Wildfires in Alberta last summer burned more area than any previous fire season and a new study shows hot, dry conditions and an unusual amount of fires started by lightning were major contributing factors. These findings come from a new study of the 2023 Alberta wildfires, published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Jen Beverly,…
Athletes on the Refugee Paralympic Team are looking to send a message of hope as they strive for the podium at the 2024 Paralympic Games that begin in Paris next week. Eight Paralympians and one runner guide who fled conflict and persecution in their homelands are hoping to earn medals in six sports: para-athletics, para-powerlifting,…
Police in Halifax say an officer had to shoot and kill three dogs that had allegedly attacked a woman in a residence. Halifax Regional Police say they first responded to an animal attack in the 0-199 block of Fredrick Street at around 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around…
The head of the Alberta Teachers’ Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they’ll be expected to follow them. ATA president Jason Schilling said about two weeks before most kindergarten to Grade 12 students go back to class, it’s unclear why…
Heidi Peters joined the Canadian women’s sitting volleyball squad in 2013, one year after the team missed out on qualification for London and essentially disbanded. “I think literally two athletes didn’t retire. The whole team just, poof, gone,” Peters recalls. It was, essentially, rock bottom. Over the past decade, the team has steadily rebuilt itself….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 24-hour gas and convivence bar is going up at Naawi-Oodena, the site of the former Kapyong Barracks. It’s a small part of an extensive redevelopment of the site, which was laid out in a master plan four years ago. The former military base on Kenaston Boulevard…
Milena Khazanavicius and her guide dog, Hope, find it difficult to negotiate the streets in her north-end Halifax neighbourhood in the best of circumstances. But after she was nearly struck by a vehicle last week while struggling to cross an intersection being reconfigured to accommodate bike lanes, she says the city needs to step up its game to improve…
Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma did just enough in a thrilling battle with rival Demi Vollering on the iconic Alpe d’Huez to win the women’s Tour de France by four seconds overall. Ottawa cyclist just 3rd Canadian to finish in the top 10 The Associated Press · Posted: Aug 18, 2024 1:30 PM EDT | Last…
The condition of infrastructure across the country is dire and action needs to be taken now to prevent the kind of massive water pipe break that continues to plague Alberta’s biggest city, says the president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Geoff Stewart was in Calgary as part of the federation’s annual general meeting in…
When John Scott heard on the radio Friday that four people were found dead near the community of McCreary, Man., and three of those deaths were being investigated as homicides, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Scott, a lifelong resident of the western Manitoba municipality located on east side of Riding Mountain National Park, said the incident is something he…
