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A family poses at the Kaleido Family Arts Festival.
arts business

Pay-What-You-Can removes barriers to bring audiences back

More Edmonton arts organizations are allowing their patrons to choose what they want to pay for admission in a bid to make art more accessible and convince audiences to return after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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An aerial photo of Leduc Business Park.
region business

Vancouver and Toronto companies relocating to Edmonton region

Several industrial companies from Canada's biggest cities are relocating to the Edmonton region.

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Three people in shirts that read "Elev" pose in a kitchen.
business housing

Elev and Five Oaks launch student housing project called The Hive

Student-housing matchmaker Elev has teamed with renowned architect Gene Dub's Five Oaks Inc. to open a housing development for students in the Quarters called The Hive.

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Three people on a stage. The one on the right hands an award to the one in the middle.
technology business

RUNWITHIT Synthetics secures $3.5M investment to put its tools into more hands

The $3.5 million investment RUNWITHIT Synthetics has received from Raven Indigenous Capital Partners will allow the company to create new products for more customers across the globe and to hire more people, including in business development, to allow it to establish further hubs for people who make change.

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An aerial shot of homes in Leduc
business region

Leduc residential construction 'going like gangbusters'

While the Edmonton region's population booms, provincial housing starts reach record highs, and real estate sales see double-digit increases, numbers suggest a significant portion of the region's new housing is being built in Leduc.

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Two people pose in an office.
business technology

CarePros growth spurs new company and product launch

The people behind growing child-intervention agency CarePros are launching a new company that offers the software they have developed to allow healthcare providers in Alberta and beyond to focus less on paperwork, data encryption, and data insights, and more on actual care.

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A newspaper clipping with a headline that reads, "Triple 5's sub takes a dive"
history business

A moment in history: Sept. 4, 1985

On this day in 1985, divers were attempting to rescue one of West Edmonton Mall's four submarines from the depths.

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Four people sit at two cocktail tables with four microphones in front of a projector screen that reads "Homestead Investment Cooperative."
business downtown

Panel suggests Edmonton struggles to promote itself

Edmonton has fallen behind other cities when it comes to how it promotes and talks about itself to the outside world, the speakers on a panel focused on identifying ways to speak more positively about the city said recently.

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A person wearing a work glove holding bitumen.
business technology

Alberta oil to become carbon fibre in new Edmonton facility

Researchers will establish processes to turn the bitumen found in Alberta's oilsands into carbon fibre, a common building material in sports equipment, automobiles, wind turbines, and mobility scooters, after Alberta Innovates received $10 million from Prairies Economic Development Canada in July.

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