Новости за 31.01.2016

Every time Jessica Parker Kennedy drives to work she is reminded of the ambitious scope and considerable budget of her television series, Black Sails. You can see it all from the freeway in Cape Town: Towering pirate ships and an 18th-Century town built on a sprawling South African film studio, subbing in for the Bahamas circa 1720. “I’m never used to it,” says Kennedy, taking […]

Fewer Calgarians are catching cabs, and it appears fewer people want to drive them, according to data from the city. Amid a weak economy, overall taxi trips decreased by ten per cent in 2015, when compared to 2014. Last year, Calgary’s cabs made 7.5 million trips, almost a million fewer rides than in 2014 when […]

MCBRIDE, B.C. — The day after a colossal avalanche killed five snowmobilers in eastern British Columbia, Thea Pelletier climbed aboard her machine and returned to the backcounty wilderness. She unfastened a yellow plastic lily from her backpack and planted the flower in pristine snow to pay her respects. “I had a moment. It was intense. […]

“I guess this happens to plenty of people when someone close to them dies, it moves them to action."

The Calgary Roughnecks have relied on their offence for years. On Saturday, it was a heroic penalty kill that got the job done. Curtis Dickson scored four goals and both Dane Dobbie and Jeff Shattler had hat-tricks and seven points as the Riggers won their second straight to improve to 2-2 on the season. But […]

Kaleb Toth isn’t the first retired superstar athlete who has asked the question. Could I still play? Brett Favre clearly struggled with it. Mario Lemieux was already in the hall of fame when he returned to the ice. So, sure, there have been times when the former Calgary Roughnecks hotshot kicked around the idea of […]

There’s still a little more than a week to go before the Year of the Monkey, but Calgary’s Chinese community isn’t waiting to get the new year celebrations underway. The Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre kicked off its festivities this weekend with an indoor bazaar and traditional lion dance ceremony at its building in Chinatown. The […]

Black Sabbath fans in Alberta will have to wait a little longer for The End. The iconic heavy metal pioneers have postponed shows in Edmonton Saturday night and Monday, Feb. 1,  in Calgary, part of the band’s farewell The End tour,  because  lead singer Ozzy Osbourne is under the weather. A release from concert promoter […]

The City of Calgary is facing a difficult repair job for its iconic Peace Bridge. Three glass panels on the downtown span have been broken due to vandalism. A fourth is believed to have cracked due to thermal expansion. The City put out a request for proposal last week seeking contractors to replace the glass […]

A Calgary triathlete heads to the African savannah next month as part of a group of eight cyclists raising money for water wells in poor areas. David Custer, a massage therapist by trade, will ride 350 km across Tanzania with riders from Winnipeg, Ontario, Montreal and Dar es Salaam. The group has raised $26,000 for […]

It was one of the few tender moments in The Revenant, a rare respite from the blood, rotting animal corpses and evil frenchmen that make up most of the epic. In the scene, Leonardo DiCaprio’s severely wounded fur trapper Hugh Glass catches snow flakes on his tongue alongside his new friend, Hikuc, a benevolent Pawnee tribesman played by Arthur […]