Новости за 14.07.2016

Calgary police are searching a rural area east of the city as they continue to investigate the disappearance of five-year-old Taliyah Leigh Marsman. Around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police took a man into custody who may have been involved in Taliyah’s disappearance. The man is believed to have been driving a dark grey sedan in Panorama, which […]

City police are investigating after an adult was found dead in the Bow River in the downtown area Thursday morning.

On the grounds: What better way to kick off the Virgin Mobile Stampede Concert Series than a group that knows exactly how to get the party started. Grammy-winning American crossover country act the Zac Brown Band are the first ones to take the Saddledome stage and are sure to raise the (contemptible) roof off of the […]

Even if you haven’t planted anything yet, you still have time to take advantage of our warm days.

Some 500,000 visitors to Banff National Park ride the gondola to the top of Sulphur Mountain each year to experience a stunning view of the six incredible mountain ranges. Dave McKenna, president of Brewster Travel Canada, which owns the structure, says the real attraction — since the gondola began operating in 1959 — has always […]

Family is an important thing to Hillary Scott. It’s the one thing that shines brightly during a 20-minute conversation that is ostensibly to promote the country artist’s upcoming Stampede show Friday night at the Saddledome with her band Lady Antebellum — the role that family has played in her life, in her creativity, in her […]

Capital Ideas members were asked how they incorporate social responsibility into their business plans and actions. Here’s what members of our community of Calgary business owners helping business owners had to say: “Giving back is about being an active member of a community. It shows your community you are concerned about more than just seeing […]

Two items are regular staples during Stampede week: beer and the two-step.  The provincial government managed to do a little dance of its own this week on the booze front. Finance Minister Joe Ceci announced the province will direct the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission to set the markup on all beer to $1.25 per litre, regardless of where […]

Stampede is the best time of the year I always wonder why some Calgarians leave town when the Stampede starts. At what other time do you see the spirit of Calgarians in such a way?  I do have a special reason to love this time maybe more than others. I met my husband at the […]

It’s no secret Alberta has had to deal with some dark clouds in recent times — and not just of the meteorological variety that have routinely shown up most afternoons in Calgary this week. Low energy prices continue to challenge many in the community, so it’s great news to hear the Tsuu T’ina Nation will seize […]

One thing about the brain trust running Earls restaurants — they’ve emphatically proven the old adage that any publicity is good publicity actually is a bunch of tosh. Of all the outfits to start an experiment in reversing the age-old trend of tipping waiters and waitresses, by instead substituting a set hospitality charge onto customers’ […]

Three men were taken to hospital after a TV camera fell on them at Stampede Park on Wednesday evening, EMS said. Paramedics were called to the bleacher area of the Grandstand at around 8 p.m. after a “broadcast camera apparatus” struck the men. One of them was middle-aged, while the others were in their late […]

Rick Fraser knows his rebound was a big one. “I went from the outhouse to the penthouse,” Fraser said after posting the fastest time on Night 6 of the Rangeland derby. It was just three nights earlier that Fraser was forced to take a no time when his wagon upended and sent him rolling onto […]

A festival in three parts. And those parts made a whole that was particularly splendid, particularly entertaining, particularly rock and roll on this particular evening, this particular Stampede Roundup. Harmony. This despite the fact that literal and figurative clouds hung overhead the entire evening: those that dispensed the rain that has kept Calgary under its […]

City staff is recommending construction on arguably the most contentious part of the southwest transitway plan — two dedicated bus lanes on the west side of 14th Street S.W. from Glenmore Trail to Woodbine — be delayed until at least 2018. Transportation spokesman Sean Somers said construction on a portion of the 22-kilometre transit project […]

“Never have I been so at peace with the imperfect side of myself,” said Mother Mother frontman Ryan Guldemond back in 2014, quoted in a Universal Music news release about the band’s then new album, Very Good Bad Thing. On the surface, it may seem a cryptic piece of self-analysis, but the head the Vancouver-based indie-rock act has […]

Wildrose finds it horrible that longtime anti-oilsands activist Tzeporah Berman is now a co-chair of the NDP’s new Oilsands Advisory Group. That was my reaction at first, especially after hearing her compare the oilsands to Mordor, J.R.R. Tolkien’s land of utter evil. “When you’re there it feels a bit like Mordor — as far as the eye can […]

Nancy Csabay hasn’t always been a live-in-the-moment kind of girl. But, hey, life throws you a few lessons once in a while. “All of the experiences I’ve had has brought me to where I am today and how grateful I am for those life experiences,” said the 47-year-old, sporting a brown hat with a single […]

Taking the plunge is a daily duty for six self-proclaimed Flying Fools at Stampede Park. And make no mistake, it’s an actual leap of faith. For the fearless divers, they can jump from a height of up to 25 metres, into a three-metre deep pool, hitting the water in just under three seconds. And somehow […]

The chuckwagon family tree is pretty tangled with four sets of fathers and sons and four sets of brothers on the track this year. And while they’re all united in their love of the sport, some families are divided in their loyalties when the horn sounds. Two Sutherland brothers and their sons are all competing against each […]

Balloon guy Dan Boria who gained notoriety during last year’s Stampede is looking to soar much higher by next year. Boria shocked the city last summer when he launched himself several hundred metres above the city’s skyline while sitting in a lawn chair tied to 120 oversized helium balloons. The incident resulted in several criminal […]

Airdrie RCMP have charged a University of Calgary Junior Dinos basketball club coach with sexual exploitation.

Doing an end-run to play Pokemon Go in the absence of an official Canadian app holds risks to privacy and computer security, says Leah Brownbridge, spokesman for the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of southern Alberta and East Kootenay.

We asked you for your thoughts about Earls’ new approach to tipping at their Stephen Avenue location and you obliged with a tsunami of responses. We can’t really say we were surprised either; the topic of tipping has sparked more than a few  debates in the newsroom since Earls’ announcement Monday, with the breakdown in opinion roughly reflecting […]

Calgary police have released new information about the last time Sara Baillie and her daughter Taliyah Leigh Marsman were seen.  According to a news release issued this afternoon, police have obtained CCTV footage from Sunday, July 10 at about 5:30 p.m., which shows Baillie and Taliyah at a Dairy Queen on Sandarac Dr N.W. […]