Новости за 19.05.2016

Alberta fire fighters successfully defended Suncor Energy Inc. and Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s oilsands sites from wildfires and rain brought some relief as a blaze that shut more than a million barrels a day of production in Canada's oilpatch continued to grow.

Service pups are a rare breed, and raising them is a 24-7 job

The opening weekend of the Fairy Tales Film Festival, the Calgary Sneaker Swap and more fun things to do this weekend.

Police want the public to help identify a man who is believed to have information about a violent home invasion that sent a victim to the hospital for months.  The incident happened nearly two years ago, when three armed and masked men forced their way into a home in the 0-100 block of Coral Springs […]

The trial of Matthew de Grood, accused of stabbing five young people at an end-of-school house party, continues today. De Grood has admitted he killed the five, but has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. His lawyer has said he plans to argue his client was not criminally responsible for the killings. The trial is scheduled for […]

Business owners in Calgary share the things they think are necessities when launching a company.

Country duo Florida Georgia Line will be returning to Calgary for a winter date. The American act featuring Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard will be bringing their Dig Your Roots Tour to town for a Nov. 19 Saddledome show. Tickets for the concert are $49.50 and $75.50 (plus service charges) and go on sale May 27 from livenation.com. […]

The number of Calgary-area residents collecting employment insurance benefits rose for a 19th consecutive month in March, according to new data from Statistics Canada. The Calgary area had 22,130 EI recipients in March, according to the federal agency, up 2.5 per cent from February and 75.3 per cent from March 2015. The number of EI recipients in […]

The fire came in waves at Howard Ewashko’s family business: once on Tuesday afternoon, again in the evening. Both times, Ewashko, his brother Craig, and a small band of workers at the sawmill north of Fort McMurray saw the “beast” of a wildfire threaten their operations, before it turned back. Today, the Northland Forest Products sawmill is still […]

There’s a lot of good ice cream being made in Calgary these days, but David Jung’s creations at Nice Cream stand out. He uses liquid nitrogen to instantly freeze his concoctions, dropping the temperature of his ingredients to a frosty -196 C. The result, he notes, is a creamy, smooth, fresh treat that never gets […]

There was a time not so long ago when mentioning your tool shed at a cocktail party had the topical punch of bunions. Lately, however, thanks to the work of a few young urban visionaries, the formerly unremarkable outbuilding has dramatically risen in status. In Calgary, the lowly tool shed is enjoying a downright renaissance—in […]

Jean Marc Mons was living the dream—sun, sand, lucrative tech career—when he decided to chuck it all and start making and selling macarons in Calgary. And his life has never been sweeter. “Working in the Caribbean was nice,” he says, “but you can outgrow an island.” Mons and his wife came to Alberta to visit […]

A crowd will be getting high at the Theatre Junction Grand on May 25. The music will be pumping, the people will be dancing and sweating – and jump squatting and lunging.  Come Get High is the tag line for HIGH Fitness (highfitness.com), the program that’s gaining swift momentum in the fitness realm. It’s a hardcore workout incorporating […]

The salad roll was an epiphany when it debuted hereabouts some 30 years ago. I can still remember my first one: crunchy, cool, and bursting with fresh Asian flavour. No wonder Calgarians quickly made it a must-order appie as we forged our lasting acquaintance with the cuisine of Vietnam. You would have thought by now […]

It was her baba who taught Cheryl Arkison how to make perogies. “Her name was Anastasia,” Arkison says, “but everyone called her Nettie. Her time was spent three ways: cooking, gardening, and embroidering, and she made perogies all the time—when she wasn’t worrying about this, that, and everything.” Nettie was born along the Polish-Ukrainian border […]

By Brian Jean and the Wildrose caucus After a year of NDP government, huge numbers of right-of-centre Albertans are clamouring for a united conservative party to stand in the next election. Despite overtures made by the Wildrose last autumn, leadership and delegates at the recent PC annual general meeting emphatically voted to move ahead in […]

Assisted dying isn’t killing Re: “Supreme court could change its mind, again,” Andrew Coyne, Opinion, May 17. We live in a country where debate, challenge and change is possible. Bill C-14 does not meet the hopes of those who believe that intolerable suffering without a foreseeable date of death should be recognized, that periods of reflection […]

One of the top trends in fitness today is going back to the basics in the form of body weight training. Body weight training can be described as exercises that use your body against the forces of gravity to get stronger. Rather than targeting a muscle, such as a biceps curl, body weight training trains […]

The scariest thing about Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s 1955 drama Inherit the Wind is just how relevant it remains. Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized version of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial that detailed a Tennessee science teacher’s conviction for teaching evolution to his senior high class. William Jennings Bryan prosecuted the […]

Calgary’s best and brightest received a tip of the White Hat from Tourism Calgary — or rather more than a couple of dozen of them — for the 54th year.

RED DEER – Lots of coaches probably wish they could they could give the opposing bench boss a facewash every now and then. Few have actually done it. But two coaches at the 2016 Memorial Cup have traded punches, elbows, whacks and hacks on countless occasions. Red Deer Rebels owner/GM/head coach Brent Sutter and London […]

You’ve probably seen them lately, those little stacks of rocks popping up in the Bow River between Prince’s Island and Memorial Drive near downtown Calgary. The guy making them is a cook in his day job, but he loves spending his spare time wading the river at shallow points and balancing rocks on top of each […]

He heard the voice of the Sun God, telling him that if he didn’t kill them, they would kill him. The friendly guy chatting with him in the kitchen was a werewolf, and the others in the living room were part of the monster’s crew. On the April 2014 night that he stabbed five people […]

It’s not just landowners in Springbank opposed to a dry reservoir on rural land west of Calgary, a new poll suggests. The survey commissioned by the group Don’t Damn Springbank reached out to Calgary residents for their opinions, and found 55 per cent of respondents prefer a dry dam in McLean Creek over the Springbank proposal as the best […]

The SuperDogs are out, Canine Stars are in. The longtime fan favourite, which ran in the Big Four Building, is not returning to the Calgary Stampede this summer. Instead, a new feature called The Dog Bowl will take its place, albeit outdoors on the midway. As much as cotton candy and the Young Canadians, the SuperDogs were a Stampede staple. They […]