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Alberta’s teachers are calling on the provincial government to ensure that grants for schools keep up with the annual inflation rate. At an annual conference of more than 400 delegates from throughout the province held this weekend in Calgary, the Alberta Teachers’ Association passed a resolution urging the government to make annual increases to per-student grants to school boards no lower than inflation.


Brooks RCMP are investigating after a 14-year-old girl was attacked by a man near a cemetery early Sunday. The girl was walking near the cemetery on 2nd Street West in Brooks, about 175 kilometres east of Calgary, when a man grabbed her from behind and forced her to the ground.

A combination of chilly temperatures and police enforcement made for a quiet start to the May long weekend at one popular campground west of Calgary. At McLean Creek — a favourite place for dirt bikers, quadders and mud boggers, but also notorious for rowdy behaviour — campers were well-behaved.


Police are investigating after gunshots were fired at a house in Monterey Park late Saturday night.


The swimming pool at the University of Calgary has been temporarily closed after a routine water test indicated the presence of bacteria. Alberta Health Services spokesman Erik Johnson said a sample taken on Tuesday detected total coliform, a form of intestinal bacteria. A second test on Thursday confirmed the bug.
A man was taken to Foothills Hospital on Friday evening after being struck by a vehicle in the city’s southeast. The accident happened around 7:40 p.m. at the intersection of McKenzie Towne Avenue and McKenzie Towne Boulevard.
Firefighters are investigating the cause of an early morning fire at a Calgary strip mall. Around 6 a.m. Saturday, fire crews arrived at the corner of 14th Street and 26th Avenue S.W., the site of a strip mall undergoing renovations.
A young man who died in a motorcycle accident in Vietnam is being remembered for living life to the fullest, as his friends raise money to bring him home to Calgary.

The hoopla around the Calgary Stampede’s centennial has included free pancakes, hat giveaways, western concerts . . . and now, new sidewalks. Yes, it took a festival’s 100th birthday for a city that strives to be more pedestrian-friendly to finally fill in some missing links in the downtown sidewalk network.


The family of well-known former alderman Sue Higgins is feeling “very optimistic” about the outcome of a recent operation to remove a tumour from her lung.


Laura Woytiuk heard the shriek from the backyard and knew something was wrong.


Over the course of his career, artist, educator and PBS TV host Franz Spohn has received attention far and wide for his rather sweet mosaics. Creating portraits made out of such treats as cupcake sprinkles and gumballs, Spohn has paid candy-coated tributes to notable figures ranging from Michael Jackson, Rosa Parks and U.S. President Barack Obama to Roy Rogers, Willy Wonka and the Lone Ranger.


Prosecutors are seeking up to 10 years in prison for a young woman who killed her mother during a drunken fight between them at a relative’s downtown Calgary apartment. A jury convicted Brittany Mahingen earlier this week of manslaughter in the killing of her mother, Leanne, while the pair babysat a relative’s 18-month-old son at an apartment at 135 13th Ave. S.w. in November 2010.

The fire department is looking into the cause of a fire that caused the temporary closure of a Canadian Tire store in southeast Calgary. The blaze, which broke out Thursday afternoon and took four hours to extinguish, started in a second-level storage room holding paint cans and solvents.


A judge has handed former Calgary security consultant Daniel Clayton a three-year prison sentence for accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.


Jason Bradley’s story about his journey in life is an interesting one — and one he relates to men during the Wild Spirit weekend retreats at the Red Deer River Ranches, just west of Sundre. Fourteen years ago he was living in Calgary, working for Nortel Networks as a senior project manager. It was a high-tech, busy lifestyle.


Paul Finkleman describes it as nourishment for the soul — and the spirit. It’s the volunteer work members of the Temple B’nai Tikvah, a large Calgary Reform Jewish congregation, have become involved with over the years.


A elderly man was rushed to hospital after a collision between a minivan and a C-Train by the Whitehorn train station. The driver of the van was extricated from the vehicle and taken to the Foothills Medical Centre.


TORONTO - A celestial spectacle will trace a path across much of Canada this long weekend.


Motorists shouldn’t fear price hikes heading into the Victoria Day holiday — experts are predicting gasoline prices to remain stable for the season’s first long weekend. “We’re going to see relatively flat gas prices,” said Jason Toews, an industry expert and owner of Gasbuddy.com.



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Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as more than 100 aftershocks rocked the area hit by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that killed seven people and inflicted heavy damage to centuries-old cultural sites.
Emergency responders were dealing with a severe head-on collision between two vehicles in the Longview area Sunday.
Three fishermen rescued after being stranded for 10 days off the B.C. coast alerted rescuers by salvaging debris from the Japanese tsunami.
Sipping her grande non-fat extra hot two-pump toffee nut Cafe Misto inside a coffee shop, Jilian Dietrich wasn’t particularly looking for a lift from a passing vehicle.
The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event on Sunday - an annular eclipse that will dim the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire.
Fire and police are on scene of a car fire at a gas station where a witness says the driver her a van slammed into a gas pump.
Mounties in Brooks hope to hunt down a man who allegedly attacked a 14-year-old girl early Sunday and fled after she fought him off.
NATO's top dog wasted no time at the defence alliance summit urging Canada to keep trainers in Afghanistan after 2014.
Likely having to put his dream of being the first person to scale Mt. Everest without arms on hold because of a lack of funding, Sudarshan Gautam won’t be down on his luck.
Drunk drivers who kill people in crashes should face a minimum of five to 10 years in jail, says a father whose son was killed by an alleged impaired driver.
The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday. He was 59.
David Poletz hopes his story of cheating death in an Alberta workplace accident will help others realize how easy it is to become a victim.
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A man suspected of swallowing a diamond has expelled the precious stone that he'd stolen from a Windsor jewellery store.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a second warning in as many days asking consumers not to eat certain brands of bagged salad.
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall -- Charles and Camilla -- arrived on Canadian soil Sunday night as their plane touched down in Fredericton, N.B., the first stop in their Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour.
Air Canada pilots have failed to negotiate a new agreement with the airline.
Quebec's emergency law and Montreal's mask-ban law have done little to quell the civil unrest across the province or dampen people's desire to protest.
Millions of people across the globe will be looking skyward Sunday evening to view the moon passing in front of the sun.
Hundreds of demonstrators staged raucous protests against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget cuts and other economic issues on the eve of the NATO summit, but police said there were few arrests and only minor clashes.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site.
Sahar Biniaz, of Vancouver, has been crowned Miss Universe Canada.
Hospitals can be faced with trouble untreatable by conventional means.
Just over a week after Michael Rafferty was found guilty of murdering and raping eight-year-old Tori Stafford, hundreds gathered in Woodstock, Ont., to remember the slain girl.

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