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Calgary entrepreneur promotes local businesses through new website
3+ hour, 5+ min ago (410+ words) Jesse Holiday asked himself if other people were also unaware of the businesses around them. A new startup in Calgary aims to bring local businesses to the forefront with the creation of a one-stop online shop for mom and pop…...
Nelson: It's far too easy to get an Alberta driver's licence
5+ hour, 30+ min ago (567+ words) There are people behind the wheel who simply don't appear to know how to drive at all If every picture tells a story, then this one's a veritable masterpiece: an image of Calgary police ticketing a driver for installing curtains…...
Tuscany
14+ hour, 31+ min ago (609+ words) 'Maybe for some of my work Leonardo turned in his grave, but for the rest I hope he is proud,' said the 62-year-old artist and relative of the famed polymath Police are asking Calgarians to take extra steps to protect…...
Encampment removed south of Calgary after complaints of threats, cars being chased or struck
23+ hour, 35+ min ago (253+ words) A man was arrested at the site and arrested again the next day when officers came back and found he had returned An encampment in a wooded area just south of Calgary was torn down last month and one man…...
Bell: 'Good riddance' " Conservative outrage at turncoat MP's desertion to Liberals
17+ hour, 3+ min ago (787+ words) Canada's Conservatives are disgusted when they see one of their own is a traitor to their cause On Wednesday, John Barlow gets a ton of texts about Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu jumping ship and joining Prime Minister Mark Carney's…...
In Calgary courts: Home-invasion robbery conviction upheld
19+ hour, 24+ min ago (1575+ words) Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from April 7 to 10, 2026 Sexually abusing a Calgary-area teen while awaiting trial on B. C. child pornography charges should land an offender a prison term in excess of 10 years, a prosecutor said Wednesday. But the lawyer…...
Braid: Another Conservative MP crosses; Liberals will have their majority Monday
20+ hour, 13+ min ago (707+ words) Sarnia Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu backed the trucker blockade in Ottawa, along with a bill that would force floor-crossers to quit and run again. On Wednesday, however, she crossed the floor to become a newly-minted Liberal for Prime Minister Mark…...
Work by Group of Seven's to be featured at Contemporary Calgary's LOOK2026
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (489+ words) The gallery's main fundraiser that organizers hope will raise more than $1. 2 million. In 2023, Contemporary Calgary CEO David Leinster got a call from John Lacey, a Calgary-based engineer, entrepreneur, arts philanthropist and avid art collector. Lacey, who also serves on the…...
Bell: Danielle Smith, don't blink " clamp down on bad Alberta drivers getting licenses
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (830+ words) Tougher testing to get an Alberta driver licence. This is a no-brainer It is music to my ears when I hear Devin Dreeshen, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's mince-no-words main man on all things transportation, say he was willing to try…...
Calgary serial rape found guilty of six charges, acquitted of 14
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (500+ words) Suspected serial rapist Richard Robert Mantha was convicted Tuesday on allegations he sexually assaulted three of seven women he was alleged to have abused. Justice Judith Shriar acquitted Mantha on the majority of the 20 charges he faced, but found him…...