Новости за 07.05.2016

Premier Rachel Notley and technical experts will be providing an update on the status of the fire.

Two families with small children escaped a harrowing blaze that apparently charred two homes in Royal Oak early Saturday morning. The fire on Royal Oak Grove N.W. broke out around midnight at one of the houses and spread quickly, flames shooting high above the two-storey houses. Tim Potter was at home when emergency crews banged on […]

Albi Homes has captured the two biggest awards in a national housing industry competition. The veteran Calgary builder picked up the Design Excellence Award and the Marketing Excellence Award at the 2016 Canadian Home Builders’ Association National Awards for Housing Excellence. Winners were announced during the association’s national conference in Kelowna, B.C., on Friday evening. […]

As Premier Rachel Notley woke up Thursday morning, one year after her surprising election victory, she must have wondered whom she has wronged. The 12 months her rookie government has endured calls to mind a 1992 speech by Queen Elizabeth II, who referred to the year as ‘Annus Horribilis’ — Latin for horrible year. We can put Alberta […]

It was four long years ago that Douglas Coupland first envisioned the concept: an eye-catching series of coloured targets on the wall of the lobby of a luxury condominium complex in Calgary’s Design District. Each target would represent something that personified Calgary in some way, whether it be a wild rose, a snowy owl, a bonspiel or hockey. The installation was […]

Five people are dead after a fire broke out at a home in the northeast.  Crews responded to the call around 1:30 a.m. at the 100 block of Falchurch Crescent NE. The fire has been contained.  About an hour earlier emergency crews also responded to a fire on Royal Oak Grove northwest. Two homes were fully engulfed on arrival, […]

Need to ensure it never happens again We need your hearts and your hands to help with the great tragedy that is unfolding in Fort McMurray. Please help in any way that you can. But, that such an incomprehensible tragedy could happen in the province of Alberta is inconceivable. With all the environmental activism, wealth, […]

Albertans have been reading and watching with disbelief the incredible devastation wrought by wildfires in Fort McMurray. But while all of us are viewing the destruction and mass evacuations with sympathy, most have no real understanding of their plight. Fortunately, few of us have lived through such an ordeal. But there is one group who can relate to losing […]

The April 20th announcement by federal Minister of Health Jane Philpott regarding the imminent legalization of cannabis use in Canada has provided us with the opportunity to protect our sensibilities or our children. We won’t be able to do both and so we must choose. When Philpott announced that the government plans to have legislation […]

History should be accessible. It should be there to experience, appreciate, learn from and build off of. Or merely enjoyed. Whatever the case, Calgarians will have the opportunity to do just that with city’s rich musical history thanks to the Calgary Local Music Library. The project is a partnership between the Calgary Public Library and campus […]

Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and for many of us, that means a time to buy flowers, presents and brunch (or dinner) for the special women in our lives. But for an artist, a celebration doesn’t necessarily mean buying a present. It may mean creating something one-of-a-kind and original, something that celebrates their mom year-round. […]

As the calendar turns to May it feels like summer is definitely on the way. The days are longer, the evenings warmer and the trees are all green again.  Patio season has arrived. (Really, you could say it started in April this year.) To me, patio time is casual time. Invite your neighbours over, sit […]

Joel Cochrane has been in an amorous frame of mind lately, and he’s found an outlet for these stirrings. Cochrane will be playing the British philosopher and novelist C.S. Lewis in Fire Exit Theatre’s production of William Nicholson’s play Shadowlands, which runs in the Arts Commons Engineered Air Theatre May 12 through 22. A confirmed […]

Hockey stars and fans gathered at the Westin Apr 15 to kick off the 2016 Gordie Howe C.A.R.E.S. Pro-Am Hockey Tournament weekend. Special guests the likes of Paul Henderson, Clark Gillies, Dennis Hull and Yvan Cournoyer added greatly to the event’s cache, but it was the mandate of the event that created such phenomenal support. […]

A decade after masterminding the killings of her family at the age of 12, a young woman is now freed from the justice system.   But for the Medicine Hat girl identified only as J.R., the completion of her rehabilitative youth sentence is not so much an ending as it is a beginning.   Now 22, […]

Tanner Kaspick is one bright dude. It’s no surprise he likes the light on – especially the red one. The Brandon Wheat Kings centre, who was awarded the WHL scholastic player of the year award on Wednesday, scored the overtime winner on Friday to beat the visiting Seattle Thunderbirds 3-2. “That’s probably one of the […]

She has two little ones in tow, another one expected to arrive within less than a week. On Friday morning, Saira Younis is laser-focused on her role as a mother. “I can’t really think about anything else right now,” she says as she rubs her very pregnant belly. When I wish the young mom an […]

More than 800 members of the Progressive Conservative party meeting Saturday in Red Deer will face big questions about their party’s future — including whether it has one.   The party’s annual general meeting comes almost exactly a year after the four-decade old PC dynasty went down to defeat at the hands of the NDP in the 2015 provincial election.   […]

A four-year-old was struck by a car and killed in Bowness on Friday evening, EMS said. Emergency responders were called to the scene at 47th Avenue and 79th Street N.W. at about 8:15 p.m. The child was pronounced dead at the scene. Police were still investigating the incident as of 9 p.m. Friday, however, a […]

DENVER — When all is said and done and lacrosse fans are debating the best players in the history of the NLL decades from now, the names John Grant Jr. and Curtis Dickson will be mentioned often. At 41 years of age, with 17 seasons under his belt, Grant Jr.’s already is. Six seasons in, 27-year-old Curtis Dickson’s pace says his will be, too.

DENVER — A whole lot of blood has been spilled in the Rocky Mountain Rivalry over the years. Expect another spattering to show up on the Pepsi Center floor when all is said and done Saturday night (7 p.m., TSN2). Meeting for the fourth straight year in the first round of the playoffs means the Calgary Roughnecks and Colorado Mammoth are intimately familiar with each other, and recent events — namely, the hit delivered by Alex Buque on Karsen Leung six weeks ago at the same venue — have done nothing... Читать дальше...

MEDICINE HAT — She may have orchestrated their murders, but the parents of Canada’s youngest mass murderer would likely be happy with the woman she is today, a judge said Friday. “I think your parents would be rather proud of you,” Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Scott Brooker told the woman at the completion of […]

When the Alberta Fire Commissioner’s office asked firefighters from outlying communities for help fighting the fire in Fort McMurray, Lorne Code and a fire crew from Didsbury came running.

As frightening video of a crash which killed two people was played in court Friday, the man behind the wheel of the offending vehicle doubled over sobbing. Ali Alejandro Montoya pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal negligence causing death in the May 2, 2015, collision which killed a city taxi driver and his fare. […]

Lillian Coleman choked back tears as she spoke of the influx of Fort McMurray evacuees showing up to the Suncor camp where she worked, many of them distressed families with young children and pets.