Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. has been asking realtors for months to keep consumers in the dark about whether the properties it sells are part of a foreclosure, according to a document obtained by The Financial Post.
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EDMONTON – With dozens of new LRT stations planned to be built in the coming years — bringing with them clanging bells and chiming doors — the city is updating its urban traffic noise policy.
The last policy was written in 2004. Since then, neighbourhoods close to LRT stations such as Southgate have highlighted the need to mitigate how noise from stations affects surrounding communities.
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EDMONTON – Temporary foreign workers have been described as a Band-Aid solution to Alberta’s ongoing labour challenge.
But a projected shortage of 114,000 skilled workers in Alberta through to 2021 has convinced some employers it is necessary to conduct searches for skilled tradespeople outside Canada, in conjunction with other strategies.
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Americans love to mythologize their major coastal metropolises, from New York to San Francisco.
Through movies, pop music and television, such centres have long played an outsized role in America’s collective imagination. After all, these cities are home to the country’s most iconic companies and institutions, reflecting all the wealth and culture of the world’s richest nation.
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CALGARY — First Calgary Financial has recorded its 78th consecutive profitable quarter.
For the first three months ending January 31, First Calgary Financial said unaudited adjusted net income from operations before taxes was $3.76 million, down from $4.93 million for the first three months of fiscal 2012.
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Concerns about the cost of building an LRT line through St. Albert, as well as the city’s population, growth, density and even the Mafia, reared their heads at an open house devoted to the subject Saturday.
More than 100 people convened at St. Albert Catholic High School to listen to what city councillors, Edmonton Coun. Don Iveson and a few City of Edmonton employees had to say about the proposal.
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EDMONTON – Home builders are steamed because Canada Post has started to charge a $200 levy to deliver mail to new housing developments.
The $200 postal box activation fee went into effect on Jan. 1 and is assessed to builders nationwide for each address in new neighbourhoods.
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CALGARY — Less than a year after opening its first Canadian restaurant in Calgary, the U.S. Smashburger chain has big plans for continued expansion in the market.
David Prokupek, chairman and chief executive of Smashburger, told the Herald that Calgary is a corporate market for the Denver-based company, not a franchise one.
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The dust-up this week between the mayor’s office and the Calgary head of the Canadian Homebuilders’ Association was about whether city hall is putting the freeze on new outlying communities.
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Backed by continued expansion in the energy sector and lack of available space, rents in Calgary’s downtown office market saw a massive surge in 2012.
According to commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield’s Office Space Across the World 2013 report, rents in the city’s central core rose by nearly a third last year, and trailed only Bogata, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo for rental growth in the Americas.
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