Новости за 29.02.2016

A young Syrian boy gained a bike and a bond over the weekend, and a Calgary couple were left proud to have passed on a piece of their late son's legacy. The connection between them was immediate, and not lost on anybody in the room, Sam Nammoura with the Syrian Refugee Support Group Calgary team said. “You could tell from the start, it was more than just a little boy getting a bike,” Nammoura said. “There was so much emotion in the air.”

Two years in Calgary is apparently enough to make anyone go country. Local radio station the Peak 95.3 is the latest to go full western, as the alternative rock station has flipped format and changed its name to Wild 95.3 and adopted the tagline “Calgary’s new country.” Now instead of acts such as Arcade Fire, […]

The North American LNG industry that many Western Canada natural gas producers are pinning their hopes on is being blamed in part for lower European gas prices that have hit revenue at Calgary-based Vermilion Energy Inc. On Monday, the international explorer which also produces gas in Canada announced it would again cut its 2016 capital spending budget […]

If you’re gonna play hockey at a high level, you probably need a little jam in your game. This year, the Juno Awards have finally figured that out as they’ve announced the inaugural all-star Juno Cup Jam to go along with the annual Juno Cup celebrity hockey game. The musical event, which is billed as […]

The Alberta Party is bowing out of the byelection in Calgary-Greenway. The party announced Monday it won’t field a candidate in the March 22 vote to fill the vacant northeast Calgary seat. Greg Clark, the party leader and its sole MLA, said in a news release that the party had been approached by qualified candidates […]

The wife of a former Calgary teacher who was sent back to an Indonesian prison last week says her husband’s rearrest is “a profound travesty of justice.” Neil Bantleman’s wife Tracy said she is deeply saddened the top Indonesian court overturned a lower court’s decision and ordered her husband and co-accused Ferdinant Tijong back to prison six months […]

LETHBRIDGE — Jury selection is to begin today in southern Alberta for a man and woman on trial in the death of their toddler. David Stephan, 32, and his wife Collet Stephan, 35, have pleaded not guilty to failing to provide the necessities of life for 19-month-old Ezekiel, who died in March 2012. RCMP said […]

After an extended stretch of above-zero temperatures, wintry conditions returned to Calgary overnight, leaving local roads slick with snow and ice Monday morning. Light snow started falling around 10 p.m. Sunday and continued overnight, leaving ice and a thin layer of snow over local streets. While conditions are slippery, police said there hasn’t been an […]

A toddler eagerly explores the lobby of a Calgary hotel with her older brothers as their parents and grandma wait for the plastic keys to their first temporary home in Canada. Hotel key cards in hand, the family soon carries their few possessions — a couple of bags and a fleece Red Cross blanket — down a […]

Naloxone has proven itself a fine first line of defence against fentanyl, buying a person precious time to get to a hospital, but it’s not known how well it would work for W-18 — the next Big Bad creeping into the drug scene. W-18 is said to be a hundred times more potent than fentanyl, which is itself said to be a hundred times more potent than morphine, and as far as experts know there hasn’t yet been opportunity to see the two do battle for a person’s life.

Want an active, urban city lifestyle while living and working outside of Calgary’s core? You might want to look at what a day in the life of a Walden resident can look like.

Sorry, no raise for teachers Re: “Teachers pay hike possible, union says,” Feb. 26.  Alberta Teachers’ Association president Mark Ramsankar, there are thousands of us laughing all the way to the food bank. So you want all of us without jobs, to not only pay you for having a job, but pay you really well, […]

Rachel Notley needs to get out of bed early one morning, lock herself in the bathroom, look in the mirror, and repeat, “I am premier of Alberta,” as many times as necessary until she actually believes it. Because at the moment, she’s still stuck with the mindset of being the NDP head honcho, rather than the […]

David Jones was getting ready to go to a golf tournament in the summer of 2013 when he was traded from the Colorado Avalanche to the Calgary Flames. “That’s when I was called and I was kind of blindsided by it,” the right winger was saying over the weekend. “This time, it’s a little different. […]

It may have been a difficult shoot with with gruelling conditions, a demanding boss and high turnover, but more than 100 Alberta film workers who manned the crew of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Alberta-shot epic turned out to watch the Oscar telecast at Flames Central Sunday night. By the end of the night, the film picked up […]

Alberta’s Crown and the RCMP are working to resolve a breathalyzer maintenance record snafu that's resulted in alleged drunk drivers' charges being dropped, and are meanwhile trying to do the best they can in a bad situation. Prosecutors last week began staying charges against motorists accused in RCMP jurisdiction of driving over the legal blood-alcohol limit of .08 due to disclosure issues regarding breathalyzer machine maintenance records. Ian Savage, a Calgary lawyer specializing in impaired... Читать дальше...

Alberta’s economic troubles and rising job losses are top of mind for candidates in the Calgary-Greenway byelection, as the governing NDP comes under attack from right-leaning hopefuls for making “the bad economy worse.” The Progressive Conservatives likely enjoy an edge from the legacy of hard-working former MLA Manmeet Bhullar, whose death triggered the March 22 vote for […]

The NDP government will introduce essential services legislation this spring as the prospect of significant public sector strike action becomes a new reality in Alberta.  The Notley government is responding to a Supreme Court decision in 2015 that recognized the right of public sector employees to strike but allowed governments to designate some workers as providing essential services who are unable […]

Hurtling down a mountain or blasting through rapids, Trinity Tratch is focused on the finish line — not so much on how he got there.  The ambitious multi-sport athlete has made the podium in giant slalom ski racing and is a fierce competitor in sprint kayaking. He defines himself by his results, not by the fact he is a double amputee. […]

Calgary Flames (26-31-4) at Philadelphia Flyers (28-22-11) 5 p.m. MT, Wells Fargo Center TV: Sportsnet West Radio: Sportsnet 960 The Fan     LAST FIVE GAMES Flames vs. Senators L 6-4 vs. Islanders OTL 2-1 at Kings L 2-1 at Ducks L 5-2 vs. Canucks W 5-2 Flyers vs. Coyotes W 4-2 vs. Wild W […]

PHILADELPHIA — Professional pucksters are creatures of habit, but Monday’s pre-game nap could be a lost cause for some of the Calgary Flames.  Some of them, after all, could become former Calgary Flames.  Startled by a buzzing phone.  Saying their goodbyes to teammates and staff.  Scurrying to join a new team in a new city.  “The difficult part […]

On the calendar, it’s Leap Day. For several members of the Calgary Flames, it could be Moving Day. As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Monday marks the NHL’s annual trade deadline, with a 1 p.m. MT cut-off for pretenders — the Saddledome-dwellers certainly fit that description — to peddle players and for contenders to add pieces for a […]

Musically speaking, there is much to celebrate with Brahms. Rich and passionate as well as tender and playful, Brahms’ music encompasses a full range of emotions—all offered to the listener with the highest intellectual content.             The final two concerts in the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra’s Brahms mini-festival under consideration here were devoted to the last […]