Long-time telecom foes face off over broadcast competition issues
By Paul Marck
Having long covered the telecom industry in Alberta, it has been a source of endless fascination and bloodsport to watch the escalating corporate buntoss between Western corporate titans Telus and Shaw.
Silvertip Resort, one of the western Canada’s finest golf venues, was home to Alberta Venture’s Most Influential Golf Tournament on August, 17, 2010. The field, stocked as it was with some of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People, leaders in the public and private world and other assorted Alberta-based movers and shakers kept the rain away and got their 18 holes in.
Not much doubt that the new economic superpower will play a big role here
By Paul Marck
Not that it passed by unnoticed, but news that China surpassed Japan as the world’s second-biggest economy during the sluggish second quarter is very telling. We have been hearing about China’s emergence as a global kingpin for some time, but there can be no doubt now about the predictions.
In West Edmonton Mall, amid the early morning mall walkers and maintenance workers, a line of anxious women of all ages began outside the first-ever Victoria’s Secret store in Canada and wound around the Ice Palace, where it trickled off. Before the line grew any longer, the mall was eerily quiet, a calm before a storm of stockings, sexy undergarments and a South African supermodel. (more…)
Cleaning up our most contaminated environments, Alberta’s reclamation and remediation industry is a home-grown success. Now outsiders want a chunk of that business (more…)