Новости за 24.03.2016

The "bank investigator" scam appears to have made its way to Canmore after a senior was bilked out of thousands of dollars by a man posing as a fraud investigator with a financial institution.

Lineups at food banks are not new, but the economic downturn has made them even more pronounced. The number of new people using the Calgary Food Bank has grown significantly in the past year.

Murray Edwards, the billionaire investor and elder statesman of Canada’s hard-hit oil patch, has left his Calgary home and relocated to London. Edwards’ move, which has been the source of speculation in Canada’s energy hub for weeks, was confirmed in a regulatory filing by Magellan Aerospace Corp., a Mississauga, Ontario-based aircraft manufacturer controlled by Edwards. […]

A special avalanche warning has been issued for the mountain parks this Easter long weekend.

Easter has become the second biggest candy- and chocolate-consumption holiday in North America, according to the National Confectioner’s Association. In celebration of Easter treats, here are five fun facts about the beloved chocolate bunny. Breeding like bunnies More than $2.35 billion of candy and chocolate is consumed each Easter in North America. About 90 million bunnies […]

The number of Alberta EI recipients in January nearly doubled from year-ago levels, according to new data from Statistics Canada. There were 63,800 EI recipients in the province, the federal agency reported, up 91 per cent from January 2015 and two per cent from December. In Calgary, 21,100 were collecting EI in January, up 97.8 per […]

With local charities struggling to meet fundraising targets as need rises amid a tough economy, ATCO and its employees have provided a significant life line, raising $3.6 million this year. As part of its annual ATCO EPIC (Employees Participating in Communities) campaign, the program’s cumulative fundraising total has hit more than $31 million since its inception […]

Calgary entrepreneurs talk about receiving guidance and support from family

It’s a week for fans of rarer instruments with the harmonica and tabla on tap.

Six years after CCI Wireless was launched from a small space in the Deerfoot Industrial Park, it has relocated to a new building along Aviation Road N.E. The company’s head office and customer care centre covers 10,000 square feet facing McKnight Blvd. in a building by Atlas Development and leased through Alexi Olcheski of Avison Young. […]

Disney on Ice, Until Tuesday, March 29 at Stampede Corral Disney princesses have long been animated, but they take things to a new level when they tie on the skates. Seventy-five years of royalty are celebrated in Dare to Dream! The Disney on Ice show features Snow White, Cinderlla, Rapunzel and others. It’ll put fans […]

In the city that has “all hell for a basement,” Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Clugston is feeling the heat. Over the past month, two major oilfield service companies have laid off about 300 people in the area, a tough blow for the community of 63,000. The city’s own natural gas company normally transfers about $25 million […]

We know a couple of things for sure. First, we can confirm that this twiggy refuge is located on a scenic ridge overlooking Fish Creek Park. Secondly, we have seen proof, in the form of some litter and a blanket, that somebody is, or recently was, using it for shelter. But there’s a lot more […]

The Masters golf tournament, the spring rite that many—myself included—consider the sport’s leading showcase, begins April 7. Thus, like many men, I must once again confront my guiltiest pleasure: spending ridiculous amounts of time watching other dudes play golf. Thankfully, it is guilt that can be assuaged. Which is why I’m advising my Masters-addicted brethren […]

By the time it opens this summer, some 2,300 tradespeople will have worked on Studio Bell, the home of the National Music Centre, since its 2013 groundbreaking. That means the 30 men and women featured here—photographed over two days—are a small sample, but they are representative of an unmistakably groovy vibe that permeates the job […]

Not every hotshot Calgary chef can talk about the time he worked as a topless server, slinging beers and pouring shooters at Cowboys Dance Hall. “Every Wednesday night for ladies’ night,” says Darren MacLean with a laugh. But MacLean has bigger surprises up his sleeve. He’s the straight-shooting, f-bomb-dropping chef and owner of Shokunin, one […]

Let’s call Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, running at Lunchbox Theatre until April 9, a sort of play. It’s a sort of existential comedy about a pair of actors rehearsing a play. It’s a sort of dark comedy about a man trying to deal with the fact he may have a terminal disease. It’s a […]

The transition has been relatively seamless for David Jones. After being traded by the Calgary Flames to the Minnesota Wild at the National Hockey League’s trade deadline, he started on the team’s fourth line and gradually moved up into a top-six role. On Thursday, he’ll be on a line with Mikael Granlund and Zach Parise […]

The National Hockey League fraternity is close-knit and, for Niklas Backstrom, the Minnesota Wild became his family, support system, and way of life for the last 10 seasons. And it’s why Wednesday’s Wild practice came to a screeching halt at the Excel Energy Center when the 38-year-old’s former teammates saw him walking out of the […]

Since graduating from high school in 1996, the work DeVone Claybrooks has put in over the past 20 years earned him a new office this off-season.Coincidentally, the NFL and Bassett High School in Virginia gave the 38-year-old Calgary Stampeders defensive co-ordinator a chance to reflect on what led him to the recent promotion, as well […]

For a long time, especially to those south of the 49th parallel, baseball in Cuba was cloaked in mystery due to politics and a broken relationship with the U.S. That’s all changing. An historic agreement to restore diplomatic relations was put in place last year, and, on Tuesday, U.S. president Barack Obama sat next to […]

A breakdown of infrastructure spending in the federal budget reveals more than $450 million earmarked for public transit and infrastructure projects across Alberta, an amount welcomed by the province’s infrastructure minister but called disappointing by the Wildrose official Opposition.  In Tuesday’s budget, the federal Liberals allocated $347.2 million over three years for public transit infrastructure in Alberta, […]

City police have arrested one man and continue searching for three more in connection with a credit card fraud and identity theft ring.

He kept the Spray Lakes road safe for people heading into the backcountry, but he died during his own recreational outing in the Rockies. Mike Bryant, 55, has been identified by friends as the Canmore man killed Sunday in an avalanche on Tent Ridge in Kananaskis Country. “He was just a fantastic guy,” said Karen McCarthy, who’s been friends with Bryant for […]

The NDP government announced Wednesday a long-awaited environmental impact assessment of a controversial, off-stream dry dam in Springbank is now underway, a study landowners say will confirm their suspicions the project is unjustifiable.    “They’ve been very anxious throughout the whole thing to move it forward … we think the environmental impact assessment will show the project […]