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Fortney: Spruce Meadows marks 40th anniversary
It’s been a few years since Pat Bird stepped foot on the grounds of Spruce Meadows. “You just get busy and years go by,” says the retired public health nurse. “Coming back, I’m shocked at how much it’s...
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Former Calgary Tory MLA dies
Flags are flying at half-mast at the McDougall Centre and the provincial legislature to mark the passing of a former Calgary MLA and cabinet minister. Stewart McCrae was elected as the Progressive...
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Update: Police investigating suspicious death of female in Cranston
Police say they may be weeks or months away from determining exactly what happened inside a Cranston family home, where a woman was discovered dead, prompting an investigation by homicide detectives....
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Black bears heading into Bow Valley towns to fatten up for the winter
They’re regularly being spotted, leaving signs they were in people’s yards, getting relocated to other areas or even being euthanized after getting into crab apple and other fruit trees. Black bears,...
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Man and woman arrested in hit-and-run that injured police officer
City police arrested a man and woman and recovered a truck in northwest Calgary on Wednesday evening in connection with an incident in which a police officer was struck and injured by a fleeing vehicle...
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Calgary convenience store robbers caught by cameras
Investigators are looking for two men in connection with a robbery at a northeast convenience store in late August. Police say on Aug. 31, two masked men walked into the Twin Variety & Food Store...
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Officials, stakeholders remain tight-lipped following private meeting with...
Calgary Flames brass pitched their proposed $890-million professional and amateur sports complex to top city officials, developers and economic advisers during a private, high-level, discussion...
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Education minister confident CBE is coping with busing problems
Parents hoping the province would step in to help address concerns with the Calgary Board of Education’s new busing strategy heard Thursday that the education minister is confident the board is dealing...
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Police locate missing Calgary man
Calgary police say they have found an elderly man who went missing from northwest Calgary this afternoon. Edward Mundy, 82, had last been seen Thursday in the 0-100 block of Evans Park Manor N.W. at...
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Crane climber cheats death to sneak rare view of Calgary skyline
He climbs construction cranes to their highest peak and taunts death as he walks across slender beams, relying on nothing but his own grip to avoid falling to certain death. The thrill-seeker recently...
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Calgary police search for wounded man after woman fatally shot on 16th Ave
Friends are remembering the victim in Wednesday night’s fatal shooting as a beautiful and friendly woman, as police continue to search for suspects as well as a man who may have been wounded in the...
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Man slashed in head during fight in southwest Calgary
A man in his 40s was taken to hospital with a slash wound to the head Wednesday night following an altercation in southwest Calgary. Officers were called around 8:30 p.m. to a home in the 1400 block of...
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NDP candidates won on the cheap against big-spending Tories in Alberta election
The NDP won Calgary on a shoestring budget in the May 5 provincial election, while Progressive Conservative campaigns chewed through cash as the Tory dynasty went down to defeat, according to...
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Province promises law with 'teeth' after taxpayers stuck with $4.3-million...
The province says it will review its rules on remediation of contaminated sites in light of a massive spill at a Calgary gas station that threatens to leave taxpayers with a $4.3 million cleanup bill....
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Cougar alert: Warning issued for Fish Creek Park
Alberta Parks is advising people to use caution when visiting Fish Creek Park in Calgary after a cougar was seen there. The agency says the big cat was observed in the Votier’s Flats/Shadow Meadows...
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Wildrose critical of hiring of pipeline critic in premier's office
Wildrose is slamming the hiring of a pipeline opponent in the premier’s office. Leela Aheer, the official opposition’s energy critic, called the hiring of Marcella Munro into a senior communications...
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RCMP charge two men in connection with 2007 Chestermere homicide
More than eight years after Pirtpal Singh Jhajj was killed in a shooting east of the city, the RCMP has laid murder charges in connection with the case. The RCMP announced Friday that investigators...
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NDP government parts ways with Rob Merrifield, Alberta's envoy to U.S.
The NDP government is parting ways with Alberta’s trade envoy to the United States, former Conservative MP Rob Merrifield. Appointed last fall by former Tory premier Jim Prentice to the province’s top...
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CBE to add buses, shorten student walks to stops
The city’s public school board will redesign routes and add school buses by mid-October in the wake of sharp criticism from parents that congregated stops introduced this fall were forcing some...
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Retiring coal-fired power plants early will be costly, warns industry
An accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power plants in Alberta to address air quality and global warming will come with a large price tag, says a spokesman for power plant operators. Evan Bahry,...
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