Calgary Sun
Calgary native Michael Platt is the child of first generation British immigrants. An avid motorcyclist and semi-professional bass player he is a vintage bicycle collector, frustrated artist and voice of the people as the Page 7 columnist of the Calgary Sun.
By 1918, the daily death tally was hardly news at all — just name upon name, printed by the hundreds, the horrors of the war reduced to a ho-hum list of gore.
The punishment for theft in Afghanistan, under the Taliban regime, is amputation: steal something, and they’ll chop your hand off.
Ask and ye shall receive — and in Calgary at least, it’s the inner city doing most of the asking.
If all goes well, he’ll never leave the medium-security prison 100 km north of Calgary.
It’s a public kick in the rear, for which dad deserves a pat on the back.
“Hey goalie, you’re going to get a sunburn if that red light keeps going off like that.”
The reminder is there every time Delores McMartin opens her front door.
The most popular choice, among only a quarter of eligible Calgary voters.
Those that vote, will vote.
She’s the one who opened her heart and home to a friend in need — and in the end, Delores McMartin was willing to risk her life too.
Newly engaged to be married and gushing with adoration for his bride-to-be, Cory Christians and his future wife represent everything good about love.
He calls his beloved monster truck “Bad to the Bone,” but if police are right, Devin Gillingham should change that slogan to “Rotten to the Core.”
Morality, it appears, stops at the 49th parallel.
A modest piece of metal for a man sporting a staggering amount of brass.
It’s just a couple of decimal places, sure — but for Kayla Mulcahy, two extra zeros meant the difference between an ordinary cab ride and months of financial frustration.
To bicker over $4,800 in suburban development costs, when the city has $470,000 to blow on bad art in ridiculous places.
We’d love your business — and your taxes.
Ruined home, lost job and even the guitar’s a goner — wood warped beyond repair.
The only fair solution to a case of an unfair fare has a Calgary woman hailing a $1,000 refund from Associated Cabs.
She’s called Hope — a fitting name for a little girl who defied the odds by staying alive.
A boy under the age of 12 has been taken into custody following the death of six-year-old Lee Bonneau in Saskatchewan, reports the Leader-Post.
Criminal charges have been laid against a former dog groomer after a co-worker video-taped abuse and handed it over to authorities.
Just days after the Calgary Expo hosted 56,000 self-proclaimed nerds, the real geeks of the entertainment world are getting ready to celebrate an odd and misunderstood obsession of their own.
A city-owned golf course in northeast Calgary is to be closed and sold off for industrial land, in a bid to raise money for other struggling public courses.
A New Zealand search and rescue crew said they are looking for a small plane carrying three Canadian men that went missing over an Antarctic mountain range.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet — but what happened to the rightful name of Calgary International Airport frankly stinks.
When you're willing to indulge a lover's fetish for fire extinguishers, there's not much to smother the spark of passion in your bedroom.
Two yearling grizzlies are dead after being hit by a train west of Banff on Friday, adding to a record-setting year for bear carnage in the park.
Her life will probably always be filled with questions, but Rita Chretien finally has an answer to the most important one.
Their connection was cash, and Vicky Shachtay may have paid for a sour business relationship with her life.
The roar of a diesel locomotive and 26 screeching railcars weren’t enough to wake a drunken Alberta man — and B.C. Mounties say he’d surely be dead if they had.