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By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
CALGARY – The arrival of a family of giant pandas to the Calgary Zoo last spring created a stampede of visitors once the guests on loan from China were introduced to an eager public.
The zoo surpassed previous records for both attendance and memberships.
By Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press
EDMONTON – A charity that runs cross-country ski programs for Indigenous youth is expanding across Western Canada.
Spirit North, which was founded in 2009, started in four First Nation communities in northern Alberta to improve the health and well being of Indigenous youth through outdoor sport and play.
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
CALGARY – A world-renowned Alberta ski resort is appealing a $2.1-million-dollar fine it received for cutting down endangered trees five years ago.
Lake Louise Ski Resort pleaded guilty last December to taking down a stand of trees, including 38 endangered whitebark pine, along a ski run in 2013.
The Canadian Press
EDMONTON – If your holiday plans include downloading an audiobook of Margaret Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale” from a public library collection, or unwinding with an electronic copy of Justin Trudeau’s “Common Ground,” you could be out of luck.
Libraries across Canada are running into barriers in accessing both ebooks and digital audiobooks for their patrons.
By The Canadian Press
CAMROSE, Alta. – A peanut-and-chocolate candy popular decades ago has been flying off shelves since an Alberta couple revived it earlier this year.
The Cuban Lunch bar disappeared in 1991 when the Paulins factory in Winnipeg stopped making it.
By The Canadian Press
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A former Winnipeg broadcaster and journalism instructor accused of several bank robberies in Saskatchewan and Alberta is to undergo a psychiatric assessment.
A Queen’s Bench justice in Medicine Hat, Alta., granted a defence application for the mental review.
By Rob Drinkwater, The Canadian Press
ST. ALBERT, Alta. – A man in Edmonton who made international headlines for holding onto a wrapped Christmas gift from a high-school girlfriend who dumped him nearly 50 years ago finally learned what it was on Thursday when she travelled to the city and opened it for him.
Adrian Pearce, now a married father of two, received the small present wrapped in shiny, purple paper shortly before Christmas 1971 from Vicki Allen, who was his very first sweetheart at George S. Henry Secondary School in Toronto.
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press
CALGARY – A judge had harsh words Friday for a world-renowned Alberta ski resort as she fined it $2.1 million for recklessly cutting down endangered trees five years ago.
Lake Louise Ski Resort pleaded guilty last December to taking down a stand of trees, including 38 endangered whitebark pine, along a ski run in 2013.
