Новости за 08.05.2016

Premier Rachel Notley is scheduled to update media on the status of the Fort McMurray fire at 12:30 p.m. today. The update comes as fire crews are expected to face west winds today. At an update Saturday, officials said they held the line, protecting critical infrastructure as the blaze headed northwest into the boreal forest.

A 70-year-old man died after a single engine, two-seat airplane crashed about 13 km west of Sylvan Lake Saturday afternoon.  Emergency responders were dispatched to a report of a plane crash in a rural area at about 1:30 p.m. and found the lone occupant of the aircraft dead on scene. Sylvan Lake RCMP, the Alberta […]

Fargo and Hell on Wheels, two of Alberta’s highest-profile, Calgary-based television series, took home major hardware at the 42nd annual Alberta Film and Television Awards, while Calgary native Lawrence Roeck’s existential western Diablo picked up the big win for best feature film. The award show, hosted by comedian Jebb Fink, took over the Hyatt’s Imperial Ballroom, […]

DENVER — It may be a rivalry thanks to the bad blood and the close games, but the final results are completely and utterly one-sided in the post-season. The Colorado Mammoth were hoping to flip the script on the Rocky Mountain Rivalry on Saturday inside the Pepsi Center, but it was Dane Dobbie penning another […]

DENVER — The day before the West Division semifinal, Curtis Dickson said no one goes anywhere in the playoffs without good goaltending. The Calgary Roughnecks star was confident in Mike Poulin heading into Saturday’s first-round clash with the Colorado Mammoth, and the 30-year-old goalie repaid that confidence in spades. It was a sensational 56-save performance […]

The Brooks Bandits laid an egg Saturday night. A goose egg. After cruising through the round-robin segment of the Western Canada Cup with a perfect 4-0 record, the Bandits got bombed in the championship game. The West Kelowna Warriors got goals from a half-dozen different scorers as they beat the Bandits 6-0 in Estevan, Sask. […]

RED DEER — Just over a year ago, Don Scott was Alberta’s advanced education minister, a respected and rising power in the PC government of Premier Jim Prentice. Today he’s another Fort McMurray refugee who isn’t sure if his house survived. Scott, his wife and two children stayed in Edmonton for a couple of nights after […]

Air Canada is offering partial refunds for Fort McMurray fire evacuees who paid overinflated ticket prices as they fled the region, the airline said Friday. The announcement comes after allegations of price-gouging, with photos showing ticket prices above $4,000 circulating on social media. However, Air Canada says it did not intentionally raise prices. “Contrary to allegations […]

RED DEER — After living through “one of the worst years” in party history, Alberta Tories have committed to rebuild the party, even as it faces significant financial challenges. With about 1,000 Progressive Conservatives gathered for the party’s annual general meeting at the Red Deer Sheraton, members voted in favour of accepting the report of the […]

Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr arrived in Calgary to tour evacuee reception centres Saturday, pledging federal support for the people of Fort McMurray as the fire there continues to grow. “For the last 10 years, the Alberta economy has picked up all our socks,” said Hehr, the MP for Calgary-Centre, speaking from the evacuee centre […]

The Fort McMurray wildfire could disrupt the province's labour market for months, as displaced workers add to Alberta's already higher-than-normal unemployment rate.

With  the wildfires rapidly expanding in northern Alberta, Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee and emergency operations officials provided a status update on fire control operations and evacuee efforts at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

It’s a question everyone’s been asking this off-season. Who’s next? After watching three Calgary Stampeders defensive ends parlay double-digit sack seasons into NFL contracts — Cordarro Law, Shawn Lemon, and, most recently, Freddie Bishop III — it’s a completely fair query. At some point, that streak will come to an end, but not if Brandon Thurmond has his way. Signed by the Stampeders on Friday, along with fellow edge-rushers Marcus Thompson (Rutgers) and Ridge Wilson (West Alabama) — they also... Читать дальше...

For 460 harrowing days, Lorinda Stewart worked tirelessly to bring her daughter Amanda Lindhout home to Alberta after she was kidnapped and held captive in Somalia. For 267 long days, and counting, former Calgarian Alison Azer has been relentless in trying to reunite with her four young children, who were abducted in August and taken […]