As part of budget deliberations this week, Calgary city council is being asked to fill a multi-million-dollar revenue shortfall for Calgary Transit due to escalating costs of the low-income transit pass program. According to budget documents, Calgary Transit has a revenue gap of $33 million this year, including $19 million from administering the subsidized transit … Read more
Grocery and drugstore retailer Metro Inc. ended its “transition year” with fourth-quarter earnings of $219.9 million, with an almost $1-billion supply chain transformation in the rearview mirror and plans to grow its store footprint in the coming year. “This transformation will provide capacity for future growth and efficiency while strengthening our market position,” said president … Read more
Davidson de Souza grew up about as far away from a bobsled track as possible. He was raised in a favela outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil, but the first time he slid down the ice at Calgary’s WinSport facility, de Souza knew he was home. “It was pure adrenalin. It was everything I love,” he … Read more
As inflation and rising costs threaten to ice one of the city’s most beloved holiday traditions, there is a renewed sense of hope for the future of the Toronto Santa Claus Parade. With a $250,000 deficit, parade organizers sounded the alarm this fall that the more-than-a-century-old event may not go on without the public’s help. … Read more
Governance in Yukon’s second-largest municipality has been at a standstill since its newly elected mayor and council refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles during their swearing-in ceremony. Stephen Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City, said he and the four-member council refused to take Canada’s official oath to the monarch on Nov. 5 because of … Read more
A significant increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in Canada has prompted some cities to start building temporary housing for new arrivals. The city of Ottawa is working to establish what’s known as a sprung structure that serves as both a temporary shelter and a centre to provide settlement services such as … Read more
The Ford government’s controversial decision to permanently close the Ontario Science Centre was made at least one week before employees and the public were informed, Global News has learned, raising questions over why it was shuttered so urgently at the beginning of the summer. The science centre was fenced off from the public and closed … Read more
Two months after Josclyn Johnson’s 18-month-old daughter started daycare, the centre announced it was leaving the national $10-a-day program, which has left Johnson considering a line of credit to pay the new $2,310 monthly fee or leaving the workforce to care for her child. “We’re sort of forced to stay in the daycare for now,” … Read more
A decade after surviving an ISIS mass execution in northern Iraq, Ali Bashar lives in a Calgary home facing a strip mall with a loonie store, vape shop and 7-Eleven. “It’s a miracle I didn’t die,” the Yazidi refugee said. But many did. Ten years ago, the Islamic State committed one of the worst crimes … Read more
Calgary city council is looking at a budgetary balancing act when it comes to the Calgary Police Service’s need for a new firearms training facility, and how the service plans to pay for it. Police chief Mark Neufeld and Calgary Police Commission chair Shawn Cornett spent Tuesday afternoon taking questions from city councillors, in their … Read more