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Article content Calgarians could soon legally sip a glass of wine or a bottle of beer in city parks if enough members of council toast the idea Monday. A motion to test the concept at select green spaces goes before city lawmakers less than two weeks after their Edmonton counterparts approved piloting booze at 47 picnic sites in seven parks in that city. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Council set to decide on testing booze consumption in city parks Back to video The Calgary version would follow a similar path, with alcohol consumption arrang...

Article content The remodelled Guide for Local Area Planning returned to city hall Wednesday, but the debate on its future was stuck exactly where council left it six weeks ago. After almost 12 hours, Wednesday’s planning and urban development committee ended with a convoluted decision and an explosion of conflict. At one point, Coun. Jyoti Gondek, chairing the meeting, threatened to cut off microphones as Mayor Naheed Nenshi accused some councillors of purposely “riling people up,” and Coun. Joe Magliocca yelled that “people do not want this, and you’re fighting with them.” We ap...

  CALGARY -- Another incumbent has announced their intention to run once again in this October's Calgary municipal election. Gian-Carlo Carra, who has represented Ward 9 since 2010, filed nomination paperwork on Friday. All but one of the 15 members of city council — 14 councillors and one mayor — have now announced their intentions, with Ward. 2 Coun. Joe Magliocca the only holdout. Magliocca was involved in an expense scandal after a forensic audit revealed he filed claims for meetings at a Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Quebec that didn't happen. The matter ...

Article content Calgary police are working with the province to better enforce COVID-19 restrictions, as many tickets issued under the Public Health Act have not been prosecuted. Forty per cent of the 576 tickets issued provincewide for public health violations between March 2020 and March 2021 have been withdrawn, according to the Department of Justice and Solicitor General. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or 'Let's figure out what the problem is': Data show many public health violation tickets have been withdrawn Back to video And while 38 per...

Academic knowledge goes viral The story that garnered the most interest from our audience in March was this piece on how “seriously ugly” Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century, by the University of Queensland’s Ove Hoegh-Guldberg and Macquarie University’s Lesley Hughes. It was read 504,100 times! Tim Stern from Victoria University of Wellington’s article about earthquakes in New Zealand was the second most-read of the month with 336,084 reads. Tim said, “Communicating our science out to a wide audience is part of our job, and your website is an excellent veh...