The Calgary Flames want Walker Duehr to be disruptive. They want him to add a little more physicality to his game. They want him to cause a little chaos in the offensive zone. And Duehr, by all accounts, is up for that. After sitting out 10 of the Flames’ last 12 games, Duehr was back […]
On the latest episode of Burning Questions, Postmedia’s Rob Wong chats with Postmedia Calgary Flames Writers Danny Austin about Dustin Wolf’s immediate and long-term future with the Flames. They also discuss what Chris Tanev might net the Flames on the trade market and if the team needs to be more physical.
Broken beyond quick fixes Our debt is breaking Canada’s back, while our economic growth is in reverse as the USA is in fast forward. So much spending incompetence by the Liberal government while the NDP has been hoping for a Canadian dental plan. The Conservatives lacked a strong leader. Trudeau’s uncontrolled spending has caused Canada’s […]
The Smith government last week released its mid-year fiscal update, which provides an overview of the current state of provincial finances. Alberta will run a projected $5.5-billion budget surplus in 2023-24 with ongoing surpluses in the next two fiscal years — fuelled in large part by an ongoing surge in resource revenue. This is good […]
Calgary rents skyrocket, Alberta NDP wants rent control, Danielle Smith's UCP says No and the minority renting are right out of luck
This column has been written before. It’s been written in a positive sense, about how the Calgary Flames were falling behind early but finding ways to overcome deficits and win games in November. More recently, it’s been written in a slightly more concerned tone, focusing on how maybe it’s not such a good thing that […]
For the better part of five weeks now, the Calgary Flames have managed to stay competitive in most of their games. There have been exceptions, of course, but since the start of November they’ve rarely been outplayed the way they were on Tuesday night against the Minnesota Wild. To put it plainly, the Flames didn’t […]
The good news for the Calgary Flames is it could have been a lot worse. Jacob Markstrom was listed as week-to-week with a fractured finger on Tuesday morning. If it felt like the sky was falling in Calgary, it fortunately didn’t take Flames head coach Ryan Huska long to provide a positive update. “The great […]
The Calgary Flames are going to have to survive without Jacob Markstrom for a little while. Markstrom left Monday’s practice after taking a puck to his blocker hand and, on Tuesday morning, the team announced that their starting goalie was out week-to-week with a fractured finger. They immediately called up Dustin Wolf from the AHL’s […]
Time to go Trudeau is now trying anything to call down the Conservative Party after the poll numbers show he is in the toilet. Three out of four Canadians say he has to go, after eight years of watching him destroy our once great country. Again he is giving millions of taxpayers dollars to CBC […]
Alberta-Ottawa war rages, Premier Danielle Smith slams Trudeau government methane emissions cuts, vows a fight, maybe the sovereignty act
Circle K Classic unveils teams, pools with excitement building for annual Under-18 hockey event in Calgary