Новости за 01.06.2016

Six people are facing nearly 100 charges after loaded firearms, weapons, drugs and stolen property were seized from a home in south Lethbridge last week.

McDonald's Canada has completed a two-year pilot project aimed at sourcing and verifying "sustainable beef" for its customers.

After 11 years as the driving force behind Theatre Calgary, Dennis Garnhum is relinquishing his artistic directorship of the company. His current tenure at Theatre Calgary will take him to the opening night of Theatre Calgary’s ‘Da Kink in My Hair on Sept. 9. On Oct. 3 he will start his new duties as the artistic […]

A man was killed after his motorcycle and a car collided in southeast Calgary early Wednesday. Paramedics were called around 6:15 a.m. to the intersection of 52nd Street and Dufferin Place S.E. after a motorcycle crashed into the passenger side of a car. They found the motorcycle driver, a man in his early 50s, dead at […]

City police have charged a man in connection with sexual assaults that allegedly took place at a private day home in southeast Calgary over the last few years.

Husky Energy has pushed back the date to achieve full production at its Sunrise oilsands project to early 2017, from late 2016, because of an unscheduled shutdown last month as wildfires burned near Fort McMurray. The Calgary-based company says the project was restarted in the past week after being suspended starting May 7. Sunrise injects […]

The Calgary Police homicide unit has been called in to investigate the death of a woman in Forest Lawn on Tuesday night.

Investigators are looking for a woman who may have information critical to an ongoing homicide investigation into the death of a Calgary father.

BANFF — No. 148, a female grizzly bear often spotted around the Banff townsite, has been fitted with another GPS collar — this time to help her survive. After her last collar stopped working, wildlife experts decided to capture and fit the five-and-a-half-year-old bear with a new collar on May 20 to continue monitoring her. “She was still a high priority […]

CANMORE — Some residents in a Canmore community at the centre of an ongoing development dispute are questioning the timing of a decision to cut down up to 100 trees as part of forest-thinning work on the private property. On Sunday, crews cut down dozens of trees — some of which were almost 10 metres tall — in the Peaks of […]

The number of homes for sale and the number of people buying them continue to move in opposite directions as the city’s housing market continues to struggle, according to preliminary data from the Calgary Real Estate Board. There were 1,923 homes sold in the city in May, down 12 per cent from May 2015. Meanwhile, […]

Calgarians are known for milking every last drop out of their precious few summer days, so it makes sense that the city would embrace night markets. The concept basically takes the summer street festival model—artisan and merchandise vendors, food vendors, live music, busker-style entertainers, face painting for the kiddies—and transplants it into the evening hours. […]

Barbecue season is in full swing! While it’s hard to beat a juicy, beef burger fresh off the grill, sometimes you just want to switch things up and bring a little more excitement to your next barbecue. Fresh from our new From the Grill cookbook comes our Korean Pork Sliders. These Asian-inspired burgers are flavoured […]

It’s not a fee, it’s a tax Re: “No to green cart fees,” Editorial, May 31. A user fee is voluntary. If I want to play golf, I will pay a fee to play golf; if I don’t, then I pay nothing.  Same for a visit to a leisure centre or a ticket to take […]

Fort McMurray residents will finally begin returning to their fire-ravaged community this week. The homecoming can’t come soon enough for the approximately 90,000 people who fled the city. The disaster has united all Canadians. The Red Cross alone has raised $112 million for the effort, and both the federal and provincial governments will be matching every individual […]

We were always puzzled as kids by the notorious Chinese water torture. The idea that a relentless dripping of water onto a man’s forehead would make him spill his deepest secrets seemed implausible, but then we grew up on the northeast coast of England where such constant suffering had a more colloquial wording: rain. Time […]

WEATHER Head coach Dave Dickenson implemented his first “power practice” of training camp — one longer session with a couple breaks in between, rather than the standard camp two-a-day practices — and the weather cooperated Tuesday morning with sun and moderately clear skies. WHO WASN’T THERE Starting centre Pierre Lavertu was a spectator, but Dickenson […]

Her own sporting resume — a dozen LPGA Tour triumphs already, a perch as the top-ranked female golfer on the globe, all as a teenager — is staggering. And for proof of Lydia Ko’s beyond-the-course star-power, consider this: As a special guest at a Golden State Warriors’ shootaround in March, three-point machine Steph Curry insisted […]

Calgary's "lame" 30-year-old ban on backyard ramps could be coming to a much-deserved end, says Ward 8 Coun. Evan Woolley.

A gamble to give struggling non-profit bingo halls financial relief faltered Tuesday at city hall, where a committee rejected a motion to give three facilities a break on their property taxes.

The Alberta government is giving cities, towns and counties three years to figure out how to plan and share costs for regional services, defined as anything from roads to swimming pools to policing.

It turns out to be quite a mundane matter, legally assisted death, somewhat more complicated than getting your appendix out, but not a whole lot. And there's no recuperation time at all.

First Nations in Alberta are expected to lead much shorter lives than everyone else, according to a new report that reveals the gap is growing.

Parents of Calgary public school students who board buses every day will likely have to dig a little deeper next year.

Even now, more than 10 months later, Dan Federkeil can only shake his head. In fact, let’s rewind to July 15, two days after a 25-20 win over the Toronto Argonauts at McMahon Stadium, and three days after Sage Kimzey was crowned bull riding champion across the city on the final day of the Calgary […]