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Edmonton International Judo Championship 2018
The 2018 Edmonton International Judo Championship was held at West Edmonton Mall Ice Palace from March 9 to 11, 2018. The 13th annual tournament is the largest in Canada with more than 700 male and...
View ArticleWILDNorth celebrates release of great horned owl
An injured great horned owl that was rescued near Gold Bar Park in Edmonton was released back into the wild a few weeks after completing her rehabilitation. WILDNorth, a charitable organization that...
View ArticleOil Spills: Will Connor McDavid win the Hart Trophy?
Should Connor McDavid get some consideration to be the league MVP this year and win the Hart Trophy for a second year in a row. According to NHL writer Robert Tychkowski, it’s “a hard no.” “If you’re...
View ArticleGondola could be cheaper than LRT, pitches Edmonton city councillor
An Edmonton city councillor is pitching the idea of a gondola for Whyte Avenue. City officials are in the middle of designing a new LRT line for the high-density corridor, but running a gondola...
View ArticleGraham Thomson: Kenney's first day in Question Period quiet and controlled
After Jason Kenney spent months promising to bring civility and decorum to the Alberta legislature, the first Question Period of the new legislative session on Monday afternoon was, um, civil and...
View ArticlePaula Simons: Doug Ford's upset victory the latest example of the chaos model...
He didn’t win the most votes. He has almost no support in caucus. He doesn’t have a seat in the legislature. But after a disputed result, Doug Ford has become the leader of Ontario’s Progressive...
View Article347 varieties of schnitzel are on the menu at Haus Falkenstein
Silke and Michael Hentschel, are the proprietors of Haus Falkenstein an Edmonton restaurant that holds the Guinness World Record for the largest number of commercially available schnitzel varieties....
View ArticleSupreme Court's landmark Vriend decision turns 20
On April 2, 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its landmark Vriend decision. The unanimous ruling held that gay and lesbian Canadians were protected from discrimination by the Charter of Rights...
View Article'It's our time': Edmonton takes a kick at hosting 2026 FIFA World Cup
Edmonton is now officially one of three candidate host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Amarjeet Sohi, federal minister of infrastructure and communities, announced Friday. There are 23 cities in...
View ArticleOil Spills: Oilers busy shopping on NHL trade market
Ottawa Senators GM Pierre Dorion has been at the last two Edmonton Oilers Games. Could it be that both teams are looking at some sort of trade in the off-season. Hockey writers Jim Matheson and Derek...
View ArticlePolice warn buyers of online fraud and auto theft
An Edmonton couple thought they had finally found their dream RV when they spotted an online classified ad in July of 2017. A month later their dream vehicle had been seized by police and they were out...
View ArticleBattle in Boyle Street
As part of the revitalization taking part in the neighbourhood, the Boyle Street Community League and the City of Edmonton made a deal that the league would surrender its hall and in exchange the city...
View ArticleMeal kit delivery services can ease mealtime stress of time-strapped households
Wondering what to serve at dinnertime can be an added stress on any busy household and meal kit companies whose aim is to ease that pressure-filled time are jostling for a position at the table....
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Meal kit companies duke it out to deliver time in a box
It is, on one level, the most basic of tasks. And yet, people in this time-squeezed culture are finding it increasingly difficult to simply feed themselves. Just ask Edmonton’s Leanne Bramm. Though...
View ArticlePaula Simons: Justin Trudeau's new gun bill, C-71, arrives at a timely...
On Tuesday, Ralph Goodale, the minister of public safety, introduced Bill C-71, the Liberal government’s new gun control bill. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted that this bill is nothing like...
View ArticleBite Size: Zwick's Pretzels
Even as the food scene in Edmonton gets bigger and more complex, some restaurant owners have decided to go small and simple. There’s a growing trend toward focusing on a single dish or concept, seen in...
View ArticleYouths facing 460 charges for crimes around LRT, malls, rec centres
A 46-year-old woman is violently kicked in the back and sent flying down the stairs at Belvedere LRT station in a random early morning attack. Two youths are beaten after being swarmed by a group of...
View ArticleFirst woman to become an Edmonton firefighter celebrates 30 years on the job
Shirley Benson, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services District Chief, will be celebrating 30 years with EFRS in July. When Benson began her career in 1988, she was the first female firefighter in Western...
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Edmonton's first supervised drug consumption site unveiled
Katrina Stephenson, the lead nurse of the Boyle Street Community Services’ first supervised drug consumption site, put together a tray of supplies that would be provided to a user — a candle, a cooker...
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Edmonton Humane Society holds Clear Our Shelter adoption event
The Edmonton Humane Society (EHS) was hoping to find homes for more than 500 animals during its “Clear Our Shelter” adoption event Friday and Saturday. The event was organized in response to the...
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