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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...

GUTS & GLORY

The Calgary Flames had lost four straight. The Pittsburgh Penguins had won six in a row. If there was ever a game where you might have felt comfortable predicting a Flames loss, it was on Saturday afternoon. Instead, they showed up in Pittsburgh and...

4LORN

There has already been more than enough focus on what William Stromgren is not. That would be Logan Stankoven. Some fans will forever lament that when the Calgary Flames made their second-round pick at the 2021 NHL draft, they selected Stromgren...

FACE THE MUSIC

Mayor Jeromy Farkas has called a special council meeting for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the findings of an independent report into the 2024 Bearspaw South feeder main failure and the city's subsequent response to the crisis. The report, which the...

MAIN PAIN

Mayor Jeromy Farkas warned of dire consequences Monday as Calgary's water usage rose through the weekend amid citywide restrictions, with demand outstripping supply as repairs continue on the ruptured Bearspaw South feeder main. Speaking at a daily...

WHAT’S NEXT?

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump announced a day...

ON TO THE SEMIS...

“It would have been a dream.” Mikael Backlund was open about his disappointment on Friday morning, just a few short hours after it was announced that he had been passed over for a spot on the Swedish Olympic men's hockey team. The Calgary Flames...

HERE WE GO AGAIN

The city is hoping the Bearspaw south feeder main, which ruptured Tuesday night for a second time in the past 18 months, can be back in service within two weeks. Meanwhile, another official said construction of a new water pipeline parallel to the...

CROSSROADS

In 2026, Canada's national unity will be put to the test in more ways than one. We have separatist movements gaining steam in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec and a separatist agitator running the provincial government in British Columbia. As Norman...

ROUGH & TUMBLE

For weeks, the Calgary Flames power-play was shooting blanks. For most of the night on Monday, it wasn't particularly effective. But when the Flames (17-184) needed it most, they finally took advantage of having an extra man on the ice when Connor...

IS IT ALREADY TOO LATE?

Milton Sanford Mayer was an American journalist, a Quaker, with Jewish heritage. But that isn't the important thing. The important thing is what he wrote in one of his many books, titled They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45. After the war,...

FREEZE FACTOR

Shelters are scrambling to make space for Calgarians facing homelessness this winter as frigid temperatures persist. Kevin Webb, director of emergency shelter and housing for the Calgary Drop-in Centre, said they're coming very close to hitting...

GROWING GAINS

It's a groovy little bike shop in the heart of Calgary's Inglewood district, not far from the cycling pathways along the Bow and Elbow rivers. In the back of the store is a sprawling workshop, a bustling place filled with hundreds of bicycles, parts...

SPIRIT OF THE SEASON

⬛ Mixed feelings among homeless ⬛ Christmas morn recycling tips ⬛ Flames goalie helps out charity

’TWAS THE WEEKEND BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Each and every day, Sundae Nordin and her determined team are on the front lines combatting hunger in our city, a mission that is as difficult as it is noble. “We served an additional 63,000 people last year,” says Nordin, executive director of...

COLD REALITY

The 11th annual Longest Night of the Year memorial event on a bitterly cold Friday was a timely reminder of the staggering number of homeless we've lost in the last year.

ELBOWS UP!

Pay attention, Mr. Prime Minister, Flames forward Nazem Kadri shows how it's done in this battle with the Seattle Kraken's Vince Dunn last night at the Saddledome. The Flames won by a score of 4-2.

FEELIN’ SNOW PAIN

Poor visibility and treacherous roads due to blizzard conditions caused multiple vehicle collisions and road closures in and around the city Wednesday, while flights at the Calgary airport were also suspended for a time. Environment Canada's yellow...

MAN SHOT BY COP AT NORTHWEST CTRAIN STATION

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating after a man was shot and seriously injured by a police officer late Tuesday morning at a northwest Calgary LRT station, according to Calgary police. Officers responded to reports of a man...

TERROR DOWN UNDER

SYDNEY, Australia — An attack at a famous Australian beach killed 16 people, including a child, officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of...

MIXED EMOTIONS

Astronaut and University of Calgary alumnus Robert Thirsk returned to his alma mater this weekend to talk about what life as an astronaut is really like. “I think people have a fuzzy idea of what astronauts do in space,” he said. The amount of...

SHUTTING DOWN

It is as official as it gets. Finally. No precise date has been set yet but it is coming. Calgary's drug consumption site at the inner-city Sheldon Chumir Health Centre is closing. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith broke the good news at the end of our...

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

A cold snap forced temperatures to -20C by mid-day Thursday after a daytime high of 8C the day before, reinforcing a stereotype about Calgary's weather — it is unreliable. One day, you're strolling to the supermarket in a light jacket, relishing the...

SO CLOSE!

As kids, hockey was a big part of what bonded John Beecher and his older brother Bryce. Now in his third NHL season, and about three weeks since he was scooped off waivers by the Calgary Flames, John feels like he is living out a dream for both of...

NET LOSS

Goalkeeper Marco Carducci is leaving Cavalry FC after a storied tenure with the Canadian Premier League team. “I'm grateful for the seven seasons I had at Cavalry FC,” said the 29-year-old Carducci, whose contract with Calgary's professional men's...

SADDLEDOME SABRE-RATTLING

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BIG SWING

As a product of the mammoth Disney marketing machine, Orlando is often proclaimed as “the happiest place on Earth.” If happiness is defined by overcrowded, sprawling amusement parks, perhaps it is. But will the central Florida city bring more joy to...