Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
'Heave Away': Canada's goal tune at the world juniors is 'the song that never dies'
TORONTO - "Heave away, me jollies, heave away!" It's a phrase that Canadian hockey fans couldn't get enough of at the world junior hockey championship - a Celtic melody played each time Team Canada sc...
Jan 06, 2023
Canadian tourists remain barricaded in hotel amid Mexican cartel violence
Canadian tourists remain barricaded in their hotel today amid violence in the streets after the arrest of a major drug cartel leader. Tina Dahl, an Edmonton woman with relatives stranded in the popula...
Jan 06, 2023
Alberta government won't release data on snowpack contamination from coal mines
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is refusing to release information on toxic contaminants in snowpacks downwind from mountaintop removal coal mines. The data was collected by two senior provincial go...
Jan 06, 2023
Guenther scores in OT, Canada beats Czechia for 20th world junior gold
HALIFAX - Canada got the revenge it desperately carved - and is golden again at the world junior hockey championship. Dylan Guenther scored his second goal of the night at 6:22 of overtime as the tour...
Jan 05, 2023
Lucius completes hat trick in overtime as U.S. beats Sweden for world junior bronze
HALIFAX - Chaz Lucius completed a hat trick in overtime as the United States beat Sweden 8-7 in a wild bronze-medal game at the world junior hockey championship. The Winnipeg Jets prospect scored into...
Jan 05, 2023
Sylvan Lake to host inaugural dragon boat festival Feb. 10-12
Sylvan Lake will host its first annual Ice Dragon Boat Festival in a few weeks.The racing will be competitive, but is open to anyone and everyone who wants to give it a try, explains Monique Pummings,...
Jan 05, 2023
Environmental groups welcome Parks Canada buyout of Jasper Park backcountry lodges
Environmental groups are welcoming Parks Canada's buyout of two businesses in Jasper National Park's Tonquin Valley, a scenic destination also used by vanishing caribou herds. Carolyn Campbell of the ...
Jan 05, 2023
First responders encouraging blood donation this month through Sirens for Life campaign
Red Deer's emergency services responders, including firefighters and RCMP, are challenging citizens to donate blood in support of this year's Sirens for Life campaign.The initiative, which has been ar...
Jan 05, 2023
More COVID-19 protections available for kids in Alberta
Alberta parents looking to get their children more protection in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will have new options starting today.The province says the Pfizer bivalent vaccine booster - effective ag...
Jan 05, 2023
Hockey fans say world juniors are a success despite recent scandals
HALIFAX - Capping off a year that saw Hockey Canada mired in scandal over its handling of sexual assault allegations, the world junior hockey championship in Halifax and Moncton, N.B., opened last mon...
Jan 05, 2023