11+ hour, 53+ min ago   (362+ words) 'Residents have raised understandable questions about the smoke affecting their communities,' Mayor Farkas said City officials are asking the province to release the air quality testing results in response to the Ecco Recycling landfill fire. A request for detailed air…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (355+ words) “This trial will help us determine how the technology can support public safety in Calgary by providing responding officers with valuable information about an incident." For the next three months, the Calgary Police Service will have more eyes in the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (972+ words) This story contains some graphic details. Following a near-fatal battle with sepsis, a Calgary-area woman is working to bring more awareness to the condition. Kimberley Sidhu counts herself lucky to have survived after her symptoms went undiagnosed and untreated for…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (416+ words) Food media types — and I’ll include myself here — tend to embrace and even romanticize the former, more emotional brand of motivation. But when done properly, a carefully developed yet impersonal concept can do a pretty darn job of giving the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (486+ words) In 2012, Pat MacIntyre had a lengthy conversation with an American music promoter about booking Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry at the Ironwood Stage and Grill. “It didn’t make any sense,” says MacIntyre, in an interview with Postmedia. “People aren’t going to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) Fifteen care spaces will have noise dampening, rubber floors, mobility assistance, and space for caregivers to stay A $3-million contribution by the Westman Charitable Foundation will help fund Western Canada’s first designated emergency space for senior patients at the South…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1102+ words) Groups report an increase in the number of students and schools seeking assistance with the costs of kids returning to class For Calgary-area families already struggling to make ends meet, the return to school can bring a new round of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (683+ words) Illegally discharging or selling fireworks could net Calgarians much stiffer fines in the near future. In a report coming to a city council committee next week, administration is proposing to raise the fines for using, selling or possessing fireworks in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (651+ words) Top three risk rated intersections are in northeast Calgary And city lawmakers are being asked to spend $6 million to upgrade about half of the crossroads based on those findings. The city’s AI platform assessed 17,000 interchanges, handing out scores of up…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (426+ words) The recent human‑trafficking arrests in Ontario should force Canadians to confront the systemic failures — jurisdictional, legal and cultural — that allow such networks to operate in plain sight. Although the arrests occurred in Ontario, the conditions that enabled the network…...