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Vacant Calgary office towers eyed as next frontier for Alberta farming

Vacant Calgary office towers eyed as next frontier for Alberta farming

Company setting up an indoor farm in Calgary Tower says vacant office space offers an opportunity
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Land costs lead to conversions and multiple-storey self-storage

Land costs lead to conversions and multiple-storey self-storage

Converting existing buildings to self-storage can also be ticket to overcoming high land and construction costs, expert says
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Waste-to-energy strategy pitched for Alberta cities

Waste-to-energy strategy pitched for Alberta cities

Varme Energy outlines plan to burn garbage for energy instead of trucking it to landfills
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'Ottawa-knows-best' approach harming the economy: Poilievre

'Ottawa-knows-best' approach harming the economy: Poilievre

Federal Conservative leadership campaign frontrunner talks policy with Glacier Media after visits to Sidney and Nanaimo.
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Student rental housing tower approved in New Westminster

Student rental housing tower approved in New Westminster

Douglas College $295M, 20-storey, 368-bed facility will start construction in 2023
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Saskatchewan, Alberta will lead economic growth into 2024

Saskatchewan, Alberta will lead economic growth into 2024

Saskatchewan will see a resource-fuelled surge of 7.6 per cent this year to top all provinces, Conference Board of Canada forecasts
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Pilot program aims to turn ‘dead wood’ into lumber

Pilot program aims to turn ‘dead wood’ into lumber

A mothballed Fort St. James forestry mill is the site of a pilot plant aimed at transforming waste wood into engineered lumber
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Serial immigrant investor lands Tsawwassen Mills megamall

Serial immigrant investor lands Tsawwassen Mills megamall

Weihong Liu, who arrived in Canada eight years ago, now owns three of the biggest shopping malls on the B.C. coast
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Poor Fraser River sockeye run may spell end of the south coast salmon fleet

Poor Fraser River sockeye run may spell end of the south coast salmon fleet

"The final straw": B.C. commercial fisherman shut out for fourth year in a row
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Victoria builders busy even as homebuyers take a break

Victoria builders busy even as homebuyers take a break

2,681 new homes were started through the first seven months of this year in Greater Victoria, with most of them in just two of 13 Greater Victoria municipalities
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