EDMONTON – Mayoral candidate Karen Leibovici says construction of the southeast LRT line can still start as scheduled in 2015 despite a $515-million funding shortfall.
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Calgary Transit to buy 60 new LRT cars for $200M
By the end of 2015, four-car LRT service will finally arrive to ease Calgary’s rush hour sardine cans, with the arrival of the first next-generation CTrains by Siemens.
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Edmonton to play host to first game of Women’s World Cup
EDMONTON – Commonwealth Stadium is on track to host the first match of the Women’s World Cup soccer tournament in June 2015, said a FIFA official who was in Edmonton to tour the site Thursday.
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TransCanada expects Keystone XL to be service in second half of 2015
(Reuters) – TransCanada Corp (TRP.TO: Quote) reported a 27 percent rise in first-quarter profit, and said it now expects its Keystone XL pipeline to be in service in the second half of 2015.
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Bank of Canada may not hike rates until 2015
It could be 2015 before the Bank of Canada raises interest rates again.
As The Globe and Mail’s Kevin Carmichael reports, the central bank held its benchmark overnight rate at 1 per cent this week, saying such exceptional stimulus “will likely remain appropriate for a period of time.”
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Weak economy? Not a problem for balancing budget by 2015, says Flaherty
OTTAWA – The federal government will take a “significant” hit from Canada’s weaker economic growth prospects, but will still be able to balance the books in time for the next election in 2015, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday.
Flaherty delivered the message after meeting with about a dozen private sector economists who travelled to Ottawa to warn that 2013 will be weaker than expected.
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City preps site for Walterdale Bridge construction
City crews began clearing trees on the bottom of Walterdale Hill Thursday to prepare for the construction of access roads needed to replace the 100-year-old bridge.
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2015 start date for proposed CO2 pipeline
A proposed pipeline that would carry carbon dioxide from east of Edmonton to Central Alberta should be operating by the middle of 2015, says the CEO of the company behind the project.
“We should start seeing some construction occurring in 2013, but the pipeline itself . . . would probably be in 2014,” said Susan Cole of Enhance Energy Inc.
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