It's a cloudy Tuesday evening and the field west of Jasper Place High School is full of action. The Edmonton Storm of the Western Women's Canadian Football League (WWCFL) is riding high off a 24-21 victory over the Calgary Rage on May 14, the Edmonton club's first win of the 2022 season. Tonight, at practice, the focus is on tackles. Twenty-one athletes line up on the field as defensive co-ordinator Branden Modin calls out drills. Without hesitation, the women take each other to the ground. "You
Vancouver's Plan A Real Estate Services has been fined $10,000 by the Residential Tenancy Branch for requiring tenants to sign lease agreements that it falsely claims aren't covered by B.C.'s tenancy laws. In an April 20 notice of administrative penalty, Richard Maddia, acting director of the provincial authority's Compliance and Enforcement Unit, wrote that Plan A had contravened the Residential Tenancy Act in at least 152 tenancy agreements. In each of those cases, the company had asked tenant
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia’s fugitive former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been handed a 9-year prison sentence for illegally ordering the 2011 demolition of a multimillion-dollar residential and business complex owned by a former political ally turned opponent. The Criminal Court in the capital, Skopje, found that the demolition was an “act of political revenge” against Fijat Canoski, then the leader of the small Party for European Future (PEI), who had left Gruevski’s
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will not be running in the race to pick a new leader of his United Conservative party. Kenney told his call-in radio show that if he was considering running, he would not be staying on as UCP leader until the new leader is chosen. It was the first time Kenney took questions surrounding his surprise decision this week to step down despite winning a party leadership review. Kenney captured just 51 per cent of the vote in the mail-in ballot of party m
While May long weekend is arguably the unofficial kickoff to summer, it's also the first weekend that many Albertans consider it safe to start putting plants in the ground. This year it's a bit chilly, but not all hope is lost for those looking to get a jump start on the growing season. Joanna Tschudy, community garden co-ordinator with the Calgary Horticultural Society, shared her tips for those looking to dig into their gardens this weekend on CBC's The Homestretch. The following interview has
MADRID (AP) — Thousands of Valencia fans angry with club owner Peter Lim protested outside its stadium on Saturday when their team played its final game of the season. Fans waved signs saying “Lim Go Home” and shouted for the Singapore businessman to sell the club. It appeared that there were more fans flooding the streets outside Mestalla Stadium than inside watching the Spanish league match against Celta Vigo. The latest protest against Lim’s leadership was called after local sports newspaper
Ontario reported 1,116 hospitalizations and 12 new deaths due to COVID-19 on Saturday. Friday's hospitalizations are down from 1,165 on Thursday and 1,392 exactly one week ago. According to the Ministry of Health, 50 per cent of people hospitalized were admitted specifically for treatment of symptoms brought on by the virus, while the rest were admitted for other reasons and then tested positive. Of those in hospital, 160 patients require intensive care, down by three from the day before, the pr
WATKINSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary majorities as candidates make their final pitches to Georgia voters on Saturday ahead of Tuesday's election. Gov. Brian Kemp and former football star Herschel Walker hope to win GOP majorities and clinch nominations for governor and U.S. senator on Tuesday without runoffs, with polls showing both men backed by more than 50% of voters. Kemp met voters at a rally in Watkinsville, near his home in Athens, with Nebrask
They're back — and they're hoping locals and tourists alike will take in what they have to offer. For the past 17 years, the Trails Tales Tunes Festival has been the unofficial kick-off to the tourism season in Gros Morne National Park, in western Newfoundland. Even during the pandemic, the Norris Point-based festival survived, albeit in a different form. Following a virtual event in 2020, organizers of the festival managed to offer a hybrid event last season, with severely reduced capacity for
The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) is investigating after RCMP officers shot a man near Barriere in northern B.C. on Friday night. Police say the incident happened just before 10 p.m. PT on Friday at the 2900-block of Highway 5. According to Mounties, they had received a report that the man had been dropped off on the side of the road and "picked up what appeared to be a weapon". CBC News has reached out to RCMP to clarify what the nature of the report was. After officers reached the ar
Canada's Aaron Brown won the first men's 100 metre race of the Diamond League season with an underwhelming show in Birmingham on Saturday, after two false starts saw top contender Trayvon Bromell and local hope Zharnel Hughes disqualified. Brown clocked in at 10.13 seconds, a minor improvement from his 'B' race earlier when he managed 10.23 behind Jeremiah Azu, as the marquee event of the meet came to an anti-climactic finish when American Bromell and Hughes jumped the gun. Former world champion Yohan Blake of Jamaica finished second at 10.18 seconds while Canada's Jerome Blake took bronze with an effort of 10.20 seconds.
Hydro-Québec crews were out early Sunday morning managing widespread power outages in several parts of Quebec following a fast-moving thunderstorm that damaged buildings, uprooted trees and led to the death of one woman when her boat capsized. Environment Canada had issued a tornado watch across many parts of western, central and southern regions on Saturday. By 10 p.m. ET, most warnings had ended. Packing winds between 83 and 144 km/h, the storm moved through the province late Saturday afternoo
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Democrats in New York will face new challenges from Republicans and be drawn into interparty battles under new redistricting maps released late Friday. A rural judge approved the maps that will replace earlier maps that courts found violated the state's Constitution and set political district boundaries in New York over the next decade, giving Democrats less of an edge in their quest for control of the U.S. House than they originally hoped. But they set up battles between Dem
John Remple says he didn't expect a simple act of generosity would land him a provincial award. For more than 10 years, Remple has been making free wooden birdhouses for school children, which they can then paint. Last week, the 85-year-old living in Vernon became one of five recipients of this year's B.C. Principals' and Vice-Principals' Association Partnership Award, which recognizes individuals or groups who have supported local schools over an extended period of time. Remple made the first b
The Oilers fell behind early in Game 2 of their series with the Calgary Flames, but unlike the opener were able to recover and secure a 5-3 victory and send the second-round matchup to Edmonton tied 1-1. Zach Hyman scored the winner short-handed in the third period.
The home-buying frenzy of the pandemic is showing some signs of slowing, with the number of home sales in Saskatchewan dropping last month by almost 17 per cent compared to the record set in April of last year, according to the Saskatchewan Realtors Association. However, housing prices are up, as Saskatchewan's average price reached a new monthly high last month, according to the association's market statistics for April 2022. Prices have been trending upward over the past two years, the associa
A new Statistics Canada survey says the level of hopefulness Canadians have about the future has dropped in the past five years — but Saskatchewan residents are more hopeful than Canadians on average. The Statistics Canada report, released this week and based on data from the agency's Canadian Social Survey, says that in 2021-22, 64 per cent of Canadians reported feeling hopeful about the future, down from 75 per cent in 2016. The latest percentage was slightly higher in Saskatchewan, where 65.3
A group of Indigenous hockey players is reviving a team started by their fathers decades ago. For the first time in 25 years, the Inuvik Huskies are back on the ice, playing the Fred Sasakamoose "Chief Thunderstick" National Hockey Championship this week. Mickey Ipana, captain of the rebooted Inuvik Huskies, has memories of his dad playing for the team, and like many of the team's players, Ipana's been playing since he was a kid. "A lot of us played hockey our whole lives…. We've been getting re
The Acho Dene Koe First Nation says a fresh attempt to elect a chief will be made in September 2022, more than two years after an election was due. A new chief was supposed to be elected in June 2020. The First Nation used pandemic-related federal legislation to twice postpone the election, then an appeals committee ordered that the results of an April 2021 election be scrapped. Since then, a court has ruled the First Nation didn’t have the authority to postpone its election in the first place a
Some Edmonton community leagues have turned their outdoor rinks into off-leash dog parks for the summer; but some disability advocates said they aren't available for everyone. Marla Smith uses a wheelchair to get around. She and her service dog, Kuno, love going outdoors. She said she was excited to take Kuno to the Kenilworth Community League's off-leash dog park this week, but the problem is her wheelchair can't get inside. "When you see it [listed] on the city's website and you see that it's
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia. He is also a hero of multicultural Australia, describing himself as the only candidate with a “non-Anglo Celtic name” to run for prime minister in the 121 years that the office has existed. He has promised to rehabilitate Australia's international reputation as a climate ch
SYDNEY (AP) — Scott Morrison said his conservative government had left Australia in a robust condition, even as voters on Saturday punished him for his handling of issues including climate change and the pandemic that helped give the center-left opposition its biggest victory for almost a decade. Morrison, 54, said he would step down as head of the Liberal party — the senior member of the conservative coalition that had ruled since 2013 — after conceding defeat to the Labor party and its leader
Australia’s prime minister conceded defeat late on Saturday after an election that could deliver a minority government. (May 21)