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Fentanyl crisis town hall: 'We need a refresh'
Health care and addiction specialists met with Calgarians to discuss solutions to the provincewide opioid crisis. The town hall meeting Thursday night featured a panel of experts on addiction and...
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Fortney: Banff Gondola soars to greater heights with new summit experience
“Trust me, normally the view is quite breathtaking.” On Thursday morning, Mark Hendrikse is staying upbeat despite the kind of socked-in clouds that bring to mind a Dickens novel set in London’s...
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Five things: Timely tips for winter driving (starting today)
Octsnowber has arrived. Of course, it won’t be for very long, since the forecast only calls for a pre-thanksgiving dusting of 2 to 4 cm. But after that, Calgarians can prepare for six months worth of...
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Five things to know about the PC leadership race so far
The first week of the Progressive Conservative leadership race has been pretty quiet, but there’s lots of stuff bubbling just under the surface. As former MP Jason Kenney, former provincial cabinet...
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Domestic slaying scheduled to go to a trial in 2018
The lawyer for Calgary domestic murder suspect Josh Burgess scheduled a trial date for him, more than a year down the road. Defence counsel Allan Fay told Justice David Gates his client is prepared to...
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Councillor and parking authority board member of two minds on cul-de-sac parking
A city councillor who sits on the board of the parking authority says that while he understands the frustration of homeowners hit by a ticketing blitz this week, the law is the law. “There are rules...
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Court told blockade of Siksika Nation subdivision should be declared illegal
A blockade put up to protest new home construction on the Siksika Nation for 2013 flood victims, should be declared illegal and torn down, a lawyer charged Friday. Sean Fairhurst said the teepee...
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Release of provincial achievement tests draws mixed response
Calgary’s school boards are celebrating scores above provincial averages, but one parent group is giving math a thumbs down. The Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District...
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October snowfall leads to over a dozen crashes
As the first flakes of snow started to fall, the collisions were not far behind. Stuart Brideaux with AHS said EMS crews responded to 14 injury collisions since 10 a.m. Friday morning, both in the City...
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Bill Brooks: Dinner commemorates Battle of the Somme
Your faithful social scribe finds it shocking that the teaching of our military history — at least when I was in school — was not given the ‘ink’ I feel it should have been. My grandfather drove an...
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Bill Brooks: Calgary International Film Festival wraps after a successful 12...
One doesn’t usually think of Calgary in terms of a hot-bed of film activity. Yet if this year’s Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is any indication, all that is about to change. Now in it’s...
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Weather agency warns of icy conditions
Environment Canada has issued a freezing drizzle advisory for Calgary and surrounding areas. “Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slipper,” Environment Canada...
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Official: 470 dead in one district of Haiti's southwest
JEREMIE, Haiti — At least 470 people have died in one district of Haiti’s hard-hit southwest region as authorities slowly reach marooned areas devastated by Hurricane Matthew, a civil defence...
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'He gamed them all': The real-life DEA agents who took down Escobar
When it came to catching Pablo Escobar, the men who took him down said the truth was stranger than fiction. In the popular Netflix show NARCOS, retired DEA Agents Javier Pena and Steve Murphy play fast...
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Syrian family celebrates first Thanksgiving in Calgary
More than 1,500 refugees in Calgary will celebrate their first Canadian Thanksgiving this year, and there is much to be thankful for. Saima Jamal with the Calgary Syrian Refugee Support Group (CSRSG)...
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Alberta disaster relief teams embark to Haiti in wake of Hurricane Matthew
It was 3 a.m. during a late-night nursing shift in July when Leteshia Gust and Jeanele Bonnaventure signed up to volunteer in Haiti. Their nursing colleague Brittany Pontes was quick to join the...
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U of C seeks 'person of interest' after anti-Muslim poster blitz on campus
University of Calgary campus security isn’t giving up on finding the person responsible for recent anti-Muslim posters. And they’ve got surveillance video to work with. Campus security chief Brian...
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Five things to know about carfentanil
With two Alberta men in their 30s now confirmed dead of carfentanil-related overdoses, authorities are saying the province continues to find itself in the eye of a deadly storm One of the two deceased...
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Tough time for Calgary police, says local justice expert, who wants more from...
The Calgary Police Service’s public oversight body should take a step out of the shadows and speak out for or against the local force’s recent controversies, one local justice expert says. Every time...
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Police take down driver after SUV blew through red light, hit car
With an allegedly stolen vehicle barrelling through a red light, there was nowhere to go, Dean Brost said. It slammed into the side of his own vehicle, with him and his wife inside. She was crying,...
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