Change in government won't stop separatist movement, says leader
sootoday - CALGARY — A leader in the Alberta separatist movement says a Conservative government would not stop their drive to secede from Canada. Jeffrey Rath is the general counsel for the separatist promoter group Stay Free Alberta.
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Pierre Poilievre easily survives leadership review with 87 per cent support
sootoday - Future of Conservative leader was cemented Friday night after a huge majority of delegates voted in a mandatory review to keep him at the helm of their party
- Analysts weigh Poilievre’s future challenges and party reactions (11)
- Convention ignites impassioned speeches and lively policy debates (5)
- Delegates firmly back Poilievre’s leadership vote (6)
Analysts weigh Poilievre’s future challenges and party reactions
Convention ignites impassioned speeches and lively policy debates
Delegates firmly back Poilievre’s leadership vote
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Conservatives arrive in downtown Calgary, eager to hear from party leader Poilievre
Sarah Ritchie / nationalobserver - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to address his party faithful this evening in Calgary, in a speech that many anticipate will set the tone for the Tories heading into the next election.
- Convention delegate buzz and behind-the-scenes coverage (8)
- Miscellaneous commentary and policy debate topics (2)
- Poilievre’s leadership review, speeches, fundraising dynamics (12)
Convention delegate buzz and behind-the-scenes coverage
Miscellaneous commentary and policy debate topics
Poilievre’s leadership review, speeches, fundraising dynamics
Back to Top / Friday, January 30, 2026, 7:22 am / permalink 18561 / 22 stories in 5 wks
Nenshi accuses Smith’s UCP of playing blame game over Calgary water main
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Naheed Nenshi was Calgary’s mayor during part of the time when, a report says, projects to inspect and perform maintenance on the water line were deferred for other priorities.
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Calgary man arrested after two-year international child abduction
Western Standard News Services / westernstandard - A Calgary man has been charged with child abduction more than two years after allegedly fleeing the city with his five-year-old son, authorities confirmed.
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Calgary police investigating stabbing outside southwest high school
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - Calgary police say a 17-year-old was taken to hospital in life-threatening condition following a stabbing near Henry Wise Wood High School in southwest Calgary on Friday afternoon.
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Crown says Calgary man who joined ISIS should serve a 16-year terrorism sentence
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Crown prosecutors are calling for a 16 year prison sentence for a Calgary man who travelled to the Middle East to join the terror group ISIS in 2013.
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Calgary lifts all water-use restrictions after tests on repaired pipe successful
sootoday - CALGARY — The City of Calgary says tests have been successful on a ruptured and repaired water main, so restrictions affecting its 1.6 million people are immediately lifted.
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WestJet will reverse cramped seat configuration after widespread backlash
Sean Boynton / globalnews - The airline said select flights that were recently reconfigured with the new seating arrangement will be changed again to remove the extra row of seats.
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Firefighters from three departments help battle huge house fire east of Calgary
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - A total of five homes have been damaged by a massive fire just east of Calgary on Thursday. The fire was so big that firefighters from three departments had to be called in.
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City of Calgary in final repair stage of Bearspaw feeder main; finish expected by Friday afternoon
Myke Thomas / westernstandard - The city is one step closer to returning the Bearspaw Feeder Main to service after another pump was turned on Thursday morning.
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Calgary’s Bearspaw feeder main could be back in operation by Friday, says city
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - The city of Calgary says if all goes according to plan, water restrictions put in place after the rupture of the Bearspaw feeder main, could be lifted by the end of the week.
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City moving to protect neighbourhoods at risk of future northwest feeder main breaks
Bill Kaufmann / calgaryherald - City takes measures to manage potential flooding should the water main that's burst twice in 18 months fail catastrophically again, says head of infrastructure services.
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Calgary woman charged with second-degree murder in death of elderly mother
Western Standard News Services / westernstandard - Calgary police have charged a woman in her 50s with second-degree murder following the death of her elderly mother in the city’s southwest earlier this week.
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Calgary water main repaired but restrictions remain until testing done, city says
sootoday - CALGARY — The City of Calgary says it has finished repairs on a disastrous water main break but testing still needs to be done before it's fully operational again.
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Calgary-area woman’s stolen ashes returned to her family
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - Following an emotional plea from the family of 74-year-old Anna Thompson, a stolen urn containing the ashes of the recently-deceased woman, has been returned.
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Calgary police investigate suspicious death in community of Canyon Meadows
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - Homicide investigators were still at the scene Friday morning, a day after Calgary police were called out to a suspicious death in the southwest community of Canyon Meadows.
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City of Calgary ignored two decades of warning signs about water system, report finds
Patrick White / theglobeandmail - Panel says the city became aware of vulnerabilities as early as 2004, when a similar type of pipe ruptured
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'Lucky nobody was seriously hurt': Calgary woman charged after traffic pylon thrown from downtown high-rise balcony
Scott Strasser / calgaryherald - 'Throwing any object off a high-rise is incredibly dangerous,' said Staff Sgt. Paul Ralstin of the Calgary Police Service
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‘No guarantee’ Bearspaw South Feeder Main will not break again: City of Calgary
Ken MacGillivray / globalnews - More water restrictions will be part of the 'new reality of water usage' warned Mayor Jeromy Farkas, as the city provided an update Monday on the rupture of a major water main.
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