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Seven-year-old pedestrian injured in southeast Calgary collision
A seven-year-old girl was taken to hospital Thursday evening after being struck in a collision in southeast Calgary. Paramedics were called to the 100 block of New Brighton Green S.E. around 6:45 p.m....
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Babin: Are high housing costs pricing people out of Calgary's 'doughnut of...
Are young people being priced out of Calgary’s older suburbs? Of the discussions sparked last week by my piece on Calgary’s “doughnut of decline,” one of the more interesting was about property values....
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Varcoe: George Govier remembered as transformative figure in Alberta's energy...
Many young Albertans have likely never heard of George Govier. But they should have. Late last month, one of the most influential players in Alberta’s oilpatch in the post-Leduc era died at a Calgary...
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Calgarians feeling pain of unemployment rate that's highest in 20 years
Paul Delaine said it’s agonizing to see increasing numbers of Calgarians following his footsteps onto the unemployment rolls. According to Statistics Canada, that number in February hit 8.4 per cent in...
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Bill Brooks: Colourful Black and White Ball
It had been years since your faithful social scribe attended and covered one of the best events there is-Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD) Black & White Ball. Scheduling conflicts and the like will...
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Bill Brooks: Spin to fight prostate cancer
Regular readers of these pages know well I have often opined if you want an event to be a roaring success, best get the ladies to champion the cause. One need look no further of this than the recent...
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Calgary-Greenway poll shows Tories in the lead in four-way fight
Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives are leading a four-way horse race in their Calgary-Greenway stronghold ahead of the March 22 byelection, according to a new poll for Postmedia. The Mainstreet...
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'We believe in miracles': Calgary preteen with terminal cancer gets shot at...
Natasha Rose Gould recalls the day her cheerleader tryout last year was cut short by a terminal brain cancer diagnosis. “I was going to audition but then my world kind of blew up in my face,” said the...
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Updated: Search called off for missing Red Deer taxi driver
A taxi driver who hit activated their cab’s distress signal last night has been found unharmed. Friday evening RCMP were searching for the Red Deer taxi cab that fled after its driver activated a...
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Fortney: High School kids 'rock' for Syrian refugees
They’ve got their grad dresses picked out, elegant gowns worthy of the red carpet. “It’s just like this,” Vanessa Ziel tells me as she pulls up a photo from her cellphone, “but a different shade of...
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Money does grow on trees in Parkdale garden
There will be a whole lot more shrubbery growing in a Calgary garden this summer. The Parkdale Community Garden is one of 13 projects awarded almost $300,000 in grants as part of the 2016 TD Green...
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Cemetery gunfire injures four near Cochrane
Gunfire erupted in the aftermath of a funeral at the Calgary Muslim Cemetery near Cochrane Friday afternoon, when an altercation broke out between some of the attendees, Mounties say. Four people were...
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Crews battle two-alarm fire in Saddle Ridge
Two residents and their dog escaped unscathed from their northeast home after a two-alarm fire erupted Saturday morning. Fire crews were called around 5:20 a.m. to Saddlemont Crescent N.E. in the...
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Newcomers to Calgary welcomed with special ceremony, First Nation's blessing
Emad Alsheblak’s family owned land in his hometown of Daraa in Syria where they grew olives and made olive oil. But when war broke out, he and his family escaped to Jordan in 2013, where he continued...
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Mounties still searching for suspect in cemetery shooting
Mounties are still searching for the shooter who left four men injured at a cemetery west of Calgary following a funeral Friday afternoon. Hamza Nazir, 21, had just been laid to rest at the Muslim...
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Calgary firefighters aim for world record with head-shaving fundraiser
Smiles and shiny heads crowded the Calgary Fire Department’s training facility Saturday as hundreds of people shaved their heads to raise money for cancer research — and set a world record while doing...
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Green Line LRT gets October funding deadline
With preparation for the Green Line LRT pushing forward toward a shovel-ready plan, concern remains over when — or whether — the provincial government will pony up the necessary dough. Now, a report to...
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The decline of community police stations in Calgary
Almost 100 years ago, Calgary police closed all of their community stations. The substations, as they were called, had opened in North Hill, in Ogden, on 2nd Avenue E. and on 18th Street, in 1912....
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Orange is the New Black writer Piper Kerman to headline fundraiser for...
Re-integrating into society after a stretch in prison for a woman isn’t as easy as picking up and starting over, Calgary’s Elizabeth Fry Society executive director Katelyn Lucas says. “Housing’s a huge...
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Daycares hurting as tough economy forces laid-off parents to bring kids home
Feeling the trickle-down effects of Calgary’s slumping economy, child-care operators are seeing an exodus of children from their centres as laid-off parents take their kids home. Directors and the...
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