Новости за 03.04.2016

It’ll be slim pickings for bargain hunters hoping to score a home, vacant lot or parking stall on the cheap through the annual property tax recovery auction this month, says Kari Imperato, a coordinator with the city’s tax advisory services.  “We celebrate the days when we do not have a tax sale,” said Imperato. “Unfortunately […]

City building permit values plunged by 67 per cent in the first two months of this year compared to the same time in 2014, just before the oil price crash.   That’s also a 33 per cent drop from 2015 and doesn’t bode well for property tax payers who pick up the slack to maintain […]

As expected, The Weeknd got off to a pretty great start for Abel Tesfaye. The alt R&B artist was the big winner on Saturday night during the 2016 Juno Gala Dinner and Awards, which were handed out at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary. The 26-year-old T.O.-born star took home all three awards he was […]

For two teams with such a deep, rich, dramatic and — sometimes — bloody history, Saturday’s final Battle of Alberta at Rexall Place was as polite as they come.

Mounties out of High River cuffed a man they say a rural homeowner found lurking in a rural backyard armed with a machete — but it took an intense effort to chase him down through local farm lands.

RED DEER – Jackson Houck scored once. Nearly had a second. He was named one of the game’s three stars. Yet, there the Calgary Hitmen overager was, with tears streaming down his face following a 5-3 loss to the Red Deer Rebels. The loss ended the Hitmen’s season and ended Houck’s junior career. “I thought […]

Close games haven’t been kind to the Calgary Roughnecks this season. Saturday night inside a raucous SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon was no different. On a night Curtis Dickson equalled teammate Dane Dobbie’s franchise record for goals in a season, the Calgary Roughnecks star came within one post of sending his team to its fifth overtime […]

Hunter Shinkaruk’s first National Hockey League game at Rexall Place will also be his last. Saturday’s finale at the old barn — the Calgary Flames’ last spin on the ice as the Edmonton Oilers prepare to move into Rogers Place next season — was also the winger’s first NHL game at the storied arena, period. […]

Assisted suicide is a topic bound to get people talking. The provincial government found that to be the case as they wrapped up a survey asking the public to weigh in on what the framework should look like for those who seek death to end their suffering. More than 10,000 surveys were completed, said health […]

Blame it on the polite nature of Canadian fans. But when Danielle McTaggart, lead singer of Vancouver’s Dear Rouge, tossed out a suitably crowd-rousing “Calgarians are a bit crazy!” line to excite the hundreds on hand at the Chinook Centre Saturday afternoon for the Juno Fan Fare, it seemed to take more than a few beats for the hordes to recognize it […]

Alessia Cara did not pull any punches when asked about the state of nerves Saturday morning after rehearsals at the Saddledome. The 19-year-old fast-rising, big-voiced star from Brampton, Ont. has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and received praise from Rolling Stone, Spin and Cosmopolitan.  Last October, Taylor Swift invited her onstage to sing her hit […]

At least 12 residents were displaced after a fourplex in southeast Calgary went up in flames Saturday morning.

Calgary Flames (32-40-6) at Edmonton Oilers (30-42-7) 8 p.m., Rexall Place TV: CBC Radio: Sportsnet 960 The Fan For two teams with such a deep, rich, dramatic and — sometimes — bloody history, tonight’s final Battle of Alberta at Rexall Place likely means more to the nostalgic types than it does to the current group […]