Новости за 02.05.2016

The Forest Lawn library is due to reopen today after a small fire over the weekend temporarily closed the building.

City police have located the missing firearm magazine and 15 rounds of ammunition that came loose from the duty belt of a police officer Thursday.

Two Calgarians have been charged after city police seized more than $100,000 in stolen property including tools and bicycles, along with quantities of drugs, from a northeast home in a recent bust.

An Eagle and an angel. The acts have been announced for this year’s Oxford Stomp taking place July 15 at Fort Calgary and the headliners are a nice mix of the classic and the current, with Eagles legend Don Henley and, Ms. Stompa herself, Serena Ryder topping the bill. Rounding things out with the lineup are […]

Pakistani journalist Israr Kasana has interviewed former Pakistani prime minister Shaukat Aziz and Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, and plied his trade in the White House. Before relocating to Calgary with his family almost a year ago, he worked as a senior anchor at Pakistan Television News, a major broadcasting network based in Islamabad. Kasana says that […]

Once she discards her sequins, false eyelashes and wigs and retires her high heels what’s a girl to do? Well perhaps she could join the NatureElles, a kind of Brownies or Girl Guide troupe for outcasts from those very same elitist organizations. That’s precisely what Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt, the duo behind Lunchbox Theatre’s […]

High prices for condensate, a diluent that allows sticky oilsands bitumen to flow in a pipeline, are expected to remain a thorn in the side of producers already reeling from low prices. In first-quarter results last week, both Cenovus Energy Inc. (TSX:CVE) and MEG Energy Corp. (TSX:MEG) complained their losses were magnified by the high […]

It was an innocent child’s question, posed at one of the worst moments in his family’s life. “We were coming home from the hospital after visiting my mom,” says Heather Manitowich, whose mother, Moira Hoogveld, had been diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia only a few weeks earlier in the spring of 2013. The night sky, she […]

Mounties are looking for two men in connection with an armed robbery at an Esso gas station Friday night in which a knife was held up to the clerk.

Calgary’s housing market continued to struggle in April, with sales for the month down more than 10 per cent from year-ago levels, according to preliminary numbers from the Calgary Real Estate Board. The CREB statistics show while 1,764 homes were sold in April, down 10.1 per cent, new and active listings in the city both rose. New […]

Kaitlyn Menard hasn’t been dancing long, but she’s found a deep connection to the art form. Wearing moccasins and a beaded ankle bracelet, she stands in a flat, open area in Nose Hill Park, where she’s arranged to meet fancy dancer Sandra Manyfeathers and two traditional drummers. Here, the two women will dance under the […]

The Quebec company’s Cities is a one-man show that has Ducas on stage telling stories of imaginary cities.

“The best thing about making love is walking up the stairs.” So said Oscar Wilde, prolific 19th century writer of what was then every genre possible, including what might now pass as columns. Wilde was a brilliant idea-teller, the Beethoven of words, a sexual and social provocateur and master of the pithy one-liner. One can only […]

Donor’s story is an inspiration Re: “One woman’s generosity changed Canadian business,” April 29.  What a pleasure to read such a heartwarming story about Margaret Clarke’s first bursaries in 1965 having had such great repercussions. In memory of her late husband, she donated $500 a year each to help two struggling students continue their studies […]

One up, one down. The Brooks Bandits kicked off the Western Canada Cup with a 4-2 victory over the West Kelowna Warriors on Sunday. Jesse Baird gave the AJHL champions an early lead before the Warriors scored twice to take a 2-1 lead after the first period. Tristan Thompson and Calgarian Cale Makar struck in […]

Double-double. That’s a dandy way to start your morning at Tim Hortons, but a dreadful way to finish a round of golf — especially when you’re shooting for your second career victory on the Web.com Tour. Calgary-born, B.C.-raised golfer Roger Sloan was clinging to a one-stroke lead with just two empty spaces remaining on his scorecard […]

There are countless differences between the eight nominees for the 2016 BLG Awards. Some of the young men and women who were shortlisted for this year’s awards were born and raised in far-off countries. Andrew Buckley, on the other hand, grew up just a couple kilometres from where the top male and female athletes in […]

Leaders of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties say a weekend debate on forming a new party on the political right threatens to further divide conservatives, which is “exactly what the NDP wants” ahead of the next election. A crowd of roughly 400 Alberta conservatives who gathered in Red Deer on Saturday held a straw poll that revealed […]

"Right now the problem isn't dire," he said. "Nobody needs to be overly alarmed."

An outspoken member of the Progressive Conservative caucus is considering a run for the Tory leadership. Calgary-North West MLA Sandra Jansen, who originally said she would not be a candidate for leader, acknowledged in a recent interview she is considering entering the race when it is launched. “It’s certainly something I’m not ruling out anymore,” said […]

After spending a night sleeping in the grass alone in the wilderness, a missing two-year-old boy was found safe and sound Sunday morning, the youngster's family says. Mounties say little Issac Leuenberger was found off a main trail, when a searcher heard some noise off in the bush and sure enough it was him. He was a little scratched up and hungry but he'll be fine.

A new attraction set to open in Revelstoke this month will give thrill-seekers the option to ride a roller coaster down a mountain.  The Pipe Mountain Coaster will feature a 279-metre vertical drop and more than 1.4 km of twists and turns through a tunnel, ski runs, alpine meadows and forest. According to the Revelstoke Mountain […]

Everyone should live in a fantasy world. It’s always sunny, everyone is happy, dresses the way they want, does whatever they want and worries about nothing — certainly not about recessions or oil prices or tax deadlines or anything so mundane. You could see it on this gorgeous Sunday down at the Stampede for the […]

Terry Bell and her friends have found coconuts, fridge drawers, a brand-new golf club and even a parking meter while picking up garbage along the city’s riverbanks. On Sunday morning, Bell and more than a dozen of her friends gathered at a southeast Calgary park to once again see what odd items they’d retrieve during the […]

With up to 21 new public schools set to open over the next two years, the Calgary Board of Education is expecting lower enrolment in older schools, some of which may face closure due to a potential exodus of students to the suburbs. But parents are asking the public board to carefully consider demographic forecasts and community […]