Новости за 12.12.2016

After a 15-month hiatus, residents in five southwest neighbourhoods will be seeing a lot more blue and white smart cars on their streets. Car-sharing service Car2Go is expanding the southwestern border of its so-called home area to include Glamorgan, Glenbrook, Glendale, Westgate and Wildwood after the communities were chopped when the home area shrunk in […]

The cost of child care fees in some of Canada’s biggest cities, Calgary included, has skyrocketed over the last three years, rising an average of more than twice the rate of inflation over the same time period, a new study says. In a study released Monday, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the average […]

With nearly two dozen residential and commercial break and enters happening daily across the city, police are urging Calgarians to secure their homes and vehicles. According to the Calgary Police Service, break-ins are up a whopping 39 per cent in the first eight months of 2016 compared to the five-year average. Authorities link many of […]

A Nativity pageant isn’t complete without stable animals and Heritage Park doesn’t disappoint. The popular family event returns for its 53rd year and along with Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus will be a couple of alpacas, sheep and a donkey. The free inter-faith show runs every 20 minutes between 7 and 9 p.m. from […]

The new order for oil has kept shale out in the cold. The early signs are that Saudi Arabia's new policy to cut oil production, which it hardened on Saturday with signals of possible further reductions, is working just as it wanted it to.

Oil jumped to the highest since July 2015 after Saudi Arabia signaled it's ready to cut output more than earlier agreed and non-OPEC countries including Russia pledged to pump less next year.

For improv performers, Craigslist's Missed Connections can be like planting a pick-axe in the ground and having oil come bursting up.

One morning, the great Tweeter-in-Chief will roll out of bed in his glitzy Manhattan penthouse pad, pick up the nearby smartphone and pound out: “This Auto Pact? The world’s WORST EVER deal. Giving OUR Jobs To Canada. RIP IT UP and bring them home.” The resulting shock, horror and frightened navel gazing across our land […]

It’s expected that teachers are competent Re: “Math skills are vital,” Editorial, Dec. 9. We have a problem. One or more savants have devised a new math that the teachers have not mastered well enough to teach to our children, who are progressively failing. The bureaucracy plans to give grants to the teachers so that they can learn […]

A rising oil price and potential U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline could be good news for Alberta’s oilpatch, according to a top energy scholar.  But Dr. Harrie Vredenburg with the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business said it remains to be seen whether an agreement between OPEC members and other countries to reduce production […]

More than 1,000 Calgarians turned out to a rally Sunday demanding the NDP government scrap plans for its incoming carbon tax. The event, organized by Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media, drew speakers including three federal Conservative leadership candidates, two MLAs and Albertans who have lost their jobs in the oil and gas sector.  The Calgary rally followed […]

Sunday was, apparently, Dumba Day. While Calgary product Matt Dumba was scoring to lead the Minnesota Wild to victory, younger brother Kyle was backstopping the Calgary Hitmen to a shootout win at the Saddledome. The pads-wearing Dumba booted out 32 shots, including a handful of stellar stops, and turned aside all three Kamloops Blazers in […]

It was a 10-year-old girl from Jordan who gave Calgary’s Saima Jamal the idea to have a special Christmas party for newcomers to Canada. Jamal said she was visiting a refugee family when a little girl approached her asking if Papa Noel would be here this year to give presents — he had been absent […]

Just because it’s been months since wildfires devastated Fort McMurray doesn’t mean the recovery is over yet. And with the holiday season upon us, it’s a time when those still feeling the effects may need an extra boost to experience that winter cheer. Enter: WestJet. The airline stepped up in order to throw a party […]

But while the Liberal government action on visas will ease the way for drug traffickers, Mike Vigil said Canada's already ripe for the ruthless cartels.

This was bound to eventually cause some confusion. Two Johnnys, one locker-room. Case in point, after Saturday’s morning twirl at the Saddledome, puck magician Johnny Gaudreau is rattling off reasons for the Calgary Flames’ recent spin-o-rama from nothing-could-go-right to a crew that has now strung together six straight victories. “We’re finding a way to win […]

Calgary Urban Project Society works to combat "toxic stress," can impair a child for life.

Calgary’s Gow brothers led Canada’s men’s biathlon team to a top-10 finish on the World Cup circuit on Sunday. Christian Gow, 23, led off for Canada, finishing sixth on the first leg of the event in Pokljuka, Slovenia. He handed off to his older brother Scott, 28, who briefly had the Canadian team in medal contention […]