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USA: Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve Opens to Public
Dredging Today
Over time researchers and others visiting the site have identified more than 280 species of birds, 29 species of butterflies, 16 species of mammals (including red fox, coyote, mink, and deer), 2 species of reptiles, 26 Ohio plant species (including ...

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Calgary home prices up 2.7% from a year ago: MLS
Calgary Herald
The Calgary Real Estate Board, in a release, said the new system measures how typical properties are valued in the market rather than relying on average and median prices. "In January, for example, the average price declined year-over-year, ...

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Leong: Heads in the sand on ecstasy abuse
Calgary Sun
Ald. John Mar, who's also advocating an anti-drug campaign in Calgary, said he didn't agree with the approach but welcomed the educational aspect of the Red Deer campaign. This tepid reaction is curious, seeing how we've long embraced a form of harm ...

Nova Scotians loud and proud
The Kingston Whig-Standard
Garnett, a biology student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, is missing a week's worth of biology and stats classes (“I brought my notes with me”), while Thompson hastily booked a week's vacation time from her job in real estate appraisal after the ...

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Canada House Prices Pick Up But Expected to Stabilize in 2012
MNI News
By Courtney Tower OTTAWA (MNI) - Canadian home prices rebounded somewhat in January, following two previous months of declines, but are expected to continue settling down in 2012 from a long runup period, the Canadian Real Estate Association said ...

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Southeast Texas Record
Woman sues hotel claiming toxic mold made her sick
Southeast Texas Record
GALVESTON - Friendswood resident Stacy Johnson is suing Park Management Group and Sun Suites Interests alleging she was sickened by toxic mold in a hotel room. Johnson's lawsuit, filed Feb. 1 in Galveston County Court at Law No.

Alberni mortgage broker earns BE Award for real estate
Alberni Valley News
Sharie Marie Francoeur, a mortgage broker in Port Alberni, celebrates her BE Award win for Real Estate Company of the Year. By Susan Quinn - Alberni Valley News Port Alberni mortgage broker Sharie Marie Francoeur has won a BE Award for Real Estate ...

Globe and Mail
Behind the jobs numbers, five trends to watch
Globe and Mail
Employment in the so-called FIRE category -- finance, insurance, real estate and leasing -- tumbled by 23000 in January and are down by 4.6 per cent, or by 50000 positions, from year-ago levels, according to the Labour Force Survey. So what's going on?

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Globe and Mail
For-profit daycare to partner with apartment landlord
Toronto Star
Edleun Group Inc, is partnering with apartment rental giant, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Trust (Capreit), to convert underutilized spaces in the buildings into child care centres. “We are anticipate the response from parents to be strong ...
Company brings for-profit daycare to Toronto apartment buildingsGlobe and Mail

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Special delivery: Quadriplegic gives birth to twins in Hamilton hospital
Toronto Star
It is something so seldom seen in the world that anecdotal research suggests there are no more than four or five women in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom who are quadriplegic mothers of twins. Burton's doctors at McMaster University ...

Will Mold Remediation Professionals Have A Harder Time To Get Paid In 2012 ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Molderizer.com has reported that they will be making it's line of non-toxic mold cleaners available to the public and other mold professionals. Molderizer.com stated "The new technology being released will allow mold contractors to quickly kill mold ...

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Globe and Mail
Alberta job growth leads Canada
Calgary Herald
Alberta had the highest rate of employment growth in Canada in the past year. Statistics Canada reported Friday that the province's unemployment rate remained at 4.9 per cent in January, which was the lowest in the country, and Alberta's pace of ...
Alberta accounts for most of Canada's January job growthEdmonton Journal
Why job growth in US is outpacing CanadaCBC.ca
Canada January Labor Force Survey (Text)Bloomberg
Vancouver Sun
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After 47 years, it's time to say '30'
Calgary Herald
For 22 years, I've been lucky enough not to hurt myself too badly writing about the housing and development, and real estate industries in Calgary, as well as in Alberta, across Canada and in the United States. Along the way, I've been honoured to meet ...

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Sage advice for escaping winter
Calgary Herald
Alberta's Pat Caffaro and her husband Peter are part of the new wave of Canadian snowbirds finding solace from the cold winters, along with value for their dollars, in the Arizona real estate market. As longtime condo dwellers in downtown Edmonton, ...

Realtors share top honour
Calgary Herald
A pair of realtors will share the honour of winning the prestigious TWH (Bill) Saunders Memorial Award presented by the Calgary Real Estate Board. For the first time since its inception in 1979, the award has been presented to two members - Kevin Stone ...

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OCEANSIDE: Baby Izaiah hospitalized again
North County Times
In September, his family was forced from their home due to potentially toxic mold inside the home's bathroom. Izaiah needs a ventilator to help him breathe, and the mold spores could be weakening his already weak immune system, Verde told NBC San Diego ...

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Yedlin: Barron building has history on its side
Calgary Herald
The good news, perhaps, is that Calgary is at a stage in the real estate cycle where the business case to gut the Barron building and make it into a leading-edge green structure while still maintaining its architectural relevance is not outside the ...

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Inner city blessed with parks
Calgary Herald
The median was developed by William Reader, Calgary's superintendent of parks and cemeteries from 1913-1942. For more Calgary real estate news, follow at twitter.com/CalHeraldHomes. © Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald.

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Why live anywhere else than Alberta?
Sherwood Park News
By Brandon Scott Real Estate Solutions Our family moved to Sherwood Park from outside of the province three years ago. We are still asked “Why Alberta?” on a regular basis. It always catches me a little off guard. This province may not have palm trees, ...

Baby Izaiah Hospitalized Again
NBC San Diego
In September, his family was forced from their home due to potentially toxic mold inside the home's bathroom. Izaiah needs a ventilator to help him breathe, and the mold spores could be weakening his already weak immune system, Verde told NBCSanDiego.

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