Новости за 17.08.2016

A Calgary man faces impaired driving charges after he was stopped in Airdrie with three children in his minivan and a breathalyzer test revealed his blood alcohol level was  more than three times the legal limit, RCMP said. “The concerning nature of this impaired is that three children under the age of 10 were in […]

The man accused of stabbing two people in a northeast Calgary home told a judge Wednesday, “I didn’t mean to,” when he was informed of the charges against him. But Justice of the Peace Paul Newcombe told Qisong Zhou the brief hearing before him was not the forum for discussing the case. “I only […]

Mohamed Fahmy, who was imprisoned for 438 days in Egypt on trumped-up terrorism charges, said his experience led him to draft a charter that would ensure Ottawa to aid journalists detained abroad.

A biopic shot in St. John’s about Canadian painter Maud Lewis will open the Calgary International Film Festival. Maudie, starring Oscar-nominated actors Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, will kick off the festival on Sept. 21 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall with a red-carpet screening. The film, which tells how Lewis became one of the […]

Airport partners looking to fill hundreds of new jobs in YYC’s new International Terminal will be on site Wednesday at a career fair at the Coast Plaza Hotel. The new, two-million-square-foot terminal — scheduled to open Oct. 31 — will more than double the size of the Calgary International Airport. The terminal will feature more than 50 […]

Alberta investors who were taken in by a fraud scheme perpetrated by Saileshwar Narayan between 2010 and 2012 will have the opportunity to get at least some of their money back. The Alberta Securities Commission announced Wednesday it will apply to the Court of Queen’s Bench to appoint a Receiver to distribute funds that were […]

You can add Studio Bell to the list of local spots for a communal viewing of the Hip’s last stand. The newly opened musical hub in Calgary’s East Village announced that they’ll be offering a free, all-ages screening of what’s being considered The Tragically Hip’s final concert, which is being broadcast live by the CBC […]

Alberta’s ethics commissioner is urging a change to provincial laws to ban politicians from accepting any hospitality gifts from lobbyists that exceed $100. Marguerite Trussler says a cap tied to events or food is easy to understand and to enforce. “That leaves nothing to interpretation,” Trussler said Tuesday to an all-party legislature committee tasked with recommending changes […]

Calgary police are warning Calgarians about a new twist on an old scam. On Friday, a Calgary woman got a message from a man calling himself Ryan Smith, claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency.  When she called back, the woman was shocked when Smith told her she owed nearly $10,000 in back taxes. The woman said she was […]

Calgary police are supporting calls for a new law that would force civilians to hand over electronic passwords to investigators with a judge’s permission. Calgary police Chief Roger Chaffin was among those at the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police who voted Tuesday to ask for legal means to obtain such digital evidence, saying it […]

The local label/concert series flies past its first decade of experimental sounds.

For those who have watched Canadian television in the past decade, the idea of Daryn Jones pulling up stakes and moving to Los Angeles just seems strange. Wrong, even. Canuck comedians moving to Hollywood to further their careers is nothing new, of course, and Jones has been going back and forth for years. But from his early days roaming the streets […]

Beets can be a polarizing food — many love the earthy sweetness of this vibrantly coloured root vegetable, whereas others simply think they taste like dirt. Here are two salads that use golden beets — they have a milder flavour and are slightly sweeter than regular beets, and are less messy to boot! Feel free […]

An all-party legislative committee tasked with modernizing Alberta’s election finance rules continues to make mischief. The NDP-dominated body has now recommended that leadership campaign spending be limited to 15 per cent of a party’s election spending cap — or about $330,000 per person. This is all about the NDP’s pledge during the 2015 election to get […]

One of the great sources of amusement in visiting Vancouver is once again being reminded that it is no longer the place where I went to school and was a happy University of British Columbia undergraduate.  To a commonsensical Albertan, B.C. was always a bit eccentric. For example, when deer wander from Stanley Park onto the […]

An indictment of our health-care system Re: “Wait times for MRIs spike,” Aug. 15. The analysis of the demand and necessity of MRIs by Colin Zak, Dr. Richard Walker and Jennifer Zwicker is contemptuous and arrogant of both patients and family physicians. To dismiss the need of MRIs for “lower back pain” on a triage […]

The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra recently welcomed Norwegian Rune Bergmann into the fold as its new music director designate. Bergmann, 40, will conduct several concerts during the 2016-17 season prior to assuming his official duties as music director in 2017-18.

Police arrested the man wanted in a northeast Calgary double stabbing Tuesday afternoon after a member of the public spotted him walking on the highway. The tip came in at about 3:30 p.m., after someone saw Qisong Zhou, 50, strolling along Deerfoot Trail. Zhou was arrested without incident a half-hour later on the same road, […]

Operators of a new clinic in downtown Calgary say the facility will provide more capacity for patients seeking access to medical marijuana. Curious locals got a glimpse of the Lift Resource Centre at an open house Tuesday. The clinic is in the larger Imagine Health Centres, where some physicians and nurses are being trained to give […]

There’s no doubt about it — the NDP is messing with Jason Kenney’s Progressive Conservative leadership bid. First, the government took the unusual step of asking the province’s chief electoral officer to investigate his pre-campaign fundraising. This is just noisemaking. The office has no power over Kenney’s bucket-passing before an official leadership campaign starts, unless […]

After RCMP thwarted a major terror threat in Ontario last week, Mohamed El-Rafih knew that his community anti-radicalization initiatives were more urgently needed than ever. El-Rafih is best known in Calgary’s Muslim community as the creator of an anti-radicalization program that he calls Fostering Youth Inclusiveness (or FYI). The program is a day camp for children aged […]

For its 2016-17 season, One Yellow Rabbit will be presenting two world premières. First up from Oct. 25 to Nov. 5 in the Arts Commons’ Big Secret Theatre will be John Murrell’s Fat Jack Falstaff’s Last Hour. One Yellow Rabbit premièred Murrell’s last play Taking Shakespeare in 2012 featuring Murrell as a disgraced university professor […]

The saying “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” is usually met with eye-rolling — but clearly it’s a message still lost on the thousands of Canadians who are scammed each year. In Calgary, fraudsters have found their own ways to collect ill-gotten bounty. Postmedia’s Michael Lumsden spoke with Staff Sgt. Jeff Bell of the Calgary […]

The first time Roy Finch found himself at BC Place back in 2014 was also his CFL debut as a fresh-faced Ottawa RedBlack. On Friday, he returns to Vancouver hardly a grizzled veteran, but definitely someone who teams in this league have learned to be wary of. “I think as you get older, you have to […]

A five-member committee, made up of Edmonton city councillors and the northern city’s mayor, unanimously supported a push to lower the municipal voting age to 16 on Tuesday. The Edmonton Youth Council has been campaigning for the change, which still needs Edmonton council approval and then would need provincial approval. While the idea of allowing […]