Category: Lifestyle

  • Albertans Invited to Climate Change Open Houses

    Albertans Invited to Climate Change Open Houses

    Alberta’s Climate Change Advisory Panel is hosting two open houses to gather input from Albertans on how they can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Panel members and technical experts will be on hand to talk to Albertans about climate change, and exchange perspectives about acting on this important issue. Calgary open house Tuesday, September…

  • Town of Okotoks: Stay Off the Train Bridge for Your Safety

    Town of Okotoks: Stay Off the Train Bridge for Your Safety

    Trespassing on the private property of railroad tracks and jumping off the Okotoks train bridge is illegal and subject to being charged under the Petty Trespass Act. The dangers of jumping from the height of the bridge into the very shallow river water below is extremely dangerous and life threatening.   Municipal Enforcement, RCMP and the…

  • The Grate Groan Up Spelling Bee is Buzzing Back to High River

    The Grate Groan Up Spelling Bee is Buzzing Back to High River

      The Grate Groan Up Spelling Bee is the hottest competition in the Foothills. This hilarious, action packed event has 12 teams of 3 adults competing in a battle for bragging rights to spelling supremacy. Each team collects pledges and donations that support literacy and learning. Team that collects the Gratest Pledges is awarded a…

  • Bid on a Horse at Spruce Meadows and Support Literacy for Life in High River

    Bid on a Horse at Spruce Meadows and Support Literacy for Life in High River

      Well, it’s not a real horse so you don’t have to worry about feed. This horse is one of the painted horses up for auction in the 2nd annual Horses Jump to Give a Leg Up fundraiser. Charities from Calgary and area are invited to paint a fiberglass horse to reflect what they stand…

  • New Study Shows Canadians are Concerned about the Long Term Care Needs of Seniors

    New Study Shows Canadians are Concerned about the Long Term Care Needs of Seniors

      Canadian Alliance for Long-Term Care calls for all national parties to put forward their plans to ensure the long-term care needs of seniors are being met. CHARLOTTETOWN, /CNW/ – An alarming new poll finds that Canadians are overwhelmingly concerned about the ability of Canada’s long-term care system to care for seniors when living at home…

  • Homelessness in Rural Populations & Northern Communities

    Homelessness in Rural Populations & Northern Communities

    One of the challenges in understanding homelessness and responding to it is that it is often framed as an urban, inner-city issue. There are several important reasons for this, including the fact that it is often in large cities where big investments have been made in homelessness infrastructure, including the building of shelters, drop-ins, housing…

  • RCMP and Sport Central help kids through sport

    RCMP and Sport Central help kids through sport

      Summer got a little bit brighter for the kids in Little Red River Cree Nation. Thanks to an ongoing community partnership with the RCMP and Sport Central, the remote community of Fox Lake recently welcomed over $10,000 in new and refurbished sports equipment for local children and youth — with everything from balls and nets,…

  • Two-year-olds with Larger Oral Vocabularies enter Kindergarten Better Prepared

    Two-year-olds with Larger Oral Vocabularies enter Kindergarten Better Prepared

    Society for Research in Child Development Children with better academic and behavioral functioning when they start kindergarten often have better educational and societal opportunities as they grow up. For instance, children entering kindergarten with higher reading and math achievement are more likely to go to college, own homes, be married, and live in higher-income neighborhoods…

  • 7 Ways to Green Your Summer Road Trip Experience

    7 Ways to Green Your Summer Road Trip Experience

    Summer is definitely the time to hit the open road and do some exploring of those places beyond what we know. We don’t doubt you’re already environmentally conscious, but we also know sometimes it can be difficult to continue being green outside a normal routine. That’s why we’re here to offer some ways you can…

  • How Can We Incentivize Building Low-end Rental Housing?

    How Can We Incentivize Building Low-end Rental Housing?

    Emma Woolley, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub: York University In our latest website survey, Lara .C. asked: How can we change Canada’s institutions (e.g. tax code, zoning laws) to incentivize building low-end rental market housing? This is a great question Lara, and certainly one many researchers, activists and advocates have been asking for decades. I…

  • Making the Case for Dementia Prevention

    Making the Case for Dementia Prevention

      An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is an old truism with special relevance for Alzheimer’s disease, according to the director of strategy at the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance. “This will be distressing to some people, I know. But I don’t think that a cure is a reasonable expectation,” says Barry…

  • Global Liveability Declines as Unrest and Terror Attacks Mount

    Global Liveability Declines as Unrest and Terror Attacks Mount

    Top locations are unchanged in our Global Liveability Ranking but terror and unrest have prompted declines in over 20% of cities surveyed in the last 12 months. The average global stability score has fallen by 2.2% over the last five years. Melbourne remains top, while war-torn Damascus remains the least liveable city surveyed. Although it’s…

  • Talking to Kids About Drugs

    Talking to Kids About Drugs

      As an emergency room doctor and medical toxicologist, I come across the effects of drug and alcohol use every day at my workplace…the hospital. The 18 year old who took Ecstasy for the first time at a nightclub and now thinks she’s having a heart attack. The 21 year old who tried snorting “Oxy”…

  • Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

    Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

      For children with speech or motor skill impairments, an iPad provides more than a way to play games or watch movies. With specialized apps that help non-verbal children learn to communicate, iPads can give kids without voices the opportunity to be heard. Take Waverley Leduc for example, an 11-year-old girl living with Rett syndrome.…

  • CalgaryNEXT Plans Revealed for West Village

    CalgaryNEXT Plans Revealed for West Village

      CalgaryNEXT is a new proposal for the underused West Village that will bring Calgary’s sports facilities to a whole new level. But more than that it promises a whole new neighbourhood along the Bow River. Mayor Nenshi’s statement on a new arena/fieldhouse proposal The following is a statement from Mayor Naheed Nenshi regarding the…