EDMONTON – Albertans are working longer hours and delaying retirement to help employers deal with labour shortages, a new Canadian study found.
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Chicago Is In An Economic Lull
The Chicago purchasing managers index unexpectedly plunged to 52.6 in July from 62.6 in May.
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Cochrane Lake residents outraged by lack of support from county
A Local Improvement Tax (LIT) that was presented by Rocky View County to Cochrane Lake residents is now “dead in the water”, according to Division 9 councillor Bruce Kendall July 30 – at least in the way it was presented.
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Summer Games’ economic impact receiving mixed reviews
As the 2014 Alberta Summer Games and its 3,000 participants took over Airdrie from July 24 to 27, local businesses were amping up for a busy weekend.
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Home in Airdrie tied to drug trafficking
A member of the Red Scorpions gang, along with three associates, was arrested after police executed search warrants in Airdrie, Red Deer and Calgary on July 28.
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Airdrie savouring its time in the sun
From Airdrie to downtown Calgary, it’s 32 kilometres, or about 25 minutes behind the wheel. That quick commute from the driveway to the office parking lot just makes sense for a growing army of house hunters. And it’s one reason buyers are continuing to turn to the city to the north for a new home, along with housing choice, relative affordability, amenities and size, says Tracy Corbett, the city of Airdrie’s manager of planning and sustainable development.
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Alberta food and drinking establishment sales strong
CALGARY – Alberta experienced the second highest year-over-year growth for sales in the food services and drinking places industry in May, according to Statistics Canada.
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Satisfaction survey satisfactory
Ask and they will tell you.
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Iveson says Edmonton doing the listening in Glasgow
Edmonton’s delegation at the Commonwealth Games is making great gains by listening instead of talking. That’s the view of Mayor Don Iveson.
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What The Oil Headlines Miss: Interview with Michael Levi
While we fixate on sexy headlines about Chinese military threats in the South China Sea, for instance, or Washington ‘lifting the ban’ on crude oil exports, we miss the bigger stories—and we miss the reality. China’s relentless resource quest has the greatest impact on trading prices, which may not make for headline news, but is a very important reality, while the stories about the U.S. lifting the crude oil ban were just wrong.
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