<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=288482159799297&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">

Web Notifications

SaltWire.com would like to send you notifications for breaking news alerts.

Activate notifications?

Saltwire Logo

Welcome to SaltWire

Register today and start
enjoying 30 days of unlimited content.

Get started! Register now

Already a member? Sign in

Marc Campbell warms up a horse before a race during a recent harness racing card at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Campbell recorded three driving wins on a 13-dash program on May 11. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

HARNESS RACING: Blood Money pulls upset in Charlottetown

Contributed, Nicholas Oakes · Columnist |Updated May. 13, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Blood Money completed a Marc Campbell driving triple as the stallion turned back stablemate and heavy favourite Twin B Tuffenuff in the evening Preferred Pace at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park on May 11. The $3,600 ...

Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand struggles to get to the bench after being hit during the first period of Game 3 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs second-round series against the Florida Panthers in Boston on Friday night. - Winslow Townson / USA Today Sports

Unhappy birthday: Brad Marchand, who turned 36 on Saturday, out for Game 4 against Florida with upper body injury

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 12, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Brad Marchand probably didn’t want to spend his birthday this way. The Boston Bruins captain, who turned 36 on Saturday, was injured during Friday’s Game 3 loss to the Florida Panthers and did not play in Game 4 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs ...

Massimo Ferrin of the Halifax Wanderers is defended by Fraser Aird of Cavalry FC during Canadian Premier League action Saturday afternoon at the Wanderers Grounds. The teams played to a 1-1 draw. - CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE

‘One point is better than zero’: After starting season 0-3, Wanderers pick up draw with Cavalry

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 12, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

It may not have been a victory in the standings but the Halifax Wanderers’ 1-1 draw against visiting Cavalry FC on Saturday afternoon could be deemed a moral victory. Giorgio Probo scored his first Canadian Premier League goal in the 78th minute to ...

The Toronto Maple Leafs dismissed head coach Sheldon Keefe on Thursday.

FIDDLER'S FACTS: Maple Leafs deserved a better fate

Contributed, Fred MacDonald · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

The Toronto Maple Leafs’ season came to an earlier-than-expected end with a seventh-game overtime loss to the Boston Bruins in Round 1 of the NHL playoffs, but they deserved a better fate. This year’s team was built for a long playoff run. The ...

Will Zafiris has been named the new head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers Knights’ major under-18 male hockey team. Will Zafiris • Special to The Guardian

P.E.I.'s Charlottetown Knights name new head coach

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

A familiar face behind benches in eastern P.E.I. is continuing to progress up the ranks to the New Brunswick/P.E.I. Major Under-18 Male Hockey League next season. Will Zafiris of Stratford has been named head coach of the Charlottetown Bulk Carriers ...

Trainer-driver Mike McGuigan and Islebetu Islebeatu lead the field around the turn for the homestretch in the opening race of a 10-dash harness racing card at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Islebetu Islebeatu, a three-year-old bay filly, won the race over a sloppy track in 2:03.1. Jason Simmonds • The Guardian

HARNESS RACING: Tobins Brownie wins feature race in sloppy conditions

Nicholas Oakes · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

A wet night led to a front-end victory for Tobins Brownie in the feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park on May 9. The $3,700 Fillies and Mares Preferred Pace had Tobins Brownie and trainer-driver David Dowling ...

This summer in Paris, Ellie Black of Halifax will become the first Canadian female gymnast ever to have competed in four Olympic Games. - CONTRIBUTED

‘I’m going to Paris with no regrets’: Decorated gymnast Ellie Black reflects on her record-breaking Olympic journey

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

When Ellie Black steps into Paris’s Bercy Arena for the gymnastics competition at this summer’s Olympic Games, she will add her name to the Canadian record book. Already Canada’s most decorated female artistic gymnast, the 28-year-old from Halifax ...

Carter Lawless is back on the rugby pitch with the Three Oaks Axemen senior AAA boys’ team this season. Lawless, a Grade 12 student, had a serious non-rugby-related injury close to a year ago. - Joel Arsenault/Special to SaltWire

TOSH senior keeps promise to coach of returning to rugby pitch after suffering serious injury

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

It has been a long 12 months for Carter Lawless, but the Three Oaks Senior High School senior has kept his promise. Lawless broke two bones in his leg – the tibia and fibula – in an all-terrain vehicle accident in mid-May 2023. Despite surgery – ...

GOR GLAN MAC STORY:
Joni Colburne is seen during practice at the Tennis Canada u15 camp at the Atlantic Tennis Centre in Bedford, Thursday May 9, 2024. 

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

Goin’ down the road: Tennis wunderkind Colburne partakes in Canadian U15 camp, will join brother in Montreal this fall

Glenn MacDonald · Multimedia Journalist |Updated May. 9, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

The time has come for Joni Colburne to leave Nova Scotia behind to further her tennis aspirations. In August, the 12-year-old will move to Montreal with her family and reunite with her older brother Caden, one of the country’s top up-and-coming ...

Scott Morrison and his son, Max, are all smiles as they hang out. Scott and his wife, Susanne, have formed To The Max Foundation in honour of their son to assistant families and individuals with autism. Scott, an assistant coach with the Utah Jazz is from Morell, P.E.I., and recently spearheaded an initiative where all 30 NBA head coaches wore specially-designed sneakers featuring an autism theme. - Susanne Morrison/Special to SaltWire

P.E.I.'s Scott Morrison enjoys first season as Utah Jazz assistant coach

Jason Simmonds · Journalist |Updated May. 9, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Scott Morrison said his first year as an assistant coach with the NBA’s Utah Jazz was a great experience. “It was good to be back in the front of the bench and have a big role, and I feel like Coach (Will) Hardy, and I have a really good relationship ...

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

Local, trusted news matters now more than ever.
And so does your support.

Ensure local journalism stays in your community by purchasing a membership today.

The news and opinions you’ll love starting as low as $1.

Start your Membership Now

Videos

Team Nova Scotia Makes History! #hockey #canada #sports #halifax

Watch on YouTube: "Team Nova Scotia Makes History! #hockey #canada #sports #halifax"