Hockey Alberta announced there will be changes to Novice hockey for the upcoming season. Most of us don’t like change, but studies in hockey have proven half ice practices and games for young seven and eight year old players is beneficial. Starting this season all games and practices will be […]
Canadian housing just one example of painful decision on whether to hold or hike It seems almost everyone now agrees that the Bank of Canada is not going to raise interest rates this time around. Heavily indebted Canadian homeowners will once again be able to breathe a sigh of relief […]
Federal cabinet holding early morning meeting to go over pipeline options before announcement Finance Minister Bill Morneau has reached an agreement in principle with Kinder Morgan that a senior federal official says will allow the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project to go ahead this summer. Lawyers and officials from […]
Claim that Canadian cars threaten U.S. security was just one in a week full of destabilizing pronouncements Things have officially become very frightening when the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, sounds more reasonable and peace-loving than the president of the United States. But after another wacky week of flip-flops […]
Marijuana grown in Colorado, the land of legal weed, is being smuggled out to states where it is still illegal When recreational marijuana went on sale in Colorado in 2014, the government’s goal was to regulate and tax a drug that was already widely used and to squeeze out dealers […]
Swedish defenseman, 18, drawing high praise, comparisons to Lidstrom, Karlsson BUFFALO — Rasmus Dahlin hasn’t played a minute in the NHL, but experts already are comparing the 18-year-old from Sweden to some of the League’s biggest names, past and present. They liken his game to those of Hockey Hall […]
Ovechkin pursuing first title with Capitals; Golden Knights goalie Fleury tries for personal three-peat The NHL will crown a first-time Stanley Cup champion this season. The Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights will play Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena on Monday (8 p.m. ET; NBC, […]
In the 1930s, Keynesian economics laid out a new approach to reviving a stagnant economy. Many countries have since followed this game plan, a trend with lasting implications for future economic growth. According to the Keynesian script, governments achieve the requisite spending to thrust an economy out of a recession […]
Opinion: Paris is a climate fairy tale. It has always been more about money and politics than the environment Two weeks of climate talks in Bonn ended last week without agreement on a draft negotiating text, the Washington Post reports. Developing countries demanded to know when the US$100-billion package promised […]
After Bill Foley agreed to pay a whopping $500 million for the right to put a hockey team in the middle of the Mojave Desert, the NHL decided his Vegas Golden Knights deserved a chance for a swift return on that investment. If the other NHL owners had known […]