Новости за 09.08.2016

Alberta Ballet will be asking supporters across the province to each donate $50 to the organization over the next seven months to help weather financial hardships the company has suffered over the last few years. It’s part of a $1-million fundraising campaign launched to help put the organization, the second-largest ballet company in Canada, on steadier ground financially after […]

Law enforcement authorities in Calgary announced the seizure of one kilogram of a fentanyl derivative Tuesday that could have produced 50,000,000 fatal doses if it had hit the street. Calgary RCMP, the Calgary Police Service and the Canadian Border Services Agency announced the carfentanil seizure Tuesday, along with the arrest of a Calgary man. #Carfentanil is […]

The UN's eighth secretary general will challenge young people to assume a greater role in world affairs in a talk titled A call to youth: the UN in Canada in a changing world.

A Calgary woman says a BASE jumper found dead near Canmore was excited about his next jump in the last few hours before his death. Cindy Sleeman says she picked up the jumper Saturday morning, who she identified as Cameron Minni of Calgary, while he was hitchhiking after completing an initial successful jump in the […]

Golf Tournament Raises More than $1 Million is not a headline your apt to have seen recently-nor will see anytime in the near future. Unless the tournament is the Rockyview Invitational Pro-Am Tournament held at Priddis Greens. Now in its third year, the must-attend tournament has raised $2.4 million for medical equipment at the Rockyview […]

Calgary police are looking for witnesses to an accident Monday night after a man fell out of a moving vehicle in the southeast. Shortly after 7:30 p.m., the 30-year-old front passenger of a Dodge Ram 1500 fell out of the vehicle in the 2400 block of 2A St. S.E. He sustained critical injuries. Cops say […]

More than 4,000 tickets have already been sold for next weekend’s two-day Christian music festival to be held on scared ground belonging to the Stoney Nakoda Nation at Morley, west of Calgary. Some of the best-loved Christian performers from across North America will take part in the No Greater Love event next Saturday and Sunday […]

Lethbridge area RCMP are investigating after several beehives were smashed at a property near Lethbridge sometime in late June. Mounties say someone drove onto the property in Lethbridge County, south of the Oldman River near Range Road 215, and hit several pallets containing beehives. The beehives and the bees inside were destroyed. Police are calling on […]

Fifteen years after Alberta made bike helmets mandatory for minors, efforts continue to extend that law to adults. For 14 of those years (not to mention the 30 years previous), we had a government disinclined to go that far. However, the helmet crusaders are hopeful that the NDP’s gleeful abandonment of all vestiges of Tory rule […]

Anger has followed the Alberta government’s decision to take legal action against companies that exercised a clause in their power purchase arrangements (PPAs) to return the contracts to the provincial Balancing Pool. Let’s start with how the government is selling the case to Albertans — billing its actions around what they call the ‘Enron clause,’ a terminology that unjustly stains all companies in the […]

Phil Robertson and Sebastian Sztabzyb, the roasters and purveyors of fine coffee under the name of Phil and Sebastian, have long been asked about opening a downtown store. They’ve wanted to, and there’s lots of space available, but finding a location that met their needs has been difficult. Most of the pedestrian traffic is on […]

Canada’s energy industry is crucial Re: “Alberta jobless rate hits near 22-year high,” Aug. 6. Friday’s horrible job and trade reports are another stark reminder of the importance of the energy and resource sector in Canada.  For years, the energy sector (especially Alberta) was vilified by manufacturers in eastern provinces as being responsible for hollowing […]

In an operating budget of about $3.5 billion, the expenses of city councillors are admittedly a drop in the bucket. Even if civic politicians were to cut them in half, the result would be negligible when tax notices arrive in the mail next summer. Still, the expenditures can’t help but attract attention. It was only […]

MADISON, WI — The Boss, already known as biggest, toughest grizzly bear in Banff National Park, is also helping find answers to some important research questions related to wildlife deaths along the railway tracks. No. 122, a 300-kilogram male bear, is known to use transportation corridors — despite being hit by a train and surviving — to get around Banff, […]

A third grown wolf from the dwindling Bow Valley pack is under threat after it visited two campgrounds in a matter of days. On Sunday night, the un-collared, grey-coloured wolf went into Two Jack Main campground in search of food and was hazed away by wildlife staff on two separate occasions.  No one from Banff National Park was available for […]

Calgary-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. said Monday that it’s buying the Canadian assets of the Williams pipeline companies at a steep discount — and will take on its massive petrochemical project in Alberta — for $1.35 billion. Under the deal announced Monday, Inter Pipeline will acquire two natural gas liquids plants in Fort McMurray, a gas processing plant near Redwater […]

An 110-year-old red brick fire hall on Memorial Drive has long fascinated Calgary artist Eric Moschopedis. He’s peeked in the windows and imagined working in the historic two-storey building, which is owned by the city and operated as a fire station until 1967. Later this week, Moschopedis and three other artists will take over Firehall […]

City-owned Enmax has hunkered down in public silence since the legal assault from the provincial government began. But with the latest twist — the revelation that a current Enmax executive once negotiated the “Enron clause” for his then-employer — the gloves are off. “We have done nothing wrong,” communications vice-president Tamera Van Brunt said in an interview Monday. “Sixteen years […]

The conclusion of testimony Monday at the end of day one of a preliminary inquiry of an alleged wife killer had a slain Calgary woman’s mother reduced to tears. Lisa Madill was hugged and consoled by supporters as she wiped her eyes after listening to the final witness of the day at the hearing to […]

A BASE jumper who had been reported missing since Saturday evening has been found dead near Canmore. The 34-year-old Calgarian jumper, who Canmore RCMP say they will not be naming, had been planning a BASE jump with a wingsuit near Ha Ling Peak or Mount Rundle on Saturday afternoon.  His body was found by searchers near Miners […]

A controversial gathering spot for Pokemon Go players has been removed.  Last month, members of the Calgary Jewish Federation were upset to learn that the Ashes to Life Holocaust memorial had been selected as a “Pokestop,” which are destinations for players to lure Pokemon and resupply on virtual items. Now, the Pokestop is gone thanks to […]

As crews put the finishing touches on a new bike lane on 5th Avenue N.W., some residents have been signing a petition opposing the project because of concerns about pedestrian safety.   Construction on the 5th Avenue bikeway between 10 Street N.W. and 14 Street N.W. began earlier this summer after public engagement sessions last […]

After running through several weeks of a slumber regimen, most of the athletes say they've improved their sleeping along with their mindset and performance, said Amy Bender, a researcher at the U of C's Faculty of Kineseology and Centre for Sleep and Human Performance.

After extensive testing by mental health professionals, Calgarian Emanual Kahsai, who faces two murder charges, is fit to stand trial, court heard Monday. But Kahsai, who has been prone to courtroom outbursts, was back at it during two brief appearances before provincial court Judge Marlene Graham. As Crown prosecutor Jacqueline Abbott informed Graham that Kahsai […]

Helen Mutchler never expected to have the opportunity she did Monday, as she glided around a small lake next to the Newport Harbour Care Centre. The 99-year-old had a smile on her face as she experienced a bicycle ride on a new duet bike purchased by the care facility. The device allows residents to sit […]