Новости за 15.02.2016

A recent study, using mice, out of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) at the University of Calgary has discovered that a high-fat, sweetened diet can rapidly rewire the reward circuits in the brain.

Oil stockpiles at an 86-year high and warnings of a persistent glut weren’t enough to keep money managers from betting that prices are ready for a rebound. Speculators’ long positions in West Texas Intermediate crude climbed to the highest since June as oil sank toward a 12- year low, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading […]

If history has taught us anything, it’s that nobody likes a creative take on a national anthem. Unfortunately for Nelly Furtado, this credo held true at the NBA All-Star Game this weekend. Twitter reaction to her singing of O Canada was swift and vicious. Here’s some of what the Twitter wolves were saying. Sports columnist Michael […]

Last year on Valentine’s Day, Alison Azer and her four young children ate heart-shaped pancakes topped with whipped cream and Nutella for breakfast. The kids — pre-teen girls Sharvahn, and Rojevahn, and little boys Dersim and Meitan — opened gift bags packed with treats, toys and homemade collages decorated with stickers and kind words from a mom who […]

Looking back at the week in politics, Herald political experts Don Braid and Chris Varcoe examine the “astonishing” attack on Alberta in the B.C. throne speech.

TORONTO —  Two giant panda cubs born at the Toronto Zoo are now taking solid steps. The zoo says the cubs, who turned four months old on Saturday, are becoming “extremely mobile.” It has released a video showing the pair moving around an enclosure, with one of the cubs even clambering over a small log. The […]

Jeremy Hotz wants to take a nap. That is among the first things the comedian says when reached at a hotel in Moncton. He has just survived a treacherous and apparently exhausting ride through a snow storm from Saint John. Perhaps it’s proof that Mother Nature has a sense of humour. After all, Hotz’s tour is called The International […]

Dozens of people marched through the streets of southwest Calgary on Valentine’s Day with broken hearts. At Calgary’s eighth annual Valentine’s Day Memorial March, participants carried large paper cut outs to represent the missing and murdered indigenous women they had gathered to honour. “It’s like we’re carrying the weight of these women, and their injustices, […]

Calgarians are being reminded to stay off the ice after two teenagers fell through a pond Sunday afternoon and had to be rescued.  The fire department responded to James Mckevitt Road and Spruce Meadows Trail around 3:30 p.m. for reports that two people had fallen through the ice. When crews arrived on scene, they found […]

It is the most pressure-packed position on the ice. No need to sugar-coat it. So, after Sunday’s morning practice at the Saddledome, Calgary Flames head coach Bob Hartley didn’t even try. “Obviously, if we’re going to be a playoff team, goaltending will have to be the story until the end of the year,” Hartley said […]

Via Rail’s last passenger train that chugged along a southern track through Regina, Calgary and Banff had ended its journey at a Vancouver station on the afternoon of Jan. 17, 1990, five and a half hours late. The Canadian, as the route was called, delivered scores of passengers from Toronto to Vancouver. But Ottawa scrapped the southern […]

Police are probing the suspicious death of a man who died shortly after he was dropped off at the Red Deer Hospital on Saturday evening. Red Deer RCMP and the Calgary Major Crimes Unit are investigating after the middle-aged, caucasian man was left at the Red Deer Hospital around 9:30 p.m. Saturday by unknown individuals. Police […]

The city’s larger scale, high-risk projects such as the Rocky Ridge Recreation Facility should have specialized project managers attached rather than being spearheaded from within departments, a city official says. Now that an audit is complete, Coun. Ward Sutherland said it stands up what was being discussed at city hall last year. “When we have […]

“There’s no place like home,” says the plucky adventurer from the Midwest who gets blown clean out of hers at the start of the twister-tossed musical fantasy arriving tonight (Tuesday) on Calgary’s Jubilee Auditorium stage.  Well, yes and no. Dorothy has spent a lot of the last century out of Kansas and on the road, with […]