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Article content For thousands of Alberta entrepreneurs, it feels like the page is finally turning on a long and difficult chapter. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Varcoe: 'We have been waiting for this day' — Alberta business owners welcome full reopening Back to video “As a business owner in downtown Calgary, it’s about time — long overdue,” said Gerard Curran, proprietor of the James Joyce Irish Pub and Restaurant. “We have to move forward.” On Canada Day, the province formally lifted all public health res...

'When rates go up, that affordability will disappear very, very quickly,' said Charles St-Arnaud

Article content New home prices are climbing higher alongside those of existing residential properties, yet another indication of the kind of frenzied activity that has recently been taking place in Canada’s red-hot housing market. In announcing Consumer Price Index figures on Wednesday, Statistics Canada reported the homeowners’ replacement cost index, which is tied to the price of new homes, rose seven per cent year-over-year in February. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or New home prices shooting up alongside resale as real estate market s...

Article content The chief executive of one of Canada’s biggest pension funds is sounding a note of caution about the risk of policymakers removing economic stimulus too soon, noting that the growth needed to justify the withdrawal of COVID-19-related aid has not yet materialized. “My central view is that we are in a reflationary trade,” Peter Lindley, president and CEO of the Toronto-based OPSEU Pension Plan Trust Fund (OPTrust), told the Financial Post in an interview Tuesday. “I think we are going to be entering a period of good stimulus, modest inflation, which will be positive for...

Alberta will not balance its budget books by 2023.