Новости за 16.08.2016

June auto sales hit their lowest level since 2011 in Alberta, as the provincial economy continued to struggle, according to Statistics Canada. The dollar value of auto sales was $851.6 million in June. That marked a $20-million (2.3 per cent) decline from June 2015, and the lowest sales for the month since 2011. Alberta’s auto sales […]

A gathering of makers is a chance to see what can be done with circuit boards, wires, a soldering gun and a little know-how.

A pair of veteran Calgary Stampeders defensive backs are on the move.

Canadians perceive Calgary to be one of the country’s less safe cities, ranking it 10th out of 15 major centres in a new poll. The poll comes after last month’s release of Statistics Canada crime stats, which showed a 29 per cent increase in the severity of crime in Calgary. Based on StatsCan’s Crime Severity Index, Calgary […]

The collection of cacti and succulents on the reception desk caught my eye as I walked through the front doors of WestJet’s head office and hangar building at Calgary International Airport. I was there to meet with Rob Daintree to talk about his new position as WestJet’s director of marketing communications. Met by Lauren Stewart, another recent […]

It’s once again time for the sounds of the island to fill the prairies as ReggaeFest sets up shop in Calgary’s summer culture calendar. This year’s festival takes place Thursday through Saturday with various events around the city. Here are 5 Things you need to know about ReggaeFest. Music: The main events are the Friday […]

Julia Barnes’ love of surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing is channelled through her swimwear line, Honubelle. Honu is the Hawaiian name for sea turtle, symbolizing grace and longevity; belle is French for beautiful and is inspired by her adorable niece, Isabel. Born in Bratislava, Slovakia, she grew up enjoying the outdoors with her family (parents and two brothers) […]

If the Alberta NDP are going to devise a scheme to tilt election spending rules in their favour, they could at least hold off until after Premier Rachel Notley’s summer vacation. Instead, we have proposed new rules being dropped on us in the dead of summer, with the premier nowhere to be found. By leaving […]

The Alberta government spends almost 40 per cent of its budget on health care — a whopping $2.3 million an hour, or $56 million a day. And yet the average wait time for an MRI scan in Calgary hospitals has increased by 20 per cent during the past year. It doesn’t make sense that when the government […]

Crisis? What crisis? Re: “Auto sector crisis worse than oil slump, memo says,” Aug. 15. Talk about an apples to oranges comparison: comparing the troubles in the entire province of Alberta to the troubles in only one sector of Ontario’s manufacturing sector. Secondly, stating that auto manufacturing jobs are portable to other jurisdictions, but not energy development jobs, […]

Beakerhead organizers are back this September with an all new program, featuring more than 60 events.  Mary Anne Moser, the president and co-founder of Beakerhead, said there are a range of workshops, from making cocktails or chocolate chip cookies, to playing board games with experts (like Operation with a surgeon). There are also events and […]

Oh, no. We’re into it again — back to the endless, arid Alberta debate on public versus private health care. Jason Kenney, the early bird unofficial Progressive Conservative leadership candidate, said Monday he thinks Albertans deserve more health options, on the models of Quebec and British Columbia. Kenney was answering questions about the Herald story that revealed MRI […]

MRI scans should be more strictly policed to cut down on overuse and growing waiting lists, says a city neurologist who's studied the issue.

While opening his Calgary campaign headquarters, the former federal Tory cabinet minister said some unionists feel betrayed by an NDP government that's abandoned their interests.

It will be another night at the Calgary Remand Centre for the man police have charged in connection with the theft of two expensive trees outside a Beltline restaurant. Ryan Leslie Duguay appeared briefly in Calgary provincial court Monday after consulting with duty counsel Mark Cluett about his wish to get out of jail. “Mr. […]

The teddy bear’s name is Brave but really it’s the six-year-old girl clutching him who could be called that. Critically ill from a bacterial infection which caused organ failure, Payton Langenau spent 10 weeks in both Alberta children’s hospitals and has undergone seven operations. Standing in the garden of the Calgary hospital that helped save her life, Payton is now a picture of […]

A man charged in a fatal crash in which an allegedly stolen truck collided head-on with an oncoming car, made a short appearance Monday in Calgary provincial court. Derek Brian Grouette told Judge Brian Stevenson he didn’t yet have a lawyer and asked that his case be adjourned a week. Stevenson then told Grouette he […]

Thirty lucky kids at the Alberta Children’s Hospital will get to watch as professional cartoonists draw whatever their hearts desire right before their own eyes. Guy Parsons, chair of the Canadian chapter of the National Cartoonist Society, is taking a popular program in the U.S., where cartoonists visit children’s hospitals and draw up pictures for kids, and […]

Generation Z is here. The group born after the millennials —  from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, with exact years varying — are reaching young adulthood. And as is the tradition, their slang confounds those even a touch older. This isn’t a comprehensive list, and due to the nature of slang, these words will probably be […]

Driving impaired is driving impaired — it doesn’t matter what substance a person’s on, but Calgary police and their overseeing commission want to be ready when one in particular is legalized. This weekend in Ottawa, at a Canadian Association of Police Governance Conference, the Calgary Police Commission put forward a resolution to continue pressure on the federal government to identify and approve a roadside drug screening device, in light of the feds’ commitment to legalize and regulate marijuana by 2017.

With hockey parents skating on thin financial ice amidst Calgary’s economic slide, Hockey Calgary is girding for a spike in requests for aid as registrations for the upcoming season roll in. Executive director Kevin Kobelka said while the deadline for parents to apply for financial support under Hockey Calgary’s Flames Even Strength Program is still a […]

If you expected a drop off with Dave Dickenson at the helm, you were wrong. The Calgary Stampeders continue to find ways to win football games, and they’re now in the midst of a six-game unbeaten streak, thanks to a sloppy 19-10 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Saturday in the final encounter at Mosaic […]