Новости за 25.10.2016

One in 10 Calgarians live in poverty and an ambitious new community-driven strategy aims to change that by reducing poverty in Calgary by 50 per cent by the year 2023. Through videos and speeches, community leaders shared their own stories of living in poverty and ideas on how the growing issue can be tackled at […]

Canadians must continue to help refugees long after the Islamic State is defeated in Mosul, an official with Iraqi Kurdistan’s government said in Calgary Tuesday. Many of those seeking refuge in Iraq’s Kurdistan region are Christians who’ve suffered since the 2003 U.S. invasion and under Islamic State rule, said Khalid Jamal Alber, general director with […]

Alberta is adopting construction rules that aim to make new homes and other buildings more energy efficient to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The updated or new codes that cover building, electrical, gas and sewage systems go into effect next month. They include energy efficiency requirements for windows, lighting, insulation, heating, service-water heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. […]

A 47-year-old man was killed in a workplace accident near Fox Creek, Alberta on Saturday.

ST. LOUIS — In the business of professional puck, there’s never much time to admire your handiwork. On Monday, the Calgary Flames scratched out a 3-2 shootout victory against the star-studded Chicago Blackhawks at United Center, the type of that’s-more-like-it showing that could spark a turnaround after an inconsistent start. Less than 24 hours later […]

Police continue to investigate the cause of a single-vehicle crash on Memorial Drive during morning rush hour Tuesday. Emergency crews had to cut the driver free from the vehicle, which had crashed into a poplar tree that then collapsed onto the roof.  The age and sex of the driver is unknown at this time.  More to […]

Murrell imagines a final scene for Shakespeare's crowd favourite and multi-play villain.

From a chart on his computer screen at GrowSafe Systems Ltd., co-CEO Camiel Huisma can describe not only how much a certain cow ate today but how quickly it ate and how much it weighs. The animal he’s describing is in Brazil, one in a herd of dozens of nearly identical beef cattle on a […]

SASKATOON – A defence lawyer has told a jury a Calgary woman was acting in self-defence when she fatally stabbed her daughter during a fight over drug money on the side of a road near Saskatoon. Kathy Hodgson-Smith addressed jurors Monday during closing arguments in the second-degree murder trial in Saskatoon of Frances Sugar, who […]

As a young man, Graeme Edge was a near-scratch golfer and competitive tennis player, but when his dreams of becoming a Wimbledon champion went unrealized, the native of Aberdeen, Scotland, decided he’d better pursue a different career. Following boarding school at Glenalmond College in Perth, Scotland, he studied geography and history at King’s College London, and after […]

Calgary’s mayor and Alberta’s deputy premier say they are deeply concerned with allegations of sex assault, bullying and intimidation revealed in an internal workplace review of the Calgary Police Service. “Whether you’re a politician, a police officer, a teacher, a support staff worker in an office, you should have the right to go to a safe, respectful […]

That Calgary’s bylaw to legalize ride sharing might be amended so as to actually allow for ride sharing is a development to be welcomed.  That this possible development is causing such an angry backlash is a sign that those who embraced the original changes only did so because they knew it would keep out companies […]

There’s a compromise to paid hospital parking Re: “Paid parking at hospitals just another bump along life’s highway,” Chris Nelson, Opinion, Oct. 20. I would like to propose a simple solution that will save families money and still allow the hospitals to receive revenue from their parking facilities. Each patient should be allowed one vehicle […]

It’s always nice when you can take a break, relax and get away entirely from your work. You know, do something completely different. So on this particular day, what’s supposed to be a day off for Canadian country star Terri Clark from her current cross-country tour, she’s spending it talking about herself. That’s nice, right? […]

An overnight fire has destroyed the north entry gate into Banff National Park on Highway 11, also known as the David Thompson Highway, in central Alberta. Around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, authorities from Lake Louise and Nordegg responded to reports of a fire on the highway. “The (park entry) gate was fully consumed by the flames,” […]

Crews will soon begin thinning some of the forests in Banff National Park in an attempt to protect the townsite, two hostels and a popular resort from fires. In the next two to three weeks, crews will start working to clear vegetation and take out dead trees in several areas as part of a FireSmart program. […]

CHICAGO — Admittedly, it’s not the drought that folks in the Windy City were buzzing about, not with the Chicago Cubs four wins away from their first World Series crown since 1908. For the Calgary Flames, though, it seemed like close enough to forever since they’d last found the back of the net on the […]

Is the glass half full, a quarter full, or almost empty? For Canada’s hard-hit oilfield services industry, perspective is everything. News that Precision Drilling Corp. hired 1,000 people recently put a positive buzz through the province as Canada’s largest driller signalled it sees an uptick in work coming down the energy pipeline in 2017. For drillers and other […]

Rust creates angst. Even the anticipation of the possibility of skill erosion can be alarming stuff. So there was Sam Edney, a 30-something back at school, sitting down for his first test in forever. “I felt nervous,” he says, “and I was thinking, ‘Come on, you’ve competed at three Olympic Games. How are you nervous for […]

All part of a plan.  Eighteen-year-old left-winger Matthew Tkachuk was a healthy scratch for Monday’s road clash with the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center, but Calgary Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan stressed there is a method to what some fans across southern Alberta surely consider to be madness.  The sixth-overall selection in the 2016 NHL […]

The Canadian government’s push to legalize marijuana must be handled very carefully and should be heavily regulated to avoid potential pitfalls, Alberta’s justice minister cautioned following a recent fact-finding mission to pot-friendly Colorado.  “(Colorado’s) experience didn’t solve all of the problems that maybe some proponents suggested that it might do,” Kathleen Ganley said in an […]

Deputy Premier Sarah Hoffman is displeased, to put it gently, about harassment and intimidation allegations in the Calgary Police Service, especially the cases with women as victims. “What I read from the story certainly doesn’t make me proud as a woman or as an Albertan,” she said of the confidential report made public by the Postmedia Monday. It detailed how […]

Several renewable energy companies, industry associations and think tanks are calling on the Alberta government to put its renewable energy targets into law. On Monday, they sent an open letter to the province asking it firm up its commitment to having renewables supply at least 30 per cent of Alberta’s electricity by 2030. A spokeswoman for the group […]

At least one grizzly bear cub has been struck by a train on the railway tracks in Banff National Park, but it’s not yet clear whether it was killed. Around 9:40 p.m. Saturday, wildlife officials received a report from Canadian Pacific Railway about an incident around the Muleshoe area. “They said they had struck a grizzly bear cub — one […]

As medical officials urge Albertans to receive flu protection, there are no plans to make vaccinations mandatory for health care workers.