Новости за 12.04.2016

The Alberta government plans to invest more than $500 million in new funding for seniors housing in Thursday’s budget. A source has told The Canadian Press that a small portion will be in grants, but the lion’s share will be taken from $4 billion in unallocated money from the capital fund. Lori Sigurdson, the minister […]

Ecuador is a fantastic country to visit as a tourist, but it’s also an incredible destination for real estate investment and a perfect place to retire under the sun. And Canadian developer and real estate company HolaEcuador has been helping to make home-in-the-sun dreams come true for thousands of Canadians since 2010.

Building a backyard tunnel, even a rudimentary one, isn’t easy. Details about the backyard tunnel in Queensland revealed by Calgary police today are scarce — we know it was an alleged storehouse for stolen goods, and little else. But building a 30-foot tunnel is a huge amount of work, even more so if you’re trying to […]

Calgary police and RCMP officers are searching a large rural property north of the city as part of a stolen property investigation.

A report from a fatality inquiry into the 2011 scalding death of a disabled Calgarian at a care facility says staff are key to preventing injuries and more should be done to support them. In her report into the November 2011 death of 35-year-old David Holmes, Provincial Court Judge Judith Shriar says facility operators should […]

One of Calgary largest well completion companies is chopping field staff salaries by 50 per cent during April and May and has warned employees that their previously guaranteed paycheques will be replaced with variable pay starting in June.

Barb Finley knows there are real-life children behind the alarming statistics on sugar intake and rising obesity levels in Canada. As a teacher, she saw her young students eat Fruit Roll-Ups for lunch and cookies for breakfast. It was a far cry from the way she remembers growing up. “I learned to cook at my […]

Timothy Rempel took the witness stand in his own defence Tuesday in the Ryan Lane murder trial. Rempel, his wife Sheena Cuthill and his brother Wilhelm Rempel, are each charged with kidnapping and first-degree murder in connection with Lane’s Feb. 7, 2012, disappearance.   The Crown argues that Cuthill had the brothers kill Lane because of a custody […]

Canadian stocks and global oil prices were up in morning trading Tuesday on reports of a consensus between Russia and Saudi Arabia to freeze oil output. West Texas crude futures traded as high as $41.36 in trading before 11 a.m. ET, a 2.4 per cent increase from Monday’s close. On Tuesday morning, the Interfax news […]

A father and son from Sundre have been charged with arson and insurance fraud in connection with a fire at their Calgary auto repair business last fall.

Top executives at the world’s largest oil-trading houses said the worst of the crude market’s woes are probably over, with some predicting prices will climb to $50 a barrel by next year. “The down market is behind us,” Torbjorn Tornqvist, chief executive officer of Gunvor Group Ltd., said on Tuesday at the FT Global Commodities […]

A lack of confidence in public bodies, both governments and regulators, is a key factor behind the inability to win approval for contentious projects such as pipeline infrastructure, even if they’re deemed to be in the public interest. That’s one of many conclusions in a report released Monday by the University of Ottawa and the Canada West […]

It was indeed a shocking betrayal over the weekend as the federal NDP descended on Edmonton only to hang a massive albatross around the neck of the woman they should be looking to for inspiration. By next month, Rachel Notley’s government may be the only NDP government in the entire country, yet ideologues carried the […]

There’s been a lot of doom and gloom in Calgary lately. And for good reason. Oil has hovered below the US$40 mark for much of the past year and corresponding job losses have been pegged at 110,000.  The city has also been divided over issues like Uber, the southwest BRT, and just about everything related to the Alberta NDP. […]

Calgary’s Beltline district is bustling with a number of construction projects just a few short blocks from the downtown core. The lastest to break ground is the SilverBirch Hotels and Resorts development on the northwest corner of 10th Avenue and 5th Street S.W., the longtime home of the Alberta Boot showroom and factory before it relocated to […]

Give Economic Development Minister Deron Bilous some credit for walking away from one of his party’s key campaign promises. The NDP’s jobs incentives program, unveiled during last spring’s election, vowed to give Alberta companies and non-profits up to $5,000 for every new employee hired, or 10 per cent of a maximum annual salary of $50,000. The […]

Teaching and doing aren’t, as the popular slur would have it, mutually exclusive. Sometimes the best doers are the best teachers, and students can benefit from witnessing the two working in concert — literally and figuratively. And if you’re an aspiring jazz musician, what better collective of teachers to assemble than those of the esteemed […]

There are many ways to describe Dougie Hamilton’s short time with the Calgary Flames. Confounding and curious, for starters. Particularly the front and back ends of 2015-16. The newcomer raised eyebrows early. Then raised eyebrows again Monday morning. Hamilton, wrapping up the campaign’s commitments, informed reporters that he had been invited to skate for the Canadians […]

The first sign of trouble came early. Immediately, actually. “Our start created the doubt. Last year, our start created the push,” recalled Calgary Flames head coach Bob Hartley, whose squad proved the pundits wrong again this season, not such a good thing when you’re being picked as a playoff team. “This year, well, we were […]

On a day when 25 homeowners bid for secondary suite approvals, one councillor said city hall should bring back a pricey application fee it waived in 2013 because Calgary’s housing crisis has come and gone. Council eliminated the $4,485 re-zoning application fee after the 2013 flood left many riverside apartment buildings and uninhabitable for months and when […]

About a week back, walking through the southwest Calgary neighbourhood of Parkhill, Lorri Swinson saw the fences go up around Alvin and Kathy Liknes' old home She knew then it was finally coming down and sure enough, 123 38A Ave. S.W. was gone by the weekend, leaving behind just the foundation and a lot of memories — many surely good but the final ones carrying the spectre of tragedy. Swinson doesn’t think it’s a bad thing the house is now gone. “It stays with you,” she said.

Johnny and Mony could be a package deal. Flames leading scorer Johnny Gaudreau suggested on Monday that he and linemate Sean Monahan – both looming restricted free agents – could sign identical deals and put the focus back on the ice. Sounds good to Flames GM Brad Treliving, who will need to back up the […]

Blame the backstops! That seems to be a popular opinion on the undoing of the 2015-16 Calgary Flames. After all, the Flames were saddled with the NHL’s worst goals-against average this winter, with linesmen retrieving an average of 3.13 pucks per night from their net. After all, Calgary’s masked men — in order of appearance, […]

May 2015 provincial election cost jumped $5M over 2012

A top transit official opened the door Monday to the city hosting face-to-face consultations with residents on the controversial southwest transitway project provided the safety of civil servants could be ensured.  But Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who abruptly cancelled open house meetings in February over allegations staff were subjected to verbal potshots, physical assault and a death […]