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More first-time homebuyers are downsizing their dreams
Calgary first-time buyers are facing challenging times to pursue the same housing path as previous generations. That traditional route is to jump right into a single-family detached home, a housing type that has become increasingly expensive. Read More
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RCMP looking for suspect in Airdrie hit-and-run involving teen pedestrian
Airdrie RCMP are asking the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in a hit-and-run that left a teenager with minor injuries. Read More
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Threading the needle: How Craig Conroy can rebuild Flames without bottoming out
The Calgary Flames are trying to rebuild without really rebuilding. Read More
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BBB: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, small businesses need to be on high alert
HONOLULU (KHON2) — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the Better Business Bureau says it’s not just big corporations that need to be cautious. Everyday consumers and small businesses are just as much at risk, and hackers are counting on us to let our guard down. BBB’s Cameron Nakashima said small businesses are prime targets…
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Thanksgiving in Calgary: What’s open and closed | Events and activities
Thanksgiving, celebrated on the second Monday of October, takes place on Oct. 13 this year and snow is expected to fall in Calgary ahead of the holiday. Read More
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GTA’s new condo market enters ‘deep freeze’
Disappearing buyer demand and rising costs have put the Greater Toronto Area’s new condominium market in a “deep freeze,” a new report suggested. RBC Economics recently published a special housing report on Canada’s largest real estate market highlighting how pre-construction sales for condos have fallen to lows comparable with the global financial crisis in 2008…
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Town of Coaldale waiting until after election to resolve labour dispute with AUPE workers
After getting locked out over a month ago, Town of Coaldale workers represented by the Alberta Union of Public Employees will remain off the job for at least another week and a half, after the southern Alberta municipality holds its municipal election. Read More
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Changes to SNAP benefits take effect in October: What to know
Related video: Explaining Trump administration cuts to SNAP benefits (NEXSTAR) – The federal government may be shut down, but that didn’t stop changes to SNAP benefits from kicking in on the first of the month, which is also the start of the fiscal year. Every October, cost-of-living adjustments are made to the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program…
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Nanakuli building fire classified ‘ incendiary’; $700K in damage reported
NANAKULI, Hawaii (KHON2) — Honolulu fire investigators have classified the three-alarm building fire in Nanakuli as incendiary. The initial call came in just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 7 when flames broke out at a two-story apartment on Helelua Place. Honolulu Fire Department officials said responding firefighters secured a water supply and initiated an…
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Authorities arrest suspect, 29, in connection to deadly Palisades Fire
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities in California charged a 29-year-old man with starting a fire that days later erupted into the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history and destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, federal law enforcement officials announced Wednesday. Authorities accused 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht of lighting a fire on New Year’s Day…