Greatest Boom Ever

  Chemical engineer Stephanie Lim lives as a single woman in the regional town of Gladstone – but when she decided to buy her own home, she made the 500km journey south to find a place in the city.           Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/242nyhzz  

    For decades, Calgary’s economic development leaders worked to diversify the city’s economy with limited success. However, a new plan in 2021 has been so successful that Calgary is now the fastest growing tech community in North America.         Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/3744emrn         

  Last month, federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson told the House of Commons natural resources committee that Canada could become “one of the largest suppliers of LNG in the world.”       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/y9ntjx6j  

  The Edmonton International Airport (YEG) says, despite a year of economic volatility, geopolitical tension, and rapidly evolving travel  behaviours , it saw an increase in travelers in 2025.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/twrrrbx6  

  Red Deer’s unemployment rate fell by 0.9 percentage points last month.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/25akh63h      

  Investment banks are scrambling to revise up their oil price forecasts as the Middle East war cripples supply from the most important oil-producing region, with some expecting oil to surge to $150 per barrel or even higher if the Strait of Hormuz  remains  off limits for tanker traffic for several weeks           Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/9kkfkaz2  

There are five Hobart suburbs where the family budget will soon be better off buying a house than renting.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/ktjfr5p4  

  A new “business-friendly” construction policy for the City of Calgary passed the first hurdle Wednesday, with the near-unanimous support of a council committee.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/285an8ba     

    The City of Calgary is reviving a plan first pitched nearly a decade ago to annex a roughly 430-acre parcel of land in Foothills County to accommodate future residential development.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/nmfmprm6  

The Middle East war is creating the biggest supply disruption in the history of the oil market as flows of about 20 million barrels per day of crude and products through the Strait of Hormuz have crashed to a trickle, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.             Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/326sw7pc  

  U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Thursday global oil prices are unlikely to hit $200 a barrel even as crude tankers remained stalled in the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran widened.         Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/2x65x6xs