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Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Comment: City change to Broadway Plan will slow pace of rental housing

Vancouver staff recommendation to allow only five new development proposals per year flies in the face of earlier plans – and the city’s desperate need for more rental units
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Why this old apartment building is worth $19 million

Why this old apartment building is worth $19 million

In Vancouver it is often what lies beneath, not what is built above, that determines real estate value
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Where’s the beef? Western Canada’s ranchers go with the grain

Where’s the beef? Western Canada’s ranchers go with the grain

Grain farms triple in size as cattle operations face greater financial challenges
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Changes needed to realize Port Moody's industrial potential

Changes needed to realize Port Moody's industrial potential

Port Moody could boost local employment as a niche urban industrial destination
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Alberta’s industrial heartland expands beyond petrochemicals

Alberta’s industrial heartland expands beyond petrochemicals

Value-added manufacturing, solar, biofuels diversifies heavy industrial zones that now extend from north to southern Alberta
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Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

Blinded by billions: a look at spending on social housing in B.C.

This is an update on the first of a two-part Western Investor report on ballooning government housing support for the most vulnerable in British Columbia.
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Alberta industrial land becomes a political battlefield

Alberta industrial land becomes a political battlefield

The planned 600-acre Lakeview Business District near Edmonton has become a key real estate issue in run-up to the May 29 provincial election
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Parksville land in limbo as council dismisses OCP plan

Parksville land in limbo as council dismisses OCP plan

Ten years after 140.5-acre site was approved for housing and commercial real estate, city kills development bid for 800 homes and nearly 50 acres of green space
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Canada’s renewable fuel industry will be "unviable" after U.S. move

Canada’s renewable fuel industry will be "unviable" after U.S. move

Canada's biodiesel and renewable diesel sectors will destroyed under a new U.S. subsidy program that freezes out Canadian producers, analyst warn, unless Ottawa steps up
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Nordstrom Canada to begin liquidation Tuesday after receiving court's permission

Nordstrom Canada to begin liquidation Tuesday after receiving court's permission

TORONTO — The liquidation sales at Nordstrom stores across Canada will begin Tuesday.
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