96 m. ago Homegrown Tech Meets Hometown Team: Safe Software Partners with Vancouver Canucks

Global data integration leader strengthens community ties with official partnership and donation to Canucks for Kids Fund Surrey, BC, Oct. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Safe Software (Safe), the creator of FME, the only All-Data, Any-AI enterprise integration platform with true support for spatial data, is now a Proud Partner for the 2025-2026 NHL season. […]

Culture

2 h. ago Toronto sports bar launches new challenge where you eat 6 lbs of ribs in under an hour

A Toronto sports bar just introduced a new eating challenge that'll have you slam six pounds of beef in under an hour.While the Toronto Blue Jays look to extend their two-game winning streak against the New York Yankees tonight, fans can engage in a little bit of healthy competition themselves at Real Sports Bar."Healthy," of course, is used facetiously here, because this challenge is more likely to have you running home to put on your stretchy pants than running the bases.Eating challenges are a kitschy — albeit hard to watch — offering at no small number of restaurants across the continent. Heck, there was an entire TV show devoted to them for over a decade.For Toronto's part, though, the options for folks intent on exploring the absolute limit of their stomach capacities are decidedly limited. That's where Real Sports comes in.Their recently revamped menu features, among the usual suspects of mozzarella sticks and chicken wings, the ominousl...

Sport

2 h. ago Cricket goes indoors at B.C. Place Stadium with Canada Super 60 tournament

The tournament runs through Oct. 13 with six men's and two women's teams drawn from international and domestic talent

Sport

2 h. ago Caitlin Clark’s coach: WNBA superstar is ‘a pawn in other people’s narratives’

Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White weighed in on Clark's treatment in league's war of words with potential lockout looming.

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5 h. ago Dell Raises Estimates for Next Four Years on Booming AI Demand

Dell Technologies Inc. roughly doubled its growth estimates for sales and profit for the next two years, and said demand for artificial intelligence products will extend those higher projections at least through the 2030 fiscal year.

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8 h. ago Interest in women’s sports is growing. Here’s how some women

Laura Youngson didn’t expect to focus so much on soccer cleats when she organized a group of women to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and play a high-altitude match. The point of the 2017 game was to highlight inequality in sports for women and girls. On that front, Youngson achieved her goal with the match becoming the […]

Sport

10 h. ago Alberta Premier in Ottawa to push for federal partnership on energy projects

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is in Ottawa this week, following up on her now week-old pledge to help fund the development of a proposal for a new oil pipeline to Canada’s West Coast. Smith is hopeful the project — which as of yet has no private sector proponent or a suggested route option […]

Culture

11 h. ago ASUS ProArt and GoPro Join Forces to Streamline Creator Workflows with AI

By combining the ProArt creator-centric ecosystem and GoPro’s action-driven camera technology, this new partnership empowers users to effortlessly share their adventures KEY POINTS Seamless storytelling: ASUS ProArt creator-focused tools and GoPro’s leading capture technology simplify the storytelling process, from content capture to sharing First Windows app with GoPro Cloud integration and 360° video support: StoryCube […]

Culture

11 h. ago Heineken® extends partnership with UEFA Women’s Champions League until 2030

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Heineken® and UC3 are proud to announce the renewal of Heineken®’s partnership with the UEFA Women’s Champions League, extending the agreement until June 2030. Heineken® has renewed its role as official partner of the UEFA Women’s Champions League for the 2025 – 2030 commercial cycle, building on its […]

Sport

18 h. ago UN chief says women too often absent from peace talks 25 years after resolution

UNITED NATIONS — Twenty-five years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, the United Nations chief said Tuesday that far too often women remain absent. At the same time, sexual violence against women and girls is on the rise and 676 million women live within 50 […]

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18 h. ago Trial underway over Angels’ alleged role in Skaggs’s overdose death

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A wrongful-death lawsuit that accuses the Los Angeles Angels of being responsible for the 2019 drug overdose death of one of its star pitchers began Monday. Jury selection was underway in the long-awaited civil trial over whether the Major League Baseball team is responsible after one of its employees was convicted […]

Events

18 h. ago Women’s world hockey championship moves to November, Euro tourney coming in 2027

ZURICH — The women’s international hockey calendar is changing with the IIHF permanently shifting its annual world championships from April to November next year and launching a European women’s championship tournament in 2027. The European tournament was announced Monday by the International Ice Hockey Federation and PWHL, who collaborated “to reimagine the international calendar, aligning […]

Sport

20 h. ago Senators make rookie defenceman Carter Yakemchuk the club's final cut

Carter Yakemchuk will start his professional career in the American Hockey League. The Ottawa Senators’ top prospect, selected No. 7 overall in the 2024 National Hockey League draft, was the final cut on Monday as the club submitted its Opening Night roster by the 5 p.m. deadline with the team’s first regular-season game Thursday at […]

Sport

21 h. ago Blue Jays top 3.5 million Sportsnet viewers for playoff openers

The hits just keep on coming, both for the Blue Jays and an in-tune and engaged coast-to-coast audience of Canadian baseball fans. Playing before sellout crowds of 44,000 plus at the Rogers for the first two games of the American League Division Series against the New York Yankees has drawn massive television audiences for Canadian […]

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21 h. ago Sport Notes: London Nationals extend streak; Western Mustangs unbeaten

A collection of news and notes from across the London-area sports scene.

Sport

21 h. ago Kitsault Energy Proposes Bold Initiative for Canada’s Economic Prosperity and India’s Energy Security

WASHINGTON — Dr. Krishnan Suthanthiran, founder and president of Kitsault Energy (KE), has renewed calls for a Canada–India energy partnership centered around a dedicated pipeline corridor to Kitsault, British Columbia. The project aims to supply Indian markets with Canadian crude oil and natural gas in the form of liquid butanol—an alternative to LNG with lower […]

Events

21 h. ago YMCA and Hope Mission offering children's day camp and emergency meal programs during teachers' strike

As thousands of teachers walk off the job on Monday, the Hope Mission and the YMCA are offering emergency meal and day camp programs, along with extended child care across the province. Hope Mission is partnering with Edmonton Catholic Schools to provide lunch for children at five school locations. The YMCA of Northern Alberta will […]

Society

23 h. ago UEFA ‘reluctantly’ approves European league games in US, Australia

UEFA on Monday said it had “reluctantly” approved the staging of a La Liga and a Serie A match in the United States and Australia, respectively, despite fan protests. “While it is regrettable to have to let these two games go ahead, this decision is exceptional and shall not be seen as setting a precedent,” […]

Economics

23 h. ago The Edmonton Oilers ink Jake Walman to lengthy extension, best blueline of McDavid era

It was a big signing Monday in Oil Country. Shortly after news broke of the Connor McDavid extension broke, the club also extended a key piece of the Edmonton blueline for the next seven seasons. Jake Walman inked a seven-year, $49m contract with an AAV of $7m. Walman arrived in Edmonton just before the playoffs […]

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24 h. ago Calgary Stampede's 2026 poster unveiled, depicts local grass dancing champion

The Calgary Stampede revealed it’s 2026 poster on Monday, which captures champion grass dancer Tyrone Sitting Eagle of Siksika Nation in an acrylic painting by AUArts student Dayna Loepp.  The painting, titled When the Grass Dances, depicts Sitting Eagle in his grass dancing regalia, competing at the 2024 Calgary Stampede Powwow. Loepp, 22, moved to Calgary […]

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