The Okanagan’s wine industry is welcoming the removal of U.S. liquor from store shelves at B.C. liquor stores. “Having some of the U.S. product off the shelves will allow some of the BC products to shine a little more,” said Bobby Gidda, CEO and president of Volcanic Hills Estate Winery. On Monday, B.C.’s premier announced…
A fiery small plane crash in Tennessee last year that killed a Canadian family of five was most likely the result of an error by the father who was piloting the plane, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released this week. A yearlong investigation of the March 4, 2024, crash found no mechanical problems…
Beckie Scott has lived many different lives. She was an Olympic cross-country skiing champion, an athlete representative at the International Olympic Committee, and a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency during the Russian scandal emanating from 2014. Since 2017, Scott was founder and CEO of Spirit North, a non-profit intended to empower Indigenous youth through…
Editor’s note: In a five-part series, Jayme Doll explores the struggles some Albertans experience in getting their reproductive conditions recognized and treated. Part 1 is in the video player above. The rest of the series will be added as it airs the week of March 10-14. There are no shortage of labels and euphemisms for…
A gondola cabin has crashed to the ground at the Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in Golden, B.C. Witness Scott Wilson said the cabin fell an estimated three metres only moments after it was loaded with people and departed up the hill. “Patrol responded right away, and some bystander called 911. The doors came ajar in the fall, but nobody could…
Hockey Alex Ovechkin scored his 886th career goal into an empty net Sunday to move nine back of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record. Ovechkin’s goal against Seattle Kraken help extend Capitals’ winning streak to 4 Stephen Whyno · The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 09, 2025 6:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago…
Canada’s Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussen, unveiled $272.1 million in new funding on Sunday for foreign aid projects in Bangladesh and the Indo-Pacific region. “Canada continues to fiercely strengthen our long-lasting friendship with Bangladesh and the wider Indo-Pacific region with our long-standing people-to-people ties,” Hussen said in a statement. “By supporting vulnerable communities’ healthcare…
The first organized game was played in Montreal back in 1875. But people in Délı̨nę, N.W.T., Windsor, NS., and Quebec City have different opinions. Source link
Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsleigh, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium. Austria did it twice. Poland did it once. The other 56 times, it was German sliders. That includes some…
World-famous Canadian murder mystery writer Louise Penny has cancelled a U.S. tour for her latest book, citing President Donald Trump’s repeated threats of a trade war against Canada and annexation. Penny announced the move on social media, saying it was “a painful decision” because of the many friends and professional acquaintances she’d made in the…
