Новости за 18.07.2016

The Calgary Folk Music Festival starts on Thursday. Before then, enjoy a video game night at Local 510 and more fun.

Planning on hitting the mountains this summer? With a little preparation, you can discover some incredible sites – ones that you’ve never seen before or even heard about. One beautiful area to explore is the Icefields Parkway. Known officially as Highway 93N, this is more than just a road — it’s a spectacular journey […]

Alberta is going through its worst downturn in activity on record as prolonged low oil prices and the Fort McMurray wildfires buffet the provincial economy. According to Toronto-Dominion Bank’s economics team, the contraction in real output projected for 2015 to 2016 exceeds even the financial crisis, as well as the last supply-side driven crash in oil prices in […]

A Calgary man collected $9 million in a Lotto 6/49 draw this month.  Libu George said he was “speechless” when he found out his randomly selected Lotto numbers won the nearly $9.4 million draw. “I was shocked,” he said in a statement. “I was so shocked that I couldn’t breathe!”  George bought his ticket at […]

New safety measures at the Stampede’s chuckwagon races appear to have paid off, with no horses seriously hurt this year for the first time in more than a decade. “It seems clear that the new safety measures and real changes implemented this year had a positive impact,” said Stampede president Bill Gray. The Stampede made two […]

Calgary police are investigating a pair of shootings that left one man with a bullet in his foot and another with a wound to his hand. The first victim showed up at Peter Lougheed hospital around 12:45 a.m. Acting Det. Martin Taylor said it’s unclear what happened as the victim is “not being particularly co-operative.” […]

Oil producers aren't betting on the rally. After surviving two years of low prices, they're gearing up for a third by buying protection against a renewed downturn.

When Facebook first came out in 2007, it prompted users to create a “status update” with the simple prompt “(username) is…” where users would then fill in the rest with what they were doing. In late 2007, Facebook eliminated the “is” prompt and replaced it with “What are you doing now?” In 2009 the prompt was […]

A newspaper boy strike in 1899 doesn’t seem like material for a movie, never mind a musical that induces mass hysteria. But that’s the idea behind Newsies, which began life as a 1992 Disney flick that flopped before finding a cult following through video and, in 2012, becoming a Broadway hit. It’s also a touring […]

One more polluter to punish Re: “NDP blames wildfire for budget hike,” July 13. I may have missed it, but I do not recall anyone estimating or calculating the amount of CO2 emitted by the Wood Buffalo wildfire. I can only imagine it was significant. Maybe the provincial government can tax the wildfire, as it […]

One can’t help wondering what Alberta’s answer to the Sage of Omaha is thinking these days about the trillions of dollars worth of derivatives swirling dangerously on the balance sheet of the massive Deutsche Bank. Or indeed, if Joe Ceci thinks the Italians will snub the Germans and go ahead and recapitalize their own desperate banking […]

You’re 20 years old and you’ve just won $100,000. What do you do? What do you spend it on first? Zeke Thurston, last year, resisted temptation to splurge. “I tried to save it the best I could,” the Big Valley native promised with a smile. “Or tried to do something smart with it, anyways. I […]

The grandstand loved the granny. Nobody scored more support at the latest instalment of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth than barrel-racing senior citizen Mary Burger. Nobody collected more cash, either. At 67 years young, Burger completed a remarkable sweep on Championship Sunday, making yet another trip to the stage and enjoying one more standing […]

The 25th time, apparently, is the charm. Kirk Sutherland has been chasing a Rangeland Derby crown for more than a quarter of a century. Which made Sunday’s victory taste even sweeter. “It’s been a lot longer than 25 (years), believe me,” said Sutherland, who began racing in 1976 and capped off his 25th Calgary Stampede […]

And then, there was one. It’s not often that the Calgary Stampede’s final four bull riding turns into a last-man standing competition. But Cody Teel happened to be the only rider that was able to hang on on this particularly slippery Sunday. “All those guys in the four-man … they’re all top-calibre bull riders,” said the […]

There are still a lot of tears for five-year-old Taliyah Marsman and her mother Sara Baillie, slain last week, but at a vigil in their memory Sunday night in Sandstone Park there were a lot of laughs as well — there was meant to be.

It’s a dirty job. But the pay is pretty darn good, especially if you can finish your business as fast as Seth Brockman. During the latest downpour of what has been a wet week, the bespectacled bulldogger from Wheatland, Wyo., emerged from the muddy infield with the Calgary Stampede steer-wrestling crown and the six-figure paycheque […]

Steven Peebles sighed, thinking about the lost income, the bills, and the stress. But, politely, the 27-year-old tried to put things in perspective what six months off bareback riding meant to the Redmond, Ore., cowboy. “It was a lot,” Peebles said, shaking his head. “You have a lot of money and bills to pay every […]

If it’s a big do, you’ll probably spot tie-down roping tactician Shane Hanchey in a purple shirt. On Championship Sunday at the Calgary Stampede, his wardrobe decision ran a little deeper than just continuing a good-luck streak. “Three Baton Rouge police officers were shot and killed this morning, and I told my Mom and my […]

A couple of dozen strong, Stand Up YYC walked 17 Ave. S.W. Sunday afternoon with signs in-hand, asking Calgary police to consider their actions and the fact citizens are watching.

The lawyer for one of two people identified by Calgary police as persons of interest in connection with the death of a five-year-old boy says his client had already agreed to turn herself in when the force issued a news release. Brendan Miller, lawyer for Carolina Perdomo, said when she and Allan Perdomo Lopez heard […]

You can always expect a bit of moaning and groaning about who isn’t on the tee-sheet at the RBC Canadian Open. Just not from this young man. “Jason Day and Graham DeLaet are my top two favourite golfers and they’re both going to be there, so that’s going to be really cool,” said Calgary-born birdie-seeker […]

Those early-season struggles must feel like ancient history now. And Calgary’s Kenna Hughes has a shiny prize as proof she peaked at a prime time. The 18-year-old lassoed a provincial crown during Stampede week, notching a three-stroke victory at the 2016 Alberta Junior Girls Championship at Cottonwood. “It feels great to win considering I was struggling […]

More than 2,000, multi-coloured Smithbilt hats went into setting a new world record in the city Sunday. North Hill Centre is now the Guinness World Record holder of the globe’s largest hat mosaic, according to Paula Lee, marketing director with the northwest shopping centre. “It looks like a hat made of cowboy hats,” she said. […]

His debut took a lot longer than he originally anticipated, but these days, Bakari Grant is finally feeling like a contributing member of the Calgary Stampeders. After drawing the short straw the first two weeks and being relegated to healthy inactive status behind Kamar Jorden, the off-season free-agent acquisition from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats finally made […]