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Calgary urban farm celebrates third year as demand soars
In 2013, local food activist Paul Hughes and his son Mac walked onto a 4.5-hectare tract of land just west of Canada Olympic Park with little more than a few pails, shovels and packets of seeds and...
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Photos: Stamps Fanfest 2016
Fullback Rob Cote receives the President's Ring from team president and GM John Hufnagel during the Calgary Stampeders Fanfest at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alta., on Saturday, May 14, 2016. The...
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Nagar Kirtan – Sikh parade is a sea of colour and sound
Thousands of Calgarians took part in the Nagar Kirtan parade in Martindale on Saturday. The Nagar Kirtan is a Sikh tradition in which the procession sings hymns and hands out food as they walk through...
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Fatal fall for Calgary base jumper in Idaho
A Canadian BASE jumper has died after her parachute failed during her fifth jump off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls. Coroner Gene Turley identified the woman who died Friday evening as 34-year-old...
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How to remain happily ever after for sixty-five years
When Lloyd and Shirley Bettcher went to buy their marriage licence in 1951, they were still young enough that their parents needed to come with them. The man issuing the papers did not approve. “The...
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Woman killed by CTrain in northeast Calgary
A woman in her early 20s was struck and killed by a CTrain overnight. Police say the woman was hit at about 12:40 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of 36th St. and 12th Ave. N.E. According to Alberta...
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Police investigating two separate stabbings in Calgary
Calgary police are investigating two unrelated stabbings that took place Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The first stabbing took place in the 1100 block of Memorial Drive N.W. at about 10:30...
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Two mothers share their stories of losing children to overdoses
Sharon Schubert has told the story more than 100 times, in front of school gymnasiums filled with students, and in classrooms packed with parents. No matter how many times she repeats them, the words...
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Lethbridge man dies after collision near Coaldale
A 47-year-old man from Lethbridge is dead after a collision between a motorcycle and a car on Highway 512 at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Coaldale RCMP and Lethbridge EMS responded to the scene near...
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City set to hike parking fines
The city is set to hike fines for parking offences for the first time in six years. Changes last year by the provincial government to the Traffic Safety Act means the city has to hike fines on a number...
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Report calls for new fees in popular park-and-ride transit lots
Transit users who leave their vehicles in park-and-ride stalls before taking trains and buses into the inner city may have trouble avoiding parking fees, if city council approves a new proposal by...
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Wild Things: Warning about aggressive mama elk in Banff
It’s the time of year when female elk can get aggressive as they protect their newborns. From the middle of May to the end of June, elk calving season takes place across Alberta — including parks such...
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Calgary woman builds a business teaching immigrants how to bike
When Melissa Malejko decided to start a cycling school in Calgary in 2012, she expected only one or two people, if any, would sign up for her adult “learn to ride” course. Instead, it turned out to be...
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Social media pushes to have Allan Darby as stampede marshall
There’s been a growing push on social media to get Wood Buffalo Fire Chief Darby Allen chosen as the parade marshal at this year’s Calgary Stampede. As fire chief of the region since 2013, Allen has...
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City council to decide on amendments to secondary suite bylaws
City council on Monday will re-examine proposed amendments to secondary suite bylaws to ease the regulations for suites that are already legal. The most significant change would increase the allowed...
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Live: Provincial update as northern Alberta wildfires force more evacuations
Evacuation orders were issued this afternoon for work camps north of Fort McMurray as wildfires around the city expanded. The province is holding a news briefing to provide details on those efforts and...
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Fortney: The bizarre 'lead up' to Calgary's worst mass killing
He was a quiet and polite teen, well liked by his classmates at St. Francis high school, where he was also known as a high achieving student. While studying for a bachelor’s degree at the University of...
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'Significant decrease' in adult riders at Calgary Transit
Calgary Transit has seen ridership drop nearly five per cent over the first four months of the year, the city’s general manager of transportation told council Monday. That downward trend started last...
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New documents reveal horrors of Brentwood slayings
The night he stabbed five people to death at a house party, accused murderer Matthew de Grood met one of the hosts armed with a knife, a box cutter and cloves of garlic – the latter items, he told...
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Fortney: Sorrowful first day for trial in killing of five young Calgarians
They walk hand in hand, arm in arm. Some wear T-shirts bearing the youthful images of their lost loved ones; more than a few have the reddened faces of a recent crying jag, a good hour before the court...
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