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There is a touching scene near the end of Roda and Asha Siad’s new National Film Board documentary, 19 Days. It involves a cheerful family who had recently arrived from Burundi and having their first experience with snow. They are among the refugees staying at the Calgary’s Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre when the Siad sisters shot the documentary. The father, […]

A 27-year-old man is dead following a single-vehicle collision in Medicine Hat early Sunday morning. According to Medicine Hat police, the driver of a 2013 Kia Forte was travelling southbound on 13 Ave S.E. at about 2:35 a.m. Sunday when the vehicle veered off the road and hit a traffic light. A 23-year-old male pedestrian […]

Brian Castle was with friends on Crescent Hill, just a short uphill walk from his Sunnyside home one block from the Bow River. “We were getting ready to take their dog for the weekend when they told us, ‘you have to evacuate.’ We laughed. We didn’t know what they were talking about.” It was Thursday afternoon, […]

Community groups in Airdrie are stepping up to help the victims of a large fire that destroyed two homes and damaged two others.

The Calgary Stampede unveiled the results of two years of construction with a burst of fireworks Saturday, officially opening the 16-acre Enmax Park on the banks of the Elbow River.  During the annual Stampede itself, the area will be closed off to host the historic Indian village. But for the rest of the year, the […]

Forty-five Calgary and area ‘bikers with big hearts’ took to the highway for the 14th-annual Kinsmen Ride for a Lifetime on Friday, June 17. The three-day motorcycle ride from Calgary to Creston BC helps raise funds for the Kids Cancer Care Foundation.  “80 per cent of them are Calgary people — a lot of professionals, a lot of […]

Contenders for the federal Conservative leadership tossed out partisan red meat to local party members at a Tory barbecue Saturday afternoon as they roasted Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. In an unofficial Calgary kickoff to the Tory leadership campaign, declared and potential candidates Michael Chong, Kellie Leitch, Tony Clement, Lisa Raitt and Andrew Scheer appeared at a $200-a-ticket […]

The man behind a golf target with Premier Rachel Notley’s face on it apologized Saturday after the sign drew outrage online, saying it was meant to be “light-hearted.”  “My goal was just to make people laugh,” said Ernest Bothi, president of the Big Country Oilmen’s Association in Brooks, Alta. “It was a thing of humour. […]

Bleary eyed and unshaven, Dave Dickenson walked out of the coaches building adjacent to McMahon Stadium on Saturday afternoon with no news to announce.

After watching his winning putt drop below ground level, Glencoe Invitational champion Jared du Toit simply exhaled, slowly allowing a little air out of his lungs after three stressful spins of the firm and fast Forest Course at what he’s now calling his home club.

Don’t expect many Calgary Stampeders hopefuls to wake up feeling refreshed. Heading into Sunday’s final roster cut-downs across the CFL at 10 a.m., the Stamps were likely dealing with a whole lot of anxiety over the past 24 hours or so, and we’re not just talking about the players with jobs on the line.

Lorne Molleken admittedly isn’t sure what brought him. Scouting players, perhaps? Keeping an eye on the coaches? Just watching? Whatever the reason, Molleken wasn’t the least bit surprised to spot Glen Gulutzan — at that time, pulling Reg Dunlop-sorta double duty for the Fresno Falcons of the now-defunct West Coast Hockey League — perched in the seats at the Shark Tank in the fall of 2002.

BAR U RANCH — One by one, residents and landowners in Alberta’s foothills grabbed a can of inert bear spray and practiced spraying it at a wood cutout of a bear about five metres away. The lesson was part of a bear safety workshop held for about 50 area residents on Friday. “It’s nice to come and get some […]