Greatest Boom Ever

Oil prices bounced back in early trading on Friday as geopolitical risk returns and optimism surrounding potential peace deals fades.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mh59fej2     

A new report suggests Canadian oil and gas drillers could be working fewer wells in the years ahead, despite optimism that proposed pipelines will lead to growth in the industry.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/33xfa3t2  

With apologies to Prince, will the Canadian oilsands party — or in this case, grow — like it’s 1999?       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mv38aa8v  

Housing supply levels are easing across the Foothills as winter approaches.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/mr7kdp3j    

Budget deliberations begin next week to set a four-year municipal budget in Okotoks that could see a 10 per cent property tax increase for the coming year.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3cknzs5w     

St. Albert council has agreed to fund a grant for a new soccer facility, although at a lesser amount than initially agreed.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/bdhjzrwa         

It would be a first for a municipality outside of Edmonton or Calgary. St. Albert council has approved an administration report on establishing a derelict residential tax subclass, and to advocate to the province to permit the city to create a derelict non-residential tax subclass.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n7ezhrw     

Decades of non-stop daytime drama have generated eye-watering fortunes for soap opera royalty.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/53nsw7ak  

A school bus turns right from a residential road onto 121 Street in the Dunluce neighbourhood . But 121 Street has recently been narrowed to make way for wider multi-use pathways, bus stop cutouts, and 18-feet wide berms on each side that will one day have decorative flora.   Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yms362c6     

If you need any more proof that Edmonton city council and the administration operate in an echo chamber and listen only to their own voices, consider two examples from this week alone.   Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2f7597pn     

Never was so much owed by so many to so few.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4bj2x64r     

The city’s resale market saw falling demand in October as the slump continues in multi-family segments.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4pfexyx2      

Many communities in the Calgary region experienced declining resale market conditions this past October.   Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yc2tfp99     

They’re described as luxury apartments on the outside, but one west Edmonton tenant says the inside is anything but.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5n72td2d