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Gay, straight, young and old, Calgarians of all stripes and colours turned out to support the city’s LGBT community at the 24th annual Calgary Pride Parade. → Read More
Gay, straight, young and old, Calgarians of all stripes and colours turned out to support the city’s LGBT community at the 24th annual Calgary Pride Parade. → Read More
Calgary could see hundreds of additional cabs on the road to ease peak-period shortages if a recommendation by the city’s Community Services and Protective Services is approved by council. → Read More
Is she a cat or a girl? Some sort of hybrid? A disturbed woman in an animal costume? News that iconic Japanese cartoon character Hello Kitty is not, in fact, a cat, but a young lady from the U.K., has hit hard among longtime fans, leaving celebrities and locals alike puzzled and perturbed. → Read More
Brian Burke can’t attend this year’s Calgary Pride Parade, but he’s a big supporter of it. “I’m in Toronto this weekend, otherwise I would be there, larger than life,” said the Calgary Flames’ president of hockey operations Wednesday. → Read More
Calgary police are looking for an armed and dangerous suspect they believe shot a woman in Tuscany Springs early Sunday. Police were called to the 100-block of Tuscany Springs Hill at around 4 a.m. where they found the victim, a woman in her 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; she is in critical but stable condition. → Read More
Ryan de Hoedt’s thoughts read like a desperate broken record. From morning until the time he goes to sleep, he recites a single prayer ­— that his sister will live another day. De Hoedt is a Canadian citizen from Sri Lanka who lives in northeast Calgary. → Read More
Calgary police are looking for an armed and dangerous suspect they believe shot a woman in Tuscany Springs early Sunday. Police were called to the 100-block of Tuscany Springs Hill at around 4 a.m. where they found the victim, a woman in her 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; she is in critical but stable condition. → Read More
Billy McNabb was set to celebrate his birthday this week with a barbecue and friends, but he never got the chance. The 50-year-old was killed in a fire early Sunday in a Forest Lawn house known for drugs and other problems. → Read More
Ryan de Hoedt’s thoughts read like a desperate broken record. From morning until the time he goes to sleep, he recites a single prayer ­— that his sister will live another day. De Hoedt is a Canadian citizen from Sri Lanka who lives in northeast Calgary. → Read More
The woman slain by gunfire outside a Beltline bar Saturday morning appears to have been an innocent bystander, police say. Calgary police are looking for a black male in his twenties in connection to the fatal shooting. → Read More
Calgary’s Ukrainian community reflected on a dark chapter of Canadian history Friday with the unveiling of three plaques to commemorate the internment of Ukrainian immigrants during the First World War. The plaques, which depict images of internees with the caption “Recalling Canada’s First National Internment Operations,” are being unveiled at Eastern European cultural hubs across Canada as part… → Read More
For Kelly Hofer, Calgary has practically been a gay mecca. Two years ago, the 21-year-old photographer left Green Acres, a tiny Hutterite colony of about 110 people in southwestern Manitoba. Two weeks after his departure, Hofer came out of the closet in the most public way possible: on Facebook. → Read More
As of Wednesday, there were 122 cases of E. coli confirmed in Alberta within the last month, more than the 96 recorded for all of 2013. Fifty-nine cases occurred in Calgary. Health officials are still looking for sources. Richard Musto, Calgary’s medical office of health for Alberta Health Services, outlined some of the common causes for spread of the bacteria as well as ways of preventing it. → Read More
The votes are in and Albertans will soon have a newly-designed license plate. → Read More
Calgary jihadist Farah Mohamed Shirdon, in his 20s, was reportedly killed abroad after joining the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now calls itself Islamic State. Shirdon’s death follows those of fellow Calgarians Salman Ashrafi, who also died fighting with ISIL in Iraq and Damaian Clairmont, 22, a member of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group who was killed in Syria.… → Read More
Police confirmed Saturday the identities of the two men involved in a Castor triple homicide to be Jason Klaus, 38, and his friend Joshua Frank, 29. → Read More
Police confirmed Saturday the identities of the two men involved in a Castor triple homicide to be Jason Klaus, 38, and his friend Joshua Frank, 29. → Read More
Police confirmed Saturday the identities of the two men involved in a Castor triple homicide to be Jason Klaus, 38, and his friend Joshua Frank, 29. The men are accused of killing Klaus’ parents Gordon, 61, and Sandi Klaus, 62, and sister Monica Klaus, 40, in December 2013. Both were charged Friday with three counts of first-degree murder and arson, and will appear in Red Deer Provincial Court on… → Read More
Calgary jihadist Farah Mohamed Shirdon, in his 20s, was reportedly killed abroad after joining the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now calls itself Islamic State. Shirdon’s death follows those of fellow Calgarians Salman Ashrafi, who also died fighting with ISIL in Iraq and Damaian Clairmont, 22, a member of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group who was killed in Syria.… → Read More