Canada has maintained its position as the highest-ranking country in the Western Hemisphere in terms of property rights, according to the 2013 International Property Rights Index (IPRI).
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
GoodLife Fitness to open in spring, along with other stores
A number of new businesses on the trail are expected to open their doors to customers in the spring of 2014.
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Northwest Niceties
When looking for a good place to raise a family, it’s tough to argue with the medley of character and convenience offered up by the Northwest communities of Capitol Hill and Mount Pleasant.
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Flooded Calgary neighbourhoods battle back from June’s devastating deluge
Bob Lang has been watching his flood-wounded neighbourhood recover day-by-day.
But in the Mission area that saw some of the worst devastation in Calgary when the Elbow River escaped its banks, it’s been an uneven recuperation, he says.
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Foundations glide to the rescue, helping two Edmonton communities build new outdoor rinks
EDMONTON – Northeast Edmonton rink rats will have a better place to lace up their skates after two community leagues received a total of $460,000 to overhaul their outdoor skating facilities.
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Non-stop flights from Edmonton to Iceland will open doors to unexpected delights
EDMONTON – The mayor of Reykjavik wants Edmontonians to jump off their Icelandair direct flights next year and stay in his peculiar city for reasons big, like active volcanoes, and small, like their horses, for fermented shark meat and Bjork, for business, pleasure, a negligible crime rate and uncommon natural beauty.
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Sewer backup preventer program moving ‘as fast as it can’
The first permit to install a sewage backup preventer rolled off a printer at City Hall late this week, about 100 days after floodwater forced the evacuation of roughly 10,000 citizens and badly damaged around 500 homes.
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New panel aims to commercialize Alberta post-secondary research
EDMONTON – Alberta’s new institute to commercialize university research moved ahead Friday with the appointment of ten international experts, businesspeople and academics to an organizing panel.
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Staples Wants to Connect Your Home and Office Through Automation
Staples is jumping head first into the fledgling smart home market. That’s right, the office supply retailer wants to automate your home—and office.
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THE BOTTOMING PROCESS FOR PRECIOUS METALS
In our last editorial we pointed out how the gold stocks had veered off the recovery course. They fell well below the recovery template and fell below their 50-day moving averages. Furthermore, the positive “non-taper” news turned out to be the mother of all bull traps for traders. The market soared on presumably an epic amount of short covering. Yet that only served to be a selling opportunity for traders. That sequence of events only strengthened our view that the sector continues to be headed for a retest which could serve as the mother of all buying opportunities.
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