Greatest Boom Ever

The Calgary Stampede is just weeks away, but a new noise bylaw is sparking debate over live music, with a festival owner’s grievances attracting the attention of Alberta’s premier and Canada’s Conservative leader.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/msmu4b3e  

Residents will have the chance to see draft plans for future development in High River at an open house next week.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5yzhwbfz  

Queensland’s housing crisis is fuelling an unprecedented granny flat boom, with demand for secondary homes surging across the state.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/5fjray6b

Oil prices dropped this week, Canada is in a technical recession, and the trade outlook with the United States remains as bumpy as skateboarding down a dirt road marred by potholes.        Read more: https://tinyurl.com/3s5yb8dr  

We often hear people say: “If only I had a crystal ball, that’s what I would have done.”       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ytkv3kjd  

The photo with this article is of a garbage-bin corral outside a west-end eight-plex. It was taken the day after — after — garbage collection in the neighbourhood and posted to social media this past weekend.     Read more: https://tinyurl.com/nh632wsv     

As Canada’s population continues to decline due to stricter immigration laws, Alberta remains an outlier, boasting more than 47,000 migrants — most of them interprovincial — in the last year.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yh3zd5sh     

Appetite for variable-rate mortgages keeps growing, depending on where you get your financing.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/p295nvt7    

When East Village’s new vision was conceived more than 25 years ago, it was intended to be a model 21st century urban village where a diversity of Calgarians of different incomes could thrive together. There was to be no gentrification. However, now there is discussion that the Calgary Drop-In Centre will have to move, its programs decentralized.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yt37xxt7  

The 2026 rural construction season is well underway. Strathcona County crews are advancing a wide range of projects that strengthen our rural transportation network and support reliable travel for residents.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2wza5j6x

Widening Highway 2 outside Red Deer to eight lanes and designing it to a 130 km /h standard is not the answer to safety concerns, Alberta Transportation officials were told Thursday.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/4svwrw7r     

In a move being described as a victory by local community leaders in Fort McMurray, Suncor Energy confirms it is requiring some maintenance workers contracted to work in the oilsands to be local residents.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yc6nrn92     

Christian McGowan and Alison Baker fell in love with a building that was never intended to be a home.       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/yz4r2eat         

A plan for high-density housing near Calgary transit stations has prompted pushback from some on council who call it “blanket rezoning 2.0.”       Read more: https://tinyurl.com/2wfxvhwr