- FACILITY Calgary - now in it's 26th year - every Tuesday morning - getting better, growing our audience, offering 'things you want to know' to people who want to know it
A message from FACILITYCalgary publisher Mark Kolke.
We are pleased to celebrate our relationship with iGIFTsight - a Calgary-based Canadian charity with a Canada-wide mission; if you've not heard about iGIFTsight, we urge you to invest a few moments of your time - click on a link to the site. You'll learn there is an unmet need for vision service in our communities. Getting eye exams, treatment, glasses and other corrective actions is something most of us take for granted as something we have funds or a benefit program, or that services are available where we live. This is made worse when families are already stretched so very far. If you can help, please consider helping in any that you can.
+ a lot will be said about what happened last Friday; and whether or not there is a long-term story remains to be seen – and it’s a US presidential election year, and those are always a little crazy; but it’s not the announcement of ‘what Warren Buffett’ did in the last quarter that started the global markets sell-off over the weekend. The culprit was Claudia Sahn, for whom the ‘Sahn Rule’ is named: the rule holds that a recession is already underway if the unemployment rate's three-month moving average rises half a percentage point from its low of the past year – which it did last Friday’s jobless numbers indicated which will, as it often does, play out differently in the U.S. … but not usually by much
+ City of Calgary – water crisis: staying at Stage 1– water restrictions remain in effect
+ current energy prices; live links to Bloomberg energy prices / OilPrice.com; WTI @ US$74/bbl; Brent @ US$77/bbl ~ crude prices soften on financial market concerns about a softening U.S. economy
+ FACILITYCalgary, a sponsor-supported FREE weekly newsletter; ‘send time’ is early every Tuesday
+NSTEP news: are you keeping NSTEP? Calgary charity helps kids with great programs on nutrition and exercise – and one of the ways they raise funds (please help!) is the Birdies for Kids program associated with the Rogers (formerly SHAW Classic) PGA Champions Tour/Rogers Charity Classic tournament coming soon; NSTEP is involved again this years – and donations will be matched! Help support this worthy cause and multiply your donation with the help of AltaLink – NSTEP Rogers Birdies for Kids presented by AltaLink
+ REITrag – is a curated news publication real estate investment trusts; all Canadian REITs and adding American and European listings; available by subscription; sign-up form
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