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Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Alberta increases apprentice financial award
The Alberta Apprentice Training Award will increase to $1,500, up $500 from its original $1,000, effective September 1, 2020.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta pledges to halt commercial evictions
The announcement accompanies a promise to disperse grants of up to $5,000 to help businesses and non-profit organizations with the costs of relaunching after COVID-19-triggered shutdowns, but few details are yet available.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta polls commercial landlords and tenants
The Alberta government is surveying commercial landlords and business tenants about their COVID-19-related financial stresses.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Look, don’t touch at Alberta museums
Both museums will be closing interactive areas that normally invite hands-on experiences. Instead, visitors will be reminded to look, but not touch any of the available exhibits
CondoBusiness
Uninsured property disqualified for Alberta aid
Condo boards and residential landlords in Fort McMurray and surrounding flood-stricken areas will have until August 5 to apply for provincial funding to help cover uninsurable damage.
CondoBusiness
Utility bills deferred for distressed Albertans
The Alberta government has proffered up to $223 million, or about two-thirds of projected late payments, to stabilize utilities' cash flow and enable the deferrals.
Canadian Property Management
ON/AB: education property tax relief introduced
Alberta and Ontario are offering ratepayers temporary relief from the education portion of property tax bills.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta cracks down on criminal trespass
Along with measures to discourage spurious lawsuits, the legislation has implications for commercial real estate operators and any organization with potential scofflaws among its employees or membership.
CondoBusiness
New fees and taxes spell Alberta revenue boost
New budget announces plans to double various land title fees, apply the 4 per cent tourism levy on online short-term rental transactions and bring all public sector pension fund investment management back under AIMCo's purview.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta won’t rescue energy efficiency programs
The move concludes the process begun five months ago when the newly elected United Conservative Party government repealed the carbon tax and eliminated the funding source for the incentives.
REMI Network
Summit acquires $588M light industrial portfolio
The portfolio comprises 37 properties in Alberta
Construction Business
Alberta enables long-term property tax breaks
Newly adopted amendments to Alberta's Municipal Government Act extend provisions that were initially devised to support the rejuvenation of derelict brownfields to all non-residential properties.
Canadian Property Management
Alberta energy efficiency programs in question
Ontario draws on the legacy of more than a dozen years of programming, while Energy Efficiency Alberta has had little time to capture public or capital planners' attention.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Soil sample results intensify cleanup demands
Hazardous contaminants from former industrial operations still linger in a now largely residential area of Edmonton.
CondoBusiness
New Alberta condo rules to increase transparency
The Province of Alberta is launching new condo rules that will increase transparency and improve condominium governance in the province.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Weed killer misstep lands Edmonton in court
The City of Edmonton acknowledges vegetation damage occurred when weed killer was "inadvertently sprayed" in a residential neighbourhood.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Alberta to implement mandatory training for new commercial truck drivers
Training for new commercial truck drivers in Alberta is set to become mandatory in the wake of the Humboldt bus crash. Transportation Minister Brian Mason
