No other country has so deliberately turned itself into a climate-change martyr. Yet our sacrifices will have no perceptible impact
It’s been almost three decades since delegates from 172 countries, meeting at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, adopted the Climate Change Convention. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show that since then the Earth’s temperature has risen an average of 0.03°C per year. At that rate, the planet will warm 2.4°…
Dana Bouwman of Insight Insurance and Risk Management in Edmonton talks about how to build and sustain a client list
Dana Bouwman is account executive at Insight Insurance & Risk Management in Edmonton. Tell me a little bit about what you do? How and why did you get involved in this career? Bouwman: I facilitate liability and property insurance programs for mid-sized companies. Specifically, I focus on construction, manufacturing, and tech companies that have $10-plus-million…
The Edmonton-based cannabis company said the initial $26-million investment accelerates its pace of growth
Convenience store operator Couche-Tard plans to make a significant investment in Edmonton-based cannabis company Fire & Flower. Couche-Tard’s initial investment is for 9.9 per cent equity in Fire & Flower for close to $26 million, with potential to increase that stake in the near future to 50.1 per cent for more than $380 million. “Fire…
Toronto ranked third, Vancouver 12th, Montreal 13th and Ottawa 19th in top-50 list: CBRE report
As Calgary and Edmonton try to establish a significant tech industry in Alberta, a report released on Thursday by commercial real estate firm CBRE indicates just how far behind Alberta is when it comes to tech talent. Neither Alberta city made it to the top 50 list in North America for tech talent. But both…
Zoocasa report says Canadian real estate is creeping closer to a sellers’ market
Calgary and Edmonton have among the lowest rates in the country when it comes to sales-to-new-listings ratios for selling homes, according to Zoocasa, a real estate website providing online advanced search tools and data for consumer. On Thursday, the company released a report ranking the major housing markets across Canada by their ratios. Those ratios…
Canadian Real Estate Association report says pricing will likely remain weak until demand and supply return to better balance
Across the Prairies, MLS residential supply remains elevated relative to sales and home prices remain below year-ago levels, according to a report released on Monday by the Canadian Real Estate Association. The report said the benchmark price in Calgary fell in June to $416,400. That was down 4.03 per cent from a year ago. Edmonton’s…
New house prices keep falling in the Calgary and Edmonton regions. The latest data, released Thursday by Statistics Canada, said builders in the Calgary census metropolitan area reported prices were down 0.1 per cent in May from April and they were off by 1.1 per cent year over year. The federal agency’s New Housing Price…
Both the Calgary and Edmonton regions experienced a significant annual gain in the number of multi-family housing starts in June, according to a report released Tuesday by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. But the single-detached market struggled. In the Calgary census metropolitan area, single-detached starts of 310 were down 14 per cent from a year…
The value of building permits in the Calgary and Edmonton regions jumped in May, according to data released on Tuesday by Statistics Canada. The federal agency said that value of $483.8 million for the month in the Calgary census metropolitan area was up 5.3 per cent from April. On an annual basis, it rose by…
U-Haul says Toronto was ranked first overall, followed by Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton and Ottawa
Calgary and Edmonton are both rated in the top five destinations in Canada for people moving there in the past year using a U-Haul truck. The company released its rankings on Friday. They’re based on the total number of arriving one-way U-Haul trucks into a city in the past calendar year. Toronto was ranked first…
It’s been almost three decades since delegates from 172 countries, meeting at the UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, adopted the Climate Change Convention. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show that since then the Earth’s temperature has risen an average of 0.03°C per year. At that rate, the planet will warm 2.4°…
