TransEd needs to replace cables before it can open Edmonton’s long-delayed Valley Line Southeast LRT.
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Monthly Archives: June 2023
City may fine property owners who don’t control foxtail barley, a hazard to pets
The City of Calgary is looking at implementing a $500 fine for property owners who don’t control the growth of foxtail barley, a grass that can be harmful to pets.
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Immigrants needed as baby boomers retire
Dawn Desjardins, chief economist at Deloitte Canada, speaks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about how immigration is a positive for the Canadian economy.
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City of Red Deer awaits decision on whether 533 acres along Hwy 2 can be annexed from Red Deer County
City of Red Deer officials expect to learn in two to three months if a land annexation for west of Hwy 2 is approved by the province.
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Will the Bank of Canada hike rates again? This week will decide
Anyone worried about interest rates, economic growth and jobs numbers is bracing for a busy and consequential week. Canadians will be hit by a tsunami of economic data over the next 10 days.
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Rent is falling in America for the first time in years
Some welcome news for renters: The US median rent in May fell from May 2022, the first annual rent decline in at least three years, according to a Realtor.com report released Monday.
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A group of metro Denver renters are fed up with rising rents and bad conditions. So they crashed a party for local landlords.
Blood is spattered across the ceiling of a laundry room, a few feet from Laurie-Ann Mills’ apartment, likely from people who break into the complex and use intravenous drugs hastily or incorrectly.
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Is CNA downplaying and omitting key issues in ministers’ Ridout estate rentals?
Singapore’s state media, Channel News Asia, recently published an explainer on black-and-white houses following the revelation that Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan have rented two such properties.
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Which property taxes can clients expect in a move to Europe?
The past decade or two has seen property owners who dispose of their real estate in the UK suffer reductions in the reliefs and exemptions that were previously available to them, by Jason Porter, business development director of expat financial advisory firm Blevins Franks
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Sylvan Lake property owner ordered to remove encroachments
The owner of a lakeside property on Sylvan Lake has been ordered to remove elaborate landscaping featuring flagstone paths, stairs and patio with fire pit built on a Lacombe County environmental reserve.
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