Grande Prairie now boasts the second largest chamber of commerce in the province, according to the Alberta Chambers of Commerce.
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Grande Prairie now boasts the second largest chamber of commerce in the province, according to the Alberta Chambers of Commerce.
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Alberta will build a diversion channel around High River and a dry dam upstream of Calgary’s Elbow River to mitigate future flood damage, Premier Alison Redford announced Thursday.
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Average house prices in Calgary had the highest increase across major markets in Canada, according to a report by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA).
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EDMONTON – A report by the C.D. Howe Institute this month has resurrected the debate about how people should be taxed – based on their net worth, including property owned such as real estate, based on income, based on consumption, or a combination of the above? Colin Busby and Alexandre Laurin with C.D. Howe suggest Alberta adopt “the eight per cent solution” by reducing the provincial income tax single rate from 10 to eight per cent, while introducing an eight-percent Harmonized Sales Tax – the five-per-cent federal Goods and Services Tax plus a new, three-per-cent provincial sales tax.
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The state of emergency has been lifted as of Friday, July 12 for High River.
This means the province will hand the responsibility back over to the town mayor and council.
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The city’s first arts incubator showed a few signs of rumbling to life Wednesday night.
A group of board members, arts groups representatives and politicians were on hand at King Edward School to hear that the province is kicking in $3.5 million of the project’s anticipated $31 million cost.
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It’s not a lot but it’s something and it will cause one more dust-up at city council because the big purple playpen just takes it automatically.
The province calls it “moderate and positive.”
My old man would say it’s better than a kick in the ass with a frozen boot.
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