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Gallery: Fiestaval takes over Olympic Plaza
Tacos, sangria, and Latin music: Fiestaval has returned to Calgary for its 10th year, and the party is going strong at Olympic Plaza this weekend. Fiestaval is a celebration of Latin cultures and...
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Overnight fire destroys S.E. industrial building
An automotive shop in the city’s southeast is a write-off after an overnight fire. According to the Calgary Fire Department, the industrial garage blaze on 16a St S.E. started at about 3 a.m. There...
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Emergency crews search for downed helicopter west of Sundre
First responders in the Sundre area were searching for a helicopter Sunday afternoon after it made a hard landing near Ice Lake. Sgt. Jack Poitras with the Alberta RCMP said emergency crews were...
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Five things about the 125-year-old Lougheed House
If you subtract the Beltline’s soaring condominiums and the financial skyscrapers looming in the distance, it’s easy to imagine yourself in the 1890s at Lougheed House. On Saturday, it was even easier...
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Stoney First Nations facing prescription addiction crisis
The three First Nations bands near Morley are in a crisis situation over extremely high rates of prescription drug addictions and overdoses among members. With addiction rates surging as high as 60 per...
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Calgary man detained in Turkey, accused of involvement in recent coup attempt
Family and friends of a Calgary man detained in Turkey — accused of involvement with a failed coup attempt — are fearful for his safety. Davud Hanci was taken into custody in Turkey on Saturday and has...
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Missing boy's uncle describes attempts to save him from Yoho River current
The uncle of a Calgary boy swept away by the Yoho River on Friday says his own 14-year-old son made a desperate attempt to rescue his cousin, but was overwhelmed by the powerful current. Parks Canada...
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Calgary Olympians react to IOC's decision not to issue a blanket ban on...
After the International Olympic Committee decided not to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the 2016 Olympics due to widespread doping, three-time Olympic medallist and Calgarian Catriona Le...
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Calgary Global TV's Leslie Horton scales back dunk tank lawsuit
The city and the Calgary Police Service have been dropped as defendants in a lawsuit filed by Global Television personality Leslie Horton over a dunk-tank mishap. But Horton’s claim, filed in Calgary...
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Calgary couple charged in grandson's death fight for release on bail
The Calgary couple charged with manslaughter in the death last year of their grandson should be released on bail, their lawyers said. Defence counsel Brendan Miller and Darren Mahoney said Monday they...
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Council approves re-signing bathrooms to ensure gender neutrality
Signage on the city’s single-stall bathrooms showing a man or woman has got to go. On Monday, council voted in favour of re-labelling all single-stall washrooms in existing city buildings and...
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Calgary council approves $5.15 monthly transit pass for city's poorest
Calgarians living in extreme poverty will soon pay just $5.15 for a monthly Calgary Transit pass — a 95 per cent discount off the regular price. City council unanimously voted in favour Monday of...
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Calgary's integrity czar says Nenshi's Uber sting claims included...
Calgary’s new integrity commissioner concluded that Mayor Naheed Nenshi was “enthusiastically indulging in some extravagant hyperbole” when he claimed the city hired criminals during a covert operation...
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Enron clause: Alberta asks court to make power companies pay for electricity...
Alberta’s NDP government is taking legal action to stop power companies from offloading money-losing contracts onto the public — at a potential cost of $2 billion — with the province arguing that its...
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Calgary hospital one of first to use portable cooling device for babies...
Newborn babies deprived of oxygen at birth can now be treated with a cooling device while they are in transport to Foothills Medical Centre. The new appliance is light enough for mounting on a...
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U of C prof using NASA satellite data to predict forest fires gets five more...
With the help of a NASA satellite, Quazi Hassan is working to anticipate dangerous forest fire conditions across Alberta — even the nooks and crannies of the province unable to be accurately watched in...
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Council fails to fix secondary suite issue…again
After hours of debate, Calgary’s secondary suite issue remains exactly where it was before Monday’s council meeting. Two notices of motion concerning legal backyard and basement suites failed on Monday...
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Edmonton artist dedicates mosaics to Taliyah Marsman's family, first responders
From honouring fallen first responders in Calgary to paying respects to those who died on 9/11, Edmonton artist Wayne Ashley commemorates tragedies by creating intricate mosaics to remember the fallen....
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Calgary judge refuses prosecutor's request to read teen rape victim's impact...
A Calgary judge on Tuesday declined a Crown request to read aloud the victim-impact statement of a rape victim, sparing her assailants from hearing the effect the crimes had on her. Provincial court...
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Postmedia has most readers among all Canadian newspaper groups, Herald...
Postmedia Network Inc. has the highest readership of all Canadian newspaper groups, with 10.7 million weekly print and digital readers, according to a new study by Vividata. In Calgary, despite the...
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