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Home sales across B.C. slowed down in August compared to the same month last year and is nearly a quarter lower than the 10-year-seasonal average, said the B.C. Real Estate Association. Read More

Tonight marks the final game of the season at Nat Bailey Stadium as the Vancouver Canadians look to knot up the Northwest League championship with the Spokane Indians at 1-1 before the series shifts to Spokane for the remainder of the five-game set. Read More

RCMP exclusions and checkpoints used during the Fairy Creek logging protests on Vancouver Island were unreasonable, the federal RCMP complaints commission said Wednesday. Read More

The provincial government is seeking a court order to compel the owners of three homes and nearly $1.5 million in cash to show they were obtained legally. Read More

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It’s been quite a summer for Alberta’s mountain parks. The fires in Jasper, a vote in Banff that has divided business owners and residents, labour shortages in Canmore, environmental stress in all parts of the national parks. It all points to one question: Read More

B.C. civic leaders say they are feeling pushed to the brink as people suffering with severe mental illness are unable to get the help they need and, in rare but jarring cases, are causing violence in their communities. Read More

Some are "just do it" people, to borrow from the athletic company Nike and the death-row prisoner whose last words inspired the slogan. Read More

The Salish Sea is too noisy for the critically endangered southern resident orcas to hunt successfully, according to a new study led by the University of Washington. Read More

Whose Line is it Anyway? The show where everyone is angry and the political points don’t matter. Politicians busy assigning ownership of the Green Line to each other forget whose line it actually is: Calgarians. Read More

The NDP's 2023 legislation to gently densify neighbourhoods by allowing up to six homes on a single-family lot could be dead in the water without incentives for homeowners, say some advocates. Read More

Oil prices have been on a stomach-churning ride this week, falling below US$66 a barrel amid pessimism over future demand growth and uncertainty about OPEC’s next moves.  Read More

As tourists may begin to wonder when they'll get back to Jasper following the destructive wildfire, recent images of the Maligne Canyon show that it may be a tough rebuild before visitors can return to the treasured attraction. Read More

With the opening of The Play That Goes Wrong in the Max Bell Theatre, there is good news and bad news. Read More

Sarah Everett didn’t feel a lot of pressure on her latest release after winning a major book award last year. Read More

Prediction — it won't be long before the logo of some massive corporate entity replaces the beloved Oil Drop crest on the front of the Edmonton Oilers uniform. I give it 20 years at most. A smaller Oilers crest will still be there, maybe stitched over the heart of each player, but the large logo front and centre on each jersey will be a paid advertisement from a corporate sponsor. Read More

The occasional appearance of an actor on stage, sans clothing, is no longer an overly startling event. Established theatre companies across North America — including those in Calgary, such as Theatre Calgary and One Yellow Rabbit — have demonstrated that nudity on stage can successfully convey certain emotion and reflect theme, while pushing limits or stirring debate. Read More

Just say it ain't so, prime minister. Just say it ain't so. Read More

Last January in Calgary, Danielle Smith participated in and helped legitimize a Tucker Carlson presentation. Since that time Tucker has visited with Putin to listen without critically questioning his rationale for invading Ukraine. More recently, he hosted Holocaust-denier Darryl Cooper and the recording was posted by Elon Musk who described it as “very interesting” and “worth watching." Read More