The City of Grande Prairie will be making a submission to the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission this month asking for an urban MLA, which would replace MLAs in the Grande Prairie-Wapiti and Grande Prairie-Smoky ridings.
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Canada’s embrace of immigrants and refugees in the face of U.S. travel restrictions may result in good karma for Canadian business. Foreign talent is now more likely to seek Canadian jobs, say tech executives. And international corporations, too, are considering moves north of the border, by opening or expanding Canadian operations.
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A city committee discussed how to pay for the replacement of park and ride stalls and a new pedestrian bridge at Calgary’s busy Anderson CTrain station on Tuesday.
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Some County of Grande Prairie residents living near oil and gas wells are concerned about the 24-hours-a-day heavy truck traffic near their homes, county councillors heard Monday.
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It’s been a month now that investors and analysts have been closely watching two main drivers for oil prices: how OPEC is doing with the supply-cut deal, and how U.S. shale is responding to fifty-plus-dollar oil with rebounding drilling activity. Those two main factors are largely neutralizing each other, and are putting a floor and a cap to a price range of between $50 and $60.
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A contentious land deal involving a steep section of river valley parkland was pushed back by two weeks Tuesday to allow more information on the deal to be made public.
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OTTAWA, ON–(Marketwired – January 31, 2017) – Alberta’s construction industry is projected to lose up to 11,000 jobs over the coming year as several large projects reach completion and low oil prices continue to limit new investment and growth, according to the latest labour market forecast released today by BuildForce Canada.
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The implications of a Trump presidency for the oil markets are hard to discern, given the unpredictability of the new administration. But a few possible scenarios are worth considering.
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Not all investments work for everyone. For example, investing in wines or baseball cards should only be done if you have the interest and experience in wines or cards.
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Municipal officials will learn their direction for the land purchased from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), areas where the former rail bed existed, through an upcoming land use study, the town announced.
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