Новости за 10.05.2016

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is seeking public input to determine if a review of the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir is needed, with a May 30 deadline for submissions.

Brookfield Place has officially surpassed the Bow in height, earning the title of western Canada's tallest building.

Organizers have now rolled out the entire slate of more than 200 acts ready to stock Sled Island’s 10th anniversary event. Joining the already impressive lineup are: Massachusetts indie act Speedy Ortiz; Canadian tripmasters The Besnard Lakes; veteran NYC post-punkers ESG; acclaimed producer and DJ Kaytranada; metal supergroup Dead Cross, featuring ex-members of Slayer and Retox; […]

Eight men have been charged – some with multiple murder attempts – in connection with a string of high-profile shootings linked to organized crime in Calgary in 2015.

The transit of Mercury has been revealed in some pretty stunning detail in this video from NASA. The cosmic show, which began at 7:12 a.m. EDT Monday, was visible from the eastern U.S. and Canada, as well as Western Europe, western Africa and most of South America. Those places were privy to the entire event. […]

A seven-year-old Medicine Hat boy is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame after catching the attention of Mad Magazine due to his marked resemblance to Alfred E. Neuman. With his red hair, freckles and missing front tooth, Thomas J. Desjarlais was a deadringer for the iconic face of the satiric magazine when his mom Carly […]

A Calgary police officer was taken to hospital for treatment of blurry vision after someone in a car pointed a laser at a cruiser. Police say they received several 911 calls late Monday evening about a green laser beam being flashed in a southeast neighbourhood. The light was allegedly aimed at a cruiser when officers […]

This year's Kinsmen Lotto for the Children's Hospital comes with a smaller entry fee and prize choices tailored for leaner times, said Sean Libin, president of the Kinsmen Club of Stampede City.

Oil and gas companies hurt by low prices are leading a drop in Canadian investment plans for a second year, a government survey found. Planned spending by companies and governments on non- residential construction and machinery and equipment will fall 4.4 per cent in 2016 to $241.6 billion, Statistics Canada said Tuesday from Ottawa. The […]

The Van Horne Institute was founded in 1991 with a mandate to assist post-secondary institutions like the University of Calgary develop programs to address transportation and related regulatory issues. It has since become recognized as one of North America’s leading public policy research institutes, focusing on transportation, supply chains and logistics. As the industry grows […]

Premier Rachel Notley and her energy minister will sit down Tuesday with more than a dozen prominent oilsands executives in Edmonton to dissect the unprecedented wildfire disaster raging around Fort McMurray. It will cap a tortuous week for all sides.  More than 80,000 people from the region have been forced from their homes and at least 2,400 buildings razed, affecting many employees who […]

Tessa Lerbekmo-Joyes is an avid supporter of the Canadian fashion scene through her magazine, Standout Publications. You can find her team covering the city’s hottest fashion events and national fashion weeks. Lerbekmo-Joyes’ journey has not been an easy one. At the age of one, she was diagnosed as deaf. “I remember one night after we found out, I […]

In a move that puts it at odds with most other political parties, Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives have jettisoned the one-member, one-vote system it had used for the past quarter-century to choose its leader. Instead, Tory members in each of the province’s 87 constituencies will vote for 15 delegates who will later select the leader at […]

Alberta was prepared for forest fire Re: “Government cynicism exposed by fire tragedy,” Chris Nelson, Opinion, May 7. The recent opinion piece by Chris Nelson stated that half a billion dollars was cut from the firefighting budget. This is incorrect and misrepresents the province’s response to emergencies and disasters. I want to stress to all Albertans, […]

Some people just gotta sing and others just gotta dance and age is the least of their concerns. In Calgary, such ageless entertainers with a passion for performance join the Silver Stars Musical Revue Society. For the past 16 or maybe 17 years the Silver Stars have presented an annual song and dance concert. “There […]

One might be tempted to call it karmic: Taber town council voted unanimously Friday to suspend Tom Moffatt from his job pending an investigation into his comments on social media. Moffatt, a former provincial NDP candidate, set off a storm of controversy a week ago when he took to Twitter to announce that “karmic” climate […]

Andrew and Graeme Schnell have been in each other’s corners for their entire lives. Growing up, each Calgarian brother was the other’s most important training partner on the squash court. As adults, they’d travel to tournaments together and share notes on the way they’d play. It was only natural that eventually the older Graeme would […]

For teenage soccer players, there’s nothing bigger than the Gothia Cup each summer in Sweden.  The international event attracts 1,600 U11 to U18 teams from 80 nations as far flung as Algeria to Zambia. And now, a girls’ team from Calgary is joining that elite list of competitors. This past weekend, the Foothills ’02 Girls beat a division rival, Southwest United […]

Dave Nduati knows what it’s like to lose one’s home to fire. When he was just seven years old, the house he shared with his father and three siblings was set alight, as was his school. “It all burned down to ashes, nothing was left,” says the 17-year-old of an experience few of us have […]

Calgarians might see the waters of the Elbow River rise Tuesday, but the city says don’t panic — it’s all part of the plan. Frank Frigo, the city’s water services senior planning engineer, explained Monday a controlled high-flow event will take place as part of seasonal operations of the Glenmore Reservoir. Tuesday’s activities will result in a roughly one-metre rise in water levels — maybe a little more in some spots, maybe a little less in others.

All off-season long, the CFL’s hot-stove has been crackling in Regina. That hasn’t changed one bit with the new season approaching. Heading into Tuesday’s 2016 CFL Draft (5 p.m., TSN), the Saskatchewan Roughriders are once again the talk of the league, as they dangle the No. 1-overall pick in hopes of finding a trade partner and a haul of goodies.

Calgary Emergency Operations Centre provides update on Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees in this city

It didn’t take long for a realization to dawn on Brett Blaszko as he went through his reps last week at the New York Giants’ rookie mini-camp. Surrounded by players who had cut their football teeth at some of the most famous football programs in the NCAA, the former University of Calgary Dinos receiver wasn’t […]

The University of Calgary’s dining hall had children’s cartoons playing during Notley’s live broadcast from inside Fort McMurray. Evacuees in Calgary didn’t seem all that interested in seeing any new images from the city; they had already seen enough through social media. “I have several friends who are firefighters up there and they’re doing some […]

After creating a Facebook page last Friday to collect donations for evacuees named Calgary Welcomes Fort McMurray, her Sunnyside home at 506 7 Ave. N.W. has been swamped with generosity — both items and offers of services.