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Calgary Central Library construction to start
City officials and dozens of onlookers celebrated Wednesday as crews installed the final roofing panel on the LRT encapsulation tunnel, triggering construction of the new Central Library. Municipal...
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Homicide unit investigating a death in Highland Park
The homicide unit is investigating after a man with life-threatening stab wounds was found leaving a rooming house in the city’s northwest on Wednesday morning. A passerby called police around 9 a.m....
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Video: Former radical says positive relationships saved him
Muhammad Robert Heft went to Iraq in 2003 as a human shield. His experience there soured his extremist views, and today he works to help steer people away from radicalization. Key to his changing...
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Video: 'Grievances are the energy that keeps the radical train going'
Hussein Hamdani, a former member of the federal government’s national security advisory panel, has intervened in more than 10 cases of Muslims who wanted to join terror groups. The insight he’s gained...
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Stopping extremism: RCMP may struggle to recreate the success of community...
TORONTO — Muhammad Robert Heft left Iraq feeling disenchanted. He came home to Canada in 2003 after trying to help his fellow Muslims while their cities were under bombardment by the U.S. and its...
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Defence lawyers end free legal service for low-income Albertans
Defence lawyers in Calgary and Edmonton announced Thursday they will no longer offer a free service helping low-income Albertans who have been denied legal aid coverage, saying it’s time for the...
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#peoplelikeNenshi trends after Kenney and Nenshi joust over niqab ban
It started with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s sharply criticizing the federal government’s legal fight against women wearing the niqab face covering during citizenship ceremonies during an interview...
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Pedestrian killed after van breaks down on highway
A woman is dead after she left her broken-down minivan on a highway near Calgary. Around 10:10 p.m. Thursday, Cochrane RCMP and emergency crews responded to reports that a pedestrian had been hit by a...
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Okotoks RCMP investigating complaint of suspicious woman approaching child
Okotoks RCMP are investigating a complaint of a stranger possibly posing as a police officer who approached a child in a residential area and offered her a ride home. Mounties say around 3:45 p.m....
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New sign moves Calgary further from its western roots
We’ve been industrial, we’ve been progressive. We’ve even been the home of fat steers. Now we’re going to be energetic. But when all is said and done, nothing can compare to being phenomenal. That was...
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Spend a virtual day in the life of Calgary police officers via Twitter
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a day in the life of a police officer, what kind of calls do they take, what do they really do during their shifts? The Global Police Tweet-a-Thon...
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Ducks Unlimited launches 'largest conservation campaign ever' to save wetlands
Ducks Unlimited is launching a $2-billion campaign to save North America’s wetlands. On Saturday, the organization is holding a public event in Calgary to launch Rescue Our Wetlands — a conservation...
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Getting shindiggy at Heritage Park
A gorgeous autumn afternoon and evening proved the perfect backdrop for Heritage Park’s 27th annual September Shindig. Whether the rodeo and mock gun fight, superb live, blind and silent auction...
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Field of Fame grows by six
The only thing missing from the recent Field of Fame Four unveiling at McDougall Centre Sept 17 was a reworked version of Queen hit We Are The Champions. A deafening They Are the Champions would have...
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Wood's Homes never gives up
Three words have been a part of Wood’s Homes for more than 100 years, in one way or another: Never Give Up. This promise has also now become the name for their signature event that took place on...
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Video: Reaching out to young Muslims to combat radicalization
“Radicalization is not an isolated issue,” says Stephane Pressault. “It has a social context.” That’s the approach Stephane Pressault of Project Communities uses when combatting extremism in Canada....
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Video: Calgary Muslims say they are hurt by image of radicalism
Members of Calgary’s 8th and 8th Mosque were shocked when news broke that members of their community were overseas fighting with ISIL. Here, while volunteering their time to help out homeless...
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Let us debate radicalization in mosques to stop it, say Muslim leaders
Calgary imam Navaid Aziz says tackling radicalization goes beyond pointing out how terror groups distort religious texts. For him, it’s about addressing grievances, like the ones Farah Mohamed Shirdon...
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Calgary's Tower of Terror: 'Extremism wasn't a reality — until this happened'
Standing around his ISIL comrades, a Calgary man toting an assault rifle lobbed his Canadian passport into a fire. “This is a message to Canada and all the American tawagheet (false idols). We are...
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Auditor general investigates what's wrong with health-care delivery in Alberta
Alberta’s auditor general is going to try to fix what ails health care. Merwan Saher is launching a comprehensive review of his office’s past audits of health-care programs to see if he can identify...
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