Новости за 26.02.2016

Birchwood Properties returns to Cochrane with townhomes set to deliver on value and functionality — including a garage that won’t leave large trucks parked on the curb. Brand Townhomes is a 95-unit development set to open sales in the community of Heartland on March 5. This follows the Range, Birchwood’s previous multi-family site in Heartland, […]

Former premier Don Getty, the one-time Edmonton Eskimos star who gave Alberta Senate elections, the Family Day holiday and the first solid steps toward today’s oilsands industry, has died at the age of 82. Getty had many different sides. He was a political leader, a sportsman, a husband and father — but for many, […]

U.S. oil drillers are finally beginning to buckle. For more than a year, American oil producers found a way to keep pumping despite a worldwide slide in crude prices. Like cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, U.S. drillers dashed off the cliff and somehow kept running in midair, maintaining volumes even as revenue plummeted. Drilling companies’ […]

Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous says the NDP government won’t abandon its financial plan to build infrastructure and diversify the economy, despite Alberta facing a growing deficit that could top $10 billion next year. Speaking Thursday at a summit hosted by Calgary Economic Development, Bilous said the government will provide details in the spring legislative session on its plans to stimulate and diversify Alberta’s oil-fuelled economy. “The sustained low price […]

Alberta small business confidence continued its free fall in February, dropping well below the worst level of the 2008 recession, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Its monthly members’ outlook, released Thursday, shows a decline of 2.1 points, to 26.7, with more than one-third of respondents stating they expect to reduce staff. It’s the fifth time in six months the CFIB […]

Federal GIS error cost 83,000 low-income seniors $245 million. More than 15,000 Alberta seniors were short-changed a total of $61 million. Retroactive payments now being sent out.

The drive to Windermere would take three hours, Elaine guessed. It was snowing, and the man in the turban was a careful driver who wasn’t passing the lumbering transports, as Elaine herself would have done before her licence was revoked for driving (perfectly sober) across the Elbow River during one particularly tedious rush hour. (The […]

She used to take temperatures, measure medicines and give needles. Now Leah Gamache is injecting flavour into Calgary’s culinary scene. Gamache, the executive pastry chef for the Teatro Group, heads up the baking side of the new Al Forno restaurant in downtown Calgary. But before turning her hand to cakes and pastries, she spent a […]

The Progressive Conservative riding association in Calgary-Greenway set off flashbacks among bedraggled Tories when it decided, momentarily, to appoint a candidate for the March 22 byelection. One former party insider said, “It made us look like God damn idiots.” Another ex-heavyweight added: “It just shows the utter leadership vacuum in this party.” Ric McIver, the party’s interim […]

“A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” —Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions Kathy Bentley couldn’t help but think of them as friends, though they would only stare at her with unsmiling silence each time her eyes met theirs. There were so many of them—60, to be […]

Being called a journalist has always made me uneasy. The late Ted Byfield got it right. He called us — even the women — newspapermen. They were lost souls, who’d left school without a degree, started work for the local rag as a teenager and spent too long in smoke-filled bars and knocking on doors […]

Nenshi’s right in taking action Re: “Nenshi ends transitway meetings,” Feb. 25. As longtime southwest Calgary residents, we are appalled and ashamed by the aberrant behaviour displayed by some people at two BRT information sessions. In our opinion, the Ready to Engage Group uses inflammatory language and misinformation to convince residents to pressure the city […]

Hockey Calgary is concerned about rising tensions at the rink as parents, coaches and young players deal with the stressful outfall of tough economic times. Executive director Kevin Kobelka said tensions came to a head earlier this month when a midget-aged hockey player said someone from the opposing team hurled a racial slur in his […]

Last week, Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving tried to stamp out any potential wildfire created by Kris Russell’s upper body injury. On Thursday, the team might as well have thrown gasoline back on it and lit a match. The 28-year-old defender — who has been the subject of heated National Hockey League trade deadline […]

If they can’t make the playoffs, the Calgary Flames appear determined to make news, to make noise. Everywhere you look or listen, the Flames are front and centre. Hearsay and hearings. Seeking players, signing players. It’s nearly enough to make a person forget there are games to be played. Not necessarily a bad thing at […]

Yes, actually. Sometimes nice guys do finish first. And they bring you along with them, let you enjoy their company and, more importantly, make you feel a part of the journey. Mr. Johnny Reid is the reigning nice guy of the Canadian music industry, a charming Scotsman who made this country his home, and made […]

Head full of hockey hair and ready to throw his weight around, Matt Martin stepped onto enemy territory and was ready to rumble. As the National Hockey League leader in hits (with 277 prior to Thursday’s contest), the New York Islanders winger clearly had a mission. The only thing? The Calgary Flames, criticized by many […]

Two handguns were tossed into a Chestermere storm drain shortly after Calgary’s New Year’s Day massacre, a witness testified Thursday. Jurors were told in the murder trial of Nick Chan that three men went to a southeast Calgary home the afternoon of Jan. 1, 2009. “I got woke up to (three men) banging on my door,” […]

The Alberta Court of Appeal on Thursday rejected a bid by convicted killer Timmy Engel for a new trial in the slaying and dismembering of a Vulcan septuagenarian. In a unanimous decision, a three-member Court of Appeal panel ruled Engel’s conviction by a jury on charges of first-degree murder and interfering with a body was […]

Four men were taken into police custody after members of the tactical unit descended on a downtown highrise Thursday afternoon as part of an ongoing investigation. Officers arrived at the mixed-use condo tower in the 800 block of 4th Avenue S.W. to execute a warrant, although police declined to elaborate further. Men who have been identified as possible […]

Calgary police confirmed Thursday they are investigating allegations city employees were harassed, physically assaulted and threatened at recent public meetings on the southwest transitway project.  But the citizens’ group accused by Mayor Naheed Nenshi of inciting or being directly involved in those supposed incidents are now demanding a public apology from city hall’s top elected […]

The NDP government announced a new round of funding for transit projects in the Calgary-area Thursday but there’s no word yet on the city’s big ticket item — the $4.6 billion Green Line expansion of the CTrain system. Mayor Naheed Nenshi said the city needs an answer from the province on the project in the next six […]

As if you needed another excuse to head out to Banff National Park. There’s the mountains, fresh air, pristine nature, the majesty and wonder of a wolf pack taking down an elk in broad daylight and in front of horrified onlookers, and, yes, in the summer, a star-studded Canadian concert event in June. Parks Canada, Banff […]

A table for two beside a kitchenette, a love seat, chair and flat screen television — as far as apartments go, this one falls into the small and spare category. Yet much has been done to make it a warm and welcoming place. In the bathroom, a basket of bath and body products waits on […]