Новости за 25.05.2016

City police have now charged a man after his wife was killed and his 15-year-old daughter injured in a shooting during a domestic dispute in northeast Calgary early Tuesday.

Justice Eric Macklin is expected to issue his ruling in the Matthew de Grood murder trial this morning. On Tuesday, Crown and defence lawyers agreed that de Grood should not be held criminally responsible for the killings of Kaitlin Perras, Lawrence Hong, Jordan Segura, Zackariah Rathwell and Joshua Hunter in April 2014.

Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper will bow out of federal politics within months, a source confirmed to Postmedia Wednesday. The Globe and Mail broke the news Wednesday morning that Harper would be out sometime over the summer, before the fall session. The Conservative MP for Calgary Heritage has been offered jobs with large U.S. companies, including […]

Global crude supplies will start to dwindle in as little as two years, boosting prices, as the industry cuts investment to weather the worst market collapse in a generation, according to Statoil ASA. Oil companies reduced capital expenditure last year and are likely to cut it further this year and next, Statoil’s chief financial officer Hans […]

The oil market is rebalancing, but no one should count on prices recovering to $100 a barrel again: that’s the message from Norway’s petroleum and energy minister. Brent crude has surged more than 75 per cent from a 12-year low earlier this year as a global glut shows signs of easing, bringing relief to oil […]

The Tragically Hip will play Calgary’s Scotiabank Saddledome on Aug. 1, the band announced Wednesday — a day after revealing lead singer Gord Downie’s brain cancer diagnosis. In all, the band will play 10 shows — all in Canada — on its upcoming tour, which will kick off in Victoria on July 22. Tickets for the Calgary […]

An Ontario-based telecommunications company is expanding into Alberta, offering home phone, Internet and television packages to consumers seeking an alternative to big players like Shaw and Telus.

The dollies might not be the only thing wiggling at this 18-plus puppet show.

People are entitled to their personal opinions on pipelines, but stiff opposition to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion seems strange. One would think that adding capacity to an existing right-of-way would be fairly innocuous — certainly less worrisome than proposing an entirely new route. Seventy-three per cent of the proposed line will use the current pipeline corridor, […]

Parks have gone to the dogs Re: “Loose dog kills wildlife,”Letter, May 18.  The letter about a dog owner allowing an off-leash retriever to tear goslings to pieces along the Bow River is but one example of the daily impact off-leash dogs have on Calgary’s river valleys, public parks and biodiversity. It is also common to […]

For 85 years, Canadian scholars in the humanities and social sciences, which used to be called the arts, have been congregating to present the results of their research to one another. In the old days, one might also listen to senior scholars reflect in a general way about the subject matter of a lifetime of […]

RED DEER — Max Jones’ hustle has vaulted London into the Memorial Cup final. The rookie power forward, who missed a month-and-a-half of the playoffs with a 12-game suspension, buried a second-period shorthanded goal to rescue a penalty-filled 5-2 Knights win over Rouyn-Noranda Tuesday at Enmax Centrium. The Knights finished the Cup round-robin with a […]

CANMORE — A solo scrambler has died after triggering an avalanche on Mount Lawson and being buried in a gully. On Tuesday, Kananaskis Country Public Safety responded to the mountain in Kananaskis Country after getting a report of the overdue scrambler, which is basically an experienced hiker who heads into high terrain, from the day before. The scrambler had planned […]

Calgary Flames centre Mikael Backlund will be wearing Team Sweden’s colours again soon. On June 13, to be exact, as one of 80,000-plus footie fans crammed into Stade de France for a Group E showdown at Euro 2016. “Me and seven buddies, we have tickets for the opening game for Sweden (against the Republic of […]

Like so many Canadians who have starred at quarterback at the CIS level, Jordan Heather wasn’t given a shot in the CFL. Instead, after graduating from Bishop’s University, Heather took his talents across the Atlantic and played professionally in France for the St. Etienne Giants before returning to Canada and settling in Calgary. He wasn’t […]

Tuesday morning's deadly domestic violence comes just a week after Calgary police and HomeFront came out and said frequency of such violence in the city and its severity is seeing a sharp rise.

Calgary’s Freemasons will open their doors to the public on June 24, allowing those curious about the ancient fraternity to have a look at what goes on inside for the city’s fourth annual Freemasons Day. Here are five things to know before you go.  1. It’s not a secret society The idea that Freemasons are […]

After three straight years of municipal tax hikes, residents of Chestermere may see some minor relief this year. Chestermere City Council passed its 2016 final budget last week and the document comes with a 4.9 per cent municipal tax rate cut.

After ramming two police cruisers while fleeing a standoff with RCMP members, an attempted murder suspect started shooting at police, court was told Tuesday. Crown prosecutor Roy Smith, reading from a statement of agreed facts, said central-Alberta resident Christopher Ryan Morrill fired several shots after his truck got stuck trying to cross a river. In […]

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says the NDP government still has “a bit of runway” as it works out details of its plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands. The government introduced legislation on its new carbon levy Tuesday, but other aspects of the climate change plan, including how it will deal with large emitters, such as oilsands operations, remain unclear. The […]

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“The accused certainly did appreciate the nature and quality of his acts — but the Crown concedes, on the balance of probabilities, he suffered a disease of the mind."

Defining a breakout season isn’t exactly easy. The definition is usually based on what the expectations were in the first place, so it can be different for each player.

RED DEER – As far as revenge goes, it doesn’t get much better than this. When the Red Deer Rebels were punted from the WHL playoffs by the eventual-champion Brandon Wheat Kings last month, they knew there would likely be an opportunity for payback. That time has arrived. The Rebels have a shot at sending […]

Fred Penner at the Calgary Children's Festival and more fun things to do this week