We will meet up in in the sitting area near Parkland Green's Starbucks for a 25 brisk walk towards the Lagoon and then head back to Parkland Green for a drink and chat at Starbucks.

 

This walk is a great way to meet other mums and mums to be as well as to do some exercise out in the open.

 

Leave the heels at home and dig out those trainers for a fit 50 minute walk followed by a drink and chat at Starbucks.

Don't forget you’re mozzie repellent!​

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Check the NMSG Meetup Group for further details and to express interest in attending this month's Walk@East Coast Park

 

At 9.30am on the first Monday of every month

 

4 July 

1 August 

5 September

3 October

7 November

5 December

 

Meet at sitting area behind Parkland Green's Starbucks

 

Daphne Kemp

 

Up until the end of last September, fraud-related crimes were up 27.6 per cent over the same period of 2015 and during that month last fall, increased by 59 per cent, say city police statistics.

 

During that period of 2016, police cleared 30.7 per cent of those cases.

 

Those numbers come at a time when Calgarians’ finances are still reeling from a recession amid a prolonged oil and gas slump. 

 

There’s been a definite increase in fraud crime in the city, driven largely by Internet-based scams, said Staff Sgt. Cory Dayley, head of the city police cyber forensics unit.

 

“Absolutely it’s increasing — it’s a very easy message for someone to get out to a large number of victims, put a fish hook out and see how people respond,” he said.

 

“It’s a very lucrative platform to pursue their criminal ways.”

 

Because of that, Calgary police last fall merged its 12-officer cyber investigation unit into its integrated fraud team.

 

“It’s so we have a much more in-depth response to people victimized online,” said Dayley.

 

“We want to know what that landscape is.”

 

Another reason for the ballooning number of fraud offences is the greater willingness of victims to come forward and the CPS’s improved reporting system.

 

Police have also spent more resources publicizing the problem, partly through more charges profiled by the media, he added.

 

“We’re trying to really get out there, get people to be aware, to be their own best line of defence,” said Dayley.

 

“People have got to protect their own information, watch their bank accounts.”