Ward 4 councillor Ed Gibbons knows a lot about the community he has served for 16 years — 12 as councilor and four as an MLA. He has actually spent most of his life in the north east part of the city.
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Fed taper ‘can’t change’ homebuyer demographics: Builder
No matter what the Federal Reserve announces Wednesday on tapering, it “can’t change housing demographics,” Toll Brothers CEO Douglas Yearley told CNBC. That’s why he said he won’t even hazard a guess on what the Fed will do.
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Millennials are not big homebuyers near term
Sam Lustgarten could be one of the growing number of “career renters” real estate companies think Millennials will become — at least in the near term.
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Boomers a key market for retailers, as long as it’s marketed right
TORONTO – Baby boomers are becoming an increasingly important market for retailers, and one that can become highly profitable if stores and manufacturers can figure out the right way to target their products to an increasingly discerning group.
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College developing courses to meet local needs
A growing seniors population and an impending shortage of health care aids, has a local college developing programs that could help fill the void.
Bow Valley College, which recently opened a campus in High River and has an office in Okotoks, is working collaboratively with community stakeholders to offer courses, which will help train local employees to fill roles close to home.
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Older workforce seeing huge growth in employment
CALGARY — It’s not surprising to Lawrence Ferguson that half of the jobs created in the country in the past 12 months has been with workers 55 years and older.
The 64-year-old meat cutter, at the Calgary Co-op in Rocky Ridge store, sees it every day at his job.
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A snapshot of St. Albert
On Friday the City of St. Albert finally released its report on the 2012 municipal census.
Below are some of the most noteworthy numbers to come out of last year’s headcount. The city conducts its own census every two years. The next census will take place in 2014.
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Baby boost recorded in Central Alberta
Good news from Central Alberta’s biggest maternity ward: it’s experiencing a little bit of a baby bump.
Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre saw 2,629 births in 2012, compared with 2,558 in 2011. That translates into a 2.7 per cent rise in births.
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Edmonton’s working-age population on the rise, city economist says
EDMONTON – The Edmonton region could reach 1.5 million people within a decade if the working-age population keeps rising at its current rapid pace, city economist John Rose says.
The number of people in the area over age 15 increased by about 30,000 in the past year, a boost of 3.1 per cent, he said Wednesday during a year-end interview.
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Demand growing for late-night transit service
CALGARY — As Calgary moves toward a “late-night economy” — driven by a younger, inner-city-loving, vehicle-averting demographic — the need for late-night transit increases, say business and taxi advocates.
On Wednesday, a city council committee passed a draft of its ambitious 30-year transit blueprint: RouteAhead.
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