Airboy
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Top 60 under 70.
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Edmonton Companies News & Discussion
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Airboy
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I first did work with Fillmore about 8 years ago. I am more than impressed by how they have grown.
The_Cat
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Bottom 50 over 50!
The_Cat
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Opinion: Edmonton's economy is growing but falling behind our neighbours
Growth in the city of Edmonton has been slower than in our neighbouring communities. We can point to several factors, but taxes stand out.
edmontonjournal.com
policyenthusiast
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Was hoping for actionable recommendations, rather than striking a task force. Just ask for an industrial development subsidy and skip a year of deliberation IMO.Opinion: Edmonton's economy is growing but falling behind our neighbours
Growth in the city of Edmonton has been slower than in our neighbouring communities. We can point to several factors, but taxes stand out.
David A
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The city also needs to focus much more on attracting the type of businesses that can or will be interested in being in the core or more central areas.Opinion: Edmonton's economy is growing but falling behind our neighbours
Growth in the city of Edmonton has been slower than in our neighbouring communities. We can point to several factors, but taxes stand out.
So much here still seems so focused on industrial development on the fringe or outside of the city. Yes, that has worked in the past when the city was smaller, but it tends to cause the city hollow out economically as it gets bigger.
MacLac
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Not surprised by this a bit……between all the sites up here that use them…has to be at least 1000 of them between Suncor’s 4 mining sites, CNRL’s 2 and Imperial’s Kearl. At $40M a pop for the big 900 series…that’s a lot big steel moving around up here
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TAS
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Would be nice if something could happen in Edmonton.
IanO
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David A
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This explains a lot. Attracting people to live here because of affordability is only half the puzzle and really it is the easy part. We need to also attract more businesses and jobs and a better variety of them.
Many of the people moving or wanting to move from the GTA and GVA probably have white collar jobs and we have done poorly in that area in particular.
The_Cat
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I’m sure the numbers in Edmonton would be better if we included the Metro area.
policyenthusiast
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Edmonton doesn't collect taxes from the larger metro, so that would probably defeat the purpose. Toronto counts the metro communities because they all got annexed.
thommyjo
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David A
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Edmonton risks becoming even more hollowed out than it already is if we keep on following the current approach. We need jobs not just on the industrial edges but throughout the city.
Calgary seems to be smartly pursuing a balance of both white collar and blue collar jobs.
IanO
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Not to mention that it drives me nuts when we seem to rollover on white collar jobs and profess to be a proud blue collar city, which we are, but these are not mutually exclusive.
We need more suits and management jobs in our Downtown ASAP.
We need more suits and management jobs in our Downtown ASAP.