Новости за 16.06.2016

Three of four defendants have been found guilty in the swarming murder of Lukas Strasser-Hird. Nearly seven weeks of hot tension built up during testimony from more than 80 witnesses dissolved as a jury found Franz Cabrera and Assmar Shlah guilty of second-degree murder and Joch Pouk of manslaughter. Jordan Liao was acquitted. Strasser-Hird, 18, died […]

A Montana family is desperately searching for their Boston Terrier after their truck was stolen from the parking lot of a Calgary hotel two weeks ago, with their beloved pooch inside the vehicle. “The truck, the other (stolen) possessions aren’t so important,” said owner Dylan Safir. “But losing the dog is a huge hit for our family.” Safir said […]

Business owners discuss the importance of prioritizing, scheduling and finding time to do everything in life.

At its meeting last week, Premier Rachel Notley's cabinet approved an order in council that allows the government to borrow up to $10.5 billion, up from the previous limit of $6 billion.

Laila Biali is on the other end of the line from her home. Well, one of her three homes. This one being her official one, Toronto, where the jazz artist lives full-time with her drummer-producer-husband Ben Wittman and their son, Josh. The second, if we’re running things down in order, is New York, where she lived […]

Sled Island has indie and garage rock covered; JazzYYC and Joe Colborne rep a range of different genres. Friday: Bad Animal album release with SWMRS and The LBJs The local five-piece mark, Tonight, their first album of riff- and beer-driven rock, with the Oakland-based Miley Cyrus enthusiasts, SWMRS. At Broken City, 613 11th Ave. S.W. […]

A proud Saskatchewan farm boy, the city closest to where Grant Beck grew up was Moose Jaw. It was also where P.W. Graham and his sons formed a company that would evolve into Graham Construction. Today, Beck is the company’s president and chief executive. Graham, which began by winning contracts to build railway stations for Canadian Pacific, […]

It’s a busy weekend, what with Neighbour Day, Father’s Day and wading pools and spray parks as well as outdoor pools opening for the summer. Dive in. Picnic in Vic Park; Friday, June 17 to Sunday, June 19. At Haultain Park, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The gang at YYCFoodTrucks is taking over Haultain Park  […]

British Columbians and Albertans have a large mountain range in common, but an oil pipeline and energy policies are creating a bigger divide today between the neighbouring provinces. A new Angus Reid Institute poll on the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion helps illuminate the gulf. The survey shows 63 per cent of Albertans believe the National Energy Board […]

This miniature home proves that even the trees of Hillhurst-Sunnyside are susceptible to in-fills. A local Reddit user and his son often passed by this tree, and theorized that the hole in the trunk would be a perfect size for a mouse’s house. One day, they discovered someone had built this miniature abode. Had their […]

Growing up in Ontario, Vanessa D’Souza spent Saturday afternoons eating the fish, squid and crab curries prepared by her mother, Theresa, and served precisely at 2 p.m. In summers, they’d visit orchards to pick fruit, taking along a lunch of coriander sandwiches—just the intensely flavourful chutney spread on generously buttered white bread. Now a physiotherapist […]

With summer comes the fun of water sports! There is nothing more exhilarating than padding, wakeboarding, kayaking and surfing. In fact, water sports are growing at a rapid rate, with standup paddle boarding one of the fastest growing outdoor activities in the past year. No matter which water activity you wish to pursue this summer, going […]

Calgary gardeners were chuffed this spring to learn that Big Ag has upgraded our gardening zone from 3a to 4a. Huzzah! We can now grow slightly more exotic stuff! Allow me to nominate a prime candidate: the tomatillo, a.k.a. husk tomato, whose seed information tells us it’s suitable for zones 4-11. Cultivated by the Aztecs […]

All the budding entrepreneurs in our city must be taking a long, hard look in the mirror these days and wondering if they’d not be better off instead to just find a nice government job. Because the climate, bleak as it is right now, appears even more foreboding in the months and years to come […]

Small dogs don’t fare well at off-leash parks We are lucky to have so many wonderful off-leash parks in our beautiful city. However, just because they exist, does not mean that they are a good idea for all breeds of dogs. Any dog owner worth their salt should know that the exercise requirements of a miniature Yorkie […]

It’s perhaps the only thing they haven’t done fast but in most ways it’s in keeping with the essence of who they are. Three years after forming in the summer of 2013, Calgary punk five-piece Julius Sumner Miller are getting set to release their debut album Why Is It So? So. Why is that so? […]

The NDP government has acted decisively upon learning of allegations of irregularities and lavish spending at one of Alberta’s Crown corporations. Three high-level executives with the Agriculture Financial Services Corp. have been suspended with pay and its entire board has been dismissed after being accused of providing insufficient oversight of the employees. The board’s jettisoned chairman […]

A heavy silence fell over the group gathered at a southeast Calgary church Wednesday night as they stared at a list of 49 names, victims of the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando, Fla. Quiet sobs were audible, with some heads bowed and others raised skyward.  About 50 Calgarians came to the Deer Park United Church […]

There's no silver bullet to help Calgary businesses overwhelmed by soaring property assessments that, along with a host of other compounded levies, have some teetering on the brink, say a pair of city councillors.

The latest news and information from McMahon Stadium as the Stamps prepare for the 2016 CFL season.

When Brent Krahn, as a baby-faced 21-year-old, broke into pro hockey in Las Vegas, Glen Gulutzan was his coach. When Krahn, as a baby-faced 29-year-old, retired from pro hockey in Austin, Texas, Gulutzan was his coach. “Yeah, I know,” Krahn, cackling, said Wednesday afternoon. “He brought me up — and he buried me.” Now there’s a good chance the gents could once again share an area code.

There’s a good chance, a few years back, that you might have spotted the smooth-swinging youngster during one of your divot-digging escapes to the East Kootenays. Because, by his own admission, Jared du Toit logged as many hours as the mowers at Kimberley Golf Club. “I would play an outrageous amount of golf there,” du […]

Alex Halat knows what an Alberta Junior Hockey League franchise means to a community. He played for the Calgary Royals while his brother Moe suited up for the Calgary Canucks in the mid-1990s. He’d love to bring AJHL hockey to Chestermere at some point.

A doctor who helped establish the University of Calgary’s spine program is leaving the city to start up a similar program at the University of Arizona.

We all know math is difficult, but who knew it could be so expensive?