Новости за 18.02.2016

Calgarian James Rajbhandari showed no outward emotion Thursday as a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder in the death of city man Wyatt Lewis. Lewis was stabbed five times, including once through the heart, at a 16 Avenue N.W. house party. He had gone there with his friend Ricardo Alas, after being asked to go to the party by […]

Just over a dozen cars jumped the tracks when a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailed in Calgary. The rail company says no one was hurt when the accident happened Thursday in the city’s southeast Inglewood neighbourhood. Jeremy Berry, a CP spokesman, says in an email that 13 cars, including three tankers, derailed. Berry says […]

Andrew Rosati and Pietro D. Pitts, Bloomberg Venezuela hiked gasoline prices for the first time in almost two decades and devalued its currency as President Nicolas Maduro attempts to address triple-digit inflation and the economy’s deepest recession in over a decade. The primary exchange rate used for essential imports, such as food and medicine, will weaken to […]

A party band, a ventriloquist and now a Lady — the 2016 Virgin Mobile Calgary Stampede Concert Series is certainly shaping up to be an interesting one. The latest one to be added to the annual string of Stampede Saddledome shows is country act Lady Antebellum, who will hit the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth […]

Calgary police are hunting for at least one person who fled the scene of a fatal collision in the southwest community of Evergreen this morning. Paramedics say a pick-up truck and smaller car collided on 37 Street and 130 Avenue S.W. around 6:30 a.m. The driver of the car, a man believed to be in […]

World of Wheels; Friday, Feb. 19 to Sunday, Feb. 21. At BMO Centre The wheels on this trade show have been going round and round for 50 years. The current edition boasts a lineup that proves the beast is in fine running order. The special guests include Chip Foose, wrestler Daniel Bryan, a muscle car […]

For 103 years, one of the province’s few remaining wooden grain elevators has loomed over the town of Stavely. But if a telecommunications proposal is approved, the old green structure will no longer be the tallest building in town. Telus wants to erect a 35-metre-tall cellphone tower in the heart of main street, to rise up between the […]

Calgary entrepreneurs explain how social media helps them succeed

It’s a folkadelic, jazz-soul, audio-visual, barbecue-rockin’, pop-punkin’ week. Friday: The Ashley Hundred, with Bears in Hazenmore, I am the Mountain and The Northern Coast Taking their name from an 1820s fur-trading company, this local five-piece deals in music they call folkadelic. They’ll be supported by peltless ambient rockers from Saskatoon, Bears in Hazenmore. At Dickens […]

It’s a route he knows by heart, starting from the rolling foothills of southern Alberta, upwards over the majestic Rocky Mountains, then, in just over an hour, descending into the West Coast city considered one of the world’s urban jewels. On Feb. 29, George Hawey will once again be in the cockpit of a WestJet […]

Trevor Smith has no qualms acknowledging his personal connection to his subjects in the documentary, The Smalls: Forever is a Long Time. The film was never meant to be an objective, impartial document of a the Edmonton band’s 2014 reunion tour. Smith is a longtime fan of The Smalls. He thinks more people should be. He and a sƒmall crew […]

It’s too bad that Calgary Flames GM Brad Treliving was addressing the media and not his on-ice employees. Because it would have been a worthwhile reminder. “This league is so difficult,” Treliving told a circle of reporters Wednesday morning at the Saddledome. “You hear it all the time, and it’s somewhat cliché … You cannot […]

THREE STARS RW Jason Pominville, Wild — The Saddledome faithful would have never guessed this guy has been scuffling offensively. He delivered a dandy assist on Erik Haula’s opening strike and then buried one of his own. LW Erik Haula, Wild — He was the peanut butter to Pominville’s jelly. Haula made no mistake on […]

Six hours of testimony. Seven days of deliberation. All of which produced nearly nothing – but titillation. Because while National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman’s ruling on the Dennis Wideman affair did create a stir, that had to do with more than the verdict itself. Sure, Wideman’s 20-game suspension being upheld is news. (After all, video of […]

Calgary’s medical health officer says council should reconsider its “fundamentally” ideological decision to remove fluoride from the city’s drinking water supply in 2011, after a study showed childhood tooth decay rates here are increasing faster than in Edmonton.  “I feared that this could happen, but I couldn’t say confidently back in 2011 that it was going to […]

Canadian Pacific Railway acted in bad faith when it fired a Calgary conductor last year after a major derailment, basing her dismissal on “unfounded” grounds that appeared to “camouflage” discrimination, an arbitrator ruled.  Stephanie Katelnikoff filed a union grievance after she was dismissed by the railroad in January 2015. The dispute was heard by a third-party arbitrator, […]

Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party was once the most powerful political machine in Canada, but Tory activists are now facing questions over whether it can — or should — be rebuilt to stand on its own. Tories from five Calgary constituency associations met in the city Wednesday night, with party members from five other city ridings scheduled to come together on Thursday.  The meetings are […]

The New Democrats have achieved the seemingly impossible — they united most of the regular news media behind Ezra Levant. They hoisted Canada’s provocateur-in-chief from the right-wing ramparts to instant national fame. Welcome to the mainstream, Ezra. The only thing that might disappoint Levant is the government’s abrupt apology Wednesday, and the decision to allow The Rebel into future […]

Calgary’s transgender community will be toasted at a gala affair next month. Calgary Pride has partnered with Trans Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) to host a free celebration March 31 for all members, allies and supporters of the transgender community. Dubbed the Trans Day of Visibility, the event at the Jack Singer Concert Hall aims to increase […]

The Parole Board of Canada has granted additional freedoms to a man who once killed his landlady, dismembered her body, pawned her ring and fled the province.

It’s a week that’s been brewing ever since the Flames iced the rival Vancouver Canucks in the NHL playoffs last spring. Making good on a wager between Calgary’s Village Brewery and Squamish B.C.’s Howe Sounds Brewing, the West Coast company shipped its own brewer, Franco Corno, to work with their Cowtown counterparts this week. The scheme was […]

Calgary police are looking for information about two vehicles connected to a summer 2015 shooting murder, another shooting and accomplices who tried to cover them up.

Six months after suspending all services, an LGBTQ-focused support group is ready to rebuild the organization.  The Calgary Outlink Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity has hired Kelly Ernst, a longtime advocate with strategic development experience, as its new interim executive director. Ernst most recently was chairman of the public hearings on gay-straight alliances in Alberta schools […]

It’s shaping up to be a showdown over soaring utility bills in Chestermere on Thursday night. Residents in the small city east of Calgary are circulating a pair of petitions, one to dissolve the private utility corporation pitching what some taxpayers believe are skyrocketing bills, and another asking for a provincial review of a council many see as […]

Gary Bettman didn’t budge. The NHL commissioner announced Wednesday afternoon he is upholding the 20-game suspension handed to Calgary Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman for an ugly collision with linesman Don Henderson in late January. Wideman, who appealed the abuse-of-official ban to Bettman last week, still has the right to ask a neutral arbitrator to review […]