Новости за 15.03.2016

The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 year of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity — and its owner says building a replacement depends on the next moves of the provincial NDP government. TransAlta Corp. said Tuesday the blades on 57 turbines at its Cowley Ridge facility near Pincher […]

It was a criminal shopping spree at a southeast home that plundered precious mementoes along with household goods, but it hasn’t robbed a Calgary family of their capacity to forgive. Last Tuesday, the Tanaka family made their daily trip to the Elgin home they’d recently bought, putting on some finishing touches in the days before they […]

Ensuring LGBTQ students are supported in schools and through clubs – like gay-straight alliances – the public school board gave first reading to its own policy Tuesday in response to the province’s new gender diversity guidelines. Officials with the Calgary Board of Education have said their schools already welcome and support students with diverse sexual orientations, […]

Council needs to decide whether to use an $86 million surplus for tax relief or infrastructure, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Tuesday. The mayor said he wouldn’t be opposed to putting the 2015 savings against property tax hikes which have been set at 4.7% for 2016. The savings were realized from filled job vacancies, lower fuel […]

The Calgary Stampeders signed Canadian offensive linemen Shane Bergman and Spencer Wilson to contract extensions through the 2018 season Tuesday.

It’s tough times in Alberta. With tens of thousands of workers laid off in the past year, it’s not unusual to hear of a single position — especially in the oil & gas industry — receiving dozens or hundreds of applications.  When you hear enough of those stories, it can start to grate on you. How are […]

FOB gang member Nick Chan was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of rival gangster Sanjeev Mann, one of three people gunned down on January 1, 2009 at a southeast Calgary restaurant.. Jurors deliberated a little more than five hours before delivering the verdict Tuesday morning. More to come…

Mounties have laid charges after two windows of the Red Deer RCMP downtown detachment were shot at with a BB pistol Monday afternoon.

City police have charged a man after a break-in at a seniors' complex in southwest Calgary on Monday morning.

Okotoks RCMP are investigating the cause of a crash that claimed the life of a 33-year-old man Monday evening.

The top of the oil market may be closer than you think. With Brent futures having bounced back as high as $41 a barrel, the International Energy Agency sees “light at the end of the tunnel,” and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is spotting “green shoots.” Even so, many analysts warn that, like the failed rally […]

Calgary is ground zero for DIY bicycle snow plowers. A group of volunteers kicked off the city’s pathway plowing system years ago. Last year, northeast resident David Coldwell grew tired of waiting for the city to plow the pathway he takes to work, so he began doing it himself. Now, Coldwell is doing his part to spread […]

Are two young children possessed by ghosts or has their governess gone completely bonkers?

There’s a fine irony in the fact the expertise of Alberta’s energy regulator is desired by jurisdictions outside of Canada but snubbed by its provincial counterparts. Mexico has engaged the Alberta Energy Regulator about how to regulate the development of its oil and gas reserves after sweeping legislative changes there opened the door to private sector investment. And now the […]

It is the end of a seemingly endless road of life on the road. For Canadian a cappella institution The Nylons, their current string of dates will be the final ones, a farewell to fans who’ve followed them for the better part of four decades. It’s a career that’s seen members come and go over […]

Traveller takes advantage of Uber The city needs to get on board with Uber. We recently returned from California, and while there, we used Uber 16 times. Our fares ranged from $4.75 to $18.75, with the later for a trip all the way from downtown San Diego to El Cajon. All of our Uber drivers were extremely […]

As Alberta deals with the gloomiest economic conditions it has seen in decades, Premier Rachel Notley has repeatedly talked about the need to preserve front-line workers, specifically teachers and nurses. It would be foolish to respond to plummeting energy prices by cutting public employees Albertans depend on, she has argued. Few people, of course, have […]

It was four years ago this month that 19-month old Ezekiel Stephan died of meningitis after being airlifted from Lethbridge to the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary.  We’re also coming up on the four-year anniversary of the Alberta government’s decision to regulate naturopaths by granting them regulated status and creating the College of Naturopathic Doctors […]

Adam Onulov is embarking upon the final phase of a long journey. For more than a decade he has been working toward realizing his dream of becoming an architect. “I am interning at an amazing studio (McKinley Burkart) and learning more than I could ever imagine,” says Onulov. “I have been involved in projects like the […]

A wildlife corridor expert who was acting as the only conservation representative on a multi-stakeholder group working on the next steps for the Three Sisters development in Canmore has stepped down. Late last week, Karsten Heuer resigned his position because he felt his voice wasn’t being heard on the committee. “I felt like I was bringing solid scientific information […]

Photos: Flames down Blues

Ken Hitchcock offered his warning about the Calgary Flames. “I told the players (Monday), the hottest team in the National Hockey League was Nashville,” the St. Louis Blues bench boss said following his team’s morning skate at the Scotiabank Saddledome. “And Calgary beat them (last Wednesday) and they beat them the right way. “So they […]

The Flames continue a six-game home stand on Wednesday against the Winnipeg Jets

Mayor Naheed Nenshi has been told by council to pay his own legal bills rung up while battling a lawsuit filed by a city developer.

It would be dangerous for jurors to use the testimony of the prosecution’s star witness to convict alleged gang leader Nick Chan of murder, court was told Monday. Defence counsel Richard Cairns, responding to Crown arguments the witness, known only as G.H., had no reason to concoct a story that Chan ordered the slaying of […]