Новости за 05.07.2016

The first of a series of four-car “Mask” CTrains is officially in service. The S200 CTrain began its inaugural trip from Tuscany Station with Mayor Naheed Nenshi in the driver’s seat Tuesday morning. The “Mask” CTrains, featuring design inspired by a hockey goalie mask, are intended to improve passenger experience, capacity and reliability of the system, according […]

Crew members faced concerns of aircraft icing, frigid temperatures that dipped down to -60 C, and unpredictable snowy conditions when they undertook a risky medical rescue mission in Antarctica.

Three women were taken to hospital, including one with potentially life-threatening injuries, after a minivan and sedan collided south of Calgary on Tuesday morning.

A man is facing charges after a stolen vehicle sped through the city and into oncoming traffic for more than two hours Monday night before losing control and crashing into a building.

Jane Wickert’s family is taking comfort that their elderly mom got her final wish, to be farming right until the end. Wickert, 88, was the victim of a hay-baling mishap on Sunday, which saw her tractor and baler burst into flames on her Tilley farm, about 200 km southeast of Calgary — and with severe burns […]

The new clubhouse designed for the Bearspaw Country Club will offer its members the best post-game view around. With the club’s current building about 30 years old and looking well past its prime, Calgary architectural firm McKinley Burkart was asked to design a new facility that would provide additional space, more amenities and a better view of the Foothills […]

Conservative MP Jason Kenney says he has “an important announcement” to make in Calgary on Wednesday. The event comes amid swirling speculation that the Calgary MP might try to unite Alberta’s two right-leaning provincial parties. However, Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives have said they aren’t keen to merge, while the Wildrose has said it would be happy […]

It can be argued the most important job vacancy in Alberta is finding the right person to lead the newly consolidated Alberta Innovates. The NDP government announced in April it would fold the four separate branches of Alberta Innovates — Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solutions, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and Alberta Innovates […]

The agreement among finance ministers to increase the amount workers and their employers contribute to the Canada Pension Plan has been met with mixed response.  Some people think it’s a great idea to ensure retirees can count on more money in their golden years — in this case, an increase from $13,000 now to $17,478 a year once […]

Time for some fresh faces at city hall Re: “Civic workers lucky to be so well paid,” Letter, July 4. Recently, there has been a recurring theme to the letters to the editor — a theme of frustration and anger with the mayor and council. The citizens are tired of excessive spending and the failure of the […]

It was a rather unusual request from Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice R.A. Jerke, and perhaps we’ll see now how serious he was about it.  In sentencing David and Collet Stephan on charges of failing to provide the necessaries of life, Jerke mandated that the ruling itself be posted on the Facebook page Prayers […]

NASA’s Juno space probe entered Jupiter’s orbit after a 2.8 billion kilometre odyssey that included a slingshot orbit around the earth. Here are five cool things to know about the probe and its journey. 1- Think you need to stretch after a long drive? Try making the trip that Juno did. Launched in Cape Canaveral […]

Five years after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Calgary skywatchers are hopeful they’ll see some of the mysteries of the solar system’s largest planet revealed. NASA’s Juno space probe, which entered Jupiter’s orbit after a 2.8 billion kilometre odyssey that included a slingshot orbit around the earth, has been on Phil Langill’s radar since it left Earth’s atmosphere […]

A lengthy day of public hearings at city council on Monday, including 18 secondary suite applications, delayed debate surrounding two notices of motion put forward by councillors in an attempt to solve the secondary suite issue. There’s appetite on council to fix the time-consuming system, rare for a city of Calgary’s size, in which city […]

Despite a slumping economy, Alberta’s securities regulator said it received fewer complaints of fraud and other misdeeds in the last fiscal year. The Alberta Securities Commission recorded 374 complaints of wrongdoing in the 2015/2016 fiscal year ended March 31, a more than 35 per cent decline from the 579 allegations it received a year earlier, according to its […]

They’re dressed in T-shirts, shorts, flip flops and sneakers, with more than a few sporting a mouthful of metal braces. As they bound up the stairs and race into the University of Calgary’s dining hall on Monday, the crush of kids looks like your average jumble of awkward, noisy high school students as they take […]

First there was the Red Mile. Now there’s the After Party. They might sound like fun places to be but they most definitely are not, unless you’re one of the top bull riders on the planet. Red Mile and Blackstone After Party are two bulls co-owned by former Calgary Flames defenceman and current unrestricted free […]

You can hear the sense of wonder and disbelief in Susan Casey’s voice.  It was more than five years ago that the author encountered a pod of dolphins while swimming solo in Honolua Bay. At the time, she was still numb with grief over the death of her father, who had died of a heart attack two years earlier. A one-time competitive […]

Much to his own frustration, Andrew Mangiapane will be an observer at this week’s prospect development camp. The slick 20-year-old winger is stuck on the sidelines, rehabbing a nagging groin injury he suffered earlier in his Ontario Hockey League season with the Barrie Colts. “You’re going on the ice every day for practices and games,” […]

Former grappling star Bret "Hitman" Hart has signed on, along with prominent entrepreneur W. Brett Wilson, to Village Brewery's brew-fueled assault on the men's disease that's launched with a ballsy twist.

Little Roy. Big game. Sometimes, motivation comes in interesting forms and from various, many times mysterious, places. The type of motivation Roy Finch has this week is about as transparent as it gets. Following a five-game cameo with the Ottawa RedBlacks in 2014, it didn’t take long for the 5-foot-7 kick-returner to get his red […]

The creepy sci-fi flick Beyond the Black Rainbow screens in Rotary Park, the start of Stampede and more fun.