Greatest Boom Ever

  An early look at last year’s tourism numbers shows a solid performance for the 2025 year, with key growth registered in several of Tourism Medicine Hat’s flagship programs.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/mufhd5rp     

  A case in which an Australian house buyer lost more than A$100,000 because he was two days' late with his deposit payment could happen in New Zealand, too, a banking expert says.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/msz9re5d  

  There’s still widespread opposition to building an elevated Green Line project through Calgary’s downtown, according to a recent survey of businesses and property owners along the LRT line’s proposed route.     Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/dh5vvnfb      

  The former Ogden branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is no more, after the city concluded its long-standing goal of demolishing the derelict building that officials said had become a magnet for fire activity and vandalism.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/2e2xbpuh      

  In the world of personal finance, we talk to professionals decades before we retire. We consult tax  planners  months — even years — before taxes are due.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/fzwevcr7     

As I walk, cycle and drive around Calgary, it seems more and more like I live in a walled city. Perhaps it is because I live near Crowchild Trail, which has noise barriers pretty much from one end to the other, designed to protect the residents from traffic noise. FYI: I live just nine houses from the Crowchild Wall.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/37jp5dt9    

  A Sturgeon County family says plans to build a home near the North Saskatchewan River have stalled because of the cost of upgrading an undeveloped road.       Read more:  https://tinyurl.com/4vrknuay  

  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