Alberta News

EDMONTON — Two more Edmonton Elks players have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 14 since the team returned from a game last week against the B.C. Lions.

CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have signed forward Dillon Dube to a three-year contract worth $6.9 million. The 23-year-old from Golden, B.C., has 18 goals and 25 assists in 121 career games the past two seasons with the Flames.

CALGARY — Plans are underway to create a permanent memorial for victims of Canada's residential schools to replace a fire-damaged one that includes hundreds of children's shoes on the steps of Calgary City Hall.

CALGARY — Natalie Spooner is comfortable out of her comfort zone. The veteran forward on Canada's women's hockey team has carved out a public persona outside of hockey tackling international travel racing and figure skating for reality TV.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Dominika Laskova scored twice and the Czech Republic beat Germany 2-0 on Wednesday night in the women's world hockey championship to win Group B and avoid having to face the United States or Canada in the quarterfinals.

CALGARY — Finland won its first game of the women's world hockey championship Wednesday with a 4-0 blanking of Russia. Petra Nieminen scored twice to lead the Finns (1-2).

CALGARY — Canadian women's hockey team captain Marie-Philip Poulin won't play Thursday against the United States at the world championship after blocking a shot with her chest in a previous game.

EDMONTON — Alberta reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesdaybut, along with Saskatchewan, is not planning to follow broad mask mandates announced this week by neighbouring western provinces.

EDMONTON — A former long-haul trucker from Ontario who is in an Alberta prison for killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is appealing his conviction and sentence.

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Three more Edmonton Elks players have tested positive for COVID-19, the Canadian Football League team said Wednesday.