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Calgarians woke up to an Olympic opening week that never arrived. Instead of crowds and ceremonies, the 2026 Winter Games are taking place about 8,000 kilometres away in Milan, Italy. In 2018, Calgary stood close to hosting those Games again, three decades after 1988. The plan collapsed after a public vote, leaving unanswered questions about infrastructure, costs, and the city’s place in the Olympic movement.

A Calgary court imposed custodial sentences on three restaurant co-owners after finding that they financially abused immigrant employees and misused Canada’s temporary foreign worker system. The ruling followed a trial that examined payments demanded from workers, excessive hours, and living conditions tied to their employment.

Skate Canada has confirmed it will no longer stage national or international competitions in Alberta after completing an internal review of the province’s Fairness and Safety in Sport Act. The move follows weeks of public debate and rising tensions between provincial leaders, federal officials and athletes.

A growing debate over building safety and housing affordability has reached Calgary, where local firefighters and architects are divided on whether apartment buildings should be allowed to have just one exit stairwell instead of two.

A glimpse of the city of Calgary Alberta during October of 2012. Calgary, voted one of the top 5 best cities to live in the world, truly is a great place to call home. Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. As of the 2011 census, the City of Calgary had a population of 1,096,833 and a metropolitan population of 1,214,839, making it the largest city in Alberta, and the third-largest municipality and fifth-largest census metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada.