IQALUIT, Nunavut – Western provinces have a genuine, pressing need for skilled labour and the federal government’s recent overhaul of its temporary foreign worker program goes too far, the interim Alberta premier said Thursday.
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It’s no secret people from across Canada are flocking to Alberta to make money.
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Given Canada’s proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted. This comfortable distance from most of the world’s violence has also led us to underestimate how useful Canada might be in defusing threats elsewhere using an item some people overlook as leverage: energy.
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The average price for an Edmonton single family home has hit an all-time high.
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Despite the severely high price of real estate in Alberta, the province’s housing market remains among the most affordable in Canada because of high household income, according a new report by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).
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When worker bees from across the nation were asked to rate their CEOs in an anonymous poll recently, it was an Alberta oil patch exec who received the highest ratings.
CEO Steve Williams of Suncor (TSX:SU) scored the highest of any Canadian chief executive with a 96 per cent approval rating from the Calgary company’s employees.
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