“They’ll keep him in for another night or two. He’s on a drip. He recognized me when I went in”
Residents of this mountain town are watching out for a hungry, possibly sick cougar that lingered outside a home, trying to get in, after one of the occupants rescued a dog from the big cat’s jaws. via Calgary Herald
“You skip right over those mountains there and ‘Pow,’ you’re in beetle country.”
The tiny and determined pine beetle wants to get into southern Alberta’s Rocky Mountain forests badly and the province is preparing to torch valleys to stop it. via CTV.ca
“The lady who owns the dog saw the cougar and threw a rock at it”
By Aaron Paton and Pam Doyle Canmore Leader staff Wednesday August 29, 2007 One cat is missing and a dog is injured but still alive after two separate cougar attacks in Eagle Terrace. via Canmore Leader
“It stresses the heart if she sleeps too much because she’s without her fluids”
A 15-year-old Alberta girl has become the first Canadian to be taken off an artificial “Berlin Heart” because her own heart healed itself. via CANOE
“I think it’s crazy to eliminate a position like that because breastfeeding saves the health care system a lot of money. Breastfed kids make way fewer trips to the hospital.”
Another lactation consultant for the Bow Valley has been identified as a need by public health, but officials are still waiting to hear if additional funding will be available. via Canmore Leader
“Yes, that sparkling blue lake with the mountains towering over it is spectacular, but the sun isn’t quite in the right spot for a picture, and there’s not even one mountain goat around now.”
The small, northern Alberta town of Jasper may not seem to be the most logical road trip destination for a relatively young couple celebrating their five-year wedding anniversary, especially with my co-pilot … via Globe and Mail
“I saw this last night on Fear Factor!”
At the library, a group of preschoolers was gathered for a singalong. The song was, “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.” After they had finished singing the first verse, the woman leading the song … via Edmonton Sun
Conservation officer Andy Rees measures an 80 pound, two-year-old black bear that was caught at Bow River campground on Friday. via Canmore Leader
“The biggest issue for me is the tenacity of the MD”
By Aaron Paton Canmore Leader staff Wednesday August 22, 2007 The MD of Bighorn has spent over $62,000 fighting a legal battle over dogs and is poised to spend more. via Canmore Leader
“They have rules and I understand that”
Parker Anderson-Stanley has spent three years fighting for his life and now the young cancer patient wants his mother to put the same fight into keeping the dogs who have added so much to what little time he … via Slam Sports
A woman playing Frisbee with some friends died after a large tree fell across a trail and struck her. via Edmonton Sun
A woman playing frisbee with some friends died after a large tree fell across a trail and struck her. via Edmonton Sun
“We worked out a contract with them and they came out”
It’s no secret that Golden is in the midst of an employment crisis; signs indicating “Help Wanted” and “Closed early due to labour shortage” in the windows of businesses all over town are a testament to that. via Tacoma Daily Index
“The area will be closed until further notice”
Officials shut down the Upper Grassi Lakes Trail on Tuesday amid fears of a hazardous rockslide. via Canmore Leader
“We had a significant issue to solve, and that is an upgrading issue. That put us in a situation where we had to look for an alternative”
Imagine you recently closed a deal that made you a multimillionaire at 45, then you get a call from a group of soon-to-be-unemployed miners who’d like you to lead their new venture and raise in excess of … via National Post
“A lot of glass-blowing is working and reacting with the glass rather than forcing the glass”
Inside the studio, the duo moves in a kind of pas de deux, deftly wielding red-hot metal rods and molten glass. via Calgary Herald
“A three-hour round trip can sometimes seem preferable to six hours sitting and going nowhere.”
Frustrated Calgarians are travelling more than 100 kilometres to access family physicians and walk-in clinics in small towns, in a bid to beat the citywide doctor shortage. via Calgary Herald
“Why tell the truth when a lie will do?”
A Canmore, Alta., man charged with uttering threats against Prime Minister Stephen Harper was found not guilty on Wednesday after claiming the entries he made on an Internet blog were part of a creative process … via National Post
“He didn’t come back up, so I walked over and didn’t see him.”
Dive team didn’t find body in search, no missing person report filed RCMP and Alberta Public Safety officers search for a missing boy with sunbathers at Quarry Lake on Saturday. via Canmore Leader
“I find this horribly offensive and I would like to find him guilty of criminal rudeness and fine him a few thousand dollars for it”
Writing nasty commentary on an Internet blog about Prime Minister Stephen Harper — including a desire to see him dead — was offensive, but not criminal, a judge said Wednesday after acquitting a Canmore man … via Calgary Herald
