Новости за 19.04.2016

It’s hard to tell who drew the short straw. While Dean Roland is fielding questions from some goober in Canada about their veteran Georgia pop-rock band, his big brother Ed is in Washington as part of the Grammys on the Hill Advocacy Day, which was meant to send a message as part of the need […]

Getting the boot from the Alberta Legislature, in the manner of Tory leader Ric McIver this week, isn’t unheard of (unless you are a Tory — he may be the first in decades), but it’s just the latest incident in what has been a particularly wild government era. Beyond laments about increasingly bitter partisanship, the behaviour of our elected members of the […]

Under fire from Calgary city council over the province’s increased take from the education property tax, Premier Rachel Notley defended her NDP government and said it hasn’t raised tax rates. The city said Monday that the province’s adjustment to its portion of the property tax means a 10.2 per cent increase for residences and a 4.6 per […]

EDMONTON – Grass and brush fires are forcing people from their homes in some communities west of Edmonton. Parkland County has issued a mandatory evacuation alert for people who live in and around the hamlet of Duffield. Residents of Clear Lake have been told to be ready to leave on short notice. The threat of fires […]

A damning letter allegedly penned by murder suspect Wilhelm Rempel could have been used in the defence of his brother, Timothy, and sister-in-law Sheena Cuthill. But the jailhouse “kite” Tim Rempel said he received from his brother last October, while the two were housed in the Calgary Remand Centre, was never allowed to go to […]

A Calgary woman is upset after claiming she was tossed out of a Calgary taxi cab this weekend, and nearly rejected by a second, because the small fare — she asked for six-block ride downtown because she was afraid of walking alone at night — wasn’t worth their time. Jenna Leniczek wrote about the incident on Facebook, saying it showed her […]

A southern Alberta RCMP officer is accused of touching a woman in a sexual manner during a traffic stop search more than a year ago.

It has been more than 16 years since it happened, but John Fawcett still sounds bewildered, and a little annoyed, about the strange forces that nearly derailed his werewolf film back in 1999. Producing an independent horror movie in Canada is an uphill battle at the best of times. But Fawcett said pre-production was further complicated when word […]

This week in Calgary is Poutine Week, a glorious, gravy-drenched seven days during which it’s totally acceptable to indulge in fries and curds multiple times a day. This year, local chefs were paired with Calgary Stampeders players to enhance their poutine dishes in the 2016 Gravy Bowl competition. The winner was this tantalizing, buttery creation […]

The AirBnB of car rentals is launching in three Canadian provinces in a limited international expansion as it grapples with the types of insurance headaches that often plague sharing-economy startups.

Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci bravely faced a room filled with Calgary’s business elite Monday at a Calgary Chamber of Commerce breakfast where he dissected the new provincial budget that includes a whopping $10.4-billion deficit. Judging from the cool reception in the room, the minister didn’t exactly wow the crowd. “The room was still waiting for some good news for the energy […]

A Calgary advertising firm has landed the job of promoting a well-known beer brewed in Jamaica, adding to its roster of related clients. FLIPP Advertising partners Emily and Craig LePan admit they originally thought an e-mail from Kingston seeking more information about the company was sent from Kingston, Ont. It was only when they received a phone call […]

Few of us are cut out for the fast-paced grind of high finance, and after two action-packed years working as a commodities trader in Toronto, Crystal Obuck decided it was time to make some big changes.  She moved back to her home town of Calgary and began working in sales for wine distribution company Select Wines, […]

Debt grows on the backs of Albertans Re: “Stumbling in the dark,” Editorial, April 15. Finance Minister Joe Ceci stated, “We will not make the choice of balancing our books and reducing our debt on the backs of Albertans.”  Is he emphasizing that his government will never make the choice to reduce debt; they will let […]

Last week, Ottawa became the latest Canadian city to legalize ride-sharing services like Uber. And while they aren’t the first to do so, they may very well be the first to actually have Uber operating legally, even though their bylaw takes effect Sept. 30. Of course, Alberta’s two largest cities have already brought in changes […]

If there’s any satisfaction to being proven right, the Ready to Engage group should be feeling very content. They’ve said for months the $40-million budget for the southwest transitway was wishful thinking — now their suspicions have been confirmed. A report going to a city council committee Wednesday pegs the price tag at between $57 million and $66 million […]

BROOKS – Too bad these guys don’t get paid by the hour. The overtime bucks alone could fatten a wallet. Parker Foo scored at 1:05 of sudden death to give the Brooks Bandits a 2-1 win in Game 3 of the AJHL final on Monday night. It was the third time in as many games […]

Home-ice has meant everything. And that bodes well for the Red Deer Rebels. In a WHL playoff series that has seen the home side win every game, one tilt remains and it will be played at the Red Deer Centrium on Tuesday night. Rebels power forward Jake DeBrusk said Tuesday’s Game 7 (7 p.m., 106.7 […]

It’s a typical coffee house scene: friends gathering over steaming latte bowls, a few loners focused on their laptop screens and one quintet having what looks like a corporate pep talk. As he casts his eyes from corner to corner, Michael Going is unperturbed at the lack of available seating. “It’s so busy in here,” […]

Tory leader tossed from the house over speaker challenge.

Paris Cotton may not have spoken a word the entire weekend. He wanted to let the film do the talking. One week after attending Saskatchewan Roughriders mini camp at the same IMG Academy facility in Florida, the 26-year-old former Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back worked his way into a look at the Calgary Stampeders' annual three-day affair that came to a close Monday morning.

Glass from a broken window fell more than 30 storeys to the street below in Calgary’s downtown core Monday afternoon, peppering a moving vehicle with shards. The incident happened about 4 p.m. at the corner of 6 Ave. and 1 St. S.W., causing traffic calamity as firefighters and police had to shut down a few blocks. The glass came from the 33rd storey of the under construction Brookfield Place.

The Calgary man behind a viral video of a death-defying climb to the top of a downtown construction crane last fall has posted new footage of another climb where he suffered a serious fall. Former urban climber Joseph McGuire posted video of the incident from last May when he climbed the historic Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. The video shows McGuire attempting to scale an industrial power […]

Calgary homeowners are facing an “outrageous” property tax increase of nearly $170 on the average house after the provincial government raised its take of municipal revenue in last week’s budget.  The Alberta government adjusts its property tax rate on a provincewide basis, and this year that works out to a 10.2 per cent increase for […]

Medical marijuana counselling businesses could soon face similar bylaws as liquor stores to prevent them from clustering in communities and from opening too close to schools, says a report to the city’s planning body.  On Thursday, administration will present a land-use bylaw amendment to the Calgary Planning Commission that recommends medical marijuana counselling businesses be listed […]