Since the pandemic began, Calgarians have been getting rid of their downtown condos and switching to single-family homes, says realtor Justin Havre of REMAX First in an October CTV News article. He says that people are looking for more space as they continue to work from home, and that the closeness of living spaces in…
DetailsAccording to Statistics Canada, in 2017 there were 17,542 identity theft and identity fraud victims in this country, with a 14% increase in incident rate over the last ten years. Two different things that are extremely serious offences under criminal law, identity theft refers exclusively to the stealing of your personal information such as your…
DetailsThe numbers are out, and they’re not pretty. Although drivers were prepared to see their auto insurance premiums rise due to the removal of the previous government’s 5% cap on increases last summer, many weren’t prepared for a hike of 20% or more. And those numbers are exactly what CanadianUnderwriter.ca reported at the end of…
DetailsMuch to the relief of tens of thousands of children across Canada, on Oct. 13 Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam announced that Halloween 2020 could go on. Tam said that the sense of normality provided by celebrating Halloween is important, and that with proper precautions fun could still be had during this…
DetailsWhen employees packed up their computers and closed down their work spaces in March, most didn’t think they would still be in their makeshift home offices more than six months later. The forced exile is lasting well into the new year for many, which has made new approaches and evolved thinking around cybersecurity a necessity.…
DetailsThere remains a Level 3 travel advisory in effect in Canada, which directs people to avoid all non-essential travel outside of the country. Many of Canada’s most dedicated travellers – our proud legion of snowbirds —are in a holding pattern while they wait and see what happens with the pandemic in the coming months. The…
DetailsA CBC article from just Sept. 17 of this year reports that cargo theft is becoming more and more problematic for transport companies. The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) has been compiling statistics on instances of cargo theft in Canada since 2014, when the IBC and the Canadian Trucking Alliance came together to create the…
Details2020 has been a difficult year so far, to say the least. In August, the province’s unemployment rate sat at 12.8%, placing it as the second worst in the nation behind Newfoundland and Labrador, according to the Edmonton Journal. For cities, Calgary sadly earned the first-place title of the highest unemployment rate in the country…
DetailsCalgary has one of the most amazing pathway systems in the world, with about 1,000 km of regional pathways and 96 km of trails that take you to every part of the city and to all major destinations. On top of that is 290 km of on-street bikeways and cycle tracks, and the Rotary/Mattamy Greenway, a…
DetailsPretty much every Alberta car owner saw a rise in the premiums this year. A Government of Alberta decision that removed a maximum 5% annual bump in car insurance rates led many insurance companies to apply for permission to raise their premiums, and from what we’ve heard from our clients and seen from reports in…
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