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Alberta’s women’s lacrosse team is one win away from a berth in the gold medal final at the Canada Summer Games in St. John's, NL.

The team dominated Manitoba 8-1 yesterday, showing a mix of speed, skill, and precision that left their opponents struggling to keep up. The win secures Alberta a spot in the semifinals, where they will face Ontario today. The winner of that matchup moves on to the gold medal game.

Alberta fell 5-3 to Ontario in the preliminary round and is looking for redemption.

From playing in Cochrane this summer at the Bow Valley Boot Stomp to stepping onto the massive Country Thunder stage, Berlyn Broadhead’s 2025 is hitting all the right notes.

The proud cowgirl and Country Music Alberta Youth Horizon Award winner grew up in Slave Lake and now calls Eckville home.

“I draw every inspiration from what I did growing up, quadding, camping, fishing, all that fun small-town stuff.” 

The 59th annual Cochrane Lions Rodeo will wrap up its Saturday night with a big dose of country music. The Johner Brothers are set to headline the rodeo cabaret on August 30, bringing not only their classic hits but a family-filled performance.

This year’s show will be extra special, as Brad Johner’s brother Ken returned to performing about a year ago, and they’ll be joined by four of Brad’s five sons.

“My boys are just as big a part of the show as Ken and I are,” Brad said. “They do a lot of singing and background stuff, and it’s just so much fun having them up there.”

The Cochrane Lions Rodeo Royalty Committee is giving the public a closer look at the skills and poise required to wear the crown.

This Sunday, Aug. 17, the committee hosts its annual public speaking competition at the Cochrane Lions Event Centre. Three young women from the Madden, Airdrie, and Carstairs area — all with strong ranching or horse backgrounds — are vying for the title.

Emily Stevenson, Sonia van der Burgh, and Alivia Carriere hope to be crowned Cochrane Lions Rodeo Queen during the Labour Day Weekend Rodeo.

Several Cochrane lacrosse players will be competing on national stages on four different teams, each chasing a championship in their respective divisions.

Wyatt Viste and the Calgary Raiders captured the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League (RMLL) Junior A title and will represent Alberta at the Minto Cup, Aug. 16–24 in St. Catharines, Ont.

The Route 22 Artist Collective Gallery is raising the bar for its fourth annual Art in the Park Festival by welcoming one of the biggest names yet to its lineup.

Executive director Lara Kruger says celebrated wildlife and landscape painter Dwayne Harty will lead a workshop during the festival, Aug. 26 to 30.

Starting today China is implementing a 75.8 per cent duty on Canadian canola seed imports.

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced the preliminary ruling regarding their anti-dumping investigation earlier this week. 

The latest tariff on canola seed is in addition to the 100 per cent tariff implemented on Canadian oil and meal back in March 2025.

President and CEO of the Canola Council of Canada, Chris Davison, says China is a highly valued and important market for us, noting they were disappointed with the preliminary ruling.

Five-year survival rates for people with lung cancer have doubled since the 1990s, but the disease still kills more patients than any other type of cancer, a Statistics Canada report said on Wednesday.

The report said the number of people living five years after they were diagnosed jumped from 13 per cent to 27 per cent between 1992 and 2021.

Lung cancer is still responsible for almost a quarter of all cancer deaths in Canada, it said.

Farmer Bill Prybylski says China’s planned tariff on canola seed wasn’t factored into his business equations this year.

The president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says the 75.8 per cent preliminary duty, announced Tuesday, has already caused canola prices to fall by $1 per bushel.

That translates to a loss of about $200,000 for his farm. 

“That’s a pretty significant financial hit,” said Prybylski, who farms northeast of Regina near Yorkton.

The Grain Growers of Canada (GGC) has a new chair, elected into the position earlier this year. Scott Hepworth, who farms near Assiniboia with his farmer, moved into the role after the previous chair stepped away from the position.

Having previously been the vice chair at the GGC and currently a director with Sask Wheat, Hepworth is confident they'll be able to meet some of the goals he wants to solve.