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A community art project in Coventry Hills is inviting hundreds of people to pick up their brushes to add their mark, but the mural has also become a labour of love for one family.

And you thought you had a packed schedule...? Florida man wrestled an alligator for breakfast, ate bath salts for lunch and assaulted a zombie for dinner. What are YOU doing with YOUR life?

A Calgary councillor will be putting forward a motion on Monday that could see the genesis of a formal bike share program that could see thousands of bicycles and scooters available for rent in the downtown core.

The best way to get your kids into Legos is to hand them a tub of Lego bricks and say, “Here, go wild.” But eventually, they may want to think even bigger and work with more bricks than they own. This free tool lets them build virtual Lego models with about 10,000 different parts, and then purchase the bricks to assemble their creations in real life if they want to (and yes, they will want to).

I should warn you, you’re about to waste a lot of time learning useless trivia. Wikipedia contributors have compiled a list of “unusual articles”—really just articles about unusual things—and the list alone is over 27,000 words long. We’ve collected over eighty of our favorites.

A couple months ago, Google announced that it would be suspending development of yet another messaging app to focus on Android Messages and to help carriers adopt Chat, a new messaging protocol based on RCS that should make texting a whole lot better.

Charges are pending against a man who was naked as he drove a postal van the wrong way through rush-hour traffic in southwest Calgary on Wednesday afternoon.

After an article suggested that people should have double their salary saved by the age of 35, people decided to offer up their own suggestions for what people should have by age 35.

This week Mary Meeker from the investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers released her 2018 annual internet trends report. There were a lot of tidbits in there covering everything from what city is likely to be the next big tech hub to how people are shopping on the internet. It also tackled another interesting topic: where you’re better off using a ride-sharing service.

A would-be thief has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for trying to hijack an internet domain through an armed robbery.