Новости за 13.09.2016

Calgary Opera is calling it a coup. The local company has announced that it has booked the “Beyonce of the opera world,” soprano Anna Netrebko, for an April 30, 2017 Jack Singer Concert Hall show. The appearance will be one of only two Canadian dates for the Russian-born superstar. She’ll perform an evening of arias […]

Being honoured for its efforts to restore the once critically endangered whooping crane to the wild is a true feather in the cap for Calgary Zoo, officials say. The zoo is being recognized, alongside several partner agencies, for its work in rescuing the once nearly extinct whooping crane and efforts to re-establish its wild population with […]

Lightstream Resources Ltd. increased 2015 cash bonuses for three executives months before the Calgary-based oil producer proposed a debt-for-equity swap to stay afloat as its stock was down to pennies. Chief financial officer Peter Scott and chief operating officer Rene LaPrade saw their non-equity compensation for last year, paid in December, increase about 11 per cent […]

Call it the outsiders’ view of America. Calgary Cinematheque’s 2016/17 season will be dedicated to some of America’s most uncompromising indie filmmakers, a British actress who has found acclaim working with American mavericks, and a master director from Germany who has long been obsessed with the country. The season will open on Wednesday with a screening at […]

Warm weather is in store for Calgarians this week, as the cold dissipates for mid-20s temperatures.  But the sunny week won’t necessarily be a signal of the autumn weather to come. According to the Weather Network’s Fall Forecast, September, October and November are likely to bring seesawing temperatures, with both cool and warm periods. “On average, we’re […]

One man is dead following a collision on Highway 22 just south of Highway 533, near Nanton. According to EMS, at 6:20 a.m. Tuesday, a semi-truck hauling cut logs and a pick-up truck collided.  Paramedics and a STARS air ambulance crew treated the driver of the pick-up truck, believed to be in his 40s, but […]

If investors needed evidence that size matters during a period of weak commodity prices, Monday’s merger between Agrium Inc. and Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. punctuates the point. After weeks of speculation, Calgary-based Agrium and Saskatoon-based PotashCorp unveiled the terms of what it called a “merger of equals” to create a new US$36-billion Canadian fertilizer powerhouse. If approved by regulators […]

Oil dropped in morning trading Tuesday as the International Energy Agency changed its view on global oversupply, seeing a glut persisting into 2017. Futures fell as much as 2.8 per cent in New York. The oil surplus will last longer than previously thought as demand growth slumps and output proves resilient, the IEA said. U.S. crude […]

EDMONTON — It’s now on the books and in effect: Alberta’s minimum wage will be $15 an hour by 2018. Labour Minister Christina Gray says cabinet has passed the required regulation to not only raise the rate to $12.20 an hour this October, but also to boost it by $1.40 an hour again in October […]

In the four seconds it took Kevin Hines to hit the water, the wave of relief he expected to feel was instantly replaced with one overriding emotion — regret. It was 2000, and a 19-year-old Hines decided to end his life than same way countless others had before him — he stepped off the deck of […]

A million-dollar donation just opened more doors for Calgary’s homeless. The Z Zurich Foundation, the charity arm of the Zurich insurance company, gifted the money Monday to the RESOLVE Campaign. RESOLVE is a collaboration of nine agencies raising $120 million to build affordable and supported rental housing for 3,000 vulnerable and homeless Calgarians. The community-based capital […]

Bri-mor Developments has proven that if you build with quality and value, and in the right location, tenants will come, even in this difficult economy.  Company president Fatima Dhanani and her son, managing director Aleem, began planning a mixed-use development on a 10-acre parcel in West Springs in 2007. Today, the retail area and two […]

While some sports fans may be green with envy of new facilities set to open in Edmonton and Regina, many Calgarians remain opposed to spending public money on the CalgaryNEXT proposal, according to a new poll. One year after ambitious visions of the sports mega-complex — with a price tag ranging from $1.3 billion to $1.8 billion — on Calgary’s west […]

Let’s add Ritalin to the water too Re: “Councillors push to re-examine effect of fluoride ban,” Sept. 8. Along with the small number of children who council seems to think do not have access to fluoridated toothpaste, I’m sure there are some with undiagnosed behavioural problems. Adding Ritalin to the water supply should help. And […]

An Edmonton judge will today make what should be a simple and straightforward decision. Unfortunately, though, when it comes to allowing cameras in Canadian courtrooms, it seems nothing is simple or straightforward. Therefore, the decision could be monumental. It is well past time to abandon our foolish reluctance to allow the public this window into […]

It’s one of the strange realities of reality TV.  The worse things get, the more interesting it is for viewers. A case in point: Jamie Davis would likely prefer to forget much of the drama that swirls around Season 5 of Discovery’s hit series, Highway Thru Hell. But on this particular day, he is being put in the peculiar position of […]

It was a call Karl Sine simply had to accept. As part of his 2016 season, Rosebud Theatre’s artistic director Morris Ertman programmed J.B. Priestley’s 1945 classic thriller An Inspector Calls and offered Sine the chance to slip into the director’s chair. Sine, just hot off this Critter Award for best supporting actor in A […]

Yes, the school year is barely underway, but it’s not hard to grade the NDP government on the promise it made during the 2015 election to trim education fees in half. They’ve flunked. For all its talk of protecting front-line services, even at the price of worrisome debt, the Rachel Notley government has demonstrated indifference to […]

Calgary’s elected officials spent Monday listening to homeowners plead for the right to legally put a stove in their basement in a time-consuming process that’s incredibly rare for a city of Calgary’s size. Here are more details, in number form, about what happened in council chambers on Monday:   38 — The number of secondary […]

Five years after Calgary stopped adding fluoride to its water supply, the enamel-building mineral is once again on the minds of Calgary’s elected officials. Councillors Peter Demong, Diane Colley-Urquhart and Richard Pootmans want to discuss a 2011 decision to remove fluoride in the wake of a February studying comparing the teeth of children in Calgary and […]

Their respective roles were predetermined. Each man had a part to play – that was plenty obvious. For starters, the fight’s promotional video featured the career highlights of Emmanuel Robles – and a single still photograph of Steve Claggett. To accommodate Robles – 15-0-1 and part of the Roy Jones Jr. management stable – Claggett […]

Alberta appears poised to dramatically curtail political donation levels as the NDP proposes stricter limits on individual contributions. But opposition parties say government members are trying to rush through changes that will disproportionately benefit the NDP as the legislative committee tasked with examining election financing legislation faces a looming deadline for its work. At Monday’s meeting of the […]

Canada’s Paralympic basketball squads are competing at the Games in Rio with an extra edge, thanks to researchers at SAIT. Some 17 athletes on the men’s and women’s teams are using wheelchairs modelled from a prototype designed by the school’s applied research and innovation services department, which allows the user to fine tune a piece of equipment that […]

The City of Chestermere is continuing its fight over Rocky View County’s growth plans even though Calgary has resolved its similar concerns. Both municipalities were opposed to Rocky View’s area structure plan centred on expanding Conrich into a 10,000-person neighbourhood over 30 years but Calgary and the county worked out their differences and signed an agreement in June. Mediation failed to […]