Новости за 01.01.2016

It’s not your typical high school math, science or social studies course. When they head back to class this January, some Alberta teens will build prosthetic hands for children in developing countries through a partnership between a Calgary 3D printing company, a global non-profit and a credit-based high school course. The fully functioning. custom-sized extremities will […]

About the only certainty for the Canadian oil and gas sector is that the number of known unknowns abounds. Uncertainty has always been a hallmark of the oil industry and the current list of variables is led by particularly volatile crude prices, but also includes the review of oil and gas royalties in Alberta, Ottawa’s plan to roll out a […]

Two years after the 2013 flood caused massive damage and battered attendance at the Calgary Zoo, the facility continued to rebound in 2015. Though final numbers aren’t yet available, spokeswoman Trish Exton-Parder said the zoo was nearing its goal of 1.3 million visitors — up from 1.2 million a year earlier — and remained optimistic […]

Calgary police spent the final hours of 2015 investigating a stabbing that sent a man to hospital. The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, at a home in the 100 block of Saddlemead Green N.E. Police and paramedics found an adult male suffering from a stab wound. Paramedics took the man to hospital in serious condition, […]

Looking back over this past year, I’ve been blessed to spend time with some wonderful Calgarians who have the heart, energy and confidence to get things done. Most impressive to me is the effort many business people put into trying to solve the problem of homelessness in our city. One solution, according to Brookfield Residential president Alan Norris, […]

Tentrees’ writing naturally picks out the positive in situations that would most often otherwise seem heartbreaking or overwhelming.

“Look mom, fresh cougar tracks!” shouts my daughter joyously. Joy isn’t my first reaction, as tingles run down my spine. We are alone in the backcountry, after all. I’m no wilderness expert, but I’m pretty confident this isn’t a cougar’s footprint, having heard rumours of an elusive lynx in the area. Hoofing it across the […]

2015 was a huge year for restaurant openings and culinary happenings in and around Calgary. The year ahead will likely be a bit quieter — restaurant openings often come in cycles — but we have some tasty things to look forward to. Here are a few highlights. 1. First out of the gate will be […]

At the end of a month to remember, this was a period to forget. The Calgary Flames, in the early stages of the middle frame, were completely overwhelmed by the Los Angeles Kings. And it cost them. The Kings scored twice, hit one post, chopped another puck onto the top of the Flames’ net, and outshot […]

Two Calgary-area teams will go for gold Friday at the Mac’s AAA Midget Hockey Tournament. Okotoks-based Rocky Mountain Raiders face the Northern Capitals of Prince George, B.C., in the female final at noon while the Calgary Flames play Lloydminster Bandit Pipeline Bobcats in the male final at 4 p.m. Both games are at the Scotiabank […]

A cougar warning was posted in the Banff townsite on Thursday after a report of an encounter with one of the big cats. Around 3 p.m., officials posted the notice on the Parks Canada website for the residential areas of Middle Springs and Valley View.  No one from Banff National Park could immediately be reached for […]

Connie Gelber was already unenthusiastic about a 14-hour flight from Shangai to Toronto. But then the plane hit a patch of severe turbulence, and the day took a terrible turn. “Everyone, like in the movies, flew up to the ceiling and their heads were smashed,” she said Thursday. “All these oxygen masks came down, everything was […]

High-income earners in Alberta will be paying higher taxes in the new year. Increases to income tax rates brought in by the NDP government will come fully into effect in 2016 after being partially implemented in October. Under the new brackets, the first $125,000 of an individual’s income will remain taxed at an unchanged rate […]

Over the course of the year a number of people who have made an impact in Calgary have passed. We’ve put together a timeline of many of those people.   While we tried to include some of the more high profile Calgarians lost over the past year, we recognize that there may be some who […]

An Edmonton-area man who raised $10.8 million from about 125 investors with a promise of 18 per cent annual returns has been fined $1 million and permanently banned from trading securities or acting as an officer of an issuing company. Wade Robert Closson of St. Albert admitted to the Alberta Securities Commission that he and his […]