Новости за 05.12.2016

LACOMBE, Alta. — A member of a vigilante group has been charged with criminal harassment and mischief in an incident in central Alberta. Chief Lorn Blumhagen of Lacombe police says the alleged victim had been communicating online with a person through a social media website for the past three months. Police say the suspect used […]

Desperate times call for desperate measures — and riding a scooter down the QEII highway in the middle of a blizzard certainly qualifies. Caught on camera Sunday by Calgary realtor Kim Star in a 26-second video that’s since gone viral, the scooter pilot can be seen putting both feet down for stability as the tiny […]

Naughty… but Nice! Third Time’s the Charm; Tuesday, Dec. 6 to Sunday, Dec. 18. At Lunchbox Theatre Forte Musical Theatre Guild’s fresh-faced holiday tradition is back for a third year with new songs to join favourites like Brendan the Brown-Nosed Reindeer and Bailey’s for Breakfast. As those titles suggest, the show represents a decidedly modern […]

Wonderful surprises can come in small packages. This is certainly the case with Lunchbox Theatre’s holiday production of Joe Landry’s adaptation of Frank Capra’s  1946 film, It’s A Wonderful Life. This is the story of George Bailey, a small-town loans officer whose whole life seems to implode one Christmas Eve. George has born the weight […]

Robbie Robertson was likely way overdue for his. See if you can match some other recent memoirs to their famous writers.

Johnny Oven Mitts is back. And his first order of business was serving up a healthy dish of humble pie to an Anaheim Ducks squad finally on the south end of a humiliation. Sporting a beefed up pair of Warrior gloves doctored up by Flames equipment manager Mark DePasquale, Johnny Gaudreau returned to the lineup […]

The peer navigators at Calgary Mental Health Association — Calgary Region helps people figure out the mental-health system and advocate for their needs.

A cold front took up residence in Alberta overnight, and is expected to stay awhile, along with gusty winds and “dive-bombing temperatures.” “We’re going to be locked into a very cold Arctic air mass for, at least, I would say a couple weeks,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Tim Gaines. Temperatures are expected to dip to about […]

No wonder the city’s police commission can announce a higher percentage of Calgarians love our officers than believe the Pope is Catholic. You see, it’s all about who is allowed to have an opinion. At least that’s what Coun. Ward Sutherland, who sits on the commission, seems to believe. If you haven’t been through basic police training, […]

Setting aside our divisions Re: “Refugee family savours their life free of fear,” Dec. 2.  I applaud our governments and agencies such as the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society that help families like the Darmos start a new, safe life in our country. The more we come out of our silos and realize that we are […]

Hands up if you saw that coming. Led by Johnny Gaudreau — making a surprise return to the lineup on Sunday night, 19 days after breaking his finger — the Calgary Flames pumped Jonathan Bernier for five goals on 13 shots in the second period, en route to a 8-3 win over the visiting Anaheim […]

For the most part, they look like normal gloves. Five fingers. Lots of padding in the right areas. But, specifically designed for Johnny Gaudreau by Calgary Flames equipment manager Mark Depasquale, they are slightly different for a reason. On both gloves, there is a large square-ish protective covering over the back of the hand which […]

The Calgary Jewish Federation is calling a resolution passed by the federal Green Party at a Calgary gathering “biased and discriminatory.” In a conference held at SAIT on Saturday, the Green Party of Canada passed a resolution calling for revisions to the free-trade agreement between Canada and Israel, and condemned Israel for expanding settlements in the occupied territories […]

The future of Calgary’s cycle track network faces heated debate in the coming weeks, with some councillors calling for its expansion, while others want it scrapped entirely. Hate it or love it, the cycle track pilot project has seen increased usage since launching in 2015, according to a report released by the city. First approved in April […]

As Calgary’s city council is poised to debate the future of development in Chinatown on Monday, Postmedia’s Anna Brooks looks back at the history of Calgary’s community. Arrival in Calgary Some of Calgary’s first Chinese labourers arrived in the pioneer town to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 1800s. When the last spike was driven […]

It’s been a traumatic weekend for a Medicine Hat family, who will be going back home heartbroken after their baby’s ashes stolen over the weekend in Calgary remain missing. Laura Hudson and her husband Nathan issued a desperate plea for help Saturday after she discovered her purse, which contained the ashes of her late son […]

With the belated arrival of winter snow and fewer than three weeks left until Christmas, it might be time to take an excursion to a local holiday lights display.  Here are five places to take in the colourful events this month in Calgary.  The Lions’ Festival of Lights This large annual display will light up […]