Новости за 02.06.2016

City police are looking for a man wanted on warrants in connection with rental frauds around Calgary.

Stamps training camp at full throttle

The neglect and starvation experienced by Alexandru Radita made it impossible for the teenager to fight off the bacterial sepsis which took his life, an expert testified Thursday. Alberta Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jeffery Gofton said the boy’s neglect was so bad even his teeth had rotted away. Gofton said the teenager’s fat and muscle […]

Alberta's restaurant industry has launched a public relations campaign called "Now is Not the Time" in an effort to convince the provincial government to hold off on its promised minimum wage hike.

A study suggests Canada can’t expand its energy industry and meet its greenhouse gas targets without inflicting heavy damage on the rest of the economy. David Hughes, former research director at the Geological Survey of Canada, says other industries will have to reduce their emissions by huge margins if Canada sticks to its growth projections […]

Canada’s energy sector needs capital. Alberta wants foreign investment. China has money to spend.  It seems like a natural marriage. Yet, in the first three months of the year, one of the biggest sources of foreign investment dropped sharply for the province’s largest industry. The country’s energy sector saw only $400,000 invested by Chinese companies — among […]

City police have charged a 16-year-old boy in the stabbing death of his stepmother in the southeast community of Forest Lawn late Tuesday.

Police in Lethbridge are investigating the death of a woman who was run over by a truck Thursday morning.

A toddler has been rescued and his mother is facing child pornography charges in connection with a sexual abuse investigation by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team, Red Deer Mounties and authorities in Idaho.

A recent ruling by Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Neil Wittmann will have far-reaching implications for the province’s energy sector. At issue was a case involving Redwater Energy Corp., a small, Calgary-area oil and gas company pushed into bankruptcy protection by its key lender, ATB Financial, which was owed $5 million. The case became complicated when […]

Chixdiggit celebrates a quarter century of pop punk and more live music this week.

Calgary entrepreneurs on their lightbulb moments

Aches and pains are a part of owning an aging body. It’s the body’s way of letting us know that something’s not right. We tend to accept aches and pains and also accept that knee replacements, hip replacements and orthotics are all parts of getting older. But what if we knew how to connect within and strengthen […]

It’s been nearly 20 years since I started going to Dorota Turka to get my hair coloured. Most of those visits have been spent talking about food. Dorota cooks Polish dishes from scratch every day and has been driving up real-estate values in Signal Hill by regularly feeding her neighbours. Turka learned to cook as […]

It’s an accepted, and almost expected, part of being an older guy. Those nocturnal, sleep-interrupting trips to the bathroom to empty a full bladder. If you make two or more of these on a regular basis, you meet the criteria for a condition called nocturia.  The good news is that science is making progress towards […]

There’s an obvious irony to a Drive with Care sign that has been flattened. Less obvious is the origin of this mild admonition installed on the median of Crowchild Trail just past 24th Avenue N.W., where it is visible to motorists heading south. Arguably, the sign in its current state is a more effective warning […]

Azzurri Pizzeria opened last fall in Winston Heights, bookending one end of a building that is also home to La Luna Rossa, the Italian eatery that moved in about six years ago. Both restaurants are owned by the Ricioppo family. Benny Ricioppo has been at the helm of La Luna Rossa for decades; now his […]

Unhappy with property tax hikes Good old Mayor Naheed Nenshi and his cohorts just sent me another double-digit property tax increase — 12 per cent to be precise, or $304. What part of a recession does the city not understand? The city’s tax appraiser thinks I am special, and my property just keeps increasing in value. I […]

Municipalities have three years to come up with methods for splitting the costs of regional services, which can be anything from roads, to swimming pools, to policing. It’s a tall order and one that will be discussed at a number of open houses in coming months. Some municipalities have complained for years that local tax revenue generated by […]

No conversation about Calgary’s contemporary music scene would be complete without mention and praise for Chixdiggit. For a full 25 years now, the pop-punk quartet have paved the way for indie acts who want to live and create here, while also spreading their music as far as it will carry. It’s something that frontman KJ […]

A proposed bus fee hike for public school students will create additional barriers to education for a growing number of Calgary families already struggling to make ends meet, parents fear.

In a 3-2 vote, a city committee narrowly passed administration’s recommendations Wednesday to amend a bylaw to allow backyard skateboard ramps. The changes would allow homeowners to build ramps up to 1.5 metres high, five metres wide and six metres long without a development permit. The ramps would have to be at least 1.2 metres from side […]

A University of Calgary researcher says there’s still big knowledge gaps between scientific research and public policy on fracking across Canada, causing people to question whether it’s worth the environmental effects and costs. The research, which was presented Wednesday at a closed-door session of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at Congress 2016, compared scientific and think-tank research with regulatory […]

A proposal to clamp down on payday lenders and levy heftier fines on violators in Calgary sailed unanimously through the city’s committee on community and protective services Wednesday. City hall’s payday lending and financial inclusion task force report recommends forcing operators to display signs on money management and debt counselling, verbally inform their clients about […]

Politicians often endure pressure and stress that would cause most of us to fold up like a cheap tent. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean is an extreme example of how these people somehow manage to stay upright and carry on.