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Kathleen Morrison and her boyfriend, Francesco Iervella, were walking back to their car after what had been a perfect day. But seemingly out of nowhere, a stranger grabbed Morrison’s purse and sprayed both her and Iervella with bear mace, turning their evening into a nightmare. “The pain that we were in, I can’t even describe to […]

On the morning of her interview with the Calgary Herald, Karen Lee received an e-mail from a woman who had just read her book, The Full Catastrophe: A Memoir. She wrote that it was amazing how close Lee’s story was to her’s, says Lee, in an interview from her home in Calgary.  Authors generally like it when readers can […]

A Brooks senior injured in a hit and run collision in late May has died.

Oil investors are buying contracts that will only pay out if crude rises well above $100 a barrel over the next four years — a clear sign some believe today’s bust is sowing the seeds of the next boom. The options deals, which brokers said bear the hallmarks of trades made by hedge funds, appear […]

After shuttering his lumber mill for nearly a month when it was surrounded by raging fires in northern Alberta, Northland Forest Products Ltd. President Howard Ewashko sees a silver lining: a pickup in business from rebuilding what was lost. “It certainly helps to have a solid market to sell into when you’ve gone through something like […]

Commercial flights landed at the Fort McMurray airport Friday for the first time in more than five weeks. It was another sign of recovery in the region after wildfires tore through parts of the city in early May. With oil topping US$50 a barrel earlier this week, there are other indicators the worst may be behind Alberta […]

The first time that Allan Klassen met Gordie Howe, he got a taste of one of the hockey legend’s signature moves.  “He said, ‘Nice to meet you, young fellow,’ and he proceeded to give me a shot in the head with his elbow,” said Klassen, chairman of the Gordie Howe Centre for Alzheimer’s Research and Education Society.  Known […]

When Maddison Gee set out to buy her first home, selecting the right location was at the top of her to-do list. The 23-year-old had her sights set on amenities and living close to both work and family. In all cases, Gee’s set. From her new home it’s a quick walk to the vibrant Kensington […]

National employment numbers released Friday underscored what many Albertans know too well: the province’s unemployment rate jumped again in May — to 7.8 per cent — while the national rate fell.    And the reality is that even with an improvement in commodity prices, the prospect of meaningful reinvestment by energy players that would bring a […]

Members of a Wildrose constituency association now say they stand behind party leader Brian Jean “unconditionally” after calling for a leadership review earlier this week. On Tuesday, the Wildrose board in Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills passed a resolution asking the party’s executive committee for a leadership review at Wildrose’s Oct. 28-29 annual general meeting. It also […]

Western Canada's a treasure trove of music festivals and events in the summer.

If you ask an average city kid about where the potatoes for their french fries come from, the most likely answer is going to be “the grocery store.” Local chef Jonathan Sobol is trying to change that perception by educating elementary school students about where their food comes from through a new program at the […]

One of the pleasures of being a pediatrician is being inspired by the way some parents raise their children. But what happens when there are no parents to raise children? The portrait of the North American family is changing dramatically, and skip-generation families are becoming increasingly common. A skip-generation family is one where grandparents end up […]

You might think that a roomful of Norwegian investigative journalists and a roomful of film-industry types would have very different questions for Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, the filmmakers behind the Netflix sensation Making A Murderer. The filmmakers addressed both recently, the former at the SKUP Conference in Tonsberg, Norway and the latter at a master class at […]

Stereotypes abound about what dads drink (namely, scotch whisky), but 'dad cocktails' have become an increasingly difficult category to pigeonhole. Now, fathers are comfortable quaffing clear spirits during patio season, mixed into cocktails no one had ever heard of five years ago.

Ten minutes into our epic, six-day hike, “Turbo” Ted wasn’t looking so good. He was hunched over on a log, wheezing, searching for oxygen. Head down, he lit a smoke, hoping for inspiration … or something. After skirting a few more mud bogs and climbing another half a kilometre […]

Calgary is inextricably linked to the Bow and Elbow rivers. Yes, the Rocky Mountains are a majestic backdrop to our city, but it’s the confluence of the two rivers that led to Calgary’s settlement and official incorporation as a town in 1884. But as prominent as the Bow and Elbow are in our day-to-day lives, more can be done to improve access […]

I’m happy to pay my school taxes Re: “How to make school taxes fairer,” Letter, June 4. P.J. Greer doesn’t like paying school taxes to educate other people’s children. I don’t have children either, but I am happy to pay school taxes.  Other people’s children are educated to become my doctor, nurse, firefighter, policeman, personal trainer, condo manager, […]

It’s been a bad week for those possessed by the fallacy that a better province will result if only Albertans were taxed more — that and the notion higher taxes have no unintended consequences. Instead, reality just boomeranged a curve ball into such misplaced faith.   On Tuesday, news arrived that Escoba Bistro in downtown Calgary […]

By Mark von Schellwitz Everyone in Alberta knows that times are tough right now. The challenges facing Alberta’s economy have hit the labour-intensive restaurant industry particularly hard, putting at risk some of the 150,000 jobs the industry provides. Just as the worst impact of the economic slowdown is being felt by the industry’s 10,600 small businesses, […]

By Pete McMartin As far as I could tell, the day went unremarked upon: nothing in the paper or on TV that I could find. I played tennis and went out to eat. I, too, never gave it a thought. But later that night, there in my mailbox was an email from a reader who wrote: “In the newspaper today […]

But members of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) say they're ready to drop their mounted troop duties to join their colleagues in the Mideast or elsewhere for less peaceful purposes if need be.

Over the past year, Jack Hardin Towell Jr. has skyrocketed up the FEI showjumping rankings. As of Friday, the American sat at No. 41 in the world, considerably higher in the international rankings than he’s ever been.

Carter Hart, in full summer training mode, was fresh off another session. Not the on-ice variety of training, mind you. Or a gym. The 17-year-old Sherwood Park native had just left the office of John Stevenson, a sports psychologist out of Zone Perfomance Psychology and, ironically, his former goaltending coach. “We talk about focusing on […]

Apparently, the Calgary Flames have added another goaltender to their system. Reports suggest that Czech goaltender David Rittich has signed a one-year deal with the club.