Новости за 06.06.2016

StoryBook Theatre’s The Little Mermaid will surface again. Before its first performance on May 20, StoryBook’s latest family musical was sold out, there was a waiting list of more than 1,000 people and the phones kept ringing right up until its final performance on June 4. There was no chance of extending the run because […]

Alberta has inked an agreement with four other provinces and territories in Western Canada to help combat invasive species. On Monday, the Inter-Provincial Territorial Agreement for Co-ordinated Regional Defence against Invasive Species was signed by British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Yukon. It will start by focusing on invasive aquatic species such as zebra and quagga […]

TransCanada says a draft impact study for its Energy East pipeline project has been submitted as requested by the Quebec government. The 10-chapter document wasn’t released publicly, but an analysis of technological risks will be added once it is completed, the company said Monday. The Calgary-based company said the submission meets the requirements of the […]

Three rafters had to be rescued by helicopter after they miscalculated how much time it would take to float down a slow-moving central Alberta river. RCMP say the trio — a male and two females from Olds — launched their raft on the Little Red Deer River around 5:30 p.m. Sunday for what they thought […]

Cracking a beer on your porch with friends on a warm evening, that’s nothing new. But one man has taken the summertime tradition to a new level — by building a fully functioning Irish pub in his backyard. From the outside, it looks like a typical two-car garage. But, six months ago, Calgary radio-journalist Erin Collins began to […]

Calgary and several surrounding communities are under a heat warning today, as the city could set a temperature record this afternoon. Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 31 C this afternoon, one degree higher than the record for June 6, which was set in 1961. In its alert, the government forecaster says the hot conditions […]

Jordan Drake has written his own script, the story of a farm boy turned award-winning filmmaker. Raised on the family spread near Strathmore, he grew up envisioning a rural future. “I went to a small high school,” Drake says, “and somehow stumbled into filmmaking, even though you’d think the only classes they would teach would […]

La Caravan Dance Theatre taps into Rumi, a 13th-century poet and mystic whose work still flies off the shelves.

I miss him about 100 times a day. I come around the corner and expect to see him sprawled out on the floor. I glance in the rear-view mirror and miss his bearlike head blocking the view. I load the dishwasher and expect his thorough first rinse. A piece of cheese falls from the counter […]

When it comes to rosé, the wines of Tavel are a trip to the dark side — there are few ‘pinks’ as deep in colour.

According to a respected federal think-tank, Alberta’s on a slippery slope to having little energy industry left as the world turns instead to renewable sources of power. The scenario sounds like David Bowie’s epic Five Years, except we apparently have three times that number until the wind and solar power hit the fans, so to […]

Environmentalists pick and choose Re: “Site C Dam rising in historic grounds,” June 4. Where are all the environmentalists when the destruction is in their own backyard? Loss of historic sites, elimination of river valley ecosystems, vast clear cuts and permanent destruction of 53 square kilometres of land doesn’t even raise an eyebrow. I am […]

For the first time in its nearly 50 year history, Calgary's Global Petroleum Show is diversifying beyond oil and gas into clean technology.

The sight is one that can melt hearts — a miniature back alley ‘hotel,’ lovingly crafted for stray cats. An alley often becomes a temporary home for the things we’d like to ignore, where trash is left out of sight, out of mind. But when Hamilton native and early childhood educator Maureen Kirby looked at her back lane, her […]

The Calgary Food Bank is expected to hit an all-time high in demand this summer, with estimates of up to 170,000 clients needing hampers over the past year as new data shows Calgarians feeling increased levels of distress about lack of employment. With only a few months left in the food bank’s fiscal year, total […]

With the arrival in the mail of tax notices earlier this week, Calgarians are taking out their sticker shock wrath with unprecedented fury on city hall politicians, says Coun. Ward Sutherland.

The good, the bad, and the ugly. That’s how you could describe every single Red & White mock game the Calgary Stampeders have held since the beginning of time, and Sunday’s 2016 affair was no different. The defence made plays. Veterans Josh Bell and Brandon Smith, both with interceptions, specifically. So did the offence. But […]

In a report exploring so-called zero-based ways of cutting costs, consultant Morrison-Hershfield says privately outsourcing daily cleaning, refuelling, janitorial and maintenance work for Calgary Transit would save $5.8 million.

One year ago, Rene Paredes and Rob Maver both had competition. Paredes was trying to stave off rookie Tyler Crapigna, while Maver was competing with his own body, after a hellacious off-season health-wise. This time around, it’s a competition-free training camp for the Calgary Stampeders kicking duo. “I feel like I’m having the best camp […]

A police officer riding a motorcycle in northeast Calgary was rear-ended Sunday afternoon, but he wasn’t seriously hurt. The officer was riding on McKnight Boulevard at 12 Street N.E. at about 5:30 p.m. when he noticed someone committing a traffic violation. As he slowed down to turn around in pursuit of the violator, the vehicle […]

Our Table, which saw Calgary’s top female chefs cooking at an all-women dinner event for charity, is more about starting a conversation, host Andrea Brassart says.

The first weekend of June has just finished, it’s sunny and hot outside, and a near record crowd estimated at more than 100,000 took over 4th Street for the annual Lilac Festival on Sunday. Summer festival season is here. Lilac Festival’s vendors, performers and food brought in the crowds this year, with 4th Street being […]

Alberta’s Tory faithful will see a vote for a new leader April 30, 2017 or sooner, party president Katherine O’Neill says.