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Mayor and city council catch heat over rising business property tax bills
Skyrocketing property tax bills may have triggered a wave of anger among business owners, but many are forgetting the city is getting rid of its stand-alone business tax, says Mayor Naheed Nenshi. But...
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NDP beats back attempts at 'kudatah' infiltration
An attempt by opponents of the Notley government to take over the NDP by buying party memberships — dubbed the “kudatah” on social media — attracted a significant response, a party official...
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Bitzy the chihuahua survives five days on her own in the Banff wilderness
For five days and four nights, a small dog named Bitzy outwitted bears, cougars and raptors in the wilderness of Banff National Park. On June 4, the chihuahua went missing in the forest after jumping...
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Braid: Bombshell allegations at a farm agency run by PC appointees
“I think it’s all political,” says George Groeneveld, chair of the Agriculture Financial Services Corp. board which was dumped en masse Monday by Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier amid charges of...
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'This is terrible:' Calgary Council spends hours deliberating secondary suites
City councillors spent more than four hours Monday hearing Calgarians share personal stories as they plead for council’s OK for a legal basement suite. There was the widow, who said the rental income...
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Fortney: Local LGBTQ leaders say Orlando killings a wake-up call
It’s a memory that for the past several years has never failed to make R. J. Fafard chuckle. Standing on the sidewalk with a friend outside his Calgary nightclub in 2009, a car rolled up beside them....
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Jury weighing verdict in swarming death of Lukas Strasser-Hird
Following six gruelling weeks of tension-filled testimony, the jury in the trial of four men accused in the killing Lukas Strasser-Hird is deciding their fate. On Monday, Court of Queen’s Justice Glen...
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Juror dismissed at start of Strasser-Hird trial after claiming visit from...
Perhaps if they had inquired about the eventual verdict, participants in the Lukas Strasser-Hird homicide trial could have avoided more than a month of evidence. Just one day into the multi-week trial...
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Nenshi fires back over criticism of Calgary's skyrocketing property tax bills
The war of words continued Monday between Calgary’s mayor and an outspoken business lobbyist over skyrocketing property taxes. After tax bills landed in mailboxes earlier this month, business owners...
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Flames''Plan B' would see new arena built on Stampede grounds
The company that owns the Flames and Stampeders has acknowledged it’s open to considering an alternative for its proposed hybrid arena-stadium-field house complex known as CalgaryNEXT. The Calgary...
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Calgary's LGBTQ community planning events to revive spirits after Orlando...
Calgary’s LGBTQ communities are pondering how to bounce back as a community amid the horror of the shootings at a gay bar in Orlando, Fla. Calgary Outlink, one of the few organizations that supports...
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Varcoe: Many small businesses facing tax fatigue as bills arrive
Now entering her 44th year in business, Jean Hunt has become pretty good at math. And here’s the arithmetic facing her Calgary company, Ski Cellar Snowboard, today — the kind of math that’s making many...
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Wildlife staff working '24/7' to deter wolves from busy areas in Banff
Wildlife experts are working around the clock to discourage the Bow Valley wolf pack from going into the Banff townsite and campgrounds in Banff National Park after killing one wolf and putting a...
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Calgary man accused of smuggling 222 kg of undeclared tobacco into Canada
A Calgary man is accused of smuggling 222 kilograms of undeclared tobacco into Canada in what’s believed to be the largest seizure of tobacco in the Prairie region in the past five years. Officers with...
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High River Mounties investigating after lambs shot and killed
RCMP are investigating after three lambs born earlier this year were shot and killed in the High River area over the weekend. Sgt. Brent Hawker said the property owner let his herd of 64 out to graze...
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Nenshi happy a Plan B is being considered for CalgaryNEXT
Mayor Naheed Nenshi is glad the sports ownership group that pitched a new hockey arena, covered football stadium and multi-sport field house in the West Village is now exploring a so-called Plan B....
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Day parole denied for man who fatally stabbed friend in drunken fight
A man who stabbed his friend to death during a drunken fight four years ago has been denied day parole. Byron Blanchard, 24, is serving a four-year and three-month sentence for manslaughter in the Aug....
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Calgary church to hold vigil for Orlando shooting victims
A Calgary church will host a vigil Wednesday for victims of the Pulse nightclub killings in Orlando, Fla., a show of solidarity for the LGBTQ community. Gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people at the...
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CBE says feds, province failed to step up with refugee student costs
Both the provincial and federal governments have failed to cover the $2.6-million cost of integrating Syrian refugee students, Calgary’s public school board said Tuesday. “School boards across this...
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Security consultant claims Canadian government declined two rescue missions...
Canadian officials twice rejected proposals from the Philippines government to approve rescue missions for Alberta hostages Robert Hall and John Ridsdel, says a Calgary-based security consultant...
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