EDMONTON- Most of us support the concept of densification. We like its goal of bringing more people into aging, hollowed-out older neighbourhoods. We’re just not so keen if an apartment or a duplex is going to be built next door to our own house.
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What would you change to make Whyte Avenue safer for cyclists, pedestrians and transit riders?
The Edmonton Bicycle Commuters, the Old Strathcona business association and community league created a focus group on that question after 21-year-old Isaac Kornelsen was killed on Whyte Avenue in August. They’re holding a public brainstorming session Nov. 8 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Old Strathcona Community League Hall.
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CALGARY, AB, Oct. 30,2012/ Troy Media/ – Prices for lumber are currently some of the strongest the industry has enjoyed in almost three years. You have to go all the way back to the pre-recession years of 2004 and 2005 to find lumber prices consistently this solid.
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As the world-wide economy slowly heals from the Great Recession,central banks take different paths to recovery. Most countries remain in an easing cycle with low interest rates, but some are seeking to tighten policy.
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NEW DELHI, India – Prime Minister Stephen Harper can expect a warm, even rapturous welcome when he arrives Sunday in India on what is to be an unusually long six-day trip to the subcontinent to drum up business for Canada. Coming with the prime minister are several cabinet ministers and a large group of senior businessmen.
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Strathcona County’s courthouse was dubbed the “worst courthouse in all of Alberta” less than a year ago, but it seems the province is looking at plans to change that.
Last winter saw the Sherwood Park Courthouse suffer extreme damage as the result of a sewage backup that brought to light the discontent of law professionals with the local building.
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An Alberta pipeline company is looking to build a 55-kilometre line from Edmonton to a pump station near Bruderheim to carry diluent to oilsands operators in the Christina Lake area.
Inter Pipeline Company, a Calgary-based pipeline operator, is in the process of finalizing area landowner agreements in Strathcona County to thread the 24-inch diameter pipeline between Josephburg and Fort Saskatchewan to carry 200,000 barrel per day (bpd) of heavy oil thinner from the company’s Edmonton terminal to its Lamont pump station, about three kilometres northwest of Bruderheim.
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The Grande Prairie Regional College footprint is now officially a little bigger.
The plot of land, south of the college, was given to the college by the municipality 42 years ago with the agreement that if the college didn’t need the land, ownership would revert back to the city.
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OTTAWA— The federal government is expecting a hit to its revenues this year due to changing economic circumstances and softening commodity prices, but still expects to balance the books over the “medium term.”
Indeed, economists still believe the government remains on track to eliminate the deficit — estimated at $21.1 billion in the budget — by 2015-16, and possibly a year earlier.
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City officials are pursuing dramatically greater taxation powers that would include civic levies on such things as the GST, alcohol, tobacco and hotels.
In a document procured by taxpayers’ rights advocates, administrators with the City of Calgary suggest seeking a greater share of existing levies from the province — such as those from gasoline — and the right to create new ones that would total 15 changes to tax policy.
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