Upgrades on the main streets started in June 2023 and are not expected to wrap up until sometime in 2025.
"There's a huge uptick of people missing classes and no-shows are up tremendously, with people taking upwards of 30 minutes just to find a parking spot," he said. "We were encouraged by Mayor Gondek's comments that 'city administration closely at what other municipalities are doing to see if local businesses might benefit from a similar approach here in Calgary,'" the letter reads.
"Some of the areas that we're exploring is, of course, the simple stuff -- the tax deferrals, the tax supports. And, of course, then we're looking at much more targeted approaches like you'll see in Montreal -- they have grants that go from $5,000 to $40,000 with significant challenges associated with them," he said.
Annie Dormuth, executive director of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business says the city needs to step up sooner. He says construction work in the area will be a benefit in the long term, but work in the short term is being done by his team to mitigate the financial strain as much as possible.
"Although we do our best to plan accordingly to reduce impacts on residents, construction in an older community like Marda Loop means that sometimes, we run into surprises," the city website reads. Members of Parliament have invited several top executives from BCE Inc. and Bell Canada to testify later this month about the company's decision to cut about nine per cent of its workforce this year.After two days of a sometimes fiery debate, Richmond city council voted to take the next steps towards potentially having a supervised consumption site in the city.A new study out of B.C. is shedding light on how online dating is impacting not only how people meet – but who they end up with.
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