The housing market is cooling off, but that may be just what it needs for a healthier recovery in 2015.
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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Efficient planning speeds up West Village development
The timing couldn’t be better for West Village Towers, a large development that City Council approved last October. The project will add 584 much-needed residential units, up to two storeys of commercial uses, and likely an urban supermarket to the west end of Calgary’s Downtown. As an urban planner, I’m pleased to see how well this development aligns with our vision of a vibrant Centre City, and I’m excited about how efficiently we processed the applications for it – in half the time it would normally take!
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UBS: Here’s What A $10 Move In Oil Does To GDP Around The World
Oil affects countries around the world differently. Generally speaking, low prices are great for net importers of oil, but bad for net exporters.
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Calgary’s housing market experienced great growth in 2014
While the popular saying may be “Go West, young man,” in Calgary the advice for many people buying a new home this year was more of the “Go East” variety.
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Agriculture the heart of Alta. industry
Alberta’s economy suffers when oil prices sink this low.
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City of GP: 2014 in the rearview
At the close of this calendar year, the City of Grande Prairie will move forward into fiscal 2015 and the second year of this council’s term.
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Price war brews between Canada, Latin America over oil for U.S. Gulf
A price war is brewing between Canada and Latin America over who will satisfy U.S. Gulf Coast refiners’ hunger for heavy oil.
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Iraq Could Be Oil Market Linchpin
As hard as it may be to imagine, given today’s rock bottom oil prices and abundant supplies, the world may still struggle to bring enough oil online over the next few decades to meet long-term demand.
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Plan for new access to Sportsplex in the works
The County of Grande Prairie got a very special early Christmas gift during their final council meeting before the New Year.
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Natural gas prices plunge in mild winter
(CNN) — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Heating bills across the United States are falling this winter as unusually warm temperatures in the Eastern United States have crimped demand for natural gas as a source of heat.
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