Новости за 19.02.2016

SOUTHWEST Altadore 36: By Brookfield Residential. Modern townhomes in the heart of Altadore from the mid $500,000s. 36th Avenue and 16th Street S.W. Avenue West End: By Grosvenor and Cressey Development Group. Riverside homes with views. Starting at $330,000, including parking stall and storage locker. Presentation centre and two display suites at 1037 5th Ave. S.W. […]

Calgary-based Chevron Canada Resources has confirmed that it is again reducing staff as part of a companywide cost-cutting initiative but it refused to give details in an email response to a Herald inquiry. “In light of the current market environment, Chevron continues to take action to reduce internal costs across the enterprise,” said spokesman Leif Sollid. […]

Every day, on average, a pedestrian is struck by someone driving a motor vehicle in Calgary. Most of those pedestrians are in the right of way. In 20 per cent of those collisions, the driver flees the scene, resulting in a hit and run.  Those figures came out from a series of stories today by Postmedia […]

The death of a woman found in a motel room in the northwest community of Montgomery on Thursday has been ruled not suspicious.

About an hour into the documentary, The Smalls: Forever is a Long Time, we see some archival footage of what looks like a bitter confrontation between members of the Edmonton-based band. It’s shot somewhere in Europe in the 1990s. Drummer Terry Johnson — angry, cursing and perhaps intoxicated — is yelling at an unseen bandmate for reasons that […]

The impact of the economic downturn hasn’t brought British Columbia’s recreational housing demand to its knees.  Randy Shier, president of Kelowna-based Mission Homes Group, says the impact of the energy sector decline currently pounding Alberta is pretty much non-existent in the Okanagan Valley of B.C. And, he adds, Kelowna continues to be at the heart of what many […]

Enbridge Inc. said profit rose in the fourth quarter as record oil shipments on its main pipeline system shielded the country’s largest pipeline company from the collapse in prices. Net income was $378 million, or 44 cents a share, compared with $88 million, or 10 cents, a year earlier, the Calgary-based company said Friday in a […]

Two women have been charged after a man was taken to hospital with serious stab wounds in Lethbridge early Wednesday.

A pedestrian is struck by a vehicle in Calgary, on average, every day. Typically, eight Calgarians die crossing the street each year. Three Calgary families whose lives have been changed by pedestrian-vehicle collisions on city streets shared their stories with the Herald. Derek Pauletto Derek Pauletto’s wife, Shelly, was killed in a marked crosswalk outside her Beltline […]

Flora Stephenson thinks about her aunt every time she crosses a street.   Three years ago, on Feb. 20, 2013, Stephenson’s aunt Wong Shuk Yee (known as Rachel Wong in Canada) was walking to work when two vehicles struck and severely injured her. Both drivers fled the scene. As Wong lay dying on the road at Sandstone Drive […]

Traditionally, new university graduates have a pretty good chance of finding employment post-graduation — they enjoy higher employment growth and lower unemployment rates compared to the national average, according to the most recent Statistics Canada report released in 2014. Even with that standing, securing employment in a challenging job market still requires plenty of work […]

This winter hasn’t been particularly cold, but it has been grey and gritty. Get out of the monochromatic rut with colours and patterns that dazzle. Sleep walkers rejoice The Napsack is perfect for couch surfing now and festival season later. A collaboration between Poler and Pendleton, the bag has a stuff sack for easy transport, […]

An old guy once phoned me out of the blue—this happens when you work at a newspaper; usually it’s regarding the crossword puzzle—to complain about one of my stories. I had been writing pieces about winter for several years, it being one of those personal interests that journalists manage to squeeze into print when editors […]

It was supposed to be a non-hitting game, except, when your opponents are serving life without parole, the threat of two minutes in the penalty box isn’t really that much of a deterrent. Still, not actually being able to skate, but instead, sort of flopping about on the ice like a drunken seal celebrating the […]

Calgary children are paying a price for city council’s decision to stop adding fluoride to drinking water. It’s an unfortunate outcome that Alberta Health Services and many dentists predicted in 2011: that children’s dental health would deteriorate without the presence of the cavity fighter. City dentists reported greater rates of tooth decay two years ago, and […]

The act of “crushin’ it” is not something that one should take lightly. Nor is it something that can be consistently done, as the very act of crushin’ it — or, if Grade 8 French class serves well, “il presse” — would seem to indicate that the crushin’ of it is in some way an […]

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A stabbing in northeast Calgary sent one man to hospital Thursday afternoon. Police responded to a call around 3:45 p.m. in the 200 block of Fallswater Road N.E. One man had been stabbed and was taken to hospital in serious but non-life threatening condition. Police do not believe the incident was random and are continuing […]

Auto nuts, wrench heads and casual car fans will find their fix at the World of Wheels show, which kicks off today at the BMO Centre. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Calgary edition of the exhibition, which features a wide range of attractions, events and competitions from the world of automotives. One highlight is […]

Chestermere residents will be seeing their utility rates increase after a sometimes-heated special meeting of city council Thursday night. Council voted unanimously to increase utility rates for waste by 25 per cent and water by 15 per cent. The decision comes after the city’s utility provider, Chestermere Utilities Inc. (CUI), informed council that the current […]

Vancouver Canucks (22-22-12*) at Calgary Flames (25-28-3) 7 p.m., Saddledome TV: Sportsnet West Radio: Sportsnet 960 The Fan (*before Thursday’s game vs. Anaheim) ==== LAST FIVE GAMES Flames vs. Wild L 5-3 vs. Ducks L 6-4 at Coyotes L 4-1 at Sharks W 6-5 SO vs. Maple Leafs W 4-3 Canucks* (*Before Thursday’s game vs. […]

Brian Jean’s Wildrose Party is brilliant at amplifying issues that cause grief for the NDP government. In its eight years of existence, the opposition has become a virtuoso in this field. After goring the government with the Bill 6 farm safety uproar, Wildrose is now after equalization — the system whereby Alberta, a “have” province, contributes to the system […]

For the past three years, The Alex dental health bus has been travelling to where it’s needed most, Calgary’s low-income neighbourhoods. “We’ve been educating close to 3,000 kids a year on oral health — and treating more than 1,500,” says Denise Kokaram, program lead for the bus, which is operated by The Alex Community Health Centre.  Still, […]

It's all East for the Calgary Stampeders this coming October.