Calgary’s municipal price index: breaking down the inflation rate
As council sits down Monday to debate a 2013 budget set with help of the city’s own municipal price index (MPI), the city finance department has provided me with the 2013 the 2012 the 2011 version of...
View ArticleWaterloo blazing a trail for Canada’s tech scene
Google recently selected Waterloo’s Communitech as one of its seven “tech hubs”, the only Canadian member to make the cut. Despite the doom and gloom that BlackBerry’s fall from grace was predicted to...
View ArticleFortney: SHAD, Calgary's summer camp for the country's best and brightest
They’re dressed in T-shirts, shorts, flip flops and sneakers, with more than a few sporting a mouthful of metal braces. As they bound up the stairs and race into the University of Calgary’s dining hall...
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