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Sixteen-year-old Ivy Peng says her tutoring project starts with her own parents’ story. They arrived in Alberta 20 years ago, struggling with the language barrier, and financially. There was no money for private tutoring to help with learning a new language. Peng says she had difficulty with English herself in her early grades at school …
Read More »From gophers to coal to eerie dolls: Check out these rural museums near Calgary
Picture, if you will, wandering into a dark, human-sized gopher burrow. Lit up along the sides of the wall are small dioramas containing taxidermy gophers dressed in clothes, mimicking the activities of their human neighbours. One is fishing. One is hunting. One is watching a butterfly sitting on its nose. These displays are …
Read More »Calgary Crime Stoppers faces dwindling donations as gun violence rises in city
The president of Calgary’s Crime Stoppers chapter says the organization is struggling after years of declining donations, just as support is needed more than ever. The charity allows Calgarians to anonymously supply the police with information and tips about crimes or potential crimes via a tip line, with the promise of …
Read More »‘Come together and celebrate’: Calgary Pride Week kicks off Saturday
Calgary Pride Week officially kicks off Saturday with performances, drag events and celebration of the city’s LGBT community. The day gets going at 11 a.m. at Central Memorial Park in the city’s Beltline neighbourhood. Brit Nickerson, manager of communications for Calgary Pride, says the location has special significance. It’s where the first …
Read More »Husband who survived fatal Calgary shooting that left wife dead was on bail for organized crime offences
A Calgary man who remains in hospital after being shot alongside his wife who was fatally injured, was out on bail awaiting trial on organized crime charges alongside his brother and sister, according to court records obtained by CBC News. Nakita Baron, 31, and her husband, Talal Fouani, 46, were shot …
Read More »Truck driver flees after crashing into downtown Calgary Co-op
Emergency crews are investigating after a transport truck smashed through the brick wall of the Midtown Co-op grocery store in downtown Calgary. A spokesperson for the Calgary Police Service (CPS), said the driver of the truck fled the scene. Carol Henke, a public information officer for the Calgary Fire Department, said crews …
Read More »Calgary police remove thin blue line decal from front of district office
The Calgary Police Service says it has removed a thin blue line sticker placed on the public entry to the District Two office. CBC News was alerted to the sticker through an email Sunday and took photos of the decal the next day. CPS says it was removed Wednesday after the force …
Read More »These TikTokers are inspiring youth from Vancouver and Toronto to move to Calgary
When Umar and Atefah Khan moved to Calgary from Toronto in May, they created the Tiktok account @toronto2calgary to document their journey. It all started when they began posting about their three-day cross-country road trip to update friends and family back home. The Khans say they didn’t know where their …
Read More »Calgary man with months to live wants to give away his 33-foot long, hand-built steel boat
Rudy Holik only has a few months to live — and one of his last wishes is to give away his 10-metre long, hand-built steel boat to someone who can make use of it. In 1994, the Calgary man started building his steel vessel, which weighs more than 4,500 kilograms, in …
Read More »Environmental groups raise concerns about proposed Calgary to Banff passenger train
Conservation advocates and experts are concerned a proposal for a Calgary-to-Banff passenger train is chugging along without addressing some key environmental issues in and around the national park. Liricon Capital Inc., the lead private-sector proponent, is touting it as a hydrogen-powered transportation solution with lower greenhouse gas emissions than driving. The …
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