Новости за 02.07.2016

By Kareem Sheikh and Riley Witiw, with Austin Mardon “I make bold to declare that the world will derive no benefit from it,” said Capt. James Cook in January 1773, referring to his discovery that a southern continent must indeed exist. Regarding Antarctica’s worldly benefit, however, he couldn’t have been more wrong. Since Cook’s discovery, […]

One day after a tornado touched down south of Edmonton, another may have hit an area just north of Calgary.

A woman has died and two other people were injured after a vehicle rolled over on Memorial Drive early Saturday morning.  Det. Lawrence Mooney said the crash happened at 2:51 a.m in the city’s northwest and has shut down traffic on Memorial Drive in both directions.  Paramedics determined a car with three occupants had lost control and struck […]

Two teens were killed and three other people were injured Friday in a crash in central Alberta.

It’s hard to believe that there are more depths to plumb in the deep-fried, chocolate-dipped, bacon-wrapped, sugar-coated, multi-coloured world of midway cuisine. And yet the Stampede will introduce 36 never-before-seen dishes to The Show this year. Many are culinary evolutions, some are bizarre combos, others are just plain head-scratchingly odd. Are chicken and waffles just not […]

Disney will wind down its 60th anniversary celebration after the summer, but newly refreshed, reinvented or recently released productions will attract new and seasoned Disney guests to the main streets of Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. After 13 years the Hyperion Stage at Disney’s California Adventure has said “so long” to Aladdin and his sandy […]

Run away this summer. It’s okay. Grab your runners and sign-up for a race somewhere with a beach or maybe something far, far away. Think of it as payback for all those runs on the streets and paths near your home you do all winter. If you don’t feel up-to-speed, don’t worry about it. Sometimes […]

If you think the gossip, rumours and speculation over Alberta’s frantic unite-the-right movement haven’t reached bizarre levels, listen to this. Officials with the Alberta Party were so rattled by suggestions they were about to be the target of a hostile takeover by right-wing activists, that the party held what amounted to an emergency meeting of […]

By Scott Crockatt I started my working life in a minimum-wage job, as many of us do. At 14, convinced I could provide at least some service in business, I strode over to the local movie theatre. With sweaty palms and a bit of false bravado, I asked to speak to the manager and presented […]

The calendar is in our favour this year as Canada’s 149th birthday fell on Friday, giving us three days to reflect on our home and native land. What better way to mark the national birthday than with some outstanding Canadian wines.  While a small international player when it comes to exports, Canada’s wines have built […]

The opening of the National Music Centre’s glitzy new home, Studio Bell, marks a milestone for the city. It is a grand monument to music, especially to the Canadians who create and produce so much of the talent we enjoy. The centre is a head-turner and it advances Calgary’s deserved reputation as a forward-looking city — just […]

By Graeme Menzies  I have no illusions about the risks involved in hosting an Olympic Games. The budget overruns, social and environmental damage, corruption, cheating, bribery, violence, perversion and general shenanigans of past Games’ hosts and participants around the world have been well documented. But just because other people have screwed things up and behaved badly doesn’t mean Calgary will. In fact, all the […]

It’s a good thing we do have shift workers  Re: “Shift work blues: ways to curtail toll on health,” June 30. The article does a disservice to those of us who work night shifts. The last sentence stated, “another good reason to not quit your day job.” Really? Who always has that option? And if we did, who would look […]

As storm clouds hovered ominously above McMahon Stadium the entire night, Thunder and Lightning took centre stage. Instead of filling the Calgary skies, however, they filled up the box score during the Stampeders home opener against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Thunder, better known as 263-pound Jerome Messam, barrelled his way to 137 rushing yards on […]

The honeymoon is over for Shawn Lemon in Saskatchewan. Signed to a lucrative free-agent deal by the Roughriders in January — one of the first signature moves made by the new Chris Jones-led front office — Lemon has officially requested a trade out of Regina, according to sources. The development comes on the heels of […]

Chad Johnson was married just last Sunday, swapping ‘I-Dos’ with his bride Alex at a ceremony not far from Calgary. The next morning, Johnson fielded a call from Flames GM Brad Treliving. As you might have heard, the Flames were going through a divorce — an understandable split from every puck-stopper who worked at the Saddledome […]

The taxi driver injured in a violent attack Friday morning that left him unconscious and smashed up his car is recovering well, a cab company spokesman said. Kurt Enders, president of Checker Yellow Cabs, said the late-night incident captured by security cameras inside the car was one of the most extreme cases of taxi driver […]

It’s where their workday starts and ends. So, it figures, this should be a peaceful environment, a refuge free of disturbance. Makes sense, right? Not always. Sometimes a dressing room needs a live wire – the possibility of a jolt, the potential of an outburst. Sometimes a dressing room needs … Troy Brouwer. “When I look […]

Rashid Mikdad’s eyes light up when he talks about Ramadan in pre-war Syria. His relatives and friends would cook and send food to one another, visiting each other’s homes.  It was a happy time, he explained through a translator during an iftar, the evening meal through which Muslims break their fast during Ramadan, at Calgary’s Marlborough Community […]

On Wednesday, three Calgarians will board a plane and begin a two-day journey to Rwanda. There, they will purchase and spend two weeks delivering goods like children’s shoes, solar lanterns, and mattresses that are desperately needed by the 49,000-odd Burundian refugees in the Mahama Refugee Camp in Eastern Rwanda.  “To be there physically, so I can give a […]

Joe Colborne is, at heart, a Calgary Flames fan. But the forward is also a hockey fan — and, after playing for Denver University, a Colorado Avalanche fan — so, naturally, he grew up watching the game’s greats. Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy, included. “They’re hockey royalty,” “Joe Sakic was one of my favourites growing […]

Homes for around 30,000 people along with a main street and commercial hub the same length as downtown Calgary are headed for a new master-planned community north of Stoney Trail. Construction is now underway at Livingston, the newest community by Brookfield Residential. The community is 519 hectares of land straddling Centre Street, west of Deerfoot […]

As Chris Fisher drove through Banff, Jasper, Mount Revelstoke and Glacier national parks on various road trips in May, he couldn’t help but notice all of the trees being cut down along the highways. Many of those trees, which have been felled as part of various projects in the mountain national parks, were piled up on the ground and some were still being cut […]

Two British Columbia men have been charged in connection with a moose-riding video that went viral last year.

For Mark Bull and Maria Ignacio, Diseno was the best of both worlds. It struck the balance between a convenient distance to shopping and dining opportunities and the serene setting of a nearby open space. “The moment we saw this place, we felt a connection — right away,” says Ignacio. “You have green space, the water, […]