Federal election riding 2015: Lethbridge
Snapshot: This federal electoral district includes the City of Lethbridge and Lethbridge County. Constituents have elected Conservative MPs for the last four elections. Current Lethbridge MP Jim...
View ArticleFederal election riding 2015: Calgary Rocky Ridge
Snapshot: This riding includes the former electoral districts of Calgary-Nose Hill and Calgary West. It borders the Banff-Airdrie riding to the west and Calgary Signal Hill, Calgary Confederation and...
View ArticleFederal election 2015: Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner
Snapshot: Current Lethbridge MP Jim Hillyer is running for this seat on Oct. 19, against four other candidates. The riding includes Cardston, the City of Medicine Hat, Cypress and Redcliff. Candidates:...
View ArticleFederal election 2015: Red Deer-Mountain View
Snapshot: This federal riding consists of parts of former electoral districts Crowfoot, Red Deer and Wild Rose. It includes part of the City of Red Deer, Penhold, Innisfail, Bowden, Olds, Didsbury and...
View ArticleFederal election 2015: Red Deer-Lacombe
Snapshot: This riding consists of Lacombe County, Panoka County, the northwest portion of the City of Red Deer and the Town of Sylvan Lake. Conservative incumbent Blaine Calkins is seeking reelection...
View ArticleFederal election riding 2015: Calgary Heritage
Snapshot: Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is running as the incumbent in this federal electoral district, which has redistributed boundaries from the Calgary Southwest riding that he has represented...
View ArticleFederal election riding 2015: Calgary Midnapore
Snapshot: This riding includes communities such as Shawnessy, Midnapore, Lake Bonavista, Willow Park and Acadia. Conservative MP Jason Kenney is running for reelection. Candidates: Conservative Party...
View ArticleFederal election riding 2015: Calgary Nose Hill
Snapshot: This riding extends from Crowchild Trail N.W. to 144 Avenue N.W. , and from Rocky Ridge Road N.W. to Centre Street North. Outgoing Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy has represented the riding...
View ArticleSymons Valley Ranch warning Calgarians of possible wedding fraud
Two couples who paid a wedding planner to secure a northwest Calgary venue for their nuptials were disappointed to learn the place hadn’t actually been booked or paid for, according to the owners of...
View ArticleOfficers investigating after dead dog found in garbage bin
Officers are investigating after a dog was found dead in a garbage bin in the northeast Calgary community of Sunridge last weekend. Brad Nichols, manager of cruelty investigations at the Calgary...
View ArticleWildrose criticizes Notley's plan to spend on infrastructure "without really...
Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says the NDP government is headed in the wrong direction with its plan to ramp up infrastructure spending, but a senior cabinet minister counters that the official Opposition...
View ArticleMunicipal affairs minister makes MGA pledge to cities
The NDP government trumpeted Friday the long-awaited update to the Municipal Government Act would be tabled next spring in the provincial legislature and would focus heavily on forging regional...
View ArticleAdding a glow to the night sky
High River is really the place to be this weekend with events like the Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival, which hosted the popular Balloon Glow Friday, September 25th evening. That was only...
View ArticleResilience a hallmark of the Crowsnest Pass
On a windswept patch of hardscrabble ground, under the looming gaze of mountains, 189 young men eternally rest. It’s a beautiful spot, stark and weather-beaten, but a fitting memorial to the...
View ArticleCanadian backed charity applies business-based solutions in Southeast Asia
PHNOM PEHN, CAMBODIA — For Cambodian farmer Chea Sophanny, life is more bountiful since he connected with a Canadian-backed charity offering agricultural, sanitary and safe water aid in developing...
View ArticleCity creates new public art on most unlikely place — a sewer station
They say one man’s waste is another man’s art and the city is taking that to heart. Instead of quietly flushing away, the city is putting the spotlight on a new wastewater station in the northeast....
View ArticleTwo of three people guilty of second-degree murder in beating death
A jury took less than 10 hours on Friday to convict Chantelle Campbell and Jarod Henry of second-degree murder in the vicious beating death of Calgary engineer John Fernando Herrera Garcia as he walked...
View ArticleU of C fires back at students' union over MacEwan Hall
A top University of Calgary official says the school won’t bow to threats of a lawsuit by the students’ union as the two parties continue to engage in an increasingly bitter dispute over control of...
View ArticleCold War exhibit does Canada proud
There are too many harsh memories for Ken Lett to call it a dream come true, but the retired major-general is relieved the tribute is a fitting one. The Military Museums in Calgary opens a unique...
View ArticleRe-elected Conservatives would expand Canada's special forces, says Kenney
Jason Kenney says a re-elected Conservative government would expand the ranks of Canada’s special forces by 35 per cent over the next seven years. With Conservative Leader Stephen Harper taking a...
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