Новости за 20.08.2016

An air ambulance and the best efforts of bystanders weren’t enough to save a four-year old girl from Calgary who was run over by a car in British Columbia.  The girl and her family were on vacation in Parksville, B.C., on Vancouver Island, when the incident happened. She was hit by a car at around 2:30 […]

Questions continue to surround the true intent of the Alberta government’s lawsuit challenging the legality of power purchase arrangements, and specifically a clause that allowed companies to return the contracts to the arm’s-length Balancing Pool. Topping the list is whether the $2-billion cost asserted in the lawsuit has merit. On Friday, three professors — Trevor Tombe […]

Day 1 on the West Coast Trail provided some important lessons. For example, packing a three-kilogram tomahawk might not be the best use of space and weight in a backpack (don’t ask). Also, earplugs are best installed before the snoring starts. And drinking your booze quickly and early on in the journey is a tactical way […]

In many North American centres, it’s reggae festival season. Calgary’s is actually taking place now with the main fest taking place at Shaw Millennium Park this weekend, featuring acts and artists from all over the world performing the music, showing its reach and its influence as they move it forward and make it their own. […]

Linda King’s husband David was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. Thirteen months later, he was dead at the age of 45. She was left a young widow, with three teenage children. “It was a really tough go. I hardly remember those first two years after he died. It was like living in a fog,” she […]

For Canadians who want proof that the chattering classes often resemble sheep, the best example comes from their chronic bleating that too much money flows into politics — a position that always favours existing politicians.  For those not paying attention, Alberta’s NDP government has proposed a series of constricting measures. They include caps on spending […]

By Kenneth P. Green and Taylor Jackson Alberta’s energy industry has been hit hard by the decline in oil prices, but the province is still home to the world’s third largest oil reserves, and despite a temporary glut, oil will still largely power the world for the foreseeable future. However, just how much oil Alberta […]

By Colin Busby and Livio Di Matteo In a now familiar move, the government of Alberta is hoping to put the province back in the black in part by keeping a lid on health spending over the next few years. The province is hardly alone in adopting this tactic. Provincial health spending has entered a […]

Imprisoned imam belongs at home Re: “Accused imam’s wife ’empty’ as he languishes in prison,” Aug. 18. The nightmare of Imam Davud Hanci’s arrest has placed a toll on me. As a colleague in chaplaincy, I met with Davud several weeks before he went to Turkey. At that time, we sat together and Davud told […]

Twenty years in the wine industry is not much more than a blink of an eye, but in Canada it is a significant milestone, especially when you consider that vitis vinifera (the genus of grapes that is responsible for most of the wine in the world) has not been planted in our wine regions for […]

Which is worse: a sore elbow or a painful shoulder? There’s no doubt both ailments are bothersome — especially for those who have to cope with the discomfort. That’s why it strikes us as odd that the Trudeau government would attempt to quantify the respective economic sting endured by Ontario’s troubled auto manufacturers at the end of […]

Another biblical health commandment was recently struck down, threatening our wellness-obsessed universe. “Thou Shalt Floss,” one of the most important health rules of the 21st century, was found to be of questionable value — shocking every one of us who has teeth. Like most people, I’d never really questioned flossing. It was annoying, time-consuming, and sometimes […]

Pack your bags and head west on the Trans-Canada Highway for just over five hours and you’ll find yourself in Salmon Arm, B.C. on the shores of the flawless Shuswap Lake. Enjoy the final weeks of summer in Salmon Arm and the surrounding area with these 10 suggestions which include indulging in old-fashioned ice-cream cones, savouring mountain views and […]

Doom and gloom catch-phrases seem to permeate conversations these days. And there is no doubt it is challenging to remain upbeat and positive. Don’t forget though that we are a resilient lot and have weathered many, many economic storms over the years. Sure, the current hurricane may be one of the worst, but have faith. […]

The Sobeys Inc. Better Food Fund has a simple message. Eat better. Feel better. Do better. Words to live by, to be sure. Launched in October 2014, the fund supports access to-and the advancement of-better food through donations and partnerships with Canadian charities. More than 900 communities have been supported through the fund. Its biggest […]

Wearing a suit and armed with a stack of resumés, Kelli Harker arrived at the Calgary Airport Authority's job fair Wednesday two hours before the event was scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

This is the way it was always going to be. News of the first contract – no matter which of the two lads did the autographing – would produce a well-deserved golf clap. Then quickly, automatically, and altogether predictably, eyes would dart to the opposite side of the dressing room. Hey, what about the other […]

It won’t be until the fall of 2017, for a Calgary man to stand trial in the slaying of a city waitress. Defence counsel Brendan Miller appeared Friday in Court of Queen’s Bench to set a four-week jury trial for Kevin Rubletz. Miller also scheduled a one-week hearing to deal with pre-trial motions the week […]

New fees to use Sikome Lake are torpedoing attendance and a low-cost refuge for economically-floundering Calgarians, says a Wildrose MLA.

Alberta is in for a chillier and snowier winter, a warmer and drier spring, and a rainier and cooler summer, if the Old Farmer's 2017 Almanac's weather forecast proves true.

Calgary retained its top position in an annual ranking of the world’s major cities for their quality of life, despite a recent spate of crime and a recession that has triggered high unemployment. For the seventh straight year, Calgary ranked fifth in the Economist magazine’s global livability index, sharing the spot with Adelaide, a similarly sized city […]