Calgary’s long-awaited Poppy Plaza opened Saturday — two years late —as one part of the city’s $31.5-million development plan along Memorial Drive.
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Pentagon officials tour oilsands as part of effort to recruit veterans to jobs
CALGARY – Representatives from the U.S. Pentagon were in Fort McMurray this week as part of an effort to get former American soldiers out of their combat gear and into careers in the Canadian oilsands.
The officials — part of a Pentagon program aimed at helping military personnel transition back to civilian life — were guests of the Alberta government, which has targeted veterans as one possible solution for the province’s labour-starved energy industry.
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The Best Places For Veterans
You might not think of Pittsburgh, Pa. as the most promising place for a veteran to live after leaving the service. The rust belt city is not known for having a big military base or a major defense contractor. But for a city of 2.3 million, it has an impressively affordable median home price of $107,000, a low median rent of $685 for a two-bedroom apartment and an unemployment rate, 7.1%, lower than the national rate of 7.9%. It also has three universities, Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne and University of Pittsburgh. Those statistics land Pittsburgh in the number one spot of best places for veterans to live, released today by USAA, a San Antonio financial services company that caters to the military and their families. USAA and Miliary.com, a free military news website with 10 million subscribers, commissioned Sperling’s Best Places to compile the list.
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