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Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic I Fought the Law and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?” as the writer-crooner of the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show has died at 88. Curtis was inducted into the Rock and …

In a Port Coquitlam, B.C., courtroom two decades ago, a defendant named Roy Gene Hopkins stood before a judge and predicted the future with a surprising degree of accuracy. In February 2002, Hopkins was 36 and already had a lengthy criminal record fuelled by addiction to heroin and cocaine.  He begged the judge …

With a cool and wet start to summer, one Calgary horticulturalist believes this year’s crop of creeping bellflower will be prolific.  And the flowering has already begun. The nodding, bell-shaped flowers look pretty — but they’re a menace. They trick people with innocent trumpet-shaped blooms that spit out seeds. Below …