Новости за 11.09.2016

Autumn? Nah, four seasons are for suckers. For those of you who agree with the previous statement, good news! Environment Canada is predicting a 60 per cent chance of showers or snow starting around midnight for the city of Calgary. Snow has already touched down in several areas in the mountains, including Sunshine Village and Nakiska Ski Resort. It's […]

It was a pleasant surprise when the giant pandas gave birth while at their first Canadian tour stop in Toronto, and now officials in Calgary are hoping for a repeat when they arrive in Calgary. The preparations are already well underway to host the expanded panda clan in 2018. “We went from feeding two mouths to […]

When University of Calgary professor Tom Keenan used to meet with other researchers at conferences focused on surveillance, he and his peers would walk around counting the security cameras. They eventually stopped tallying the number of lenses trained on the streets in various cities, because now “they’re everywhere,” he said. The United Kingdom, and particularly central […]

Readers will recall your faithful social scribe has often opined if you want a successful event, best get the ladies behind same. And no where is this more evident than the Children’s Hospital Aid Society (CHAS). These dedicated group of ladies have been opening doors for children since 1908. Events as varied as the CHAS […]

The statistics are sobering indeed. It is predicted one in seven men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime. And yet if caught early, prostate cancer is not a death sentence. That is why is so imperative that men-starting at age 40-certainly by 50-get their PSA checked. PSA is a simple blood test. The test […]

For each of the two years that lie between the tri-annual Honens International Piano Competition, there is a mini-festival devoted to the piano that takes place in early September. This year the festival is paying tribute to the eccentric and quirky French composer Erik Satie, whose birth occurred 150 years, among whose compositions one finds […]

The science behind the perfect chocolate chip cookie. What happens to milk when you make a latte. How cheese is made. Food cooked over a big bonfire, alongside skateboarders, crane rides and live music, too. When it comes to culinary experiences, there’s nothing quite like Beakerhead. The annual festival of science, art and engineering takes […]

Micheal Zipp gave all the right answers when asked if he was a fan of the Edmonton Oil Kings when they re-entered the Western Hockey League for the 2007-08 season. At the time, Zipp was just 12 and playing minor hockey in Alberta’s capital city, so you couldn’t blame him if he cheered for his […]

EDMONTON – One streak ended. But the important one is still going strong. Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes missed a field goal for the first time since Week 3. But the Stamps ran their unbeaten streak to 10 games, including eight victories in a row, with a wild 34-28 overtime win over the Edmonton Eskimos. […]

Family of Taliyah Marsman and Sara Baillie offered their voices Saturday to a growing number who know what it is to have loved ones ripped away by violence. Saturday afternoon in Calgary they joined Steffi Stehwien and several dozen more for the Stehwien’s 11th Annual Walk for Justice for Murder Victims — an awareness march […]

But Clermont, author of Learning To Fall, says while it may be fiction, the venue's appearance at the book's decisive point is founded on reality.

Trey Anthony’s ‘Da Kink in My Hair playing at Theatre Calgary until Oct. 1 is a joyous celebration of female empowerment told almost exclusively from a black woman’s point of view. Even when the stories the eight women tell are harrowing and heart wrenching, there is always a sense of hope though it definitely glimmers […]

The three live in disparate parts of the U.S. but haven't missed a Spruce Meadows Masters in 20 years, converging in Calgary every September.

It's not like the 34-member band, which has been selected to perform daily at this year's Spruce Meadows Masters, is a stranger to tight situations.

The spacious tent crammed with UK imports is an annual pilgrimage for legions show jumping fans, and during Saturday's Master's, the place was mobbed by devotees convinced they can get some UK satisfaction.

They ain’t happy in Happy Valley. And they certainly weren’t smiling Saturday at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. Nope, it was more like heartache for the Penn State Nittany Lions — their emotions shot following a hard-fought 42-39 loss to the NCAA football in-state rival Pittsburgh Panthers. “Penn State and Pitt played what seemed like the […]

It’s an unassuming thing, really. Straight from the Deodoro Olympic Equestrian Centre and featured at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, the jump is designed after the streets of the Copacabana beach — wavy, grey, and white. But during Saturday’s BMO Nations’ Cup competition at the Masters Tournament, it proved to be the worst enemy […]

It wasn’t the colour they came for. But, still, in front of an ecstatic home crowd, the Canadian team — fresh off the 2016 Summer Olympics — walked away from Saturday’s BMO Nations’ Cup with a medal. “You have good days and you have bad days,” said Tiffany Foster who was the only Canadian rider […]

As an Irishman, you’d like to think Cian O’Connor was born lucky. But following his first round of the Suncor Energy Winning Round at Spruce Meadows, he found himself searching for a four-leaf clover. But even with one time fault — the result of a clear and relatively pokey time for the 36-year-old Dublin native […]

Allegedly choked by his cellmate while he slept Friday morning, a Calgary Remand Centre inmate is on life-support in hospital, Postmedia has learned. The adult male prisoner remained in critical condition Saturday. Police say officers and an ambulance were dispatched about 9:50 a.m. to the Calgary Remand Centre, where they found the man, who’d been […]