Rob told me JB was dead. JB was my best friend growing up. We sat next to each other on the bus. After school we’d play ping pong or pinball or monopoly or ride bikes.
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Calgary bitcoin exchange fighting bank backlash in Canada
Joseph David has overcome a lot of challenges since starting up Canada’s first Bitcoin exchange two years ago but his latest hurdle is proving tougher than all the others.
Over the last few days two of the pretenders to the world currency throne — bitcoin, the new high-profile digital currency, and gold, the centuries-old commodity currency — have fallen into a tailspin.
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Imperial Oil finally producing bitumen at Kearl mine
The Kearl oil sands project is finally producing bitumen, Imperial Oil Ltd. announced Saturday.
The project uses a froth-treatment technology to produce pipeline-quality diluted bitumen without an upgrader, which the company says reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Located about 75 kilometres northeast of Fort McMurray, the mine is expected to produce approximately 4.6 billion barrels of bitumen over an estimated project life of more than four decades.
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‘Significant’ number of new schools expected for Calgary
Education Minister Jeff Johnson is set to announce next week a slate of new schools for Calgary and other hyper-growth areas in Alberta, helping stem the school shortage problem plaguing the city’s deep suburbs.
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EXCITING ENJOYABLE ECLECTIC
The communities of Hillhurst, West Hillhurst and Sunnyside have established themselves as some of Calgary’s most eclectic, bustling and sought after places to call home.
The three communities are some of the city’s oldest with Sunnyside first established in 1904, followed by Hillhurst in 1914 and West Hillhurst in 1945, a community with the majority of its homes built as “Victory Homes” for soldiers returning from the Second World War.
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Online tool provides property details
Want to know what the property taxes are for that nice house across the street?
A new interactive map on the city’s website allows residents to research just that and a whole lot more city data, such as property values and aerial photographs.
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Add $2.3M to airport expansion: committee suggests
A special committee has recommended that the City go ahead with a larger than proposed expansion of the Medicine Hat Regional Airport Terminal and include a cafeteria-styled space rather than a sit-down restaurant.
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Ewart: Pipeline opponents can’t stop Big Oil
“Psst. Big Oil. We’re winning …”
Psst, NIMBY environmentalists: yes, sort of, but no, not really.
The above quote was tweeted by Vancouver green activist Tzeporah Berman this week after B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix said he will oppose expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, and follows a series of recent “wins” for foes of new oil pipelines in North America.
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Home builders free to lobby their interests
Once again, the mayor of Calgary is annoyed because members of the home building community in Calgary exercised their right to freedom of expression.
In March, the mayor got annoyed at Charron Ungar, president of the Canadian Home Builders’ Association-Calgary Region (CHBA), for suggesting there is an unofficial suburban development freeze in Calgary.
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MPC paves zoning way for Event Centre
The Municipal Planning Commission has recommended that city council approve zoning changes to allow the proposed Event Centre to be built in the Box Springs Business Park.
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