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Spirit of community

People partake in the Holi Festival of Colours in downtown Calgary on Saturday. Organized by the Indian Society of Calgary, participants enjoyed the vibrant outdoor celebration to welcome spring.

Way of the Cross

Around and on the steps of St. Mary's Cathedral, crowds huddled in long black parkas and mittens, each carrying a paper booklet. The morning of Good Friday was cold, and the ground was white and slushy, but that didn't deter thousands of Calgarians...

`GO ARTEMIS!'

Following the successful launch of NASA'S Artemis II moon mission on Wednesday, two-year-old Finley Guerin beamed when asked if he, too, wants to go to the moon someday. His grandmother, Jacqui, said bringing her grandson to watch the launch on a big...

`PEOPLE WANT A SAY'

EDMONTON — A leading figure in the Alberta separatist movement claims the group has met the signature threshold to potentially trigger a referendum and is challenging Premier Danielle Smith to support the push for independence. Jeffrey Rath, the...

CRUSHED

And that, my friends, is how a team comes crashing back down to earth. There have rightfully been lots of good vibes emanating from around the Calgary Flames recently. They took 11 out of a possible 12 points from their recent six-game homestand and...

THE BIG DIPPER

THE BIG DIPPER

KID GLOVES

While Liberal MP Michael Ma has belatedly apologized for questioning the veracity of expert testimony at a Commons committee hearing that China uses forced labour — claiming that was not his intent — cozying up to China has been mainstream Liberal...

QUACKED!

“One of the best teammates I've had.” That's how Mason Mctavish describes Ryan Strome. It tells you a lot. When the Calgary Flames acquired Strome at the trade deadline from the Anaheim Ducks, you heard a lot about how he'd been a part of rebuilds...

HELPING HANDS

A slippery hill on Mcknight Boulevard N.E. had drivers helping each other out as an intense spring snowstorm hit the city on Wednesday. The storm created havoc on the roads.

PLUS

Numbers reveal ugly truth about Canada's immigration system

ZONED IN

Calgary city council's marathon public hearing to repeal blanket rezoning kicked off Monday, with residents arguing both for and against a proposal to scrap the divisive housing policy. As of Sunday evening, 360 Calgarians had signed up to address...

PAIN REMAINS

For Davis Schneider, there was only one way to escape the ache, a bruising so deep he couldn't stand being in Toronto a minute longer. The wound from that harrowing loss in the seventh and deciding game of the 121st World Series was so acute, the...

GOING FOR GOLD

Team Einarson is just one win away from an elusive capture of a world crown Sunday. After three previous trips to the World Women's Curling Championship and only a pair of bronze medals to show from them, this time it will be gold or silver for...

THANKS ... FOR NOTHING

They didn't lift a finger. They did not offer one pinky of support for the closing of the Calgary drug site at the Sheldon Chumir Health Centre. In the neighbourhood we begged, we pleaded, we just wanted Calgary city council to say they wanted the...

TANKS FOR SHARING!

SAIT leadership and students were present Thursday to take delivery of an impressive addition to the postsecondary's railway conductor school. The rail car was donated by Caltrax Inc.

AIMIN' HIGH

The Calgary Stampede unveiled a new 20-year roadmap on Wednesday, envisioning major changes and future developments that will reinvent the festival's grounds. The master plan outlines seven different zones centring on hospitality, agriculture,...

DIRE STRAITS

Canadian drivers are seeing their bank accounts drained at the pump — paying up to 30% more this year — but even gas station operators are struggling to stay profitable, industry watchers say. While Canadians adjust to another hit to their cost of...

`ALBERTA'S TIME TO SHINE'

One of the best stories in hockey this year is the success of the Medicine Hat Tigers. After losing stars like Gavin Mckenna and Cayden Lindstrom to college hockey and then Andrew Basha to the AHL, it was assumed the WHL club would struggle in...

GOLDEN OLDIES

He is 41 going on 20, it seems, which is why Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer has a kinship with Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin, who is a youthful 40 and still going strong in the NHL. Great respects great and the two hyper-successful...

SUMO STAR

Japanese culture takes centre stage

END OF THE ROAD

HOUSTON — Aaron Judge doubled and Pete Crow-armstrong and Brice Turang each had two hits as the United States beat Canada 5-3 on Friday night to reach the World Baseball Classic semifinals. The U.S. squad rebounded after an 8-6 loss to Italy in pool...

`LIVING CULTURAL EVENT'

Calgary is set to host Canada's first sumo wrestling and Japanese cultural festival this weekend, and the stars of the show were given a warm welcome to the city on Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, more than 10,000 attendees are expected at the...

`VERY, VERY SOON'

Wait! This is the real gamechanger. More users sought treatment for their addiction. It was a statistically significant increase in the number of people who wanted to turn their lives around. And just announcing a closing date for the drug site...

M.I.A. AT MSG

This has not been the way the Calgary Flames would have wanted to start their five-game road trip. A 7-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Monday night was one thing. But getting shut out 4-0 by the New York Rangers 24 hours later was another. It...

WATER MAIN BLAME GAME

AYATOLLAH JR.

Late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son Mojtaba was named Sunday as his successor, while the war in the Middle East spread to the region's vital infrastructure as Israeli airstrikes hit oil storage facilities in Tehran...

UNITED IN GRIEF

›› MIDEAST CONFLICT

GOOD LUCK, NAZ

Since taking over in 2023, Craig Conroy has stuck to his plan. In fewer than three years, the Calgary Flames GM has slowly but surely traded away veteran pieces for young players and draft picks. One by one, he's shipped established Nhlers out to make...

NO PLACE LIKE DOME

The Calgary Flames wanted a response after a bad performance on Tuesday night against the Dallas Stars. And to their credit, the Flames were better against the Ottawa Senators on Thursday than they were in that game two nights earlier. It wasn't a...

HAUL FOR ONE

Mackenzie Weegar is on his way to Utah. On Wednesday, the Calgary Flames completed a blockbuster deal to send their veteran blueliner to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for a sizable package. Weegar agreed to waive hisno-trade clause to get the deal...

HIGH & LOW

A World Cup of Hockey in Calgary and Edmonton … what would that look like? With NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly in Calgary on Tuesday to tour the in-construction Scotia Place and hold meetings with Flames' leadership,...

TAX HIKE FIGHT

WAR DRUMS

Iranian Calgarians took to the streets outside city hall Sunday in separate demonstrations to voice their opinions on military attacks by the United States and Israel that resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. The...

FLAMES BLANKED IN L.A.

Ultimately, Saturday evening's matchup between the Calgary Flames and Los Angeles Kings went pretty much as expected. The NHL'S two lowest-scoring teams were probably never going to deliver an offensive barnburner full of highlight-reel...

`EGREGIOUS'

Mayor Jeromy Farkas said the province's move to increase its share of property taxes in its latest budget undermines the city's efforts to minimize increases to the levy this year. “To have a massive, nearly $400 increase now, thanks to the provincial...

BUDGET DAY

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has delivered its second straight multi-billion dollar deficit, one that is poised to flout its own fiscal framework rules and put the province more than $9 billion into the red with no plan for recovery amid low oil...

FARE ENOUGH?

FARE ENOUGH?

MAYHEM

Calgarians vacationing in Mexico were searching for information and a way back home Monday after an outbreak of violence that followed the death of a notorious cartel leader. University of Calgary student Seth Pullishy was having breakfast and...

U.S. INVASION

The look on Brad Marchand's face said it all. After a brief scrum following Canada's devastating 2-1 loss to the USA in overtime of the gold-medal final in men's hockey here on Sunday, Marchand was barely holding his emotions together. This game...

GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE

Marc Kennedy knows it was a big story. But from inside his Olympic bubble, he hasn't been sure just how far beyond the curling universe the double-touch controversy has spun. What Kennedy does know is that after as bruising a bonspiel as they come,...

CRUSHED

MILAN — During the agonizing wait for the medals to be awarded following a heart-breaking loss to the U.S., Marie-philip Poulin tried to do the impossible and ease the pain. One by one, Canada's captain worked her way down the line of players, with a...

GREAT ESCAPE

There's just something about Canada versus the Czechs, at least in men's hockey, that makes for non-stop tension. Often that's meant a loss for Canada, but not on this night. Canada skated a narrow path and had to come back twice, but managed a 4-3...

WINTER: THE RETURN

Calgarians woke Tuesday morning to a winter blast, with heavy snow and strong winds causing traffic collisions and flight cancellations. The city was under a yellow warning for a winter storm, with hazardous, blizzard-like conditions forecast to...

FATAL WEEKEND

A two-year-old toddler became the city's seventh traffic fatality of the year, when a Jeep struck the toddler's stroller in a marked crosswalk Sunday. The toddler was being pushed in the stroller by their parents in a crosswalk at Hull Avenue and...

IN ONE VOICE...

Thousands gathered in downtown Calgary Saturday afternoon to protest the Iranian government and recent massacres of Iranian protesters. Armin Zarringhalam, one of the event's organizers with the Lion and Sun movement in Calgary, said the purpose of...

TEARS IN TUMBLER RIDGE

TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. — Through the words of B.C. Premier David Eby, the folk legend of Mark Deeley was revealed to the masses. Eby was the final speaker at a vigil in Tumbler Ridge Friday night, as a crowd of at least 1,000 residents made a semicircle...

BIG DAY

Normally, Connor Mcdavid missing scoring on a 2-on-1 might be worth noting. But when Canada so thoroughly dominates its opponent, as happened Thursday in a 5-0 win over Czechia at the Santagiulia Arena, it becomes a forgotten note. Canadian head...

`Nation mourns with you'

TUMBLER RIDGE — The person behind one of B.C.'S worst mass killings has been identified as an 18-year-old dropout who killed family members at home, then gunned down random students at a school before firing on police and killing herself as officers...

SHUT OUT

It was a bittersweet second place for Team Canada after an impressive performance in the short-track speed skating mixed team relay, but a victory all the same. Canada got its first silver medal at the Milan-cortina Olympics on Tuesday, thanks to a...

BITTER SWEET

There was almost a fight off the opening face-off. Canadian's Marie-philip Poulin was clocked near the head in the first period and had to leave the game due to injury, her immediate future in the Olympic tournament up in the air. If Team Canada...

ALL EARS ON BAD BUNNY

Bad Bunny? Actually, pretty good Bunny. The pride of Puerto Rico may be a polarizing artist in a polarizing time in the U.S., but he did a bueno job — due in no small part to his secret guests Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin — as the Super Bowl halftime...

ON THE BOARD

⬛ Calgary seniors cheer `their' ski-jumper ⬛ Women's hockey team opens with win

GAMES ARE AFOOT

MILAN — For three hours, the woes of the world had seemingly disappeared as spectators across the planet marveled at Italian ingenuity and high fashion, and the Olympic spirit. The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan-cortina Games was meant to carry a...

LET'S GO!

The sun shines behind one of the legacies of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympic Games — the torch relay statue at Winsport. The Milan Cortina 2026 Games begin in earnest with today's opening ceremonies. Turn to Sports or log on to calgarysun.com for more.

BATTLE OF ALBERTA

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`IN SHOCK'

The deaths of three teenage hockey players from a southern Alberta junior team are sending shock waves through the region and across Canada. Southern Alberta Mustangs owner and general manager Lisa May said in statement the organization is grappling...

GLORY & GRIT

Wayne Gretzky stood behind the fence that separates athletes and media at Olympic Games trying to get the words out, trying to understand what couldn't be understood. Team Canada had just lost to the Czech Republic by shootout at the 1998 Olympic...

`SO PROUD TO BE CANADIAN'

` PROUD TO BE CANADIAN'

FROSTBITE

Morgan Frost scored the Calgary Flames' first of the afternoon. He assisted on the second. And while he didn't officially factor on Saturday's game-winning goal at the Saddledome, his boss wanted to be sure that Frost's contribution on that...

`UNITE THIS HOUSE'

Federal Liberal governments have lit separatist fuses and endangered national unity, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told nearly 4,000 gathered in Calgary for the party's convention. The Conservative leader, speaking just ahead of a leadership...

COP'S BEST FRIEND

Meet Sadie. The friendly pooch is the Calgary Police Service's new Operational Stress Intervention Dog, and she wants Police Chief Katie Mclellan to know she's ready for duty.

HIGH STAKES

As he heads to the Conservative convention in Calgary this weekend, Pierre Poilievre must be spending a lot of time thinking about numbers. There are the numbers he needs to get from his own party's base in his leadership review, then there are the...

MCRAE OF SUNSHINE

For the second year in a row, Calgary-born pop superstar Tate Mcrae leads the Juno nominations with six nods. She is tied with Justin Bieber for the most nominations for the 2026 Junos, which will be held in Hamilton, Ont., on March 29. Mccrae, who...

EXIT PATH?

A group pushing for Alberta to separate from Canada officially began collecting signatures in Calgary on Monday, seeking a referendum to put the issue to voters. Meanwhile, NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi denounced the effort by the Alberta Prosperity...

LET IT SNOW?

Suspected Canadian cocaine king Ryan Wedding is staring down the barrel of infinity in a U.S. prison. If the 44-year-old former Olympic snowboarder had been arrested in Canada, well, he might have been able to count on some judge claiming his...

BETWEEN ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

President Donald Trump has not only taken another personal shot at Prime Minister Mark Carney but has threatened a “100% tariff on all Canadian goods” going to the United States if “Canada makes a deal with China.” In a post on Truth Social Saturday...

GR8 MOMENT

For 20 minutes, the Calgary Flames actually looked pretty good. Unfortunately, there are 60 minutes in a hockey game. And after outplaying and outshooting the Washington Capitals (25-21-6) for the opening period, the Flames (21-25-5) found themselves...

‘LIGHT SPEED’

Work is about to begin on the accelerated project to replace the Bearspaw South feeder main. City crews will begin mobilizing staging areas Friday, the city said in a news release. The setup locations are in Edworthy Park near a section of the Bow...

CHOICE WORDS

President Donald Trump clearly didn't like Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech in Davos and issued a rebuke during his own speech Wednesday morning. Carney spoke to the World Economic Forum Tuesday and left without seeing or speaking to...

SITUATION CRITICAL

EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi is calling on Premier Danielle Smith and the UCP to declare a state of emergency as overcrowding puts hospitals under further strain. Nenshi's call comes after weeks of Alberta doctors publicly raising...

NO LETUP

This would have been a heck of a hello. On just his fifth shift in a Calgary Flames uniform, and roughly seven hours after he'd touched down in his new home city, Zach Whitecloud pounced on a loose puck and raced up ice on a twoon-one...

SO LONG, RAS

Rasmus Andersson will, for the next several months, be patrolling the blue-line for the Vegas Golden Knights. And beyond that? Who knows? As Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy shopped his best trade chip, there was a major wrinkle on Sunday...

SPLISH SPLASH!

Calgary has removed all outdoor water restrictions, after a third and final pump for the Bearspaw South feeder main was turned on without incident Friday morning. Mayor Jeromy Farkas and other officials from the city made the announcement during a...

READY OR NOT

A new era of the Canadian Football League — with massive alterations to the product — is creating widespread angst for many fans across the country. Especially those aligning themselves with the traditional rules of our gridiron game. But like it or...

PIPING UP

Ward 2 Coun. Jennifer Wyness is criticizing the recent independent review into the 2024 Bearspaw South feeder main's rupture, calling the report the equivalent of a $2-million “AI summary” of other work that was commissioned after that incident. The...