Новости за 18.04.2016

The $40-million Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary had its grand opening Monday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Alberta’s Minister of Advanced Education. More than just a pretty building, the institute is armed with some of the world’s best technology for cutting-edge teaching and educational research. These are five […]

The city’s preferred option for the north-central leg of the Green Line LRT is to bore tunnel from 20th Avenue and Centre Street N., under the Bow River and the downtown core to connect with the southeast portion of the line.  At an estimated $1.3 billion, it’s roughly $500 million more expensive than four other […]

The Crown has failed to answer crucial questions in the disappearance and death of Ryan Lane, a lawyer said Monday. Defence counsel Jim Lutz, the last of three defence lawyers to address a Court of Queen’s Bench jury, said without those answers the prosecution’s case must fail. “Who killed Ryan Lane?” Lutz asked, rhetorically. “We don’t […]

The city announced today that one of the historic lion sculptures from the Centre Street Bridge will get a new perch in Rotary Park overlooking its ancestral home. “(It’ll be) overlooking the youngsters who are the new replicas on the bridge. But this grizzled old guy has to be preserved first,” said Sarah Iley, arts and culture manager for […]

Owning a basement suite which violated three different fire codes had landed a Calgary landlord $21,850 in fines. Emmanual Twumasi pleaded guilty Monday to charges of having insufficient windows for his basement tenants, having a faulty fire alarm and not having a proper door to his furnace room. City prosecutor Paul Frank said the violations […]

Watching television or playing video games are awesome and entertaining. They help pass the time when you are bored and they can really be fun. But have you ever considered that it might be affecting your health? My mother recently sent me a link to an article (I guess as a hint??) about something called […]

Proceeds from the annual book sale go to Servants Anonymous Society of Calgary.

The contrast is, quite frankly, downright frightening. But two very, very different artists will be heading to Calgary for the Halloween month. First up is the somewhat fitting horror rock legend Alice Cooper, who is fresh off of blowing Motley Crue away as the opener for their final tour. The showman/singer will be hitting Calgary Oct. […]

Two drivers are recovering from injuries and a horse has been put down after a crash during a harness race in Balzac. The crash happened Sunday during the eighth race of the day at Century Downs. Martin Ratz, the track’s security manager, says the collision happened when some horses collided with each other. Ratz says one […]

The danger of trying to manage oil price expectations with largely meaningless output-limiting agreements, as oil-producing countries tried to do in Doha on Sunday, is that the talks may fail and the publicity may turn negative. That's what's happening now: Brent crude dropped up to 7 percent after the weekend's meeting in Doha meeting failed to produce a deal.

The oil market faces a bumpy ride on its way to recovery later this year.

Calgary councillors will be at odds with a city administration pitch to do away with aspects of the downtown parking strategy. Let’s not get carried away, Coun. Shane Keating said of the recommendation to shutter the cash-in-lieu program, made in a report to appear before the transportation and transit committee on Wednesday, and Keating expects a few of his fellow councillors will be on board with the sentiment.

What a week of ups and downs it’s been for Premier Rachel Notley. First, she made short work of dealing with her extended federal NDP family, for which she received almost universal praise. That had to give her at least two good Alberta days. But then came what would be kindly called an alarming budget. […]

Aboriginals need hope Re: “First Nations may ‘have to move,'” April 13. Jean Chretien may just be right. The problems in Attawapiskat and other isolated reserves have been in evidence for generations, raising many questions: Do First Nations students in Attawapiskat go to school? What skills are they learning to help them become employable? What kinds […]

Connor Hobbs had a goal and an assist and Tyler Brown made 20 saves as the Regina Pats forced a Game 7 on Sunday with a 5-1 victory over the Red Deer Rebels in their Western Hockey League second-round playoff series.

The city will spend the next eight months doing public engagement and reviewing data to determine whether 40 km/h or even 30 km/h is the best fit to reduce residential speeds.

Agnieszka Wolska sat at the bedside of a dying man and sang.   As the voice of Wolska and three others filled the quiet hospital room, the man’s breathing slowed, his fidgeting stopped and tears rolled slowly down his cheeks. “(The music) had a physiological affect on his body,” Wolska said. “It was very powerful to […]

It's hard to pull off getting paid at a job interview. But if the Calgary Stampeders' annual three-day stay along the Gulf Coast ended Sunday, Travis Manning would have a little extra cash in his pockets. The 25-year-old has his athleticism to thank, as well as a friendship he developed with Shaquille Richardson while both were making a quiet cameo on the Stamps practice roster last fall.

While the budget did advance social spending in areas like a new, $147 million child benefit, there was no increase in the Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) benefit.

The two candidates running to become president of the Progressive Conservative party aren’t interested in talk of uniting the political right in Alberta, dismissing the prospects of a merger with the Wildrose or the formation of a new party. Calgary lawyer Tyler Shandro and Edmonton-based former journalist Katherine O’Neill are vying to become the next Tory […]

Federal error shortchanged 86,000 seniors $256 million, admits Service Canada.

In his poem prompted by a suicide crisis on a northern Ontario First Nation, a 13-year-old Calgary boy speaks directly to those feeling desperate and hopeless. “I know you think things won’t get any better. I know you feel that there’s no hope for you. I know you feel that there’s only one way out,” Brodie Gomez says, reading […]

Now pushing the cart and examining the items together, Dave Dickenson and John Hufnagel have an extensive shopping list. It's pretty easy to tell just by looking at the number of bodies in each position group at the Calgary Stampeders' annual mini camp where the roster focus lies between now and the first day of main training camp May 29.

Tuesday is the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote in Alberta. Though Alberta was the second province that gave women the right to vote after Manitoba, Alberta’s provincial election in 1917 marked the first time that women voted in Canada. To commemorate the anniversary, Postmedia’s Alia Dharssi spoke to Melanee Thomas, a […]

Happy Gilmore stored his oversized cheques in the back-seat of his car. After celebrating her first professional victory last week at a National Women’s Golf Association (NWGA) shootout in Florida, Calgary’s Jennifer Ha had other ideas. “I was actually joking the other day that I want to go to the bank and see if the […]