Valerie Fortney, Calgary Sun

Valerie Fortney

Calgary Sun

Mountain View, CA, United States

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  • Calgary Sun
  • Edmonton Journal
  • Calgary Herald
  • TheStarPhoenix.com
  • Winnipeg Sun
  • The Montreal Gazette
  • The Vancouver Sun
  • The Whig-Standard
  • Financial Post

Past articles by Valerie:

Hot housing market complicates fight against homelessness

As part of our Christmas Fund campaign, we are highlighting social needs and issues in Calgary. Together, we can make a difference. → Read More

Hungry families and those helping to feed them hit by soaring costs

When it comes to hunger and food insecurity, the need is more pronounced now than at any other time in the 21st century. → Read More

Agencies help Calgarians escape 'shadow pandemic' of domestic violence and abuse

As part of our Christmas Fund, Postmedia examines domestic violence. Learn how Calgary groups are helping victims exit the cycle of abuse. → Read More

Mental-health and addiction issues remain serious problems in Calgary

Calgary organizations already buffeted by the COVID-19 pandemic continue to help clients facing serious mental health and addictions issues. → Read More

Three agencies with one goal: Battling abuse of the vulnerable, young or old

It’s called “deconditioning,” a regressing of physical function, mental health and emotional health in seniors, caused by a combination of social isolation,… → Read More

Fighting the homelessness battle in Calgary

She was a child who knew deprivation early, her clothes always ill fitting and her tummy aching with hunger most nights. → Read More

Fortney: Sarah Meilleur named first female CEO of Calgary Public Library

The native Calgarian was named the new CEO of the Calgary Public Library earlier this week, the first female leader in its 109-year history. → Read More

Fortney: The weird, wacky and wonderful of Stampede midway food

Along with the tried-and-true mainstays each year the Calgary Stampede puts on offerings that sometimes hit it out of the ballpark → Read More

Fortney: Indigenous people have helped shaped Stampede from day one

When it comes to the Stampede’s close relationship with First Nations people, it is a storied history. → Read More

Fortney: Mixing things up for the traditional Stampede pancake breakfast

It’s the first Saturday of the 2021 Calgary Stampede, and that can mean only one thing for Kim Groneberg: lining up at Chinook Centre to take in one of the… → Read More

Fortney: Off-ground events showcase something old, something new

So, is this all part of what many have predicted will be a post-pandemic, Roaring Twenties era for a large swath of society? → Read More

Fortney: Stampede — it's part of Calgary's DNA

It’s not difficult to find those who share an unabashed love of the event that first appeared in 1912. → Read More

Fortney: For the Calgary Stampede, the show must go on

For those with a long track record of being Stampede boosters, unprecedented safety measures are being eyed with cautious optimism. → Read More

For years residential school in B.C. destroyed Indigenous culture. Now it’s a thriving golf resort

It was the fall of 1966, and Margaret Teneese was eager to start the new school year. “I was so excited, I went bounding up the stairs of St. Eugene with my brothers and sisters,” she says. “I only realized later that by coming here, I’d be losing my language and my culture.” St. Eugene […] → Read More

Island of Bryan star raising money for locals after Hurricane Dorian

The plan was for a family summer vacation out West, visiting the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, strolling Calgary’s riverfront and breathing in some fresh Rocky Mountain air. → Read More

Fortney: Graduating U of C student overcame horrific accident which claimed parents, sister

Patience. It doesn’t always come easily, especially when one is young and itching to take on the world. So one can understand Sara Elkady’s frustration when she began learning how to walk again on a prosthetic leg. → Read More

Ellen DeGeneres captures Calgary crowd in candid talk

She came, she spoke and she conquered the hearts of tens of thousands of Calgarians.On Saturday evening, Ellen DeGeneres swept into the Saddledome and gave her fans everything they’ve come to expect from the consummate entertainer and comedian. → Read More

Humboldt Broncos tragedy: Memorials flourish where hockey players lived and where they died

"I promised the families I would come by and bless the site so that all the hockey players would rise up to heaven, non-stop," says Cree elder Margaret Daniels. → Read More

Fortney: The true heroes who responded to the scene of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash

They are the unsung heroes of an unthinkable tragedy, a collection of men, women and youth whose quick thinking and selfless actions brought comfort and warmth to the dying and even saved the life of more than one. → Read More

Fortney: Slow day became a whirlwind of horror for first responders

They are the unsung heroes of an unthinkable tragedy, a collection of men, women and youth whose quick thinking and selfless actions brought comfort and warmth to the dying, and saved the lives of more than one. → Read More