In case you’re wondering, Calgary is the best Canadian city in which to have a heart attack.

That’s coming from a study conducted by scientists at the University of Calgary, so take that for what it’s worth — either favoritism or wishful thinking.

Nonetheless, they claimed that Calgarians are more likely to survive cardiac arrest because they have “quick and easy access to life-saving angioplasty treatment 24 hours a day at Foothills Medical Centre,” according to a CBC.ca report.

“Treating people immediately with angioplasty can lead to lower death rates and better outcomes,” researcher William Ghali told the CBC.

The researchers said Alberta is on par with the national average in terms of providing angioplasty treatment, but Ontario leads the nation with more than 70 percent of adults having access to such treatment.

New Brunswick is pulling up the rear, with only about 15.8 percent of adults in close proximity. On top of that, there’s a paramedic who’s spending all of his time at Tim Hortons, complaining about the coffee, and then complaining about getting banned from Tim Hortons.

Wrestling fans, Monday night was a big one in Bret Hart’s journey back to WWE and the road to Wrestlemania 26.

Hart came face to face with Vince McMahon, whom he’s been mad as hell at since “The Montreal Screwjob” 12 years ago, and, well, check out the recap from our friends at InsidePulse.com for the rest.

Another awards show, another chance to congratulate Calgary’s Cory Monteith, star of Fox’s “Glee,” and his castmates on taking home the best comedy series cast honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night.

This honor is particularly special as it is voted on by other actors and it demonstrates the recognition of the fine work that Monteith and Co. are doing on their fresh, young show.

Click on the video below to see one of our favorite Cory scenes from this season:

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After a week of voting, a handful of Canada’s largest and well-known cities are in danger of not even making it on the board in a new version of Monopoly Canada.

Hasbro, the company that makes the game, has opened a public vote to decide which cities will occupy the 22 spaces on the board that were originally named for streets and areas in Atlantic City, N.J. (a la, Boardwalk, Park Place, St. Charles Place, etc.).

With 65 cities in the running for 20 of the spaces, Winnipeg and Edmonton aren’t making the cut, and Toronto is barely hanging on in 20th place.

The final two spaces — the “low-rent” spots occupied by Mediterranean and Baltic avenues in the original game — will be decided by a separate wild-card vote based on nominations of any and all cities in Canada.

People can vote for three cities each day until the vote closes on Feb. 7, 2010. The city that receives the most votes will be placed on the highest rent property traditionally held by Boardwalk.

The wild card vote for the two low-rent spaces will take place from February 8, 2010 until February 21, 2010.

Canadian of the Week thinks that in addition to the great cities that will occupy the spaces on the board, some uniquely named bergs might qualify as game pieces to go along with what’s sure to include a hockey player, a maple leaf and a totem pole:

Medicine Hat
Red Deer
Wood Buffalo
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
Moose Jaw
White Rock

Here’s a look at the current leading cities and their percentages of the vote, as of midnight Wednesday:

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. 5.4

Calgary 4.7

Chatham-Kent, Ont. 3.7

Quebec City 3.4

Trois-Rivieres, Que. 2.9

St. John’s, N.L. 2,8

Kawartha Lakes, Ont. 2.7

Medicine Hat, Alta. 2.7

Montreal 2.6

Victoria 2.5

Windsor, Ont. 2.4

Shawinigan, Que. 2.3

Kelowna, B.C. 2.3

Sarnia, Ont. 2.3

North Bay, Ont. 2.1

Vancouver 2.1

Ottawa 2.1

Gastineau 2.0

London, Ont. 2.0

Toronto 2.0

The Olympic torch warmed the heart of 95-year-old Audrey Forzani, who on Tuesday officially became the eldest person to carry the torch on its cross-country trek to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

Forzani returned to her old neighborhood of Renfrew in Calgary, Alberta, which was where her Italian immigrant parents settled 100 years ago, to get her torch lit and carry it on her wheelchair through a stretch of the city where she raised her three boys, who all played football in the CFL.

For more on the story, check out the Calgary Herald.

Canadians came up big at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, with director James Cameron taking home the top prizes as he won for Best Director and his film, “Avatar,” claimed the trophy for Best Motion Picture, Drama.

The Kapuskasing, Ontario, native who’s long lived in Los Angeles has had a heck of a year with the release of his long-awaited and highly anticipated adventure film to the far-off planet of Pandora. The film was Cameron’s first since a little thing called “Titanic” was released 12 years ago, and it seems the wait didn’t hamper the new film’s performance. In addition to claiming some major awards, it’s approaching $500 million gross revenue at the box office, according to boxofficemojo.com, putting it third place all time after “Titanic” ($600 million) and “The Dark Knight” ($533 million).

Elsewhere, screenwriter and director Jason Reitman took home a Best Screenplay award with co-writer Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air,” which starred George Clooney. Reitman, of Montreal, also directed the film, but lost in that category to the aforementioned Cameron.

FInally, Calgary’s Cory Monteith was not nominated for an individual acting award, but his show “Glee” won the top prize for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, knocking off heavy hitters such as “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Entourage,” and another highly touted newcomer, “Modern Family.”

See all the Golden Globe results here.

For all the wedding and breakup movies he’s done, it took a good Canadian woman to get Vince Vaughn to settle down.

The 39-year-old actor married his Calgary cutie, 31-year-old realtor Kyla Weber, in a small, private ceremony outside his hometown of Chicago on Saturday, according to People.com.

Canadian of the Week told you back in March that Weber’s proud dad spilled the beans that Vaughn had quietly proposed to Weber. Their relationship has been kept mostly out of the spotlight, likely because of Vaughn’s most recent, highly publicized fling with Jennifer Aniston.

Vaughn told PEOPLE in September that after years as a bachelor he was ready for his life “to be about other people and other things.

“It’s the first time that I really want to have kids.”

Vaughn’s new wife isn’t his only connection to Canada. His mom was born there and was also a realtor.

Maurizio Terrigno, the owner of an upscale Calgary restaurant who told a few news outlets that members of the Edmonton Oilers refused to pay their full bill of nearly $18,000 on New Year’s Eve, now says he’s reached an agreement with the team, according to the Edmonton Sun.

“I have come to an agreement with the Edmonton Oilers,” he told the Sun. “I am very ecstatic with the agreement.”

Allan Watt, a spokesman for the team, didn’t confirm or deny any agreement, but clearly wanted to move on from the entire ordeal.

“The Edmonton Oilers has nothing more to say about this issue,” he told the Sun just before the team’s game in San Jose, Calif., against the Sharks. “I have nothing more to say on this issue … we consider the incident done with we have nothing more to add.”

The Flames-Oilers rivalry is reaching a whole new level.

A Calgary restaurant owner is calling unsportsmanlike conduct on some Edmonton Oilers players he says skipped out on part of a huge New Year’s Eve bill, following the team’s 2-1 loss to the hometown Flames.

TSN.ca reports that Osteria De Medici owner Maurizio Terrigno says the players partied in a group that included 45 people, and the drinks were flowing to the tune of $8,200, and the total bill came to nearly $17,000.

The restaurant owner says the players demanded a discount when they got the bill, and eventually left $12,000 before leaving.

He’s decided to donate the the money he did get to an earthquake relief fund for people in L’Aquila, Italy.

Oilers spokesman Allan Watt told TSN.ca the restaurant was recommended by some Calgary friends of the players and they had a prearranged meal and menu.

“They received the bill which they felt was outrageous,” said Watt.

“They inquired about it and they were unhappy about it and were unhappy with some of the charges. The restaurant adjusted it by $7,000.”

Watt said the players paid the adjusted bill and added a $1,900 tip and left the restaurant.

It is freakin’ cold in Canada.

“Edmonton International Airport was the coldest place in Canada,” Peter Spyker, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told the CBC on Sunday. “It was -46.1 [Celsius] without the wind chill. I believe at one point it got to -58 with the wind chill.”

Our handy Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion tells us that was 51-below-zero without the wind chill, and 72.4-below-zero with the wind chill.

Nonetheless, the Canadian spirit isn’t broken. Here’s a passage from the CBC report, which can be seen in its entirety here:

On Saturday, Calgary police duty Insp. Rob Williams was travelling on the northbound Macleod Trail near the 22X overpass when he spotted what appeared to be a large, multi-vehicle collision.

In fact, several cars had screeched to a halt when a tiny kitten, searching for a place to get out of the cold, had wandered onto the busy road, which has a 80 km/h speed limit.

The scared kitten climbed up into the engine compartment of one of the stopped cars, Williams said in a news release, and several drivers tried to retrieve the kitten with no luck.

Working together after nearly 30 minutes in 25 C conditions, one man jacked up the front of the small car while another crawled underneath.

Williams pushed the kitten down through a tiny opening to the undercarriage where it was safely retrieved.

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