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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

Calgary Over the weekend, wildfire smoke rolled into Calgary and surrounding areas — marking the beginning of what could be another long summer of smoky conditions. Wildfire smoke rolled into Calgary on the weekend, the first time this seasonKarina Zapata · CBC News · Posted: May 13, 2024 7:39 PMContinue Reading

The United Conservative Party’s board is urging Premier Danielle Smith to reform COVID vaccine policy because the directors are worried about the safety of mRNA vaccines for kids, the party president says. “We have serious concerns about them for children,” Rob Smith, the UCP president, told CBC News in anContinue Reading

Calgary With Swoop folded into WestJet and Lynx folded altogether, Edmonton-based Flair Airlines has emerged as the only ultra-low cost carrier left standing in Canada. Edmonton-based Flair the only ultra-low cost carrier left standing Paula Duhatschek · CBC News · Posted: May 10, 2024 6:34 PM EDT | Last Updated:Continue Reading

Calgary·New Group sex parties can continue to be hosted in a northwest Calgary home but the organizer is not allowed to use club branding for the events, a judge has ruled.  ‘Ethical non-monogamy’ sex parties hosted at Silver Springs house since 2010 Meghan Grant · CBC News · Posted: MayContinue Reading