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“I love the way the different merchants provide toppings, the Purdy’s chocolate being my favourite,” says the Calgary Grade 1 teacher, one of the first in line before the breakfast bell rings at 8 a.m. “I look forward to this every year.”
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While Groneberg’s love remains constant for the mall parking lot event that is more than six decades old and draws upwards of 60,000 hungry guests each July, this year Chinook Centre put on a decidedly different kind of pancake breakfast. This time, there is nary a waft of hot sausage and cakes to be sniffed and Groneberg, like the 100 or so others already lined up, are staying put in their vehicles.
Fortney: Mixing things up for the traditional Stampede pancake breakfast
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Flash floods play havoc with Calgary traffic in Friday thunderstorms
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Calgary is a hot spot for severe weather. Its location settled between high-elevation winds from the mountains, cold winds from the north and humidity from the south is the perfect combination. If you had to pick a place in the country that s going to have this kind of weather, it s Calgary, Shawn Marshall, a climatology expert from the University of Calgary, told CBC News last year.
36 St NE at Marlborough Mall is completely underwater. #calgary #abstorm pic.twitter.com/c4cO4OASAT—@ChrisWBoyse