Increases in the number of Hatters accessing on-demand transit services has prompted the city to pilot a new fixed-evening and weekend bus route in Crescent Heights, beginning April 13.
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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Upgrades for Cypress Hills, irrigation in southwest included in Sask. budget
The recent Saskatchewan budget states upgrades are coming to that province’s side of Cypress Hills Provincial Park, along with money for irrigation projects and road work in the southwest.
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Rent prices drop for a third straight month–here’s where they fell the most
The rental market has seemingly flipped: After prices surged throughout 2021 and most of 2022, they’ve declined almost as quickly for five of the last six months, a new rent report reveals.
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Think it’s impossible to buy a house in this town? You might be right
The grim reality facing home buyers has been laid bare in new analysis showing only 0.1 per cent of Sydney houses and 2.2 per cent of Melbourne houses are considered affordable to the average household.
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Surprising eastern suburb joins Sydney’s trophy market with $18.45 million sale
A house in Maroubra that has been on the market for almost two years has sold for $18.45 million, smashing all local house price records by more than 30 per cent.
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Surge in tent cities as Qld rental prices continue to skyrocket
Heartbreaking photos have confirmed fears of a deepening housing crisis, with more and more Queenslanders forced to live in cars and “tent cities”.
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JRC modernization, Southfort Meadows Park highlight big upcoming construction projects
The city of Fort Saskatchewan gave a slew of updates on some of the construction projects happening around the city.
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Insurance giant IAG has twice told woman it might cancel her flood cover
“I want to know if insurance companies can write out flood cover”, West Auckland resident Nicola Farley asked at a public meeting pushing for a managed retreat from flood zones.
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Diane Francis: Alberta on the cusp of another resource boom
The most important date in 20th-century Canadian economic history took place on Feb. 13, 1947, on a farm near Edmonton, when Imperial Oil made one of the largest oil discoveries in the world.
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World Bank warns of ‘lost decade’ as fragile global economy’s growth potential set to slow
The global economy’s potential growth through the end of the decade has slowed to the weakest in 30 years, the World Bank said, citing fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.
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