Award-winning sports broadcaster Scott Russell will unite television audiences across Canada during the Paris Olympics next month before signing off for the final time as a host at the end of the summer “with a lifetime of memories” after nearly 40 years with the CBC. Russell will step down following the Paralympics, which run Aug….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Port Coquitlam man has come forward, sharing his story about a rock smashing his window while he was driving. Rob Shanks said he was driving on Coast Meridian Road when a dump truck passed him going the other way. He believes a large rock fell off…
FFAW leader Greg Pretty blasted the federal government’s announcement that touted the end of the cod moratorium in Newfoundland and Labrador, saying it opens the door to private companies taking fish from inshore harvesters. (Patrick Butler/Radio-Canada) Fisheries union president Greg Pretty is not holding back his thoughts on how the federal government is handling the commercial…
Canada’s Bridget Carleton scored 23 points and Napheesa Collier added 21 to help the Minnesota Lynx win their first Commissioner’s Cup championship with a 94-89 victory over the host New York Liberty on Tuesday night. “Means a lot. Testament to where we are at this season,” Collier said. “This is the best group. Our personalities…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario drivers will soon have their licence plates renewed automatically. The Ford government noted in a news release Wednesday that the change will take effect on July 1 “and will save vehicle owners time, amounting to more than 900,000 hours every year.” “First, we eliminated licence plate…
The federal government has announced a return to the commercial northern cod fishery this year. DFO has managed a limited fishery under strict conditions in recent years. (Brett Favaro, Marine Institute) Thirty-two years after the federal government announced a moratorium that shut down Newfoundland and Labrador’s cod industry, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier said Wednesday that it is reopening. But…
The Edmonton Oilers could see the Florida Panthers celebrating on the ice and hear them down the hallway. Florida won its first Stanley Cup late Monday night, besting Edmonton 2-1 in Game 7 after blowing a 3-0 lead in the title series. The Panthers will spend the summer sipping from hockey’s holy grail. The Oilers,…
If the Edmonton Oilers had won the Stanley Cup, they would have secured their names in history not just for being champions but also for having achieved an incredibly rare feat: winning a championship after being down by three games in the final round of a best-of-seven series. No team in Major League Baseball or…
Andrea Gigeroff is a PhD researcher at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is studying snakes in Newfoundland. (Submitted by Andrea Gigeroff) If you catch a glimpse of something long and slinky on the ground in western Newfoundland this summer, it could indeed be just what you think it is. Yes, that’s right: there are…
In 2017, an Archbishop Jordan High School student in Sherwood Park, Alta., just east of Edmonton, placed a seemingly bold prediction in the school yearbook. Kade Gartner’s quote reads, “NHL 2024 Stanley Cup champions: Edmonton Oilers. You heard it here first.” It was calculated, said Gartner, now 24 years old. He recognized the Oilers were becoming…
