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Column: Province’s mandate for Capital Region Board nets critical thinking and planning for the Capital Region and the Edmonton metropolitan area

Mar 17, 2015 Comments Off on Column: Province’s mandate for Capital Region Board nets critical thinking and planning for the Capital Region and the Edmonton metropolitan area

In these times of budgetary uncertainty it’s important to know you’re getting value for your money. Are you getting your money’s worth from the Capital Region Board?
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Column: Election year brings in a new Mulcair and Trudeau

Mar 5, 2015 Comments Off on Column: Election year brings in a new Mulcair and Trudeau

It’s an election year and that means last year’s versions of the two men who are bent on unseating Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are gone.

The 2015 versions of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau are different in both style and message. […]

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Column: Time to embrace a multi-debate formula

Mar 5, 2015 Comments Off on Column: Time to embrace a multi-debate formula

When it comes to the televised debates of the upcoming federal campaign, the only certainty is that there will be at least one in each official language and that the leaders of Canada’s three main parties will be on stage.
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Column: The Wheelbarrow Gardener

Feb 24, 2015 Comments Off on Column: The Wheelbarrow Gardener

If you google permaculture, you will find a plethora of pages discussing this ecological design process, yet
when talking with friends and family very few know or understand what it is. David Holmgren, one of the
co-founders of permaculture defines it as: “Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and […]

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NDP has more to gain by refuting Bill C-51

Feb 19, 2015 Comments Off on NDP has more to gain by refuting Bill C-51

The internal debate over the NDP’s stance on the Conservative anti-terrorism legislation was settled some time before Thomas Mulcair made his decision to oppose Bill C-51 public on Wednesday. […]

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Morinville Housing Report

Feb 9, 2015 Comments Off on Morinville Housing Report

With the lowering of oil prices and related job uncertainty, many consumers today are fearing a drop in housing values this year. Some of the concern stems from our Real Estate Association of Edmonton (RAE) news releases this month stating that sales were down this January forgetting the fact that sales were up 11% in 2014. Something to consider, as reported on Global Edmonton last week, January showed an increase in job creation in our province.
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