News/Canada/Calgary (Page 35)

Urban downtowns are sometimes called concrete jungles because the apartments and office buildings that make up skylines from New York to Vancouver are generally made of — what else? — concrete.  But that could change with a push underway to build more tall buildings with another material: mass timber.  Mass timber is an umbrella category ofContinue Reading

EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News commissioned this public opinion research in April, leading into the first anniversary of the United Conservative Party’s general election win last May. The poll offers insight into how Albertans feel about Danielle Smith’s UCP government and the Opposition NDP.  As with all polls, this one providesContinue Reading

Calgary Shirley Bremault was shocked when she found out the family doctor who visits her Calgary seniors community once a week is closing up shop at the end of August.  Health minister willing to revisit phased-in fee reductions for visits to seniors facilities Jennifer Lee · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading

Calgary Lynx Air hopes to sell off everything from life-jackets to oxygen masks as it tries to recoup a portion of the losses it suffered before filing for creditor protection earlier this year. Company owed $186M when it sought creditor protection in late February A Lynx Air Boeing 737 jetContinue Reading

Calgary·Updated The University of Calgary says it is planning a potential relaunch of its oil and gas engineering program, which it suspended three years ago due to dwindling student demand. Admission to the bachelor’s degree program halted in 2021Amanda Stephenson · The Canadian Press · Posted: May 24, 2024 2:55Continue Reading

Calgary WestJet is pushing back its planned integration of Sunwing Airlines, which the Calgary-based carrier acquired last year. Both airlines will continue with ‘business as usual’ for winter flight schedules Calgary-based WestJet says the updated plan is to weave Sunwing Airlines into its own operation by April 27, 2025, sixContinue Reading

Calgary CBC News reported earlier this year that 2023 was expected to be the deadliest year from drug poisonings on record — and now, provincial numbers confirm it. New provincial data shows 1,867 people died from opioid use in 2023 Karina Zapata · CBC News · Posted: May 20, 2024Continue Reading

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needs to clarify where he stands on industrial carbon pricing, says the new head of a major oilsands group that aims to bring the industry’s emissions to net-zero largely through the potential construction of a massive carbon-capture project that relies on carbon credits. “I think it would beContinue Reading

The contexts are different but the photos are similar: a collection of colourful tents grouped together on the University of Calgary campus. One image is from March 1999, when students set up an impromptu camp in protest of planned tuition hikes. The other image is from a quarter-century later, inContinue Reading