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Councillors seek more childcare spaces despite downturn
Worried about historic child-care shortages in Calgary, two city councillors are looking for options to boost the number of spaces. Finding childcare in a city with an escalating number of births every...
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Klassen: Let's hope Obama and Trudeau aren't alike
The U.S. is generally a decade or so ahead of Canada. Where they go, we trend later, which is one reason the whole Donald-Trump-as-president looms so ominously. If you haven’t been glued to the...
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New centre-right group focused on policy, not 'political machinations'
Another new group is launching on the Alberta political scene, spurred in part by frustration with the “political machinations” around uniting the right in the province. Peter Zorbas, one of the...
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Calgarians seeking jobs online falling victim to scams that cost them thousands
Calgarians seeking jobs in a down market are at risk of losing thousands of dollars as they fall victim to scams, police warn. Since November, Calgary police have received 90 calls about various...
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Car smashes into The Beltliner restaurant
A popular Calgary eatery will be closed for at least the next couple of days after a car smashed into it Sunday afternoon. Police were called to The Beltliner shortly after 5 p.m. when they found the...
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Employers' group letter asks Alberta government to stop 'undermining' business
EDMONTON — An alliance of employer organizations is asking for a meeting with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to discuss what it calls the “dire economic situation” in the province. The alliance — made...
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Alberta finance minister fires back at business group seeking tax relief
Alberta’s finance minister is reminding a group of businesses seeking tax and wage relief that the province is already the lowest taxed jurisdiction in Canada. Joe Ceci also said Monday the tax changes...
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Your spring project: Get prepared to plow your bike pathway with expert...
Calgary is ground zero for DIY bicycle snow plowers. A group of volunteers kicked off the city’s pathway plowing system years ago. Last year, northeast resident David Coldwell grew tired of waiting for...
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Wildlife expert quits Canmore group, saying developers ignoring ideas on...
A wildlife expert who was the only conservation representative on a multi-stakeholder group working on the next steps for the Three Sisters development in Canmore has stepped down. Late last week,...
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Okotoks man killed in highway rollover
Okotoks RCMP are investigating the cause of a crash that claimed the life of a 33-year-old man Monday evening. Mounties and paramedics were called after 6:30 p.m. to 274th Avenue and 112th Street East...
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Man charged in break-in at southwest seniors' complex
City police have charged a man after a break-in at a seniors’ complex in southwest Calgary on Monday morning. Staff working at the apartment in the 1500 block of 9th Street S.W. called police around...
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Charges laid after shots fired at Red Deer RCMP building
Mounties have laid charges after two windows of the Red Deer RCMP downtown detachment were shot at with a BB pistol Monday afternoon. RCMP received a report around 3:15 p.m. that a maroon-coloured Ford...
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Man wanted on Canada-wide warrant arrested in Lethbridge
Lethbridge police have arrested a man wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he went missing from a hospital in British Columbia nearly a month ago. David Fomradas, 38, was arrested early Monday at a...
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Have you ever stretched the truth to get a job in a downturn? Tell us about it.
It’s tough times in Alberta. With tens of thousands of workers laid off in the past year, it’s not unusual to hear of a single position — especially in the oil & gas industry — receiving dozens or...
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Chan found not guilty of first-degree murder in gang rival's death at Bolsa...
Jurors deliberated a little more than five hours before finding gangster Nick Chan not guilty of murder Tuesday morning. Accused gang member Nick Chan. The four-woman, eight-man jury delivered their...
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CBE to vote on policy supporting province's new gender diversity guidelines
Public school board trustees will debate policy changes today as part of the province’s new gender diversity guidelines ensuring LGBTQ students are supported in schools and through clubs, like...
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Tax relief or infrastructure? Nenshi lays out options for Calgary's $86...
Council needs to decide whether to use an $86 million surplus for tax relief or infrastructure, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Tuesday. The mayor said he wouldn’t be opposed to putting the 2015 savings...
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Calgary family targeted in criminal 'shopping spree' forgive thieves
It was a criminal shopping spree at a southeast home that plundered precious mementoes along with household goods, but it hasn’t robbed a Calgary family of their capacity to forgive. Last Tuesday, the...
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Braid: NDP tax shift shows compromise behind partisan uproar
Now, here’s an olive branch handed across Alberta’s great ideological divide. The NDP will lower the small business tax in the April 14 budget. Premier Rachel Notley alluded to that in a news...
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Two arrested following drug-related shooting in Lethbridge
Lethbridge police arrested two men Tuesday evening, a day after a drug-related shooting in the city. Officers were called around 2:30 a.m. Monday to respond to reports of gunshots in the alley behind...
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