Payroll employment rose in Alberta in August but remains substantially down from a year ago, according to information released by Statistics Canada.
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Monthly Archives: October 2020
Canada economy grows 0.7% in September for record third quarter
Canada’s economy recorded what are likely its last strong months of growth in August and September, as the country braces for an end-of-year slowdown.
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Foothills, Okotoks still working to solve highway woes
Despite frustration with a lack of commitment from Alberta Transportation, the Town of Okotoks and Foothills County continue to work toward median closures and an overpass on Highway 2.
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Morinville looks at 1.5-per-cent tax hike
Got an extra $100? Most Morinville homeowners will need that plus some change to pay for next year’s taxes and utilities under the town’s proposed 2021 budget.
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High River Finishes Another Major Road Project
Crews are racing against the weather to get work done along Centre Street in High River.
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COVID fails to ground high spirits at Red Deer Regional Airport
Despite a battered economy and worsening COVID-19 conditions across the country, the CEO of Red Deer Regional Airport says YQF is still poised for growth moving forward.
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Lots of good business news amid uncertainty
Cutting a ceremonial ribbon is one of the cheesiest sights you’ll see, but for the business owner holding the giant scissors, it’s one of the proudest, and perhaps most worrisome, moments in life.
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Why it’s time to dump open-ended property funds
Another nail has entered the coffin for open-ended property funds. Having already faced down the decimation of real estate business models in lockdown, mass trading suspensions in 2016 and 2020, and the prospect of stringent new regulations, such funds could now find themselves banned from Individual Savings Accounts (Isas).
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Proptech supports China’s commercial real estate recovery
Some of China’s gigantic shopping malls and office plazas lay desolate during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the country’s commercial real estate sector awakens from its unscheduled hibernation, industry leaders are recognizing an opportunity to embrace digitalization in what has been a typically slow-moving commercial real estate market.
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Landlord rent guarantee scheme from Darlington firm
MY Property Box is advising landlords in the North-East and parts of North Yorkshire that evictions involving properties in areas of higher coronavirus restrictions have been suspended.
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