Aryn Toombs

6 days ago | livewirecalgary.com | Aryn Toombs

The Government of Alberta’s new registry of private career colleges (PCC) is being called a major win for students, and a strong move forward for transparency in post-secondary. Momentum, a Calgary based non-profit that has been working to improve transparency and accountability for PCCs since 2018, applauded the government’s move to launch the registry to help end predatory behaviour by bad actors. “For many years, students have been coming to us with concerns.

1 week ago | livewirecalgary.com | Aryn Toombs

Battling the devils and demons of hell has long been a staple in the horror genre, from cult classics like the Exorcist, to big Hollywood blockbusters, to even more recent genre films. So, making something that stands out and is fresh for audiences is no easy task. But for Calgary director Michael Peterson, exploring the occult means going back to the source material—quite literally—and questioning just who or whom it is that is being battled for souls.

1 week ago | livewirecalgary.com | Aryn Toombs

The Government of Alberta has introduced through Bill 53, the Compassionate Intervention Act, the first-in-Canada legislation to force drug users into treatment and recovery programs. The aim of the legislation is to ensure that prolific drug users who have a demonstrated risk of causing harm to themselves or others, are placed into either secure or community recovery programs. “In the past 10 years, over 50,000 Canadian lives have been lost to drug overdoses. They are not just numbers.

1 week ago | livewirecalgary.com | Aryn Toombs

It might seem strange that prolific horror movie director and editor Rob Grant would turn his attention during the pandemic to filming a coming-of-age film set in Canada in the 1980s. But the overlap between the John Hughes films like The Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller’s Day off and a slasher flick isn’t that far off. “A good teenage coming-of-age story has a lot to do with horror movies in the sense that for a teenager, a lot of your concerns are kind of life or death,” said Grant.

1 week ago | livewirecalgary.com | Aryn Toombs

Listen to the entire debate as part of LiveWire Calgary’s ongoing coverage of the 2025 elections happening in CalgaryHundreds of Calgarians spent their Sunday afternoon listening to party candidates from almost all of the major parties in Canada, during one of the few all-party debates in the city during the 2025 federal general election.