Trulia‘s Chief Economist discusses the findings from Trulia’s latest American Dream survey. Consumer optimism about homeownership is rebounding as the housing market recovers, even among young adults who were often pegged as renters for life during the recession. Meanwhile, rising prices will encourage some homeowners to sell in 2013.
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OTTAWA- The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corp.’s bid to buy Calgary oil producer Nexen Inc. is posing a conundrum to Canada’s governments and its people: what do we do when wealthy state-owned enterprises come calling?
Asking that question is easy. The hard part, it seems, is answering it.
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National hand-wringing over foreign ownership of the oil sands, especially by state-owned enterprises, is spiking across the country. But while there has always been foreign participation in Canada’s most-capitalized natural resource, and that participation is increasing, an in-depth look at oil sands involvement shows that Canadians are still the dominant operators and employers.
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The Grande Prairie Regional College footprint is now officially a little bigger.
The plot of land, south of the college, was given to the college by the municipality 42 years ago with the agreement that if the college didn’t need the land, ownership would revert back to the city.
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