Greatest Boom Ever

The latest numbers released by Statistics Canada on Friday show Alberta exceeding the national average on several key labour market indicators, although unemployment remains highest in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/ye2yp62j  

  The failure of the Bearspaw South feeder main was not only an infrastructure failure, it was a governance failure.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/nh9uka2n      

  Another school site has been approved for St. Albert following an unanimous redistricting approval by council in the Riverside neighbourhood.         Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/fum624ky     

  The real estate market in many spots in Alberta is cooling a bit to start this year, but one city has seen a big jump in its overall sales year-over-year.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/428zmdr2  

  Sydney’s ageing population is forecast to  forgoe  traditional coastal havens for central and outer suburbs, with expected growth pushing over 65s across a variety of surprising locales.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/4332ev5h    

  Last week there was a headline that most mortgage shoppers didn’t see or pay much attention to.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/56jke357  

  Edmonton is growing and that should be a point of pride.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/2eeuea5r     

  For those of you  new  to Calgary, Victoria Park is the second oldest  communities  in the city. Originally called East Ward in the 1880s, it became Victoria Park in 1905. But today it is most often referred to as the Beltline, which was created in 2003, when three communities south of downtown — Victoria Park, Connaught and South Downtown—- were merged into one community for planning purposes. Victoria Park’s boundaries were from the CRKC railway tracks to 17th Avenue and from the Elbow River to  4nd  Street S.W. The name Victoria Park has been kept alive by the Victoria Park Business Improvement Area.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/6vsz4u95    

  Danielle Smith of Alberta and Doug Ford of Ontario are leading the pack in a recent Fraser Institute report on the fiscal performance of Canadian premiers.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/5947jaku     

  Will the potential rehabilitation of Venezuela’s oil industry threaten output from Canada and the U.S.?       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/yufr3em4  

  Calgary  city council’s  upcoming decision on repealing citywide rezoning could  impact  more than $861 million in federal funding moving forward, according to a new risk analysis from city administration.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/bd5vecbc       

      Red Deer’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 per cent in January, from 6.1 per cent in December.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/35h7hdw4