Новости за 12.11.2016

The Calgary Flames feel like every time they make a mistake, they’re fishing a puck out of their own net. Saturday’s opponents, the New York Rangers, just happen to be the NHL’s highest-scoring squad. Uh oh. “We’re not trying to tell our guys that we’ve gotta be perfect,” cautioned Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan after […]

You know a city, you know its people by knowing the culture. What they do, what they eat, what they read, what they watch and what they listen to is ultimately who and what they are. The sharing of that is essential for us to understand, appreciate and coexist with one another. It’s an important […]

Three people have been arrested after police surrounded a building in the northeast on Friday evening. The Calgary Police Service have confirmed the arrests are related to the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Abiem Akel who was found dead in a Forest Lawn basement suite yesterday. Police said the men were arrested yesterday evening in the northeast community […]

It is easily the most uncomfortable and heated scene in Matt Ornstein’s debut documentary, Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America. For a film that is largely based on the interactions between an African-American musician and his white-supremacist “friends,” that’s saying something. It takes place at a restaurant in Baltimore. Daryl Davis, the media-savvy and affable subject […]

Days after a female candidate cited intolerable abuse as her reason for pulling out of the race for the leadership of the Alberta Conservatives, a male candidate says he has also had verbal threats aimed at him. Jason Kenney told reporters at the Calgary Peace Symposium on Friday night that Sandra Jansen isn’t the only […]

More boom for your buck. The Calgary version of the Country Thunder music festival has just announced it’s added a few more names to its 2017 lineup — Alberta girl Terri Clark, Alberta boys High Valley and rising Nashville talent Ryan Hurd. The acts join previously announced headliners for the sophomore edition of the event, […]

As Alberta takes a hard look at safe drug consumption sites for addicts, the plan is drawing support from health and law enforcement officials but wariness from the government’s political opponents.  The NDP government announced in October new measures to deal with Alberta’s opioid crisis, including $730,000 in funding for agencies in several communities, including Edmonton and […]

In spite of the recession, there is a growing taste for cognac in the city. And the folks drinking it are young, hip millennials -- not your grandpa's golf partners.

Calgarians understand that city councillors live busy lives. That’s partially why the job pays well and comes with a budget for office staff, along with plenty of perks. It’s expected, though, that they’ll live up to their commitments by not only faithfully attending council and committee meetings, but showing up to represent Calgarians at the other […]

Finally, a return to normalcy Re: “Canada begins the adjustment to life with Trump’s America,” Nov. 11. And so, the reality show is over. At last, unhinged Hilary screaming stops; Clinton surrogate CNN, and their Canadian advocate (cable news), can return to news reporting. President Barack Obama, his legacy (campaigner in chief) cemented, can return […]

It’s an unusual philosophy for a writer. While most spend years struggling to find a writerly voice, Kirstie McLellan Day’s recent career has been spent silencing hers. As far as she is concerned, the success she has had co-writing books that explore the personal lives and views of five very different hockey personalities has been due to her invisibility. […]

By Donna Hughes “Crushed.” “Flabbergasted.” “In shock.” The aftermath of the U.S. election hit home for many people; one only needs to skim social media to know that, or survey our own breakfast tables. For people who are already suffering from mental health issues, however, the Trump win may cut even closer to the bone, […]

One core freedom that Canadian soldiers fought and died for in past wars, and which we remember this weekend, is the right of citizens to have private lives, to freely associate, and so to possess ideas and moralities distinct from others.  This freedom is increasingly injured, be it by an intolerance of parental rights or […]

There is just something about folks from Saskatchewan. My father was born in Liberty-population of less than 100. Many of Calgary’s leading families hail from Saskatchewan. McCaig, Wilson and Hill spring to mind. When you meet someone for the first time and have a feeling of what a grounded, nice person they are, chances are […]

It’s unfathomable that, until 1929, women in Canada were not officially recognized as persons under the law. But thanks to the courageous efforts of five women-Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Irene Parbly, the course of history would be altered forever and the Canadian Constitution would recognize women as persons in […]

A local orchestra is challenging the notion that the classics are only for music students and the upper-crust, taking the sounds of the symphony to small towns and introducing it to new audiences.  Formed in September, the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra (RMSO) has been taking their show to smaller communities in Alberta to try to make classical music […]

NIPAWIN, Sask. — A crowdfunding page has been set up to support the mother of a seven-year-old girl who was found dead in a northeastern Saskatchewan home. Police had issued an Amber Alert for Nia Eastman on Thursday after she was not returned to her mother the night before. Nia’s father, Adam Jay Eastman, was […]

The storyline is as impossible to miss as the man himself. Because here, striding purposefully down a familiar corridor, is Blake Nill, as doorway-filling as ever. For nine years, he had been the big man on campus, literally, as the hulking headmaster of the Calgary Dinos’ football program. Then came the twist. Nill, following the […]

By Bruce Schreiner LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The top Republican in the U.S. Senate says he asked president-elect Donald Trump to move swiftly in approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would allow Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. to ship bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told […]

New York Rangers (10-4-0) at Calgary Flames (5-9-1) 8 p.m, CBC, Sportsnet 960 The Fan Last five Flames vs. Stars L 4-2 @ Ducks L 4-1 @ Kings L 5-0 @ Sharks W 3-2 @ Blackhawks L 5-1 Rangers vs. Canucks L 5-3 vs. Jets W 5-2 @ Bruins W 5-2 vs. Oilers W 5-3 […]

By John Cotter EDMONTON — Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose says Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the U.S. presidential election was not a rejection of women in politics. Ambrose said her take on Donald Trump’s victory is that the Democrats lost touch with working people — a lesson that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should heed. “There […]

It’s the ‘F’ word that you absolutely don’t want to hear inside a National Hockey League locker-room. Fragility. And yet, when head coach Glen Gulutzan fumed after the Calgary Flames’ latest loss that “we need somebody now to step up and find a way to win, and stop playing the victim,” that seemed to be […]

Calgarians can give the gift of hope to kids in need this holiday season with Operation Christmas Child. Through their annual shoebox program, volunteers with Samaritan’s Purse are hoping to collect over half a million care packages for underprivileged children in a dozen countries. With the deadline of Nov. 20 fast approaching, Calgarians can assemble boxes filled with school […]

Award ceremonies are supposed to be a joyous occasion. This one was bittersweet. At best. While his Calgary Stampeders teammates prepared for the West Division final just a few yards away, injured linebacker Deron Mayo accepted his Presidents’ Ring award. The distinction, voted on by the players, recognizes excellence in leadership, inspiration, motivational skills and […]