Calgary police said a pedestrian was killed late Tuesday after being hit by a vehicle on Stoney Trail in the city’s northeast.

Investigators said the crash happened just before 11 p.m. in the southbound lanes, near McKnight Boulevard.

When officers arrived, they shut down the southbound lanes between McKnight and 16 Avenue northeast and advised motorists to avoid the area.

The man who was struck died from his injuries.

Investigators said the driver of the vehicle involved remained at the scene.

The road was closed to traffic for about six hours while the CPS collision reconstruction team investigated.

It was reopened to traffic around 6 a.m., just in time for the start of the Wednesday morning rush hour.

Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada.

The shared road is on the Montana side, but Alberta maintains it.

North of the road lives Ross Ford. On the south, it’s Roger Horgus.

Both are in their 60s but remember childhood days bounding back and forth across the invisible demarcation line to play.

It was a generational thing. In 1990, National Geographic magazine profiled the two families as exemplars of amity along the world’s longest undefended border.
No more.

In the age of U.S. President Donald Trump, with American concerns of cross-border drug traffickers and illegal newcomers, the road is set to be closed to Canucks starting this summer.

When that happens, the only member of Ford’s family free to cross the road will be his black-and-white border collie, Geordie.

“It’s unfortunate,” Ford, 64, said in an interview on his farm just east of Coutts, Alta. “We’ve enjoyed free access to the road for I guess about 80 years, way before I was born.

“We’ve always been very close to our neighbours.

“Of course, they live in Montana and that won’t change — but we have this new barrier.”

Horgus, 68, sits drinking coffee at the kitchen table on his farm near Sweet Grass, Mont., and nods in the direction of his nearby neighbour, whom he has known for, well, forever.

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“When we grew up, I wouldn’t be surprised if some weeks every day we’d run across and play. Ride bicycles, ride horses, go-karts,” Horgus said.

“(The road closure is) ridiculous. I hate to see it because the Canadians have taken such good care of us and the road, with grading and all of that.”

Horgus said U.S. border patrol officials have told residents there has been an increase in illegal traffic, but he’s seen no evidence.

A silver marker on a hill overlooking Ford’s farm indicates the exact location of the border. Recognizing the Treaty of 1908, it reads Canada on the north side of the marker and the United States on the south.

On a recent spring day, two U.S. border patrol officers pulled over in their vehicles on Border Road to have a chat.

Ford said patrols are usual. But in times past, U.S. officers would wave people through if a driver was heading across to chat with a neighbour.

Soon, the one road now will be two.

Ford said a virtually identical parallel gravel road will be laid down just metres away, on the Canadian side.

“The roads will basically parallel each other for the full length of the road. So we’ll have our road, and they’ll have their road.

“And the border will be in the ditch,” he said with a laugh.

Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen said the province was told last year that changes were coming.

“We were informed by Homeland Security that they were making sure that this and other areas of U.S. soil at the border were going to be enforced,” Dreeshen said in an interview.

“We obviously went through the process to make sure we were able to expedite this (road), working with the County of Warner to make sure local access for Albertans (was available) on the Canadian side of the border.”

Dreeshen said $8 million has been allocated. Work is to begin in April and hopefully be completed by summer.

He understands the frustration many area residents may feel, he said.

“Regardless of the line on the map, you’ll have farmers on both sides of the border, you’ll have family friends on both sides of the border.

“I think obviously that will continue.”

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What to know about new U.S. border rules

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The City of Calgary has reached a major milestone in the work to repair the beleaguered Bearspaw South Feeder Main as crews were scheduled to begin the process of slowly refilling the pipe with water on Friday — a task that will take several days to complete.

The water will then need to be tested to confirm it is safe for consumption, then the feeder main will be reconnected to the rest of Calgary’s water system.

The excavations along the nine sections of pipe where the repairs are being done have now been backfilled and the roads that had to be torn up to allow the work to proceed will soon be repaved.

However, the city does not yet have a date for when the water restrictions will be lifted.

“We’re getting close, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” said the city’s general manager of infrastructure services, Michael Thompson. “Over the next few days, we will be moving ahead in a measured, deliberate way, with a focus on stability and safety as we work to start flowing water through the pipe.”

Mayor Jeromy Farkas told Global News in an interview on Friday: “We’re just a couple more days until we can end the water restrictions, but this allows us to reinforce those sections that we knew were on the imminent, imminently going to fail.”

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The latest information on water use from the city shows that on Thursday, Calgarians used 483 million litres of water — that’s below the 500 million litres of daily water use that the city claims is sustainable while the feeder main is shut down and the Glenmore Reservoir is being used to supply most of the city’s water.

On Wednesday, Calgarians used 501 million litres.

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Calgary under month-long water restrictions as Bearspaw feeder main work begins

“We know next week is spring break for a lot of households,” Thompson said.  “We ask everyone to continue with your water saving, especially as your household routines might change next week.”

Thompson said it will also take about five million litres of water to refill the recently repaired sections of the pipe, so overall water use is expected to increase over the weekend.

Even with the repairs that are being done, Farkas continues to warn that the pipe is terminally ill and could still break at any time, which would result in another shutdown and more water restrictions.

While the city said mitigation work has been done to protect homes and businesses, the city has also issued a warning about the possibility of pooling water in the communities of Bowness and Montgomery should there be another failure.

“There are a couple areas through those communities where if the pipe were to fail, it would cause flooding. Think like the videos that folks saw on December 30th when Trans-Canada Highway became that surging river. So we don’t want to be in that situation. So we’ve done some preventative work in the area. You’ll see adjustments to the pathway, the berms, but we want to do this as safely as possible,” Farkas said.

The city has also produced maps of the area showing where water could pool if there is another failure.

The city will also be hosting an online information session on Monday at noon to provide an update on the feeder main repairs for people who live in the area.

Farkas claims the city is also on track to complete the job of replacing the old concrete feeder main with a new steel pipe by sometime in December.

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Calgary mayor talks about latest water restrictions, public hearings on rezoning bylaw

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Are vehicle headlights glaringly bright these days in Canada?

Transport Canada wants to hear from you, and is running a national survey about vehicle headlight glare and how it affects drivers at night.

“While new headlight technology in vehicles can help drivers see better, they can also cause problems for other road users. Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night,” the release states.

“We want to hear about your experiences, opinions, and behaviours with vehicle headlight glare.”

The survey opened on March 6 and will close on April 20.

Last month, the City of Victoria’s municipal council unanimously passed a motion asking provincial and federal governments to “review and update safety regulations for vehicle designs.”

Coun. Dave Thompson, who put forward the motion, said brighter headlines can be a distraction to other drivers.

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“While improved illumination may benefit drivers using them, increased brightness and headlight height can cause painful glare for other drivers, particularly older drivers, and difficulty seeing people walking and using bikes and other mobility devices when backlit at night.”

The City of Vancouver also passed a motion asking Transport Canada to review headlight brightness.

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Vancouver wants limits put on headlight brightness

“These LED headlights and HID headlights, especially on oversized vehicles, are very common in Vancouver. They’ve been linked to reduce nighttime visibility, delayed reaction times, and a higher risk of collisions,” Coun. Sean Orr said at Vancouver City Hall on Jan. 21.

“These impacts are felt, not just by drivers, but by cyclists, pedestrians, seniors and people with vision impairments who are especially vulnerable to glare.”

As of September 2021, the Canadian Vehicle Lighting Regulation requires that all new vehicles sold in Canada have one of the following:

• Tail-lights that come on automatically with daytime running lights.
• Headlights, tail-lights and side marker lights that turn on automatically in the dark.
• A dashboard that stays dark to alert the driver to turn on the lights.

However, glare is not mentioned in Transport Canada’s Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (CMVSS), which closely mirror U.S. regulations.

A 2024 study conducted in the U.K. surveyed 2,000 drivers and found that nine in 10 (89 per cent) of people think at least some headlights on cars on the road today are too bright, of which three in 10 (28 per cent) – a higher proportion than ever – think most are.

The study stated the effect may be due to more cars having LED headlights, which have a much more intense and focused beam than “yellower” halogen bulbs.

In addition, five per cent of surveyed drivers stated they have “nearly been involved in a collision themselves” due to vehicle brightness.

Nearly one in 10 (seven per cent) said they find headlight glare “so bad that they avoid driving at night altogether,” a figure that rises to 14 per cent for drivers aged 65 and over.

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While the war in Iran has sent gasoline prices soaring around the world, there are growing concerns about how the spike in the cost of other fuels could also affect consumers and the broader economy.

In Canada, the average price of diesel has surged to nearly $2.30 per litre — more than 50 per cent higher than just three months ago.

“It’s unprecedented. We’ve never seen anything like this in the oil market or the refined products market and it’s getting worse,” said Calgary-based petroleum industry analyst Richard Masson.

“The tankers that left four weeks ago just before the war started are just starting to unload at their destinations,” he continued.

“It takes three to four weeks to get where they’re going, but over the last four weeks there have been no tankers leaving out of the Strait of Hormuz.

“So over the next few weeks, places that need those fuels aren’t going to be getting them.”

Masson said the refined products market is experiencing prices like $200 a barrel for diesel fuel.

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“And more than that, countries like China have banned exports of refined products. So there are places like California, that depend on refined products coming from China because they’ve had many refineries shut down, who are now scrambling to find replacements for their diesel, for their gasoline.

“The whole global market right now is totally upset, and people are still trying to understand what it all means.”

Small business owners in Alberta are also waiting to see what happens, depending on how long the war drags on.

“Well, the price is going to affect freight and delivery, for sure,” said Ernie Tsu of the Alberta Hospitality Association, who is also owner of the Trolley 5 Brewpub in Calgary.

“We haven’t seen it come down yet from the major suppliers. I’m sure it’s going to,” said Tsu, who admits restaurant menu prices will need to increase if freight and delivery charges increase.

However, Tsu said a lot of restaurants are working with local farmers in an effort to keep transportation costs down and still provide excellent products and that helps “massively.”

Masson said if diesel prices get too high, it could cause the entire supply chain to break down.

“There’s two parts to that. One is the price gets higher for transportation because of the diesel cost and so that gets transmitted through to prices,” said Masson.

“The other is people just can’t get hold of the product physically and so they stop shipping things and so the supply chains start to break down.

“I’m seeing more and more talk about supply chains breaking down like happened during COVID.”

While the members of the International Energy Agency recently agreed to release hundreds of millions of oil from their strategic emergency reserves in an effort to combat a possible shortage of Middle East oil, Masson said it may not help prevent a shortage of diesel, because it’s not the right kind of oil.

“The Middle East produces kind of a medium-sour crude, and that crude goes into refineries and makes a larger proportion of diesel and a smaller proportion of gasoline.

“When that crude goes missing, it affects the diesel supply more and this is the challenge because not all crude oil is the same.”

While much of the oil produced in Canada is suitable for making diesel, Masson said most of the recent increase in U.S. production is lighter oil obtained through fracking, and is not suitable for making diesel.

“We have this real problem where not only is there a smaller supply of crude, but it’s not the right kinds of crude in the right refineries to keep production of things like diesel going at the rate we need — and of course, the economy depends on diesel,” said Masson.

“So we we have to find a way to adjust our consumption and the way we do that is by price. So the higher the price goes, more people will stop using it and only the best uses will happen.

“This is what’s going to happen over the coming weeks as this (crisis) deepens.”

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B.C. Highway Patrol is warning drivers not do things simply because they can after stopping a driver who was apparently dozing in their car.

On March 17, a police officer pulled up beside an electric car during the morning rush-hour commute along Highway 1 in Coquitlam and noted that the driver did not appear to be touching the steering wheel, according to Cpl. Michael McLaughlin with BC Highway Patrol.

Highway Patrol said it was raining at the time and the highway conditions were slippery.

The officer looked over at the car beside him and saw the driver of the electric car with her eyes closed and arms crossed.

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“The driver appeared to be literally asleep at the wheel,” McLaughlin said.

“The driver said that she had ‘zoned out’ but was fully alert with her hands on the steering wheel. In-car police video did not support the driver’s claim.”

The driver, a 37-year-old woman from Metro Vancouver, was fined $368 for driving without due care and attention. She also received a $138 fine for speeding.

“It’s true that some electric vehicles have self-driving mode, but those systems are not legal to use in B.C.,” McLaughlin said. “You need to be fully awake, alert, focused, and in control of your vehicle at all times.”

McLaughlin said this also comes with six penalty points on the person’s licence.

“If you are not completely in control of your vehicle, awake, alert, with your hands on your steering wheel, you are violating the law and expect to receive a ticket from Highway Patrol,”  he said.

“In British Columbia, self-driving is not legal on our roads.”

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A third overpass in Saskatoon has been damaged by a vehicle this month, creating traffic snarls once again for drivers in the city.

According to Saskatoon police, officers responded to the scene of a collision on Sunday between a large vehicle and the train bridge overpass on Circle Drive between 108th Street and Attridge Drive.

By about 4:10 p.m. Sunday, police said trains had resumed operation on the overpass, but vehicle traffic on Circle Drive between 108th Street and Attridge Street would remain restricted to a single northbound lane.

Police said they continue to investigate the collision.

The crash came days after two separate crashes. The first occurred on March 11 when an over-height load clipped the 108th Street overpass. The city later said the overpass was safe for use.

That incident came six days after Saskatoon police said a semi with a trailer carrying a piece of equipment caused significant damage to the Highway 16 overpass on March 5.

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Overpass strike backs up Saskatoon’s Circle Drive for second time in a week

According to police, the semi was travelling in the northbound lane of Highway 11 from Regina entering the city limits and was too high for the structure, also known as the Circle Drive overpass.

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Hours later, Saskatoon engineers assessed the damage and opened one eastbound lane of Circle Drive and one northbound lane of Highway 11 for traffic to proceed.

Under the city’s traffic bylaw, it can fine for infrastructure damages at a maximum of $10,000 for individuals and $20,000 for corporations.

Following its investigation into the March 5 incident, Saskatchewan Highway Patrol charged the operator of the semi-truck with offences including driving with undue care and attention, operating with a major defect and exceeding maximum height restrictions.

No charges have been announced in connection with the March 11 incident. The investigation is ongoing, police said.

Repairs from the two previous crashes are still ongoing and traffic restrictions remain on both Highway 11 and Highway 16.

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With the start of the summer tourist season just a few months away, people who work in Alberta’s tourism industry are expecting another boom of visitors from both within Canada and around the world.

The soaring number of visitors has been especially noticeable in places like Banff National Park, where the town of Banff welcomed a record number of tourists — almost seven million vehicles into the town site, up four per cent from 2024.

The federal government’s decision to renew the Canada Strong pass, which provides free access to national parks and national historic sites, amongst other benefits, for a second summer is expected to again help fuel the boom in visitors.

Parks Canada said that between June 2 and Sept. 2 of last year, the period when the Canada Strong pass was available, sites administered by the agency saw an estimated 14 and a half million visitors — a jump of 13 per cent over the previous year.

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‘Very busy’: Elk Island National Park exceeding capacity due to pass program

It’s a stark contrast to the United States, where the Trump administration will be charging non-residents an extra $100 tourist fee to visit many of America’s national parks, which is likely to encourage even more people to look elsewhere — perhaps north of the border.

“Banff is such a beautiful place and everybody wants to come,” said Stéphane Prévost, executive chef and managing partner for Block Kitchen and Bar and Shoku Izakaya in Banff.

While Prévost told Global News that he feels privileged to live and work in Banff, and is eager to welcome visitors, he said it must be done in a sustainable way.

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“I think this is a good situation for us in Canada. There are always different opinions on opening the gates and making it free for everybody to access the parks, which amplifies the inbound traffic. Of course there’s things that we need to manage carefully with that,” said Prévost.

“Over-tourism is a big topic, a big subject that can be divisive, polarizing. However I’m on the side of promoting tourism in the right way, in a sustainable way. That’s how our economy can continue to thrive and succeed for us to keep everybody employed and to be successful and to continue to deliver this great experience to the guests that visit us from all over the place, Canada and the world.”

Concern about Over-tourism is a issue the mayor of Banff says the town is working hard to address.

Corrie DiManno says the expansion of sustainable transit options, like Roam Transit, which encourages visitors to park their cars and take the bus to visit popular attractions like the Banff Gondola, has helped greatly reduce traffic congestion in town.

“We have invested millions of dollars into our transit system to try and address it,” said DiManno.  “After last summer we now know that 40 per cent of the bridge crossings over the Bow River happen on sustainable transportation. So it’s either folks on the bus, buses across our vehicle bridge, or by foot or by bike across our pedestrian bridges. So sustainable transportation is the solution here in town.

“We’ve put in a transit lane that goes to one of the top attractions in the park — the Banff gondola. We have flaggers at intersections during peak times. The town has basically pulled every lever within our control,” added DiManno.

What she claims the town needs now, to help continue to address traffic concerns, is support from the provincial and federal governments to develop better mass transit options from the city of Calgary.

The town is also exploring ways to help grow the winter demand for tourism.

“The impetus behind that is to try and smooth out our tourism so that it’s not so heavily weighted in summer and instead to have more consistent tourism throughout the year,” said DiManno.

“This helps with business certainty as well as folks knowing that they have a steady job. The peaks and valleys can be quite difficult for our residents. There already is a high cost of living here and if folks are getting their shifts cut and not able to have consistent work, then that’s going to affect their ability to pay rent, buy groceries, those sorts of daily things.”

DiManno said the town is also planning an in-depth study of the issue of over-tourism, consulting with residents and businesses about exactly what the issues are and what problems need to be solved.

“I don’t believe the request for proposals has gone out quite yet, but they are working on that,” said DiManno.

“For example, we know our road network is at capacity during peak time, but are our sidewalks? That’s a question we don’t have an answer to,” said DiManno.

“What about restaurants? What about the trails? What about our hospital and health centres? So we’re gonna have this exploratory conversation with all sectors of the community. We know it’s going to be about a year-long process. We want to make sure we’re doing this right.”

In the meantime, both residents and business owners are gearing up for what could be another record tourism season.

“In my opinion, Banff National Park is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and it’s such a gift to be able to share the town with the world and we take it very seriously that we live within a national park and we want to be stewards of this place,” DiManno added.

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Canada Strong Pass expected to boost summer travel

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Trains are a part of Canadian heritage, linking cities from coast to coast to coast.

Currently, there are about 42,000 km of track running across Canada.

There is also a vast network of roads, meaning they will occasionally cross paths — and this is where it can be dangerous.

“In Canada in 2025, there were 160 crossing incidents and 92 trespassing incidents. That includes fatalities and injuries,” said Chris Day, the national director of Operation Lifesaver Canada.

On Tuesday afternoon, RCMP say a train was travelling westbound near Taber, Alta., when it struck a northbound semi-truck.

“Unfortunately, the train wasn’t able to stop in time, striking the back end of the semi-truck,” said Cpl. Troy Savinkoff with the Alberta RCMP.

The police investigation determined the truck had stopped before the tracks, then proceeded onto them, stopping again while the trailer was still in the way of the train.

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“My understanding is it’s quite open, lots of fields. It’s Taber/Vauxhall area, so we’re not talking a lot of hills or anything. (The semi-truck driver) just missed it,” said Savinkoff.

The driver was ticketed with careless driving following the incident, but thankfully no injuries were reported.

While it may seem like this shouldn’t have happened, one driving expert says overall motorist behaviour has been declining for years.

“We know that statistically, across North America, driving behaviours have degraded basically since the pandemic,” said Hannah Hamilton, program manager of safe communities with the Alberta Motor Association.

She says the exact reasoning isn’t known, but entitlement could be a partial culprit.

“There’s some psychology into (the idea that) people are less community minded now — they’re thinking more about themselves.”

Hamilton says the roadway is a shared experience with everything from a two-door sedan to a multi-car train.

For Day, he’s concerned about the almost 25,000 railway crossings in Canada where people need to think about more than just themselves.

“There are a lot of places where people who may, or may not, be paying the attention they should be, can find themselves in conflict or collision with a train,” said Day.

He says the amount of annual incidents involving trains and vehicles or pedestrians has declined significantly over the past 40 years, but the five-year average has been up.

As a result, every expert says it’s important to just remember you aren’t alone on the road and paying attention is a must.

“I think the biggest message is remember that driving, whether (knowing your route) like the back of your hand or not, is an activity that requires your full attention,” said Hamilton.

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GO train partially derailed outside Union Station causes nightmare for commuters

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