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Calgary fire crews rescue driver after crash on N.W. bridge
Calgary fire crews rescued a driver following a single vehicle collision on Symons Valley Parkway Saturday night. According to the fire department, just before 11 p.m. a four-door sedan lost control...
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City hall watchdog calls for review of gifts policy
City councillors received hundreds of freebies worth thousands of dollars last year from various non-profit organizations, land developers, homebuilders and other groups, according to newly released...
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Syrian families welcomed to Calgary with warm, homemade soup
When Rita Khanchet fled her home of Damascus, Syria, with her husband and young son a month ago, she bid farewell to her brother, her sister and other loved ones. But she also left behind memories of...
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Grade 12 students sit down for finals that are worth less
High school students are sitting down to write a less-weighted diploma exam this month, with hopes that results will improve under less stress and a deeper appreciation for course work. It’s the first...
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Update: Gunman shot dead by police after N.W. standoff
Calgary police faced off against an active shooter late Sunday afternoon in Huntington Hills, ending the ordeal by tearing through the back fence of a home and sending in tactical officers. Police...
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Southwest residents say ring road interchange too big for their communities
Transportation Minister Brian Mason says he’ll do what he can for residents of west Calgary concerned about the massive footprint of the planned ring road, but maintains the NDP government is...
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Montreal mayor doubles down on opposition to Energy East pipeline
Montreal’s mayor doubled down in his opposition to the proposed Energy East pipeline amid questions whether the dispute could deteriorate into an east-versus-west clash among provinces. Denis Coderre,...
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Coalition calls for limits on off-road vehicles in Alberta to protect water
Alberta’s conservation community is calling for strict limits on off-road vehicles on public lands and a total ban on their use in parks and protected areas in the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian...
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Alberta's energy royalty review to be released this week
The NDP government’s long-awaited review of Alberta’s energy royalties will be released this week but Energy Minister Marg McCuaig-Boyd is keeping a tight wrap on details. After initially promising the...
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Update: Victim of police shooting was quadriplegic who recently lost beloved...
Calgary’s police chief said a bullet “narrowly missed” striking a Calgary Transit bus driver late Sunday afternoon, before a fatal exchange between a gunman and more than a dozen police officers. The...
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Graffiti suspect facing new charge of inciting hatred
Allegations spray-painted racist graffiti at a northwest LRT station were motivated by hate have been added against one of two suspects. A lawyer for Kyle Kames Mackenzie appeared in provincial court...
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Alberta Conservatives back removal of same-sex ban from federal party's policy
A group of Alberta Conservatives has joined the call to have a ban on same-sex marriage dropped from official party policy, adopting a resolution to that effect at their recent policy convention. The...
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Interchange at Sarcee Trail and Trans-Canada Highway to be modified for...
In the midst of a big and disruptive interchange construction project just down the road, information sessions are being held for a new project on the Trans-Canada Highway at Sarcee Trail N.W. As part...
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Should 50th Avenue S.W. be a 'parkway'? Altadore street subject of open house...
Should 50th Avenue S.W. be more like Elbow Drive S.W.? That’s one of the questions being posed tonight at a public open house into the future of 50th Avenue S.W. The open house is part of a corridor...
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'Very concerning': Wildlife experts worry after Banff wolves spotted eating...
A popular wolf pack is being monitored closely after three of its members were observed eating garbage — including fast-food wrappers and paper cups — in the Johnston Canyon parking lot. On Jan. 21,...
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Cougar feeding on a carcass closes Banff bike trail
A bike trail near the Tunnel Mountain trailer court in Banff National Park is closed because there is a cougar feeding on a kill. On Monday, wildlife officials closed the Spine Mountain bike trail...
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Calgary lawyer ordered to take ethics courses
Suspended Calgary lawyer Surinder Randhawa must complete courses in ethics and law-firm management as part of his term of probation for uttering a forged document, a judge said Tuesday. Randhawa must...
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Big-city mayors eager to collaborate with Alberta on housing, transit and...
In an unprecedented meeting, Edmonton and Calgary mayors met with the provincial cabinet Tuesday to talk about city charters and cross-government collaboration on affordable housing, poverty reduction,...
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Police seeking tenants of woman found dead in Cranston home
The homicide unit is investigating the suspicious death of a woman in the southeast community of Cranston. Officers were called to the home on 200 block of Cramond Close S.E. around 2 p.m. Sunday to...
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Calgary and Edmonton mayors decry 'politicizing' of pipeline debate
The mayors of Alberta’s two biggest cities said Tuesday that politics have to be taken out of the national debate around pipelines. Controversy erupted in the last week after Montreal-area...
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