Новости за 24.12.2016

It looks like it’ll be a white Christmas in Calgary. Environment Canada has issued a snowfall warning for the city of Calgary and surrounding areas including Airdrie, Brooks, Drumheller, Okotoks, and Red Deer. Many areas in southern Alberta received around 15 cm of snowfall overnight, with another 5 to 10 cm expected in the morning, […]

As Christmas draws near, Santa is comfortably reviewing his list of who’s been good and who has not, who deserves recognition or who needs to do better, and who will be missed in 2017. With coal out of favour, there’s fewer lumps to dole out this year. • At the top of the naughty list […]

The Alberta-shot epic The Revenant cleans up at the Academy Awards, Calgary gets a new film centre and the second season of Fargo gets 18 Emmy nominations. These were just some of the highlights for the local film and television industry this year. Jan. 19 Bruce McCulloch’s Young Drunk Punk, a sitcom about Calgary in […]

By Petula Dvorak “Lighting a candle in the darkness, that is something that stands on its own,” Rabbi Jack Moline told me, just as that early winter night was closing in and the Christmas lights around us began twinkling. It’s a powerful image, a strong metaphor for both Christians and Jews. The start of Hanukkah […]

By David Mitchell I’ll always remember 2016 as the year I was welcomed to Calgary by refugees. As a new employee of Bow Valley College, seeking to experience the institution’s mission first hand, I sat in on a class of English language learners. The 20 students — ranging in age from teens to senior citizens — were […]

By John Pentland If there is one word that sums up Christmas for me, it is the word ponder.  The word ponder is within the concluding phrase of Luke’s account of the birth story of Jesus. “Mary, treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.” Ponder. It means to contemplate, or to consider […]

In the end, peace always prevails Re: “Berlin Christmas market suspect shot dead in Milan,” Calgary Herald online, Dec. 23. In the midst of a wave of global terror attacks and conflict, I cannot imagine how the year could end on a good note. Yet, the holiday spirit in the days building up to Christmas […]

Life is full of little miracles and travel is one of them. “We have a tradition on our bicycle tours,” explained Ann Anderson partway through our vineyard tour of New Zealand’s Brancott Estates Winery. “Choose your row and we’ll have a race.” Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m not very competitive, but as I leisurely […]

After a difficult year of struggle for many Calgarians, it is a perfect time to count our blessings and reflect upon the true meaning of Christmas. Challenging times can bring more than just hard choices. They can also allow us to understand and again appreciate what is truly important in our lives, and there is no […]

As Canadians ease into the Christmas holidays, and perhaps while dreading the next Arctic blast, it will be tempting to daydream about warmer climates. For sanity’s sake — winter just started, after all — best to put off California dreaming until February. In the interim, better to delight in the white wonderland which poets ponder, […]

It is not New Year’s Eve without a little sparkle. I love hosting parties to bring in the new year, and of course no party is ever complete without cocktails. The bar cart has really come into its own as of late and you’re seeing them pop up all over the place in all different shapes […]

There’s no doubt 2016 has proved challenging for the not-for-profit sector. So too the Calgary Prostate Cancer Centre (PCC)  which relies solely on donor dollars and events in order to provide the invaluable services it does. The Centre receives no government funding. So Santa, what I would like under the tree this year is a […]

One of your faithful social scribe’s favourite events of the Christmas season is the Children’s Hospital Aid Society (CHAS) Annual Holiday Luncheon. Sure, it’s great to be one of a handful of guys amongst hundreds of appreciative ladies,  but it’s the charitable work the incredible CHAS ladies do that really resonates. Since 1908, CHAS has […]

With Joy to the World blaring in the dressing room and the captain wearing the policemen’s cowboy hat as the team’s hero, it appeared things finally seemed to turn around for Mark Giordano. But don’t tell him that. While his stats are significantly down, the first star in Friday’s 4-1 win over Vancouver is of […]

It had been so easy to turn on cruise-control. With the final National Hockey League game before the Christmas break, flights booked, and both teams ready to chow down on turkey dinners, the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks could have mailed this one in. Didn’t happen. At least, as far as the Flames and Canucks […]

What was supposed to be a road trip from Calgary to San Francisco turned into a night lost in the snowy woods for one family of four. Const. Katie Forgeron said the Cranbrook RCMP received a 911 call Thursday night from the husband, who told RCMP they had tried to take a shortcut and ended […]

Mark Jankowski can recall the exact moment it hit him. Or at least when his head hit the pillow. “When I first got in, I had flown from Arizona to meet up with the team in Boston, and I first got to my room at the Ritz-Carleton,” the Stockton Heat forward recalled the other day. […]

Five questions for Santa, also known as actor-entertainer Michael Shepherd, who’s been a Calgary Santa for 22 years. How have things changed for you as Santa over the years?   “I did 13 years in the malls, and now this is my ninth year as private Santa. I don’t miss the malls. Now I do home […]

Kelowna RCMP say a high-risk offender wanted on warrants in B.C. is believed to be in the Calgary area. Jacob Alexander Tolchinsky, 25, is wanted for mischief and a breach of his release. Tolchinsky has numerous tattoos on his face, neck, head, arms and hands. He’s considered dangerous, and police say anyone seeing Tolchinsky should not approach him.

Calgary Postmedia’s judicial reporter Kevin Martin sat down with Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley to discuss current issues facing her office. Here is an edited version of that conversation. Q – So, recently you introduced (a regulation) meant to pave the way for the federal government to appoint more Court of Queen’s Bench judges, can […]

Fire crews rushed to the scene of a blaze Friday afternoon after a mobile home in northwest Calgary caught fire. Fire department spokesperson Carol Henke said the tenant, a male in his early 60s, was rushed to the Foothills Medical Centre with burns to his body. “The occupant in the home had ran out saying […]

Icy roads and low visibility led to a number of incidents in and around the city on Friday.  Emergency crews reduced eastbound traffic to one lane on the Trans-Canada Highway after as many as 40 vehicles and one semi-truck were forced into the ditch. The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. on the Trans-Canada Highway near Scott Lake, […]

Two confessed killers who had hoped to spend the holidays at home will instead remain behind bars, a Calgary judge ruled Friday. Justice Bryan Mahoney sentenced Shannon Jabet to the equivalent of four years in prison and Ojullo Mark Ojullo to six, for their roles in the 2014 death of Calgarian Ayuen Ajak Goot, 18, […]

Prospects for any imminent settlement of a contentious power lawsuit involving the province and city-owned Enmax appear slim as Mayor Naheed Nenshi renews his call for the NDP government to drop its legal action. Since November, the government has reached agreements with AltaGas, TransCanada and Capital Power in the legal dispute relating to their relinquishment of power purchase arrangements […]

As the province’s united front on health care transfers crumbles, Alberta’s NDP government says it isn’t looking to cut a side deal with Ottawa. Talks on a new health accord between the federal Liberal government and the provinces and territories broke down on Monday over the issue of funding, with the provinces exiting the meeting […]