Новости за 30.12.2016

High numbers of drunk drivers and vehicle seizures aren’t making too happy a New Year for Calgary police. Staff Sgt. Paul Stacey with the Calgary police traffic division said despite enhanced checkstops and extensive messaging about drinking and driving over Christmas, more than 70 vehicles were seized in the four additional checkstops put in place […]

As Alberta’s film business continues to thrive, and hopefully grow with the opening in the new Calgary Film Centre, Postmedia’s Eric Volmers takes a look at local up and coming actors, directors, producers and other talents who made an impact this year in Calgary, across the country and around the world. Eugene Brave Rock Actor, Stuntman: Batman v. Superman, […]

For many parts of Calgary’s home building and land development business, it was an uphill year. But with the addition of new communities such as Cornerstone, Livingston, Savanna in Saddle Ridge, and Carrington, 2016 had success stories, too.   Here’s an edited version of Josh Skapin’s interview with Allan Klassen, president of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association-Urban Development Institute […]

I’ve always been a fan of window seats. I’m not talking about the ones you find on a plane (although I like those too), but the ones that are thoughtfully built into a bay window, often topped with a thick, upholstered cushion, maybe a pillow or two. Often, there’s a blanket on it, and tossed […]

Back in 1964, Bob Dylan informed us the times, they are a changin’. For the LGBTQ community, it was a slow, painful change. Shaun Brodie grew up in Regina in the ’80s and ’90s, hiding his sexuality from all but his closest allies. He found comfort, strength and a fantasy life in music learning to […]

Albums full of family photos have turned up in a recent investigation by Calgary police, and officers are hoping the public can help in getting the keepsakes back to their rightful home. While investigating a number of car prowlings in south Calgary this week, police said the box of family mementoes was amongst the recovered […]

While the economic downturn and tougher mortgage rules slowed sales, selection for people using a program aimed at helping medium-income earners afford a home spread citywide in 2016. Like many ends of the Calgary area residential market, the home ownership program through Attainable Homes Calgary Corp. recorded a dip in activity in 2016. The program offers homes for down […]

Lightstream Resources Ltd. is preparing to enter the new year with a new identity and owners but the same management team following the sale of the Calgary-based company’s oil and gas assets to its creditors. Ridgeback Resources Inc. officially takes over the Lightstream business on Jan. 1, following a court-supervised sale process that closed Friday. […]

By Rakteem Katakey and Ben Sharples Brent oil, the global benchmark, is headed for its first annual advance in four years before supply cuts from OPEC and other producing nations next month intended to stabilize the market and reduce swelling global inventories. Futures dropped 0.2 percent in London, trimming this year’s increase to 52 percent. […]

From the perspective of capital markets and the global economy, 2016 will go down as an excellent encapsulation of the Charles Dickens phrase — “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” It was a year for precipitous falls, remarkable recoveries and surprises. It was a year that saw the Organization of […]

It has been more than a year since Syrian refugees arrived in Calgary to make new homes in Canada. The transition, it must be said, has been smooth, but it would be foolish to think the job is complete. For the 872 Syrian refugees who came to Calgary with support of the federal government, there is a […]

By Colin Kenny It’s not every day that you see a politician make a decision that snubs thousands of community leaders in favour of a program that honours a handful of celebrities and elites. But it seems that’s exactly what Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly has done. Since 1967, the government of Canada has marked […]

It was a surprisingly good year for restaurant openings, in spite of the economy. Vegetables were big in 2016, with four veg-centred places in my top twelve. Barbecue and fried chicken were big too and contemporary cuisines of all kinds — Asian, Canadian, Global — were hot around town. And 1st Street S.W. has emerged as […]

The bills keep piling up  I took a more than one-month vacation and my utilities are like this: electricity use: 119 kilowatt hours, $33.14. Water and drainage use: zero, $35.49. The whole bill is $99.25 (including the recycling). I am wondering why it is justified when so little is consumed and so much is charged.  Ocean […]

In today’s NHL, it’s as rare as a heavyweight fight or a Gordie Howe hat trick. Nobody, save for perhaps that speedy, young whippersnapper in Edmonton, splits the defence. Few ever even try. You’d have a better chance witnessing a Saddledome ovation for Ryan Kesler. Yet, in the midst of the hottest scoring binge in […]

OCTOBER 2: Voters in Colombia narrowly reject a peace pact meant to end 52 years of war with guerilla group the FARC. But a revised agreement is passed in late November. 3: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surprises the provinces by threatening to impose a carbon tax to reach $50 a tonne by 2022 or cap […]

The year 2016 was one of turbulence and upheaval.  Western countries, particularly those in Europe, grappled with a rising tide of refugees fleeing poverty and Mideast conflict that centered on increasingly brutal wars in Syria and against the Islamic State in Iraq.   Some of that instability led UK residents, in a stunning vote, to […]

JULY 1: Calgary’s much-anticipated Studio Bell at the National Music Centre opens its doors as part of Canada Day festivities. 2: Twenty-eight people die when Bangladeshi police attack extremists holding hostages — many of them foreign — in the capital Dhaka. 3: In the bloodiest single bombing attack in Iraq since war and civil strife […]

APRIL 2: A massive leak of the so-called Panamanian Papers reveals often contentious offshore tax havens for the world’s celebrities and financial/political elite.  3: Calgary hosts the 45th Juno Awards ceremony. 4: Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party scores a large majority election victory for a third consecutive mandate. 6: Country music icon Merle Haggard dies on […]

Heading into Thursday’s game against the visiting Anaheim Ducks, no team had taken more penalties than the Calgary Flames. Beyond that, Matthew Tkachuk’s 21 minor infractions were the fifth-most in the National Hockey League. And, earlier this week, the Flames had four players in the top-10 for minor penalties (Dougie Hamilton, Sam Bennett and Mark […]

Given the long line of future pros who have emerged from the Notre Dame Hounds hockey program, you might assume that the guys on the team walk around the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame like they’re the kings of the campus. The school has produced the likes of Curtis Joseph, Wendel Clark and Rod […]

The NDP government insists the new broad-based carbon tax coming into effect on Jan. 1 won’t be the nightmare for Albertans’ pocketbooks the opposition is making it out to be. But one of the major policy measures aimed at mitigating the impact of the new levy on both consumers and businesses is still months away from being […]

Civic affairs report Annalise Klingbeil has compiled a roundup of what happened at city hall in 2016, in number form.  162 — The number of secondary suite applications that went before city council for approval in 2016, of which 28 were rejected.   $1.25 million — The amount of money spent on Calgary’s $24.5-million Peace bridge in […]

Heading into the off-season, the Calgary Stampeders had no intention of tearing the foundation of their team down and starting from scratch. The Stamps might have lost in the Grey Cup, but they were still the most dominant team in the CFL for 99 per cent of the 2016 season. So for Stampeders president/GM John […]

Statistically, your odds of winning the Lotto 6/49 is one in almost 14 million. But this year it seems those odds are weighted in favour of Albertans. This province can claim the most new millionaires from prairie ticket lotteries: 38 in Alberta compared to 11 in Manitoba and eight in Saskatchewan.  Combined, the $1-million-plus prizes […]