'Into the air': One victim of Calgary house explosion likely in hospital for 6 months
A member of Calgary's South Sudanese community says 10 victims of a home explosion were blown into the air before falling into a fiery basement below.

A member of Calgary's South Sudanese community says 10 victims of a home explosion were blown into the air before falling into a fiery basement below.
Emergency crews are on scene at a serious crash on Highway 2A south of Calgary.
RCMP blocked off a highway southeast of Calgary on Thursday night as part of an investigation.
Alberta already has a Nordic spa in Kananaskis, but plans are in the works for another to open in nearby Canmore.
Calgary police have laid hundreds of charges in a three-week undercover drug trafficking operation focusing on CTrain stations.
Kristy North Peigan starts many of her futuristic pieces digitally on a computer then prints them on canvas. They're finished with either acrylic or oil paint and it's a style that's catching the eye of many library visitors.
A 15-year-old girl shot to death in the community of Martindale early Tuesday morning, has now been identified by friends and police as Sarah Alexis Jorquera.
Greg Peterson is a born-and-raised Calgarian and has always been an active member of the sporting community.
If Lethbridge can name its snowplows, why not its organic collection trucks?
More than 100 members of the southern Alberta business community listened as fellow professionals, including some of Alberta’s top economists, spoke on key issues facing the province, both internally and externally.
Alberta RCMP say a body found near Healy Bridge this week has been identified as a Lethbridge man.
A candidate for the United Conservative Party in southern Alberta has resigned after she posted a video claiming children are being exposed to pornography in schools.
Lethbridge police are investigating a sudden death in the city's downtown.
A Toronto man says he's fed up living next door to an eyesore after his neighbours vanished eight years ago, abandoning the property.
The six people whose bodies were recovered from the St. Lawrence River Thursday consisted of two families of Romanian and Indian origins who were likely trying to enter the U.S. illegally, police said Friday.
Rogers Communications Inc's $26-billion takeover of Shaw Communications Inc. cleared the last regulatory hurdle Friday, more than two years after the deal was first announced.
Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, prosecutors and defense lawyers said Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to face a criminal charge and jolting his bid to retake the White House next year.
Canadian Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has approved Rogers Communications Inc.'s $26-billion takeover of rival telecom Shaw Communications Inc., but there are conditions attached and penalties of up to $1 billion if the companies violate them.
The numbers of babies born with syphilis in Canada are rising at a far faster rate than recorded in the United States or Europe, an increase public health experts said is driven by increased methamphetamine use and lack of access to the public health system for Indigenous people.
Disgraced South African Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been denied parole, the lawyer for Reeva Steenkamp's parents said after the parole hearing.
A Toronto man, whose neighbours vanished eight years ago and left their home completely abandoned, said he's fed up living next door to a property that is in complete disarray.
Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole says he will not seek re-election and plans to resign his seat this spring. The Ontario MP led the Conservatives and served as official Opposition leader from August 2020 until February 2022, when a majority of his caucus voted to remove him from the post.
The vote of a Manhattan grand jury to indict the Republican former president on charges related to hush money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign catapults the now-candidate Donald Trump into a new era of legal risk and complicates his attempts to return to the White House.
Police say two families, including a missing infant, seeking illegal entry into the U.S. were among the dead found in the St. Lawrence River.