Новости за 07.07.2016

Jason Kenney fleshed out his plans for uniting the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties Thursday and said he will resign his House of Commons seat this fall once the PC leadership race formally gets underway. The Calgary Midnapore MP announced Wednesday he would run for the PC leadership seeking a mandate to unite the Tories with the Wildrose. […]

Stop Making Sense screens at Eau Claire, and more fun this weekend.

Fans of wolves, documentaries about wolves, Game of Thrones or all three will be in for a treat on Monday when veteran animal trainer Andrew Simpson holds court at the Plaza Theatre to raise funds for his new film. Simpson’s handy work could be seen this year on both the Game of Thrones, which stars his nine-year-old Arctic […]

A Calgary man has now been charged with impaired driving in connection with an Easter weekend crash that killed a man and sent his wife and two other people to hospital.

A short clip of an injured baby beaver grooming itself in a kiddie pool is garnering thousands of views only a day after being posted by an Alberta wildlife shelter, much to the delight of its rescuers.

CANMORE — Environmental groups are calling on the province to step up its efforts to protect bears after three were killed on the Trans-Canada Highway in a 24-hour period earlier this week. The latest bear deaths, which took place on Monday and Tuesday, involved a grizzly bear and two black bears on the stretch of road between Calgary and […]

Mounties in Red Deer seized chemicals and suspicious materials from a suspected clandestine drug lab during a 24-hour search of an apartment in the Clearview community earlier this week. However, charges have not been laid and no one is being held in custody at this time pending the results of the chemical analyses.

A fisherman waited in water for several hours before being rescued Wednesday morning in southern Alberta.

Calgary business owners talk about finding the right co-founder.

An updated affordable housing strategy presented to city council last week indicated Calgary has only half the amount of low-cost residences as the national average. No affordable housing units have opened in the past three years, although the city’s real estate division has released its first non-market housing/mixed commercial development opportunity, which will provide a number of […]

As Canadian oilsands producers manoeuvre their way through volatile crude prices, the Brexit upheaval and new climate change rules, one word might best describe how it’s approaching these issues. Cautiously. That was certainly a theme for many oilsands producers at TD Securities’ Canadian Energy Conference on Wednesday. While companies are buoyed by improved conditions since the snow melted, they aren’t prepared […]

Suncor Family Day; Sunday, July 10. At Stampede Park The 10 days of Stampede are stuffed with sights and events geared toward families (for one, it begins with a parade), but this day has their name on it. It begins with free admission to the grounds between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. (It’s almost as […]

Forget the made-in-China dream catcher or cheap felt cowboy hat. Whether you’re looking for a present for the folks back home or a little something for visitors from the east, here are some souvenir suggestions that, like the best gifts, you might also want to buy for yourself. Canadian Crunch A three-pack of Old Dutch […]

The combination of espresso and tonic water or cold-brew coffee mixed with pop can be initially confusing. But stick with it; once your tongue and brain have deciphered all the flavours, the drinks prove powerfully refreshing.   Espresso and Tonic This is the most visually pleasing of the bunch, the espresso sitting foamy and billowy […]

This argy-bargy as Alberta follows through on plans to jack up the minimum wage to $15 an hour is typically dividing along the familiar fault lines of political posturing. Lost amidst the ideological bandwagon jumping is a simple understanding of how the world actually works, or rather, how us humans think, feel and react. Anyone […]

We shouldn’t be fawning over Obama Re: “Obama lauds Alberta’s climate plan,” June 30. In view of the continued intransigence of U.S. President Barack Obama on the matter of the Keystone pipeline, and given his approval to the installation of a further four U.S. pipelines during that same time frame, was it not totally inappropriate of […]

By Steve Lafleur, Josef Filipowicz and Ian Herzog Growth in Calgary’s housing market recently slowed alongside oil prices, but today’s snapshot belies the significant increases in housing prices over the past two decades. In fact, Calgary homes (houses, condos, townhouses, etc.) are more expensive now than when oil prices peaked before the 2008 recession — and the city is […]

Leo Di Caprio’s pronouncements on Alberta’s climate and energy industry might have infuriated some Albertans. But the actor’s celluloid antics seem to have inspired one German rider competing in Spruce Meadows’ North American tournament. Philipp Weishaupt said he’s taken some quality time out from horse jumping to enjoy the wild side of southern Alberta. “I […]

It’s a good thing these Irish mates have an amiable relationship. “In the warm-up, Conor still had his other horse to jump, which is very fast,” explained Daniel Coyle, alluding to friend and co-worker Conor Swail. “I said to him ‘I think you have it won, unless I beat you’. He looked at me as […]

Ty Pozzobon was one unhappy cowboy. He got on the back of two bulls on Tuesday night and came crashing down both times. He spent the rest of the night attempting to kick himself in the Wranglers, and then turned his attention to a new pair of bulls on Wednesday. This time, it was Pozzobon’s […]

Jason Kenney makes the most peculiar pitch for party revival since Social Credit hired a belly dancer to gyrate around the tables at a convention dinner.

Jason Kenney has made a bold entry into the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race, vowing to unite right-leaning voters and defeat Rachel Notley’s NDP government in 2019. The Calgary-Midnapore MP said Wednesday he is “seeking an explicit mandate to unite with the Wildrose Party, and all like-minded Albertans, so we can defeat the NDP and put […]

The little girls wear pretty pastel dresses, the little boys sport crisp white shirts topped with bow ties. While their parents eat at nearby tables overflowing with food, the kids ride ponies, jump in a bouncy castle and chase each other around a park. “It is my favourite celebration,” says Nargiza Djalilova as she looks on […]

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said he’s open to discussions about a merger Wednesday, as Conservative MP Jason Kenney announced he’d run for the Alberta PC leadership in a bid to unite the two parties. “If the PCs want to participate in consolidating the conservatives . . . then I think they have to choose that leader,” Jean said, […]

Conservative heavyweight Jason Kenney took on three huge tasks Wednesday, as the long-serving MP announced his intent to run for the Progressive Conservative leadership, unite the province’s right-of-centre parties and defeat the NDP government. The Calgary Midnapore MP told about 200 supporters at the Clarion Hotel in northeast Calgary that he would run for PC leader seeking a clear […]