Новости за 05.06.2016

Sam Primerano admits to feeling some extreme deja-vu as he drove through the deserted streets of wildfire-ravaged Fort McMurray. It was just three years ago when the Alberta Health Services EMS fleet operations team leader was working alongside volunteer firefighters in High River as flood waters flowed through the streets, forcing a mass evacuation. Among the […]

A 22-year-old Okotoks man was pronounced dead at the scene after his motorcycle crashed into a pickup truck just north of Champion, Alta on Saturday. The RCMP and EMS were called to the incident at approximately 9:00 p.m., where the motorcyclist was pronounced dead on the scene. The three occupants of the pickup truck were […]

A stretch of Temple Drive was closed for hours yesterday as police investigated a serious collision that sent five people to hospital. Paramedics were called to the intersection of 52 Street and Temple Drive N.E. around 7:11 p.m.  They found a multi-vehicle collision and five people injured including two men in life-threatening condition: one middle-aged man […]

The filmmaker who took home the top honours at the second annual Big Rock Short Film Festival says he will donate part of his $10,000 prize to the charitable organization that introduced him to the subject of his winning documentary. Calgary’s Gabriel Yee took first place on Saturday night at The Grand with  Olga — An Arequipa […]

Bradley Somer’s quirky novel told from the point of view of a goldfish plummeting to his death and Andrew Nikiforuk’s environmental book about a David-and-Goliath battle over fracking were the Calgary winners at the Alberta Literary Awards on Saturday evening. Nine awards were handed out at MacDonald Hall at SAIT as part of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Calgary Conference. […]

Shooting heroin or morphine? Sure. Popping pills? Fine. But to hell with fentanyl — that’s the attitude of at least a few of Calgary’s seasoned (and currently recovering) drug users.

Barrelling through the mountains in his big rig, steering with his knees, Lee pushes the needle into a vein and sends the plunger home. With the fresh hit of morphine in him, he’s good for another short while. He has enough of the drug to last the trip — he made sure before he left. That was more than a decade ago.

WEATHER The sun was blazing all morning long. WHO WASN’T THERE RB Tory Harrison is still sick … C Pierre Lavertu (neck) sat out once again, leaving most of the snaps to second-year man Karl Lavoie … LG Shane Bergman did not practise. WHO RETURNED LB Max Caron, whose first two CFL seasons have ended […]

Dave Dickenson has no problem admitting it was hard to draft a player normally seen as his arch nemesis in the first round. There’s no doubt the Montana-Montana State rivalry is alive and well within the Calgary Stampeders locker-room. On one side, it’s Dickenson, a proud University of Montana Grizzlies alum. On the other side […]

When Taylor Reed hit the free-agent market in February, he took one look at the opportunity presented to him and found it impossible to ignore. In the estimation of the 24-year-old middle linebacker from Beaumont, Texas, the Calgary Stampeders are the class of the CFL in more ways than one. Pen to paper, ink dried, […]

Seven days of drills were enough. The Calgary Stampeders are ready for some game action. Sort of. While Sunday’s Red & White mock game at McMahon Stadium (4:30 p.m.) is a controlled environment without a whole lot of real contact, it’s an important tool for head coach Dave Dickenson and the coaching staff. “First off, […]

Amateur wildlife photographer David Mitchell was planning to go to Kananaskis Country to take photos of bears on Saturday morning. Much to his surprise, however, he only made it as far as Calaway Park before finding what he was looking for — a grizzly in a field just off the Trans-Canada Highway. Mitchell watched as the […]

The Calgary Humane Society smashed the world record for most dogs wearing bandanas Saturday, with over 800 pups turning out for their 15th Annual Dog Jog fundraiser.  The previous record, set by an Australian SPCA, was 764. Though the official Guinness verification process will take a few months, Saturday’s unofficial total stands at 813. “We […]

Mounties say a teen boy is dead and his father injured in the aftermath of an ATV rollover in the McLean Creek area Saturday afternoon.