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2012-03-19
(CALGARY, AB) – For the first time since the inception of the London-based Z/Yen Group’s Global Financial Centre Index (GFCI) - the only well-established index measuring global financial centres - Calgary has made the cut. Calgary landed 28th on the index which ranks 77 of the world’s major...
2012-02-21
While parts of North America, the UK and Ireland are facing unemployment issues and slow economic growth, strong economic recovery in Calgary is causing the labour market to tighten; as a result, Calgary is on the verge of another labour shortage across many sectors. To address the looming labour...
2011-09-27
(CALGARY) – Today, Calgary Economic Development will host the Virgin Earth Challenge as they announce their participation in the Global Clean Energy Congress and Exhibition in November. During the Congress, Virgin will provide an update on negative emission technology and carbon recycling.
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2011-07-25
(CALGARY) - Today, the Alberta Creative Hub Corporation (ACH) is excited to announce that it has received approval from Calgary City Council for $10 million in funding through the Cultural Space Investment Process for the building of the Alberta Creative Hub, an innovative initiative by...
2011-04-18
(CALGARY) – To celebrate the second-annual WORKshift Week, Calgary Economic Development has an exciting line up of events planned to profile WORKshift, the Calgary regional telework initiative. To kick-off the week, Mayor Naheed Nenshi will address the media this morning on the impact of the...
2011-04-18
(CALGARY) –Twice weekly telecommuting could save Canadian companies, employees and the community over $53 billion dollars a year, reduce greenhouse gasses by the equivalent of taking 385 thousand cars off the roads and save approximately 390 million litres of gas according to Canada’s first major...
2011-04-06
(CALGARY) - Calgary Economic Development is pleased to announce that Alpine Access, the largest provider of virtual call centre outsourcing services in the U.S., is now expanding into Canada for the first time, using Calgary as its home base. The company’s international expansion is the...
2011-03-16
(CALGARY) – Calgary Economic Development (CED) is pleased to announce the appointment of three new staff members to the organization during the month of March - Tom Dixon, Susan Thompson and Michael Fotheringham.
Tom Dixon joined the organization as the Business Development Manager, Real Estate...
2011-03-07
(CALGARY) - As announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in September 2009, Calgary will welcome 3000 delegates to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) March 25-28, which is now only a few weeks away. The IDB is the world’s oldest...
2011-02-10
(CALGARY) - Calgary Economic Development (CED) is excited to announce that the Bank of China, the world’s third largest bank, will be opening a branch in Calgary in 2011. This significant investment is a confirmation of CED’s continued focus on the China market to attract foreign...
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