Category Archives: Business

Giant Tiger, a Canadian-based discount store chain, opens officially this Saturday, June 24 in Red Deer. Located along Gaetz Avenue just north of 67 Street, the store will occupy 15,500 square feet of...

TORONTO - Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) plans to close 59 locations and cut approximately 2,900 jobs as part of its plan to restructure its business under court protection from creditors. Among the loca...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Nearly 50 years after the opening of Canada’s first major oilsands mine, the site on the banks of Alberta’s Athabasca River is an epicentre of energy, teeming with b...

Red Deer College and Collegiate Sports Medicine have teamed up to open a multi-disciplinary clinic within the Gary W. Harris Canada Games Centre. The 2,600 sqaure foot retail and clinic space will pro...

RED DEER- Area employers expect to do a little hiring in the third quarter of 2017, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey. Data shows that 10 per cent of employers plan to hi...

CALGARY - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers expects oil production to climb 33 per cent by 2030 even as pipeline constraints and competition for investment threaten to slow future growth...

While permit values remain down year-to-date, May was an exceptional month for them in Red Deer. Residential construction permits were valued at $5.8 million in May, surpassing the $3 million mark fro...

RED DEER- The national jobless rate crept up a notch to 6.6 per cent in May. But Stats Canada says that’s because more people started looking for work. The economy added 54,400 jobs last month, ...

RED DEER- CMHC is out with housing start numbers for Red Deer in May. Work began on 24 single family homes, that is 15 more than in May of 2016. There were no multiple unit starts last month. So far t...

The Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce have got their guy. Effective July 4, Robin Bobocel will take over as CEO. Bobocel brings a wealth of experience to the position, including time as Chief ...