About 65,000 residents of Calgary are returning to their homes to assess the damage from flooding that has left Alberta’s largest city awash in debris and dirty water.

As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway around the mountain resort towns of Banff and Canmore.

A GRIZZLY bear mauled a woman jogger to death on a popular hiking trail in Canada over the weekend, only eight days after the animal was removed from another residential neighbourhood after threatening people.