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By Morgan Haigler

Another Tory MP says a silly thing Tory Member of Parliament for Calgary-Centre Lee Richardson unleashed a storm of opposition fury after he was recently quoted blaming “people that have grown up in a different culture” for crime in Calgary. “They don’t have the same background in terms of the stable communities we had 20,… Continue reading News for the unnewsed

By Morgan Haigler

Imagine for a moment that you are surviving without a home. You have no personal identification card and in turn, you can’t deposit money into a personal bank account. Help is coming. The Calgary Homeless Foundation will host Project Homeless Connect for disadvantaged people Sept. 20. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.… Continue reading Event helps homeless in Calgary get ID and shelter

By Morgan Haigler

The imprisoned children of Bluefields, Nicaragua can sleep more comfortably thanks to the humanitarian efforts of former Calgarian Bruce Callow. After raising $2,500 at a July benefit concert in Calgary and nearly $12,500 through the Caribbean Coast Prison Appeal of Nicaragua campaign, Callow said there is enough money to construct two separate jail cells to… Continue reading Former Calgarian helps kids in Nicaragua

By Morgan Haigler

Expert paleontologists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are lucky to have discovered the fossilized remains of a 75-million-year-old pregnant turtle and nest of 26 eggs. The findings are said to be the first Adocus specimens of a pregnant female turtle and nest site in the world and were discovered in… Continue reading Discovery hatches new insight

By Morgan Haigler

A new study led by neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at the University of Calgary Dr. Shabih Hasan suggests that premature infants whose mothers smoked while pregnant are more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome than those of non- smoking mothers. The study is the first to analyze the effects of cigarette smoke… Continue reading Pregnant smokers increase SIDS risk

By Morgan Haigler

Alberta’s nursing shortage will only get worse as young nursing graduates leave their professions for less demanding work in or outside their fields, said the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta. In 2004, 33 per cent of nurses under the age of 30 planned to leave their jobs, claimed CARNA communications director Margaret… Continue reading Alberta’s nurses overworked, shortage grows

By Morgan Haigler

Miss Canada International launched its fourth Teddy Bears of Hope campaign this year, collecting well over 50,000 stuffed animals for children living in Afghanistan. Rhiannon MacDonnell, a busy Miss Alberta International ambassador and graduate student at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, spent her summer gathering stuffed animals by the bagful for Teddy… Continue reading Bearing gifts

By Morgan Haigler

American soldier deported A soldier that fled the United States to avoid fighting in Iraq has been deported from Canada. The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed to the Canadian Press on Tuesday that American Robin Long has been returned to the U.S. from British Columbia, where he sought refugee status three years ago. In a… Continue reading News for the unnewsed

By Morgan Haigler

Refugee numbers on the rise The number of refugees leaving their home country exceeded 11 million in 2007, the United Nations announced this week. In a report by the Office of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, the agency noted the figure is down from 17.8 million refugees in 1992, but up significantly from… Continue reading News for the unnewsed