There have certainly been better times to be looking at your financial portfolio. “I was just meeting with my accountant,” Calgary resident Shannon Matheson said. “Things are in the minus… it’s ouchy.” “It’s not been great,” said Darrin Ambrose, another Calgary resident. Trillions have been lost from the global stock market since the U.S. Trump…
The head of Canada’s largest labor organization on Monday was blunt in her assessment of a powerful union leader south of the border over his support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is “100 per cent” wrong in his…
In February, a man from southern Alberta flew to South America to return an ancient artefact his family had been gifted decades before. Dan McDougall from Okotoks, Alta., says a jade amulet from Costa Rica had been with them for more than 50 years. “In 1971, my parent sponsored an exchange student from Costa Rica,”…
A plan to send Tyra the Tyrannosaurus, the popular tourist attraction that towers over the skyline in Drumheller, Alta., into proverbial extinction has sparked demands that she be spared. The town of 8,400 northeast of Calgary bills itself as the Dinosaur Capital of the World. Home to the famed Royal Tyrrell Museum, the community also…
Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is standing by a candidate in British Columbia, even as calls mount among various Indigenous leaders for the nominee to resign, accusing Aaron Gunn of denying the history of residential schools. “He’s not…
WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is standing by a British Columbia candidate as calls mount for him to be removed over past comments he made about the history of Canada’s residential schools. Poilievre told a news conference in Osoyoos, B.C., Saturday that accusations about North Island-Powell River…
It’s been around for more than 100 years and now, it needs your help. The Royal Canadian Legion No. 1 branch in downtown Calgary was founded in 1917, with the building located on 7th Avenue completed in 1922. Now it’s in need of some serious renovations, according to current president Philip MacAulay. “What we’re starting…
A prominent Canadian legal association is apologizing after it cancelled a keynote speech by Syrian Canadian entrepreneur and peacekeeping advocate Tareq Hadhad, prompting sharp criticism from many of its members. Last Friday, CBC News was first to report that The Advocates’ Society rescinded an invitation for Hadhad, founder of Peace by Chocolate, to deliver a keynote…
For the first time in nearly a decade, Edmonton will have two gay bars this summer. Evolution Wonderlounge will open a new location on Jasper Avenue and 115 Street, as its downtown location on 103 Street near 102 Avenue winds down operations. “It forced us to start looking around so we found this space, so…
Warning: this story contains outdated language and discusses physical and sexual abuse at residential schools. It was March 1965, and Catholic educator Robert J. Carney had gone on CBC Radio to discuss his work as a federal day school principal in the Northwest Territories. Today, it’s an interview some may find jarring. “Mr. Carney, at the teachers…
