Новости за 19.09.2016

Former police chief Rick Hanson was announced Monday as the volunteer head of a 17-member committee tasked with examining if it makes sense for Calgary to bid on the 2026 Olympic Games. In June, Calgary’s city council voted in favour of spending up to $5 million to form an exploration committee to examine the costs, benefits and […]

Calgary police have laid a long list of criminal charges against two suspects in separate incidents Saturday where officers fired their guns. Antonio Philip Bautista, 24, has been charged with aggravated assault, assaulting a peace officer, possession of a weapon dangerous to public peace and breaching a probation order in connection to an incident at […]

Outspoken political operative Stephen Carter says he has signed on to Sandra Jansen’s yet-to-be-declared campaign for the Progressive Conservative leadership. Carter — who served as campaign strategist for Naheed Nenshi, Alison Redford and the PC party in the 2012 provincial election — confirmed Monday he is providing assistance and advice to Jansen in the lead-up to […]

Premier Rachel Notley portrayed Alberta as an energy powerhouse with a conscience in New York on Monday. In a speech at Climate Week NYC, Notley touted her NDP government’s sweeping climate change strategy, which includes a broad-based carbon tax, a cap on oilsands emissions, an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power and a commitment to reduce methane emissions. […]

It wasn’t planned, but it was fortuitous that when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis all met up one fateful night in Sam Phillips’ Sun Records during December of 1956, someone had the sound prudence to roll tape, and click a picture. That historic and never-to-be-repeated event gave birth to a […]

After a lengthy police incident, the man who hijacked a crane at a construction site is in police custody. Around 7:00am this morning, police were called to the 600 block of 10th Avenue S.W. for reports of an man who had locked himself in the cab of a construction crane. “An unknown, unauthorized male had […]

The city has shut down five floors in the Calgary Municipal Building “out of an abundance of caution” after a structural issue was discovered.   Recent work in the northeast section of the building revealed a structural element, “which appears to not meet building safety codes,” the city said in a news release Monday morning. […]

After Jerusalem; Until Saturday, Oct. 8. 160, 115 9th Ave. S.E. The Lunchbox Theatre season opens with the tale of a lovelorn school teacher travelling in Israel. In the course of her pilgrimage, Carol poses as a famous actress. Aaron Bushkowsky’s comedy stars Kira Bradley and David Sklar. The noon-hour shows are augmented with performances […]

It’s getting so bad in the oilpatch that companies in trouble can’t even sell themselves. TD Securities recently analyzed the strategic reviews of 15 Canadian energy firms over the past 18 months. Three have found buyers, the TD Securities report said. Six are still searching for a suitor, four have slipped into receivership, one closed […]

A handy cheat sheet on Raymond Chandler, an undisputed hero of the detective genre.

Ten days, 211 films and 11 screens will turn Calgary into a cinematic love-in starting Wednesday night as the Calgary International Film Festival kicks off. The festival begins with a screening of the opening gala film, Maudie, at the Jack Singer Concert Hall.  But there will be plenty of things to do during those 10 days, and […]

All Albertans must fight climate change “Canada to ratify Paris climate pact” and “Oilsands projects approved but emissions-cap question looms,”  Chris Varcoe, Opinion, Sept. 17. Chris Varcoe’s emissions-cap question is not what the headline led me to expect. Here’s the question that matters: How can Alberta’s much-bragged about emissions cap possibly align with a ratification […]

Yes, it’s not even fall, but I’m already making a new year’s resolution – stop picking on Joe Ceci. It simply isn’t fair. After all, Ceci is just the spokesman for the entire provincial government on financial matters, and I’m sure he’d rather be in a nice spending department, such as social services or the environment, […]

Summer’s over, but that doesn’t mean you have to let go of the holiday vibe. Keep it alive with a mini-getaway to some of the iconic Calgary attractions you couldn’t see over the busy holiday months.

Mounties say there are likely no charges to lay in a fatal crash near Vauxhall Saturday, but they’re still investigating to find out what exactly went wrong. A truck driven by a 61-year-old man from Calgary crossed the path of a semi-truck about 10:30 that morning, on Hwy. 36 south of Hwy. 875, resulting in the collision. […]

With a buddy on the bag, he surged into the lead with consecutive scores of 5-under 67.

During each outing at the 2016 Young Stars Classic, one of the Calgary Flames’ youngsters is mic’d up for a future feature on the team website.

The old saying “the gift that keeps on giving” has never been so apt. A family has given the Municipal District (MD) of Foothills and Town of Okotoks a 21-hectare plot of land, known as Champion Park. The park was originally built by Gerald Knowlton, as an homage to the Canadian Pacific Railway and as a […]

An environmental group is calling for more enforcement and higher tickets for offences on public lands in Alberta.  Earlier this summer, the province gave officers the ability to issue on-the-spot tickets for offences on public lands — including littering, dumping sewage, carelessly discharging firearms or driving through rivers with an off-road vehicle. The Alberta Wilderness Association, […]

That’s nine wins in a row for the Calgary Stampeders.

A police officer was recovering from surgery and doing well Sunday, just a day after being attacked by a machete-wielding man in a Calgary shopping mall. It was one of two incidents that occurred in the space of an hour Saturday afternoon, in which Calgary police officers made the choice to open fire on suspects in the […]

Terry Fox is as much a part of Canadiana as hockey or maple syrup. And each September, thousands of Canadians participate in fundraising runs to honour his memory and continue his fight against cancer. After 37 years of these runs, the Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $650 million for cancer research. Fox has been an inspiration to millions of […]

There won’t be a sequel. And even if there was, Dennis Kravchenko realizes this would not be a recurring role.

Friend and fellow author Ken Rivard remembered famed Canadian writer W.P. Kinsella this weekend as a kind and generous man. “Some writers become really famous in the U.S. and Canada, but he (Kinsella) never forgot where he came from,” Rivard, a Calgary writer, told Postmedia. “He never put himself into some literary ivory tower; he always kept […]

Alberta kids were honoured Sunday at the Kids Helping Kids celebration at Calaway Park for raising money for the Alberta Children’s Hospital this past year. From donating their birthday money to starting lemonade stands or bake sales at their schools, more than 600 kids helped raise more than $500,000 for the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation through the Kids Helping […]