A High River woman says she was threatened with jail time for riding her horse down the streets of the southern Alberta town. “I love my horses, yes,” said Shelby Opheim, who operates a rescue farm for horses. “My auntie was a barrel racer so I kind of got into it when I was younger.”She
Descrease article font size Increase article font size This is a bittersweet week of parting with a lot of family treasures for a couple from Strathmore, Alta. Dan and Donna Specht are saying goodbye to more than 500 cool collectibles — connections with their Prairie past.The Spechts have spent the past half-century snapping up John
A Nova Scotia couple, both in their 100s, recently celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary, making them among the longest-married couples in Canada. “It is hard to believe,” said Anne Muise, 101, who married her husband Charles on July 13, 1942.The couple, who live in the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, are believed to be among
Deb Hope, a former anchor and reporter at Global BC, has died at the age of 67. For two generations, Hope was one of the most iconic faces in B.C.She read the news at noon, 5 p.m., and, eventually, BCTV’s top-rated flagship 6 p.m. broadcast, usually alongside Tony Parsons.She also had one of the most
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is calling the growing number of sextortion offences being reported an ‘epidemic.” “To be completely frank, the situation is completely out of control. We can barely keep up with the sextortion reports that are coming in to us,” Canadian Centre for Child Protection Associate Executive Director Signy Arnason told Global
Andrew Tate, a divisive social media personality and former professional kickboxer, was detained in Romania in late December on charges of human trafficking and rape, according to local media reports. Tate, a British-U.S. citizen who previously was banned from various social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech, was reportedly detained along with his brother