Edmonton Sun
TREAD LIGHTLY
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stood firm on trade Saturday, saying the route to negotiating an agreement with the U.S. is rooted in diplomacy, not through retaliatory measures. “We’ve got to work on making sure that we get to 100 per cent (tariff...
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BALLOT BUCKS
On Oct. 19, Albertans will head to the polls to have their say on 10 referendum questions put forth by the provincial government, most prominently one asking if it should begin the process towards holding a binding referendum on separation. Ahead of...
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HOLEY HEADACHE
It’s not the hit medical drama from HBO. In Wîhkwêntôwin, “the pit” refers to the site of a cancelled construction project and its several-metre-deep excavation that’s sat agape for years. After a season of record-breaking rain, it’s becoming more...
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HEAT RELIEF
If you were building an ark in your backyard, you can rest for a few days. Temperatures are expected to spike in Edmonton over the next 72 hours, and after record rainfall through June and into July, those puddles in the yard can finally dry out. In...
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‘LET THE DUST SETTLE’
Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack is saying more should be done to support Downtown businesses during construction in response to recent concerns around restaurants closing in the core. But he told Postmedia Tuesday that the city has already begun work...
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GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YA
It’s starting to look like Prime Minister Mark Carney is dancing around the edges of the truth as he tries to defend the Gordie Howe Bridge deal. What Carney has told the media in Canada doesn’t match reputable reporting from Bloomberg and the Globe...
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SPAIN REIGNS
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Ferran Torres scored an extra-time winner as Spain defeated holders Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup on Sunday and shatter Lionel Messi’s dreams of a triumphant farewell to football’s greatest stage. Barcelona striker Torres...
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BALLOT BATTLE
Third-party advertisers supporting Alberta separation extended their fundraising lead this week, nearing a half-million dollars in total contributions three months ahead of the October vote. Elections Alberta’s latest contribution figures, updated...
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‘LOVE & CARE’
Surinderjit Kaur Bhandal and Major Singh Bhandal died together in a north Edmonton apartment fire on Monday, bringing an end to a 64-year love story, a romance their family says was worthy of the type you’d find in a Bollywood movie. “You’d never see...
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GAME PLAN
Finally, the full 84-game NHL schedule has dropped. Now all that's left to do is hurry up and wait for the season to arrive. Edmonton Oilers fans have to be forgiven for feeling impatient over the next couple months, considering this is the longest...
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NO MESSIN’ AROUND
ATLANTA — Lautaro Martinez scored a 92nd-minute winner as Lionel Messi inspired World Cup-holders Argentina to a stunning comeback to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday and set up a final with European champions Spain. England had been on course to reach...
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FATAL FIRE
There was a big bang followed by a blast of air. The gust sent the curtains inside Dmetro Kostiuk’s bedroom flying up. He thought another summer storm was brewing. Later, the street was flooded with fire trucks and ambulances after a building of...
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PAY AT PUMP
Just give me 13-and-a-half cents off the price at the gasoline pump. It’s not rocket science. On her weekly radio show, Your Province, Your Premier, Premier Danielle Smith acknowledged that thousands of Albertans have been having trouble applying for...
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FLYING SOUTH
As Mark Carney continues to claim that no deal is better than a bad deal, an increasing number of Canadian firms are looking to move manufacturing production south. Carney was elected on a promise to secure a trade deal with Donald Trump, yet 16...
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WILD RIDE
Dr. Erin Bristow’s first experience with e-scooters was idyllic. She was in Los Angeles while her husband, also a physician, participated in a training session. When he drove the car to work, Bristow spent the day zipping effortlessly around Santa...
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IN AND OUT
Just as restaurants and other businesses are closing and leaving Downtown, more office space is being leased, raising questions about recovery in the city’s core. A new report from real estate services company CBRE shows vacancy rates in Downtown...
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TAKE AWAY
The only thing worse than losing to a winless opponent would be to have it happen on back-to-back weeks. But the Edmonton Elks took care of business this time with a 40-17 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks at Commonwealth Stadium on Thursday. The...
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PILING ON
As a parting gift before it broke for its summer recess, city council decided to raise Edmontonians’ property taxes every year for the next 20 in order to build up a separate reserve fund that can only be used for “infrastructure” maintenance and...
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GAP BRIDGE
A 13-year quest to fund billions of tax dollars to fix crumbling assets in the wake of dwindled provincial funding got a boost Tuesday. City council voted to create a dedicated renewal fund reserve to address a $2.8-billion renewal funding shortfall...
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WEST MEETS EAST
OTTAWA — It’s a plan to keep Canadian oil in Canada. On Monday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled the proposed route for a new 3,300-km crude oil pipeline — stretching from Alberta pipeline headwaters Hardisty,...
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MR. SUB
Prime Minister Mark Carney will stop in Halifax on Monday for an announcement about making Canada “more secure, resilient, and prosperous.” He will visit Canadian Forces Base Halifax, home to the Royal Canadian Navy, alongside ViceAdmiral Dan...
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AGONY OF DEFEAT
Canada lost 3—0 to Morocco on Saturday in Houston. There it is. The score, plain as a fence post. And it closes the book on one of the finest four-game runs this country has ever strung together at a World Cup. Now, before you lean over and remind me...
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BRING IT ON!
It was less than a decade ago that Canada was at the depth of soccer’s world rankings, an afterthought on the global stage would be the kind description, an abomination would be more accurate. And now, it is one of 16 teams left standing at this...
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‘ALL IN ON THIS’
A routine traffic stop by the Edmonton Police Service led to apprehension of a suspect wanted for attempted murder in Ontario. The arrest of Safaldeep Singh, 22, is part of Project Insight, the newest iteration of the police framework for...
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OILER NO MORE
Darnell Nurse came to Edmonton as an 18-year-old kid who, like all rookies, didn’t know for sure if he’d last a season. Over the next 12 years he planted some very deep roots here, getting married, having three sons and wearing a letter for the only...
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INITIAL VICTORY
Alberta separatists have won an initial victory in their appeal of a court decision quashing their independence petition, with Alberta’s top court allowing the counting of signatures to go ahead pending a further hearing. Court of Appeal Justice Alice...
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SWEET 16
They came here to Southern California, booted out of their own country despite being a World Cup host, but still driven to make a statement in the most important moment of their careers. They came ultimately to add to the history they’ve already made...
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’NET BET
The Alberta government is expecting a $76-million payday, thanks to gambling. Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally said that’s the money the new privately operated iGaming market, which launches July 13, will make for the province in its first...
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STORM WARNING
Edmonton and area is under a severe weather orange alert, with Environment Canada calling for another wave of heavy rain, this time between 40 and 70 millimetres over the weekend. The orange severe weather alert is described as “likely to cause...
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FOOD FRAUD
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is abuzz about the country’s food fraud. The CFIA, in its latest annual report on food fraud, says it stopped more than 150,000 kilograms “of misrepresented food from being sold in Canada,” including a whopping...
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WORLD WEARY
VANCOUVER — Sombre faces, muted voices, frustration and disappointment darkly etched in both posture and countenance. This was the celebratory scene of the Canadian men’s team making World Cup history Wednesday. For the first time, Les Rouges are in...
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THE MAN
Mike Babcock climbing on board with the Edmonton Oilers is the Scorpion and the Frog fable come to life in a hockey dressing room. The Oilers have heard the stories. They’ve done the interviews. They’ve noted concerns from the NHLPA and followed an...
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STAY AWAY
A community pool is a place where you’d expect to get wet. But, on Monday, the entrances to Peter Hemingway Aquatic Centre, located inside of Coronation Park, had some pretty ironic warnings posted. The signage stated that the centre “is closed until...
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Kingston, Ont., has big plans to mark 10th anniversary of iconic band’s final concert >> PAGES 4-5 HIP HIP HOORAY
It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since The Tragically Hip said goodbye to the country with their 2016 farewell tour before frontman Gord Downie’s untimely death at the age of 53 from a brain tumour in 2017. The band’s final show of that cross...
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RUN TO WIN
Mother Nature rained on Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday, and the Edmonton Elks rained on Davis Alexander’s parade. The Montreal Alouettes quarterback came in looking to tie the Canadian Football League record for the best start to a career by a...
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SIGN OF CHANGE
From soldiers wading ashore on Juno Beach or slugging it out in the muddy trenches of Flanders Fields, recent generations think of battle in terms of artillery and rifles. But today’s battles are waged digitally first, fought somewhere in the cloud —...
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THREE CHEERS!
VANCOUVER — You could hear the snap of Ismael Kone’s left leg all the way up in the B.C. Place media tribune, so one can only imagine what it sounded like pitchside when Qatar’s Assim Madibo kicked out the legs of Ismael Kone early in the second half...
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BUCKS START HERE
Millions of Albertans will be able to apply for a $100 rebate beginning on Canada Day under a new provincial program aimed at offsetting high energy costs. Premier Danielle Smith announced the Alberta energy rebate at a news conference in Calgary on...
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NO SLAM DUNK
Former Edmonton city councillor and mayoral candidate Michael Walters is back on the doorknocking circuit. He’s not currently running for political office. But he is travelling through neighbourhoods in the southside area he used to represent, talking...
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‘DEEPLY SORRY’
Bill Clark expected his storied career in Edmonton policing to end with celebrations and accolades sometime after his 50th year on the job. Instead, the final chapter came in a nearly empty courtroom, with only his defence lawyer at his side. “I am...
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A DON DEAL?
An agreement to end fighting between the United States and Iran is “now complete,” according to Donald Trump, with an Iranian diplomat and key mediator Pakistan backing those assertions. Trump announced what he said was the completion of the deal on...
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ALARM OVER ADAP
Warning: this story contains mention of suicide. Several Albertans raised concerns Saturday over the incoming changes to Alberta’s disability program during Premier Danielle Smith’s biweekly radio show. On Smith’s call-in radio show Your Province,...
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FAST ON THE DRAW
TORONTO — They came to see history and mostly to celebrate Canada’s role in it, a men’s World Cup debut on home soil that was going to be memorable regardless of the result. And then in the 78th minute of a wildly exciting game played before a red...
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ON THE MOVE?
Darnell Nurse says he’s good to go. As in somewhere other than Edmonton next fall. As in he’s done being an Oiler. So, is this a one-off, or the beginning of the end for an Oilers team that spent last season in a steady decline? With Sportsnet...
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A NEW TWIST
Welcome to the latest chapter in As The Coach Turns, the continuing strange but true saga of the Edmonton Oilers’ coaching search. Chapter 4: The National Hockey League Players’ Association has formally asked the NHL to investigate the 2023 incidents...
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WHERE’S CARNEY?
CALGARY — Then came the interview. On Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre delivers a speech to a standing-room-only crowd at the historic Legion No. 1 in downtown Calgary. He tells the crowd Alberta does not need to be a different...
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WITH BATED BREATH
As Doug Ford heads to Washington for two days of meetings Monday, there are a few nervous people in Ottawa. Officials in Ottawa from the Prime Minister’s Office on down are crossing their fingers and holding their breath that Ford doesn’t do anything...
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FIERY HISTORY
The man charged with torching infill construction sites in south Edmonton was on parole for a previous string of arsons and told police he “just liked the area” when asked why he was near the scene of one of the fires an hour past his curfew. Peter...
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BAD FOR BIZ
The city’s promotional material supporting the Imagine Jasper Avenue project predicts more walkable, wider sidewalks, reconstructed roads and better transit access. But, Kanwarpreet Singh Chatrath, the owner of a liquor store near the corner of Jasper...
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READY NO. 1
The Canadian Football League season is starting five weeks earlier for Cody Fajardo this year. The Edmonton Elks got off to a 1-4 start with Fajardo on the sidelines after arriving as a free agent a year ago, relegated to the backup role while his new...
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FIRE SPREE ARREST
An Edmonton man with an apparent history of arson is facing multiple charges in relation to a series of suspicious fires at construction sites late last year. Police said they began investigating allegations of arson after multiple fires at infill...
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WET SPELL
Two westbound lanes underneath the CN Rail bridge between 121 Street and 124 Street on Yellowhead Trail reopened Tuesday morning after being closed Monday night due to flooding. The flooding that prompted the unexpected closure was most likely caused...
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FIX FOR FUNDING
Alberta is rolling out a new funding model that connects hospital funding to patient care. At a Monday press conference, the province announced that 12 hospitals are currently operating under phase one of the new patient-focused funding (PFF) model,...
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ERRBORNE
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds have been many things to many people over the years. One of the best teams in the world for precision demonstrations and a regular sight at major events from Grey Cups to Olympic Games, the Snowbirds have inspired...
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FAST TRAIN
In a not-too-distant future, a highspeed train could potentially be flying over the North Saskatchewan River, say experts, connecting Downtown Edmonton to the city’s airport, Red Deer, Calgary, and even Banff. The province’s 15-year passenger rail...
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PLAY CENTRAL
City officials want you to know Downtown is a safe place to be and to prove it they’re putting on more than 1,000 free events over the next seven months. With a three-piece band playing in the background in the park next door, the city’s summer Turn...
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EVAN OUT
The biggest fear about having Edmonton Oilers play in the world hockey championship came true Thursday when Evan Bouchard got knocked cold and had to be helped off the ice. In a disturbing scene in the quarterfinal game in Switzerland, the Oilers...
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BIG SCOOP
With the help of a number-crunching computer wielded by the Alberta RCMP strategic analysis and research unit, some of Alberta’s top offenders have been apprehended in a four-day jointagency sweep that netted 88 individuals deemed by data to be...
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PREMIERS CLASH
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew challenged Alberta Premier Danielle Smith over Indigenous consultation on Tuesday, saying her government has a duty to do so before any separation referendum and pointing to a recent court ruling to back his point. The...
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UP IN THE AIR
As Edmonton plans to replace two of its oldest and most iconic bridges, city officials are questioning how many modes of transportation can be feasibly jammed into a single crossing, and what could be preserved from the old bridges. A report issued...
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BATTERED AND BRUISED
It could have been the most expensive inning the Blue Jays had ever endured. In the top of the fifth inning of what would become a 4-1 Pittsburgh Pirates win on Sunday afternoon at the Rogers Centre, Dylan Cease (he of the sevenyear $175-milllon...
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LANE PAIN
As the councillor for Ward Nakota Isga, Reed Clarke has got an earful from Grovenor residents who are angered by the city’s active transportation network expansion in their west-end neighbourhood. The active transport network is a collection of paths...
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SPARKS FLY
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defended her decision Friday to hold a vote on whether the province should begin the process of separating from Canada, while separatists warned the move could trigger a revolt within her governing United Conservative...
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WORD PLAY
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is putting a new question about separation in an October referendum, but it won’t explicitly address the issue. In a televised address on Thursday, Smith told Albertans that while she supports Alberta remaining in...
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HALL OF A PROBLEM
In order to reduce wait times, six new fire halls are needed to serve the city’s growing neighbourhoods near the Anthony Henday Drive ring road. The question in a city that has major budget pressures, where’s the cash that’s needed to build these...
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Oilers not acting normal on head coach situation
Give them credit, Edmonton Oilers apologists have been working overtime trying to make it look like last week’s coaching clusterpuck is perfectly normal. Happens all the time, they say. Except it doesn’t. Six coaches in 11 years for McDavid-Draisaitl...
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TRAGEDY X2
There are more questions than answers after a patient died in the waiting room at an overcrowded emergency room at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital on May 8. “My understanding is that he did receive some initial care and treatments, but was deemed...
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NOT THERE YET
In Canada now, First Nations means the small racial minority (five per cent of the population) who must be consulted first before any project can go ahead or any law can be passed. Want to build a home on private property? Check with the First Nations...
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A DONE DEAL
Calling it “a good day for Alberta and for Canada,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a new agreement Friday with Prime Minister Mark Carney that spells out a timeline for the approval of her government’s much-sought-after oil pipeline to the West...
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KRIS KROSSED OUT
In what is pretty much the equivalent of a girlfriend breaking up with her boyfriend after he caught her making out with the neighbour, the Edmonton Oilers fired Kris Knoblauch. It’s the next predictable chapter in an uncomfortable saga that began...
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PETITION PAUSE
An Alberta judge has thrown out a decision by the province’s chief electoral officer to issue a petition for a referendum on provincial separation, heaping uncertainty on the possibility of a fall independence vote. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation...
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TWISTING IN WIND
With reports saying the Edmonton Oilers have asked permission to speak with former Vegas Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy, the writing appears to be on the wall for Kris Knoblauch. The Death Valley for hockey coaches strikes again. This is a...
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TRACK TEAM
When Beaver Hills House and Michael Phair parks reopened in Downtown Edmonton in March (about six moths behind schedule), the city boasted the new dual space was for the enjoyment of “those who live, work and play in Edmonton’s Downtown core.” I...
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WELCOME BACK
Four Canadians who were among the passengers aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship were on a plane en route to Canada on Sunday. Wearing protective gear, the Canadians boarded a plane bound for the Saguenay-Bagotville Airport, just north of Quebec...
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JASPER REBUILDING
More than 21 months after a wildfire scorched the town, the rebuilding efforts in Jasper are showing signs of progress but also continue to face rising costs, underinsurance of businesses, and continued housing and labour issues. The federal...
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