Новости за 02.03.2016

Calgary’s downtown becomes a foodie paradise as restaurants conjure up prix-fixe menus for The Big Taste, which starts Friday.

King of Donair, revered by east coasters for their take on the beef sandwich wrapped in pita and slathered in a sweet white sauce, is bringing a pop-up shop to Calgary Friday. If you have a friend from Halifax, you’ve probably heard them talk about this donair. The seasoned beef is wrapped alongside onions, tomatoes and […]

Blackfalds RCMP are looking for a male suspect in an attempted murder Thursday in which a man was seriously injured and had his vehicle stolen.

Rocky stock markets and cratering oil prices shook up Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest this year, with the first decline in billionaires since 2009 — and Calgary’s billionaires felt the pinch particularly hard. The 30th annual guide found 1,810 billionaires, with an aggregate net worth of US$6.48 trillion, $570 billion less than last year. […]

Delays in Canadian pipeline approvals make it more likely that a decision will be made to double a 120,000-barrel-per-day crude-by-rail loading facility as early as next year, the chief executive of Gibson Energy Inc. said Wednesday. On a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter results, president and CEO Stew Hanlon said the Calgary-based company’s terminal at the east […]

An elderly resident was threatened with a weapon in a Tuesday night home invasion in northeast Calgary that police are investigating as a random incident.

Fiery right-wing media figure Ezra Levant has been released by the Law Society of Alberta. He succeeded in resigning from the body, which means two legal complaints filed against him will be dismissed. Levant argued his membership in the society exposed him to political harassment that had nothing to do with legal issues. The complaints were […]

Quest Theatre’s Snow Angel is in the midst of an international tour that includes Chicago Children’s Theatre, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Set in a Canadian community during winter, Snow Angel is a gentle story about the ripple effect of kindness. The story is told with movement, using masks and […]

Even if Saudi Arabia wins its struggle with U.S. shale producers over market share, it will face a new billion-barrel adversary. It won’t be regional nemesis Iran, a resurgent Iraq or long-standing competitor Russia. The answer will be more prosaic: Even when overproduction ends, a stockpile surplus of more than one billion barrels built up since […]

Most of the attention paid to development in Calgary these days is focused on either the suburbs or the inner city. But there’s a hidden area that may be worth looking at. You can see it in this map. The map details population change in Calgary communities over the past 15 years. The darker the colour, the greater […]

Like most guys, I enjoy watching a good fight. Ali versus Frazier and the Thrilla in Manila. Duran and Leonard in the Brawl in Montreal. Mike Tyson chewing Evander Holyfield’s ear. Yet, even I don’t have much stomach for the next big skirmish in Canada: the Endless Encounter over Energy East. At some point, it’s wearying, pointless, and potentially destructive. […]

The Alberta Teachers’ Association’s president’s belief that a wage increase might be possible in today’s grim economic times suggests he’s either unaware of what’s happening in the real world, or he simply doesn’t care. Speaking to union members in Edmonton last week, Mark Ramsankar did not rule out a bump in pay, even as the province braces itself for a […]

It’s not a date with major significance in Alberta politics. At least not any more. But once upon a time, yesterday — March 1, 2016 — was important in provincial politics. Under Alberta’s Election Amendment Act, that was the first day the government of Jim Prentice was allowed to hold an election. Under the act, […]

We all know somebody who loves breakfast so much that they’d be happy to eat breakfast foods at every meal, just as we all know somebody who is tired of the same oil’ breakfast foods. No matter which category you fall under, these fresh, new recipes will definitely get you up in the morning. Our […]

A sales tax is the last thing we need Re: “An Alberta sales tax is long overdue,” Letter, Feb. 27. Roger Edmunds complains that Alberta has failed for decades to implement a provincial sales tax. Proponents of an Alberta PST should look at the long-term average unemployment rates and accumulated debts of Canada’s other nine […]

BOSTON — The past couple of days have been a wee bit busy for Jyrki Jokipakka. You know, with getting traded and all. So you can certainly understand — and excuse — that the Calgary Flames’ blue-line acquisition hasn’t exactly had heaps of time to research his new hockey home. “I don’t know much (about […]

Police are investigating after a body was discovered downtown Calgary on Tuesday night. Officers were called to an alley near the corner of 9th Avenue and 1st Street S.W. after 8 p.m. A body was found at the scene, though police have not determined if the person’s death was suspicious. They have called in the medical […]

Some Canadian farmers may be yielding considerable green from rising food prices, but at least one southern Alberta producer is holding the line on vegetable prices over concern local consumers are unable to pay much more. Canadians have been slapped by sky-high prices for fresh produce after adverse weather south of the border and a weakened loonie raised the costs […]

The Calgary Flames have a road map of where they want to go and, at Monday’s National Hockey League trade deadline, Brad Treliving was forced to make decisions that followed that road map. One of which was right-winger David Jones, an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season, who was shuffled to the […]

THREE STARS C Patrice Bergeron, Bruins — Scores the go-ahead goal in the third period, converting on Boston’s fifth power-play of the night. Steady and dangerous, like usual. C Landon Ferraro — The fourth-liner connects on a slap-shot to give the Bruins an early lead and makes the most of his ice time.  D Jakub […]

BOSTON — The wait is over for Calgary Flames defenceman Jakub Nakladal. At 28 and now in his ninth professional campaign, he finally scored his first NHL goal. The wait is still on for Flames puck-stopper Joni Ortio. With 407 days (and counting) since his last big-league victory, he may be wondering if he’ll ever […]

Alberta premier holsters her guns until smoke clears on Quebec's legal intervention on the Energy East pipeline.

Alberta supports a national carbon tax only if the revenues remain in the jurisdictions where they are raised, Notley says.

The shooting of gangster Sanjeev Mann was ordered by accused killer Nick Chan, a crucial Crown witness told court Tuesday. The witness, who can’t be named, said Chan, whom he has described as the head of the FOB gang, told him to kill Mann during a meeting in December 2008. “He made it very clear […]

Calgary will spend $12 million this year on continuing efforts to restore and enhance its urban forest after a freak snowstorm ravaged half of the city’s canopy a year and a half ago.  In 2015, the city assessed 69,000 trees, pruned 59,000 and planted 7,400 new trees — triple the number from a year earlier — in the wake […]