Новости за 13.07.2016

Mounties in Okotoks are looking for a vehicle in connection with an attempted murder investigation after a man was shot and wounded Monday evening.

Tanya Kruger bowed her head in tears Wednesday in front of the home where her good friend of 10 years, Sara Baillie, was found dead Monday evening. Baillie’s five-year-old daughter, Taliyah Leigh Marsman, continues to be the subject of an Amber Alert as family and friends hope for her safe return.  The front lawn of […]

Earls restaurants will have to tread carefully with its new no-tipping pilot project, suggests a new poll released by the Angus Reid Institute on Wednesday.

Since bucking to life in 1912, a million wild tales have been told about the Calgary Stampede. Many of them are true. Heck, you probably have a couple yourself. Stampede’s resident historian Shannon Murray learns a few more every year. Postmedia’s Tony Seskus asked Murray for her top tale of Stampede lore.  Q: What’s your coolest story from Stampedes past? […]

Here's five facts about the bizarre doc that starts screening in Calgary on Friday.

The “wicked clown” hip-hop group played Calgary’s Marquee Beer Market on Tuesday night.

The province is giving officers the ability to issue tickets on the spot for violations on public lands — including littering, dumping sewage, discharging firearms or driving through rivers or streams with an off-road vehicle. On July 7, an order in council was approved that changed the public lands administration act to have specified penalties for violations on public […]

Much like any other youngster her age, eight-year-old Alexa Castillo lives and breathes soccer. “She loves her team, she loves running, she loves scoring goals,” says her mother, Cindy. The exception? Since birth, Alexa Castillo has been in and out of the Alberta Children’s Hospital to treat critical aortic stenosis, a congenital heart defect. The […]

The death of a man found in a burning vehicle Tuesday afternoon in southeast Calgary has been deemed non-criminal in nature.

As our city celebrates its western heritage at the Calgary Stampede, Postmedia photographers and videographers are taking a look at life behind the scenes of the modern west, where the cowboy way is still alive and well in southern Alberta.    The hammering of 96 hooves and the rumbling of 16 wheels as the chuckwagons […]

Oil production from the Middle East has climbed to a record while U.S. output slumps, the International Energy Agency said, in a sign that OPEC’s strategy of defending market share is succeeding. Middle Eastern output exceeded 31 million barrels a day for a third month in June amid near-record supply from Saudi Arabia, while U.S. […]

It was my first time at the bullpens and I promptly made the ultimate rookie mistake; I stepped into a giant horse pie. Tanner Girletz led me through a maze of angry looking animals to a pair of bulls, one of which was a big, burly brown one, with one horn missing. “That’s the one I’ll […]

Shawn Hook may have recently signed a deal a major deal with a major American record company, but the last time he was in Calgary the singer-songwriter was probably feeling very Canadian. It was during the Junos back in April, where Hook became a common sight throughout the week. First there was the hockey game, where […]

Earls’ ‘hospitality charge’ is just another tax Re: “Downtown Earls to add ‘hospitality charge’ to bill,” July 12. You would think that Earls would lay low after their U. S. A-beef-only fiasco, but no, now they want to introduce a 16 per cent tax to their diners. Tipping is generally double the GST, or what the diner thinks […]

I had no idea that Wildrose Leader Brian Jean was so resilient. He’s going ahead with plans for his summer-long town hall tour of the province, starting with a gathering in Airdrie this Friday evening. Then he’ll be in Red Deer, Edmonton, Grande Prairie and Calgary, to name just a few of the communities on […]

Running a restaurant chain is best left to the experts, but speaking as consumers, Earls’ idea of adopting a so-called hospitality charge isn’t very appetizing. The whole point of a gratuity is that it is paid willingly, usually commensurate with the level of service and the quality of the food — and, one suspects, a diner’s ability […]

On the grounds: It’s BMO Kids’ Day at the Stampede, so you’ll want to pack the wee ones up early and head down bright and early and take advantage of the free admission for the little folks 12 years and under and their accompanying bigs between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. You’ll also want to feed them for […]

Chad Harden was already on the stage a couple nights ago. He liked it so much he decided to make a return visit. The Mulhurst Bay driver picked up his second day-money run in the last three nights of the Rangeland Derby, earning another trip to the grandstand stage to pick up a trophy bronze. […]

Sara Baillie’s relatives knew something was wrong when the usually reliable single mother didn’t show up for work Monday morning at a Calgary airport restaurant.  By the afternoon, concern must have grown to fear when family members gathered at the Panamount Boulevard basement suite she had been renting with her five-year-old daughter in the northwest.  Accompanied by the […]

Nexen Energy ULC will lay off about 350 employees as it scales back operations following a fatal explosion earlier this year that damaged a bitumen upgrader at its Long Lake oilsands plant. The deadly January blast, which the company said was caused by worker error, is among a long list of setbacks that have hit Nexen since the […]

Stampede isn’t short on attractions but, for some Calgarians, the festival is becoming a hot spot for something completely unrelated to the rodeo, midway and concerts: catching imaginary creatures. Local users of Pokemon Go, a free smartphone app based on the popular video games and TV series, are finding Stampede Park to be the perfect […]

On Tuesday, the NDP government announced it would be setting a $1.25 per litre markup for beer sold in Alberta regardless of the producer's size or location, effective Aug. 5.

Engines roar as flames erupt into the smoky air. In a flash, a snowmobile thunders up a ramp and flips in mid-air, landing with a resounding crash and sending pieces of wood flying. The gravity-defying, blood-pumping stunts of the Bell Adrenaline Ranch have been hypnotizing crowds at the Calgary Stampede this week, for good reason. […]

In late 2014, Steven Peebles was bucked off his horse and broke his back. Six months later, the bareback rider had returned to competition when he flew off another horse, the fall causing a rib puncture that hit a major artery and nearly killed him. Seven months after that, the Oregon native was a passenger […]

The NDP government has given a glimpse into the costs involved with the northern Alberta wildfire and a signal that overall provincial spending is likely to increase. Premier Rachel Notley’s cabinet recently approved an order-in-council declaring the mammoth fire an emergency under the Fiscal Planning and Transparency Act. That means any spending on costs incurred from the fire doesn’t count […]