The same strategy called for 180 kilometres of painted bike lanes by 2020. Today Calgary has a quarter of that, with 45.6 ...

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The gift: What Ian Tyson left us We’ve lost a relentless chronicler of the West.

Been caught stealing: Life inside The Lorraine Can we be transformed by a building?

KLASZUS: When Fort Calgary was established 150 years ago in 1875, there weren’t many trees here. For the most part, the only trees were huddled around the river. Today, the city is home to about seven ...

Is this awareness—or amnesia?It was a new pilsner to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the HMCS Calgary, a Canadian Forces ship named after our city. The HMCS Calgary has been deployed everywhere ...

Should Calgary ditch the cowboy motif — or embrace it? It’s not as clear-cut as it sounds.

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The limits of density: If you build it, who will come? Supply alone won’t make Calgary less segregated.

Much could be made of the fact that little is being done to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of Fort Calgary, the locus of European settlement at the confluence of the Elbow River and ...