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Alberta man may be first to sell house for bitcoin virtual currency
Like countless young men across North America, Taylor More likes sports and hanging out with friends. And if his latest project pans out he’ll be unique — the first person to sell a house for bitcoins.
Mr. More’s two-bedroom bungalow “with beautiful mountain views” is priced at the equivalent of $405,000 in bitcoins.
A so-called crypto-currency that exists only electronically, bitcoin was created in 2009 and has grown in popularity, the darling of digital enthusiasts and, increasingly, doubtful types who value the anonymity and ease of doing business it provides.
Alberta aboriginal rock etchings defaced with drill, power washer, acid
Historians are comparing it to the Taliban’s destruction of massive Buddhist statues in Afghanistan: Ancient aboriginal pictograms and petroglyphs on an Albertan rock formation have been systematically destroyed by cultural vandals using a rock drill, acid and a power washer.
The obliteration of the etchings on the Glenwood Erratic near Pincher Creek in southern Alberta was discovered last week, just as an historian was about to photograph and test the markings.
“The site is part of the earliest heritage of Canada,” said Michael Dawe, Curator of History at Red Deer Museum. “It looks like an ancient ceremonial/religious site at Glenwood, Alta., was deliberately destroyed. If true, this is a shocking and appalling incident.” (Photos: CHRIS DAVIS/PINCHER CREEK VOICE)
Drunken Alberta man survives after he’s run over by 26 rail cars
A drunken Alberta man who passed out on the train tracks was somehow uninjured after being run over by a train on Sunday evening.
The man, from Crowsnest Pass, Alta., was spotted between the rails just outside of Elko in southeast British Columbia by the Canadian Pacific train conductor who sounded the horn and hit the emergency brakes.
“The guy seemed to wake up and he got up, grabbed his beer and headed on his way,” said RCMP Sgt. Dave Dubnyk. (Photo: The Canadian Press/Files)
Alison Redford’s PCs win majority in Alberta election
Defying the odds of pollsters and naysayers, Alberta’s long-ruling Progressive Conservatives elected their 12th straight majority government Monday night.
Matt Gurney: Young Alberta voters too embarrassed to vote Wildrose?
It is not that the new crop of voters isn’t right-wing, they just didn’t think Wildrose could represent them — or worse, worried they might embarrass them.
My life is ‘hell’: Robert Wilkinson, Bohemian Rhapsodist
On the night he wound up in a viral video that would eventually be viewed by millions, Robert Wilkinson says, he simply set out to join his friends for a drink in the pub of the local Best Western in Edson, Alta.
That November evening ended with a drunk driving charge and a passionate, near-perfect rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody that has since garnered nearly seven million views on YouTube.
Mr. Wilkinson said in an interview Tuesday his life in his west-central Alberta hometown of fewer than 10,000 people has since become a “slow burning hell.”
“The ringing and all the messages on my iPad. I find it difficult to keep a battery charge on it,” he said. “I don’t know what I’m going to do now, end up in the gutter probably.”
6:10 minutes of fame: Man behind drunken ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ RCMP video revealed
Robert Wilkinson is experiencing a few minutes of fame — 6:10 to be exact — after a video of him drunkenly singing the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody” in its entirety while sitting in the back of an RCMP squad car has gone viral
The video was part of the evidence disclosure package that was given to Wilkinson when he decided to defend himself in court, said RCMP spokeswoman Doris Stapleton. She said he then uploaded the video online.
Drunken man sings all of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in back of RCMP cruiser
An unnamed man with a scraggly beard is experiencing a few minutes of fame — 6:10 to be exact — after a video of him drunkenly singing the song “Bohemian Rhapsody” in its entirety while sitting in the back of an RCMP squad car surfaced online.
Wildrose party to rethink the wheels on Danielle Smith’s bus
Alberta’s Wildrose party says it is planning to change the design on its campaign bus after an image of leader Danielle Smith became the subject of some laughs.
“Glad to see everyone is so interested in our bus. ;) Guess we’ll have to make a couple of changes huh?” tweeted Alberta’s Wildrose party leader Danielle Smith, about her campaign bus. (Ed Kaiser/Postmedia News)
Two promising baseball players die in alleged Alberta murder-suicide
Two promising southern Alberta baseball athletes and a female passenger were gunned down in an overnight roadside rampage near Claresholm.
The shooter, apparently driving alone on the dark highway just north of the town early Thursday morning, sprayed bullets at two men and two women travelling together toward Calgary, before turning the weapon on himself.
One woman survived the attack.
The mass killing stunned the rural Alberta town and devastated friends and families of the victims, all in their 20s.
“I don’t know why. That’s a question that everyone’s going to be asking for a long time — is why. There’s probably no answer to that one,” said Todd Hubka, who’d coached Tanner Craswell and Mitch Maclean at Prairie Baseball Academy in Lethbridge, Alta. (Photo courtesy the Guardian)
When Donna Rudd began suffering extreme shortness of breath, severe muscle pains and extreme blistering on her hands last June, her mind raced back a week to when she’d cleaned dead bats and a bucket of their droppings from the base of her home’s chimney. Read more
Meet the man behind the Alberta falling-satellite hoax
Sebastian Salazar will openly admit he’s no Orson Welles, but for one night, the aspiring filmmaker offered his very best impression.
Salazar was the source of the social-media hoax on Friday night that claimed a NASA satellite that had been falling to earth had crashed into a farmer’s field near Okotoks, Alta., about 40 kilometres south of Calgary.
“If it worked for Orson Welles in 1938, I wanted to see if it worked on Twitter in 2011,” he said. (Photo: NASA Handout)
Suspect in B.C. abduction case arrested: report
The prime suspect in the abduction of three-year-old Kienan Hebert, who was returned to his family on Sunday, was arrested Tuesday morning according to media reports.
Global News reported Tuesday afternoon that Randall Hopley was arrested by the RCMP in Alberta, just three kilometres from the B.C. border, earlier in the day.
Hopley is reportedly being transported back to B.C.
Photos: Vertical loop waterslide!
The West Edmonton Mall’s newest waterslide, the Cyclone, promises a 17-metre drop for riders, followed by a “near vertical loop” and speeds of nearly 60 kilometres per hour. “Sliders step into a glass capsule, and after an automated voice counts down from three, the floor drops from beneath them, sending them on their journey,” the mall’s press release reads. (Rick MacWilliam/Edmonton Journal)
Amy Rosen went to the Calgary Stampede to taste the best hyper-fatty food they had on offer. Pictured here: The Doughnut Burger with cheese. Read the full story here.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper becomes “Chief Speaker” at a Kainai Chieftainship ceremony with elder Pete Standing Alone and Melissa Whitegrass on the Blood Indian reserve in Stand Off, Alberta, July 11, 2011. For more photos, go to the National Post’s photo page. PHOTO: Todd Korol/Reuters
