Sep 22 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — The Opposition NDP is raising concerns about an Alberta Health Services report that shows a decline in the number of annual food safety inspections since 2018, as six children remain in hospital due to an E. coli outbreak at multiple Calgary ...
Aug 26 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — Luis Sanchez Diaz didn't win a lottery this year for on-campus housing at the University of Calgary, but he still considers himself lucky. The international student, who's in his fourth year of a political science degree, studied online durin...
Aug 1 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The Royal Ontario Museum says it has discovered the oldest-known swimming jellyfish in the fossil record from specimens collected at the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies. The newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis, which means Burgess Shale jelly...
May 24 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — It's one of the key issues at the ballot box in the Alberta election, but the two main rivals vying to run the province's sprawling health system can't agree on the diagnosis, let alone the cure. The provincial election is on Monday. United ...
May 18 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith said it's time to depoliticize LGBTQ rights on the same day her party came under fire for a candidate's comments on transgender children. She faced off Wednesday night in a candidates deba...
May 2 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — In Calgary's south, a few hundred United Conservative Party supporters gathered for a rally on the weekend to kick off the provincial election campaign. UCP Leader Danielle Smith, flanked by Calgary candidates, told the small crowd Saturday t...
Apr 27 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — A political scientist says it's too early to say how a Calgary NHL arena project could play into this spring's provincial election, but notes it may not be the game-changer the United Conservative Party wants it to be. Lisa Young, a professor...
Apr 10 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — In a classroom inside Country Hills Library, a member of Calgary's drag community reads books to children. Dressed in a green and blue vest over a white shirt with a black tie, The Frizz asks participants to join in. "Just. Be. Who. You. Are,...
Mar 26 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Brandy Hehn was a regular in the kidney dialysis unit at the Regina General Hospital when the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash happened five years ago. Sixteen people died and 13 were injured after a transport truck went through a stop sign and into t...
Mar 10 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — On her first trip to Bolivia in January, Jane Park hiked about 20 kilometres with national park rangers to a steep, remote area with endangered palm trees and the Andean, or spectacled, bear. Much of the area in ANMI-El Palmar, one of the country's pro...
Jan 23 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — Doctors and staff at hospitals across Alberta went back to using paper charts, whiteboards and phone calls to communicate with each other during a network outage on Monday, said a senior official with Alberta Health Services. The agency, whic...
Jan 20 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — CALGARY — A former chief of emergency medical services in Calgary says having medical dispatchers back in the same room as police and fire call-takers could help to improve ambulance response times. Tom Sampson, who also served as deputy fire chief and...
Jan 14 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Some Albertans who regularly bike, climb, hike or take photographs at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park say a decision by Parks Canada to restrict personal vehicles on its access road was long overdue. The federal agency has announced it will require...
Jan 14 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Some Albertans who regularly bike, climb, hike or take photographs at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park say a decision by Parks Canada to restrict personal vehicles on its access road was long overdue. The federal agency has announced it will require...
Jan 6 2023 — Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — The federal government says 1.8 million Canadians travelled to Mexico in 2022. Some of the more popular tourist spots include Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Mazatlan, Playa Del Carman and Puerto Vallarta. Travel agents say direct flights from many locations a...