EDMONTON Calgary police are looking for the owners of several vehicles after multiple attempted carjackings Saturday. Around 1:10 p.m., police received a report of an attempted carjacking at 14 Avenue west of 1 Street S.E. A woman tried to steal a black Honda CRV which was stopped at a red light, according to police. The woman got into the passenger side of the vehicle and tried to steal the keys from the driver, who was able to escape with the keys, police added. They said the woman fled on foot, unable to use the Honda CRV without the keys. An hour later, police were called to Macleod Trail and 25 Avenue S.E. They said a woman was seen trying to get into three occupied vehicles, but was unable to.
CALGARY May 7, 2000, was a day that changed everything for one Calgary family. “There is nothing, absolutely no words that can describe the feeling of the police and the coroner’s office coming to your front door and telling you that a loved one is not coming home again,” said Denise Dubyk. Dubyk lost her son-in law, Darryl Ray that morning. The 32-year-old was a passenger in a pickup truck that slammed into a parked van around 2:00 a.m. on the 4500 block of 1 Street S.E. Darryl was killed instantly, while the 22-year-old man who was driving the truck under the influence of alcohol survived with minor injuries.
CALGARY Instead of imposing restrictions on small businesses in Alberta for a third time, an advocacy group is calling on the province to consider other options to combat the rising wave of COVID-19 infections. The Canadian Federation of Independent Business, in a recent survey, found that two-thirds of small businesses would use COVID-19 rapid tests on customers if it otherwise meant they would have to close their doors. The CFIB says provincial governments have millions of rapid tests sitting in warehouses and now is the time to implement policies to use them. It is unconscionable that over a year into the pandemic governments continue to rely almost exclusively on blanket lockdowns, said CFIB president Dan Kelly said in a release last week.
CALGARY The city is getting ready to open its 25th mass vaccination site – and the latest facility is by far the largest. The TELUS Convention Centre will start accepting Calgarians on Monday. When it s fully operational, and if vaccine supply increases, the site could eventually be administering 6,000 shots through 120 vaccination stations every day. It s enough to give the mayor optimism. The idea is to make it easy, safe and pleasant as we process an enormous amount of people through this facility, Naheed Nenshi said. By and large, what we are seeing is enormous amounts of doses coming to Canada very quickly through the months of April, May and June. As supply comes in, (the centre) will ramp up so we can get more and more people vaccinated.”