Wednesday, August 9th
- The Town of Manning has started the process of changing out gas meters on homes.
Watch for notifications on your door. - Only one out of control wildfire left in Alberta.
It’s located halfway between Rainbow Lake & Paddle Prairie (not a threat at this time) - Alberta RCMP focused on curbing dangerous driving over the August long weekend.
83 impaired drivers were charged, 38 distracted drivers were ticketed, nearly 1200 speeding tickets were handed out. - Oil continues to boom.
Brent over $87, WTI around $84. - Tim Horton’s sales over $2 Billion USD in a quarter for the first time in history.
Canadian locations had a growth of 12.5% from the same time last year. - Canadian Rapper Tory Lanez sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Singer Megan Thee Stallion.
He fired a gun at the back of Megan Thee Stallion’s feet in 2020, allegedly shouting for her to dance.
She needed surgery to remove bullet fragments. - Today is day one of sales for the Canadian Taylor Swift Shows next year (Toronto).
6 Shows are available, with tickets for 2 of them up for grabs each day, for the rest of the week. - Country star Luke Bryan returns to his tour tomorrow after cancelling three shows this past weekend.
Easing the minds of fans, reassuring everyone that it was just a bad head cold. - Wheatbelt Finals Game 2 resumes tonight in Rycroft.
Peace River leads 4-2 after 5. Stamps ahead 1-0 in the best of 5 championship. - Toronto Blue Jays send Kevin Gausman to the mound tonight against Cleveland.
The Jays lost 1-0 yesterday… and now are only 2 games ahead of Seattle in the Wild Card race. - 5 Canadians made the PGA Playoffs (Top 70)
Hadwin, Conners, Taylor, Hughes, Svensson tee off tomorrow, in the hopes of making the Top 50 (to play next week).
