Новости за 16.03.2016

M&M Meat Shops is changings its name and its focus, expanding beyond the frozen staples that built it into a national brand over the last 35 years. It’s a big change that will include a new look for the stores and an new website that offers ordering services for in-store pickup, but the company plans on keeping the brand it has […]

Rogers Hometown Hockey Week in Calgary; Until Sunday, March 20 We take no joy in noting that the only way the Stanley Cup will appear in our fair city this spring is as a hunk of chocoalate. The folks at BT and Rogers Hometown Hockey have hidden 1,500 chocolate cups around town as part of […]

As many as 100,000 fentanyl tablets per month may have been shipped to Calgary from a Kelowna drug operation, police say. Along with three Kelowna residents, a 25-year-old Calgary man was arrested in connection with a suspected fentanyl trafficking operation in the B.C. city earlier this month. A pair of pill presses were seized in a raid […]

Canada’s biggest oil producers are sitting on a near-record pile of cash, giving them the resources to keep investing and manage debt while weathering the worst price rout in a generation. The five largest oil producers including Suncor Energy Inc. and Cenovus Energy Inc. have a combined $8.5 billion in cash and cash equivalents, an […]

Mounties are investigating the death of a man in Red Deer early Wednesday.

Officers are investigating reports of a shooting in southwest Calgary after bullet holes dotted a home early Wednesday.

A Calgary senior border services officer received a medal from Gov. Gen. David Johnston for 20 years of exemplary frontline service.

No one can dispute the power that music has to changes lives. But it’s also good to acknowledge what it can do, how it can help, when lives have been changed. For Alberta singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk it’s what he turned to when his beloved sister Clare was killed by a drunk driver on the Canada Day […]

Lethbridge police arrested two men Tuesday night following a drug-related shooting the morning before.

How are you planning to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow? While some may be planning to drink a lot of green beer to honour Ireland’s patron saint, we are looking forward to a more refined celebration with Irish Lamb Stew, Herbed Popovers and maybe a pint (without food colouring!) or two. The stew is a […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — OPEC member states and other major oil producers are planning to meet next month to discuss a freeze in oil output levels, Qatar’s top energy official said Wednesday. The planned gathering, which builds on earlier talks that included major suppliers Russia and Saudi Arabia, reflects a growing sense of urgency […]

Alberta has a glut of oil and natural gas hanging over the energy markets these days, but there’s another commodity piling up in the province, waiting to burst out: frustration. Frustration was a prevailing theme for the province’s energy minister — and many industry players — at the Canadian Energy Research Institute’s 2016 Oil and Gas Symposium this week […]

Calgary soldier worthy of honour Re: “Acknowledgment is long overdue,” Letter, March 14. It’s time for the Liberal government to do the right thing and drop the unrealistic time period relating to women on our currency. It is my belief that period has been established in order to appoint one of the two CBC puppet female […]

By Peter McCaffrey All around the world, wherever politicians are allowed to draw their own election boundaries, they draw maps that will help them get re-elected. Calgary was supposed to have moved past that; we had grown up and devised a system to remove the politicians from the decision-making about their own election. Council created […]

Canada used to have three levels of government: municipal, provincial and federal. Now, we’ve apparently got another layer of bureaucracy, at least when it comes to pipeline applications: aboriginal. “TransCanada will be forced to abide by Mohawk law, including the prohibition to pass the pipeline through Mohawk lands and waters,” says Mohawk Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon […]

Now, here’s an olive branch handed across Alberta’s great ideological divide. The NDP will lower the small business tax in the April 14 budget. Premier Rachel Notley alluded to that in a news conference Tuesday. She didn’t repeat it in the legislature, because a premier doesn’t scoop her own budget. But there it was: a strong hint […]

Blayre Turnbull finished off her rookie Canadian Women’s Hockey League season in style on Sunday. Turnbull scored twice, including the game-winning goal in the second period, as the Calgary Inferno skated to an 8-3 win over Les Canadiennes de Montreal at Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre to win the franchise’s first Clarkson Cup. “It was a […]

She could have played along. She could have rustled up an acceptable response of some sort. Instead she opted for honesty. How does it feel to wear the national colours? Well, how is she supposed to know? “I would like them to give me my jacket, then I could answer that question,” deadpans Chelsea Carey, […]

Smashed windows and shaken residents at an inner-city seniors home are the aftermath of the latest in a series of break-ins Monday night. After months of repeated incidents, a suspect is finally in custody, but not before it reached a new level of aggression. In the middle of the night, a stranger opened the door to Dorothy Major’s suite at Grace Manor and walked on in. “What do you want?” the 90-year-old asked him, and the answer was that he wanted her cash. “He followed me into my bedroom and... Читать дальше...

Lethbridge police have arrested a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he went missing from a hospital in British Columbia nearly a month ago.

City lawmakers must decide if a surprise $86 million surplus goes to taxpayer relief or fund badly-needed projects, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Tuesday.

There is still no firm return date for injured defender TJ Brodie and centre Sam Bennett, who are both dealing with what Flames head coach Bob Hartley called “mid-body injuries.” The good news? Both players skated prior to Tuesday’s practice at the Scotiabank Saddledome. “They did fairly well,” Hartley said. “I don’t expect them to […]

A good friend of Ryan Lane's told him not to meet with a man who claimed he could assist in getting him custody of his daughter, she testified Tuesday.

Ward 1 Coun. Ward Sutherland's push for a 0% raise for city employees beginning in 2018 to ensure a property tax freeze shows bad faith towards labour, said CUPE Local 38 President Peter Marsden.

An elk has died after falling through thin ice on the Bow River in Banff as it tried to cross to the other side. Around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon, wildlife officials responded to a call about the elk. “It was trying to cross at a place that is fairly common spot where they all go back and […]