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Work In Progress: The problem with telling kids “Do What You Love”
If you’d asked me in Grade 6 what I wanted to be when I grew up, I probably would have said an actress – specifically a Broadway star – or a marine biologist. I would have given either answer based on...
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Alpine butterflies rebound in the Rockies
Call it networking for butterflies. Following a major population crash in 2003, alpine butterflies in Alberta’s Rockies have rebounded because of their connections, according to researchers from...
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Former Banff research bear legally shot and killed by B.C. hunter
A grizzly bear that was part of a monitoring program in Banff National Park has been legally shot and killed by a hunter in British Columbia during this spring’s harvest. The male bear, No. 125, was...
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Experimental liver treatment gives Nazdana 'a new life'
Nazdana Jan is a happy, healthy toddler. She loves snacks of yogurt and fresh fruit, and vies with her big sister, Paghunda, for the chance to play Dora the Explorer games on their dad’s cellphone. On...
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On the prowl for dinosaur eggs
A dinosaur egg hunt led by paleontologists in southern Alberta may unearth new clues about the origins of the long-gone animals. A team from the Royal Tyrrell Museum spent two days this week at...
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Cardiovascular risks for preemies: Are there other factors at play?
It has been said that cardiovascular problems such as high blood pressure and elevated lipids have a beginning in childhood, or even earlier, in the womb. One author uses the analogy of a dynamite...
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Officers consider how to handle grizzly bear involved in fatal attack
Conservation officers are trying to determine how to handle a grizzly bear involved in a fatal attack on the Picklejar Creek trail in Kananaskis Country. On the weekend, a sheep hunter who’s been...
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Health officials shut down pork distributor over E.coli concerns
The province’s health authority shuttered a central Alberta business this week that admits it supplied pork to a distributor implicated in an E.coli outbreak that has made at least 100 people ill....
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Alberta was once tropical
Re: “Better to have global warming than global cooling,” Patrick Moore, Opinion, Sept. 25. I never cease to be amazed at the global panic about climate change, given that the history of this globe...
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Student assessment results show ‘strategy is working,’ says public school board
Calgary’s public school board touted its latest student assessments and diploma exam results but its high school completion rate continues to lag behind the provincial average and its Catholic...
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Your prostate gland has good news for you
The folks at the Movember Foundation have done an amazing job of claiming the month of November for prostate and testicular cancer awareness. While most people regard Movember as an opportunity to...
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Risk factors you should know about Alzheimer's disease
By Alzheimer Society of Calgary Although the actual cause of Alzheimer’s disease and most other dementias is not yet known, research has succeeded in identifying the factors that put people at greater...
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Man charged after bathing in home of Banff's endangered snail
BANFF — A man is facing up to $75,000 in fines and a year in jail after he was caught in the thermal pool at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site — home to the endangered Banff Springs Snail....
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Mountain parks work to improve fish passage in streams, rivers
BANFF — A multi-year project to make it easier for fish to get around in streams and rivers throughout the seven mountain national parks has determined there are still many barriers under trails,...
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Lakritz: Baby, leave those birth certificates alone
When I was little, the girls in my neighbourhood sang a jump-rope song that went, “Fudge, fudge, call the judge/ Mama had a newborn baby/ It isn’t a boy, it isn’t a girl/ It’s just an ordinary baby.”...
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'Spectacular' horned dinosaur found in Alberta named after fossil hunter
A spectacular new horned dinosaur has been discovered in southern Alberta and named after a local woman who found its fossils. The Wendiceratops pinhornensis, which was approximately six metres long,...
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Balanced gut bacteria in children may help ward off some illnesses
Around 1983 some North American doctors scoffed at their peers in Holland, who at that time did not treat all childhood middle ear infections with antibiotics. I specifically remember attending an...
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Modern birds can thank nesting habits of dinosaurs for their evolutionary...
The way dinosaurs nested could very well be the reason behind the evolutionary success of birds, according to new research from the University of Calgary. While PhD student Kohei Tanaka was working on...
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Scientist developing tool to help predators in the Rockies
BANFF — As populations of large predators decline, a biologist studying wildlife corridors says science can be used to improve the fate of grizzly bears, wolves and cougars. Speaking to a...
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Oldest evidence of animal caring for its offspring discovered at Burgess...
A 508-million year old fossil found at the original, world-renowned Burgess Shale site has provided the oldest known example of a creature caring for its offspring. Specimens of the Waptia — a...
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