News/Canada/Calgary (Page 38)

Calgary·Analysis With Thursday’s budget, Danielle Smith joins the long history of governments in Alberta pledging to save the bounty of oil cash. But with a crash in oil prices seemingly always around the corner, every previous commitment to saving has inevitably failed. Why a pledge to save oilpatch wealth isContinue Reading

Calgary A curling team bearing a name other than Bottcher, Koe, Martin or Ferbey will represent Alberta at the Canadian men’s championship for the first time in 26 years. Aaron Sluchinski’s Airdrie Curling Club competing in the Montana’s Brier in Regina Donna Spencer · CBC News · Posted: Feb 29,Continue Reading

Chris Robertson kept his struggle with addiction private for a long time; in the end, it took him to a public place. His sister, Michelle Trombley, remembers the pit in her stomach when she saw the call come up on her phone as an unknown number. She knew, before answering, whoContinue Reading

Calgary·A Toxic Year Lisa Red Young Man was one of at least 1,706 Albertans who died of opioid poisoning last year. The opioid crisis in Alberta has reached across populations and communities over the past number of years, but the First Nations population has been disproportionately affected. Lisa Red YoungContinue Reading

Calgary The company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion now estimates the project’s costs will come in 10 per cent higher than its May 2023 estimate of $30.9 billion. Company had estimated the cost of project at $30.9B last MayAmanda Stephenson · The Canadian Press · Posted: Feb 27, 2024Continue Reading

Calgary·Analysis The Alberta government’s seven-month ban on new large-scale wind and solar power projects will come to an end this week, but the province is unlikely to return to its previous status as a hotbed of investment. Province will lift ban on new projects this week and begin introducing newContinue Reading

Kenneth Tomlinson was at his Edmonton construction job last July when he received a call from the Stollery Children’s Hospital. It was vague at first, with the person on the other end of the line telling him he needed to come immediately. “I’m like, ‘Well, what’s going on? I’m coming. But can you tellContinue Reading

Calgary The business of beef is changing, in large part due to consecutive years of severe drought across North America’s main cattle-producing regions. From parched southern Alberta to water-scarce east Texas, ranchers have been downsizing their herds due to a lack of grass for grazing. Inflation starting to moderate inContinue Reading

Brenda and Richard Gaunt’s first child, Stephen, was an active and inquisitive toddler, prone to follow his curiosity quite literally wherever it led him. “He’d run out the door and I’d have to chase him down in my underwear,” his father recalled, with a chuckle. Stephen was born in Calgary andContinue Reading