Greatest Boom Ever

  The province will spend at least three more years in the red according to the 2026-27 budget released Thursday.     Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/yr29pbpk  

    The bar to getting more apartment projects out of the ground in Geelong appears to be shifting.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/7ea4sjd8      

  The City of Calgary is launching a new incentive program designed to make it easier for Calgarians to build backyard suites.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/ykenrx2d  

  In an era of accelerating geopolitical flux, traditional energy trade relationships, once anchored by predictable alliances, are showing clear strain. Governments, industry, and capital markets are being pushed toward new discoveries and operating models at unprecedented speed. Geopolitical tensions are reshaping supply chains, trade relationships, and investment decisions in real time.     Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/msr5w29k  

  Quinn Phillips has seen the benefit of the Downtown Action Plan Fund  first hand .     Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/392scmrn    

    After posting record profits in 2025, Edmonton-based engineering and consulting firm Stantec Inc. aims to continue its significant growth this year from its work on  defence  contracts in Canada and multi-billion-dollar data  centres .       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/yc8f87ck      

Sales of new multi-family homes in Calgary ended last year well below the long-term historical average. A recent report from Zonda Urban found that sales were 35 per cent below the historical average in the last (fourth) quarter of 2025.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/3ahpndjn  

    Edmonton  remains  one of the few Canadian real estate markets where young first-time buyers can buy a home and have a slice of wedding cake, too.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/yc49x7br     

  Calgary  remains  one of Canada’s lower cost rental markets among major cities with median rents falling in February across the board. A report from online rental marketplace Zumper.com found the median monthly rent for a one-bedroom in the city was $1,600 in February, down one per cent from January. Year over year, rent was down more than four per cent.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/55957jy3     

    A new report says commercial real estate activity is expected to pick up this year in part due to return-to-office  mandates,  however momentum within the industrial sector has softened amid ongoing trade disruptions.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/yc3t8x23     

    One thing I have always loved about this city is its democracy of space. Even in lower-income  neighbourhoods  there are tree-lined streets, with tidy homes surrounded by green lawns and bright flowers. Not on every block, but on many of them.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/bdzaefyr        

  It started with programs like My Little Pony and Sonic the Hedgehog. It now involves the Anaheim Ducks and  Texas  Rangers.         Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/p7zh3rkb