Calgary News Watch

Soccer may be a thing of the past for more than 850 players. The Eastside Soccer Centre is threatened with facing eviction.

They need to raise $200,000 or at least have a plan for raising the funds in place and approved by May 31st – this Thursday. The landlord has asked for long term plans for future years, not just a plan for the remainder of this year.

The indoor facility is home to several athletic associations, and over 80 teams. Among them are the teams for the Calgary Minor Soccer Association and their under-8 teams. Read the rest of this article »

Calgary renters will get some relief. Well, only 225 will get about $400 worth of relief each.

The province is sending $2.3 million to Calgary to help offset the sweltering costs of renting.

With the current situation of Mission area residents, where apartment rental rates are facing huge leaps in dollar amounts to force residents out, how can this minor rental assistance begin to a take a chunk out of an enormous problem?

According to Calgary Liberal MLA Dave Taylor, the program has merit. “Clearly, 225 is just a drop in the bucket, but it’s a start.” He does concede that more needs to be done. Read the rest of this article »

Okay, here is the story from the lady that had the horrible customer service experience on May 16 at Chinook Mall. I talked about this story a week ago. It gave me the idea to open up the new Customer Life category on MyCalgaryCity.com. So let’s take a look…

Sunday, May 13 I visited the (name removed) store at the TD Mall location in Downtown Calgary, Alberta. I found a pair of pants that I liked but they had no price tag on them, so I brought them up to the cashier and asked her if she could tell me how much the pants were. She glanced at the designer tag on the inside of the pants and told me that they were 10$. I preceded to ask if I could try them on, however she told me that the change rooms were unavailable (they looked demolished) but if I needed to exchange them for a larger size I would be able to take them down to the Chinook Mall location and I wouldn’t have a problem.

Little did I expect, the dreadful experience I would soon encounter at Chinook. Read the rest of this article »