Новости за 17.11.2016

Calgary Opera opens Die Fledermaus and more fun things to see this weekend.

Calgary police say a local man is facing sex-related charges involving children. According to police, a 15-year-old girl met up with a man in south Calgary between January and February after making contact with him through a social media app called Whisper.  “The two engaged in conversation and the man invited the girl to his residence,” […]

A new report from the Fraser Institute suggests a lack of budgetary discipline set Alberta up for greater pain after the oil price collapse. Darren Francey created the graphic below, which detals what the Fraser Institute reported. Read the full story about the report, from the Financial Post’s Geoffrey Morgan, here.

A duo of soulful shows and Supertramp survivor Roger Hodgson are the Calgary concert highlights this week.

Evaluating the key numbers for Strauss' send-up of hedonism.

Throughout her studies in computer science at the University of Calgary, Carrie Mah said women were “a rare sight.” “In my first set of computer science courses, I counted about 10 women to every 100 men,” she said. “This is a bit daunting, because I was learning new topics and I was worried I wouldn’t […]

Suncor Energy Inc says production is expected to increase next year, but the company plans to reduce its capital spending. The energy company says average production for 2017 is expected to be between 680,000 to 720,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Capital spending is budgeted for between $4.8 billion and $5.2 billion. Suncor says […]

A student’s cellphone goes off in the middle of class. “Sorry,” he says. “That’s my head elf.” Some institutions of higher learning may not take kindly to that kind of disruption, but at Santa School the quip gets full marks, especially when a big part of the morning lesson is staying in character. The Calgary-based […]

In announcing the lineup for One Yellow Rabbit’s 2017 High Performance Rodeo, artistic and managing producer Ann Connors has every right to be elated. She has managed to lasso 25 shows for the 25-day festival, and that translates into 200 artists from all over the world converging on Calgary for the biggest, boldest arts festival […]

When it comes to cooking tools, I advise shopping where the pros go: restaurant-supply companies. Whether it’s to fill gaps in your own arsenal, or to find useful, inexpensive pieces for gift-giving, the wide choice (particularly in size), durability and no-nonsense pricing of everyday professional gear at these stores makes them great places to begin […]

Fruitcake is as polarizing as baked goods come. Some people hate them, but those who love them tend to be loyal to old family recipes. Rosella Helwig and her daughter, Alice, are proof of the latter; they have been baking this cake for 50 years. When Alice was little, her job was to cut the […]

Granted, there’s not much the average person struggling with illness or injury can do to customize hospital food, wait times or other challenging aspects of health care. Thanks, however, to the efforts of one Debbie Baylin—tireless crusader for bringing light to dark places—and her team of equally devoted volunteers, one can dramatically improve one’s outlook […]

Call it fate, call it destiny, call it what you want, but the Universe often has a way of taking you where you need to go. If you’re open to it. In the case of Calgary musician Danielle French, that place was in a motel in the small town of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin of all […]

Perhaps pipelines are like those proverbial London buses — you wait ages for one and then two come at once. If so, then that would bring some serious relief to our beleaguered city. It might not do much for the thousands vainly looking for stable work before Christmas here in EI Central, but at least […]

Stop throwing money at the Peace Bridge Re: “Vandals driving up cost of Peace Bridge repairs,” Nov. 14. The Peace Bridge’s welds failed testing standards and most had to be ground out and rewelded on site before it opened. I know the young man who did the grinding. He burned out a few grinders on […]

We all know the importance of exercise for maintaining good health, but doing it is another story. Getting into a regular exercise schedule is challenging for most people, despite good intentions. There are many factors that may affect our exercise plans at different stages of life. Being smart about your exercise routine and developing strategies […]

Environment Minister Shannon Phillips seems almost giddy about the amount of investment Alberta expects to attract through its climate change plan. “As soon as you price carbon, you open up investment opportunities that were not there previously,” Phillips said on the telephone from Morocco, where she is part of a 225-person Canadian delegation attending a UN climate conference. […]

It won’t be easy. And it won’t often be pretty, either. But just hours after Wednesday’s revelation that superstar Johnny Gaudreau required surgery on a fractured finger, the Calgary Flames showed the sort of resolve that will be necessary to collect wins without their offensive go-to guy, scratching out a 2-1 overtime victory against the […]

A pair of De Winton entrepreneurs were enjoying a craft show on the West Coast when their livelihood was snatched from them in the dark of night. On Sunday, Hugh MacPherson and Deb Rowland, owners of Avalanche Artisan, were robbed of more than $37,000 worth of handcrafted razors while they slept in their Vancouver hotel room […]

Coach Glen Gulutzan scoffed at the suggestion greater team toughness could have prevented The Slash Heard ’Round Calgary. Troy Brouwer dismissed such a notion with a grin, which was fitting, given he’d lost two teeth in the same game Johnny Gaudreau had his season digitally altered. News that an Eric Staal slash to Gaudreau’s hand […]

In what has been a painful fall for the Calgary Flames, this is their most significant loss yet. And in a cruel twist, it happened during a win. Flames’ first-liner, fan favourite and offensive extraordinaire Johnny Gaudreau suffered a broken finger in Tuesday’s 1-0 shutout victory against the Wild in Minnesota and had surgery less […]

A proud American with his own assortment of dangles, dekes and dipsy-doodles, it’s no shock that this Olympic moment stands out for Johnny Gaudreau, hockey fan. “I remember I was in college, we were in Vermont and it was the USA vs. Russia game that went to a shootout and (TJ) Oshie scored, like, seven […]

This figured to be a mettle-testing, gut-churning, knee-quaker of an appearance. Nevertheless, a scant three weeks after leaving his teens, DaVaris Daniels stepped onto the field at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Sitting in the stands, 80,120 fans. Watching on ESPN, 26.4 million more. At stake, only the 2013 national college championship. That’ll rattle […]

The surroundings might give a lesser man an inferiority complex. Think about it. He works all day in an office that was for nine years filled – nearly literally – by Blake Nill, record-breakingly successful coach of the Calgary Dinos. Night-time means practices on the familiar turf, where, for a dozen years, his father steamrolled […]

The Stampeders are favoured to beat the B.C. Lions by a touchdown at most sports books. But, hey, Hillary was a favourite last week. “Was she?” deadpanned Stamps safety Josh Bell. “We’re not going to campaign the way Hillary did. And we’re not going to talk about the opposition too much. “We’ll focus on ourselves […]