It wasn’t the type of thing you expect a guy who is listed at 6-foot-8 and weighing in at 235 lbs. to be able to do. Early in the second period of Friday night’s game against the Coachella Valley Firebirds, Adam Klapka picked up the puck inside of the Calgary Wranglers’ own zone. He skated […]
Higher demand for townhomes driven by first-time home buyers, downsizers and those seeking affordability.
The city centre had the highest rents per month for two-bedroom, unfurnished units, on average $2,228.
By Carmen Vars Clothing designer Cassandra Bailey has come a long way since her passions for skateboarding and clothing design brought her from small-town Alberta to Vancouver in 2009. Named the most promising design talent at this spring’s Vancouver Fashion Week, Bailey will be catapulted onto the world stage this fall with the opportunity to […]
The United Conservative Party’s Bill 18: Defending Alberta’s Provincial Priorities, is arbitrary, unacceptable and incredibly dangerous. This is the opinion of many with whom I concur, as a University of Calgary researcher whose work has relied heavily on federal funding and who also cares about the quality and integrity of higher education. According to the Alberta Government’s website, […]
The Alberta government recently held a parent engagement session regarding the premier’s new mandate: “Preserving Choice for Children.” Participants were overwhelmingly against any of the proposed policies, but it was explicitly stated this was not “in scope” for feedback. The session was nothing more than optics. The topics for discussion were superficial. The engagement questions […]
Pierre Poilievre‘s Axe the (carbon) Tax campaign is a spectacular success. But the Conservative party needs its own plan to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Paradoxically, it’s a fossil fuel that provides the answer. Canada’s rich endowment of natural gas offers us the chance to both reduce global emissions and also rescue a Canadian economy ravaged […]
Saying something over and over doesn’t make it true. As the public hearing for rezoning threatens to stretch into a third week, it’s getting harder to find any new information in what’s being presented. What’s more, a large bulk of what’s being repeated just isn’t true. Each presenter gets five minutes to make their case […]
There’s a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that’s been causing a lot of grief lately. In the body of a small mammal or bird, it poses no problems, but the story changes when it enters a human body. One bite from a tick that has previously fed on one of these mammals or birds is all […]
The AHL playoffs are bringing the best out of the Calgary Wranglers. Nobody expected the Pacific Division’s seventh seed to get past the second-place Tucson Roadrunners in the first round, but the Wranglers kept things tidy and swept the best-of-three series. Look around, and you won’t find many people giving the Calgary Flames’ farm-clubbers much […]
Offence finds its footing, led by strikers Toby Warschewski and Charlie Trafford, in no-doubter over visiting Vancouver FC
The mother was able to grab her child and retreat into her apartment as an apparently intoxicated Wilcox screamed at her with random words and tried to force her way into the unit.
The sale runs May 10 to 20 at the Calgary Curling Club and will have over 175,000 books, most for just $2 or $4.
Federal energy minister Jonathan Wilkinson said the oil and gas sector's overall emissions 'must go down'
Police responded just before 3 a.m. Thursday to a rollover near Lethbridge's Pavan Park.
The marathon public hearing is about a proposed change to allow homeowners to redevelop their single-family home into other low-density housing forms without first applying for a land use redesignation.