9 h. ago Opinion: Downtown Edmonton can't afford the barrier of mobile

Imagine it: You arrive downtown for the playoff game of a lifetime. You park, hop out, and look for the familiar parking pay station — only to realize it’s gone. Instead, you’re scrambling to download an app, battling spotty Wi-Fi, missing the opening moments of a night you’ll never get back. Welcome to the new […]

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38 h. ago TAIT: Oilers fans light up Downtown as playoff fever hits once again

On Friday night, you didn’t need to check the scoreboard to know the playoffs are back — you just had to follow the parade of Oilers fans strutting their colours like it was a spring runway show. Only three colours. My ride to Rogers Place up 99 Street was a river of orange and blue, […]

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59 h. ago What I learned leading a Vancouver Sun Run clinic in the Downtown Eastside

Each Vancouver Sun Run clinic session in the DTES began with a buzz of energy in the Carnegie centre’s multipurpose room, as participants — ages 28 to 71 — prepared to hit the pavement.

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5 d. ago Vancouver's Downtown Eastside could be opened up to more market development, 32

Dan Fumano: Vancouver may reduce the requirement for social housing in "the heart of the low-income community" of the DTES from 60 to 20 per cent.

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4 w. ago New report shows Calgary's downtown office vacancy rate climbs back above 30%

The effect of increased oilpatch consolidation continues to be felt in Calgary’s downtown office market, with the vacancy rate for these buildings climbing back above 30 per cent during the first three months of the year. A report released Monday by commercial real estate firm CBRE Ltd. found the downtown office vacancy rate increased during […]

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4 w. ago Varcoe: Calgary office vacancy rate creeps above 30% — 'Like climbing out of a hole made of quicksand'

Two major factors could shake up efforts to revitalize the downtown and fill empty office buildings in the core. One is ongoing oilpatch consolidation, which has pushed the downtown office vacancy rate back above 30 per cent during the first three months of the year. The tremors from U.S. tariff threats are creating uncertainty, but […]

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