CALGARY Local advocacy groups are expressing alarm at Calgary HandiBus’s decision Friday to discontinue their accessible transit service, despite assurances by transit officials the move won’t significantly impact users. Word of the closure troubles for Darrel Gregory, director of the Calgary chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, who said the loss of service would affect thousands. “People who have MS are often underemployed, or unemployed, and rely on public t

Keeping pace with increasing school enrolment will require six to seven new schools per year, says Calgary's public school board. Revising an estimate he made in October, Calgary Board of Education (CBE) Superintendent of Facilities and Environmental Services Frank Coppinger said growing student populations are taking their toll on the city's already overcrowded classrooms. "I now believe we need six to seven new schools, not five to six," he said. "The numbers we expect to a

BANFF - Welcoming party faithful to an Alberta “under new management,” Premier Jim Prentice spoke to a raucous crowd in Banff to open the Alberta PC Party's annual general meeting -- his first since being named premier. "Ladies and gentleman, this government is back and this party is back," Prentice said Friday night. "There's nobody writing obituaries about this party this weekend." Praising his new cabinet, as well as the party executive, he called his new caucus “fighting