T55 Daily News Blast

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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).