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Teachers duct-taped to wall for cancer-stricken student
Students at a northwest junior high school were sticking up for one of their own stricken with cancer, raising thousands to battle the disease at a fundraiser Monday. Two months of fundraising came to...
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Nenshi accuses southwest critics of using manipulative polls, while group...
Mayor Naheed Nenshi accused critics of the city’s southwest transitway of using community email lists and running manipulative push polls to influence voters before next year’s civic election. But a...
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Unite the right talk heats up over party memberships
As talk of uniting the provincial right continues to percolate, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says his Tory counterpart is encouraging conservatives to purchase memberships in both of Alberta’s...
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Fortney: Remembering the British Home Children
As a child, Sandra Joyce always knew that she was of Scottish descent. “My dad told me he came to Canada as a teenager, working on farms at first,” she says. “He said his mother passed away, so that’s...
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Plumbers find $50,000 gold brick while renovating Calgary bathroom
Rare art, original comics, prized love letters, vintage newspapers, fancy jewelry — home contractors are used to finding odd treasures behind walls and under floors. But in mid-February, Alif Babul...
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Parker: Calgary couple's charitable work continues to help Colombians
When Bob Wiens was preparing to move to Colombia to work with a five-country consortium for 15 months he had the good fortune to attend Spanish classes provided by his employer, Trans Canada Pipelines....
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Police warn fraud crimes are on the rise across the city, country
Calgary police say fraud is one of the fastest growing crimes in this city and across the country. Some people receive aggressive phone calls, accusing them of owing taxes and demanding money. Others...
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Sport Calgary asks amateur sports groups to implement online Respect education
Sport Calgary is urging all of the city’s amateur sports associations to promote the online Respect In Sport education course, and consider making it mandatory for all parents and coaches working with...
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'Over my dead body': Alberta PC leader denies urging people to also join...
Interim Tory Leader Ric McIver is now rejecting a claim he has encouraged Alberta conservatives to buy party memberships in both his Progressive Conservatives and the Wildrose. But Wildrose Leader...
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Calgary's 'Snowtember' tree recovery efforts pegged at $11.8 million this year
Calgary will spend $12 million this year on continuing efforts to restore and enhance its urban forest after a freak snowstorm ravaged half of the city’s canopy a year and a half ago. In 2015, the...
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Slaying was ordered by accused killer, says witness
The shooting of gangster Sanjeev Mann was ordered by accused killer Nick Chan, a crucial Crown witness told court Tuesday. The witness, who can’t be named, said Chan, whom he has described as the head...
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Alberta will support a pan-Canadian approach to climate change in Vancouver,...
Alberta will support a nationwide tax on carbon as long as all revenue stays in the province where it was raised, Premier Rachel Notley said Tuesday on the eve of a federal-provincial meeting on...
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Notley opts to leave her 'gun in the holster' over pipeline dispute
Premier Rachel Notley says she was set to come out with “guns blazing” in response to Quebec filing an injunction against the Energy East pipeline, but she has been reassured the move won’t delay...
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Farmer holds vegetable prices flat, fearing consumers cannot bear higher costs
Some Canadian farmers may be yielding considerable green from rising food prices, but at least one southern Alberta producer is holding the line on vegetable prices over concern local consumers are...
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Medical examiner called after body discovered downtown
Police are investigating after a body was discovered downtown Calgary on Tuesday night. Officers were called to an alley near the corner of 9th Avenue and 1st Street S.W. after 8 p.m. A body was found...
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Varcoe: Stop squabbling and seek common ground on pipeline debate
Like most guys, I enjoy watching a good fight. Ali versus Frazier and the Thrilla in Manila. Duran and Leonard in the Brawl in Montreal. Mike Tyson chewing Evander Holyfield’s ear. Yet, even I don’t...
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Classrooms, crowded and with complex needs, will be focus of contract talks
Frustrated by the growing size and complexity of their crowded classrooms, Alberta teachers will make working conditions a priority in the upcoming round of contract talks. Mark Ramsankar, president of...
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Blackfalds RCMP searching for attempted murder suspect
Blackfalds RCMP are looking for a male suspect in an attempted murder Thursday in which a man was seriously injured and had his vehicle stolen. Officers were called to a rural home in Red Deer County...
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Police investigating after random home invasion hits elderly resident in...
An elderly resident was threatened with a weapon in a Tuesday night home invasion in northeast Calgary that police are investigating as a random incident. Police say between 9:45 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., a...
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Downtown death ruled non-suspicious
The death of an individual found in downtown Calgary on Tuesday night has been ruled non-suspicious. City police were called to an alley near the corner of 9th Avenue and 1st Street S.W. after 8 p.m....
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