While the Starbucks kiosk in Servus Credit Union Place has brewed up a profit, it’s not quite the jolt the City of St. Albert was expecting.
St. Albert city council received a report on the outlet — which was installed in 2011 amid much controversy — last week, which showed that it turned a profit of $37,280 in 2012.
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The search for a new Bank of Canada chief to replace Mark Carney has pitted internal front-runner Tiff Macklem against a range of external candidates as officials look outside the bank for people who may have more hands-on business experience.
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EDMONTON – The fire-ravaged Kelly Ramsey block on Rice Howard Way is being gutted and two adjoining structures will be razed for a $250-million office and hotel project.
The south and east facades of the historic twin buildings on 101A Avenue will be dismantled and rebuilt as the base of a 29-storey tower, bricks and windows will be reused or reproduced, but most of the remainder will go, says a city report released Thursday.
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EDMONTON – Every now and then someone in Edmonton has a brilliant idea, which brings me to Martin Kennedy, chairman of the Edmonton Historical Board.
Kennedy has a game-changing concept about what to do with the crumbling Rossdale Power Plant.
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EDMONTON – Leduc County, worried about losing millions in future tax revenue, wants Edmonton to abandon its “confrontational” annexation bid and return to negotiations.
Mayor John Whaley said Thursday the county was “surprised” at the size of Edmonton’s bid — 15,600 hectares from the city’s southern boundary to the international airport west of Highway 2. “We don’t think they need that much land.”
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Calgary Planning Commission members don’t want 17th Avenue S.W. to became another uncontrollable Electric Avenue, nor a dead zone during the day, but they’re not sure city planners have the right solution yet.
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A Queens landlord who authorities said had packed nearly 50 people in illegally converted apartments, some in garages and cellars, was charged with reckless endangerment and other crimes on Wednesday, reflecting a growing concern about the kind of overcrowded housing that has been cited in several fatal fires in recent years.
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CNBC real estate reporter Diana Olick with what to expect in the housing sector this spring.
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Creation of a business plan which identifies a ‘made in Sylvan Lake and area’ solution to identified gaps in medical services is being planned by the Sylvan Lake and Area Urgent Care Committee.
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A sign in a Toronto Bank of Montreal branch promoting a five-year fixed mortgage rate of 2.89 per cent Wednesday is just one indication that Canada’s Finance Minister has his work cut if he wants to stop banks from offering ultra-low rates.
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