Новости за 15.04.2016

A Calgary therapist is accused of sexually assaulting a client during marriage counselling sessions in 2013 and 2014. A woman called city police on March 15 complain of inappropriate sexual conduct in relation to her former social worker therapist. Police say the woman and her husband began attending couples marriage counselling from December 2012 to March 2013 […]

Almost three years after being bought out of receivership by its former owners, the vision for Three Sisters Mountain Village is being recreated as a community for all seasons and all reasons. Under the watchful eyes of TSMV’s majority owners Blair Richardson and Don Taylor and the development management expertise of Calgary-based QuantumPlace Developments Ltd., headed up by Chris Ollenberger, and the […]

About a year ago, a little place on 17th Avenue S.W. popped up as a shining example of modern Vietnamese cuisine — sharp, distinct flavours, fresh ingredients, a rich blend of crunchy and smooth textures. Watercress Express (1322 17th Ave. S.W., 403-455-6222), set in a tiny, order-at-the-counter space, had great, reasonably priced food, thanks to the […]

RCMP have charged a Calgary man with dangerous driving after a dash cam video showing a driver dangerously passing two other vehicles by cutting between them went viral. The video, posted to Jeff Gorski’s Facebook page on Sunday, shows a grey Infiniti driving between a blue BMW and a white BMW as it passes them on Highway 2, […]

Wading through a government budget isn’t most people’s idea of a fun way to spend a Thursday. That’s why we did it for you. Here are some of the important numbers to know.

Oil and gas producers are always looking for new technologies and processes to increase productivity while reducing their environmental impact, specifically in steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) projects. Producers and the Alberta Energy Regulator both require very high levels of confidence before anything new is deployed in the field. Interface Fluidics uses microfluidic reservoir modelling technology […]

The provincial budget, labelled The Alberta Jobs Plan, was tabled with great fanfare Thursday — with Finance Minister Joe Ceci stating a 90 per cent drop in non-renewable resource revenue has left the government with choices that will have “profound consequences for generations to come.” Alberta faces a “once-in-a-generation economic downturn,” he declared. You’d think such a […]

For the past 31 years Alberta Theatre Projects has hosted the Harry & Martha Cohen Award ceremonies. These awards, which carry a cash prize of $1,500, are given to honour an individual “who has demonstrated a sustained and significant contribution to the development and enhancement of theatre in Calgary.” This year, when Terry Gunvordahl received […]

A quick guide to help you brush up on what this weekend meeting is all about.

On a recent midweek afternoon, my husband and son picked me up downtown. We’d all had a long day of work (or school), and nobody had thought about dinner. It was after 4 p.m., and the thought of coming up with a plan made us hangry, so we poked our heads into Native Tongues, wondering […]

Why wait for April showers to bring May flowers? Heck, why even wait until May? Everything’s coming up roses—and daisies—at the mall. Pushing Daisies Banana Republic’s faux- leather Gerbera daisy large pouch is $62. It’s available online only, bananarepublic.ca.  Chanel-Surfing The Kendallsaff floral clutch by Karl Lagerfeld Paris features a photoprint of Coco Chanel’s favourite […]

Poor spending priorities Re: “Sales tax is overdue,” Letter, April 14. I used to think a provincial sales tax in Alberta was a no-brainer, until I realized that even provinces with one are in dire straits.  Look at Ontario, a province with a hefty sales tax, yet one crippled with debt and deficit. With the […]

The home side has yet to blink. Through the first four games of the WHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal between the Red Deer Rebels and Regina Pats, the club playing in its own barn has chalked up the ‘W’. That trend is just fine if you’re the one with home-ice advantage. But Rebels power forward Jake […]

A toddler was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition after the child was struck by the driver of a vehicle in a Copperstone driveway on Thursday evening.  Police were alerted to the incident around 7:30 p.m. and believe the child may have been accidentally backed over.   Insp. Kelly Campbell said the child, believe […]

Ezekiel Stephan loved to race his toy fire truck around the house, linger over picture books and watch the kids’ TV show The Backyardigans. The boy with curly blond locks and a heart-melting grin loved tractors so much that his parents presented him with a tractor-shaped piñata for his first birthday party. This may seem […]

The province will spend $3.5 billion over the next five years building and modernizing schools, but won’t be picking up classroom fees. That construction commitment is the centrepiece of the budget’s education portion and vows to complete what the former Tory government promised but was ill-equipped to deliver. Nearly $1.7 billion of that is to […]

Alberta’s NDP government intends to spend nearly $8.5 billion this year to build and modernize key public infrastructure in hopes of jump-starting the province’s slumping economy. The government announced last fall it would spend more than $34 billion over five years to build and modernize roads, schools, housing facilities, hospitals and flood mitigation projects across Alberta. […]

Low- and middle-income Alberta families with children were given some financial breathing room in Alberta’s 2016 budget. The Alberta Child Benefit and enhanced Alberta Family Employment Tax Credit will take effect in July 2016 and, according to the NDP government, support 380,000 children, to the tune of $336 million. “It really does get money into the […]

Albertans will dig deeper to fuel up their cars and heat their homes in 2017 under the NDP government’s new carbon tax, but most households will receive at least some payback from the province. In Thursday’s provincial budget, the Notley government added new details to the climate change plan unveiled last fall, which includes an economywide […]

The New Democrats call their new budget the “Alberta Jobs Plan.” They are being far too modest. It is really the Alberta Tax, Deficit, Debt, Subsidy, Climate Change and, as a bonus, Jobs Plan. The budget is gasp-inducing in its effort to remake Alberta, a self-acknowledged rush job by the NDP to force Alberta into […]

The Alberta government is cutting taxes for small business owners and rolling out a package of supports for entrepreneurs in the hope of stimulating the private sector to create 100,000 new jobs over the next three years.

NDP government debt plunges through its own legislated cap