Calgary A curling team bearing a name other than Bottcher, Koe, Martin or Ferbey will represent Alberta at the Canadian men’s championship for the first time in 26 years. Aaron Sluchinski’s Airdrie Curling Club competing in the Montana’s Brier in Regina Donna Spencer · CBC News · Posted: Feb 29,Continue Reading
Sports Canadian women’s basketball player Laeticia Amihere is in Dallas, Texas, where she is set to take part in her first Athletes Unlimited season, which begins Thursday. WNBA player’s focus on national team, individual progress heading into 2nd season Myles Dichter · CBC Sports · Posted: Feb 29, 2024 1:22Continue Reading
World A group of Republican lawmakers in the U.S. are demanding answers from Pfizer over a financial contribution in Canada — an allegedly minor one. It went to a group promoting medically-assisted death. Rubio, Cruz and others grilling drugmaker over assisted-death donation that recipient says was minuscule Alexander Panetta · CBC NewsContinue Reading
Saskatchewan The federal natural resources minister says Saskatchewan residents won’t get a carbon rebate, after the province announced Thursday it would stop remitting the levy on natural gas to Ottawa. SaskEnergy breaking federal emissions law by choosing not to remit levy Jeremy Simes · The Canadian Press · Posted: FebContinue Reading
World It was meant to be a magical, chocolate-filled, immersive journey into “pure imagination.” Instead, the much-hyped Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Experience in Glasgow, Scotland, left children in tears, parents demanding refunds and the internet in stitches. What was meant to be a magical experience left children in tears andContinue Reading
Most of Canada’s fertility clinics are in metropolis centres, and access to in vitro fertilization varies widely across the country. CBC’s Ellen Mauro joins a girl on her IVF toddle and finds out how a ways some americans will plod to develop their households…Read MoreContinue Reading
Health Minister Mark Holland released the long-awaited details of the federal government’s pharmacare plan on Thursday, with a commitment to cover some diabetes treatments and contraception. If the bill, C-64, passes Parliament, Holland will begin negotiating with the provinces and territories on a funding commitment that would cover the cost ofContinue Reading
Soccer Canada Soccer has named Kevin Blue its new general secretary and CEO. Blue comes from Golf Canada, where he has served as chief sport officer since December 2020. Born in Montreal, Blue fills gap left by sudden departure of Alyson Walker Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press · Posted:Continue Reading
Business·Updated The Canadian economy expanded at an annualized rate of one per cent in the fourth quarter as high interest rates weighed on growth, but not enough to push the economy into a recession. StatsCan says aside from first year of pandemic, growth in 2023 rose at slowest pace sinceContinue Reading
Chris Robertson kept his struggle with addiction private for a long time; in the end, it took him to a public place. His sister, Michelle Trombley, remembers the pit in her stomach when she saw the call come up on her phone as an unknown number. She knew, before answering, whoContinue Reading
