Fort McMurray

Meet Temple Real Estate Investment Trust, a yield-friendly play on oil sands expansion

Temple REIT owns hotels in Fort McMurray, which is quietly booming again >

Fabrice Taylor, CFA, is an award-winning financial journalist and analyst. He is also the author of the market-beating President’s Club Newsletter. He can be reached at thesmartinvestor@albertaventure.com

The Condemned

The Penhorwood condos in Fort McMurray are collapsing, raising fears about shoddy construction. Will the government’s proposed fixes of the system prevent future problems? >

Goodfish Takes the Bait

How an enterprising native reserve became a one-stop oilsands service centre >

Life in a Northern Town

Destination: Fort McMurray >

Inside the Camps

For more than a year we’ve been discussing the idea of a photo essay of life in the work camps in the oilsands north of Fort McMurray. If only for the voyeurism, I think a lot of readers would be interested to see what a bunkhouse for 2,000 looks like, how the workers amuse themselves in their down time, whether those rumours of fabulous food are true.
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The Weakest Link

Northeastern Alberta may be booming, but its transportation system is a shambles. Something’s got to give >

A Contagion of Confidence

Risking scorn and ridicule from both sides, this column has for three years explored the complex relationship between the business communities of Alberta and Eastern Canada (better known out East as “Ontario”). >

Runway 07-25

There’s a small, rectangular safe in the wall about five feet off the floor in Nav Canada’s Edmonton Area Control Centre. Two keys in the safe allow whoever holds them access to a phone. That phone is a direct link to North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs.
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Fort McMurray has grown weary of the oil-boom paparazzi

By Will Gibson

Up until 18 months ago, Fort McMurray was too far north for most of the media in Edmonton, let alone the rest of the world, to bother visiting. Given what some journalists have subsequently done to the northeastern Alberta boomtown’s reputation, many McMurrayites pine for the simpler times when their remote burg went unnoticed by the fourth estate. >

The Road to Muskeg Valley

Take a former gold miner, a limestone outcrop in the heart of the oilsands and a soaring demand for industrial minerals and what do you get? Alberta's largest hard-rock mining project, that's what >