Attendance record stands as 2023 Calgary Stampede statistics released
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This year's attendance numbers for the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth have been released, making the event the second largest Calgary Stampede in history.
This year's attendance numbers for the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth have been released, making the event the second largest Calgary Stampede in history.
According to officials, 1,384,632 people attended this year. The average daily attendance at the grounds was 125,050.
That's just short of the all-time attendance record of more than 1.4 million visitors, which was set in 2012.
A new name topped the podium on the final night of chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede.
Officials with the World Pro Chuckwagons said Layne MacGillivray, driving the Spray Lakes Sawmills Outfit, with outriders Brendan Nolin and Trey MacGillivray, won the championship final.
He defeated Kurt Bensmiller by 34 one-hundredths of a second.
It was Layne's first time winning as a driver the Cowboys Rangeland Derby Championship at the Calgary Stampede, having won twice before as an outrider.
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Facing criticism for requiring health care workers with two jobs within the public system to choose one to comply with labour laws, Santé Québec has announced a one-year extension to the transition period.
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Former Saskatchewan Party MLA Greg Lawrence has been sentenced to 12 months probation – after pleading guilty to one count of assault.
Several thousand British Columbians remain in the dark Wednesday morning after a windstorm known as a bomb cyclone slammed coastal communities.
A man who plead guilty to a double stabbing in 2015 will soon be out on statutory release, but he'll have to follow some strict conditions set out by the parole board.
A school bus hit parked vehicles and pushed one into a Middle Sackville, N.S., home Wednesday afternoon.