Новости за 31.05.2016

Reducing Deerfoot Trail gridlock through quick fixes could still take up to a decade, says a consultant reviewing the freeway's future.

City police have laid a manslaughter charge in the death of a man following a fight in the southeast community of Forest Heights over the weekend.

A friend of the family says the little girl backed over by a truck in Tuscany late last week has died after days in critical condition. The seven-year-old died Tuesday morning in hospital. “Our beloved and most exquisite daughter Sloane Marie Viczko passed this morning in her mother’s and father’s arms to an army of angels’ wings,” Neil Gamache posted online, on behalf of the family, to the community that had rallied in support. “Sloane’s wishes to become a donor are being triumphantly met by... Читать дальше...

Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Coun. Sean Chu clashed Tuesday over the mayor’s explosive comments made during his recent trip to Boston about Uber and Calgary’s enforcement operation against the U.S.-based company’s drivers. It began innocently enough. Representatives from Calgary Economic Development were providing the city’s priorities and finance committee with an update on its 10-year […]

A Lethbridge woman has been officially charged in the death of her partner in February.

A source says MLA Derek Fildebrandt has been fully reinstated to the Opposition caucus but the party is not making any official confirmation at this point.  Fildebrandt was suspended Friday night over the Strathmore-Brooks MLA’s apparent endorsement of a homophobic Facebook post — which Fildebrandt quickly apologized for and said was inadvertent. The suspension provoked an outcry among some Wildrose members […]

The first wave of Fort McMurray residents are scheduled to begin going home Wednesday at 8 a.m., starting in the least-damaged areas of the fire-ravaged city. But only yesterday, some 2,000 residents learned they will remain displaced for months because their homes are unsafe due to toxic ash and debris, even though the structures were spared from […]

The Arctic holds a wealth of newly-accessible resources, and Canada is one of the many nations racing to claim as much of the region as possible. But with issues such as the well-being of northern communities and climate change at play, Canada’s role is hotly contested.  Some, like University of Calgary professor Rob Huebert, say conflict […]

Luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue is coming to Calgary. The New York-based department store will open its third Canadian location in Chinook Centre, owned by Cadillac Fairview, in the space formerly occupied by Target Canada. Saks will operate a 115,00o square-foot, tw0-level store offering women’s designer, contemporary, modern ready-to-wear, men’s beauty, jewelry, shoes and handbags. […]

A man in his late 20s was killed after a motorcycle crashed into a tree in northwest Calgary on Monday night.

In the high stakes world of high-tech oilfield services, low oil and gas prices are hitting Calgary’s two largest publicly traded players, Pason Systems  and Computer Modelling Group, in vastly different ways. Pason, which builds and rents sensitive instrumentation systems attached to most of the drilling rigs in North America, has eliminated 350 employees — […]

Wildrose is suddenly oh-so polite — not to Kathleen Wynne but to Derek Fildebrandt, the MLA who was kicked out of caucus after his Facebook fiasco and the legislature snubbing of the Ontario premier. “He is a very talented individual,” Leader Brian Jean enthused Monday. “He is my friend. He is our friend. And he is part […]

Calgary’s top bureaucrat said council can trim the 2017 property tax rate increase by 1.5 percentage points without affecting city operations — but anything lower would require dipping into reserve funds or cutting base services. The city’s 2014-2018 plan calls for a 4.7 per cent rate increase for 2017, but a report to council shows the hike could be lowered to […]

Homeowners will pay $6.50 a month for the city’s residential compost food and waste program set to roll out in mid-2017.   This follows a pilot project in which 89 per cent of residents in four test communities — Southwood, Abbeydale, Cougar Ridge and Brentwood — were “satisfied” with the green cart service and 91 per cent supported it […]

Working in different kitchens is a necessity for chefs to gain the experience and knowledge needed to rise to the top of their profession. Michael Batke has spent time exploring diverse cuisines across North America, enjoying experiences from food trucks to providing menus for kings and queens. However, he is happy to return as executive chef at […]

It’s everyone’s favourite time of year again! And I don’t mean Christmas. I mean that last month or so before school ends and we are off for two-and-a-half awesome months of summer vacation, when we can stay up late, sleep in and just play all day. Some of us will be going off to camp, […]

Rob Rice has been sleeping on an air mattress in his hardware store this week, running the outlet in Fort McMurray with a skeleton crew and stocking up on freezers, fridges and other appliances. Funmi Baiyewun has shuttled back and forth between Edmonton and her specialty grocery store in Fort McMurray, tossing out spoiled perishables while preparing for […]

Speaker wants to have it both ways Re: “Naomi Klein links fossil fuels, fires,” May 30. Now that Naomi Klein has jetted into town to denounce fossil fuels‎, can we expect her apology for the role she played in contributing to the Fort McMurray fires? Or is her message that only those who are not […]

If the city is determined to proceed with the distribution of green carts to collect compostables from Calgarians, why doesn’t it simply find efficiencies in its ever-growing spending to cover the cost? Instead, council wants to charge homeowners $6.50 a month. The project is an important part of the city’s waste reduction strategy, which when […]

It’s no small feat to anger both your political opponents and your party’s base in the span of two days, but Brian Jean managed to do so. And whatever sins or missteps can be attributed to his now-apparently-former finance critic, the last few days have been a real indictment of Jean’s leadership of the Wildrose […]

WEATHER Windy and cold in the morning, but the sun came out to warm things up to plus-15 in the afternoon. Typical, Calgary. WHO WASN’T THERE The Stamps made one roster move Monday, releasing WR Josh Harper and adding defensive end Ja’Gared Davis, a 6-foot-1, 238-pounder out of Southern Methodist University … HB Brandon Smith, […]

Wildrose is suddenly oh-so polite — not to Kathleen Wynne but to Derek Fildebrandt, the MLA who was kicked out of caucus after his Facebook fiasco and the legislature snubbing of the Ontario premier. “He is a very talented individual,” Leader Brian Jean enthused Monday. “He is my friend. He is our friend. And he is part […]

The Wildrose move to suspend Derek Fildebrandt from caucus has put leader Brian Jean at odds with one of his most prominent MLAs and exposed dissension within the party as it trys to present a united front and broaden its appeal to Alberta conservatives. The decision to suspend Fildebrandt Friday night over the Strathmore-Brooks MLA’s apparent […]

From Larry Taylor to Jock Sanders to Tim Brown and just about everywhere in between. Finding a capable return man who can stay healthy has been a serious problem for the Calgary Stampeders. “I think since Larry left it’s always been a position where we’ve tried to identify guys,” Stamps special-teams co-ordinator Mark Kilam said […]

The size of the player has nothing to do with the size of the play. Roy Finch is small. But his signature is the big play. It’s something he’s hoping to bring to the Calgary Stampeders this season, especially in the return game, a specific area of need for head coach Dave Dickenson’s team heading […]