Новости за 21.07.2016

After holding off on buying new rental properties for months, Calgary-based Mainstreet Equity Corp. said Thursday current economic conditions in Alberta are ideal to “hit the reset button” and acquire new apartments. Mainstreet, which owns more than 9,300 units in Western Canada including 1,800 in southern Alberta, said in its third quarter report that it has taken “a very […]

TransCanada Corp.is preparing to formally solicit interest for a cheaper shipping option on its main natural gas system as early as this fall, as talks with producers advance. The company is discussing the potential for a new long-term transportation contract from Alberta to Ontario that would cost about 40 percent less than the current toll […]

It’s the 10th anniversary of the Calgary International Fringe Festival and things are going to get bigger to celebrate the nine-day event. Fringe 2016 runs in its Inglewood home July 29 through Aug. 6 and festival director Michele Gallant says the first big thing fringe fans will notice are the larger commemorative fringe buttons, which […]

Calgary-based power and natural gas supplier AltaGas Ltd. says it has reduced its workforce by about 70 workers. It said the job cuts implemented in June would result in a $7-million-restructuring charge on its second-quarter earnings. The reduction of its non-utility workforce is expected to result in savings of about $7-million per year. The company […]

Enmax is warning Calgarians about two people who are posing as Enmax employees and going door-to-door in the Dover area.  According to the company, the men have been trying to gain entry to residences by telling homeowners that they are there to complete “efficiency checks” and need to look at the furnace. The scammers have also […]

The number of people in the Calgary area receiving employment insurance benefits jumped nearly seven per cent in May, rising near a historic high for the city. According to Statistics Canada, 24,040 people received regular benefits in May, up 6.8 per cent from April. That’s the most recipients since October 2009, as the province was […]

Capital Ideas members share how they track and measure client happiness

If the latter day quest for the Holy Grail was about finding eternal youth, the modern day version for governments is finding the cheap, effective technology that lowers carbon footprints and doesn’t result in too much economic dislocation. Even better is if it can help diversify an economy. If anything, the Paris climate conference last […]

Raphaelle Standell-Preston is looking at it as something of a do-over. The last time she and her locally born, Montreal-based band Braids returned home to perform at the Calgary Folk Music Festival they were on small side stage, early in the day, playing to a small audience in the rain. This year, the forecast is […]

This is the ‘Year of Music’ in Calgary, and Heritage Park Historical Village is doing its part to provide visitors with an almost endless array of music this summer. There is nothing like music to bring people together, whether in celebration or in ceremony. Visitors to Heritage Park will find a mix of both. From […]

City councillors listened late into the evening Wednesday to Calgarians who spoke either strongly in favour, or in staunch opposition to, a plan for expanded transit in the city’s southwest. Dozens of Calgarians came to council chambers, with more than 70 signing up to speak to the transportation and transit committee about the 22-kilometre project, which includes […]

Just one day after a woman was mauled by a grizzly bear near Cochrane, another woman said to be in her mid 20s was attacked by a brown bear in Canmore. The woman was biking with a friend Wednesday afternoon when they came across the bear on the trail. After trying to ride away from it, EMS […]

Dean Semeniuk thought the call was a joke at first, but winning the lottery was entirely real for him. He was one of multiple winners announced on live television Wednesday for several Calgary Stampede Lotteries contests. The biggest winners in the draw this year were Kelvin Daly of Calgary, who won the Rotary dream home valued […]

Cowtown is quickly becoming Dogtown. The city’s latest census shows the number of canine companions registered in Calgary has soared to more than 135,000, making for more than one pooch for every 10 Calgarians. But pet ownership in the city isn’t necessarily purring along. The same data shows registered cats have plummeted to lows not seen […]

Four years after gaps in Alberta’s health-care system led to the death of his son, a Calgary man says the province still hasn’t made the changes to prevent it from happening again. “Every day, patients in this province are not getting the kind of treatment that they should,” said David Price. Price’s son, Greg, was […]

WINNIPEG — You can call them ratio breakers. You can call them two of the best running backs in the league. You can call them keys to their respective football teams’ hopes in 2016. You can also call them paid. They say timing is everything, and there’s no doubting Andrew Harris and Jerome Messam both […]

Low energy prices and high unemployment have forced people out of their homes in droves, spiking housing vacancies to levels not seen in well over a decade, census figures show. Calgary’s 2016 civic census revealed that while the city’s population increased slightly to more than 1.2 million in April, more people moved out of the city than […]

A young wolf from the troubled Bow Valley pack has gotten into some garbage at a campground in Banff National Park, leading to charges against a camper and prompting officials to remind others to keep their sites clean. Late Tuesday night, wildlife officials were called to the Johnston Canyon campground, located along the Bow Valley parkway. […]

WINNIPEG — The Calgary Stampeders’ dominance over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers is no secret. As a team, the Stamps are 14-1 against the Bombers since the 2009 season and have never lost at Investors Group Field in four tries. Individually, the combination of quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and slotback Marquay McDaniel likely start drooling when […]

Even as the city continues to invest in cycling, transit and pedestrian infrastructure, Calgary commuters still overwhelmingly prefer driving to the office, according to new census data. More than two-thirds (261,000) of those who filled out the 2016 census said they drove alone to work daily, with those who take city transit coming in a distant […]