Alberta News

LA VILLA, Italy (AP) — Marco Odermatt claimed a record-matching fifth straight World Cup giant slalom victory on Sunday but his win at Alta Badia was by a more slender margin than the two-time defending overall World Cup champion is used to.

CALGARY — Yegor Sharangovich continued his hot streak on Saturday. Sharangovich scored for the fifth consecutive game as the Calgary Flames snapped a four-game winless skid with a 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

EDMONTON — The Florida Panthers rediscovered their scoring touch on Saturday.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Yegor Sharangovich scored for the fifth consecutive game as the Calgary Flames snapped a four-game winless skid on Saturday night with a 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. A.J.

CALGARY — As a worker at a shelter and detox facility in Calgary, Robbie Daniels admits he sometimes feels a sense of personal failure when people he knows through his job die on the street.

EDMONTON — It was just supposed to be a pause, a breather for an overburdened regulator and concerned public to catch up with an industry growing beyond expectations.

TORONTO — Citing the "complicated" nature of pensions and need for all provinces and territories to weigh in, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland would not provide a specific timeline for determining how much Alberta would be entitled to if it leaves

EDMONTON — A man in Edmonton who was set to be deported to Uganda, where he feared prison or death for being gay, can stay in Canada for now. On Friday, the 25-year-old was granted a seven-month temporary resident permit.

CALGARY — Veteran NHL coach Bruce Boudreau will make his international coaching debut as Canada's bench boss for the upcoming Spengler Cup. Hockey Canada made the announcement on Friday.

CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed veteran kicker René Paredes to a one-year contract, the team announced Friday. Paredes will be entering his 13th season with the Stampeders, who signed him as a free agent in 2011.