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Home sales are strong, but experts remain guarded
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 40 days 22 hours 58 minutes ago
Sales and home prices are on the rise in Toronto, at least compared with the rather testing times during this period last year.Home resales in the GTA in the first two weeks of September were up 23% compared with the same two weeks last year. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, realtors in the GTA reported 3,361 sales in the first two weeks of this month. The average price for these sales rose, to $393,818 an 8% rise on the same period last year.

Edmonton records increase in new home prices
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 2 hours 6 minutes ago
EDMONTON Prices of new homes in Edmonton rose 0.4 per cent in July over June, said Statistics Canada Friday.It s the first monthly price increase since October 2007. While some builders recorded lower selling prices in July, many builders returned to regular list prices after having negotiated lower prices in previous months, the federal agency noted in its new housing price index.

Pipeline inspector dies in ATV crash northeast of Edmonton
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 33 days 17 hours 47 minutes ago
EDMONTON A 37-year-old man has died following a workplace accident near Bruderheim on Wednesday afternoon.The man was on an ATV inspecting a pipeline about six kilometres north of Bruderheim around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when he was thrown from the vehicle as it was climbing a hill.

A new place to linger on date night
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 18 days 22 hours 14 minutes ago
Canadian fans of fondue restaurant The Melting Pot will no longer have to travel to the United States for their tasty, gooey fix.The Tampa, Florida-based chain where you cook your own food at the table is expanding into Canada and it's chosen Edmonton as its first non-U. S. location. The Melting Pot expects to open a 6,000-square-foot restaurant in late January at 2920 Calgary Trail South.

Olympic Torch lights hearts in northern B.C.
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 19 days 3 hours 48 minutes ago
SKIDEGATE, B.C. Now an even 100 days before it is to light the cauldron in Vancouver, the Olympic torch continued its massive cross-Canada tour Tuesday, on the northern leg of its record-setting 45,000-kilometre one-country journey.

Viacom profit up with box office and The Beatles
Reuters | 19 days 5 hours 13 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc. (VIAb.N) quarterly profit breezed past expectations as consumers set aside money worries to scoop up the new Beatles video game and buy tickets for box-office hits like "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe."

Viacom Profit up With Box Office and The Beatles
ABC News | 19 days 22 hours 13 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.

Enbridge opens new terminal in Hardisty
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 33 days 17 hours 47 minutes ago
HARDISTY Oil pipeline giant Enbridge officially opened its new contract terminal a 19-tank facility capable of holding 7.5 million barrels of crude oil from the oilsands in Hardisty Tuesday.One of the largest in North America, the Hardisty terminal is the starting place for two major pipelines, which will initially carry one million barrels a day of bitumen to United States markets.

In Alberta, it seems, efficiency has trumped humanity
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 33 days 19 hours 22 minutes ago
It s a scenario George Orwell himself could scarcely have bettered, a scene straight out of some dystopian science-fiction movie.As the Journal first reported Monday, prisoners at the new Edmonton Remand Centre, set to open in early 2012, will no longer be able to visit with family and friends in person.

Business Browser
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 12 hours 52 minutes ago
HEAVY-OIL ASSETS SOLDCALGARY / Southern Pacific Resource Corp. said it will pay a public oil-and-gas company about $90 million for producing heavy-oil interests in a deal that will complement its STP-McKay oilsands project.

Museums & Galleries
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 1 hour 36 minutes ago
Information: 10186 106th st., 780-488-6611. aLBERTa OIL PaInTERS' STUdIO alberta Oil Painters with landscapes, still life, figurative, birds and florals. artists: susan abma, Pat Elzinga and shairl Honey.

How the RCMP romanced Dennis Cheeseman
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 19 hours 11 minutes ago
Dennis Cheeseman was no ladies' man. At age 19, Cheeseman had had one short and intense romance, but the girl had moved away. He never dated after that. He was 21 in December 2006 and spent most of his time at work or in his basement room, smoking pot, watching TV, reading comics. He was a quiet kid. He never liked to talk about himself.

Oilers show early promise with grit, intensity
Edmonton Journal (Canada), The | 41 days 14 hours 55 minutes ago
There is more promise in their play than there are points in the standings, but the essence of these Oilers is in other, better, more surprising numbers.Among the most eyebrow-lifting? The first-line right winger, Ales Hemsky, leads all Oilers forwards with six blocked shots.