Alberta judge rejects Super Channel parent’s request to block sale of set-top boxes

Super Channel parent loses battle over boxes

EDMONTON - An Alberta court has rejected an Edmonton company's request to block four Canadian retailers from selling set-top boxes that allegedly can be used to illegally access its programming offerings.

Allarco Entertainment named Staples Canada, Best Buy Canada, London Drugs and Canada Computers in its application for an injunction to protect its Super Channel pay-television service from intellectual property theft.

Allarco also asked Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench to issue an order against an unknown number of unidentified customers of the retailers as well as unidentified equipment suppliers.

But Justice Michael Lema completely rejected Allarco's requests for court injunctions in a ruling dated April 30.

Court hears woman’s statement detailing pain, trauma after boyfriend shot her in the face

A.W. thought she had found love with Machuor Akau.

That was before Akau put a loaded Luger handgun to the 26-year-old woman’s head last November and told her he should “kill her now.”

Akau shot her, shattering her jaw and embedding teeth in the bones of her mouth and leaving her fighting for her life.

Now A.W. wakes up every morning in pain and sees the scars on her face and neck.

Three wait times, one patient: resources matter

Manitoba announced at least $127 million for a 60-bed hospital, with expanded emergency and surgical space, dialysis and chemotherapy. It will serve surrounding communities and a town with more than 5,600 residents of Neepawa.

The opening plan does not include a CT scanner.

Imagine a patient arriving at Neepawa’s new emergency department after its planned opening in 2027. A physician assesses the patient and orders a computed tomography scan, or CT. This diagnostic infrastructure is accessed in another hospital down the road in Brandon.

The patient needs monitoring during the journey, about 77 kilometres away, so staff arrange an ambulance.

Jets land state-of-the-art dressing room after off-season of renovations

It’s not just the on-ice product that’s getting an overhaul this season for the Winnipeg Jets.

The hockey club has also undergone an extreme makeover when it comes to player facilities, including a new state-of-the-art dressing room that now rivals any around the league.

And if you don’t think that matters, you haven’t been paying attention.

“We’ve talked about doing everything first class,” head coach Scott Arniel told the Free Press on Tuesday. “We can’t do anything about the weather, but when people come here, we want them to know we look after them and we look after their families.”

Bluesman’s memoir focuses on life before music fame

He was born Colin Munn in Regina in 1964, but he’s best known by the name given to him onstage by his late friend Stevie Ray Vaughan in Ann Arbor, Mich., 20-plus years later — Colin James.