The two-step forward, one-step back push for a 24-hour crossing at Wild Horse appears on the backward step with Medicine Hat’s MP citing last week a dip in border crossings in 2012 as an indication that more has to be done.
“Certainly the big thing is traffic,” said LaVar Payne during last week’s town hall meeting in regards to expanding the port’s operating hours.
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The future of Clairmont has a definitive focus with the passing of third reading of the County of Grande Prairie’s Clairmont Heights area structure plan.
The 50-year plan will align the predicted growth of Clairmont with the amenities needed to sustain that growth when the population reaches an estimated 15,000.
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Work is beginning downtown this spring on a two-way bicycling track separated from traffic by a physical barrier.
But the plans to turn 7th Street S.W. into a one-way street to make way for it are still dividing the public.
The two-way cycle track on 7th Street S.W. — between 8th Avenue and the Bow River pathway — is expected to be ready by July.
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CALGARY — An opulent home described as a ‘French castle’ has set a record for the highest ever MLS sale price in Calgary as the property in Aspen Woods sold for $10.35 million on Wednesday.
The two-storey home, listed by realtor Corinne Poffenroth of Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, was built in 2010 and had a list price of $11.495 million.
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EDMONTON – City council made the right call to move ahead with the plan for a massive new residential neighbourhood in the city’s far northeast corner, the Horse Hills region along the North Saskatchewan River.
I say this even as I favour a denser, less sprawling city. There’s also no doubt that Horse Hills farmers spoke out eloquently at the city’s two-day public hearing on the area structure plan about the need to preserve farm land, none more so than farmer Andrew Voogd.
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CALGARY — The city’s booming population growth is filling more than the suburbs: Calgary’s sewage lagoons are also close to overflowing.
The city pumps its biosolids from wastewater treatment facilities into the southeast Shepard sludge lagoons. Even through the city has a sophisticated system for turning sludge into fertilizer for farmer’s fields, the treatment program cannot keep up with the increasing volume of biosolids, the utilities committee heard Wednesday.
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CALGARY — Small business confidence in Alberta remained strong in February as owners in the province had the most positive outlook in the country, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
In its latest Business Barometer survey, released Thursday, the CFIB said Alberta entrepreneurs are the most confident in Canada about the economy and their future success.
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The most successful people in the world didn’t get where they are on their own.
Along the way, they received some guidance that changed their views and, inevitably, got them to the top.
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CALGARY — Sales for the food services and drinking places industry in Alberta ballooned to $666.5 million in December, according to Statistics Canada.
The federal agency reported Thursday that sales increased by 1.2 per cent in the province from the previous month which was the best growth in the country.
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Mike is driving me crazy. He won our office football pool and, just to rub it in, he’s still carrying around the very large WaterStreet official football pool trophy as he walks by my office several times each day.
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