Новости за 01.12.2016

Miracle on 34th Street screens in Kensington and more fun things to do this weekend.

One person is dead following a crash on Deerfoot Tr. near Stoney Tr. on Wednesday night. Police say a 44-year-old woman died in hospital after a collision between her vehicle and a semi-truck around 9:45 p.m. The woman was driving northbound on Deerfoot Trail when the vehicle lost control and was T-boned by the truck following […]

It isn’t a lot of snow but accompanied with a layer of ice in some spots, it is enough to make travel on some Calgary roads both slow and hazardous this morning. From 5 p.m. yesterday to 5 a.m. today, Calgary police report 52 accidents on area roads, nine involved injuries and one of those […]

All Hands on Jane release Sorry I Set You on Fire, the first show of JazzYYC's Illumin8 series and more live music to hear this week.

Calgary business owners discuss how they stay in the know and ahead of their competition.

The Polar Express; Until Saturday, Dec. 24. At Aspen Crossing A train trip to the North Pole is hard to beat as a seasonal read. But it’s even harder to top when the reading occurs on a real train that is steaming toward Santa himself. Aspen Crossing’s Polar Express Train Ride offers all this alongside […]

Sadly, an art exhibit, like the river that hosts it, must eventually move on. Whether you were deeply attached to or entirely unaware of the temporary public art installations that enlivened the East Village RiverWalk for three years, you’ll want to get to the St. Louis on Friday afternoon (Dec. 2) to bid the project […]

Okay, I’ll admit it. Prior to eating at Begim—the first Uzbekistan restaurant in Alberta, and one of only a handful in Canada—I consulted a map. Geography lesson learned (located on the Silk Road, Uzbekistan is one of the largest of the Central Asian states and borders four of the other ‘stans: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and […]

Arminé Tatosian says she loves to set the table. She means it both literally—”to me, it’s like therapy—and figuratively, inviting friends to her stylish condo in Inglewood to see what conversations and connections develop. Her tables are elegant, and Tatosian is no slouch in the kitchen either. She learned a lot from her mom, who […]

Looking for ways to find more time and energy this season? Look within my friends, because that’s where you’ll find what you seek. If energy could be packaged and purchased, it would be the most popular gift this season. Unfortunately, energy is not something you can buy, but it is readily available for you to […]

By Gary Leach The federal government’s approval this week of the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion projects goes a long way toward improving the outlook for the Canadian oil and gas industry. Canada was becoming known as a place where no major energy infrastructure projects seemed possible, and investors were asking “why should we […]

For me, 2016 will go down as the year the human genome started to go mainstream. 23andMe, the best-known direct to consumer DNA testing service, got back in the good books of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration towards the end of 2015. This meant the company was again allowed to give limited DNA-based health […]

Evans Consoles and DIRTT (Doing It Right This Time) Environmental Solutions might not be household names in Canada. But both Calgary-based manufacturers are established stars on the global stage in their respective sectors — and they’re growing.

Citing rampant addiction, poverty and housing issues on the Stoney First Nation west of Calgary, an outspoken advocate is running to become chief of Bearspaw Nation. Georgina Rollins is also raising serious questions about Stoney Nation finances, saying there needs to be more accountability and transparency about business holdings, land leases, program funding and spending. “If I was […]

Lately Glen Gulutzan has sounded like a broken record, repeating the potential of the Scotiabank Saddledome. OK, OK, the concourse, the washrooms, the seats, the dressing rooms, the press box and, in general, the entire experience of a Calgary Flames game leaves something to be desired (especially now compared to Rogers Place a.k.a. the House […]

Captains of industry and Alberta politicians are applauding Ottawa’s decisive decision to approve two oil pipelines. Environmentalists, some municipal and First Nation leaders are decrying it as a betrayal.  Lost in this endless ping-pong match is the view of someone who sees the decision through a different lens: an unemployed oilpatch worker who considers himself an environmental […]

"Let’s use this holiday season in particular to help those who need it most," writes Robert Thirsk, U of C Chancellor, former astronaut and Calgary Herald Christmas Fund 2016 guest columnist.

The Trudeau government fully backs the contentious Keystone XL pipeline to the United States, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Wednesday. Carr was at a Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Ottawa had approved Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Enbridge’s Line 3 into the U.S., but had rejected Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal. […]

The Alberta government says it will take out a loan worth hundreds of millions of dollars to help cover losses from cancelled electricity contracts. The province said Wednesday it hasn’t calculated exactly how high the loan will climb, though one power analyst said it will likely surpass $500 million. Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd said the government has drafted legislation to reduce […]

A number of controversial incidents that have put the Calgary Police Service in the spotlight over the past year point to the need for a “robust study” of policing in the province, according to a leading Alberta criminologist. Kelly Sundberg, an associate professor in the department of justice studies at Mount Royal University, said a thorough […]

At first, bad weather forced those overseeing a frozen Cape Canaveral North to scrub the launch. But by Wednesday afternoon, conditions improved enough for the grades 4 to 9 students at The Renert School to blast 26 model rockets into the heavens. At the call to “arm your rocket” and a countdown from five, one […]

Ride-share giant Uber’s eagerly awaited Calgary relaunch is scheduled for Dec. 6, after the city agreed Wednesday afternoon to rescind a court injunction handed down to Uber drivers last November. City officials said Wednesday morning they would keep the order stopping Uber drivers from operating in place until the U.S.-based company agreed to discuss paying […]

Friends and family of a Calgary man who plunged 50 metres from a sheer ice wall in Kananaskis are praying for his recovery. Tyler Davidson was reportedly scaling an ice pillar dubbed Kemosabe, a popular ascent for ice climbers just off Waiparous Valley Road northwest of Calgary, when he fell Tuesday afternoon.  Updates from Davidson’s friends on Facebook said he […]

Lake Louise Ski Area pleaded not guilty Wednesday to three charges related to cutting down threatened whitebark pine trees. In Canmore court, the ski resort entered pleas to one charge under the federal Species At Risk Act for killing an endangered species, and two charges under the Canada National Parks Act for removing flora without a […]

From August to the end of October this year, city police handed out 1,678 summonses for the offences compared to 2,050 in the same time frame in 2015, a drop of about 20%.