The Calgary Police Service is seeking a funding increase of over $324 million over the course of the next four years. The service says the allotment would be geared towards the hiring of 309 new officers, as well as maintenance for existing infrastructure. “We’re only asking for what we can hire and train,” CPS Chief Katie McClellan says, “To be...

Police are trying to track down a driver behind a dangerous hit-and-run incident during traffic on Deerfoot Trail. CPS says two vehicles were damaged in the incident northbound on Deerfoot from Memorial Drive NE. “It’s believed (a black Ford Explorer SUV) was driving erratically, swerving in and out of lanes and conducting unsafe lane changes,” reads a news release, “as...

The last time the frosted elfin butterfly, known for its brown hue and delicate wings, was spotted in Ontario was in 1988.  Several surveys, including one in 2019, have turned up no sightings of the small, non-migratory butterfly in nearly 40 years, according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.  A group of Canadian scientists is...

The clocks aren’t changing Sunday in the western half of the country, but that doesn’t mean changes aren’t coming as British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, northwestern Ontario and the Northwest Territories all chose this year to stick with daylight time. Kids heading to school, construction workers to the worksite and adrenalin-seekers to the slopes are some of those facing the challenge...

On a chilly pre-Halloween morning this week, Rane Gusdal watches the climactic last moments of her short film with her fellow university students: a video of her entrails being torn out of her stomach.  The blood and guts are a crimson mix of bread, Nutella and jam. She screams and flails on screen. She’s hoping they don’t laugh. “I hope...