats Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni 6-4 in the women’s final of the AMJ Masters. Source link
