Новости за 13.10.2016

The man wanted in the shooting of an RCMP officer and for gunning down a Saskatchewan woman has been found.  A post to the City of Revelstoke’s Facebook page says the search for Sheldon Kyle Thunderblanket is over and the safety of the community has been restored. Mark McKee, the mayor of Revelstoke, says Thunderblanket […]

Calgary’s SAIT campus plans to upgrade aging facilities and improve energy efficiency thanks to a $20-million boost from the federal government. Officials say funding announced Wednesday through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) will allow for improvements in three unique projects.  SAIT’s Green Building Technologies Lab and Demonstration Centre will expand advanced research and training opportunities, […]

A lot has changed since the early 1910s and 1920s, when residents in new Calgary neighbourhoods came together to pool resources and provide amenities and services the city wasn’t delivering. “Communities like Bridgeland, or Sunnyside, or Killarney and Glengarry, they were out of the range of existing municipal services. They formed what were then known […]

A long-awaited new Calgary cancer centre needed to treat an expected influx of cancer patients is on schedule to have shovels in the ground next year, says the NDP government. Associate Health Minister Brandy Payne told reporters Wednesday that a request for proposals to design and build the hospital will go out at the end of this month. “You can expect an […]

The federal government has announced a competition for 11 new Canada Excellence Research Chairs, focusing on adding diversity to the pool of world-class researchers. Science Minister Kirsty Duncan made the announcement Wednesday at the University of Calgary. “We are putting in place a competition for Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERCs),” she said in an interview […]

The central Alberta man who fired several shots at Mounties after ramming two RCMP cruisers, was suffering from a mental disorder at the time and is not criminally responsible, a judge said Wednesday. Justice Marsha Erb said Christopher Ryan Morrill could not appreciate the nature and consequences of his action, nor understand they were […]

Convicted torturer Dustin Paxton should not have been convicted of sexually and physically abusing his ex-roommate because the trial judge erred in her assessment of the victim’s testimony, his lawyer argued Wednesday. And defence counsel Alias Sanders said even if Justice Sheilah Martin properly analyzed the evidence against Paxton, she should have stayed the charges […]

An outspoken member of the legislature has jumped into the Progressive Conservative leadership race with a pledge to build a “modern” Tory party. Calgary-North West MLA Sandra Jansen — who had been widely expected to run — confirmed in a news release Wednesday that she is in the contest. “I am excited about the future of the PC […]