- 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.
For information regarding iGIFTsight:
- donations and planned giving arrangments for iGIFTsight - contact: Mark Kolke: mark.kolke@igiftsight.ca
- for program information or to learn more about iGIFTsight programs, click here, or contact Mr. Aly Bandali, Pres. & CEO: alyb@igiftsight.ca
+ back to school – SLOW DOWN please, everyone – on every road you drive!
+ Bank of Canada rate announcement this Wednesday is expected to involve a rate reduction; widely reported, but no official announcement yet, but likely to drop as inflation numbers are down and the U.S. Federal Reserve and poised for a rate reduction also …
+ Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants 2024 – 4 from Calgary! … River Cafe (#23), Eight (#25), D.O.P. (#46), Major Tom (#52), and in Canmore, Ankor (#76)
+ current energy prices; live links to Bloomberg energy prices / OilPrice.com; WTI @ US$74/bbl; Brent @ US$77/bbl – traders are concerned about a boost in OPEC+ production which will exert downward pressure on prices … tic toc ...
+ Government of Alberta is now projecting a $2.9 billion surplus (vs. $365.0 million budgeted) for the current fiscal year; yet the government says that’s an accounting thing, not an indication of funds available for funding anything. This seems odd to this scribe on two points: why is such a wide variance in financial planning not investigated, when the answer for so many worthy projects and delayed access to life saving cancer care?
+ Government of Alberta hived off a piece of Alberta Health Services to create a new provincial health agency, Recovery Alberta, which began operations September 1st - investing $1.55 billion in 2024-25 to continue building the Alberta Recovery Model.
+ 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
~ Note: links in this section are to LinkedIn profiles where available and otherwise to a relevant posting of the appointment. - [ send us your appointment notices kolke@facilitycalgary.com ]
REMEMBRANCE
+ Alf Cadman, central Alberta hockey-preneur, former Red Rustlers owner, 88
+ Garnett Millard; retired Edmonton accountant, community servant and philanthropist, 93
+ Johnny Gaudreau; NHL’s ‘Johnny Hockey’, former Assistant Captain of Calgary Flames, 31
+ Stevie Cameron, celebrated Canadian journalist and philanthropist, 80
+ gimme a bread department: our federal government employees are fighting going back to the office 3 days a week; prior to the COVID-19 pandemic they had to work all 5 in the office, but now the poor babies are fighting it as a hardship. While nearly every Canadian suffered person, income and business hardships during the pandemic, we are the taxpayers these people work for; they never lost a nickel of income and ‘we, their empoyers’ funded them getting home-office set ups too. Now these workers and their union are claiming the hardship of it all; whiners! They’d rather work from home, run side-businesses and have more flexibility in their lives without losing an inch of ground or a nickel in their cushy collective agreement and expect Canadians to tolerate them
+ the designer approach is work changing, or are people? … back to work pros/cons – and, are we designing for now and the future vs. the workplace of the past.
+ Canada’s Best 100 Restaurants 2024 – 4 from Calgary! … River Cafe (#23), Eight (#25), D.O.P. (#46), Major Tom (#52), and in Canmore, Ankor (#76)
+ Jersey Mike’s Subs opened it’s first ‘new’ Canadian location on Markham, ON; Canadian Franchise operator Redberry Restaurants boast expansion plans for 300 locations in Canada within 10 years ...
