It’s official: Alberta is the place to be.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian economy showed unexpected strength in October, growing for the fourth month in a row and boosting market hopes that the country might finally be shaking off the worst of the great recession.
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OTTAWA – Canada’s economy has looked anything but world-beating during the first half of this year, but economists say the restraints that have handcuffed exports and jobs growth are beginning to break.
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EDMONTON – Sandy McIntyre, co-chief executive with Sentry Investments, paints a rosy picture of our economy and says investors should be ready to take advantage of it.
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How Green Was My Valley, the novel by Welsh writer Richard Llewellyn, is about a young man born into a village of black air, of strikes, of deadly explosions. At the end, you’re keen to accompany the hero, Huw Morgan, out of the coal mines.
More than 50 years earlier, Émile Zola had come to similar conclusions in Germinal.
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Alberta’s population is growing at the fastest pace since 1980, Statistics Canada reports.
During the third quarter, Alberta’s population grew by 33,100 or 0.9 per cent, the agency says, pushing the provincial total to 3,906,800 as of Oct. 1. At current growth rates, Alberta’s population is on track to surpass the four million mark over the next year or so.
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It is time to talk about the next global recession. No, it is not a certainty, and in fact it probably isn’t going to be a global recession anyway. What it’s likely to be is a sort of checkered recession: some countries are going to be hit hard, and some are going to be hit just a little.
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CALGARY,AB, Oct. 17,2012/ Troy Media/ – Yes, Canada’s love affair with real estate has caused debt to reach disconcerting levels, roughly equivalent to pre-recession American levels. But analogies shouldn’t be taken too far, as Canada is following its own debt path.
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