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80s prairie rockers Queen City Kids stay in touch after nearly 55 years

The Queen City Kids emerged out of Regina in the late 1960s and hit their peak through the early 1980s playing their own brand of hard rock influenced by The Guess Who and The Beatles. Bass player John...

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Power restored to downtown Calgary after afternoon outage

Hundreds of buildings were in the dark in downtown Calgary on Friday afternoon due to a power outage. Enmax says the outage began around 3:50 p.m. and impacted parts of the commercial core, downtown...

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Police charge five adults, two youth in targeted theft operation at Chinook Centre mall

Police have charged five adults and two youths following a targeted retail theft operation at a Calgary mall earlier this month. Calgary police say they started working with the Retail Council of Canada...

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'Senior assassin' game prompts high school lockdown in southern Alberta: RCMP

A popular game amongst Canadian high school students prompted a call that sent an Alberta high school into lockdown on Friday. RCMP say officers were called to Strathmore High School east of Calgary...

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Behind the big top: What you don’t see at the Royal Canadian International Circus

The Royal Canadian Circus is at Cross Iron Mills from May 23 to June 1.

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Calgary’s Ronald McDonald House expands, becoming largest in Canada

Calgary's Ronald McDonald House has expanded, becoming the largest of its kind in Canada.

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Thousands to run this weekend in Servus Calgary Marathon races

More than 17,000 people will take to city streets this weekend in the 61st iteration of the Servus Calgary Marathon.

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New wayfinding signs coming to Calgary's Plus-15 system

Calgary's Plus-15 system stretches over 16 kilometres and includes more than 86 bridges of elevated weather-protected walkways, connecting Calgarians to downtown services and destinations. The system...

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“We must work together’: Eby says of Alberta separation after meeting with Smith, western premiers

Premiers from Western Canada wrapped up a two-day conference in Yellowknife Thursday. While they gathered to talk about cooperation, pipelines, emergency preparedness, trade, Arctic sovereignty, energy...
Three official 'protest zones' being setup in Calgary for G7 demonstrators

Will the upcoming G7 Summit mean barricades being set up outside downtown hotels? What about lengthy road closures for convoys carrying world leaders? Some of those questions may be answered Thursday...

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