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name="y_key" content="308d50b0e354dfca" /> <channel><title>Canada&#039;s top source for Alberta&#039;s business news - Alberta Venture &#187; From Outside In</title> <atom:link href="http://albertaventure.com/tag/from-outside-in/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://albertaventure.com</link> <description>Articles on Alberta Business news, Oil &#38; Gas, Oil Sands, H.R., Investments, Sales, Leadership, and more</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:23:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator> <item><title>Yes, We’ve Noticed You</title><link>http://albertaventure.com/2007/12/yes-we%e2%80%99ve-noticed-you/</link> <comments>http://albertaventure.com/2007/12/yes-we%e2%80%99ve-noticed-you/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Rick Spence</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[careers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[From Outside In]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=512</guid> <description><![CDATA[The scene: a conference centre near Toronto airport, formerly a Sears warehouse. The date: early November. The headlines: “1,100 local jobs lost at Chrysler.” The circumstances couldn’t have been more propitious for Workwest’s first Toronto-based career fair, a two-day event that saw two dozen Alberta employers go trolling for new staff from Canada’s largest city <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=534</guid> <description><![CDATA[Canada is changing fast. Where Toronto and Montreal were once considered the country’s only metropolises, now Vancouver is renowned as a “world-class city,” and Calgary and Edmonton aren’t far behind <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=102</guid> <description><![CDATA[Easterners could make fun of Alberta's daffy ideas and biases too, if word got out <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=867</guid> <description><![CDATA[For years, the spectre of shortage loomed. Pundits warned that Alberta could not exploit this vital resource forever. But now it’s done, and even Peter Lougheed has said that the provincial government wasn’t ready. That dwindling resource: not oil and &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/11/help-is-on-its-way/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1006</guid> <description><![CDATA[Urban business “dragons” still can’t take agriculture seriously. Their loss It’s hard to believe, but once I was an ignorant Eastern urbanite. Sure, I knew that most of my food came from the ground somehow (though I’m still not sure &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/10/who-are-you-calling-bumpkin/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2005</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the war for talent, winning hearts may be harder than minds When a team from Edmonton Economic Development put on a promotional event in Toronto last fall, one official admitted they came to Ontario because Alberta needs all the &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/07/when-the-recruits-get-homesick-2/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1494</guid> <description><![CDATA[On April 4, the same day a chagrined Ralph Klein agreed to step down early, Jim Dinning cancelled a speaking engagement in Toronto <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/06/now-that-the-west-is-in/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1886</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few words to the wise on investing in real estate Two booms ago, I was a fresh-faced staff writer for Alberta Report magazine. Since I knew very little about business, I was assigned a cover story on Calgary&#8217;s housing &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1897</guid> <description><![CDATA[How easterners are coming to grips with Alberta&#8217;s ascendancy By Rick Spence When I started writing this column, I told a number of Torontonians I was writing about what eastern Canadians think of Alberta and Albertans. More than a few &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/04/the-five-stages-of-toronto/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2025</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hubris alone won’t sell Alberta <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2006/01/where%e2%80%99s-the-beef/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2584</guid> <description><![CDATA[Some take satisfaction in Ontario’s comeuppance, but beware the consequences by Rick Spence illustration by Michael Zaharuk For more than a century, Ontario has been the tentpole of Canada. It’s been propping up the whole circus. Compared to Ontario, Alberta, &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/12/the-day-the-circus-left-town/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2555</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Toronto media’s version of Alberta is changing, but for the better? Illustration by Michael Zaharuk Time was when you could count on the fingers of one hand the types of stories that the Central Canadian (i.e. Toronto) media covered &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/11/the-new-stereotype/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2484</guid> <description><![CDATA[It doesn’t exist. Not like Alberta does, anyway by Rick Spence Illustration by Michael Zaharuk People in Ontario envy Albertans. There: I said it. And no, it’s not because of the sales tax. And not because of Alberta’s oil, natural &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/10/the-trouble-with-ontario/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2456</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alberta’s centennial doesn’t ring many bells back East by Rick Spence illustration by Michael Zaharuk In 1967, Canada celebrated its centennial. In truth, only the Gang of Four were marking their 100th year in Confederation: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/09/sorry-i-forgot-your-birthday/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2434</guid> <description><![CDATA[Alberta’s most influential as viewed from the East by Rick Spence illustration by Michael Zaharuk Unless you’re one of those people who read magazines from the back, you have just leafed through Alberta Venture’s list of Alberta’s 50 most influential &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/07/fame-and-forgiven/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2385</guid> <description><![CDATA[With the family road trip a thing of the past, Alberta’s a tough sell  <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/06/how-i-didn%e2%80%99t-spend-my-summer-vacation/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2358</guid> <description><![CDATA[Toronto ain’t got nothing. Edmonton now holds the “Centre of the Universe” title <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/05/in-praise-of-deadmonton/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2344</guid> <description><![CDATA[Calgary awaits, with open arms, the arrival of the imperialists The Torontonians are coming! The Torontonians are coming! by Rick Spence illustration by Michael Zaharuk It doesn’t have the same ring of ­urgency as “The British are coming.” But this &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/04/essoteric-odyssey/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2305</guid> <description><![CDATA[“Let’s hear it for the Rainbow Tour, It’s been an incredible success” In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Evita, the “Rainbow Tour” was Eva Peron’s glitzy European trip calculated to impress the world with the style and sophistication of “the &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/03/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=2285</guid> <description><![CDATA[Our eastern correspondent considers whether Albertans come equipped with a Texas drawl by Rick Spence • illustration by Michael Zaharuk When Torontonians tire of talking about real estate, sometimes we talk about our kids. That’s how, at a recent party, &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2005/01/as-american-as-we-need-to-be/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1526</guid> <description><![CDATA[Always helpful, our columnist has developed a handy quiz to help you indentify who is actually who by Rick Spence Writing a column from Toronto on eastern views of Alberta, I regularly face a dilemma: am I here to expose &#8230; <a
href="http://albertaventure.com/2004/12/spot-the-albertans/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.albertaventure.com/?p=1341</guid> <description><![CDATA[When Albertans entertain visitors from the East, it inevitably turns into a rehashing of old wounds by Rick Spence In Ontario, everyone likes Albertans. Friends who visited Calgary and Edmonton over the summer raved about friendly people and gleaming cities. &#8230; <a
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