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Notre Dame’s Colton Hunchak, left, may be the best all-around high school football player in Alberta.

Local high school football season kicks off with familiar question: Can Notre Dame be beaten?

The question being asked as the 2014 Calgary high school football season begins is: “can Notre Dame be beat?”


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Testing for the long-delayed Connect cards begins Tuesday, but Calgary Transit hasn't set a date for full implementation.

Calgary Transit testing electronic fare cards after years of delay

Calgary Transit staff will begin testing electronic fare cards on buses and CTrain platforms tomorrow, although managers are not announcing a launch date for the long-promised Connect system. Calgary Transit is taking a once bitten, twice shy approach to the tap-and-go fare technology. It had fully developed the Connect card program in 2012, but found serious glitches in testing and cancelled its contract with a multinational developer.


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Editorial: Library fee cut speaks volumes

The Calgary Public Library is turning the page on its longstanding practice of charging a $12 membership fee.


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Shelia Wooldridge, store manager at the new Nordstrom store in Calgary, walks through the Chinook Centre outlet during a media tour Thursday.

Upscale Nordstrom wary of Target's failure as it prepares to open in Calgary

It’s one of the largest retail chains in the United States, but upscale giant Nordstrom Inc. is striking a decidedly humble tone in the lead-up to the opening of its first Canadian store at Calgary’s Chinook Centre.


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Cover Story

Optical Illusionists: Crafting prosthetic eyes is an art done by very few

Crafting prosthetic eyes is a rare art with a rich history, but advances in medical science mean the future of ocularists is anything but clear.


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Prince Rupert port gains at expense of U.S. rivals

Prince Rupert, a remote port luring tourists with the slogan "Where Canada's Wilderness Begins," may want to consider a new motto: "Asia's Gateway to Chicago."


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Fred Couples loosens up his back with some side-to-side stretches during Thursday’s pro-am round at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club.

Couples survives soggy warm-up round, focuses on Friday's opener

Soaked and freezing from one of those Alberta storms that often come out of nowhere, Fred Couples urged the media horde to move further into the warmer climes of the golf cart garage where an impromptu scrum was about to take place at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club on Thursday.


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Bill Ptacek, the new CEO of Calgary Libraries, hopes to increase membership by eliminating the fee for cards. “We want more people using the library, trying to remove as many barriers as possible.”

Calgary public libraries poised to eliminate card fee

This is likely the last year Calgarians will have to pay $12 for a library card. Calgary Public Library’s board has approved a 2015 business plan that does away with membership fees.


 
Bobby Clampett tees off during the 2013 Shaw Charity Classic at Canyon Meadows.

Clampett came by a love of flying honestly — his father once worked for Howard Hughes

“Once I get you up there, where the air is so rarefied, we’re gonna glide, absolutely starry-eyed.


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The Hunt

When did farmers' markets become gourmet outposts?

Remember when farmers’ markets were full of farmers? One man wants to get these gourmet outposts back in touch with their root vegetables. First step, haggling.


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Q&A with Joseph Fink and Cecil Baldwin of Welcome to Night Vale

The low overhead operation that once dethroned This American Life on top of the iTunes podcasting charts makes a live stop in Calgary.


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An embryologist at work in the Regional Fertility Program lab in Calgary.

No clear jurisdiction over private fertility clinic policies

For patients who have issues with private clinics, such as Calgary’s Regional Fertility Program, there are few options for recourse. The clinic has faced public scrutiny since the Herald reported that it was refusing to provide patients with sperm from donors of a different ethnicity, a policy the clinic now claims has been defunct for a year.


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Kayaking at Pender Island. Claire Young, Calgary Herald

5 highlights on Pender Island

1. BY WATER The waters around the island offer wonderful opportunities to view wildlife such as seals and water birds up close from kayaks and canoes, as well as enjoy the beauty of the cliffs and vegetation. Kayak rentals are available. There are three pods of orcas, totalling about 150 whales, which often make an appearance in the area. The Gulf Islands are also a magical place to explore by sailboat.


 
Transgender actress Laverne Cox at amfAR’s fifth annual Inspiration Gala in New York. Online retailers catering to masculine presenters have proliferated as trans people have enjoyed a higher profile in the media thanks to Laverne Cox of Orange is the New Black and other pioneers hired to model across the binary.

Bad service, bad fits: Dressing off gender binary can be challenge for non-conformers

NEW YORK — As a transgender woman who began her transition about a year ago, Kylie Jack is still figuring out her fashion style, but she wanted one thing right away: well-fitting bras. Friends recommended Petticoat Fair in Austin, Texas, where she lives. The lingerie shop is known for one-on-one fittings, but Jack was denied access to the area where professionals work privately with customers after being asked if she was an anatomical female.


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Levi Meaden (L) and Joan Allen (R) in a scene from Netflix's "The Killing" Season 4. Photo Credit: Carole Segal for Netflix.

Calgary-raised Levi Meaden plays troubled cadet on final season of The Killing

Levi Meaden had a strange ritual while preparing for his role of an alpha male cadet at a military academy in the fourth season of the crime drama The Killing.


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Mireille Enos in a scene from Netflix’s The Killing Season 4. Photo Credit: Carole Segal for Netflix.

Mireille Enos grateful for The Killing’s new life

Mireille Enos chuckles when told that her boss, The Killing creator Veena Sud, had referred to damaged detective Sarah Linden as being “lost in the woods.” Sud was speaking metaphorically at the time, outlining the desperately dark character arc of the overwrought murder investigator that Enos has played for four seasons. But fans of the series should appreciate the reference. In the startling finale of the third season last year, Linden was literally left in the woods. In the last seconds of the episode, she commits her own cold-blooded killing. It is an act of vengeance, or perhaps justice, after a twist revealed who had been savagely murdering women and runaway girls on the streets of Seattle.


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Jerry Brett died Tuesday while on vacation with his family on the Oregon coast.

Kneehill County planner dies on vacation in Oregon

A father of four from Drumheller has died after collapsing in the Pacific Ocean while on vacation in Oregon. Jerry Brett had been staying at a resort in Seaside, Ore., with family. On Tuesday afternoon, he was in the ocean by himself when he plunged into the water. His family could no longer see him from the beach.


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Barry Cooper

Cooper: It’s a travesty that we can’t get a pipeline built

When I was 18, I spent a golden summer as a welder’s helper installing residential gas lines in Rutland, now a Kelowna suburb, and in Grand Forks. I met two men, Dutchie and Dave, who had worked a few years before on the Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Vancouver and Seattle. They were brimming with tall stories, but unquestionably filled with pride about what they had built.


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